The First Emperor: Selections From the Historical Records

The First Emperor: Selections from the H

📁 The First Emperor: Selections from the Historical Records (Oxford World's Classics)

✍ Sima Qian, K. E. Brashier, Raymond Dawson 📂 Library 📅 2007 🏛 Oxford University Press, USA 🌐 English

"The following year Qin unified all under Heaven and the title of August Emperor was immediately adopted." The short-lived Qin dynasty unified China in 221 BC and created an imperial legacy that lasted until 1911. The extraordinary story of the First Emperor, founder of the dynast

Selections from Records of the Historian

📁 Selections from Records of the Historian

✍ Sima Qian; Yang Xianyi; Gladys Yang 📂 Library 📅 1979 🏛 Foreign Languages Press 🌐 English

The Records of the Grand Historian as the first systematic Chinese historical text, the Records profoundly influenced Chinese historiography and prose. In its effect, the work is comparable to Herodotus and his Histories. Together with the Records of Three Kingdoms, Book of Han and Book of Later Han

First Emperor - Tales from the Jade Room

📁 First Emperor - Tales from the Jade Room

📂 Fiction 📅 2009

What do you do when the dragon wakes up? You don t run for cover... you read this book cover to cover. Because this dragon is friendly!The book you hold tells a big story. A Chinese farmer breaks his shovel on the head of a fierce warrior.Experts then find an 8,000-man clay army underground..and if

The First Thanksgiving: A Selection from

📁 The First Thanksgiving: A Selection from Mayflower

✍ Nathaniel Philbrick 📂 Library 📅 2013 🏛 Penguin Publishing Group 🌐 English

The real story of the First Thanksgiving from the New York Times bestselling author Nathaniel Philbrick One of America’s most acclaimed historians takes on the nation’s First Thanksgiving, telling us the true story behind the tale we think we know so well. In this se

The Sun Recorded Through History: Scient

📁 The Sun Recorded Through History: Scientific Data Extracted from Historical Documents

✍ M. Vázquez, J.M. Vaquero (auth.) 📂 Library 📅 2009 🏛 Springer-Verlag New York 🌐 English

The Sun Recorded Through History is a text that reconstructs past solar activity based on information from historical documents, complementing studies using other techniques. Historical accounts describing phenomena related to solar activity, such as aurorae, sunspots, and corona obse

The Sun Recorded Through History: Scient

📁 The Sun Recorded Through History: Scientific Data Extracted from Historical Documents

✍ M. Vázquez, J.M. Vaquero (auth.) 📂 Library 📅 2009 🏛 Springer-Verlag New York 🌐 English

The Sun Recorded Through History is a text that reconstructs past solar activity based on information from historical documents, complementing studies using other techniques. Historical accounts describing phenomena related to solar activity, such as aurorae, sunspots, and corona obse

The First Emperor: Selections From the Historical Records

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