Empire of Light, Paperback

"Routley's whimsical tone lends a dark comic quality to this intricate fantasy, and the outlandish characters and captivating worldbuilding." -Publ...

Reducere. DescriptionDamian Nettoyer is the Empire's go-to gun. He kills whoever they want him to kill. In exchange, he and his rag-tag gang of crooks get to...

Reducere. Murder in the empire means war for the Kingdom of Lugunica While Julius, Reinhard, and Ferris are on a diplomatic mission to secure a peace treaty,...

A brilliantly original take on the First World War, tracing the Indian army's journey from a small professional service to a crucial part of the co...

Reducere. David Armitage presents the first comprehensive history of British conceptions of empire for half a century, tracing the emergence of British imper...

Reducere. DescriptionHow does one empire differ from another? Why do empires rise and fall? What has made empires flourish in some eras and regions of the wo...

Reducere. Velesh Aradahl, chairman of the Imperial Assembly of the Warlord's Empire, has made his move. With his vast combat experience and boundless knowled...

Bringing together for the first time all the available evidence for the origination and development of the concept of Arcadia, from the Homeric per...

From the eighteenth century until the 1950s, the British Empire was the largest and most far-flung political entity in the world, holding sway at o...

DescriptionWhat the rulers of empire can teach us about navigating today's increasingly interconnected worldThe empires of the past were far-flung ...

Reducere. History remembers Attila, the leader of the Huns, as the Romans perceived him: a savage barbarian brutally inflicting terror on whoever crossed his...

A gripping manga based on Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed Chronicles: China video game, featuring iconic Assassin Shao Jun. Unveil a tale that will engu...

Social Research and Disability emphasizes how disabled researchers negotiate the empirical process, in light of disability, whilst retaining the sc...

DescriptionA Companion to St. Symeon the New Theologian is an accessible guide to one of the great mystical writers of the Eastern Christian tradit...

A fundamental dimension of the Russian historical experience has been the diversity of its people and cultures, religions and languages, landscapes...

Reducere. Named one of the ten best books of the year by the Chicago TribuneA Publishers Weekly best book of 2019 - A 2019 NPR Staff PickA pathbreaking histo...

Renowned military historian Dr Robert Lyman sheds new light on the inner workings of Churchill's war cabinet, its relationship with the overstretch...

Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light on the human ...

Reducere. What does Palpatine have to do with British philosopher Thomas Hobbes? Was the rise of the Empire a historical necessity? How much Nietzsche can yo...

Reducere. The year is 1812, and Richard Sharpe has one mission: to thwart Napoleon's dream of empire. Sharpe and the fighting men of the Light Company must g...

Publisher: J-Novel ClubAuthor(s): Nozomu MochitsukiIllustration(s): 1 color Foldout 10 Black and WhiteTranslator: David TengNumber of pages: 224Col...

Publisher: J-Novel ClubAuthor(s): Nozomu MochitsukiIllustration(s): 1 color Foldout 10 Black and WhiteTranslator: David TengNumber of pages: 224Col...

Publisher: J-Novel ClubAuthor(s): Nozomu MochitsukiIllustration(s): 1 color Foldout 10 Black and WhiteTranslator: David TengNumber of pages: 224Col...

Publisher: J-Novel ClubAuthor(s): Nozomu MochitsukiIllustration(s): 1 color Foldout 10 Black and WhiteTranslator: David TengNumber of pages: 224Col...

DescriptionHas T'Challa learned what it means to be king just in time to lose his kingdom? Weeks ago, the Black Panther disappeared on a mission in...

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Reducere. Finally, a book on the physics of light that doesn't require advanced mathematics to understand. Seeing the Light is the most accessible and compre...

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Reducere. DEMON DIPLOMACY IS HARD WORK... ​There's a celebration to be had in the kingdom of Aldegia, and Princess La Folia invites Kojou to join in the fest...

Examines the threads connecting South and West America during the slaveholding era, and that undermined the radical promise of Reconstruction. Kevi...

As the bloodied and weary galaxy faces battle once more, the Jedi take on the formidable task of bringing the last of the Empire into the light-Fro...

Reducere. This insightful history sheds light on the early Christian church of Assyria, during the time of the Sassanid Persian Empire that ruled from the 2n...

Reducere. The Military Enlightenment brings to light a radically new narrative both on the Enlightenment and the French armed forces from Louis XIV to Napole...

Bill Kimberlin may refer to himself as "one of those names on the endless list of credits at the close of blockbuster movies." In reality though, h...

Reducere. An imperial family is found butchered. Officers of God are called to investigate. Evidence points to a rebel group trying to seed fear into the ver...

As museums across Europe reckon with the post-colonial legacies of their collections, this volume combines approaches from material anthropology, i...

Reducere. Explore the Bible from a secular, agnostic viewpoint. Learn about how the beliefs of the ancient Israelites and Judeans changed as their kingdoms f...

Reducere. THE GEARS OF WAR BEGIN TO TURN ​Threatened by Tempest's continued rapid expansion, the Eastern Empire finally starts setting the stage for all-out ...

Flodoard of Rheims (893/4-966) is one of the tenth century's most intriguing but neglected historians, who wrote in the tumultuous decades that fol...

"A great war has raged for years between the scientifically advanced Empire and Nebulis, the realm of the witches-until the youngest knight ever to...

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

This book reveals the contextual nature of the process through which civil society develops, presenting studies that analyse the manner in which ci...

Reducere. In this early 20th century novella, Ayn Rand creates a dystopian society that emphasizes government control over all elements of a civilization - a...

DescriptionA great war has raged for years between the scientifically advanced Empire and Nebulis, the realm of the witches-until the youngest knig...

A civil war suddenly erupts in the Chaos Zone, the Central American empire ruled by the Third Primogenitor. Kojou & Co. sense that someone is backi...

Biodiversity has been a key concept in international conservation since the 1980s, yet historians have paid little attention to its origins. Uncove...

Offering a comprehensive historical and empirical study of science in both colonial and post-colonial Africa, R. Sooryamoorthy brings to light the ...

Reducere. This is a lost episode of Indian history. Before Bose, much before Nehru and even before Mahatma Gandhi...there was Har Dayal.On the morning of Dec...

Chosen peoples demonstrates how biblical themes, ideas and metaphors shaped racial, national and imperial identities in the long nineteenth century...

Reducere. Like the Pharaohs he admired, Cecil John Rhodes (1853-1902) hoped to be remembered for 4, 000 years. Barely 120 years later, many people want him e...

Reducere. DescriptionA personal history of a dedicated group of American and Canadian missionaries and relief workers who saved thousands of Armenian, Greek ...

Reducere. Al-Khwarizmi is arguably the most important mathematician of the Middle Ages. He developed two distinct branches of mathematics, both of which owe ...

DescriptionFrom the army of Marc Antony in the 1st century BC, Roman generals hired Oriental heavy armored cavalry to serve in their military along...

History associates the early Roman Empire with its male rulers, yet not one of the Julio-Claudian dynasty's emperors was the blood son of his prede...

Sheds new light on the relationship between the emperor and his senators in the later Roman Empire, focusing on Constantius II, son of Constantine ...

Alexander the Great's sudden and unexpected death has left the largest, most formidable empire the world has ever seen leaderless. As the fight to ...

Bard Cornelius: the son of a nobleman of Mauricia, an empire located in a parallel universe. But Bard is no ordinary boy--he's got three souls pack...

Reducere. With one simple myth, nations burned. Under the Almighty, an empire has been forged, bringing peace to the once-divided continent. But now, a spark...

Reducere. Marie-Antoinette, Daughter of the Caesars is about the life, death and legacy of Louis XVI's tragic Queen, based upon the author's thirty years of ...

Christian Jacq, author of the international triumphs Ramses and The Stone of Light, brings the people and passions of ancient Egypt to life in an e...

Reducere. DIAPHANY is an international peer-reviewed volume dedicated to the living confluence of poetic, phenomenological and empirical perceptions of reali...

DescriptionCommemorating the 70th anniversaries of the arrival of the Empire Windrush on June 22, 1948 and the birth of the National Health Service...

Reducere. With the fate of the world at stake, Syl and Paul battle the sinister forces of the Nairene Sisterhood in this second thrilling Chronicles of the I...

An eccentric noblewoman scientist's journey into a hostile environment will change her world forever, in this enthralling fantasy novel. Rhia Harly...

Larry Gonick's celebrated series The Cartoon History of the Universe is a unique fusion of world history and the comics medium, a work of serious s...

Reducere. *2018 LOCUS AWARD WINNER OF BEST SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL**2018 HUGO AWARD FINALIST FOR BEST NOVEL*"John Scalzi is the most entertaining, accessible w...

The High School Prodigies have established the Republic of Elm and solidified its foundation by issuing currency. However, just as they are about t...

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Love Huntress Ringo It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to win Tsukasa's heart when Ringo finally goes on a date with him. Can the genius scienti...