Giles: 674 books
Big Chief Elizabeth
The Adventures and Fate of the First English Colonists in America
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
In April 1586, Queen Elizabeth I acquired a new and exotic title. A tribe of Native Americans had made her their weroanza—a word that meant "big chief". The news was received with great joy, both by the Queen and her favorite, Sir Walter Ralegh. His first American expedition had brought...
God of Vengeance
(The Rise of Sigurd 1)
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
Norway 785 AD. It began with the betrayal of a lord by a king . . .
King Gorm puts Jarl Harald’s family to the sword, but makes one fatal mistake – he fails to kill Harald’s youngest son, Sigurd.
His kin slain, his village seized and its people taken as slaves, Sigurd wonders if the gods have...
Wings of the Storm
(The Rise of Sigurd 3)
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Norway, AD 785. A wild place, a place of blood, a place where the gods must be favoured . . .
Sigurd Haraldarson and his oathsworn band are winning fame and reputation. But to confront his hated enemy – the oath-breaker and betrayer King Gorm – they must win riches too.
When a daring...
Oxford
Crime, Death and Debauchery
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 1996
Searching the archives of the university, the Public Record Office, the Centre for Oxfordshire Studies, this work collects more than 100 accounts that paint a picture of Oxford's seedier side. Using court records and newspaper accounts, it brings together crime stories dating from 1750 to 1920, including: infamous murders, hangings, and more.
by Riley Giles
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
This book is the outcome of an idea, and the idea is very simple. It is that the best way to understand the dramatic transformation any idea can bring and to successfully bring ideas across, is to think of them as profound insights and moments of clarity often disguised as wit, captured in one single...
by Robin Giles
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2016
A selection of 51 poems together with an unknown author's guest poem. My poems look at todays life and times with particular emphasis on exploring many of todays unanswered questions. I also try to provide a look at our culture and values using poetry to illuminate some of the arguments surrounding our common institutions.
Il leone d'oro
Il ciclo dei Courteney
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 19, 2015
«Il più importante scrittore di avventure del nostro tempo.»
Corriere della Sera - Fernanda Pivano
Africa orientale, seconda metà del diciassettesimo secolo.
Il naufrago che viene ritrovato sulla costa, a bordo del relitto di una nave, dovrebbe essere morto. Quel che resta di lui appare...
The Sayings of Confucius
A New Translation of the Greater Part of the Confucian Analects
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2014
This edition features a linked Table of Contents and Footnotes.
The Sayings of Confucius
A New Translation of the Greater Part of the Confucian Analects
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
LIST OF THE PRINCIPAL DISCIPLES
GOVERNMENT AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS
INDIVIDUAL VIRTUE
CONFUCIUS' ESTIMATE OF OTHERS
CONFUCIUS...
by Herbert Allen Giles
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011
The aim of this work is to suggest a rough outline of Chinese civilization from the earliest times down to the present period of rapid and startling transition.
After the Reich
The Brutal History of the Allied Occupation
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2009
The shocking history of the brutal occupation of Germany after the Second World War
When the Third Reich collapsed in 1945, Germany was a nation in tatters, in many places literally flattened by bombs. In the ensuing occupation, hundreds of thousands of women were raped. Hundreds of thousands...
Labour And The Gulag
Russia and the Seduction of the British Left
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2017
The Labour Party welcomed the Russian Revolution in 1917: it paved the way for the birth of a socialist superpower and ushered in a new era in Soviet governance. Labour excused the Bolshevik excesses and prepared for its own revolution in Britain.
In 1929, Stalin deported hundreds of thousands...
by Lionel Giles
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
THE object of the Editors of this series is a very definite one. They desire above all things that, in their humble way, these books shall be the ambassadors of good-will and understanding between East and West—the old world of Thought and the new of Action. In this endeavour, and in their own sphere,...
Hope for You
Testimonies of God’S Power That Will Give You Hope and a Mini-Manual on Exorcism
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2011
If you are struggling with discouragement and hopelessness, this book may be deemed as a message from God to you. Your heart will be wonderfully stirred by the Holy Spirit as you share the victories of several dozen people. Each of these precious individuals was very much like you and me and yet they...