The Lord and the Vassal


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Vassal


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Elite vampire hunter Maggie Fox hears voices that aren't hers. This means she’s becoming a vassal--an occupational hazard for an operative in the Agency of Preternatural Defense, where being mind-melded with a vampire is tantamount to treason. Worse, her would-be liege is a vampire from her past who also happens to be the world’s foremost elder--the powerful Darius Khan. Following a botched mission that had involved Darius, Maggie knows that she is on a tight leash with the agency and must tread carefully when it comes to the elder. However, a new threat emerges that forces her to reconcile and join forces with Darius. The vassal bond grows stronger with her every exposure to him, however, and a vassal with Maggie’s knowledge of agency workings would be a huge coup for any vampire. Can she trust Darius? Can she even trust herself? Protecting the world from vampires is all that Maggie knows. But with time running out, she must now decide if her protecting the world is worth the autonomy of her soul. In story that's Buffy the Vampire Slayer meets Jane Austen's Persuasion, Vassal is the first installment in The Vampire Titan Series.




The Vassal


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Fiefs and Vassals


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Fiefs and Vassals has changed our view of the medieval world. It offers a fundamental challenge to orthodox conceptions of feudalism. Susan Reynolds argues that the concepts of the fief and of vassalage, as understood by historians of medieval Europe, were constructed by post-medieval scholarsfrom the works of medieval academic lawyers and tha they provide a bad guide to the realities of medieval society.This is a radical new examination of relations between rulers, nobles, and free men, the distillation of wide-ranging research by a leading medieval historian. It has revolutionized the way we think of the Middle Ages.




Vassal of El


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At sixteen, Torren was violently torn from his family and his people and left for dead, a cripple in more ways than one. For the next few years, he traveled alone, making few friends. Then, one night, a terrified young woman fleeing for her life stumbles into his camp, and his life once again takes new direction. As he reluctantly takes responsibility for getting her to safety, his past comes back to haunt him in a way that is painfully ironic. Against both his will and his better judgment, he must return to the place he had thought lost to him forever if he is to make good on his promise to keep his charge safe from harm.




Vassal State


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British politicians love to vaunt the benefits of the UK's supposed 'special relationship' with the US. But are we really America's economic partner – or its colony? Vassal State lays bare the extent to which US corporations own and control Britain's economy: how American business chiefs decide what we're paid, what we buy, and how we buy it. US companies have carved up Britain between them, siphoning off enormous profits, buying up our most lucrative firms and assets, and extracting huge rents from UK PLC – all while paying little or no tax. Meanwhile, policymakers, from Whitehall mandarins to NHS chiefs, shape their decisions to suit the whims of our American corporate overlords. Based on his 40 years of business experience, devastating new research, and interviews with the major players, Angus Hanton exposes why Britain has become the poor transatlantic relation – and what we can do to change it.










Freedom of Use


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"Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal are known for an architecture that privileges inhabitants’ freedom and pleasure through generous, open designs. The Paris-based architects opened their 2015 lecture at Harvard University with a manifesto: study and create an inventory of the existing situation; densify without compressing individual space; promote user mobility, access, choice; and most importantly, never demolish. Freedom of Use reflects on these core values to present a fluid narrative of Lacaton and Vassal’s oeuvre, articulated through processes of accumulation, addition, and extension. The architects describe built and unbuilt work, from a house in Niger made of little more than branches; to the expansive Nantes School of Architecture; to a public square in Bordeaux where, after months of study, their design solution was: do nothing."--Sternberg Press website (viewed Sept. 29, 2015)