Gerald Dunwoody, a somewhat clumsy wizard, blows up a factory, loses his job, and is sent to serve as Court Wizard for King Lional in New Ottosland, where he soon discovers that he may be in over his head.
In search of fortune, twenty-year-old Asher travels to the city of Dorana, where he works for Crown Prince Gar and is unaware that he is being watched by the Circle, a group that is responsible for preserving an ancient magic and believes the young man is the key to a prophecy.
Anakin Skywalker poses as a long-lost native of Lanteeb in order to uncover why the Separatist Alliance has taken interest in the remote planet and soon discovers a scientist has been enslaved by General Lok Durd to use the planet's one natural resource to create a devastating biological weapon.
Presents twenty articles that discuss opposing viewpoints about race relations, covering the basis of race, society and government's impact on race relations, and the future of race relations in the United States.
Contains essays that offer varying perspectives on topics associated with academic achievement in the United States, discussing education equalization and related issues.
Contains twenty-one essays that present opposing viewpoints on issues related to resurgent diseases--which includes the mumps, tuberculosis, and MRSA--and discusses causes, social responses, and ways that resurgent diseases can be controlled or reduced.