Battling the Elements
Battling the Elements

Author: Harold A. Winters

Publisher: JHU Press

Published: 2020-04-21

Total Pages: 589

ISBN-13: 1421440253

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Throughout history, from Kublai Khan's attempted invasions of Japan to Rommel's desert warfare, military operations have succeeded or failed on the ability of commanders to incorporate environmental conditions into their tactics. In Battling the Elements, geographer Harold A. Winters and former U.S. Army officers Gerald E. Galloway Jr., William J. Reynolds, and David W. Rhyne, examine the connections between major battles in world history and their geographic components, revealing what role factors such as weather, climate, terrain, soil, and vegetation have played in combat. Each chapter offers a detailed and engaging explanation of a specific environmental factor and then looks at several battles that highlight its effects on military operations. As this cogent analysis of geography and war makes clear, those who know more about the shape, nature, and variability of battleground conditions will always have a better understanding of the nature of combat and at least one significant advantage over a less knowledgeable enemy.

The Elemental Order
The Elemental Order

Author: Mathew Silk

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2012-03-30

Total Pages: 105

ISBN-13: 1467891770

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With a world under the control of an evil sorcerer and magic feared by all, will anyone fight for freedom? When the tyranny becomes unbearable, Marcus and his allies set out to find a way to break the evil power controlling the lands, facing challenges as they travel battling evil soldiers, fierce dragons, and foul demons. Can the magic of water, earth, and air hold back the power of fire, or will the fire sorcerer extinguish all hope for the people?

The Elements of Lore - Volume 1 of the Books of Lore
The Elements of Lore - Volume 1 of the Books of Lore

Author: Harry S. Hope

Publisher: Doctor Harry S. Hope

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 1906210837

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The Elements of Lore Alex, Amber and Caius' adventure reveals our world's secret magic. Alex Fletcher is an ordinary boy, but after being chased through the snow and taking a scholarship at the Lore Ordinance Research Establishment life is never the same again...Welcome Apprentice to a world where science and magic combine, where a Manor and Biospheres hold terrible secrets, where Lore Masters battle and deadly enemies rage. Is Alex the One? Will darkness overthrow the Lore? Alex's journey promises magic, adventure and horror, remember Apprentice when the Elements' secrets are revealed you'll never go back...Sales generate donation to Cystic Fibrosis Trust.

The Complete Elemental Series Bundle
The Complete Elemental Series Bundle

Author: Brigid Kemmerer

Publisher: Kensington

Published: 2021-04-27

Total Pages: 1999

ISBN-13: 1496736389

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One misstep and they lose it all. The four Merrick brothers are different. Way different: each of them can control one of the elements—water, fire, wind, or earth. They’re powerful. Dangerous. Alone—except for each other and a few trusted friends. They’re all trying to fly under the radar. But someone’s watching them; someone who wants them out of the way. Before they know it, their enemies have gathered, and they're armed for war. They're not interested in surrender. But the Merricks aren’t the white flag type anyway. There will be blood on the ground tonight . . . Praise for Brigid Kemmerer and The Elemental Series “Magic, suspense, and enough twists to keep you reading until sunrise.!” —Award winning author Erica O’Rourke “A refreshingly human paranormal romance . . . Read fast and keep that heart rate up.” —Kirkus Reviews on Storm

Battling to the End
Battling to the End

Author: René Girard

Publisher: MSU Press

Published: 2009-12-15

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 1609171330

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In Battling to the End René Girard engages Carl von Clausewitz (1780–1831), the Prussian military theoretician who wrote On War. Clausewitz, who has been critiqued by military strategists, political scientists, and philosophers, famously postulated that "War is the continuation of politics by other means." He also seemed to believe that governments could constrain war. Clausewitz, a firsthand witness to the Napoleonic Wars, understood the nature of modern warfare. Far from controlling violence, politics follows in war's wake: the means of war have become its ends. René Girard shows us a Clausewitz who is a fascinated witness of history's acceleration. Haunted by the French-German conflict, Clausewitz clarifies more than anyone else the development that would ravage Europe. Battling to the End pushes aside the taboo that prevents us from seeing that the apocalypse has begun. Human violence is escaping our control; today it threatens the entire planet.

Tank & Fizz: The Case of the Battling Bots
Tank & Fizz: The Case of the Battling Bots

Author: Liam O'Donnell

Publisher: Orca Book Publishers

Published: 2016-02-23

Total Pages: 174

ISBN-13: 1459808142

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In this illustrated middle-grade novel and second book in the Tank & Fizz series, a goblin detective and a technology-tinkering troll must dodge battle bots and spellbooks to prevent the return of an ancient demon.

Five Elements: The Emerald Tablet
Five Elements: The Emerald Tablet

Author: Dan Jolley

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 2016-10-18

Total Pages: 167

ISBN-13: 0062411721

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Five elements. Four friends. One city—and its sinister shadow. This epic middle grade series is filled with awesome elemental powers, nightmarish creatures, and nonstop adventure that will thrill fans of Avatar: The Last Airbender, Rick Riordan, and Brandon Mull. When Gabe Conway and his friends find a strange old map in his uncle’s office and follow it to a crumbling secret chamber beneath San Francisco, they think they’re just having one last adventure before Gabe moves away. They don’t expect to end up bound to the magic of the elements, or to set off a chain of events that none of them can explain. But they’re about to get more of an adventure than they bargained for. A power-hungry cult is plotting to merge our world with a twisted parallel realm—and now it’s up to Gabe, his friends, and their new elemental powers to save San Francisco from utter destruction.

Fleet Elements
Fleet Elements

Author: Walter Jon Williams

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 2020-12-08

Total Pages: 245

ISBN-13: 0062467069

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"Space opera the way it ought to be . . . Bujold and Weber, bend the knee; interstellar adventure has a new king, and his name is Walter Jon Williams."—George R. R. Martin Following The Accidental War, the second book of a brand-new series set in the Praxis—an epic mix of space opera and military science fiction, from a grand master of science fiction, Walter Jon Williams. The Praxis, the empire of now extinct Shaa, has again fallen into civil war, with desperate and outnumbered humans battling several alien species for survival. Leading the human forces are star-crossed lovers Gareth Martinez and Caroline Sula, who must find a way to overcome their own thorny personal history to defeat the aliens and assure humanity’s survival. But even if the human fleet is victorious, the divisions fracturing the empire may be too wide to repair, as battles between politicians, the military, and fanatics who want to kill every alien threaten to further tear the empire apart. While Martinez and Sula believe they have the talent and tactics to defeat an overwhelming enemy, what will prevent their fellow humans from destroying themselves?