Tag: Ruin

September 29, 2024

A Noble Ruin Mark Antony, Civil War, and the Collapse of the Roman Republic [Audiobook]

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Free Download W. Jeffrey Tatum, Christopher Grove (Narrator), "A Noble Ruin: Mark Antony, Civil War, and the Collapse of the Roman Republic"
English | ASIN: B0DDQJYS2C | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~21:34:00 | 593 MB
A complex and captivating portrait of Mark Antony that offers a fresh perspective on the fall of the Roman Republic
In his lifetime, Mark Antony was a famous man. Ally and avenger of Julius Caesar, rhetorical target of Cicero, lover of Cleopatra, and mortal enemy of Octavian (the future emperor Augustus), Antony played a leading role in the transformation of the Roman world. Ever since his and Cleopatra’s demise at the hands of Octavian, he has remained famous, or infamous, a figure of recurring fascination.

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September 17, 2024

Raising Hell The Reign, Ruin, and Redemption of Run-D.M.C. and Jam Master Jay

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Free Download Ronin Ro, "Raising Hell: The Reign, Ruin, and Redemption of Run-D.M.C. and Jam Master Jay"
English | 2005 | pages: 353 | ISBN: 0060781955, 0060781971 | PDF | 0,9 mb
The year is 1978. Saturday Night Fever is breaking box office records. All over America kids are racing home to watch Dance Fever, Michael Jackson is poised to become the next major pop star, and in Hollis, Queens, fourteen-year-old Darryl McDaniels-who will one day go by the name D.M.C.-busts his first rhyme: "Apple to the peach, cherry to the plum. Don’t stop rocking till you all get some." Darryl’s friend Joseph Simmons-now known as Reverend Run-thinks Darryl’s rhyme is pretty good, and he becomes inspired. Soon the two join forces with a DJ-Jason "Jam Master Jay" Mizell-and form Run-D.M.C. Managed by Run’s brother, Russell Simmons, the trio, donning leather suits, Adidas sneakers, and gold chains, become the defiant creators of the world’s most celebrated and enduring hip-hop albums-and in the process, drag rap music from urban streets into the corporate boardroom, profoundly changing everything about popular culture and American race relations.

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September 17, 2024

Ruin Their Crops on the Ground The Politics of Food in the United States, from the Trail of Tears to School Lunch [Audiobook]

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Free Download Ruin Their Crops on the Ground: The Politics of Food in the United States, from the Trail of Tears to School Lunch (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CNQFKLL3 | 2024 | 7 hours and 28 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 214 MB
Author: Andrea Freeman
Narrator: Heni Zoutomou
The first and definitive history of the use of food in United States law and politics as a weapon of conquest and control, a Fast Food Nation for the Black Lives Matter era. In 1779, to subjugate Indigenous nations, George Washington ordered his troops to "ruin their crops now in the ground and prevent their planting more." Destroying harvests is just one way that the United States has used food as a political tool. Trying to prevent enslaved people from rising up, enslavers restricted their consumption, providing only enough to fuel labor. Since the Great Depression, school lunches have served as dumping grounds for unwanted agricultural surpluses. From frybread to government cheese, Ruin Their Crops on the Ground draws on over fifteen years of research to argue that U.S. food law and policy have created and maintained racial and social inequality.

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January 21, 2024

DH9 From Ruin to Restoration The Extraordinary Story of the Discovery in India and Return to Flight of a Rare WWI Bomber

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Free Download DH9: From Ruin to Restoration: The Extraordinary Story of the Discovery in India and Return to Flight of a Rare WWI Bomber (Flight Craft, 16) by Guy Black
English | November 20, 2019 | ISBN: 1908117338 | 192 pages | PDF | 17 Mb
In 2000, upon hearing rumors of aircraft parts being found in a maharaja’s palace in India, Guy Black took a trip that would lead to the most unexpected discovery of his life. Hidden away in a former elephant stable of the maharaja’s palace in Bikaner, Rajasthan was the hulks of at least two DH9 bombers. This was a truly remarkable and important find for no example of this WWI aircraft existed in Britain. Recognizing their importance to the UK’s aviation heritage, and excited by the challenge of restoration, Guy set about negotiating their purchase and returning them back to England.

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January 16, 2024

The Ruling Ideas How They Ruin Society and Make You Miserable

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Free Download Ari Ofengenden, "The Ruling Ideas: How They Ruin Society and Make You Miserable"
English | ISBN: 1789049598 | 2023 | 415 pages | EPUB | 929 KB
Ideas that are employed to legitimize and make us consent to authority and its hierarchies also disempower us, leaving us anxious, depressed, and discontent. They are constantly hammered into us by the media, by our friends and family, and by institutions. They also come to us by way of films, motivational speakers, business gurus, as well as in the actions we take in our everyday lives and in the experiences of who we are. In The Ruling Ideas: How They Ruin Society and Make You Miserable, Ari Ofengenden examines many of these ideas, such as the entrepreneurial-self, the utility-oriented economic man, technological progress, virtues and values, as well as family values, God, nation and race. Ofengenden provides a deft analysis, on the one hand, of the beliefs we hold, the ideas behind them that make us consent to the social order, and how we often fool ourselves into believing these ideas; on the other hand, the author proffers a way to combat these ideas, to live without them and develop alternatives.

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