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Ancient Iran A Captivating Guide to Persia, from the Elamites Through the Medians, Achaemenids, Seleucid Empire [Audiobook]

Ancient Iran A Captivating Guide to Persia, from the Elamites Through the Medians, Achaemenids, Seleucid Empire [Audiobook]
English | ASIN: B0BF7D481C | 2022 | 6 hours and 7 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 168 MB
Ancient Persia conjures images of extravagant palaces, beautiful gardens, mighty armies, and all-powerful kings, queens, and princes. The beginnings of Iranian antiquity are enigmatic, but from the cradle of the western Zagros Mountains came the greatest empires the world has ever known. The Elamites, Medians, Achaemenids, Parthians, and Sassanids all sprang from interlinked cultural origins that could trace their roots back through each successive empire. The ancient Persians experienced cultural mingling over time, such as the Mediterranean Hellenistic era, which brought the Greeks and Romans. Much later, the Muslim Arabs disrupted the last of the ancient empires and imprinted their new religion, Islam, across Greater Iran. But the Persian culture held firm for millennia, and after 5,000 years of imperial conquests, Iran retains the ancient identity of its first people.

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American Midnight The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis [Audiobook]

American Midnight The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis [Audiobook]
English | ASIN: B09TX2XFGZ | 2022 | 15 hours and 6 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 414 MB
From award-winning, New York Times best-selling historian Adam Hochschild, a fast-paced, revelatory new account of a pivotal but neglected period in American history: World War I and its stormy aftermath, when bloodshed and repression on the home front nearly doomed American democracy. The nation was on the brink. Angry mobs burned Black churches to the ground and chased down pacifists and immigrants. Well over a thousand men and women were jailed solely for what they had written or said, even in private. An astonishing 250,000 people joined a nationwide vigilante group—sponsored by the Department of Justice. This was America during and after the Great War: a brief but appalling era blighted by torture, censorship, and killings.

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America's Forgotten Terrorists The Rise and Fall of the Galleanists [Audiobook]

America's Forgotten Terrorists The Rise and Fall of the Galleanists [Audiobook]
English | ASIN: B0BG3HHG1Q | 2022 | 8 hours and 17 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 228 MB
Though largely forgotten today, one of the most destructive terrorist groups in the United States was the Galleanists, a fiery band of Italian anarchists active during the early 1900s. In America's Forgotten Terrorists, Jeffrey D. Simon shows how alienation and frustration among segments of a community were transformed into a militant extremist movement. Luigi Galleani, a gifted writer and speaker, tapped into widespread disappointment among Italian immigrants concerning their lives in America. Unemployment, low wages, long working hours, discrimination, and a poor quality of life made many Italian immigrants receptive to his words.

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Allen Carr's Easy Way to Better Sleep How to Free Yourself from Sleepless Nights [Audiobook]

Allen Carr's Easy Way to Better Sleep How to Free Yourself from Sleepless Nights [Audiobook]
English | ASIN: B0B9Z189C2 | 2022 | 6 hours and 51 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 189 MB
Listen to this audiobook and sleep well the easy way. Allen Carr's Easyway method offers a unique solution. This world-renowned, clinically proven method has helped an estimated 50 million people with their behavioural issues and addictions. In this audiobook, this tried-and-tested method is applied to sleeping difficulties. With clear, step-by-step advice, Easy Way to Better Sleep will help you form healthy habits and live in tune with your natural sleep cycle so you can get back to that blissful promise of a good night's sleep.

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All That Moves Us A Pediatric Neurosurgeon, His Young Patients, and Their Stories of Grace and Resilience [Audiobook]

All That Moves Us A Pediatric Neurosurgeon, His Young Patients, and Their Stories of Grace and Resilience [Audiobook]
English | ASIN: B09J1QB5BF | 2022 | 7 hours and 54 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 431 MB
"The surgical interventions in these pages are dizzying, but the fact that Jay Wellons can write as well as he can operate provides a whole other level of amazement."—Ann Patchett, #1 New York Times bestselling author. "A powerful and moving account of the intense joys and sorrows of being a pediatric neurosurgeon."—Henry Marsh, New York Times bestselling author. Tumors, injuries, ruptured vascular malformations—there is almost no such thing as a non-urgent brain surgery when it comes to kids. For a pediatric neurosurgeon working in the medical minefield of the brain—in which a single millimeter in every direction governs something that makes us essentially human—every day presents the challenge, and the opportunity, to give a new lease on life to a child for whom nothing is yet fully determined and all possibilities still exist. In All That Moves Us, Dr. Jay Wellons pulls back the curtain to reveal the profoundly moving triumphs, haunting complications, and harrowing close calls that characterize the life of a pediatric neurosurgeon, bringing the high-stakes drama of the operating room to life with astonishing candor and honest compassion.

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All About Asset Allocation, Second Edition [Audiobook]

All About Asset Allocation, Second Edition [Audiobook]
English | ASIN: B0BCSTW91P | 2022 | 10 hours and 38 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 292 MB
When It Comes to Investing for Your Future, There's Only One Sure Bet—asset Allocation. Trying to outwit the market is a bad gamble. If you're serious about investing for the long run, you have to take a no-nonsense, businesslike approach to your portfolio. In addition to covering all the basics, this new edition of All About Asset Allocation includes timely advice on learning which investments work well together and why, selecting the right mutual funds and ETFs, creating an asset allocation that's right for your needs, knowing how and when to change an allocation, and understanding target-date mutual funds.

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Africa Is Not a Country Notes on a Bright Continent [Audiobook]

Africa Is Not a Country Notes on a Bright Continent [Audiobook]
English | ASIN: B0BBY1GF9S | 2022 | 9 hours and 24 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 258 MB
So often, Africa has been depicted simplistically as a uniform land of famines and safaris, poverty and strife, stripped of all nuance. In this bold and insightful book, Dipo Faloyin offers a much-needed corrective, weaving a vibrant tapestry of stories that bring to life Africa's rich diversity, communities, and histories. Starting with an immersive description of the lively and complex urban life of Lagos, Faloyin unearths surprising truths about many African countries' colonial heritage and tells the story of the continent's struggles with democracy through seven dictatorships. With biting wit, he takes on the phenomenon of the white savior complex and brings to light the damage caused by charity campaigns of the past decades. Entering into the rivalries that energize the continent, Faloyin engages in the heated debate over which West African country makes the best jollof rice and describes the strange, incongruent beauty of the African Cup of Nations. With an eye toward the future promise of the continent, he explores the youth-led cultural and political movements that are defining and reimagining Africa on their own terms.

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Adventures in Unhistory Conjectures on the Factual Foundations of Several Ancient Legends [Audiobook]

Adventures in Unhistory Conjectures on the Factual Foundations of Several Ancient Legends [Audiobook]
English | ASIN: B098BPYV1L | 2021 | 17 hours and 23 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 948 MB
Where Did Sinbad Sail? Who Fired the Phoenix? The Boy Who Cried Werewolf. The Great Rough Beast. Postscript on Prester John. The Secret of Hyperborea. What Gave All Those Mammoths Cold Feet? And Many More. Fictional? Authoritative? Fantastic? Deadpan? Investigations into the real, the true...and the things that should be true....

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