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Author: Victor C. Brice Publisher: ISBN: 9781491737101 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 0
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Reluctantly, the aged Arthur accepts that the weight of being the King of all fantasy and dreams is too great. Being the heir to his father's crown places Prince Michael in grave danger from the lord of the most ancient, deepest and darkest pit known: Tartarus. The Tartarus pits hold the old Greek gods called the Titans as well as the most wicked of humans. Unbeknownst to his son, Arthur allows Michael and Morgana's two children to travel back in time to 5th Century Camelot in order to protect them. However, Michael has learned that the romanticized affair between his mother Guinevere and Lancelot was real and true. The eighteen year old youth seeks to avenge his mother's dishonor by killing Sir Lancelot before he ever commits his crime of passion. Should Michael succeed, he will never have been born and the modern day 21st century Camelot will never have existed!
Author: Victor C. Brice Publisher: ISBN: 9781491737101 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 0
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Reluctantly, the aged Arthur accepts that the weight of being the King of all fantasy and dreams is too great. Being the heir to his father's crown places Prince Michael in grave danger from the lord of the most ancient, deepest and darkest pit known: Tartarus. The Tartarus pits hold the old Greek gods called the Titans as well as the most wicked of humans. Unbeknownst to his son, Arthur allows Michael and Morgana's two children to travel back in time to 5th Century Camelot in order to protect them. However, Michael has learned that the romanticized affair between his mother Guinevere and Lancelot was real and true. The eighteen year old youth seeks to avenge his mother's dishonor by killing Sir Lancelot before he ever commits his crime of passion. Should Michael succeed, he will never have been born and the modern day 21st century Camelot will never have existed!
Author: Kenneth Pennington Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 0520913035 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 760
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The power of the prince versus the rights of his subjects is one of the basic struggles in the history of law and government. In this masterful history of monarchy, conceptions of law, and due process, Kenneth Pennington addresses that struggle and opens an entirely new vista in the study of Western legal tradition. Pennington investigates legal interpretations of the monarch's power from the twelfth to the seventeenth century. Then, tracing the evolution of defendants' rights, he demonstrates that the origins of due process are not rooted in English common law as is generally assumed. It was not a sturdy Anglo-Saxon, but, most probably, a French jurist of the late thirteenth century who wrote, "A man is innocent until proven guilty." This is the first book to examine in detail the origins of our concept of due process. It also reveals a fascinating paradox: while a theory of individual rights was evolving, so, too, was the concept of the prince's "absolute power." Pennington illuminates this paradox with a clarity that will greatly interest students of political theory as well as legal historians.
Author: A.N. Wilson Publisher: HarperCollins ISBN: 0062749579 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 570
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In this companion biography to the acclaimed Victoria, A. N. Wilson offers a deeply textured and ambitious portrait of Prince Albert, published to coincide with the 200th anniversary of the royal consort’s birth. For more than six decades, Queen Victoria ruled a great Empire at the height of its power. Beside her for more than twenty of those years was the love of her life, her trusted husband and father of their nine children, Prince Albert. But while Victoria is seen as the embodiment of her time, its values, and its paradoxes, it was Prince Albert, A. N. Wilson expertly argues, who was at the vanguard of Victorian Britain’s transformation as a vibrant and extraordinary center of political, technological, scientific, and intellectual advancement. Far more than just the product of his age, Albert was one of its influencers and architects. A composer, engineer, soldier, politician, linguist, and bibliophile, Prince Albert, more than any other royal, was truly a “genius.” It is impossible to understand nineteenth century England without knowing the story of this gifted visionary leader, Wilson contends. Albert lived only forty-two years. Yet in that time, he fathered the royal dynasties of Germany, Russia, Spain, and Bulgaria. Through Victoria, Albert and her German advisers pioneered the idea of the modern constitutional monarchy. In this sweeping biography, Wilson demonstrates that there was hardly any aspect of British national life which Albert did not touch. When he was made Chancellor of the University of Cambridge in his late twenties, it was considered as purely an honorific role. But within months, Albert proposed an extensive reorganization of university life in Britain that would eventually be adopted, making it possible to study science, languages, and modern history at British universities—a revolution in education that has changed the world. Drawn from the Royal archives, including Prince Albert’s voluminous correspondence, this brilliant and ambitious book offers fascinating never-before-known details about the man and his time. A superb match of biographer and subject, Prince Albert, at last, gives this important historical figure the reverence and recognition that is long overdue.
Author: FRANÇOIS DE CALLIÈRES Publisher: BEYOND BOOKS HUB ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 99
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DIPLOMACY is one of the highest of the political arts. In a well-ordered commonwealth it would be held in the esteem due to a great public service in whose hands the safety of the people largely lies; and it would thus attract to its ranks its full share of national ability and energy which for the most part to-day passes into other professions. But the diplomatic service, at all times, and in almost all countries, has suffered from lack of public appreciation: though perhaps at no time has it had so many detractors as to-day. Its almost unparalleled unpopularity is due to a variety of causes, some of which are temporary and removable, while others must be permanent in human affairs, for they were found to operate in the days when the author of this little book shone in French diplomacy. The major cause is public neglect; but it is also due, in no small measure, to the prevalent confusion between[Pg vi] policy, which is the substance, and diplomacy proper, which is the process by which it is carried out. This confusion exists not only in the popular mind, but even in the writings of historians who might be expected to practise a better discernment. Policy is the concern of governments. Responsibility therefore belongs to the Secretary of State who directs policy and appoints the agents of it. But the constitutional doctrine of ministerial responsibility is not an unvarying reality. No one will maintain that Lord Cromer’s success in Egypt was due to the wisdom of Whitehall, or to anything but his own sterling qualities. Nor can a just judgment of our recent Balkan diplomacy fail to assign a heavy share of the blame to the incompetence of more than one ‘man on the spot.’ The truth is, that the whole system, of which, in their different measure, Downing Street and the embassies abroad are both responsible parts, is not abreast of the needs of the time, and will not be until Callières’s excellent maxims become the common practice of the service. These maxims are to be found in the little book of which a free translation is here presented. François de Callières treats diplomacy as the art[Pg vii] practised by the négotiateur—a most apt name for the diplomatist—in carrying out the instructions of statesmen and princes. The very choice of the word manière in his title shows that he conceives of diplomacy as the servant, not the author, of policy; and indeed his argument is not many pages old before he is heard insisting that it is ‘the agent of high policy.’ Observance of this distinction is the first condition of fruitful criticism. It is therefore worth while, at the outset, to clear away the obscurity and confusion which surround the subject, and thus, in some measure, to relieve both diplomacy in general and the individual diplomatist in particular from the burden of irrelevant and unjust criticism..
Author: HRH The Prince of Wales Publisher: Penguin UK ISBN: 0718185862 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 80
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What is climate change? How does it work? Learn from the experts in the ALL-NEW LADYBIRD EXPERT SERIES Learn about one of the most important issues facing our world today in this clear, simple and enlightening introduction. From HRH The Prince of Wales, environmentalist Tony Juniper and climate scientist Dr Emily Shuckburgh, it explains the history, dangers and challenges of global warming and explores possible solutions with which to reduce its impact. You'll learn about . . . - The causes and consequences of climate disruption - Heatwaves, floods and other extreme weather - Disappearing wildlife - Acid oceans - The benefits of limiting warming - Sustainable farming - New, clean technologies - The circular economy Learn about other topics in the Ladybird Experts series including Gravity, Quantum Physics, Climate Change and Evolution. Written by the leading lights and most outstanding communicators in their fields, the Ladybird Expert books provide clear, accessible and authoritative introductions to subjects drawn from science, history and culture. For an adult readership, the Ladybird Expert series is produced in the same iconic small hardback format pioneered by the original Ladybirds. Each beautifully illustrated book features the first new illustrations produced in the original Ladybird style for nearly forty years.
Author: Victor C. Brice
Author: Victor C. Brice
Author: Kenneth Pennington
Author: Jean Bodin
Author: A.N. Wilson
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Author: François de CALLIÈRES
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Author: FRANÇOIS DE CALLIÈRES
Author: HRH The Prince of Wales
Author: François de CALLIÈRES