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  Inca Empire for Kids The: A...

  Captivating History

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  Get ready for a journey into the mountains of South America! 
  Grab your investigative tools, and get ready to meet the Inca people. They were the biggest civilization in the Americas during their time, so how did they fall so quickly to the Spanish conquistadors? Dive into this audiobook to learn more about the Inca Empire in a fun, up-to-date journey through its history. 
  The Incas existed around the same time as the Aztecs and the Maya, but archaeologists are still working to uncover their secrets. They have already told us so much about this mysterious civilization, and this audiobook uncovers those secrets. 
  For example, did you know the Incas never developed a system of writing? That meant that everything had to be told orally and just remembered! In this audiobook, you will learn many more facts about the Inca Empire, including:How llamas saved the people from the Great FloodA temple completely covered in goldPachacuti, the first Inca emperorWho built Machu Picchu and the most recent theories about why it was builtWhat kind of animal Cuzco was shaped likeA civil war between two brothersThe tribes before the IncasHow the Spanish conquered the Incas in only a few short yearsTúpac Amaru, the last Inca ruler 
  In history, there is never a dull moment, and this is certainly true of the Incas. Get ready to dive into the biggest civilization in the Americas.

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  Fighting Back - Stan Andrews and...

  Jeffrey Weiss, Craig Weiss

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  Fighting Back is the story of Stan Andrews, an assimilated American Jew and World War II veteran who became one of the first fighter pilots in the history of the Israeli Air Force. 
   
   
   
  In 1948, Stan Andrews left a comfortable postwar life in Los Angeles to travel to the war-torn Middle East, where a four-front Arab invasion threatened to destroy the newly-declared State of Israel. There he joined the Israeli Air Force and became one of its first fighter pilots. Andrews was an unexpected volunteer for the fight for a Jewish state. He was many things—an artist, writer, assimilated Jew, ladies' man, pilot, and combat veteran of the Pacific War. He had previously been aloof from the struggle for Jewish independence but found himself so roused by the anti-Semitism of 1940s America that he decided to go to Israel and risk everything. Stan made the most of his time in Israel, serving in fighter and bomber squadrons and leaving his mark on an Israeli Air Force that has since become the stuff of legend.

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  American Nation The: A History...

  William MacDonald

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  A Dusty Tomes Audio BookIn Cooperation with Spoken Realms 
  Jacksonian Democracy 1829–1837 by William MacDonald, LLD. Professor of History in Brown University. Published in 1906 by Harper and Brothers. 
  Narrated by Joseph Tabler. This book is in the public domain. It is read ‘as written.' 
  Volume 15 of 27 in The American Nation: A History From Original Sources by Associated Scholars published by Harper Brothers (1904–1918). Edited by Albert Bushnell Hart, Professor of History at Harvard University. 
  In the Editor’s Introduction to the Series: That a new history of the United States is needed, extending from the discovery down to the present time hardly needs a statement. No such comprehensive work by a competent writer is now in existence. Individual writers have treated only limited chronological fields. Meantime there is a rapid increase of published sources and serviceable monographs based on material hitherto unused. On the one side, there is a necessity for an intelligent summarizing of the present knowledge of American history by trained specialists; on the other hand, there is a need for a complete work, written in an untechnical style, which shall serve for the instruction and the entertainment of the general reader. 
  From the Editor’s Introduction to Volume Fifteen: Hardly any year in American history so distinctly marks the transition from one era to another as 1829. The character of Andrew Jackson is so distinct and so aggressive that few writers upon the period can resist the temptation to group the events of his administration around his personality. This temptation Professor MacDonald has resisted. His conception of the period is that it witnessed the fruition of national policies, nearly all of which would have come up and would have divided the nation had there been no Andrew Jackson. At the same time, he shows how that dominant personality determined when and how most of the great questions should arise; and how Jackson hammered out a series of political principles that became the foundation of a new democratic party. 
  From the Author’s Preface: The present narrative has been kept, for the most part, strictly within the limits of the eight years of Jackson’s administration. It has not, however, been possible in all cases to avoid summarizing the early course of movements having important development within this period, though I have tried to avoid undue overlapping. The subject of slavery is, by the plan of the series, excluded altogether. As I am not writing a life of Jackson, but an account of his time, many personal details have also been omitted. 
  The volume is, in part, the outcome of special studies, of which the fruit has been presented in lectures given in the ordinary course of instruction at Bowdoin College and Brown University, and to summer classes at Harvard, Cornell, and the University of Chicago.  
  Editor’s IntroductionAuthor’s PrefaceI. The United States in the Thirties (1829–1837)II. Early Public Life of Jackson (1767–1823)III. Election of 1828 (1824–1829)IV. The Beginning of Personal Politics (1829–1837)V. Tariff and Nullification (1816–1829)VI. The Great Debate on the Constitution (1829–1830)VII. The Bank of the United States (1823–1832)VIII. Internal Improvements (1796–1837)IX. Nullification in South Carolina (1829–1833)X. Indian Affairs (1825–1837)XI. Election of 1832 (1830–1833)XII. Foreign Affairs under Jackson (1829–1837)XIII. Removal of the Deposits (1832–1837)XIV. Changes and Reforms (1829–1837)XV. The States in Jackson’s Time (1829–1837)XVI. Public Lands and the Specie Circular (1829–1837)XVII. The Election of 1836 (1836–1837)XVIII. The Personality of Jackson 
  Dusty Tomes Audio Books are public domain books retrieved from the ravages of time. Available for the first time in this format for your pleasure and consideration. 
  Narrator’s Note: I read only as written. These old books were once solid sellers for bookmen of their time. The

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  Testing Education - A Teacher's...

  Kathy Greeley

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  Since the 2002 implementation of No Child Left Behind, the American public education system has been fundamentally changed. Excessive testing, standardized curriculums, destructive demands on children, corporate-­style evaluations, and top-­down mandates have become the norm. In response, record numbers of demoralized educators have quit, and millions of students have been left educationally impoverished. This troubling transformation has been exhaustively critiqued by scholars and commentators. Yet one crucial voice has been missing. 
   
   
   
  In Testing Education, Kathy Greeley recounts the impact of education reform from a teacher's point of view. Based on a teaching career ranging nearly forty years, Greeley details how schools went from learning communities infused with excitement, intellectual stimulation, and joy to sterile spaces of stress, intimidation, and fear. In this ultimately hopeful memoir, Greeley asks us to learn from the past to reimagine the future of public education.

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  Krsna Your Eternal Friend

  Prana Govinda Das

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  Noted internationally known Self-help advocate and teacher of devotional yoga Prana Govinda Das was born in Liverpool, England in 1968 admittedly a pretty good year for all things bright and beautiful. He says, "From as early as I can remember I had a unquenchable thirst for knowledge, and a desire to understand the true nature of man and this world we live in. I was also always seeking out people who could answer all the questions I had about life, the universe and everything." After studying film production in the early nineties Prana was able to fulfill his lifelong desire to travel to India. admittedly his first trip changed his life completely and forever. "At that point," He recalls, "my thirst for material knowledge turned to desire to understand the spiritual side of life. For the next six years I returned frequently to, where I studied many different paths of Hinduism, Buddhism and other forms of yoga and meditation. However, even after learning and experiencing so much I was still left incomplete." in 2001 during the young man's sixth trip to India, he travelled to Vrindavan, a holy town associated with Lord Krishna south of Delhi. It was there he met his spiritual guide, and mentor Srila Bhaktivedanta Naryana Goswami. Some twenty years on, Prana has been resident in his teacher's temples all over the world, particularly India, Australia, America, and Europe. Welcome then to the inspirational, engrossing, all-inclusive teachings of Prana Govinda Das.

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  On Our Way Home from the...

  Sonya Bilocerkowycz

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  In 2014 Sonya Bilocerkowycz is a tourist at a deadly revolution. At first she is enamored with the Ukrainians' idealism, which reminds her of her own patriotic family. But when the romantic revolution melts into a war with Russia, she becomes disillusioned, prompting a return home to the US and the diaspora community that raised her. As the daughter of a man who studies Ukrainian dissidents for a living, the granddaughter of war refugees, and the great-granddaughter of a gulag victim, Bilocerkowycz has inherited a legacy of political oppression. But what does it mean when she discovers a missing page from her family's survival story—one that raises questions about her own guilt? 
   
   
   
  In these linked essays, Bilocerkowycz invites listeners to meet a swirling cast of post-Soviet characters, including a Russian intelligence officer who finds Osama bin Laden a few weeks after 9/11; a Ukrainian poet whose nose gets broken by Russian separatists; and a long-lost relative who drives a bus into the heart of Chernobyl. On Our Way Home from the Revolution muddles our easy distinctions between innocence and culpability, agency and fate.

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