The General S Hostage

Author : A. C. Fox
Publisher : Etopia Press
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781944138509

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The General's Hostage by A. C. Fox Pdf

Two powerful men. Two bitter enemies. One chance at love. Tav Cyrdath, a powerful wind adept and a brilliant general, leads the last free humans in a war against the Boa Visk, monsters who have enslaved most of humanity. But when the man who rules Illunvia refuses to surrender, Tav is forced to take the city by sword and magic. Victorious, he intends to execute the human traitor who has done so much harm by defying him. But when the defeated ruler, Duric Darmain, begs him to spare the citizens of Illunvia, Tav finds himself overcome by sudden mercy. He takes the man as a hostage instead, intending to use him in a trap against the monsters who have set this war in motion. Duric is defeated, broken...and yet Tav can't get his enemy out of his mind. But how could he ever feel this way about a man who has betrayed all Tav stands for? Duric knows he was only a puppet ruler for the Boa Visk, yet he has done all he can to shield his people from the cruel overlords. Now he is a prisoner, fallen from power, hated and scorned as a traitor. And yet the enemy general begins to treat him with a curious respect and eventually even kindness. He dares not trust again, but this one-time enemy makes him want to yield his heart as hostage, even as he struggles to conquer the fears he can't escape... Magic can heal wounds, but hearts must be mended with love. Both men have deep scars. Both have seen dark times. But the chance at love exists...if only they can embrace it before the Boa Visk return. Reader note: contains gay fantasy romance, enemies to lovers, and male male love

Author : Li Shi
Publisher : DeepLogic
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-11
Category : History
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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HISTORY OF THREE KINGDOMS by Li Shi Pdf

The Twenty-Four Histories (Chinese: 二十四史) are the Chinese official historical books covering a period from 3000 BC to the Ming dynasty in the 17th century. The Han dynasty official Sima Qian established many of the conventions of the genre. Starting with the Tang dynasty, each dynasty established an official office to write the history of its predecessor using official court records. As fixed and edited in the Qing dynasty, the whole set contains 3213 volumes and about 40 million words. It is considered one of the most important sources on Chinese history and culture. The title "Twenty-Four Histories" dates from 1775 which was the 40th year in the reign of the Qianlong Emperor. This was when the last volume, the History of Min gwas reworked and a complete set of the histories produced. The Twenty Four Histories include: •Early Four Historiographies (前四史) •Records of the Grand Historian (史記, Shǐ Jì), compiled by Sima Qian 司馬遷 in 91 BC •Book of Han (漢書, Hàn Shū), compiled by Ban Gu 班固 in 82 •Records of the Three Kingdoms (三國志, Sānguó Zhì), compiled by Chen Shou 陳壽 in 289 •Book of Later Han (後漢書, Hòuhàn Shū), compiled by Fan Ye 范曄 in 445[2] •Book of Song (simplified Chinese: 宋书; traditional Chinese: 宋書; pinyin: Sòng Shū)—Southern Dynasties, compiled by Shen Yue 沈約 in 488 •Book of Qi (simplified Chinese: 齐书; traditional Chinese: 齊書; pinyin: Qí Shū)—Southern Dynasties, compiled by Xiao Zixian 蕭子顯 in 537 •Book of Wei (simplified Chinese: 魏书; traditional Chinese: 魏書; pinyin: Wèi Shū)—Northern Dynasties, compiled by Wei Shou 魏收 in 554 •Eight Historiographies complied in Tang Dynasty (唐初八史) •Book of Liang (梁書, Liáng Shū)—Southern Dynasties, compiled by Yao Silian 姚思廉 in 636 •Book of Chen (陳書, Chén Shū)—Southern Dynasties, compiled by Yao Silian in 636 •Book of Northern Qi (北齊書, Běi Qí Shū)—Northern Dynasties, compiled by Li Baiyao 李百藥 in 636 •Book of Zhou (周書, Zhōu Shū)—Northern Dynasties, compiled under Linghu Defen 令狐德棻 in 636 •Book of Sui (隋書, Suí Shū), compiled under Wei Zheng 魏徵 in 636 •Book of Jin (晉書, Jìn Shū), compiled under Fang Xuanling 房玄齡 in 648 •History of the Southern Dynasties (南史, Nán Shǐ), compiled by Li Yanshou 李延壽 in 659 •History of the Northern Dynasties (北史, Běi Shǐ), compiled by Li Yanshou in 659 •Old Book of Tang (唐書, Táng Shū), compiled under Liu Xu 劉昫 in 945 •Old History of the Five Dynasties (五代史, Wǔdài Shǐ), compiled under Xue Juzheng 薛居正 in 974 •New History of the Five Dynasties (新五代史, Xīn Wǔdài Shǐ), compiled under Ouyang Xiu 歐陽脩 in 1053 •New Book of Tang (新唐書, Xīn Táng Shū), compiled under Ouyang Xiu in 1060 •Three Historiographies compiled in Yuan Dynasty (元末三史) •History of Liao (遼史, Liáo Shǐ), compiled under Toqto'a 脫脫 in 1343[3] •History of Jin (金史, Jīn Shǐ), compiled under Toqto'a in 1345 •History of Song (宋史, Sòng Shǐ), compiled under Toqto'a in 1345 •History of Yuan (元史, Yuán Shǐ), compiled under Song Lian 宋濂 in 1370 •History of Ming (明史, Míng Shǐ), compiled under Zhang Tingyu 張廷玉 in 1739

Author : W. E. B. Griffin
Publisher : Putnam Adult
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015063676954

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The Hostage by W. E. B. Griffin Pdf

Department of Homeland Security is sent to retrieve a kidnapped wife of an American diplomat.

Author : John J. Nance
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781504027960

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The Last Hostage by John J. Nance Pdf

An FBI hostage negotiator confronts a commercial pilot who has hijacked his own plane in this spellbinding thriller from New York Times–bestselling author John J. Nance Airline pilot Ken Wolfe does not rattle easily. But when he learns that Rudolph Bostich is on his flight, his face goes pale. Bostich, the presumptive nominee for US Attorney General, bungled the case against the man who kidnapped and killed Wolfe’s daughter. The pilot is prepared to do whatever it takes to get revenge—even setting off a bomb on a plane full of passengers. FBI agent, psychologist, and rookie hostage negotiator Kat Bronsky now has one hundred and thirty lives riding on her every word. As Bronsky speaks with the volatile Wolfe, she realizes she must solve the mystery of an eleven-year-old girl’s murder—in a matter of hours—to avert disaster.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : IOS Press
Page : 6097 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : IOS Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781586037307

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The Media by Anonim Pdf

Commences on the premise that in contemporary conflict, 'war amongst the people', the objective is public opinion. This book shows how conventional warfare between clearly identifiable armies is no more. Now, armies are sent to neutralize insurgents, armed militias and terrorists amongst a civilian population, preferably with the latter's consent.

Author : Dejan Lukic
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781441194848

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Hostage Spaces of the Contemporary Islamicate World by Dejan Lukic Pdf

Gripping exposé of the act of hostage-taking, and of being a hostage, in the spheres of war and terrorism in post-communist geographies of global Islam.

Author : Michael J. McMains,Wayman C. Mullins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1175 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317522997

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Crisis Negotiations by Michael J. McMains,Wayman C. Mullins Pdf

Leading authorities on negotiations present the result of years of research, application, testing and experimentation, and practical experience. Principles and applications from numerous disciplines are combined to create a conceptual framework for the hostage negotiator. Ideas and concepts are explained so that the practicing negotiator can apply the principles outlined.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Hostages
ISBN : MINN:31951D011937996

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World Court Rules on Hostage Case by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Hostages
ISBN : STANFORD:36105043665426

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United States Hostage Case in World Court by United States Pdf

Author : Kevin Jon Heller
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2011-06-23
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780191622120

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The Nuremberg Military Tribunals and the Origins of International Criminal Law by Kevin Jon Heller Pdf

This book provides the first comprehensive legal analysis of the twelve war crimes trials held in the American zone of occupation between 1946 and 1949, collectively known as the Nuremberg Military Tribunals (NMTs). The judgments the NMTs produced have played a critical role in the development of international criminal law, particularly in terms of how courts currently understand war crimes, crimes against humanity, and the crime of aggression. The trials are also of tremendous historical importance, because they provide a far more comprehensive picture of Nazi atrocities than their more famous predecessor, the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg (IMT). The IMT focused exclusively on the 'major war criminals'-the Goerings, the Hesses, the Speers. The NMTs, by contrast, prosecuted doctors, lawyers, judges, industrialists, bankers-the private citizens and lower-level functionaries whose willingness to take part in the destruction of millions of innocents manifested what Hannah Arendt famously called 'the banality of evil'. The book is divided into five sections. The first section traces the evolution of the twelve NMT trials. The second section discusses the law, procedure, and rules of evidence applied by the tribunals, with a focus on the important differences between Law No. 10 and the Nuremberg Charter. The third section, the heart of the book, provides a systematic analysis of the tribunals' jurisprudence. It covers Law No. 10's core crimes-crimes against peace, war crimes, and crimes against humanity-as well as the crimes of conspiracy and membership in a criminal organization. The fourth section then examines the modes of participation and defenses that the tribunals recognized. The final section deals with sentencing, the aftermath of the trials, and their historical legacy.

Author : Michael S. Moore
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-08
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780190864002

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Mechanical Choices by Michael S. Moore Pdf

Mechanical Choices details the intimate connection that exists between morality and law: the morality we use to blame others for their misdeeds and the criminal law that punishes them for these misdeeds. This book shows how both law and morality presuppose the accuracy of common sense, a centuries-old psychology that defines people as rational agents who make honorable choices and act for just reasons. It then shows how neuroscience is commonly taken to challenge these fundamental psychological assumptions. Such challenges--four in number--are distinguished from each other by the different neuroscientific facts from which they arise: the fact that human choices are caused by brain events; the fact that those choices don't cause the actions that are their objects but are only epiphenomenal to those choices; the fact that those choices are identical to certain physical events in the brain; and the fact that human subjects are quite fallible in their knowledge of what they are doing and why. The body of this book shows how such challenges are either based on faulty facts or misconceived as to the relevance of such facts to responsibility. The book ends with a detailed examination of the neuroscience of addiction, an examination which illustrates how neuroscience can help rather than challenge both law and morality in their quest to accurately define excuses from responsibility.

Author : Patrice Gueniffey
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 1081 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780674426016

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Bonaparte by Patrice Gueniffey Pdf

Patrice Gueniffey, the leading French historian of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic age, takes up the epic narrative at the heart of this turbulent period: the life of Napoleon himself, from his boyhood in Corsica, to his meteoric rise during the Italian and Egyptian campaigns, to his proclamation as Consul for Life in 1802.

Author : Dennis J. Baker,Jeremy Horder
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-02-14
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781107020474

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The Sanctity of Life and the Criminal Law by Dennis J. Baker,Jeremy Horder Pdf

Fourteen essays on major theoretical issues in contemporary criminal law and medical law ethics.

Author : Wilson John
Publisher : Wilson John
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : India
ISBN : 9788182743021

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The General and Jihad by Wilson John Pdf

On political conditions under the tenure of Pervez Musharraf, president of Pakistan, and his encouragement towards fostering Jihad.