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Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire

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This is the story of the greatest empire the world has ever known. Simon Baker charts the rise and fall of the world's first superpower, focusing on six momentous turning points that shaped Roman history. Welcome to Rome as you've never seen it before - awesome and splendid, gritty and squalid.From the conquest of the Mediterranean beginning in the third century BC to the destruction of the Roman ... Read more

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This is the story of the greatest empire the world has ever known. Simon Baker charts the rise and fall of the world's first superpower, focusing on six momentous turning points that shaped Roman history. Welcome to Rome as you've never seen it before - awesome and splendid, gritty and squalid.From the conquest of the Mediterranean beginning in the third century BC to the destruction of the Roman
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The Creative AI Handbook: A Comprehensive Reference Guide to AI-Powered Art, Music, and Writing

by Michael Simon Baker ...

The Creative AI Handbook is a practical, accessible guide to the rapidly evolving world of AI-powered creativity. With nothing more than a few words and the click of a button, today's tools can generate striking images, complete songs, and polished writing—but knowing how to use them makes all the difference.This book bridges the gap between raw technological capability and real creative results. ... Read more

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The Creative AI Handbook is a practical, accessible guide to the rapidly evolving world of AI-powered creativity. With nothing more than a few words and the click of a button, today's tools can generate striking images, complete songs, and polished writing—but knowing how to use them makes all the difference.This book bridges the gap between raw technological capability and real creative results.
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4 CORE: The Universal Teachings of Humanity’s Wisdom Traditions

by Michael Simon Baker ...

Does the ethical heart of the world's great traditions lead to a common human wisdom?In a world increasingly divided along religious and cultural lines, Michael Simon Baker poses a provocative question: What if the world's great wisdom traditions—despite their theological differences—share a core set of ethical teachings that transcend boundaries of time, culture, and belief?Drawing on decades of ... Read more

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Does the ethical heart of the world's great traditions lead to a common human wisdom?In a world increasingly divided along religious and cultural lines, Michael Simon Baker poses a provocative question: What if the world's great wisdom traditions—despite their theological differences—share a core set of ethical teachings that transcend boundaries of time, culture, and belief?Drawing on decades of
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Kindness as a Way of Life - The Transformative Power of Compassion

by Michael Simon Baker ...

You do not need a title, money, influence, or extraordinary talent to offer kindness. You need only willingness, willingness to care, to notice, to pause, to see humanity in places the world overlooks.Kindness as a Way of Life is an invitation to live this way, not perfectly, not saintly, but intentionally. To make kindness not an afterthought but a foundation. To let it shape the way we lead, the ... Read more

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You do not need a title, money, influence, or extraordinary talent to offer kindness. You need only willingness, willingness to care, to notice, to pause, to see humanity in places the world overlooks.Kindness as a Way of Life is an invitation to live this way, not perfectly, not saintly, but intentionally. To make kindness not an afterthought but a foundation. To let it shape the way we lead, the
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Quirks and Smirks: Embracing Humor in Our Nervous Behaviors

by Michael Simon Baker ...

In the realm of quirky behaviors, few things can spark a chuckle quite like the discreet pick. While the act of picking one's nose is often regarded as a taboo, it presents an interesting case study in the intersection of humor and social etiquee. The truth is, many of us have fallen victim to the itch that simply cannot wait until we znd a restroom. Yet, it's how we navigate these moments that ... Read more

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In the realm of quirky behaviors, few things can spark a chuckle quite like the discreet pick. While the act of picking one's nose is often regarded as a taboo, it presents an interesting case study in the intersection of humor and social etiquee. The truth is, many of us have fallen victim to the itch that simply cannot wait until we znd a restroom. Yet, it's how we navigate these moments that
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Leisure Myths and Mythmaking

Edited by Brett Lashua, Simon Baker, Troy Glover ...

This book centralizes powerful leisure stories that may otherwise be understood as myths—sometimes recognized, often less so—that circulate in the field of leisure studies and beyond. In everyday use, a myth perpetuates a popularly held belief that is false or untrue. However, in social and cultural theories, myths are more complex as partial truths that privilege particular versions of a shared ... Read more

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This book centralizes powerful leisure stories that may otherwise be understood as myths—sometimes recognized, often less so—that circulate in the field of leisure studies and beyond. In everyday use, a myth perpetuates a popularly held belief that is false or untrue. However, in social and cultural theories, myths are more complex as partial truths that privilege particular versions of a shared
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How to be a Great Divorced Dad

by Simon Baker & Kirsty Alley ...

Divorced Dads can be Mum and Dad if they have to. And even if they don't want to go that far, many of them want to be the best Dads, despite being separated from their kids. The difficulty for Dads is that there's little understanding of fatherhood until after it happens. To men, it seems that women are pre-programmed to deal with children. Then when they are separated from a child after divorce, ... Read more

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Divorced Dads can be Mum and Dad if they have to. And even if they don't want to go that far, many of them want to be the best Dads, despite being separated from their kids. The difficulty for Dads is that there's little understanding of fatherhood until after it happens. To men, it seems that women are pre-programmed to deal with children. Then when they are separated from a child after divorce,
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Ancient Rome

The Rise and Fall of An Empire

by Simon Baker ...

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17 hours 36 min

This is the story of the greatest empire the world has ever known. Simon Baker charts the rise and fall of the world's first superpower, focusing on six momentous turning points that shaped Roman history. Welcome to Rome as you've never seen it before—awesome and splendid, gritty and squalid.From the conquest of the Mediterranean beginning in the third century BC to the destruction of the Roman ... Read more

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This is the story of the greatest empire the world has ever known. Simon Baker charts the rise and fall of the world's first superpower, focusing on six momentous turning points that shaped Roman history. Welcome to Rome as you've never seen it before—awesome and splendid, gritty and squalid.From the conquest of the Mediterranean beginning in the third century BC to the destruction of the Roman
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Hadrian and the Triumph of Rome

by Anthony Everitt ...

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14 hours 23 min

Born in A.D. 76, Hadrian lived through and ruled during a tempestuous era, a time when the Colosseum was opened to the public and Pompeii was buried under a mountain of lava and ash. Acclaimed author Anthony Everitt vividly recounts Hadrian’s thrilling life, in which the emperor brings a century of disorder and costly warfare to a peaceful conclusion while demonstrating how a monarchy can be ... Read more

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Born in A.D. 76, Hadrian lived through and ruled during a tempestuous era, a time when the Colosseum was opened to the public and Pompeii was buried under a mountain of lava and ash. Acclaimed author Anthony Everitt vividly recounts Hadrian’s thrilling life, in which the emperor brings a century of disorder and costly warfare to a peaceful conclusion while demonstrating how a monarchy can be
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In the Name of Rome

The Men Who Won the Roman Empire

by Adrian Goldsworthy ...

Narrated by Derek Perkins ...

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17 hours 47 min

Adrian Goldsworthy has received wide acclaim for his exceptional writing on the Roman Empire—including high praise from the acclaimed military historian and author John Keegan—and here he offers a new perspective on the Empire by focusing on its greatest generals, including Scipio Africanus, Marius, Pompey, Caesar, and Titus. Each chapter paints a fascinating portrait of a single general, offering ... Read more

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Adrian Goldsworthy has received wide acclaim for his exceptional writing on the Roman Empire—including high praise from the acclaimed military historian and author John Keegan—and here he offers a new perspective on the Empire by focusing on its greatest generals, including Scipio Africanus, Marius, Pompey, Caesar, and Titus. Each chapter paints a fascinating portrait of a single general, offering
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The Rise of Rome

The Making of the World's Greatest Empire

by Anthony Everitt ...

Narrated by Clive Chafer ...

Unabridged

14 hours 18 min

Emerging as a market town from a cluster of hill villages in the eighthand seventh centuries B.C., Rome grew to become the ancient world'spreeminent power. Everitt fashions the story of Rome's rise to gloryinto an erudite book filled with lasting lessons for our time. Hechronicles the clash between patricians and plebeians that defined thepolitics of the Republic. He shows how Rome's shrewd ... Read more

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Emerging as a market town from a cluster of hill villages in the eighthand seventh centuries B.C., Rome grew to become the ancient world'spreeminent power. Everitt fashions the story of Rome's rise to gloryinto an erudite book filled with lasting lessons for our time. Hechronicles the clash between patricians and plebeians that defined thepolitics of the Republic. He shows how Rome's shrewd
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The Crusades

The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land

by Thomas Asbridge ...

Narrated by Derek Perkins ...

Unabridged

25 hours 32 min

Narrated by Derek PerkinsFrom a renowned historian who writes with "maximum vividness" (The New Yorker) comes the most authoritative, readable single-volume military history of the brutal struggle for the Holy Land.Nine hundred years ago, a vast Christian army, summoned to holy war by the Pope, rampaged through the Muslim world of the eastern Mediterranean, seizing possession of Jerusalem, a city ... Read more

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Narrated by Derek PerkinsFrom a renowned historian who writes with "maximum vividness" (The New Yorker) comes the most authoritative, readable single-volume military history of the brutal struggle for the Holy Land.Nine hundred years ago, a vast Christian army, summoned to holy war by the Pope, rampaged through the Muslim world of the eastern Mediterranean, seizing possession of Jerusalem, a city
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