Armed with Sword and Scales
Armed with Sword and Scales

Author: Sascha Auerbach

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2022-12-15

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781108798464

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In the mid-eighteenth century, author and magistrate Henry Fielding adjudicated cases of theft, assault, and public disorder from his London home on Bow Street. By the middle of the nineteenth century, Fielding's modest 'police office' had expanded to become the most prolific court system in Britain and the cornerstone of criminal and civil justice in the metropolis. Sascha Auerbach examines the fascinating history of this institution through the lens of 'courtroom culture' - the combination of formal statute and informal custom that guided everyday practice in the London Police Courts. He offers a new model for understanding the relationship between law, culture, and society in modern Britain and illuminates how the local courtroom became a crucial part of everyday life and thoroughly entangled with popular representations of justice and morality.

The Order of the Scales
The Order of the Scales

Author: Stephen Deas

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2012-02-07

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 1101575492

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Having survived Jehal's betrayal, former Queen Zafir is determined to take back control of the kingdom. To that end, she seizes Jehal's wife and son as hostages. Desperate to save his queen and his heir, Jehal makes a tentative peace with the dragons of the north, and prepares to fly against his enemies. But as politics throw the realms of men into turmoil, a far greater danger threatens. The dragons are awakening from the spells cast upon them, and returning to their native fury. They are out for revenge. And that revenge will be brutal.

The Sword of Midras
The Sword of Midras

Author: Tracy Hickman

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2016-06-21

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13: 076538230X

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A captain in the Obsidian Army discovers a magical sword that only he can use, and is purported to have been once used by the legendary Avatars.

Armour Never Wearies
Armour Never Wearies

Author: Timothy Dawson

Publisher: The History Press

Published: 2013-08-05

Total Pages: 182

ISBN-13: 0752494244

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Armour Never Wearies is the first volume to bring together all the hitherto scattered evidence – archaeological, literary and artistic – for the forms and uses of scale and lamellar armours in the region west of the Ural Mountains throughout the 3,500 years during which these armours were used. The interpretation of this data is informed by the author’s long practical experience as a maker of arms and armour, martial artist and horseman. It offers systematic definitions and analysis of these often misunderstood forms of armour, along with detailed diagrams and instructions that will be of great use to any who wish to turn their hands to reconstruction. Along the way, this unique synthesis of evidence and interpretation debunks some myths that have arisen in recent years.

The Eye of Scales
The Eye of Scales

Author: Tracy Hickman

Publisher: Tor Books

Published: 2022-07-26

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 1466886811

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Fantasy great Tracy Hickman teams up with the video game legend Richard Garriott in this epic novel The Eye of Scales, based on the award-winning game, Shroud of the Avatar. The sword rules all. Aren Bendis, former soldier in the Obsidian army, has managed to protect a rebel city from his former friends and now finds his fate bound to a weapon once wielded by the Avatars themselves. Now, he is being secreted away to the capital of the last alliance of free nations with the hopes that the Hero of Opalis will lead their army against his former masters. What Aren doesn't know is that his former friend Evard Dirae, a Craft Master of the Obsidian Order, is seeking Aren out. Worried that Aren is being manipulated against his will by the magic of the Avatars, Evard seeks to find the sword and break its hold over Aren once and for all. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Scales of Ash & Smoke
Scales of Ash & Smoke

Author: Emily Schneider

Publisher:

Published: 2021-10-05

Total Pages: 366

ISBN-13: 9781737495710

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She lived her whole life enslaved to the dragons. But now she's one of them. Seventeen-year-old Kaida, a human, has spent her entire life enslaved to the dragons who slaughtered half the human population a thousand years ago. She is forced to serve her ruthless Master, Eklos, until one deadly summer day when the Prince of Elysia saves her life. Prince Tarrin steals her away to the Royal Palace, shocking Kaida when he reveals that she is mutator formarum. He promises her safety, but when they uncover a dangerous conspiracy to rid Elysia of the Royal Family, she begins to question how safe she truly is. And when desire blooms between Kaida and Tarrin, in the midst of fighting for their lives, she must choose whether to save the very creature she swore to hate, or allow him to perish... And destroy her own heart.

An Earthly Crown
An Earthly Crown

Author: Kate Elliott

Publisher: Open Road Media

Published: 2013-07-30

Total Pages: 741

ISBN-13: 1480435236

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DIVDIVIn the second book of Kate Elliott’s Novels of the Jaran, Tess Soerensen is pulled between two powerful men—her brother and her husband—and their competing revolutions/divDIV/divDIV On the planet Rhui, the nomadic tribes of the jaran are uniting the settled cities of their homeland one by one. Their charismatic leader, Ilya Bakhtiian, has his loyal wife by his side, but there is something about her he doesn’t know: Tess Soerensen is a human. And not just any human—back home, her brother, Charles, led an unsuccessful revolt against the all-powerful Chapalii empire. Even though Charles was later made a duke in the Chapalii system, his revolutionary bent has not faded, and he is traveling to Rhui to locate Tess and uncover precious information about a past insurgency. Charles’s insistence that Tess join him is as strong as Ilya’s reluctance to part with his beloved wife—and neither considers that Tess may have her own plans for the future. As three fiercely independent spirits struggle for a solution, the fates of both the human race and the jaran hang in the balance./divDIV /divAn Earthly Crown is the second volume of the Novels of the Jaran, which also include Jaran, His Conquering Sword, and The Law of Becoming. /div

Scales
Scales

Author: Lemmis Stephens

Publisher: Independently Published

Published: 2020-02-21

Total Pages: 179

ISBN-13:

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The selfish High Princess Ranna has other matters to worry about than the reports of missing mystiqs the capital city. Her royal arranged marriage and her plan to stop it. She meets a talented mystiq weaver, Wolvoe, who reluctantly introduces her to a powerful dark sorceress. To enter am age-old vengeance between High King Harravec, her father, and the most powerful and revered mystiq weaver in the world of Terrigenous. Will Ranna's burning desire to be free come true?