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The Mongol queens of the thirteenth century ruled the greatest empire the world has ever known. Yet sometime near the end of the century, censors cut a section from The Secret History of the Mongols, leaving a single tantalizing quote from Genghis Khan: “Let us reward our female offspring.”
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Mongol Queens
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Charles Robert Darwin was an English naturalist, geologist, and biologist, best known for his contributions to the science of evolution. He established that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestors and, in a joint publication with Alfred Russel Wallace, introduced his scientific theory that this branching pattern of evolution resulted from a process that he called natural selection, in which the struggle for existence has a similar effect to the artificial selection involved in selective breeding.
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When we rewind history to Abraham's era, we encounter people who concocted false superstitions to explain the unexplainable. Powerful kings claimed to be gods, building massive pyramids in an attempt to achieve immortality. Out of this mass of misunderstandings, this collage of confusion, one man emerged. Why, thousands of years later, are we still discussing the faith of this desert nomad? Chuck Swindoll answers that question and many more in this compelling and insightful biography that will inspire your own faith.
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Pagans explores the rise of Christianity from a surprising and unique viewpoint: that of the people who witnessed their ways of life destroyed by what seemed then a powerful religious cult. These "pagans" were actually pious Greeks, Romans, Syrians, and Gauls, who observed the traditions of their ancestors. To these devout polytheists, Christians who worshiped only one deity were immoral atheists who believed that a splash of water on the deathbed could erase a lifetime of sin.
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Marcus Porcius Cato: aristocrat who walked barefoot and slept on the ground with his troops, political heavyweight who cultivated the image of a Stoic philosopher, a hardnosed defender of tradition who presented himself as a man out of the sacred Roman past-and the last man standing when Rome's Republic fell to tyranny. His blood feud with Caesar began in the chamber of the Senate, played out on the battlefields of a world war, and ended when he took his own life rather than live under a dictator.
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From what we know of history, Egypt, along with Sumer, were the foundations of civilization. The Fertile Crescent, which stretched from the Nile Valley to the twin rivers in Mesopotamia, gave us our earliest glimpse of organized man. But organized how? For one, both locations gave us writing -- hieroglyphics in Egypt and cuneiform in Sumer. There is still some debate about who was first.
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- Robert Horan
- 06-18-17
Can't get past the narrator
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Ms Gupta's accent and strange inflections are so distracting that I am unable to recommend this book.
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- Amer
- 06-28-19
excellent sorry - terrible narration
great story, shows extensive research was done. unfortunately the narrator has a very heavy Indian accent and failed to practice the pronunciation of all extremely important words. Alalahouakabar was pronounced Allahouakhbar. Moawia was pronounced Moavia and many more. a simple practice on the correct pronunciation would have avoided these trebled mistakes!
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- Martin Andraszek
- 03-26-17
Good story, narration...
This is an excellent book concerning the life and times of Muhammad. It was far more detailed than I expected, and I appreciate that.
The authorship is excellent. However, there are portions of the book that are taken word for word from Hazelton's Life After the Prophet. The re-telling of the stories are fine and stated correctly, but I would think that Hazelton could have changed some of the verbiage around the stories a little. I'm being pretty picky here.
The narration was a little off-putting. The woman performing has kind of a news reporter from the 1980s vibe about her. I'd describe it as a bit of up-talking at the end of long passages. Again, I'm being picky.
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- Tulipsaki
- 08-13-20
Narrator is terrible
Narrators should know how to pronounce the names! These people are important to Muslims, and names are important. What is wrong with audiobook producers?
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- ANSAAR R.
- 05-07-20
Worst narration ever
Well researched/written story with the worst narration. Ms. Gupta would’ve done well to at least learn some basic pronunciations of the names. Rushed, misplaced inflections. Poor attempts at dramatization. Buy the book and read it.
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- Saira Wasim
- 10-02-19
Iam so disappointed in the narrator
She has made no effort in trying to pronounce an!y words names historical sites properly. There is no dearth of good narrators. She has no passion and her accent is so heavy. Kindly please try and select a better narrator . Good God she is awful
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- Vincent M. Maysee
- 02-06-19
excellent reading
As a student of history and Islam, this narrative of a book I have been planning to read is nothing. short of oustanding!
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- F Shaw
- 01-19-19
Interesting speculations
I learned a lot from this book. I knew little about the life of the actual man, Muhammad. It is pretty fascinating history. The author told in a psychological way that I sometimes found really irritating, where the author assumed knowledge of how Muhammed or other people actually felt when such and such happened. Otherwise, I would have given it a higher rating. don't know why some reviewers couldn't get used to the narrators accent. I thought the narrator has a beautiful voice. I would like to learn more about this historical period in the Middle East.
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- ME
- 09-11-17
Lacks any credibility - Not objective by all means
So self opinionated. Lack any rationale on judgement. By all means, it is not worth the time to waist on listening to more than second chapter. Waist of time..
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- Crys H
- 03-24-17
Another Fantastic Hazelton Book!
Lesley Hazelton's books are phenomenal reads and even greater listens...as she richly provides incredible historic detail and personal accounts steeped in painstaking research.
If I had one complaint here-- is that Hazelton has spoiled me with her other books. The others were read by Hazelton, the author, and her voice and tone are like no other. Hypnotic at times. I only wish she had read this most important book as well. The reader does a fine job. But nothing compares to that deep rich voice of Hazelton doing her own work with the subtleties, pride and perfection it deserves.
If u have any interest in this subject, Islam or the central characters and actions of the time frame that formed this ideology--this should be added to your list of MUST READS...along with "After the Prophet" by Lesley Hazelton.
Two exceptional books.
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