Controlling the Sword
Author | : Bruce Russett |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2013-10-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780674422612 |
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Author | : Bruce Russett |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2013-10-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780674422612 |
Author | : Bruce M. Russett |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Donald John Devine |
Publisher | : Jameson Books (IL) |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Ellen Kushner |
Publisher | : Spectra |
Total Pages | : 402 |
Release | : 2006-07-25 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0553902830 |
From the award-winning author of Swordspoint comes a witty, wicked coming-of-age story that is both edgy and timeless. . . . Welcome to Riverside, where the aristocratic and the ambitious battle for power and prestige in the city’s labyrinth of streets and ballrooms, theatres and brothels, boudoirs and salons. Into this alluring and alarming world walks a bright young woman ready to take it on and make her fortune. A well-bred country girl, Katherine knows all the rules of conventional society. Her biggest mistake is thinking they apply. Katherine’s host and uncle, Alec Campion, the capricious and decadent Mad Duke Tremontaine, is in charge here—and to him, rules are made to be broken. When he decides it would be far more amusing for his niece to learn swordplay than to follow the usual path to ballroom and husband, her world changes forever. And there’s no going back. Blade in hand, it’s up to Katherine to find her own way through a maze of secrets and betrayals, nobles and scoundrels—and to gain the power, respect, and self-discovery that come to those who master. . . . “Unholy fun, and wholly fun . . . an elegant riposte, dazzlingly executed.”—Gregory Maguire, New York Times bestselling author of Wicked
Author | : Peniel E. Joseph |
Publisher | : Basic Books |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2020-03-31 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1541617851 |
This dual biography of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King upends longstanding preconceptions to transform our understanding of the twentieth century's most iconic African American leaders. To most Americans, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. represent contrasting ideals: self-defense vs. nonviolence, black power vs. civil rights, the sword vs. the shield. The struggle for black freedom is wrought with the same contrasts. While nonviolent direct action is remembered as an unassailable part of American democracy, the movement's militancy is either vilified or erased outright. In The Sword and the Shield, Peniel E. Joseph upends these misconceptions and reveals a nuanced portrait of two men who, despite markedly different backgrounds, inspired and pushed each other throughout their adult lives. This is a strikingly revisionist biography, not only of Malcolm and Martin, but also of the movement and era they came to define.
Author | : James Bonomo |
Publisher | : Rand Corporation |
Total Pages | : 155 |
Release | : 2007-09-21 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0833042874 |
Examines how terrorists make technology choices and how the United States can discourage terrorists' use of advanced conventional weapons. Concludes that the United States should urgently start discussions with key producer nations and also decide on an architecture needed to impose technical controls on new mortar systems that should enter development soon.
Author | : Ann Leckie |
Publisher | : Orbit |
Total Pages | : 331 |
Release | : 2014-10-07 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0316246646 |
Seeking atonement for past crimes, Breq takes on a mission as captain of a troublesome new crew of Radchai soldiers, in the sequel to the New York Times bestselling, award-winning Ancillary Justice. Breq is a soldier who used to be a warship. Once a weapon of conquest controlling thousands of minds, now she has only a single body and serves the emperor. With a new ship and a troublesome crew, Breq is ordered to go to the only place in the galaxy she would agree to go: to Athoek Station to protect the family of a lieutenant she once knew -- a lieutenant she murdered in cold blood. Ann Leckie's Imperial Radch trilogy has become one of the new classics of science fiction. Beautifully written and forward thinking, it does what good science fiction does best, taking readers to bold new worlds with plenty explosions along the way.
Author | : Marie Arana |
Publisher | : Simon & Schuster |
Total Pages | : 496 |
Release | : 2020-08-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1501105019 |
Winner, American Library Association Booklist’s Top of the List, 2019 Adult Nonfiction Acclaimed writer Marie Arana delivers a cultural history of Latin America and the three driving forces that have shaped the character of the region: exploitation (silver), violence (sword), and religion (stone). “Meticulously researched, [this] book’s greatest strengths are the power of its epic narrative, the beauty of its prose, and its rich portrayals of character…Marvelous” (The Washington Post). Leonor Gonzales lives in a tiny community perched 18,000 feet above sea level in the Andean cordillera of Peru, the highest human habitation on earth. Like her late husband, she works the gold mines much as the Indians were forced to do at the time of the Spanish Conquest. Illiteracy, malnutrition, and disease reign as they did five hundred years ago. And now, just as then, a miner’s survival depends on a vast global market whose fluctuations are controlled in faraway places. Carlos Buergos is a Cuban who fought in the civil war in Angola and now lives in a quiet community outside New Orleans. He was among hundreds of criminals Cuba expelled to the US in 1980. His story echoes the violence that has coursed through the Americas since before Columbus to the crushing savagery of the Spanish Conquest, and from 19th- and 20th-century wars and revolutions to the military crackdowns that convulse Latin America to this day. Xavier Albó is a Jesuit priest from Barcelona who emigrated to Bolivia, where he works among the indigenous people. He considers himself an Indian in head and heart and, for this, is well known in his adopted country. Although his aim is to learn rather than proselytize, he is an inheritor of a checkered past, where priests marched alongside conquistadors, converting the natives to Christianity, often forcibly, in the effort to win the New World. Ever since, the Catholic Church has played a central role in the political life of Latin America—sometimes for good, sometimes not. In this “timely and excellent volume” (NPR) Marie Arana seamlessly weaves these stories with the history of the past millennium to explain three enduring themes that have defined Latin America since pre-Columbian times: the foreign greed for its mineral riches, an ingrained propensity to violence, and the abiding power of religion. Silver, Sword, and Stone combines “learned historical analysis with in-depth reporting and political commentary...[and] an informed and authoritative voice, one that deserves a wide audience” (The New York Times Book Review).
Author | : Drew Callander |
Publisher | : Penguin Workshop |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1524785105 |
"Write, draw, and puzzle your way through [an] adventure story that is unique to every reader"--Publisher marketing.
Author | : Charles David Holland |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Law enforcement |
ISBN | : |