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Excerpt from The Citadel Andrew descended. The next minute, while he was gathering himself for the ordeal of his entrance, the front door was ung open and he was in the lighted hall being welcomed effusively by a short, plump, smiling woman of about forty with a shining face and bright bold twinkling eyes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."
New York City, the grand metropolis of the United States, had been devastated from the radiation wars over global oil rights. Only a few of the largest cities had endured the holocaust, many in name only, as the survivors migrated to widely separated tracts of land left un-radiated by the nuclear warheads unleashed by oil-hungry countries. The once-dominate United States had been reduced to independent city-states. As recognized power was redistributed around the world, elected governments began to disintegrate into dictatorial regimes. York City (as it was now called) was under the control of the latest man in power, Mayor Kourei Posin. Rights and privileges were being systematically stripp...
Short stories about character-building experiences at the storied military academy in the 1960s From its founding in 1842 the Citadel has been steeped in tradition. There have been changes through the years, but the basics of the military code and the plebe system have remained constant. Citadel graduate Tom Worley has crafted this collection of short stories about life at the South Carolina military academy during the 1960s. While the stories are fictional, they are inspired in part by his days as a student on the college campus. With humor and dramatic clarity, Worley reveals the harshness of the plebe system, how success is achieved through perseverance, and the character-building benefit...
This architectural history of the Citadel of Cairo uses indices from maps, photographs, plans of hitherto unstudied structures, and a large array of historical documents to chronologically reconstruct the Citadel's development from its foundation by Salah al-Din until it reached its most monumental form in the middle of the fourteenth century. The study analyzes the influence of Mamluk socio-political hierarchy on the conceptualization of the Citadel's spaces and forms; assesses its impact on medieval Cairo; proposes a new interpretation for the development of Mamluk royal architecture; and presents new definitions for a number of medieval architectural terms. By weaving the history of the Citadel together with the history of Cairo and the Mamluk system, this book is relevant to historians of architecture and urbanism and medieval historians.
From My Heart, The Citadel - Volume II - Animals 40 fun, funny, insightful, whimsical, silly and some even serious, animal-related poems: A Tiger's Tale ★ A Wee Tale ★ Abducktive 'F' Reasoning ★ Act Unnaturally ★ And The Cat Crept In ★ Billy Goat ★ Birds Of A Feather ★ Blue Ducks ★ Caterpillar Wisdom ★ Copycat ★ Coquí ★ Don't Hound Me! ★ Elk ★ Feline Foibles ★ Good Company ★ Horse Sense ★ How Now Slough? ★ Howlin' Like The Wolf ★ It's A Dog's Life ★ Jersey Belle, My Jersey Girl ★ Jim-Jams ★ Kangaroo Or Two ★ Lemur ★ Magic Rabbit ★ Mystery Solved ★ Ode To An Ocelot ★ Once Upon A Time ★ Poles Apart ★ Ptooey ★ Question Of The Ages ★ Quickie ★ Reverie ★ Ribbit ★ Seussome Story ★ Shaggy Dog Story ★ Shallow End Of The Pool ★ The Answer's A Lemming ★ Today's The Day ★ To Wit, To Woo ★ We're Off To See The Lizard
From My Heart, The Citadel - Volume III - Assortment Assortment of 40 fun, funny, insightful, whimsical, silly and some even serious, thoughtful &/or thought-provoking poems: A Mused ★ Action And Reaction ★ Actions Speak Louder, Volumes In Fact ★ After The Rain ★ Anyone For Tennis? ★ Between The Lines ★ Change ★ Crazy Fool ★ Creative's Conundrum ★ Curious Or Inquisitive ★ Diving In ★ Dog-Rose Prose ★ Family Mattters ★ For Better Or Worse ★ Get Thee Behind Me ★ Happy Place ★ Hickory Dickory ★ Knees Up ★ Message To Mantis ★ Mr. Moneygrubber ★ Over And Out ★ Painted Lady, Morning Glory ★ Playing Politics ★ Random Thoughts ★ Rising Cairn ★ Seeing Stars ★ Sign Language ★ Siren Song ★ Sitting On The Sofa ★ Something Fishy ★ Starry-Eyed ★ Take Back The Streets ★ Telephony ★ The Gods May Be Crazy ★ The Last Lunch ★ This Time Around ★ Time Marches On ★ U-Turn ★ Well Float My Boat! ★ Whale Of A Tale
From My Heart, The Citadel – Volume I – Africa 40 fun, funny whimsical, some even serious, poems of Africa, some of which are autobiographical recounted from an African birth and upbringing: Mombasa Island ★ Monkey See, Monkey Do ★ Lake Victoria ★ Lesson One ★ Over The Jumps ★ Flamingos ★ Slave To The Grind ★ Sauce Of The Nile ★ Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother ★ Chameleons ★ Mumbo Jumbo ★ Table Mountain ★ Morocco Bound ★ Camel ★ Scorpions ★ Snakes ★ Tangier ★ Antelope ★ Bongo ★ Giraffe ★ Hippopotamus ★ Hyenas ★ Kudu ★ Mango Tango ★ Ostrich ★ Silverback ★ Three Trees ★ Tsavo Lions ★ Up To Speed ★ Vultures ★ White Rhino ★ Wildebeest ★ Zebra ★ Dark Continent ★ Kiswahili ★ On Parade Charade ★ Resistance ★ The Great Hereafter ★ Africa ★ African In The States
Crashing is the easy part. Book One of the Citadel Series It’s been more than a century since humanity escaped the overpopulation of Earth, expanding out among the stars. We’ve faced and overcome war with an alien race. We’ve survived terrorist attacks meant to end colonization. We’ve thrived despite unregulated class distinctions, separating the wealthy from the working class. What comes next may be the end of it all. A lone colony of human castaways, led by a former alien enemy, find themselves at the mercy of a saboteur and a plot to end humanity’s unrestricted travel among the stars. This could be the finale of the colonies and the end of a species. Everything depends on how sm...