Author: Uri Kurlianchik
Publisher: WordFire Press
ISBN: 9781614756644
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
A princess arrives to a party on a distant planetoid only to discover that the event is an auction and she's the item on sale. Surrounded by scoundrels and without a friend in sight, she has no choice but to rescue herself. Her arsenal: vague memories from classes, a pile of gadgets for which she never read the user manual, and a ferret.
Noblesse Oblige
Author: Uri Kurlianchik
Publisher: WordFire Press
ISBN: 9781614756644
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
A princess arrives to a party on a distant planetoid only to discover that the event is an auction and she's the item on sale. Surrounded by scoundrels and without a friend in sight, she has no choice but to rescue herself. Her arsenal: vague memories from classes, a pile of gadgets for which she never read the user manual, and a ferret.
Publisher: WordFire Press
ISBN: 9781614756644
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
A princess arrives to a party on a distant planetoid only to discover that the event is an auction and she's the item on sale. Surrounded by scoundrels and without a friend in sight, she has no choice but to rescue herself. Her arsenal: vague memories from classes, a pile of gadgets for which she never read the user manual, and a ferret.
Noblesse Oblige
Author: Bryant Durrell
Publisher: White Wolf Games Studio
ISBN: 9781565047198
Category : Changeling (Game)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The gates to Arcadia, the original paradise, are closed. Only the world of humanity remains. Without any awareness of our true nature, humankind crushes us beneath its banal heel. Joy and laughter are gone; only the Dreaming remains. We are changelings, the forgotten ones, neither fully fae nor wholly mortal. The last of our kind on Earth, we have built ourselves an invisible kingdom. We are everywhere, yet you have never seen us. We hide, not behind some fragile Masquerade, but in plain sight with the power of our Glamour. We exist within a real world of make-believe where "imaginary" things can kill and" "pretend" monsters are real. Rules for playing the sidhe, the lords of changelings.
Publisher: White Wolf Games Studio
ISBN: 9781565047198
Category : Changeling (Game)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The gates to Arcadia, the original paradise, are closed. Only the world of humanity remains. Without any awareness of our true nature, humankind crushes us beneath its banal heel. Joy and laughter are gone; only the Dreaming remains. We are changelings, the forgotten ones, neither fully fae nor wholly mortal. The last of our kind on Earth, we have built ourselves an invisible kingdom. We are everywhere, yet you have never seen us. We hide, not behind some fragile Masquerade, but in plain sight with the power of our Glamour. We exist within a real world of make-believe where "imaginary" things can kill and" "pretend" monsters are real. Rules for playing the sidhe, the lords of changelings.
Noblesse Oblige
Author: Scott Applegate
Publisher: Tate Publishing
ISBN: 1606966340
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
You only get one life; what are you doing with yours? Are you settling for an easy and convenient life? Are you struggling in the daily grind, wondering if your life is counting for something? Would you like a fool-proof plan to live your life beyond regret? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then the Noblesse Oblige is for you. In this inspiring book, author Scott Applegate guides readers toward finding lasting fulfillment by entering into God's purpose and passion for their lives. Noblesse Oblige (French for 'noble obligation') will give you practical and inspiring directions for finding God's calling on your life. Many people just like you have used the truths in the Noblesse Oblige to rearrange their dreams and plans in order to spend their lives doing what is most important to God. Scott Applegate is an associate pastor at Faith Bible Chapel in Arvada, Colorado. Scott holds a B.A. in pastoral ministry and an M.A. in biblical studies. His experience as a pastor, which includes several years as a youth pastor and young adult pastor, has inspired and equipped him to challenge people to live their lives for something greater than themselves.
Publisher: Tate Publishing
ISBN: 1606966340
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
You only get one life; what are you doing with yours? Are you settling for an easy and convenient life? Are you struggling in the daily grind, wondering if your life is counting for something? Would you like a fool-proof plan to live your life beyond regret? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then the Noblesse Oblige is for you. In this inspiring book, author Scott Applegate guides readers toward finding lasting fulfillment by entering into God's purpose and passion for their lives. Noblesse Oblige (French for 'noble obligation') will give you practical and inspiring directions for finding God's calling on your life. Many people just like you have used the truths in the Noblesse Oblige to rearrange their dreams and plans in order to spend their lives doing what is most important to God. Scott Applegate is an associate pastor at Faith Bible Chapel in Arvada, Colorado. Scott holds a B.A. in pastoral ministry and an M.A. in biblical studies. His experience as a pastor, which includes several years as a youth pastor and young adult pastor, has inspired and equipped him to challenge people to live their lives for something greater than themselves.
Noblesse Oblige
Author: Helen Argers
Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA
ISBN: 9780783812304
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
When Caroline Richmond is jilted by a wealthy bachelor, her father arranges a marriage with a Duke who happens to be the bachelor's own father.
Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA
ISBN: 9780783812304
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
When Caroline Richmond is jilted by a wealthy bachelor, her father arranges a marriage with a Duke who happens to be the bachelor's own father.
Wicked Court
Author: May Sage
Publisher: Twisted Mirth Publishing
ISBN: 1839840226
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
For as long as I can remember, I’ve had to hide who I am. What I am. They had me play the sheep. They had me blend in. They marked me and sealed my power. Now I have my freedom, because everyone who’s ever wanted me confined is dead. I could have changed it. I could have altered the course of fate. I could have saved the unseelie queen. I didn’t. Vlari has always known her place: as far away from court as the unseelie queen can send her. The youngest royal, born in an impoverished household, she endeavored to earn her keep as an assistant and stay out of trouble. Dark, striking, and with a hidden agenda, Drusk definitely qualifies as trouble, but he refuses to leave her alone, clashing with her at every corner. Then the world implodes around her. With friends and foe by her side, she can fade with rest of the unseelie kingdom, or protect a court that has never cared for her. Disclaimer: Wicked Court is the first volume in a duet.
Publisher: Twisted Mirth Publishing
ISBN: 1839840226
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
For as long as I can remember, I’ve had to hide who I am. What I am. They had me play the sheep. They had me blend in. They marked me and sealed my power. Now I have my freedom, because everyone who’s ever wanted me confined is dead. I could have changed it. I could have altered the course of fate. I could have saved the unseelie queen. I didn’t. Vlari has always known her place: as far away from court as the unseelie queen can send her. The youngest royal, born in an impoverished household, she endeavored to earn her keep as an assistant and stay out of trouble. Dark, striking, and with a hidden agenda, Drusk definitely qualifies as trouble, but he refuses to leave her alone, clashing with her at every corner. Then the world implodes around her. With friends and foe by her side, she can fade with rest of the unseelie kingdom, or protect a court that has never cared for her. Disclaimer: Wicked Court is the first volume in a duet.
Noblesse Oblige
Author: Kathleen D. McCarthy
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780226555805
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780226555805
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
White Picket Fences
Author: Amy Julia Becker
Publisher: NavPress
ISBN: 1631469223
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
A Gentle Invitation into the Challenging Topic of Privilege The notion that some might have it better than others, for no good reason, offends our sensibilities. Yet, until we talk about privilege, we’ll never fully understand it or find our way forward. Amy Julia Becker welcomes us into her life, from the charm of her privileged southern childhood to her adult experience in the northeast, and the denials she has faced as the mother of a child with special needs. She shows how a life behind a white picket fence can restrict even as it protects, and how it can prevent us from loving our neighbors well. White Picket Fences invites us to respond to privilege with generosity, humility, and hope. It opens us to questions we are afraid to ask, so that we can walk further from fear and closer to love, in all its fragile and mysterious possibilities.
Publisher: NavPress
ISBN: 1631469223
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
A Gentle Invitation into the Challenging Topic of Privilege The notion that some might have it better than others, for no good reason, offends our sensibilities. Yet, until we talk about privilege, we’ll never fully understand it or find our way forward. Amy Julia Becker welcomes us into her life, from the charm of her privileged southern childhood to her adult experience in the northeast, and the denials she has faced as the mother of a child with special needs. She shows how a life behind a white picket fence can restrict even as it protects, and how it can prevent us from loving our neighbors well. White Picket Fences invites us to respond to privilege with generosity, humility, and hope. It opens us to questions we are afraid to ask, so that we can walk further from fear and closer to love, in all its fragile and mysterious possibilities.
Noblesse Oblige
Author: Richard Ren Silvin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781548619640
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
Imagine being a twice-divorced woman, in her late thirties, of average looks, shunned by wealthy relatives, only to discover the most eligible bachelor in the world cannot live without you. Now imagine being that handsome, charming bachelor, educated to honor tradition and duty, in order to become a perfect King-Emperor and rule over one third of the world. Both of these extraordinary beings had the same secret dream: To breakaway from their apparent destiny and pursue what many thought was a hedonistic life, regardless of the cost and public outrage. So it was that, on December 10, 1936, Britain's new King Edward VIII abdicated his throne to marry Wallis Simpson - "the woman I love" - against the violent objection of the British royal family, the Cabinet and the Church of England. For the following thirty-six years, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor became the King and Queen of international high society. This personal account of their lives refutes history's traditional, often scurrilous portrayal of the iconic yet mysterious couple. It reveals heretofore-unknown details of their private lives, illnesses and very different deaths. Noblesse Oblige is Silvin's fictionalized, intimate description of the duchess' last valiant battle to protect her young protégée while he was running the famous American Hospital of Paris. The detailed memoir sits atop an easily absorbed history of both protagonists as the author rejects historians' claim that the Duchess of Windsor was a ruthless, conniving and superficial woman. Instead he validates Time Magazine's decision to honor her as the first Woman of the Year, of who it has been said "out-Hollywooded Hollywood," while making Greek tragedy seem trivial.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781548619640
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
Imagine being a twice-divorced woman, in her late thirties, of average looks, shunned by wealthy relatives, only to discover the most eligible bachelor in the world cannot live without you. Now imagine being that handsome, charming bachelor, educated to honor tradition and duty, in order to become a perfect King-Emperor and rule over one third of the world. Both of these extraordinary beings had the same secret dream: To breakaway from their apparent destiny and pursue what many thought was a hedonistic life, regardless of the cost and public outrage. So it was that, on December 10, 1936, Britain's new King Edward VIII abdicated his throne to marry Wallis Simpson - "the woman I love" - against the violent objection of the British royal family, the Cabinet and the Church of England. For the following thirty-six years, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor became the King and Queen of international high society. This personal account of their lives refutes history's traditional, often scurrilous portrayal of the iconic yet mysterious couple. It reveals heretofore-unknown details of their private lives, illnesses and very different deaths. Noblesse Oblige is Silvin's fictionalized, intimate description of the duchess' last valiant battle to protect her young protégée while he was running the famous American Hospital of Paris. The detailed memoir sits atop an easily absorbed history of both protagonists as the author rejects historians' claim that the Duchess of Windsor was a ruthless, conniving and superficial woman. Instead he validates Time Magazine's decision to honor her as the first Woman of the Year, of who it has been said "out-Hollywooded Hollywood," while making Greek tragedy seem trivial.
Philanthrocapitalism
Author: Matthew Bishop
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1608192431
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
For philanthropists of the past, charity was often a matter of simply giving money away. For the philanthrocapitalists-the new generation of billionaires who are reshaping the way they give-it's like business. Largely trained in the corporate world, these "social investors" are using big-business-style strategies and expecting results and accountability to match. Bill Gates, the world's richest man, is leading the way: he has promised his entire fortune to finding a cure for the diseases that kill millions of children in the poorest countries in the world. In Philanthrocapitalism, Matthew Bishop and Michael Green examine this new movement and its implications. Proceeding from interviews with some of the most powerful people on the planet-including Gates, Bill Clinton, Warren Buffett, Oprah Winfrey, and Bono, among others-they show how a web of wealthy, motivated donors has set out to change the world.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1608192431
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
For philanthropists of the past, charity was often a matter of simply giving money away. For the philanthrocapitalists-the new generation of billionaires who are reshaping the way they give-it's like business. Largely trained in the corporate world, these "social investors" are using big-business-style strategies and expecting results and accountability to match. Bill Gates, the world's richest man, is leading the way: he has promised his entire fortune to finding a cure for the diseases that kill millions of children in the poorest countries in the world. In Philanthrocapitalism, Matthew Bishop and Michael Green examine this new movement and its implications. Proceeding from interviews with some of the most powerful people on the planet-including Gates, Bill Clinton, Warren Buffett, Oprah Winfrey, and Bono, among others-they show how a web of wealthy, motivated donors has set out to change the world.
Hegel, Haiti, and Universal History
Author: Susan F. Buck-Morss
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN: 0822973340
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
In this path-breaking work, Susan Buck-Morss draws new connections between history, inequality, social conflict, and human emancipation. Hegel, Haiti, and Universal History offers a fundamental reinterpretation of Hegel's master-slave dialectic and points to a way forward to free critical theoretical practice from the prison-house of its own debates. Historicizing the thought of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and the actions taken in the Haitian Revolution, Buck-Morss examines the startling connections between the two and challenges us to widen the boundaries of our historical imagination. She finds that it is in the discontinuities of historical flow, the edges of human experience, and the unexpected linkages between cultures that the possibility to transcend limits is discovered. It is these flashes of clarity that open the potential for understanding in spite of cultural differences. What Buck-Morss proposes amounts to a "new humanism," one that goes beyond the usual ideological implications of such a phrase to embrace a radical neutrality that insists on the permeability of the space between opposing sides and as it reaches for a common humanity.
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN: 0822973340
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
In this path-breaking work, Susan Buck-Morss draws new connections between history, inequality, social conflict, and human emancipation. Hegel, Haiti, and Universal History offers a fundamental reinterpretation of Hegel's master-slave dialectic and points to a way forward to free critical theoretical practice from the prison-house of its own debates. Historicizing the thought of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and the actions taken in the Haitian Revolution, Buck-Morss examines the startling connections between the two and challenges us to widen the boundaries of our historical imagination. She finds that it is in the discontinuities of historical flow, the edges of human experience, and the unexpected linkages between cultures that the possibility to transcend limits is discovered. It is these flashes of clarity that open the potential for understanding in spite of cultural differences. What Buck-Morss proposes amounts to a "new humanism," one that goes beyond the usual ideological implications of such a phrase to embrace a radical neutrality that insists on the permeability of the space between opposing sides and as it reaches for a common humanity.