The Grand Tournament


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Fight for honor. Fight for love. Fight for survival. Fight! Hong Yue is determined save his family’s honor and restore the reputation of their fighting system. He must simply follow his late father’s path and win a lethal tournament against a thousand of the empire’s greatest martial artists. With his wizened teacher and a new barbarian friend by his side, Hong Yue is ready to face suspicious guards, rival schools and even mysterious servant girls… But will long forgotten secrets prove even more deadly than the Grand Tournament? Fight alongside Hong Yue as he struggles to reclaim his father’s legacy while making a name for himself in the martial world! Inspired by classic Hong Kong cinema, epic fantasy, gladiator movies and a life long study of Chinese martial arts The Grand Tournament is a wuxia inspired fantasy tale combining real fighting experience with fast paced story telling. Enter the world of the Grand Tournament today!




The Plot Against America


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Philip Roth's bestselling alternate history—the chilling story of what happens to one family when America elects a charismatic, isolationist president—is soon to be an HBO limited series. In an extraordinary feat of narrative invention, Philip Roth imagines an alternate history where Franklin D. Roosevelt loses the 1940 presidential election to heroic aviator and rabid isolationist Charles A. Lindbergh. Shortly thereafter, Lindbergh negotiates a cordial “understanding” with Adolf Hitler, while the new government embarks on a program of folksy anti-Semitism. For one boy growing up in Newark, Lindbergh’s election is the first in a series of ruptures that threaten to destroy his small, safe corner of America–and with it, his mother, his father, and his older brother. "A terrific political novel . . . Sinister, vivid, dreamlike . . . creepily plausible. . . You turn the pages, astonished and frightened.” — The New York Times Book Review




Tournament of Shadows


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From the romantic conflicts of the Victorian Great Game to the war-torn history of the region in recent decades, Tournament of Shadows traces the struggle for control of Central Asia and Tibet from the 1830s to the present. The original Great Game, the clandestine struggle between Russia and Britain for mastery of Central Asia, has long been regarded as one of the greatest geopolitical conflicts in history. Many believed that control of the vast Eurasian heartland was the key to world dominion. The original Great Game ended with the Russian Revolution, but the geopolitical struggles in Central Asia continue to the present day. In this updated edition, the authors reflect on Central Asia's history since the end of the Russo-Afghan war, and particularly in the wake of 9/11.




The Champion of Light, Book I; The Legend of Apollo


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The Age of Immortals has passed and the legendary mortals of the Heroic Age are at rest in the Underworld. In the 2nd Age of the Earth Realm, fifty years after the Immortal's War, there is a darkness that is growing stronger as the light of hope slowly fades. In a world without heroes, if the darkness consumes the Earth Realm, the Dark Immortals will reign supreme over the entire cosmos. Those who continue to fight to preserve the light of hope are told of a prophecy that speaks of an Immortal's offspring, a demi-immortal, born on the Holy Day when the light shines the longest, possessing the unlimited power of the Champion of Light. It is told that the Champion of Light will rise to defeat the minions of darkness and restore the light of hope back into the hearts of hopeless mortals. Book I begins the saga of the Champion of Light's journey in becoming the hero who will challenge the Dark Immortals to maintain the cosmic balance between good and evil; light and darkness.




Chess Monthly


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The Medieval Tournament As Spectacle


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Fresh insights into the development of the tournament as an opportunity for social display.




A Companion to Chivalry


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A comprehensive study of every aspect of chivalry and chivalric culture.




Tournament


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In the Middle Ages Tournaments were the equivalent of Medieval football, with the 'star players' gaining wealth and prestige. Here is the history of the Tournament.