Desperate Alliances

Author : Rowena Cory Daniells
Publisher : Solaris
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781849978989

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Desperate Alliances by Rowena Cory Daniells Pdf

Fair Isle has found a new ruler, and a new way of life. Tulkhan, the Ghebite General, has long severed ties with his brother the King, and is forging a new country, bringing the best of his people - their ferocity, courage and passion - and the people he has conquered - their culture, sophistication and egalitarianism - together in a nation that will change the world. His bond-partner - never a Ghebite "wife" - Imoshen, last of the pure-blood T'En women, with her wine-dark eyes and silver hair, rules by his side. What began as a political alliance has blossomed into love, for one another and their newborn son. But even as differences still cause trouble between the Ghebites and the people of Fair Isle, Imoshen's past tears her in half. For Reothe, once her betrothed, once so great a threat to them and now crippled by her powers, still seeks to draw her away. And the lure of the mind-touch - the magical intimacy that she and Tulkhan can never share - is one she cannot ignore...

Author : Rowena Cory Daniells
Publisher : Solaris
Page : 848 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781849978996

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The Fall of Fair Isle by Rowena Cory Daniells Pdf

It has been six hundred years since Imoshen the First, Causare of the T’En, brought her beleaguered people across the seas to Fair Isle. The magical folk mixed with the natives, bringing culture and sophistication, and made the island one of the wealthiest, most powerful nations in the known world. But all glory is temporary. The Ghebites, savage barbarians from the warm north, have rolled over the mainland, conquering all in their path, and now they have taken Fair Isle. Imoshen, namesake of the first Empress and the last pure-blooded T’En woman, is all that survives of that great heritage. Now, just seventeen years of age, she must offer herself to the Ghebite General, Tulkhan, and do what she can to ensure her survival, and that of her people. One other T’En survives: Reothe, Imoshen’s betrothed, newly returned from adventuring on the high seas. As the T’En warrior foments rebellion against Tulkhan in secret, Imoshen must choose, both as a woman and as a leader, between a past now lost and an uncertain future… This volume collects Broken Vows, Dark Dreams and Desperate Alliances for the first time.

Author : Andrea Cornwall,Elizabeth Harrison,Ann Whitehead
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781848136694

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Feminisms in Development by Andrea Cornwall,Elizabeth Harrison,Ann Whitehead Pdf

This collection of essays by leading feminist thinkers from North and South constitutes a major new attempt to reposition feminism within development studies. Feminism’s emphasis on social transformation makes it fundamental to development studies. Yet the relationship between the two disciplines has frequently been a troubled one. At present, the way in which many development institutions function often undermines feminist intent through bureaucratic structures and unequal power quotients. Moreover, the seeming intractability of inequalities and injustice in developing countries have presented feminists with some enormous challenges. Here, emphasizing the importance of a plurality of approaches, the authors argue for the importance of what ‘feminisms’ have to say to development. Confronting the enormous challenges for feminisms in development studies, this book provides real hope for dialogue and exchange between feminisms and development.

Author : Kevin J. Anderson
Publisher : Aspect
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2005-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780759515185

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Scattered Suns: The Saga of Seven Suns - Book #4 by Kevin J. Anderson Pdf

The fourth novel in the Saga of Seven Suns series executes a plan that has been long in the making. The final, most powerful enemy against the humans is about to be launched; how will they survive? The war between the alien hydrogues and the faeros rages, reducing suns to blackened shells--including one of the fabled seven suns of the Ildiran Empire. The Ildirans are engaged in a bloody civil war and are bitterly divided. Can they overcome their internal fighting to face a deadly new enemy?

Author : Melissa Yeager,Charles Carter
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781786739636

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Pacts and Alliances in History by Melissa Yeager,Charles Carter Pdf

Agreements between nations constitute the fundamental framework for the ordering of international affairs; and their successes and failures have led to some of the great turning points in modern history. The result of a unique collaboration by historians and political scientists, this book delineates, defines and assesses the idea of pacts and alliances as a key model of political organisation. Anchored by leading academics in the field, it presents numerous case studies covering a broad chronological sweep. Through theoretical and empirical methodology, the contributors address pacts and alliances from the fifteenth century onwards including, among others, the Korean-American and Moscow-Cairo alliances, the Sevres Pact, Turkey's accession to NATO and US alliances around the world. Through a close reading of these historical diplomatic relationships, fundamental yet relatively unaddressed research questions are developed and explored. First, what are the common denominators shared by successful alliances? Second, why do pacts and alliances disintegrate? Third, is the eventual demise of pacts and alliances inevitable? Finally, what are the implications of these issues on pact and alliance making today? This is the first volume to address this wide range of issues, and to bring together researchers and theorists from the historical and political disciplines to provide original and groundbreaking theories of diplomacy. Together, these case studies explore why alliances succeed, why they fail and why it matters. Pacts and Alliances in History is therefore not only important reading for the next generation of policymakers, but will also help frame scholars' enquiries as they try to understand key events in international relations and history.

Author : Blake Bennett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Adventure games
ISBN : 1633441261

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Star Wars by Blake Bennett Pdf

Author : Timothy J. Wilkinson,Vijay R. Kannan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 860 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9798216149941

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Strategic Management in the 21st Century by Timothy J. Wilkinson,Vijay R. Kannan Pdf

Covering both practical and theoretical aspects of strategic management, this three-volume work brings the complex topic down to earth and enables readers to gain competitive business advantages in their marketplace. This clear, insightful, and interesting work covers all aspects of strategic management, including chapters that discuss SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats) analysis, the Resource-Based View, transaction cost economics, and real options theory. Unlike other books, this three-volume work examines strategic management from different perspectives, effectively interweaving seemingly disparate subdisciplines, such as entrepreneurship and international business, with specialized foci, such as creativity, innovation, and trust. Incorporating information from contributors as varied as a proprietor of a worldwide motorcycle business to one of the most published scholars in the field of international strategic management, the practical and theoretical perspectives presented in Strategic Management in the 21st Century will benefit business strategists, professors of strategic management, and graduate students in the field.

Author : George Sharrard
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781681398303

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Desperate Years by George Sharrard Pdf

The year was 1939. I was a young child who lived in Britain. I had just turned nine years old. My country and other European countries at the time are fighting a war with Germany. Before I was born, in 1918, Britain was at the end of World War I when the Germany surrendered to the British and French forces. Now Germany was controlled by a man known as Hitler. He controlled the Nazi Party who had reared their ugly heads. They said war was their intent to regain the lands, which was supposedly stolen from German nation after the end of World War I in the year 1918. The German Army, early in September 1939, marched their troops into Poland and took over their country.

Author : Richard Overy
Publisher : Random House
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781448112388

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Why The Allies Won by Richard Overy Pdf

'Outstanding...Overy has written a masterpiece of analytical history, posing and answering one of the great questions of the century' Niall Ferguson, Sunday Times The Allied victory in 1945 – though comprehensive – was far from inevitable. By 1942 almost the entire resources of continental Europe were in German hands and Japan had wiped out the western colonial presence in Asia. Democracy appeared to have had its day. In this remarkable study, Richard Overy provides a reinterpretation of the war through an account of the decisive military campaigns that created the astonishing revival in Allied fortunes. He also explores the deeper factors that determined success and failure: industrial stength, fighting ability, the skills of leaders and the moral contrasts between the two sides. Today the modern world is once more in the throes of painful transformation. It is essential to establish why and how the last great war was won. Richard Overy casts a brilliant light on the most important turning-point of the modern age. ‘A compelling analysis...skilful and chilling’ The Economist

Author : Margot C. Finn
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : 0521525985

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After Chartism by Margot C. Finn Pdf

Working- and middle-class radical politics in England from the fall of Chartism in 1848 to the 1870s.

Author : Titan Comics
Publisher : Titan Comics
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-09
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781787737679

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Star Wars: The Age of Resistance - The Official Collector's Edition by Titan Comics Pdf

Star Wars: The Age of Resistance: The Official Collector’s Edition is the ultimate journey through the story of the three box-office phenomenon films that concluded the Skywalker saga. Jump to lightspeed with backstories of heroes and villains, interviews featuring the cast and crew and stunning photography and magnificent concept art. The Force awakens in a young scavenger called Rey, who crosses the path of Kylo Ren, a mysterious practitioner of the dark side of the Force. Teaming up with a former stormtrooper, Finn, a Resistance pilot, Poe Dameron, an astromech droid, BB-8, and the rest of the Resistance, Rey begins an epic journey. As she joins the fight against the sinister First Order, she meets the lost Jedi Master Luke Skywalker, and faces the returning menace of Emperor Palpatine.

Author : Louis Tracy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : English fiction
ISBN : STANFORD:36105213328078

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The Final War by Louis Tracy Pdf

Author : Douglas M. Gibler
Publisher : CQ Press
Page : 1001 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2008-10-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781604266849

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International Military Alliances, 1648-2008 by Douglas M. Gibler Pdf

The inaugural title in the Correlates of War series from CQ Press, this 2-volume set catalogs every official interstate alliance signed from the Peace of Westphalia in 1648 through the early twenty-first century, ranking it among the most thorough and accessible reviews of formal military treaties ever published. Maps and introductions showcase the effects of alliances on the region or international system in century-specific chapters, while individual narratives and summaries of alliances simultaneously provide basic information, such as dates and member states, as well as essential insights on the conditions that prompted the agreement. Additionally, separate and/or secret articles are highlighted for additional context and interest. Supplementary features of this two-volume set include: A timeline cataloging major events in political and military history Guides listing allegiances by region and by century An alphabetical treaty index Maps illustrating political boundaries across the centuries International Military Alliances is an indispensable resource for any library serving students of law, politics, history, and military science.

Author : Carl Friedrich Bossert
Publisher : Verlag Barbara Budrich
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783966659987

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Power, Alliances, and Redistribution by Carl Friedrich Bossert Pdf

Lateinamerika gilt als der ungleichste Kontinent der Welt. Paradoxerweise hat die Entwicklung ressourcenintensiver Sozialsysteme wenig dazu beigetragen, das soziale Ungleichgewicht zu verändern. Der Autor zeichnet dieses Paradox am Beispiel Argentiniens nach, deckt die zugrundeliegenden Macht- und Interessenskonflikte auf und stellt erfolgreiche Strategien zur Umsetzung einer integrativen Politik vor. Als erste Studie dieser Art untersucht sie systematisch die langfristige Entwicklung der sozialen Absicherung von Geringverdienern in Argentinien und analysiert die entscheidenden politischen, sozialen und ökonomischen Einflussfaktoren.

Author : Archibald Alison
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1850
Category : Europe
ISBN : NYPL:33433082474085

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History of Europe by Archibald Alison Pdf