Welcome to the world of Hardooth...Home of Kovarian one of the Dragonmen who fly dragons to protect their country from their enemies. Being a Dragonman is one of the most sought after jobs in High Country, it is called that because it is on a very large, high plateau that is surrounded on all sides by cliffs. In order to become a member of the Dragon rider flying force, you have to attend a school to become a Candidate. Once you have passed this test, you now have to care for the hatching of a dragon egg. You are given ten attempts...because of a high "dud" rate among the eggs. If you're unlucky, and fail to achieve a successful hatching in ten tries, you've been deemed an unworthy grounder, a non-member of the Dragon force. Reeling toward the unlucky grounder fate, Kovarin stands at his tenth attempt and desperately needs the whim of chance in his favor. Follow Kovarin as his fate begins with a hatchling that ignites his adventure in the World of Hardooth in Dara Carr's debut novel The Semi-Dragon Tale. About the Author Dara J. Carr, a retired member of the U. S. Air Force and fifteen year Postal Service worker, has traveled to many continents before settling down to pen his first series. He enjoys writing, reading, movies, and continuous travel.
Christine Lee was just an ordinary young girl who wanted nothing more than to live her life. She wanted to grow up and be successful. At twelve years old she had plenty of time to make any life decisions. Then something unexpected happened and her life was turned completely upside-down. Now, she had no control over anything. Her parents were gone and she was alone. Her life sank lower and lower until she had nothing. Everyone else controlled everything that she did, or where she went and when. Then she met a man named David and found that everything in her life could be turned around. She also found out that revenge can be sweet - especially in cases where it happens by complete accident. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Dara J. Carr, a retired member of the U. S. Air Force and fifteen plus years in the Postal Service has traveled to several countries, has seen many different things in the world and has many life experiences. He enjoys writing, reading, movies and the fact that he does not have to travel anywhere...unless he really wants to.
Entertainment has never been so good. Author Dara J. Carr tantalizes fans with a plethora of juicy short stories for readers to sink their teeth into. Riches bring misery, as slavery brings physical and emotional bondage to those living today. Enjoy yourself as you read while author Dara J. Carr twists your emotions and rattles the corridors of your mind.
Just when you think that things are looking good globally, some ambitious fools have to come along and mess things up...again. Commerce is working again, peace is working (although it is still rather tenuous at best), and even the Teltermak are buying and selling peacefully (we hope). Then comes another attack aimed directly at both the Owlam and the Algothon. Who are these Cacktash people and who are they aligned with (if anyone)? How much more dangerous are they since they can read minds? What else can they do and what else will happen to all this new positive growth? How many more times will the world endure new aggressors?
Although overall HIV prevalence in South Asia is low, the widespread stigma attached to HIV and AIDS impedes efforts to reach people most in need of prevention, care, and treatment services. To address this challenge, the 2008 South Asia Region Development Marketplace partnership, led by the World Bank, launched a competitive grants program to support innovative community approaches. 'Tackling HIV-Related Stigma and Discrimination in South Asia' summarizes the monitoring, evaluation, and case study data and documents successful community innovations. Twenty-six community groups in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka received funds. The initiatives involved a broad spectrum, including vulnerable groups as well as people living with HIV, the media, local government authorities, health workers, and religious leaders. The interventions used traditional cultural and media approaches to discuss taboo subjects. The reach of the initiatives was amplifi ed by involving opinion leaders. The strategies engaged marginalized groups to design and lead the interventions and to facilitate contact between groups experiencing stigma and the general public to reduce fears and misconceptions about transmission. Projects that combined economic and stigma reduction interventions helped the marginalized populations to overcome the internalized stigma and become empowered to advocate for their rights. 'Tackling HIV-Related Stigma and Discrimination in South Asia' identifies effective strategies to raise awareness and reports on shifts albeit slow of attitudes, norms, and behaviors. Through its recommendations for successful interventions to reduce barriers to effective HIV prevention, care, and treatment programs, the book provides a strong foundation on which to build stigma reduction efforts in the region and world.
This is the 6th book in the series: Tales of Hardooth. A new race of beings who are the result of nuclear war, trying to find out about the changes in their lives and bodies, while surviving against other outside hostiles. Between the enemies on the ground and from the air they find that dangers can come from any direction at anytime. their one goalis like everone else: Survive.
Just when you think that some kind of normalcy is coming around where friends can be friends and enemies are equally identifiable...someone has to come up with the idea of uniting a bunch of cities, towns, hamlets and jurisdictions into something called a country. In this country, you have to become a part of it and...you are not allowed any secrets from the other members of this said country. You cooperate or flee. Then, you turn around and find out that there are these headaches from outer space who are just as nasty, if not more dangerous, than what you are facing on the planet. What do you do now?
The Ecology of Herbal Medicine introduces botanical medicine through an in-depth exploration of the land, presenting a unique guide to plants found across the American Southwest. An accomplished herbalist and geographer, Dara Saville offers readers an ecological manual for developing relationships with the land and plants in a new theoretical approach to using herbal medicines. Designed to increase our understanding of plants’ rapport with their environment, this trailblazing herbal speaks to our innate connection to place and provides a pathway to understanding the medicinal properties of plants through their ecological relationships. With thirty-nine plant profiles and detailed color photographs, Saville provides an extensive materia medica in which she offers practical tools and information alongside inspiration for working with plants in a way that restores our connection to the natural world.
A deep and thought-provoking examination of crisis politics and their implications for power and marginalization in the United States. From the climate crisis to the opioid crisis to the Coronavirus crisis, the language of crisis is everywhere around us and ubiquitous in contemporary American politics and policymaking. But for every problem that political actors describe as a crisis, there are myriad other equally serious ones that are not described in this way. Why has the term crisis been associated with some problems but not others? What has crisis come to mean, and what work does it do? In When Bad Things Happen to Privileged People, Dara Z. Strolovitch brings a critical eye to the taken-for-granted political vernacular of crisis. Using systematic analyses to trace the evolution of the use of the term crisis by both political elites and outsiders, Strolovitch unpacks the idea of “crisis” in contemporary politics and demonstrates that crisis is itself an operation of politics. She shows that racial justice activists innovated the language of crisis in an effort to transform racism from something understood as natural and intractable and to cast it instead as a policy problem that could be remedied. Dominant political actors later seized on the language of crisis to compel the use of state power, but often in ways that compounded rather than alleviated inequality and injustice. In this eye-opening and important book, Strolovitch demonstrates that understanding crisis politics is key to understanding the politics of racial, gender, and class inequalities in the early twenty-first century.
The Owlamites have survived an offensive attack and a defensive attack. They are more interested in learning more about the changes in their bodies, however, there are outside sources that seem to interfere with the study of self. What new things can they learn about their immediate surroundings and the entire world around them? Another question is: Who launched that devastating attack and are they going to do it again? Who is friend and who is foe? Should we be isolationists as usual or try to make some friends? How much can we learn about all of this in whatever time we have left? Many, many questions.
She is an experienced field agent who needs a patsy. He is a low ranking Air Force NCO who is an underachiever...and a misogynist who just wants to be left alone...especially by women. She is going to take him with her anyway. As you know - the best laid plans of mice and...women...often go astray. Her plan was to use him and lose him. Now her very life depends on his skill (?)...and pure stupid luck to get both of them out of some very serious trouble. Follow the adventures of Bradley and Marie as they try to avoid capture and complete the mission behind the iron Curtain.
Roman Catholicism was the first multinational corporation Preaching was the forerunner of advertising Roman Catholicism created the template for the spread of commercial globalisation through multinational corporations For global Christianity to succeed all local expressions of Christianity had to be suppressed. These included Celtic Christianity. For 800 years the Roman church tried to break the independent spirit of Celtic Christianity Despite being defeated in 1014 at the Battle of Clontarf, the Irish Vikings, through their urban bishops, were key actors in the imposition of Roman episcopal structures of church throughout Ireland in the 12th century There was an invasion of Norman monks to Ireland which began in 1142, twenty-five years before the military invasion in 1167 The ecclesiastical colonisation of Ireland meant that: a Roman episcopal and diocesan structure replaced the Celtic monastic structure Norman colonisers destroyed Celtic monasteries and replaced them with imported European religious orders Cistercian monasteries in Ireland were required to have French abbots and sometimes these were imposed by force no Irishman was allowed to become a bishop or attain any ecclesiastical high office St Malachy of Armagh betrayed his own Celtic heritage and was a key figure in bringing about the ecclesiastical colonisation of Ireland Monotheism is the mythical container for globalization Humans will fail to return to a sustainable way of living on this planet until the mythological container of monotheism is replaced by new bioregional spiritualities that go beyond both monotheism and polytheism
This pragmatic guide -- from a team of experts including cognitive therapy originator Aaron T. Beck -- describes how to implement proven cognitive and behavioral addiction treatment strategies in a group format. It provides a flexible framework for conducting ongoing therapy groups that are open to clients with any addictive behavior problem, at any stage of recovery. Practical ideas are presented for optimizing group processes and helping clients build essential skills for coping and relapse prevention. Grounded in decades of research, the book features rich case examples and reproducible clinical tools that can be downloaded and printed in a convenient 8 1/2" x 11" size.
Domino: The Book of Decorating cracks the code to creating a beautiful home, bringing together inspiring rooms, how-to advice and insiders’ secrets from today’s premier tastemakers in an indispensable style manual. The editors take readers room by room, tapping the best ideas from domino magazine and culling insights from their own experiences. With an eye to making design accessible and exciting, this book demystifies the decorating process and provides the tools for making spaces that are personal, functional and fabulous.
What are the social and political consequences of poor state governance and low state legitimacy? Under what conditions does lynching – lethal, extralegal group violence to punish offenses to the community – become an acceptable practice? We argue lynching emerges when neither the state nor its challengers have a monopoly over legitimate authority. When authority is contested or ambiguous, mass punishment for transgressions can emerge that is public, brutal, and requires broad participation. Using new cross-national data, we demonstrate lynching is a persistent problem in dozens of countries over the last four decades. Drawing on original survey and interview data from Haiti and South Africa, we show how lynching emerges and becomes accepted. Specifically, support for lynching most likely occurs in one of three conditions: when states fail to provide governance, when non-state actors provide social services, or when neighbors must rely on self-help.
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