The Rebel Guardian

Author : Lexi Blake
Publisher : DLZ Entertainment LLC
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781942297802

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The Rebel Guardian by Lexi Blake Pdf

From New York Times and USA Today bestseller Lexi Blake comes a new novel in her Thieves world… After fighting her way across another plane of existence and facing off against ancient witches, there should be nothing more satisfying than coming home. Unfortunately, Kelsey Atwood had a different experience. The world she returned to has changed. Twelve years have passed, and they’ve been twelve hard years for the friends and family she never meant to leave behind. The little boy she adopted is now a grown man. The husbands she longed to see are scattered and on different sides of a war for control of the supernatural world. Her most trusted friend is now the leather-clad minion of the enemy, Myrddin. Dealing with the wreckage of her personal life will have to wait, though, because the only chance at a hopeful future is deciphering an obscure prophecy, and she means to solve it. This quest will take her crew to a nest of primal vampires and the fierce world known as The Under. Filled with fantastic creatures and wonders she never imagined she would see, this new discovery leads her to something she is all too familiar with—a murder to solve and a killer to catch. Trying to reconnect with her husbands and her son is already challenging enough, but as she begins piecing together the story behind the crime, it becomes clear that this mystery may tear down The Under and everyone who calls it home.

Author : Lexi Blake
Publisher : DLZ Entertainment
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781942297536

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The Rebel Queen by Lexi Blake Pdf

From New York Times and USA Today bestseller Lexi Blake comes a new novel in her Thieves world… After returning from the outer planes, Zoey expected a joyous reunion with family and friends. She couldn’t be more wrong. Her kingdom is in the hands of Myrddin, her friends are on the run, and her children are being hunted by the supernatural world. But that isn’t the worst of it. They aren’t just outlaws—they are fully grown adult outlaws. In the four days that passed while they were gone, twelve years have passed at home. Now Zoey, Danny, and Dev find themselves in the middle of a new war where they are hunted by old foes and former allies…some they could never have imagined would turn against them. As Myrddin’s plan becomes clear, Zoey realizes she just might hold the key to stopping him for good and reclaiming their kingdom. Doing so means risking it all to steal back an artifact out from under the wizard’s nose. The fate of everyone on the Earth plane hangs in the balance, and one wrong move could cost Zoey everything she loves.

Author : Kira Cochrane
Publisher : Guardian Books
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781783560363

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All the Rebel Women by Kira Cochrane Pdf

On a bright day at the Epsom Derby, 4 June 1913, Emily Wilding Davison was hit by the king’s horse in one of the defining moments of the fight for women’s suffrage – what became known as feminism’s first wave. The second wave arose in the late-1960s, activists campaigning tirelessly for women’s liberation, organising around a wildly ambitious slate of issues – a struggle their daughters continued in the third wave that blossomed in the early-1990s. Now, a hundred years on from the campaign for the vote, fifty years since the very first murmurs of the second wave movement, a new tide of feminist voices is rising. Scattered across the world, campaigning online as well as marching in the streets, women are making themselves heard in irresistible fashion. They’re demonstrating against media sexism, domestic violence and sexual assault, fighting for equal pay, affordable childcare and abortion rights. Thousands are sharing their experiences through the Everyday Sexism project, marching in Slutwalk protests, joining demonstrations in the wake of the Delhi gang rape, challenging misogynist behaviour and language, online crusaders and ordinary people organising for the freedom of women everywhere. Kira Cochrane’s All the Rebel Women is an irrepressible exploration of today’s feminist landscape, asking how far we have come over the past century – and how far there still is to go. Whether engaging with leading feminists, describing the fight against rape culture or bringing immediate, powerful life to vital theories such as intersectionality, All the Rebel Women binds everything together into one unstoppable idea. This is modern feminism. This is the fourth wave.

Author : Megan Haskell
Publisher : Trabuco Ridge Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780986408366

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The Rebel Apprentice by Megan Haskell Pdf

Book Excellence Award Finalist! To save millions of lives, she may have to sacrifice the ones she loves… Rie is on the run from the wrath of elvish kings. As her enemies grow and the assassins close in, she must bring a traitor to justice to save herself. But to keep one step ahead, Rie may need to leave her friends and the man she loves behind… Her only chance of survival lies with a hidden colony of water fae off the Florida coast. When the Fire Queen attacks with a vengeance and innocent people die, Rie faces an impossible choice: give herself up to save her loved ones or watch as the entire human realm is completely annihilated… Sanyare: The Rebel Apprentice is the third book in The Sanyare Chronicles, a series of breathtaking fantasy adventure novels. If you like headstrong heroines, mythological creatures, and a hearty dose of magic and mayhem, then you’ll love Megan Haskell’s thrilling series. Continue your journey through the nine realms today!

Author : James A. Anderson
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780295800776

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The Rebel Den of Nung Trí Cao by James A. Anderson Pdf

The Rebel Den of Nung Tri Cao examines the rebellion of the eleventh-century Tai chieftain Nung Tri Cao (ca. 1025-1055), whose struggle for independence along Vietnam's mountainous northern frontier was a pivotal event in Sino-Vietnamese relations. Tri Cao's revolt occurred during Vietnam's earliest years of independence from China and would prove to be a vital test of the Vietnamese court's ability to confront local political challenges and maintain harmony with its powerful northern neighbor. Tri Cao established his first kingdom in 1042, at the age of seventeen, but was captured by Vietnamese troops. After his release in 1048, he announced the founding of a second kingdom, but an attack by Vietnamese forces drove him to flee into Chinese territory. Tri Cao made his final attempt in 1052, proclaiming a new kingdom and leading thousands of his subjects in a revolt that swept across the South China coast. But within a year, Chinese imperial troops had forced him to flee to the nearest independent kingdom. Official Chinese and Vietnamese accounts of the rebel leader's end vary: according to the Chinese, the ruler of the independent kingdom had Tri Cao executed, but in popular accounts, Tri Cao was granted safe passage into northern Thailand, where his descendants are said to flourish today. Scholar James Anderson places Tri Cao in context by exploring the Sino-Vietnamese tributary relationship and the conflicts that engaged both the Song and Vietnamese courts. The Rebel Den of Nung Tri Cao reconstructs the series of negotiations that took place between border communities and representatives of the imperial courts, examining the ways in which Tai and other ethnic groups deftly navigated the unstable political situation that followed the demise of China's cosmopolitan Tang dynasty. Though his rebellion was ill-fated, Tri Cao is, almost a thousand years later, still worshipped in temples along the Sino-Vietnamese border, and his memory provides a point of unity for people who have become separated by modern political boundaries.

Author : Alabama. Supreme Court
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 814 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
ISBN : HARVARD:32044078696275

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Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Alabama by Alabama. Supreme Court Pdf

Author : Alabama. Supreme Court
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 808 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Equity
ISBN : UOM:35112102722263

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Reports of Cases at Law and in Equity, Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Alabama by Alabama. Supreme Court Pdf

Author : John Scarth
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2022-07-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783375101428

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Twelve Years in China; the People, the Rebels, and the Mandarins by John Scarth Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1860.

Author : Anthony M. Schinella
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780815732426

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Bombs without Boots by Anthony M. Schinella Pdf

Airpower can achieve military objectives—sometimes, in some circumstances It sounds simple: using airpower to intervene militarily in conflicts, thus minimizing the deaths of soldiers and civilians while achieving both tactical and strategic objectives. In reality, airpower alone sometimes does win battles, but the costs can be high and the long-term consequences may fall short of what decision-makers had in mind. This book by a long-time U.S. intelligence analyst assesses the military operations and post-conflict outcomes in five cases since the mid-1990s in which the United States and/or its allies used airpower to “solve” military problems: Bosnia in 1995, Kosovo in 1999, Afghanistan in 2001, Lebanon in 2006, and Libya in 2011. In each of these cases, airpower helped achieve the immediate objective, but the long-term outcomes often diverged significantly from the original intent of policymakers. The author concludes that airpower sometimes can be effective when used to support indigenous ground forces, but decision-makers should carefully consider all the circumstances before sending planes, drones, or missiles aloft.

Author : Katherine Byrne,Julie Anne Taddeo,James Leggott
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781838608163

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Conflicting Masculinities by Katherine Byrne,Julie Anne Taddeo,James Leggott Pdf

Never before has period drama offered viewers such an assortment of complex male characters, from transported felons and syphilitic detectives to shell shocked soldiers and gangland criminals. Neo-Victorian Gothic fictions like Penny Dreadful represent masculinity at its darkest, Poldark and Outlander have refashioned the romantic hero and anti-heritage series like Peaky Blinders portray masculinity in crisis, at moments when the patriarchy was being bombarded by forces like World War I, the rise of first wave feminism and the breakdown of Empire. Scholars of film, media, literature and history explore the very different types of maleness offered by contemporary television and show how the intersection of class, race, history and masculinity in period dramas has come to hold such broad appeal to twenty-first-century audiences.

Author : Andreas Kruck,Andrea Schneiker
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317365303

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Researching Non-state Actors in International Security by Andreas Kruck,Andrea Schneiker Pdf

This volume provides researchers and students with a discussion of a broad range of methods and their practical application to the study of non-state actors in international security. All researchers face the same challenge, not only must they identify a suitable method for analysing their research question, they must also apply it. This volume prepares students and scholars for the key challenges they confront when using social-science methods in their own research. To bridge the gap between knowing methods and actually employing them, the book not only introduces a broad range of interpretive and explanatory methods, it also discusses their practical application. Contributors reflect on how they have used methods, or combinations of methods, such as narrative analysis, interviews, qualitative comparative analysis (QCA), case studies, experiments or participant observation in their own research on non-state actors in international security. Moreover, experts on the relevant methods discuss these applications as well as the merits and limitations of the various methods in use. Research on non-state actors in international security provides ample challenges and opportunities to probe different methodological approaches. It is thus particularly instructive for students and scholars seeking insights on how to best use particular methods for their research projects in International Relations (IR), security studies and neighbouring disciplines. It also offers an innovative laboratory for developing new research techniques and engaging in unconventional combinations of methods. This book will be of much interest to students of non-state security actors such as private military and security companies, research methods, security studies and International Relations in general.

Author : Diane Monroe Smith
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476600956

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Command Conflicts in GrantÕs Overland Campaign by Diane Monroe Smith Pdf

This book follows the men of the 5th Corps and the Army of the Potomac through the Wilderness, Spotsylvania and Cold Harbor, with the army condemned to moving blindly through enemy territory without the benefit of cavalry scouting or screening. It considers the lost opportunities of June 1864, when Grant’s masterly movement of the Army of the Potomac across the James to confront the enemy at Petersburg should have ended in victory and the fall of Richmond. Bungling and complacency doomed the attacks on Petersburg’s fortifications, and instead of victory, the battered Federals faced a drawn-out siege, and another 10 months of war. Finally, the author considers what happened to a number of the prominent Federal participants in the Overland Campaign during the last year of the war and after. Many of those who lied and cheated their way to the top became government leaders and the authors of policy for years to come.

Author : Amber H. Royce
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2009-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781438966564

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The Guardian's Passion by Amber H. Royce Pdf

Talidon has a proud history spanning more than three hundred years. The Talidians are a quiet, and industrious people steeped in tradition. Among these is the revered office of the Guardian - protector of the King. In a moment of carelessness the king and his family are killed and a usurper seizes his throne. The people of Talidon look to the Guardian to fulfill the role that he alone can fill as the redeemer of the throne. Unable to mount a resistance against the usurpers from the North, and in peril for his life, the Guardian, with his family is forced to flee for their lives. A tragic accident in their journey leaves the Guardian dead, and his young daughter orphaned, scarred, and without her memory. Years later, a series of events reacquaints his daughter with her identity, and her inherited responsibility to the people of Talidon. By tradition and law, only she is able to restore a ruler to the throne of Talidon. She sets out to regain her place as the Guardian, armed only with her faith, a special gift, and passion to return Talidon to peace, and order. Will she be able to overcome her own trepidation and uncertainty, and trust in the Lord to restore Talidon to her former glory?

Author : Ibrahim Fraihat,Abdalhadi Alijla
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2023-10-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789819913350

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Rebel Governance in the Middle East by Ibrahim Fraihat,Abdalhadi Alijla Pdf

This book uses the cases of Syrian factions in rebel-held areas, Hamas in the Gaza Strip, Houthi in Yemen, rebels in Libya, Taliban in Afghanistan, In Iraq, and Somalia to explain the importance of examining genealogies tribalism, common local knowledge and social networks in understanding the institutionalisation of armed group governance systems. The book provides a series of studies employing heterogenous methodological approaches to address the issue using qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods. The proposed project also attempts to move away from the central debate on the national political crisis trend by examining the sub-national level patterns and assessing various factors and questions that bring about clear answers regarding how de-facto rulers use tribes and tribal informal institutions to sustain their presence and create a safe social incubator.

Author : Haroon Ullah
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780300207187

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Digital Rebels by Haroon Ullah Pdf

A lively, up-to-date investigation of the expanding influence of social media in the Islamic world The role of social media in the events of the Arab Spring and its aftermath in the Muslim world has stimulated much debate, yet little in the way of useful insight. Now Haroon Ullah, a scholar and diplomat with deep knowledge of politics and societies in the Middle East, South Asia, and Southeast Asia, draws the first clear picture of the unprecedented impact of Twitter, Facebook, and other means of online communication on the recent revolutions that blazed across Muslim nations. The author carefully analyzes the growth of social media throughout the Muslim world, tracing how various organizations learned to employ such digital tools to grow networks, recruit volunteers, and disseminate messages. In Egypt, where young people rose against the regime; in Pakistan, where the youth fought against the intelligence and military establishments; and in Syria, where underground Islamists had to switch alliances, digital communications played key roles. Ullah demonstrates how social media have profoundly changed relationships between regimes and voters, though not always for the better. Looking forward he identifies trends across the Muslim world and the implications of these for regional and international politics.