Zhang Feng Tao, the White Tiger, must take his place of leadership in the Wang Yue Service whether or not he is ready. He must protect a silk merchants' goods on their way to the sea. Simple enough... except the caravan is also hiding a priceless religious artifact, the merchant has brought along his gorgeous daughters and the mythical thief Black Leopard is sending personal threats! Can Zhang Feng Tao protect his first caravan, much less live up to the legend of his father? With the help of his friends, White Tiger must lead a new generation of the Wang Yue Service no matter what lies ahead!
Fight for honor. Fight for love. Fight for survival. Fight! Hong Yue is determined save his family’s honor and restore the reputation of their fighting system. He must simply follow his late father’s path and win a lethal tournament against a thousand of the empire’s greatest martial artists. With his wizened teacher and a new barbarian friend by his side, Hong Yue is ready to face suspicious guards, rival schools and even mysterious servant girls… But will long forgotten secrets prove even more deadly than the Grand Tournament? Fight alongside Hong Yue as he struggles to reclaim his father’s legacy while making a name for himself in the martial world! Inspired by classic Hong Kong cinema, epic fantasy, gladiator movies and a life long study of Chinese martial arts The Grand Tournament is a wuxia inspired fantasy tale combining real fighting experience with fast paced story telling. Enter the world of the Grand Tournament today!
The crew of APC Wyatt Earp returns in two new adventures! First Captain Matthew Johnson and his team go planetside in Rustlers to track down cattle thieves on a frontier world. Then, a distress calls leads the APC Wyatt Earp to a mysterious rock field in space where a family has been attacked and left to die in the cold emptiness of space. The second exciting book in the Black Sky Rangers series (The Heist, the Greatest Party In The Galaxy) from Michael Lauck, author of the Pride of Tigers martial arts fantasy series,
Generations before the events of The Grand Tournament or White Tiger, Black, Leopard, before the Wang Yue Fist even existed Zhang Yi Zhao was a young Imperial officer assisting his martial brother General Rong. When Zhang Yi Zhao foolishly suggests how to fight the Red Turban rebels in front of a council of generals his punishment is swift and cruel: Zhang Yi Zhao must travel to the frigid Gong Mountains with a handful of soldiers to attack the Red Turbans in their mountain stronghold! Song of the Mountain Tiger collects three stories, including the previously released Rise of the Mountain Tiger, to tell the story of the man who founded the mighty Wang Yue Security Service.
Join the crew of the APC Wyatt Earp on their patrol lightyears from Earth... first responders keeping the peace on the frontiers of civilized space! Captain Matthew Johnson's welcome for new crew is cut short by a distress call. The Alliance Patrol Cruiser Wyatt Earp's crew of engineers and medics must race to a corporate space station under attack by unknown forces… And soon find themselves torn between chasing deadly pirates and a desperate struggle to save the station personnel. Inspired by classic science fiction television shows and movies such as Space: 1999, Star Trek and the Gamma One series, Michael Lauck (The Grand Tournament, Rise of the Mountain Tiger and White Tiger, Black Leopard) brings readers a story in the tradition of classic pulp magazine space operas. The Heist, Black Sky Rangers One, is followed by Rustlers and Rescues.
It is time for the Galactic Racing League Sub-Light Championships… a week of racing, drinking and gambling in a remote and unoccupied system and the crew of the APC Wyatt Earp gets to go. Of course, they are going to try to maintain a little law and order at the biggest party in the known universe. For most of the crew it is a welcome change of pace and a chance to reunite with their old friend Alan Rorrison, now the first officer of the APC Elliott Ness but for Banzai it is a stark reminder of why he joined the Patrol in the first place.For Captain Matthew Johnson and his crew it is all a blur of old friends and new, drunks and debutantes until someone threatens to kill one of the racers!
Join the crew of the APC Wyatt Earp on their patrol lightyears from Earth... first responders keeping the peace on the frontiers of civilized space! Captain Matthew Johnson's welcome for new crew is cut short by a distress call. The Alliance Patrol Cruiser Wyatt Earp's crew of engineers and medics must race to a corporate space station under attack by unknown forces… And soon find themselves torn between chasing deadly pirates and a desperate struggle to save the station personnel. Inspired by classic science fiction television shows and movies such as Space: 1999, Star Trek and the Gamma One series, Michael Lauck (The Grand Tournament, Rise of the Mountain Tiger and White Tiger, Black Leopard) brings readers a story in the tradition of classic pulp magazine space operas. The Heist, Black Sky Rangers One, is followed by Rustlers and Rescues.
This study draws upon declassified government documents, NGO reports and extremist literature to provide a thought-provoking account of the extreme right challenge in America. It will provide an invaluable resource to students of terrorism, political violence and right-wing extremism, as well as appealing to the general reader with an interest in contemporary American politics."--Jacket.
Generations before the events of The Grand Tournament or White Tiger, Black, Leopard, before the Wang Yue Fist even existed Zhang Yi Zhao was a young Imperial officer assisting his martial brother General Rong. When Zhang Yi Zhao foolishly suggests how to fight the Red Turban rebels in front of a council of generals his punishment is swift and cruel: Zhang Yi Zhao must travel to the frigid Gong Mountains with a handful of soldiers to attack the Red Turbans in their mountain stronghold! Song of the Mountain Tiger collects three stories, including the previously released Rise of the Mountain Tiger, to tell the story of the man who founded the mighty Wang Yue Security Service.
Zhang Feng Tao, the White Tiger, must take his place of leadership in the Wang Yue Service whether or not he is ready. He must protect a silk merchants' goods on their way to the sea. Simple enough... except the caravan is also hiding a priceless religious artifact, the merchant has brought along his gorgeous daughters and the mythical thief Black Leopard is sending personal threats! Can Zhang Feng Tao protect his first caravan, much less live up to the legend of his father? With the help of his friends, White Tiger must lead a new generation of the Wang Yue Service no matter what lies ahead!
It is time for the Galactic Racing League Sub-Light Championships… a week of racing, drinking and gambling in a remote and unoccupied system and the crew of the APC Wyatt Earp gets to go. Of course, they are going to try to maintain a little law and order at the biggest party in the known universe. For most of the crew it is a welcome change of pace and a chance to reunite with their old friend Alan Rorrison, now the first officer of the APC Elliott Ness but for Banzai it is a stark reminder of why he joined the Patrol in the first place.For Captain Matthew Johnson and his crew it is all a blur of old friends and new, drunks and debutantes until someone threatens to kill one of the racers!
Of the many recipients of federal support during the Great Depression, the citizens of Norvelt, Pennsylvania, stand out as model reminders of the vital importance of New Deal programs. Hoping to transform their desperate situation, the 250 families of this western Pennsylvania town worked with the federal government to envision a new kind of community that would raise standards of living through a cooperative lifestyle and enhanced civic engagement. Their efforts won them a nearly mythic status among those familiar with Norvelt’s history. Hope in Hard Times explores the many transitions faced by those who undertook this experiment. With the aid of the New Deal, these residents, who hailed from the hardworking and underserved class that Jacob Riis had called the “other half” a generation earlier, created a middle-class community that would become an exemplar of the success of such programs. Despite this, many current residents of Norvelt—the children and grandchildren of the first inhabitants—oppose government intervention and support political candidates who advocate scrutinizing and even eliminating public programs. Authors Timothy Kelly, Margaret Power, and Michael Cary examine this still-unfolding narrative of transformation in one Pennsylvania town, and the struggles and successes of its original residents, against the backdrop of one of the most ambitious federal endeavors in U.S. history.
Speeches and columns Michael Clayton wrote for the mayor of New Orleans, scripts for television shows, interviews and profiles of celebrities, book and film reviews, news stories written for newspapers in Las Vegas, New Orleans and Los Angeles, as well as material Clayton wrote for stand-up comedians, and social commentary Clayton published throughout the United States...THE WORKS!!!
This book provides a new perspective on the origins of the three most important New Deal policies?the Agricultural Adjustment Act, the National Labor Relations Act, and the Social Security Act?while examining the strengths and weaknesses of historical institutionalism, Marxism, protest-disruption theory, and non-Marxian class-dominance theory.
The Harvard-educated, Jewish American philosopher Horace Meyer Kallen (1882–1974) is commonly credited with the concept of cultural pluralism, which envisioned immigrant and minority groups cultivating their distinctive social worlds and interacting to create an inclusive, ever-changing true American culture. Though living and teaching in Madison, Wisconsin, when he developed this influential theory, Kallen’s seven-year sojourn in the Midwest (1911–1918) rarely figures in accounts of the theory’s origins. And yet, Michael C. Steiner suggests, the Midwest, far from being a mere interruption in Kallen’s thought, was in fact the essential catalyst for the theory of cultural pluralism, a concept that continues to shape public debate a century later. The Midwest in the first decades of the twentieth century was a youthful region experiencing massive immigration and the xenophobic fervor of approaching war. In this milieu Steiner locates a pervasive pluralist zeitgeist rife with urban- and rural-based intellectuals and public figures deeply critical of both the all-absorbing melting pot ideology and white racist Anglo-Saxon exclusionism. Early proponents of diversity who interacted with Kallen to forge a pluralist sensibility and ideology as the Midwest was becoming the nation’s dominant region included public figures Hamlin Garland, Frederick Jackson Turner, and Jane Addams; African American activists Reverdy Ransom and Ida B. Wells; Norwegian American writers Ole E. Rølvaag and Waldemar Ager; and intellectuals Randolph Bourne and John Dewey. Tracing how Kallen’s interaction with these figures and his regional experience expanded his vision and added the final touch and crucial spatial dimension to his theory, Horace M. Kallen in the Heartland enhances our understanding of cultural pluralism. The book has direct bearing on the present, as once again denunciation of diversity and mass migration challenge the tenets and advocates of pluralism.
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