Kingdom Of The Sun

Author : Jacqueline Mitton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780711219472
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kingdom of the Sun written by Jacqueline Mitton and published by . This book was released on 2002-10-15 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A child's introduction to the planets in our solar system. Dr Jacqueline Mitton describes each planet, drawing on scientific information. She also discusses the gods that the planets are named after, and examines the relationships between contemporary facts and ancient myths.

Author : Lowell H. Press
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780990513001
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Kingdom of the Sun and Moon written by Lowell H. Press and published by . This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When an emissary sent by the Konig himself stops by the remote mouse colony of Long Meadow, the peaceful life Sommer and Nesbit have shared is turned upside down-and the brothers are catapulted into separate death-defying adventures. Sommer, levelheaded and clever, is ordered to the palace to join the Konig's illustrious Eagle Guard as it prepares to face a full-scale invasion by the nefarious Emperor Wolfsmilch and his army of a hundred thousand forest mice. Meanwhile, the small but spirited Nesbit is banished to the Forest of Lost Life for insulting the Konig, and must dodge hungry predators at every turn. The brothers struggle to reunite and defy the oppressors who threaten everyone and everything they have ever known and loved. But time is quickly running out for both of them-and the fate of the kingdom hinges on one last, daring mission.

Author : John Julius Norwich
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 9780571260447
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Kingdom in the Sun, 1130-1194 written by John Julius Norwich and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2010 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There were two Norman Conquests. John Julius Norwich is the consummate historian of the 'other' one: the conquest of Sicily.When on Christmas Day 1130 Roger de Hauteville was crowned first King of Sicily, the island entered a golden age. Norman and Italian, Greek and Arab, Lombard, Englishman and Jew all contributed to a culture that was as brilliant as it was cosmopolitan; and to an atmosphere of racial and religious toleration unparalleled in Europe. But sixty-four years later, to the day, the sun set on the Sicilian Kingdom. In this second volume of his history (The Normans in the South 1016-1130 is also in Faber Finds) Norwich describes the reigns of the grotesquely misnamed William the Bad and the Good and the bastard Tancred. We read, too, of St Bernard, magnetic but insufferable; of Adrian IV, the only English Pope; of Richard the Lionheart (behaving abominably in Messina); and other notables.This scintillating narrative history is also a superb traveller's guide, listing every Norman building extant on Sicily.

Author : Christopher Ruocchio
Publisher : Astra Publishing House
ISBN 13 : 0756413117
Total Pages : 545 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kingdoms of Death written by Christopher Ruocchio and published by Astra Publishing House. This book was released on 2022-03-22 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fourth novel of the galaxy-spanning Sun Eater series merges the best of space opera and epic fantasy, as Hadrian Marlowe continues down a path that can only end in fire. Hadrian Marlowe is trapped. For nearly a century, he has been a guest of the Emperor, forced into the role of advisor, a prisoner of his own legend. But the war is changing. Mankind is losing. The Cielcin are spilling into human space from the fringes, picking their targets with cunning precision. The Great Prince Syriani Dorayaica is uniting their clans, forging them into an army and threat the likes of which mankind has never seen. And the Empire stands alone. Now the Emperor has no choice but to give Hadrian Marlowe—once his favorite knight—one more impossible task: journey across the galaxy to the Lothrian Commonwealth and convince them to join the war. But not all is as it seems, and Hadrian’s journey will take him far beyond the Empire, beyond the Commonwealth, impossibly deep behind enemy lines.

Author : J. G. Ballard
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476737533
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Empire of the Sun written by J. G. Ballard and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-03-19 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic, award-winning novel, made famous by Steven Spielberg's film, tells of a young boy's struggle to survive World War II in China. Jim is separated from his parents in a world at war. To survive, he must find a strength greater than all the events that surround him. Shanghai, 1941 -- a city aflame from the fateful torch of Pearl Harbor. In streets full of chaos and corpses, a young British boy searches in vain for his parents. Imprisoned in a Japanese concentration camp, he is witness to the fierce white flash of Nagasaki, as the bomb bellows the end of the war...and the dawn of a blighted world. Ballard's enduring novel of war and deprivation, internment camps and death marches, and starvation and survival is an honest coming-of-age tale set in a world thrown utterly out of joint.

Author : Nathalie Bondil
Publisher : 5Continents
ISBN 13 : 9788874396290
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Peru written by Nathalie Bondil and published by 5Continents. This book was released on 2013-04-20 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing an original overview covering nearly 4,000 years of history, the book includes approximately 350 works reproduced in lush colour illustrations: a large selection of pre-Columbian treasures, masterpieces dating from the colonial era and striking modern paintings and sculptures from the first half of the 20th century, many reproduced here for the first time. The book is divided into three sections: the mythologies and rituals of ancient Andean civilizations; their perpetuation, concealment, or hybridisation with Catholicism during the 18th and 19th centuries; and the rediscovery of Peruvian popular traditions and faiths in the 20th century, mainly due to the popular Indigenist movement.

Author : June Teufel Dreyer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195375661
Total Pages : 479 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Middle Kingdom and Empire of the Rising Sun written by June Teufel Dreyer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Japan and China have been rivals for more than a millennium. Until the late nineteenth century, China was the more powerful, while Japan took the upper hand in the twentieth century. Now, China's resurgence has emboldened it as Japan perceives itself falling behind, exacerbating long-standing historical frictions ... Dreyer argues that recent disputes should be seen as manifestations of embedded rivalries rather than as issues whose resolution would provide a lasting solution to deep-standing disputes"--Jacket.

Author : James Terry
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
ISBN 13 : 0826356400
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kingdom of the Sun written by James Terry and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in southwestern New Mexico, the stories in James Terry's stunning debut explore the joys, insecurities, and failures of memorable characters as they attempt to connect with--or disconnect from--others around them. The elderly landlady of the Darling Courts apartments hires a reclusive handyman who suffers from a fear of water, and the pair forms an unlikely bond. A worker's unscrupulous plan to build a road in the middle of the desert is threatened by a lonely pregnant woman living in a trailer parked directly in his path. Overcome by nostalgia, a married trucker making the California run from Waco to Los Angeles takes a truck-stop waitress to the Deming drive-in theater with disappointing results. Together, these surprising stories uncover how our environment manifests itself in our everyday lives.

Author : A. Gildersleeve
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1479708208
Total Pages : 79 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kingdom of the Sun written by A. Gildersleeve and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-08 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jacqueline Mitton
Publisher : National Geographic Children's Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kingdom of the Sun written by Jacqueline Mitton and published by National Geographic Children's Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tours the solar system, weaving together mythology and astronomy.