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Family Business: Gier, Geld, Geheimnisse erzählt die Geschichten großer Familien und schillernder Dynastien. Die Schwestern Anna Dushime und Amélia Umuhire geben Einblicke in das Innere von Familien, die über Jahrzehnte oder gar Jahrhunderte Unternehmen und Imperien gelenkt haben. Denn die ganz großen Dramen der Weltgeschichte um Macht, Geld und Einfluss spielen sich nicht selten in Familien ab.

Former CIA operations officer Robert Marro Jr. pens a gripping memoir about his close friend and confidante, the famed enigmatic exorcist, bestselling author, and Vatican insider Malachi Martin. In this riveting firsthand account, Robert Marro Jr. pulls back the veil on the life of the...

Discover the remarkable life of Sacagawea... Sacagawea is widely known as the Native American woman who helped guide Lewis and Clark across the western frontiers of North America in the early 1800s. It was an extraordinary journey that took a small band of explorers thousands of miles into uncharted territory, across treacherous mountain passes, vast plains, and all the way to the shores of the Pacific Ocean. This was indeed a remarkable and historic period for both Sacagawea and the rapidly growing nation of the United States.

New York Times “The Nonfiction Everyone Will Be Talking About in 2026” An astonishing true story—one of the most gripping maritime sagas of the nineteenth century—told by our era’s “expert literary steersman” (Washington Post). From the best-selling author of Black Flags, Blue...

Aqui trouxemos a biografia de duas grandes figuras da nobreza da Europa Oriental, Vlad III, o Empalador, e Elizabeth Báthory, a Condessa de Sangue, que alcançaram a fama não apenas por seus títulos ou por suas riquezas, mas pela sua crueldade e sadismo. Essas figuras alimentaram os contos populares e tradicionais do Leste Europeu sobre vampiros, inspirando Bram Stoker e Sheridan Le Fanu, entre outros autores de literatura vampírica

Bloomsbury presents Little Blue Dot by Katherine Dunn, read by Laurel Lefkow The unexplored history of GPS, a military technology turned daily necessity that impacts all aspects of our lives. Gone are the days when we pulled off to the side of the road, twisted a map this way and that, and...

From the lonely heights of mountains to the womblike depths of caves, stone has always drawn us in. In The Spirit of Stone, Wyl Menmuir explores the many ways in which rock and earth form part of our identities, histories, and futures. Across Britain and Ireland, rock is everywhere beneath our...

A brilliant foray into the nature of information, of history, and of making meaning in the face of death and decay. Our lives are collections of information—from mundane official documents, poignant family photos, and random artifacts to the cues embodied in our genes. Never is this more...

In The Missing Key, Matthew LaCroix uncovers that code and reconstructs the blueprint it points to—a revelation that challenges conventional timelines and transforms what we think we know about human origins. The culmination of more than a decade of research and two years of field investigation, this work follows the author from the archives of the Penn Museum to the ancient sites of Türkiye, Cambodia, South America, and Egypt, where the final pieces came together on the Giza Plateau.

The terrifying true story of a fight for survival for 28 hours in shark-infested waters. October, 8, 2022. Three friends are fishing for red snapper when their boat, tied to an oil rig, begins taking on water and sinks 15 miles out in the Gulf of Mexico. Suddenly, the three men find themselves...

The article on which this audio book is based was published in the 'New York American' on October 20th, 1912. The author, Dr. Paul Schliemann, was the grandson of Heinrich Schliemann (1822 - 1890), a founder of modern archaeology. In this famous archaeological hoax he makes outrageous and...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. This is the official OpenStax World History, Volume 2: from 1400 audiobook, produced by Audileo, a valued OpenStax Technology Partner. World History, Volume 2: from 1400 is designed to meet the scope and sequence of a world history course from 1400...

Delaware's Forgotten Cavalry: A Failure of Command tells the remarkable true story of the First Delaware Cavalry during the American Civil War and the leadership crisis that nearly destroyed the regiment. Drawing from soldiers' diaries, letters, military records, and contemporary newspapers, historian David L. Tabler reveals a forgotten chapter of Civil War history through the eyes of the men who lived it. The story begins in June 1863 when Delaware cavalrymen unexpectedly faced J.E.B. Stuart's Confederate horsemen during the Gettysburg Campaign.

How long do the traces of a civilization last? A thousand years? A hundred thousand? A million? And if they vanish completely —does that mean the civilization never existed? We assume we would know if advanced societies had preceded us on Earth. We assume the geological record would preserve their footprint. We assume that silence from the deep past means emptiness. But these assumptions have never been tested with mathematical rigor—until now.

“A magisterial history” (The Guardian) of humanity’s greatest natural disaster—the Black Death—that reveals the true global impact and terrible human cost of this calamity, from the renowned author of The Crusades and The Greatest Knight. “Terrific—and truly terrifying. Thomas...