Author: Michael Equels
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1665565446
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
This high-Fantasy, coming of age tale follows a group of teens chosen to prove their value with a quest to locate Valhalla’s Tears, the one sword that can overthrow an increasingly corrupt governmental tyranny. This sword, vanishing from the land of Cartha thousands of years prior, has been the objective of such journeys for generations, but with a little magic, luck and a ton of tenacity, the village elders believe that Allo and his companions might just have a chance for success. This group, consisting of a Human boy, an Elvin girl, a Halfling male, a part Giant male, a Dwarvin male and a Half-Elvin male mage, setting out with what they can carry. They will have to defeat the beasts and demons that populate this D&D inspired world, along with agents of the government who know that their power will be stripped from them should Valhalla’s Tears be recovered. However, it seems that it’s not just the creatures and men conspiring against them, they must also use their skills and knowledge as well as their courage to traverse dangerous caverns and ford raging rivers and the like. This epic journey, told through the eyes of Allo, is sure to rekindle your love for the High-Fantasy genre. It combines the best elements of traditional carefully created worlds with plenty of unpredictable action, politics, life-long romance and friendships in ways which is sure to please even the most avid of readers.
Cartha’s Search for Valhalla’s Tears
Author: Michael Equels
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1665565446
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
This high-Fantasy, coming of age tale follows a group of teens chosen to prove their value with a quest to locate Valhalla’s Tears, the one sword that can overthrow an increasingly corrupt governmental tyranny. This sword, vanishing from the land of Cartha thousands of years prior, has been the objective of such journeys for generations, but with a little magic, luck and a ton of tenacity, the village elders believe that Allo and his companions might just have a chance for success. This group, consisting of a Human boy, an Elvin girl, a Halfling male, a part Giant male, a Dwarvin male and a Half-Elvin male mage, setting out with what they can carry. They will have to defeat the beasts and demons that populate this D&D inspired world, along with agents of the government who know that their power will be stripped from them should Valhalla’s Tears be recovered. However, it seems that it’s not just the creatures and men conspiring against them, they must also use their skills and knowledge as well as their courage to traverse dangerous caverns and ford raging rivers and the like. This epic journey, told through the eyes of Allo, is sure to rekindle your love for the High-Fantasy genre. It combines the best elements of traditional carefully created worlds with plenty of unpredictable action, politics, life-long romance and friendships in ways which is sure to please even the most avid of readers.
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1665565446
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
This high-Fantasy, coming of age tale follows a group of teens chosen to prove their value with a quest to locate Valhalla’s Tears, the one sword that can overthrow an increasingly corrupt governmental tyranny. This sword, vanishing from the land of Cartha thousands of years prior, has been the objective of such journeys for generations, but with a little magic, luck and a ton of tenacity, the village elders believe that Allo and his companions might just have a chance for success. This group, consisting of a Human boy, an Elvin girl, a Halfling male, a part Giant male, a Dwarvin male and a Half-Elvin male mage, setting out with what they can carry. They will have to defeat the beasts and demons that populate this D&D inspired world, along with agents of the government who know that their power will be stripped from them should Valhalla’s Tears be recovered. However, it seems that it’s not just the creatures and men conspiring against them, they must also use their skills and knowledge as well as their courage to traverse dangerous caverns and ford raging rivers and the like. This epic journey, told through the eyes of Allo, is sure to rekindle your love for the High-Fantasy genre. It combines the best elements of traditional carefully created worlds with plenty of unpredictable action, politics, life-long romance and friendships in ways which is sure to please even the most avid of readers.
Cartha
Author: Elena Chiavi
Publisher: Park Publishing (WI)
ISBN: 9783038600534
Category : ARCHITECTURE
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"This publication reflects on migration and its consequences, through a set of diverse contributions, focusing on the roles played by urbanism and architecture." - Umschlag.
Publisher: Park Publishing (WI)
ISBN: 9783038600534
Category : ARCHITECTURE
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"This publication reflects on migration and its consequences, through a set of diverse contributions, focusing on the roles played by urbanism and architecture." - Umschlag.
Hoover's FBI and the Fourth Estate
Author: Matthew Cecil
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
ISBN: 0700619461
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
The Federal Bureau of Investigation was an agency devoted to American ideals, professionalism, and scientific methods, directed by a sage and selfless leader--and anyone who said otherwise was a no-good subversive, bent on discrediting the American way of life. That was the official story, and how J. Edgar Hoover made it stick--running roughshod over those same American ideals--is the story this book tells in full for the first time. From Hoover's first tentative media contacts in the 1930s to the Bureau's eponymous television series in the 1960s and 1970s, FBI officials labored mightily to control the Bureau's image--efforts that put them not-so-squarely at the forefront of the emerging field of public relations. In the face of any journalistic challenges to the FBI's legitimacy and operations, Hoover was able to create a benign, even heroic counter narrative, thanks in part to his friends in newsrooms. Matthew Cecil's own prodigious investigation through hundreds of thousands of pages from FBI files reveals the lengths to which Hoover and his lackeys went to use the press to hoodwink the American people. Even more sobering is how much help he got from so many in the press. Conservative journalists like broadcaster Fulton Lewis, Jr. and columnist George Sokolsky positioned themselves as "objective" defenders of Hoover's FBI and were rewarded with access, friendship, and other favors. Some of Hoover's friends even became adjunct-FBI agents, designated as Special Service Contacts who discreetly gathered information for the Bureau. "Enemies," on the other hand, were closely monitored and subjected to operations that disrupted their work or even undermined and ended their careers. Noted journalists like I. F. Stone, George Seldes, James A. Wechsler, and many others found themselves the subjects of FBI investigations and, occasionally, named on the Bureau's "custodial detention index," targeted for arrest in the case of a national emergency. With experience as a political reporter, a press secretary, and a scholar and professor of journalism and public relations, Matthew Cecil is uniquely qualified to conduct us through the maze of political intrigue and influence peddling that mark--and often mask--the history of the FBI. His work serves as a cautionary tale about how manipulative government agents and compliant journalists can undermine the very institutions and ideals they are tasked with protecting.
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
ISBN: 0700619461
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
The Federal Bureau of Investigation was an agency devoted to American ideals, professionalism, and scientific methods, directed by a sage and selfless leader--and anyone who said otherwise was a no-good subversive, bent on discrediting the American way of life. That was the official story, and how J. Edgar Hoover made it stick--running roughshod over those same American ideals--is the story this book tells in full for the first time. From Hoover's first tentative media contacts in the 1930s to the Bureau's eponymous television series in the 1960s and 1970s, FBI officials labored mightily to control the Bureau's image--efforts that put them not-so-squarely at the forefront of the emerging field of public relations. In the face of any journalistic challenges to the FBI's legitimacy and operations, Hoover was able to create a benign, even heroic counter narrative, thanks in part to his friends in newsrooms. Matthew Cecil's own prodigious investigation through hundreds of thousands of pages from FBI files reveals the lengths to which Hoover and his lackeys went to use the press to hoodwink the American people. Even more sobering is how much help he got from so many in the press. Conservative journalists like broadcaster Fulton Lewis, Jr. and columnist George Sokolsky positioned themselves as "objective" defenders of Hoover's FBI and were rewarded with access, friendship, and other favors. Some of Hoover's friends even became adjunct-FBI agents, designated as Special Service Contacts who discreetly gathered information for the Bureau. "Enemies," on the other hand, were closely monitored and subjected to operations that disrupted their work or even undermined and ended their careers. Noted journalists like I. F. Stone, George Seldes, James A. Wechsler, and many others found themselves the subjects of FBI investigations and, occasionally, named on the Bureau's "custodial detention index," targeted for arrest in the case of a national emergency. With experience as a political reporter, a press secretary, and a scholar and professor of journalism and public relations, Matthew Cecil is uniquely qualified to conduct us through the maze of political intrigue and influence peddling that mark--and often mask--the history of the FBI. His work serves as a cautionary tale about how manipulative government agents and compliant journalists can undermine the very institutions and ideals they are tasked with protecting.
Branding Hoover's FBI
Author: Matthew Cecil
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
ISBN: 0700623051
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Hunting down America's public enemies was just one of the FBI's jobs. Another—perhaps more vital and certainly more covert—was the job of promoting the importance and power of the FBI, a process that Matthew Cecil unfolds clearly for the first time in this eye-opening book. The story of the PR men who fashioned the Hoover era, Branding Hoover's FBI reveals precisely how the Bureau became a monolithic organization of thousands of agents who lived and breathed a well-crafted public relations message, image, and worldview. Accordingly, the book shows how the public was persuaded—some would say conned—into buying and even bolstering that image. Just fifteen years after a theater impresario coined the term “public relations,” the FBI under J. Edgar Hoover began practicing a sophisticated version of the activity. Cecil introduces those agency PR men in Washington who put their singular talents to work by enforcing and amplifying Hoover's message. Louis B. Nichols, overseer of the Crime Records Section for more than twenty years, was a master of bend-your-ear networking. Milton A. Jones brought meticulous analysis to bear on the mission; Fern Stukenbroeker, a gift for eloquence; and Cartha “Deke” DeLoach, a singular charm and ambition. Branding Hoover's FBI examines key moments when this dedicated cadre, all working under the protective wing of Associate Director Clyde Tolson, manipulated public perceptions of the Bureau (was the Dillinger triumph really what it seemed?). In these critical moments, the book allows us to understand as never before how America came to see the FBI's law enforcement successes and overlook the dubious accomplishments, such as domestic surveillance, that truly defined the Hoover era.
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
ISBN: 0700623051
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Hunting down America's public enemies was just one of the FBI's jobs. Another—perhaps more vital and certainly more covert—was the job of promoting the importance and power of the FBI, a process that Matthew Cecil unfolds clearly for the first time in this eye-opening book. The story of the PR men who fashioned the Hoover era, Branding Hoover's FBI reveals precisely how the Bureau became a monolithic organization of thousands of agents who lived and breathed a well-crafted public relations message, image, and worldview. Accordingly, the book shows how the public was persuaded—some would say conned—into buying and even bolstering that image. Just fifteen years after a theater impresario coined the term “public relations,” the FBI under J. Edgar Hoover began practicing a sophisticated version of the activity. Cecil introduces those agency PR men in Washington who put their singular talents to work by enforcing and amplifying Hoover's message. Louis B. Nichols, overseer of the Crime Records Section for more than twenty years, was a master of bend-your-ear networking. Milton A. Jones brought meticulous analysis to bear on the mission; Fern Stukenbroeker, a gift for eloquence; and Cartha “Deke” DeLoach, a singular charm and ambition. Branding Hoover's FBI examines key moments when this dedicated cadre, all working under the protective wing of Associate Director Clyde Tolson, manipulated public perceptions of the Bureau (was the Dillinger triumph really what it seemed?). In these critical moments, the book allows us to understand as never before how America came to see the FBI's law enforcement successes and overlook the dubious accomplishments, such as domestic surveillance, that truly defined the Hoover era.
Multiple Paths to Knowledge in International Relations
Author: Zeev Maoz
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 0739157930
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Multiple Paths to Knowledge in International Relations provides a uniquely valuable view of current approaches and findings in conflict studies. This volume showcases work informed by four powerful research tools: rational choice theory and game theory; simulation, experimentation, and artificial intelligence; quantitative studies; and case studies. Each research method is introduced and evaluated for its specific potential, including both strengths and weaknesses. Throughout, the notable contributors clearly explain how they choose, frame, and go about answering questions. While expanding our knowledge of particular conflicts, from the Crimean War to the Vietnam War to ongoing Palestinian-Israeli instability, Multiple Paths also furthers our understanding of how to conduct research in international relations.
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 0739157930
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Multiple Paths to Knowledge in International Relations provides a uniquely valuable view of current approaches and findings in conflict studies. This volume showcases work informed by four powerful research tools: rational choice theory and game theory; simulation, experimentation, and artificial intelligence; quantitative studies; and case studies. Each research method is introduced and evaluated for its specific potential, including both strengths and weaknesses. Throughout, the notable contributors clearly explain how they choose, frame, and go about answering questions. While expanding our knowledge of particular conflicts, from the Crimean War to the Vietnam War to ongoing Palestinian-Israeli instability, Multiple Paths also furthers our understanding of how to conduct research in international relations.
Chillin’ in Another World with Level 2 Super Cheat Powers: Volume 6 (Light Novel)
Author: Miya Kinojo
Publisher: J-Novel Club
ISBN: 1718380089
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 185
Book Description
Peace has come to Klyrode! After centuries of fighting, the Dark Army and the Magical Kingdom have signed a treaty and laid down their arms. Now the whole world is enjoying its newfound peace, thanks to the wisdom of the Dark Regent Calsi’im and the strength of the Wolf of Justice—the masked hero persona of Flio, the easygoing proprietor of the Fli-o’-Rys General Store with nigh omnipotent power. But peace has brought no rest to the Wolf of Justice himself! Work has never been busier, and the children are growing up at lightning pace. Even worse, the gods of the Celestial Plane have taken notice of Flio’s magic! What will happen if they judge him to be a threat to all worlds in the Median Plane? What does peace between humans and demons mean? And how can the new Dark Army balance their books if their erstwhile vassals won’t pay tribute?!
Publisher: J-Novel Club
ISBN: 1718380089
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 185
Book Description
Peace has come to Klyrode! After centuries of fighting, the Dark Army and the Magical Kingdom have signed a treaty and laid down their arms. Now the whole world is enjoying its newfound peace, thanks to the wisdom of the Dark Regent Calsi’im and the strength of the Wolf of Justice—the masked hero persona of Flio, the easygoing proprietor of the Fli-o’-Rys General Store with nigh omnipotent power. But peace has brought no rest to the Wolf of Justice himself! Work has never been busier, and the children are growing up at lightning pace. Even worse, the gods of the Celestial Plane have taken notice of Flio’s magic! What will happen if they judge him to be a threat to all worlds in the Median Plane? What does peace between humans and demons mean? And how can the new Dark Army balance their books if their erstwhile vassals won’t pay tribute?!
Hockey Field and Lacrosse, Including Net-ball
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Field hockey
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Field hockey
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Chillin’ in Another World with Level 2 Super Cheat Powers: Volume 15 (Light Novel)
Author: Miya Kinojo
Publisher: J-Novel Club
ISBN: 1718380267
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Years have passed since Flio was summoned to the world of Klyrode, and quite a bit has changed since he first arrived. Over time, his house has grown from a small cottage where he lived alone with his wife Rys into a bustling community, complete with farmland and a mountain village. The Fli-o’-Rys General Store is now a mercantile giant, responsible for vital parts of the world’s infrastructure and economy. And his older children, Garyl and Elinàsze, have finally graduated from the Houghtow College of Magic, while the younger children in the house have just started attending school themselves. Their busy daily lives are interrupted, however, by a sudden increase in Beast of Disaster attacks that has the Celestial Plane itself reaching out for aid. What became of the legendary nine-headed Hydrana? Has Wyne met her match in another dragonewt? Will Garyl’s flock of admirers ever take a hint? And how worried should we be about Elinàsze’s worsening daddy complex?
Publisher: J-Novel Club
ISBN: 1718380267
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Years have passed since Flio was summoned to the world of Klyrode, and quite a bit has changed since he first arrived. Over time, his house has grown from a small cottage where he lived alone with his wife Rys into a bustling community, complete with farmland and a mountain village. The Fli-o’-Rys General Store is now a mercantile giant, responsible for vital parts of the world’s infrastructure and economy. And his older children, Garyl and Elinàsze, have finally graduated from the Houghtow College of Magic, while the younger children in the house have just started attending school themselves. Their busy daily lives are interrupted, however, by a sudden increase in Beast of Disaster attacks that has the Celestial Plane itself reaching out for aid. What became of the legendary nine-headed Hydrana? Has Wyne met her match in another dragonewt? Will Garyl’s flock of admirers ever take a hint? And how worried should we be about Elinàsze’s worsening daddy complex?
Poems and Songs
Author: Alexander McLachlan
Publisher: Rose
ISBN:
Category : Blind tooled bindings
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Publisher: Rose
ISBN:
Category : Blind tooled bindings
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
History of Herodotus
Author: Herodotus
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Greece
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Greece
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description