All The Emperor S Men

Author : Hiroshi Tasogawa
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781557838506

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All the Emperor's Men by Hiroshi Tasogawa Pdf

(Applause Books). When 20th Century Fox planned its blockbuster portrayal of Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, it looked to Akira Kurosawa a man whose mastery of the cinema led to his nickname "the Emperor" to direct the Japanese sequences. Yet a matter of three weeks after he began shooting the film in December 1968, Kurosawa was summarily dismissed and expelled from the studio. The tabloids trumpeted scandal: Kurosawa had himself gone mad; his associates had betrayed him; Hollywood was engaged in a conspiracy. Now, for the first time, the truth behind the downfall and humiliation of one of cinema's greatest perfectionists is revealed in All the Emperor's Men. Journalist Hiroshi Tasogawa probes the most sensitive questions about Kurosawa's thwarted ambition and the demons that drove him. His is a tale of a great clash of personalities, of differences in the ways of making movies, and ultimately of a clash between Japanese and American cultures.

Author : Garry Anthony Greenwood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0958527903

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All the Emperor's Men by Garry Anthony Greenwood Pdf

Author : Garry Greenwood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1995-12-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1876084170

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All the Emperor's Men by Garry Greenwood Pdf

Author : Harold Lamb
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1934
Category : Mongols
ISBN : OCLC:465848050

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Genghis Khan by Harold Lamb Pdf

Author : Siddhartha Mukherjee
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08-09
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781439170915

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The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee Pdf

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a documentary from Ken Burns on PBS, this New York Times bestseller is “an extraordinary achievement” (The New Yorker)—a magnificent, profoundly humane “biography” of cancer—from its first documented appearances thousands of years ago through the epic battles in the twentieth century to cure, control, and conquer it to a radical new understanding of its essence. Physician, researcher, and award-winning science writer, Siddhartha Mukherjee examines cancer with a cellular biologist’s precision, a historian’s perspective, and a biographer’s passion. The result is an astonishingly lucid and eloquent chronicle of a disease humans have lived with—and perished from—for more than five thousand years. The story of cancer is a story of human ingenuity, resilience, and perseverance, but also of hubris, paternalism, and misperception. Mukherjee recounts centuries of discoveries, setbacks, victories, and deaths, told through the eyes of his predecessors and peers, training their wits against an infinitely resourceful adversary that, just three decades ago, was thought to be easily vanquished in an all-out “war against cancer.” The book reads like a literary thriller with cancer as the protagonist. Riveting, urgent, and surprising, The Emperor of All Maladies provides a fascinating glimpse into the future of cancer treatments. It is an illuminating book that provides hope and clarity to those seeking to demystify cancer.

Author : Ben-Ami Shillony
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9789004213999

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Enigma of the Emperors by Ben-Ami Shillony Pdf

This important new and original study on the institution of the Japanese emperors focuses on the enigma of the institution itself, namely, the extraordinary continuity of the Japanese dynasty, which is unknown anywhere else in the world, yet which is now at risk on account of more recent laws of succession.

Author : Li Donghao
Publisher : Sellene Chardou
Page : 3037 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781304421555

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The Emperor of Heaven by Li Donghao Pdf

Zhuo Yu is sixteen years old, seven feet tall and has a strong body. He has short hair, healthy wheat skin, a knife-like face full of youthful and lively breath, and a pair of dark eyes with cheerful and lively light. He is dressed in dirty rags, rolled up his trousers and wore a pair of dirty cloth shoes on his feet, which is extremely out of tune with his thin and handsome face.

Author : Herodian
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1698
Category : Emperor worship
ISBN : OSU:32435018489625

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Herodian's History of the Roman Emperors, by Herodian Pdf

Author : Adrastos Omissi
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192558268

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Emperors and Usurpers in the Later Roman Empire by Adrastos Omissi Pdf

One of the great maxims of history is that it is written by the victors, and nowhere does this find greater support than in the later Roman Empire. Between 284 and 395 AD, no fewer than 37 men claimed imperial power, though today we recognize barely half of these men as 'legitimate' rulers and more than two thirds died at their subjects' hands. Once established in power, a new ruler needed to publicly legitimate himself and to discredit his predecessor: overt criticism of the new regime became high treason, with historians supressing their accounts for fear of reprisals and the very names of defeated emperors chiselled from public inscriptions and deleted from official records. In a period of such chaos, how can we ever hope to record in any fair or objective way the history of the Roman state? Emperors and Usurpers in the Later Roman Empire is the first history of civil war in the later Roman Empire to be written in English and aims to address this question by focusing on the various ways in which successive imperial dynasties attempted to legitimate themselves and to counter the threat of almost perpetual internal challenge to their rule. Panegyric in particular emerges as a crucial tool for understanding the rapidly changing political world of the third and fourth centuries, providing direct evidence of how, in the wake of civil wars, emperors attempted to publish their legitimacy and to delegitimize their enemies. The ceremony and oratory surrounding imperial courts too was of great significance: used aggressively to dramatize and constantly recall the events of recent civil wars, the narratives produced by the court in this context also went on to have enormous influence on the messages and narratives found within contemporary historical texts. In its exploration of the ways in which successive imperial courts sought to communicate with their subjects, this volume offers a thoroughly original reworking of late Roman domestic politics, and demonstrates not only how history could be erased, rewritten, and repurposed, but also how civil war, and indeed usurpation, became endemic to the later Empire.

Author : C. E. V. Nixon,Barbara Saylor Rodgers
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 750 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2023-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520342828

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In Praise of Later Roman Emperors by C. E. V. Nixon,Barbara Saylor Rodgers Pdf

Here, for the first time, is an annotated English translation of the eleven later panegyrics (291-389 C.E.) of the XII Panegyrici Latini, with the original Latin text prepared by R. A. B. Mynors. Each panegyric has a thorough introduction, and detailed commentary on historical events, style, figures of speech, and rhetorical strategies accompanies the translations. The very difficult Latin of these insightful speeches is rendered into graceful English, yet remains faithful to the original.

Author : Jean Baptiste Louis Crevier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1755
Category : Emperors
ISBN : UOM:39015073722707

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The History of the Roman Emperors from Augustus to Constantine by Jean Baptiste Louis Crevier Pdf

Author : Harold Lamb
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1927
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Genghis Khan The Emperor of All Men by Harold Lamb Pdf

Author : Father Adriano di St. Thecla
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781501719073

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Opusculum de Sectis apud Sinenses et Tunkinenses by Father Adriano di St. Thecla Pdf

This 1750 text, written by a Catholic missionary in Tonkin, is the earliest known systematic first-hand account of Vietnamese religious practice, including chapters on Confucianism, Buddhism, the worship of spirits, magicians, fortune tellers and diviners, and Christianity in the region. It was recently discovered in a Paris archive and will be of interest to a broad array of scholars. Includes a facsimile of the original manuscript.

Author : Olivier Hekster
Publisher : Oxford Studies in Ancient Cult
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198736820

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Emperors and Ancestors by Olivier Hekster Pdf

This is the first systematic analysis of the different ways in which Roman imperial lineage was represented in the various 'media' through which images of emperors could be transmitted. Rather than focusing on individual rulers of the Roman Empire, it evaluates evidence over an extended period of time and differentiates between various types of sources, such as inscriptions, sculpture, architecture, literary text, and particularly central coinage, which forms the most convenient source material for a modern reconstruction of Roman representations of power over a prolonged period of time.

Author : George Haley,Chin Tiong Tan,Usha C V Haley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136007132

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New Asian Emperors by George Haley,Chin Tiong Tan,Usha C V Haley Pdf

Much has been written about the rise of the Asian economies in recent decades, and their coming economic dominance in the next century. The New Asian Emperors shows how and why overseas Chinese companies are achieving dominance in the Asia Pacific. In the wake of the Asian Currency crisis, this book takes a fresh look at the role of the overseas Chinese as they continue to create some of Asia's most wealthy and successful companies. In particular, the authors tackle the principal difference between Western and Eastern business practices. The overseas Chinese, due to their origins and history developed a unique form of management - now they maintain it as their competitive advantage. Although Asian governments are currently floundering, the overseas Chinese networks continue to prosper. The authors explain the following to Eastern and Western managers: the sources and characteristics of overseas Chinese management, how to combat the overseas Chinese, the strengths and exploitable weaknesses of the overseas Chinese, whether overseas Chinese management practices will spread in the same way as Japanese management did, whether Western management technologies will find themselves outclassed. A feature of the book are the exclusive, in-depth interviews with the New Asian Emperors since most of them avoid the press and little is known of them.