Born To Rule

Author : Julia P. Gelardi
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2007-04-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781429904551

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Born to Rule by Julia P. Gelardi Pdf

Julia Gelardi's Born to Rule is an historical tour de force that weaves together the powerful and moving stories of the five royal granddaughters of Queen Victoria. These five women were all married to reigning European monarchs during the early part of the 20th century, and it was their reaction to the First World War that shaped the fate of a continent and the future of the modern world. Here are the stories of Alexandra, whose enduring love story, controversial faith in Rasputin, and tragic end have become the stuff of legend; Marie, the flamboyant and eccentric queen who battled her way through a life of intrigues and was also the mother of two Balkan queens and of the scandalous Carol II of Romania; Victoria Eugenie, Spain's very English queen who, like Alexandra, introduced hemophilia into her husband's family-with devastating consequences for her marriage; Maud, King Edward VII's daughter, who was independent Norway's reluctant queen; and Sophie, Kaiser Wilhelm II's much maligned sister, daughter of an Emperor and herself the mother of no less than three kings and a queen, who ended her days in bitter exile. Born to Rule evokes a world of luxury, wealth, and power in a bygone era, while also recounting the ordeals suffered by a unique group of royal women who at times faced poverty, exile, and death. Praised in their lifetimes for their legendary beauty, many of these women were also lauded-and reviled-for their political influence. Using never before published letters, memoirs, diplomatic documents, secondary sources, and interviews with descendents of the subjects, Julia Gelardi's Born to Rule is an astonishing and memorable work of popular history.

Author : Mary Stroll
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2004-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789047414117

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Calixtus II (1119-1124): A Pope Born to Rule by Mary Stroll Pdf

This new interpretation of the reign of Calixtus II (1119-1124) challenges the conventional analysis explaining why this life-long opponent of the emperor, Henry V, agreed to compromise over imperial investitures of bishops in the Concordat of Worms of 1122.

Author : Tah Asongwed
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9789956558421

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Born to Rule by Tah Asongwed Pdf

Born to Rule is the autobiography of an African-president monarch who does not want to pass away without leaving anything in writing to future generations. The book is more than just the autobiography of a president in that it has responded to all the key issues that most people have been asking about the development and underdevelopment of Africa. It is a seminal contribution to the world's collective knowledge of African and world history. At times it is compellingly incisive, satiric, and tongue-in-cheek and, in some places, trenchantly hard-hitting and humorous in its brutal portrayal of the way Mandzah and, by extension, the African continent, is managed and mismanaged.

Author : Christian Santiago
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1733403027

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Born to Rule by Christian Santiago Pdf

IT'S TIME YOU STOPPED LIVING SMALL AND STARTED SEEING THE REAL YOU. Did you know when God made you, He did it with something greater in mind than how you're currently living? Believe it or not, God created you with the intention to rule on Earth as He rules in Heaven. Unfortunately, this birthright we all have deep within us has either been lost or buried. There's good news, though: the birthright to rule can be reclaimed. In Born To Rule, you will journey back to the beginning to rediscover the primary purpose for mankind and learn how to actualize this purpose into every area of your life. After all, rulership is why you were created. In This Book You Will: - Reclaim your birthright to rule on Earth as your Father rules in Heaven - Restore your identity as a King or Queen under God - Rewire your mind with Rulership Beliefs

Author : Sunita Aron
Publisher : Hay House, Inc
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789385827105

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The Dynasty by Sunita Aron Pdf

Why are surnames so important in politics? Should there be birth entitlements to inheritance of power in a democratic set-up? Must the offspring be given on a platter what the common people have to struggle for? Believers in meritocracy and equitable distribution of power would cry in chorus: ‘No’. Then why is India’s vibrant democracy stained with dynastic politics in which bereavement is also used to transfer power? The Nehru-Gandhi family has so far been singularly held responsible for this widespread political malaise. Rightly so! Had Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru not dithered when his daughter Indira Gandhi stood for presidentship of the Congress almost six decades back, dynastic politics would not have crept into our rich democracy and grown into a monster. What the father founded, the daughter fostered. Since then, innumerable dynasties – old and new, big and small, famous and infamous – dot the country’s political landscape today. Non-Congress parties, though equally guilty, have sporadically raised the issue of hereditary politics but never as intensely as in the watershed 2014 Lok Sabha polls when the voters debated and debunked the right to rule on the basis of birth certificate and not merit. They handed over the reins of the country to a non-dynast, Narendra Modi, punished the country’s grand old party for its non-performance and its scam-ridden tenure and, yet, elected many dynastic scions – a peculiar contradiction, but that’s what Indian politics is all about! This volume incisively analyses the unethical games politicians play to remain in power and grow into brands.

Author : Coach Fard Bell
Publisher : Born to Rule
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1796320242

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Born to Rule: Awaken the Bornceo Within You: 7 Steps to Claiming Your Freedom & Living Your Purpose by Coach Fard Bell Pdf

In this first book of the 'Born To Rule' series, Coach Fard Bell shares an inspirational story about the 7 steps to claiming your freedom and living your purpose. Inspired by his own transformation from not wanting to be alive, to now living his true purpose, he shares the life-changing strategies that allowed him to discover his true purpose and retire 40 years early to pursue it.

Author : Danny Dorling
Publisher : Biteback Publishing
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781785904561

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Rule Britannia by Danny Dorling Pdf

Things fall apart when empires crumble. This time, we think, things will be different. They are not. This time, we are told, we will become great again. We will not. In this new edition of the hugely successful Rule Britannia, Danny Dorling and Sally Tomlinson argue that the vote to leave the EU was the last gasp of the old empire working its way out of the British psyche. Fuelled by a misplaced nostalgia, the result was driven by a lack of knowledge of Britain's imperial history, by a profound anxiety about Britain's status today, and by a deeply unrealistic vision of our future.

Author : Michael Grose
Publisher : Penguin Group Australia
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781760145811

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Why First-borns Rule the World and Later-borns Want to Change It by Michael Grose Pdf

There are many factors affecting a child’s personality and the adult they become, but the least understood is birth order. Why is it that children in a family can share the same gene pool, a similar socio-economic environment and experience similar parenting styles yet have fundamentally different personalities, interests and even different careers as adults? Birth order! The implications for parents, teachers and adults involved with children are many. First published in 2003 to great acclaim, this fully revised and updated edition seeks to increase the reader’s understanding of birth order theory, including the impact of a child’s broader social environment and the rise of the standard two-child family, where the second-born is simultaneously the last-born. It will enable you to delve a little deeper and look for the constellation of positions within a family, giving you a clearer picture of your own quirks and ambitions, along with those of your siblings, children, partner, workmates, friends and colleagues. Addressing multiple births, children with a disability, genetic engineering, blended families, gender balance, only children and birth-order balance in the workplace, parenting expert and father of three Michael Grose challenges parents to raise each child differently according to his or her birth order.

Author : Paddy Manning
Publisher : Melbourne University
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0522870783

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Born to Rule? by Paddy Manning Pdf

After wresting the prime ministership from long-term adversary Tony Abbott, Malcolm Turnbull's term at the Lodge was brutally short. It traversed a soaring electoral honeymoon to the marathon 2016 election, to the compromises of a government with the slimmest of majorities and finally death by political sword. Why? Was it collateral damage for a Liberal Party tearing itself apart, or a consequence of the man himself? Born to Rule?, by esteemed journalist Paddy Manning, is the updated bestselling biography of one of Australia's most celebrated overachievers, charting his very public highs and lows in technicolour detail. Based on countless interviews and painstaking research, Born to Rule? charts Turnbull's relentless progression from exclusive Point Piper to Oxford University; from beating the Thatcher government in the Spycatcher trial to losing the referendum on the republic; from defending the late Kerry Packer in a Royal Commission to defending his own role in Australia's biggest corporate collapse. It gives forensic accounts of him striking it rich as co-founder of OzEmail, his spectacular misstep with the Utegate affair, and the hotly contested battle for Wentworth on his grand march towards become prime minister. Turnbull may be out of parliament, but will he ever be out of politics?

Author : Lita Judge
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2010-04-27
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781596434431

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Born to Be Giants by Lita Judge Pdf

Through easy to read text, this book shows readers how baby dinosaurs grew up to be giants.

Author : William GIBSON (Quaker, of London.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1667
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0020964442

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The Everlasting Rule Born Witness Unto, which is to Try All People that Do Profess God and Christ in Words, Etc by William GIBSON (Quaker, of London.) Pdf

Author : Winifred Rule
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0692208194

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Born to Destroy by Winifred Rule Pdf

Author : John Julius Norwich
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 780 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781780227504

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The Duff Cooper Diaries by John Julius Norwich Pdf

The long awaited and highly revealing diaries of the politician, diplomat, and socialite (married to Lady Diana Cooper) 'This is a fabulous, jaw-dropping read' SUNDAY TIMES 'Duff Cooper was as close to the action as anyone during the dramatic events of the mid-20th century. He was also comically priapic, committing enough sexual indiscretions to fill a dozen diaries' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH 'Fascinating for two things: their testament to an exhilarating century and their witness to a vanished age of power and privilege ... What a man' OBSERVER Duff Cooper was a first-rate witness of just about every significant event from 1914 to 1950. His diary includes some magnificent set pieces - as a young soldier at the end of WWI, as a politician during the General Strike of 1926, as King Edward VIII's friend at the time of the Abdication, and from Paris after the liberation in 1944, when he became British ambassador. If Duff Cooper's name has dimmed in the 50 years since his death, publication of these diaries will bring him to the fore once again. His family have long resisted publication - indeed Duff Cooper's nephew, the publisher Rupert Hart-Davis, was so shocked by the sexual revelations that he suggested to John Julius Norwich that it might be best for all concerned if they were burnt. Now, superbly edited by John Julius Norwich, who familial link ensures all kinds of additional information as footnotes, these diaries join the ranks.

Author : Trevor Noah
Publisher : One World
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780399588181

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Born a Crime by Trevor Noah Pdf

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • More than one million copies sold! A “brilliant” (Lupita Nyong’o, Time), “poignant” (Entertainment Weekly), “soul-nourishing” (USA Today) memoir about coming of age during the twilight of apartheid “Noah’s childhood stories are told with all the hilarity and intellect that characterizes his comedy, while illuminating a dark and brutal period in South Africa’s history that must never be forgotten.”—Esquire Winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor and an NAACP Image Award • Named one of the best books of the year by The New York Time, USA Today, San Francisco Chronicle, NPR, Esquire, Newsday, and Booklist Trevor Noah’s unlikely path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of The Daily Show began with a criminal act: his birth. Trevor was born to a white Swiss father and a black Xhosa mother at a time when such a union was punishable by five years in prison. Living proof of his parents’ indiscretion, Trevor was kept mostly indoors for the earliest years of his life, bound by the extreme and often absurd measures his mother took to hide him from a government that could, at any moment, steal him away. Finally liberated by the end of South Africa’s tyrannical white rule, Trevor and his mother set forth on a grand adventure, living openly and freely and embracing the opportunities won by a centuries-long struggle. Born a Crime is the story of a mischievous young boy who grows into a restless young man as he struggles to find himself in a world where he was never supposed to exist. It is also the story of that young man’s relationship with his fearless, rebellious, and fervently religious mother—his teammate, a woman determined to save her son from the cycle of poverty, violence, and abuse that would ultimately threaten her own life. The stories collected here are by turns hilarious, dramatic, and deeply affecting. Whether subsisting on caterpillars for dinner during hard times, being thrown from a moving car during an attempted kidnapping, or just trying to survive the life-and-death pitfalls of dating in high school, Trevor illuminates his curious world with an incisive wit and unflinching honesty. His stories weave together to form a moving and searingly funny portrait of a boy making his way through a damaged world in a dangerous time, armed only with a keen sense of humor and a mother’s unconventional, unconditional love.

Author : Daniel Greenberger,Klaus Hentschel,Friedel Weinert
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 901 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2009-07-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783540706267

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Compendium of Quantum Physics by Daniel Greenberger,Klaus Hentschel,Friedel Weinert Pdf

With contributions by leading quantum physicists, philosophers and historians, this comprehensive A-to-Z of quantum physics provides a lucid understanding of key concepts of quantum theory and experiment. It covers technical and interpretational aspects alike, and includes both traditional and new concepts, making it an indispensable resource for concise, up-to-date information about the many facets of quantum physics.