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Author : Sushil Chaudhury
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789350981948
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (819 download)
Download or read book Profile of a Forgotten Capital written by Sushil Chaudhury and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Neeta Das
Publisher : Marg Publications
ISBN 13 : 9788192110691
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Murshidabad written by Neeta Das and published by Marg Publications. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cultural portrait of the little-known about captital of Bengal, Murshidabad.
Author : Ellen van Goethem
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047433254
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)
Download or read book Nagaoka written by Ellen van Goethem and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008-03-31 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first work to deal comprehensively with the historical and physical aspects of the Nagaoka palace and capital, which were constructed in the eighth century at the order of Kanmu Tennō, but abruptly abandoned after only ten years. New research and the information yielded by decades of excavation made possible this fresh reassessment of conventional theories of the construction and layout of Nagaoka, as well as the life and reign of its founder. It also examines the motivations behind Nagaoka's establishment and abandonment within the context of Kanmu's reign and personal convictions. In broader terms, this volume deals with the process of capital building in late eighth-century Japan, and the links between the Nara and Heian capitals.
Author : Michael Ford
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 006269698X
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (626 download)
Download or read book Forgotten City written by Michael Ford and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2018-10-09 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Survival is just the beginning in this action-packed middle grade adventure that’s Mad Max for kids. Thirteen years ago, the world ended. A deadly chemical called Waste began to spread across the globe, leaving devastation in its wake. Millions died. Cities fell into chaos. Anything the Waste didn’t kill, it mutated into threatening new forms. Kobi has always believed he and his dad were the only survivors. But when his dad goes missing, Kobi follows his trail—and discovers a conspiracy even deadlier than the Waste itself. Nonstop action, chilling dangers, and edge-of-your-seat twists make this gripping, fast-paced read perfect for young readers who love survival adventures like Gary Paulsen’s Hatchet and dystopian series like Jeanne DuPrau’s City of Ember.
Author : Alex Aster
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1492697249
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (926 download)
Download or read book Curse of the Forgotten City written by Alex Aster and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From #BookTok phenomenon and New York Times bestselling author of the YA fantasy novel, Lightlark, the second book in this fast-paced middle grade series steeped in Colombian mythology and full of adventure, perfect for fans of Aru Shah and the End of Time and Percy Jackson. In this tale Tor, Engle, and Melda must stop a band of cursed pirates from taking over their home. Tor is adjusting to life with the Night Witch's powers, with his best friends Engle and Melda by his side. But when a mysterious girl named Vesper washes ashore claiming a band of cursed pirates is on their way to Emblem Island, life changes fast. Vesper is from an underwater city that was destroyed by the terrible Calavera pirates and she warns Tor that his village is next. To stop the pirates, Tor, Engle, and Melda join Vesper on the hunt for the famed Pirate's Pearl, an ancient relic that would give them complete control of the high seas. But the journey is perilous, filled with legendary sea creatures that are determined to see them fail. To save his village and everyone he loves, Tor must accept his new abilities—and use them—in the race to find the pearl. You'll love Curse of the Forgotten City if you're looking for: Summer reading for tweens and teens ages 11-14 Multicultural books for children (especially Latinx books) Stories based on fascinating mythology Your next favorite fantasy series for girls ages 9-12 Praise for Curse of the Night Witch: A Seventeen.com Most Anticipated Book of Summer! A Zibby Owens Summer Reading Pick on Good Morning America! "Debut author Aster takes inspiration from Colombian folklore to craft a rousing series opener that's both fast-paced and thrilling. As her protagonists face off against a host of horrors, they learn the value of friendship and explore the possibility of changing one's fate in a world where destiny is predetermined."—Publishers Weekly, STARRED review "Worthy of every magical ounce."—Kirkus Reviews, STARRED review
Author : Dr. Firoj High Sarwar
Publisher : Blue Rose Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 616 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book India and Identity - Some Reflections written by Dr. Firoj High Sarwar and published by Blue Rose Publishers. This book was released on 2024-01-10 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'India and Identity: Some Reflections' is an edited book, comprising fifty-two articles, written by distinguished scholars of arts and social sciences, mainly reflecting the multifarious and multilayer identities of India and Indians. It covers the arena of Indian history, culture, politics, society, economy, regions, languages, religions, castes, classes, and ethnicity which has traveled since remote ancient times to the recent twenty-first century. We hope that this book will provide a scope for an intellectual discourse on India and the diversified issues of Identities and enlighten our existing knowledge
Author : Allmendinger, Phil
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1447356047
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (473 download)
Download or read book The Forgotten City written by Allmendinger, Phil and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2021-05-25 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We all want cities, where more than half of the world’s population currently live, to be just, successful, clean, fair, green, sustainable, safe, healthy and affordable. Will ‘smart cities’ help achieve these aspirations or undermine them in the time of COVID-19? Phil Allmendinger, a world expert on cities, development, and urban governance, takes a critical approach to the role of ‘smart’ in future cities and the relationship with city development. Considering how technology can support active citizenship, he challenges the commercial drivers of big tech and warns that these, not developments for ‘social good’, may dominate. Focusing on the dangers posed by social media, the platform economy and AI, he sets out what those making decisions on city development need to understand in order to save the planet through active politics and healthy cities.
Author : Carrie Smith
Publisher : Crooked Lane Books
ISBN 13 : 1629537888
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (295 download)
Download or read book Forgotten City written by Carrie Smith and published by Crooked Lane Books. This book was released on 2016-12-13 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NYPD Detective Claire Codella is chomping at the bit for a new case. Lieutenant McGowan is determined to keep her out of the news, but she’s about to be back in the public eye in a big way. Broadway legend Lucy Merchant has tragically succumbed to early onset Alzheimer’s. At age fifty-six, she’s tucked away in the dementia care unit of the ultra-exclusive Manhattan care facility Park Manor. When she falls asleep and doesn’t wake up, her billionaire husband is ready for the funeral, but her daughter demands an investigation. Only three months back on the job after cancer treatment, Codella finds herself at the center of a high profile case nearly everyone--especially her lieutenant--wants to shut down. But the forensic evidence raises alarming questions and Codella needs answers. To find them, she will have to crack the defenses of slippery administrators, frightened caregivers, and unobliging family members, all while unlocking some of her own dark memories. Forgotten City, Carrie Smith’s gripping follow-up to Silent City, pits the unrelenting detective against a cast of diverse New Yorkers driven by their desires and ambitions and haunted by their pasts. But can she piece together the truth before the murderer kills again?
Author : Paul Cartledge
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1468316079
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (683 download)
Download or read book Thebes written by Paul Cartledge and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2020-09-22 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The riveting, definitive account of the ancient Greek city of Thebes, by the acclaimed author of The Spartans—now in paperback Among the extensive writing available about the history of ancient Greece, there is precious little about the city-state of Thebes. At one point the most powerful city in ancient Greece, Thebes has been long overshadowed by its better-known rivals, Athens and Sparta. In Thebes: The Forgotten City of Ancient Greece, acclaimed classicist and historian Paul Cartledge brings the city vividly to life and argues that it is central to our understanding of the ancient Greeks’ achievements—whether politically or culturally—and thus to the wider politico-cultural traditions of western Europe, the Americas, and indeed the world. From its role as an ancient political power, to its destruction at the hands of Alexander the Great as punishment for a failed revolt, to its eventual restoration by Alexander’s successor, Cartledge deftly chronicles the rise and fall of the ancient city. He recounts the history with deep clarity and mastery for the subject and makes clear both the di?erences and the interconnections between the Thebes of myth and the Thebes of history. Written in clear prose and illustrated with images in two color inserts, Thebes is a gripping read for students of ancient history and those looking to experience the real city behind the myths of Cadmus, Hercules, and Oedipus.
Author : Nina D'Aleo
Publisher : Momentum
ISBN 13 : 1760080438
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (6 download)
Download or read book The Forgotten City: The Demon War Chronicles 2 written by Nina D'Aleo and published by Momentum. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The battle is over. The war begins. Scorpia City enters a new era. The Androts have fallen and the gangsters rule. The Trackers stand scarred but together, unaware that a new threat stalks them from the shadows of a dying world. A nightmare from Silho's past returns to claim her, driven by an evil more formidable than anything the team has faced before. The Indemeus X has risen. As the team is ripped apart, new alliances are forged, enemies unite and friendships fall apart. Diega and Shawe fight to survive a new and violent world, while Eli ventures into the darkest levels of the city, making a shocking discovery that will change everything. Meanwhile in a forgotten place built on secrets and lies, a city spirals into madness, and hope emerges from the darkness. The Forgotten City is the second book in The Demon War Chronicles. The first book, The Last City, is available now.
Author : Sam Roberts
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1620409798
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (24 download)
Download or read book The New Yorkers written by Sam Roberts and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2022-10-25 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Longlisted for the Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize in Nonfiction From award-winning New York Times reporter Sam Roberts, the story of the world's most exceptional city, told through 31 little-known yet pivotal inhabitants who helped define it. In Sam Roberts's pulsating history of the world's most exceptional metropolis, greet the city anew through thirty-one unique New Yorkers you've probably never heard of-just in time for the city's 400th birthday. The New Yorkers introduces the first woman to appear nude in a motion picture, becoming the face of Civic Fame as Miss Manhattan; the couple whose soirée ended the Gilded Age with an embarrassing bang; and the husband and wife who invented the modern celebrity talk show. It reveals the victim of the city's first recorded murder in the seventeenth century and the high school dropout who slashed crime rates in the twentieth. The notorious mobster who was imperiously banished from the city and the woman who successfully sued a bus company for racial discrimination a century before Rosa Parks. Some deserved monuments, but their grandeur was overlooked or forgotten. Others shepherded the city through its perpetual evolution, but discreetly. Virtually all have vanished into New York's uncombed history. The New Yorkers is a living biography of the world's greatest city, and no one knows New York better than Sam Roberts-or is better at bringing its history to life.
Author : Michael Ford
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062697013
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (626 download)
Download or read book Lost Horizon written by Michael Ford and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-10-08 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This gripping sequel to Forgotten City is a twist-filled survival adventure that’s Mad Max for tweens. Everything Kobi once believed was a lie. Not only are there other survivors of the Waste that devastated the world thirteen years ago, but beyond the wasteland of Old Seattle lies a gleaming new city where thousands are desperate for a cure. To put an end to the Waste—and bring justice to those responsible–Kobi and his new friends will have to return to the heart of Old Seattle, where the outbreak began. It’s a dangerous journey. But Kobi knows what lies ahead. And he’s ready to fight. Nail-biting suspense and nonstop thrills make this action-packed adventure perfect for young readers who love survival adventures like Gary Paulsen’s Hatchet or dystopian series like Jeanne DuPrau’s City of Ember.
Author : Bjørn N. Sandaker
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317229185
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)
Download or read book The Structural Basis of Architecture written by Bjørn N. Sandaker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-25 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book that shows how to "see" structures as being integral to architecture. It engages a subject that is both about understanding the mechanical aspects of structure as well as being able to relate this to the space, form, and conceptual design ideas that are inherent to the art of building. Analyzing the structural principles behind many of the best-known works of architecture from past and present alike, this book places the subject within a contemporary context. The subject matter is approached in a qualitative and discursive manner, illustrated by many photographs and structural behavior diagrams. Accessible mathematical equations and worked-out examples are also included so as to deepen a fundamental understanding of the topic. This new, color edition’s format has been thoroughly revised and its content updated and expanded throughout. It is perfect as either an introductory structures course text or as a designer’s sourcebook for inspiration, for here two essential questions are addressed in parallel fashion: “How do structures work?” and “What form do structures take in the context of architecture – and why so?” A rich, varied and engaging rationale for structural form in architecture thus emerges.
Author : Steven Runciman
Publisher : I. B. Tauris
ISBN 13 : 9781845118952
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (189 download)
Download or read book Lost Capital of Byzantium written by Steven Runciman and published by I. B. Tauris. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir Steven Runciman, one of the most distinguished historians of the Byzantine period, travelled to Mistra on numerous occasions and became enchanted with the place. Now published in paperback for the first time, this book tells the story of this once-great city, its rise and fall and its place in the history of the Peloponnese and the Byzantine empire.This is the first paperback edition.It is a classic, that will appeal to anyone interested in the history of Greece and the Byzantine empire.
Author : Rana Safvi
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 9352777522
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (527 download)
Download or read book The Forgotten Cities of Delhi written by Rana Safvi and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2018-05-30 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Forgotten Cities of Delhi, book two of the Where Stones Speak trilogy covers historical trails in Siri, Jahanpanah, Tughlaqabad, Firozabad, Din Panah, Shergarh and Hazrat Nizamuddin Basti.In her trademark style, Rana Safvi combines narrative history with Sufi couplets and takes you on a walk across the first city of Mehrauli and Firozabad. This period was a major step towards integration of two distinct cultures towards a culture called Indo-Islamic by many historians. In the latter half of this volume, she tells us stories from an area and an era that's perhaps the richest in Delhi's archaeological history - Shahjahanabad and Firozabad on one end, and Jahanpanah and Siri on the other - a stretch that's today dotted with tombs, dargahs and the ruins of the Purana Qila. This area also houses the famous Humayun's tomb and the center of Delhi's spiritual trail: the Hazrat Nizamuddin Dargah.
Author : Robert Sewell
Publisher : Asian Educational Services
ISBN 13 : 9788120601253
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (12 download)
Download or read book A Forgotten Empire (Vijayanagar) written by Robert Sewell and published by Asian Educational Services. This book was released on 2000 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas Piketty
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674979850
Total Pages : 817 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (749 download)
Download or read book Capital in the Twenty-First Century written by Thomas Piketty and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-14 with total page 817 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are the grand dynamics that drive the accumulation and distribution of capital? Questions about the long-term evolution of inequality, the concentration of wealth, and the prospects for economic growth lie at the heart of political economy. But satisfactory answers have been hard to find for lack of adequate data and clear guiding theories. In this work the author analyzes a unique collection of data from twenty countries, ranging as far back as the eighteenth century, to uncover key economic and social patterns. His findings transform debate and set the agenda for the next generation of thought about wealth and inequality. He shows that modern economic growth and the diffusion of knowledge have allowed us to avoid inequalities on the apocalyptic scale predicted by Karl Marx. But we have not modified the deep structures of capital and inequality as much as we thought in the optimistic decades following World War II. The main driver of inequality--the tendency of returns on capital to exceed the rate of economic growth--today threatens to generate extreme inequalities that stir discontent and undermine democratic values if political action is not taken. But economic trends are not acts of God. Political action has curbed dangerous inequalities in the past, the author says, and may do so again. This original work reorients our understanding of economic history and confronts us with sobering lessons for today.
