Author: Jan Strnad
Publisher: Dark Horse Books
ISBN: 9781569714485
Category : Comic books, strips, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In this graphic novel, readers can join a master from the Jedi Council on an adventure that sets the stage for "Episode 1: The Phantom Menace*." Ki-Adi-Mundi, a Jedi Knight, is falsely charged with murder and swiftly drawn into a web of conspiracy and intrigue. Writers include Anthony Winn, John Nadeau, Robert Jones, and Jordi Ensign.
Prelude to Rebellion
Author: Jan Strnad
Publisher: Dark Horse Books
ISBN: 9781569714485
Category : Comic books, strips, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In this graphic novel, readers can join a master from the Jedi Council on an adventure that sets the stage for "Episode 1: The Phantom Menace*." Ki-Adi-Mundi, a Jedi Knight, is falsely charged with murder and swiftly drawn into a web of conspiracy and intrigue. Writers include Anthony Winn, John Nadeau, Robert Jones, and Jordi Ensign.
Publisher: Dark Horse Books
ISBN: 9781569714485
Category : Comic books, strips, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In this graphic novel, readers can join a master from the Jedi Council on an adventure that sets the stage for "Episode 1: The Phantom Menace*." Ki-Adi-Mundi, a Jedi Knight, is falsely charged with murder and swiftly drawn into a web of conspiracy and intrigue. Writers include Anthony Winn, John Nadeau, Robert Jones, and Jordi Ensign.
Prelude to Civil War
Author: William W. Freehling
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195076813
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Fresh analysis revises many previous theories on origins & significance of the nullification controversy.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195076813
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Fresh analysis revises many previous theories on origins & significance of the nullification controversy.
Prelude to Foundation
Author: Isaac Asimov
Publisher: Spectra
ISBN: 0553900951
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
The first of two prequel novels in Isaac Asimov’s classic science-fiction masterpiece, the Foundation series THE EPIC SAGA THAT INSPIRED THE APPLE TV+ SERIES FOUNDATION It is the year 12,020 G.E. and Emperor Cleon I sits uneasily on the Imperial throne of Trantor. Here in the great multidomed capital of the Galactic Empire, forty billion people have created a civilization of unimaginable technological and cultural complexity. Yet Cleon knows there are those who would see him fall—those whom he would destroy if only he could read the future. Hari Seldon has come to Trantor to deliver his paper on psychohistory, his remarkable theory of prediction. Little does the young Outworld mathematician know that he has already sealed his fate and the fate of humanity. For Hari possesses the prophetic power that makes him the most wanted man in the Empire . . . the man who holds the key to the future—an apocalyptic power to be known forever after as the Foundation.
Publisher: Spectra
ISBN: 0553900951
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
The first of two prequel novels in Isaac Asimov’s classic science-fiction masterpiece, the Foundation series THE EPIC SAGA THAT INSPIRED THE APPLE TV+ SERIES FOUNDATION It is the year 12,020 G.E. and Emperor Cleon I sits uneasily on the Imperial throne of Trantor. Here in the great multidomed capital of the Galactic Empire, forty billion people have created a civilization of unimaginable technological and cultural complexity. Yet Cleon knows there are those who would see him fall—those whom he would destroy if only he could read the future. Hari Seldon has come to Trantor to deliver his paper on psychohistory, his remarkable theory of prediction. Little does the young Outworld mathematician know that he has already sealed his fate and the fate of humanity. For Hari possesses the prophetic power that makes him the most wanted man in the Empire . . . the man who holds the key to the future—an apocalyptic power to be known forever after as the Foundation.
Star Wars
Author: Robert Glyndwr Williams
Publisher: Titan Books (UK)
ISBN: 9781845767501
Category : Alienation (Social psychology)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Rebel Alliance has struck a vital blow against the Empire by destroying the Death Star. As Rebels unite and civil war erupts across the galaxy, who will be left standing?
Publisher: Titan Books (UK)
ISBN: 9781845767501
Category : Alienation (Social psychology)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Rebel Alliance has struck a vital blow against the Empire by destroying the Death Star. As Rebels unite and civil war erupts across the galaxy, who will be left standing?
The Huk Rebellion
Author: Benedict J. Kerkvliet
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN: 1461644283
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Newly available with an updated bibliographic essay, this highly acclaimed work explores the Huk rebellion, a momentous peasant revolt in the Philippines. Unlike prevailing top-down analysis, Kerkvliet seeks to understand the movement from the point of view of its participants and sympathizers. He argues that seeing a peasant revolt through the eyes of those who rebelled explains and clarifies the actions of people who otherwise might appear irrational. Drawing on a rich array of documents and in-depth interviews with peasants and rebel leaders, the author provides definitive answers to the causes of the rebellion, the goals of the rebels, and the process of resistance.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN: 1461644283
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Newly available with an updated bibliographic essay, this highly acclaimed work explores the Huk rebellion, a momentous peasant revolt in the Philippines. Unlike prevailing top-down analysis, Kerkvliet seeks to understand the movement from the point of view of its participants and sympathizers. He argues that seeing a peasant revolt through the eyes of those who rebelled explains and clarifies the actions of people who otherwise might appear irrational. Drawing on a rich array of documents and in-depth interviews with peasants and rebel leaders, the author provides definitive answers to the causes of the rebellion, the goals of the rebels, and the process of resistance.
Jacobite Prisoners of the 1715 Rebellion
Author: Margaret Sankey
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351925784
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
The Jacobite rebellion of 1715 was a dramatic but ultimately unsuccessful challenge to the new Hanoverian regime in Great Britain. It did, however, reveal serious fault lines in the political foundations of the new regime which enormously restricted the government's freedom of action in the suppression of the rebellion, and effectively made the treatment of the rebels in its aftermath the true test of the new dynasty's legitimacy and stability. Whilst the rulers of England had traditionally dealt harshly with internal rebellion, monarchs and their ministers had to find a delicate balance between showing the power of the regime through the candid exercise of force while maintaining their own reputation for justice and clemency. As such George I and his government had to tailor their reaction to the 1715 rebellion in such a way that it effectively discouraged further participation in Jacobite insurgency, undercut the rebels' ability to challenge the state, and made clear the regime's intention to use a firm hand in preventing rebellion. At the same time it could not cross the line into tyranny with excessive or sadistic executions and had to avoid giving offence to powerful magnates and foreign powers likely to petition for the lives of the captured rebels. To accomplish this feat, the Hanoverian Whig regime used a programme far more subtle and calculated than has generally been appreciated. The scheme it put into effect had three components, to put fear into the rank-and-file of the rebels through a limited programme of execution and transportation, to cripple the Catholic community through imprisonment and property confiscation, and, most crucially, to entertain petitions from members of the elite on behalf of imprisoned rebels. By following such a strategy of retribution tempered with clemency, this book argues that the Hanoverian regime was able to quell the immediate dangers posed by the rebellion, and bring its leaders back into the orbit of the government, beginning the process of reintegrating them back into political mainstream.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351925784
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
The Jacobite rebellion of 1715 was a dramatic but ultimately unsuccessful challenge to the new Hanoverian regime in Great Britain. It did, however, reveal serious fault lines in the political foundations of the new regime which enormously restricted the government's freedom of action in the suppression of the rebellion, and effectively made the treatment of the rebels in its aftermath the true test of the new dynasty's legitimacy and stability. Whilst the rulers of England had traditionally dealt harshly with internal rebellion, monarchs and their ministers had to find a delicate balance between showing the power of the regime through the candid exercise of force while maintaining their own reputation for justice and clemency. As such George I and his government had to tailor their reaction to the 1715 rebellion in such a way that it effectively discouraged further participation in Jacobite insurgency, undercut the rebels' ability to challenge the state, and made clear the regime's intention to use a firm hand in preventing rebellion. At the same time it could not cross the line into tyranny with excessive or sadistic executions and had to avoid giving offence to powerful magnates and foreign powers likely to petition for the lives of the captured rebels. To accomplish this feat, the Hanoverian Whig regime used a programme far more subtle and calculated than has generally been appreciated. The scheme it put into effect had three components, to put fear into the rank-and-file of the rebels through a limited programme of execution and transportation, to cripple the Catholic community through imprisonment and property confiscation, and, most crucially, to entertain petitions from members of the elite on behalf of imprisoned rebels. By following such a strategy of retribution tempered with clemency, this book argues that the Hanoverian regime was able to quell the immediate dangers posed by the rebellion, and bring its leaders back into the orbit of the government, beginning the process of reintegrating them back into political mainstream.
The Hunt for Aurra Sing
Author: Tim Truman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781569716519
Category : Graphic novels
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Set in the time between Star Wars Episodes I and II, this story follows the trail of Aurra Sing, the notorious bounty hunter, who is murdering Jedi Knights. Hoping to stop Sing's killing spree, several Jedi volunteer to hunt the hunter.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781569716519
Category : Graphic novels
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Set in the time between Star Wars Episodes I and II, this story follows the trail of Aurra Sing, the notorious bounty hunter, who is murdering Jedi Knights. Hoping to stop Sing's killing spree, several Jedi volunteer to hunt the hunter.
Prelude to Protectorate in Morocco
Author: Edmund Burke, III
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226080846
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
At last we are beginning to learn as much about the French empire as the British, so that generalizations about imperialism need not continue to be skewed, as they hav,e been in the past, by drawing too many of our data from the British experience. The present study makes a major contribution in this direction, providing as it does the first nearly definitive account of a central series of episodes in the French, African, and Islamic experiences with imperialism.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226080846
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
At last we are beginning to learn as much about the French empire as the British, so that generalizations about imperialism need not continue to be skewed, as they hav,e been in the past, by drawing too many of our data from the British experience. The present study makes a major contribution in this direction, providing as it does the first nearly definitive account of a central series of episodes in the French, African, and Islamic experiences with imperialism.
Rebellion in Brunei
Author: Harun Abdul Majid
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0857716239
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
Brunei has long been associated with massive oil resources and the stability that its wealth can guarantee. But little is known of the revolt of 1962 that might have changed the fortunes of the sultanate and the fate of Southeast Asia. In theory, Brunei is a constitutional sultanate, but in practice it is an absolute monarchy. Since the 1962 rebellion, a state of emergency has been in force and the Sultan has ruled by decree. It is a small state in a region dominated by the superpower of China and its size is a significant factor in determining the country's policy towards defence and security - territorially, politically and economically.This is the first comprehensive history of the Brunei Rebellion, which was the trigger for the Indonesia-Malaysia confrontation of the 1960s and of critical importance in understanding the history of the region. Harun Abdul Majid explores the turmoil throughout Southeast Asia that was the backdrop to the rebellion and analyses how Brunei not only survived but actually emerged from this turbulent period as a stronger and more coherent political state. Among other issues, he asks: how did events affect the position of the Sultan and the people of Brunei? How did the relationship with the United Kingdom evolve? And what happened next?The revolt of 1962 was a small, armed uprising in support of a Borneo Federation consisting of Brunei, Sarawak and North Borneo. It opposed the Malaysian Federation, which was seen as a buttress of British and Western imperial interest. In a period of great tension between the West and the Communist world, China viewed the rebellion as a national liberation war and it was quickly suppressed by the British Emergency Force. But although the rebellion itself was short-lived, the consequences for the region's international relations within Asia and with the West - especially given Brunei's emergence as a significant oilproducer - were far-reaching.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0857716239
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
Brunei has long been associated with massive oil resources and the stability that its wealth can guarantee. But little is known of the revolt of 1962 that might have changed the fortunes of the sultanate and the fate of Southeast Asia. In theory, Brunei is a constitutional sultanate, but in practice it is an absolute monarchy. Since the 1962 rebellion, a state of emergency has been in force and the Sultan has ruled by decree. It is a small state in a region dominated by the superpower of China and its size is a significant factor in determining the country's policy towards defence and security - territorially, politically and economically.This is the first comprehensive history of the Brunei Rebellion, which was the trigger for the Indonesia-Malaysia confrontation of the 1960s and of critical importance in understanding the history of the region. Harun Abdul Majid explores the turmoil throughout Southeast Asia that was the backdrop to the rebellion and analyses how Brunei not only survived but actually emerged from this turbulent period as a stronger and more coherent political state. Among other issues, he asks: how did events affect the position of the Sultan and the people of Brunei? How did the relationship with the United Kingdom evolve? And what happened next?The revolt of 1962 was a small, armed uprising in support of a Borneo Federation consisting of Brunei, Sarawak and North Borneo. It opposed the Malaysian Federation, which was seen as a buttress of British and Western imperial interest. In a period of great tension between the West and the Communist world, China viewed the rebellion as a national liberation war and it was quickly suppressed by the British Emergency Force. But although the rebellion itself was short-lived, the consequences for the region's international relations within Asia and with the West - especially given Brunei's emergence as a significant oilproducer - were far-reaching.
Star Wars Omnibus: Rise of the Sith
Author: Mike Kennedy
Publisher: Dark Horse
ISBN: 9781621153535
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 437
Book Description
Before the name of Skywalkeror Vaderachieved fame across the galaxy, the Jedi Knights had long preserved peace and justice . . . as well as preventing the return of the Sith. Collected in this newest Star Wars Omnibus are tales leading up to The Phantom Menace. Firstpreviously uncollected and out of printQuiGon Jinn and his Padawan ObiWan Kenobi save a sinking ship in The Aurorient Express and investigate an unexpected death in Last Stand on Ord Mantell. The origins of bounty hunter Aurra Sing are revealed in "Aurra's Song." Then, in Jedi Council and Prelude to Rebellion we follow two key Jedi Masters, Mace Windu and KiAdiMundi as they face new foes that will try the Jedi ways to the very limit. And finally, in Darth Maul, the terrifying Sith apprentice leaves a trail of death in his efforts to keep the secrets of his Master.
Publisher: Dark Horse
ISBN: 9781621153535
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 437
Book Description
Before the name of Skywalkeror Vaderachieved fame across the galaxy, the Jedi Knights had long preserved peace and justice . . . as well as preventing the return of the Sith. Collected in this newest Star Wars Omnibus are tales leading up to The Phantom Menace. Firstpreviously uncollected and out of printQuiGon Jinn and his Padawan ObiWan Kenobi save a sinking ship in The Aurorient Express and investigate an unexpected death in Last Stand on Ord Mantell. The origins of bounty hunter Aurra Sing are revealed in "Aurra's Song." Then, in Jedi Council and Prelude to Rebellion we follow two key Jedi Masters, Mace Windu and KiAdiMundi as they face new foes that will try the Jedi ways to the very limit. And finally, in Darth Maul, the terrifying Sith apprentice leaves a trail of death in his efforts to keep the secrets of his Master.