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The Sheathed Sword

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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9354359582
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (543 download)

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Download or read book The Sheathed Sword written by and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-09-30 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a brief interlude following the Cold War, nuclear weapons have regained their prominent place in world affairs. Yet our current nuclear age will not be a replay of the Cold War. New technologies, changing political contexts and the death of old arms-control agreements mean that today's nuclear strategists have to navigate unchartered waters filled with fresh perils. Unfortunately, the consequences of failure in the nuclear world can be catastrophic. The immediate imperative today is to lower the possibility of nuclear weapons use during a crisis or conflict involving nuclear powers. While deliberate or pre-emptive nuclear use is less likely, the rising danger of our time is that nuclear weapons will be employed due to some combination of miscommunication, misjudgment, misperception and sheer accident. The Sheathed Sword: From Nuclear Brink to No First Use is a collection of essays by leading scholars and practitioners on the role of nuclear weapons in global security. The contributors examine how individual states view nuclear weapons, the devastating effects of nuclear war on the world's climate and the issues around nuclear no first use. They also debate the feasibility and desirability of a global no-first-use (GNFU) agreement.

Playing to Win

Author : David Sirlin
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1411666798
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (116 download)

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Download or read book Playing to Win written by David Sirlin and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2006-04-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winning at competitive games requires a results-oriented mindset that many players are simply not willing to adopt. This book walks players through the entire process: how to choose a game and learn basic proficiency, how to break through the mental barriers that hold most players back, and how to handle the issues that top players face. It also includes a complete analysis of Sun Tzu's book The Art of War and its applications to games of today. These foundational concepts apply to virtually all competitive games, and even have some application to "real life." Trade paperback. 142 pages.

The Sword in the Age of Chivalry

Author : Ewart Oakeshott
Publisher : Boydell Press
ISBN 13 : 9780851157153
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (571 download)

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Download or read book The Sword in the Age of Chivalry written by Ewart Oakeshott and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Resplendent image of the medieval knight is concentrated in the symbolism of his sword. The straight, two-edged, cross-hilted knightly sword of the European middle ages was an object of vital importance, a lethal weapon on the battlefield and a badge of chivalry in that complex social code. Ewart Oakeshott draws on his extensive research and expert eye (and hand, for he has a special sense for the feel of a sword) to develop a typology for and recount the history of the sword, from the knightly successors of the Viking weapon to the emergence of the Renaissance sword - that is, roughly from 1050 to 1550. Within this time-span, two distinct groups of swords successively evolved. Problems of dating are acute, and evidence is adduced from literature and art as well as from archaeology, for a sword (or some parts of a sword) could have been in use several generations after it first saw battle. To deal with such overlap, Ewart Oakeshott develops, refines and illustrates a detailed typology of swords which takes in entire swords, pommel-forms, cross-guards, and the grip and scabbard.

The First Swords

Author : Fred Saberhagen
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312869168
Total Pages : 612 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (691 download)

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Download or read book The First Swords written by Fred Saberhagen and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1999-01-15 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Saberhagen's original trilogy is now collected for the first time in one volume. The gods have given the world 12 Swords of Power so that they might be amused as the nations battle for their possession. But they didn't know that Vulcan gave the Swords the power to kill the gods themselves.

Catlorian V

Author : R.L. Pool
Publisher : LifeRich Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1489721827
Total Pages : 505 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (897 download)

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Download or read book Catlorian V written by R.L. Pool and published by LifeRich Publishing. This book was released on 2019-04-26 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The city and Realm of Shedran upon the small continent of Sharlend was now free of the tyranny of a usurper. Prince Jason Shedran and Illycia DeLonge must travel to each of the great realms upon that continent to see that safety is assured and that alliances can be made to keep it that way. With the aid of Will Butler and Bobby Jackson, two soldiers who came from Thom DeLonge’s world, Jason and Illycia must move carefully. To think that Banshe'e and his lieutenants would only care about the one city, no matter how extensive a realm it was, was foolish. They would have to stand firm with each realm to ensure that evil had no foothold. To do otherwise would be to invite disaster and chaos back into the lives of those they vowed to protect. What they find is worse than they could have imagined. Thom DeLonge, with his trusted men and the help of Nethan DeBurge, must see that the usurper of Shedran has no way to claim the crown of Catlorian. Yet they also must see that the ten young girls, those who volunteered to accompany the rotund pedophile to keep the younger girls from his bed, were somehow freed as well from a life of slavery in Seaborne. The game was still in its early stages. Each set of pieces Lord Banshe'e moved into play were falling quietly to the might of the valorous few, yet his endgame was still hidden. All these could do was stand ready, move assertively and hope that what evil was planned could be thwarted.

A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles

Author : Bradley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 826 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles written by Bradley and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 826 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Promise to Be Kept

Author : Darcy Armstrong
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book A Promise to Be Kept written by Darcy Armstrong and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-02 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What would you do when duty and desire collide? Long ago, Kenzie McPhee was in love. She was to marry Arran, the eldest son of the McCaskills, and bring peace to their clans forevermore. Only fate had other ideas... Instead of peace, the two clans fell into a bloody feud. At the height of the conflict, Kenzie was spirited away to begin a new life far to the south, and after many years, the scars of her childhood faded into distant memory. Until a letter arrives, containing an offer of peace between their families; a proposition that can only be sealed by marrying the now Laird Arran McCaskill... the very man she'd spent a lifetime trying to forget. A second chance at love, or an opening of old wounds? Blaine McCaskill, brother to the Laird, has grown into a respected soldier, wrapped in his precious duty. It's a far cry from his youth, where he juggled the demands of a brutal father with a secret, unrequited love for Kenzie McPhee. So now, when he is ordered by the Laird to escort Kenzie home for the wedding, Blaine must enter a different type of battlefield, where the only enemy is himself - and the stakes are higher than he's ever known - to ensure the fragile peace is preserved. But with the backdrop of a greater war threatening to engulf the entire Highlands, will Blaine and Kenzie do their duty, or will a forbidden desire risk more than they could possibly imagine? A Promise to Be Kept is a HEA historical romance of 90,000 words, set in the Scottish Highlands. It's an exploration of love set amidst war, hope, and circumstance.

THE FIFTH BOOK OF LOST SWORDS

Author : Fred Saberhagen
Publisher : JSS Literary Productions, LLC
ISBN 13 : 193742202X
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (374 download)

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Download or read book THE FIFTH BOOK OF LOST SWORDS written by Fred Saberhagen and published by JSS Literary Productions, LLC. This book was released on 2020-03-21 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prince Murat of Culm possesses Coinspinner, the Sword of Chance which brings untold good fortune to its owner. Can Coinspinner aid Murat in his efforts to acquire Woundhealer, the Sword of healing Murat’s ruler desperately needs? Or through lack of wit and Coinspinner’s propensity to whimsically change owners will Murat find himself caught up in different quest? Prince Adrian, away at a school for magic, is assigned a test of his abilities. More challenges than a school trial await him. Adrian is being relentlessly pursued by the greatest of evil wizards, Wood, armed with more than one of the great Swords and intent on Adrian’s destruction. Will Coinspinner decide Adrian’s fate? Will Adrian’s father, Mark, come to the boy’s aid in time to save him ? Who holds Coinspinner? Who commands the powers of Shieldbreaker and Sightblinder? What will come of Murat’s fascination with Princess Kristen? Warriors, wizards, princes, thieves … all seek the power of the Swords.

Frostborn: The Knight Quests

Author : Jonathan Moeller
Publisher : Azure Flame Media, LLC
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Frostborn: The Knight Quests written by Jonathan Moeller and published by Azure Flame Media, LLC. This book was released on 2016-01-11 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Epic tales of adventure and heroism! RIDMARK ARBAN is the Gray Knight, questing to stop the return of the terrible Frostborn to the High King’s realm. Yet he did not undertake the quest alone. Here are the tales of those who accompanied him into the terrible dangers of his quest... Originally published as the novellas THE KNIGHT'S TALE, THE PALADIN'S TALE, THE MAGE'S TALE, THE THIEF'S TALE, THE SOLDIER'S TALE, and THE ASSASSIN'S TALE, and the short stories THE ORC'S TALE and THE SOULBLADE'S TALE.

Kingdom of Demons (epic fantasy/sword and sorcery)

Author : Timothy L. Cerepaka
Publisher : Annulus Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kingdom of Demons (epic fantasy/sword and sorcery) written by Timothy L. Cerepaka and published by Annulus Publishing. This book was released on 2016-11-14 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the peoples of Lamaira united behind him, Keo returns to his home country, intending to free it from the tyrannical rule of his childhood friend, Nesma, and stop the demons from rising once and for all. But when Nesma tells Keo that she has betrayed the demons and will lead him to the location of the demon's seal if he will trust her, Keo accepts her offer and travels with her to the place where the demons were sealed away a thousand years ago. Their journey to the seal, however, will not be easy, with demons and Magicians attempting to stop them every step of the way. And even if Keo does reach the seal in time to stop the demons' return, he may find himself walking into a trap he cannot escape. KEYWORDS: epic fantasy adventure series, epic fantasy dragons, epic fantasy magic, epic fantasy sword and sorcery, sword and sorcery adult fantasy, sword and sorcery series, sword and sorcery series magic

The Swords Of Mar

Author : Gilbert Mar
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595294553
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (952 download)

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Download or read book The Swords Of Mar written by Gilbert Mar and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003-09 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Onea was once a world of peace then the first of the swords was made. The first was made for a great leader who led all the people, the other forged later to defeat the tyrant the first leader became. Generations passed and the swords of Mar were thought of as myth, a myth that followed the last of the great leaders, Mar, into history. Stories died and stories followed, but many believed that the blades had a destiny of their own and it was said they would return. Mar would return with his swords and would unite Onea once more, but who would be Mar? Others would choose to be Mar, with the swords they could control all of Onea, but none would believe the swords would fall to a young one who has yet to reach the age of the sword. Why would the swords choose youth? Why Arilius?

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: The Century dictionary ... prepared under the superintendence of William Dwight Whitney

Author : William Dwight Whitney
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 914 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: The Century dictionary ... prepared under the superintendence of William Dwight Whitney written by William Dwight Whitney and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 914 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Treasury; a Magazine of Religious and Current Thought for Pastor and People

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 782 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Treasury; a Magazine of Religious and Current Thought for Pastor and People written by and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Other Side

Author : Gene Olsen
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1483699722
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (836 download)

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Download or read book Other Side written by Gene Olsen and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-09-19 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inside the old dark tower, the gray-hooded men kept up the ancient chant. Hour after hour they have been repeating the same five words: Stone, draw the stranger in. The stress of maintaining the required intensive concentration filled them with mind-numbing pain. But they could feel something, someone, a lone male, walking straight toward the ancient circle of stone. Feeling the presence, they raised the volume and speed of the chant. Any moment now and the prey would be inside the tall stone-ringed pit. They looked down in anticipation; this was their reward. They were gray men of great power; dark men in dark robes, the brotherhood of the Gray wizards.

The Secret Keeper

Author : Renita D’Silva
Publisher : Boldwood Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1836172575
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (361 download)

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Download or read book The Secret Keeper written by Renita D’Silva and published by Boldwood Books Ltd. This book was released on 2024-08-12 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preorder a BRAND NEW heartbreaking historical novel from Renita D'Silva 1938: Rani, the bright and spirited daughter of an Indian Crown Prince, leads a privileged if lonely life. Longing for freedom and purpose, she escapes the confines of her father’s palace and meets Prasad – a poor young man – with whom she falls deeply in love. But her plan to gain her father’s approval for the match disastrously backfires. Estranged from her family and haunted by guilt, Rani’s path takes her from Cambridge to Bletchley Park and a new world of intrigue and secrets. Against the backdrop of war, Rani finds comfort and a sense of belonging with fellow codebreaker William and his young son. Could they heal her heart and become the family she craves? Then Prasad reappears – and past and present collide, shattering Rani’s fragile happiness. As retribution for the hurt she caused him, he demands she pass him secrets from Bletchley. But at what cost? Torn between her past and her present, love and loyalty, Rani must face up to a heart-wrenching sacrifice . . . Praise for Renita D'Silva: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘Utterly unforgettable and heartbreaking... An absolutely gripping and totally addictive story that will keep you racing through the pages all night long.’ Goodreads reviewer ‘A feast for the senses... I adored this story since the very beginning until the last page. It kept me so hooked that I read It in one setting.’ Goodreads reviewer ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘Stunning!... Renita D’Silva’s writing is sublime; I could taste the chilli on my tongue and smell the cardamom in the air... Incredible... Inspired me with every page... An important story that embraced my heart.’ Goodreads reviewer ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘Wonderful... Transported me... Fabulous... Fascinating... My heart broke.’ Goodreads reviewer ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘Both heartbreaking and warming... It will change you... Food for the soul.’ Goodreads reviewer ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘A joy... A wonderful, evocative read.’ Goodreads reviewer

Elvangar

Author : Richard S. Tuttle
Publisher : KBS Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elvangar written by Richard S. Tuttle and published by KBS Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thousands of years ago, humans attacked Elvangar, the land of the elves. The elves responded with a devastating attack, which ended with the sealing of the human city of Angragar. Sealed by the hand of Kaltara and hidden in an impenetrable jungle, Angragar has remained dormant waiting for the prophesized Astor to arrive and reopen the gates. Now that the Time of Calling has arrived, Angragar has awakened, and the elves of Elvangar prepare for a human invasion. Caught in the middle are four elves who have escaped from the Island of Darkness. Eltor, Caldal, Mistake, and MistyTrail tread carefully in both lands as the world prepares for a war unlike any other in history.

Hell's Blade

Author : R.L. Pool
Publisher : BookLocker.com, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1647194784
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (471 download)

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Download or read book Hell's Blade written by R.L. Pool and published by BookLocker.com, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-05-05 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over a millennium ago, demons from the sixth and seventh level of Hell fought their way to the third level… the level made up of mostly soldiers from the many wars mankind had waged throughout history. There, the lower demons were stopped, but not before over a thousand escaped into an alter world to wreak havoc on the human populace. The reigning Lord of the Third Level was tasked by the Guardians of the Gates to pursue those demons, return them to Hell or leave them doomed to roam endlessly without form or substance. The demons from the third level were sorely taxed, with little to show for a millennium of fighting… until she showed up. 1LT Sarah MacLocklin is the commander of a combat medical/surgical team on her way to a fourth tour in the “Big Sand-Box”. All she wanted was to do a little hiking in Virginia to calm the nightmares from watching her friends die in her arms. She laid down in the forests of Virginia, and woke in the middle of a new nightmare not of her making. The question is not whether she is ready to stand against the demons escaped so long ago into a world of flintlocks and swords, or walk the dark corridors of Hell to the Gates of Heaven. The question is…are they ready for her?! "Hell's Blade" will take you on a roller-coaster ride through the passages of Hell, to the gates of Heaven and into a storm of demons bringing pain and horror to the inhabitants of an alter Earth.