It’s nine people with different powers. They come to a dojo to become the world peacekeeping force. They are attacked and don’t know the name of the attacker. It’s a tough fight. A friend is kidnapped and is in custody. They have to save her. New friends and the monster god! Some painful secrets and some curses. Sudden attacks on a new era. Tragic loses. What can be even more worse when the world’s most feared warrior is about to rule the world & only nine warriors will fight the largest army. So, sun dragons will save them and protect the world. Forever. To know what happens grab The Sun Dragons: The army of the rebels.

The once beautiful and tranquil country of Alserrac has been invaded, its people enslaved, and the Syrein - a community of mystical sorceresses - are in exile, hunted and persecuted wherever they set foot. High in the mountains, a small band of rebels gathers together, an army of Ghost Warriors determined to regain control of their country. Meanwhile, across the seas, on the western shores of Carlinden, a young girl grows up entirely unaware of the powerful gifts she has inherited. In the shadow cast by the dark and doom-laden Keype of Halskird, friendships are forged, love blossoms, and the bravery of a few human allies - and one loyal dragon - is all that stands between the Syrein and complete destruction.

Each year an estimated twenty-six thousand people are killed or maimed by land mines-more than 100 million of them sown like the mythical dragon's teeth in over seventy countries. These weapons are designed to maim soldiers, but most victims are civilians, especially the rural poor. Winslow writes about these people and the Campaign to Ban Landmines (which was awarded The Nobel Peace Prize in 1997). He tells about the efforts to pull the dragon's teeth from the earth so that it can be restored to those who live on it.

Make no myth-take-this book is indispensable. The Complete Idiot's Guide to World Mythology explores the gods and goddesses, heroes and heroines, monsters and angels of the myths from every corner of the globe. Additionally, it explores the parallels between every culture and the striking similarities in mythic figures and the structure, action, wording, and result of the stories themselves. * Covers Egyptian, Celtic, Teutonic, Norse, Japanese, Mexican, Native American, and other myths * Features information on The Hero's Journey-the cycle of myth according to Jung, Campbell, and others * Appendixes include a glossary of terms and both a general and a subject Index

Fifteen-year-old Olivia was shy and a good girl who listened to her parents and followed the rules to the letter. One day, she received horrible news about her only best friend, who died in a terrible car fire with her date. Confused and alone, she adventures out to where her friend died to pay respect and quietly mourn her friend's death. When she arrived there, she was in shock, surrounded by ash. Out of the blue, she is startled by a deer’s cry, she follows them, and to her horror, she finds the deer burning and a little boy eating it. That was when she realized he was the one responsible for her friend's death. However, seeing him hurt, she couldn't leave him there. So she helped him. Suddenly, a beam of light hovered over them, and the next thing she knew, she was in a spaceship. Not allowed to go back home, and the little demon boy who has a crush on her turned out to be a prince. Now she watches him grow up and become a fine man.

The invasion of Korea by Japanese troops in May of 1592 was no ordinary military expedition: it was one of the decisive events in Asian history and the most tragic for the Korean peninsula until the mid-twentieth century. Japanese overlord Toyotomi Hideyoshi envisioned conquering Korea, Ming China, and eventually all of Asia; but Korea’s appeal to China’s Emperor Wanli for assistance triggered a six-year war involving hundreds of thousands of soldiers and encompassing the whole region. For Japan, the war was “a dragon’s head followed by a serpent’s tail”: an impressive beginning with no real ending. Kenneth M. Swope has undertaken the first full-length scholarly study in English of this important conflict. Drawing on Korean, Japanese, and especially Chinese sources, he corrects the Japan-centered perspective of previous accounts and depicts Wanli not as the self-indulgent ruler of received interpretations but rather one actively engaged in military affairs—and concerned especially with rescuing China’s client state of Korea. He puts the Ming in a more vigorous light, detailing Chinese siege warfare, the development and deployment of innovative military technologies, and the naval battles that marked the climax of the war. He also explains the war’s repercussions outside the military sphere—particularly the dynamics of intraregional diplomacy within the shadow of the Chinese tributary system. What Swope calls the First Great East Asian War marked both the emergence of Japan’s desire to extend its sphere of influence to the Chinese mainland and a military revival of China’s commitment to defending its interests in Northeast Asia. Swope’s account offers new insight not only into the history of warfare in Asia but also into a conflict that reverberates in international relations to this day.

In August 1964, thousands of Simba rebels attacked and captured the city of Stanleyville in the newly independent Republic of the Congo and took more than 1,600 European and American residents as hostages, threatening to kill them if any attempt was made to recapture the city. In November of that year, after months of increasingly tense and complex discussions among the governments whose nationals were being held, an airborne assault by Belgian paracommandos dropped by American Air Force planes, combined with a CIA-piloted air strike against the Stanleyville airport, liberated most of the hostages, but only after a Simba-initiated massacre. "Dragon Operations: Hostage Rescues in the Congo, 1964-1965" provides both the political background to these events and a detailed account of the actual operations: Dragon Rouge, the operations in Stanleyville, and Dragon Noir, focused on the city of Paulis, several hundred miles away. The book highlights the difficulties in organizing an international rescue effort with insufficient joint planning and inadequate command and control among the Belgian and American forces, as well as their differing political ideas and goals. The ad hoc nature of the planning was exemplified by an initial American Special Forces plan to air drop its forces east of Stanleyville and float down the river to Stanleyville. This plan was aborted when it was pointed out that the existence of Stanley Falls between the drop zone and the city was an insuperable obstacle. The operation also suffered from the Belgian commander's colonial-era contempt for the numerical strength of the Simbas and American fears of what was in reality a non-existent Communist element in the rebel movement."Dragon Operations" demonstrates that, despite the slapdash nature of their planning and communications aspects, as well as the distance involved, the austere support, the large number of hostages, and a lack of intelligence data, they were remarkably successful in rescuing most of the hostages. Although less than ideal, the operations worked better than expected, given the conditions under which they were conducted. This important study of an almost forgotten episode of the Cold War has much to offer to military strategists and tacticians, political scientists and students of contemporary history alike. Orginally published in 1988: 236 p. maps. ill.