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  Marco Polo - The Voyager Who...

  Kelly Mass

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  Marco Emilio Polo, born in Venice, was a Venetian merchant, explorer, and writer who became renowned for his extraordinary travels across Asia between 1271 and 1295. His journey, which spanned much of the Silk Road, was chronicled in The Travels of Marco Polo, also known as Book of the Marvels of the World and Il Milione (circa 1300). This book introduced Europeans to the vast and mysterious cultures of the East, revealing the immense wealth and size of the Mongol Empire and the Yuan Dynasty in China. It provided the first detailed European account of countries like Persia, India, Japan, and several other regions in Asia, offering a window into worlds previously unknown to the West. 
  Marco's journey was influenced by his family’s mercantile background. His father and uncles, Niccolò and Maffeo Polo, were established traders who had ventured into Asia, meeting the powerful Mongol leader, Kublai Khan. In 1269, after returning to Venice, they reunited with Marco and set off again for Asia. Along the Silk Road, they encountered various cultures and challenges before reaching Cathay, modern-day China, where they were welcomed by Kublai Khan’s court. The Khan was impressed with Marco’s intelligence and demeanor, appointing him as his foreign emissary. This role allowed Marco to undertake diplomatic missions across the Mongol Empire and beyond, traveling to places such as Burma, India, Sri Lanka, and Indonesia.

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  Recovery from Narcissistic Abuse...

  Emily C. Walker

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  Are you trapped in a cycle of toxic relationships? Feeling manipulated or constantly doubting your reality? Unsure if you're the one at fault? Discover the strength to break free and find healing. 
  "Recovery from Narcissistic Abuse, Gaslighting, and Codependency: Guide to Overcome Trauma, Toxic Relationships & Anxiety for Women" is your essential roadmap to understanding, confronting, and ultimately overcoming the shadows of narcissistic abuse and manipulation. This audiobook delves deep into the intricacies of narcissistic personalities, the chilling tactics they employ, and the subconscious effects they have on their victims. More importantly, it will guide you through the steps of recognizing harmful patterns, rebuilding your self-worth, and setting boundaries for future relationships. Designed specifically for women, this guide empowers its listeners with knowledge, strategies, and heartfelt advice, acting as a beacon of hope in what might seem like a never-ending night. It's time to reclaim your life, your trust in yourself, and your peace of mind.

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  Master of Emotional Blackmail -...

  Christopher Kingler

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  Are you still struggling with the effects of an abusive relationship? 
  Do you sometimes think that you are going crazy? Do the people you care about break your heart by making you feel guilty so that you think you know what's going on but then you start doubting your thoughts and feelings? 
  Or are the members of your family, who should have loved and protected you, done nothing but make you feel obligated at every opportunity to make you do what they want? 
  The answer to the above questions, although complex and often confusing, can be given in two words: emotional blackmail. 
  Emotional blackmail is a hidden, aggressive way in which a person close to us threatens, directly or indirectly, to punish us if we fail to meet their expectations. It is a powerful form of manipulation that exploits the people you have close relationships with. 
  WHAT YOU WILL LEARN FROM THIS MANUAL:How to recognise the subtle signs of emotional blackmail and never fall into the trap again.How to recognise toxic personalities and walk away from them.The various types of blackmail and techniques that blackmailers use on a daily basis to drive you crazy.How to break the chains of blackmail and defend yourself from their attacksAttachment and co-dependency patterns to enable you to understand where all this hell began.How to heal and get out of this harmful spiral once and for all. 
  If you think that you have had enough of this sickening pain of blackmail, fear, guilt, obligation, shame and other twisted mind games, do yourself a favour. Take a deep breath, relax that knot in your stomach and take this book. It will protect you for life, and, more importantly, it will show you how the invisible chain that binds you to your "blackmailer" can be broken

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  Lieutenant General James...

  F. Gregory Toretta

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  Lieutenant-General James Longstreet, commander of the First Corps of the Army of Northern Virginia, was a brilliant tactician and strategist. Prior to the Civil War there were many technological developments, of which the rifled musket and cannon, rail transport, and the telegraph were a few. Longstreet adapted to these technological changes and the disparity between the belligerents making recommendations on how the war should be fought. Unfortunately, his advice was not heeded and given the weight it deserved. In contrast to many other southern generals, Longstreet advocated for defensive warfare, using entrenchments and trying to maneuver the enemy to assault his position, conserving manpower, resources, and supplies. 
   
   
   
  Longstreet was a pragmatic and methodical general and had his suggestions been utilized there would have been a better outcome for the South. Many historians and biographers have misunderstood Longstreet and his motives, not focusing on the total picture. This work offers a fresh and unique perspective on Lieutenant-General James Longstreet and the Civil War. This narrative takes a new viewpoint of the Civil War and the generals who tailored their designs to pursue the war, analyzes Longstreet's views of the generals and the tactics and strategy they employed, and examines why Longstreet proposed and urged a new type of warfare.

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  Bombing Hitler's Hometown - The...

  Mike Croissant

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  In April 1945, Linz was one of Nazi Germany's most vital assets. It was a crucial transportation hub and communications center, with railyards brimming with war materiel destined for the front lines. Linz was also the town Hitler claimed as home and had long intended to remake as the cultural capital of Europe, filling its planned Fuehrermuseum with world-famous art stolen from his conquered territories. 
   
   
    
  Inevitably, Linz was also one of the most heavily defended targets remaining in Europe. The airmen of the Fifteenth Air Force were a mix of seasoned veterans and newcomers. As their mission was unveiled in the predawn hours of April 25th, audible groans and muffled expletives passed many lips. The reality of that mission would prove more brutal than any imagined. 
   
   
    
  Drawing on interviews with dozens of America's last surviving World War II veterans, as well as previously unpublished sources, Mike Croissant compellingly relates one of the war's last truly untold stories—a gripping chronicle of warfare, the death of Nazi Germany, and the beginning of the Cold War. It is also a timeless tale of courage and terror, loss and redemption, humanity and savagery.

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  Black Folk - The Roots of the...

  Blair L.M. Kelley

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  There have been countless books, articles, and televised reports in recent years about the almost mythic "white working class," a tide of commentary that has obscured the labor, and even the very existence, of entire groups of working people, including everyday Black workers. In this brilliant corrective, Black Folk, acclaimed historian Blair LM Kelley restores the Black working class to the center of the American story. 
   
   
   
  Spanning two hundred years—from one of Kelley's earliest known ancestors, an enslaved blacksmith, to the essential workers of the Covid-19 pandemic—Black Folk highlights the lives of the laundresses, Pullman porters, domestic maids, and postal workers who established the Black working class as a force in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Taking jobs white people didn't want and confined to segregated neighborhoods, Black workers found community in intimate spaces, from stoops on city streets to the backyards of washerwomen, where multiple generations labored from dawn to dusk, talking and laughing in a space free of white supervision. As millions of Black people left the violence of the American South for the promise of a better life in the North and West, these networks of resistance and joy sustained early arrivals and newcomers alike and laid the groundwork for organizing for better jobs, better pay, and equal rights.

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