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    War! What Is It Good For? (eBook, ePUB)
    A powerful and provocative exploration of how war has changed our society-for the better."War! . . . . / What is it good for? / Absolutely nothing," says the famous song-but archaeology, history, and biology show that war in fact has been good for something. Surprising as it sounds, war has made humanity safer and richer.In War! What Is It Good For?, the renowned historian and archaeologist Ian Morris tells the gruesome, gripping story of fifteen thousand years of war, going beyond the battles and brutality to reveal what war has really done to and for the world. Stone Age people lived in small, feuding societies and stood a one-in-ten or even one-in-five chance of dying violently. In the twentieth century, by contrast-despite two world wars, Hiroshima, and the Holocaust-fewer than one person in a hundred died violently. The explanation: War, and war alone, has created bigger, more complex societies, ruled by governments that have stamped out internal violence. Strangely enough, killing has made the world safer, and the safety it has produced has allowed people to make the world richer too.War has been history's greatest paradox, but this searching study of fifteen thousand years of violence suggests that the next half century is going to be the most dangerous of all time. If we can survive it, the age-old dream of ending war may yet come to pass. But, Morris argues, only if we understand what war has been good for can we know where it will take us next.
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    Prolegomena to a History of Islamicate Manichaeism
    Prolegomena to a History of Islamicate Manichaeism provides an annotated anthology of primary sources highlighting Manichaeism, a dualist religion emerging in Mesopotamia in the third century and which spread rapidly throughout the Roman and Sasanian empires until it was violently suppressed by both polities. It nevertheless continued to flourish - largely clandestinely - in the Near East, Central Asia, and China until it finally disappeared at the beginning of the seventeenth century. This book translates and assesses the importance of a number of Arabic, Persian, Syriac, and even Hebrew language testimonies for a better understanding of the cultural importance of what many scholars characterize as the first 'world religion'.
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    Toxic (eBook, ePUB)
    Toxic is a short story based on the true story of The Toxic Woman, a harrowing tale about a woman who came to the hospital for help but left the staff gasping for breath. No one knows exactly what happened, why her blood caused doctors and nurses to become violently ill, but theories are like excuses - everybody has at least one. Based on research gathered from online articles and an episode from Daisy Egan's podcast, Strange and Unexplained, Sara Bushway has pieced together what she believes happened to The Toxic Woman and shares it a few pages of fiction - now available in ebook format through multiple online book retailers.
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    The Unexpected Cost of Love
    Cameron Weaver is just a normal high school kid living in Henderson, NV, in the shadows of Las Vegas and all of its opulence and glitz, until his math teacher seats him beside Kyla Hudson. Kyla is one of the hottest and brightest girls at Foothill High School. Cam and Kyla become friends and a little more. Kyla invites Cam to meet her father, Kyle Hudson, one of the most powerful Black realtors in Henderson, and only a few days after the family dinner Kyla is violently taken while with Cameron. Mister Hudson makes an unexpected request to Cam to help retrieve his daughter from the kidnappers.
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    The Unexpected Cost of Love (eBook, ePUB)
    Cameron Weaver is just a normal high school kid living in Henderson, NV, in the shadows of Las Vegas and all of its opulence and glitz, until his math teacher seats him beside Kyla Hudson. Kyla is one of the hottest and brightest girls at Foothill High School. Cam and Kyla become friends and a little more. Kyla invites Cam to meet he father, Kyle Hudson, one of the most powerful Black realtors in Henderson, and only a few days after the family dinner Kyla is violently taken while with Cameron. Mister Hudson makes an unexpected request to Cam to help retrieve his daughter from the kidnappers.
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    Lamalif and the Toad Skin Hat: Setwara , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 161min
    A high school teacher leaves his hometown to start a new job in an isolated North-African town, but a series of strange events violently thrust him in a magical ancient world where he discovers his other-worldly identity.  ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David A. Conatser, Adam McLaughlin, Laura Jay. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/117787/bk_acx0_117787_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Verdict: BookShots , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 154min
    James Patterson's BookShots. Fast-paced, high-impact entertainment. A woman violently attacked in her bed. A billionaire businessman on trial at The Old Bailey. As the world's press gather outside London's luxurious Tribeca hotel, can Jon Roscoe protect his own family from the terrifying consequences of the verdict? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Rupert Farley. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rhuk/002442/bk_rhuk_002442_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Three Edwards , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1050min
    The Three Edwards, third in Thomas B. Costain's survey of Britain under the Plantagenets, covers the years between 1272 and 1377 when three Edwards ruled England. Edward I brought England out of the Middle Ages. Edward II had a tragic reign but gave his country Edward III, who ruled gloriously, if violently. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David Case. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bkot/001169/bk_bkot_001169_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Unbortion , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 60min
    It was alive, confused, and pissed! It could not understand why it was violently separated from its host and left to rot. Following an undeniable call to pursue the one who abandoned it and seek revenge, the quest for retribution had begun, and nothing or no one would stand in the way. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Clinton Herigstad. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/141357/bk_acx0_141357_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Gods' Day to Die , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 910min
    Desmond Taylor - a free-spirited loner and heir to a family fortune - didn't mean to fall in love. But when he stumbles upon a beautiful archer deep in the wilderness, they begin an electrifying and wild romance like no other. To make matters even more complicated, the woman is the goddess Artemis. Like her Mount Olympus kin, Artemis has walked among mortals for thousands of years. But Desmond and Artemis's isolated paradise is violently shattered when they're tracked down by the goddess Athena's insane mortal son: a man hell-bent on killing every last god. Thrown into a fight to the death, Desmond finds himself traveling the globe at Artemis's side, dodging bullets and proving himself as a fighter. Now, the gods must come together to defend themselves - or risk dying violently at the hands of the psychopath who is hot on their heels. While they are skilled in battle, there are but a few gods left to fight the steady onslaught of mercenaries sent by their vicious nemesis. Can Desmond stop the massacre of the last immortals, or could this truly be the end of the gods? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Scott Merriman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/007193/bk_brll_007193_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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