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Author : Tom Taylor
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The King's Rival written by Tom Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tom TAYLOR (Dramatist, and READE (Charles))
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (18 download)
Download or read book The King's Rival; Or, the Court and the Stage, Etc written by Tom TAYLOR (Dramatist, and READE (Charles)) and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jonathan Kaufman
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0735224439
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (352 download)
Download or read book The Last Kings of Shanghai written by Jonathan Kaufman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In vivid detail... examines the little-known history of two extraordinary dynasties."--The Boston Globe "Not just a brilliant, well-researched, and highly readable book about China's past, it also reveals the contingencies and ironic twists of fate in China's modern history."--LA Review of Books An epic, multigenerational story of two rival dynasties who flourished in Shanghai and Hong Kong as twentieth-century China surged into the modern era, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist The Sassoons and the Kadoories stood astride Chinese business and politics for more than one hundred seventy-five years, profiting from the Opium Wars; surviving Japanese occupation; courting Chiang Kai-shek; and nearly losing everything as the Communists swept into power. Jonathan Kaufman tells the remarkable history of how these families ignited an economic boom and opened China to the world, but remained blind to the country's deep inequality and to the political turmoil on their doorsteps. In a story stretching from Baghdad to Hong Kong to Shanghai to London, Kaufman enters the lives and minds of these ambitious men and women to forge a tale of opium smuggling, family rivalry, political intrigue, and survival.
Author : Xander Tracy
Publisher : Etopia Press
ISBN 13 : 1947135562
Total Pages : 123 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (471 download)
Download or read book A King's Rival written by Xander Tracy and published by Etopia Press. This book was released on 2018-02-13 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A challenge between rivals will either lead to suffering...or love. Chieftain Rygar Idras must lead his warriors on a dangerous raid into Astor to rescue his men from captivity. But an ambush brings him face-to-face with Vash Terric, a powerful and ruthless king, and the raid ends with Rygar in chains. He's imprisoned within a castle in Astor, but his spirit remains unbroken, and he's determined to escape and save his men. But Vash gives him an ultimatum. The king will free one of his men every time Rygar comes to his bed of his own free will. If he refuses, he will remain in chains, a captive to the king, and his fellow raiders will languish in the dungeon. Rygar is prepared to do anything to free his men, whether that is killing the king...or sleeping with him. But denying his attraction to the commanding Vash is far more difficult than he imagined. When the king honors his promise, Rygar discovers that protecting his heart from his rival may be the greatest challenge he's ever faced... King Vash loves nothing more than the stability and prosperity brought by law and order. Astor is a beacon of order in the world—a light threatened by barbarian raiders like Rygar. But Vash can't escape his raw desire for his captive. He's drawn to the man's strength and defiance. The longer he keeps his enemy captive at his side, the more fascinated he becomes with Rygar and his strange ways. Perhaps Rygar isn't the savage Vash thought he was. Vash is willing to conquer all his enemies to protect his people and impose order on the chaos...but his growing feelings for Rygar threaten to bring everything he has achieved crashing down around him. Reader note: contains gay fantasy romance including male male love, enemies to lovers, and a happily ever after
Author : Nathaniel LEE
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The Rival Queens; Or, The Death of Alexander the Great ... The Fifth Edition written by Nathaniel LEE and published by . This book was released on 1704 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nathaniel Lee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (21 download)
Download or read book The rival queens, or The death of Alexander the great written by Nathaniel Lee and published by . This book was released on 1677 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nathaniel LEE
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The Rival Queens ... The Third Edition written by Nathaniel LEE and published by . This book was released on 1699 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Percy Bolingbroke St. John
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Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Rival Crusoes written by Percy Bolingbroke St. John and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Johnette Howard
Publisher : Crown Archetype
ISBN 13 : 0307419495
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)
Download or read book The Rivals written by Johnette Howard and published by Crown Archetype. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the annals of sports, no individual rivalry matches the intensity, longevity, and emotional resonance of the one between two extraordinary women: Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova. Over sixteen years, Evert and Navratilova met on the tennis court a record eighty times—sixty times in finals. At their first match in Akron, Ohio, in 1973, Chris was an eighteen-year-old star and Martina, two years her junior, was an unknown Czech making her first trip to the United States. It would be two years before Martina finally beat Chris, and another year—after Navratilova had dropped twenty pounds and improved her game—before Evert publicly betrayed her first hint of concern. By then, the women were already friends and sometimes doubles partners, and the colorful story that would captivate the world was under way. The Rivals is the first book to examine the intertwined journey of these legendary champions, based on extensive interviews with each. Taking readers on and off the courts with vivid, never-before-published material, award-winning sportswriter Johnette Howard shows how Evert and Navratilova came of age during the rambunctious golden age of tennis in the 1970s, and how—together—they redefined women’s athletics during a time of volcanic change in sports and society. Their epic careers unfolded against the backdrop of the fight for Title IX, the gay rights movement, the women's movement and the fall of the iron curtain. Howard draws entertaining, intimate, and myth-shattering portraits of Evert and Navratilova, describing the personal migrations each woman made, and showing how enmeshed their lives became. Navratilova and Evert’s ability to forge and maintain a friendship during sixteen years of often-cutthroat competition has always provoked wonder and admiration. They were a study in contrasts, a collision of politics and style and looks. Chris was the crowd darling while Martina, her greatest foil, was often cast as the villain. Chris was the imperturbable champion who proved toughness and femininity weren’t mutually exclusive; Martina was portrayed as both emotionally fragile and some fearsome Amazon. Chris’s off-court life was presumed to be bedrock solid, the stuff of Main Street America; Martina’s was derided as outrageous and sometimes chaotic, even during her invincible years. Yet, through it all, the two remained friends who lifted each other to heights that each says she couldn’t have reached without the other. Women’s tennis now is more popular than ever, thanks in large part to the trailblazing of Evert and Navratilova. A rivalry like theirs, filled with so many grace notes, is unique in sports history.
Author : Nathaniel LEE
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The Rival Queens, etc written by Nathaniel LEE and published by . This book was released on 1694 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nathaniel Lee
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Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Rival Queens written by Nathaniel Lee and published by . This book was released on 1704 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Emma Roberts
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 572 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Memoirs of the Rival Houses of York and Lancaster, Historical and Biographical written by Emma Roberts and published by . This book was released on 1827 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sally Christie
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501102990
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)
Download or read book The Rivals of Versailles written by Sally Christie and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-04-05 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "And you thought sisters were a thing to fear. In this scandalous follow-up to Sally Christie's clever and absorbing debut, we meet none other than the Marquise de Pompadour, one of the greatest beauties of her generation and the first bourgeois mistress ever to grace the hallowed halls of Versailles. I write this before her blood is even cold. She is dead, suddenly, from a high fever. The King is inconsolable, but the way is now clear. The way is now clear. The year is 1745. Marie-Anne, the youngest of the infamous Nesle sisters and King Louis XV's most beloved mistress, is gone, making room for the next Royal Favorite. Enter Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, a stunningly beautiful girl from the middle classes. Fifteen years prior, a fortune teller had mapped out young Jeanne's destiny: she would become the lover of a king and the most powerful woman in the land. Eventually connections, luck, and a little scheming pave her way to Versailles and into the King's arms. All too soon, conniving politicians and hopeful beauties seek to replace the bourgeois interloper with a more suitable mistress. As Jeanne, now the Marquise de Pompadour, takes on her many rivals--including a lustful lady-in-waiting; a precocious fourteen-year-old prostitute, and even a cousin of the notorious Nesle sisters--she helps the king give himself over to a life of luxury and depravity. Around them, war rages, discontent grows, and France inches ever closer to the Revolution. Enigmatic beauty, social climber, actress, trendsetter, patron of the arts, spendthrift, whoremonger, friend, lover, foe. History books may say many things about the famous Marquise de Pompadour, but one thing is clear: for almost twenty years, she ruled France and the King's heart. Told in Christie's witty and modern style, this second book in the Mistresses of Versailles trilogy will delight and entrance fans as it once again brings to life the world of eighteenth century Versailles in all its pride, pestilence and glory"--
Author : Hendrik Spruyt
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691213054
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)
Download or read book The Sovereign State and Its Competitors written by Hendrik Spruyt and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present international system, composed for the most part of sovereign, territorial states, is often viewed as the inevitable outcome of historical development. Hendrik Spruyt argues that there was nothing inevitable about the rise of the state system, however. Examining the competing institutions that arose during the decline of feudalism--among them urban leagues, independent communes, city states, and sovereign monarchies--Spruyt disposes of the familiar claim that the superior size and war-making ability of the sovereign nation-state made it the natural successor to the feudal system. The author argues that feudalism did not give way to any single successor institution in simple linear fashion. Instead, individuals created a variety of institutional forms, such as the sovereign, territorial state in France, the Hanseatic League, and the Italian city-states, in reaction to a dramatic change in the medieval economic environment. Only in a subsequent selective phase of institutional evolution did sovereign, territorial authority prove to have significant institutional advantages over its rivals. Sovereign authority proved to be more successful in organizing domestic society and structuring external affairs. Spruyt's interdisciplinary approach not only has important implications for change in the state system in our time, but also presents a novel analysis of the general dynamics of institutional change.
Author : Anne O'Brien
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0008225516
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (82 download)
Download or read book The Queen’s Rival written by Anne O'Brien and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2020-09-03 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The forgotten story of Cecily Neville, Duchess of York. A strong woman who claimed the throne for her family in a time of war... ‘A compelling story of divided loyalties and family betrayals. Dramatic and highly evocative’ Woman & Home
Author : Joseph Candido
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 144118208X
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)
Download or read book King John written by Joseph Candido and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2000-12-01 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes Malone, Hazlitt, Dowden, Swinburne, Pater, Brandes, Chambers, Masefield and Frank Harris.
Author : Thomas Browne
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (117 download)
Download or read book An Ansvver to Dr. Sherlock's Case of Allegiance to Sovereign Powers written by Thomas Browne and published by . This book was released on 1691 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
