A Defender Rises

Author : Martha Carr,Michael Anderle,Tr Cameron
Publisher : Lmbpn Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1649714017

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A Defender Rises by Martha Carr,Michael Anderle,Tr Cameron Pdf

Ruby Achera just wanted a nice, quiet drink at her family's casino in Magic City. The Mist Casino sits just above a kemana with an interior that would make a ghost feel right at home. Of course it does. After all, Magic City has to compete with nearby Vegas. A different kind of magic. Ruby is just back from University for the summer, catching up with an old friend when everything changes with a BANG! A series of small blasts are exploding all around her. Chips are flying through the air. Someone wanted to announce their arrival in town. But who? Ruby is about to get drawn into a battle for control of Magic City. They just made the fight personal. Is the Ebon Dragon Casino next? Will Ruby's secrets get in her way? What waits at the end could change her life forever, if she survives the journey. For action, magic, snarky banter, martial arts, mystical creatures, and high intrigue, take a vacation to Magic City! Scroll up and click the Buy Now button and read it today.

Author : Martin C. Libicki,Lillian Ablon,Tim Webb
Publisher : Rand Corporation
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-10
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780833089113

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The Defender’s Dilemma by Martin C. Libicki,Lillian Ablon,Tim Webb Pdf

This report, the second in a series, reveals insights from chief information security officers; examines network defense measures and attacker-created countermeasures; and explores software vulnerabilities and inherent weaknesses.

Author : Manjari Chatterjee Miller
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780190639952

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Why Nations Rise by Manjari Chatterjee Miller Pdf

What are rising powers? Do they challenge the international order? Why do some countries but not others become rising powers? In Why Nations Rise, Manjari Chaterjee Miller answers these questions and shows that some countries rise not just because they develop the military and economic power to do so but because they develop particular narratives about how to become a great power in the style of the great power du jour. These active rising powers accept the prevalent norms of the international order in order to become great powers. On the other hand, countries which have military and economic power but not these narratives do not rise enough to become great powers--they stay reticent powers. An examination of the narratives in historical (the United States, the Netherlands, Meiji Japan) and contemporary (Cold War Japan, post-Cold War China and India) cases, Why Nations Rise shows patterns of active and reticent rising powers and presents lessons for how to understand the rising powers of China and India today.

Author : Jonathan Hughes
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781441142788

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The Rise of Alchemy in Fourteenth-Century England by Jonathan Hughes Pdf

Alchemists did more than try to transmute base metals into gold: they studied planetary influences on metals and people, refined plants and minerals in the search for medicines and advocated the regeneration of matter and spirit. This book illustrates how this new branch of thought became increasingly popular as the practical and theoretical knowledge of alchemists spread throughout England.Adopted by those in court and the circles of nobility for their own physical and spiritual needs, it was adapted for the diagnosis and therapeutic treatment of the illnesses of the body politic and its head, the king. This is the first work to synthesize all aspects of alchemy and show its contribution to intellectual, social and political life in the fourteenth century. Hughes explores a rich body of manuscripts to reveal the daily routines of the alchemist and his imaginative mindscape, and considers the contribution of alchemy to the vernacular culture and political debate, leading to a reassessment of the intellectual life of the middle ages.

Author : Chien-pin Li
Publisher : CQ Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781544399263

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Rising East Asia by Chien-pin Li Pdf

Rising East Asia by Chien-pin Li helps readers understand the dynamic changes to China, Japan, and Korea since the end of World War II. Although the three countries have experienced stellar economic growth, there have also been shifts in political dynamics, social order, and security landscapes. To help people understand the past and present of the region, and develop well-informed opinions about its future, Li offers a book for East Asian Politics courses that reflects interdisciplinary collaboration—one that brings the scholarly debate in comparative politics and international relations to bear on the rich information and knowledge accumulated from East Asian studies. Each section is organized around the pursuit of three policy goals: economic prosperity, political governance, and national security. Whatever their position may be, the future of the region is likely to have major impacts on the rest of the world.

Author : Leonard S. Smith
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2009-04-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781556358302

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Religion and the Rise of History by Leonard S. Smith Pdf

As a historical inquiry and synthesis, this intellectual history is the first study to apply the ideal-type or model-building methodology of Otto Hintze (1861-1940) to Western historical thought or to what R. G. Collingwood called The Idea of History, for it contains succinct and useful models for seeing and teaching classical, Christian, and modern professional historiography. Religion and the Rise of History is also the first work to suggest that, in addition to his well-known paradoxical, simul, and/or at-the-same-time way of thinking and viewing life, Martin Luther also held to a way that was deeply incarnational, dynamic, and/or in-with-and-under. This dual vision and a Lutheran ethos strongly influenced Leibniz, Hamann, and Herder, and was therefore a matter of considerable significance for the rise of a distinctly modern form of historical consciousness (commonly called historicism) in Protestant Germany. Smith's essay suggests a new time period for the formative age of modern German thought, culture, and education: The Cultural Revolution in Germany. This age began in the early 1760s and culminated in 1810 with the founding of the University of Berlin, the first fully modern and modernizing university. This university first became the recognized center for the study of history, however, through the work of Leopold von Ranke (1795-1886). Here the story shows how a young Ranke derived his individualizing way of thinking and viewing life mainly from Luther, how his life-work is the best example in Western literature of the rise of history from a calling to a profession, and how the three-way discussion between Troeltsch, Meinecke, and Hintze concerning the nature of modern historical thought was of central importance for the reorientation of Western social-historical thought in the twentieth century.

Author : Alexander Charles Ewald
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 668 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590348752

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Leaders of the senate: a biographical history of the rise and development of the British constitution. 2 vols. [issued in 15 pt.]. by Alexander Charles Ewald Pdf

Author : Howard Schwartz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351475068

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The Rise and Fall of Philanthropy in East Africa by Howard Schwartz Pdf

Robert G. Gregory challenges the apparent assumption that non-Western peoples lack a significant indigenous philanthropic culture. Focusing on the large South Asian community in East Africa, he relates how, over a century, they built a philanthropic culture of great magnitude, and how it finally collapsed under the ascendency of increasing state regulation and policies directed against non-African communities.Compelled by poverty to seek better oppurtunities overseas, most Asians arrived in East Africa as peasant farmers. Denied access to productive land and sensing economic opportunity, they turned to business. Despite severe forms of racial discrimination in the colonial society, they suffered few restrictions on their business enterprises and some became very wealthy. Gregory's historical analysis shows philanthropy as an important contribution, one that stemmed from deep roots in Hindu, Muslim, and Buddhist culture. The sense of nonracial social responsibility cultivated social, medical, and educational facilities designed for all.This age of philanthropy terminated with the Asian exodus. The socialist and racial policies adopted by East African governments over the past few decades have virtually destroyed the foundation necessary for philanthropy as well as the distinct Asian cultural identity. Gregory's account of the East Asian's role in philanthropy deserves great attention and sober reflection.

Author : Henry Lorenzo Jephson
Publisher : London, Macmillan
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : IOWA:31858049903473

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The Platform: Its Rise and Progress by Henry Lorenzo Jephson Pdf

Author : Leonard C. Sebastian,Syafiq Hasyim,Alexander R. Arifianto
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000205367

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Rising Islamic Conservatism in Indonesia by Leonard C. Sebastian,Syafiq Hasyim,Alexander R. Arifianto Pdf

This edited volume argues that the rise of Islamic conservatism poses challenges to Indonesia’s continued existence as a secular state, with far-reaching implications for the social, cultural and political fortunes of the country. It contributes a model of analysis in the field of Indonesian and Islamic studies on the logic of Islamic conservative activism in Indonesia. This volume presents informative case studies of discourses and expressions of Islamic conservatism expressed by leading mainstream and upcoming Indonesian Islamic groups and interpret them in a nuanced perspective. All volume contributors are Indonesian-based Islamic Studies scholars with in-depth expertise on the Islamic groups they have studied closely for years, if not decades. This book is an up-to-date study addressing contemporary Indonesian politics that should be read by Islamic Studies, Indonesian Studies, and more broadly Southeast Asian Studies specialists. It is also a useful reference for those studying Religion and Politics, and Comparative Politics.

Author : Heinrich Graetz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 776 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Jews
ISBN : STANFORD:36105000244371

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From the rise of the Kabbala (1270 C.E.) to the permanent settlement of the Marranos in Holland (1618 C.E.) by Heinrich Graetz Pdf

Author : Michael W. Harris
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1994-06-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780195358117

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The Rise of Gospel Blues by Michael W. Harris Pdf

Most observers believe that gospel music has been sung in African-American churches since their organization in the late 1800s. Yet nothing could be further from the truth, as Michael W. Harris's history of gospel blues reveals. Tracing the rise of gospel blues as seen through the career of its founding figure, Thomas Andrew Dorsey, Harris tells the story of the most prominent person in the advent of gospel blues. Also known as "Georgia Tom," Dorsey had considerable success in the 1920s as a pianist, composer, and arranger for prominent blues singes including Ma Rainey. In the 1930s he became involved in Chicago's African-American, old-line Protestant churches, where his background in the blues greatly influenced his composing and singing. Following much controversy during the 1930s and the eventual overwhelming response that Dorsey's new form of music received, the gospel blues became a major force in African-American churches and religion. His more than 400 gospel songs and recent Grammy Award indicate that he is still today the most prolific composer/publisher in the movement. Delving into the life of the central figure of gospel blues, Harris illuminates not only the evolution of this popular musical form, but also the thought and social forces that forged the culture in which this music was shaped.

Author : Serik Jumanov
Publisher : Litres
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9785040530090

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Rise of London Gambler. Second edition by Serik Jumanov Pdf

About the author: Serik Jumanov – author of novel “You-lia” (2012), his debut work, which had success in Biennale Cinema College script contest in Venice. “Rise of London Gambler” is his second big project.

Author : Brigitte Gabriel
Publisher : Charisma Media
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781629995489

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Rise by Brigitte Gabriel Pdf

"YOU NEVER REALLY OWN FREEDOM, YOU ONLY PRESERVE IT FOR THE NEXT GENERATION." From New York Times best-selling author Brigitte Gabriel This book is critical to your family and your personal freedom. Will you sit back and watch the greatest country our world has ever known slowly fade away? Or will you rise?

Author : T. J. Fresso
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781467066228

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Rise of the Fighters by T. J. Fresso Pdf

December 7th, 1942. Over 300 Japanese warplanes destroy the Pacific fleet in Pearl Harbor. A day that will live in infamy. With those words, President Roosevelt declares war on the Axis powers during WWII. On that fateful day, 2 Army soldiers, 1 sailor/cook, and a Hollywood actress' lives are forever dramatically changed. Ravaged during the initial onslaught, they are reborn by mythology, science, & intestinal fortitude. As the Nazis & Japanese pillage the world, "The Fighters" train. The time has come, and their baptism of fire shall be in North Africa. But, the Germans are waiting with "specials" of their own. Most of which aren't quite......human!