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| Rhadamanthus | Mar 13 2008, 01:12 PM Post #1 |
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A new book announcement from Eagle Press, the largest Christian bookseller in the Middle East: THE BAGHDAD PACT: MANKIND'S GREATEST HOPE? Written by George Ibrahim Nonfiction - Political Science | $30.00 | For years the Baghdad Pact has been remembered as an attempt at global hegemony by the Middle East's oil cartel, reviled by historians and analysts as a wicked scheme, but how much of that is really true? In this new Eagle Press release, political scientist and Petra Christian University scholar Dr. George Ibrahim takes a new look at the infamous Baghdad Pact. Ibrahim's grandfather, Yuhannon Ibrahim was the foreign minister for the Empire of the Romans during the reigns of the Emperors Melchior and Constantine, and was thus a major participant in the Baghdad Pact policies. In this new book, Dr. Ibrahim refutes popular myths that the Baghdad Pact was: a Muslim alliance, an aim at global domination, a cartel, an agressive power. In contrast to these allegations, Dr. Ibrahim focuses on the Baghdad Pact's origins among Middle Eastern powers threatened and frightened by the the power of the Holy League and United Elias. It was in the wake of the Babylonian World Empire United Elias' scheme to conquer the Middle East and establish an omnipotent dictatorship that the Baghdad Pact was formed. It grew from these origins to become a force that embraced peace and stability in the rapidly shifting, chaotic world of that time. Based on these observations, Dr. Ibrahim argues convincingly that the people of the region should not be ashamed for their history in the Baghdad Pact and goes on to reveal the malevolent and evil hearts of the nations that opposed the benevolent Baghdad Pact for selfish gain. Rather than being any kind menace or threat, the Baghdad Pact was Mankind's Greatest Hope. |
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| Nag Ehgoeg | Mar 13 2008, 02:16 PM Post #2 |
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Peace in Our Time A comprehensive guide to the so-called Great Alliances and other attempts at world domination by George Dawghan Second Edition Non-fiction – Modern History | LC25.00 | Vesuvius Incorporated (Syntha Prime) Pub. **** Excerpt from Second Edition preface by author I wrote the first edition of Peace in Our Time ten years ago to explain to future generations the political turmoil in a world beset upon by constant war and explain why both mighty nations and alliances of likeminded powers both failed to impress their order upon the world. The good and the bad of the nations that changed – or tried to change – the world laid bare that future generations could learn from the mistakes of the past. In this, the Second Edition, I have taken the opportunity to look in depth at the Cold War of 270 006M3 and the lasting ramifications this period of hostility continues to have until this day. The MMA known as the ‘Baghdad Pact’ in particular has been discussed in a great deal more depth – in particular it’s role in the death of the United Nations. Critics, undoubtedly, will take this revision, as a rebuttal of the recent publication by Dr. Ibrahim, who praised the Baghdad Pact as being “mankind’s greatest hope”. But the attentive reader will note that I have not attempted to ‘bend history’: all that I wrote about the Baghdad Pact in the First Edition is present in this revision, and no historical facts from Dr. Ibrahim’s political publication have been omitted or edited in this work. It is important to note that the Baghdad Pact was not an evil ‘bogey man’ set out to destroy our way of life – but the historical facts cannot be denied and are set out clearly in this historical (and unbiased) work – free from original speculation and political idealism. This work is not a rebuttal of a political text, rather it is a historical representation of the truth. The facts. ***** Excerpt from the Forward of the First Edition by Archimedes Malfisto Peace in Our Time is a shocking, controversial, historical masterpiece. In this blinding work, Mr. Dawghan (a man without a single doctorate to his name) sets forth not only the traditionally accepted view of the Holy League and Baghdad Pact but a scything and keen analysis of facts and events that I for one would rather best left forgotten. While, ultimately, the political values we all hold dear are re-affirmed it cannot be said that this is a ‘one sided’ work or that anyone (whether they have world domination in mind or a burning desire to protect their way of life from outsiders) who reads it will be able to do so without questioning their personal values. This work is keenly relevant today and will be just as important in ten, twenty, a hundred years time. A reminder of all the good and evil that world powers have wrought upon the world already and the great work – and, of course, terrible evil – that could be wrought upon future generations… **** NNN [...] And in other news, humanitarian George Dawghan has published a revision of his breakthrough work “Peace in Our Time”. Mr. Dawghan, currently fighting plague in the nation of Allesandra, was unavailable for comment. In literary terms, the speed in which this work – which can only be seen as a direct rebuttal to recent claims by George Ibrahim that the Baghdad Pact was a force of “good” in the world – was published is mind boggling, hitting the shelves of all good Nagian Bookstores just weeks after the Eagle Press publication. In this reporters opinion [...] |
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| Quaon | Mar 13 2008, 03:35 PM Post #3 |
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OOC: Damn, I miss the Baghdad Pact. IC: Excerpt from the Kiev Standard: Of Arabs and Romans A Review of THE BAGHDAD PACT: MANKIND'S GREATEST HOPE? by George Ibrahim Reviewed by Peter Lebowski I approached George Ibrahim's latest work with a sense of trepidation. After his earlier, subpar work, particularly SAINTS AND SINNERS: A HISTORY OF THE LATIN CHURCH IN CONSTANTINOPLE, I was suspicious of this latest ambitious analysis of the Bagdhad Pact. The sense of trepidation was baseless. George Ibrahim expertly pulls the reader into his rich narrative, explaining with fine detail the intricacies of the world during the time of the Bagdhad Pact. From the situation in Saxe-Coburg to the First War of Roman Succession, Ibrahim shows the events that led up to the formation of the Bagdhad Pact. His writing ... ...in conclusion, Ibrahim's work is a refreshing look at one of the most volatile times in history. It earns five stars. Peter Lebowski is a Proffesor of Political Science at Kiev International University. |
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| Tristan da Cunha | Apr 10 2008, 09:26 PM Post #4 |
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OOC: That sounds like a fascinating book. IC: The Times Lit. Suppl. "Middle East Synthesis" Double book review and analysis of George Ibrahim's The Baghdad Pact: Mankind's Greatest Hope? (Eagle Press) and George Dawghan's Peace in Our Time, 2nd Ed. (Vesuvius Incorporated) by J. Bute With most of the principals of the Baghdad Pact Era dead or dying, a self-identifying 'new generation' of critical analysis on that controversial Era of Middle East geopolitics has arrived, in the forms of Professor George Ibrahim's Baghdad Pact: Mankind's Greatest Hope? and the second edition of George Dawghan's Peace in Our Time. [..] Though representing itself as "historical representation of the truth" (p. iii), Peace in Our Time might be characterized as an encomium, composed by a Malfisto court bard, to the conduct of the Syntha Prime regime. Yet the propagandistic nature of the work does not diminish its importance, but rather reminds the student of Middle East petropolitics that the forces - political, cultural, and even dynastic - that shaped the tumultuous Baghdad Pact Era are alive and well even today. Thus Dawghan's book is a valuable artifact of the region's continuous history. [..] Mankind's Greatest Hope?, written by the grandson of Yuhannon Ibrahim, is a novel antithesis to the orthodox thesis on the Baghdad Pact Era popularized and arguably validated by the research of Katzourakis, Yamashita, etc. To his credit, Ibrahim disentangles anachronistic pro-Genesian confounds from Baghdad Pact Era research that have problematized the field since the reign of Emperor Josiah or earlier, a definite service to Syriac historiography. [..] With less impression of propaganda than Dawghan's book, if only because through no effort of his own there is no apparent looming political power-base the author is attached to, Ibrahim's work may be construed in light of the political collapse of, and intellectual disillusionment with, the Genesis City-allied later Byzantinist empire in Damascus, and therefore in parallel with its Nagian counterpart, similarly serves as a precious artifact and snapshot of the state of the modern Middle East. Additionally, Ibrahim has included original archival research of the United Elias campaign that may be of special interest to military scholars. [..] What can be concluded from the recent vogue of Baghdad Pact studies? The appearance of these dueling tomes highlights the urgency to achieve a democratic synthesis in the Middle Eastern worldview. Only positivist liberal democracy and market capitalism will be able to remove such formidable inertial forces as the House of Malfisto and Syriac provincialism, and finally pave the roads of conciliation between rival camps in the Middle East's ancestral feuds. J. Bute is a Senior Researcher at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, USA, and Associate Director of the Department of International Relations, RAND Corporation, Los Angeles, California, USA |
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| Kasnyia | Apr 10 2008, 09:59 PM Post #5 |
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Killing Tosch: How an idea was destroyed within a generation By Arnold Wexler, PhD Nonfiction - Poltical Science, 730 pages [$105.00] Maximillian Tosch's controversial theory of the Kasnyian Republic has often been the subject of many a scholar's discussions, either with each other or with their students. Many books have been written throughout the years about the pros and cons, in support or against, the idea of the Republic in the Kasnyian land. However, this book, written by Dr. Arnold Wexler of the University of Ahrodotte, explores the idea in the post-Empire era of Kasnyia and the years leading up to it. It describes first how the idea was taken by the then-infant Topaz Faction of the Kasnyian Military and made into a rallying cry that caused two civil wars before being forgotten in the chaos of regime change. The book looks into contemporary political events around the world that occured during and between the two civil wars, including a detailed insight by Dr. Wexler into the Baghdad Pact and now these events shaped the minds of the belwethers of Tosch's ideas of state, inadvertantly and paradoxially bringing closer the mechanics of the Kasnyian Republic and at the same time stripping it of the original Toschist ideology of democracy and benevolent constituitional monarchy. Arnold Wexler currently teaches Honors Modern Kasnyian History at the University of Ahrodotte, Ahrodotte, Garzburgh Province. |
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| Tristan da Cunha | Apr 11 2008, 12:16 PM Post #6 |
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Foreign Affairs "Kasnyian Ebert" Book review and analysis of Arnold Wexler's Killing Tosch (University of Ahrodotte Press) by C. Woodson From Central Asia to the Canadian Shield the recent revival of Third Way political systems both evokes startling historical parallels and demands new explanations. The life and career of the titular Social Democrat reformer is therefore of less immediacy than powerful social-economic-cultural trends throughout the Eurasian continent described in Professor Wexler's prescient Killing Tosch. Wexler's demonstration of how the Gasselian military dictatorship grew out of the Social Democrats' vacillations invites analogical comparisons to the atrophy of the Weimar Republic. As the culmination of such an outcome is already a fait accompli in Guranburg, a survey of Konstantin Gassel's political teleology is a natural task of geopolitical analysis. What is original about Wexler's work is his startling integration of Great Alliance theory with Gassel's rise. The implication of Wexler's thesis is that the accumulation - through cataclysm (e.g. the Kasnyian Military Republic) or more subtle evolution (e.g. the Caronicilian Reich)- and inevitable intersection of, strength and momentum among the world's revisionist powers presages an immenent second "Baghdad Pact", a latter-day Axis among like-minded Third Way regimes. The causes of the rebirth of the Third Way are well-known - regression of the international financial system and consequent symptoms felt in local economies leading to the re-emergence of protectionist strategies among national governments. Ominously, the only cure ever successfully attempted for the phenomenon is world war. Alternatively , a combination of 'cold war'-style indirect confrontation and vigorous, globalization of liberal values and market capitalism might be prescribed in the current Eurasian geopolitical landscape to draw out isolated Third Way economies back into the international system where assimilatory forces -social, cultural, political, and economic- may be applied. C. Woodson is Henry R. Luce Professor of Political Science at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA, and a Visiting Scholar of the Henry Jackson Society (UK) |
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| Menhad | Apr 11 2008, 01:18 PM Post #7 |
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The Second War of Succession and the rise of the Menhadien Warrior Culture Written by Abdul-Haq Ubaidah $65 Golden Dinars, 739 pages This book is a review of the events of the Wadj-Scythirus war, which ended with a bomb explosion at the signing of the peace treaty. The battles and political events are all described in detail, including maps, and numbers. This book also decribes the first war Menhad ever involved, and how it shaped the Menhadien Culture, into that of a war based society. The authors also includes his ideas if Menhad had never entered the war. The book includes photos, maps and interviews with veterans of the war. |
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| Sedulius | Apr 24 2008, 04:40 PM Post #8 |
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Saint Sedulius: The Christian Virgil By Stiofan Paul Ui Siadhail Nonfiction - Biography and Poetry, 356 pages - f90.00 Review by Searlas Ui Naill Stiofan Ui Siadhail has painstakingly pieced together the life of the 5th century saint and poet, Caelius Sedulius, otherwise known as Siadhail. It traces the steps Siadhail took, from his early life in the court of Irish High King Naill of the Nine Hostages, to his days overseeing his poetry school in Athens, and to his last days as a King in Inishowen. It also contains full copies and translations in English of all of Siadhail's known works, most notably the Carmen Paschale, and analyses. The biography is an easy read, and I highly recommend it to anyone interested in theology, history, or poetry. |
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| Rhadamanthus | Jul 24 2008, 10:56 PM Post #9 |
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Pharaoh: A New History of Modern Egypt by Dr. George Ibrahim Nonfiction - History 813 Pages - $32.00 Following up on his recent work of political analysis, The Baghdad Pact, Petra Christian University's most well-known scholar prepared a detailed narrative regarding an ancient land. The title Pharoah seems intended to attract a popular readership, but that should not distract from the scholarly weight of this new tome. Dr. Ibrahim, a respected Professor of Near Eastern Studies, has carefully and meticulously outlined the various threads of Egyptian history in the post-Baghdad Pact era. His aim is to establish the essential continuity of Egypt's culture and its forms of political governance, despite the seemingly chaotic shifts of government and religion, and furthermore, to demonstrate the roots of this continuity in the history of Egypt. Pharaoh begins with an introduction to the subject of Egypt. This may be most useful to the non-academic reader who has learned a few things about ancient Egypt in the past but has little formal training. It might be too brief for the true neophyte, and certainly would not add to the scholar's knowledge. However, this introduction is not representative of the book as a whole. The early chapters then detail the story of Egypt under the Egyrian and Elian regimes, and the emergence of the Baghdad Pact and the incorporation of Egypt into an equal component of the Wadji Persian state. From there, he details the decline of Wadj, and Egypt's time as a Roman province, and even as the capital of the Roman Empire, which had by that time long lost its Syrian center of gravity. Following the Romans' terrible collapse, Ibrahim deftly details the emergence of the various Post-Roman regimes: those of the Greek Patriarch, the ill-fated Aurum expedition, the Coptic Pope, and finally, the oligarchy. While the entire history is full of first-class analysis, the most tantalizing part may be the final segment, which outlines possibilities regarding Egypt's future. There are rumors that Dr. Ibrahim ran into publication diffulties in Egypt itself due to these speculations, which do not seem to be in line with Egypt's current government. The book is accompanied by a detailed index. There also a great number of images, diagrams, and even genealogical trees that support the text. Finally several appendices flesh out key areas; the appendices seem to do a better job than the rest of the text in striking the right balance between the needs of scholars and the needs of non-academic audiences. Despite some unevenness, this history is worth recommending to popular readers and scholars alike, so it seems to have fulfilled its main objective. |
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| New Harumf | Jul 26 2008, 10:44 AM Post #10 |
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Great Troughts of the Modern World Lambda Publishing First edition, 2008 Collected by Robert Franklyn, PhD Non-fiction, Political Science Excerpts of great speeches from the likes of Emperor Voramix, President Gassel, the Emanulus Family, and lyrics of political songs by Andrew Geoghegan. |
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| Kasnyia | Jul 26 2008, 12:57 PM Post #11 |
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Armed Broadcasting The Art of Heightening Morale And Bringing Vision In A Media Dominated World By Brigadier Gen. Zsell Dopke and Olga Yamarovna Nonfiction, Political Science 571 pages - 65 Dominion Creditmarks A treatise on the modern distribution of pertinent and necessary information to the masses, Armed Broadcasting has taken the public broadcasting world by storm. With exclusive insight by Brigadier General Zsell Dopke, founder of Nu Era Broadcasting Incorporated, the Voice of the Dominion and posterboy of the Dominion Youth Movement, this book gives all one needs to know on how to effectively and efficiently broadcast what the public needs to know, without the rubish. Ms. Yamarovna is an award winning freelance journalist, and currently a political commentator on FOX News (c) Dominion National Press |
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| Devin Wire | Jul 26 2008, 01:28 PM Post #12 |
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Amharic Publishing Group Middle Eastern Africa Matthew Snafuru Nonfiction - Sociology 386 pages - ђ8 A treatise on the nations of Amhara Hamdahnid, Egypt, Morrocon, Sahndaq, Sennar, Abnar, Zeelar, and Sutekh-te-Ankh. Covering history, culture, religion, and economics, Middle Eastern Africa offers opinionated suggestions on how to modify African policies for the better. Serpent on the Desert Memnes Khafre Fiction - Adventure 401 pages - ђ9 A Zeelaran secret agent infiltrates a large Moslem forward invasion base and single handedly is able to bring down and armored division in the classical fashion of espionage novels. A Region in Conflict, Redux Grarl Khamenhotep Non Fiction - History 800 Pages - ђ9 The events leading up to the Zeelaran wars with Abnar and Menhad, army and air force regulars, the irregular fighting forces, technology used in the conflicts, and the most illustrious heroes and villains are covered in the newest text by the self-proclaimed favorite historian of Zeelar. |
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| Nag Ehgoeg | Jul 27 2008, 10:19 AM Post #13 |
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Excerpts from the Nagian Magazine Journal - Book Review Weekly: George Ibrahim's lastest work Pharaoh: A New History of Modern Egypt offers an insightful view of Post-BP Modern Egypt. Unlike Ibrahim's previous work that barely made a dent in the market, this stirling work has been widely accepted in Educational Insititutes across the country despite it's apparently narrow focus. And it's not hard to see why: taking this book as not only a detailed account of Egypt's history but as a template for understanding regiem change across the world... **** Middle Eastern Africa is a travesty of an abortion. Too short to even start to cover the basics of Egyption history - let alone the stated scope of the work. As an opinion piece the book gets three stars, as a work of African Properganda it gets five... but for any student of sociology this is a two star work at best. **** Serpent on the Desert is a great book for older children and young teens. An short and easy read, the protagonist put's this reviewer in mind of a young "Max Power" or "Robert Langdon". If this book is anything to go by, Zeelaran secret agents are never going to replace "Agent Blix" and "James Bond" but nevertheless Memnes Khafre manages to entertain. **** What can be said about any academic work coming out of the Dominion that won't get me taken from my bed and put in a camp? Armed Broadcasting - or "Propaganda For Dummies" - is, quite simply, an expensive way of buying advertisements for FOX, Nu Era Broadcasting Incorporated and their International Mobile Communications group. In fact, Propaganda for Dummies (published by our parent company "Vesuvius Incorporated") is a superior work in just about everyway (if only because of the huge bias Propaganda has for the Nagian News Network). That said, this work isn't a total loss. The political optimism shown throughout the book - which frequently makes reference to "The Dominion" as if it were the homogeneous "Hyper Nation" that it is on paper rather than the fractious and ackward amalgamation of Super States that it is - is refreshing. **** This years must have: Great Troughts of the Modern World. Buy this book. Edited by Nag Ehgoeg, Jul 27 2008, 10:20 AM.
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| Menhad | Jul 27 2008, 01:33 PM Post #14 |
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The Iraq War: The Menhadien-Al Qalaa'i struggle By: Jean Avena Robital Nonfiction- Political/War 573 Pages $47 What promises to be the first of many books written about the recent Iraq War. This book starts with the ill fated "Medieval" black ops mission, that ended with the sinking of The Lance , a Menhadien submarine. When several Menhadien Generals and Admirals where asked why? The universal response was "The friend of Scythirus is my enemy". As the Menhadien Navy defeated the Scythirian blockade and then turned to what was left of the Al Qalaa'i, the Al Qalaa'i command was faced with a difficult situation. "We thought that Menhad was going to over run us," a Qalaa'i general commented. The Menhadien fleet poised to invade Al Qalaa was then nuked, and nearly 400 Menhadien ships vanished. "When I looked through the list of all the men who died, I was stunned," the author said during a interview. |
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| Devin Wire | Aug 10 2008, 02:15 AM Post #15 |
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Middle Eastern Africa 2nd edition Matthew Snafuru Nonfiction - Social Science Volume I - 492 pages - Amhara Hamdahnid Volume II - 801 pages - Egypt Volume III - 611 pages - Morrcon Volume IV - 432 pages - Sahndaq Volume V - 403 pages - Sennar Volume VI - 695 pages - Abnar Volume VII - 694 pages - Zeelar Volume VIII - 704 pages - Sutekh-te-Ankh There are precious few times that serious thought is given to criticism to make one's craft better. Matthew Snafuru is one of those few examples. He has carefully weighed the Nagian Magazine Journal report on his Middle Eastern Africa first edition, and had decided, therefore, to reconstruct the book. While the original edition was a single read, approximately four hundred pages, this revised second edition is published in eight volumes, designed to be purchased together as a set. With a total count of 4,796 pages, the eight volume set is designed as a scholarly and comprehensive work that could very well be used in an educational setting. Furthermore, the books are published in a two column format, doubling the amount of raw information that each contains. Each book discusses the history of individual nations in a great detail, including a view of their raise out of the last Pleistocene Epoch, through contact, through industrialization, and into the modern world. Highlights of this work include the great depth taken to describe the theological impact through the ages on these cultures, as well as descriptions of common life throughout time next to the usual discussions of wars and political controversy. However, this is not meant to mislead - his descriptions of the various conflicts that plague the continent are in such language that one could be straight on the battlefield and not get a better account. Keep an eye out for Matthew Snafuru's up coming radio show on Seraphim Group's Telestar XIX broadcasting shortwave network. Each week will contain a new story documenting the ongoing history of Africa, past and present. |
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| Nag Ehgoeg | Aug 10 2008, 10:41 AM Post #16 |
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Book Review Weekly What can be said about Snafuru's second edition of Middle Eastern Africa? The ambitions of this work have not been reduced, so it is fortunate that the volume has been greatly expanded. The work, while certainly now a worthwhile read, maintains a bias in it's clearly modern outlook. When it comes to Egypt's complicated history, the work holds out quite well and certainly covers a broader scope tham to Ibrahim's aclaimed work. A relevant work for historians and politicians alike. Three stars. Edited by Nag Ehgoeg, Aug 10 2008, 02:18 PM.
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| Quaon | Aug 10 2008, 01:48 PM Post #17 |
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Troubled Sea Harry Turtledove Fiction - Alternative History 342 Pages, $12 This newest volume from the widely aclaimed master of alternate history asks the intriguing question: what if Catholic Europe had won the First War of Succession? With delightful creativity, it goes on to detail a world that is at the same time not too different from our own, but oddly alien. This is an adventerous beginning of an epic three part saga! |
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| lebowski2123 | Aug 18 2008, 08:30 PM Post #18 |
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For King and Countrymen: The Life and Times of Kaiser Wilhelm III Reinhard Gruden Non-Fiction, History, 597 Pages The first internationally anticipated German novel in quite a time, this literary work is already lauded by critics as "the most accurate portrayal of the first enigmatic German leader ever published." Wilhelm, a man of royal blood born into a painfully poor family of Soviet peasantry, rose to become the leader of one of Europe's foremost military and industrial powers, but how? In Gruden's painstakingly researched and engaging novel, the story of Wilhelm is told through in the context of the era in which he lived, one of great turbulence and unrest amidst the fall of perennial superpowers Saxe-Coburg and Poland. What emerges is a more complete picture of one of Germany's forefathers, a picture which paints Wilhelm as a man of iron-will and fleshy heart, and a man uniquely shaped by his times and in turn who shaped the world of his descendants. |
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| Kasnyia | Aug 26 2008, 04:44 PM Post #19 |
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Posted Image The Soldier's Manifesto The Struggle for Supreme Order By Konstantin Ganz Gassel Nonfiction, Political Science, Military Science 1072 pages - A manuscript detailing the Modern Stratocracy movement, political theory according to the Topaz Faction, the definition of Supreme Order, and several treatises into the arguements for military rule and the failure of civillianism and all that it encompasses. Written personally by the surprisingly nuanced and eloquent hand of Konstantin Ganz Gassel, a known leader in the movement for military rule in a military world, each chapter gives almost exhaustive accounts and examples for each point it strives to make, with a forward in the form of a speech from Ferdinand Tosch, a Kasnyian scholar said to have influenced the movement decades after his own death through his works on the Kasnyian Republic, and a final chapter with Gassel's own personal thoughts on the days of the short-lived KMR and the creation of the Dominion. (c) Dominion National Press |
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| Deleted User | Oct 3 2008, 05:11 PM Post #20 |
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A Guide to the Government. Non Fiction - Political Science. A$20.00. Muhhamed Al-Abkhalin. The government of the Arabic Republic is a complex system, compared to that of other Arabic Governments. In his new book, following Monarchy's Fall, a best selling nonfiction detailing the revolution in Arabistan (which was then founded into 'The Arabic Republic'). He explains the history of politics in the Arab Republic since 1900 to the present, covering each political party and explaining political concepts, like socialism and democracy. This brillant new book is a must read for all interested in the Arab Republic's politics, especially for students. Praise for 'A Guide to the Government': "Al-Abkhalin details the evolvement of the government excellantly and fairly, while asking some major questions of each party to get you thinking. 10/10." Fahimi Abba, The Arabic Times. "Al-Abhkalin continues his stream of excellant books in great form. 9/10." Newsday International. -------------------------------- The Last Assault. Fiction - Historical Fantasy. A$35.00. Yasmin Bint Osama. Yasmin Bint Osama is one of the best fantasy authors in the Arabic Repubic. She continues her line of books with The Last Assault, an story set in 1191 AD during The Third Crusade. A dying Arabic King sends his daughter and his armies on a suicide mission; to retake Jerusalem. Thus follows a terrifec story which may just qualify for Bint Osama's best book. Praise for 'The Last Assault': "A brillant book from Bint Osama, continuing her long line of books. This one has all the ability to become a classic. 8/10." [/i] Fahimi Abba, The Arabic Times. "Brilliant." Asif Al-Fulani, President of the Arabic Republic. |
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| Kasnyia | Feb 7 2009, 08:20 PM Post #21 |
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The House of Sapphire The Story of the Imperial Family of Kasnyia By Ferdinand Mann Non-Fiction, History, Political Science 1470 pages - 135.00 Imperial Opis A historical treatise on the Imperial House of Aloerberg, offering a facinating biography of Kasnyia's rulers from the coronation of its first ruler on the heels of the War of the Houses, to the untimely death of the last sitting ruler in the immediate aftermath of the most bloody revolt in the nation's history. Other aspects of the Imperial House are explored, including how they lived their lives during the various eras of the family's existance, from the spartan lifestyle, pre-ruling days as nobles of the Kingdom of Casinia, to the definition bar none of decadance during the days of Empire, to the more humble settings during their Exile in Europe. Stories of the various family members, as told by their own bretheren, are retold and given context in great detail, as are the miniature biographies of the various important players in the family';s existance that were not related to them. All in all, a must-have tome for those interested in Kasnyia's most glorious era. (c) Cologne University Press |
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| Nag Ehgoeg | Feb 8 2009, 10:19 AM Post #22 |
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Book Review Weekly: Unpublished draft leaked to the internet What can be said about the Ferdinand Mann's "The House of Sapphire"? Not much. First of all, the cost of importing a copy puts this book way out of the hands of most citizens. Secondly, this reviewer can't even imagine a duller topic - who wants to know about the dead kings of some defunct European abortion? Is this really what I've been reduced to? When I was in college I studied great works. I was going to be an author. In my time with BRW I've seen some of the finest books from around the world, and now I'm seriously being asked to write about this? Really? Who the hell am I writing this review for Jack? Who's going to read it? Who's going to care? The five people in Nag Ehgoeg interested and rich enough to buy this book will get it regardless of what I say - and it's not like this review will ever go to print anyway. Why the hell have you got me wasting my time with this! Screw you and the horse you rode in on, I'm out of here. |
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| Menhad | May 25 2009, 01:30 PM Post #23 |
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Posted Image The Menhadien Problem And the Solution By Konstantin Ganz Gassel Forward "It is firmly my belief that the Menhadiens pose a great threat to global stability, and it is also my belief that they should be exterminated. In the following work, I will convince, you, the reader that not only should you support my position but also that you should aid me in my quest to rid the world of scum like the Menhadiens." (c) Dominion National Press ______________ "Once again, Konstantin Ganz Gassel proves to be an eloquent writer, delivering the facts in a way that captures the reader. With the Menhadien problem outlined, it is the duty of everyone to work towards the solution." -Dominion National Press Review "A horrifying book of lies, that reaffirms that this war is a war of survival. Hopefully every Menhadien will now fully understand the kind of threat that we face, and that we must fight till the bitter end." -Menhadien Weekly Review Edited by Menhad, May 25 2009, 01:33 PM.
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| Kasnyia | Jun 9 2009, 01:45 AM Post #24 |
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| Tristan da Cunha | Jun 9 2009, 01:53 AM Post #25 |
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Posted Image Demotic War by Gabriel Aldawi, Bishop of Asmera. English Translation by Lord Talbot. Petra University Press 239 pages $7.00, paperback-only Publisher's Notes by the Rev. Archimandrite Strationikos, Professor of Ethnology and Atlantean Languages and Publisher Emeritus of Petra University Press The Controversial Manifesto of Monophysite Guerilla Warfare now Available in English Translation As one of our most-requested books for English translation in recent memory is Demotic War, the Amharic-language manifesto of the monophysite bishop of Asmera, Gabriel Aldawi, we were pleased to coax our idle colleague the Earl of Talbot to produce this volume. In true demotic style after the substance of its text, this publication by the Petra University Press is offered only in mass-market paper-back form. Twice-condemned The reader recalls that upon its initial publication some years ago, Demotic War was immediately anathematized by all the church hierarchs of the world regardless Orthodox, Filioquist, or Monophysite. Both the Pope of Genesis City or the Patriarch of Antioch (respectively enumerated as "Crimson Tiberian Azmodeus" and "Cheap Sophist, Brute Whore" in Gabriel's book) saw it fit to damn the monophysite theology contained in this book essentially a second time, as if an appendix to the insufficient pronouncements at Chalcedon. Why would the reverend imperial hierarchs deign to revisit the Eutychian schism, which is not their habit? Ethos of suicide Christology is of course not the most notoriously offensive subject of Demotic War; that would instead be Gabriel's ethos of suicide which in this strange and apocalyptic age has been well received not only by his Egypto-Nubians in his diocese but also by those among the most Catholic of Irish Marianists or the Slavs for whom there would usually be no other religion than the religion the most close minded of Athonians precisely distill to him. Considering the global Christian following attracted to the name and methods of the late Bishop of Asmera, Demotic War resoundingly achieves its tactical goal of opening the mind of the despairing Christian languishing under Dominion Rule. If the diptychs of the hierarchical churches (Genesis City, Damascus, Alexandria, Etzchmiadzin) are to be regarded, this book is a narcotic that does open our Christian's mind, to the windswept black void of hades. The imperial Archbishop of Cyrene called Demotic War's cross-sectarian appeal "Satan's Ecumenism." Demotic War is the book that has radicalized a generation of Christians around the world in the Era of the Dominion, promising cheap salvation through suicidal acts of resistance against the secular world order. By now we are familiar with Bishop Gabriel's exhortation to arm our young sons and daughters like soldiers, sending them to certain deaths using their bodies as "Isaac-like" sacrificial offerings to God against "the Maw", i.e. the Dominion, while we ourselves follow behind them (our children), with our one hand tossing a Molotov cocktail and the other hand firing a Kalashnikov into a crowd of Dominion soldiers or better yet, Dominion civilians- as they tend to be wearing "silks and woolens" instead of "military carapaces". The language is very practical, in order to make the salvation more tangible and palpable to the superstitious listener. The passages of this book have always primarily been propagated orally from the pulpit through the tireless work of sympathetic preachers. These charismatic preachers are typically ordained with the major churches, even if all but one of the hierarchs of the world unconditionally denounced Gabriel's work. The single hierarch who did not excommunicate the Bishop of Asmera was of course the minor Thomistic bishop in Goa who should, fittingly, be seated under the shadow of the very Maw itself. While on a trip in India to agitate among the Thomistic monophysites, Gabriel and his minor Thomistic ally were both captured and put to death by Gassel's men. Thus the mythology of Demotic War was further exalted by its author's suicidal Propaganda of the Deed, or martyrdom by his followers' reckoning. Jesus Christ, War God The book contains a Socratic-type dialogue between two characters "Christian" and puzzlingly-named "Plotinist" to expound Gabriel's theory that Jesus Christ is primarily a God of War. "Plotinist" condemned Gabriel's theorem as violating both the letter and spirit of Christianity, but "Christian" retorted that as Christ is the God of Everything, He is the "God-Machine of War" as much as He is the "God-Lamb of Peace." To a reflective reader "Christian"'s wordplay seems positively Talmudical in its treachery, yet the reader readily appreciates its emotional appeal to beaten-down people hungry for any sign of divine vindication or personal empowerment. Indeed, it is this one famous passage of Demotic War that has particularly drawn the unreserved condemnation of all the world's Christian hierarchs, while its popularity does not subside but only increases. Morality in a People's War? Bishop Gabriel's central moral lesson for his Christian audience is to steel their hearts for uncompromising war; for these publishers notes I have only included some of the most notorious and infamous dictums by Bishop Gabriel but his pages are in fact predominantly devoted to a series of rather contemplative spiritual exercises and meditations to steel the Christian for his awful worldly fate and glorious otherworldy fate. If you remove all the condemned passages, it is all not so much different from Ignatius of Loyola or other popular counsellors. Bishop Gabriel even writes of his graphic and brutal description of child-soldier warfare, that such an act is simply to be admired and accepted as the divine course of God, without explicitly calling for Christians everywhere to immediately emulate the example. Perhaps that is sufficient, from a tactical point of view. Perhaps, to radicalize a population for war, suggesting that unconsciable acts are merely acceptable is enough, and the climate is agitated to the agitpropist's liking. Demotic War is, before all other factors, a weapon. It is a weapon written of the hand of an extremist Monophysite hierarch from Egypto-Nubia unleashed on the world to a strange and heretical wideness of acceptance. It establishes a new, the monophysitical, school of guerilla warfare and describes the spiritual and tactical methods by which such a war could be won, or at the very least, result in massive bloodletting of both sides of a conflict. Its language is plain, vivid, and meant to be recited and vocalized from a pulpit in front of the superstitious and the passionate. Can a more reflective reader profit from knowing Bishop Gabriel's manifesto? Yes, if only to open a window on the modern world outside and take in the apocalyptic air all around. Fr. Strationikos Petra Edited by Tristan da Cunha, Jun 9 2009, 12:19 PM.
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