'The seven christians stood together in the bright sunlight, bound with ropes singing a hyme to their foreign saviour as the spearmen advanced. Around them a croud of jostling men, women and children, more than sixty thousand strong...cheered enthusiastically as the spears were driven home and, one by one, the men and women fell and writhed on the sandy ground, their hymn fading slowly into silence...above the still writhing bodies, on a ridge, a score of crosses stood in mute witness, carrying their ghastly burdens, some of whom still lived despite the day and a half they had hung upon the wood. As European colonists scrambled for control of Africa, a leader arose in the red island of Madagascar who, through ruthless determination thwarted the combined ambitions of all the major world powers. That leader and the author of this holocaust was no warrior but a diminutive woman of middle years, Ranavalona-Manjaka Queen of Madagascar, know to her subjects more simply as Ma Dieu. Under Ranavalona's despotic rule, hundreds of thousands of her people, possibly one-half of Madagascar's entire population, were murdered, starved or simply worked to death by her express command, while she enjoyed an eccentric and debauched lifestyle. For these characteristics, European history has remembered her reign as that of the Female Caligula.

Female Caligula: Ranavalona, the Mad Queen of Madagascar

History

LAIDLER, Keith

Africa

John Wiley&Sons, Inc.

The Last Empress: The She-Dragon of China

In 1851, a sixteen-year-old girl named Yehonala entered the Imperial Palace of China as a concubine third grade, leaving behind her family, the love of her life, and nearly all contact with the outside world. She emerged as Tsu Hsi, Dowager Empress of China and one of the most powerful autocrats in history. A fascinating tale of love, betrayal, murder, intrigue, and survival, The Last Empress offers remarkable insight into life behind the closed doors of the forbidden city.

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

wiley

In 1851, a sixteen-year-old girl named Yehonala entered the Imperial Palace of China as a concubine third grade, leaving behind her family, the love of her life, and nearly all contact with the outside world. She emerged as Tsu Hsi, Dowager Empress of China and one of the most powerful autocrats in history. A fascinating tale of love, betrayal, murder, intrigue, and survival, The Last Empress offers remarkable insight into life behind the closed doors of the forbidden city.

Asia

In 1856 Emperor Hsien Feng turned over an ornately carved jade name-plaque next to his bedchamber, an action with which he brought a much-desired new concubine to his bed and unwittingly sealed the fate of the Manchu dynasty. A centuries-old prophecy had foretold that Manchu rule in China would be brought to ruin by a woman from the Yeho-Nala tribe; in the darkness of the bedchamber those words became reality. The Emperor was entranced with the young woman he had chosen, and from that time her power over him was ensured. Her name was Yehonala. Forced to enter the Forbidden City at the age of sixteen Yehonala lost her family, her betrothed and the life she had sought. She was entering a world of opulence, scholarship, intrigue and power struggles; a world that had remained for centuries untouched by the outside world or the passing of time, ruled by etiquette and tradition but with danger in every word or gesture. The beautiful young girl proved herself equal to all the court. She rose to be one of the greatest female autocrats in history, the most powerful person in China, maintaining her power with a mixture of seduction, intrigue, manipulation and even murder.

World

Looks at the giant panda and the red panda, discussing their habits and behavior, their life in remote parts of China, and the animals with whom they share the bamboo forests

Pandas: Giants of the Bamboo Forest

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Laidler, Liz

Pets & Animal Care

Bbc Pubns

China's Threatened Wildlife

Provides a region-by-region assessment of the ecological status of China's unique species and habitats and discusses the work that is being done to preserve and protect China's ecology

Science & Math

Biological Sciences

Pub Overstock Unlimited Inc

."..page format and liberal color photographs make this book visually appealing...Comparable to Time-Life or National Geographic publications...useful for high school students or public library patrons."-- "Library Journal. ."..packed with useful information..."-- "New Science.. 192 pages (all in color), 8 1/2 x 11.

Blandford Pr

I'm hardly a scholar of the Bible, but I'm very interested in medieval history, and the early days of the Christian church from a historical perspective, and the author has researched and revealed some stunning facts about that period

THE DIVINE DECEPTION the Church, the Shroud and the Creation of a Holy Fraud

Politics & Social Sciences

Archaeology

TRAFALGAR SQUARE +

The divine deception: the church, the shroud and the creation of a holy fraud

Headline Books

Discussing Britain as a surveillance society, Keith Laidler argues the potential for abuse is far-reaching and formidable. Surveillance can indeed fight crime. But, he asks, at what price? If we want zero crime, can we accept its price of zero freedom?

Surveillance Unlimited: How We've Become the Most Watched People on Earth

Social Sciences

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Female Caligula: Ranavalona, the Mad Queen of Madagascar

The Last Empress: The She-Dragon of China

The Last Empress: The She-Dragon of China

The Last Empress: The She-Dragon of China

Pandas: Giants of the Bamboo Forest

China's Threatened Wildlife

China's Threatened Wildlife

THE DIVINE DECEPTION the Church, the Shroud and the Creation of a Holy Fraud

The divine deception: the church, the shroud and the creation of a holy fraud

Surveillance Unlimited: How We've Become the Most Watched People on Earth