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Scourge of Henry VIII: The Life of Marie de Guise
Mary, Queen of Scots continues to intrigue both historians and the general public-but the story of her mother, Marie de Guise, is much less well known. A political power in her own right, she was born into the powerful and ambitious Lorraine family, spending her formative years at the dazzling, licentious court of François I. Although briefly courted by Henry VIII, she instead married his nephew, James V of Scotland, in 1538. James's premature death four years later left their six-day-old daughter, Mary, as queen, and presented Marie with the formidable challenge of winning the support of the Scottish people and protecting her daughter's threatened birthright. Content until now to remain in the background and play the part of the obedient wife, Marie spent the next eighteen years effectively governing Scotland-devoting her considerable intellect, courage, and energy to safeguarding her daughter's inheritance by using a deft mixture of cunning, charm, determination, and tolerance. This biography, from the author of Marie Antoinette: An Intimate History, tells the story and offers a fresh assessment of this most fascinating and underappreciated of sixteenth-century female rulers.
Melanie Clegg (Author), Anne Flosnik (Narrator)
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The Widow Washington: The Life of Mary Washington
The Widow Washington is the first life of Mary Ball Washington, George Washington's mother, based on archival sources. Her son's biographers have, for the most part, painted her as self-centered and crude, a trial and an obstacle to her oldest child. But the records tell a very different story. Mary Ball, the daughter of a wealthy planter and a formerly indentured servant, was orphaned young and grew up working hard, practicing frugality and piety. Stepping into Virginia's upper class, she married an older man, the planter Augustine Washington, with whom she had five children before his death eleven years later. As a widow deprived of most of her late husband's properties, Mary struggled to raise her children, but managed to secure them places among Virginia's elite. In her later years, she and her wealthy son George had a contentious relationship, often disagreeing over money, with George dismissing as imaginary her fears of poverty and helplessness.Yet Mary Ball Washington had a greater impact on George than mothers of that time and place usually had on their sons. Martha Saxton's The Widow Washington is a necessary and deeply insightful corrective, telling the story of Mary's long, arduous life on its own terms, and not treating her as her son's satellite.
Martha Saxton (Author), Laural Merlington (Narrator)
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An illuminating, elegant history of New York City, told through the stories of the women who made it the most exciting and influential metropolis in the world Read any history of New York City and you will read about men. You will read about men who were political leaders and men who were activists and cultural tastemakers. These men have been lauded for generations for creating the most exciting and influential city in the world. But that's not the whole story. The Women Who Made New York reveals the untold stories of the phenomenal women who made New York City the cultural epicenter of the world. Many were revolutionaries and activists, like Zora Neale Hurston and Audre Lorde. Others were icons and iconoclasts, like Fran Lebowitz and Grace Jones. There were also women who led quieter private lives but were just as influential, such as Emily Warren Roebling, who completed the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge when her engineer husband became too ill to work. Paired with striking, contemporary illustrations by artist Hallie Heald, The Women Who Made New York offers a visual sensation--one that reinvigorates not just New York City's history but its very identity.
Julie Scelfo (Author), Tracey Leigh (Narrator)
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A preeminent music historian and critic presents a global history of music from the bottom up Histories of music overwhelmingly suppress stories of the outsiders and rebels who created musical revolutions and instead celebrate the mainstream assimilators who borrowed innovations, diluted their impact, and disguised their sources. In Music: A Subversive History, historian Ted Gioia reclaims the story of music for the riffraff, insurgents, and provocateurs. Gioia tells a four-thousand-year history of music as a global source of power, change, and upheaval. He shows how social outcasts have repeatedly become trailblazers of musical expression: slaves and their descendants, for instance, have repeatedly reinvented music, from ancient times all the way to the jazz, reggae, and hip-hop sounds of the current day. Music: A Subversive History is essential reading for anyone interested in the meaning of music, from Sappho to the Sex Pistols to Spotify.
Ted Gioia (Author), Jamie Renell (Narrator)
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Young Turks, The: The History and Legacy of the Political Movement that Attempted to Reform the Otto
In August 2017, Turkey's President Recip Tayyip Erdogan gave a directive to the Foreign Ministry to go into ravaged Syria and rescue an 87-year-old Turkish man stranded in Damascus by the civil war. The elderly gentleman lived his life simply and quietly. He disliked drawing attention to himself, and he was grieving for his wife who had just died. The man called himself Dundar Abdulkerim Osmanoglu, but many affixed the title Sehzade ("Prince") to his name, for he was Head of the imperial House of Osman and heir to the defunct throne of the Ottoman Empire. His ancestors had created an Empire that had lasted for over 600 years and caused the greatest rulers of both the Muslim East and the Christian West to tremble. When studying the fall of the Ottoman Empire, historians have argued over the breaking point that saw a leading global power slowly become a decadent empire, but to men like Erdogan, the long agony of the "sick man of Europe," an expression used by the Tsar of Russia to depict the falling Ottoman Empire, blinds people to its incredible power and history. Overall, the history of the dissolution of the empire can be defined as a race between the empire's growing "illness" on one side (the Ottomans' inability to appease and federate the various people within its territory) and constant attempts to find a cure in the form of broad reforms. As this all suggests, the story of the Young Turks and the last years of the Ottoman Sultanate is a complex and interesting one. It is the history of a state struggling to survive against seemingly impossible odds, featuring a long battle for the minds and souls of the inhabitants of a declining empire between nationalism and liberal imperialism. It is a struggle that has produced not only modern Turkey but several states in the Balkans and the Middle East as they exist today. The Young Turks were triumphant, but in many ways it was a Pyrrhic victory.
Charles River Editors (Author), Colin Fluxman (Narrator)
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Este nuevo libro de Nieves Concostrina empieza en el Año de la Pera y llega a nuestros tiempos, pasando, cómo no, por Fernando VII. En estas historias podrá descubrir las consecuencias que trajo la única criadilla del último Austria, saber que fumamos por culpa de Colón, desmitificar el 2 de mayo, conocer que María Cristina de Borbón fue la reina de la corrupción y sorprenderse con la condecoración que Franco le plantó a un comunista. Una obra para comprender que en la Historia todo tiempo pasado, además de anterior, fue imperfecto. Grabado en español ibérico (España).
Nieves Conconstrina (Author), Raquel Romero (Narrator)
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Los godos fueron testigos de un periodo asombroso en la crónica mundial. Vieron caer imperios como el romano y levantarse otros como el musulmán, y mientras tanto, edificaban un nuevo estado en suelo hispano llamado a convertirse en uno de los grandes pueblos de nuestra historia. En sus tres siglos de hegemonía lucharon ferozmente por la supervivencia, fueron nómadas bárbaros y saquearon campos y ciudades, siempre buscando un territorio al que llamar patria. Esta es la apasionante aventura ilustrada de los godos. Grabado en español ibérico (España).
Juan Antonio Cebrián (Author), Vicente Quintana (Narrator)
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Marie-Antoinette: The Making of a French Queen
A new look which fundamentally overturns our understanding of this famously 'out of touch' queen Who was the real Marie-Antoinette? She was mistrusted and reviled in her own time, and today she is portrayed as a lightweight incapable of understanding the events that engulfed her. In this new account, John Hardman redresses the balance and sheds fresh light on Marie-Antoinette's story. Hardman shows how Marie-Antoinette played a significant but misunderstood role in the crisis of the monarchy. Drawing on new sources, he describes how, from the outset, Marie-Antoinette refused to prioritize the aggressive foreign policy of her mother, Maria-Theresa, bravely took over the helm from Louis XVI after the collapse of his morale, and, when revolution broke out, listened to the Third Estate and worked closely with repentant radicals to give the constitutional monarchy a fighting chance. For the first time, Hardman demonstrates exactly what influence Marie-Antoinette had and when and how she exerted it.
John Hardman (Author), Jonathan Cowley (Narrator)
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Reminiscences of a Ranger: Early Times in Southern California Adventures and Tales from old Los Ange
Daily gunfights, daily murders, frequent public hangings. Welcome to Los Angeles, California in the 1850’s. This amazing first person account of adventures, revolution history and tales, REMINISCENCES OF A RANGER was written by Major Horace Bell, who was there when it happened and wrote this eyewitness account of Los Angeles’ violent transition from a Mexican Pueblo to an American City. You’ll learn the beginnings and of political scheming and corruption. Bell was witness to the election of the first US Senators and Congressmen from California and saw the original corrupt practices of running for office Among the many stories and tall tales you’ll hear how: *Los Angeles became the Murder Capital of the United States in the 1850’s *A political schemer changed a presidential vote by lying to a parish priest *A woman’s angry curse gave Los Angeles its largest public park *A bunch of foot soldiers, with no enemy to fight, invented California’s Bear flag *An old Spanish Soldier with a 30 year old memory of Spain caused Los Angeles to become a pueblo. *Men bought liquor on Sunday during mass in old Mission San Gabriel. *The gold rush in the North changed Southern California economy *A jury of white gamblers easily voted to hang poor Mexicans *Dozens of Chinese were massacred as a result of misunderstanding. *The old Spanish Californio life was shattered by lawyers. taxes and drought *Americans tried to make money bringing democracy to Nicaragua. *Scalping really meant scalping. *A heroic sea captain saved the passengers of a doomed ship. *Spanish California became part of the Gringo nation REMINISCENCES OF A RANGER describes Southern California in a time of rapid clashes of culture. Los Angeles was established as El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora de Los Angeles September 4, 1781, upsetting the long established Native American culture by imposing Spanish culture and religion. By 1881, only 100 years after Los Angeles was founded by Spain, the entire culture and structure of the city had changed from Native American to a mostly English speaking Eastern American culture. Horace Bell witnessed much of it. Horace Bell’s book, “REMINISCENCES OF A RANGER,” Early Times in Southern California, was self-published in 1881. It is said to be the first book printed and bound in Los Angeles. In fact, there was not enough type at the printers to set the entire book at one time, so the first half was set, printed and then the second half followed. Finally the two halves were combined and the entire book bound. Bell attempted to sell copies himself, once bringing 200 copies to a Los Angeles bookstore and complaining that the bookseller did not charge enough for them. Around 1910, the public rediscovered the book. New railroad lines brought large numbers of people into Los Angeles, evolving the city into a large and important place Chronicles of its early history and culture became valuable and “REMINISCENCES OF A RANGER” was ready to tell its fascinating and uninhibited story lthough it contains some language that would not be appropriate or acceptable today, “REMINISCENCESOF A RANGER” is considered by many as one of the most accurate, albeit flamboyant and irreverent, books of the early history of Los Angeles and California. It is a true story of how Los Angeles became Los Angeles and how California became California. Reminiscences of a Ranger contains 37 chapters, plus an original Afterward With occasional sound effects and music.
Major Horace Bell (Author), Andre Stojka (Narrator)
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The definitive, authorized version of Che's manifesto on revolution - including his final revisions - completed just before his death. It is both an incisive handbook and an invaluable historical source. 'Home will be the open sky...each guerrilla fighter is ready to die not just to defend an idea, but to make that idea a reality.' Ernesto 'Che' Guevara remains one of the world's most iconic political and revolutionary figures. Fascinating to admirers and adversaries alike, he captured the minds of millions with his leadership and his belief in guerrilla warfare as the only effective agent to achieve political change. Here, in his own classic text on revolution, Che draws on his first-hand experience of the Cuban campaign to document all aspects of guerrilla warfare, from its aims to its organization and training. He analyses how in Cuba, against all odds, a small band of dedicated fighters grew in strength with the support of the people to defeat a dictator's army.
Ernesto 'che' Guevara (Author), Jason Mccoy (Narrator)
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The Constitution of the United States
The National Center for Constitutional Studies has issued a special edition copy of The Constitution of the United States that has been proofed word for word against the original Constitution housed in the Archives in Washington, D.C. This audiobook contains The Constitution of the United States (including The Bill of Rights and Amendments 11-27) and The Declaration of Independence. On the front cover there is a picture of George Washington holding a quill in his hand, inviting each of us to pledge our commitment to The Constitution of the United States by maintaining and promoting its standard of liberty for ourselves and our posterity.
Delegates Of The Constitutional Convention (Author), Jason Mccoy (Narrator)
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Creating Residual and Passive Income in Real Estate
The problem that affects almost everyone today is being stuck in a career they hate. People are conditioned to work their lives away for someone else and only get paid for the hour they work.Michael LUNDBERG, an active real estate investor who has created enough passive income to quit his job.This book contains step-by-step training to help you acquire rental properties to allow you to quit your job and be financially free so you will never have to work again. Designed for the newbie or seasoned pro, anyone will learn how they can earn passive income from rental properties and quit their job.
Michael Lundberg (Author), Jason Mccoy (Narrator)
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