Download or read book Alliance written by Mark Frost and published by Ember. This book was released on 2015-04-28 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the co-creator of the groundbreaking television show Twin Peaks comes an exciting adventure series with a unique combination of mystery, heart-pounding action, and the supernatural. Will West is a student of the Center—a school for an elite group of students. After exposing a sinister underground society of students known as the Knights of Charlemagne, Will discovers that he is developing supernatural physical and mental abilities. As he explores his new powers, he and his roommates investigate the Knights’ shadowy purpose and soon uncover a plot that could destroy life as we know it. The newly formed alliance will have to separate friend from foe as they prepare for the biggest fight of their lives.
Download or read book Ritual Alliances of the Putian Plain Volume Two written by Kenneth Dean and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009-12-07 with total page 1092 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making ingenious use of a wide variety of sources, and old as well as modern technical resources, Kenneth Dean and Zheng Zhenman here set a new standard for an histoire totale for a coherently well-defined cultural region in China.At the same time it deals in-depth with the ongoing negotiation of modernity in Chinese village rituals. Over the past thirty years, local popular religion has been revived and re-invented in the villages of the irrigated alluvial plain of Putian, Fujian, China. Volume 1 provides a historical introduction to the formation of 153 regional ritual alliances made up of 724 villages. Early popular cults, Ming lineages, Qing multi-village alliances, late Qing spirit-medium associations, 20th century state attacks on local religion, and the role of Overseas Chinese and local communities in rebuilding the temple networks are discussed. Volume 2 surveys the current population, lineages, temples, gods, and annual rituals of these villages. Maps of each ritual alliance, the distribution of major cults and lineages, are included. Find information about a film related to the book here.
Download or read book Nine Lives Part Two written by Karin De Havin and published by Supernatural Fantasy Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-14 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone knows Heaven is perfect. That’s a lie. When eighteen-year-old Taylor dares to ask her afterlife coach why Heaven is a falling down wreck, her coach tells Taylor to keep her mouth shut. What is her coach they trying to hide? Taylor desperately wants to flee this strange version of Heaven. Instead she’s stuck taking an endless series of quizzes in the Afterlife for Idiots Handbook and trying to get picked for the Cloud Nine Contest. If she wins the grand prize is to return to her old life. But Taylor soon learns that her past held a secret. Will the secret destroy her chances of winning the contest? Find out if in Nine Lives-Two in the Katran Legacy Series by author Karin De Havin. If you enjoy dystopian fantasy stories that are filled with adventure and make you laugh and bite your nails at the same time, then get your copy of Nine Lives-Two today! Keywords: Young Adult science fiction & fantasy books, visionary & metaphysical books, young adult dystopian series, Aliens Contact books, Sci-fi Fantasy Mashup books, Afterlife stories, young adult free books, young adult historical fantasy complete series, young adult coming of age fantasy, books, Heaven based books, young adult fantasy complete series, teen heaven based books, young adult action adventure books, free first in series, Free fantasy books, angel books.
Download or read book The Paladin Prophecy written by Mark Frost and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2012-09-25 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the co-creator of the groundbreaking television show Twin Peaks comes an exciting adventure series with a unique combination of mystery, heart-pounding action, and the supernatural. Meet your new action-adventure addiction! Will West is careful to live life under the radar. At his parents' insistence, he's made sure to get mediocre grades and to stay in the middle of the pack on his cross-country team. Then Will slips up, accidentally scoring off the charts on a nationwide exam. Now Will is being courted by an exclusive prep school . . . and followed by men driving black sedans. When Will suddenly loses his parents, he must flee to the school. There he begins to explore all that he's capable of--physical and mental feats that should be impossible--and learns that his abilities are connected to a struggle between titanic forces that has lasted for millennia.
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Download or read book The Paladin Prophecy Alliance written by Mark Frost and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013-12-30 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After exposing the sinister underground society of students known as the Knights of Charlemagne, Will West stays at the Centre over the summer to explore his newly developing physical and mental abilities. Meanwhile, his roommates investigate the Knights' shadowy purpose and discover unsettling information about their own backgrounds. Will and his friends must quickly figure out what's going on and separate friend from foe as they prepare for the coming fight.
Download or read book Handbook of Strategic Alliances written by Oded Shenkar and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2006 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers research on strategic alliances, and serves to lay out a research agenda on collaborative strategy and alliance management. This book covers the theoretical foundations that guide work on inter-firm collaboration, ranging from sociological perspectives to real options theory to diverse traditions within organizational economics.
Download or read book International Military Alliances 1648 2008 written by Douglas M. Gibler and published by CQ Press. This book was released on 2008-10-15 with total page 705 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inaugural title in the Correlates of War series from CQ Press, this 2-volume set catalogs every official interstate alliance signed from the Peace of Westphalia in 1648 through the early twenty-first century, ranking it among the most thorough and accessible reviews of formal military treaties ever published. Maps and introductions showcase the effects of alliances on the region or international system in century-specific chapters, while individual narratives and summaries of alliances simultaneously provide basic information, such as dates and member states, as well as essential insights on the conditions that prompted the agreement. Additionally, separate and/or secret articles are highlighted for additional context and interest. Supplementary features of this two-volume set include: A timeline cataloging major events in political and military history Guides listing allegiances by region and by century An alphabetical treaty index Maps illustrating political boundaries across the centuries International Military Alliances is an indispensable resource for any library serving students of law, politics, history, and military science.
Download or read book North Atlantic Treaty Organization written by Phil Williams and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-11-01 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume consists of major books written in the English language on NATO as well as an extensive listing of journal articles that deal with various aspects of the Alliance. All the major debates that have taken place over the last forty years are discussed.
Download or read book Ritual Alliances of the Putian Plain written by Kenneth Dean and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010 with total page 1092 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book documents the revival of local popular religion in Putian, Fujian. Volume 1 provides a historical introduction to 153 regional ritual alliances made up of 724 villages. Volume 2 surveys the population, lineages, temples, gods, and annual rituals of these villages.
Download or read book Mastering Alliance Strategy written by James D. Bamford and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2003-02-03 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Erfolgreiche Unternehmensallianzen sind heute für viele Unternehmen absolut wichtig, wenn es darum geht, sich einen Wettbewerbsvorteil zu sichern. "Mastering Alliance Strategy" ist ein umfassender Leitfaden zum Thema Allianzstrategie. Er entwirrt die haarigsten Themen rund um das Allianzmanagement und erläutert die aktuellsten Gedanken, Ideen und Praktiken für eine effektive Nutzung von Partnerschaften. Ob absoluter Anfänger oder erfahrener Allianzexperte, ob Fachmann im Bereich Unternehmensentwicklung, Linienmanager oder Führungskraft - hier lernen Sie, Allianzen besser zu verstehen und auszunutzen. Die Autoren zeigen, dass das Erfolgsgeheimnis nicht nur in den Feinheiten einer Vereinbarung liegt, sondern auch in der Strategie und Organisation hinter dieser Vereinbarung. Aus ihrer langjährigen Forschungsarbeit und Berichterstattung präsentieren sie hier Ideen und Tools zu den vier Kernelementen einer effektiven Allianzstrategie: Planen der Allianz und Entwerfen der Vereinbarung, Managen der Allianz, sobald sie gegründet ist, Vorteile ziehen aus einer Konstellation von Allianzen, Aufbau einer internen Allianzfähigkeit Verständlich geschrieben. Mit anschaulichem Beispielmaterial. "Mastering Alliance Strategy" - die ultimative Pflichtlektüre für alle Unternehmensstrategen und Führungskräfte.
Download or read book Alliance Politics written by Glenn Herald Snyder and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using cases from 1879 to 1914 to illustrate a theory of alliance formation and management in a multipolar international system, he focuses on Austria-Germany, Austria-Germany-Russia, and France-Russia, and examines twenty-two episodes of intra-alliance bargaining.
Download or read book Nonprofit Mergers Workbook Part II written by La Piana Associates and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2004-05-15 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You've completed the merger agreement. Now, how do you make the merger work? Nonprofit Mergers Part II helps you create a comprehensive plan to achieve integration. It addresses large, strategic issues as well as small practical ones. Integration issues and how to handle them Section I: Going the Distance provides a broad view of integration, its challenges, and how to meet them. Topics include the basic tenets of organizational change; what success looks like in a well-implemented merger; the purpose and content of an integration plan; how to address people issues through leadership and planning; and the relationship between effective leadership, effective communication, and their combined contribution to integration success. How to create a useful integration plan Section II: Creating an Integration Plan takes you step-by-step through this essential process. You'll learn about integration of boards, cultures, management, staff and volunteers, programs, communications and marketing, and systems—one by one, in detail; the steps needed to create each section of the plan; common challenges, roadblocks, and crises that will arise, and how to respond when they do; and processes, procedures, and interventions likely to be most helpful and necessary. Software helps you create an organized plan Included with the book is a CD-ROM with a detailed integration plan template. Use it to keep your planning organized and on track. This useful guide also includes sample integration plans, worksheets, checklists, and tips and quotes from leaders of merged organizations. Nonprofit Mergers Part II is a must-read for anyone considering, embarking on, of just completing a merger!
Download or read book Tyndale Concise Bible Commentary written by Robert B. Hughes and published by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2001 with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Value priced! The Tyndale Concise Bible Commentary offers clear and concise commentary on every passage in the NLT in one handy volume. Previously published as The New Bible Companion, this helpful resource also includes introductions to each Bible book, an article about the theme of the entire Bible, and detailed maps of places mentioned in Scripture. Sunday school teachers, pastors, and anyone who studies the Bible will find this commentary a great starting point for learning about God's Word. Teachers, pastors, and anyone wanting to learn more about the Bible will rely on the Tyndale Reference Library for solid, evangelical scholarship packed into concise, user-friendly reference works.
Download or read book Which Contract written by Sarah Lupton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-27 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Which Contract? is an invaluable desktop companion to be turned to at the start of every new project and is recommended to any professional whose clients expect him or her to know the contemporary procurement landscape inside out.Providing clear guidance on how to identify the most appropriate procurement strategy and contract for a given set of circumstances, it has been brought fully up to date to take account of the latest editions of all the recognised forms from JCT 2011 to FIDIC.
Download or read book Intelligent Computing and Information Science written by Ran Chen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-12-25 with total page 745 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This two-volume set (CCIS 134 and CCIS 135) constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent Computing and Information Science, ICICIS2011, held in Chongqing, China, in January 2011. The 226 revised full papers presented in both volumes, CCIS 134 and CCIS 135, were carefully reviewed and selected from over 600 initial submissions. The papers provide the reader with a broad overview of the latest advances in the field of intelligent computing and information science.
