![]() ![]() Nimue teams up with a charming mercenary named Arthur and refugee Fey Folk from across England. ![]() Her mission leaves little room for revenge, but the growing power within her can think of little else. Charged by her dying mother to reunite an ancient sword with a legendary sorcerer, Nimue is now her people’s only hope. That is, until her entire village is slaughtered by Red Paladins, and Nimue’s fate is forever altered. Her connection to dark magic made her something to be feared in her Druid village, and that made her desperate to leave… Whosoever wields the Sword of Power shall be the one true King.īut what if the Sword has chosen a Queen? The Lady of the Lake finds her voice in this cinematic twist on the tale of King Arthur created by Tom Wheeler and legendary artist, producer, and director Frank Miller ( 300, Batman: The Dark Night Returns, Sin City). Genre: Young Adult Fantasy, Reimagining, Adaption of Folklore/Legends. ![]()
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![]() If you have questions about the archived correspondence, please use the VRT noticeboard. The correspondence is available to trusted volunteers as ticket #2011060310010746. This correspondence has been reviewed by a Volunteer Response Team (VRT) member and stored in our permission archive. The Wikimedia Foundation has received an e-mail confirming that the copyright holder has approved publication under the terms mentioned on this page. If you wish to use this content, you do not need to request permission as long as you follow any licensing requirements mentioned on this page. ![]() Hamann grants her narrator a wisdom that exceeds her age ('Pain gets heavy when you carry it far from its source, like a bucket of water hauled miles from a streamit acquires. This work is free and may be used by anyone for any purpose. Like a hazy summer day, Anthropology of an American Girl never fully clicked into focus for me, which, oddly enough, is precisely why it so thoroughly captured my mind. English: Book cover of Anthropology of an American Girl (paperback version), written by Hilary Thayer Hamannīook Cover: Anthropology of an American Girl (hard cover 2010) ![]() ![]() ![]() As the shock waves settle, the two superpowers are caught in a horrifying face-off. The miscalculation turns into a disaster when Truman fails to foresee Russia's reaction.Īlmost instantly, Stalin strikes U.S. In actual history, Truman rejected his general's advice here, he does not. MacArthur advocates a strike on Chinese targets in Manchuria. The only way to stop the Communist surge into the Korean Peninsula and save thousands of American lives is through a nuclear attack. ![]() military has been cut to the bone after victory over the Nazis-while China and the USSR have built up their forces. ![]() MacArthur recognizes a stark reality: The U.S. Now, this masterly storyteller turns his eyes to the aftermath of World War II and asks: In an era of nuclear posturing, what if the Cold War had suddenly turned hot?īombs Away begins with President Harry Truman in desperate consultation with General Douglas MacArthur, whose control of the ground war in Korea has slipped disastrously away. In his acclaimed novels of alternate history, Harry Turtledove has scrutinized the twisted soul of the twentieth century, from the forces that set World War I in motion to the rise of fascism in the decades that followed. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Graeber is an anthropologist not an economist. It is an extraordinarily sprawling and rich account. This is one of the many historic and geographic excursions that David Graeber undertakes in this book, an effort to demonstrate the nature of credit, money and debt over the millennia. (Such was the negotiation that Queen Mebh undertook with Ferdia in the Irish national epic, The Tain, as she tried to bribe him to kill his foster brother, Cuchullain, with promises of bond-maids, including her own daughter.) This could be sub-divided into units of milk-cows, and provided the basis of not just commerce but the judiciary: the compensation a family could expect for the killing of a son, for example was set out in terms of slave girls and cattle depending on any extenuating circumstances that might exist. In early medieval Ireland the basic unit of currency was the slave girl. Summary: a vast and sprawling account of the vast and sprawling realities of human life and debt ![]() |