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"The King shall lose both head and crown..." In The Peasant War,
the first book of this amazing trilogy, the ancient prophecy came
to pass, as an army of serfs and janissaries overthrew the corrupt
dynasty. Janissary General Dmitry Konchak is now an unlikely hero
of the Revolution -- a military genius who is squeamish and faints
at the sight of blood, an effeminate drunkard, an outsider among
the political elite, the so-called "New People" whom he helped
bring to power. In the second book, The New People In Power, Field
Marshal Konchak fights to reunite the empire and re-conquer
breakaway regions, including his own native province. In the
village where he was born, the janissary comes face to face with
his own past, as an ancient Oracle foretells a ghastly future. In
The Final Conflict, the third book of The Janissary trilogy,
Konchak must save the empire which he himself forged, against its
fiercest and most determined foe. As war wages on, neither enemy
atrocities, nor assassinations, nor relentless power struggles
within the ruling elite can deter Konchak from pursuing his
personal destiny. The ancient gods, original inhabitants of this
planet, for many generations trapped within a mountain, have
decreed a unique fate for the janissary. But first he must settle
scores with the man who betrayed him, and face the horrific loss of
a beloved friend. In this satisfying finale, all the threads of the
complex story come full circle to a final resolution: A missing
letter from an old printing press; a message that travels across
the continent only to be returned as "Undeliverable"; fragments of
encrypted files used to catch a spy: all the mysteries are finally
solved, concluding this epicstory of revolution, war, friendship,
love, and betrayal.
"The King shall lose both head and crown." In The Peasant War, the
first book of this amazing trilogy, the ancient prophecy came to
pass, as an army of serfs and janissaries overthrew the corrupt
dynasty. Janissary General Dmitry Konchak is now an unlikely hero
of the Revolution -- a military genius who is squeamish and faints
at the sight of blood, an effeminate drunkard, an outsider among
the political elite, the so-called "New People" whom he helped
bring to power. In The New People In Power, the second book of The
Janissary trilogy, Field Marshal Konchak fights to reunite the
empire and re-conquer breakaway regions, including his own native
province. In the village where he was born, the janissary comes
face to face with his own past, as an ancient Oracle foretells a
guastly future. Konchak's destiny is mirrored by that of his
friend, the brooding nobleman, Reiss Tselatse. Tselatse's
infatuation with a merchant's daughter leads to an unlikely act of
heroism: They must burn the secret police archives to keep them out
of the hands of hostage-takers. And yet, not all the files are
burned.. Several fragments turn up later as clues to condemn a
spy.. As Tselatse completes his tortured journey from idealistic
revolutionary to cynical secret police officer, Konchak's career
falters. A suspicious death within the government elite and the
ensuing power struggles within the top triumvirate turn the two
friends against one another and culminate in a horrific betrayal.
Cast down from the pinnacle of military glory to bitter exile in
the frozen tundra, Konchak finds the Oracle's prophecy fulfilled:
"A day will come when your very survival will depend on a single
bowl of soup." As brutal warsweeps across the continent, this epic
story continues, of revolution, war, friendship, love, and
betrayal.
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Diane Humphrey Barsa, Dianne Humphrey Barsa
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The problems of women workers in general -- and in the unorganised
sector in particular -- deserve special attention and focus in view
of their marginalised position within the class of workers. The
position of women workers in rural India is considerably lower than
that of women in general. The bottom layer is constituted by women
belonging to the lowest social status groups. A number of national
and international studies have documented the sex-typing of jobs
and occupations by women. Occupational segregation represents a
form of discrimination. Discrimination on the lines of gender is
not always overt. It appears in very subtle forms such as in the
nature of work performed, skills required to perform the work and
the valuation of these skills and the technology used by men and
women. One problem more specific to women is that they are subject
to various forms of harassment at the workplace. Verbal and
physical violence against women has been an age-old method of
subjugating them. Female and child domestic workers constitute a
large portion of migrant worker population. Working in the
unregulated domain of a private home, mostly without the protection
of national labour legislations, allows for female domestic workers
to be maltreated by their employers with impunity. This volume
contains 16 well-researched papers by scholars in the field of
women studies. These scholarly papers explain and examine the
various aspects of working conditions of women workers in India.
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