Dynasty Warriors 5

Dynasty Warriors 5
Author: Greg Off
Publisher: Prima Games
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2005
Genre: Video games
ISBN: 9780761551416

Unlock every character, item, & weapon -Stats for all 192 weapons -Every item, including rare items, uncovered -All 48 characters revealed and unlocked! -Strategy for defeating all 64 battles -Each character's secret fourth weapons and how to earn them! -Battlefield tactics for all enemies -Tips for the game's Challenge Mode

Dynasty Warriors 2

Dynasty Warriors 2
Author: David Hunt
Publisher:
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2000
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 9780761532019

"Dynasty Warriors 2" not only puts you on the battlefield, it also puts you at the head of your own army. Choose from 28 different characters from ancient China; your fighting influences the ebb and flow of famous 3rd century battles. In "Dynasty Warriors 2: Prima's Official Strategy Guide," you?ll find everything you need to conquer the enemy, including: Strategy to help you choose your hero Winning combat tips for individuals and armies Basic and advanced strategies for every attack type Bios and tactics for all 28 playable characters A huge table of all officers and their roles

The Golden Dynasty

The Golden Dynasty
Author: Kristen Ashley
Publisher: Kristen Ashley
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2011-08-22
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1466023686

Circe Quinn, the office manager of a moving company, goes to sleep at home and wakes up in a corral filled with women wearing sacrificial virgin attire—and she’s one of them. She figures this is not good and soon finds she’s not having a wild dream; she’s living a frightening nightmare. She’s been transported to a barren land populated by a primitive people, where she’s installed very unwillingly on her white throne of horns as their queen. Dax Lahn is the king of Suh Tunak, the Horde of the nation of Korwahk. With one look at Circe, he knows she will be his bride and together they will start the Golden Dynasty of legend. Circe and Lahn are separated by language, culture, and the small fact she’s from a parallel universe and has no idea how she got there. Or, more importantly, how to get home. Facing challenge after challenge, Circe finds her footing as Queen of the brutal Korwahk Horde and wife to its King. Then she finds herself falling in love with this primitive land, its people and especially their savage leader.

China's Golden Age

China's Golden Age
Author: Charles D. Benn
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 350
Release: 2004
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780195176650

In this fascinating and detailed profile, Benn paints a vivid picture of life in the Tang Dynasty (618-907), traditionally regarded as the golden age of China. 40 line illustrations.

Crown of Crystal Flame

Crown of Crystal Flame
Author: C. L. Wilson
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 484
Release: 2010-10-26
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0062013297

“[Wilson] will dazzle readers.” —Chicago Tribune First time in print! The incomparable USA Today and New York Times bestseller C.L. Wilson continues her phenomenal Tairen Soul series with Crown of Crystal Flame, an epic romantic adventure that combines sweeping fantasy with breathtaking paranormal romance. Popular author Christine Feehan is an enthusiastic fan of Wilson’s magnificent saga, and anyone who adores the dark, epic fantasy of Terry Goodkind will be captivated by the further adventures of the woodcutter’s daughter Ellysetta and her lover, the Fey King Rain, as they prepare for the ultimate battle to save their world, the mystical Fading Lands, from the all devouring Darkness.

The Shaolin Monastery

The Shaolin Monastery
Author: Meir Shahar
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2008-01-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 0824831101

This meticulously researched and eminently readable study considers the economic, political, and religious factors that led Shaolin monks to disregard the Buddhist prohibition against violence and instead create fighting techniques that by the 21st century have spread throughout the world.

Ten States, Five Dynasties, One Great Emperor

Ten States, Five Dynasties, One Great Emperor
Author: Hung Hing Ming
Publisher: Algora Publishing
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2014-08-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1628940727

Drawn from Chinese classics of history, Hung Hing Ming's biographies introduce China's most emblematic historical figures and the cultural attributes fostered by China's ancient chronicles. This book is about one of the greatest emperors in Chinese history, Zhao Kuang Yin, founder of the Song Dynasty (960–1279). He is honored for having unified China in the extremely chaotic period of 'Five Dynasties and Ten States'. This enjoyable book introduces more of China's heroes and villains, highlighting a modest man yet a great emperor who brought peace and stability to the realm and saved the people from great suffering. Interwoven into the narrative of battles fought and alliances forged or flouted, we find examples of good leadership and bad, hot-headed fighters and disciplined warriors, and lessons on how to assess — and win — people's loyalty.

The Sixth Man

The Sixth Man
Author: Andre Iguodala
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2020-06-16
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0525533990

**The Instant National Bestseller** The standout memoir from NBA powerhouse Andre Iguodala, the indomitable sixth man of the Golden State Warriors. Andre Iguodala is one of the most admired players in the NBA. And fresh off the Warriors’ fifth Finals appearance in five years, his game has never been stronger. Off the court, Iguodala has earned respect, too—for his successful tech investments, his philanthropy, and increasingly for his contributions to the conversation about race in America. It is no surprise, then, that in his first book, Andre, with his cowriter Carvell Wallace, has pushed himself to go further than he ever has before about his life, not only as an athlete but about what makes him who he is at his core. The Sixth Man traces Andre’s journey from childhood in his Illinois hometown to his Bay Area home court today. Basketball has always been there. But this is the story, too, of his experience of the conflict and racial tension always at hand in a professional league made up largely of African American men; of whether and why the athlete owes the total sacrifice of his body; of the relationship between competition and brotherhood among the players of one of history’s most glorious championship teams. And of what motivates an athlete to keep striving for more once they’ve already achieved the highest level of play they could have dreamed. On drive, on leadership, on pain, on accomplishment, on the shame of being given a role, and the glory of taking a role on: This is a powerful memoir of life and basketball that reveals new depths to the superstar athlete, and offers tremendous insight into most urgent stories being told in American society today.

The Victory Machine

The Victory Machine
Author: Ethan Sherwood Strauss
Publisher: Public Affairs
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2021-03-02
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781541736221

"The Golden State Warriors are the envy of the modern NBA. Chasing their third consecutive championship, they have assembled an incredible wealth of athletic talent, lead the league in merchandise sales, and are planning to move into a glitzy new stadium next season. Their owner, Joe Lacob, regularly hosts the top CEOs and influencers of Silicon Valley in his box, fashioning himself into one of the most powerful men in the world. Yet inside the organization, there is considerably more strife. In this breakthrough work of reportage, star NBA reporter Ethan Sherwood Strauss investigates the team's culture, its financial ambitions and struggles, and the toll that being a super-team can take. In so doing, he not only rewrites the story of the Warriors, but reveals how the Darwinian business of NBA basketball really works. Reconstructing the deals that lured Steph Curry away from Nike and Kevin Durant away from Oklahoma City, Strauss shows how the smallest mistakes can define success or failure for years. And, as he looks ahead to the 2020 season, Strauss ponders whether this organization can survive its own ambitions"--

Dynasty

Dynasty
Author: Tom Holland
Publisher: Anchor
Total Pages: 544
Release: 2015-10-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 0385537905

Author and historian Tom Holland returns to his roots in Roman history and the audience he cultivated with Rubicon—his masterful, witty, brilliantly researched popular history of the fall of the Roman republic—with Dynasty, a luridly fascinating history of the reign of the first five Roman emperors. Dynasty continues Rubicon's story, opening where that book ended: with the murder of Julius Caesar. This is the period of the first and perhaps greatest Roman Emperors and it's a colorful story of rule and ruination, running from the rise of Augustus through to the death of Nero. Holland's expansive history also has distinct shades of I Claudius, with five wonderfully vivid (and in three cases, thoroughly depraved) Emperors—Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, and Nero—featured, along with numerous fascinating secondary characters. Intrigue, murder, naked ambition and treachery, greed, gluttony, lust, incest, pageantry, decadence—the tale of these five Caesars continues to cast a mesmerizing spell across the millennia.