The Glory Of The Empire
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The Glory Of The Empire
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Author : Jean D'Ormesson
language : en
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Release Date : 2016-05-03
The Glory Of The Empire written by Jean D'Ormesson and has been published by New York Review of Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-03 with Fiction categories.
The Glory of the Empire is the rich and absorbing history of an extraordinary empire, at one point a rival to Rome. Rulers such as Basil the Great of Onessa, who founded the Empire but whose treacherous ways made him a byword for infamy, and the romantic Alexis the bastard, who dallied in the fleshpots of Egypt, studied Taoism and Buddhism, returned to save the Empire from civil war, and then retired “to learn to die,” come alive in The Glory of the Empire, along with generals, politicians, prophets, scoundrels, and others. Jean d’Ormesson also goes into the daily life of the Empire, its popular customs, and its contribution to the arts and the sciences, which, as he demonstrates, exercised an influence on the world as a whole, from the East to the West, and whose repercussions are still felt today. But it is all fiction, a thought experiment worthy of Jorge Luis Borges, and in the end The Glory of the Empire emerges as a great shimmering mirage, filling us with wonder even as it makes us wonder at the fugitive nature of power and the meaning of history itself.
The Glory Of The Empire
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Author : Jean d' Ormesson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1975
The Glory Of The Empire written by Jean d' Ormesson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1975 with Byzantine Empire categories.
The Oil And The Glory
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Author : Steve LeVine
language : en
Publisher: Random House Digital, Inc.
Release Date : 2007
The Oil And The Glory written by Steve LeVine and has been published by Random House Digital, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Business & Economics categories.
Describes the rogue's gallery of adventurers, dealmakers, political operatives, corrupt officials, powerful oil companies, and other interests competing for the vast oil reserves in the Caspian region in the wake of the disintegration of the Soviet Union.
The Oil And The Glory
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Author : Steve LeVine
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2007-10-23
The Oil And The Glory written by Steve LeVine and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-10-23 with History categories.
Remote, forbidding, and volatile, the Caspian Sea long tantalized the world with its vast oil reserves. But outsiders, blocked by the closed Soviet system, couldn’t get to it. Then the Soviet Union collapsed, and a wholesale rush into the region erupted. Along with oilmen, representatives of the world’s leading nations flocked to the Caspian for a share of the thirty billion barrels of proven oil reserves at stake, and a tense geopolitical struggle began. The main players were Moscow and Washington–the former seeking to retain control of its satellite states, and the latter intent on dislodging Russia to the benefit of the West. The Oil and the Glory is the gripping account of this latest phase in the epochal struggle for control of the earth’s “black gold.” Steve LeVine, who was based in the region for The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and Newsweek, weaves an astonishing tale of high-stakes political gamesmanship, greed, and scandal, set in one of the most opaque corners of the world. In LeVine’s telling, the world’s energy giants jockey for position in the rich Kazakh and Azeri oilfields, while superpowers seek to gain a strategic foothold in the region and to keep each other in check. At the heart of the story is the contest to build and operate energy pipelines out of the landlocked region, the key to controlling the Caspian and its oil. The oil pipeline that resulted, the longest in the world, is among Washington’s greatest foreign policy triumphs in at least a decade and a half. Along the way, LeVine introduces such players as James Giffen, an American moneyman who was also the political “fixer” for oil companies eager to do business on the Caspian and the broker for Kazakhstan’s president and ministers; John Deuss, the flamboyant Dutch oil trader who won big but lost even bigger; Heydar Aliyev, the oft-misunderstood Azeri president who transcended his past as a Soviet Politburo member and masterminded a scheme to loosen Russian control over its former colonies in the Caspian region; and all manner of rogues, adventurers, and others drawn by the irresistible pull of untold riches and the possible “final frontier” of the fossil-fuel era. The broader story is of the geopolitical questions of the Caspian oil bonanza, such as whether Russia can be a trusted ally and trading partner with the West, and what Washington’s entry into this important but chaotic region will mean for its long-term stability. In an intense and suspenseful narrative, The Oil and the Glory is the definitive chronicle of events that are understood by few, but whose political and economic impact will be both profound and lasting.
The Glory Seekers
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Author : William Horace Brown
language : en
Publisher: Hardpress Publishing
Release Date : 2012-08-01
The Glory Seekers written by William Horace Brown and has been published by Hardpress Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-08-01 with categories.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
The Glory Seekers
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Author : William Horace Brown
language : en
Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLC
Release Date : 2014-03-29
The Glory Seekers written by William Horace Brown and has been published by Literary Licensing, LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-29 with categories.
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1906 Edition.
For The Glory Of Rome
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Author : Ross Cowan
language : en
Publisher: Frontline Books
Release Date : 2017-06-05
For The Glory Of Rome written by Ross Cowan and has been published by Frontline Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06-05 with categories.
The Glory Of Byzantium
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Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
language : en
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Release Date : 1997
The Glory Of Byzantium written by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) and has been published by Metropolitan Museum of Art this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Art, Byzantine categories.
Serves as both visual and textual record of the exhibition of the same name, surveying the art of the Middle Byzantine period from the restoration of the use of icons by the Orthodox Church in 843 to the occupation of Constantinople by the Crusader forces from the West from 1204 to 1261. Conceived as a sequel to the 1976 exhibition "Age of Spirituality," which focused on the first centuries of Byzantium. Preceding the catalogue, 17 essays treat the historical context, religious sphere, and secular courtly realm of the empire, and the interactions between Byzantium and other medieval cultures. Abundantly illustrated. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
The Glory Seekers
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Author : William Horace Brown
language : en
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2017-10-12
The Glory Seekers written by William Horace Brown and has been published by Forgotten Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-12 with History categories.
Excerpt from The Glory Seekers: The Romance of Would-Be Founders of Empire in the Early Days of the Great Southwest Sheep now browse over thousands of unmarked graves of adventurers who invaded Spanish territory bent on conquest; for in almost every raid they paid the mortal penalty of their rashness, and their doom in some degree absolved their transgression. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Gideon
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Author : Joseph Ganci
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-01-05
Gideon written by Joseph Ganci and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-05 with Religion categories.
The Canaanite age of iron finds a simple woodsman lost in the forest of fear and doubt; challenging Ba'al, the Amorite god, to rescue his one true love, and grows into a mighty man of valor conquering the Midian Empire