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Author:Sun Tzu Publisher:Shambhala Books Translated by:Thomas Cleary ISBN: 978-1-590030-225-5 Binding: Soft Cover Book Condition: New Weight: 114 Description from the Publisher: Conflict is an inevitable part of life, according to this ancient Chinese classic of strategy, but everything necessary to deal with conflict wisely, honorably, victoriously, is already present within us. Compiled more than two…
Author: by Tariq Ali, Hilal Bhatt, Angana P. Chatterji, Pankaj Mishra, and Arundhati Roy Publisher: Verso Year: 2011 Pages: 140 Printed: USA ISBN: 9781844677351 Binding: Soft Cover Book Condition: New Weight: 185gr. Description from the publisher: At home, the Kashmiri people’s ongoing quest for justice and self-determination is as much ignored by their venal politicians…
Author: John Michael Greer Publisher: ‘Quercus Year: 2012 Pages: 229 Printed: UK ISBN: 9781780870403 Binding: Soft Cover Book Condition: New Weight: 168gr. Description from the publisher: The ancient Egyptians would have known it as the sixth day of Pachon. The Mayans named it 4 Ahau 3 Kankin. To us it is 21 December, 2012. On…
Full Title: Thinking in the Language of Reality – Sadr al-Din Qunavi (1207-74CE) and the Mystical Philosophy of Reason Author: Anthony F. Shaker Publisher: Xlibris Year: 2015 Pages: 337 Printed: Australia ISBN: 978-1-479-1804-7 Binding: Hard Cover Book Condition: New Weight: 666gr. Description from the publisher: Sadr al-Dîn Qûnavî (1207-74 CE) was pivotal to the development…
These were the crimes that were meant to change the world, and sometimes did. The book connects the killing of the Kennedys or the murder that sparked the First World War with less well-known stories, such as the Berlin shooting of an instigator of the Armenian genocide or the attack on an American ‘robber baron’. Taking in Malcolm X and Queen Victoria, Adolf Hitler and Andy Warhol, Charles Manson and Emma Goldman, Tsars, Presidents, and pop stars, “Age of Assassins” traces the process that turned thought into action and murder into an icon.
In tackling the history of political violence, the book is unique in its range and attention to detail, summoning up an age of assassination that is far from over.
Comprehensively updated with many new speeches including Earl Spencer’s lament to ‘The extraordinary and irreplaceable Diana’, Nikita Khrushchev’s secret speech of 1956 signalling the beginning of the end of Stalinist Russia, Patrick Pearse’s rousing funeral oration that fanned the flames of the Easter Rising, Kevin Rudd’s historic apology to Australia’s mistreated Aborigines and Barack Obama’s momentous US election night victory speech. Alongside these are the finest war cries of Winston Churchill, Martin Luther King’s prophetic ‘I have a dream’ and ‘I’ve seen the promised land’ speeches, the inspiring words of JFK and impassioned pleas from Nelson Mandela – the first at his trial in 1964 and the second on his election as president of South Africa in 1994. In addition are historic speeches from Elizabeth I, Charles I, Oliver Cromwell, George Washington, Napoleon Bonaparte, Abraham Lincoln, Emmeline Pankhurst, Mahatma Gandhi, Vladimir Lenin, Neville Chamberlain, Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Charles de Gaulle, General George S. Patton, J Robert Oppenheimer, Mao Zedong, Malcolm X, Richard M. Nixon, Pope John Paul II, Vaclav Havel, Elie Wiesel, Mikhail Gorbachev and many other great historical figures. Speeches that Changed the World presents over 50 momentous and thought-provoking speeches from throughout history. Complete with a potted biography of each speaker, and telling the story of why each oration was significant and what happened as a result, this is a gripping history of the world told through its greatest and most impassioned speeches.
Photo journalists are constantly hunting for “the right moment”. Now you can admire the fruits of their labors in this volume of photographs – we guarantee you won't be able to tear yourself away once you open its cover! These humorous press photographs daringly walk the tightrope between world history and everyday life. Out of this body of material arose a documentation of the history of the prevailing mentality during the first half of the 20th century – ranging from comical to eccentric, from weird to bizarre.
Published for the first time in one volume, Sven Lindqvist’s uncategorizable, beautiful and angry books about the African continent and the legacy of colonialism. Exterminate All the Brutes takes us on an intellectual trip to ‘the heart of the darkness’ of the European mind and its attitude towards Africa, tracing the legacy of European explorers, missionaries, politicians and historians in Africa from the late eighteenth century onwards. Its sequel, Desert Divers, describes Lindqvist’s journey through Algeria and Morocco, and explores the way European writers of the early twentieth century plunged into the stony, baking expanse of the Sahara, drawn by their own strange dreams.
This is an account of Australia – the people, the bush, the desert, the cities – as it was when the country was allowed to be itself, compared with what it has become. Its story is accompanied by numerous images of the Australian landscape, taken from the collections of the National Gallery of Australia. The settlement of Australia coincided with the invention of photography, and Conrad's word-pictures of the hot, aromatic, cicada-loud landscape are woven around 200 pictures.
Organised chronologically, “History’s Worst Predictions” excavates the strata of history to expose the rich veins of absurdity that are humanity’s prophetic utterances. Every aspect of human life – religion, politics, science, economy, culture and war – has provided material for the most far-fetched and inaccurate of predictions.
The Invisible Arab traces the roots of the revolutions in the Arab world. Marwan Bishara, chief policy analyst of Al Jazeera English and the anchor of the program “Empire”, combines on-the-ground reporting, extensive research and scholarship, and political commentary in this book on the complex influences that made the revolutions possible. Bishara argues that the inclusive, pluralistic nationalism that motivated the revolutions are indispensable to their long-term success.
No one knows when the first bow and arrow appeared, but it's safe to say that men and women have been using the archery complex–bow, string, arrow, fletching, and arrowhead–for at least 20,000 years. Used to provide both food and protection, the bow and arrow has always been an interesting and effective weapon.
From the stick bow to the crossbow, Archery showcases the many types of methods and tools used in this fascinating discipline. A comprehensive history of the bow and arrow, along with the full-color images in this lively compendium, will enthrall expert and novice collectors alike. Today's archers will learn about the world's first fighting tools, like the atlatl, or Australian spear, and the especially destructive iron-tipped arrows used by the men of classical civilizations. In addition, they'll refresh their knowledge of today's archery arsenal, including excalibur crossbows and parker bows.
Archery is a complete look at a field that has fascinated us since ancient times.
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