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Book Rogue s Challenge

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jo Barrett
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2008-04
  • ISBN : 9781601542571
  • Pages : 172 pages

Download or read book Rogue s Challenge written by Jo Barrett and published by . This book was released on 2008-04 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ian Southernland travels back through the enchanted portal that brought Amelia to the 16th century Scottish highlands to retrieve Amelia's friend and doctor Jenny Maxwell from the 21st century to help with the birth of Colin and Amelia's baby.

Book Global Rogues and Regional Orders

Download or read book Global Rogues and Regional Orders written by Il Hyun Cho and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2016 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Global Rogues and Regional Orders examines the relationship between nuclear proliferation and regional order in East Asia and the Middle East, looking at what factors shape the perceptions and responses of relevant regional actors to North Korea and Iran, why some of these regional actors cooperate with the United States while others do not, and the consequences of shifting relations among these countries.

Book The Rogue Christian

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  • Author : Mike Genung
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2020-03-17
  • ISBN : 9781732312821
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book The Rogue Christian written by Mike Genung and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Status quo Christianity has failed. The Rogue Christian provides an in depth look at where we are today, why the church has lost its salt, and what we should do about it.

Book Rogue s Challenge

Download or read book Rogue s Challenge written by Wendy Pini and published by Warp Graphics Publications. This book was released on 1994 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rayek searches for a way to restore his powers and regain the confidence of his fellow elves.

Book The Quintessential Rogue

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michael Mearls
  • Publisher : Mongoose Publishing
  • Release : 2002-03-01
  • ISBN : 9781903980132
  • Pages : 128 pages

Download or read book The Quintessential Rogue written by Michael Mearls and published by Mongoose Publishing. This book was released on 2002-03-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second in Mongoose Publishing's acclaimed series of class books, The Quintessential Rogue provides a wealth of new options and rules anyone player who loves playing a more subtle character. In previous editions of the game, rogues occupied a narrow niche as thieves, burglars, or footpads. Now, with the advent of the d20 system, the rogue covers a huge array of spies, scouts, explorers, and other exciting new roles. The Quintessential Rogue examines this new definition of rogues in detail. Weighing in at 128 pages, The Quintessential Rogue is crammed with new options, new rules, and exciting new twists to existing game mechanics. Character Concepts: A Rogue is far more than a sneaky, greedy robber. Through the use of the templates provided within Character Concepts, a player can give his Rogue an entire history and personality quickly and easily. Law and Order: No matter what his nature, a Rogue needs to keep an eye on the law. Find rules on summarising the local guard in a simple stat block and learn how to determine just how far the arm of the law reaches. Tricks of the Trade: Skills are the Rogue's lifeblood. Learn how to take what you know and apply it in completely different ways. All of the Rogue class skills are broken down and given new uses. The Prestige Rogue: No two Rogues are alike. The Crusading Footpad strikes evil where it hurts: right in the wallet. The Executioner flits in and out of the tightest guarded fortresses, leaving a trail of victims in his wake whilst the Vigilante takes the law into his own hands. Tools of the Trade: A Rogue's quick wit and fast feet are enough to get him out of most spots, but when that fails he needs the weapons, armour, and new items detailed here. Hideouts: From the fearless spy to the most successful criminal, every Rogue needs a place where he can lay low. Hire a wizard to cast some illusions on your home. Establish a hidden base in the city sewers. Invest in a simple cottage that doubles as a stout fortress. Learn how to keep your enemies from trailing you back home. Reputation: A Rogue's name is one of his best weapons. His reputation precedes him and smoothes many bumps in his road. Catch a bad rep? No problem. Don a mask, invent an alias, and start all over again. By day, you're an upstanding noble. By night, you're the Rooftop Bandit, terror of the noble quarter. Laws of the Night: While the town guard patrols the streets by day, the thieves guild keeps their watch at night. Learn just what thieves do to those who try to muscle in on their turf. Rules cover how to determine how aggressive and tough the local rogues are and allow you to summarise them within a simple stat block. Thieves Guilds and Other Organisations of Ill Repute: Surround yourself with eager underlings and like-minded allies. Expand your operations to cover a wide range of new opportunities. Why rob a single house when you can shake down an entire neighbourhood for protection money? Extend your Rogue's capabilities and establish him as an important power player in the local scene. Not a rogue? Then learn how to establish your own spy ring, assassin's brotherhood, outlaw band, or any other organisation that works beneath the prying eye of the law.

Book Rogues

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  • Author : Jacques Derrida
  • Publisher : Stanford University Press
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN : 9780804749510
  • Pages : 204 pages

Download or read book Rogues written by Jacques Derrida and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rogues, published in France under the title Voyous, comprises two major lectures that Derrida delivered in 2002 investigating the foundations of the sovereignty of the nation-state. The term "État voyou" is the French equivalent of "rogue state," and it is this outlaw designation of certain countries by the leading global powers that Derrida rigorously and exhaustively examines. Derrida examines the history of the concept of sovereignty, engaging with the work of Bodin, Hobbes, Rousseau, Schmitt, and others. Against this background, he delineates his understanding of "democracy to come," which he distinguishes clearly from any kind of regulating ideal or teleological horizon. The idea that democracy will always remain in the future is not a temporal notion. Rather, the phrase would name the coming of the unforeseeable other, the structure of an event beyond calculation and program. Derrida thus aligns this understanding of democracy with the logic he has worked out elsewhere. But it is not just political philosophy that is brought under deconstructive scrutiny here: Derrida provides unflinching and hard-hitting assessments of current political realities, and these essays are highly engaged with events of the post-9/11 world.

Book The Big Book of Rogues and Villains

Download or read book The Big Book of Rogues and Villains written by Otto Penzler and published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard. This book was released on 2017-10-24 with total page 930 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edgar Award-winning editor Otto Penzler's new anthology brings together the most cunning, ruthless, and brilliant criminals in mystery fiction, for the biggest compendium of bad guys (and girls) ever assembled. The best mysteries--whether detective, historical, police procedural, cozy, or comedy--have one thing in common: a memorable perpetrator. For every Sherlock Holmes or Sam Spade in noble pursuit, there's a Count Dracula, a Lester Leith, or a Jimmy Valentine. These are the rogues and villains who haunt our imaginations--and who often have more in common with their heroic counterparts than we might expect. Now, for the first time ever, Otto Penzler gathers the iconic traitors, thieves, con men, sociopaths, and killers who have crept through the mystery canon over the past 150 years, captivating and horrifying readers in equal measure. The 72 handpicked stories in this collection introduce us to the most depraved of psyches, from iconic antiheroes like Maurice Leblanc's Arsène Lupin and Sax Rohmer's Dr. Fu Manchu to contemporary delinquents like Lawrence Block's Ehrengraf and Donald Westlake's Dortmunder, and include unforgettable tales by Robert Louis Stevenson, Bram Stoker, Washington Irving, Jack London, H.G. Wells, Sinclair Lewis, O. Henry, Edgar Wallace, Leslie Charteris, Erle Stanley Gardner, Edward D. Hoch, Max Allan Collins, Loren D. Estleman, and many more.

Book Rogues and Early Modern English Culture

Download or read book Rogues and Early Modern English Culture written by Craig Dionne and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2010-02-01 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Those at the periphery of society often figure obsessively for those at its center, and never more so than with the rogues of early modern England. Whether as social fact or literary fiction-or both, simultaneously-the marginal rogue became ideologically central and has remained so for historians, cultural critics, and literary critics alike. In this collection, early modern rogues represent the range, diversity, and tensions within early modern scholarship, making this quite simply the best overview of their significance then and now." -Jonathan Dollimore, York University "Rogues and Early Modern English Culture is an up-to-date and suggestive collection on a subject that all scholars of the early modern period have encountered but few have studied in the range and depth represented here." -Lawrence Manley, Yale University "A model of cross-disciplinary exchange, Rogues and Early Modern English Culture foregrounds the figure of the rogue in a nexus of early modern cultural inscriptions that reveals the provocation a seemingly marginal figure offers to authorities and various forms of authoritative understanding, then and now. The new and recent work gathered here is an exciting contribution to early modern studies, for both scholars and students." -Alexandra W. Halasz, Dartmouth College Rogues and Early Modern English Culture is a definitive collection of critical essays on the literary and cultural impact of the early modern rogue. Under various names-rogues, vagrants, molls, doxies, vagabonds, cony-catchers, masterless men, caterpillars of the commonwealth-this group of marginal figures, poor men and women with no clear social place or identity, exploded onto the scene in sixteenth-century English history and culture. Early modern representations of the rogue or moll in pamphlets, plays, poems, ballads, historical records, and the infamous Tudor Poor Laws treated these characters as harbingers of emerging social, economic, and cultural changes. Images of the early modern rogue reflected historical developments but also created cultural icons for mobility, change, and social adaptation. The underclass rogue in many ways inverts the familiar image of the self-fashioned gentleman, traditionally seen as the literary focus and exemplar of the age, but the two characters have more in common than courtiers or humanists would have admitted. Both relied on linguistic prowess and social dexterity to manage their careers, whether exploiting the politics of privilege at court or surviving by their wits on urban streets. Deftly edited by Craig Dionne and Steve Mentz, this anthology features essays from prominent and emerging critics in the field of Renaissance studies and promises to attract considerable attention from a broad range of readers and scholars in literary studies and social history.

Book Strategic Challenges

Download or read book Strategic Challenges written by Stephen J. Flanagan and published by Potomac Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2008-02 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experts analyze seven key security challenges

Book The League of Rogues

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  • Author : Lauren Smith
  • Publisher : Lauren Smith
  • Release : 2020-09-21
  • ISBN : 1952063345
  • Pages : 591 pages

Download or read book The League of Rogues written by Lauren Smith and published by Lauren Smith. This book was released on 2020-09-21 with total page 591 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fans of Julia Quinn's Bridgerton series and Johanna Lindsey Malory series will love this wild and adventurous Regency romance series full of passion and intrigue! Wicked Rivals- The League of Rogues Book 4 A business driven baron finds himself in competition with a feisty Scottish widow and their game of cat and mouse becomes too tempting for either of them to resist. Her Wicked Longing- The League of Rogues Book 5 A lady and her maid find themselves in the deadliest of dangers when they infiltrate a hellfire club in these two short novellas. His Wicked Embrace- The League of Rogues Book 6 A wicked rakehell finds himself playing the part of a hero when he rescues a young woman from being sold at a brothel to the highest bidder. When he discovers she’s a Persian princess and that men seek to kidnap her, he’ll do anything to protect her.

Book Strategic Assessment

Download or read book Strategic Assessment written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Fallen Rogues Boxed Set

Download or read book The Fallen Rogues Boxed Set written by Gerhard Gehrke and published by Gerhard Gehrke. This book was released on 2021-08-08 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Fun and engaging. Well-written and with complex characters.”- Author Madeleine Holly-Rosing “Just plain fun.” - Goodreads review “Compelling characters and a satisfying balance of action and mystery.” – Bookbub review “Adventure, intrigue, dark humor and all around fun.”—Goodreads review “A fast, wild read.” –Goodreads review Diregloom was the last place where a disgraced ranger like Digger could freely live. But mad Queen Claudia has new plans for her island. Digger’s home becomes a prison, and Claudia has even worse in store within her catacomb games. As a reign of terror is unleashed, bounty hunters pursue anyone who would stand against her, sending them to fight to the death in the queen’s dungeon. It’s die in the streets or die in the games unless Digger can unite a gang of rogues in a last-ditch battle for survival. Complete novels in this boxed set: Midnight Monster Club The Dragon and Rose The Chapel of the Wyrm Start reading this amazing dark fantasy series full of action and grim humor today!

Book The Lady Rogue

Download or read book The Lady Rogue written by Jenn Bennett and published by Simon Pulse. This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A swashbuckling adventure.” —Booklist “A rollicking Indiana Jones flick with a female lead.” —BCCB The Last Magician meets A Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue in this thrilling, “breathless” (Kirkus Reviews) tale filled with magic and set in the mysterious Carpathian Mountains where a girl must hunt down Vlad the Impaler’s cursed ring in order to save her father. Some legends never die… Traveling with her treasure-hunting father has always been a dream for Theodora. She’s read every book in his library, has an impressive knowledge of the world’s most sought-after relics, and has all the ambition in the world. What she doesn’t have is her father’s permission. That honor goes to her father’s nineteen-year-old protégé—and once-upon-a-time love of Theodora’s life—Huck Gallagher, while Theodora is left to sit alone in her hotel in Istanbul. Until Huck returns from an expedition without her father and enlists Theodora’s help in rescuing him. Armed with her father’s travel journal, the reluctant duo learns that her father had been digging up information on a legendary and magical ring that once belonged to Vlad the Impaler—more widely known as Dracula—and that it just might be the key to finding him. Journeying into Romania, Theodora and Huck embark on a captivating adventure through Gothic villages and dark castles in the misty Carpathian Mountains to recover the notorious ring. But they aren’t the only ones who are searching for it. A secretive and dangerous occult society with a powerful link to Vlad the Impaler himself is hunting for it, too. And they will go to any lengths—including murder—to possess it.

Book Educational Recommender Systems and Technologies  Practices and Challenges

Download or read book Educational Recommender Systems and Technologies Practices and Challenges written by Santos, Olga C. and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2011-12-31 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recommender systems have shown to be successful in many domains where information overload exists. This success has motivated research on how to deploy recommender systems in educational scenarios to facilitate access to a wide spectrum of information. Tackling open issues in their deployment is gaining importance as lifelong learning becomes a necessity of the current knowledge-based society. Although Educational Recommender Systems (ERS) share the same key objectives as recommenders for e-commerce applications, there are some particularities that should be considered before directly applying existing solutions from those applications. Educational Recommender Systems and Technologies: Practices and Challenges aims to provide a comprehensive review of state-of-the-art practices for ERS, as well as the challenges to achieve their actual deployment. Discussing such topics as the state-of-the-art of ERS, methodologies to develop ERS, and architectures to support the recommendation process, this book covers researchers interested in recommendation strategies for educational scenarios and in evaluating the impact of recommendations in learning, as well as academics and practitioners in the area of technology enhanced learning.

Book Approaches to Teaching the Thousand and One Nights

Download or read book Approaches to Teaching the Thousand and One Nights written by Paulo Lemos Horta and published by Modern Language Association. This book was released on 2023-10-10 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Thousand and One Nights, composed in Arabic from the eighth to the fourteenth centuries, is one of the world's most widely circulated and influential collections of stories. To help instructors introduce the tales to students, this volume provides historical context and discusses the many transformations of the stories in a variety of cultures. Among the topics covered are the numerous translations and their impact on the tales' reception; various genres represented by the tales; gender, race, and slavery; and adaptations of the stories in films, graphic novels, and other media across the world and under conditions of both imperialism and postcolonialism. The essays serve instructors in subjects such as medieval literature, world literature, and Middle and Near Eastern studies and make a case for teaching the Thousand and One Nights in courses on identity and race.

Book Trust and Trustworthy Computing

Download or read book Trust and Trustworthy Computing written by Stefan Katzenbeisser and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-06-09 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Trust and Trustworthy Computing, TRUST 2012, held in Vienna, Austria, in June 2012. The 19 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 48 submissions. The papers are organized in two tracks: a technical track with topics ranging from trusted computing and mobile devices to applied cryptography and physically unclonable functions, and a socio-economic track focusing on the emerging field of usable security.

Book Under Attack

    Book Details:
  • Author : Belinda Helmke
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2016-02-17
  • ISBN : 1317005325
  • Pages : 313 pages

Download or read book Under Attack written by Belinda Helmke and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-17 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Under Attack makes a new contribution to the field of international relations in general and the study of international law and armed conflict in particular, in two core ways. First, it links information from varying disciplines, most notably international relations and international law, to form a comprehensive picture of state practice and the challenges it poses to the legal rules for the use of force. Secondly, it organises the information in such a way to identify two core groups of contemporary justifications used by states: humanitarian reasons and self-defence, both with their sub-categories. At the core of this book is the question of how state practice since 1990 has challenged the long-established legal regime on the international use of force. Are we merely witnessing a temporary and insignificant challenge to international law or are the rules genuinely under attack?