Author: Richard Hoyt
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0765306158
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
At the 1852 Christmas party hosted by Tsar Nicholas I, the plucky half-Chinese, half-Russian poet Sonja Sankova decks Peter "Colonel Cut" Koslov, who is infamous for his necklace of ears taken from serfs and Jews. In London that same night, American Jack Sandt, the Matthew Brady of Asia, conspires with Karl Marx to con the tsar into letting him take daguerreotype images inside Russia. So begins this immaculately researched, wildest of romantic wild rides, an odyssey of two lovers fleeing for their lives through the vast reaches of the Russian empire. The period details are splendid: a supper with Ivan Turgenev; a visit with the craftsmen who designed and cut gems for the Romanov tsars, a ball in a frontier town in the Urals, a glimpse of life inside the yurts of nomadic herdsmen. With Koslov and his special unit, the Wolfpack, in hot pursuit, Sonja and Jack flee St. Petersburg, cross European Russia, and go down the Urals, there risking their lives on a turbulent mountain river. Sonja and Jack take turns telling their story, as they fall in love and marry in a Siberian chapel. In a narrow escape, Jack shoots Koslov in the ankle. A sadistic Kyrghyz nomad grabs Sonja and spirits her away. Jack and a Cossack pursue the nomad and his men across the Asian steppe, but Koslov gets to him first. Koslov takes Sonja to a fabled mountain near Lake Baikal, where he is to retrieve rubies destined for a new Romanov throne. He waits, vowing revenge for his stiff ankle. Jack rescues his wife, and with their lives and a fortune of rubies at stake---and real wolves howling in a blizzard---Sonja and Jack face down Colonel Cut and the Wolfpack.
Sonja's Run
Author: Richard Hoyt
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0765306158
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
At the 1852 Christmas party hosted by Tsar Nicholas I, the plucky half-Chinese, half-Russian poet Sonja Sankova decks Peter "Colonel Cut" Koslov, who is infamous for his necklace of ears taken from serfs and Jews. In London that same night, American Jack Sandt, the Matthew Brady of Asia, conspires with Karl Marx to con the tsar into letting him take daguerreotype images inside Russia. So begins this immaculately researched, wildest of romantic wild rides, an odyssey of two lovers fleeing for their lives through the vast reaches of the Russian empire. The period details are splendid: a supper with Ivan Turgenev; a visit with the craftsmen who designed and cut gems for the Romanov tsars, a ball in a frontier town in the Urals, a glimpse of life inside the yurts of nomadic herdsmen. With Koslov and his special unit, the Wolfpack, in hot pursuit, Sonja and Jack flee St. Petersburg, cross European Russia, and go down the Urals, there risking their lives on a turbulent mountain river. Sonja and Jack take turns telling their story, as they fall in love and marry in a Siberian chapel. In a narrow escape, Jack shoots Koslov in the ankle. A sadistic Kyrghyz nomad grabs Sonja and spirits her away. Jack and a Cossack pursue the nomad and his men across the Asian steppe, but Koslov gets to him first. Koslov takes Sonja to a fabled mountain near Lake Baikal, where he is to retrieve rubies destined for a new Romanov throne. He waits, vowing revenge for his stiff ankle. Jack rescues his wife, and with their lives and a fortune of rubies at stake---and real wolves howling in a blizzard---Sonja and Jack face down Colonel Cut and the Wolfpack.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0765306158
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
At the 1852 Christmas party hosted by Tsar Nicholas I, the plucky half-Chinese, half-Russian poet Sonja Sankova decks Peter "Colonel Cut" Koslov, who is infamous for his necklace of ears taken from serfs and Jews. In London that same night, American Jack Sandt, the Matthew Brady of Asia, conspires with Karl Marx to con the tsar into letting him take daguerreotype images inside Russia. So begins this immaculately researched, wildest of romantic wild rides, an odyssey of two lovers fleeing for their lives through the vast reaches of the Russian empire. The period details are splendid: a supper with Ivan Turgenev; a visit with the craftsmen who designed and cut gems for the Romanov tsars, a ball in a frontier town in the Urals, a glimpse of life inside the yurts of nomadic herdsmen. With Koslov and his special unit, the Wolfpack, in hot pursuit, Sonja and Jack flee St. Petersburg, cross European Russia, and go down the Urals, there risking their lives on a turbulent mountain river. Sonja and Jack take turns telling their story, as they fall in love and marry in a Siberian chapel. In a narrow escape, Jack shoots Koslov in the ankle. A sadistic Kyrghyz nomad grabs Sonja and spirits her away. Jack and a Cossack pursue the nomad and his men across the Asian steppe, but Koslov gets to him first. Koslov takes Sonja to a fabled mountain near Lake Baikal, where he is to retrieve rubies destined for a new Romanov throne. He waits, vowing revenge for his stiff ankle. Jack rescues his wife, and with their lives and a fortune of rubies at stake---and real wolves howling in a blizzard---Sonja and Jack face down Colonel Cut and the Wolfpack.
She-Devil with a Sword
Author: Ron Marz
Publisher: Dynamite
ISBN: 9781933305905
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
"Know also, 'o prince, that in the self-same days that the Cimmerian did stalk the Hyborian Kingdoms, one of the few swords worthy to cross with his was that of Red Sonja, warrior-woman out of majestic Hyrkania. Forced to flee her homeland because she spurned the advances of a king and slew him instead, she rode west across the Turanian Steppes and into the shadows mists of legendary." - The Nemedian Chronicles This sixth volume in Dynamite's hit series is an all-star Red Sonja event featuring the She-Devil's descent into purgatory, with each issue (#30-34) featuring a unique creative team!
Publisher: Dynamite
ISBN: 9781933305905
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
"Know also, 'o prince, that in the self-same days that the Cimmerian did stalk the Hyborian Kingdoms, one of the few swords worthy to cross with his was that of Red Sonja, warrior-woman out of majestic Hyrkania. Forced to flee her homeland because she spurned the advances of a king and slew him instead, she rode west across the Turanian Steppes and into the shadows mists of legendary." - The Nemedian Chronicles This sixth volume in Dynamite's hit series is an all-star Red Sonja event featuring the She-Devil's descent into purgatory, with each issue (#30-34) featuring a unique creative team!
Spider-Man/Red Sonja
Author: Michael Avon Oeming
Publisher: Marvel Comics Group
ISBN: 9780785132103
Category : Red Sonja (Fictitious character)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Spider-Man and Red Sonja teamed up to stop wicked Kulan Gath in the past, but now the sinister sorcerer has a plan to make them fight each other.
Publisher: Marvel Comics Group
ISBN: 9780785132103
Category : Red Sonja (Fictitious character)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Spider-Man and Red Sonja teamed up to stop wicked Kulan Gath in the past, but now the sinister sorcerer has a plan to make them fight each other.
Red Sonja (Vol 5) #6
Author: Mark Russell
Publisher: Dynamite Entertainment
ISBN:
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 37
Book Description
“Temple of Ghosts” The first arc of the most exciting series debut of 2019 comes to a stunning conclusion. The dreaded Dragan makes Her Majesty an offer that would end an invasion but sacrifice everything. Sonja The Red must weigh the awful costs, before the decision is no longer hers to make. By MARK RUSSELL (The Flintstones, Second Coming) and MIRKO COLAK (Conan). And be sure to pick up RED SONJA: LORD OF FOOLS, also out this month, which ties directly into the shocking ending of this issue…
Publisher: Dynamite Entertainment
ISBN:
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 37
Book Description
“Temple of Ghosts” The first arc of the most exciting series debut of 2019 comes to a stunning conclusion. The dreaded Dragan makes Her Majesty an offer that would end an invasion but sacrifice everything. Sonja The Red must weigh the awful costs, before the decision is no longer hers to make. By MARK RUSSELL (The Flintstones, Second Coming) and MIRKO COLAK (Conan). And be sure to pick up RED SONJA: LORD OF FOOLS, also out this month, which ties directly into the shocking ending of this issue…
The Cull
Author: Tony Park
Publisher: Ingwe Publishing
ISBN: 1922389331
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 437
Book Description
Former mercenary Sonja Kurtz is hired to set up an elite anti-poaching unit. From South Africa to to the Serengeti in Tanzania Sonja's fighting a war on many fronts against enemies known and unknown. British business tycoon Julianne Clyde-Smith will do anything to save Africa’s endangered wildlife, including setting up an elite anti-poaching squad. Hiring Sonja Kurtz to head up the covert strike force, Julianne gives the former mercenary whatever she needs to take down Africa’s poaching kingpins. As the body count rises, it becomes harder for Sonja and her team to stay under the radar. When her former flame, safari guide and private investigator Hudson Brand, is hired to investigate the death of an alleged poacher, Sonja is forced to ask herself if Julianne’s wildlife crusade has gone too far. As the investigation deepens it becomes increasingly apparent that a shadowy underworld syndicate known as the Scorpions are pulling the strings behind Africa’s poaching epidemic. Just as Julianne is intent on wiping out poaching so, too, are the Scorpions concentrating on taking out the women who stand in their way...
Publisher: Ingwe Publishing
ISBN: 1922389331
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 437
Book Description
Former mercenary Sonja Kurtz is hired to set up an elite anti-poaching unit. From South Africa to to the Serengeti in Tanzania Sonja's fighting a war on many fronts against enemies known and unknown. British business tycoon Julianne Clyde-Smith will do anything to save Africa’s endangered wildlife, including setting up an elite anti-poaching squad. Hiring Sonja Kurtz to head up the covert strike force, Julianne gives the former mercenary whatever she needs to take down Africa’s poaching kingpins. As the body count rises, it becomes harder for Sonja and her team to stay under the radar. When her former flame, safari guide and private investigator Hudson Brand, is hired to investigate the death of an alleged poacher, Sonja is forced to ask herself if Julianne’s wildlife crusade has gone too far. As the investigation deepens it becomes increasingly apparent that a shadowy underworld syndicate known as the Scorpions are pulling the strings behind Africa’s poaching epidemic. Just as Julianne is intent on wiping out poaching so, too, are the Scorpions concentrating on taking out the women who stand in their way...
Everyday Matters in Science and Mathematics
Author: Ricardo Nemirovsky
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135619387
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 391
Book Description
This book re-examines the dichotomy between the everyday and the disciplinary in mathematics and science education, and explores alternatives to this opposition from points of view grounded in the close examination of complex classroom events. It makes the case that students' everyday experience and knowledge in their entire manifold forms matter crucially in learning sciences and mathematics. The contributions of 13 research teams are organized around three themes: 1) the experiences of students in encounters with everyday matters of a discipline; 2) the concerns of curriculum designers, including teachers, as they design activities intended to focus on everyday matters of a discipline; and 3) the actions of teachers as they create classroom encounters with everyday matters of a discipline. As a whole the volume reflects the shift in the field of educational research in recent years away from formal, structural models of learning toward emphasizing its situated nature and the sociocultural bases of teaching and learning. At least two trends--increasing awareness that formal theories can be useful guides but are always partial and provisional in how they disclose classroom experiences, and the widespread availability of video and audio equipment that enables effortless recording of classroom interactions--have reoriented the field by allowing researchers and teachers to look at learning starting with complex classroom events rather than formal theories of learning. Such examinations are not meant to replace the work on general theoretical frameworks, but to ground them in actual complex events. This reorientation means that researchers and teachers can now encounter the complexity of learning and teaching as lived, human meaning-making experiences. Immersion in this complexity compels rethinking assumptions about the dichotomies that have traditionally organized the field's thinking about learning. Further, it has important implications for how the relationship between theory and practice in understanding teaching and learning is viewed. Everyday Matters in Science and Mathematics: Studies of Complex Classroom Events is an important resource for researchers, teacher educators, and graduate students in mathematics and science education, and a strong supplemental text for courses in these areas and also in cognition and instruction and instructional design.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135619387
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 391
Book Description
This book re-examines the dichotomy between the everyday and the disciplinary in mathematics and science education, and explores alternatives to this opposition from points of view grounded in the close examination of complex classroom events. It makes the case that students' everyday experience and knowledge in their entire manifold forms matter crucially in learning sciences and mathematics. The contributions of 13 research teams are organized around three themes: 1) the experiences of students in encounters with everyday matters of a discipline; 2) the concerns of curriculum designers, including teachers, as they design activities intended to focus on everyday matters of a discipline; and 3) the actions of teachers as they create classroom encounters with everyday matters of a discipline. As a whole the volume reflects the shift in the field of educational research in recent years away from formal, structural models of learning toward emphasizing its situated nature and the sociocultural bases of teaching and learning. At least two trends--increasing awareness that formal theories can be useful guides but are always partial and provisional in how they disclose classroom experiences, and the widespread availability of video and audio equipment that enables effortless recording of classroom interactions--have reoriented the field by allowing researchers and teachers to look at learning starting with complex classroom events rather than formal theories of learning. Such examinations are not meant to replace the work on general theoretical frameworks, but to ground them in actual complex events. This reorientation means that researchers and teachers can now encounter the complexity of learning and teaching as lived, human meaning-making experiences. Immersion in this complexity compels rethinking assumptions about the dichotomies that have traditionally organized the field's thinking about learning. Further, it has important implications for how the relationship between theory and practice in understanding teaching and learning is viewed. Everyday Matters in Science and Mathematics: Studies of Complex Classroom Events is an important resource for researchers, teacher educators, and graduate students in mathematics and science education, and a strong supplemental text for courses in these areas and also in cognition and instruction and instructional design.
Handbook of Race and Refusal in Higher Education
Author: Kenjus T. Watson
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 1800377878
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
This cutting-edge Handbook goes beyond discourses of equity, inclusion, and diversity, carving a space for critical discussions about the relationships between Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) and the university. In doing so, it forges new paths and alternative conceptual starting points to consider in making a commitment to social justice in higher education.
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 1800377878
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
This cutting-edge Handbook goes beyond discourses of equity, inclusion, and diversity, carving a space for critical discussions about the relationships between Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) and the university. In doing so, it forges new paths and alternative conceptual starting points to consider in making a commitment to social justice in higher education.
SONJA
Author: Thornton House
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1257874497
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
FBI Agent Carina Rivera's life is about to change dramatically when she apprehends Chad Lowry a triple murder suspect. Less than thirty minute after catching him, Rivera watches in horror as her SUV is blown up before her eyes by heavily armed men in a helicopter. She and Lowry barely escape the encounter only to run into another band of men trying to kill them. Now she is racing down a dark mountain road in Lowry's beat up truck which is powered an energy source called---SONJA. Now Rivera is in a quandary. What does she do next? Rivera knows SONJA can eliminate the world's energy problems and that Lowry holds the secret to SONJA's power. But what happens to SONJA when she brings Lowry in? And who is it---that wants them both dead?
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1257874497
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
FBI Agent Carina Rivera's life is about to change dramatically when she apprehends Chad Lowry a triple murder suspect. Less than thirty minute after catching him, Rivera watches in horror as her SUV is blown up before her eyes by heavily armed men in a helicopter. She and Lowry barely escape the encounter only to run into another band of men trying to kill them. Now she is racing down a dark mountain road in Lowry's beat up truck which is powered an energy source called---SONJA. Now Rivera is in a quandary. What does she do next? Rivera knows SONJA can eliminate the world's energy problems and that Lowry holds the secret to SONJA's power. But what happens to SONJA when she brings Lowry in? And who is it---that wants them both dead?
Stories for the Gathering
Author: William R. White
Publisher: Augsburg Books
ISBN: 9780806633459
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
For gatherings large or small, this new collection of Christian related stories assembled by a well-known storyteller will capture the interest and imagination of any listener. More than 50 traditional and contemporary stories are arranged by theme in a treasury to add depth and wonder to gatherings in the home and in church.
Publisher: Augsburg Books
ISBN: 9780806633459
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
For gatherings large or small, this new collection of Christian related stories assembled by a well-known storyteller will capture the interest and imagination of any listener. More than 50 traditional and contemporary stories are arranged by theme in a treasury to add depth and wonder to gatherings in the home and in church.
Decoys
Author: Richard Hoyt
Publisher: Speaking Volumes
ISBN: 1645401340
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
Starring a Sam Spade for the eighties—the worlds’ first soft-boiled sleuth "I did it because of Sam Spade. I felt part of a tradition of romantic, freelance wise guys." John Denson is a private eye for the eighties—the world's first soft-boiled sleuth. He washes down his raw vegetables with screw-top wine, refuses to pack a rod, is a pigeon for a beautiful woman with a problem, and lives by the honor code of detectives from another era. So when a tough-talking (and stunning) female private eye challenges him to a high-stakes wager concerning a string of brutal murders, John can't resist. He finds himself in the bizarre and deadly shadow worlds of prostitution and smuggling, as he scrambles to tie up the case, keep his sense of humor (and his head) intact, and impress the lady at the same time. "Snappy and amusing dialogue and a plot with enough provocative twists and turns to arouse the detective in all of us"—Seattle Post-Intelligencer "A crackerjack detective story"—Chicago Sun-Times "Its very lunacy makes the story attractive and exciting."—Library Journal
Publisher: Speaking Volumes
ISBN: 1645401340
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
Starring a Sam Spade for the eighties—the worlds’ first soft-boiled sleuth "I did it because of Sam Spade. I felt part of a tradition of romantic, freelance wise guys." John Denson is a private eye for the eighties—the world's first soft-boiled sleuth. He washes down his raw vegetables with screw-top wine, refuses to pack a rod, is a pigeon for a beautiful woman with a problem, and lives by the honor code of detectives from another era. So when a tough-talking (and stunning) female private eye challenges him to a high-stakes wager concerning a string of brutal murders, John can't resist. He finds himself in the bizarre and deadly shadow worlds of prostitution and smuggling, as he scrambles to tie up the case, keep his sense of humor (and his head) intact, and impress the lady at the same time. "Snappy and amusing dialogue and a plot with enough provocative twists and turns to arouse the detective in all of us"—Seattle Post-Intelligencer "A crackerjack detective story"—Chicago Sun-Times "Its very lunacy makes the story attractive and exciting."—Library Journal