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  American Visions - The United...

  Edward L. Ayers

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  A revealing history of the formative period when voices of dissent and innovation defied power and created visions of America still resonant today. 
   
   
   
  The early decades of the nineteenth century saw the expansion of slavery, Native dispossession, and wars with Canada and Mexico. Mass immigration and powerful religious movements sent tremors through American society. But even as the powerful defended the status quo, others defied it: voices from the margins moved the center; eccentric visions altered the accepted wisdom, and acts of empathy questioned self-interest. Edward L. Ayers’s rich history examines the visions that moved Frederick Douglass, Margaret Fuller, the Native American activist William Apess, and others to challenge entrenched practices and beliefs. 
   
   
   
  Through decades of award-winning scholarship on the Civil War, Edward L. Ayers has himself ventured beyond the interpretative status quo to recover the range of possibilities embedded in the past as it was lived. Here he turns that distinctive historical sensibility to a period when bold visionaries and critics built vigorous traditions of dissent and innovation into the foundation of the nation. Those traditions remain alive for us today.

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  Defying Silence - The Untold...

  Davis Truman

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  Discover the hidden stories of courage, resilience, and ingenuity that defy the silence surrounding Jewish survival during the Holocaust. This groundbreaking book uncovers the lesser-known strategies Jewish individuals and families used to endure unimaginable horrors and sustain hope against all odds. 
  •	Reveals untold survival tactics and resistance efforts rarely explored in history books 
  •	Brings to life firsthand testimonies and personal accounts of strength and perseverance 
  •	Illuminates the courage and creativity that shaped survival amidst relentless persecution 
  •	Offers a fresh perspective on the human spirit’s determination in one of history’s darkest chapters 
  •	A profound tribute to the resilience of Jewish communities and the legacy of hope they left behind 
  •	Essential reading for those interested in Holocaust history, Jewish heritage, and stories of human endurance 
  Defying Silence is more than a historical account; it is a moving testament to the power of hope, resistance, and the will to live.

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  Secret Society Secrets

  Raphael Terra

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  This audiobook has been recorded using Text to speech (TTS). 
   
  Secret societies have their origin in religions, mysteries, folklore, myths and legends. They very often created them and in each of these tales can be found the ultimate truths of the secret societies of the world. 
   
  Tales of the children of Jesus, the Holy Grail, hidden chambers in ancient structures and profound inner wisdom are all part and parcel of the fascinating world of secret societies. It is a world of the occult. It is hidden right before our very eyes and all we need is new sight. 
   
  In this film we will reveal the very heart of the ancient secret orders and their beliefs. We will show exactly what it is they are hiding and how these secrets have been hidden right before our eyes. These secrets are highly esoteric and mystical and we will need to alter our perspective inorder to see the truth. This is the quantum world of the mind itself and the revelation of sacred and secret truths of the universe itself. Suddenly mysteries will reveal their secrets. From the Holy Grail to the Ark of the Covenant, from Sufi mysticism to enlightenment itself, the occult nature of these profound and enigmatic tales will be revealed. 
   
  The inner teachings and secrets of these hidden groups is one of profound wisdom. This is why it has been so powerful. It is time to walk the path of the initiate and discover the ultimate sacred hidden truths for ourselves.

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  The Doomsday Flight

  Mark Hagenson

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  In 1971, a time before metal detectors and body scans, a single man boards an Air Canada DC-8 flight with a sawed-off shotgun, 54 sticks of dynamite, a parachute and a desperate plan for a $1.5 million ransom. But it's the two twisted wires in an ordinary Woolco shopping bag that will hold an entire plane hostage. 
  Trapped at 37,000 feet, flight attendant Mary Dohey becomes an unwilling participant in a deadly game, forced to hold live detonator wires for hours. One wrong move, one trembling hand, and the aircraft could explode. Around her, passengers wrestle with their own mortality while the hijacker, Paul Cini, plays a high-stakes game of psychological warfare with authorities on the ground. 
  But in this meticulously researched true-crime thriller, nothing is quite what it seems. As the FBI, Air Canada and the flight's crew race against time to prevent disaster, the truth behind Cini's elaborate deception slowly unravels—revealing an even more chilling reality about how vulnerable we all are to the power of suggestion. 
  "The Doomsday Flight" masterfully weaves together the intense drama of a hijacking, the psychological complexity of human nature, and the fascinating history of an era when the skies were a lawless frontier. Drawing from extensive interviews, photographs, newspaper archives, and witness accounts, which are all included in the book, this heart-pounding narrative puts readers in the cabin alongside passengers and crew as they face what they believe to be their final hours. 
  Taking place just days before the copycat infamous D.B. Cooper hijacking, this is perfect for fans of "Captain Phillips", "The Taking of Pelham 123" and "Air Force One". This unforgettable story exposes how the most dangerous weapons aren't always the ones we can see.

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  How to Care About Animals - An...

  Porphyry

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  An entertaining and enlightening anthology of classical Greek and Roman writings on animals—and our vital relationships with them 
   
   
   
  How to Care about Animals is a fascinating menagerie of passages from classical literature about animals and the lives we share with them. Drawing on ancient writers from Aesop to Ovid, classicist and farmer M. D. Usher has gathered a healthy litter of selections that reveal some of the ways Greeks and Romans thought about everything from lions, bears, and wolves to birds, octopuses, and snails—and that might inspire us to rethink our own relationships with our fellow creatures. Presented in lively new translations, these pieces are filled with surprises—anticipating but also offering new perspectives on many of our current feelings and ideas about animals. 
   
   
   
  Here, Porphyry makes a compelling argument for vegetarianism and asserts that the just treatment of animals makes us better people; Pliny the Elder praises the virtuosity of songbirds and the virtuousness of elephants; Plutarch has one of Circe's pigs from the Odyssey make a serio-comic case for the dignity of the beasts of the field; Aristotle puts the study of animals on par with anthropology; we hear timeless Aesopian fables, including "The Hen That Laid the Golden Egg" and "The Fox and the Grapes"; and there is much, much more.

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  The Pursuit of Dominance - 2000...

  Christopher J. Fettweis

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  The United States is the most powerful actor in the international system, but it is facing a set of challenges that might lead to its decline as this century unfolds. 
   
   
   
  In The Pursuit of Dominance, Christopher J. Fettweis examines the grand strategy of previous superpowers to see how they maintained, or failed to maintain, their status. Over the course of six cases, from Ancient Rome to the British Empire, he seeks guidance from the past for present US policymakers. Like the United States, the examples Fettweis uses were the world's strongest powers at particularly moments in time, and they were hoping to stay that way. Rather than focusing on those powers' rise or how they ruled, however, Fettweis looks at how they sought to maintain their power. From these cases, one paramount lesson becomes clear: Dominant powers usually survive even the most incompetent leaders. Fettweis is most interested in how these superpowers defined their interests, the grand strategies these regimes followed to maintain superiority over their rivals, and how the practice of that strategy worked. 
   
   
   
  A sweeping history of grand strategy, The Pursuit of Dominance looks at the past 2,000 years to highlight what—if anything—current US strategists can learn from the experience of earlier superpowers.

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