Books

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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Mongol jewelry	Martha Boyer	276 p. : 28 cm	OL12943169W
The Kite Rider	Geraldine McCaughrean	In thirteenth-century China, after trying to save his widowed mother from a horrendous second marriage, twelve-year-old Haoyou has life-changing adventures when he takes to the sky as a circus kite r…	OL15051624W
The life and times of Genghis Khan	Jim Whiting	Profiles the life of Genghis Khan and his Mongolian rule.	OL15837793W
Peril in the palace	Marianne Hering	Cousins Patrick and Beth travel in Mr. Whittaker's invention, the Imagination Station, to thirteenth-century China, where they meet Marco Polo and Kublai Khan and are mistaken for Christian shamans.	OL15897284W
Genghis Khan	Demi	A biography of the Mongol leader and military strategist who, at the height of his power, was supreme master of the largest empire ever created in the lifetime of one man.	OL16273097W
Genghis Khan	Leo de Hartog	Genghis Khan's armies breached the Great Wall of China, captured Beijing, and crushed all resistance in Afghanistan, Persia and Southern Russia by ruthless massacres and pillage. His armies also inva…	OL17704120W
The Mongols	Robert Nicholson	Provides a description of the history and culture of this nomadic Asian people.	OL1810430W
Empire's twilight	David M. Robinson	"The rise of the Mongol empire transformed world history. Its collapse in the mid-fourteenth century had equally profound consequences. Four themes dominate this study of the late Mongol empire in No…	OL18620792W
The Mongols and the Islamic world	Peter Jackson	"An epic historical consideration of the Mongol conquest of Western Asia and the spread of Islam during the years of non-Muslim rule. The Mongol conquest of the Islamic world began in the early thirt…	OL19664437W
Bones of the hills	Conn Iggulden	Genghis Khan has united the warring tribes and even taken his armies against the great cities of their oldest enemies. Now he finds trouble rising west of the Mongolian plains. His emissaries are mut…	OL20822896W
Historicizing the "Beyond"	Katharina Schmidt,Frank Krämer,Julika Singer	"Hardly any act of violence connects Europe and Asia like the Mongolian Invasion in the 13th century did. By 1300 the Mongols had conquered not only China, but also parts of Russia, Eastern Europe an…	OL22615952W
Mongols	Galadriel Findlay Watson	"Facts about the Mongols indigenous peoples of central Asia. Includes information about their traditions, myths, social activities, the development of their culture, methods of hunting and gathering,…	OL22641601W
Genghis Khan and the Mongol horde	Harold Lamb	Traces the life of the chief of the small Mongol tribe who established a vast empire from Peking to the Black Sea in the twelfth century.	OL26441213W
Genghis Khan and the Mongol horde	Harold Lamb	Traces the life of the chief of the small Mongol tribe who established a vast empire from Peking to the Black Sea in the twelfth century.	OL2848652W
Culture and conquest in Mongol Eurasia	Thomas T. Allsen	In the thirteenth century, the Mongols created a vast transcontinental empire that functioned as a cultural 'clearing house' for the Old World. Under Mongol auspices various commodities, ideologies a…	OL3346273W
The Tartar Khan's Englishman	Gabriel Ronay	"Author Gabriel Ronay discovered the existence of the Tartar Khan's English-born personal envoy, interpreter and spy in a thirteenth-century monastic chronicle. In this extraordinary biography he pie…	OL4789503W
Genghis Khan	Judy Humphrey	Traces the life of the chief of a small Mongol tribe who established a vast empire from Peking to the Black Sea in the twelfth century.	OL4960048W
The secret history of the Mongols	Kahn, Paul	Originally written in the 13th century in the Mongolian language this poetic history relates the rise to power of Genghis Khan in the years immediately before the Mongol domination of Asia.	OL5612166W
Tollins	Conn Iggulden	Conn Iggulden's novels are grand historical tales of conquest and vengeance, cruelty and greatness. Now the acclaimed author of Genghis: Birth of an Empire delivers a masterful new novel of the might…	OL5734887W
Rembrandt and his world	Monroe Stearns	A survey and interpretation of the life work of Holland's greatest painter. He was praised prematurely and died forgotten but his significant use of light to give paintings a third dimension had an e…	OL6699910W