Blood Rivals

Author : Logan Beirne
Publisher : Encounter Books
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781594037672

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Blood of Tyrants by Logan Beirne Pdf

Blood of Tyrants reveals the surprising details of our Founding Fathers’ approach to government and this history’s impact on today. Delving into forgotten—and often lurid—facts of the Revolutionary War, Logan Beirne focuses on the nation’s first commander in chief, George Washington, as he shaped the very meaning of the United States Constitution in the heat of battle. Key episodes of the Revolution illustrate how the Founders dealt with thorny wartime issues: How do we protect citizens’ rights when the nation is struggling to defend itself? Who decides war strategy? When should we use military tribunals instead of civilian trials? Should we inflict harsh treatment on enemy captives if it means saving American lives? Beirne finds evidence in previously unexplored documents such as General Washington’s letters debating the use of torture, an eyewitness account of the military tribunal that executed a British prisoner, Founders’ letters warning against government debt, and communications pointing to a power struggle between Washington and the Continental Congress. Vivid stories from the Revolution set the stage for Washington’s pivotal role in the drafting of the Constitution. The Founders saw the first American commander in chief as the template for all future presidents: a leader who would fiercely defend Americans’ rights and liberties against all forms of aggression. Pulling the reader directly into dramatic scenes from history, Blood of Tyrants fills a void in our understanding of the presidency and our ingenious Founders’ pragmatic approach to issues we still face today.

Author : Geoff Holder
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780750958110

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Bloody British History: Britain by Geoff Holder Pdf

Britain has an incredible history, steeped in all manner of blood, death, disease and horror. From cannibals to concentration camps, Geoff Holder covers events both great and gory from Britain’s terrible past, with kings, queens and pretenders to the throne; sea battles, massacres and attacks from the air. This collection explores it all, with hundreds of amazing true stories, including seven ill-judged attempts to assassinate Queen Victoria and the Gestapo’s secret plans to bring a conquered Britain to its knees. There will be blood . . .

Author : Michael Moorcock
Publisher : PM Press
Page : 661 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781604868685

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Jerusalem Commands by Michael Moorcock Pdf

”I will admit I was lured into temptation during the twenties and thirties, and I blame no one for what happened then, least of all myself.” Unmistakably, this is the voice of Colonel Pyat, addict, inventor, and bizarre Everyman for the twentieth century. In Jerusalem Commands, the third of the Pyat quartet, our hero schemes and fantasises his way from New York to Hollywood, from Cairo to Marrakech, from cult success to the utter limits of sexual degradation, leaving a trail of mechanical and human wreckage in his wake as he crashes towards an inevitable appointment with the worst nightmare this century has to offer. It is Michael Moorcock’s extraordinary achievement to convert the life of Maxim Pyatnitski into epic and often hilariously comic adventure. Sustained by his dreams and profligate inventions, his determination to turn his back on the realities of his own origins, Pyat runs from crisis to crisis, every ruse a further link in a vast chain of deceit, suppression, betrayal. Yet, in his deranged self-deception, his monumentally distorted vision, this thoroughly unreliable narrator becomes a lens for focusing, through the dimensions of wild farce and chilling terror, on an uneasy brand of truth.

Author : Nicole Arend
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781398511781

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Vamps: Fresh Blood by Nicole Arend Pdf

'Fast-paced and enthralling' Sun 'A slick new series of romance and intrigue' Observer 'Everything you want from a vampire novel' United by Pop IN DARKNESS WE SHINE Welcome to VAMPS, an elite academy in the Swiss Alps for the children of the wealthiest and most powerful vampire families. Dillon is an outsider, a dhampir – half vampire, half human – sent to VAMPS to learn to nurture his vampire side. Thrown in at the deep end, he must embrace his fangs if he is to survive. But blood never lies and there is something special in Dillon’s veins that the others do not have. And as his power grows, so does the target on his back . . . Readers love VAMPS: Fresh Blood 'A very fun vampire story . . . these are the true heirs to Dracula's coffin' 'I absolutely loved this book' 'You are swept away into Dillon's new world at break-neck speed' 'I ship Dillon with almost everyone' 'I immensely enjoyed this book' 'A sort of Gossip Girl/vampire hybrid we didn't know we wanted' 'The world-building was also amazing' 'I didn't want to put it down'

Author : Richard White
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1988-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0803297246

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The Roots of Dependency by Richard White Pdf

"Richard White's study of the collapse into 'dependency' of three Native American subsistence economies represents the best kind of interdisciplinary effort. Here ideas and approaches from several fields--mainly anthropology, history, and ecology--are fruitfully combined in one inquiring mind closely focused on a related set of large, salient problems. . . . A very sophisticated study, a 'best read' in Indian history."--American Historical Review "The book is original, enlightening, and rewarding. It points the way to a holistic manner in which tribal histories and studies of Indian-white relations should be written in the future. It can be recommended to anyone interested in Indian affairs, particularly in the question of the present-day dependency plight of the tribes."--Alvin M. Josephy, Jr., Western Historical Quarterly "The Roots of Dependency is a model study. With a provocative thesis tightly argued, it is extensively researched and well written. The nonreductionist, interdisciplinary approach provides insight heretofore beyond the range of traditional methodologies. . . . To the historiography of the American Indian this book is an important addition."--W. David Baird, American Indian Quarterly Richard White is a professor of history at the University of Washington. He is the winner of the Albert J. Beveridge Award of the American Historical Asso-ciation, the James A. Rawley Prize presented by the Organization of Ameri-can Historians and the Francis Parkman Prize from the Society of American Historians. His books include The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650–1815, "It's Your Misfortune and None of My Own": A History of the American West and The Organic Machine: The Remaking of the Columbia River

Author : Dr. C.H. Basappanavar
Publisher : Notion Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-14
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781637147337

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THE EYE OF TIGER by Dr. C.H. Basappanavar Pdf

Have you ever touched the whiskers of a wild tiger? Here is a man, who had an appointment with a striped lady, the tigress along with cubs at her heels, spending breathtaking time over the entire moonlit night! It was as though he had an affair with the tigress; according to him, there was neither sin nor shame! Read, how secret telepathic conversations between the man and the striped lady went on through the night. The presentation in the book is woven around unknown secrets of the world of tigers to the human world. Tigers are wild by nature and hunters by instinct. When you are lucky to spot one in the wild, maintain pin-drop silence and enjoy the creation of Nature-God. This is the crux of The Eye of Tiger, which signifies extraordinary perceptions, be it the tiger tribe or human society. Readers, please remember, tigers are not human models one would expect to walk the ramp! Head out for an early morning safari in search of a tiger in a nearby tiger reserve with a trained eye and ear to spot one and shoot him, if you can, with your camera and take home green memories, nothing else. Happy reading!

Author : Martin Howden
Publisher : Blake Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Motion picture actors and actresses
ISBN : 184454916X

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Blood Rivals by Martin Howden Pdf

Texts issued with separate title pages, bound back-to-back, inverted, and, with separate pagination.

Author : M. Anthony Phillips
Publisher : BookRix
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783748748069

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Payback/the Bushido Way 2 by M. Anthony Phillips Pdf

It’s 1976 and Sam Phillips, fresh off his old case a year ago, is now the most hunted man in Los Angeles. Ken Yamada, the new crime boss of the Japanese Yakuza is in town to exact some payback on Sam for the death of his sister Michelle Yamada. Being a P.I. in L.A. is tough enough for Sam and his small investigations team with the addition of his best friend Armstrong Jones, who finally gets his P.I.’s license and Maria Ozawa, a Little Tokyo beat cop, but Yamada has increased the intensity by putting out a hit on Sam with a price tag on his head, literally. Yamada wanted the head of Sam Phillips on a platter. The newly crowned king of the Japanese mafia makes his “bones” by intruding on rival gang turfs with the best drugs, prostitution ring from South East Asia and massage parlors that money can buy. Sam and his girlfriend, Ramona Hightower, are involved in a high-speed car chase on the Sunset Strip with Yamada’s men in high pursuit and gunfire being exchanged that leaves Sam’s car turned over and Ramona in the hospital close to death. Sam is told of the bounty on his life when he returns to his old neighborhood in Long Beach with locals placing bets on his life. When Sam’s partner is beaten half to death by LAPD even though he tried to tell them he was working as a Private Investigator for Captain Pierpont, he became disillusioned at the time when Sam needed him the most. When another attempt on Sam’s life leads to the death of a young detective who jumped in front of the bullets to save Sam, Sam has had enough trying to play defense. He plans an assault on Yamada and hires ex-convicts and a revived Armstrong to take it to Yamada, with the blessing of Captain Pierpont, who gives Sam twenty-four hours to bring Yamada to justice or they’ll go in and burn Little Tokyo down to the ground in this explosive crime drama.

Author : Marie Favereau
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674259980

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The Horde by Marie Favereau Pdf

Cundill Prize Finalist A Financial Times Book of the Year A Spectator Book of the Year A Five Books Book of the Year The Mongols are known for one thing: conquest. But in this first comprehensive history of the Horde, the western portion of the Mongol empire that arose after the death of Chinggis Khan, Marie Favereau takes us inside one of the most powerful engines of economic integration in world history to show that their accomplishments extended far beyond the battlefield. Central to the extraordinary commercial boom that brought distant civilizations in contact for the first time, the Horde had a unique political regime—a complex power-sharing arrangement between the khan and nobility—that rewarded skillful administrators and fostered a mobile, innovative economic order. From their capital on the lower Volga River, the Mongols influenced state structures in Russia and across the Islamic world, disseminated sophisticated theories about the natural world, and introduced new ideas of religious tolerance. An eloquent, ambitious, and definitive portrait of an empire that has long been too little understood, The Horde challenges our assumptions that nomads are peripheral to history and makes it clear that we live in a world shaped by Mongols. “The Mongols have been ill-served by history, the victims of an unfortunate mixture of prejudice and perplexity...The Horde flourished, in Favereau’s fresh, persuasive telling, precisely because it was not the one-trick homicidal rabble of legend.” —Wall Street Journal “Fascinating...The Mongols were a sophisticated people with an impressive talent for government and a sensitive relationship with the natural world...An impressively researched and intelligently reasoned book.” —The Times

Author : Chuck Carlson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-03
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781683581017

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Ice Bowl '67 by Chuck Carlson Pdf

For those players who remain, the scars still run deep when it comes to the infamous “Ice Bowl,” played December 31, 1967, between the Green Bay Packers and Dallas Cowboys. There are players even today who suffer the ravages of frostbite and lung damage from a game many of the players never thought should have been played. As one player said, “It was just too damn cold. Who plays football in that weather?” But play they did in the minus 45 degree wind-chill (that dropped to 65 below by the end of the game) because the NFL championship, and a spot in the second Super Bowl, was on the line. What resulted was a game that has become part legend, part myth. There are a thousand stories from players and fans alike about a game that, 50 years later, remains embedded in NFL lore because of its sheer drama. Everyone remembers the remarkable way the Packers won, capping off a decade-long dynasty. The Cowboys, meanwhile, used the game as a building block that would propel them into NFL domination for 20 years. But what few remember is that this was. In every way imaginable, a game of survival, pitting man against the worst nature could deliver. This is a story about a football game, the men who played it, the people who watched it, those who were inspired by it and it’s a story, even a half century later, that remains unforgettable.

Author : J. F. Drinkwater
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108472647

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Nero by J. F. Drinkwater Pdf

Nero was negligent, not tyrannical. This allowed others to rule, remarkably well, in his name until his negligence became insupportable.

Author : John Scandrett Harford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1858
Category : Artists
ISBN : OXFORD:305769176

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The Life of Michael Angelo Buonarroti by John Scandrett Harford Pdf

Author : John Scandrett HARFORD
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1857
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0023356897

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The Life of Michael Angelo Buonarroti; with Translations of Many of His Poems and Letters. Also Memoirs of Savonarola, Raphael, and Victoria Colonna by John Scandrett HARFORD Pdf

Author : John S. Harford
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2023-10-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783375170646

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The Life of Michael Angelo Buonarroti by John S. Harford Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1857.

Author : John Scandrett Harford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1857
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UGA:32108002846288

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The Life of Michael Angelo Buonarotti by John Scandrett Harford Pdf