Now, you can easily meddle where you probably shouldn't! Along the Twisting Way: The Faerie Ring Campaign Guide adds new fey options to your game. This is a combination bestiary and worldbook, giving you tons of new fey creatures and NPCS and new locales and artifacts and more for the 5th Edition of your favorite roleplaying game. Nail Down the Furniture And hide the children! The fey are coming. If you've always wanted a "Feynomicon," here's your chance. Find out firsthand what the fey are hiding. And know that this is just the beginning. The horseshoe's over the door. The cream's on the porch. Should be safe for a bit. Long enough to learn more about . . . the Fair Folk. The Faerie Ring Campaign Guide presents . . . Secrets of the fey laid bare Fey origin myths, philosophies, and social habits Wonders of the Preternatural Planes 11 fey lords and their demesnes New fey subtypes, 30 fey NPCs, 45 new fey monsters, 22 fey artifacts And more of the craziness that can only come from the fey This is our setting and sourcebook for the fey.

In The Edge of Extinction, Jules Pretty explores life and change in a dozen environments and cultures across the world, taking us on a series of remarkable journeys through deserts, coasts, mountains, steppes, snowscapes, marshes, and farms to show that there are many different ways to live in cooperation with nature. From these accounts of people living close to the land and close to the edge emerge a larger story about sustainability and the future of the planet. Pretty addresses not only current threats to natural and cultural diversity but also the unsustainability of modern lifestyles typical of industrialized countries. In a very real sense, Pretty discovers, what we manage to preserve now may well save us later.Jules Pretty's travels take him among the Maori people along the coasts of the Pacific, into the mountains of China, and across petroglyph-rich deserts of Australia. He treks with nomads over the continent-wide steppes of Tuva in southern Siberia, walks and boats in the wildlife-rich inland swamps of southern Africa, and experiences the Arctic with ice fishermen in Finland. He explores the coasts and inland marshes of eastern England and Northern Ireland and accompanies Innu people across the taiga’s snowy forests and the lakes of the Labrador interior. Pretty concludes his global journey immersed in the discrete cultures and landscapes embedded within the American landscape: the small farms of the Amish, the swamps of the Cajuns in the deep South, and the deserts of California.The diverse people Pretty meets in The Edge of Extinction display deep pride in their relationships with the land and are only willing to join with the modern world on their own terms. By the examples they set, they offer valuable lessons for anyone seeking to find harmony in a world cracking under the pressures of apparently insatiable consumption patterns of the affluent.

Essential theory for understanding and modifying dynamic elements of high-speed yarn spinning, unwinding and twistingTroubleshoot and correct problems in fibers and machinery caused by very rapid throughput Using basic physics and engineering principles, this volume analyzes dynamic forces in three processes critical for textile production: O-ring spinning, unwinding and twisting. The book offers a review of approaches for modeling the processes and discusses the advantages and disadvantages of each. Detailed analyses are given for the dynamics of ballooning yarns, instabilities due to acceleration, and the many interacting parameters that affect tension. The theory presented is linked to practical questions such as how to prevent broken yarns and reduce equipment downtime with an emphasis on ways to improve process design and achieve higher throughput. This technical book furnishes the calculations needed to understand and optimize a number of textile production processes, including texturing and warping.