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  Untold London - Stories from...

  Dan Carrier

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  'Just pick up a copy and set off. You'll be amazed at what you've missed.' - Sir Michael Palin
  March, 2020: A columnist watches as London locks down, facing a conundrum as his weekly deadline for his newspaper diary approaches.
  With the city shutting up shop and column inches to fill, journalist Dan Carrier takes to the deserted streets of Central London to uncover the forgotten stories the heart of the UK capital holds.
  Untold London is a consideration and celebration of a city whose famous landmarks and thoroughfares are often taken for granted. Setting out to find lingering evidence of days gone by, Dan reveals unexpected delights, triumphs and tragedies alongside plenty of skulduggery and scandal in the greatest city in the world.

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  Some Forgotten Pennsylvania...

  Henry W. Shoemaker

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  Some Forgotten Pennsylvania Heroines is a reflective and dignified tribute to women whose courage helped shape American history but whose names rarely appear in standard accounts. 
  Written in the early twentieth century, Henry W. Shoemaker’s historical address and biographical sketches move beyond fame and rank to honor women whose lives were defined by endurance, service, and moral resolve. From the Pennsylvania frontier to the Revolutionary War and the Civil War, these narratives illuminate acts of quiet heroism carried out in cabins, villages, battlefields, and along the edges of recorded history. 
  Listeners encounter figures such as Mary Jemison, who lived among the Seneca; Regina Hartman, recognized after years of captivity by a familiar hymn; and the enduring symbol of “Molly Pitcher,” whose wartime bravery was followed by hardship and obscurity. The collection also remembers frontier women who defied danger, protected their communities, preserved faith and family under extreme conditions, and bore loss without recognition—including stories tied to Gettysburg, the Pennsylvania wilderness, and early American settlements. 
  Narrated with clarity and restraint by Margaret Hnat, this audiobook preserves the tone of a commemorative address—measured, reverent, and purposeful—inviting listeners to reflect on lives lived with resolve rather than acclaim. 
  Some Forgotten Pennsylvania Heroines stands as an act of historical remembrance, restoring attention to women whose character, sacrifice, and public spirit helped shape a nation.

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  Japanese Made Easy - Beginner -...

  Lingo Wave

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  We broke our new series on learning Japanese down into different learning stages. Start with the "Lower Beginner" books followed by the "Beginner" and "Upper Beginner" books. Next, progress to the "Intermediate" series, then test and reinforce your knowledge with the "Conversations" series. 
  This audiobook is divided into units.While it provides different learning patterns and accommodates various needs, this audiobook focuses on helping you improve your ability to understand, speak, and memorise Japanese.  
  In Unit 1 you will hear Japanese decoded with each syllable spoken very slowly and clearly with repetition. Immediately before each sentence is spoken, you will hear the translation, so you will always understand what is being said. 
  Unit 2 focuses solely on increasing your listening ability, which will improve your abilities to engage in dialogue with a native Japanese speaker. This chapter requires you to listen very carefully to nuances in the language. 
  By Unit 3 you will already notice progress in your abilities to speak and understand Japanese. The spoken translation is followed by two repetitions in Japanese at a completely natural speed. While you are learning to process naturally spoken Japanese, Units 3 and 4 will help you memorise new vocabulary and full sentences. 
  In Unit 5 you can test yourself on how much you have learned. If you are having difficulties, we suggest you revisit the listening, speaking, or memorisation section of Units 1, 2 3 or 4, according to what you need more help with. 
  Topics covered in this book: 
  1. Asking about family 
  2. Asking about relationship status 
  3. Expressing frequency 
  4. Talking about spare time activities and hobbies 
  5. Using quantifiers/determiners 
  6. Talking about preference 
  7. Talking about abilities 
  8. Talking about location of places 
  9. Describing appearance 
  10. Talking about personality 
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  Yamnaya Culture The: The History...

  Editors Charles River

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  After the Mongols rode across the steppes of Asia and Eastern Europe and steppe nomads like the Magyars and Cumans became major military and cultural forces in Europe, the steppe nomads became notorious as foreign marauders who rode the steppes looking for plunder and riches, but they rarely stayed long after they got what they wanted. In reality, these groups represented vanguards of a massive nomadic horde that grew in ferocity and effectiveness as the centuries passed, and they were far more than mindless barbarians interested in violence alone – in fact, contemporary sources reveal they were also interested in diplomacy and eventually integrated with their sedentary neighbors. 
  	The actual history of these groups makes sense considering there were steppe nomads like them that lived in the region thousands of years earlier, back to around the time the Copper Age transitioned into the Bronze Age. The Fertile Crescent of Mesopotamia and the Levant are often referred to as the “cradle of civilization” because those lands hosted some of the world’s earliest complex societies began, but several hundred miles to the north, equally important advances in civilization were happening at the same time. North of the Caucus Mountains near the shores of the Black Sea on the Ukrainian-Russian steppes, the ancestors of Indo-European peoples were domesticating horses, dogs, and inventing the wheel in the late 5th and early 4th millennia BCE. A number of different localized ‘proto’ Indo-European cultures formed at this time that eventually coalesced into the larger culture that is today known as the Yamnaya culture. 
  	From about 3400-2600 BCE, the Yamnaya culture stretched from southeastern Europe into central Asia, greatly affecting other contemporary cultures in Europe and the Near East. The hallmarks of Yamnaya culture adopted by other cultures in the Near East and Europe include the use of metal tools and weapons.

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  Efficiency in Healing - Adapting...

  Brian Gibson

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  Discover the groundbreaking approach to treating Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) in challenging real-world settings with "Efficacy in Healing." Delve into the transformative potential of Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) and uncover the essential elements of DBT skills training, proven to reduce suicidality, self-harm, and psychological distress. This book revolutionizes BPD care with compelling evidence of improved symptomology, quality of life, and reduced health service utilization, offering pragmatic solutions for resource-constrained environments.

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  The Development Trap - How...

  Adam D. Kis

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  A wave of optimism is sweeping through the international aid and development industry, championed by leaders such as Jeffrey Sachs and Jim Yong Kim, who believe that poverty eradication could be within our grasp. Yet in stark opposition come those who believe that all international development intervention is hegemonic, paternalistic, and neocolonialist and must be done away with. In this book, the author argues for a middle ground. Poverty is an entrenched, intractable problem that will never be entirely eradicated. However, if we reorientate our objectives in line with realistic goals that improve the way that poverty is confronted on a smaller scale, we can still continue the fight for meaningful change. Using rigorous scholarship illustrated with vivid storytelling and personal anecdotes from fighting against poverty in the field, The Development Trap argues that we need to make progress against poverty on the micro, rather than the macro scale. Instead of shooting for a single overarching end of poverty, our goals must be modest and reachable.

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