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  Babe Ruth and Ty Cobb: The Lives...

  Charles River Editors

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  As one of America’s oldest and most beloved sports, baseball has long been touted as the national pastime, but of all the millions of people who have played it over the last few centuries, the first name that many associate with Major League Baseball is Babe Ruth, whose career spanned over 20 years on the way to becoming the sport’s biggest legend. The Bambino came onto the scene as a pitcher for the Boston Red Sox, only to be infamously sold to the rival New York Yankees, where he went on to set records for most home runs (714), runs batted in (2,213), walks (2,062), slugging percentage (.690), and on-base plus slugging (1.164). The Sultan of Swat’s records would take decades to be surpassed, but he also managed to win more than 20 games as a pitcher for Boston, along with three World Series before heading to New York. Boston wouldn’t win another championship for over 80 years after Ruth’s departure, a drought famously referred to as “The Curse of the Bambino.” 
  As if he wasn’t accomplished enough in Boston, Ruth went on to become a pop culture fixture in New York while playing 15 years for the Yankees on some of the sport’s most legendary teams. In addition to leading the Bronx Bombers to four World Series during his time there, Ruth set several single season and career records, elevating the team and MLB itself in ways that athletes could hardly dream of today.  
  	Few have influenced Major League Baseball like Ty Cobb, whose career spanned over 20 seasons. The Georgia Peach overcame early hardships to set nearly 100 MLB records in his time as a player and player-manager for the Detroit Tigers and Philadelphia Athletics. With an MVP and Triple Crown under his belt by the age of 25, Cobb went on to produce statistics that still lead MLB in several categories, including 4,065 combined runs scored and RBIs, a career batting average over .365, and at least 11 batting titles.

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  Farnsworth's Classical English...

  Ward Farnsworth

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  Learn how to argue from the masters. This book is a complete course on the art of argument, taught by the greatest practitioners of it: Churchill, Lincoln, and hundreds of others from the golden age of debate in England and America. 
   
   
   
  The book's concise chapters provide lessons in all aspects of give and take—the syllogism and the slippery slope, the argumentum ad hominem and reductio ad absurdum, the fallacy and the insult. Ward Farnsworth shows how the full range of such techniques can be used or repelled, and brings them to life with examples that are fascinating and instructive. 
   
   
   
  The result is a must-listen reference that will leave you better able to win arguments and to defend yourself under fire. It's also an entertaining reminder that argument can be a source of beauty and delight. As Farnsworth says of the examples, they show talented advocates "crossing analytical swords and exchanging abuse when those things were done with more talent and dignity than is common today. They made argument a spectator sport of lasting value and interest."

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  Knights Hospitaller The: A...

  Captivating History

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  War, virtue, corruption, adventure—the history of the Order of the Knights Hospitaller has it all. 
  The Hospitallers started out as caretakers of the Christian pilgrims in Jerusalem, but they soon emerged from their hospices and adopted a new military role that shaped the history of medieval Europe forever. This audiobook seeks to explore the curious rise of the Hospitallers from their humble origins to one of the most powerful institutions in medieval Europe. 
  Throughout their existence, the Hospitallers have managed to develop a renowned military tradition. At first, they just defended the traveling pilgrims to the Holy Land and provided them care in their hospices, but later on, thanks to their prowess and professionalism, the Hospitallers became a respected and feared military order that fought for Christendom. 
  After countless challenges, formidable foes, and internal and external threats, the Knights Hospitaller managed to survive against all odds and still exists today. They have adapted their role to modern times but never lost their true identity and mission. 
  Here’s a glimpse of what you will find in this audiobook:An in-depth history of the rise of the Knights HospitallerThe development of Hospitaller institutions, bureaucratic structures, and rolesHospitaller involvement in the events of the Levant during the CrusadesA deep dive into the military activities of the order, including the famous battles of La Forbie, Arsuf, Cresson, Ascalon, Rhodes, and many moreA look at the greatest grand masters of the order and how they shaped the order’s history 
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  Dangerous Male The: A Walking...

  A.A. Castor

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  Tired of being the nice guy who gets ignored while women obsess over men who treat them like an afterthought? 
  It's time to stop chasing—and start triggering. 
  The Dangerous Male: A Walking Hormonal Trigger is not a feel-good guide. It's a dark, brutally honest, and laughably real manifesto for men ready to stop begging for love and start mastering biology, psychology, and seduction on a primal level. 
  This book is built for the man who's done playing it safe. 
  It unpacks what really makes women obsessed—from subconscious ovulation cues to emotional tension, from masculine presence to strategic silence. You'll discover how to activate female hormones like oxytocin and dopamine, not by asking for attention—but by becoming the man she can't stop thinking about. 
  Inside, you'll learn:Why emotional detachment makes you irresistibleHow to use eye contact, voice, and posture as weapons of attractionThe science of female desire—and how to flip it in your favorHow to become a man women chase, submit to, and rememberWhy walking away right is more powerful than any pickup line 
  This isn't about manipulation. 
  It's about evolutionary dominance. 
  Women aren't confused—they're wired. 
  It's time you learned the language they actually respond to. 
  If you're ready to become the kind of man women compete for—emotionally, sexually, and psychologically—this book is your blueprint. 
  You don't chase. You attract. 
  You don't ask. You choose. 
  You don't react. You reign.

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  ENTANGLED TONGUES - A Short...

  Carol Williams Kisch

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  ENTANGLED TONGUES:A Short History of the English Languageor The Influence of French on EnglishThe French point of view: “La langue anglaise n’existe pas. C’est du français mal prononcé.” (“The English language doesn’t exist. It is badly pronounced French.”) Georges Clemenceau, French Prime Minister, 1917-1920.The English point of view: “So now they have made our English tongue… a hodgepodge of all other speeches.” Edmund Spenser, English poet, 1552-1599

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  The Golden Age - Trade Art and...

  Kelly Mass

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  The Netherlands had a great century in the 1600s, until it all ended about three-fourths along the way. Trading was all around, business was good. Their vast empire that reached across the world made money from spices, raw materials, metals, and so much more, with an extensive network of ships, merchants, and an entire army fleet. 
  The Dutch Golden Era was a time in Dutch history varying circa from 1588 (the start of the Dutch Republic) to 1672 (the "Catastrophe Year"), throughout which Dutch trade, science, and art, and the Dutch armed force, were amongst the world's best. The Eighty Years' War, which ended in 1648, controls the first area. Throughout the Dutch Republic, the Golden era lasted till the end of the century, when pricey fights like the Franco-Dutch War and the War of the Spanish Succession stimulated financial decrease. 
  K. W. Swart, a historian, has called the Netherlands' change into the world's leading maritime and financial power the "Dutch Wonder." 
  In this book, you will learn all you need to know about this gigantic superpower that ruled a big part of the world for nearly an entire century: The Dutch Empire.

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