Author: Tom BrucePublisher: Tom Bruce
ISBN:
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Every Inch a King
Author: Harry TurtledovePublisher: Del Rey
ISBN: 0345498097
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Otto of Schlepsig is risking his neck as an acrobat in a third-rate circus in the middle of nowhere when news arrives that the land of Shqiperi has invited Prince Halim Eddin to become its new king. Otto doesn’t know the prince from Adam, but he does happen to look just like him—a coincidence that inspires Otto with a mad plan to assume Halim’s identity and rule in his stead. True, Shqiperi is an uncivilized backwater, but even in uncivilized backwaters kings live better than acrobats. Plus, kingship in Shqiperi comes with a harem. Rank, as they say, has its privileges. With his friend Max, a sword-swallowing giant whose chronic cough makes every performance a potential tonsillectomy, Otto embarks on a rollicking journey filled with feats of derring-do, wondrous magic, and beautiful maidens—well, beautiful women. And that’s before he enters a royal world that is truly fantastical.
Author: Tone Every Inch
Author: Natalie Gingerich MackenziePublisher: Rodale Books
ISBN: 1609612442
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Health and fitness experts have long trumpeted the importance of strength training to lose weight and tone trouble spots for a top-notch physique. But many women have been intimidated by the time and equipment needed to reap these benefits. Now, Prevention has brought together top fitness experts and the latest scientific research to create an eight-week success program that's been proven to be up to three times more effective than traditional weight training. Prevention partnered with Ithaca College in a strength-training study combining dumbbells and resistance bands in an easy and effective body-sculpting workout. And Tone Every Inch--by Natalie Gingerich Mackenzie with the editors of Prevention magazine--comes equipped with an easy-to-follow cardio routine and an optional (yet optimal) eating plan to help readers tighten trouble areas while simultaneously shedding pounds and boosting energy--in just 30 minutes a day! This achievable plan fits into anyone's schedule and can be done at home or on the go.
Every Inch a Soldier
Author: William P. HeadPublisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 9780890965900
Category : Air power
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Who was Warner Robins, for whom an Air Force base in Georgia was named? "To write a story about General Robins is to write abut the `Olden Days'" his widow has remarked, "for Warner Robins was not in the Air Force as it is today." No, but he helped to form the Air Force as it is today. His professional life developed along with the air service during that brave and daring era between the two World Wars. As author William Head explains, Robins was "one of those courageous few who left an indelible mark on today's Air Force." As a West Point cadet (1903-1907), Augustine Warner Robins numbered among his classmates and friends Hap Arnold and Frank Andrews. As a young officer, he fought under Black Jack Pershing in Mexico and met a young George Patton and Ben Foulois. As a senior officer, he worked with such luminaries of the day as Charles A. Lindbergh, Jimmy Doolittle, Lester Maitland, Orville Wright, and Billy Mitchell. Even more significantly, during his career he was instrumental in developing the first official and workable Air Force supply maintenance and accountability system. He helped establish official guidelines for training of logistics officers, NCOs, and civilians working for the Army Air Corps. Robins's life provides, through his thousands of letters, telephone transcripts, and other primary materials, a unique window on the interward period, and especially on the history of aviation in America. Through his eyes, the events and personalities of the 1920s and 1930s--which shaped the Air Force of World II and the Cold War--come into sharp focus. The anecdotes and sometimes humorous stories of the building of this branch of the service make this a book not just for historians, but for all those interested in the military and in aviation.
Author: Every Inch of Her
Author: Peter SheridanPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1440650187
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
The sisters at the Good Shepherd Convent in Dublin’s North Wall don’t quite know what to make of their newest refugee. Philo announces herself at their door one Sunday evening with the words, “God pointed me here.” A large presence, weighing 240 pounds and bearing tattoos on her arm, Philo smokes, swears and loves to eat. She is also a mother of five and in flight from her abusive husband, Tommo. In no time at all, Philo has made herself indispensable. At the Senior Daycare Center, she gets the old folks talking to one another, singing old favorites, and playing bingo again. And with all the love she’s got to give, it’s only natural that Cap and Dina—two people at the Center long separated by a bitter feud—come together again. By turns comical and tender, Peter Sheridan’s novel is a beautifully written portrait of an unforgettable woman who touches every life she meets through the sheer force of being herself.
Author: House Carpenters and Joiners of the City of CincinnatiEvery Square Inch
Author: Bruce Riley AshfordPublisher: Lexham Press
ISBN: 1577996216
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 107
Book Description
Jesus is Lord over everything. So his lordship should shape every aspect of life. But what impact does faith really have on our day-today existence? And how should we, as Christians, interact with the culture? In Every Square Inch, Bruce Ashford skillfully navigates such questions. Drawing on sources like Abraham Kuyper, C.S. Lewis, and Francis Schaeffer, he shows how our faith is relevant to all dimensions of culture. The gospel informs everything we do. We cannot maintain the artificial distinction between "sacred" and "secular." We must proclaim Jesus with our lips and promote him with our lives, no matter what cultural contexts we may find ourselves in.
Every Inch a King
Author: Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004242147
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
The role of kings, the source of their authority and the nature of the practical restraints on their power have exercised political and religious philosophers, historians, competing candidates for rule and subject populations from the time of the earliest documented human societies. How the kingly image is created and presented and how the ruler performs his or her function as the source of justice are among the topics addressed in this volume, which also covers the role of queens in maintaining dynastic succession yet being the target of tales of adultery. This volume is of particular interest in bringing together studies of kingly power from Cyrus the Great and Alexander in the ancient world to Shah Abbas in the seventeenth century, and covering the European Middle Ages as well as Iran and the Muslim world.
