![]() ![]() Bent on the persecution of the rich and powerful Knights Templar, Philip sentences Grand Master Jacques Molay to be burned at the stake, thus drawing down upon himself a curse that will destroy his entire dynasty. He governs his realm with an iron hand, but he cannot rule his own family: his sons are weak and their wives adulterous while his red-blooded daughter Isabella is unhappily married to an English king who prefers the company of men.Ī web of scandal, murder and intrigue is weaving itself around the Iron King but his downfall will come from an unexpected quarter. The Iron King - Philip the Fair - is as cold and silent, as handsome and unblinking as a statue. "Accursed! Accursed! You shall be accursed to the thirteenth generation!" Martin.Ī collection of the first three books in Maurice Druon's epic historical fiction series, The Accursed Kings. ![]() "This is the original Game of Thrones." George R.R. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Arizona is one of several states that have passed "Official English" or "English Only" laws. On March 25 of last year the Supreme Court agreed to review a case involving an Arizona law that would require public employees to conduct government business only in English. The debate was intense, acrid, and partisan. The vote was 259 to 169, with 223 Republicans and thirty-six Democrats voting in favor and eight Republicans, 160 Democrats, and one independent voting against. House of Representatives approved a bill that would make English the official language of the United States. The very idea of language as a political force - as something that might threaten to split a country wide apart - is alien to our way of thinking and to our cultural traditions. WE have known race riots, draft riots, labor violence, secession, anti-war protests, and a whiskey rebellion, but one kind of trouble we've never had: a language riot. ![]() ![]() ![]() Love and Math tells two intertwined stories: of the wonders of mathematics and of one young man's journey learning and living it. In this heartfelt and passionate book, Frenkel shows that mathematics, far from occupying a specialist niche, goes to the heart of all matter, uniting us across cultures, time, and space. In Love and Math, renowned mathematician Edward Frenkel reveals a side of math we've never seen, suffused with all the beauty and elegance of a work of art. What if you had to take an art class in which you were only taught how to paint a fence? What if you were never shown the paintings of van Gogh and Picasso, weren't even told they existed? Alas, this is how math is taught, and so for most of us it becomes the intellectual equivalent of watching paint dry. ![]() ![]() ![]() OL13611986W Page_number_confidence 94.21 Pages 766 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.15 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20211012125316 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 2573 Scandate 20211007201813 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 1842127268 Tts_version 4. ![]() Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 13:19:47 Boxid IA40256903 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier ![]() ![]() ![]() It was June now, and we were both home from Vanderbilt University, but I saw my boyfriend less this summer than I did when we were at school. ![]() He’d tell me anything, including when he thought I looked like I wasn’t ‘trying’ anymore, or acting like a bitch. We’d gotten comfortable with each other-maybe too comfortable. I didn’t know if there was a turning point, or a single event that made him different, but he wasn’t the sweet, caring guy I’d known. I’d loved him so much, I’d given him my virginity. Hell, our senior class even voted us ‘Most Likely to Marry Their High School Sweetheart.’ ![]() Since then, we’d done almost everything together. Preston Lowe and I had been together for more than three years and had started dating the summer before our junior year of high school. I did it because I needed a break from everyone. Preston had invited our friends over to hang out by his dad’s pool, and when we ran out of beer in the cooler, I volunteered to get the other case from the fridge in the garage. Nashville in the summer wasn’t for the faint of heart-the heat and humidity were oppressive. ![]() ![]() Currently Oliver and family reside happily in the U.S. In 2004 Oliver published his first book and continues to write books, articles and short stories. After exploring the Yukon and Northwest territories of Canada as well as the Arctic Circle the team traveled over the Top of the World highway to Alaska.ġ999-2000 Oliver traveled through Asia, visiting Indonesia, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia and Taiwan among other countries. Leaving in April of 1997 Oliver and company traveled up the historic AL-CAN highway. But rather than form a new band the two put together an expedition plan for traveling to Northern Canada and Alaska in order to prospect for gold. In early spring of 1997 Oliver along with a good friend who was a guitarist got together with the intention to form a new group. During this time Oliver also began writing short stories and articles.Īfter playing for thousands through the fall and winter of 1996 Oliver's band abruptly disbanded. He enjoyed traveling, playing percussion and writing lyrics for popular bands. ![]() In the late 1980s through mid 90s Oliver pursued his love of music. Oliver served as a Paratrooper in the United States Army and studied at MSC. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Orhan Pamuk was born in Istanbul in 1952 and grew up in a large family similar to those which he describes in his novels Cevdet Bey and His Sons and The Black Book, in the wealthy westernised district of Nisantasi. Like Joyce's Dublin and Borges' Buenos Aires, Pamuk's Istanbul is a triumphant encounter of place and sensibility, beautifully written and immensely moving. With cinematic fluidity, Pamuk moves from the lives of his glamorous, unhappy parents to the gorgeous, decrepit mansions overlooking the Bosphorus from the dawning of his self-consciousness to the writers and painters-both Turkish and foreign-who would shape his consciousness of his city. His portrait of his city is thus also a self-portrait, refracted by memory and the melancholy-or hzn-that all Istanbullus share: the sadness that comes of living amid the ruins of a lost empire. Orhan Pamuk was born in Istanbul and still lives in the family apartment building where his mother first held him in her arms. ![]() From the Nobel Prize-winning author of My Name Is Red and Snow, a large-format, deluxe, collectible edition of his beloved memoir about life in Istanbul, with more than 200 added illustrations and a new introduction. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Fung's actionable advice then we would be able to start reversing the obesity epidemic tomorrow.”-Sam Feltham, USA Today World Fitness Elite Trainer of the Year FROM NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLING AUTHOR DR. If more doctors and people were able to understand these causes and implement Dr. Jason Fung triumphs in explaining the core underlying causes of obesity and manages to simplify it in a way that anybody can understand. A must read for anyone interested in the science of diet.”-Kris Gunnars, nutrition researcher“In The Obesity Code, Dr. Jason Fung’s explanation of insulin resistance and the accompanying insulin model of obesity is original, brilliant and game changing.”-Zoë Harcombe, Obesity researcher, author of The Harcrombe Diet“A fantastic book that exposes some of the world's most pervasive myths about obesity and weight management. Read it to understand why the world became fat, how to reverse the epidemic-and how to stay thin yourself.”-Andreas Eenfeldt, MD, Founder of “Dr. Descripción: Críticas “Not only full of insights but also surprisingly funny. ![]() ![]() ![]() Hand of Fate is a hybrid roguelike/action-RPG/deck builder, in which the player builds a set of cards into a deck, which is then used to deal out the dungeon floors through which they adventure. Draw your cards, play your hand, and discover your fate. "Defiant Development’s newest project feels like playing a customizable card game, Dungeons & Dragons, and Batman: Arkham Asylum all at the same time if that idea doesn’t excite you, then I have no idea what will." Gaming Union 9/10 Deckbuilding Comes to Life In hand Of Fate!Īn infinitely replayable series of quests - earn new cards, build your deck, then try to defeat it!īeyond the thirteen gates at the end of the world, the game of life and death is played. "Whether you are a CCG veteran or not, you need to play this game…right now!" - Godisageek 9/10 "If you are a fan of either old school adventure books, Gauntlet from its glory days, collectible card games, Rogue or just general fantasy, this game is for you" - Gamestyle 9/10 ![]() "Words fail me at describing just how seamlessly Defiant Development managed to blend the tailored experience aspect of deck building games with the hack-and-slash excitement of action-RPGs." - The Escapist ![]() ![]() About This Game Add Hand of Fate 2 to your wishlist in order to keep up to date on announcements and release details! ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Drawing on exclusive interviews with dozens of Paperclip family members, colleagues, and interrogators, and with access to German archival documents (including papers made available to her by direct descendants of the Third Reich's ranking members), files obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, and lost dossiers discovered at the National Archives and Harvard University, Annie Jacobsen follows more than a dozen German scientists through their postwar lives and into one of the most complex, nefarious, and jealously guarded government secrets of the 20th century. government secretly decided that the value of these former Nazis' knowledge outweighed their crimes and began a covert operation code-named Paperclip to allow them to work in the U.S. In the chaos following WWII, some of the greatest spoils of Germany's resources were the Third Reich's scientific minds. According to Annie Jacobsens 'Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program That Brought Nazi Scientists to America,' Osenberg was a devout member of the Nazi Party an SS member, at that when he was tasked in 1943 to put together an exhaustive list of the best scientific minds Germany had to offer. According to Annie Jacobsen's 'Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program That Brought Nazi Scientists to America,' Osenberg was a devout member of the Nazi Party an SS member, at that when he was tasked in 1943 to put together an exhaustive list of the best scientific minds Germany had to offer. ![]() The explosive, dark secrets behind America's post-WWII science programs from the author of the New York Times bestseller Area 51. ![]() |