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A Dusty Tomes Audio BookIn Cooperation with Spoken Realms
The Winning of the West, Vol. 3: The Founding of the Trans-Alleghany Commonwealths 1784–1790 by Theodore Roosevelt. A Major US History Series in six volumes. G.P. Putnam's Sons 1894.
Narrated by Joseph TablerNote-This book is "read as written." It was published in 1894. It is in the public domain.
We all know of Theodore Roosevelt being the US president from 1901 to 1909, an American politician,...
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From the author of Crying, a witty, wide-ranging cultural history of our attitudes toward work-and getting out of it
Couch potatoes, goof-offs, freeloaders, good-for-nothings, loafers, and loungers: ever since the Industrial Revolution, when the work ethic as we know it was formed, there has been a chorus of slackers ridiculing and lampooning the pretensions of hardworking respectability. Reviled by many, heroes to others, these layabouts stretch...
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Why are we drawn to certain cities? Perhaps because of a story read in childhood. Or a chance teenage meeting. Or maybe simply because the place touches us, embodying in its tribes, towers and history an aspect of our understanding of what it means to be human. Paris is about romantic love. Lourdes equates with devotion. New York means energy. London is forever trendy.
Berlin is all about volatility.
Berlin is a city of fragments and ghosts, a laboratory...
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The glittering tradition of sword-and-sorcery sweeps into the sands of ancient Arabia with the heart-stopping speed of a whirling dervish in this thrilling debut novel from new talent Howard Andrew Jones
In 8th century Baghdad, a stranger pleads with the vizier to safeguard the bejeweled tablet he carries, but he is murdered before he can explain. Charged with solving the puzzle, the scholar Dabir soon realizes that the tablet may unlock secrets...
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There is much more to Mesoamerica than the Aztec, Mayan, and Toltec civilizations. In fact, several different ancient Mesoamerican civilizations had their own gods and religious beliefs. These civilizations included the Olmec civilization, Zapotec civilization, Teotihuacan civilization, Maya civilization, Toltec civilization, and Aztec civilization.The Olmec civilization is the first known Mesoamerican civilization. The name Olmec comes from the Nahuatl...
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New version combining Maccabees I & Maccabess II in 26 chapters with insightful footnotes identifying placenames and explaing historical context.Prefaced with an Overview describing geopolitical historical and cultural background.Followed by extensive PostScript narrating resultant aftermath, strife and civil war leading to the Temple destruction and Exile.
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Teaching and learning about the Ptolemaic and Copernican systems is a challenge. The defining texts are all but unreadable even in translation. Here is a systematic exposition (pun intended) of the two great systems with 36 diagrams to aid you. Most of these diagrams, original work of the author, are unavailable outside of this source. Many of them are to-scale, greatly enhancing the perception of the tremendously impressive intellectual achievements...
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"You don't know how close war is."
Radomir Bogdanov, Deputy Director, Institute of the USA and Canada, 1983
"It was a matter of rather--I would say-greater danger than almost any other period in the Cold War, if only because the most-shall we say extreme-or hardline elements in the Soviet intelligence and military leadership might have at some point either misconstrued some
developments in the West or chosen to act on the basis of
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El cerebro humano es el lugar donde se generan todas las sensaciones que percibimos a lo largo de nuestra vida, sensaciones de frío, calor, dolor, placer..., es el lugar donde nacen y se almacenan nuestros sueños, recuerdos, sentimientos y también nuestros miedos que en muchas ocasiones dan lugar a enfermedades, pues una gran parte de nuestras enfermedades y dolencias proceden de manías, miedos y fobias a determinados hábitos, alimentos, formas...
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"A self-assured warrior stumbles into a game of Go that turns fatal. An ambitious lord leaves his nephew for dead and seizes his lands. A stubborn father forces his son to give up his wife to his older brother. A powerful priest meddles in the successionto the Lotus Throne. A woman of the Old People seeks five fathers for her five children, who will go on to found the Spider Tribe and direct the fate of the country. As destiny weaves its tapestry...
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