Fourteen-year-old Aleryck is good with a slingshot and at herding goats, but not much else. When the mysterious voice of 'The Ancient' tasks him with inscribingwords of freedom on a magical tablet, he starts to believe he is important … more important even than his elder brothers. Then the Ancient asks Aleryck to hide the tablet in Medar--beyond the perilous Chasm--for a future generation, forcing Aleryck to reluctantly seek the help of his jealous siblings.Left for dead in...

Medar is the first book in the Realmshift Trilogy by S R Manssen.What if you discovered that the only world you've ever known ISN'T the only world? That there's another whole world out there? Except nobody believes you.Add to that, being sentenced to death and fleeing for your life, trying to unlock the clues in the mysterious tablet you found, that lead the way to the long-lost path to Tyrelia--all before the Master's Guards find you. Welcome to Freya's w...

She escaped death.She unlocked the mystery of the Tablet.She discovered the long-lost bridge across the chasm.She passed through the Wall.But fourteen-year-old Freya's biggest challenge is yet to come: all alone, she must enter Tyrelia, following new clues that lead her on a new quest deep into Tyrelia. Her family is trapped in the Golden City, torn between trying to escape and being seduced by the City. With all communication lost, will Freya find the Ancie...

Freya is half blind, poor, and lives in land-locked Medar: an unlikely heroine. So when she finds a mysterious tablet telling her about Tyrelia--a beautiful land beyond the Wall free from the evil Master--she doesn't think anybody will believe her.The same day, her family learns they have been selected to live in the Golden City, ruled over by the Master. But instead of entering the City with her family, Freya finds herself condemned to death by the Guards. At the last minute, Frey...

AN ANCIENT PROPHECYMYSTICAL ARMOURONE GIRLPoor and blind in one eye, 14-year-old Freya is an unlikely heroine. But she has outwitted the evil Master twice already. Now training to become an Adelphi, she learns that she has been chosen to receive the Armour of Tyrelia. Her courage and resilience are tested to the limit as she navigates the consequences of her choices. CAN SHE SECURE ALL THE PIECES OF THE ARMOUR in time to rescue her family and everyone else trapped i...

Is that sugar in your tea, or something else?And really, how would you know?Just how "life imitates art" is a perception we often take for granted, the ongoing fusion of technology into our daily routines may soon twist into wondering what is real, and what is not.Is AI really for our betterment … or the first steps towards subjugation?Artificial Sweetener is a collection of 17 speculative fiction short stories and poems from SpecFicNZ members exploring the w...

Der vorliegende Tagungsband enthält Beiträge zur Rechts- und Verfassungsentwicklung in Deutschland, Litauen, Polen und Ungarn seit der EU-Osterweiterung im Jahr 2004. Im Vordergrund steht die Anpassung des nationalen Verfassungsrechts und der Verfassungsrechtsprechung an die Vorgaben des Unionsrechts. Betrachtet werden u. a.: Die Zusammenarbeit des Bundesverfassungsgerichts mit den Verfassungsgerichten der Beitrittsländer, die Justiz- und Rechtsstaatskrise in Polen und die Möglichkeiten ih...

Das Handbuch ist eine auf 12 Bände angelegte Edition des Verwaltungsrechts. Als wissenschaftliches Gemeinschaftswerk von zwei Herausgebern und rund 250 Autor*innen basiert es auf einer Gesamtkonzeption, die das deutsche, europäische und internationale Verwaltungsrecht als Einheit und in ihrer Interdependenz und Interaktion in den Blick nimmt. Die Bände wenden sich gleichermaßen an die verwaltungsrechtliche Praxis und die Verwaltungsrechtswissenschaft. Der Rechtsstoff wird enzyklopädisch au...

In vielen Staaten, auch in Deutschland und Russland, ist die finanzielle Belastungsfähigkeit der öffentlichen Haushalte an ihre Grenzen gelangt. Die Erneuerung der vorhandenen Infrastruktur oder die Schaffung von neuen Infrastruktureinrichtungen ist, ebenso wie die innovative Entwicklung von Gebieten, oft nur durch die Aktivierung privaten Kapitals möglich. Die dazu erforderliche Einbindung Privater in die Erfüllung öffentlicher Aufgaben ist eines der aktuellsten und wichtigsten Themen des...