E-book The Troubled Empire: China in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties

"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…

E-book China's Last Empire: The Great Qing

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…

E-book Saving Liberalism from Itself : The Spirit of Political Participation

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 …

E-book Mushroom Farming : Step by Step Guide

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…

E-book Down to Earth Archaeology

Down to Earth Archaeology collects sixteen archaeological papers by Professor William Y. Adams chosen by the author, who added introductory commentary to each. These articles were written at various times during his lengthy and productive academic career for different purposes and for different audiences. Most of those selected had been previously published only in a limited way, either as conf…

E-book The Jesus Mysteries

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E-book Fundamentals of Cheese Science

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…

E-Book Encyclopedia of Biology

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E-book Principles of Horticulture

Horticulture may be described as the practice of growing plants in a relatively intensive manner. This contrasts with agriculture, which, in most Western European countries, relies on a high level of machinery use over an extensive area of land, consequently involving few people in the production process. The boundary between the two is far from clear, especially when considering large-sca…

E-book Handbook of Essential Oils : Science, Technology, and Applications

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…