Dzur

Author : Steven Brust
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2010-01-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429993517

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Dzur by Steven Brust Pdf

In which Vlad Taltos confronts the Left Hand of the Jhereg...and discovers the game has more players than he thought Vlad Taltos, short-statured, short-lived human in an Empire of tall, long-lived Dragaerans, has always had to keep his wits about him. Long ago, he made a place for himself as a captain of the Jhereg, the noble house that runs the rackets in the great imperial city of Adrilankha. But love, revolution, betrayal, and revenge ensued, and for years now Vlad has been a man on the run, struggling to stay a step ahead of the Jhereg who would kill him without hesitation. Now Vlad's back in Adrilankha. The rackets he used to run are now under the control of the mysterious "Left Hand of the Jhereg"—a secretive cabal of women who report to no man. His ex-wife needs his help. His old enemies aren't sure whether they want to kill him, or talk to him and then kill him. A goddess may be playing tricks with his memory. And the Great Weapon he's carrying seems to have plans of its own... Picking up directly where Issola left off, Dzur gives us Vlad Taltos at his best—swashbuckling storytelling with a wry and gritty edge. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Steven Brust
Publisher : Tor Books
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250209481

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The Book of Dzur by Steven Brust Pdf

The first seven of Steven Brust's Vlad Taltos novels have long been in print from Ace Books in a set of three trade paperback omnibuses. In Spring 2011, Tor put the next two Vlad books, Dragon and Issola, into print as a trade paperback entitled The Book of Dragon. Now we continue with the next two, collecting the New York Times-bestselling Dzur and Jhegaala into The Book of Dzur. In Dzur, Vlad is back in the great city of Adrilankha, with a price on his head. The rackets he used to run are now under the control of the mysterious "Left Hand of the Jhereg"—a cabal of women who report to no man. His ex-wife needs his help. His old enemies aren't sure whether they want to kill him, or talk to him and then kill him. A goddess appears to be playing tricks with his memory. And the Great Weapon he's carrying appears to have plans of its own.... In Jhegaala, Vlad decides to hide out among his relatives in faraway Fenario, in a papermaking town called Burz. At first it's not such a bad place, though the mill reeks to high heaven. But the longer he stays there, the stranger it becomes. Then a grisly murder takes place. And in its wake, far from Dragaera, without his usual organization working for him, Vlad has to do his sleuthing amidst an alien people...his own. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Albert W. Dzur
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-13
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780199874095

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Punishment, Participatory Democracy, and the Jury by Albert W. Dzur Pdf

Focusing democratic theory on the pressing issue of punishment, this book argues for participatory institutional designs as antidotes to the American penal state.

Author : Albert W. Dzur
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780271045771

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Democratic Professionalism by Albert W. Dzur Pdf

Bringing expert knowledge to bear in an open and deliberative way to help solve pressing social problems is a major concern today, when technocratic and bureaucratic decision making often occurs with little or no input from the general public. Albert Dzur proposes an approach he calls &“democratic professionalism&” to build bridges between specialists in domains like law, medicine, and journalism and the lay public in such a way as to enable and enhance broader public engagement with and deliberation about major social issues. Sparking a critical and constructive dialogue among social theories of the professions, professional ethics, and political theories of deliberative democracy, Dzur reveals interests, motivations, strengths, and vulnerabilities in conventional professional roles that provide guideposts for this new approach. He then applies it in examining three practical arenas in which experiments in collaboration and power-sharing between professionals and citizens have been undertaken: public journalism, restorative justice, and the bioethics movement. Finally, he draws lessons from these cases to refine this innovative theory and identify the kinds of challenges practitioners face in being both democratic and professional.

Author : Steven Brust
Publisher : Ace Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Taltos, Vlad (Fictitious character)
ISBN : 0441385540

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Jhereg by Steven Brust Pdf

Fantasy-roman.

Author : Albert W. Dzur,Ian Loader,Richard Sparks
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780190243098

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Democratic Theory and Mass Incarceration by Albert W. Dzur,Ian Loader,Richard Sparks Pdf

Despite its increasing visibility as a social issue, mass incarceration - and its inconsistency with core democratic ideals - rarely surfaces in contemporary political theory. Democratic Theory and Mass Incarceration seeks to overcome this puzzling disconnect by deepening the dialogue between democratic theory and punishment policy.

Author : Colin Dayan
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-03
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780691157870

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The Law Is a White Dog - How Legal Rituals Make and Unmake Persons by Colin Dayan Pdf

A fascinating account of how the law determines or dismantles identity and personhood Abused dogs, prisoners tortured in Guantánamo and supermax facilities, or slaves killed by the state—all are deprived of personhood through legal acts. Such deprivations have recurred throughout history, and the law sustains these terrors and banishments even as it upholds the civil order. Examining such troubling cases, The Law Is a White Dog tackles key societal questions: How does the law construct our identities? How do its rules and sanctions make or unmake persons? And how do the supposedly rational claims of the law define marginal entities, both natural and supernatural, including ghosts, dogs, slaves, terrorist suspects, and felons? Reading the language, allusions, and symbols of legal discourse, and bridging distinctions between the human and nonhuman, Colin Dayan looks at how the law disfigures individuals and animals, and how slavery, punishment, and torture create unforeseen effects in our daily lives. Moving seamlessly across genres and disciplines, Dayan considers legal practices and spiritual beliefs from medieval England, the North American colonies, and the Caribbean that have survived in our legal discourse, and she explores the civil deaths of felons and slaves through lawful repression. Tracing the legacy of slavery in the United States in the structures of the contemporary American prison system and in the administrative detention of ghostly supermax facilities, she also demonstrates how contemporary jurisprudence regarding cruel and unusual punishment prepared the way for abuses in Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo. Using conventional historical and legal sources to answer unconventional questions, The Law Is a White Dog illuminates stark truths about civil society's ability to marginalize, exclude, and dehumanize.

Author : Robert Ellis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : Monogenism and polygenism
ISBN : UOM:39015016428776

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On Numerals as Signs of Primeval Unity Among Mankind by Robert Ellis Pdf

Author : Robert Ellis (B.D.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLS:V000572897

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On Numerals as Signs of Primeval Unity Among Mankind by Robert Ellis (B.D.) Pdf

Author : Steven Brust
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2002-12-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0812589173

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Issola by Steven Brust Pdf

Vlad Taltos, a sometime assassin currently on the run from his former associates, is tracked down in his jungle hideout by a most improbable party: Lady Teldra, who has come to enlist Vlad's help.

Author : Steven Brust
Publisher : Orb Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2004-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429997348

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Agyar by Steven Brust Pdf

From bestselling fantasy author Steven Brust comes this paranormal novel of immortality—and its price... Born over a century ago, Agyar was once a frivolous young man, before he found unwanted immortality in a woman's blood-red lips. Now he goes from woman to woman, and decade to decade, finding himself at last in an Midwestern college town, where he must choose between the seductions of salvation—and of destruction. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Albert W. Dzur
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781501721991

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Rebuilding Public Institutions Together by Albert W. Dzur Pdf

The Laurence and Lynne Brown Democracy Medal is an initiative of the McCourtney Institute for Democracy at Pennsylvania State University. It annually recognizes outstanding individuals, groups, and organizations that produce exceptional innovations to further democracy in the United States or around the world. In this book, Albert W. Dzur argues that some of the most innovative and important work in democracy is taking place face-to-face and is being led by professionals who bring those involved into the decision making process. These "democratic professionals" create a culture that leads to better decisions and overcomes what he calls "civic lethargy." He focuses on how this democratic professionalism manifests itself in the operation of a wide range of public institutions, including schools and local government, as well as in the reform of our criminal justice system, from juries to prisons.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 928 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Czechoslovakia
ISBN : IND:30000108629605

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Radio Free Europe Research by Anonim Pdf

Author : Tom Christiansen,Nathan Torkington
Publisher : O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Page : 988 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Computers
ISBN : UOM:39015060001859

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Perl Cookbook by Tom Christiansen,Nathan Torkington Pdf

Software -- Programming Languages.

Author : Steven Brust
Publisher : Orb Books
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2008-10-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429997317

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The Phoenix Guards by Steven Brust Pdf

Set in the same world as Stephen Brust's beloved Vlad Taltos books, The Phoenix Guards is a fantasy rewrite of The Three Musketeers—a swashbuckling tale of adventure. A thousand years before the birth of Vlad Taltos, the Dragaeran Empire is a hotbed of intrigue, sorcery, intrigue, wild adventure, and intrigue. For those who would be heroes, it is a delightful time to be alive—and an easy place to die. Khaavren of the House of Tiassa is a son of landless nobility, possessor of a good sword and "tolerably well-acquainted with its use." Along with three loyal friends, he enthusiastically seeks out danger and excitement. But in a realm renowned for repartee and betrayals, where power is as mutable as magic, a young man like Khaavren, newly come from the countryside, had best be wary. His life depends on it. And so does the future of Draegara. The Khaavren Romances, set in the world of Vlad Taltos's Dragaera: 1. The Phoenix Guards 2. Five Hundred Years After 3. The Paths of the Dead (The Viscount of Adrilankha, Vol. 1) 4. The Lord of Castle Black (The Viscount of Adrilankha, Vol. 2) 5. Sethra Lavode (The Viscount of Adrilankha, Vol. 3) The Baron of Magister Valley [standalone] At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.