An Epic Medieval Saga Fantasy ReadersWill LoveIn the backwater village of Callowford, Errol Stone's search for a drink is interrupted by a church messenger who arrives with urgent missives for the hermit priest in the hills. Desperate for coin, Errol volunteers to deliver them but soon finds himself hunted by deadly assassins. Forced to flee with the priest and a small band of travelers, Errol soon learns he's joined a quest that could change the fate of his kingdom....

Riveting Sequel from Christian Fantasy's Most Talented New VoiceWhen Sarin Valon, the corrupt secondus of the conclave, flees Erinon and the kingdom, Errol Stone believes his troubles have at last ended. But other forces bent on the destruction of the kingdom remain and conspire to accuse Errol and his friends of a conspiracy to usurp the throne.In a bid to keep the three of them from the axe, Archbenefice Canon sends Martin and Luis to Errol's home village, Callowford, to ...

When one man is brutally murdered and the priest he works for mortally wounded, Willet Dura, reeve to the king of Bunard, is called to investigate. As he begins to question the dying priest, the man pulls Willet close and screams in a foreign tongue. Then he dies without another word.Willet returns to his task, but the clues to the crime lead to contradictions and questions without answers, and his senses are skewed. People he touches appear to have a subtle shift, as though he can...

Victory over the dark forces during the feast of Bas-solas should have guaranteed safety for the continent. Instead, Willet and the rest of the Vigil discover they've been outsmarted by those seeking to unleash the evil that inhabits the Darkwater. Jorgen, the member of the Vigil assigned to Frayel, has gone missing, and new attacks have struck at the six kingdoms' ability to defend themselves.Just when the Vigil thought they had quenched the menace from their enemy in Collum, a ne...

The final battle over the Darkwater has begun. Will anything be able to stop the evil sweeping acrossthe north?The kings and queens of the northern continent lay siege to the Darkwater Forest, frantic to contain its evil. Butrumors of gold and aurium have lured deserters and the reckless into its shadow, creating a growing army that cansee in the dark and fight like the gifted. Desperate after the death and dissolution of their greatest ally, Willet and the

Following his vision of the coming Messiah, the prophet Daniel creates a select group of men who will count down the calendar to the arrival of Israel's promised king. Centuries later, as the day nears, Myrad, a young magi acolyte, flees for his life when his adoptive father and others are put to death by a ruthless Parthian queen. Having grabbed only a few possessions, Myrad escapes the city, and searching for a way to hide from the soldiers scouring the trade routes, he tries to join the...

Dark Forces Have Gathered and the Final Battle for Illustra Has BegunTheir journey to Merakh should have made Errol and his companions heroes of the realm. Instead, they've been branded enemies of the kingdom.In the wake of the king's death, Duke Weir is ruling the country--and he intends to marry Adora to bring an heir from the royal line. With Errol and the others imprisoned and the identity of the rightful heir to the throne still hidden in secrecy, Illustra is on the ve...

Engineering the Climate: The Ethics of Solar Radiation Management discusses the ethical issues associated with deliberately engineering a cooler climate to combat global warming. Climate engineering (also known as geoengineering) has recently experienced a surge of interest given the growing likelihood that the global community will fail to limit the temperature increases associated with greenhouse gases to safe levels. Deliberate manipulation of solar radiation to combat climate change is...

Si le Soûtra du Diamant et le Soûtra du Coeur sont célèbres dans l'ensemble du monde himalayen et sino-japonais, faisant l'objet de récitations et de méditations quotidiennes sur le sens de la vacuité universelle dans le bouddhisme tibétain et zen, il n'en est pas de même du Soûtra de la Pousse de Riz, injustement méconnu, et traduit ici pour la première fois en français. Il s'agit pourtant d'un texte clé des débuts du Mahâyâna, qui traite de tous les aspects de ...

Mit seiner "Geschichte über Aufrichtigkeit im Journalismus" liefert Patrick Bahners nicht nur ein eindringliches Porträt von David Carr, dem berühmten und viel zu früh verstorbenen Journalisten der New York Times. Es porträtiert darin gleichzeitig eine sich rapide verändernde Zeitungs- und Medienlandschaft und zeigt, dass und wie Qualitätsjournalismus insofern unweigerlich selbstreflexiv ist, als der Gegenstand des Mediums immer auch das Medium selbst ist, ohne allerdings deswegen zwangslä...

Este libro reúne 17 trabajos inéditos sobre aspectos y pasajes específicos relativos a los tres siglos de dominación colonial, pero también de resistencia, resiliencia y persistencia indígena.

La première grande victoire du football français racontée par les cinq membres du carré magique et revisitée par Opta.Tout comme les trois mousquetaires étaient quatre, le carré magique ne comptait pas quatre côtés, mais cinq. Cette invention de l'entraîneur de l'équipe de France Michel Hidalgo a fait les beaux jours des Bleus de 1982 à 1986, lorsque cinq des meilleurs milieux de terrain de l'époque ont été rassemblés à tour de rôle dans un carré multifonctions, hyper créatif et of...