An Honorable Match

An Honorable Match
Author: Laura Paquet
Publisher: Zebra Books
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2004
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780821776599

Forced together by a season-long round of matchmaking, a bookish biologist and a boisterous belle of the "ton" find there's no arguing with a basic principle of biology: opposites attract. Original.

On the Private and Public Virtues of an Honorable Entrepreneur

On the Private and Public Virtues of an Honorable Entrepreneur
Author: Felix R. Livingston
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 141
Release: 2018-09-15
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1498575587

Alexis de Tocqueville’s writings on honor, and his observation that a democracy’s definition of honor “stands for the peculiar individual character of that nation before the world,” provide inspiration for an ideal entrepreneurial innovator discussed in this book. Beginning with Aristotle, contributions of the giants of moral, political, and economic thinking are aggregated in a Credo for honorable entrepreneurs who are dedicated to freedom and general human flourishing. The Credo’s maxims and duties can help entrepreneurs prevent a separation of the honorable and the useful, which is a moral challenge faced by many leaders in all parts of society. Like-minded individuals who share this vision can rebalance power and repair America’s triune social order, while creating wealth and a surplus that can benefit the poorest among us.

A Ghostly Match

A Ghostly Match
Author: Rachelle Ayala
Publisher: Rachelle Ayala
Total Pages: 159
Release:
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

👻A Halloween ball at Netherfield. A ghostly Lady in White and a hidden agenda. Can Elizabeth Bennet unmask the truth before her sister’s reputation is ruined? 👻 When the Bingleys host a spooky celebration at Netherfield Park, Elizabeth Bennet is drawn into a web of intrigue, ghostly tales, and unexpected encounters. The charming Mr. Wickham sets his sights on Jane, and Elizabeth clashes with the brooding Mr. Darcy, convinced he knows more than he’s letting on. But when Jane disappears, Elizabeth must forge an unlikely alliance with the vexing Mr. Darcy. With her heart caught between suspicion and a growing attraction, will she unmask the hidden enemy or fall victim to it herself? This Halloween at Netherfield promises more than just mischief—it might hold the key to love and redemption.

A Game of Inches

A Game of Inches
Author: Peter Morris
Publisher: Ivan R. Dee
Total Pages: 663
Release: 2006-03-23
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1566639549

A fascinating and charming encyclopedic collection of baseball firsts, describing how the innovations in the game—in rules, equipment, styles of play, strategies, etc.—occurred and developed from its origins to the present day. The book relies heavily on quotations from contemporary sources.

One-Eyed Jacks and the Suicide King

One-Eyed Jacks and the Suicide King
Author: Anthony Donell Smith
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 235
Release: 2015-08-21
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1499019750

Stages of Literature The sorcerer dawned with skills of voodoo. The tarot card depicts the sorcerer from the voodoo stage, and he permeated into an image, with its symbols of the English court. The tragicomedy period (old English) dispelled the notion of the sorcerer being placed between us and our maker. Of course even without the sorcery, forces continued to defy logic. Properties of voodoo, through perspectives, were at the helm. Laws of force were soon accepted by the maturing world. Although these forces have constructs that are not visible, the effects were known to be very consistent. Testing such laws proved reliable to cause and effect. The age of reason brought wisdom, through retrospect, of how we react to the unknown and unexplained. We simply make up what we do not know. However, we do so by taking the perspectives we are granted and reasoning out the realities that lie within. With reality being created from our crooked and unaligned perspectives, our realities pale in comparison to Gods truths. The Romantic Period paired our realizations of reason and logic up against the phenomenon we call emotions. Emotions won hands down. Earlier chronicles of man demonstrate mystery, but the mystics are to the nth power within emotions. The day of the zodiac combines logics and emotions and is depicted by the symbols of civilization. Each past civilization will leave signs of what they most feared and what they most needed (adored). The interrelation of humans is controlled by the celestial constellations, aligning our compatibility to one another. It barely scratches the surface of why we are magnetized to some while we are polarized from others. Charms of Makings caused her end. Makings of charm will set and begin.

Jews in the Realm of the Sultans

Jews in the Realm of the Sultans
Author: Yaron Ben-Naeh
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Total Pages: 534
Release: 2008
Genre: History
ISBN: 9783161495236

Jewish society in the Ottoman Empire has not been the subject of systematic research. The seventeenth century is the main object of this study, since it was a formative era. For Ottoman Jews, the 'Ottoman century' constituted an era of gradual acculturation to changing reality, parallel to the changing character of the Ottoman state. Continuous changes and developments shaped anew the character of this Jewry, the core of what would later become known as 'Sephardi Jewry'.Yaron Ben-Naeh draws from primary and secondary Hebrew, Ottoman, and European sources, the image of Jewish society in the Ottoman Empire. In the chapters he leads the reader from the overall urban framework to individual aspects. Beginning with the physical environment, he moves on to discuss their relationships with the majority society, followed by a description and analysis of the congregation, its organization and structure, and from there to the character of Ottoman Jewish society and its nuclear cell - the family. Special emphasis is placed throughout the work on the interaction with Muslim society and the resulting acculturation that affected all aspects and all levels of Jewish life in the Empire. In this, the author challenges the widespread view that sees this community as being stagnant and self-segregated, as well as the accepted concept of a traditional Jewish society under Islam.

Mixed Matches

Mixed Matches
Author: David M. Luebke
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2014-08-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1782384103

The significant changes in early modern German marriage practices included many unions that violated some taboo. That taboo could be theological and involve the marriage of monks and nuns, or refer to social misalliances as when commoners and princes (or princesses) wed. Equally transgressive were unions that crossed religious boundaries, such as marriages between Catholics and Protestants, those that violated ethnic or racial barriers, and those that broke kin-related rules. Taking as a point of departure Martin Luther’s redefinition of marriage, the contributors to this volume spin out the multiple ways that the Reformers’ attempts to simplify and clarify marriage affected education, philosophy, literature, high politics, diplomacy, and law. Ranging from the Reformation, through the ages of confessionalization, to the Enlightenment, Mixed Matches addresses the historical complexity of the socio-cultural institution of marriage.

Game Writing

Game Writing
Author: Chris Bateman
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 457
Release: 2021-01-28
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 1501348973

As the videogame industry has grown up, the need for better stories and characters has dramatically increased, yet traditional screenwriting techniques alone cannot equip writers for the unique challenges of writing stories where the actions and decisions of a diverse range of players are at the centre of every narrative experience. Game Writing: Narrative Skills for Videogames was the first book to demystify the emerging field of game writing by identifying and explaining the skills required for creating videogame narrative. Through the insights and experiences of professional game writers, this revised edition captures a snapshot of the narrative skills employed in today's game industry and presents them as practical articles accompanied by exercises for developing the skills discussed. The book carefully explains the foundations of the craft of game writing, detailing all aspects of the process from the basics of narrative to guiding the player and the challenges of nonlinear storytelling. Throughout the book there is a strong emphasis on the skills developers and publishers expect game writers to know. This second edition brings the material up to date and adds four new chapters covering MMOs, script formats, narrative design for urban games, and new ways to think about videogame narrative as an art form. Suitable for both beginners and experienced writers, Game Writing is the essential guide to all the techniques of game writing. There's no better starting point for someone wishing to get into this exciting field, whether they are new game writers wishing to hone their skills, or screenwriters hoping to transfer their skills to the games industry.