The data files from all three Legacy of Princess Anlei books plus comprehensive data spanning the entire Peers of Beinan series is collected into a single, easy-to-use reference volume. Fully integrated glossary puts information at your fingertips. Expanded timeline includes all of known Beinarian history. A must-have guide to the Peers of Beinan Series.
The Great Succession Crisis is the story of youngPrincess Anlei, daughter of Beinan's sovereign Queen Isabelle who faces a personal and political crisis when the Great Council of Beinan refuses to overturn an ancient law rooted in the clan warfare of their distant past. This law states that no woman may pass the crown to her daughter, only to a son.After the Great Council refuses the royal petition to change the law, Anlei finds herself a political pawn in a chess game of competing noble houses with nothing less than her virtue, her life, and the future of planet Beinan at stake in this political thriller that will have you guessing right through the final chapter.Extended Edition features two bonus chapters, all five data files, plus behind the scenes articles on history, Beinarian astronomy, cosmology, world building, even Beinarian religions, and a recipe for Beinarian slatkos. The data files are annotated by book three character Anne Doyle for a series preview you won't want to miss. Also includes chapter one of book two, “Ghosts of the Past,” and the prequel short story, “The First King.”Book one of the Peers of Beinan series. Part one of the Anlei's Legacy arc.Parental Guidance:Language: no profanityViolence: non-graphicSex: mild, non-graphic
Tyranny and plague! When a sudden plague of mysterious cancers strikes the southwestern city of Nan-li, it falls to Lady Abbess Cara of house Ten-Ar to investigate, entangling her in a royal trap that may cost her life. A Peers of Beinan Series novella.Features QR Indexing: scan interior QR codes with your smart phone to discover more about planet Beinan and Beinarian society.Social Issues: rape culture, government corruption, pollution, domestic violence, abuse of power, corporate greed, environment, poverty, re-forestation.
In 2014 Russian aggression towards the Ukraine and the rise of ISIS called into question whether or not the United States genuinely functions as a world power anymore following numerous failures by Americans to influence and affect global change in the areas that most threaten national security. In this thoughtful and thought provoking book, author-historian Laurel A. Rockefeller takes a look at the role poverty plays in American foreign policy effectiveness and how each of us can play a part in making our world better and safer for everyone. Part one: essays on five aspects of American Poverty that affect everyone in the United States. Part two: analysis on each essay topic, how each affects our society, and what we as individuals can do to make things better. Part three: a look at poverty in Germany, Canada, France, and the United Kingdom to see how they handle the same issues confronting Americans. Analysis on how American poverty affects the reputation of the United States overseas.
In 43 CE Roman conquest of Britannia seems all but certain -- until a chance meeting between King Prasutagus of the Iceni and a runaway slave of royal decent from the Aedui tribe in Gaul changes the fate of the British islands forever.Rise up for liberty with the true story of Boudicca: Britain's Queen of the Iceni and discover one of the most inspiring stories in history! Based on the accounts of Roman historian Tacitus and supplemented with archaeology presented by the BBC.QR Indexed for use with smart phonesFor children and teensIncludes K-8 study guide supplement for students and educators. Lessons: geography, reading comprehension, and critical thinking.
In 1401, Catherine de Valois seemed like just another daughter to King Charles VI of France and his wife, Queen Isabeau of Bavaria, doomed to live forever in obscurity. That is until she became the excuse King Henry V of England needed in order to declare war with France. Caught between her father's mental illness and both a civil war at home and war with England, Catherine found the eyes of the Christian world fixed upon her. Shakespeare would tell her story in his grand history play "Henry V," concealing the real woman she was. Discover the real Catherine and how this young woman of courage, conviction, and peace changed not just her 15th century world, but the lives of every British and American woman and man born since. Based on primary source accounts supplemented by research from the BBC. A creative non-fiction biography for children and teens.
A harrowing account of the profoundly consequential decisions American universities made about refugee scholars from Nazi-dominated Europe--a finalist for a 2020 National Jewish Book Award The United States’ role in saving Europe’s intellectual elite from the Nazis is often told as a tale of triumph, which in many ways it was. America welcomed Albert Einstein and Enrico Fermi, Hannah Arendt and Herbert Marcuse, Rudolf Carnap and Richard Courant, among hundreds of other physicists, philosophers, mathematicians, historians, chemists, and linguists who transformed the American academy. Yet for every scholar who survived and thrived, many, many more did not. To be hired by an American university, a refugee scholar had to be world-class and well connected, not too old and not too young, not too right and not too left, and, most important, not too Jewish. Those who were unable to flee were left to face the horrors of the Holocaust. In this rigorously researched book, Laurel Leff rescues from obscurity scholars who were deemed “not worth saving” and tells the riveting, full story of the hiring decisions universities made during the Nazi era.
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