A Point of Honor


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Sir Mary de Courey is the doughtiest knight in the virtual reality land of Chivalry. But when, in the real world, her plane crashes and her car is driven off the road, she finds herself in more trouble than single combat can solve. Someone appears to want to retrieve the mysterious manor that she won from an anonymous knight, and is willing to kill her to get it back. Now she must travel through the world of Chivalry to find the secret door that leads from the most mundane of Virtual Reality libraries to the most magical of worlds!




Point of Honor


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In 1864 Peter Wake searches for army deserters in the Dry Tortugas and discovers an old nemesis during a standoff with the French Navy.




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The Point Of Honor: A Military Tale


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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Point Of Honor: A Military Tale" by Joseph Conrad. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.




Points of Honor


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This book is based on author the author's personal experiences as an enlisted Marine. First published in 1925, the stories in this book deal almost entirely with Marines in the midst of battle--or faced with the consequences of military violence. The stories offer a view of war experience and its aftermath,with themes that are often antiheroic: dehumanization, pettiness, betrayal by loved ones at home, and the cruelty of military justice.--Publisher's description.




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The Point of Honor


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The Point of Honor by Joseph Conrad is about Napoleon the First and his campaign through Europe. Excerpt: "Napoleon the First, whose career had the quality of a duel against the whole of Europe, disliked dueling between the officers of his army. The great military emperor was not a swashbuckler and had little respect for tradition. Nevertheless, a story of dueling which became a legend in the army runs through the epic of imperial wars."







Thomas Hobbes


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Has modern Western society lost its sense of honor? If so, can we find the reason for this loss? Laurie Johnson Bagby turns to the political philosophy of Thomas Hobbes for answers to these questions, finding in him the early modern 'turning point for honor.' She examines Hobbes's use of the word honor throughout his career and reveals in Hobbes's thought an evolving understanding of honor, at least in his analysis of politics and society. She also looks at Hobbes's life and times, especially the English Civil War, a cataclysmic event that solidified his rejection of honor as a socially and politically useful concept. Bagby analyzes key ideas in Hobbes's philosophy which shed further light on his conclusion that the desire for honor is dangerous and needs to be eliminated in favor of fear and self-interest. In the end, she questions whether the equality of fear in the state of nature is actually a better source of social and political obligation than honor. In rejecting any sense of obligation based upon earlier notions of natural superiors and inferiors, does Hobbesian and future liberal thought unnecessarily reject honor as a source of restraint in society that previously promoted protection of the weaker against the stronger?




West Point


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A collection of essays and photographs celebrates the first two hundred years of the illustrious military institution whose alumni include Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant, William T. Sherman, Buzz Aldrin, and Norman Schwarzkopf.