Thin Line
Thin Line

Author: L. T. Ryan

Publisher:

Published: 2014-03-17

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781685331733

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Former government agent Jack Noble is on the trail of a rogue assassin marked for termination. But when a corpse turns up in his target's bed, Jack finds himself questioning who the target really is.Working with his long time partner, Bear Logan, and NYC Homicide Detective Reese McSweeney, Noble uncovers a conspiracy that takes him from New York to Paris to D.C.It's a race against time to save himself and those he cares about.When friends can no longer be trusted, and enemies must be, Noble is forced to make a decision that will compromise his integrity, his conscience, and his life.Noble faces a simple choice. Right or wrong. Life or death. It's a thin line.And Noble must figure out which side of that line he's on.Fans of Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan, Lee Child's Jack Reacher, Vince Flynn's Mitch Rapp, and Robert Ludlum's Jason Bourne will love this Jack Noble suspense thriller.

Melusine; or, The Noble History of Lusignan
Melusine; or, The Noble History of Lusignan

Author: Jean d'Arras

Publisher: Penn State Press

Published: 2015-06-26

Total Pages: 261

ISBN-13: 0271059907

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Jean d’Arras’s splendid prose romance of Melusine, written for Jean de Berry, the brother of King Charles V of France, is one of the most significant and complex literary works of the later Middle Ages. The author, promising to tell us “how the noble and powerful fortress of Lusignan in Poitou was founded by a fairy,” writes a ceaselessly astonishing account of the origins of the powerful feudal dynasty of the Lusignans in southwestern France, which flourished in western Europe and the Near East during the age of the Crusades. The spellbinding story of the destinies of the fairy Melusine, her mortal husband, and her extraordinary sons blends history, myth, genealogy, folklore, and popular traditions with epic, romance, and Crusade narrative. Preceded by a substantial introduction, this translation, the first in English to be amply annotated, captures the remarkable range of stylistic registers that characterizes this extravagant and captivating work.

The Book of the Incipit
The Book of the Incipit

Author: D. Vance Smith

Publisher: U of Minnesota Press

Published:

Total Pages: 317

ISBN-13: 1452905207

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"Smith offers a theoretical understanding of beginning that departs from the structuralisms of Edward Said, the traditional formalisms of A. D. Nuttall, and most medievalist and modernist treatments of closure. Instead, he views a work's beginning as a figure of the beginning of the work itself, and the inception of language as the problem of beginning to which we continually return."--BOOK JACKET.

Reform and Cultural Revolution
Reform and Cultural Revolution

Author: James Simpson

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 684

ISBN-13: 9780199265534

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Ranging from the extraordinary burst of English literary writing under the reign of Richard II to the literature of the Reformation, this title challenges traditional assumptions and argues that the stylistic diversity enjoyed by late medieval writers was curtailed by the authoritarian practice of the 16th-century cultural revolution.

Don Quixote. The Leadership of Near-Win
Don Quixote. The Leadership of Near-Win

Author: Beppe Carrella

Publisher: goWare

Published: 2019-07-23

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 8833632423

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What can Don Quixote, patron saint of the resilient, dauntless champion of near-victories, teach us about leadership? And who, much like him, wouldn’t want to be a knight? To live a thousand adventures, to amaze and astonish, to be rewarded with fame, to be the carrier of great ideals and values. What happened to that dream? We are so quick to label believers as fools… and who is more of a dreamer than the don? Someone who lost his marbles, who has started to see beauty in his surroundings. Who calls the “truth” of this world into question. The don has a vision, which compels him to set off with nag and squire, just moving forward. We too might become the heroes of the story, one failure after the other. Uphold our ideals when everything around us is falling apart. Take our talent into our own hands. And well, to quote Will Eisner, it doesn’t matter whether Don Quixote truly existed, what matters is that his dream did. Foreword by Cristina Koch.

History of Special Education
History of Special Education

Author: Anthony F. Rotatori

Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing

Published: 2011-01-25

Total Pages: 389

ISBN-13: 0857246305

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Examines the history of special education by categorical areas (for example, Learning Disabilities, Mental Retardation, and Autistic Spectrum Disorders). This title includes chapters on the changing philosophy related to educating students with exceptionalities as well as a history of legal and legislation content concerned with special education.