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Niccolo Machiavelli has long been a fascination for governmental and military leaders. Often quoted in many sectors, from government to business to everyday personal interactions, Machiavelli thought deeply about power and how to gain and maintain it. His writings continue to contribute to the modern discourse about the nature and purpose of political and military power. The purpose of this paper is to examine his writings to discuss his ideas which remain valuable to leaders and scholars alike today and the impact it has had on the craft and art of war.

Maxim Trevelyan, Earl of Trevethick wider Willen, ist der Frau, die er liebt, bis in die Wildnis Albaniens gefolgt. Er hat um sie gekämpft, er hat ihr Herz erobert, und jetzt wird er sie heiraten. Aber kann ein ehemaliger Lebemann wie Maxim jemals ein guter Ehemann sein - oder werden sein zweifelhafter Ruf und die schockierenden Geheimnisse seiner aristokratischen Familie sein neues Glück zerstören? Alessia Demachi hat Entführern und Menschenhändlern getrotzt und das Herz des Mannes gewonnen, den sie liebt. Aber kann diese Ehe gutgehen?

When Nashville identified its first case of coronavirus in March 2020, the city was between Public Health Department directors and as unprepared as the rest of the world for what was to come. Dr. Alex Jahangir, a trauma surgeon acting at that time as chair of the Metro Nashville Board of Health, unexpectedly found himself head of the city's COVID-19 Task Force and responsible for leading it through uncharted waters.

SFWA Grand Master James Gunn's This Fortress World takes place in the far future of our galaxy, when countless civilizations have risen and fallen, leaving only their marvelous scientific achievements as legacy to those worlds that have now fallen into a new Dark Age. On the planet Brancusi, William Dane, an acolyte monk in the all-powerful Church, comes into possession of a nasty but valuable secret, one that all the cutthroats in the galaxy are itching to get their hands on.

Maxim Trevelyan, conde de Trevethick, ha seguido a la mujer que ama hasta lo más profundo de Albania. Ha luchado por ella y ha vencido, y ahora tiene que casarse... a punta de escopeta. Pero ¿puede Maxim convertirse de verdad en un buen marido o su mala reputación y los escandalosos secretos de su aristocrática familia destrozarán su recién lograda felicidad?

Everyone in Yaz's village has vanished. The only clue, a strange golden coin marked with mysterious runes. Can Yaz and his friends figure out what the coin means before it's too late? And what are the sinister Dark Sages up to in the northwest? It can't be anything good for our heroes. It's a race against time to rescue the missing villagers.

Joran and his companions have returned safe and sound from the wasteland that was The Black Iron Empire. But they aren’t the only ones. The fallen White Knight Samaritan also survived, and he’s grown even more powerful and determined to destroy everything Joran cares about.

There’s no sadder job than telling a mother that her son is dead, but that’s exactly the task Helena has been given. Her investigation into the body she and her companions found in Australia brought her to France and a grieving mother. Daisuke and the beautiful half-demon Jinx, meanwhile, are working a different angle, as they track down the offices of Explorer’s Inc.

O relacionamento quente e sensual de Anastasia Steele e Christian Grey chega ao fim com muitas acusações e sofrimento, mas Grey não consegue tirar Ana da cabeça. Determinado a reconquistá-la, ele tenta suprimir seus desejos mais obscuros e sua necessidade de controle absoluto, e disposto a amar Ana nos termos estabelecidos por ela. Mas os horrores de sua infância ainda o assombram, e, como se não bastasse, o chefe manipulador de Ana, Jack Hyde, claramente a quer.

When Carter Monk, one of the Circle of Sorcery’s agents, goes missing in Australia, Dasiuke Kugo and his partner Helena are dispatched to find out what happened. But just getting to Carter’s last known location is a challenge since Australia is now a sealed country, no foreigners allowed. When they finally arrive, they’ll have to deal with monsters, demon magic, and an obsessed cult if they want to rescue their friend and get to the bottom of the mystery he’d been investigating. Succeed or fail, nothing will be the same after they mission.

Quando Anastasia Steele, graziosa e ingenua studentessa americana di ventun anni incontra Christian Grey, giovane imprenditore miliardario, si accorge di essere attratta irresistibilmente da quest'uomo bellissimo e misterioso. Convinta però che il loro incontro non avrà mai un futuro, prova in tutti i modi a smettere di pensarci, fino al giorno in cui Grey non compare improvvisamente nel negozio dove lei lavora e la invita a uscire con lui. Anastasia capisce di volere quest'uomo a tutti i costi.

African American literature is the body of literature produced in the United States by writers of African descent. It begins with the works of such late 18th-century writers as Phillis Wheatley. Before the high point of enslaved people narratives, African-American literature was dominated by autobiographical spiritual narratives. The genre known as slave narratives in the 19th century were accounts by people who had generally escaped from slavery, about their journeys to freedom and ways they claimed their lives.

Transported by unknown magic, Joran and his companions find themselves in a vast, lifeless wasteland. Struggling to survive in the hellish landscape, they search for any clue to a way back home. Unknown to them, a familiar foe is on a different quest.

Dans cet ultime volet de la trilogie "Fifty Shades", le couple Christian Grey et Ana Steele a trouvé un équilibre face aux défis que leur pose la vie commune : Ana apprend à supporter, sans se renier, le style de vie de Christian, et lui à maîtriser son obsessionnel désir de contrôle comme les cauchemars qui le hantent.

Londra, 2019. La vita è sempre stata facile per Maxim Trevelyan. Molto attraente, ricco, aristocratico, non ha mai dovuto lavorare e ha dormito da solo nel suo letto molto di rado. Ma un giorno, improvvisamente, tutto questo cambia quando una tragedia lo colpisce ed eredita il titolo nobiliare della sua famiglia: un'immensa ricchezza e tutta la responsabilità che ne deriva. E questo non è un ruolo per il quale Maxim è preparato e si deve sforzare per affrontarlo.

You may think that the story of the saxophone begins with Dexter Gordon or Charlie Parker or on a street corner in New Orleans. It really began in 1840 in Belgium with a young daydreamer named Joseph-Antoine Adolphe Sax—a boy with bad luck but great ideas. Coretta Scott King Honoree Lesa Cline-Ransome unravels the fascinating history of how Adolphe's once reviled instrument was transported across Europe and Mexico to New Orleans.

The Cult of Abaddon has been driven from Castle Ravenclaw, but it’s far from finished. Daisuke Kugo must hunt down the survivors, especially their terrifying leader, The Devil Man. He’s in possession of a demon prison and desperate to find a way to open it.

For four years now, Bret McCormick and E. R. Bills have been beating the bushes and peering into abandoned wells to seek out the most terrifying tales the Lone Star State has to offer. They have left no stone unturned, no attic unexplored, and no grave undesecrated. And boy howdy, has their diligence has paid off!

Twelve-year-old Gili firmly believes in miracles. Since the day her father was miraculously healed by the prophet Elisha, her faith in God has sustained her through the hardships of life in Israel. But when her town is invaded and she is captured as a slave for Naaman, a powerful Syrian military commander, can her faith endure?

All Marcus Drake wanted was a nice, quiet vacation with his best friend, Solomon Keys, and his girlfriend, Iaka Kazumi. He figured two weeks on Pleasure Planet Four would be perfect. But things never seem to work out the way Marcus plans. They’ve barely settled in when Solomon gets kidnapped.