Author: Elle James
Publisher: Twisted Page Inc
ISBN: 1626955514
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 227
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Former Navy SEAL Ace “Hammer” Hammerson, on security detail in Jordan, corners a thief, who is vaguely familiar, absconding with portions of an ancient copper scroll. When the thief is attacked and the scroll is stolen, Ace is drawn into a dangerous quest to retrieve the priceless antiquity. Former Israeli Sayeret Matkal, Jasmine Nassar, is forced to steal an ancient copper scroll from a museum in Amman Jordan to save her son’s life. After she successful retrieves the scroll from the museum, she’s knocked out by two men. They take the scrolls, leaving her without the bargaining chip she needs to save her son. She has forty-eight hours to retrieve the scroll, or her son will be killed. When Ace finds the semi-conscious thief and learns of her dilemma, he joins her in a mad dash across the Mediterranean to Athens, following a trail of intrigue that leads to danger and rekindled love that wasn’t in his original Brotherhood Protectors mission statement.
Author: Matina Nicholas
Publisher: Oaklight Publishing
ISBN: 9781613920169
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 344
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Affair in Athens is a story of international intrigue and romance that chronicles a woman's journey of self-discovery and transformation. Athena Vallas travels to Greece to research her grandfather's heroic role as an Orthodox priest during the Resistance and discovers a part of her family she didn't know existed. She meets dangerously charismatic shipping magnate Luke Lambros, who involves her in a tangled web of an inept Greek government, a band of Roma gypsies, and a kidnapping. Her attraction to Luke and his extravagant lifestyle is intense until she discovers he plays a high stakes game of illegal pursuits. When she attempts to distance herself, Luke refuses to relinquish his plan to make her his perfect wife. Ruthlessly, he keeps his eye on the prize-Athena-who won't compromise love for wealth or fidelity for lifestyle.
Author: Harris Greene
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780450035906
Category : Fiction in English
Languages : en
Pages : 191
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Author: Tina Nicholas
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781523331468
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 346
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Affair In Athens is a story of international intrigue and romance that chronicles a woman's journey of self-discovery and transformation. Athena Vallas travels to Greece to research her grandfather's heroic role as a Greek Orthodox priest during the Resistance and discovers a part of her family she didn't know existed. She meets dangerously charismatic shipping magnate Luke Lambros, who involves her in the tangled web of an inept Greek government, a band of Roma gypsies, and a kidnapping. Her attraction to Luke and his extravagant lifestyle is intense until she discovers he plays a high stakes game of illegal pursuits. When she attempts to distance herself, Luke refuses to relinquish his plan to make her his perfect wife. Ruthlessly, he keeps his eye on the prize-Athena-who won't compromise love for wealth or fidelity for lifestyle.
Author: Chantelle Shaw
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 1459227220
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 190
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Billionaire tycoon Loukas Christakis has learned the hard way never to trust a woman. The only female he cares about is his soon-to-be-married little sister. And that's why he's reluctantly allowed struggling designer Belle Andersen to make the wedding dress on his private island—where he can keep an eye on her! Alone together as she works, innocent Belle becomes an unexpected temptation to the virile Loukas. But what should just have been a short paradise affair has consequences. And, as Belle is about to find out, Loukas will do whatever it takes to secure what he feels is rightfully his….
Author: Cliff Stoll
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1668048167
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 432
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In this white-knuckled true story that is “as exciting as any action novel” (The New York Times Book Review), an astronomer-turned-cyber-detective begins a personal quest to expose a hidden network of spies that threatens national security and leads all the way to the KGB. When Cliff Stoll followed the trail of a 75-cent accounting error at his workplace, the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, it led him to the presence of an unauthorized user on the system. Suddenly, Stoll found himself crossing paths with a hacker named “Hunter” who had managed to break into sensitive United States networks and steal vital information. Stoll made the dangerous decision to begin a one-man hunt of his own: spying on the spy. It was a high-stakes game of deception, broken codes, satellites, and missile bases, one that eventually gained the attention of the CIA. What started as simply observing soon became a game of cat and mouse that ultimately reached all the way to the KGB.
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Languages : en
Pages : 878
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Author: Josiah Ober
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400822718
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 440
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How and why did the Western tradition of political theorizing arise in Athens during the late fifth and fourth centuries B.C.? By interweaving intellectual history with political philosophy and literary analysis, Josiah Ober argues that the tradition originated in a high-stakes debate about democracy. Since elite Greek intellectuals tended to assume that ordinary men were incapable of ruling themselves, the longevity and resilience of Athenian popular rule presented a problem: how to explain the apparent success of a regime "irrationally" based on the inherent wisdom and practical efficacy of decisions made by non-elite citizens? The problem became acute after two oligarchic coups d' tat in the late fifth century B.C. The generosity and statesmanship that democrats showed after regaining political power contrasted starkly with the oligarchs' violence and corruption. Since it was no longer self-evident that "better men" meant "better government," critics of democracy sought new arguments to explain the relationship among politics, ethics, and morality. Ober offers fresh readings of the political works of Thucydides, Plato, and Aristotle, among others, by placing them in the context of a competitive community of dissident writers. These thinkers struggled against both democratic ideology and intellectual rivals to articulate the best and most influential criticism of popular rule. The competitive Athenian environment stimulated a century of brilliant literary and conceptual innovation. Through Ober's re-creation of an ancient intellectual milieu, early Western political thought emerges not just as a "footnote to Plato," but as a dissident commentary on the first Western democracy.
Author: David M. Johnson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521757487
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 165
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A series of texts in Classical Civilisation, encompassing literary, historical and philosophical subjects.
Author: Alexander Rubel
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131754479X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 448
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Athens at the time of the Peloponnesian war was the arena for a dramatic battle between politics and religion in the hearts and minds of the people. Fear and Loathing in Ancient Athens, originally published in German but now available for the first time in an expanded and revised English edition, sheds new light on this dramatic period of history and offers a new approach to the study of Greek religion. The book explores an extraordinary range of events and topics, and will be an indispensable study for students and scholars studying Athenian religion and politics.
