Download or read book Splintered Lands Through Fire Forged written by James Tallett and published by Deepwood Publishing. This book was released on 2013-03-11 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All around them was a world broken by the power of magic and torn by the cruelty of humans. Shattered a mere century before, vast tracts of land are uninhabitable, and repression is the order of the day. And yet a few noble people struggle for a better life. Fryca wanted to be left in peace to experiment with technology. Instead, frightened bigots attacked his home, sending him fleeing across barren soil and through rotted swamp. Inswán hoped for a quiet life overseeing the growth of his barony. Until an onslaught by his neighbour drove him to a war he railed against. This is their story. Splintered Lands: Through Fire Forged is a 21,000 word short story collection by James Tallett, author of The Four Part Land series and the epic fantasy best-seller Breaking an Empire. Other books by James: The Four Part Land: Tarranau Chloddio Breaking an Empire A Desert of Fire and Glass Splintered Lands: Splintered Lands: All Good Things... Splintered Lands: Vagabonds and Swine (as Editor) Novellas: Bloodaxe Wolven Kindred Lands of a Distant Truth Anthologies (as Editor): Ancient New Ruined Cities The Ways of Magic The Death God's Chosen

Download or read book Splintered Lands written by Lisa M. Gott and published by . This book was released on 2017-04-10 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born into a world shattered by their forefathers, the inhabitants of the Splintered Lands have little hope of a good life, and less of a long one. Caught between brutal oppressors, vicious bandits, and a land gone dusty and poor, they struggle onwards, finding what comfort they can in their children, in the tiniest of pleasures. But a better day looms, born on the winds of a technological revolution that is currently only fits and spurts, but growing by the day. Hounded by the Knights of the Broken Wheel, loathed by the few remainders of the magical aristocracy that plunged the Splintered Lands into their current pitiful state, the technologists forge ahead, the gleam of progress in their eye.And with them rise others: a noble lord sick of the poverty, a child with a healer's touch, and a thief who prefers to paint. Together with the technologists, they form the future of this broken earth, this shattered world.So come, walk the faded paths of a world fallen apart in Splintered Lands!The Splintered Lands collects the stories from Through Fire Forged, All Good Things, Vagabonds and Swine, Season of the Crow, and Lands of a Distant Truth together into a single volume for the first time.

Download or read book Splintered Lands All Good Things written by James Tallett and published by Deepwood Publishing. This book was released on 2014-12-04 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All around them was a world broken by the power of magic and torn by the cruelty of humans. Shattered a mere century before, vast tracts of land are uninhabitable, and repression is the order of the day. And yet a few noble people struggle for a better life. Aislin was born a princess, brought up healthy and safe by a doting father. Banished for her support of mechanical research, she finds herself beset by bandits and knights alike. Once Hardin was a mage, a powerful leader who drove men before him with the scourge of his skill. Now he cowers in the ruins of his home, only his children for comfort. This is their story. Splintered Lands: All Good Things is a 19,000 word short story collection by Lisa M. Gott, Walter Shuler, and James Tallett, and is the second volume of the Splintered Lands. Other books by James: The Four Part Land: Tarranau Chloddio Breaking an Empire A Desert of Fire and Glass Splintered Lands: Splintered Lands: Through Fire Forged Splintered Lands: Vagabonds and Swine (as Editor) Novellas: Bloodaxe Wolven Kindred Lands of a Distant Truth Anthologies (as Editor): Ancient New Ruined Cities The Ways of Magic The Death God's Chosen

Download or read book Splintered Lands Vagabonds and Swine written by Frederick Jacobs and published by Deepwood Publishing. This book was released on 2014-12-04 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All around them was a world broken by the power of magic and torn by the cruelty of humans. Shattered a mere century before, vast tracts of land are uninhabitable, and repression is the order of the day. And yet a few people struggle for a better life. Kerrasi was little more than a farmer, scraping out an existence from scarred and battered lands. Until one day the Knights of the Broken Wheel came calling, sending him into places he had never dared venture. The lesser children of petty nobles, Gavlen Ond and his friends had set out from home in search of a new beginning, a place to forge the nation of their dreams. Instead, what they found was an ending. This is their story. Splintered Lands: Vagabonds and Swine is a 15,500 word short story collection by Frederick Jacobs and Pat Traven, and is the third volume of the Splintered Lands. Other books by James: The Four Part Land: Tarranau Chloddio Breaking an Empire A Desert of Fire and Glass Splintered Lands: Splintered Lands: All Good Things... Splintered Lands: Through Fire Forged Novellas: Bloodaxe Wolven Kindred Lands of a Distant Truth Anthologies (as Editor): Ancient New Ruined Cities The Ways of Magic The Death God's Chosen

Download or read book Tarranau written by James Tallett and published by Deepwood Publishing. This book was released on 2011-07-22 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Four Part Land simmers with discontent, as old rivalries and ancient grudges bubble to the surface. The great kingdoms plot and scheme against one another, looking to use treachery to gain an advantage in the upcoming conflict. Some will succeed, and some will fail, but each kingdom dares against all comers. Into this cauldron of malice is thrust a young mage named Tarranau. Exiled from his home, ripped from his friends and family, he is forced to undertake a perilous journey across The Four Part Land, in answer to a goal he does not yet understand. Along the way he finds unexpected friends and implacable enemies, and has his eyes opened to a world more sinister than any he had imagined. Created on a massive scale, Tarranau is a sweeping fantasy of a new land – a stunning adventure by a mesmerizing new voice. Other books by James: The Four Part Land: Tarranau Chloddio Breaking an Empire A Desert of Fire and Glass Splintered Lands: Splintered Lands: Through Fire Forged Splintered Lands: All Good Things... Splintered Lands: Vagabonds and Swine (as Editor) Novellas: Bloodaxe Wolven Kindred Lands of a Distant Truth Anthologies (as Editor): Ancient New Ruined Cities The Ways of Magic The Death God's Chosen

Download or read book Breaking an Empire written by James Tallett and published by Deepwood Publishing. This book was released on 2011-09-27 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Four Part Land is rocked by war, as a subjugated kingdom rebels against its overlord. Born of murder most foul, violence sweeps across the land, and national pride is marshalled into two competing hosts of citizens and soldiers alike. One army seeks to bury the rebellion, while the other strives to save it, and both will commit unthinkable acts of war in the name of the greater good. This vicious conflict is seen through the eyes of a single squad of soldiers, veterans fighting for friendship, family, and for the country they call home. Together at the end of a long career, it is their last campaign, and doubtful that all will live to see the end. Set four hundred years before the events of Tarranau, this 25,000 word novella sets the stage for the conflicts of Tarranau and Chloddio with fast-paced action and brutal combat. Other books by James: The Four Part Land: Tarranau Chloddio Breaking an Empire A Desert of Fire and Glass Splintered Lands: Splintered Lands: Through Fire Forged Splintered Lands: All Good Things... Splintered Lands: Vagabonds and Swine (as Editor) Novellas: Bloodaxe Wolven Kindred Lands of a Distant Truth Anthologies (as Editor): Ancient New Ruined Cities The Ways of Magic The Death God's Chosen

Download or read book Lands of a Distant Truth written by James Tallett and published by Deepwood Publishing. This book was released on 2013-09-12 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing the all new Splintered Lands story Thieves Abroad, Lands of a Distant Truth collects four of James Tallett's best-selling short fiction stories, each one exploring an original and unique setting. Bloodaxe thought he was in for a nice relax. He was, after all, dead. And then some jumped up prick of a god told him he had to rescue a kingdom. His own kingdom, in fact. So Bloodaxe grabbed his, well, axe, and leapt back into the fray. First, though, he had to be born. And learn not to crap his pants. Then he could get to the killing. Lots and lots of killing. This is his story. Lands of a Distant Truth is a 67,000 word collection by James Tallett, author of Tarranau, the epic fantasy best-seller Breaking an Empire, and many other works. Other books by James: The Four Part Land: Tarranau Chloddio Breaking an Empire A Desert of Fire and Glass Splintered Lands: Splintered Lands: Through Fire Forged Splintered Lands: All Good Things... Novellas: Bloodaxe Wolven Kindred Anthologies (as Editor): Ancient New Ruined Cities The Ways of Magic The Death God's Chosen Splintered Lands: Vagabonds and Swine

Download or read book Advances in Historical Ecology written by William L. Balée and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2012-09-18 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ecology is an attempt to understand the reciprocal relationship between living and nonliving elements of the earth. For years, however, the discipline either neglected the human element entirely or presumed its effect on natural ecosystems to be invariably negative. Among social scientists, notably in geography and anthropology, efforts to address this human-environment interaction have been criticized as deterministic and mechanistic. Bridging the divide between social and natural sciences, the contributors to this book use a more holistic perspective to explore the relationships between humans and their environment. Exploring short- and long-term local and global change, eighteen specialists in anthropology, geography, history, ethnobiology, and related disciplines present new perspectives on historical ecology. A broad theoretical background on the material factors central to the field is presented, such as anthropogenic fire, soils, and pathogens. A series of regional applications of this knowledge base investigates landscape transformations over time in South America, the Mississippi Delta, the Great Basin, Thailand, and India. The contributors focus on traditional societies where lands are most at risk from the incursions of complex, state-level societies. This book lays the groundwork for a more meaningful understanding of humankind's interaction with its biosphere. Scholars and environmental policymakers alike will appreciate this new critical vocabulary for grasping biocultural phenomena.

Download or read book Forged Through Fire War Peace and the Democratic Bargain written by John Ferejohn and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2016-12-06 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peace, many would agree, is a goal that democratic nations should strive to achieve. But is democracy, in fact, dependent on war to survive? Having spent their celebrated careers exploring this provocative question, John Ferejohn and Frances McCall Rosenbluth trace the surprising ways in which governments have mobilized armies since antiquity, discovering that our modern form of democracy not only evolved in a brutally competitive environment but also quickly disintegrated when the powerful elite no longer needed their citizenry to defend against existential threats. Bringing to vivid life the major battles that shaped our current political landscape, the authors begin with the fierce warrior states of Athens and the Roman Republic. While these experiments in “mixed government” would serve as a basis for the bargain between politics and protection at the heart of modern democracy, Ferejohn and Rosenbluth brilliantly chronicle the generations of bloodshed that it would take for the world’s dominant states to hand over power to the people. In fact, for over a thousand years, even as medieval empires gave way to feudal Europe, the king still ruled. Not even the advancements of gunpowder—which decisively tipped the balance away from the cavalry-dominated militaries and in favor of mass armies—could threaten the reign of monarchs and “landed elites” of yore. The incredibly wealthy, however, were not well equipped to handle the massive labor classes produced by industrialization. As we learn, the Napoleonic Wars stoked genuine, bottom-up nationalism and pulled splintered societies back together as “commoners” stepped up to fight for their freedom. Soon after, Hitler and Stalin perfectly illustrated the military limitations of dictatorships, a style of governance that might be effective for mobilizing an army but not for winning a world war. This was a lesson quickly heeded by the American military, who would begin to reinforce their ranks with minorities in exchange for greater civil liberties at home. Like Francis Fukuyama and Jared Diamond’s most acclaimed works, Forged Through Fire concludes in the modern world, where the “tug of war” between the powerful and the powerless continues to play out in profound ways. Indeed, in the covert battlefields of today, drones have begun to erode the need for manpower, giving politicians even less incentive than before to listen to the demands of their constituency. With American democracy’s flanks now exposed, this urgent examination explores the conditions under which war has promoted one of the most cherished human inventions: a government of the people, by the people, for the people. The result promises to become one of the most important history books to emerge in our time.

Download or read book Sediment Records of Biomass Burning and Global Change written by James S. Clark and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-29 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biomass burning profoundly affects atmospheric chemistry, the carbon cycle, and climate and may have done so for millions of years. Bringing together renowned experts from paleoecology, fire ecology, atmospheric chemistry, and organic chemistry, the volume elucidates the role of fire during global changes of the past and future. Topics covered include: the characterization of combustion products that occur in sediments, including char, soot/fly ash, and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons; the calibration of these constituents against atmospheric measurements from wildland and prescribed fire emissions; spatial and temporal patterns in combustion emissions at scales of individual burns to the globe.

Download or read book On the Burning Edge written by Kyle Dickman and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2015-05-12 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive account of one of the deadliest wildfires in U.S. history, which killed nineteen elite firefighters of the Granite Mountain Hotshots and also inspired the major motion picture Only the Brave. “A tear-jerking classic.”—Outside • Named One of the Best Books of the Year by Men’s Journal On June 28, 2013, a single bolt of lightning sparked an inferno that devoured more than eight thousand acres in northern Arizona. Twenty elite firefighters—the Granite Mountain Hotshots—walked together into the Yarnell Hill Fire, tools in their hands and emergency fire shelters on their hips. Only one of them walked out. An award-winning journalist and former wildland firefighter, Kyle Dickman brings to the story a professional’s understanding of how wildfires ignite, how they spread, and how they are fought. He understands hotshots and their culture: the pain and glory of a rough and vital job, the brotherly bonds born of dangerous work. Drawing on dozens of interviews with officials, families of the fallen, and the lone survivor, he describes in vivid detail what it’s like to stand inside a raging fire—and shows how the increased population and decreased water supply of the American West guarantee that many more young men will step into harm’s way in the coming years. Praise for On the Burning Edge “Dickman weaves a century of fire-management history into the fully realized stories of the men’s lives—the sweat, the adrenaline, the orange glow of fire within their aluminum shelters, and the chewing gum that hotshot Scott Norris left in the shower before telling his girlfriend, Heather, ‘I’ll take care of it later. I promise.’”—Outside “Dickman offers a riveting account of a dangerous occupation and acts of nature most violent—and those who face both down.”—Library Journal

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Download or read book An Anthology of Russian Literature from Earliest Writings to Modern Fiction written by Nicholas Rzhevsky and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-09-16 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Russia has a rich, huge, unwieldy cultural tradition. How to grasp it? This classroom reader is designed to respond to that problem. The literary works selected for inclusion in this anthology introduce the core cultural and historic themes of Russia's civilisation. Each text has resonance throughout the arts - in Rublev's icons, Meyerhold's theatre, Mousorgsky's operas, Prokofiev's symphonies, Fokine's choreography and Kandinsky's paintings. This material is supported by introductions, helpful annotations and bibliographies of resources in all media. The reader is intended for use in courses in Russian literature, culture and civilisation, as well as comparative literature.

Download or read book The Georgics A Poem of the Land written by Virgil and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2009-11-05 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the greatest poems of the classical world, Virgil's Georgics is a glorious celebration of the eternal beauty of the natural world, now brought vividly to life in a powerful new translation. 'Georgic' means 'to work the earth', and this poetic guide to country living combines practical wisdom on tending the land with exuberant fantasy and eulogies to the rhythms of nature. It describes hills strewn with wild berries in 'vine-spread autumn'; recommends watching the stars to determine the right time to plant seeds; and gives guidance on making wine and keeping bees. Yet the Georgics also tells of angry gods, bloody battles and a natural world fraught with danger from storms, pests and plagues. Expansive in its scope, lush in its language, this extraordinary work is at once a reflection on the cycles of life, death and rebirth, an argument for the nobility of labour and an impassioned reflection on the Roman Empire of Virgil's times. Kimberly Johnson's lyrical verse translation captures all the rich beauty and abundant imagery of the original, re-creating this ancient masterpiece for our times.

Download or read book Valhalla s Forge written by Richard Gable and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2022-05-04 with total page 755 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Var-Tog, Kryton, Sondergaard, and Aldora, knights newly graduated from the Dragon's Gauntlet, have found themselves on quest within days after their graduation. Having left the elite training grounds of the Knight Marshals on their way to their first duty station at Fort Holdfast, they encounter a horrendous reptilian creature that seems to be unaffected by sword, ax, or spell. Ignoring all attempts to stop it, the creature seems bent on completing a quest of its own. Now the knights must find the legendary dwarven artifact, the Valhalla's Forge, with only an ancient poem for their clue, and actually make the weapons necessary to defeat the creature before further disaster befalls the countryside.