Download or read book Dragons of Preor Volume Two written by Celia Kyle and published by Summerhouse Publishing. This book was released on with total page 845 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Books 4 through 7 in the bestselling Dragons of Preor series in one volume! Rendan - Violence is never the answer… unless you’re a Preor warrior. Zadri - What’s a single, pregnant woman supposed to do when her family kicks her out? Go to Preor Choosing Station Tau and hope a dragon shapeshifting alien is her mate, of course. Hatched - Taulan joi Lana Coburn, War Master of the Preor third fleet, is finally having his wishes granted. He has a mate and will soon have two dragonlets to protect and love. But only if he can live to see them born. Or, as his Lana says, hatched. Ivoth - He has to choose—love or honor—because he can’t have both.

Download or read book A Fantasy Christmas written by Michelle Crow and published by A. A. Warne. This book was released on 2019-12-13 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *** 13 UNFORGETTABLE CHRISTMAS TALES IN ONE MASSIVE FANTASY COLLECTION *** Thirteen stories – Thirteen authors One theme – A Fantasy Christmas. Christmas magic just got more enchanting with this collection of fantasy festive tales… FEATURING IN THIS ANTHOLOGY: Michelle Crow – It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Tinkmas When a little bit of Christmas magic pulls Tink through space-time continuum, she finds herself face-to-face with two surprises: a curious little human and a tray of cookies. Deanna Young – Late To The Party Chaz’s magical career goes up in smoke when the Christmas Eve delivery of a baby dragon goes terribly wrong. A. A. Warne – FrankenSanta Three naughty Elves accidently kill Santa Clause and decide to bring him back to life. Unfortunately, he’s not quite the same. Kieran McKiel – The Snows At Asrum Far away from home, Alecksi fights a war he doesn’t understand against a foe he doesn’t know. As the holy of Rodestuo approaches, he decides he’s had enough. Haskell Crow – Sugared Dates Adventure is just on the other side of the river, during the festival of lights. Aelynn wished he could celebrate, but he couldn’t miss this opportunity while everyone was destracted. Serena Dawson – A Heist, A Prophecy, And A Unicorn When Taramon hears his arch enemy has taken a forbidden prophecy, he decides to steal it back; and with the help of his unicorn, rescue his brother from execution. Joshua A. Brown – For All Of Clainsmyth The light of the winter solstice holiday Clainsmyth, has been sent by the gods as a gift to the mortals. But dark forces want her magic, and so the race is on. R. A. Darlinge – The Faded Photograph Nicholai doesn’t celebrate Christmas. Will sharing the pain of the past bring healing and Christmas spirit into his life? Ezra Raikes – Half Chained, Entirely Unwanted A brother and sister flee from prison, and take a chance to survive in the nightmarish forest beyond. Dragonness Wyverna – A Solstice Promise Four friends combine their holiday tradition to celebrate the arrival of winter solstice. L. R. Huseboe – Folly Amongst The Holly Invited to Christmas dinner with her best friend, Myrah is confronted with the magical truth about herself and the world around her. And stories from: E. S. Fulrán – Hunter’s Moon Pam Hage – Winter Gardens

Download or read book Magic s Price written by Mercedes Lackey and published by Astra Publishing House. This book was released on 1990-07-03 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Groundbreaking epic fantasy series in Mercedes Lackey’s Valdemar universe • Lambda-Award winning novels with heartfelt high adventure and magic Valdemar—the once-peaceful kingdom protected by the magic of its Herald-Mages—is now besieged on all fronts. The king lies near death, the neighboring land of Karse wages a relentless war against Valdemar, and the forces led by a master of dark forbidden magic are massing to strike the final devastating blow against the kingdom. And Vanyel, the most powerful Herald-Mage Valdemar has even known, has become the primary target of the evil which is reaching out to poison all the land. With all his fellow mages slain, Vanyel alone remains to defend his people against the dark master’s army. Yet a dream vision has revealed to Vayel the fate which awaits should he and his Companion Yfandes take up the dark master’s challenge. And if either Vanyel or Yfandes falters, the dream will become a horrifying reality in which both Valdemar and its last Herald-Mage must pay the ultimate price.

Download or read book Ascendant written by Fulton C. Reed and published by Aethersphere Press. This book was released on 2020-11-02 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Centuries ago, a cataclysmic event forced the concept of death into a tangible form, and the Legion was born. The Legion's birth balanced the concept of life, and those who live are in a perpetual state of danger. As the Law of Equated Measures dictates, all things must bear balance, except there exists one who would like nothing more than to tip the scales in his favor - the Iron General Bastille, commander of the Legion. He would see success if not for one obstacle. When Amalia Anders makes the decision to unravel the mystery of her nightmares and phantom memories, she discovers an existence, a world, and a whole universe completely unknown to her - in addition to eight others. Plagued with delusional memories of a life she doesn't remember living, she soon discovers elements of that non-life which appear to be true. As her account of her own personal history is tested, she doesn't know who to trust or what to believe. Will she fulfill her destiny? Or defy it?

Download or read book T A Z written by Hakim Bey and published by Autonomedia. This book was released on 2003 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Who is Hakim Bey? I love him!' Timothy Leary'Exquisite...' Allen Ginsberg'Hard-line dada/surrealism' Rudy Rucker'A Blake angel on bad acid' Robert Anton Wilson'Scares the shit out of us' Church of the SubGeniusThe underground cult bestseller! Essays that redefine the psychogeographical nooks of autonomy. Recipes for poetic terror, anarcho -black magic, post-situ psychotropic surgery, denunciations of spiritual addictions to vapid infotainment cults -- this is the bastard classic, the watermark impressed upon our minds. Where conscience informs praxis, and action infects consciousness, T.A.Z. is beginning to worm its way into above-ground culture.This book offers inspired blasts of writing, from slogans to historical essays, on the need to insert revolutionary happiness into everyday life through poetic action, and celebrating the radical optimism present in outlaw cultures. It should appeal to alternative thinkers and punks everywhere, as it celebrates liberation, love and poetic living.The new edition contains the full text of Chaos: The Broadsheets of Ontological Anarchism, the complete communiques and flyers of the Association fo Ontological Anarchy, the long essay 'The Temporary Autonomous Zone,' and a new preface by the author.'A literary masterpiece...' Freedom'A linguistic romp...' Colin Wilson'Fascinating...' William Burroughs

Download or read book The Last Herald Mage Trilogy written by Mercedes Lackey and published by Astra Publishing House. This book was released on 2016-02-02 with total page 880 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Last Herald-Mage Trilogy—three groundbreaking, Lambda Award-winning novels that established Mercedes Lackey as a fantasy tour-de-force and her Kingdom of Valdemar as a place millions of readers return to again and again. This Lambda Award-winning trilogy tells the story of Vanyel, persecuted and abused son of a Valdemaran noble, who finds acceptance at Haven when he is Chosen by the Companion Yfandes. Companions like Yfandes are magical horse-like beings with the power to communicate and bond with their Chosen, and trigger the potential for psychic abilities—and magic. But Vanyel discovers other things about himself at Haven as well…. He discovers love in an unexpected place, and loses it, and nearly his own life. With Yfandes and his aunt, Herald Savil, he will travel to the home of the mysterious Hawkbrothers in search of healing and training, and will grow from a troubled and heartbroken Trainee to become the most powerful Herald-Mage in the history of Valdemar—and the one hope for Valdemar against an implacable foe bent on eradicating magic from the Kingdom entirely

Download or read book Scourge written by Gail Z. Martin and published by Solaris. This book was released on 2017-07-11 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Market Based Instruments for Environmental Management written by Mikael Skou Andersen and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This volume brings together contributions from political scientists and environmental economists and will prove invaluable for academics, practitioners and policymakers interested in the experiences of countries where market-based instruments are well established."--BOOK JACKET.

Download or read book Designing Modern Childhoods written by Marta Gutman and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the book architectural historians, social historians, social scientists, and architects examine the history and design of places and objects such as schools, hospitals, playgrounds, houses, cell phones, snowboards, and even the McDonald's Happy Meal.

Download or read book Coming of Age on the Streets of Java written by Thomas Stodulka and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2016-12-31 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is based on almost five years of fieldwork with street-related communities in the city of Yogyakarta, Indonesia, between 2001 and 2015. The author inquires into children's and adolescents' coming of age on the streets and their remarkable social and emotional competences, instead of resorting to a dreadful discourse of pity and despair. The ethnography's multi-vocal narrative couples vivid accounts of ethnographic case studies and life stories with current theory on affect, emotion, empathy, structural violence or social interaction in the context of marginality, stigma and chronic illness.

Download or read book Krishnaa written by Radhika Giridharan, Vidya Nagaraj and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2017-12-12 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a marriage proposal from a much married 30 year old Raghavenrda for 12 year old Krishnaa comes knocking on the door of Gundappa Chowltry, life takes on a dramatic turn for Krishnaa. An official bride-seeing ceremony and a quick peek at the bridegroom seals things and before long Krishnaa finds herself embarking on her new journey with her new husband-a man she barely knows, to the temple town of Kumbakonam. What lies in store for Krishnaa in her new house as Raghavendra’s second wife? Where is Raghavendra’s first wife? Are Krishnaa’s dreams and desires fulfilled? What cards are dealt to Krishnaa by the hands of destiny? While tracing Krishnaa’s life journey from 1904 to the modern times, the book captures the soul of the Indian Joint family system, the customs and traditions, the love and laughter and the ever green human values. Set in the picturesque temple town of Kumbakonam, on the banks of river Cauvery, amidst the majestic Gopurams of Chakrapani and Sarangapani temples, the story of Krishnaa unfolds in all its colourful glory.

Download or read book Lives of Fair and Gallant Ladies written by Pierre de Bourdeille Brantôme (seigneur de) and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Proceedings of 7th International Conference on Harmony Search Soft Computing and Applications written by Joong Hoon Kim and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-09-01 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book covers different aspects of real-world applications of optimization algorithms. It provides insights from the Seventh International Conference on Harmony Search, Soft Computing and Applications held at Virtual Conference, Seoul, South Korea, in February 2022. Harmony search (HS) is one of the most popular metaheuristic algorithms, developed in 2001 by Prof. Joong Hoon Kim and Prof. Zong Woo Geem, that mimics the improvisation process of jazz musicians to seek the best harmony. The book consists of research articles on novel and newly proposed optimization algorithms; the theoretical study of nature-inspired optimization algorithms; numerically established results of nature-inspired optimization algorithms; and real-world applications of optimization algorithms and synthetic benchmarking of optimization algorithms.

Download or read book Madmen in Shanghai written by Cécile Armand and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2024-06-04 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Madmen in Shanghai: A Social History of Advertising in Modern China (1914–1956) provides a novel perspective on the emergence of Chinese consumer society through an extensive historical investigation of the advertising industry in pre-Communist China. Utilizing a diverse array of previously unexplored primary sources, including professional literature, newspapers, photographs, and municipal archives, it charts the development and growing influence of the advertising profession, fostered by professional organizations, agencies, and prominent practitioners. It underscores the crucial role of this hybrid and transnational profession in introducing an expanding array of consumer products and in shaping the enduring narrative of the “four hundred million customers.” This book will be of interest to scholars specializing in modern Chinese history, urban and consumer studies, media and mass communication, and also for professionals engaged in the fields of advertising and marketing.

Download or read book Becoming Chinese written by Wen-hsin Yeh and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume evaluates the dual roles of war and modernity in the transformation of twentieth-century Chinese identity. The contributors, all leading researchers, argue that war, no less than revolution, deserves attention as a major force in the making of twentieth-century Chinese history. Further, they show that modernity in material culture and changes in intellectual consciousness should serve as twin foci of a new wave of scholarly analysis. Examining in particular the rise of modern Chinese cities and the making of the Chinese nation-state, the contributors to this interdisciplinary volume of cultural history provide new ways of thinking about China's modern transformation up to the 1950s. Taken together, the essays demonstrate that the combined effect of a modernizing state and an industrializing economy weakened the Chinese bourgeoisie and undercut the individual's quest for autonomy. Drawing upon new archival sources, these theoretically informed, thoroughly revisionist essays focus on topics such as Western-inspired modernity, urban cosmopolitanism, consumer culture, gender relationships, interchanges between city and countryside, and the growing impact of the state on the lives of individuals. The volume makes an important contribution toward a postsocialist understanding of twentieth-century China.

Download or read book Plastics Product Recycling written by Sara Hulse and published by iSmithers Rapra Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report covers the consumption of plastics in Europe, how much waste plastic is produced, a summary of recent legislation and the various methods of dealing with plastic wastes. The plastics recycling industry in Europe is then reviewed, with an in-depth look at the relevant legislation followed by a summary of the situation in most of the major European countries. The major end-use sectors for plastics and the problem of waste plastics in each are examined in the final section.

Download or read book Zadri Science Fiction Romance written by Celia Kyle and published by Celia Kyle. This book was released on 2017-11-09 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What’s a single, pregnant woman supposed to do when her family kicks her out? Go to Preor Choosing Station Tau and hope a dragon shapeshifting alien is her mate, of course. Delaney Cole found her mate among the Preor only to watch him die—through his own eyes thanks to the Knowing. Now, what’s she supposed to do when she discovers that her second mate is the male who’d killed her first? It doesn’t matter that he’s gorgeous, that his peach scales invite her touch, and his thick muscles make her fingers tingle with the need to caress him. She shouldn’t want such a violent, deadly male, but… she does. Zadri was born a son of Syh, orphaned and unwanted, and he never imagined actually having a mate. Yet, Delaney is his. Yes, he was the one to rip out her first mate’s throat, but now that he has experienced the Knowing with her, he will not let her go. Her lush curves, inner strength, and unborn young belong to him—wholly and until he takes his final flight. When others attempt to rip her from his life, he will explain the gravity of their error. Slowly. Painfully. He only hopes he can reach her before they escape.