Author: Jennica Cha
Publisher: Xlibris Us
ISBN: 9781796063103
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
In spite of the small-town assassin's life that she is born into, seventeen-year-old Sprytzandra Colden does her best to appear like any other teenager as she struggles to find true strength from within herself. She fails to protect her brother, loves the wrong boy, and desires nothing more than to be safe and as far away from constant danger as possible. She battles with herself every day for what she believes to be right, but in the end, which will she choose--the strength that she's always yearned to develop, or the right thing, when it makes her feel weak?
The Assassin's Weakness
Author: Jennica Cha
Publisher: Xlibris Us
ISBN: 9781796063103
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
In spite of the small-town assassin's life that she is born into, seventeen-year-old Sprytzandra Colden does her best to appear like any other teenager as she struggles to find true strength from within herself. She fails to protect her brother, loves the wrong boy, and desires nothing more than to be safe and as far away from constant danger as possible. She battles with herself every day for what she believes to be right, but in the end, which will she choose--the strength that she's always yearned to develop, or the right thing, when it makes her feel weak?
Publisher: Xlibris Us
ISBN: 9781796063103
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
In spite of the small-town assassin's life that she is born into, seventeen-year-old Sprytzandra Colden does her best to appear like any other teenager as she struggles to find true strength from within herself. She fails to protect her brother, loves the wrong boy, and desires nothing more than to be safe and as far away from constant danger as possible. She battles with herself every day for what she believes to be right, but in the end, which will she choose--the strength that she's always yearned to develop, or the right thing, when it makes her feel weak?
Days of the Weak
Author: Maia Carlson
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1304757587
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
A sequel to 'Wounds All Heals' - Leeik Farspell, apprentice healer to an Arrow of the secret Quiver, is once again on the move. It's his birthday, but instead of presents, he's been sent on his first solo mission. Things go off the tracks almost immediately: instead of just finding a sick king in danger of being overthrown by his brother, he finds an old friend on death's doorstep, bringing news of possibly more trouble than Lee can handle. It turns out that power-hungry uncles and possibly-poisoned kings are not longer his only worry: it seems that one of the oldest members of the Quiver has gone rogue. The worst part? She's an assassin, and has been practicing her trade for centuries. It might take more tricks than Leeik has to get out of this one alive...
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1304757587
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
A sequel to 'Wounds All Heals' - Leeik Farspell, apprentice healer to an Arrow of the secret Quiver, is once again on the move. It's his birthday, but instead of presents, he's been sent on his first solo mission. Things go off the tracks almost immediately: instead of just finding a sick king in danger of being overthrown by his brother, he finds an old friend on death's doorstep, bringing news of possibly more trouble than Lee can handle. It turns out that power-hungry uncles and possibly-poisoned kings are not longer his only worry: it seems that one of the oldest members of the Quiver has gone rogue. The worst part? She's an assassin, and has been practicing her trade for centuries. It might take more tricks than Leeik has to get out of this one alive...
The Weak Body of a Useless Woman
Author: Anne Walthall
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226872353
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
In 1862, fifty-one-year-old Matsuo Taseko left her old life behind by traveling to Kyoto, the old imperial capital. Peasant, poet, and local political activist, Taseko had come to Kyoto to support the nativist campaign to restore the Japanese emperor and expel Western "barbarians." Although she played a minor role in the events that led to the Meiji Restoration of 1868, her actions were nonetheless astonishing for a woman of her day. Honored as a hero even before her death, Taseko has since been adopted as a patron saint by rightist nationalists. In telling Taseko's story, Anne Walthall gives us not just the first full biography in English of a peasant woman of the Tokugawa period (1603-1868), but also fresh perspectives on the practices and intellectual concerns of rural entrepreneurs and their role in the Meiji Restoration. Writing about Taseko with a depth and complexity that has thus far been accorded only to men of that time, Walthall has uncovered a tale that will captivate anyone concerned with women's lives and with Japan's dramatic transition to modernity.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226872353
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
In 1862, fifty-one-year-old Matsuo Taseko left her old life behind by traveling to Kyoto, the old imperial capital. Peasant, poet, and local political activist, Taseko had come to Kyoto to support the nativist campaign to restore the Japanese emperor and expel Western "barbarians." Although she played a minor role in the events that led to the Meiji Restoration of 1868, her actions were nonetheless astonishing for a woman of her day. Honored as a hero even before her death, Taseko has since been adopted as a patron saint by rightist nationalists. In telling Taseko's story, Anne Walthall gives us not just the first full biography in English of a peasant woman of the Tokugawa period (1603-1868), but also fresh perspectives on the practices and intellectual concerns of rural entrepreneurs and their role in the Meiji Restoration. Writing about Taseko with a depth and complexity that has thus far been accorded only to men of that time, Walthall has uncovered a tale that will captivate anyone concerned with women's lives and with Japan's dramatic transition to modernity.
How the Weak Win Wars
Author: Ivan Arreguín-Toft
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521839769
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
In this 2005 book, Ivan Arreguín-Toft examines the nature of asymmetric conflicts to explain how weaker powers can win.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521839769
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
In this 2005 book, Ivan Arreguín-Toft examines the nature of asymmetric conflicts to explain how weaker powers can win.
Dilemmas of Weak States
Author: Tatah Mentan
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351159909
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Given the dramatic changes that have taken place in global politics in recent years (especially following September 11, 2001), it is time to examine a series of critical issues confronting the global political economy. One of the most important of these issues is terrorism and its relationship with weak states. This book examines the weak state-terrorism nexus with particular emphasis on Africa. Specifically, it provides an in-depth analysis of state weakness, poverty, and the opportunities offered by the latter for the breeding of terrorism and terrorists. It also looks at the part played by radical Islam in transnational terrorism in Africa. Emerging from this study is recognition of a need for the international system to analyze a wide range of issues that contribute to the weakening of African states.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351159909
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Given the dramatic changes that have taken place in global politics in recent years (especially following September 11, 2001), it is time to examine a series of critical issues confronting the global political economy. One of the most important of these issues is terrorism and its relationship with weak states. This book examines the weak state-terrorism nexus with particular emphasis on Africa. Specifically, it provides an in-depth analysis of state weakness, poverty, and the opportunities offered by the latter for the breeding of terrorism and terrorists. It also looks at the part played by radical Islam in transnational terrorism in Africa. Emerging from this study is recognition of a need for the international system to analyze a wide range of issues that contribute to the weakening of African states.
Assassins
Author: Nicholas Snow
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1467016268
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
A novel of intrigue, love, mystery, betrayal, and the worlds oldest terrorist organization. This is a novel which draws on the magic of A Thousand and One Nights and the realism of history and political life. The herowarrior, minstrel and poet, Nureddinis divided between his commitment to sultan Saladin and his love for the beautiful enchantress Laila. Saladin aims at uniting the fragmented Arab world against the Crusaders; Laila is queen and supreme houri of the artificial paradise set up by the terrible Old Man of the Mountain, who terrorizes his enemies and reduces his followers to a state of blind obedience. Involving suspense, love, poetry, conspiracies, warAssassins is, above all, the story of a powerful love relationship that triumphs over all adversities. In an inventive style. . . Nikos Kyriazis artistically transmutes historical materials into fiction of great literary and emotional impact. --Kostas Sardelis
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1467016268
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
A novel of intrigue, love, mystery, betrayal, and the worlds oldest terrorist organization. This is a novel which draws on the magic of A Thousand and One Nights and the realism of history and political life. The herowarrior, minstrel and poet, Nureddinis divided between his commitment to sultan Saladin and his love for the beautiful enchantress Laila. Saladin aims at uniting the fragmented Arab world against the Crusaders; Laila is queen and supreme houri of the artificial paradise set up by the terrible Old Man of the Mountain, who terrorizes his enemies and reduces his followers to a state of blind obedience. Involving suspense, love, poetry, conspiracies, warAssassins is, above all, the story of a powerful love relationship that triumphs over all adversities. In an inventive style. . . Nikos Kyriazis artistically transmutes historical materials into fiction of great literary and emotional impact. --Kostas Sardelis
The Templars and the Assassins
Author: James Wasserman
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1594778736
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
• An examination of the interactions of the Christian Knights Templar and their Muslim counterparts, the Assassins, and of the profound changes in Western society that resulted. • Restores the reputation of the secret Muslim order of the Assassins, disparaged as the world's first terrorist group. • Dispels many myths about the Knights Templar and provides the most incisive portrait of them to date. A thousand years ago Christian battled Muslim for possession of a strip of land upon which both their religions were founded. These Crusades changed the course of Western history, but less known is the fact that they also were the meeting ground for two legendary secret societies: The Knights Templar and their Muslim counterparts, the Assassins. In The Templars and the Assassins: The Militia of Heaven, occult scholar and secret society member James Wasserman provides compelling evidence that the interaction of the Knights Templar and the Assassins in the Holy Land transformed the Templars from the Pope's private army into a true occult society, from which they would sow the seeds of the Renaissance and the Western Mystery Tradition. Both orders were destroyed as heretical some seven hundred years ago, but Templar survivors are believed to have carried the secret teachings of the East into an occult underground, from which sprang both Rosicrucianism and Masonry. Assassin survivors, known as Nizari Ismailis, flourish to this day under the spiritual leadership of the Aga Khan. Wasserman strips the myths from both groups and penetrates to the heart of their enlightened beliefs and rigorous practices, delivering the most probing picture yet of these holy warriors.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1594778736
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
• An examination of the interactions of the Christian Knights Templar and their Muslim counterparts, the Assassins, and of the profound changes in Western society that resulted. • Restores the reputation of the secret Muslim order of the Assassins, disparaged as the world's first terrorist group. • Dispels many myths about the Knights Templar and provides the most incisive portrait of them to date. A thousand years ago Christian battled Muslim for possession of a strip of land upon which both their religions were founded. These Crusades changed the course of Western history, but less known is the fact that they also were the meeting ground for two legendary secret societies: The Knights Templar and their Muslim counterparts, the Assassins. In The Templars and the Assassins: The Militia of Heaven, occult scholar and secret society member James Wasserman provides compelling evidence that the interaction of the Knights Templar and the Assassins in the Holy Land transformed the Templars from the Pope's private army into a true occult society, from which they would sow the seeds of the Renaissance and the Western Mystery Tradition. Both orders were destroyed as heretical some seven hundred years ago, but Templar survivors are believed to have carried the secret teachings of the East into an occult underground, from which sprang both Rosicrucianism and Masonry. Assassin survivors, known as Nizari Ismailis, flourish to this day under the spiritual leadership of the Aga Khan. Wasserman strips the myths from both groups and penetrates to the heart of their enlightened beliefs and rigorous practices, delivering the most probing picture yet of these holy warriors.
The Assassin Trilogy
Author: Derek Haas
Publisher: Mulholland Books
ISBN: 0316208175
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 461
Book Description
An e-original omnibus of three suspense novels by the Barry Award-nominated novelist and co-screenwriter of Wanted, 3:10 to Yuma and The Double. He calls himself Columbus. His real name never meant much to him anyway. He never knew his father, an earnest young congressman and rising star in the Democratic Party named Abe Mann, or his mother, a prostitute whose involvement with Mann would prove dangerous. All Columbus cares about is his next target. A hit man who quickly made a name for himself as one of the best in his profession, you can be sure he'll fulfill whatever contract's been given him. Even if those who put out the hit have other plans in mind. In THE COLUMBUS TRILOGY, the first three novels by Barry Award-nominated author Derek Haas, Columbus squares off against the shadow of his father, Czech crime lords, drug dealers, a prostitution ring, and more, in three acclaimed suspense novels by a rising master of the genre.
Publisher: Mulholland Books
ISBN: 0316208175
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 461
Book Description
An e-original omnibus of three suspense novels by the Barry Award-nominated novelist and co-screenwriter of Wanted, 3:10 to Yuma and The Double. He calls himself Columbus. His real name never meant much to him anyway. He never knew his father, an earnest young congressman and rising star in the Democratic Party named Abe Mann, or his mother, a prostitute whose involvement with Mann would prove dangerous. All Columbus cares about is his next target. A hit man who quickly made a name for himself as one of the best in his profession, you can be sure he'll fulfill whatever contract's been given him. Even if those who put out the hit have other plans in mind. In THE COLUMBUS TRILOGY, the first three novels by Barry Award-nominated author Derek Haas, Columbus squares off against the shadow of his father, Czech crime lords, drug dealers, a prostitution ring, and more, in three acclaimed suspense novels by a rising master of the genre.
The Downfall of Dazam: A Weak to Strong Shifter Mate Romance (The Alpha King's Royal Slave Book 1)
Author: Kelvin iwuchukwu
Publisher: Starlight
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
One day she was a princess, the daughter of an Alpha king, and the next day she was a slave, an Alpha king’s royal slave. If anyone had told Monica that rejecting an Alpha’s mate proposal would ruin her life, then maybe she wouldn’t have made that decision. But now it was too late, her family was gone, her title stripped off and to worsen it, she was now a slave to her conqueror, nothing more than a property which he could use in any way he pleased. She thought it was the end of her life, but even in the dark clouds, there is a silver lining. How would Monica save herself from this doom? Would she ever rise again, can she escape the inhuman treatment and torture in the hands of her captor? Her master the Alpha king. She was patiently waiting for the day her wolf awakens, so she can end his life in the most horrible way, but when that day came, the animal screamed “Mate!!!” Now she faces the biggest dilemma of her life, what decision should she take? Avenge her parent’s death and shatter her own soul or let her parents’ murderer go free?
Publisher: Starlight
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
One day she was a princess, the daughter of an Alpha king, and the next day she was a slave, an Alpha king’s royal slave. If anyone had told Monica that rejecting an Alpha’s mate proposal would ruin her life, then maybe she wouldn’t have made that decision. But now it was too late, her family was gone, her title stripped off and to worsen it, she was now a slave to her conqueror, nothing more than a property which he could use in any way he pleased. She thought it was the end of her life, but even in the dark clouds, there is a silver lining. How would Monica save herself from this doom? Would she ever rise again, can she escape the inhuman treatment and torture in the hands of her captor? Her master the Alpha king. She was patiently waiting for the day her wolf awakens, so she can end his life in the most horrible way, but when that day came, the animal screamed “Mate!!!” Now she faces the biggest dilemma of her life, what decision should she take? Avenge her parent’s death and shatter her own soul or let her parents’ murderer go free?
When I Am Weak, Then I Am Strong
Author: Dr. Vincent M. M. Galici Sr.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1663211434
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
The contemporary figure has somewhat similar characteristics to his father, grandfather, and great grandfather; a soul-searching thinker, all the same, departing from the ruinous while conserving the beneficial side of the culture, customs and manners in which he was raised and the larger generational dimensions embedded in it. A virtual page-turner, highly intense and graphically detailed, the saga continues to unfold. Characters readily identifiable in your own life, cheek by jowl with the hero and foe, stir and percolate the gamut of your emotions. Rooting for the one while despising the other, you’re propelled into the bowels of the narrative. Some personalities appear to be born evil and feed on the environs; others tend to virtue and progress upon it. Protagonists and antagonists are mixed and varied: some eternal optimists finding happiness even in dark periods; some risk takers in the will for clarity putting reputation on the line; some perpetually abstruse, their sad comfort zone; and the many up and down others. The Stanoli patriarch was fond of saying, “There is nothing greater than loving God and loving your neighbor,” and “I am a learner and willing to be corrected and criticized in order to become what I ought to become no matter where it comes from,” and “I make it my moral ambition to be happy around others.”
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1663211434
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
The contemporary figure has somewhat similar characteristics to his father, grandfather, and great grandfather; a soul-searching thinker, all the same, departing from the ruinous while conserving the beneficial side of the culture, customs and manners in which he was raised and the larger generational dimensions embedded in it. A virtual page-turner, highly intense and graphically detailed, the saga continues to unfold. Characters readily identifiable in your own life, cheek by jowl with the hero and foe, stir and percolate the gamut of your emotions. Rooting for the one while despising the other, you’re propelled into the bowels of the narrative. Some personalities appear to be born evil and feed on the environs; others tend to virtue and progress upon it. Protagonists and antagonists are mixed and varied: some eternal optimists finding happiness even in dark periods; some risk takers in the will for clarity putting reputation on the line; some perpetually abstruse, their sad comfort zone; and the many up and down others. The Stanoli patriarch was fond of saying, “There is nothing greater than loving God and loving your neighbor,” and “I am a learner and willing to be corrected and criticized in order to become what I ought to become no matter where it comes from,” and “I make it my moral ambition to be happy around others.”