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Kings of Disaster

Author : Simon Simonse
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004618023
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book Kings of Disaster written by Simon Simonse and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-11-27 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of the rainmakers of the Nilotic Sudan means a breakthrough in anthropological thinking on African political systems. Taking his inspiration from Rene Girard's theory of consensual scapegoating the author shows that the long standing distinction of states and stateless societies as two fundamentally different political types does not hold. Centralized and segmentary systems only differ in the relative emphasis put on the victimary role of the king as compared with that of enemy victims. Kings of Disaster so proposes an uninvolved solution to the vexed problem of regicide. Recent cases occurring during the great drought of the mid-1980's are discribed and analyzed. Making simultaneous use of first-hand field data and archival sources, the book offers the first presentation of five Nilotic communities on the East Bank of the Nile. This study offers a new perspective on the role of violence in the structuring of society.

Kings of Disaster

Author : Simon Simonse
Publisher : MSU Press
ISBN 13 : 1628953330
Total Pages : 556 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (289 download)

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Download or read book Kings of Disaster written by Simon Simonse and published by MSU Press. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The long-awaited, revised, and illustrated edition of Simon Simonse’s study of the Rainmakers of the Nilotic Sudan marks a breakthrough in anthropological thinking on African political systems. Taking his inspiration from René Girard’s theory of consensual scapegoating, the author shows that the longstanding distinction of states and stateless societies as two fundamentally different political types does not hold. Centralized and segmentary systems only differ in the relative emphasis put on the victimary role of the king as compared with that of enemy. Kings of Disaster proposes an elegant and powerful solution to the vexed problem of regicide.

All the King's Men

Author : Robert Marshall
Publisher : Canelo + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1800326432
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book All the King's Men written by Robert Marshall and published by Canelo + ORM. This book was released on 2022-04-11 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of one of the most astonishing episodes of espionage and deception of World War Two. This is the tale of two men: Claude Dansey, deputy head of MI6, and double agent Henri Dericourt, who was planted with the rival wartime secret service – SOE – at Dansey’s instructions. From there began a terrifying trail of destruction. After making contact with Dansey in 1942, Dericourt was recruited to SOE as the man desperately needed to organize top-secret flights in and out of occupied French territory. But at the same time Dericourt was in touch with German counter-espionage in Paris. As SOE congratulated themselves on a new asset, Dericourt gave the Nazis everything; every flight, operation and coded message he could. Against a background of unprecedented deception and betrayal, Dansey’s secret MI6 operation eventually led to the arrest of nearly one thousand men and women, hundreds of whom died in concentration camps. How did it go so wrong? A shocking, enthralling account of a devastating episode in the history of the British secret services, perfect for readers of Ben MacIntyre.

Storm Kings

Author : Lee Sandlin
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307473589
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Storm Kings written by Lee Sandlin and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2014-03-11 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With 16 pages of black-and-white illustrations In Storm Kings, Lee Sandlin retraces America's fascination and unique relationship to tornadoes and the weather. From Ben Franklin's early experiments, to "the great storm debates" of the nineteenth century, to heartland life in the early twentieth century, Sandlin shows how tornado chasing helped foster the birth of meteorology, recreating with vivid descriptions some of the most devastating storms in America's history. Drawing on memoirs, letters, eyewitness testimonies, and numerous archives, Sandlin brings to life the forgotten characters and scientists that changed a nation and how successive generations came to understand and finally coexist with the spiraling menace that could erase lives and whole towns in an instant.

J.P. Morgan and the Transportation Kings

Author : Steven H. Gittelman
Publisher : University Press of America
ISBN 13 : 0761858512
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (618 download)

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Download or read book J.P. Morgan and the Transportation Kings written by Steven H. Gittelman and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2012-03-23 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concept was simple, to link American railroads and global dominance of the seas with a railroad line through China and Russia, enter the back door of Europe, and create new royalty: the Transportation Kings. Vanderbilt, Hill, Morgan, and Harriman all pursued the grand dream. They were America’s industrial princes, poised for their greatest accomplishments, only to find that they had not considered the gauntlet awaiting them in the courts of kings and Kaisers, parliaments and congress. They awoke John Bull and helped precipitate revolution in China. They brought about the building of Lusitania and, in reaction, they owned and built the Titanic. We all know how the disaster story ends; this is how the story came about.

The Darien Disaster

Author : John Prebble
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780712668538
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (685 download)

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Download or read book The Darien Disaster written by John Prebble and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The word Darien is a scar on the memory of the Scots, and the hurt is still felt even where the cause of the wound is dimly understood. Three hundred years ago the Parliament of Scotland, in one of its last acts before the nation lost its political identity, defied the King and the persistent hostility of the English to establish a noble trading company, to settle a colony, and to recover its people from a century of despair, privation, famine and decay.The site of the colony, Darien on the Isthmus of Panama, was the enduring dream of William Paterson, the erratically brilliant Scot who had helped to found the Bank of England. He called it 'the door of the seas, and the key of the universe', and believed that it would become a bridge between East and West, an entrepot through which would pass the richest trade in the world.The first attempt to make the Company a joint Scots and English venture was crushed by the English Parliament. The Scots created it by themselves, in a wave of almost hysterical enthusiasm, subscribing half of the nation's capital. Three years later the 'noble undertaking', crippled by the quarrelsome stupidity of its leaders, deliberately obstructed by the English Government, and opposed in arms by Spain, had ended in stunning disaster. Nine fine ships owned by the Company had been sunk, burnt or abandoned. Over two thousand men, women and children who went to the fever-ridden colony never returned. It was a tragic curtain to the last act of Scotland's independence.John Prebble's book is the first detailed account of the Darien Settlement, drawn from original sources in the records of the Company, the journals, letters and memoirs of those who tried to turn William Paterson's dream into reality.

Kings of the High Frontier

Author : Victor Koman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780966566208
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (662 download)

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Download or read book Kings of the High Frontier written by Victor Koman and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Disasters

Author : Brenda Z. Guiberson
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
ISBN 13 : 1466815213
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Disasters written by Brenda Z. Guiberson and published by Henry Holt and Company (BYR). This book was released on 2010-06-08 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Natural and man-made disasters have the power to destroy thousands of lives very quickly. Both as they unfold and in the aftermath, these forces of nature astonish the rest of the world with their incredible devastation and magnitude. In this collection of ten well-known catastrophes such as the great Chicago fire, the sinking of the Titanic, and hurricane Katrina, Brenda Guiberson explores the causes and effects, as well as the local and global reverberations of these calamitous events. Highlighted with photographs and drawings, each compelling account tells the story of destruction and devastation, and most especially, the power of mankind to persevere in the face of adversity.

The Ruin of Kings

Author : Jenn Lyons
Publisher : Tor Books
ISBN 13 : 1250175488
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book The Ruin of Kings written by Jenn Lyons and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2019-02-05 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Everything epic fantasy should be: rich, cruel, gorgeous, brilliant, enthralling and deeply, deeply satisfying. I loved it."—Lev Grossman, author of The Magicians When destiny calls, there's no fighting back. Kihrin grew up in the slums of Quur, a thief and a minstrel's son raised on tales of long-lost princes and magnificent quests. When he is claimed against his will as the missing son of a treasonous prince, Kihrin finds himself at the mercy of his new family's ruthless power plays and political ambitions. Practically a prisoner, Kihrin discovers that being a long-lost prince is nothing like what the storybooks promised. The storybooks have lied about a lot of other things, too: dragons, demons, gods, prophecies, and how the hero always wins. Then again, maybe he isn't the hero after all. For Kihrin is not destined to save the world. He's destined to destroy it. Jenn Lyons begins the Chorus of Dragons series with The Ruin of Kings, an epic fantasy novel about a man who discovers his fate is tied to the future of an empire.

Death of Kings

Author : Bernard Cornwell
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062097113
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Death of Kings written by Bernard Cornwell and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2012-01-17 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sixth installment of Bernard Cornwell’s New York Times bestselling series chronicling the epic saga of the making of England, “like Game of Thrones, but real” (The Observer, London)—the basis for The Last Kingdom, the hit television series. As the ninth century wanes, Alfred the Great lies dying, his lifelong goal of a unified England in peril, his kingdom on the brink of chaos. Though his son, Edward, has been named his successor, there are other Saxon claimants to the throne—as well as ambitious pagan Vikings to the north. Torn between his vows to Alfred and the desire to reclaim his long-lost ancestral lands in the north, Uhtred, Saxon-born and Viking-raised, remains the king’s warrior but has sworn no oath to the crown prince. Now he must make a momentous decision that will forever transform his life and the course of history: to take up arms—and Alfred’s mantle—or lay down his sword and let his liege’s dream of a unified kingdom die along with him.

Masters of Disaster

Author : Gary Paulsen
Publisher : Yearling
ISBN 13 : 0375866108
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (758 download)

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Download or read book Masters of Disaster written by Gary Paulsen and published by Yearling. This book was released on 2011-08-09 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roped into wacky attempts to break world records, imitate scenes from books, and other inspired ideas, Riley and Reed follow their fearless leader Henry into the wilderness, the bull-riding ring, a haunted house, cataclysmic collision with explosive life forms, and off the roof of a house on a bike.

Divinity and Experience : The Religion of the Dinka

Author : Godfrey Lienhardt
Publisher : Oxford University Press, UK
ISBN 13 : 0191591858
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book Divinity and Experience : The Religion of the Dinka written by Godfrey Lienhardt and published by Oxford University Press, UK. This book was released on 1961-01-01 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

American Sirens

Author : Kevin Hazzard
Publisher : Hachette Books
ISBN 13 : 0306926083
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (69 download)

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Download or read book American Sirens written by Kevin Hazzard and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2022-09-20 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The extraordinary story of an unjustly forgotten group of Black men in Pittsburgh who became the first paramedics in America, saving lives and changing the course of emergency medicine around the world Until the 1970s, if you suffered a medical crisis, your chances of survival were minimal. A 9-1-1 call might bring police or even the local funeral home. But that all changed with Freedom House EMS in Pittsburgh, a group of Black men who became America’s first paramedics and set the gold standard for emergency medicine around the world, only to have their story and their legacy erased—until now. In American Sirens, acclaimed journalist and paramedic Kevin Hazzard tells the dramatic story of how a group of young, undereducated Black men forged a new frontier of healthcare. He follows a rich cast of characters that includes John Moon, an orphan who found his calling as a paramedic; Peter Safar, the Nobel Prize-nominated physician who invented CPR and realized his vision for a trained ambulance service; and Nancy Caroline, the idealistic young doctor who turned a scrappy team into an international leader. At every turn, Freedom House battled racism—from the community, the police, and the government. Their job was grueling, the rules made up as they went along, their mandate nearly impossible—and yet despite the long odds and fierce opposition, they succeeded spectacularly. Never-before revealed in full, this is a rich and troubling hidden history of the Black origins of America’s paramedics, a special band of dedicated essential workers, who stand ready to serve day and night on the line between life and death for every one of us.

Recipes for Disaster

Author : CrimeInc Worker's Collective
Publisher : CrimethInc. Collective
ISBN 13 : 0970910142
Total Pages : 628 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book Recipes for Disaster written by CrimeInc Worker's Collective and published by CrimethInc. Collective. This book was released on 2004 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beautifully designed A-Z of the totality of revolutionary politics. This brand new Crimethinc book is the action guide - the direct action guide. From affinity groups to wheatpasting, coalition building, hijacking events, mental health, pie-throwing, shoplifting, stenciling, supporting survivors of domestic violence, surviving a felony trial, torches, and whole bunch more. Incredible design, and lots of graphics give it that hip situ feel. Loads to read, to think about, and to do. At 650 pages, you could always throw the damn book at a suitable target. What are you waiting for?

If It Bleeds

Author : Stephen King
Publisher : Scribner
ISBN 13 : 9781982150297
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book If It Bleeds written by Stephen King and published by Scribner. This book was released on 2020-04-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From #1 New York Times bestselling author, legendary storyteller, and master of short fiction Stephen King comes an extraordinary collection of four new and compelling novellas—Mr. Harrigan’s Phone, The Life of Chuck, Rat, and the title story If It Bleeds—each pulling you into intriguing and frightening places. The novella is a form King has returned to over and over again in the course of his amazing career, and many have been made into iconic films, including “The Body” (Stand By Me) and “Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption” (Shawshank Redemption). Like Four Past Midnight, Different Seasons, and most recently Full Dark, No Stars, If It Bleeds is a uniquely satisfying collection of longer short fiction by an incomparably gifted writer.

The Justice of Kings

Author : Richard Swan
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0356516393
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (565 download)

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Download or read book The Justice of Kings written by Richard Swan and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A stunning piece of modern fantasy writing' RJ Barker 'Utterly compelling, thoroughly engrossing and written with such skilful assurance I could barely put it down' Nicholas Eames NO MAN IS ABOVE THE LAW The Empire of the Wolf simmers with unrest. Rebels, heretics and powerful patricians all challenge the power of the imperial throne. Only the Order of Justices stands in the way of chaos. Sir Konrad Vonvalt is the most feared Justice of all, upholding the law by way of his sharp mind, arcane powers and skill as a swordsman. At his side stands Helena Sedanka, his clerk and protégé, orphaned by the wars that forged the empire. When the pair investigate the murder of a provincial aristocrat, they unearth a conspiracy that stretches to the very top of imperial society. As the stakes rise and become ever more personal, Vonvalt and Helena must make a choice: will they abandon the laws they've sworn to uphold in order to protect the empire? Introducing an unforgettable protagonist destined to become a fantasy icon, The Justice of Kings is an unmissable debut where action, intrigue and magic collide. Praise for The Justice of Kings 'A fantastic debut' Peter McLean 'The Justice of Kings is equal parts heroic fantasy and murder mystery . . . Richard Swan's sophisticated take on the fantasy genre will leave readers hungry for more' Sebastien de Castell 'A fascinating look at justice, vengeance and the law - great characters, compelling and wonderfully written. A brilliant debut and fantastic start to the series' James Islington 'Totally addictive. A truly riveting tale about law, war, morality and justice' Novel Notions 'A marvellously detailed world with an engrossing adventure from a unique perspective' K. S. Villoso 'Swan has built a dark and gritty world, filled it with beautifully written characters and lays out a master-crafted story to create an incredible book that you can't put down' FanFiAddict 'A brilliant book, with intrigue, excellent character arcs, a brutal magic system and a story I just could not put down' Grimdark Magazine 'Riveting . . . Swan crafts a strong, dynamic character in Vonvalt, and the twists will keep readers turning the pages' Publishers Weekly

Kings of Disaster

Author : Lola Glass
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (691 download)

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Download or read book Kings of Disaster written by Lola Glass and published by . This book was released on 2024-02-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This omnibus contains all four full-length novels and the final novella that complete the Kings of Disaster series by Lola Glass. Binge these connected standalones now for fun, steamy romance and hot fae! Capturing the King of Flames- I woke up in a magical world with a hot fae king who thinks I'm his mate. One moment, I'm asleep in my crappy apartment, having nightmares about the stack of overdue bills on my table. The next, I'm in an entirely different world, being told I've been magically married to a gorgeous, insane fae king who keeps looking at me like he wants to eat me... in one way or another. Conquering the King of Storms- I woke up in a magical world with a hot fae king who thinks I'm his mate. I've managed to avoid him for the most part, if you don't count the way his magic is constantly whispering dirty things in my ears. Claiming the King of Quakes- I'm trapped in a cave with a bunch of magic I can't control and a hot fae king who thinks we're soulmates. I've been avoiding him for months. Turning him down, and acting like I'm not attracted to the guy. But everything changes when I become a fae too, one with uncontrollable fire powers that threaten to take complete control. Controlling the King of Floods- I'm in a city full of fae who despise me because of my magic, with a mate who doesn't have time to see me. Yeah, it's been great. Courting the King of Cliffs- I ran away to live with the earth fae for a few days, and ended up sleeping in Granite's bed. It's not as hot as it sounds. At least, not at first.