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Author : Alessandro Barbero
Publisher : Walker Books
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2007-04-03
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015069355348
Offers a close-up look at the Battle of Adrianople in 378 A.D., which led to a disastrous defeat of the Roman army by a barbarian horde led by Fritigern, a battle that marked the beginning of the end for the Roman Empire.
Author : Alessandro Barbero
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Adrianople, Battle of, Edirne, Turkey, 378
ISBN : OCLC:1244598187
Author : Alessandro Barbero
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:817303952
Author : Peter Heather
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 752 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2010-03-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0199752729
Empires and Barbarians presents a fresh, provocative look at how a recognizable Europe came into being in the first millennium AD. With sharp analytic insight, Peter Heather explores the dynamics of migration and social and economic interaction that changed two vastly different worlds--the undeveloped barbarian world and the sophisticated Roman Empire--into remarkably similar societies and states. The book's vivid narrative begins at the time of Christ, when the Mediterranean circle, newly united under the Romans, hosted a politically sophisticated, economically advanced, and culturally developed civilization--one with philosophy, banking, professional armies, literature, stunning architecture, even garbage collection. The rest of Europe, meanwhile, was home to subsistence farmers living in small groups, dominated largely by Germanic speakers. Although having some iron tools and weapons, these mostly illiterate peoples worked mainly in wood and never built in stone. The farther east one went, the simpler it became: fewer iron tools and ever less productive economies. And yet ten centuries later, from the Atlantic to the Urals, the European world had turned. Slavic speakers had largely superseded Germanic speakers in central and Eastern Europe, literacy was growing, Christianity had spread, and most fundamentally, Mediterranean supremacy was broken. Bringing the whole of first millennium European history together, and challenging current arguments that migration played but a tiny role in this unfolding narrative, Empires and Barbarians views the destruction of the ancient world order in light of modern migration and globalization patterns.
Author : J. M. Coetzee
Publisher : Text Publishing
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781925774634
Four modern classics by the great South African writer, J. M. Coetzee, re-released with stylish new covers and accompanied by introductions from some of Australia’s brightest writing talents
Author : William Finnegan
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780698163744
**Winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Autobiography** Included in President Obama’s 2016 Summer Reading List “Without a doubt, the finest surf book I’ve ever read . . . ” —The New York Times Magazine Barbarian Days is William Finnegan’s memoir of an obsession, a complex enchantment. Surfing only looks like a sport. To initiates, it is something else: a beautiful addiction, a demanding course of study, a morally dangerous pastime, a way of life. Raised in California and Hawaii, Finnegan started surfing as a child. He has chased waves all over the world, wandering for years through the South Pacific, Australia, Asia, Africa. A bookish boy, and then an excessively adventurous young man, he went on to become a distinguished writer and war reporter. Barbarian Days takes us deep into unfamiliar worlds, some of them right under our noses—off the coasts of New York and San Francisco. It immerses the reader in the edgy camaraderie of close male friendships forged in challenging waves. Finnegan shares stories of life in a whites-only gang in a tough school in Honolulu. He shows us a world turned upside down for kids and adults alike by the social upheavals of the 1960s. He details the intricacies of famous waves and his own apprenticeships to them. Youthful folly—he drops LSD while riding huge Honolua Bay, on Maui—is served up with rueful humor. As Finnegan’s travels take him ever farther afield, he discovers the picturesque simplicity of a Samoan fishing village, dissects the sexual politics of Tongan interactions with Americans and Japanese, and navigates the Indonesian black market while nearly succumbing to malaria. Throughout, he surfs, carrying readers with him on rides of harrowing, unprecedented lucidity. Barbarian Days is an old-school adventure story, an intellectual autobiography, a social history, a literary road movie, and an extraordinary exploration of the gradual mastering of an exacting, little-understood art.
Author : HAROLD LAMB.
Publisher : Alien Ebooks
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781667628097
An account of four generations of Mongol leaders, from Genghis Khan, through his sons, grandsons, and great-grandsons. The book is arranged into a series of narratives, which are grouped dynastically and chronologically covering the span of the Thirteenth Century, and dealing with the process by which the Mongols came to dominate Central Asia and spread outwards to come into contact with Europe, the Indian sub-continent, and China.
Author : Alessandro Baricco
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780847842964
From one of Italy's most respected literary voices, a manifesto on the state of global culture and how connectivity is changing the way we experience it. For the gatekeepers of traditional high culture, the rise of young ambitious outsiders has indeed seemed like nothing short of a barbarian invasion. In this concise and powerful manifesto, Alessandro Baricco explores a handful of realms that have been "plundered"-wine, soccer, music, and books-and extrapolates that it is not a case of old values against new but a widespread mutation that we are all part of, leading toward a different way of having experiences and creating meaning.
Author : Tzvetan Todorov
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2010-10-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780226805788
The relationship between Western democracies and Islam, rarely entirely comfortable, has in recent years become increasingly tense. A growing immigrant population and worries about cultural and political assimilation—exacerbated by terrorist attacks in the United States, Europe, and around the world—have provoked reams of commentary from all parts of the political spectrum, a frustrating majority of it hyperbolic or even hysterical. In The Fear of Barbarians, the celebrated intellectual Tzvetan Todorov offers a corrective: a reasoned and often highly personal analysis of the problem, rooted in Enlightenment values yet open to the claims of cultural difference. Drawing on history, anthropology, and politics, and bringing to bear examples ranging from the murder of Theo van Gogh to the French ban on headscarves, Todorov argues that the West must overcome its fear of Islam if it is to avoid betraying the values it claims to protect. True freedom, Todorov explains, requires us to strike a delicate balance between protecting and imposing cultural values, acknowledging the primacy of the law, and yet strenuously protecting minority views that do not interfere with its aims. Adding force to Todorov's arguments is his own experience as a native of communist Bulgaria: his admiration of French civic identity—and Western freedom—is vigorous but non-nativist, an inclusive vision whose very flexibility is its core strength. The record of a penetrating mind grappling with a complicated, multifaceted problem, The Fear of Barbarians is a powerful, important book—a call, not to arms, but to thought.
Author : Bryan Burrough,John Helyar
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780061804038
“One of the finest, most compelling accounts of what happened to corporate America and Wall Street in the 1980’s.” —New York Times Book Review A #1 New York Times bestseller and arguably the best business narrative ever written, Barbarians at the Gate is the classic account of the fall of RJR Nabisco. An enduring masterpiece of investigative journalism by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar, it includes a new afterword by the authors that brings this remarkable story of greed and double-dealings up to date twenty years after the famed deal. The Los Angeles Times calls Barbarians at the Gate, “Superlative.” The Chicago Tribune raves, “It’s hard to imagine a better story...and it’s hard to imagine a better account.” And in an era of spectacular business crashes and federal bailouts, it still stands as a valuable cautionary tale that must be heeded.
Author : Kirk Mitchell
Publisher : Ace Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Science fiction
ISBN : 0441571018
Author : Umberto Pignatelli
Publisher : Studio 2 Publishing
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8393179653
Author : Ruby Dixon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Human-alien encounters
ISBN : 197356856X
The growing barbarian tribe is about to celebrate No-Poison Day, a time of love, laughter and gifts. But all Elly wants is for her mate to be at her side before the brutal season arrives. All Bek wants is a way to quickly return to his female despite the mountains between them. Thanks to the talents of a newcomer, they're both about to get their wish and celebrate the happiest of holidays together.
Author : Edward James
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317868248
'Barbarians' is the name the Romans gave to those who lived beyond the frontiers of the Roman Empire - the peoples they considered 'uncivilised'. Most of the written sources concerning the barbarians come from the Romans too, and as such, need to be treated with caution. Only archaeology allows us to see beyond Roman prejudices - and yet these records are often as difficult to interpret as historical ones. Expertly guiding the reader through such historiographical complexities, Edward James traces the history of the barbarians from the height of Roman power through to AD 600, by which time they had settled in most parts of imperial territory in Europe. His book is the first to look at all Europe's barbarians: the Picts and the Scots in the far north-west; the Franks, Goths and Slavic-speaking peoples; and relative newcomers such as the Huns and Alans from the Asiatic steppes. How did whole barbarian peoples migrate across Europe? What were their relations with the Romans? And why did they convert to Christianity? Drawing on the latest scholarly research, this book rejects easy generalisations to provide a clear, nuanced and comprehensive account of the barbarians and the tumultuous period they lived through.
Author : Ruby Dixon
Publisher : Ice Planet Barbarians
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1796744123
Maddie's mate is returning soon, and she wants to make his homecoming a special one. Pregnant Josie wants to seduce her mate all over again. The solution for both of them? A Valentine's Day celebration, ice planet style. There'll be kisses, scanty outfits, and a pair of reunions you won't forget.Come and revisit two of your favorite couples from the original Ice Planet Barbarians series!
