This book is a concise narrative of Byzantine history from the time of Constantine the Great (AD 306) to the fall of Constantinople in 1453.
In 221 B.C. the First Emperor of Qin unified what would become the heart of a Chinese empire whose major features would endure for two millennia. In the first of a six-volume series on the history of imperial China, Lewis highlights the key challenges facing the court officials and scholars who set about governing an empire of such scale and diversity.
"The Mongol takeover in the 1270s changed the course of Chinese history. The Confucian empire—a millennium and a half in the making—was suddenly thrust under foreign occupation. What China had been before its reunification as the Yuan dynasty in 1279 was no longer what it would be in the future. Four centuries later, another wave of steppe invaders would replace the Ming dynasty with yet an…
In a brisk revisionist history, William Rowe challenges the standard narrative of Qing China as a decadent, inward-looking state that failed to keep pace with the modern West. The Great Qing was the second major Chinese empire ruled by foreigners. Three strong Manchu emperors worked diligently to secure an alliance with the conquered Ming gentry, though many of their social edicts—especial…
In our attempt to offer equal dignity to all regardless of background, and to stand up to institutions that fail to safeguard people’s dignity, we liberally oriented people have enabled an ideology that makes people suspicious of institutions per se and the traditions that uphold them. We have convinced people that the only way to make their lives meaningful is to discover their …
Mushroom grows on Substrate – just think of it as substitute for soil. Substrate is simply organic waste from the farms. This includes; wheat straw, rice straw, saw dust, cotton seed hulls, sugarcane burgesses, bean straw and Maize straw. You will need to learn how to prepare substrates as i shall be showing you in this ebook. Alternatively, you can purchase it ready made. Jomo Kenyatta Unive…
It is believed that cheese evolved in the ‘Fertile Crescent’ between the Tigris and Euphratres rivers, in Iraq, some 8000 years ago during the “Agricultural Revolution”, when certain plants and animals were domesticated. Among the earliest animals domesticated were goats and sheep; being small, gregarious and easily herded, these were used to supply meat, milk, hides and wool. Cattle we…
Toxicology and Safety of Essential Oils: A Constituent-Based Approach” (Chapter 7). On account of the complexity of these natural products, the toxicological or biochemical testing of an EO will always be the sum of its constituents which either act in a synergistic or in an antagonistic way with one another. Therefore, the chemical characterization of the EO is very important for the underst…