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Book Hammer and Anvil

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  • Author : James Swallow
  • Publisher : Games Workshop
  • Release : 2011-11-29
  • ISBN : 9781849700665
  • Pages : 416 pages

Download or read book Hammer and Anvil written by James Swallow and published by Games Workshop. This book was released on 2011-11-29 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sisters of Battle are the Emperor's most devout worshippers, fierce warriors preaching the purity of the Imperium and scourging their enemies with bolter and flamer. When an Ecclesiarchy outpost, Sanctuary 101, comes under attack, the Sisters are quick to retaliate. But they face an unknown alien, an implacable foe that has never been encountered – the fearless, soulless necrons. With wave after wave of metallic nightmares assaulting the bastion, a vicious battle will be fought – one that can only end in the total destruction of the unrelenting xenos, or the annihilation of the proud Sororitas.

Book Hammer and Anvil

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  • Author : Pamela Kyle Crossley
  • Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
  • Release : 2019-02-28
  • ISBN : 1442214457
  • Pages : 360 pages

Download or read book Hammer and Anvil written by Pamela Kyle Crossley and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-02-28 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking book examines the role of rulers with nomadic roots in transforming the great societies of Eurasia, especially from the thirteenth to sixteenth centuries. Distinguished historian Pamela Kyle Crossley, drawing on the long history of nomadic confrontation with Eurasia’s densely populated civilizations, argues that the distinctive changes we associate with modernity were founded on vernacular literature and arts, rising literacy, mercantile and financial economies, religious dissidence, independent learning, and self-legitimating rulership. Crossley finds that political traditions of Central Asia insulated rulers from established religious authority and promoted the objectification of cultural identities marked by language and faith, which created a mutual encouragement of cultural and political change. As religious and social hierarchies weakened, political centralization and militarization advanced. But in the spheres of religion and philosophy, iconoclasm enjoyed a new life. The changes cumulatively defined a threshold of the modern world, beyond which lay early nationalism, imperialism, and the novel divisions of Eurasia into “East” and “West.” Synthesizing new interpretive approaches and grand themes of world history from 1000 to 1500, Crossley reveals the unique importance of Turkic and Mongol regimes in shaping Eurasia’s economic, technological, and political evolution toward our modern world.

Book The Hammer and the Anvil

Download or read book The Hammer and the Anvil written by Dwight Jon Zimmerman and published by Hill and Wang. This book was released on 2012-07-17 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The period leading up to the Civil War was one of great change. Congress divided itself between Northerners and Southerners, citizens on the frontier took up arms against one another, and movements for secession and abolition were more urgent than ever. In The Hammer and the Anvil, the award-winning author Dwight Jon Zimmerman and the renowned artist Wayne Vansant vividly depict the tumultuous time through the lives of two men who defined it: Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln. With a foreword by the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian James M. McPherson, The Hammer and the Anvil reveals that its protagonists each wrestled with the question of slavery from a young age. Douglass, a slave who was spared no brutality, once fought an especially cruel master and eventually escaped north to freedom. Lincoln, who was hired out by his father to do manual labor on neighbors' farms, found this harsh life intolerable. As a senator, Lincoln sought ways to end the westward spread of slavery, believing that adding free states to the Union would diminish the power of the Southern states and lead to the gradual disappearance of the "peculiar institution." Douglass was less patient. He had become a skilled orator and an influential editor of Northern abolitionist journals, and called on white Americans to honor their nation's founding commitment to liberty. When the Civil War erupted in April 1861, Douglass hoped that the conflict would mean the end of slavery. But Lincoln delayed emancipation, and Douglass despaired--until he met the president face-to-face and recognized that their causes were one and the same. Featuring evocative and dramatic scenes of this seminal time, The Hammer and the Anvil will engage both Civil War buffs and young people new to the study of American history.

Book Hammer Or Anvil

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  • Author : Holger H. Herwig
  • Publisher : Lexington, Mass. ; Toronto : D.C. Heath
  • Release : 1994
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 516 pages

Download or read book Hammer Or Anvil written by Holger H. Herwig and published by Lexington, Mass. ; Toronto : D.C. Heath. This book was released on 1994 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hammer or Anvil? explores the major forces shaping Germany during the modern era: the ongoing Austro-Prussian rivalry; the building of a nation-state; industrial and urban growth; and the formation of the modern bureaucratic and military state.

Book Between the Hammer and the Anvil

Download or read book Between the Hammer and the Anvil written by Thomas E. Ewing and published by Sinor Research Institute of Inner Asian Studies. This book was released on 1980-12 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the decade from 1911 to 1921, which saw near cataclysmic upheavals throughout much of Eurasia that led to the collapse of major empires from the Hapsburg to the Romanov to the Qing, but also witnessed the rise of youthful regimes from their ashes. Among the latter was Outer Mongolia, which renounced two centuries of vasslage to China and declared its intention to create an independent, Westernized nation. This book examines the political maneuverings of Chinese and Russians over Mongolia's fate.

Book Anvils in America

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  • Author : Richard A. Postman
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1998
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 578 pages

Download or read book Anvils in America written by Richard A. Postman and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hammer and Anvil

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  • Author : Harry Turtledove
  • Publisher : Hachette UK
  • Release : 2013-05-31
  • ISBN : 0575121114
  • Pages : 324 pages

Download or read book Hammer and Anvil written by Harry Turtledove and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2013-05-31 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Videssos was beset by enemies. A pretender held the throne - a despot who cared little that barbarian hordes and rival realms carved away at his empire, so long as the wealth and booty of the land satisfied his unbridled appetites. Few stood against him. And those few soon found their heads on pikes. Only one name held hope for freedom: Maniakes. And from his exile on the very edge of the civilised world, young Maniakes took up the challenge, rallied his forces, and sailed off to topple the tyrant. But that tyrant would use every means at his disposal - fair or most hideously foul - to destroy the crusading upstart. And even if Maniakes could stay alive, he would till have to pull together a battered, divided land as well as fend off a host of enemies - and thwart the former friend who had become his empire's most deadly foe!

Book The Hammer and the Anvil

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  • Author : Larissa Reisner
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2021-03-18
  • ISBN : 9781912926916
  • Pages : 176 pages

Download or read book The Hammer and the Anvil written by Larissa Reisner and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-18 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in a unique style, which combines poetic flourishes with first-rate reportage, Larissa Reisner's reports include vivid descriptions of the disastrous retreat from Volga naval base at Kazan and the miraculous turnaround which emerged after the arrival of Trotsky's famous armoured train and the heroic defence of the hitherto unknown outpost of Sviyazhsk. In this crucible, the beginnings of what would become the Red Army and Red Navy were forged. In addition to a new translation of Larissa Reisner's writings from this period, this book includes a chapter by Trotsky from his autobiography, plus brief biographies of leading participants, most of whom did not survive the Stalin era and were subsequently written out of history.

Book Faith and Fire

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  • Author : James Swallow
  • Publisher : Games Workshop
  • Release : 2006-03-28
  • ISBN : 9781844162895
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Faith and Fire written by James Swallow and published by Games Workshop. This book was released on 2006-03-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science fiction-roman.

Book The Saudi Kingdom

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  • Author : Ali Al Shihabi
  • Publisher : Markus Wiener Publishers
  • Release : 2015-09-12
  • ISBN : 9781558766136
  • Pages : 218 pages

Download or read book The Saudi Kingdom written by Ali Al Shihabi and published by Markus Wiener Publishers. This book was released on 2015-09-12 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hammer and Anvil

Download or read book Hammer and Anvil written by Friedrich Spielhagen and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 842 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Anvil of God

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  • Author : J. Boyce Gleason
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2013-07-26
  • ISBN : 9780578902531
  • Pages : 460 pages

Download or read book Anvil of God written by J. Boyce Gleason and published by . This book was released on 2013-07-26 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is 741. After conquering a continent for the Merovingian kings, only one thing stands between Charles Martel and the throne - he's dying. Charles cobbles together a plan to divide the kingdom among his three sons, betroth his daughter to a Lombard prince, and keep the Church unified behind them through his friend Bishop Boniface. Despite his best efforts, the only thing to reign after Charles's death is chaos. His daughter has no intention of marrying anyone, let alone a Lombard prince. His two eldest sons question the rights of their younger pagan stepbrother, and the Church demands a steep price for their support. Son battles son, Christianity battles paganism, and Charles's daughter flees his court for an enemy's love. Based on a true story, Anvil of God is a whirlwind of love, honor, sacrifice, and betrayal that follows a bereaved family's relentless quest for power and destiny.

Book What is Global History

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  • Author : Pamela Kyle Crossley
  • Publisher : Polity
  • Release : 2008-03-03
  • ISBN : 0745633005
  • Pages : 146 pages

Download or read book What is Global History written by Pamela Kyle Crossley and published by Polity. This book was released on 2008-03-03 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Global and world history address the deep structural changes that have shaped human experience. Many are material, related to environmental and climatic alteration, to the domestication of livestock and development of agriculture, to technology, to disease, and to variations in human immunity, reproduction, and physiology. Others are social and cultural, touching upon issues of migration, trade, language development and differentiation, institutions of enslavement and of freedom, traditions of marriage and child-rearing, the emergence of large-scale political organization from early kingdoms to vast empires, republics and federations, and the management of war and peace. To deal with such challenging issues, global historians draw upon new techniques of analysis and comparison. But they also continue venerable traditions, inherited from the earliest civilizations, of narrating the past on the most comprehensive and significant scale possible. This book examines the long search for an integrated human story, and particularly the points at which rapid changes of philosophy and perspective in the twentieth century transformed the historical disciplines. It provides the perfect introduction to global history for students and scholars alike.

Book Hammer and Anvil

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  • Author : William Hand Browne
  • Publisher : Palala Press
  • Release : 2018-02-17
  • ISBN : 9781377888088
  • Pages : 706 pages

Download or read book Hammer and Anvil written by William Hand Browne and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2018-02-17 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book New Edge of the Anvil

Download or read book New Edge of the Anvil written by and published by Skipjack Press, Inc.. This book was released on 1994 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed as a comprehensive guide for the beginner or a reference for the advanced metalworker, with complete coverage of tools, equipment, and creative and technical processes. Includes very fine b & w photographs of the work of Samuel Yellin and Martin Rose.

Book The Hammer of God

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  • Author : Bo Giertz
  • Publisher : Augsburg Books
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN : 9780806651309
  • Pages : 372 pages

Download or read book The Hammer of God written by Bo Giertz and published by Augsburg Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic Swedish novel about love, faith and spiritual renewal told in the form of a mystery novel.

Book Born of Flame

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  • Author : Nick Kyme
  • Publisher : Games Workshop
  • Release : 2018-12-11
  • ISBN : 9781784968380
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Born of Flame written by Nick Kyme and published by Games Workshop. This book was released on 2018-12-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Horus Heresy collection contains the novellas Promethean Sun and Scorched Earth, the novel Sons of the Forge and two connected short stories. Born of the fiery world of Nocturne, the Salamanders believe in self sacrifice and the sanctity of human life. Their father Vulkan was raised on this world, a blacksmith's son from humble origins who became a primarch of the Emperor of Mankind and forged his sons into a Legion. Their saga is one of heroism, betrayal, tragedy and rebirth. They have returned from the edge of extinction more than once, forever embattled, never bowed, the Legion and their primarch the epitome of defiance in the face of adversity. Unto the anvil, born of flame.