Can't Get Enough EverQuest?

For everyone who loves EverQuest or who has wondered about the game's appeal, here is the ultimate guide to the game world! You'll go behind the scenes to meet the game's creators, discover their influences, see how the game was made, and learn what it takes to run and maintain one of the world's most massive multiplayer online role-playing games. Author Robert Marks conducted extensive interviews with the designers, artists, and programmers to bring you this insider's look. You'll also hear from the players themselves, visit an EverQuest Fan Faire, and be...

Challenging the conventional wisdom of Western environmental historians, this book examines the correlations between economic and environmental changes in the southern imperial Chinese provinces of Guangdong and Guangxi (a region historically known as Lingnan, "South of the Mountains") from 1400 to 1850. Marks discusses the impact of population growth on land use patterns, the agro-ecology, and deforestation; the commercialization of agriculture and its implications; the impact of climatic change on agriculture; and the ways in which the human population responded to environmental...

Ancient Greece and Rome aren't usually remembered for their sense of humor. However, in reality the ancient Greeks and Romans often refused to take themselves seriously. The authors chronicle the more bizarre activities of the ancient world, venturing out as far as Egypt, Babylon, and Scandinavia, ranging everywhere from moochers to quacks to shrews to perhaps the oldest laundromat joke in history. 316 pp.

The collected second year of Garwulf's Corner from The Escapist, unpublished installments, as well as the collected The Most Important PC Games of All Time.