Combatants Will Be Dispatched!, Vol. 1 (light novel)

Combatants Will Be Dispatched!, Vol. 1 (light novel)
Author: Natsume Akatsuki
Publisher: Yen Press LLC
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2019-09-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1975331516

Always bring a gun to a sword fight! With world domination nearly in their grasp, the Supreme Leaders of the Kisaragi Corporation--an underground criminal group turned evil megacorp--have decided to try their hands at interstellar conquest. A quick dice roll nominates their chief operative, Combat Agent Six, to be the one to explore an alien planet...and the first thing he does when he gets there is change the sacred incantation for a holy ritual to the most embarrassing thing he can think of. But evil deeds are business as usual for Kisaragi operatives, so if Six wants a promotion and a raise, he'll have to work much harder than that! For starters, he'll have to do something about the other group of villains on the planet, who are calling themselves the "Demon Lord's Army" or whatever. After all, this world doesn't need two evil organizations!

Combatants Will Be Dispatched!, Vol. 5 (light Novel)

Combatants Will Be Dispatched!, Vol. 5 (light Novel)
Author: Natsume Akatsuki
Publisher: Yen Press
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2021-02-23
Genre:
ISBN: 9781975316556

In the week since Lilith arrived, the Demon Lord's army has seen significant losses, prompting an invitation to Six and the others for negotiations. But could the invite into demon territory be a trap?! ...Most likely. Also, whenever someone says the words "Demon Lord", the image of some evil old guy comes to mind. So who is this beautiful woman supposed to be?!

Combatants Will Be Dispatched!, Vol. 6 (light novel)

Combatants Will Be Dispatched!, Vol. 6 (light novel)
Author: Natsume Akatsuki
Publisher: Yen Press LLC
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2021-07-27
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1975325176

CHAOS VERSUS ORDER. ​After the Demon Lord Viper’s “selfdestruction,” relative peace returns to Hideout City. Now, Six and the others can turn their attention to more important matters—like how sexy their new recruit’s uniform is! But in no time at all, chaos descends yet again. The neighboring kingdom of Toris has come under the control of a new organization. When an agent of this mysterious entity starts stirring up trouble, Six and the others decide to respond the only way the Kisaragi Corporation knows how—with acts of villainy! The battle for total world domination is heating up, but will this new enemy be a match for everyone’s favorite evil organization?

Combatants Will Be Dispatched!, Vol. 4 (light novel)

Combatants Will Be Dispatched!, Vol. 4 (light novel)
Author: Natsume Akatsuki
Publisher: Yen Press LLC
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2020-09-22
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1975313690

MAKE WAY FOR THE POWER OF SCIENCE (AND TENTACLES)! One week after the Undead Festival, the squad's forest fortress gets blown sky-high! In a fit of desperation, Six decides it's time to call in the big guns. Enter Lilith the Black-one of Kisaragi's Supreme Leaders! Her peerless intellect and near-limitless arsenal of deadly weapons are sure to speed up the planetary conquest. This toootally isn't a ploy to get one of Kisaragi's elites to do all the dirty work for a change. If only Alice would get with the program instead of constantly trash-talking Lilith. Seriously, what's with the rebellious phase? Is that any way to treat her creator?!

Combatants Will Be Dispatched!, Vol. 4 (manga)

Combatants Will Be Dispatched!, Vol. 4 (manga)
Author: Natsume Akatsuki
Publisher: Yen Press LLC
Total Pages: 198
Release: 2021-01-19
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1975320077

A month has passed since the cease-fire with the Demon Army, and now that the teleporter is online, Kisaragi has sent a mutant to help the invasion get back on track. But the evil organization’s plans are derailed once again when Six is dispatched on a diplomatic mission to relieve the kingdom of Grace’s terrible drought—a problem he caused by changing a rainmaking artifact’s password into something that can’t be printed on the back of a book. Is Six really the right man for the job…?

Combatants Will Be Dispatched!, Vol. 5 (manga)

Combatants Will Be Dispatched!, Vol. 5 (manga)
Author: Natsume Akatsuki
Publisher: Yen Press
Total Pages: 198
Release: 2021-09-21
Genre:
ISBN: 9781975336271

Agent Six's squad, having failed to get their hands on the water fruit, are stuck wandering in the desert. It's looking bad--they're running out of water, their reason is boiling away, their survival instincts are running out of control, and their useless necromancer is shriveling away. In the face of all that, can Six and the rest really make it back from the desert alive...?!

Trapped in a Dating Sim: The World of Otome Games is Tough for Mobs (Manga) Vol. 4

Trapped in a Dating Sim: The World of Otome Games is Tough for Mobs (Manga) Vol. 4
Author: Yomu Mishima
Publisher: Seven Seas Entertainment
Total Pages: 174
Release: 2022-04-19
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1685792804

Carla, a noble classmate, has come at Olivia's invitation to ask for Leon's aid routing sky pirates. The request should be no problem for Leon's incredible power and almighty airship, but there's something fishy about Carla's plea. Can Leon survive a war against a skyfaring navy of ruthless pirates long enough to overthrow the very systems of the world? Can a side character become the most important hero of all?

Luxury Arts of the Renaissance

Luxury Arts of the Renaissance
Author: Marina Belozerskaya
Publisher: Getty Publications
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2005-10-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0892367857

Today we associate the Renaissance with painting, sculpture, and architecture—the “major” arts. Yet contemporaries often held the “minor” arts—gem-studded goldwork, richly embellished armor, splendid tapestries and embroideries, music, and ephemeral multi-media spectacles—in much higher esteem. Isabella d’Este, Marchesa of Mantua, was typical of the Italian nobility: she bequeathed to her children precious stone vases mounted in gold, engraved gems, ivories, and antique bronzes and marbles; her favorite ladies-in-waiting, by contrast, received mere paintings. Renaissance patrons and observers extolled finely wrought luxury artifacts for their exquisite craftsmanship and the symbolic capital of their components; paintings and sculptures in modest materials, although discussed by some literati, were of lesser consequence. This book endeavors to return to the mainstream material long marginalized as a result of historical and ideological biases of the intervening centuries. The author analyzes how luxury arts went from being lofty markers of ascendancy and discernment in the Renaissance to being dismissed as “decorative” or “minor” arts—extravagant trinkets of the rich unworthy of the status of Art. Then, by re-examining the objects themselves and their uses in their day, she shows how sumptuous creations constructed the world and taste of Renaissance women and men.

Treasury's War

Treasury's War
Author: Juan Zarate
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Total Pages: 375
Release: 2013-09-10
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1610391160

For more than a decade, America has been waging a new kind of war against the financial networks of rogue regimes, proliferators, terrorist groups, and criminal syndicates. Juan Zarate, a chief architect of modern financial warfare and a former senior Treasury and White House official, pulls back the curtain on this shadowy world. In this gripping story, he explains in unprecedented detail how a small, dedicated group of officials redefined the Treasury's role and used its unique powers, relationships, and reputation to apply financial pressure against America's enemies. This group unleashed a new brand of financial power -- one that leveraged the private sector and banks directly to isolate rogues from the international financial system. By harnessing the forces of globalization and the centrality of the American market and dollar, Treasury developed a new way of undermining America's foes. Treasury and its tools soon became, and remain, critical in the most vital geopolitical challenges facing the United States, including terrorism, nuclear proliferation, and the regimes in Iran, North Korea, and Syria. This book is the definitive account, by an unparalleled expert, of how financial warfare has taken pride of place in American foreign policy and how America's competitors and enemies are now learning to use this type of power themselves. This is the unique story of the United States' financial war campaigns and the contours and uses of financial power, and of the warfare to come.

Behind the Red Line

Behind the Red Line
Author: Jemera Rone
Publisher: Human Rights Watch
Total Pages: 368
Release: 1996
Genre: Civil rights
ISBN: 9781564321640

Arrest of Church Leaders