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Book The Four Territories

    Book Details:
  • Author : Stevie Collier
  • Publisher : Independently Published
  • Release : 2017-10-10
  • ISBN : 9781549816543
  • Pages : 444 pages

Download or read book The Four Territories written by Stevie Collier and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He was like a father to me... and I wanted to stick a dagger in his neck... In a world divided into four territories, each with their own unique sun, color, race, and culture, Esh is born and abandoned in the cruelest of all. The red territory of Reah. A land in which every day is an absolute struggle for survival. One day, an elderly man discovers the boy mortally wounded on the side of the ash-filled streets and takes pity on him, a kindness unknown in the land of Reah. Then, using unorthodox training, he beats the skills necessary for the boy to endure the harshness of the territory. Skills of a master assassin. Combat. Sorcery. Alchemy. All is going well until a dark and forgotten energy finds its way into young Esh's body. Wreaking havoc on his mind, it threatens to drag his spirit into darkness. If Esh doesn't use all his mental and physical strength to combat the ancient evil energy then he will surely be defeated.

Book How to Hide an Empire

    Book Details:
  • Author : Daniel Immerwahr
  • Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
  • Release : 2019-02-19
  • ISBN : 0374715122
  • Pages : 372 pages

Download or read book How to Hide an Empire written by Daniel Immerwahr and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2019-02-19 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named one of the ten best books of the year by the Chicago Tribune A Publishers Weekly best book of 2019 | A 2019 NPR Staff Pick A pathbreaking history of the United States’ overseas possessions and the true meaning of its empire We are familiar with maps that outline all fifty states. And we are also familiar with the idea that the United States is an “empire,” exercising power around the world. But what about the actual territories—the islands, atolls, and archipelagos—this country has governed and inhabited? In How to Hide an Empire, Daniel Immerwahr tells the fascinating story of the United States outside the United States. In crackling, fast-paced prose, he reveals forgotten episodes that cast American history in a new light. We travel to the Guano Islands, where prospectors collected one of the nineteenth century’s most valuable commodities, and the Philippines, site of the most destructive event on U.S. soil. In Puerto Rico, Immerwahr shows how U.S. doctors conducted grisly experiments they would never have conducted on the mainland and charts the emergence of independence fighters who would shoot up the U.S. Congress. In the years after World War II, Immerwahr notes, the United States moved away from colonialism. Instead, it put innovations in electronics, transportation, and culture to use, devising a new sort of influence that did not require the control of colonies. Rich with absorbing vignettes, full of surprises, and driven by an original conception of what empire and globalization mean today, How to Hide an Empire is a major and compulsively readable work of history.

Book The Territories of Human Reason

Download or read book The Territories of Human Reason written by Alister E. McGrath and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-03 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our understanding of human rationality has changed significantly since the beginning of the century, with growing emphasis being placed on multiple rationalities, each adapted to the specific tasks of communities of practice. We may think of the world as an ontological unity-but we use a plurality of methods to investigate and represent this world. This development has called into question both the appeal to a universal rationality, characteristic of the Enlightenment, and also the simple 'modern-postmodern' binary. The Territories of Human Reason is the first major study to explore the emergence of multiple situated rationalities. It focuses on the relation of the natural sciences and Christian theology, but its approach can easily be extended to other disciplines. It provides a robust intellectual framework for discussion of transdisciplinarity, which has become a major theme in many parts of the academic world. Alister E. McGrath offers a major reappraisal of what it means to be 'rational' which will have significant impact on older discussions of this theme. He sets out to explore the consequences of the seemingly inexorable move away from the notion of a single universal rationality towards a plurality of cultural and domain-specific methodologies and rationalities. What does this mean for the natural sciences? For the philosophy of science? For Christian theology? And for the interdisciplinary field of science and religion? How can a single individual hold together scientific and religious ideas, when these arise from quite different rational approaches? This groundbreaking volume sets out to engage these questions and will provoke intense discussion and debate.

Book An Economic Survey of the Colonial Territories

Download or read book An Economic Survey of the Colonial Territories written by Great Britain. Colonial Office and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Territories of Guam  American Samoa  the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands  and the U S  Virgin Islands

Download or read book Territories of Guam American Samoa the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands and the U S Virgin Islands written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Not Quite States of America  Dispatches from the Territories and Other Far Flung Outposts of the USA

Download or read book The Not Quite States of America Dispatches from the Territories and Other Far Flung Outposts of the USA written by Doug Mack and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2017-02-14 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “To truly understand the United States, one must understand The Not-Quite States of America.” —Mark Stein, best-selling author of How the States Got Their Shapes Everyone knows that America is 50 states and… some other stuff. The U.S. territories—American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the U.S. Virgin Islands—and their 4 million people are little known and often forgotten, so Doug Mack set out on a 30,000-mile journey to learn about them. How did they come to be part of the United States? What are they like today? And why aren’t they states? Deeply researched and richly reported, The Not-Quite States of America is an entertaining and unprecedented account of the territories’ crucial yet overlooked place in the American story.

Book Violence over the Land

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ned BLACKHAWK
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2009-06-30
  • ISBN : 0674020995
  • Pages : 385 pages

Download or read book Violence over the Land written by Ned BLACKHAWK and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this ambitious book that ranges across the Great Basin, Blackhawk places Native peoples at the center of a dynamic story as he chronicles two centuries of Indian and imperial history that shaped the American West. This book is a passionate reminder of the high costs that the making of American history occasioned for many indigenous peoples.

Book Impact of Contract with America on the Territories

Download or read book Impact of Contract with America on the Territories written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Resources. Subcommittee on Native American & Insular Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Distributed to some depository libraries in microfiche.

Book American Nations

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  • Author : Colin Woodard
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2012-09-25
  • ISBN : 0143122029
  • Pages : 401 pages

Download or read book American Nations written by Colin Woodard and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-09-25 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: • A New Republic Best Book of the Year • The Globalist Top Books of the Year • Winner of the Maine Literary Award for Non-fiction Particularly relevant in understanding who voted for who during presidential elections, this is an endlessly fascinating look at American regionalism and the eleven “nations” that continue to shape North America According to award-winning journalist and historian Colin Woodard, North America is made up of eleven distinct nations, each with its own unique historical roots. In American Nations he takes readers on a journey through the history of our fractured continent, offering a revolutionary and revelatory take on American identity, and how the conflicts between them have shaped our past and continue to mold our future. From the Deep South to the Far West, to Yankeedom to El Norte, Woodard (author of American Character: A History of the Epic Struggle Between Individual Liberty and the Common Good) reveals how each region continues to uphold its distinguishing ideals and identities today, with results that can be seen in the composition of the U.S. Congress or on the county-by-county election maps of any hotly contested election in our history.

Book Chow Yun fat and Territories of Hong Kong Stardom

Download or read book Chow Yun fat and Territories of Hong Kong Stardom written by Lin Feng and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-03 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As one of the most popular and versatile Hong Kong film stars, Chow Yun-fat has enjoyed international success over the last four decades. Using Chow's transnational and trans-regional star persona as a case study, Lin Feng investigates stardom as an agent for mediating the sociocultural construction of Hong Kong and Chinese identities. Through the analysis of Chow's on- and off-screen star image, the book recognises that a star's image is unstable and fragmented across distinct historical junctures, geographic borders and media platforms. Following Chow's career move from Hong Kong to Hollywood, and then to transnational Chinese cinema, Chow Yun-fat and Territories of Hong Kong Stardom highlights the complex redefinitions of local and global, traditional and modern, and East and West, that Chow's image has undergone, exploring the nature of Chinese and transnational stardom, the East Asian film industry, and Asian male stardom beyond martial arts and action cinema.

Book The Territories of the Russian Federation 2024

Download or read book The Territories of the Russian Federation 2024 written by Europa Publications and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-02-29 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This excellent reference source brings together hard-to-find information on the constituent units of the Russian Federation. The introduction examines the Russian Federation as a whole, followed by a chronology, demographic and economic statistics, and a review of the Federal Government. The second section comprises territorial surveys, each of which includes a current map. This edition includes surveys covering the annexed (and disputed) territories of Crimea and Sevastopol, as well as updated surveys of each of the other 83 federal subjects. The third section comprises a select bibliography of books. The fourth section features a series of indexes, listing the territories alphabetically, by Federal Okrug and Economic Area. Users will also find a gazetteer of selected alternative and historic names, a list of the territories abolished, created or reconstituted in the post-Soviet period, and an index of more than 100 principal cities, detailing the territory in which each is located.

Book Territories of Conflict

Download or read book Territories of Conflict written by Andrea Fanta and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2017 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This interdisciplinary volume investigates the cultural and political landscapes of Colombia through citizenship, displacement, local and global cultures, grass-root movements, political activism, human rights, environmentalism, and media productions.

Book Report from the Select Committee on Indian Territories

Download or read book Report from the Select Committee on Indian Territories written by Great Britain House of Commons Select Committee on Indian Territories and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bulletin of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories

Download or read book Bulletin of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories written by Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A History of the State of Oklahoma

Download or read book A History of the State of Oklahoma written by Luther B. Hill and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: