Coming to terms with this 523-page book is clearly going to take a while, though the seven-page glossary explaining the structure of Malazan civilization, the mores of the Barghasts, Darus, Gadrobis and Jaghuts, and the geography of Darujhistan will undoubtedly help.

The Empire then turns its attention to the other remaining Free City, Darujhistan.

At the same time, Anomander Rake offers his alliance to the true rulers of Darujhistan, a secretive cabal of mages ; while a group of con-artists and underworld figures within the city work to oppose members of the civic government who are considering capitulating to the Empire.

It is notable for the use of high magic, and unusual plot structure .. Gardens of the Moon centres around the Imperial campaign to conquer the city of Darujhistan.

On board are travelers from Genabackis: Crokus, a thief of Darujhistan ; a fisher-girl named Apsalar ; Fiddler, a sapper in the Bridgeburners ; and Kalam, the Bridgeburners ' resident assassin.

# Crokus, a visitor from Darujhistan

Adjunct Lorn, a high ranking representative of the Empress, is sent to uncover something in the hills east of Darujhistan, in the company of a Tlan Imass, a member of another species that once dominated the world before humans.

It has been argued that the company effectively evaded EU export restrictions when these licensees sold HK weapons to conflict zones including Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Sierra Leone.

Once the punch has been evaded, the boxer " weaves " back to an upright position, emerging on either the outside or inside of the opponent's still-extended arm.

This culminated in his 1972 book, Science at the Crossroads in which Dingle stated that " a proof that Einstein's special theory of relativity is false has been advanced ; and ignored, evaded, suppressed and, indeed, treated in every possible way except that of answering it, by the whole scientific world.

Whereas an evaded tax remains a tax legally owed, an avoided tax is a tax liability that has never existed.

As of Batman # 670 Ra's al Ghul has returned, having evaded death by transferring his consciousness into the body of another.

When the Doctor and his companions arrive on the moon by rocket – after a rather bumpy ride-they discover the situation and make contact with Phipps, who has evaded the invaders and is hiding in the moonbase.

Taking into consideration that from the history of his illness it is apparent that Brodsky has evaded hospitalization, it is hereby ordered that division No. 18 of the militia be in charge of bringing him to the official psychiatric examination.

Ella Kesayeva, co-chair of the group Voice of Beslan has, similarly to Alexander Litvinenko, drawn attention to how many of the hostage-takers were either released from government custody or evaded the authorities despite their high profiles.

In the above example, Michelle has evaded a reasoned discussion by tarring Sam with an irrelevant association to an idea that Hitler used.

Along the way, he has evaded capture by the Spanish Inquisition, the Knights of Sebastopol and the Gestapo.

: not only they throw away the mainspring of the story, they evaded the whole basic issue of discrimination against the Negro .... Hollywood ’ s attitude to the Negro in films has been dictated all too often by box-office considerations: they are afraid of losing money in the Jim Crow South.

Youthful nurses are provided to tourists to keep that from happening but he has evaded Zozim, the one assigned to him.

Steven has now fallen out with and evaded Nicholas Muss, taking his chances in the streets of Paris alone.

The Sheriff acknowledges that Burns has evaded their attempts to capture him.

For this reason, the future of the species is still uncertain, though the Mount Rogers ( Virginia ) population has largely evaded adelgid mortality.

The agrarian portions of the law may have been more form than substance, as it has been suggested they were easily evaded.

With the universal list as his weapon, Swadesh has extended his march of conquest farther and farther into the past, eight, ten, twelve millennia back.

On the one side it has been used to support a claim to the Rock ' by right of conquest '; on the other to ... pour on Britain obloquy for perfidy ").

* A Romance language ( although English, descended from the speech of Germanic tribes which arrived after the Romans had left Britain, has had a heavy influence from French, due primarily to the Norman conquest of England ), nor

Alexander the Great explored the Kabul valley after his conquest of the Achaemenid Empire in 330 BC but no record has been made of Kabul, which may have been only a small town and not worth writing about.

However, the story remained a relatively shallow tale — a celebration of US conquest and personal adventures — until the mid-century, since which time the history has been more thoroughly researched and retold in many forms to a growing and appreciative audience.

It has been used by local tribes as well as by Vikings, Russians, and other Europeans for trade, war, and conquest.

The Sahara has linked rather than divided the peoples who inhabit it and has served as an avenue for migration and conquest.

Shang-Chi was born in the Hunan province of the People's Republic of China, and is the son of Fu Manchu, the Chinese mastermind who has repeatedly attempted world conquest.

Historian S. C. Rowell has described his rise to power as taking place through " the familiar processes of marriage, murder and military conquest.

The castle has been the equivalent of a holiday residence for the Giudichessa Eleanor of Arborea, and was object of alternate possession by the Giudicato d ' Arborea and the Aragon, during the long fight before the Spanish conquest.

In history, racism has been a major part of the political and ideological underpinning of genocides such as the holocaust, but also in colonial contexts such as the rubber booms in South America and the Congo, and in the European conquest of the Americas and colonization of Africa, Asia and Australia.

Pakistan's use of officially published textbooks has been criticized for using schools to more subtlety foster religious extremism, whitewashing Muslim conquest in the Indian subcontinent and promoting " expansive pan-Islamic imaginings " that " detect the beginnings of Pakistan in the birth of Islam on the Arabian peninsula ".

After returning to London, Dorian tells Lord Henry that he will be good from now on, and has started by not breaking the heart of his latest innocent conquest named Hetty Merton.

Historically, vandalism has been justified by painter Gustave Courbet as destruction of monuments symbolizing " war and conquest ".

Gladstone proclaimed that " the expenses of a war are the moral check which it has pleased the Almighty to impose on the ambition and the lust of conquest that are inherent in so many nations ".

Often they are recent immigrants, but xenophobia may be directed against a group which has been present for centuries, or became part of this society through conquest and territorial expansion.

Finally in the late 670s conquest of North Africa has been completed.

His biographers, Frank Barlow and Peter Rex, dispute this, picturing him as a successful king, who was energetic, resourceful and sometimes ruthless, but whose reputation has been unfairly tarnished by the Norman conquest shortly after his death.

In Henry V, the young prince has become a mature man and embarks on a successful conquest of France.

Especially the nature of interaction between Tula and Chichén Itzá has been controversial with Scholars arguing for either military conquest of Chichén Itzá by Toltecs, Chichén Itzá establishing Tula as a colony or only loose connections between the two.

It is the only strong nation that has not entered on a career of imperial conquest, and does not want to enter on it.

Started sometime before 1426 and completed, at least partially, by 1432, this polyptych has been seen to represent " the final conquest of reality in the North ", differing from the great works of the Early Renaissance in Italy by virtue of its willingness to forgo classical idealization in favor of the faithful observation of nature.

In 1282, the death of Llywelyn the Last led to the conquest of the Principality of Wales by King Edward I of England ; afterwards, the heir apparent to the English monarch has borne the title " Prince of Wales ".

However, Creasy has claimed: " The enduring importance of the battle of Tours in the eyes of the Moslems is attested not only by the expressions of ' the deadly battle ' and ' the disgraceful overthrow ' which their writers constantly employ when referring to it, but also by the fact that no more serious attempts at conquest beyond the Pyrenees were made by the Saracens.