![]() ![]() "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.īook Description Paperback. But remember: just because you're immortal, doesn't mean you're going to live forever. ![]() Welcome to The Wicked + The Divine, where gods are the ultimate pop stars and pop stars are the ultimate gods. ![]() The team behind critically thermonuclear floor-fillers Young Avengers and Phonogram reunite to start a new, ongoing, superhero fantasy with a beautiful, oversized issue. “the story is beautifully drawn and populated with characters of color, diverse gender, and sexual identities, and you have my full undivided attention.” - KirkusĮvery ninety years, twelve gods incarnate as humans. "Gillen's penchant for fast, sharp dialogue and McKelvie and Wilson's razor-lined, intensely colored visuals keep things popping up to the cliffhanger ending." - Booklist “solid storytelling and clean, gorgeous artwork will keep readers engrossed and eager for more.” - Publishers Weekly (Starred) ![]()
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![]() Of the 50,000 Australians who landed on the beaches at Anzac Cove and the other beachheads near Gallipoli. Supporting the British in Gallipoli were large Australian, French and New Zealand land forces. Enver Pasha, the enigmatic leader of the Young Turks, and Mustafa Kemal, who later became Kemal Atatürk the creator of modern Turkey, both figure prominently. It was last victory of any importance for the doomed Ottoman empire.Ĭhurchill, Lord Kitchener, the poet Rupert Brooke and the intriguing General Ian Hamilton are all found in the pages here. Eleven months later the British led forces fled Gallipoli utterly humiliated. The disastrous campaign was dreamt up by Churchill in the early months of the war - ostensibly to protect British interests in the Middle East by seizing the straights which would also free up Russia to wage war in the Balkans and on the Eastern front. It took place on that sliver of geography between the Mediterranean and the Black Sea. ![]() Gallipoli, by Australian Alan Moorehead, is an engaging narrative history about the famous WW1 naval and land campaign. Of the sunken battleships nothing was to be seen. ![]() It was the silence of the Gallipoli peninsula which most surprised and awed the survivors of the campaign who returned there after the war, the stillness of the cliffs and beaches where nothing much remained of the battle except the awful sight of the white bones of unburied soldiers and the rusting guns along the shore. ![]() ![]() His reforms were fabulously successful, jettisoning the German university system from relative obscurity to become the envy of the world, generating unprecedented quantities of knowledge, tremendous advances in technology, and scholarly colossi such as Planck and Heisenberg, Strauss and Weber, Freud and Nietzsche. ![]() In modern times, we are heirs to a different reality – one conceived in the 19th century by the Prussian education minister Wilhelm von Humboldt, who proposed that the university be organized not around teaching but around conducting original research. Rather, he would go directly to its difficult passages and intricate problems and look at what its author had to say.” By the age of 21, there was no field of knowledge Ibn Sina was not familiar with. SCIENCE IDEAS: A HISTORY OF THOUGHT AND INVENTION, FROM FIRE TO FREUD By PETER WATSON Ī THOUSAND YEARS AGO, it was Still possible for Ibn Sina’s biographer, Juzajani, to write: “For the 25 years that I was his companion and servant, I did not once see him, when he came across a new book, examine it from beginning to end. ![]() |