Blood&Desire: Risen
Author | : Nicole Bennett |
Publisher | : Verlag Kern |
Total Pages | : 397 |
Release | : 2014-05-14 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3957160588 |
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Author | : Nicole Bennett |
Publisher | : Verlag Kern |
Total Pages | : 397 |
Release | : 2014-05-14 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3957160588 |
Author | : Katja Hoyer |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 229 |
Release | : 2021-12-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1643138383 |
In this vivid fifty-year history of Germany from 1871-1918—which inspired events that forever changed the European continent—here is the story of the Second Reich from its violent beginnings and rise to power to its calamitous defeat in the First World War. Before 1871, Germany was not yet nation but simply an idea. Its founder, Otto von Bismarck, had a formidable task at hand. How would he bring thirty-nine individual states under the yoke of a single Kaiser? How would he convince proud Prussians, Bavarians, and Rhinelanders to become Germans? Once united, could the young European nation wield enough power to rival the empires of Britain and France—all without destroying itself in the process? In this unique study of five decades that changed the course of modern history, Katja Hoyer tells the story of the German Empire from its violent beginnings to its calamitous defeat in the First World War. This often startling narrative is a dramatic tale of national self-discovery, social upheaval, and realpolitik that ended, as it started, in blood and iron.
Author | : Scott Westerfeld |
Publisher | : Macmillan + ORM |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2008-07-22 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1429989785 |
From Scott Westerfeld, the acclaimed author of the Leviathan trilogy and the Uglies series comes a sweeping space opera, The Risen Empire, book one of the Succession duology. The undead Emperor has ruled his mighty interstellar empire of eighty human worlds for sixteen hundred years. Because he can grant a form of eternal life, creating an elite known as the Risen, his power has been absolute. He and his sister, the Child Empress, who is eternally a little girl, are worshiped as living gods. No one can touch them. Not until the Rix, machine-augmented humans who worship very different gods: AI compound minds of planetary extent. The Rix are cool, relentless fanatics, and their only goal is to propagate such AIs throughout the galaxy. They seek to end, by any means necessary, the Emperor's prolonged tyranny of one and supplant it with an eternal cybernetic dynasty of their own. They begin by taking the Child Empress hostage. Captain Laurent Zai of the Imperial Frigate Lynx is tasked with her rescue. Separated by light-years, bound by an unlikely love, Zai and pacifist senator Nara Oxham must each in their own way, face the challenge of the Rix, and they each will hold the fate of the empire in their hands. The Risen Empire is the first great space opera of the twenty-first century. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author | : James Luceno |
Publisher | : Random House Worlds |
Total Pages | : 722 |
Release | : 2015-10-06 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1101965037 |
Witness the rise of the Empire with these two thrilling Star Wars novels—plus exclusive short stories by Melissa Scott, John Jackson Miller, and Jason Fry! TARKIN “Compelling . . . The villains of Star Wars are as much fun as the good guys.”—New York Daily News Under Governor Wilhuff Tarkin’s guidance, an ultimate weapon of unparalleled destruction—the so-called Death Star—moves ever closer to becoming a terrifying reality. Until then, insurgency remains a genuine threat. Guerrilla attacks by an elusive band of freedom fighters must be countered with swift and brutal action—a mission the Emperor entrusts to his most formidable agents: Darth Vader, the fearsome new Sith enforcer, and Tarkin, whose tactical cunning and cold-blooded efficiency will pave the way for the Empire’s supremacy—and its enemies’ extinction. A NEW DAWN Foreword by Dave Filoni “A story with pacing and dialogue that feels like classic Star Wars.”—Nerdist Ever since the Jedi were marked for death, Kanan Jarrus has devoted himself to staying alive rather than serving the Force. So when he discovers a conflict brewing between Imperial forces and desperate revolutionaries, he’s not about to get caught in the crossfire. Then the brutal death of a friend forces him to choose between bowing down to fear or standing up to fight. But Jarrus won’t be fighting alone. Soon he is joined by Hera Syndulla—a mysterious agent provocateur with motives of her own—in challenging the Empire for the sake of a world and its people.
Author | : Arthur Mapletoft Curteis |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 1887 |
Genre | : Macedonia |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Ashley Zakrzewski |
Publisher | : Ashley Zakrzewski |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
The Guardians successfully dethroned the leader of the Blood Takers, but what about his loyal followers? With Jakob out of the picture, their plan is simple. Set rules, reform the Rogues, and ultimately keep their secret. #1: Only drink what you need to survive. #2: Register with your assigned Governor. #3: No relationships with a human. Their rules aren't hard. You follow them, you live. You break them, and you die. When more and more rogues keep creeping up in existence, a red flag raises. Someone is turning humans for personal gain and using them to expose their secrets. Many lies are told on the night of Jakob's death, but no one could have foreseen the person behind this…
Author | : Owen White |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2021-01-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0674248449 |
The surprising story of the wine industry’s role in the rise of French Algeria and the fall of empire. “We owe to wine a blessing far more precious than gold: the peopling of Algeria with Frenchmen,” stated agriculturist Pierre Berthault in the early 1930s. In the last decades of the nineteenth century, Europeans had displaced Algerians from the colony’s best agricultural land and planted grapevines. Soon enough, wine was the primary export of a region whose mostly Muslim inhabitants didn’t drink alcohol. Settlers made fortunes while drawing large numbers of Algerians into salaried work for the first time. But the success of Algerian wine resulted in friction with French producers, challenging the traditional view that imperial possessions should complement, not compete with, the metropole. By the middle of the twentieth century, amid the fight for independence, Algerians had come to see the rows of vines as an especially hated symbol of French domination. After the war, Algerians had to decide how far they would go to undo the transformations the colonists had wrought—including the world’s fourth-biggest wine industry. Owen White examines Algeria’s experiment with nationalized wine production in worker-run vineyards, the pressures that resulted in the failure of that experiment, and the eventual uprooting of most of the country’s vines. With a special focus on individual experiences of empire, from the wealthiest Europeans to the poorest laborers in the fields, The Blood of the Colony shows the central role of wine in the economic life of French Algeria and in its settler culture. White makes clear that the industry left a long-term mark on the development of the nation.
Author | : H.M. Capes |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 2019-12-09 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1794712550 |
Book one of Return of Khrealis Series, the Elöser's Rise is based on a planet that rotates around the Sun every twenty-two-hundred years and is responsible for seeding Earth with what we call supernaturals. The Galactic Council sends the Elöser to reintroduce a supernatural code of ethics set in place and forgotten almost a century ago. This Khrean sent from the planet Khrealis is scheduled to wake to his true identity very soon; and coming out of hiding after twelve years, Stormy finds herself swept up into his cyclone. Waking, the Elöser waste no time, because as Khrealis makes its twenty-two-hundred-year rotation around the sun, and as this monstrous planet approaches Earth, it does more than affect Earth and the surrounding planets; it causes a metamorphous in the descendants of Earth who were created from the Khreans. While the Elöser is enforcing the code and building the Cerulean Guard, A blast from an ancient past finds his storm and plots revenge while directing the hurricane.
Author | : Joan Stoltman |
Publisher | : Greenhaven Publishing LLC |
Total Pages | : 106 |
Release | : 2017-12-15 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1534563105 |
Students are taught that the Aztecs were destroyed by Hernán Cortéz, the conqueror of Mexico. However, there is much to learn about who the Aztec people were before they were conquered. The native Mexicans were part of a rich and vibrant culture that spanned hundreds of years. To understand this complicated society, readers are provided with an engaging main text and colorful photographs and historical images. Informative sidebars throughout detail the long history, and sudden defeat, of the Aztec Empire.