Genghis Khan: The Flail of God (The True Story of Genghis Khan) (Historical Biographies of Famous People) Alexander Kennedy
He was one of history’s greatest conquerors, and in his day, his name was a byword for terror. His forces burned great cities to the ground and slaughtered on a scale that verged on genocide. Yet there was also another side to Genghis Khan; he modernized the laws and customs of his people and unified much of Eurasia, furthering the trade and cultural exchange of the Great Silk Road. For these accomplishments, he is today celebrated as the greatest hero of the Mongolian people. In this essential biography, Alexander Kennedy examines Genghis Khan in all his facets: conqueror and diplomat, warlord and lawgiver, father and son, butcher and hero. We see Temüjin’s rise from the kidnapped son of a clan chief to the ruler of a united Mongol horde, the “Genghis Khan.” But we also see the human cos...
George Stephenson: A Life From Beginning to End Hourly History
George Stephenson * Download for FREE on Kindle Unlimited + Free BONUS Inside! * Read On Your Computer, MAC, Smartphone, Kindle Reader, iPad, or Tablet.** George Stephenson is one of the world’s most famous engineers. His pioneering work on steam-powered locomotion would supercharge the industrial revolution in the United Kingdom and help bring about the heyday of the British Empire. Through his talent and passion for engineering, Stephenson was able to transform the landscape around him, ushering in an era when travel across the country could be achieved in hours instead of days or even weeks. He is the epitome of the self-made man, rising from the lowest of origins to dominate the society in which he lived. Inside you will read about...✓ A Childhood in Coal✓ From Illiterate to Engine...
Ghosts of Pre-Modernity: Butoh and the Avant-Garde Shannon C. Moore
In 1959, Japanese performance artist Hijikata Tatsumi founded a style of dance theatre that drew from both Japanese and European creative sources. What attracted Hijikata, and his contemporaries were the ways in which these sources dealt with modes of expression that were marginalized and suppressed by modernizing practices of the late 19th century. Hijikata’s Ankoku Butoh (Dance of Utter Darkness) was one of several post-war, avant-garde developments that sought to articulate the post-war crisis of subjectivity, as well as reintegrate Japan’s modern consciousness with that of its native, pre-industrial roots. The repression of Japanese pre-modernity in combination with the death and devastation of WWII had resulted in a resurfacing of cultural elements that was often uncanny and grotesque...
Giovanni Maria de Agostini, Wonder of the Century: The Astonishing World Traveler Who Was A Hermit (Mesilla Valley History Series Book 2) David G. Thomas
This book is about a remarkable man, Giovanni Maria de Agostini, born in Italy in 1801, who combined two seemingly contradictory aspirations: a fervent desire to devote his whole life to “perfect solitude” and an astonishing urge to travel incessantly.
Following extensive travel in Europe, Agostini takes vows revocable only by formal dispensation from the Pope. He immediately leaves forever his “beloved Italy” for South America. Twenty-one years he spends traversing that, at the time, greatly unexplored continent, visiting Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia, Peru, Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, and Chile.
Seeking change and another continent, Agostini leaves South America for Mexico, passing through Panama and Guatemala, and then Mexico for North America, passing through Cuba. In Cuba, ...
God's Smuggler Brother Andrew
Sixty years after Brother Andrew’s first trip, his classic, thrilling account of smuggling Bibles across closed borders will inspire new readers.
Gods of Money F. William Engdahl
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The Golden Bees: The Story of the Bonapartes Theo Aronson
Napoleon III, being accused on one occasion of having nothing of the Great Napoleon about him, replied with as much exasperation as wit, that he did, on the contrary, have his relations. This book is a domestic chronicle of the incredible Bonaparte family, a greedy, amorous, quarrelsome and hot-blooded Corsican clan who provided nineteenth-century Europe — and America — not only with two French emperors, but also with a dazzling assortment of pretenders and parvenus, statesmen and eccentrics, great ladies and adventuresses. Plumped on to the thrones of Europe by the career of Napoleon I, who probably took better care of his family than any conqueror in history, the Bonapartes survived the wreck of the two empires they ruled, buzzing around the honeypots of the continent with all the pers...
Great Scientific Ideas That Changed the World Steven L. Goldman
From "The Great Courses" Series; Set of 36 lectures on 18 Audiocassette Tapes Taught by Steven L. Goldman, LeHigh University in the areas of Science and Mathematics; In 3 Cassette Hardcases.**
Greetings From Myanmar: Exploring the Price of Progress in One of the Last Countries on Earth to Open for Business (Kindle Single) David Bockino
In just a few years, Myanmar has gone from destitution, dictatorship, and isolation from the international community to being hailed “World’s Best Tourist Destination”—a seemingly impossible transition that led David Bockino, in 2015, on a search to find out exactly what happened, and how. Traversing the country, he encounters a pompous Western businessman swindling his way to millions, a local vendor with a flair for painting nudes, and long ago legends of a western circus. Sensitively written and expertly researched, Greetings from Myanmar: Exploring the Price of Progress in One of the Last Countries on Earth to Open for Business is the story of a flourishing nation still very much in limbo and an answer to the hard questions that arise when tourism not only charts, but shapes a place as...
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies Jared M. Diamond
"Fascinating.... Lays a foundation for understanding human history."―Bill GatesIn this "artful, informative, and delightful" (William H. McNeill, New York Review of Books) book, Jared Diamond convincingly argues that geographical and environmental factors shaped the modern world. Societies that had had a head start in food production advanced beyond the hunter-gatherer stage, and then developed religion --as well as nasty germs and potent weapons of war --and adventured on sea and land to conquer and decimate preliterate cultures. A major advance in our understanding of human societies, Guns, Germs, and Steel chronicles the way that the modern world came to be and stunningly dismantles racially based theories of human history. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the Phi Beta Kappa Award in Scien...
