Shaun Grayson dreamt of becoming a knight of Riverend from the time she was young. She just never expected to find herself in the middle of a war, protecting the king's daughter. When Shaun and Sara are forced to flee the kingdom, pursued by terrifying creatures sent to hunt them down, Shaun suddenly finds herself well outside of her element.Sara's independent nature and the tensions between them don't make Shaun's job any easier, but Shaun knows she is all that stands between Sara and a terrible fate. That there may be a traitor in the kingdom's midst, cutting off one safe haven after another, only makes their situation all the more dire.Shaun's survival may depend on Sara as much as Sara's depends on her.
None but a few knew what magik really felt like anymore."Shaun Grayson is a pain in the arse. As a Watcher for the kingdom, it's basically her job, and one she does well. Her skills are put to the test when a band of sorcerers break the gate wards and the king asks her to get his daughter to safety. Easier said than done when the castle is burning down around your ears.Thomas Delschein is the first to admit being Shaun's friend isn't easy, but there's no one he'd rather have guarding his back in a war. When they fall behind enemy lines, on the run from demons and enemy agents, their friendship begins to feel the strain.Sara Hahlerand never expected nor wanted to rule. After all, she had nine siblings in line before her, any of whom would be better suited. As the small band makes their way across enemy territory, however, Sara finds herself having to tap into a strength she never knew she had.Each step could be their last as they try to reunite with the king's men. But no one ever said being a knight was tidy business.
The late king's daughter Sara is missing. Apprentice knight Shaun Grayson was the last person to see her alive. Except she can't remember what happened after they were captured by the kingdom's enemies.When Shaun is freed from her captivity, she's confronted by two startling discoveries: a new king has been named, and she's been labeled a traitor to the realm for war crimes she can't remember.After she displays some dangerous new abilities akin to those of her former captors, everyone wants Shaun in chains. That she also can't remember what happened to Sara makes Shaun's situation all the more dire. Her friend Thomas and the mysterious sorceress helping him are the only ones still on Shaun's side.One question haunts Shaun as she struggles to understand what is happening to her: is Sara still alive or did their captors force her to kill Sara, the one person she cares about more than her own life?
These highly original essays develop themes implicit in Herbert Hart and the author's 'Causation in the Law',2nd ed. 1985;. Why should we be held responsible for the harm we cause? Honor proposes a theory of responsibility, 'outcome responsibility', according to which, to be responsible, it is sufficient to have intervened in the world. To act and to be responsible is to assume certain risks, so that responsibility can be a matter of luck rather than fault or merit. Whether responsibility carries with it moral blame or legal liability is an important but secondary question. With the help of this theory he explains the moral basis of strict liability and of tort law in general; shows when there is a moral difference between positive acts and omissions; and indicates the extent to which the circumstances that cause a wrongdoer to do wrong should affect his responsibility.
This book is a collection of papers reflecting the conference held in Caracas, Venezuela, in January 1994 in celebration of Professor Mischa Cotlar's eightieth birthday. Presenting an excellent account of recent advances in harmonic analysis and operator theory and their applications, many of the contributors are world leaders in their fields. The collection covers a broad spectrum of topics, including: wavelet analysis, Haenkel operators, multimeasure theory, the boundary behavior of the Bergman kernel, interpolation theory, and Cotlar's Lemma on almost orthogonality in the context of L[superscript p] spaces and more... The range of topics in this volume promotes cross-pollination among the various fields covered. Such variety makes "Harmonic Analysis and Operator Theory" an inspiration for graduate students interested in this area of study.
Hallelujah I am Woman is a motivational tool with biblical inspiration to help women have faith as they seek their goals in life. The Author Betty Knight Allen speaks to all women concerning their well being as one of God's greatest gifts The Woman with faith filled words about what God's purpose is in every woman's life. This inspiring word of God will uplift and edify you as the woman you are in God's eyes, it will bring spiritual healing as you read God's words for your destiny in life. Keep the faith as you seek your goals and God's will for your life.
This special and remarkablebook, The Seventh-day Sabbath and its Redemptive Function in God's Everlasting Covenant of Grace by A.M. Simataa addresses topical issues in the Bible quite pertinent to the 21st Century Christianity. The author takes a defensive approach of the gospel and brings to the surface some of the least understood teachings of the Bible. Although written from a Seventh-day Adventist's perspective, people of differing religious background and persuasions will fi nd this book very instructive. If you have been looking for a book that pains takingly discusses the Gospel seriously and biblically this is the book you have been searching for. Some of the topics featured in the book include: The Truth about the Bible Sabbath The Judgment of the Living Heavenly New Jerusalem; The Marriage Supper of the Lamband the Rapture The Remnant Church in the Parables Mr A.M. Simataa teaches at a High School in Windhoek, Namibia. He likes sharing the Gospel with others and spends some of his spare time witnessing to others. The central role of the Seventh-day Sabbath in the Redemption of our race is the least understood topic in the Bible today. Most believers have even dismissed its relevance to today's Christianity. However, the truth is that the Sabbath is at the heart of Christ's work to save human beings in accordance with God's plan. The Sabbath is so central to the work of atonement that Christ is referred to in the Bible as "the Lord of the Sabbath." The issue of the Sabbath will become pertinent as we near the End, and every human being will be required to take a stand in the confl ict involving the Sabbath question. This book will plant your feet on a solid foundation.
The Seventh-Day Sabbath and the Christian Doctrine of Redemption is a book every Christian must have in their home library. The author tackles the biblical doctrine of redemption in a convincing manner and drives home the centrality of the Sabbath in redemption. Over the past hundred years, the witness of the sciences such as physics and biochemistry, including mathematics as well as the testimony of archaeology and history has put the skeptics of the Bible on the defensive. To this overwhelming testimony, the author adds the witness of recent fulfilled Bible prophecy. The author proceeds to show persuasively how recent fulfilled prophecies have proved once again that the Bible is truly the Word of God. In the book, the closing work of the gospel on the planet is shown to have a prophetic edge that no one person on the globe can afford to ignore.
A Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist’s groundbreaking account of the crime that shocked New York City—and the world In the early hours of March 13, 1964, twenty-eight-year-old Catherine “Kitty” Genovese was stabbed to death in the middle-class neighborhood of Kew Gardens, Queens. The attack lasted for more than a half hour—enough time for Genovese’s assailant to move his car and change hats before returning to rape and kill her just a few steps from her front door. Yet it was not the brutality of the murder that made it international news. It was a chilling detail Police Commissioner Michael Joseph Murphy shared with A. M. Rosenthal of the New York Times: Thirty-eight of Genovese’s neighbors witnessed the assault—and none called for help. To Rosenthal, who had recently returned to New York after spending a decade overseas and would become the Times’s longest-serving executive editor, that startling statistic spoke volumes about both the turbulence of the 1960s and the enduring mysteries of human nature. His impassioned coverage of the case sparked a firestorm of public indignation and led to the development of the psychological theory known as the “bystander effect.” Thirty-Eight Witnesses is indispensable reading for students of journalism and anyone seeking to learn about one of the most infamous crimes of the twentieth century.
The Sufi tradition remains one of the most mysterious and least understood systems of self-realization. This book demystifies the practice of the sohbet—an ad hoc discourse—as the central instructional tool in the globally influential Naqshbandi-Haqqani Order. It approaches the practice using categories of improvised music to establish a framework for analyzation. Its ritualized formal structure, illustrated via selected talks of Shaykh Nazim Adil al-Haqqani, discloses the underlying—and assumingly primary—function to provoke prolonged states of raised awareness in listeners and condition their sympathetic nervous system. In an extensive discussion based on several years of field research in Cyprus, the book relates this intention to similar practices in other traditional knowledge systems by proposing psychophysical interpretations based on psychology, biochemistry, neuroscience, or quantum physics. It will appeal to scholars and students of Sufism, Islamic studies, and comparative religion, as well as those interested in performance studies and improvised music, interpersonal communication, and education.
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