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Author | : Richard L. Davis |
Publisher | : Harvard Univ Asia Center |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780674953574 |
Richard Davis has expertly crafted a stirring narrative of the last years of Song, focusing on loyalist resistance to Mongol domination as more than just a political event. Seen from the perspective of the conquered, the phenomenon of martyrdom reveals much about the cultural history of the Song.
Author | : Edward Abbey |
Publisher | : Rosetta Books |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 2011-08-21 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0795317395 |
A New Mexico man faces off against the government in a battle over his land in this novel by the author of Desert Solitaire. After nine months away at school, Billy Vogelin Starr returns home to his beloved New Mexico—only to find his grandfather in a standoff with the US government, which wants to take his land and turn it into an extension of the White Sands Missile Range. Facing the combined powers of the US county sheriff, the Department of the Interior, the Atomic Energy Commission, and the US Air Force, John Vogelin stands his ground—because to Vogelin, his land is his life. When backed into a corner, a tough old man like him will come out fighting . . . Fire on the Mountain is a suspenseful page-turner by “one of the very best writers to deal with the American West”—the acclaimed author of such classics as The Monkey Wrench Gang and the memoir Desert Solitaire (The Washington Post). “Abbey is a fresh breath from the farther reaches and canyons of the diminishing frontier.” —Houston Chronicle “The Thoreau of the American West.” —Larry McMurtry, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Lonesome Dove
Author | : Michael G Chang |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 574 |
Release | : 2020-03-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1684174562 |
"Between 1751 and 1784, the Qianlong emperor embarked upon six southern tours, traveling from Beijing to Jiangnan and back. These tours were exercises in political theater that took the Manchu emperor through one of the Qing empire’s most prosperous regions.This study elucidates the tensions and the constant negotiations characterizing the relationship between the imperial center and Jiangnan, which straddled the two key provinces of Jiangsu and Zhejiang. Politically, economically, and culturally, Jiangnan was the undisputed center of the Han Chinese world; it also remained a bastion of Ming loyalism and anti-Manchu sentiment. How did the Qing court constitute its authority and legitimate its domination over this pivotal region? What were the precise terms and historical dynamics of Qing rule over China proper during the long eighteenth century?In the course of addressing such questions, this study also explores the political culture within and through which High Qing rule was constituted and contested by a range of actors, all of whom operated within socially and historically structured contexts. The author argues that the southern tours occupied a central place in the historical formation of Qing rule during a period of momentous change affecting all strata of the eighteenth-century polity."
Author | : Charles Alma Wilson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 1985-01-01 |
Genre | : Hunters |
ISBN | : 9780961626112 |
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Total Pages | : 482 |
Release | : 1907 |
Genre | : Science |
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Author | : Kat Martin |
Publisher | : Harlequin |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2019-03-11 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1488039062 |
Don’t miss this fan-favorite book from the Raines of Wind Canyon series by New York Times bestselling author Kat Martin! Maggie O’Connell, a well-known Houston photographer, is being followed. Desperate for help, she hires Trace Rawlins, a former army ranger turned private investigator. Trace soon senses that something’s wrong—and it becomes clear Maggie isn’t telling him everything. If the menacing calls and messages are real, why won’t the police help her? And if they aren’t real, what is she hiding? Trace must figure out if the danger comes from an unknown stalker…or from the woman he’s trying his hardest not to fall for. Originally published in 2011.
Author | : Geoffrey Winthrop Young |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 652 |
Release | : 1920 |
Genre | : Mountaineering |
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Author | : James M. Tabor |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 2008-06-17 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 0393066851 |
Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award Grand Prize Winner, Banff Mountain Book Festival "Forever on the Mountain grips even non-climbers with its harrowing scenes of thorny relationships tested by extraordinary circumstances." —Washington Post In 1967, seven young men, members of a twelve-man expedition led by twenty-four-year-old Joe Wilcox, were stranded at 20,000 feet on Alaska’s Mount McKinley in a vicious Arctic storm. Ten days passed while the storm raged, yet no rescue was mounted. All seven perished in what remains the most tragic expedition in American climbing history. Revisiting the event in the tradition of Norman Maclean’s Young Men and Fire, James M. Tabor uncovers elements of controversy, finger-pointing, and cover-up that make this disaster unlike any other.
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Total Pages | : 834 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Agriculture |
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Author | : Raymond Pairan Jr |
Publisher | : Raymond Pairan |
Total Pages | : 175 |
Release | : 2019-05-06 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1097195066 |
This was a natural world that shunned the alien who could never fathom its pure fresh elegant beauty. Humankind alone was able to rejoice in the gifts of a world rich in color and natural pageant. Not one instant on any other world could compare to this special place on this nondescript planet so very far from the clustered luminosity of the densely packed center of the galaxy. The landing of our spacecraft out in some remote prairie expanse in the western United States facilitated the release of my brethren into the wilds of this fresh host filled world. The news reports being televised around the clock on the image projection screen downstairs in my ex-host's living space indicated that our invasion was progressing nicely. They had footage of our spacecraft incinerating whole squadrons of primitive attack aircraft that had been called out to defend their backward planet against what they termed - the enemy. No sooner would they bring up reinforcements to be sacrificed on the front lines of battles extending across the planet and others already far enough along in their transformation would fire on their former native compatriots. Cataloging the rise and inevitable decline of yet another offshoot of our genetically impure species was a task for our many Anthropologists who traveled across the universe piecing our various experiences on thousands of living spaces. They simply would not admit defeat and accept their fate. What was most troubling was the technology employed in their sleekest fighter; for its agility and precision munitions targeting must have been designed with help from a more advance species. Was Earth a member of the Zalon Kingdom?