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  Banana Wars The: A Captivating...

  Captivating History

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  The United States Marine Corps once fought for God, country, and bananas. 
  This audiobook is about the Banana Wars that lasted from the end of the Spanish-American War in 1898 until Franklin Roosevelt’s Good Neighbor Policy of 1934. When you listen to this story, you’ll learn how and why the US Marines invaded Panama, Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala, Cuba, Haiti, Mexico, and the Dominican Republic. You’ll also learn how the US Marines occupied and ruled Cuba, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic for years. 
  You’ll learn about why bananas became such an important commodity and how a combination of technologies made it possible. And you’ll learn how the American public was persuaded to start buying all those bananas. You’ll see how the United Fruit Company put all the pieces together to form an incredibly efficient company powerful enough to overturn presidents and dictators. 
  You’ll find out how gaining possession of California inevitably led the United States to see the Caribbean and Central America as vital to American national security. 
  You’ll learn that an episode in a world-famous novel by the Colombian novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez is true.  
  You’ll discover the story of the battleship USS Oregon circumnavigating South America in a 12,000-mile, sixty-day voyage to join the Atlantic fleet as the Spanish-American War broke out—and how the epic journey played into the design of the Panama Canal. 
  You’ll listen to a 1903 crisis that led to German, British, and Italian warships blockading Venezuela and to Teddy Roosevelt amending the Monroe Doctrine. 
  So if you want to learn more about the Banana Wars, then scroll up and click the “add to cart” button!

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  Bigger & Fancier Words That...

  Albert B. Squid

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  You thought Big & Fancy Words was the peak of wordy greatness? Think again. The sequel is here—and it’s even bigger, fancier, and smarter…er than before! 
   Just like the first audiobook, Bigger & Fancier Words gives you one impressive word a day, but this time the vocabulary is turned up a notch. These aren’t just words to know—they’re words to drop casually into conversations to sound suspiciously brilliant. Every word comes with a clear definition, a hilariously memorable sentence, plus synonyms and antonyms to round it all out. That’s right—your brain is about to get a vocabulary glow-up. 
  Whether you're training for the SATs, flexing in a group chat, trying to impress your dog, or finally taking down your uncle in a heated Scrabble match, this audiobook is your secret weapon. With 366 fresh, brain-tingling words, easy enough to remember, weirdly fun to use, and actually useful in real life (and maybe even your diary, if you're into that). 
  Ready to out-word yourself? Grab Bigger & Fancier Words That Might Make You Even Smarter…er and let the wordy magic begin—again.

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  Pollution is Colonialism

  Max Liboiron

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  In Pollution Is Colonialism Max Liboiron presents a framework for understanding scientific research methods as practices that can align with or against colonialism. They point out that even when researchers are working toward benevolent goals, environmental science and activism are often premised on a colonial worldview and access to land. Focusing on plastic pollution, the book models an anticolonial scientific practice aligned with Indigenous, particularly Métis, concepts of land, ethics, and relations. Liboiron draws on their work in the Civic Laboratory for Environmental Action Research (CLEAR)—an anticolonial science laboratory in Newfoundland, Canada—to illuminate how pollution is not a symptom of capitalism but a violent enactment of colonial land relations that claim access to Indigenous land. Liboiron's creative, lively, and passionate text refuses theories of pollution that make Indigenous land available for settler and colonial goals. In this way, their methodology demonstrates that anticolonial science is not only possible but is currently being practiced in ways that enact more ethical modes of being in the world.

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  Patrick Henry's Give Me Liberty...

  Patrick Henry

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  Patrick Henry’s Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death speech, delivered on March 23, 1775, is one of the most powerful orations in American history. Addressing the Virginia Convention, Henry’s passionate plea for freedom from British rule helped ignite the flames of the American Revolution. His bold declaration, “Give me liberty, or give me death!” has since become a symbol of the fight for independence and human rights. 
  Narrated by Gary Middleton, this audiobook brings Patrick Henry’s stirring words to life, capturing the intensity and urgency of the moment. Whether you’re a student of history or simply an admirer of powerful rhetoric, this speech is an essential listen for understanding the spirit of the American Revolution.

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  33 Ways Not To Screw Up Your...

  Chip Scanlan

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  33 Ways Not to Screw Up Your Journalism is a succinct, authoritative and encouraging handbook of practical and inspiring tools, techniques and values that journalists, whether they're students or newsroom veterans, need more than ever in our fractured and fact-tossed democracy. "Excellent for journalists of all ages and experience," says broadcast legend Dan Rather. Written by award-winning journalist and writing teacher and coach Chip Scanlan, former writing program director at The Poynter Institute, the book is a survival manual for journalists at a time when the news industry is in free fall and their profession is under assault. Journalists are often thrown into their craft with the most rudimentary understanding of what it means to be a journalist in a democracy. Its short, fact-packed chapters remedy that. It can be consulted at your desk or, slim enough to fit in a jacket pocket or purse, when you face a particularly thorny problem in the field. Its subjects range from treating sources with respect, being aware of your biases, plagiarism, fabrication, and ethical decision-making to letting fear stop you, combatting writer's block, and step-by-step guides to the writing process, interviewing and revision and the importance of multimedia and data journalism. Journalism is in trouble, but it's not too late to save it--or yourself--by mastering, sharing and implementing the most critical skills any reporter can have: the basics. Based on extensive research, personal experience and interviews with reporters, editors and publishers, 33 Ways Not To Screw Up Your Journalism is the essential companion for journalists and their professors and coaches.

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  Anxiety? The Essential Self Help...

  K. K.K.

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  Anxiety? The Essential Self Help Guide For Women!The Self Help Guide To Overcome Anxiety, Fear, Phobias, Panic Attacks For Mental Health And Happiness! BONUS: Relaxation Music!Do you want to understand the causes of anxiety?Do you want to overcome anxiety, phobias and panic attacks?Do you want to have an essential guide for self help to be happy? 
  If this is the case - THIS - is the right audiobook for you! With the help of this guide you will be able to overcome anxiety and fear! With the help of easy to understand information and practical self help tips you will be able to get help and feel better and be happy! 
  This step-by-step guide is based on latest insights and studies, refers to psychotherapy and practical knowledge! 
  Do you have a feeling about the dimension of this problem (source: www.nami.org/mhstats)21% of U.S. adults experienced mental illness in 2020 (52.9 million people). This represents 1 in 5 adults.Major Depressive Episode: 8.4% (21 million people) in the USAnxiety Disorders: 19.1% (estimated 48 million people) in the USWomen are twice as likely to be afflicted than men.  
  Millions of women suffer from anxiety! - More than double the amount compared to depression! 
  But the good message is:It is possible to change this individually! 
  With the help of this practical guide you will be able to increase your overall mood, happiness and wellbeing! Try it out!Buy this essential guide now and change your life! Its worth it! :)

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