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1000 tulosta hakusanalla Margaret Ball
Columbia University Studies in English. Series II. Vol. II, No.1; Sir Walter Scott as a Critic of Literature
Margaret Ball
Trieste Publishing
2018
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Sir Walter Scott As A Critic of Literature
Margaret Ball
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2015
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Thalia Kostis will be the first to tell you it's not magic, it's theoretical math when she walks a M bius strip through walls to her office at the Institute for Applied Topology. CIA Case Officer Bradislav Lensky doesn't care what it is, as long as she can help track down a smuggling ring and the terrorists in their safe house in Austin. The other magicians nearby don't agree, and don't care for new rivals either Now Thalia and the rest of her misfit crew are in a race against time, terrorists, common sense, grackles, and their graduate advisor to save the day
Problems come not as as single corvids, but as full flocks... Life at the Center for Applied Topology is never precisely normal, but Thalia Kostis, Brad Lensky and their coworkers have been enjoying a brief run of peace, quiet, and optimizing the theorems that allow for teleportation and camouflage. Everything is within parameters, until they get saddled with an intern who's convinced that he's God's gift to math and that their applications of topology are illusory. A rebellion is brewing - but bigger problems are afoot. Their old enemy, the Master of Ravens is back, and has teamed up with a mercenary with a grudge over the Center's recent disruption of a profitable contract. Together, the two are planning on taking out the Center - and everyone in it
Thalia Kostis is a budding magician (depending on how you define it), but she has a theoretical mathematician's grasp on socialization and people skills. When pressed into spying on a rival magician's company retreat to find out where kidnapped coders are being held, she expected things to go completely sideways. She didn't expect to end up mistaken for her rival's fianc e ... Now she has to juggle her own impending wedding, her cover, her magic, and company politics that might turn out deadlier than anyone expected
Thalia Kostis and her cohort knew the CIA was funding their group of research mathemagicians, but they'd never demanded results like this before After terrorists use magic to kidnap hostages from the agency's headquarters, the Center for Applied Topology finds themselves torn from their cubicles and dragged across three continents, from holding cells to terrorist safehouses as the superiors who never believed in them before are now demanding impossible results.Now academics who can't organize a donut run are finding out there are worse fates than loss of funding... If they don't find and stop the magicians responsible, they're going to lose their lives
The CIA has embraced mathemagics, but only as a new way of doing the same old thing: Planting bugs. Thalia and the rest of the Center for Applied Topology's research fellows have been dispatched across Europe with the mission of attending embassy parties, and teleporting back in later to plant bugs.Unfortunately, academics are the worst possible variable in the equations of diplomats and spies. The resulting hijinks, escapades, and misunderstandings end up with Thalia on one side of a Central Asian revolution, and her husband, case officer Brad Lensky, on the other... And if they can't figure out a solution, the entire country may go under water
It's one thing to meet a dragon in the snowbound mountains of the High Pamirs, but quite another to entertain him when he shows up at your Austin home, together with his sulky and all-too-human teenage girlfriend Linguist Sienna Brown battles a shapeshifting dragon who helps himself to her clothes and demands enormous quantities of pizza, a teenager whose ignorance of American customs doesn't prevent her from picking up every man she meets, a nosy neighbor and a group of Russian thugs who are tasked with acquiring the dragon for their own country. In addition, her boyfriend is terrified that the dragon's presence will tempt her to use its magical but brain-injuring native language. And he's not entirely wrong about that.
After waiting ten long years for Richert Dalkey to realize she's no longer the awkward young girl he grew up with, Elspet is thrilled when he finally comes to pay her court . . . until he divulges the true reason for his visit. His proposition? A sham engagement to discourage debutante Dorothea Turvoll, who's infatuated with Richert and whom his mother wants him to marry. Elspet convinces him to pretend he's desperately in love with her and actually court her instead, certain that with time-and a little bit of magic-he'll see they're meant to be together.But another woman in Din Eidyn has her sights set on Richert, as well as some dark magic of her own, and she'll stop at nothing to win the one man who can give her the social standing she desperately desires. Before long, the charade gets out of hand, and as scandal engulfs the ton, Elspet must decide how much she's willing to sacrifice for the love she's always wanted.
Twenty-seven years after the fall of Constantinople... Caterina, Countess of San Florian, keeps a book of important things she's learned, from poison antidotes to cosmetic recipes, from charms for toothache to ways of raising and commanding demons. Having a reasonable care for her soul, she has never actually tried demonic magic. Yet. Gian, captain of her personal guard, has an innate magical talent that does not rely on incantations, but warns him of danger and awakens him to opportunities. It makes him nervous. And Sultan Mehmed II wants one last great victory. San Florian would be an excellent base of operations for his army to attack Venice. On the run from Venice to Constantinople after the Turkish-aided takeover of San Florian, Gian and Caterina will need all their wits and every scrap of magic they can employ to escape, to survive, and to recapture their city.
