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Riga travel guide. Discover the best Riga has to offer in just a few days. If you are planning to go to Riga for vacation or business, and you only have two or three days and you want to make the best of your short stay, then you have come to the right place. The focus of this audiobook is to make your short stay one of the most memorable experiences of your life. The goal of this audiobook is not to squeeze everything the city has to offer into two - three days. The goal is to show you the best of the city in a short time. I know people like different things, but Riga is such a fascinating city that even in a small area you will find a variety of things that will interest you. If you are looking for the encyclopedia of travel books, then don't buy this audiobook. This audiobook is for a short stay traveler only! We focus on the best the city has to offer. Here is a preview of what you'll learn: How Riga came into being An overview of the city Transport and2 Museums and Art Galleries Restaurants, bars, and nightlife Sample three day itinerary Much, much more!
©2019 Gary Jones (P)2019 Gary Jones

Profiles some of the world's most infamous jails, from the Tower of London to Alcatraz Alcatraz, the Maze, Rikers, Bangkwang, Sabaneta, ADX Florence - the names alone can chill the blood. Along with La Santé, Diyarbakir, Tadmor, and Carandiru, these are 10 of the toughest prisons in the world. Their walls have housed those guilty of some of the most heinous crimes in history - and frequently served as virtual torture chambers for those whose only crime is to fight for their political beliefs. Some have been the scene of massacres and other atrocities, while others house their inmates in conditions judged inhumane and degrading. Some are virtually run by murderous gangs of inmates, while others have played host to the most infamous names in criminal history. Some have closed their doors, while others operate to this day. But all 10 have one thing in common: They've all generated intense controversy. Packed with hard-hitting facts, this booklet forms the perfect partner to the accompanying documentary series, Hard Time, as it probes the innermost workings of these 10 infamous prisons from all corners of the globe. It concludes with a section exploring "crime and punishment" much closer to home with a look at how the British penal system has changed down the centuries through profiles of four of London's most historic prisons: the Tower of London, Newgate, the Marshalsea, and Holloway.
©2015 Go Entertain (P)2016 Go Entertain

If you want to discover the captivating history of the Hundred Years' War, then pay attention... Two captivating manuscripts in one audiobook: The Hundred Years’ War: A Captivating Guide to the Conflicts Between the English House of Plantagenet and the French House of Valois That Took Place During the Middle Ages Joan of Arc: A Captivating Guide to a Heroine of France and Her Role During the Lancastrian Phase of the Hundred Years’ War Some of the topics covered in part one of this audiobook include: "The Edwardian War (1337-1360)" "A Question of Succession" "Striking the First Blow" "Death of a Different Ilk" "The Black Prince's Raid" "The Treaty of Brétigny" "The Caroline War (1369-1389)" "Charles the Wise" "The Death of John Chandos" "A French Victory" "The Great Chevauchée" "A Baby King" "Joan and the Siege" "The Last Battles" And much, much more... Some of the topics covered in part two of this audiobook include: "The Unending War" "A Whispered Prophecy" "The First Vision" "The Doubt of Baudricourt" "A Prediction of Defeat" "An Audience with the King" "The Road to Orléans" "Arrival at Orléans" "Capture" "Captive" "A Saint Tried for Heresy" "The Burning of Jeanne d'Arc" And much, much more... So if you want to learn more about the Hundred Years' War, scroll up, and get this audiobook today!
©2019 Captivating History (P)2019 Captivating History

Cette collection L'Histoire de France vivante nous faire revivre les grandes heures de l'histoire de France. Pour chaque époque, l'illustration sonore est faite avec des musiques de la période concernée. Les grands moments de chaque période sont reconstitués à la façon d'une pièce de théâtre, avec plusieurs comédiens et comédiennes qui interprètent les personnages historiques. Ces tableaux saisissants vous permettent de mieux vous représenter, d'une manière très vivante, les moments clefs de notre histoire, racontés comme une pièce historique. Les faits relatés sont rigoureusement exacts, les dialogues sont imaginaires.
©2017 Compagnie du Savoir (P)2017 Compagnie du Savoir

The English had long dreamed of colonizing America, especially after Sir Francis Drake brought home Spanish treasure and dramatic tales from his raids in the Caribbean. Ambitions of finding gold and planting a New World colony seemed within reach when, in 1606, Thomas Smythe extended overseas trade with the launch of the Virginia Company. But from the beginning the American enterprise was a disaster. Within two years, warfare with Indians and dissent among the settlers threatened to destroy Smythe's Jamestown just as it had Raleigh's Roanoke a generation earlier. To rescue the doomed colonists and restore order, the company chose a new leader, Thomas Gates. Nine ships left Plymouth in the summer of 1609---the largest fleet England had ever assembled---and sailed into the teeth of a storm so violent that "it beat all light from Heaven." The inspiration for Shakespeare's The Tempest, the hurricane separated the flagship from the fleet, driving it onto reefs off the coast of Bermuda - a lucky shipwreck (all hands survived) that proved to be the turning point in the colony's fortune.
©2008 Lorri Glover and Daniel Blake Smith (P)2008 Tantor
![Cover art for Los vascos [The Basques]](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51fmqfVUkML._SL500_.jpg)
Si desea descubrir la fascinante historia de los vascos, siga leyendo.... Los vascos viven en una porción de los Pirineos en el extremo suroeste de Francia y al otro lado de la cordillera en el centro-norte de España, centrados en las ciudades de Pamplona y Donostia. Mientras que algunos viven fuera de esta área actualmente, muchos todavía llaman a esta región su hogar. Estas resistentes personas han vivido en las estribaciones de las escarpadas montañas de los Pirineos desde tiempos prehistóricos, y siguen allí hasta hoy. En Los Vascos: Una guía fascinante de la historia del País Vasco, desde la prehistoria, pasando por la dominación romana y la Edad Media hasta el presente, descubrirá temas como: El misterio de la gente de la montaña El antiguo misterio se revela Los vascos bajo el Imperio romano Gobernados bajo los duques, condes y reyes La Edad Media La Baja Edad Media El período moderno Economía El siglo XX Terrorismo vasco El País Vasco hoy en día ¡Y mucho, mucho más! ¡Adquiera este libro ahora para aprender más sobre los vascos! Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.
©2021 Captivating History (P)2021 Captivating History

"Being the most striking manifestation of the art of metal structures by which our engineers have shown in Europe, it is one of the most striking of our modern national genius." - Gustave Eiffel It's the home of kings, emperors, and aristocrats, and the home of the Champs-Élysées, the Bastille, the Louvre and the salons that fueled the Enlightenment. For foreigners like Benjamin Franklin, it was the most beautiful city in the world, and millions of people still visit those same sites every year. Known as the "City of Light," Paris seamlessly blends its rich past with all the trappings of a modern city, and the city's features and qualities are taken for granted today, but Paris was not always that way. In fact, it took nearly half a century of redesigning the city during the 19th century to transform it into the city it is today. Though it may be hard to believe today, the Eiffel Tower was initially met with derision by many Frenchmen, some of whom compared it to the Tower of Babel and complained that the "useless and monstrous" structure would obscure treasures such as Notre Dame. In response to such criticisms, Eiffel himself pointed out, "Can one think that because we are engineers, beauty does not preoccupy us or that we do not try to build beautiful, as well as solid and long lasting structures? Aren't the genuine functions of strength always in keeping with unwritten conditions of harmony? Besides, there is an attraction, a special charm in the colossal to which ordinary theories of art do not apply." It's safe to say that Eiffel was correct. Each year, millions of people refute those original notions by riding to the top and making it the most visited paid monument in the entire world. Indeed, the Eiffel Tower has welcomed over 250 million visitors in less than 130 years. Eiffel had the good fortune of being vindicated in his lifetime, and as he once joked, "I ought to be jealous of the tower. She is more famous than I am."
©2012 Charles River Editors (P)2015 Charles River Editors

"Es hat nämlich", schreibt Tacitus, "noch keiner, der die Macht durch Verbrechen erlangte, sie zu guten Zwecken ausgeübt." Die Rede ist hier von Adolf Hitler und vom dunkelsten Kapitel der deutschen Geschichte. Nach Quellen und aus eigenen Erinnerungen schildert Golo Mann die zwölf Jahre der Nazi-Herrschaft, von Hitlers Machtergreifung bis zum Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs. Klar und engagiert legt er die politischen Entwicklungen dar, die den Zweiten Weltkrieg entfesselten, und analysiert die Ideologie, die zum Holocaust führte. "Mir scheint die Frage, ob so etwas sich wiederholen kann, bedeutungslos. Wollen wir, daß es sich wiederholt, wollen wir es nicht - das wäre eine sinnvollere Fragestellung", mahnt Golo Mann und beschließt seine "Deutsche Geschichte des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts" mit einem Ausblick auf die Entstehung der Bundesrepublik.
(c)+(p) 2007 Diogenes Verlag AG

Sono passate da poco le 9 del 16 marzo 1978 quando un commando delle Brigate rosse rapisce Aldo Moro in via Mario Fani, a Roma. Il paese rimane inorridito, stupefatti. Senza credere ai propri occhi, in silenzio, gli italiani nelle proprie case vedono scorrere le immagini dell'agguato: i colpi delle armi automatiche dei brigatisti hanno ucciso i due carabinieri e i tre poliziotti della scorta. Del presidente della Democrazia Cristiana non c'è traccia. È l'inizio di 55 interminabili giorni, scanditi dalle lettere di Moro dalla prigionia e dai comunicati delle Br. Il 9 maggio, di nuovo in un silenzio irreale, le telecamere riprendono all'interno di una Renault 4 il corpo piegato su se stesso del leader democristiano in via Caetani, in pieno centro di Roma. La guerra delle Br è al cuore dello Stato, e lo Stato resta impotente a guardare. La cosiddetta linea della fermezza e il rifiuto di trattare con i terroristi, unica risposta che la classe politica si dimostra in grado di dare, appaiono misure fondate più sull'incapacità di trovare una qualunque soluzione al problema che su una difesa irrinunciabile dei valori supremi della democrazia. Molti sono gli interrogativi a tutt'oggi aperti, e di questi altrettanti riposano su una visione complottista che riflette dubbi mai chiariti su un'intera stagione. Come è potuto accadere che oltre un decennio di storia italiana sia stato dominato dalla violenza politica? E quali sono le ragioni che spiegano il culminare, tra il 1977 e il 1980, di una conflittualità endemica, di un terrorismo tanto diffuso da divenire cifra di un'angoscia quotidiana?
©2019 Gius. Laterza & Figli S.p.a. (P)Emons 2019. Edizione su licenza di Gius. Laterza & Figli S.p.a.

Gli Etruschi è il secondo audiolibro della collana dedicata da il Narratore alla storia e alla civiltà del Bel Paese, e racconta dell'antico popolo affermatosi in un'area denominata Etruria, corrispondente alla Toscana, all'Umbria fino al fiume Tevere e al Lazio settentrionale, con propaggini in Liguria e verso la zona padana. La civiltà etrusca fiorì a partire dal X secolo a.C. e fu poi assorbita da quella romana che ne fu profondamente influenzata. Questo lungo processo di conquista e assimilazione culturale ebbe inizio con la data tradizionale della conquista di Veio da parte dei romani nel 396 a.C. Gli Etruschi, con le palesi diversità che li distinguevano dagli altri popoli dell'Italia antica, le ‘sconosciute origini', il ‘mistero della lingua', ‘l'oscura scomparsa', hanno sempre suscitato curiosità, stupore e desiderio di conoscerli meglio. Questo audiolibro traccia, con l'ausilio di suggestive immagini allegate, i lineamenti della straordinaria avventura storica degli Etruschi, i caratteri essenziali della loro cultura politica e religiosa e della loro vita quotidiana. A cura della redazione de il Narratore audiolibri con riferimento alle opere degli storici e archeologi: Rosanna Legatti, Luisa Banti, Roberto Bosi, Werner Keller.
©2012 il Narratore Srl (P)2012 il Narratore Srl
![Cover art for Tiberio. Il princeps inquieto [Tiberius: The Restless Emperor]](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51FTdR0ln5L._SL500_.jpg)
Tiberio è una delle figure più complesse della storia dell’Antica Roma, e proprio per questo anche una delle più affascinanti, perché i contrasti che vivono in lui possono lasciare addirittura spiazzati. Questa biografia cerca di coglierne tutti gli aspetti, sia positivi che negativi. Tiberius is one of the most complex emperors in the history of ancient Rome. For this reason, he is also one of the most fascinating emperors. The contrasts that live in him amaze us to this day. This biography tries to observe all his aspects, both positive and negative. Please note: This audiobook is in Italian.
©2013 Area51 Publishing (P)2013 Area51 Publishing

This small book looks at some of the strange things that make England unique, starting with the English language itself and looking at concepts such as sports, ghosts and the English love for eccentricity - like the sportsman who rode his horse naked. As well as strange people, the book looks at strange places. For example, there is the canal across Southern England that was dug to keep back Bonaparte’s hordes in the invasion that never took place. There is also the impressively masculine Cerne Abbas Giant, to which women once flocked when they wished to become pregnant. The mysterious Stonehenge also deserves its part in this book. Some traditions have not lasted into modern times, such as wife selling, which was once fairly common and strangely, often with the consent of the wife herself. The book takes a more serious turn when it examines the witch-hunting epidemic of the 17th century. Lightening the mood are the chapters on the so-called Hellfire Club and a look at English dragons. Did they exist? From Robin Hood to highwaymen and smugglers, English folk tales take some very ruthless people and turn them into heroes that they most certainly were not. We also look at the Morris dancers and the famous tale of Spring Heeled Jack - who or whatever he may have been. Finally, there's a cheerful chapter that looks at pubs, which figure prominently in many English tales and are a part of modern culture all over the world today.
©2017 Jack Strange (P)2019 Jack Strange

A revelatory examination of the global impact of Emmanuel Macron's tumultuous presidency. A political novice leading a brand-new party, in 2017 Emmanuel Macron swept away traditional political forces and emerged as president of France. Almost immediately he realized his task was not only to modernize his country, but to save the EU and a crumbling international order. From the decline of NATO, to Russian interference, to the Gilets Jaunes (Yellow Vest) protestors, Macron's term unfolded against a backdrop of social conflict, clashing ambitions, and resurgent big-power rivalries. In The Last President of Europe, William Drozdiak tells with exclusive inside access the story of Macron's presidency and the political challenges the French leader continues to face. Macron has ridden a wild roller coaster of success and failure: He has a unique relationship with Donald Trump, a close-up view of the decline of Angela Merkel, and is both the greatest beneficiary from, and victim of, the chaos of Brexit across the Channel. He is fighting his own populist insurrection in France at the same time as he is trying to defend a system of values that once represented the West but is now under assault from all sides. Together these challenges make Macron the most consequential French leader of modern times and perhaps the last true champion of the European ideal.
©2020 William Drozdiak (P)2020 Hachette Audio

Natten till midsommarafton 1959 har blivit ett av de mörkaste kapitlen i norsk hotellhistoria. Då lades ärevördiga Stalheim Turisthotell i Vossestrand i aska på några timmar i ett inferno av lågor. På hotellet bodde 147 gäster denna natt, samtliga utlänningar. 25 av dem omkom i katastrofen. I Nordisk kriminalkrönika berättar poliser själva om sina mest uppmärksammade, omskakande, och svåra fall. Nordisk Kriminalkrönika är ett historiskt verk. Berättelserna och samlingarna är uttryck för den samtid som de skrevs i, och kan i enstaka fall ha föråldrat eller kontroversiellt innehåll. Eventuellt stötande material är inte uttryck för förlagets hållning.
©2019 SAGA Egmont (P)2019 SAGA Egmont

Cette collection L'Histoire de France vivante nous faire revivre les grandes heures de l'histoire de France. Pour chaque époque, l'illustration sonore est faite avec des musiques de la période concernée. Les grands moments de chaque période sont reconstitués à la façon d'une pièce de théâtre, avec plusieurs comédiens et comédiennes qui interprètent les personnages historiques. Ces tableaux saisissants vous permettent de mieux vous représenter, d'une manière très vivante, les moments clefs de notre histoire, racontés comme une pièce historique. Les faits relatés sont rigoureusement exacts, les dialogues sont imaginaires.
©2017 Compagnie du Savoir (P)2017 Compagnie du Savoir

Her name was Marie Antoinette. She was the last queen of France and among the most notorious of royalty ever to wear the crown. But besides the tales that would make The National Enquirer blush, just what do we know about Marie Antoinette? While the peasants of France were starving for lack of bread, did she really say, “Let them eat cake!”? Or was it all a carefully crafted smear campaign? Inside, you will hear about: Groomed to become queen The failed wedding night Madame Deficit The roots of revolution Under the protection of Lafayette The last French king and queen And much more! Animosity against Marie Antoinette, the Austrian-born woman who many French citizens viewed as a transplanted upstart, had been brewing for several years. But was there any truth to their claims of the queen squandering resources and neglecting the lives of her subjects? In this audiobook, we seek to cut through centuries of bias and preconceived notions when it comes to Marie Antoinette. Never mind what you may think you know about this sensational sovereign; here, we seek to find the real person behind the historical quips and catchphrases. Come along as we rediscover the life and legend of the ill-fated last queen of France - Marie Antoinette.
©2018 Hourly History (P)2018 Hourly History

Few women in history have stood the test of time, but the true story surrounding the ill-fated Mary Queen of Scots has ensured that her story lives on to intrigue and fascinate. Who was this 16th-century lady and what role did she play in the history of Great Britain? Piece together the Queen of Scots’ turbulent relationship with her cousin Elizabeth I of England, which ultimately proved to be her downfall. In different circumstances the two women might well have been friends, but when the Queen of England signed Mary’s death warrant, the Queen of Scots, dressed in blood red, played out her final act under the executioner’s axe. You will learn about: Her life beginning to the end Background on the royal lines Mary Queen of Scots and Elizabeth - Her relationship Queen Elizabeth I Mary Queen of Scots and the murder of Lord Darnley The Casket Letters and resulting trial The Babington Plot Her execution for treason
©2018 The History Journals (P)2018 The History Journals

The Wright Brothers initially underestimated the difficulties involved in flying, and they were apparently surprised by the fact that so many others were working on solving the “problem of human flight” already. Decades before their own historic plane would end up in the National Air & Space Museum, Wilbur and Orville asked the Smithsonian for reading materials and brushed up on everything from the works of their contemporaries to Leonardo Da Vinci. Undeterred by the work, and the fact that several would-be pioneers died in crashes trying to control gliders, the Wright Brothers tested out gliding at Kitty Hawk in North Carolina for several years, working to perfect pilot control before trying powered flight.
In December 1903, the brothers had done enough scientific work with concepts like lift to help their aeronautical designs, and they had the technical know-how to work with engines. On December 17, the brothers took turns making history’s first successful powered flights. The fourth and final flight lasted nearly a minute and covered nearly 900 feet. The Wright Flyer I had just made history, and minutes later it would be permanently damaged after wind gusts tipped it over; it would never fly again.
A decade later, aircraft appeared in the skies over the battlefields of World War I, but they did not represent a complete novelty in warfare either, at least not during the early months of World War I. While airplanes had never before appeared above the field of war, other aerial vehicles had already been in use for decades, and balloons had carried soldiers above the landscape for centuries to provide a high observation point superior to most geological features. The French used a balloon for this purpose at the Battle of Fleurus in 1794, and by the American Civil War, military hydrogen balloons saw frequent use, filled from wagons generating hydrogen from iron filings and sulfuric acid. The balloonist Thaddeus Lowe persuaded President Abraham Lincoln to use the airships for observation, communicating troop movements to the ground with a telegraph wire. Lowe himself reported, “A hawk hovering above a chicken yard could not have caused more commotion than did my balloons when they appeared before Yorktown.” (Holmes, 2013, 251). The Confederates agreed with this assessment: “At Yorktown, when almost daily ascensions were made, our camp, batteries, field works, and all defenses were plain to the vision of the occupants of the balloons. […] The balloon ascensions excited us more than all the outpost attacks.”
Indeed, with advances in dirigible technology, many military thinkers and even aeronautical enthusiasts believed that blimps would remain the chief military aerial asset more or less forever. These men thought airplanes would play a secondary role at best, and that they might even prove a uselessly expensive gimmick soon to fade back into obscurity, leaving the majestic bulk of the dirigible as sole master of the skies. While this obviously did not prove true, dirigibles proved popular in a variety of different ways throughout the 20th century, and they continued to be complements even as airplane technologies rapidly advanced.
Famous Dirigibles: The History and Legacy of Lighter than Air Vehicles from the Renaissance to Today looks at the development of the balloons and airships, and how they were primarily used. Along with pictures depicting important people, places, and events, you will learn about dirigibles like never before.
©2019 Charles River Editors (P)2019 Charles River Editors

In 1494, there were five sovereign regional powers in Italy: Milan, Venice, Florence, the Papal States, and Naples. In 1536, only one remained: Venice. These decades of conflict precipitated great anxiety among Western thinkers, and Italians responded to the fragmentation, forevermore, of Latin Christendom, the end of self-governance for Italians, and the beginning of the early modern era in a myriad of ways. They were always heavily influenced by the lived experience of warfare between large Christian armies on the peninsula. The diplomatic and military history of this 30-year period was a complex one - that one eminent Renaissance historian Lauro Martines described as "best told by a computer, so many and tangled are the treatises, negotiations and battles". The fighting went in tandem with the Renaissance and was influenced by it, and the Venetian involvement in the Holy League and the successful restoration of the Aragonese dynasty in Naples served as catalysts for the development of a political and ideological orientation that was shared by the ruling classes across the Italian peninsula. The catch phrases for this movement were buoni italiani and libertà d'Italia. These terms described the proponents of a strategic line that attempted to revive the political systems in force in Italy at a perceived time of "political balance" between the Peace of Lodi in 1454 and the French invasion of 1494. As a political program, the libertà d'Italia demanded the expulsion of the trans-alpine foreigners from Italy and the reconstruction of a multi-state structure that was balanced and ruled by natives. That would not truly occur until the 19th century, and Italy would serve as a theater of war for the Hapsburg and Valois monarchies until the mid-16th century, until the Peace of Cateau-Cambrésis in 1559. Since several large city-states such as Milan and Venice began growing rich on the prosperous Mediterranean trade routes, they had the money to commission grandiose cathedrals and works of art that still astound people today, but they also had the resources to hire armies and constantly fight to expand their power. Ironically, their very success was an impediment, as most prosperous city-states had far more money than available manpower because so many people worked in essential jobs in agriculture, crafts, or public works. Large bodies of men could not be spared for fighting, so if a city-state wanted to expand, it needed to hire an army to bolster the ranks. Other factors limited the use of homegrown armies. City militias often got embroiled in the factional disputes that were rife in Italian urban politics, to the extent that the militia might take one side or another, or be so divided as to be ineffective against external enemies. The only way to avoid this was to bring in neutral, outside administrators all factions could agree on to handle local affairs in a supposedly impartial manner. Known as the podestà system, this odd method of running a government began to be common by the late 13th century, but this administration would need troops of its own and naturally hired outsiders, often non-Italians, to keep the peace. Thus was born the condottieri (singular condottiero or condottiere). Meaning “contractor,” it referred not only to the captains of mercenary bands, but was also used as a general term for all the mercenaries in Italy during the Late Middle Ages and Renaissance. These flamboyant figures, sometimes of noble birth, had at their command experienced armies who hired themselves out to the highest bidder and kept to a strict code of professional ethics.
©2020 Charles River Editors (P)2020 Charles River Editors

Are you excited about planning your next trip? Do you want to try something new? Would you like some guidance from a local?
If you answered yes to any of these questions, then this Greater Than a Tourist audiobook is for you. Greater Than a Tourist - Paris, France by Lily Deneé-Paulette Hall offers the inside scoop on Paris.
Most travel books tell you how to travel like a tourist. Although there is nothing wrong with that, as part of the Greater Than a Tourist series, this audiobook will give you travel tips from someone who has lived at your next travel destination.
Here, you will discover advice that will help you throughout your stay. This audiobook will not tell you exact addresses or store hours but instead will give you excitement and knowledge from a local that you may not find in other small travel books.
Travel like a local. Slow down, stay in one place, and get to know the people and the culture. By the time you finish this audiobook, you will be eager and prepared to travel to your destination.
©2018 CZYK Publishing (P)2019 CZYK Publishing