RUINS OF DESERT CATHAY (Published 1912)PERSONAL NARRATIVE OF EXPLORATIONS IN CENTRAL ASIA AND WESTERNMOST CHINA IN 1912 BY M. AUREL STEIN.WITH NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS, COLOUR PLATES, PANORAMAS, AND MAPS FROM ORIGINAL SURVEYS IN TWO VOLUMES - VOL. 1This is the complete and unabridged version and includes every image that appears in the original printed version. This is NOT a scanned copy with unreadable, missing or jumbled text, but, other than ...

On Alexander's Track to the Indus, first published in 1929, is Aurel Stein's account of the expeditions he mounted following in the footsteps of Alexander the Great during the triumphant invasion that, interestingly, left not a trace in Indian literature or tradition.Stein's account has justifiably achieved cult status for the dangers and hardships encountered during his own expeditions; for the light it sheds on Alexander's invasions, and the wonders of Stein's discoveries (such as...

Fluo's Romanian Verb Conjugator is a hands-on verb conjugation book, suitable for every learner of Romanian.If you're tired of endless verb conjugation tables that mostly confuse rather than help you learn conjugating verbs, this book will actually teach you how to conjugate: around 500 of the most common Romanian verbs, all fully conjugated and organized in a practical, dictionary-like manner, so that you can easily browse and find what you're looking for.

The purpose of this publication is to place before students interested in Eastern art reproductions of select specimens from among the great collection of ancient Buddhist paintings which in the course of the explorations of my second Central-Asian journey, carried out in 1906–8 under the orders of the Government of India, I had the good fortune to recover from a walled-up chapel at the ‘Caves of the Thousand Buddhas’ near Tun-huang. The essential facts concerning their discovery will be f...

Dictators' Endgames examines the political role of the military in “dictators' endgames”: large-scale nonviolent mass protests in autocracies that demand the regime leader's removal from office. It addresses the question why some militaries defend an embattled autocrat by violently cracking down on the protestors, whereas others side with the opposition or decide to stage a coup d'état. The book introduces a systematic definition and operationalization of the “dictator's endgame” ...

"The Thousand Buddhas" by Sir Aurel Stein is a remarkable exploration of ancient Buddhist art and culture. This work documents Stein's extensive travels along the Silk Road, where he discovered numerous caves adorned with exquisite murals and sculptures. His meticulous observations and photographs provide invaluable insights into the spiritual and artistic heritage of Buddhism. The book serves as both a travelogue and an academic study, highlighting the significance of these sites in under...

What happens when the king of heaven begins to fear irrelevance more than war?In this philosophical literary retelling of Greek mythology, Zeus speaks at last — not as an untouchable god, but as a ruler slowly watching humanity outgrow Olympus itself.From the cave where he hid as a frightened child, to the throne of heaven built upon fear and worship, Zeus reflects on power, immortality, love, prophecy, loneliness, civilization, and the terrifying realization that even gods...

Every night after closing time, the robots inside the world’s largest luxury robot department store come alive.Worker robots, caretaker robots, companion robots, pet robots, bodyguard robots, and emotional partnership models secretly gather beneath silent escalators and dark showroom lights to celebrate existence, fear separation, and dream about freedom.Among them are two advanced companion units: Bride Model E-17 and Groom Model R-41.Designed to become perfect hum...

Ride into the Wild West with ten steampunked expansions of classic American tales.A Princess of Jasoom: An intrepid young researcher reaches for the stars from the Arizona desert, and finds love where she least expects it.Winged Hope: The widow of a brilliant inventor fights insurmountable odds to see her husband’s dreams realized and save the life of her daughter.The Van Tassel Legacy: A stranger arrives in Sleepy Hollow to unearth old conspiracies and bring the Va...

In the past 20 years, energy density functional (EDF) approaches have become a powerful framework to study the structure and reactions of atomic nuclei. This book provides an updated presentation of non-relativistic and covariant energy functionals, single- and multi-reference methods, and techniques to describe small- and large-amplitude collective motion or nuclei at high excitation energy. Detailed derivations, practical approaches, examples and figures are used throughout the book to g...

We are currently witnessing an increasingly influential counterrevolution in political theory, evident in the dialectical return to classical political science pioneered most prominently by Leo Strauss and Eric Voegelin. In this context, the work of the relatively unknown Aurel Kolnai is of great importance. Kolnai was one of the greatest thinkers of the twentieth century to place the restoration of common-sense evaluation and philosophical realism at the center of his philosophical and po...

This book examines the conditions under which new democracies succeed or fail in establishing firm and lasting civilian control of the military. David Kuehn and Aurel Croissant introduce a multi-dimensional conceptual framework to evaluate the degree of civilian control in new democracies and to trace developments over time. The theory of civilian control in new democracies that they propose integrates rationalist, structuralist, and institutionalist arguments into a coherent model to expl...