Download or read book Alliance of the Quad written by Dennis L. Morrow and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-09-27 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alliance of the Quad: The New Alliance Queen Torron, the wicked ruler of the Underworld, will break into the realm of mortality this Saturday night. A New Alliance has just been created. The four teenagers, Jesse, Matt, Jeremy and Steve, must defeat Torron and her army of dragons, firebirds, and other monsters, pushing them back behind the gates of hell. If successful, the New Alliance will place the Symbols of the Quad on the gates, locking Torron and her horde there forever. If the Alliance fails, Torron will dominate mankind. Evil will reign, chaos and immorality will follow and mankind will slip into another dark age. Two serious obstacles lie in the path of the New Alliance. First, Torron has found a new, powerful weapon that is likely to destroy them during the next battle. Second, the Alliance members are untrained and totally unaware of their destiny. On a fateful Saturday, their fathers send them into the forest on a trek, during which they learn about the ancient Alliance of the Quad and its responsibility to fight this evil force. The teenagers undergo a transformation of character, learning to be disciplined warriors committed to liberty and justice for all freedom-loving people. As part of their training, the New Alliance must time-travel on four different occasions to face Torron when both she and the Alliance are equally skilled. To achieve maximum power, the New Alliance must retrieve the four Symbols of the Quad, sent to different places and different times by their fathers. They face personal challenges as they learn about their powers and their weaknesses. Their adventure is humorous and heart-breaking, and along the way they learn difficult lessons about life and liberty.
Download or read book Alliance of the Quad written by Dennis L Morrow and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2013-03-29 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Underworld of Queen Torron will break into the realm of mortality this Saturday night, unless the four teenaged members of the New Alliance can defeat her and her army of Dragons, Firebirds and other monsters, pushing them back behind the Gates of Horgon. As part of their training, the New Alliance must time-travel to face Torron when both she and the Alliance are equally skilled. To achieve maximum power, the New Alliance must retrieve all four Symbols of the Quad, sent to different places and different times by their fathers, the old Alliance. Their adventure is in turn humorous and heart-breaking, along the way they learn difficult lessons about life and liberty.
Download or read book Alliance of the Quad the New Alliance written by Dennis L. Morrow and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2014-09-21 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The underworld of Queen Torron will break into the realm of mortality this Saturday night, unless the four teenaged members of the New Alliance can defeat her and her army of dragons, firebirds, and other monsters, pushing them back behind the gates of hell. If successful, the New Alliance will place the Symbols of the Quad on the gates, locking Torron and her horde there forever. If the Alliance fails, Torron will dominate mankind. Evil will reign, and mankind will slip into another dark age. Two serious obstacles lie in the path of the New Alliance. First, Torron has found a new, powerful weapon that is likely to destroy them during the next battle. Second, the Alliance members are untrained and totally unaware of their destiny. On a fateful Saturday, their fathers send them into the forest on a trek, during which they learn about the ancient Alliance of the Quad and its responsibility to fight this evil force. The teenagers undergo a transformation of character, learning to be disciplined warriors committed to liberty and justice for all freedom-loving people. As part of their training, the New Alliance must time-travel on four different occasions to face Torron when both she and the Alliance are equally skilled. To achieve maximum power, the New Alliance must retrieve the four Symbols of the Quad, sent to different places and different times by their fathers. They face personal challenges as they learn about their powers and their weaknesses. Their adventure is in turn humorous and heart-breaking, and along the way they learn difficult lessons about life and liberty.
Download or read book The Asian 21st Century written by Kishore Mahbubani and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book consists of essays written by Kishore Mahbubani to explore the challenges and dilemmas faced by the West and Asia in an increasingly interdependent world village and intensifying geopolitical competition. The contents cover four parts: Part One The End of the Era of Western Domination. The major strategic error that the West is now making is to refuse to accept this reality. The West needs to learn how to act strategically in a world where they are no longer the number 1. Part Two The Return of Asia. From the years 1 to 1820, the largest economies in the world were Asian. After 1820 and the rise of the West, however, great Asian civilizations like China and India were dominated and humiliated. The twenty-first century will see the return of Asia to the center of the world stage. Part Three The Peaceful Rise of China. The shift in the balance of power to the East has been most pronounced in the rise of China. While this rise has been peaceful, many in the West have responded with considerable concern over the influence China will have on the world order. Part Four Globalization, Multilateralism and Cooperation. Many of the world's pressing issues, such as COVID-19 and climate change, are global issues and will require global cooperation to deal with. In short, human beings now live in a global village. States must work with each other, and we need a world order that enables and facilitates cooperation in our global village.
Download or read book Alliance of the Quad Box Set written by Dennis Morrow and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Alliance of the Quad written by Dennis Morrow and published by Books by Morrow LLC. This book was released on 2016-11-13 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Alliance find themselves on the uncharted island of Four Peaks Island in 1650 A.D. The cutthroat pirates on the island and ferocious beasts in the jungle, make this a very dangerous place. As if the tension between Jeremy and Steve weren't already strained, it gets worse when they both fall in love with Kate, a beautiful young pirate on the island. The Alliance works their way across the dangerous island and in the process, picks up a new friend. A mole-like creature named, Teneriffe. The Alliance learns some new magic and enhances the skills they already have. This trek is full of adventure, danger, surprises and romance. A few new characters are introduced, and more magic artifacts are found.
Download or read book Alliance of the Quad written by Dennis L Morrow and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-15 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Alliance consists of three fifteen year old's, three boys and a girl. During the first four volumes of the Alliance of the Quad, they time traveled to the 13th, 15th, 17th and 19th centuries to learn their magic powers and to face the evil queen. During their travels they each fall in love with someone in the past. The Alliance has captured all four of the Symbols of the Quad required to defeat the evil queen Torron. They will now face the queen in present time. She has been diligently working on combining modern technology and time tested magic, she will be a formidable power to defeat. The Alliance faces a major dilemma, they will have to use their four tips back into the past to save their fathers, but if they do will they be able to go back in time to get their loved ones and bring them into the twenty first century?
Download or read book Alliance of the Quad written by Dennis L Morrow and published by . This book was released on 2014-11-13 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The adventure continues as the Alliance goes after the Second Symbol. The big question is, "Will Steve abandon the Alliance?" Their adventures put them in contact with Slatel a creature from the Underworld. Can they trust this little man? He seems a bit unpredictable. Will he help them or will he lead them into one of Torron's traps? Jesse wants to avoid facing Torron again. The Queen of the Underworld almost won the last time they met. Jesse was able to fight her off during their first meeting but feels it was more luck than skill. They find unexpected treasures in the underworld. It is an unpredictable world. The magic they fined on this adventure comes from more places than the Second Symbol.
Download or read book Alliance of the Quad written by Dennis L Morrow and published by . This book was released on 2018-05-29 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Alliance needs to find the fourth and last Symbol to have all of their powers enhanced. The fathers sent the fourth Symbol to the middle of Africa in the year 1865. When they arrive, they are surprised to find Torron's army is already there. Has she found the fourth Symbol? If not, she likely has a head start on finding it. The race to find the Symbol is in high speed the minute they arrive in Carnot, a village in central Africa. Torron vows to end the battle with the Alliance right there in Africa and begin taking over the world from there in the year 1865. If she is successful, all of the advances in technology in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries will never be produced. No cars, no airplanes, no television, no internet...no Google!
Download or read book Alliance of the Quad written by Dennis L. Morrow and published by Books by Morrow, LLC. This book was released on 2018-05-29 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Alliance needs to find the fourth and last Symbol to have all of their powers enhanced. The fathers sent the fourth Symbol to the middle of Africa in the year 1865. When they arrive, they are surprised to find Torron
Download or read book Alliance of the Quad Demons of Dianond Ridge written by Dennis Morrow and published by . This book was released on 2018-07-27 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Alliance needs to find the fourth and last Symbol to have all of their powers enhanced. The fathers sent the fourth Symbol to the middle of Africa in the year 1865. When they arrive, they are surprised to find Torron's army is already there. Has she found the fourth Symbol? If not, she likely has a head start on finding it. The race to find the Symbol is in high speed the minute they arrive in Carnot, a village in central Africa. Torron vows to end the battle with the Alliance right there in Africa and begin taking over the world from there in the year 1865. If she is successful, all of the advances in technology in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries will never be produced. No cars, no airplanes, no television, no internet...no Google!
Download or read book Alliance of the Quad written by Dennis L. Morrow and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-11-13 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Steve needs to decide if he will stay with the Alliance and continue to go back in time three more times or not. His decision could have grave consequences. During their second trek into the past the Alliance finds themselves in the fourteenth century Underworld. They quickly learn that finding the second Symbol will be very difficult. The adventure puts them in contact with several clans in the Underworld. Strangely, they find good creatures in the underworld, creatures that have been dominated by Torron the evil Queen of the Underworld. There is no shortage of evil there as well. Torron recognizes early on that the Alliance is in the Underworld. This alerts her to the fact that the second Symbol must also be there. She unleashes all of her evil priests, Dragons, firebirds and monsters in her quest to defeat the Alliance and capture the second Symbol. If she can defeat them now the mortal world would be hers to capture and dominate. Her quest is hampered by some of the clans in the Underworld that do not want to cooperate with her. Because of the Alliance's entry into the Underworld, two wars break out against Torron on different fronts. First, Mezmorel, a rival Underworld king, had been separated from Torron by a magic barrier. When the Alliance entered the Underworld he saw that the barrier had weakened. Believing the barrier was about to crumble he prepared for all out war with Torron. Second, in her quest to find and defeat the Alliance, Torron broke a truce with the Imphogs which started a war between them and the queen. The Alliance must distinguish between the good creatures they need to trust and the evil ones they cannot trust. Strong alliances are created that will help them not only on this trek but on future treks.
Download or read book Quad Plus and Indo Pacific written by Jagannath P. Panda and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-28 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how the Quad Plus mechanism is set to reshape the global multilateral economic and security co-operations between Quad partner countries and the rest of the world. With the Quad partners – Australia, India, Japan and the United States – seeing deteriorating ties with China, the book provides a holistic understanding of the reasons why Quad Plus matters and what it means for the post-COVID Indo-Pacific and Asian order. It goes beyond the existing literature of the global Post-COVID reality and examines how Quad Plus can grow and find synergy with national and multilateral Indo-Pacific initiatives. The chapters analyze the mechanism’s uncharacteristic yet active approach of including countries like South Korea, Israel, Brazil, New Zealand and ASEAN/Vietnam for their successful handling of the pandemic crisis, thereby reshaping the new world’s geopolitical vision. A unique study focused solely on the intricacies and the broader dialogue of the ‘Quad Plus’ narrative, the book caters to strategic audiences as well as academics researching International Relations, Politics, and Indo-Pacific and Asian Studies.
Download or read book The Quadrilateral Security Dialogue s potential for becoming an Asian NATO written by Fabian Döbber and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2021 in the subject Politics - Region: South Asia, grade: 1,0, Zeppelin University Friedrichshafen, course: Ausgewählte Themen PAIR- The Rise of China, language: English, abstract: This paper tries to answer the question if the Quad can rightly be seen as a step towards a military alliance, similar to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in the Indo-Pacific aiming to contain China's growing influence in the region. The paper starts by giving a brief overview of the Quad and its origins before discussing the central question if the Quad can be seen as a step towards an “Asian NATO” via focusing on the internal and external factors of influence.
Download or read book Alliance of the Quad written by Dennis L Morrow and published by . This book was released on 2016-11-13 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Alliance find themselves on the uncharted island of Four Peaks Island in 1650 A.D. The cutthroat pirates on the island and ferocious beasts in the jungle, make this a very dangerous place. As if the tension between Jeremy and Steve weren't already strained, it gets worse when they both fall in love with Kate, a beautiful young pirate on the island. The Alliance works their way across the dangerous island and in the process, picks up a new friend, Teneriffe. The Alliance learns some new magic and enhances the skills they already have. This trek is full of adventure, danger, surprises, and romance. A few new characters are introduced and more magic artifacts are found.
Download or read book Operationalising Deterrence in the Indo Pacific written by Ashley Townshend and published by United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney and Pacific Forum. This book was released on 2020-04-02 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an increasingly contested Indo-Pacific, the United States, Australia and their regional allies and partners face a myriad of strategic challenges that cut across every level of the competitive space. Driven by China’s use of multidimensional coercion in pursuit of its aim to displace the United States as the region’s dominant power, a new era of strategic competition is unfolding. At stake is the stability and character of the Indo-Pacific order, hitherto founded on American power and longstanding rules and norms, all of which are increasingly uncertain. The challenges that Beijing poses the region operate over multiple domains and are prosecuted by the Chinese Communist Party through a whole-of-nation strategy. In the grey zone between peace and war, tactics like economic coercion, foreign interference, the use of civil militias and other forms of political warfare have become Beijing’s tools of choice for pursuing incremental shifts to the geostrategic status quo. These efforts are compounded by China’s rapidly growing conventional military power and expanding footprint in the Western Pacific, which is raising the spectre of a limited war that America would find it difficult to deter or win. All of this is taking place under the lengthening shadow of Beijing’s nuclear modernisation and its bid for new competitive advantages in emerging strategic technologies. Strengthening regional deterrence and counter-coercion in light of these challenges will require the United States and Australia — working independently, together and with their likeminded partners — to develop more integrated strategies for the Indo-Pacific region and novel ways to operationalise the alliance in support of deterrence objectives. There is widespread support for this agenda in both Washington and Canberra. As the Trump administration’s 2018 National Defense Strategy makes clear, allies provide an “asymmetric advantage” for helping the United States deter aggression and uphold favourable balances of power around the world. Australia’s Minister for Defence Linda Reynolds mirrored this sentiment in a major speech in Washington last November, observing that “deterrence is a joint responsibility for a shared purpose — one that no country, not even the United States, can undertake alone.” Forging greater coordination on deterrence strategy within the US-Australia alliance, however, is no easy task, particularly when this undertaking is focussed on China’s coercive behaviour in the Indo-Pacific. Although Canberra and Washington have overlapping strategic objectives, their interests and threat perceptions regarding China are by no means symmetrical. Each has very different capabilities, policy priorities and tolerance for accepting costs and risks. Efforts to operationalise deterrence must therefore proceed incrementally and on the basis of robust alliance dialogue. To advance this process of bilateral strategic policy debate, the United States Studies Centre and Pacific Forum hosted the second round of the Annual Track 1.5 US-Australia Deterrence Dialogue in Washington in November 2019, bringing together US and Australian experts from government and non-government organisations. The theme for this meeting was “Operationalising Deterrence in the Indo-Pacific,” with a focus on exploring tangible obstacles and opportunities for improving the alliance’s collective capacity to deter coercive changes to the regional order. Both institutions would like to thank the Australian Department of Defence Strategic Policy Grants Program and the US Defense Threat Reduction Agency for their generous support of this engagement. The following analytical summary reflects the authors’ accounts of the dialogue’s proceedings and does not necessarily represent their own views. It endeavours to capture, examine and contextualise a wide range of perspectives and debates from the discussion; but does not purport to offer a comprehensive record. Nothing in the following pages represents the views of the Australian Department of Defence, the US Defense Threat Reduction Agency or any of the other officials or organisations that took part in the dialogue.
Download or read book To Kill A Democracy written by Debasish Roy Chowdhury and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-24 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: India is heralded as the world's largest democracy. Yet, there is now growing alarm about its democratic health. To Kill a Democracy gets to the heart of the matter. Combining poignant life stories with sharp scholarly insight, it rejects the belief that India was once a beacon of democracy but is now being ruined by the destructive forces of Modi-style populism. The book details the much deeper historical roots of the present-day assaults on civil liberties and democratic institutions. Democracy, the authors also argue, is much more than elections and the separation of powers. It is a whole way of life lived in dignity, and that is why they pay special attention to the decaying social foundations of Indian democracy. In compelling fashion, the book describes daily struggles for survival and explains how lived social injustices and unfreedoms rob Indian elections of their meaning, while at the same time feeding the decadence and iron-fisted rule of its governing institutions. Much more than a book about India, To Kill A Democracy argues that what is happening in the country is globally important, and not just because every third person living in a democracy is an Indian. It shows that when democracies rack and ruin their social foundations, they don't just kill off the spirit and substance of democracy. They lay the foundations for despotism.
