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Book Synopsis Empire of the Summer Moon by : S. C. Gwynne
Download or read book Empire of the Summer Moon written by S. C. Gwynne and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-05-25 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award* *A New York Times Notable Book* *Winner of the Texas Book Award and the Oklahoma Book Award* This New York Times bestseller and stunning historical account of the forty-year battle between Comanche Indians and white settlers for control of the American West “is nothing short of a revelation…will leave dust and blood on your jeans” (The New York Times Book Review). Empire of the Summer Moon spans two astonishing stories. The first traces the rise and fall of the Comanches, the most powerful Indian tribe in American history. The second entails one of the most remarkable narratives ever to come out of the Old West: the epic saga of the pioneer woman Cynthia Ann Parker and her mixed-blood son Quanah, who became the last and greatest chief of the Comanches. Although readers may be more familiar with the tribal names Apache and Sioux, it was in fact the legendary fighting ability of the Comanches that determined when the American West opened up. Comanche boys became adept bareback riders by age six; full Comanche braves were considered the best horsemen who ever rode. They were so masterful at war and so skillful with their arrows and lances that they stopped the northern drive of colonial Spain from Mexico and halted the French expansion westward from Louisiana. White settlers arriving in Texas from the eastern United States were surprised to find the frontier being rolled backward by Comanches incensed by the invasion of their tribal lands. The war with the Comanches lasted four decades, in effect holding up the development of the new American nation. Gwynne’s exhilarating account delivers a sweeping narrative that encompasses Spanish colonialism, the Civil War, the destruction of the buffalo herds, and the arrival of the railroads, and the amazing story of Cynthia Ann Parker and her son Quanah—a historical feast for anyone interested in how the United States came into being. Hailed by critics, S. C. Gwynne’s account of these events is meticulously researched, intellectually provocative, and, above all, thrillingly told. Empire of the Summer Moon announces him as a major new writer of American history.
Download or read book 孟子 written by and published by Chinese University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mencius, who lived in the 4th century B.C., is second only to Confucius in importance in the Confucian tradition. The Mencius consists of sayings of Mencius and conversations he had with his contemporaries. When read side by side with the Analects, the Mencius throws a great deal of light on the teachings of Confucius. Mencius developed many of the ideas of Confucius and at the same time discussed problems not touched upon by Confucius. He drew out the implications of Confucius' moral principles and reinterpreted them for the conditions of his time. As the fullest of the four great Confucian texts, the Mencius has been the required reading amongst Chinese scholars for two thousand years, and it still throws considerable light on the character of the Chinese people.
Book Synopsis History and Legend by : Shelley Hsueh-lun Chang
Download or read book History and Legend written by Shelley Hsueh-lun Chang and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first study of the Ming historical novels written from a historian's perspective
Download or read book Mencius written by Mencius and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2004-10-28 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mencius was one of the great philosophers of ancient China, second only in influence to Confucius, whose teachings he defended and expanded. The Mencius, in which he recounts his dialogues with kings, dukes and military men, as well as other philosophers, is one of the Four Books that make up the essential Confucian corpus. It takes up Confucius's theories of jen, or goodness and yi, righteousness, explaining that the individual can achieve harmony with mankind and the universe by perfecting his innate moral nature and acting with benevolence and justice. Mencius' strikingly modern views on the duties of subjects and their rulers or the evils of war, created a Confucian orthodoxy that has remained intact since the third century BCE.
Book Synopsis Lead Them with Virtue by : Kurtis Hagen
Download or read book Lead Them with Virtue written by Kurtis Hagen and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-08-20 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent scholarship has framed early Confucians as just war theorists with relatively permissive criteria for the just use of violence. Lead Them with Virtue: A Confucian Alternative to War makes the case that such interpretations conflict with what Mencius and Xunzi were trying to do. Kurtis Hagen argues that they both strove to prevent war by contrasting the situations of their day with idealized versions of the semi-mythic activities of sage-kings, which represent appropriate use of the military. These stories imply support for the offensive use of the military only when actual war—with its characteristic horrors—would not ensue. Following this logic, military interventions are just only in circumstances that do not actually occur. Confucians advocate, instead, a long-term strategy of ameliorating unjust circumstances by leveraging the credibility and influence that stems from consistently practicing genuinely benevolent governance. Passages that imply pacifistic readings of these texts are routinely dismissed by scholars as too naïve to be taken seriously. Hagen argues that the relatively pacifistic position implied by these passages is not in fact naïve, but is rather reasonable, and indeed should be supported, at least by contemporary Confucians.
Book Synopsis Warfare Ethics in Comparative Perspective by : Sumner B. Twiss
Download or read book Warfare Ethics in Comparative Perspective written by Sumner B. Twiss and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-04-11 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores East Asian intellectual traditions and their influence on contemporary discussions of the ethics of war and peace. Through cross-cultural comparison and dialogue between East and West, this work charts a new trajectory in the development of applied ethics. A sequel to the volume Chinese Just War Ethics, it expands the range of the earlier work and includes attention to Japan and other Eastern and Western traditions for contrastive reflection and engages with the full range of Chinese intellectual traditions for comparative analysis. The book scrutinizes pioneering works such as the Mengzi, the Han Feizi, and the Seven Military Classics, investigating their influence in subsequent times. It also engages with new texts and thinkers such as the Four Books of the Yellow Emperor, Zeng Guofan, Chiang Kai-shek, and Mao Zedong, along with examining recent writings of the scholars of the People’s Liberation Army. The final section of the book identifies and discusses some emerging issues in the comparative study of military ethics, just war and peace that derive from the preceding sections. The volume editors then offer some concluding remarks at the end of the book. This book will be of much interest to students of the ethics of war and peace, just war theory, military ethics, Asian studies and International Relations in general.
Download or read book Desperia Zero written by D.K.X and published by D.K.X. This book was released on 2015-08-14 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wars are sown… Worth are sought… You don’t belong to the majority unless you want to become the enemy of humanity. All are not one. One is not all. One must be strong, so all of the ones can evolve. Be a force of change, or to be changed. A storm is brewing, and preparations must be made.
Book Synopsis Taming American Power: The Global Response to U. S. Primacy by : Stephen M. Walt
Download or read book Taming American Power: The Global Response to U. S. Primacy written by Stephen M. Walt and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2006-09-17 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist for the 2006 Gelber Prize: "A brilliant contribution to the American foreign policy debate."—Anatol Lieven, New York Times Book Review At a time when America's dominance abroad was being tested like never before, Taming American Power provided for the first time a "rigorous critique of current U.S. strategy" (Washington Post Book World) from the vantage point of its fiercest opponents. Stephen M. Walt examines America's place as the world's singular superpower and the strategies that rival states have devised to counter it. Hailed as a "landmark book" by Foreign Affairs, Taming American Power makes the case that this ever-increasing tide of opposition not only could threaten America's ability to achieve its foreign policy goals today but also may undermine its dominant position in years to come.
Book Synopsis King of the Border by : , Zhenyinfang
Download or read book King of the Border written by , Zhenyinfang and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-02-05 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: King of the Border
Book Synopsis The Human Rights Reader by : Micheline Ishay
Download or read book The Human Rights Reader written by Micheline Ishay and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2007 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the most comprehensive collection of essays, speeches, and documents, from historical and contemporary sources, available on the subject of human rights.
Book Synopsis First Impressions of England and Its People by : Hugh Miller
Download or read book First Impressions of England and Its People written by Hugh Miller and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Lost Rites written by Cynthia Guy and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003-05-06 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Attacked, brutalized and then stalked, Casey Montgomery has to confront the man everyone else says doesn't even exist. Is he a figment of post-trauma stress, an over active imagination or a real and present danger? If she doesn't find him, her career will be ruined and her sanity questioned. But, that's the least of her worries. If she's right, he will have to kill her to preserve a carefully designed illusion that has her colleagues and even the police fooled. Only one person in the world believes her, a tough cop who has learned to trust his instincts, in spite of the evidence. But will that be enough to trap the invisible man with a sadistic taste for revenge?
Book Synopsis Eternal Divine Emperor by : Xi XiaQiuYe
Download or read book Eternal Divine Emperor written by Xi XiaQiuYe and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2019-12-08 with total page 976 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ye Xing, an ordinary boy from a remote continent, was persecuted and became a useless man unable to cultivate. Luckily, he met the man who changed his fate in time,. The man in purple who called himself "Qing Tian" appeared behind him. Qing Tian said to him, "This world respects strength, and all the injustice you suffered came from your lack of strength." From then on, the invisible hand began to push the wheel of youth's fate. Adventure or conspiracy, survival or destruction? Unimportant. Ye Xing will break all shackles and control his own fate. ☆About the Author☆ Xi Xia Qiu Ye is an outstanding fantasy novel writer. He has written two novels, they are Devil Daddy In City and Eternal Divine Emperor.
Book Synopsis The Epic Mahabharata - Book 2 - The Darkness before Dawn by : Ashok Banker
Download or read book The Epic Mahabharata - Book 2 - The Darkness before Dawn written by Ashok Banker and published by Jaico Publishing House. This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Records of the Grand Historian by : Qian Sima
Download or read book Records of the Grand Historian written by Qian Sima and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sima Qian (145?-90? BCE) was the first major Chinese historian. His Shiji, or Records of the Grand Historian, documents the history of China and its neighboring countries from the ancient past to his own time. These three volumes cover the Qin and Han dynasties.
Book Synopsis The Eyes Of Heaven by : Nawaz Hajiani
Download or read book The Eyes Of Heaven written by Nawaz Hajiani and published by Sly Dog. This book was released on 2024-05-14 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A GOD HELD CAPTIVE BY A HERETICAL SORCERER. A CHILD SIRED FOR AN UNWANTED DESTINY. A KILLER WHO WANTS TO UNDO CREATION. The greatest journey begins with a single step. For Saika it began with the collision of two universes. Born in a multiverse broken by design and abandoned by its incompetent Creator, Saika is a gifted healer bred for a single purpose: to tread the beaten path on the Journey and seek out the Eternal Answer — the Light of all Knowledge, the Wisdom of the Ages. Finding the Eternal Answer after a lifetime of searching was not the end she sought to her Journey. It was merely a waypoint to a disappointing destiny. Saika looks at Creation through new eyes flooded with knowledge. All around her she sees the paradox of Creation that thrives not on life but on death. On every world, every species that exists is a killer. For one species to flourish another must die. Disgusted by the Creator’s ineptitude, Saika forges a new destiny: to fix Creation itself. The multiverse, however, cannot be fixed from within by the same laws that created it. Creation must be remade with new laws and new rules. This can only happen when the existing multiverse is unmade. Take it. Break it. Remake it. But the healer, like everyone else, is bound to the Journey and all paths lead to Journey’s end… Blending science fiction and fantasy, The Eyes Of Heaven is the blistering follow-up to The Fear Of Death that upholds the truth of the ancient proverb: out of the same womb comes a healer and a killer.
