Win the annual Conquer tournament and earn wealth and power without measure. Lose and you're dead. No pressure.The game is Conquer, played for the king's amusement by the most notorious criminals and ambitious lordlings.Aron Stone, street rat turned commander of the king's First Legion, doesn't have patience for pointless games. But when a series of unfortunate events earns him the king's ire, he is forced to participate.Armed with a ragtag troop of...

Aron Stone's thrilling quest comes to an epic close....In the land of the fae, not everything is as it seems - a lesson Aron Stone must learn the hard way if he is to survive to continue his mission to destroy the Odinian king's oppressive regime. More than that, Aron must face the truth about his past and origins, which are mired in mystery and shrouded in fate. Will good conquer evil? The answer will be determined by the sword.Disclaimer:...

The stakes are even higher as Aron Stone continues his quest to claim victory in Conquer and free those who have been oppressed for years.After climbing the Conquer leaderboard by killing monsters and defeating his enemies, Aron Stone turns his eye toward the top competitors: Lady Brie of Blackhelm and the notorious rapist, Har Night. The only problem: King u'Moab and his wizard, Dromeus, are hell-bent on destroying Aron before he can further grow his power.

The Fractured City is a story of power, survival, and the thin, dangerous line between myth and memory.In a world drowned in darkness, humanity clings to survival in isolated city-states where light and water—define power. Within the cities: order and privilege. Beyond them: wastelands haunted by scavengers, myths, and shadows.Three lives collide in this fractured world:a boy burdened by visions of a ruined white city and the eerie gaze of the Wanderer, ris...

The essays in this volume address the displacement of natural and cultural heritage caused by disasters, whether they be dramatic natural impacts or terrible events unleashed by humankind, including holocaust and genocide. Disasters can be natural or human-made, rapid or slow, great or small, yet the impact is effectively the same; nature, people and cultural heritage are displaced or lost. Yet while heritage and place are at risk from disasters, in time,sites of suffering are sometimes re...

In this book, authors who are experts in their fields describe current advances on commercial crops and key enabling technologies that will underpin future advances in biotechnology. They discuss state of the art discoveries as well as future challenges. Tremendous progress has been made in introducing novel genes and traits into plant genomes since the first creation of transgenic plants thirty years ago, and the first commercialization of genetically modified maize in 1996. Consequently,...