The Ancients, age-old guardians of the arcane crystals, have long slumbered in their secret vaults. Rumoured to be invincible sentinels, they have defended their crystals unchallenged for eons. With the fall of the Empire, the most desperate bands of the Wildlands have joined forces to take them down and claim the crystals they protect. Wildlands: The Ancients introduces powerful creatures and new terrains that allow players to play Wildlands solo and cooperatively, as well as supporting play with up to six players. At six players, requires a copy of Wildlands and either The Unquiet Dead or The Adventuring Party to play. This is not a stand alone deck. A copy of Wildlands (engl.) is required to play. Game Contents: 36 Minions Cards 30 Ancients Action Cards 26 Ancients Cards 16 Treasure Cards 5 Ancients Character Cards 5 Ancients Miniatures 5 Scenario Sheets 1 Faction Card 1 Rulebook Bases & Shards Counters & Tokens Doubled-sided Board

Empires have fallen, and the land is broken. The great oathmarks that once stood as testaments to the allegiances and might of nations have crumbled into ruin. In this lost age, fealty and loyalty are as valuable as gold and as deadly as cold iron, and war is ever-present Oathmark: Second Edition is a revised and expanded version of the popular mass-battle fantasy wargame, Oathmark. Featuring new and expanded rules, units types, and a whole host of other revisions from years of player feedback. Command the fantasy army you've always wanted in Oathmark: Second Edition, whether a company of stalwart dwarves or a mixed force with proud elves, noble men, and wild goblins standing shoulder-to-shoulder in the battle-line. Fight through an integrated campaign system and develop your realms from battle to battle, adding new territories, recruiting new troop types, and growing to eclipse your rivals... ...or lose what you fought so hard to gain and fall as so many would-be emperors before you.

Centuries before the Clone Wars or the Empire, in the early days of the High Republic, it was an age of exploration in a galaxy far, far away. . . . Daring pilots chart new routes through hyperspace, while Pathfinder teams make contact with frontier worlds to invite them to join the Republic. When a Pathfinder team's communications droid is found drifting in space, damaged and bearing a cryptic message, Jedi Knight Silandra Sho and her Padawan, Rooper Nitani, are sent to find the missing team members. Their investigation leads them to the planet Gloam, a ravaged world said to be haunted by mythical monsters. Can the Jedi find the missing Pathfinders and unravel the mystery of the monsters? The answers lie in a hidden city beneath the planet's surface. . . . Don't miss these other adventures of Star Wars: The High Republic! A Test of Courage by Justina Ireland Race to Crashpoint Tower by Daniel José Older Mission to Disaster by Justina Ireland Quest for Planet X by Tessa Gratton

From the best-selling author of Black Flags, Blue Waters comes the story of the American whaleship Mentor, wrecked in 1832 on a remote reef in the western Pacific. With supplies dwindling, the twenty-two crewmen face not only the miseries of shipwreck in unfamiliar territory but also the profound uncertainty of first contact with the Indigenous people of the Micronesian archipelago of Palau, who within days approach the deserted men brandishing axes, clubs and spears. In this gripping saga of cultural collision, award-winning historian Eric Jay Dolin vividly reconstructs the Mentor's doomed voyage, the months of perilous captivity and the negotiations that followed. Illustrated by more than 100 images and maps, The Wreck of the Mentor is at once a powerful story of survival and a revealing window into the great Age of Sail-a time when maritime ambition collided with local sovereignty, and when the outcome of one voyage rippled across oceans and empires. Eric Jay Dolin's Left For Dead was praised as: "The author of several previous books on such maritime topics as piracy and whaling, Dolin is an expert literary steersman." -Dennis Drabelle, The Washington Post "Dolin's firm grasp of the 19th-century maritime world is undeniable....This is a masterly account of a historical event." -Bill Heavey, The Wall Street Journal

Today's dominant tech platforms are the most effective tools ever created for extracting wealth, destabilising the societies they plunder by creating vast inequality. One of the world's pre-eminent anti-monopoly experts explains how and why we must take back control. 'Wu is a titan . . . a must-read' FINANCIAL TIMES 'Cuts to the core' CORY DOCTOROW, author of Enshittification 'Essential' KAREN HAO, author of Age of Empire Our world is ruled by a handful of tech platforms. They provide great conveniences and entertainment but also stand as some of the most effective instruments of wealth extraction ever invented, seizing immense amounts of money, data and attention from all of us. An economy driven by tech and AI could enrich us, yet it could also marginalize entire industries, widen the wealth gap and foster a two-class nation. As technology evolves and our markets adapt, can society cultivate a better way? Is it possible to balance economic growth and egalitarianism, or are we too late? Tim Wu, the preeminent scholar and former White House official who coined the phrase 'net neutrality', tells the story of an internet that promised widespread wealth and democracy, only to aid the spread of autocracy instead. From generative AI and predictive social data to antitrust and cryptocurrency, Wu frames our current moment within key lessons from recent history. And, perhaps most importantly of all, Wu envisions a future where technological advances serve the greatest possible good - for everyone. Concise and hopeful, The Age of Extraction offers consequential proposals for reclaiming control to achieve better economic balance and prosperity for all. 'A passionate call for a fairer economy' DARON ACEMOGLU, co-author of Why Nations Fail 'A how-to book on how we can achieve liberty' MATT STOLLER, author of Goliath

Sahih Al Bukhari (All Volumes in One Book) No Repetition in This Literary Hadith Sahih Bukhari contains 7563 hadith reports, but of these some 2450 may be considered as distinct, While the others may be called their repetitions in one form or another. Repetitions of the same report very often occur in different books and chapters. The types of repetitions are:Hadith that have the same content and same chain of narration. Hadith that have the same content with different chain of narration. Hadith that have more than one content through the same chain of narration. This book contains 2398 hadith. All effort has been taken to amit repetitions, although some have been kept for a clear narrative. The Sahih Bukhari collection of Hadiths is considered to be the most authentic collection of the teachings and sayings of the Prophet (¿). These Prophetic traditions, or hadith, were collected by the Uzbek Muslim scholar Muhammad al-Bukhari, after being transmitted orally for generations. Al-Bukhari traveled widely throughout the Abbasid empire from the age of 16, collecting those traditions he thought trustworthy. It is said that al-Bukhari collected over 300,000 hadith and included only 2,602 traditions in his Sahih.

The period from c. 500 to 1200 comprises the formative centuries in European history after the fall of the Roman Empire in the west. Societies had to live through political, social, economic and religious challenges. Half the population, though, also had to labour under additional constraints imposed by the prevalent gender theories, which carried a mixture of inherited Judeo-Christian tradition and classical medical and legal custom through the period. Helen M. Jewell provides a lively survey of western European women's activities and experiences during this timespan. The core chapters investigate: - the function of women in the countryside and towns - the role of women in the ruling and landholding classes - women within the context of religion. This practical centre of the book is embedded in an analysis of contemporary, usually male-voiced, gender theories and society's expectations of women. Several individuals who vastly exceeded these expectations, crashing through the 'glass ceilings' of their day, are brought together in a fascinating final chapter. Combining a historiographical survey of trends over the last thirty years with more recent scholarship, this is the ideal introductory guide for anyone with an interest in women's history from the Dark Age through to the early Medieval period.

Based on the scholarship of a global team of diverse authors, this wide-ranging handbook surveys the history and current status of pro-women thought and activism over millennia. The book traces the complex history of feminism across the globe, presenting its many identities, its heated debates, its racism, discussion of religious belief and values, commitment to social change, and the struggles of women around the world for gender justice. Authors approach past understandings and today's evolving sense of what feminism or womanism or gender justice are from multiple viewpoints. These perspectives are geographical to highlight commonalities and differences from region to region or nation to nation; they are also chronological suggesting change or continuity from the ancient world to our digital age. Across five parts, authors delve into topics such as colonialism, empire, the arts, labor activism, family, and displacement as the means to take the pulse of feminism from specific vantage points highlighting that there is no single feminist story but rather multiple portraits of a broad cast of activists and thinkers. Comprehensive and properly global, this is the ideal volume for students and scholars of women's and gender history, women's studies, social history, political movements and feminism.

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Focused on the crucial campaigning years 1595-96, History of the United Netherlands, 1595-96 continues Motley's grand account of the Dutch struggle against Habsburg Spain. The book interweaves diplomacy, siege warfare, maritime enterprise, and religious conflict, tracing the roles of Maurice of Nassau, Elizabethan England, Henry IV's France, and Philip II's exhausted empire. Written in a vigorous nineteenth-century narrative style, it combines archival learning with dramatic characterization, standing within the liberal Protestant historiographical tradition that saw the Dutch Revolt as a decisive episode in the making of modern political liberty. John Lothrop Motley, an American historian and diplomat, brought to the subject both literary ambition and firsthand familiarity with European statecraft. His residence abroad, access to continental archives, and friendships within political circles sharpened his understanding of international diplomacy. Motley's republican sympathies and admiration for constitutional resistance clearly shaped his interpretation of the Netherlands as a small nation defending civic freedom against imperial absolutism. This volume is recommended for readers interested in early modern Europe, the Eighty Years' War, and the historical roots of Dutch independence. Though marked by the convictions of its age, it remains a rich, eloquent, and intellectually serious narrative.

The Real Pirates of the Caribbean offers a vivid account of the so-called Golden Age of Piracy, presenting figures such as Blackbeard, Anne Bonny, Mary Read, and Bartholomew Roberts as both historical actors and literary legends. Written in a brisk, anecdotal prose that combines documentary detail with sensational narrative, the book belongs to the early eighteenth-century tradition of criminal biography, maritime adventure, and moral instruction. Its enduring fascination lies in its mixture of nautical realism, theatrical violence, and reflections on law, commerce, empire, and rebellion. Captain Charles Johnson remains an enigmatic authorial figure, often regarded as a pseudonym and sometimes associated with Daniel Defoe or the publisher Nathaniel Mist. Whoever he was, Johnson clearly possessed a strong knowledge of seafaring culture, popular print, and the public appetite for stories of crime and transgression. His work reflects a world shaped by imperial expansion, Atlantic trade, naval warfare, and the uneasy boundary between privateering and piracy. This book is recommended for readers interested in maritime history, colonial literature, and the origins of pirate mythology. It is especially valuable for those seeking the historical roots behind the romanticized pirate of modern imagination.

The Fortunes of Hector O'Halloran, and His Man, Mark Antony O'Toole is a spirited nineteenth-century Irish adventure novel that blends picaresque comedy, military romance, and historical melodrama. Following the gentlemanly Hector and his irrepressible servant Mark Antony through reversals of luck, intrigue, and martial episode, the book belongs to the post-Scott tradition of historical fiction, yet it tempers grand events with anecdotal humour, lively dialogue, and a distinctly Irish relish for storytelling. W. H. Maxwell, an Irish clergyman, novelist, and veteran observer of military life, was especially known for narratives of soldiers, campaigns, and convivial masculine society. His familiarity with Irish manners, barrack-room wit, and the mythology of recent European wars informs the novel's texture. Like much of his fiction, it reflects a writer attentive to loyalty, courage, social mobility, and the comic contradictions of Anglo-Irish identity in an age shaped by rebellion and empire. Readers who enjoy historical fiction animated by incident rather than introspection will find this novel rewarding. It is particularly recommended to those interested in Irish literary history, military adventure, and the evolution of comic servant-master pairings in Victorian popular narrative.

Today's dominant tech platforms are the most effective tools ever created for extracting wealth, destabilising the societies they plunder by creating vast inequality. One of the world's pre-eminent anti-monopoly experts explains how and why we must take back control. 'Wu is a titan . . . a must-read' FINANCIAL TIMES 'Cuts to the core' CORY DOCTOROW, author of Enshittification 'Essential' KAREN HAO, author of Age of Empire Our world is ruled by a handful of tech platforms. They provide great conveniences and entertainment but also stand as some of the most effective instruments of wealth extraction ever invented, seizing immense amounts of money, data and attention from all of us. An economy driven by tech and AI could enrich us, yet it could also marginalize entire industries, widen the wealth gap and foster a two-class nation. As technology evolves and our markets adapt, can society cultivate a better way? Is it possible to balance economic growth and egalitarianism, or are we too late? Tim Wu, the preeminent scholar and former White House official who coined the phrase 'net neutrality', tells the story of an internet that promised widespread wealth and democracy, only to aid the spread of autocracy instead. From generative AI and predictive social data to antitrust and cryptocurrency, Wu frames our current moment within key lessons from recent history. And, perhaps most importantly of all, Wu envisions a future where technological advances serve the greatest possible good - for everyone. Concise and hopeful, The Age of Extraction offers consequential proposals for reclaiming control to achieve better economic balance and prosperity for all. 'A passionate call for a fairer economy' DARON ACEMOGLU, co-author of Why Nations Fail 'A how-to book on how we can achieve liberty' MATT STOLLER, author of Goliath

A panoramic history of the Muslim world from the age of the Prophet Müammad to the birth of the modern era This book describes and explains the major events, personalities, conflicts, and convergences that have shaped the history of the Muslim world. The body of the book takes readers from the origins of Islam to the eve of the nineteenth century, and an epilogue continues the story to the present day. Michael Cook thus provides a broad history of a civilization remarkable for both its unity and diversity. After setting the scene in the Middle East of late antiquity, the book depicts the rise of Islam as one of the great black swan events of history. It continues with the spectacular rise of the Caliphate, an empire that by the time it broke up had nurtured the formation of a new civilization. It then goes on to cover the diverse histories of all the major regions of the Muslim world, providing a wide-ranging account of the key military, political, and cultural developments that accompanied the eastward and westward spread of Islam from the Middle East to the shores of the Atlantic and the Pacific. At the same time, A History of the Muslim World contains numerous primary-source quotations that expose the reader to a variety of acutely insightful voices from the Muslim past.

'A brilliant work of intellectual interpretation by our foremost historian of Enlightenment ideas. Whatmore rescues the Enlightenment from today's circular debates and places it where it belongs: in the pulsing, chaotic era of its genesis and demise' Christopher de Bellaigue The Enlightenment is popularly seen as the Age of Reason, a key moment in human history when ideals such as freedom, progress, natural rights and constitutional government prevailed. In this radical re-evaluation, historian Richard Whatmore shows why, for many at its centre, the Enlightenment was a profound failure. By the early eighteenth century, hope was widespread that Enlightenment could be coupled with toleration, the progress of commerce and the end of the fanatic wars of religion that were destroying Europe. At its heart was the battle to establish and maintain liberty in free states – and the hope that absolute monarchies such as France and free states like Britain might even subsist together, equally respectful of civil liberties. Yet all of this collapsed when states pursued wealth and empire by means of war. Xenophobia was rife and liberty itself turned fanatic. The End of Enlightenment traces the changing perspectives of economists, philosophers, politicians and polemicists around the world, including figures as diverse as David Hume, Adam Smith, Edmund Burke and Mary Wollstonecraft. They had strived to replace superstition with reason, but witnessed instead terror and revolution, corruption, gross commercial excess and the continued growth of violent colonialism. Returning us to these tumultuous events and ideas, and digging deep into the thought of the men and women who defined their age, Whatmore offers a lucid exploration of disillusion and intellectual transformation, a brilliant meditation on our continued assumptions about the past, and a glimpse of the different ways our world might be structured - especially as the problems addressed at the end of Enlightenment are still with us today.

Alison Weir makes history come alive as no one else' BARBARA ERSKINE Step into the thrill and intrigue of Tudor England in the rich, compelling new novel from Sunday Times bestseller Alison Weir - and witness the rise and fall of Cardinal Wolsey. It begins with Thomas, the son of a Suffolk tradesman. A brilliant boy sent to study at Oxford at the tender age of eleven. It ends with a disgraced Cardinal, cast from the King's side and estranged from those he loves. In her groundbreaking new novel, Alison Weir draws out the inner man for the first time and tells his story. It is one of a scholar, a lover and a father, a rival, a politician and a priest. A man who built an empire in England while leading a secret second life, who paid the highest price for his success. These many faces of Thomas Wolsey chart his rise and fall, and reveal a tale of power, passion and ambition. By turns riveting and surprising, this is Wolsey as you've never seen him before.

The Monastery of Pantokrator, founded by John II Komnenos and his wife Piroska-Irene, is not only one of the most important and most impressive monastic complexes of the Komnenian age, it is also one of the few to occupy a key position in the life of Constantinople in the Palaiologan age, given that its mortuary chapel ( Heroon ) was also the last resting place of many members of the latter dynasty. The first attempt to chronicle its history, based on the texts known at the time, was undertaken by G. Moravscik (1932). Interest was rekindled by P. Gautier’s critical edition of its Typikon (1971), and more recently by restoration work on its buildings. This volume brings together a comprehensive selection of all the texts concerning or connected with the Monastery of Pantokrator, and through them it demonstrates the Monastery’s importance and its role throughout the history of the Byzantine Empire—a role that has received insufficient attention, given that older studies have tended to focus on the 12th century. The texts cover the situation in Constantinople before the Monastery was founded, the historical and cultural context within which it was established, its Typikon (monastic formulary), the descriptions of Slav and Western travellers, the Byzantine texts (homiletic, historical, hagiographic, and poetic) relating to the Monastery and its history from the 12th to the 15th century, the Byzantine officials associated with it, and the celebration of the principal festivals in its churches. It also contains critical editions of and commentaries on the two versions of the Synaxarion of Irene Komnene, a speech referring to the Empress’s associate in the construction of the Monastery, another on the translation of the icon of St. Demetrios from the Church of St. Demetrios in Thessalonica to the Monastery of Pantokrator, an Office of the Translation of the Holy Stone, the verse Synaxarion composed for the consecration of the Monastery, and the known and unpublished poems by Byzantine poets (12th-15th c.) relating to it, as well as an extensive bibliography.

A monumental tale of American ambition, told by Pulitzer Prize–winning author and master historian David McCullough. This gripping saga of the creation of the Brooklyn Bridge, one of the country’s boldest engineering achievements, reveals not only the politics and personalities behind "America’s Eiffel Tower," but charts New York’s ascent as a thriving metropolis. Around 1870, during the Age of Optimism—a time when Americans believed anything was possible—the ambitious idea of constructing an unprecedented bridge across the East River to connect Manhattan and Brooklyn took root. This monumental project demanded a vision and determination on par with the efforts that built the great cathedrals of history. Spearheaded by the Roebling family, the project faced staggering odds throughout its fourteen years of construction. Bodies were crushed, lives were lost, political empires fell, and waves of public emotion constantly threatened its progress. The Roeblings, too, were not immune to personal tragedies. Yet, Emily Roebling rose above these challenges to become the pivotal force behind the Brooklyn Bridge’s completion, shattering all societal expectations of her era. This is not just the story of an engineering miracle; it is a sweeping narrative of the social climate of the time and the heroes and rascals who either built or exploited this groundbreaking enterprise.

Ein elitäres Wiener Internat, untergebracht in der ehemaligen Sommerresidenz der Habsburger, der Klassenlehrer ein antiquierter und despotischer Mann. Was lässt sich hier fürs Leben lernen? Till Kokorda kann weder mit dem Kanon noch mit dem snobistischen Umfeld viel anfangen. Seine Leidenschaft ist das Gamen, konkret: das Echtzeit-Strategiespiel Age of Empires 2. Nach dem Tod seines Vaters wird für ihn aus dem Hobby eine Notwendigkeit. Ohne dass jemand aus seinem Umfeld davon wüsste, ist Till mit fünfzehn eine Online-Berühmtheit, der jüngste Top-10-Spieler der Welt. Nur: wie real ist so ein Glück? Im Abschlussjahr 2020 kommt für Till, in der Schule und im Leben, alles noch einmal anders als gedacht. Tonio Schachingers Roman führt von Erfahrungen, die fast alle teilen, bis an Orte, zu denen die meisten von uns keinen Zugang haben. Dabei sind seine Schritte so überraschend, der Humor so uneitel und nahbar: Echtzeitalter ist Beispiel und Beweis für die zeitlose Kraft einer guten Geschichte. Und ein großer Gesellschaftsroman.

Code in a Box - Kein Modul enthalten Titan Quest - Erstmals in HD Entdeckt den Mut, der Helden zu Legenden macht! Brian Sullivan, dem Co-Entwickler von Age of Empires, und Randall Wallace, dem Autor von Braveheart, bringen uns ein brandneues, innovatives Action-Rollenspiel, das im Griechenland, Ägypten und Asien der Antike angesiedelt ist. Die Titanen sind aus ihrem ewigen Gefängnis ausgebrochen und bringen Chaos und Zerstörung auf die Erde. Die Götter suchen einen Helden, der in dem epischen Kampf, der über das Schicksal von Menschen und Göttern entscheiden wird, das Blatt zu ihren Gunsten wenden kann. Erforsche die Welt der Antike – Lüfte die Geheimnisse legendärer Orte Besiege die Monster alter Mythen – Kämpfe in der Story-Kampagne gegen Bestien aus alten Legenden und entscheide das Schicksal der gesamten Welt. Enorm vielseitiges Charaktersystem – Erschaffe deinen eigenen Charakter mit 28 Klassen und mehr als 1.000 Gegenständen Online-Mehrspielermodus – Erlebe einen rasanten Koop-Modus für zwei bis sechs S