Sworn To Sovereignty: Courtlight #8

Sworn To Sovereignty: Courtlight #8
Author: Terah Edun
Publisher: Terah Edun Publishing
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2016-06-25
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN:

~A breathtaking launch of this adventure fantasy series~ Ciardis Weathervane, a girl with no future, and Sebastian Algardis, the one who will change it all, have found a challenge in this phenomenally unique and captivating tale. They were never meant to break the chains binding his powers, but when they upended the imperial courts they found their powers were greater than any foretold. Together they'll shatter that empire. And perhaps help it rise again. "One world you don't want to miss out on!" - City Of Books ★★★★★ Ciardis Weathervane has one simple rule – win the first fight, then move on to the next. But she’s finding out that the citizens of Sandrin have other plans in mind. When she returns to the imperial capital city, she finds that nothing is as she left it. Only a week has passed and yet chaos reins. Vana Cloudbreaker has been attacked and surprisingly, she did not come out on top. The woman Ciardis thought was invincible stands a broken shell of what she once was and Ciardis isn’t entirely sure what or who was the cause of the fabled assassin’s derailment. To top it off, the revolutionary party is determined to make itself known, starting with a call for an impostor emperor to vacate his throne. They couldn’t have chosen a worse time to start their revolution. Right when the noble societies at court are ready to throw their support to the prince heir and princess heir-in-waiting against the blutgott itself. Now revolutionaries and courtiers are at odds, but even stranger—the duchess of Carne stands among the revolutionary guard. Ciardis is faced with the predicament of saving an empire and sacrificing a revolution, all while facing down a clock that has run out of the time. The gods are here and there’s nothing that she nor anyone else can do to stop them.

Sworn To Victory: Courtlight #13

Sworn To Victory: Courtlight #13
Author: Terah Edun
Publisher: Terah Edun
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2025-03-31
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN:

The thirteenth book in the Courtlight series. New blurb to be released.

Sworn To Vengeance: Courtlight #7

Sworn To Vengeance: Courtlight #7
Author: Terah Edun
Publisher: Terah Edun Publishing
Total Pages: 317
Release: 2016-02-21
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN:

~A breathtaking launch of this adventure fantasy series~ Ciardis Weathervane, a girl with no future, and Sebastian Algardis, the one who will change it all, have found a challenge in this phenomenally unique and captivating tale. They were never meant to break the chains binding his powers, but when they upended the imperial courts they found their powers were greater than any foretold. Together they'll shatter that empire. And perhaps help it rise again. "One world you don't want to miss out on!" - City Of Books ★★★★★ Ciardis Weathervane is nothing if not resourceful but she and her friends are running out of time and options. They stand at the westernmost edge of the Algardis Empire with a mission from their emperor – bring home the collar that will stop a god in its tracks or die trying. But nothing is ever that simple. In their way stands thousands of people trapped inside a walled city for half a century. With the bodies of the living and the souls of the damned, the denizens of Kifar have become the living undead. What’s worse than confronting the undead? Learning that those poor souls blame the imperial family for their predicament. Now the city and its people want retribution and the only thing they will accept is the sacrifice of the empire’s most famous son – Sebastian Athanos Algardis. He will stand trial for the crimes of his bloodline and it will take more than diplomacy for Ciardis to win his freedom, before a reign of fire comes down from the wyvern and the dragon to burn them all.

Courtlight Series Boxed Set (7-9) by Terah Edun

Courtlight Series Boxed Set (7-9) by Terah Edun
Author: Terah Edun
Publisher: Terah Edun Publishing
Total Pages: 1213
Release: 2017-03-03
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN:

The third set in the popular adventure fantasy Courtlight series, Courtlight Series Boxed Set Books 7-9. Sworn To Vengeance Ciardis Weathervane is nothing if not resourceful but she and herfriends are running out of time and options. They have come across a walled city with thousands of hungry souls who demand a price: the prince heir. As Ciardis fights to save him she realizes just what it means when an empire decides its people are a sacrifice worth making. Sworn To Sovereignty Chaos reigns as Ciardis Weathervane returns to Sandrin. There's a revolution fomenting and its leadership wants the emperor's head. Will Ciardis work with or against them as the gods descend down from the heavens to destroy everything she holds dear. Sworn To War Ciardis Weathervane is facing a war on two fronts. With Thanar trapped in purgatory, its up to Ciardis andSebastian to buy them time before they must battle a god bent on livingforever.

Freedom from Want

Freedom from Want
Author: George Kent
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2005-06-02
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9781589013254

There is, literally, a world of difference between the statements "Everyone should have adequate food," and "Everyone has the right to adequate food." In George Kent's view, the lofty rhetoric of the first statement will not be fulfilled until we take the second statement seriously. Kent sees hunger as a deeply political problem. Too many people do not have adequate control over local resources and cannot create the circumstances that would allow them to do meaningful, productive work and provide for themselves. The human right to an adequate livelihood, including the human right to adequate food, needs to be implemented worldwide in a systematic way. Freedom from Want makes it clear that feeding people will not solve the problem of hunger, for feeding programs can only be a short-term treatment of a symptom, not a cure. The real solution lies in empowering the poor. Governments, in particular, must ensure that their people face enabling conditions that allow citizens to provide for themselves. In a wider sense, Kent brings an understanding of human rights as a universal system, applicable to all nations on a global scale. If, as Kent argues, everyone has a human right to adequate food, it follows that those who can empower the poor have a duty to see that right implemented, and the obligation to be held morally and legally accountable, for seeing that that right is realized for everyone, everywhere.

Blades Of Magic: Crown Service #1

Blades Of Magic: Crown Service #1
Author: Terah Edun
Publisher: Terah Edun
Total Pages: 279
Release: 2014-03-29
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

This is year one of the Initiate Wars. Sara is hoping it doesn’t become the year she dies in an adventure fantasy for the ages. -- It is not a peaceful time in the Algardis Empire. War is raging between the mages and seventeen-year-old Sara Fairchild will be right in the middle of it. She just doesn't know it yet. Sara is the daughter of a disgraced imperial commander, executed for desertion. Sara is also the best duelist and hand-to-hand combatant in Sandrin. She lives quietly with her family’s shame but when challenged about her family’s honor, her opponent inevitably loses. On the night she finds out her father’s true last actions, she takes the Mercenary Guilds’ vows to serve in the emperor’s army. Using her quick wits and fierce fighting skills, she earns a spot in the first division. There she discovers secrets the mages on both sides would prefer stay hidden. Dark enemies hunt her and soon it's not just Sara questioning the motivation behind this war. While fighting mages, blackmailing merchants and discovering new friends, Sara comes across something she’s never had before - passion. The question is - can she fight for her empress against a mage who might unwittingly claim her heart? This is year one of the Initiate Wars. Sara is hoping it doesn't become the year she dies.

Sworn to Secrecy: Courtlight #4

Sworn to Secrecy: Courtlight #4
Author: Terah Edun
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014-02-23
Genre: Dragons
ISBN: 9781496058355

In the heart of the Imperial Court, Ciardis Weathervane knows that death is coming for the empire. With her friends by her side and the new triad of Weathervanes, she's in a race against time to convince the court of the same.She must do her best to unite kith, mages, nobles and merchants under one cause - the fight to prevent a war. Soon she is forced to keep a secret that could exonerate her mother of the Empress's death, and is always one move away from stepping into diplomatic chaos.Throw in a daemoni prince who is showing interest in the youngest Weathervane, a jealous prince heir, and a irritated dragon with her own designs on Ciardis, and you have an imperial court in turmoil.This fourth novel continues the story of Ciardis Weathervane from Sworn To Conflict.

Adversarial Case-Making

Adversarial Case-Making
Author: Thomas Scheffer
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 326
Release: 2010-09-24
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9004187502

Cases are not objects at hand for legal decision-making; cases are not echoes from a past crime. Cases are, first of all, made within compound discourse apparatus, here the English Crown Court and the procedure/s attached to it. This book reveals the legal production of cases including their relevant features. The socio-legal ethnography visits the natural sites of adversarial case-making: law firms, barristers’ chambers, and Crown Courts. It examines the role and dynamics of client-lawyer meetings, pre-trial hearings, plea bargaining sessions, and jury trials. It focuses on the lawyers’ case-making activities, their procedural contexts, and the resulting cases. As an ethnographic discourse study, the book develops a trans-sequential perspective on the interrelated events and processes of case-making – and by doing so, overcomes the shortcomings of talk-bias and text-bias. The trans-sequential approach pays out in detailed case studies on an alibi, on guilt, or the barrister’s notes; it pays out as well in cross-case studies dealing with legal care, procedural infrastructure, or the case system in the common law tradition.