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  • The Gunpowder Age

    China, Military Innovation, and the Rise of the West in World History

    by Tonio Andrade ...
    A first look at gunpowder's revolutionary impact on China's role in global historyThe Chinese invented gunpowder and began exploring its military uses as early as the 900s, four centuries before the technology passed to the West. But by the early 1800s, China had fallen so far behind the West in gunpowder warfare that it was easily defeated by Britain in the Opium War of 1839–42. What happened? In ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Thomas Mann – Selected Classics (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. Masterpieces Including Buddenbrooks, Royal Highness, Tonio Kröger, Death in Venice & Bashan and I

    by Thomas Mann, June Umberley ...
    Translated by Helen Tracy Lowe-Porter, A. Cecil Curtis, Bayard Quincy Morgan, Kenneth Burke, Herman George Scheffauer ...
    Thomas Mann – Selected Classics gathers the essential artistry of one of modern Europe's commanding prose writers, presenting fiction marked by psychological subtlety, ironic narration, and philosophical reach. Whether depicting bourgeois families, artists in crisis, or souls tempted by beauty, illness, and decline, Mann writes within the great tradition of European realism while transforming it ... Read more

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  • Tonio Kröger

    New Translation, Complete Thomas Mann eBook Edition (Novelaris)

    by Thomas Mann ...
    Translated by Quentin Netherwood ...
    Thomas Mann's Tonio Kröger tells of a man who belongs nowhere. The son of a Lübeck merchant and a mother with an artistic temperament, Tonio lives between two worlds: drawn to the clean, ordinary life that never quite opens to him, and uneasy among artists whose poses he can't fully trust. The story follows Tonio from schoolroom longing into adulthood, where his gifts become both his vocation and ... Read more

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  • The Last Embassy

    The Dutch Mission of 1795 and the Forgotten History of Western Encounters with China

    by Tonio Andrade ...
    From the acclaimed author of The Gunpowder Age, a book that casts new light on the history of China and the West at the turn of the nineteenth centuryGeorge Macartney's disastrous 1793 mission to China plays a central role in the prevailing narrative of modern Sino-European relations. Summarily dismissed by the Qing court, Macartney failed in nearly all of his objectives, perhaps setting the stage ... Read more

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  • Tonio Kröger & Death in Venice (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. Two Novellas by Thomas Mann

    by Thomas Mann, June Umberley ...
    Translated by Bayard Quincy Morgan, Kenneth Burke ...
    Tonio Kröger & Death in Venice brings together two of Thomas Mann's most penetrating meditations on art, desire, and bourgeois selfhood. In Tonio Kröger, the divided artist stands between disciplined respectability and the seductive freedom of aesthetic life; in Death in Venice, that tension darkens into obsession, decay, and symbolic catastrophe. Mann's prose is ironic, musical, and ... Read more

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  • Early Modern East Asia

    War, Commerce, and Cultural Exchange

    Edited by Tonio Andrade, Kenneth M. Swope ...
    Series series Asian States and Empires
    This book presents a great deal of new primary research on a wide range of aspects of early modern East Asia. Focusing primarily on maritime connections, the book explores the importance of international trade networks, the implications of technological dissemination, and the often unforeseen consequences of missionary efforts. It demonstrates the benefi ts of a global history approach, outlining ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Common European Legal Thinking

    Essays in Honour of Albrecht Weber

    Edited by Hermann-Josef Blanke, Pedro Cruz Villalón, Tonio Klein, Jacques Ziller ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    Common European Legal Thinking emanates from the existence of a shared European legal culture as especially reflected in the existence of a common European constitutional law. It denotes a body of individual constitutional principles – written and unwritten – that represent the common heritage of the constitutions of the Member States. Taking into account the two major European organisations, the ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Topics on Methodological and Applied Statistical Inference

    Edited by Tonio Di Battista, Elías Moreno, Walter Racugno ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This book brings together selected peer-reviewed contributions from various research fields in statistics, and highlights the diverse approaches and analyses related to real-life phenomena.Major topics covered in this volume include, but are not limited to, bayesian inference, likelihood approach, pseudo-likelihoods, regression, time series, and data analysis as well as applications in the life ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • The Diver of Paestum

    Youth, Eros, and the Sea in Ancient Greece

    by Tonio Holscher ...
    Translated by Robert Savage ...
    Since its discovery in 1968, the painting of a diver on a tomb in Paestum, originally the Greek colony of Poseidonia in southern Italy, has left viewers spellbound. It depicts a beautiful and enigmatic scene: a young man dives headfirst into the water from a cliff or tower. The image is joined by others from the same tomb depicting a banquet of young people drinking wine, playing games and ... Read more

    $20.00 USD

  • Tonio

    A Story of Love and Loss

    by Lois Silver-Avrin ...
    This book asks the question: Would you give up your only child for the promise of immense wealth? Antonio DiVincenzo is a nine year-old boy living with his artist mother in suburban New Jersey when his idyllic life is suddenly and dramatically turned upside down, when his mother abandons him to live in Paris with a French billionaire. His neighbor and adult friend, Abby, who is the book’s narrator ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Il Battipalle di Malhausen

    by Tonio Ferritto ...
    At eighteen, still "the boy" in Malhausen's eyes, he believes he's solved shame. If he invites one precise, controlled hurt, he won't be shattered by the slow cruelty of being unseen. In alleys and squares, he provokes a proof he can carry: a knee, a strike, a private ritual that keeps the world's mockery outside the door. But faces outlast pain. An older student's fury, a woman's clean, ... Read more

    $5.26 USD

  • Bloodlines of Power - Part I

    by Tonio Ferritto ...
    Series Book 1 - Bloodlines of Power
    Bloodlines of Power: Part IWhen the Great Shift reshaped the world, a new landmass, Kytherium, rose from the depths. Humanity rushed to claim it. Then the dying began.A spreading infection marked by tremors, madness, and black lesions consumes the living. Rumors whisper of an ancient curse buried within Kytherium's catacombs, something unearthed that should have remained sealed.As cities fall and ... Read more

    $6.20 USD