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Developing Effective Websites

A Project Manager's Guide

by Roy Strauss, Patrick Hogan ...

Is your website project out of control?Every website project needs a manager. Developing Effective Websites describes Internet technologies in plain language and helps you see beyond your expertise to the big picture. It does this by drawing on established software project and management principles.Like any project, effective management of website development starts by understanding and balancing ... Read more

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Is your website project out of control?Every website project needs a manager. Developing Effective Websites describes Internet technologies in plain language and helps you see beyond your expertise to the big picture. It does this by drawing on established software project and management principles.Like any project, effective management of website development starts by understanding and balancing
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Jews vs. Rome

Two Centuries of Rebellion Against the World's Mightiest Empire

by Barry Strauss ...

Narrated by Jacques Roy ...

Unabridged

11 hours 44 min

A new history of two centuries of Jewish revolts against the Roman Empire, drawing on recent archeological discoveries and new scholarship by leading historian Barry Strauss.Jews vs. Rome is a gripping account of one of the most momentous eras in human history: the two hundred years of ancient Israel’s battles against Rome that reshaped Judaism and gave rise to Christianity. Barry Strauss vividly ... Read more

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A new history of two centuries of Jewish revolts against the Roman Empire, drawing on recent archeological discoveries and new scholarship by leading historian Barry Strauss.Jews vs. Rome is a gripping account of one of the most momentous eras in human history: the two hundred years of ancient Israel’s battles against Rome that reshaped Judaism and gave rise to Christianity. Barry Strauss vividly
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The War That Made the Roman Empire

Antony, Cleopatra, and Octavian at Actium

by Barry Strauss ...

Narrated by Jacques Roy ...

Unabridged

9 hours 59 min

A “splendid” (The Wall Street Journal) account of one of ancient history’s most important and yet little-known wars, the campaign culminating in the Battle of Actium in 31 BC, whose outcome determined the future of the Roman Empire.Following Caesar’s assassination and Mark Antony’s defeat of the conspirators who killed Caesar, two powerful men remained in Rome—Antony and Caesar’s chosen heir, ... Read more

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A “splendid” (The Wall Street Journal) account of one of ancient history’s most important and yet little-known wars, the campaign culminating in the Battle of Actium in 31 BC, whose outcome determined the future of the Roman Empire.Following Caesar’s assassination and Mark Antony’s defeat of the conspirators who killed Caesar, two powerful men remained in Rome—Antony and Caesar’s chosen heir,
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The Crusader Storm

A Global History of the Wars for the Middle East

by Nicholas Morton ...

Narrated by Kaffe Keating ...

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13 hours 34 min

From the First Crusade to Saladin's conquest of Jerusalem, this is the story how cultures collided and reshaped the medieval Middle East.From their foundational era in 1097 to Saladin's conquest of Jerusalem almost a century later, the Crusader States transformed the Middle Eastern world. In an era shaped by many conflicts, this was not simply a war between Christianity and Islam, but an epic ... Read more

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From the First Crusade to Saladin's conquest of Jerusalem, this is the story how cultures collided and reshaped the medieval Middle East.From their foundational era in 1097 to Saladin's conquest of Jerusalem almost a century later, the Crusader States transformed the Middle Eastern world. In an era shaped by many conflicts, this was not simply a war between Christianity and Islam, but an epic
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The Death of Caesar

The Story of History's Most Famous Assassination

by Barry Strauss ...

Narrated by Robertson Dean ...

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8 hours 17 min

William Shakespeare's gripping play showed Caesar's assassination to be an amateur and idealistic affair. The real killing, however, was a carefully planned paramilitary operation, a generals' plot put together by Caesar's disaffected officers and designed with precision. Brutus and Cassius were indeed key players, but they had the help of a third man—Decimus. He was the mole in Caesar's entourage ... Read more

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William Shakespeare's gripping play showed Caesar's assassination to be an amateur and idealistic affair. The real killing, however, was a carefully planned paramilitary operation, a generals' plot put together by Caesar's disaffected officers and designed with precision. Brutus and Cassius were indeed key players, but they had the help of a third man—Decimus. He was the mole in Caesar's entourage
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Ten Caesars

Roman Emperors from Augustus to Constantine

by Barry Strauss ...

Narrated by Arthur Morey ...

Unabridged

12 hours 52 min

Bestselling classical historian Barry Strauss delivers “an exceptionally accessible history of the Roman Empire…much of Ten Caesars reads like a script for Game of Thrones” (The Wall Street Journal)****—a summation of three and a half centuries of the Roman Empire as seen through the lives of ten of the most important emperors, from Augustus to Constantine.In this essential and “enlightening” (The ... Read more

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Bestselling classical historian Barry Strauss delivers “an exceptionally accessible history of the Roman Empire…much of Ten Caesars reads like a script for Game of Thrones” (The Wall Street Journal)****—a summation of three and a half centuries of the Roman Empire as seen through the lives of ten of the most important emperors, from Augustus to Constantine.In this essential and “enlightening” (The
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Mortal Republic

How Rome Fell into Tyranny

by Edward J. Watts ...

Narrated by Matt Kugler ...

Unabridged

10 hours 33 min

The gripping, definitive account of how the Romans lost their Republic.**“An incisive history … The parallels to the present day are striking.” —**New YorkerIn Mortal Republic, prize-winning historian Edward J. Watts offers a new history of the fall of the Roman Republic that explains why Rome exchanged freedom for autocracy. For centuries, even as Rome grew into the Mediterranean's premier ... Read more

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The gripping, definitive account of how the Romans lost their Republic.**“An incisive history … The parallels to the present day are striking.” —**New YorkerIn Mortal Republic, prize-winning historian Edward J. Watts offers a new history of the fall of the Roman Republic that explains why Rome exchanged freedom for autocracy. For centuries, even as Rome grew into the Mediterranean's premier
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Babylon

The Biography of a Metropolis

by Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones ...

Narrated by Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones ...

Unabridged

19 hours 37 min

A vibrant, colorful, and authoritative exploration of the world's first and most illustrious metropolis.'Babylon' is a name that has a double life: it denotes the great ancient Mesopotamian city with a long and complex history, and it is also a fictive allusion with a wide variety of connotations, from the Hebrew bible's Tower of Babel, through the New Testament's 'Whore of Babylon' to the iconic ... Read more

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A vibrant, colorful, and authoritative exploration of the world's first and most illustrious metropolis.'Babylon' is a name that has a double life: it denotes the great ancient Mesopotamian city with a long and complex history, and it is also a fictive allusion with a wide variety of connotations, from the Hebrew bible's Tower of Babel, through the New Testament's 'Whore of Babylon' to the iconic
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The Strategists

Churchill, Stalin, Roosevelt, Mussolini, and Hitler--How War Made Them and How They Made War

by Phillips Payson O'Brien ...

Narrated by Justin Price ...

Unabridged

18 hours 9 min

Churchill. Hitler. Stalin. Mussolini. Roosevelt. Five of the most impactful leaders of WW2, each with their own individualistic and idiosyncratic approach to warfare. But if we want to understand their military strategy, we must first understand the strategist.In The Strategists, Professor Phillips Payson O'Brien shows how the views these five leaders forged in WW1 are crucial to understanding how ... Read more

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Churchill. Hitler. Stalin. Mussolini. Roosevelt. Five of the most impactful leaders of WW2, each with their own individualistic and idiosyncratic approach to warfare. But if we want to understand their military strategy, we must first understand the strategist.In The Strategists, Professor Phillips Payson O'Brien shows how the views these five leaders forged in WW1 are crucial to understanding how
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The Damascus Events

The 1860 Massacre and the Making of the Modern Middle East

by Eugene Rogan ...

Narrated by Ronan Summers ...

Unabridged

9 hours 7 min

**A Financial Times Best History Book of the YearAn award-winning scholar’s account of an ancient city’s descent into unprecedented communal violence—an event that would mark the end of the old Ottoman order and the beginning of the modern Middle East.“A stunning portrait of the Ottoman empire and of Damascus during a time of crisis. Absolutely riveting.” —Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads ... Read more

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**A Financial Times Best History Book of the YearAn award-winning scholar’s account of an ancient city’s descent into unprecedented communal violence—an event that would mark the end of the old Ottoman order and the beginning of the modern Middle East.“A stunning portrait of the Ottoman empire and of Damascus during a time of crisis. Absolutely riveting.” —Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads
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A Global History of the Second World War, 1931-1941

by Jonathan Fennell ...

Narrated by Nikolas Salmon ...

Unabridged

25 hours 9 min

In the first of a three-volume series, a brilliant young scholar of World War II and award-winning author of Fighting the People’s War offers a fresh and magisterial new history of the cataclysmic military struggle and the geo- and socio-political change it engendered.Between 1931 and 1949, a series of crises broke out that threatened collective security, world order, and the internal cohesion of ... Read more

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In the first of a three-volume series, a brilliant young scholar of World War II and award-winning author of Fighting the People’s War offers a fresh and magisterial new history of the cataclysmic military struggle and the geo- and socio-political change it engendered.Between 1931 and 1949, a series of crises broke out that threatened collective security, world order, and the internal cohesion of
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The Last Tsar

The Abdication of Nicholas II and the Fall of the Romanovs

by Tsuyoshi Hasegawa ...

Narrated by Gareth Armstrong ...

Unabridged

13 hours 56 min

The definitive history of the self-destruction of the autocratic Romanov dynasty.**“Filled with revelations and fresh insights and rich with observations.” —**The Wall Street JournalIn 1917, Imperial Russia faced a series of overlapping crises, from war to social unrest, that culminated in Tsar Nicholas II’s dramatic fall from power. Though Nicholas’s life is often described as tragic, a trove of ... Read more

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The definitive history of the self-destruction of the autocratic Romanov dynasty.**“Filled with revelations and fresh insights and rich with observations.” —**The Wall Street JournalIn 1917, Imperial Russia faced a series of overlapping crises, from war to social unrest, that culminated in Tsar Nicholas II’s dramatic fall from power. Though Nicholas’s life is often described as tragic, a trove of
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