Blood of Empire, Paperback - Brian McClellan

Reducere. As the final battle approaches a sellsword, a spy, and a general must find unlikely and dangerous allies in order to turn the tides of war in the l...

Blood of Empire is the concluding novel in the Gods of Blood and Powder series - an explosive epic fantasy from Gemmell Award-winning author Brian ...

Reducere. The Age of Kings is dead . . . and I have killed it. It's a bloody business overthrowing a king...Field Marshal Tamas' coup against his king sent c...

An epic fantasy debut, which will appeal to fans of George R.R. Martin and Brent Weeks. The first book in a new series, it's set in an imaginative ...

The 3rd and final book in the }Powder Mage{ trilogy, following }The Promise Of Blood{ and }The Crimson Campaign{. 'Tense action, memorable characte...

The second in the epic }Powder Mage{ fantasy trilogy. Stranded behind enemy lines and hounded by the enemy's finest, Tamas must lead his remaining ...

Reducere. IN A RICH, DISTINCTIVE WORLD THAT MIXES MAGIC WITH TECHNOLOGY, WHO COULD STAND AGAINST MAGES THAT CONTROL GUNPOWDER AND BULLETS? The capital has fa...

A memorable memoir about childhood in India, by the daughter of Lord Louis and Edwina Mountbatten. A wonderful evocation of a magical setting as se...

Exposes the policies that have led to American imperialism and the massive military deployment that accompanies it, suggesting that the US could su...

Reducere. An African Younghusband - the compelling life of a great adventurer.Ewart Grogan, 'the baddest and boldest of a bad bold gang' of settlers in Kenya...

At the end of the First World War, British imperial power was at an all-time low. That was until a ragtag band of visionaries, including Winston Ch...

Reducere. "An excellent start to a new series: fast-paced and engaging, with a properly epic setting and a cast of characters I look forward to seeing more o...

Follows the paths taken through the eastern Mediterranean and its hinterland by an eminent 16th century Venetian-Albanian family, illuminating subj...

As the "audacious and subversive"* Shadow Campaigns novels continue, the weather is growing warmer, but the frosty threat of Vordan's enemies is on...

A fascinating story of how palm oil has shaped our worldPublisher: Pluto PressAuthor(s): Max HaivenIllustration(s): 1 Illustrations, black and whit...

Reducere. Nineteenth-century Britain could be seen as the first information society in history--for the simple reason that it accumulated knowledge from the ...

Yinka Shonibare CBE makes colourful fabrics with presumed African origins into the trademark of his multimedia artworks. At the same time he examin...

Re-tells the history of the past 2 centuries from an Asian point of view, showing how a remarkable, disparate group of thinkers, journalists, radic...

Reducere. Earth has joined the Galactic Empire, a vast interstellar society ruled by dragon-like aliens where everybody is immortal. Pain, famine and disease...

Reducere. An exciting new adventure filled with diverse characters, strong heroes and heroines and wild creatures from the bestselling author of White Tiger....

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCIllustration(s): 54 bw illusNumber of pages: 304Collection: The Cultural Histories SeriesPublication date: 2016...

Reducere. In this wide-ranging and thoughtful analysis, Dorling and Tomlinson argue that if Britain can reconcile itself to a new beginning, there is the cha...

Explores the early part of Queen Victoria's reign, when the British Empire was well on the way to becoming the greatest empire the world had ever s...

Explores the lived experience of empire in the Pacific, the last region to be contacted and colonized by Europeans following the great voyages of C...

DescriptionIn the late 1630s, Andrea Stuart's earliest known maternal ancestor set sail from England, lured by the promise of the New World, to set...

Winner of the Kekoo Naoroji Award for Mountain Literature 2019An engrossing story of passion and exploration that traces the end of empire and the ...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

In 1761 and again in 1768, European scientists raced around the world to observe the transit of Venus, a rare astronomical event in which the plane...

Publisher: British Museum PressAuthor(s): Ralph JacksonIllustration(s): Illustrated in colour throughoutNumber of pages: 160Publication date: 2010D...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCIllustration(s): 51 bw illusNumber of pages: 320Collection: The Cultural Histories SeriesPublication date: 2022...

Lively and accessible biography of Sylvia Pankhurst, from suffragette to anti-Fascist activist.Publisher: Pluto PressAuthor(s): Katherine ConnellyI...