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Pharaohs of the Sun How Egypt's Despots and Dreamers Drove the Rise and Fall of Tutankhamun's Dynasty [Audiobook]

Pharaohs of the Sun How Egypt's Despots and Dreamers Drove the Rise and Fall of Tutankhamun's Dynasty [Audiobook]
English | ASIN: B09NYQL15W | 2022 | 15 hours and 31 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 854 MB
For more than two centuries, Egypt was ruled by the most powerful, successful and richest dynasty of kings in its long end epic history. They included the female king Hatshepsut, the warrior kings Thutmose III and Amenhotep II, the religious radical Akhenaten and his queen Nefertiti, and most famously of all for the wealth of his tomb the short-lived boy king Tutankhamun. The power and riches of the pharaohs of the 18th dynasty came at enormous cost to Egypt's enemies and most of its people. This was an age of ruthless absolutism, exploitation, extravagance, brutality and oppression in a culture where not only did Egypt plunder its neighbours but Egyptian kings and their people robbed one another.
Three-thousand-five-hundred years ago, ancient Egypt began two centuries in which it became richer and more powerful than any other nation at the time, ruled by the kings of the 18th dynasty. They presided over a system built on war, oppression and ruthlessness, pouring Egypt's wealth into grandiose monuments, temples and extravagant tombs. Tutankhamun was one of the last of the line and one of the most obscure. Among his predecessors were some of the most notorious and enigmatic figures of all of Egypt's history. Pharaohs of the Sun is their story, showing how the glamour and gold was tainted by selfishness, ostentation and the systematic exploitation of Egypt's people and enemies.

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Nancy Reagan The Unauthorized Biography (Audiobook)

Nancy Reagan The Unauthorized Biography (Audiobook)
English | 2013 | MP3 | M4B | ASIN: B00DZ1KM1S | Duration: 21:36 h | 593 MB
Kitty Kelley / Narrated by Suzanne Toren
A shocking portrait of the 1980s, of America, and of the woman whose position helped shape the values and policies of the Reagan administration. Through over 1,000 interviews collected during four years of exhaustive research and reporting, Kelley reveals Nancy Reagan as a superb public performer; a vain, materialistic social climber; a bitter foe; and formidable strategist - an American phenomenon.

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Monolith to Microservices Evolutionary Patterns to Transform Your Monolith [Audiobook]

Monolith to Microservices Evolutionary Patterns to Transform Your Monolith [Audiobook]
English | February 27, 2021 | ASIN: B08X7DX23V | MP3 | M4B | 6h 45m | 368 MB
Author: Sam Newman | Narrator: Mitchell Dorian
How do you detangle a monolithic system and migrate it to a microservice architecture? How do you do it while maintaining business-as-usual? As a companion to Sam Newman's extremely popular Building Microservices, this new book details a proven method for transitioning an existing monolithic system to a microservice architecture.

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Mirror to Damascus (Audiobook)

Mirror to Damascus (Audiobook)
English | 2017 | MP3 | M4B | ASIN: B0753MQ3H1 | Duration: 9:19 h | 319 MB
Colin Thubron / Narrated by Sean Barrett
Described by the author as simply 'a work of love', Mirror to Damascus provides an enthralling and fascinating history of Damascus from the Amorites of the Bible to the revolution of 1966, as well as being a charming and witty personal record of a city well-loved.

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Love, Interrupted (Audiobook)

Love, Interrupted (Audiobook)
English | 2019 | MP3 | M4B | ASIN: B07T8C8S37 | Duration: 8:05 h | 225 MB
Simon Thomas / Narrated by Simon Thomas, Ethan Thomas
Simon Thomas (former Blue Peter presenter and, for so long, the face of Sky Sports Football) reveals how grief nearly destroyed him in his heartbreaking memoir. When Simon lost the woman he had loved for 16 years, the future he'd imagined for their happy family disappeared for ever. Gemma died from acute myeloid leukaemia, just three days after being diagnosed.

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Like a Thief in Broad Daylight Power in the Era of Post-Human Capitalism (Audiobook)

Like a Thief in Broad Daylight Power in the Era of Post-Human Capitalism (Audiobook)
English | 2020 | MP3 | M4B | ASIN: B0892VQ9SG | Duration: 8:06 h | 220 MB
Slavoj Žižek / Narrated by Jamie East
In recent years, techno-scientific progress has started to utterly transform our world - changing it almost beyond recognition. In this extraordinary new audiobook, renowned philosopher Slavoj Zizek turns to look at the brave new world of Big Tech, revealing how, with each new wave of innovation, we find ourselves moving closer and closer to a bizarrely literal realization of Marx's prediction that "all that is solid melts into air". With the automation of work, the virtualization of money, the dissipation of class communities, and the rise of immaterial, intellectual labor, the global capitalist edifice is beginning to crumble, more quickly than ever before - and it is now on the verge of vanishing entirely.

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