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  World War II: Road to Mass...

  Sachin Naha

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  Welcome to World War II: Road to Mass Destruction – an audiobook that takes you through the key moments before and during World War II. Starting with the Treaty of Versailles in 1919, which set the stage for anger and resentment, this story shows how dictators rose to power in Germany, Italy, and Japan, leading to the start of the war. From Hitler’s early aggressions to the invasion of Poland in 1939, the war spreads across Europe and the world. You’ll hear about important events like the fall of France, the Battle of Britain, and the attack on Pearl Harbor, along with the terrible events of the Holocaust. This audiobook gives you a clear, simple look at the major moments that shaped the conflict and the world’s fight for freedom. 

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  Cleopatra’s Needles - The Lost...

  PhD Bob Brier

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  In the half-century between 1831 and 1881 three massive obelisks left Egypt for new lands. Prior to these journeys, the last large obelisk moved was the Vatican obelisk in 1586—one of the great engineering achievements of the Renaissance. Roman emperors moved more than a dozen, but left no records of how they did it. The nineteenth-century engineers entrusted with transporting the obelisks across oceans had to invent new methods, far from certain that they would work. As the three obelisks, bound for Paris, London, and New York, sailed towards their new homes, the world held its breath. Newspapers reported the obelisks' daily progress, complete with illustrations of the heroic deeds of the engineers and crews struggling under nearly impossible conditions. When the obelisks arrived safely in their new homes, bands played Cleopatra's Needle Waltz and silver obelisk pencils dangled from fashionable ladies' necks. 
   
   
   
  This turbulent era, caught up in obelisk mania, is recreated by Bob Brier in all its glory. Amid tales of engineering dexterity and naval endurance, the individuals involved in transporting the obelisks and receiving them in their future homes are brought to life through their letters, diaries, and newspaper articles. This book will fascinate all those interested in Egypt, its iconic monuments, and the history of great endeavor.

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  The Wounds Are the Witness -...

  Yolanda Pierce

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  From celebrated scholar Dr. Yolanda Pierce comes this indelible meditation on Black faith, suffering, hope, and the healing possibilities of justice, written in the venerable tradition of James Cone and Kelly Brown Douglas. 
    
  What do we do with wounds—our own, others', and a nation's? We can turn away, avert our gaze. We can make a spectacle of suffering. Or like the doubting disciple who longed to touch Jesus's side, we can acquaint ourselves with the wounds: both the story they tell and the healing they prefigure. 
    
  In The Wounds Are the Witness, Yolanda Pierce, dean of Vanderbilt University Divinity School and author of In My Grandmother's House, weaves together her own memories, vignettes from Black life, and scenes from scripture, especially the passion of Christ. To work for liberation in a broken world, we cannot look away from crucified flesh. Bones from the Middle Passage, GI Bill benefits denied to Black veterans, women inmates shackled while giving birth: we must take all such wounds seriously. They testify to both the pain and the faith of a people. 
    
  With the lyrical eye of a poet and the moral precision of a preacher, Pierce casts readers into the astounding story of God's healing. From the curative powers of a spiderweb to the work of justice in history, politics, medicine, higher education, and the Black church, Pierce asks: Where are the remedies for the battered and broken? What does accountability look like? Is there any cure? 
    
  Healing takes time, Pierce writes, and even the wounds of the risen Christ do not immediately close. When the wounds become the witness, we find a faith reimagined and a hope transfigured. They tell the truth: about the extent of the injury and the extraordinary work of healing.

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  Imitation - The Basics

  Naomi Van Bergen, Bertjan...

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  Imitation: The Basics is an engaging introduction to the topic of imitation behavior in humans, providing a summary of existing scientific research on imitation, covering everything from examples of imitation across each developmental stage to animal imitation such as monkeys imitating each other. 
   
   
   
  The authors argue that imitation forms the foundation of long-lasting relationships, including those between children and parents, as well as intimate partners. Structured to resemble a human lifetime, chapters explore the reasons behind why people imitate, and address imitation across all phases of life, starting from infancy, childhood, adolescence, adulthood and ending with late adulthood. The authors describe characteristic forms of imitation that occur in these life stages and provide answers to the following important questions: Who do humans imitate? Who is more likely to imitate others? What kind of behaviors do humans imitate? Is there a dark side of imitation? When do humans imitate each other? And are there cultural differences in imitation? 
   
   
   
  Written in a clear and accessible style, this book is perfect for undergraduate students of social psychology, developmental psychology and neuroscience, as well as professionals, academics and any general listeners interested in research about human social behavior.

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  Leif Eriksson: A short biography...

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  Leif Eriksson, Viking and first European on American soil: Life and work in a short biography! Everything you need to know, brief and concise. Infotainment, education and entertainment at its best!

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  The Communal Heart - A Return to...

  Claudia Dommaschk

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  Belonging is remembered, together. 
  We are living in a time of profound fragmentation—within ourselves, between one another, and across the very systems meant to hold us together. In the midst of this unraveling, many of us feel the ache for belonging without knowing how to return to it. 
  Beneath this experience lies a deeper crisis, not simply of politics or technology, but of relationship itself. We have become highly skilled at optimizing, managing, and performing. Yet in narrowing our attention toward efficiency and control, we have sacrificed the very presence that allows trust to grow. 
  The Communal Heart offers a different starting point. Rather than prescribing quick fixes or reinforcing familiar self-improvement narratives, this book invites readers into a relational understanding of reality, one rooted in presence, attunement, and the quiet intelligence that emerges when we learn to meet life as it is rather than as we wish it to be. 
  Drawing on clinical experience, neuroscience, and embodied practice, Claudia Dommaschk shows how the divisions we see in today's culture mirror a subtle split within ourselves. As we begin the work of integration, something steadier becomes possible: relationships can withstand tension, communities become grounded in dignity, and a deeper sense of connection takes hold, even in a world pulling us apart. 
  This is not a call to agree more. It is an invitation to relate differently and, in doing so, to remember that belonging has always been there, waiting to welcome us home.

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