The Empire Inside

A tightly focused study of the ubiquity of Indian objects in Victorian novels

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A riveting look at what is really said and done behind closed doors with the New York Yankees, the most famous and wealthiest sports franchise in the world Using the 2018 baseball season as the backdrop, Inside the Empire gives readers the real, unvarnished “straight-from-the-gut” truth

Many Allied POWs in the Pacific theater of World War II suffered terribly. But abuse wasn't a matter of Japanese policy, as is commonly assumed. Sarah Kovner shows poorly trained guards and rogue commanders inflicted the most horrific damage. Camps close to centers of imperial power tended to be less

Examines the political situation in the Soviet Union today after Gorbachev's policy of "perestroika" triggered a chain reaction of often bloody anti-Communist revolutions within former Soviet client-states

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Follows the lives and escapes of three Microsoft software engineers who developed Chrome and DirectX, which allowed three-dimensional graphics and computer games, without permission from Microsoft.

Sie glaubten, das Imperium wäre endgültig besiegt ... Fünf Jahre sind seit dem Sieg über den Imperator vergangen und die Galaxis versucht, sich von den Auswirkungen des Krieges zu erholen. Tausende von Lichtjahren entfernt aber hat der letzte der imperialen Kriegsherren, der brillante Großadmiral Thrawn, das Kommando über die zerrüttete

The Habsburg Empire’s grand strategy for outmaneuvering and outlasting stronger rivals in a complicated geopolitical world The Empire of Habsburg Austria faced more enemies than any other European great power. Flanked on four sides by rivals, it possessed few of the advantages that explain successful empires. Its army was not

Als Mahit Dzmare, die Botschafterin einer kleinen Raumstation, in der riesigen Hauptstadt des Teixcalaanlischen Imperiums ankommt, muss sie feststellen, dass ihr Vorgänger verstorben ist. Obwohl niemand darüber spricht, ist es ein offenes Geheimnis, dass der Botschafter keines natürlichen Todes gestorben ist. Mahit versucht, mehr über die genauen Umstände herauszufinden, doch

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