China's Last Empire: The Great Qing (Rowe William T.)(Paperback)

China's Last Empire: The Great Qing (Rowe William T.)(Paperback)

In a brisk revisionist history, William Rowe challenges the standard narrative of Qing China as a decadent, inward-looking state that failed to keep pace with the modern West. The Great Qing was the second major Chinese empire ruled by foreigners. Three strong Manchu emperors worked diligently to

China: A History (Volume 2) - From the Great Qing Empire through The People's Republic of China, (1644 - 2009) (Tanner Harold M.)(Paperback / softback)

Timber and Forestry in Qing China: Sustaining the Market (Zhang Meng)(Paperback)

In the Qing period (1644-1912), China's population tripled, and the flurry of new development generated unprecedented demand for timber. Standard environmental histories have often depicted this as an era of reckless deforestation, akin to the resource misuse that devastated European forests at the

China: A History (Volume 1) - From Neolithic Cultures through the Great Qing Empire, (10,000 BCE - 1799 CE) (Tanner Harold M.)(Paperback / softback)

Last Witness (Hoffman Jilliane)(Paperback / softback)

Two years ago William Bantling was put on death row by Florida's Assistant State Attorney, CJ Townsend for the torture and murder of eleven young women. Now three cops crucial to Bantling's conviction have been brutally slain. CJ knew them all - and the shocking secret they took to their graves

The Later Roman Empire: A.D. 354-378 (Marcellinus Ammianus)(Paperback)

A Roman historian chronicles Rome on the brink of collapse Ammianus Marcellinus was the last great Roman historian, and his writings rank alongside those of Livy and Tacitus. The Later Roman Empire chronicles a period of twenty-five years during Marcellinus' own lifetime, covering the reigns of

Clash of Empires: The Great Siege (Napier William)(Paperback / softback)

A brutal combat. A test of courage. A battle that will change history.1565: a small island in the middle of the Mediterranean stands gatekeeper between East and West. It is about to become the scene for one of the most amazing stories of bravery, battle and bloodlust: the siege of Malta. Formed in

Kublai Khan (Man John)(Paperback / softback)

Using China's great wealth, coupled with his shrewd and subtle government, he created an empire that was the greatest since the fall of Rome, and shaped the modern world as we know it

Women and China's Revolutions (Hershatter Gail)(Paperback)

If we place women at the center of our account of China's last two centuries, how does this change our understanding of what happened? This deeply knowledgeable book illuminates the places where the Big History of recognizable events intersects with the daily lives of ordinary people, using gender

Earth's Last Empire: The Final Game of Thrones (Hagee John)(Paperback)

Our Last Crusade or the Rise of a New World, Vol. 1 (Sazane Kei)(Paperback)

Love is a battlefieldFor years, a great war has raged on between the scientifically advanced Empire and a paradise of witches known as the Nebulis Sovereignty. This age-old battle sets the scene for a fateful encounter between two young combatants: an imperial swordsman, Iska, and the witch

Catalaunian Fields Ad 451: Rome's Last Great Battle (Macdowall Simon)(Paperback)

The battle of the Catalaunian Fields saw two massive, powerful Empires square up in a conflict that was to shape the course of Eurasian history forever. For despite the Roman victory, the Roman Empire would not survive more than fifteen years afterward, while the Huns, shattered and demoralized,

Fate, 2 (Haohui Zhou)(Paperback)

The second book in China's bestselling crime series to date. THE LAW IS WEAK Last week, the vigilante killer who terrified and thrilled the city of Chengdu with his 'death notices' performed his own execution to escape capture by the police. I OFFER REAL JUSTICE But when two students are

The Great Seljuk Empire (Peacock A. C. S.)(Paperback)

The first English language general history of the Great Seljuk Empire outlines its chronological history and will explores its religious and institutional

At the Last Trumpet (Barclay William)(Paperback)

In this book, William Barclay addresses the end time passages from the New Testament to help inquirers better understand and appreciate their place in scripture. In characteristically lucid prose, Barclay engages each verse of pertinent scripture to both challenge and comfort the reader.The William

The Last Empire: De Beers, Diamonds, and the World (Kanfer Stefan)(Paperback)

Timely corporate history--as exciting and poignant as any good tale of derring-do against great odds by all-too-flawed giants. - Kirkus ReviewsWith a scholar's precision and a novelist's eye, Stefan Kanfer tells the inside story of De Beers Consolidated Mines - from the nineteenth century diamond

The New Testament in Scots (Lorimer William)(Paperback)

The Greek scholar William Lorimer spent the last ten years of his life working on this project. Each Gospel has a different form of Scots to match the different forms of Greek used by the various apostles and scribes, and the vigour and immediacy of the language is everywhere apparent.Transcribed,

Mao's Last Dancer (Cunxin Li)(Paperback / softback)

Written by the author who was raised in a desperately poor village during the height of China's Cultural Revolution, this book tells the story of how he came to be Mao's last

Cyrus the Great (Dando-Collins Stephen)(Paperback)

Cyrus the Great was a brilliant general who founded the Persian Empire, greatest empire of its day. He was also the king who freed the Jews from exile at Babylon and allowed them to return to Jerusalem, with the Bible describing him as the only non Jew 'anointed by god.' Cyrus influenced the US

The Double Tongue (Golding William)(Paperback)

The Double Tongue is William Golding's last and perhaps most superbly imaginative novel. It is a fictional memoir of an aged prophetess at Delphi, the most sacred oracle of ancient Greece, just prior to Greece's domination by the Roman Empire. As a young girl, Arieka is ugly, unconventional, a

Great Empires of Asia(Paperback / softback)

A unique survey of seven great Asian empires, powerful forces on the world stage during a thousand years of history and that continue to resonate in regional and global politics

Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62 (Diktter Frank)(Paperback)

Tombstone: The Great Chinese Famine, 1958-1962 (Jisheng Yang)(Paperback)

The much-anticipated definitive account of China's Great Famine An estimated thirty-six million Chinese men, women, and children starved to death during China's Great Leap Forward in the late 1950s and early '60s. One of the greatest tragedies of the twentieth century, the famine is poorly

Making China Modern: From the Great Qing to XI Jinping (Mhlhahn Klaus)(Paperback)

'Thoughtful, probing...a worthy successor to the famous histories of Fairbank and Spence that] will be read by all students and scholars of modern China.'--William C. Kirby, coauthor of Can China Lead? It is tempting to attribute the rise of China to Deng Xiaoping and to recent changes in economic