In this second volume of Ravens of Eternity, Eva and Miko secure their footing in this new galaxy and find a way to make a living for themselves. On top of that, they find a way to reconnect with their families and friends from their past life. After they're able to mend old wounds and help their distressed families, they set to work with the military on a highly classified experiment.

About the BookOrbie Lee Mays USN Retired was born and raised on a farm in the northwest corner of Alabama. His life is one of many hardships and setbacks, and the success he achieved in overcoming them. From the Beginning to Almost to the End shares his journey, from beginning his military career at seventeen to his final rank of E-9 master chief petty officer and his personal life after his thirty-year military career ended. With harrowing tales from his time during the Vietnam War...

This volume provides a comprehensive account of the European Union’s social role in the world, assessing the EU’s ability to shape the social aspect of globalization from both law and political science perspectives.Focusing explicitly on the EU, the authors address the extent of coherence between the Union’s international social objectives compared with the activities of the International Labour Organization (ILO) and with other EU foreign policy goals. Various dimensions of Europe...

In the fifth volume of Ravens of Eternity, the Conspiracy of Ravens have expanded to six members and have been happily operating across the galaxy. However, a predator gets his hands on Eva in an attempt to turn her into his sexual slave. Though she kills her captor and gets away, she finds herself charged with murder, a capital offense on Helios.Disillusioned by an unfair system and its unjust laws, the Ravens contract a ruthless and deadly mercenary called Lucifer to help. But wi...

Orbie Lee Mays USN Retired was born and raised on a farm in the northwest corner of Alabama. His life is one of many hardships and setbacks, and the success he achieved in overcoming them. From the Beginning to Almost to the End shares his journey, from beginning his military career at seventeen to his final rank of E-9 master chief petty officer and his personal life after his thirty-year military career ended. With harrowing tales from his time during the Vietnam War and moments of levit...

The book investigates the substance of the European Union's (EU) democracy promotion policy. It focuses on elections, civil and political rights, horizontal accountability, effective power to govern, stateness, state administrative capacity, civil society, and socio-economic context as components of embedded liberal democracy.

Eva's life had been spiraling further ever downward, pressed down by the weight of the world. Just as everything threatened to squeeze the life out of her, she found herself reborn into a strange new galaxy. Though at first she believed she had been transported to Bellum Aeterna, a space warfare VRMMO, she soon realized that things weren’t exactly as they seemed. And life was even deadlier than before. Even as violent and ruthless pirates assaulted the facility she regenerated in, she real...

In the fourth volume of Ravens of Eternity, Eva and Miko are joined by Amal and Claire to further flesh out the Conspiracy of Ravens, their mercenary company. Collectively, they decide to help make the galaxy a better place by helping war-afflicted settlers out in the Federal Colonial Territories. Little do they know that they are on a head-on collision with the Prophets of Gaea, a terrorist organization led by an insane authoritarian patriarch who calls himself Father. He and his family o...

In the third volume of Ravens of Eternity, Eva and Miko find themselves prisoners at the center of a ruthless and bloodthirsty, yet beautiful and fascinating Empire. As they explore their new surroundings under the watchful eye of highly lethal enforcers, a violent and militarstic force threatens to destroy Imperial peace - as well as their lives. Little do they know that they are unwilling pawns in a covert game of power between a militaristic patriot and profit-hungry legislators.

Having fled from the Sol Federation, Freya and the rest of the Ravens find refuge in the Hegemony of Free Peoples. They're encouraged to start their own nation-state in order to maintain true independence, as a member of the Hegemony, an idea they embrace wholly. It isn't long until they launch as the Corvus Republic, a rescue fleet that specializes in covert operations while posing as galactic tourists.But their ascent is interrupted when an expansive galactic war breaks out, perp...

Despite the growing academic interest in the development policy of the European Union (EU) and the booming literature on Europeanisation, the impact of Europe on national development policies has largely been overlooked. By exploring Member State interactions with and through the EU level across a number of different issues, this volume looks to herald a new research agenda. The picture emerging from the empirical evidence is that of modest degrees of Europeanisation. Resistance to Europe ...

The Economic Partnership Agreements between the European Union and the Africa, Caribbean, and Pacific (ACP) countries have drastically restructured Europe’s trade architecture towards the third world. This volume examines the consequences of EPAs for development in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA).Starting from the observation that the establishment of free trade as such will substantially impact upon economic development, the different contributions focus on the potential contribution of ...