Author: Delilah Devlin
Publisher: Ellora's Cave
ISBN: 9781419956638
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Jacqueline Frazier ignores a small warning regarding the use of a family heirloom and is suddenly back in twelfth century England. Forced to accept the protection of the overbearing Rufus of Rathburn, Jacq struggles to find her place in the past while searching for a way back to the future. She even helps Rufus' war cause with lessons in bomb-making, guerilla tactics and the joys of sex. Will their love be strong enough for Jacq to plot a different future in the past?
Jacq's Warlord
Author: Delilah Devlin
Publisher: Ellora's Cave
ISBN: 9781419956638
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Jacqueline Frazier ignores a small warning regarding the use of a family heirloom and is suddenly back in twelfth century England. Forced to accept the protection of the overbearing Rufus of Rathburn, Jacq struggles to find her place in the past while searching for a way back to the future. She even helps Rufus' war cause with lessons in bomb-making, guerilla tactics and the joys of sex. Will their love be strong enough for Jacq to plot a different future in the past?
Publisher: Ellora's Cave
ISBN: 9781419956638
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Jacqueline Frazier ignores a small warning regarding the use of a family heirloom and is suddenly back in twelfth century England. Forced to accept the protection of the overbearing Rufus of Rathburn, Jacq struggles to find her place in the past while searching for a way back to the future. She even helps Rufus' war cause with lessons in bomb-making, guerilla tactics and the joys of sex. Will their love be strong enough for Jacq to plot a different future in the past?
Warlord Survival
Author: Romain Malejacq
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501746448
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 147
Book Description
How do warlords survive and even thrive in contexts that are explicitly set up to undermine them? How do they rise after each fall? Warlord Survival answers these questions. Drawing on hundreds of in-depth interviews in Afghanistan between 2007 and 2018, with ministers, governors, a former vice-president, warlords and their entourages, opposition leaders, diplomats, NGO workers, and local journalists and researchers, Romain Malejacq provides a full investigation of how warlords adapt and explains why weak states like Afghanistan allow it to happen. Malejacq follows the careers of four warlords in Herat, Sheberghan, and Panjshir—Ismail Khan, Abdul Rashid Dostum, Ahmad Shah Massoud, and Mohammad Qasim Fahim). He shows how they have successfully negotiated complicated political environments to survive ever since the beginning of the Soviet-Afghan war. The picture he paints in Warlord Survival is one of astute political entrepreneurs with a proven ability to organize violence. Warlords exert authority through a process in which they combine, instrumentalize, and convert different forms of power to prevent the emergence of a strong, centralized state. But, as Malejacq shows, the personal relationships and networks fundamental to the authority of Ismail Khan, Dostum, Massoud, and Fahim are not necessarily contrary to bureaucratic state authority. In fact, these four warlords, and others like them, offer durable and flexible forms of power in unstable, violent countries.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501746448
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 147
Book Description
How do warlords survive and even thrive in contexts that are explicitly set up to undermine them? How do they rise after each fall? Warlord Survival answers these questions. Drawing on hundreds of in-depth interviews in Afghanistan between 2007 and 2018, with ministers, governors, a former vice-president, warlords and their entourages, opposition leaders, diplomats, NGO workers, and local journalists and researchers, Romain Malejacq provides a full investigation of how warlords adapt and explains why weak states like Afghanistan allow it to happen. Malejacq follows the careers of four warlords in Herat, Sheberghan, and Panjshir—Ismail Khan, Abdul Rashid Dostum, Ahmad Shah Massoud, and Mohammad Qasim Fahim). He shows how they have successfully negotiated complicated political environments to survive ever since the beginning of the Soviet-Afghan war. The picture he paints in Warlord Survival is one of astute political entrepreneurs with a proven ability to organize violence. Warlords exert authority through a process in which they combine, instrumentalize, and convert different forms of power to prevent the emergence of a strong, centralized state. But, as Malejacq shows, the personal relationships and networks fundamental to the authority of Ismail Khan, Dostum, Massoud, and Fahim are not necessarily contrary to bureaucratic state authority. In fact, these four warlords, and others like them, offer durable and flexible forms of power in unstable, violent countries.
Warlord Survival
Author: Romain Malejacq
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 150174643X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
How do warlords survive and even thrive in contexts that are explicitly set up to undermine them? How do they rise after each fall? Warlord Survival answers these questions. Drawing on hundreds of in-depth interviews in Afghanistan between 2007 and 2018, with ministers, governors, a former vice-president, warlords and their entourages, opposition leaders, diplomats, NGO workers, and local journalists and researchers, Romain Malejacq provides a full investigation of how warlords adapt and explains why weak states like Afghanistan allow it to happen. Malejacq follows the careers of four warlords in Herat, Sheberghan, and Panjshir—Ismail Khan, Abdul Rashid Dostum, Ahmad Shah Massoud, and Mohammad Qasim Fahim). He shows how they have successfully negotiated complicated political environments to survive ever since the beginning of the Soviet-Afghan war. The picture he paints in Warlord Survival is one of astute political entrepreneurs with a proven ability to organize violence. Warlords exert authority through a process in which they combine, instrumentalize, and convert different forms of power to prevent the emergence of a strong, centralized state. But, as Malejacq shows, the personal relationships and networks fundamental to the authority of Ismail Khan, Dostum, Massoud, and Fahim are not necessarily contrary to bureaucratic state authority. In fact, these four warlords, and others like them, offer durable and flexible forms of power in unstable, violent countries.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 150174643X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
How do warlords survive and even thrive in contexts that are explicitly set up to undermine them? How do they rise after each fall? Warlord Survival answers these questions. Drawing on hundreds of in-depth interviews in Afghanistan between 2007 and 2018, with ministers, governors, a former vice-president, warlords and their entourages, opposition leaders, diplomats, NGO workers, and local journalists and researchers, Romain Malejacq provides a full investigation of how warlords adapt and explains why weak states like Afghanistan allow it to happen. Malejacq follows the careers of four warlords in Herat, Sheberghan, and Panjshir—Ismail Khan, Abdul Rashid Dostum, Ahmad Shah Massoud, and Mohammad Qasim Fahim). He shows how they have successfully negotiated complicated political environments to survive ever since the beginning of the Soviet-Afghan war. The picture he paints in Warlord Survival is one of astute political entrepreneurs with a proven ability to organize violence. Warlords exert authority through a process in which they combine, instrumentalize, and convert different forms of power to prevent the emergence of a strong, centralized state. But, as Malejacq shows, the personal relationships and networks fundamental to the authority of Ismail Khan, Dostum, Massoud, and Fahim are not necessarily contrary to bureaucratic state authority. In fact, these four warlords, and others like them, offer durable and flexible forms of power in unstable, violent countries.
Jacq's Warlord
Author: Delilah Devlin
Publisher: Ellora's Cave Publishing Inc
ISBN: 9781419905865
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Jacq's Warlord Delilah Devlin and Myla Jackson With proportions that would make Xena weep, Jaqueline Frazier despairs of ever finding a lover she won't squash like a bug. Everything changes the day she ignores an itty-bitty warning regarding the use of a family heirloom and finds herself swept off her feet by a knight in not so shining armor, back to the twelfth century. Eeek! No toilet paper, no cell phones and no junk food! Embroiled in the adventure of a lifetime yet forced to accept the protection of the overbearing, beast of a man, Rufus of Rathburn, Jacq struggles to find her place in the past while searching for a way back to the future. In the meantime, she aids Rufus's war cause with a little 21st-century ingenuity. Nothing like shaking up the warlord with lessons in bomb-making, guerilla tactics and the joys of sex. At first unwilling and downright ungrateful, Rufus begins to see merit in Jacq's odd ways. Perhaps because of her eccentricities, Rufus learns of a love and lust that breaks the barriers of time. But will their love be strong enough for Jacq to plot a different future in the past?
Publisher: Ellora's Cave Publishing Inc
ISBN: 9781419905865
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Jacq's Warlord Delilah Devlin and Myla Jackson With proportions that would make Xena weep, Jaqueline Frazier despairs of ever finding a lover she won't squash like a bug. Everything changes the day she ignores an itty-bitty warning regarding the use of a family heirloom and finds herself swept off her feet by a knight in not so shining armor, back to the twelfth century. Eeek! No toilet paper, no cell phones and no junk food! Embroiled in the adventure of a lifetime yet forced to accept the protection of the overbearing, beast of a man, Rufus of Rathburn, Jacq struggles to find her place in the past while searching for a way back to the future. In the meantime, she aids Rufus's war cause with a little 21st-century ingenuity. Nothing like shaking up the warlord with lessons in bomb-making, guerilla tactics and the joys of sex. At first unwilling and downright ungrateful, Rufus begins to see merit in Jacq's odd ways. Perhaps because of her eccentricities, Rufus learns of a love and lust that breaks the barriers of time. But will their love be strong enough for Jacq to plot a different future in the past?
Jacques Offenbach and the Making of Modern Culture
Author: Laurence Senelick
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521871808
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 371
Book Description
Provides a fresh and global perspective on the works and influence of a nineteenth-century musical and theatrical phenomenon.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521871808
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 371
Book Description
Provides a fresh and global perspective on the works and influence of a nineteenth-century musical and theatrical phenomenon.
The Earth and Sky of Jacques Dorme
Author: Andreï Makine
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1611454832
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 173
Book Description
With this novel, Andreï Makine, whose work has been compared to that of Balzac, Chekhov, Pasternak, and Proust, brings to a stunning conclusion his epic trilogy that began with Dreams of My Russian Summers and continued with Requiem for a Lost Empire. The novel opens in 1942, in a burning, gutted Stalingrad, where the German and Russian armies are locked in a struggle to the death. Amid these ruins, a French pilot and a nurse, also French, are engaged in a passionate affair that each knows will be hopelessly brief. The pilot, Jacques Dorme, was shot down two years earlier. Imprisoned and sent east to a German POW camp, Dorme made a daring escape and crossed Germany stealthily by night until he arrived in an already devastated Russia, where, having proved his mettle as a pilot, he joined a Russian squadron stationed near Stalingrad. But during the brief time they have together there, the love between Dorme and Alexandra builds and blossoms into a relationship they both know comes but once in a lifetime. Several decades later, the narrator—a Russian exiled in France, a war orphan haunted by his dark childhood and obsessively searching for his roots—travels back to his native land, where in the icy and treacherous wastelands of Siberia he attempts to discover how his life and that of Jacques Dorme are inextricably intertwined.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1611454832
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 173
Book Description
With this novel, Andreï Makine, whose work has been compared to that of Balzac, Chekhov, Pasternak, and Proust, brings to a stunning conclusion his epic trilogy that began with Dreams of My Russian Summers and continued with Requiem for a Lost Empire. The novel opens in 1942, in a burning, gutted Stalingrad, where the German and Russian armies are locked in a struggle to the death. Amid these ruins, a French pilot and a nurse, also French, are engaged in a passionate affair that each knows will be hopelessly brief. The pilot, Jacques Dorme, was shot down two years earlier. Imprisoned and sent east to a German POW camp, Dorme made a daring escape and crossed Germany stealthily by night until he arrived in an already devastated Russia, where, having proved his mettle as a pilot, he joined a Russian squadron stationed near Stalingrad. But during the brief time they have together there, the love between Dorme and Alexandra builds and blossoms into a relationship they both know comes but once in a lifetime. Several decades later, the narrator—a Russian exiled in France, a war orphan haunted by his dark childhood and obsessively searching for his roots—travels back to his native land, where in the icy and treacherous wastelands of Siberia he attempts to discover how his life and that of Jacques Dorme are inextricably intertwined.
Simply Garde Manger with Chef Jacq
Author: Francis Henri Jacquinet
Publisher: Author House
ISBN: 1491814411
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
"Produced by The Art and Science of Culinary Arts with Chef Jacq. A Conaedot LLC International Production 2014, Houston, Texas, USA."
Publisher: Author House
ISBN: 1491814411
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
"Produced by The Art and Science of Culinary Arts with Chef Jacq. A Conaedot LLC International Production 2014, Houston, Texas, USA."
High Rhulain
Author: Brian Jacques
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 110120849X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A thrilling Redwall adventure from beloved author Brian Jacques. Tiria Wildlough, a young ottermaid touched by the paw of destiny, embarks on a journey to the mysterious Green Isle, where she joins a band of outlaw otters to rid the land of the villainous Wildcat chieftain Riggu Fellis and his catguard slave masters…
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 110120849X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A thrilling Redwall adventure from beloved author Brian Jacques. Tiria Wildlough, a young ottermaid touched by the paw of destiny, embarks on a journey to the mysterious Green Isle, where she joins a band of outlaw otters to rid the land of the villainous Wildcat chieftain Riggu Fellis and his catguard slave masters…
The Foundations of Bioethics
Author: H. Tristram Engelhardt
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195057368
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 465
Book Description
This new, thoroughly recast Second Edition has been acclaimed as "the most important book written since the beginning of that strange project called bioethics" (Stanley Hauerwas, Duke University). Its philosophical exploration of the foundations of secular bioethics has been substantially expanded. The book challenges the values of much of contemporary bioethics and health care policy by confronting their failure to secure the moral norms they seek to apply. The nature of health and disease, the definition of death, the morality of abortion, infanticide, euthanasia, physician-assisted suicide, germline genetic engineering, triage decisions and distributive justice in health care are all addressed within an integrated reconsideration of bioethics as a whole. New material has been added regarding social justice, health care reform and environmental ethics. The very possibility and meaning of a secular bioethics are re-explored.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195057368
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 465
Book Description
This new, thoroughly recast Second Edition has been acclaimed as "the most important book written since the beginning of that strange project called bioethics" (Stanley Hauerwas, Duke University). Its philosophical exploration of the foundations of secular bioethics has been substantially expanded. The book challenges the values of much of contemporary bioethics and health care policy by confronting their failure to secure the moral norms they seek to apply. The nature of health and disease, the definition of death, the morality of abortion, infanticide, euthanasia, physician-assisted suicide, germline genetic engineering, triage decisions and distributive justice in health care are all addressed within an integrated reconsideration of bioethics as a whole. New material has been added regarding social justice, health care reform and environmental ethics. The very possibility and meaning of a secular bioethics are re-explored.
Atlas, Schmatlas
Author: Craig Robinson
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
ISBN: 9780810994324
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
This is an absolutely silly, yet decidedly informative and comprehensive atlas of the world. Written and illustrated by Craig Robinson who got a "D" on his "O" level geography exams, this atlas has over 250 enteries covering the globe, and is filled with colourful maps, graphs, illustrations of notable figures and famous residents.
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
ISBN: 9780810994324
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
This is an absolutely silly, yet decidedly informative and comprehensive atlas of the world. Written and illustrated by Craig Robinson who got a "D" on his "O" level geography exams, this atlas has over 250 enteries covering the globe, and is filled with colourful maps, graphs, illustrations of notable figures and famous residents.