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  Cyrus the Great

  Jacob Abbott

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  History of Cyrus the Great (1850) is a popular biographical book by American writer Jacob Abbott. It chronicles the life of Cyrus II of Persia, the legendary founder of the ancient Achaemenid Empire. Written as part of the Makers of History series, the text makes ancient history accessible through engaging storytelling.    Core Focus of the Book:    Abbott's biography details the life of Cyrus from his youth to his sweeping conquests across the ancient world:    • Early Life & Rise: Covers his birth, royal upbringing in the Median court, and subsequent rebellion to unite the Medes and Persians.    • Major Campaigns: Details his military conquests against King Croesus of Lydia and the siege of Babylon.    • Legacy: Highlights Cyrus's reputation for religious tolerance, humane governance, and his famous decree allowing the exiled Jewish people to return to Jerusalem.

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  State looters Again and again

  Philippe Pascot

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  On September 15, 2017, in front of millions of television viewers, Emmanuel Macron, with François Bayrou, his Keeper of the Seals at the time, delivered his first lie: “It is now impossible to be elected when you have a B2 criminal record”. Nothing could be further from the truth: in 2025, it is still possible to stand for election and be elected after having been convicted by the courts, whereas there are 396 jobs requiring a clean criminal record. Ten years after the best-seller Pilleurs d'État (State Looters), which sold 120,000 copies, Philippe Pascot takes stock of the progress and setbacks in French politics, listing all the legal abuses still available to the political class: exorbitant salaries and associated expenses, tax exemptions, multiple pensions, fictitious employment, exceptional justice, show trials, bogus declarations of interest and activities, and so many other little arrangements between friends... For Philippe Pascot, the findings are indisputable: “Behind a declared desire for transparency and moralization in the political sphere, our elected representatives continue to nurture their own interests through laws that are less and less comprehensible, in order to escape criminal prosecution and drape themselves in a circumstantial innocence. ”

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  Asylum - Inside Grangegorman

  Brendan Kelly

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  In 1814, the Richmond Lunatic Asylum at Grangegorman in Dublin
  started an extraordinary programme of asylum building across Ireland,
  aimed at alleviating the suffering of people with mental illness who were
  homeless, in prison, or confined in appalling circumstances.
  By the mid-twentieth century, Ireland had proportionately more people in
  'mental hospitals' than any other country in the world. On a given night,
  the number of people in Ireland's psychiatric hospitals was more than
  double those in all our other institutions put together: prisons, laundries,
  mother and baby homes, industrial schools, orphanages.
  What was the life of a patient in an asylum really like?

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  A Very Short History of the...

  Ilan Pappe

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  An indispensable guide to understanding the Israel–Palestine conflict, and how we might yet still find a way out of it. 
   
   
   
  "Ilan Pappe is the most original, radical and hard-hitting of Israel's 'new historians.'" —Avi Shlaim, author of Three Worlds 
   
   
   
  The devastation of 7 October 2023 and the horrors that followed astounded the world. But the Israel–Palestine conflict didn't start on 7 October. It didn't start in 1967 either, when Israel occupied the West Bank, or in 1948 when the state of Israel was declared. It started in 1882, when the first Zionist settlers arrived in what was then Ottoman Palestine. Ilan Pappe untangles the history of two peoples, now sharing one land. Going back to the founding fathers of Zionism, Pappe expertly takes us through the twists and turns of international policy towards Israel–Palestine, Palestinian resistance to occupation, and the changes taking place in Israel itself.

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  Hindsight - In Search of Lost...

  Jenna Watt

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  "Essential reading for lovers of the Great outdoors" —Roger Cox, Scotsman magazine 
   
   
   
  Longlisted for the 2022 Highland Book Prize 
   
   
   
  In 2019, Jenna Watt took part in the stalking of a hind on the vast Highland estate of Corrour: part of an immersive attempt to understand the ideas that lie behind 'rewilding', and what it means emotionally and physically to participate in Scotland's deer cull. Piece by piece and chapter by chapter she unravels the story of that one day spent hunting the hind, interlaced with her discovery that her ancestors were deer stalkers, game keepers, and ghillies on a Highland estate, who once took part in increasingly controversial land practices like muirburn and species persecution. 
   
   
   
  This exploration leads her into the complex and often conflict-ridden world of the rewilding movement. 
   
   
   
  In the process, Jenna comes to better understand the meaning of 'wildness', the shifting baselines of 'rewilding', and, in a world beset by climate change and species extinction, how to cope, both as an individual and as a society, with the concept of ecological grief.

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  Sumerians - The History of...

  Kelly Mass

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  This book contains 2 topics, which are: 
  1 - Sumerians: The Sumerians were the people from Sumer, the first recognized society in the historic area of southern Mesopotamia (now southern Iraq), developed throughout the 6th and 5th centuries BC throughout the Chalcolithic and early Bronze Ages. In addition to age-old Egypt, the Caral-Supe culture, the Indus Valley civilization, the Minoan civilization, and age-old China, it is also one of the world's early civilizations. Sumerian farmers who lived along the Tigris and Euphrates valleys grew a great deal of grain and other items, which allowed them to establish metropolitan towns. Before 3000 BC, there was proto-writing. The earliest files date from between 3500 and 3000 BC and are from the cities of Uruk and Jemdet Nasr. 
  2 - Hittites: The Hittites were mentioned in the Bible. They were an Anatolian people that contributed to creating a kingdom in Kussara before 1750 BC, the Kanesh or Nesha kingdom between 1750 and 1650 BC, and finally an empire based upon Hattusa in north-central Anatolia around 1650 BC. Under uppiluliuma I, the empire reached its peak in the mid-14th century BC, when it ruled over much of Anatolia and areas of the northern Levant and Upper Mesopotamia. 
  Between the 15th and 13th centuries BC, the Hattusa Empire, also called the Hittite Empire, defended control of the Near East with the New Kingdom of Egypt, the Middle Assyrian Empire, and the Mitanni Empire. The Middle Assyrian Empire ultimately emerged as the dominant power, took much of the Hittite Empire, and ransacked the rest by Phrygian newbies to the area. The Hittites separated into numerous self-governing Syro-Hittite countries around c. 1180 BC, at the time of the Late Bronze Age collapse, some of which stayed till the 8th century BC before giving up to the Neo-Assyrian Empire.

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