It was the time of war a never ending war. It has been 100 years since the war begin and still going on hundreds of soldiers had been die for the name of country & king, but no one’s sacrifice was big enough to end the war & now all the people who’s still alive are became addicted of this war every day many youngling die in war and now it didn’t even effect any one cause everyone has lost the hope that war is ever going to end. So this war is also became part of our life & as well as the war crime also. Rape, murder, assaults, robbery this is all became a part of our daily life. Every day some village or FORT GET attacked by enemy forces or our kingdom forces, in these day the life of human has became very cheap it didn’t worth even less than the few copper coins. Year 265 it is been about hundred years since the war start, both country’s are fighting to win this war, they are using every resource they can use cause of this. This give the birth of new jobs called mercenary yes hired worriers who fight war for money & do whatever they want if they can win the battle. Most of people join mercenary just because they want to survive from this mad time. Most of mercenary fight & die just for few silver coin this is the piece of the life this mad time. But this year something happened that changed this mad world completely..............

“I tell you what I’ll do,” he said. “The stage won’t be no good to me until Powder Keg amounts to somethin’ . . . I’ll bet a coach and team against what’s on the table, draw and show down.” His offer was a sufficient warning of his strength. However, I still liked my aces. A pair of them pack a lot of power in a two-handed game, and I had the feeling that my luck had not run out . . . I counted my aces as casually as pounding pulses would permit. “Can you beat ’em?” His face showed me he could not . . . “How about loanin’ me your pony?”

A funny and heartwarming story of one woman's attempt to walk off a lifetime of fear -- with a soulmate, bad shoes, and lots of wine. Torre DeRoche is at rock bottom following a breakup and her father's death when she crosses paths with the goofy and spirited Masha, who is pursuing her dream of walking the world. When Masha invites Torre to join her pilgrimage through Tuscany -- drinking wine, foraging wild berries, and twirling on hillsides -- Torre straps on a pair of flimsy street shoes and gets rambling. But the magical hills of Italy are nothing like the dusty and merciless roads of India where the pair wind up, improvising a pilgrimage in the footsteps of Gandhi along his march to the seaside. Hoping to catch the nobleman's fearlessness by osmosis and end the journey as wise, svelte, and kick-ass warriors, they are instead unraveled by worry that this might be one adventure too far. Coming face-to-face with their worst fears, they discover the power of friendship to save us from our darkest moments.

Zayny is a girl constantly shadowed by Worry. Worry is loud, messy, rude, and filled with discouraging words. It prevents her from eating, sleeping, and enjoying life, turning her world into an unbearably gloomy place. One day, Zayny decides she's had enough of missing out on all the fun. She realizes that Worry is nothing more than a bully, making her believe she's not good enough. With newfound courage, Zayny dons her armor, digs deep within herself, and banishes Worry from her life. Free from Worry's grip, Zayny takes control and zooms happily ahead, transforming every day into an exciting adventure.

In Nahuatl yolqui is the idea of a warrior brought back from the dead. For author and activist Roberto Cintli Rodríquez, it describes his own experience one night in March 1979 after a brutal beating at the hands of L.A. sheriffs. Framed by Rodríguez’s personal testimony of police violence, this book offers a historia profunda of the culture of extralegal violence against Red-Black-Brown communities in the United States. In addition to Rodríguez’s story, this book includes several short essays from victims and survivors that bring together personal accounts of police brutality and state-sponsored violence. This wide-ranging work touches on historical and current events, including the Watts rebellion, the Zoot Suit Riots, Operation Streamline, Standing Rock, and much more. From the eyewitness accounts of Bartolomé de las Casas to the protestors and allies at Standing Rock, this book makes evident the links between colonial violence against Red-Black-Brown bodies to police violence in our communities today. Grounded in the stories of the lives of victims and survivors of police violence, Yolqui, a Warrior Summoned from the Spirit World illuminates the physical, spiritual, and epistemic depths and consequences of racialized dehumanization. Rodríguez offers us an urgent, poignant, and personal call to end violence and the philosophies that permit such violence to flourish. Like the Nahuatl yolqui, this book is intended as a means of healing, offering a footprint going back to the origins of violence, and, more important, a way forward. With contributions by Raúl Alcaraz-Ochoa, Citalli Álvarez, Tanya Alvarez, Rebekah Barber, Juvenal Caporale, David Cid, Arianna Martinez Reyna, Carlos Montes, Travis Morales, Simon Moya Smith, Cesar Noriega, Kimberly Phillips, Christian Ramirez, Michelle Rascon Canales, Carolyn Torres, Jerry Tello, Tara Trudell, and Laurie Valdez.

Gift from the Ancients is about a warrior that follows his vision and creates a beautiful agate spear point that becomes the symbol of his people. The spear point is used to protect his people and is lost. Many years later the spear point is uncovered by another warrior. Times have changed yet the spear point is still beautiful and remains with the warrior throughout his life. Returned to the earth it is discovered by a warrior who hunts on horseback. In awe of its beauty, he treasures it until it is lost protecting his life. Years later, the spear point is found by a young girl who gives it to her mother. Buffalo are disappearing and the whiteman has arrived changing their nomadic lives forever. Cherishing the agate point as a symbol of a time long ago, the woman watches her people's way of life slowly destroyed.

Follow Nicole's story of romance and adventure as she falls in love and learns that with the right person two people can make a difference. Set against the turbulent times of the 1860s, the characters learn to cope with the rapid changes and try to make their mark on society. The story begins as Nicole’s family heads west in search of a better life. Tragedy strikes early as a band of Indians attack their wagon. She finds herself alone in the vast wilderness of the prairie. A westerner named Jim Becker rescues her and takes her to his home in the Colorado Territory. Jim and Nicole fall in love and through each other’s encouragement they begin a life of personal growth. Together, they try to fight social prejudice and indifference with a common goal of creating a free state out west. Along the way, they discover themselves and the magic of the human spirit.

Consequences follow actions. Actions determine worthiness. Worthiness costs more than believed. When 118-year-old warrior Aurora is banished to Earth from her home world—the Gold Planet of Andorra—she loses her powerful sword and Special Power (the ability to control fire). On Earth, Aurora finds herself in the world of the Death Givers—a superhero organization tasked with stopping the dreaded Disappearances (kidnappings) from overwhelming the nation of Blood Dawn (formerly known as North America). While helping the Death Givers stop the Disappearances, Aurora struggles with keeping her true identity—she is a vampire!—from Earth’s humans and deciding where exactly a romance with one of the Death Givers fits into the life that she becomes a part of. Will Aurora return home and regain her sword and her Special Power after her reckless actions ignite a deadly war? Or will she fall victim to a sacrifice curse that will cost her everything, including her worthiness and her life?

Pindar and the Cult of Heroes combines a study of Greek culture and religion (hero cult) with a literary-critical study of Pindar's epinician poetry. It looks at hero cult generally, but focuses especially on heroization in the 5th century BC. There are individual chapters on the heroization of war dead, of athletes, and on the religious treatment of the living in the 5th century. Hero cult, Bruno Currie argues, could be anticipated, in different ways, in a person's lifetime. Epinician poetry too should be interpreted in the light of this cultural context; fundamentally, this genre explores the patron's religious status. The book features extensive studies of Pindar's Pythians 2, 3, 5, Isthmian 7, and Nemean 7.

This book engages in critical discussion of the role of reason and rationality in philosophy, the human mind, ethics, science, and the social sciences. Philosophers from Poland, Germany, and the United States examine reason in the light of emotion, doubt, absolutes, implementation, and interpretation. They throw new light on old values.