The Grand Scribe's Records
Author : Qian Sima
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 48,19 MB
Release : 1994
Category : China
ISBN : 0253340284
Author : Qian Sima
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 48,19 MB
Release : 1994
Category : China
ISBN : 0253340284
Author : Andrew Rydberg
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 1038 pages
File Size : 20,29 MB
Release : 2022-06-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1663234655
Elaethia grew up in a world surrounded by evil. After Emperor Rychus murders her father, as well as the rest of her beloved family, a young Elaethia flees her country of Armini with her grandfather to escape the immortal tyrant that rules her homeland. Now free from Rychus’ clutches, she must now find a way to avenge her family and homeland. Through rumor and legend, she finds her way to the world’s last dragon, in hopes that he will train and raise her to obtain the strength and magic only a dragon can provide. But strength and magic won't be enough. Elaethia may be powerful, but she is ignorant of the world around her. With the help of her beloved dragon, Frossgar, as well as the friends she makes at a regional guild, Elaethia will rise to become the hero the world was not expecting.
Author : Andrey Prudkovskii
Publisher : Litres
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 22,92 MB
Release : 2019-10-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 5041951144
Conceiving this novel, I drew an attention to the fact that the main conflicts on which the plots of most novels are based are connected with aperson’s desire for the inappropriate: for unearned money, fame, power, pleasure and women. So it occurred to me to write a novel based on conflicts of a different kind. Let the majority of the characters in my novel strive for the happiness of mankind. And let the conflict be connected only with a different understanding the paths to this happiness.
Author : Michael Gehler
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 737 pages
File Size : 46,86 MB
Release : 2022-11-21
Category : History
ISBN : 3658368764
The articles of this comprehensive edited volume offer a multidisciplinary, global and comparative approach to the history of empires. They analyze their ends over a long spectrum of humankind’s history, ranging from Ancient History through Modern Times. As the main guiding question, every author of this volume scrutinizes the reasons for the decline, the erosion, and the implosion of individual empires. All contributions locate and highlight different factors that triggered or at least supported the ending or the implosion of empires. This overall question makes all the contributions to this volume comparable and allows to detect similarities, differences as well as inconsistencies of historical processes.
Author : Aaron Dembski-Bowden
Publisher : Games Workshop
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 31,75 MB
Release : 2019-12-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781789990232
Great new novel from Aaron Dembski-Bowden chronicling the story of the Emperor's Spears, a Space Marine Chapter on the edge of destruction, last watchmen over the Elara's Veil nebula. Now, the decisions of one man, Amadeus Kaias Incarius of the Mentor Legion, will determine the Chapter's fate… The scattered worlds of the Elara's Veil nebula were once protected by the oath of unity sworn by three mighty Chapters of the Adeptus Astartes. The Star Scorpions were undone by flaws in their genetic coding. The Celestial Lions were ravaged by the Inquisition for sins they did not commit. Now, after hundreds of years, only the Emperor's Spears still keep their vigil. They are barbarian watchmen against the Outer Dark; bloodied but unbroken in their long duty. Amadeus Kaias Incarius, a brother of the Mentor Legion, is commanded to cross the Great Rift and assess the Spears' war-readiness, only to be drawn into the chaotic plight of a depleted crusade on the Imperium's benighted frontier. The decisions he makes, far from the God-Emperor's light, will decide the fate of the war-torn Chapter.
Author : Brian Staveley
Publisher : Tor Books
Page : 493 pages
File Size : 19,1 MB
Release : 2014-01-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1466828439
In The Emperor's Blades by Brian Staveley, the emperor of Annur is dead, slain by enemies unknown. His daughter and two sons, scattered across the world, do what they must to stay alive and unmask the assassins. But each of them also has a life-path on which their father set them, destinies entangled with both ancient enemies and inscrutable gods. Kaden, the heir to the Unhewn Throne, has spent eight years sequestered in a remote mountain monastery, learning the enigmatic discipline of monks devoted to the Blank God. Their rituals hold the key to an ancient power he must master before it's too late. An ocean away, Valyn endures the brutal training of the Kettral, elite soldiers who fly into battle on gigantic black hawks. But before he can set out to save Kaden, Valyn must survive one horrific final test. At the heart of the empire, Minister Adare, elevated to her station by one of the emperor's final acts, is determined to prove herself to her people. But Adare also believes she knows who murdered her father, and she will stop at nothing—and risk everything—to see that justice is meted out. Chronicle of the Unhewn Throne The Emperor's Blades The Providence of Fire The Last Mortal Bond Other books in the world of the Unhewn Throne Skullsworn (forthcoming) At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author : Tom Doctoroff
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 49,36 MB
Release : 2015-04-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1466893362
This book cracks the supposedly indecipherable code of marketing to the New Chinese Consumer--all 1.3 billion of them. It distills what Tom Doctoroff has learned over the past eleven years in Greater China with JWT, one of the region's largest advertising agencies. Marketers of some of the world's leading brands come to China with mistaken ideas of how to apply Western thinking to the marketplace. But the same rules do not apply in China. Doctoroff delves into the psyches of contemporary Chinese consumers to explain the importance of culture in shaping buying decisions. He provides tools to help readers harness the power of insight into consumers' fundamental motivations and reveals the pitfalls into which many multinational competitors often fall. Anyone who plans to do business in China shouldn't get on the plane without this book.
Author : Hamma Mirwaisi
Publisher : Hamma Mirwaisi
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 10,51 MB
Release : 2020-07-07
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN :
Abdullah Ocalan and Kurd The Word Abdullah Ocalan and Kurd have one thing in common; both are the name come into existence because of the resistance against the occupiers of the Kurdistan. The struggle by the Kurdish people to be free from occupiers and live in the land belongs to their forefather peacefully made histories. The famous Jewish historian Josephus’ stated in the Antiquities of the Jews history – Preface ‘There are those who write histories in order to gratify those that happen to be concerned in them, and on that account have spared no pains, but rather gone beyond their own abilities in the performance: but others there are, who, of necessity and by force, are driven to write history, because they are concerned in the facts, and so cannot excuse themselves from committing them to writing, for the advantage of posterity’. Author note: Indeed the fact-finding about Kurd and Kurdistan where I belong derived me to write this book for my people, who have been used and abused by so many other people. The hatred and need for the land united followers of Deva (Dêw) and Asura religion to murder millions of people and enslave millions of women and children to be used as sex slaves, were Abdullah Ocalan and Kurd belongs too. Abdullah Ocalan led Kurds as the original members the Mithraism and Aryan religion, who established the ancient Caucasian civilized. Abdullah Ocalan and Kurd came to fight occupiers of their forefather land in different time. Kurd as the member of the Aryan religion fought Greek Empire as members of Deva religion, and Abdullah Ocalan is fighting Islamic Empires, led by Persian of Tamil (Tamil-India), Arabs of Africa and Turk of Mongolia simultaneously as the members of the Islamic religion which, is part of the Deva (Dêw) religion known as Abrahamic (Deva) religion too.
Author : Wu ZiQi
Publisher : Funstory
Page : 684 pages
File Size : 25,14 MB
Release : 2020-05-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1649200978
Since the birth of the Yinyang Continent, the two races of Yin and Yang had been born and bred. The Yang Race possessed the attribute of 'goodness', and possessed all sorts of superpowers to defend their 'goodness'. The attribute of the Yin Clan was' evil '. Demons, demons, ghosts, and other creatures belonged to it. They wanted to enslave the Yang Clan and control the entire continent. A youth who had comprehended 'creating from nothing' from the 'Classic of Virtue' was not tolerated by the current Heavenly Dao and had his body destroyed. His soul, by chance and coincidence, was taken in by the Yinyang Continent and reborn into the body of an ordinary Yang Clan youth. None: "The Yang race is good, forsaken by the Evil God; the Yin race is evil, born of the Good God. Tell me what is evil and what is good? " Close]
Author : Hui Zhou
Publisher : Funstory
Page : 693 pages
File Size : 17,28 MB
Release : 2020-06-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1649488408
Creation Immortal Emperor: Immortal Emperor Sky Tyrant has been dead for ten thousand years, no one can defeat him. With a single sword strike, Heaven and Earth will be destroyed. The Heavenly Emperor of Wei was extremely talented, his Eight Devils Mysterious Eyes overlooked the ancient river, and his killing power was the highest in the world. Meng Xuan, is killing them a small task? Meng Xuan: I can't say it was a small matter, right? That would seem too arrogant. Interesting, right? There were 3,000 great Daos, 100,000 Planets, and various types of Chosen vying for the Emperor's Road. ...