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The United States is in the grip of a crisis of bad history. Distortions of the past promoted in the conservative media have led large numbers of Americans to believe in fictions over facts, making constructive dialogue impossible and imperiling our democracy. In Myth America, Kevin M. Kruse and Julian E. Zelizer have assembled an all-star team of fellow historians to push back against this misinformation.

Thirty years ago, Chuck Berry starred in the seminal music documentary Chuck Berry: Hail! Hail! Rock 'N' Roll, which profiled the legend during a star-studded concert celebrating his 60th birthday. Now comes the complete story behind one of America's most enduring and embattled icons. Compiled as an oral history by the film's producer, Stephanie Bennett, Johnny B. Bad combines interviews from the film's participants, including its music director - Keith Richards. These unique interviews and accounts paint a vivid and multifaceted picture of the artist.

Diverse discussions with philosophers worth listening to. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The easiest way into the world of blockchain, cryptocurrency, decentralization, bitcoin, ICOs, and Co.

This is a short but comprehensive analysis of the UN's controversial program established in 1992 as a "sustainable development plan" for the entire world, for the 21st century. Its main points are coincidental to the "Communist Manifesto", issued by Karl Marx in 1848. It includes the abolition of all private property, banning inheritances, reducing the population, and the transfer of all resources into the hands of UN bureaucrats.

In November 1974, British MP and former cabinet minister John Stonehouse walked into the sea off a beach in Miami and disappeared, seemingly drowned. Then he was found—on the other side of the world, in Australia—and his extraordinary story began to come to light: a Labour cabinet minister and a devoted family man, also in a long-term affair with his secretary, and a spy for the Czech State Security agency, who had committed fraud and attempted to fake his own death to escape catastrophic business failures.

The adolescent Christopher and his soul mate, Toni, had sneered at the stifling ennui of Metroland, their cosy patch of suburbia on the Metropolitan line. They had longed for Life to begin - meaning Sex and Freedom - to travel and choose their own clothes. Then Chris, at 30, starts to settle comfortably into bourgeois contentment himself. Luckily, Toni is still around to challenge such backsliding.

For all those sick of politicians and their slick spin, or bored of broadcasters who bombard and bully their hapless interviewees, Do They Think You’re Stupid? has the answers. Written by the author of the best-selling The Pig That Wants to Be Eaten, these short, stimulating capsules of philosophy cut through the woolliest of rhetoric to identify the faulty reasoning and argumentative strategies that are used around us every day.

Forced to flee Rome, merchant Nicander meets an unlikely ally in the form of Marius, a fierce Roman legionary. Escaping to a new life in Constantinople, the two land upon its shores lonely and penniless. Needing to make money fast, they plot a wicked plan to steal precious silk seeds from the faraway land of Seres. Nicander and Marius must embark upon a terrifyingly treacherous journey across unknown lands never before completed.

Tom erwacht auf dem kratzigen Teppich eines Hotelflurs. Er ist offenbar allein in dem Gebäude, denn nur das leise Klicken einer der Wandlampen dringt an seine Ohren. Hinter den verschlossenen Türen herrscht Grabesstille. Niemand reagiert auf seine Hilferufe. Doch am Ende des Flurs leuchtet die Rettung: ein Wegweiser zum Notausgang. Tom geht darauf zu, biegt um die Ecke und ... Derselbe Flur – es ist immer derselbe Flur. Egal, wie oft er abbiegt oder wie weit er rennt: Tom landet immer wieder dort, wo er aufgewacht ist. Er ist gefangen. Moment ...

"loves music" is a podcast, hosted by me, Julian Jones, that celebrates music and the moments that made us fall in love with it. It’s for music-lovers who, despite the demands of life, remain passionate about their beloved albums and artists and still seek to discover new talent, whether online, internationally, or within the sweaty crowded bars of your hometown. It’s in us! We don't know why we do it; we just do… and we refuse to grow out of it. Every Thursday, I interview artists past and present about making music: their inspiration, their challenges, and the moments they will never ...

Grasshopper Pilot gives long-overdue attention and credit to the crucial role these courageous men played in combat and adds valuable information to an understudied dimension of the war.

Ryone is the Wolf of the Vyrn. The war leader of her nomadic clan. When she is promised in marriage to Alexander, the Hawk of Ged, she imagines she will become his war queen. She hopes to lead his soldiers and defend the farming kingdom from a supernatural threat called the Thraa. When Ryone arrives, she finds her new husband handsome, mysterious, and utterly indifferent to her.

Welcome to the Jazz Tutorial podcast with Julian Bradley.Topics include:Jazz piano lessonsJazz theory lessonsJazz piano chord voicingsJazz improvisationJazz scalesJazz piano chord progressionsBeginner Jazz piano lessonsTritone substitutionJulian Bradley is a Jazz pianist and teacher from the U.K. He has a masters degree in music, and loves sharing his passion for Jazz piano through online lessons.

Within a colossal tree in the center of the Six Realms, the teenage fairy Talia Wick takes a trial to earn her wings and prove herself as a fairy without magic. The Realm Tree audio series is created by Jamar Thompson and Julian Hermano, and is available for listening as a stream and a downloadable podcast. Visit therealmtree.com or follow our social media for cast information, behind the scenes details, and how to support the show.

Twelve beautiful huia birds play and sing in the forest. But is that a canoe arriving? A rat sniffling? A ship on the horizon? One by one, the huia start to disappear. What will remain?

Drawing on four decades of hands-on management experience, the founder of Richer Sounds argues that ethically run businesses are invariably more efficient, more motivated and more innovative than those that care only about the bottom line. He uncovers the simple tools that the best leaders use to make their businesses fair, revealing how others can follow suit. And he also delves into the big questions that modern capitalism has to answer if it is to survive and to thrive.

Basierend auf diesem Credo beschreibt Dr. Julian Hosp, was andere Leute davon lernen können, wie er bereits mit 16 Jahren alleine von österreich nach Amerika gezogen ist. Warum einen Baum zu pflanzen ein wichtiges Verständnis für viele Dinge wie Universitätsabschluss oder Unternehmensgründung ist. Warum seine Erfahrungen als Profikitesurfer und -basketballer nicht nur im Extremsport anzuwenden sind, sondern auch auf Erfahrungen die wir täglich erleben zutreffen.

At the end, there are no good or bad decisions in life - only decisions that you make or don't make. Sometimes you just need a little bit of reassurance that you are on the right track, and this book will give you that.

In these 17 essays (and one short story) the 2011 Man Booker Prize winner examines British, French, and American writers who have meant most to him, as well as the cross-currents and overlappings of their different cultures. From the deceptiveness of Penelope Fitzgerald to the directness of Hemingway, from Kipling's view of France to the French view of Kipling, from the many translations of Madame Bovary to the fabulations of Ford Madox Ford, from the National Treasure status of George Orwell to the despair of Michel Houellebecq, Julian Barnes considers what fiction is.