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In this book the main character, Goldarayne finds out that there has been a theft on her planet. Not only a theft but the loss of innocent life of three others. She has to confront her worse fears and consult her advisor and the council to go after the responsible party that has come to her world and stolen objects that belong there. Follow Goldarayne, and her rider Kitriara as she recounts her tale to Terra Earth and the decisions of the council to get the stolen items back.
Challenging the standard view that England emerged as a dominant power and Wales faded into obscurity after Edward I's conquest in 1282, this book considers how Welsh (and British) history became an enduringly potent instrument of political power in the late Middle Ages. Brought into the broader stream of political consciousness by major baronial families from the March (the borderlands between England and Wales), this inventive history generated a new brand of literature interested in succession, land rights, and the origins of imperial power, as imagined by Geoffrey of Monmouth. These marcher families leveraged their ancestral, political, and ideological ties to Wales in order to strengthen their political power, both regionally and nationally, through the patronage of historical and genealogical texts that reimagined the Welsh past on their terms. In doing so, they brought ideas of Welsh history to a wider audience than previously recognized and came to have a profound effect on late medieval thought about empire, monarchy, and succession.
When Mark Goldberg first visited a school with an advisory system, he was impressed by the way such a system personalizes school for secondary students, provides a shared professional experience for the adults in a school, and improves home-school relations. He decided that if given the opportunity, he would bring an advisory program to a secondary school. Later, when he became founding administrator of a high school, he started an advisory system. This book is based on his experiences. Goldberg explains why an advisory system is important, what it requires, and how to tailor the concept to a particular school to provide an enriched experience for students, staff, and parents. An advisory sy...
This memoir is a true adventure story about three young men in their teens that are passionate about deer hunting in the Adirondacks spending much of their leisure time pursuing a dream. In their Quest of the big one, they enter acres of deep woods, Adirondack territory they call Compass Country, that many men will never see in a lifetime. Despite the extreme hard work, they set up a small camp in the middle of Compass Country spending weekends on a mission living the dream. Unfortunately it takes the pioneers many years of exploration, persistence and hard work before the passion becomes the success they had imagined and is still adventurous thirty six years later. As the Pioneers look behind them unfortunately there is no one following them therefore the tradition will sadly die with them. Modern technology such as computers and video games have Chastised our children holding them hostage blind to the beauty of the outdoors.
Tied to a six-part BBC1 television series, this book focuses on the Royal Military Police to show who they are, how they operate, and how they compare with the civilian police force. It follows the progress of selected cases, and examines both the policing and detective aspects of their work.
New volume of the best-selling review of the year made up of the wry and astute observations of the unpublished Telegraph letter writers.
A study of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight from the perspective of the poetry, landscape, and politics of late thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Wales and the Welsh March.