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  Canadian History Stories: 50...

  Ahoy Publications

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  Join us in these captivating tales of significant events and interesting characters from Canada’s past! 
  Do you have a keen interest in Canadian history? 
  Do you want to learn about the historical figures and events that laid the foundations for modern-day Canada? 
  Are you looking for a guide that appreciates the diversity and complexity of Canadian history? 
  From indigenous beginnings and European explorations through Confederation and modern challenges – Canada has seen its share of diverse cultural, social, and political events – and this audiobook will guide you through it all. 
  In this audiobook, you will:Dive into the background of Canadian Indigenous communities.Learn about the role French explorer Jacques Cartier played in Canadian history.Explore the past of the Huron-Wendat people, their society, and their culture.Uncover the roots of French-Canadian identity, including their unique cultural heritage, language, and religion.Gain a better understanding of the Canadian Confederation from enchanting stories.Understand the excitement, challenges, and impacts of the Klondike Fever era.Learn about Canada’s pivotal role and sacrifice in World War I.Explore riveting stories from the Avro Arrow Saga.Understand the public reaction resolution, as well as the immediate and long-term impact the October Crisis had on Canadian society, law, and politics.Read about how human rights and legislative change in Canada have evolved over recent years. 
  This audiobook brings together captivating narratives from different eras of the country’s history by illuminating key events and influential figures and offering a broad yet intimate understanding of Canada’s evolution. 
  Click on the “add to cart” now to begin your journey throughout Canadian history!

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  The Kingdom of Kush - Nubian...

  Rolf Hedger

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  The Kingdom of Kush, an ancient African civilization, flourished along the Nile River in what is now modern-day Sudan. This powerful kingdom played a crucial role in the history of northeastern Africa, often interacting with its northern neighbor, Egypt. The land of Kush was known for its rich natural resources, strategic location, and unique cultural identity, which set it apart from other civilizations of the time. 
  Geographically, Kush was centered in the region known as Nubia, a stretch of land between the first and sixth cataracts of the Nile. This location provided fertile lands for agriculture, supported by the annual flooding of the river. Unlike Egypt, which relied heavily on the predictable flooding of the Nile, the Kushites also adapted to drier conditions, developing irrigation techniques to sustain their crops. The region was abundant in valuable resources such as gold, ivory, ebony, and exotic animal skins, making it an important trade hub in the ancient world. These resources attracted merchants from Egypt, the Mediterranean, and even as far as the Middle East, contributing to the kingdom's economic strength. 
  Kushite civilization was heavily influenced by its relationship with Egypt, but it also maintained distinct cultural and political traditions. Early Kushite settlements date back to around 2500 BCE, and by the time of the Egyptian Middle and New Kingdoms, Kush had grown into a formidable power. Egyptian pharaohs often sought control over Nubia due to its wealth, leading to periods of conquest and integration. However, Kush was not merely a passive recipient of Egyptian influence. It developed its own identity, blending Egyptian religious beliefs with native Nubian traditions, which would later be reflected in Kushite art, architecture, and burial practices.

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  ParaPro Assessment Preparation...

  Emilly Morton

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  Beginning to stress over your ParaPro Evaluation? Unwind... All that you want to be aware to be the image of quiet on Test Day is here. 
  You've proactively distinguished that to hang out in the serious field of the paraprofessional, you really want the ParaPro Appraisal added to your repertoire… 
  … Or on the other hand maybe you've as of late gotten some work that expects you to pass it before you start work. 
  One way or another, there's just something single you want to do presently: Practice! 
  The specialty of finishing any test is to know basically everything there is to know about the topic… yet to know the test, as well. 
  Parapro Evaluation Arrangement 2022-2023 is your solution to acing the test and conveying what you've realized forward until the end of your profession. 
  Also, considerably more. 
  Know what's in store upon the arrival of the test, and a portion of the fight is as of now won… Join that with designated practice, and you'll have information that you can depend on to consider you through a fruitful vocation to be a paraprofessional. 
  If you have any desire to find the distinct advantage to ensure you step into that test community feeling sure and ready, then, at that point, you really want this book recording today!

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  Passport to Shame - From Asian...

  MA Sam Louie

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  A psychotherapist's candid memoir of addiction and recovery, exploring the intersection of Asian culture, mental health, and assimilating into American culture as an ethnic minority. 
   
   
   
  Sam Louie grew up torn between cultures as part of a first-generation Chinese immigrant family from Hong Kong living in a predominantly African American neighborhood in the United States. He experienced the duality of existence with the tension of two vastly different worldviews, his identity intertwined with the country he lives in and his ancestral ties. What traditions and cultural beliefs get preserved, what gets discarded, and what gets lost in translation? Beneath it all was the presence of three generations of addiction, trauma, and shame. 
   
   
   
  In this insightful book, he documents the challenges of immigrant experiences and how maladaptive coping mechanisms in the form of compulsive behaviors were a means to gain a sense of adequacy due to the cultural tide of shame and ostracism within his own ethnic heritage and the world. 
   
   
   
  Louie's journey of resiliency in navigating multiple cultural forces in the face of adversity can give listeners a new understanding of hope, perseverance, and the resources to heal.

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  Thomas Paine - Common Sense and...

  Kelly Mass

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  Thomas Paine was a political activist, theorist, political theorist, and revolutionary who was born in England. He wrote 2 of the most popular handouts at the beginning of the American Revolution, Common Sense (1776) and The American Crisis (1776-- 1783) and helped motivate patriots to announce independence from Great Britain in 1776. His thoughts echoed the Knowledge's global human rights concepts. 
  Paine, who was born in Thetford, Norfolk, relocated to the British American groups with the support of Benjamin Franklin in 1774, in the nick of time to participate in the American Revolution. Practically each rebel read (or heard to a reading of) his 47-page brochure Good sense, which was proportionally the very popular American title of perpetuity and catalyzed the defiant need for independence from Great Britain. The American Crisis was a pamphlet series that promoted for revolution. Paine spent the most of the 1790s in France, where he ended up being deeply immersed in the Reign of terror. He wrote Rights of Man (1791), which was partially a defense to the challengers of the Reign of terror. In 1792, he was tried and found guilty in England for seditious libel in his lack for his attacks on Anglo-Irish conservative author Edmund Burke. 
  Thomas Paine has certainly left his mark. He’s become a historical figure worth remembering. Let’s explore more about his life and mission in this book.

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  China - Fragile Superpower

  Susan L. Shirk

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  Susan L. Shirk, a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State responsible for China, knows many of today's Chinese rulers personally and has studied them for three decades. She offers invaluable insight into how they think—and what they fear. In this revealing book, you will see the world through the eyes of men like President Hu Jintao and former President Jiang Zemin. We discover a fragile communist regime desperate to survive in a society turned upside down by miraculous economic growth and a stunning new openness to the greater world. Theirs is a regime afraid of its own citizens, and this fear motivates many of their decisions when dealing with the US and other foreign nations. In particular, the fervent nationalism of the Chinese people, combined with their passionate resentment of Japan, and attachment to Taiwan, have made relations with these two regions a minefield. It is here, Shirk concludes, in the tangled interactions between Japan, Taiwan, China, and the United States, that the greatest danger lies. 
   
   
   
  Shirk argues that rising powers such as China tend to provoke wars in large part because other countries mishandle them. Unless we understand China's brittle internal politics and the fears that motivate its leaders, we face the very real possibility of avoidable conflict with China.

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