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  Mastering the World: The Story...

  GaoYuan

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  Liu Bang can be regarded as a master among emperors. For Li Shimin and Zhu Yuanzhang, who were also emperors, held him in high esteem. Liu Bang grew up in the marketplace. He was neither proficient in writing as a literati nor good at fighting as a warrior. However, under his leadership, he gradually defeated many prominent figures, overthrew Xiang Yu, and brought peace to the whole country. Later, through the hands of others, he got rid of Han Xin, eliminating potential threats. It was he who founded the great Han Empire that lasted for four hundred years. Both Emperor Taizong Li Shimin of the Tang Dynasty and Emperor Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang of the Ming Dynasty, who had planned and conquered the country, gave him extremely high praise. Even Mao Zedong commented that "Liu Bang was a brilliant statesman" and "a very formidable one among the feudal emperors".
  Author Biography：
  The author of the book is a Chinese-American management consultant living in the United States. His books have been widely recognized by the public, and the purchased reviews on online bookstores have exceeded 300,000 five-star reviews. He has authored books such as "The Subconscious Mind", "The Handbook of Cultivating Aura", and "Self-Control", etc.

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  Fall of Rome and Constantinople...

  Charles River Editors

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  For the people of the ancient Mediterranean and beyond, the city of Rome had been a symbol of power for centuries, and entering the early 5th century CE, the Eternal City hadn’t been taken by an enemy force since the Gauls had done it about 800 years earlier, an unheard of period of tranquility in a world wracked with almost constant warfare. 
  	Thus, when the Visigoths, whom the Romans considered uncultured and inferior, took the city of Rome and sacked it in 410, the world was stunned. It made theologians of the newly Christianized empire question God’s plan on Earth, and it encouraged many leading Romans to look east to Constantinople for their future. Indeed, the Western Roman Empire would completely collapse in the late 5th century, less than 70 years after the Visigoths sacked Rome, and just how it went from being a superpower to a poorly led, weak, and vulnerable shadow of its former self has preoccupied historians for centuries.  
  To this day, it remains difficult to trace just when the decline began, but it’s fair to say that the sack of Rome was the result of a number of factors that had been coalescing for many years. 	In the end, the fall of the Roman Empire was not a tale of cataclysmic events that shattered the sprawling power, but the culmination of centuries of internal dissent and decay, combined with growing external threats that led to gradual decline and eventually to the empire’s final destruction.  
  	In terms of geopolitics, perhaps the most seminal event of the Middle Ages was the successful Ottoman siege of Constantinople in 1453. The city had been an imperial capital as far back as the 4th century, when Constantine the Great shifted the power center of the Roman Empire there, effectively establishing two almost equally powerful halves of antiquity’s greatest empire. Constantinople would continue to serve as the capital of the Byzantine Empire even after the Western half of the Roman Empire collapsed.

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  The Making of Black Lives Matter...

  Christopher J. Lebron

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  Started in the wake of George Zimmerman's 2013 acquittal in the death of Trayvon Martin, the #BlackLivesMatter movement has become a powerful and incendiary campaign demanding redress for the brutal and unjustified treatment of black bodies by law enforcement in the United States. The movement is only a few years old, but as Christopher J. Lebron argues in this book, the sentiment behind it is not; the plea and demand that "Black Lives Matter" comes out of a much older and richer tradition arguing for the equal dignity—and not just equal rights—of black people. 
   
   
   
  In this updated edition, The Making of Black Lives Matter presents a condensed and accessible intellectual history of the #BlackLivesMatter movement and expands on the movement's relevancy. This edition includes a new introduction that explores how the movement's core ideas have been challenged, re-affirmed, and re-imagined during the white nationalism of the Trump years, as well as a new chapter that examines the ideas and importance of Angela Davis and Amiri Baraka as significant participants in the Black Power Movement and Black Arts Movement, respectively. Drawing on the work of Davis, Baraka, and other revolutionary black public intellectuals, Lebron clarifies what it means to assert that "Black Lives Matter" when faced with contemporary instances of anti-black law enforcement.

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  Adult Children of Emotionally...

  Shining Mind

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  As a child, we look up to our parents for support, love guidance & protection. They are the guiding wisdom for us to grow healthily in all areas of our lives. However, when your parents are immature. They are incapable of giving you the support you need. Instead, you become the parent they are seeking.  
  Being grown up in this dynamic is a trauma. There are insecurities, a lack of love, and fears of being vulnerable. We develop unhealthy coping mechanisms to deal with our emotions and mental beliefs. This could possibly result in a sabotaging life.  
  In this audiobook, we will Be your personal coach Address the root emotions Letting go of the past Create a new coping mechanism Heal the past traumas Understand our pain & needs Start to put ourselves in the priority Have compassion towards our parents and ourselves Create a new chapter in our life And much more 

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  The Shortest History of Democracy

  John Keane

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  'DEMOCRACY HAS A LONG, EVENTFUL PAST. DOES IT HAVE A FUTURE?The roots of democracy stretch back beyond Athens to Syria- Mesopotamia and the Indian subcontinent, where citizens' assemblies held privilege and power to account over 3,000 years before the French Revolution. In this timely and illuminating new global history, John Keane ('one of the world's leading political thinkers' ,The Times) gets to the heart of a complex, ever-evolving ideal.Today, American-style democracy may appear to be in decline, but Keane shows that this isn't the whole story. In many places, such as Taiwan and Senegal, India and South Africa, distinctly local varieties are coming into being. Yet it's impossible to ignore the proliferation of populist strongmen on every continent: the Putins and the Bolsonaros, the Trumps and Lukashenkos. Is democracy past its sell-by date, as they would have us believe? Or is it time to embrace the true, radical potential of an ancient idea?

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  Weaponizing Non-Human Technology...

  Brian Anderson

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.   
  WEAPONIZING NON-HUMAN TECHNOLOGY: A Groundbreaking Investigation Into The Biggest Cover-Up In American History. When decorated military officers testify under oath about crash retrievals and non-human technology, when intelligence officials risk careers to expose illegal programs, when defense contractors kill disclosure legislation—this isn't science fiction. It's the biggest cover-up in American history.  
  Featured on Apple TV, History Channel, Amazon Prime Video and Hulu! 
  THIS ISN'T ABOUT ALIENS. IT'S ABOUT POWER, MONEY, AND CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS. This isn't about whether extraterrestrial life exists. It's about who controls the technology and who profits from keeping it secret. 
  Meet the Whistleblowers: David Grusch, intelligence officer whose crash retrieval testimony was deemed credible and urgent. Commander David Fravor, Top Gun pilot who witnessed the Tic Tac UAP. Ryan Graves, fighter pilot who encountered UAPs daily. Luis Elizondo, Pentagon official who ran the secret UFO program. Plus Chris Mellon, George Knapp, Ross Coulthart, and more. 
  What This Investigation Reveals: How Special Access UAP Programs operate beyond congressional oversight with billions in untraceable spending. The five observables that define UAP technology. Why Mike Turner and Mike Rogers gutted the UAP Disclosure Act after receiving millions from defense contractors. What's been weaponized from reverse-engineering at Skunk Works. The constitutional crisis of secret programs spending taxpayer money. 
  FOLLOW THE MONEY. FOLLOW THE BLOCKERS. FOLLOW THE TRUTH. Based on sworn congressional testimony exposing financial incentives driving secrecy. Featured in Dan Farah's documentary Age of Disclosure on Amazon Prime Video. The secrecy system is collapsing.

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