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Twenty 2nd Century Lightcube 1.1.2


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Lightcube is a pixel art editing tool for game developers and artists alike, with a wide range of features including multiple layers, animation frames and a range of tools include pen, eraser, magic wand selection, paint bucket, line draw and pattern brushes. Lightcube has everything you need to easily make game development assets or creative visions come to life.

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Vagabonds Life on the Streets of Nineteenth-Century London [Audiobook]


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English | ASIN: B0D4R63L4C | 2024 | 10 hours and 28 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 276 MB
Author: Oskar Jensen
Narrator: Oskar Jensen

Dickensian London is brought to real and vivid life in this innovative, accessible social history, revealing the true character of this place and time through the stories of its street denizens-shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize 2023. London, 1857: A pair of teenage girls holding a sign that says "Fugitive Slaves" ask for money on the corner of Blackman Street. After a constable accosts them and charges them with begging, they end up in court, where national newspapers pick up their story. Are the girls truly escaped slaves from Kentucky? Or will the city’s dystopian Mendicity Society catch them in a lie, exposing them as born-and-raised Londoners and endangering their safety?

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We Are Home Becoming American in the 21st Century An Oral History [Audiobook]


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English | ASIN: B0CFC75YM8 | 2024 | 11 hours and 3 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 319 MB
Author: Ray Suarez
Narrator: Ray Suarez

From a veteran broadcaster and historian comes a richly reported portrait of the newest Americans, immigrants from all over the globe who are living all across the country, filled with their own voices. We are a nation of immigrants, never more than now. In recent decades, the numbers have skyrocketed, thanks to people coming from many continents-especially Asia, Africa, and South America. Just like their predecessors, they face countless obstacles, including political hatred. And yet, just like their predecessors, they work hard. They persist. And they become us. The newest Americans are poorly understood and frequently presented only in stereotypes. Veteran journalist, broadcaster, and interviewer Ray Suarez has crisscrossed the country to speak to new Americans from all corners of the globe, and to record their stories. This portrait of our newest citizens is full of their own, compelling voices. It’s a story as old as the country, yet each new wave of arrivals tells that classic story in new and crucially important ways.

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The Soviet Century [Audiobook]


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English | ASIN: B0D1LLLVCG | 2024 | 16 hours and 51 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 463 MB
Author: Moshe Lewin, Gregory Elliott
Narrator: Rich Miller

This classic Soviet Union history traces the USSR from 1917, to its fall, offering "a master class in understanding the structures and intricate workings of the Soviet system". Today, the Soviet Union remains the most extraordinary but tragic attempt to create a society beyond capitalism. Yet its history was one that for a long time proved impossible to write. In The Soviet Century, Moshe Lewin follows this history in all its complexity, guiding us through the inner workings of a system which is still barely understood. In the process, he overturns widely held beliefs about the USSR’s leaders, the State-Party system, and the powerful Soviet bureaucracy. Departing from a simple linear history, The Soviet Century traces all the continuities and ruptures that led from the founding revolution of October 1917, to the final collapse of the late 1980s and early 1990s, passing through the Stalinist dictatorship, the impossible reforms of the Khrushchev years, and the glasnost and perestroika policies of Gorbachev.

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The Shifting Twenty-First Century Presidency Assessing the Implications for America and the World [Audiobook]


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English | ASIN: B0D1SYQT3F | 2024 | 5 hours and 27 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 301 MB
Author: Tevi Troy
Narrator: Jonathan Sleep

The role and range of the American presidency has undergone significant changes in the twenty-first century, with George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Donald Trump, and Joe Biden transforming the office in distinct ways. Many but not all of these changes stem from the numerous crises of this young century: 9/11 and the resulting war on terror, Hurricane Katrina, the Great Recession, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the social unrest of 2020. While crisis brings rapid change, there are other factors at work as well. Increased polarization has led presidents of both parties to press existing rules and norms to their limits in an attempt to accomplish more during their brief tenures.

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8Dio Century Artisan Brass Bundle KONTAKT


Free Download 8Dio Century Artisan Brass Bundle KONTAKT | 13.9 GB
The 8Dio Century Orchestral Series is the definitive state-of-the-art collection of hyper-realistic orchestral instruments. Century continues to represent our most significant leap forward in hall based orchestral sampling to date.

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8Dio Century Harps KONTAKT


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8Dio Century Harps contains two separate concert harps, each chosen carefully to represent a different facet in the realm of harp tones.  Harp 1 is a bright, bold and shimmering Venus Concert Harp.  The instrument can sound delicate, but it also has vibrant highs which can cut through and soar in your orchestral compositions.

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‘Cult’ Rhetoric in the 21st Century Deconstructing the Study of New Religious Movements


Free Download Aled Thomas, "’Cult’ Rhetoric in the 21st Century: Deconstructing the Study of New Religious Movements "
English | ISBN: 1350333212 | 2024 | 264 pages | EPUB, PDF | 829 KB + 13 MB
Examining contemporary understandings of the term ‘cult’, this book brings together scholars from multiple disciplines, including sociology, anthropology and religious studies. Focusing on how ‘cult rhetoric’ affects our perceptions of new religious movements, the contributors explore how these minority groups have developed and deconstruct the language we use to describe them.

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