Author: Larry Niven
Publisher: Phoenix Pick
ISBN: 9781649730510
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 290
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"Rare Storytelling...demands to be read at one sitting." - Chicago Sun-Times "Nobody does it better than Niven and Pournelle." -Tom Clancy "Exciting, swift and suspenseful." - Theodore Sturgeon In a dystopian future, where pollution and violen
Author: Elizabeth Moon
Publisher: Del Rey
ISBN: 0345518993
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 497
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BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Elizabeth Moon's Kings of the North. For the first time in nearly twenty years, Elizabeth Moon returns to the thrilling realm of her superb Deed of Paksenarrion trilogy. Thanks to Paks’s courage, the long-vanished heir to the half-elven kingdom of Lyonya has been revealed as Kieri Phelan, a formidable mercenary who earned a title—and enemies—in the neighboring kingdom of Tsaia, where Prince Mikeli suddenly faces the threat of a coup. Acting swiftly, Mikeli strikes at the powerful family behind the attack: the Verrakaien, magelords steeped in death and evil. Mikeli’s survival—and that of Tsaia—depend on the only Verrakai whose magery is not tainted with innocent blood. Two kings stand at a pivotal point in the history of their worlds. For dark forces are gathering against them, knit in a secret conspiracy more sinister and far more ancient than they can imagine.
Author: Glynn Stewart
Publisher: Faolan's Pen Publishing
ISBN: 1988035996
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 383
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A ragged newcomer… With a secret even he doesn’t know A backwater city… With a countdown to an explosion no one is expecting A secret Covenant… And a conspiracy to break it to pieces Jason Kilkenny is a new arrival in the Canadian city of Calgary. Unlike most newcomers, Jason isn’t looking for a job in oil and gas: he’s a half-fae changeling that wants to get away from the politics of the inhuman races. He soon learns that despite being a supernatural backwater, the city is run by a near-godlike Wizard—and the shadows are full of unseen dangers. Jason’s here to hide, but he finds himself called to service by Calgary’s understaffed Fae Court. As supernatural politics collide in his new home, Jason’s plan to keep his head down is shattered and he finds himself testing the limits of his meager gifts. He cannot run, he cannot hide…and if he loses, he loses everything.
Author: Adalbert Lallier
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1483620069
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 138
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This book explores the historical long journey of two Viennese families: the Rainers who were Catholic and the Laubers who had originally been Jewish but eventually converted to Catholicism. The journey lasts throughout the 20th century and describes the gradual demise of both families. The names and the existence of these two Viennese families are fictitious. However, they illustrate and portray the reality of life in Vienna before and after the First World War, during the entire inter-war period and the seven tragic years following the Anschluß.
Author: Seán Alexander Smith
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317136217
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 240
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The career of the French saint Vincent de Paul has attracted the attention of hundreds of authors since his death in 1660, but the fate of his legacy - entrusted to the body of priests called the Congregation of the Mission (Lazarists) - remains vastly neglected. De Paul spent a lifetime working for the reform of the clergy and the evangelization of the rural poor. After his death, his ethos was universally lauded as one of the most important elements in the regeneration of the French church, but what happened to this ethos after he died? This book provides a thorough examination of the major activities of de Paul’s immediate followers. It begins by analysing the unique model of religious life designed by de Paul - a model created in contradistinction to more worldly clerical institutes, above all the Society of Jesus. Before he died, de Paul made very clear that fidelity to this model demanded that his disciples avoid the corridors of power. However, this book follows the subsequent departures from this command to demonstrate that the Congregation became one of the most powerful orders in France. The book includes a study of the termination of the little-known Madagascar mission, which was closed in 1671. This mission, replete with colonial scandal and mismanagement, revealed the terrible pressures on de Paul’s followers in the decade after his demise. The end of the mission occasioned the first major reassessment of the Congregation’s goals as a missionary institute, and involved abandoning some of the goals the founder had nourished. The rest of the book reveals how the Lazarists recovered from the setbacks of Madagascar, famously becoming parish priests of Louis XIV at Versailles in 1672. From then on, fealty to Louis XIV gradually trumped fidelity to de Paul. The book also investigates the darker side of the Congregation’s novel alliance with the monarch, by examining its treatment of Huguenot prisoners at Marseille later in the century, and its involvement with the slave trade in the Indian Ocean. This study is a wide-ranging investigation of the Lazarists’ activities in the French Empire, ultimately concluding that they eclipsed the Society of Jesus. Finally, it contributes new information to the literature on Louis XIV’s prickly relationship with religious agents that will surprise historians working in this area.
Author: Mrs. H. M. Seymour
Publisher:
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Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 182
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Author: Sir Edward Coke
Publisher:
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Category : Land tenure
Languages : en
Pages : 694
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Author: Leah Wilson
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1329920813
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 322
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Try as she might, Lauralee has never been what you'd consider 'normal'. Since her mothers' death things have been getting even stranger. Faces in the shadows, strange whispers that only she can hear. But when she meets Ares, a handsome stranger, things are about to go from weird to dangerous.
Author: France
Publisher: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
ISBN: 1584773812
Category : Civil law
Languages : en
Pages : 558
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Barrett, Bryant, Translator. The Code Napoleon, Verbally Translated From the French: To Which is Prefixed an Introductory Discourse, Containing a Succinct Account of the Civil Regulations, Comprised in the Jewish Law, the Ordinances of Menu, the Ta Tsing Leu Lee, the Zend Avesta, the Laws of Solon, the Twelve Tables of Rome, the Laws of the Barbarians, the Assises of Jerusalem, and the Koran. London: W. Reed, 1811. Two volumes. cccxciii, 575 pp. Reprinted 2004 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. LCCN 2003044238. ISBN 1-58477-381-2. Cloth. $160. * Reprint of the first English edition. Bryant Barrett was an English attorney and member of Gray's Inn. His superb translation is noteworthy in part because it was published the year the Code was enacted. As such, it has the advantage of being in a style of English that is an idiomatic contemporary to the original French. Many scholars believe that this is the finest translation of the Code. Indeed, they have found it to be more accurate than the official Louisiana edition. Barrett's index, which follows the style of English lawyer's common-place books and abridgments, is a thorough guide to the Code. The philological basis of his 393-page introduction had a profound influence on the subsequent development of Classical British legal ethnography.
Author: Great Britain. Public Record Office
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 884
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