A Court On Horseback

Author : Michael G Chang
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 1684174562
Total Pages : 574 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Court on Horseback written by Michael G Chang and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-03-23 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Between 1751 and 1784, the Qianlong emperor embarked upon six southern tours, traveling from Beijing to Jiangnan and back. These tours were exercises in political theater that took the Manchu emperor through one of the Qing empire’s most prosperous regions.This study elucidates the tensions and the constant negotiations characterizing the relationship between the imperial center and Jiangnan, which straddled the two key provinces of Jiangsu and Zhejiang. Politically, economically, and culturally, Jiangnan was the undisputed center of the Han Chinese world; it also remained a bastion of Ming loyalism and anti-Manchu sentiment. How did the Qing court constitute its authority and legitimate its domination over this pivotal region? What were the precise terms and historical dynamics of Qing rule over China proper during the long eighteenth century?In the course of addressing such questions, this study also explores the political culture within and through which High Qing rule was constituted and contested by a range of actors, all of whom operated within socially and historically structured contexts. The author argues that the southern tours occupied a central place in the historical formation of Qing rule during a period of momentous change affecting all strata of the eighteenth-century polity."

Author : Grant Golliher
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0593331931
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Think Like a Horse written by Grant Golliher and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-05-31 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Think Like a Horse, veteran “horse whisperer” and leadership expert Grant Golliher applies his hard-won horse sense to teach invaluable lessons anyone can use to live a fuller, more successful life. Grant Golliher is what some would call a “horse whisperer,” able to get a wild horse to calmly accept a saddle and a rider without the use of force. Through training thousands of horses, many traumatized or abused, Golliher was able to learn essential lessons about communication, boundaries, fairness, trust, and respect—lessons that apply not just to horses but to humans as well. It’s why celebrities, Fortune 500 ex­ecutives, professional coaches, supreme court justices, and even ordinary families from around the world flock to his Wyoming ranch every year to take part in what one CEO called “the most transformational experience I have ever encountered.” Horse whispering may sound like magic, but as Grant explains in Think Like a Horse, it’s not really all that mysterious. The lessons he shares are as fundamental and ageless as the relationship between horses, the people who ride them, and the beauty of the West. In fact, it’s an approach that anyone can learn, and should learn, in order to better understand our common humanity, overcome trauma, foster more fulfilled relationships, and unlock untapped potential in virtually every aspect of our lives. All you have to do is think like a horse.

Author : Julie I. Fershtman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781641054935
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Equine Law and Horse Sense written by Julie I. Fershtman and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-07 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Equine Law and Horse Sense is designed for people, businesses, and organizations in the horse industry and for the lawyers who serve them.

Author : William Shatner
Publisher : Thomas Dunne Books
ISBN 13 : 1250130026
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spirit of the Horse written by William Shatner and published by Thomas Dunne Books. This book was released on 2017-05-23 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From his first time riding as a child, Shatner has felt a deep love for horses. He shares his joy-- with children, veterans, those with disabilities, and many more-- through the annual Hollywood Charity Horse Show. Here, he speaks from the heart about the effect horses have had on his life and on the lives of others. The anecdotes are paired with classic horse stories, including retellings of the Pegasus myth and the feats of the most famous war horses throughout history. Celebrate the connection between humans and horses-- and the power, courage, mindfulness, and healing that they can inspire in us.

Author : David Grossman
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1910702935
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Horse Walks Into a Bar written by David Grossman and published by Random House. This book was released on 2016 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Guardian and New Statesman Book of the Year The setting is a comedy club in a small Israeli town. An audience that has come expecting an evening of amusement instead sees a comedian falling apart on stage; an act of disintegration, a man crumbling, as a matter of choice, before their eyes. They could get up and leave, or boo and whistle and drive him from the stage, if they were not so drawn to glimpse his personal hell. Dovaleh G, a veteran stand-up comic - charming, erratic, repellent - exposes a wound he has been living with for years: a fateful and gruesome choice he had to make between the two people who were dearest to him. A Horse Walks into a Bar is a shocking and breathtaking read. Betrayals between lovers, the treachery of friends, guilt demanding redress. Flaying alive both himself and the people watching him, Dovaleh G provokes both revulsion and empathy from an audience that doesn't know whether to laugh or cry - and all this in the presence of a former childhood friend who is trying to understand why he's been summoned to this performance.

Author : Christopher Myers
Publisher : Lerner Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 1430130075
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book H.O.R.S.E. written by Christopher Myers and published by Lerner Publishing Group. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two friends get highly imaginative on an urban basketball court as they try to one-up the other in a popular game that turns into a humorous and inventive celebration of athletics and creativity.

Author : Brian Steidle
Publisher : PublicAffairs
ISBN 13 : 1586485970
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Devil Came on Horseback written by Brian Steidle and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2007-08-05 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Former United States Marine Brian Steidle served for six months in Darfur as an unarmed military observer for the African Union. There he witnessed first-hand the ongoing genocide, and documented every day of his experience using email, audio journals, notebook after notebook and nearly 1,000 photographs. Gretchen Steidle Wallace, his sister, who wrote this book with Brian, corresponded with him throughout his time in Darfur. Fired upon, taken hostage, a witness to villages destroyed and people killed, frustrated by his mission's limitations and the international community's reluctance to intervene, Steidle resigned and has since become an advocate for the world to step in and stop this genocide. The Devil Came on Horseback depicts the tragic impact of an Arab government bent on destroying its black African citizens, the maddening complexity of international inaction in response to blatant genocide, and the awkward, yet heroic transformation of a formerMarine turned humanitarian. It is a gripping and moving memoir that bears witness to atrocities we have too long averted our eyes from, and reveals that the actions of just one committed person have the power to change the world.

Author : Monty Roberts
Publisher : Random House Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780679456582
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Man who Listens to Horses written by Monty Roberts and published by Random House Incorporated. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author discusses his unconventional and gentle equine training methods, his unique ability to communicate with horses, and the applications of his communication skills in the corporate world

Author : William S. Hart
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781258939441
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Law on Horseback and Other Stories written by William S. Hart and published by . This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new release of the original 1935 edition.

Author : Richard POWELL (Captain, 54th Regiment.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Proceedings of a General Court Martial held at the Horse Guards, on the 24th and 27th of March 1792, for the trial of Capt. R. Powell, Lieut. C. Seton and Lieut. J. Hall, of the 54th Regiment, ... on ... charges preferred ... by W. Cobbett, late Serjeant-Major of the said Regiment. Together with several curious letters which passed between ... W. Cobbett and Sir C. Gould, ... and various other documents connected therewith written by Richard POWELL (Captain, 54th Regiment.) and published by . This book was released on 1809 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: