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Author : John France
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 655 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300177442
A major new history of war that challenges our understanding of military dominance and how it is achieved
Author : William Howard Van Doren
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600090585
Author : Rev. W. H. Van Doren
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1866
Category : Bible
ISBN : OXFORD:591006097
Author : Suzanne Leonard,Yvonne Tasker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-20
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781317593942
Fifty Hollywood Directors introduces the most important, iconic and influential filmmakers who worked in Hollywood between the end of the silent period and the birth of the blockbuster. By exploring the historical, cultural and technological contexts in which each director was working, this book traces the formative period in commercial cinema when directors went from pioneers to industry heavyweights. Each entry discusses a director’s practices and body of work and features a brief biography and suggestions for further reading. Entries include: Frank Capra Cecil B DeMille John Ford Alfred Hitchcock Fritz Lang Orson Welles DW Griffith King Vidor This is an indispensible guide for anyone interested in film history, Hollywood and the development of the role of the director.
Author : Johnathan Phillips Rogers
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2007-06-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780595890705
"Passions Have No Pity", from Live For Eternity. The Man. Paris Stone. A fearless, seductive, passionate musical genius who vows to create a new music, win eternal glory and redefine what it means to be American, at any cost. The Woman. Simone Duplaix. A proud, dashing, brilliant heiress of a 300-year-old secret tradition of American women, who vows to stop him because she loves him. Live For Eternity tells the epic human story of these two irresistible forces as they strive to outdo each other in love, passion, ambition and brilliance. Paris Stone is the founder and leader of the revolutionary musical octet Orpheus. For ten years they've worked to create a new music and now they are ready to seduce and conquer the world with this new sound. But months before Orpheus begins, Paris meets Simone, a moment that alters their destinies and everyone around them. When she hears about Orpheus' mission, Simone bets Paris she can stop his and Orpheus' inevitable success. Paris accepts her challenge and sets in motion events that might destroy them both. In their relentless quest to outdo each other, they trample upon accepted truths, uproot popular beliefs, and push themselves and everyone around them to the limit and beyond, all for passion, love, honor and victory. But how far will they go? How hard will they push? Sworn to eternal love but also sworn to outshine each other, will they risk everything they hold dear: their families, their love for each other, even their lives, all for victory and glory, all to Live For Eternity?
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 856 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1855
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555010160
Author : Joseph Grego
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : RUTGERS:39030014480182
Author : Emma Robinson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1847
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PRNC:32101065708602
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1854
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:B2957069
Author : Paul Murdin
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2008-12-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780387755342
[the text below needs editing and we must be careful not to say things about Dan Brown's book that could get Springer in legal trouble] Dan Brown’s novel, The Da Vinci Code, was first published in 2003; its sales have reached 40 million worldwide. The book mixes a small spice of fact into a large dollop of fiction to create an entertaining novel of intrigue, adventure, romance, danger and conspiracy, which have been imaginatively worked together to cook up the successful bestseller. Most interest in the book’s origins has centred on the sensational religious aspects. Dan Brown has written: ‘All of the art, architecture, secret rituals, secret societies, all of that is historical fact.’ This gives an air of authenticity to the book. Brown has, however, made up the religious doctrines, or based them on questionable accounts by others. The locations of the actions of The Da Vinci Code are not, however, made up. The present book is the scientific story behind the scene of several of the book’s actions that take place on the axis of France that passes through Paris. The Paris Meridian is the name of this location. It is the line running north-south through the astronomical observatory in Paris. One of the original intentions behind the founding of the Paris Observatory was to determine and measure this line. The French government financed the Paris Academy of Sciences to do so in the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries. It employed both astronomers – people who study and measure the stars – and geodesists – people who study and measure the Earth. This book is about what they did and why. It is a true story behind Dan Brown’s fiction. This is the first English language presentation of this historical material. It is attractively written and it features the story of the community of scientists who created the Paris Meridian. They knew each other well – some were members of the same families, in one case of four generations. Like scientists everywhere they collaborated and formed alliances; they also split into warring factions and squabbled. They travelled to foreign countries, somehow transcending the national and political disputes, as scientists do now, their eyes fixed on ideas of accuracy, truth and objective, enduring values – save where the reception given to their own work is concerned, when some became blind to high ideals and descended into petty politics. To establish the Paris Meridian, the scientists endured hardship, survived danger and gloried in amazing adventures during a time of turmoil in Europe, the French Revolution and the Napoleonic War between France and Spain. Some were accused of witchcraft. Some of their associates lost their heads on the guillotine. Some died of disease. Some won honour and fame. One became the Head of State in France, albeit for no more than a few weeks. Some found dangerous love in foreign countries. One scientist killed in self defence when attacked by a jealous lover, another was himself killed by a jealous lover, a third brought back a woman to France and then jilted her, whereupon she joined a convent. The scientists worked on practical problems of interest to the government and to the people. They also worked on one of the important intellectual problems of the time, a problem of great interest to their fellow scientists all over the world, nothing less than the theory of universal gravitation. They succeeded in their intellectual work, while touching politics and the affairs of state. Their endeavours have left their marks on the landscape, in art and in literature.
Author : Alexander Graydon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1811
Category : History
ISBN : BL:A0018645546
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1792
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590618409
Author : Colin S. Gray
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134697991
This book examines the subject of strategy and its relationship with politics. Despite the fact that strategy is always the product of political process, the relationship between the two concepts and their ancillary activities has scarcely been touched by scholars. This book corrects that serious deficiency, and explains the high relevance of political factors for matters of general defence. Each chapter aims to show how and why strategy and politics interact and how this interaction has had significant consequences historically. Neither strategy nor politics can make sense if considered alone. Strategy requires direction that can only be provided by political process, while politics cannot be implemented without strategy. In summary, this volume will explain: what strategy is (and is not) why strategy is essential what strategy does and how it does it how strategy is made and executed Written by a leading scholar and former practitioner, this book will be essential reading for all students of military strategy, strategic studies, security studies and war and conflict studies.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0026206029
Author : Sir Edwin Arnold
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Death
ISBN : HARVARD:HWIMB7
