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With Frye as our raconteur-guide, we journey back to a time before barriers of brick and stone even existed - to an era in which nomadic tribes vied for scarce resources, and each man was bred to a life of struggle. Ultimately, those same men would create edifices of mud, brick, and stone and with them effectively divide humanity: On one side were those the walls protected; on the other, those the walls kept out. The stars of this narrative are the walls themselves - rising up in places as ancient and exotic as Mesopotamia, Babylon, Greece, China, Rome, Mongolia, Afghanistan, the lower Mississippi, and even Central America....

Pulitzer Prize-winner Cynthia Tucker and award-winning author Frye Gaillard reflect on the role of the South in America's long descent into Trumpism. In 1974, Southern author John Egerton published his seminal work, The Americanization of Dixie, reflecting on the double-edged reality of the South becoming more like the rest of the country and vice versa. Tucker and Gaillard dive deeper into that reality from the time that Egerton published his book until the present.

In The Medical Marijuana Guide: Cannabis and Your Health, Dr. Patricia Frye takes a direct, no-nonsense approach to educating listeners about cannabis and its medicinal qualities. In this audiobook, using humorous and touching stories from the many situations she has encountered in her practice over the years, Dr. Frye provides valuable information about the undeniable medicinal qualities of cannabis. This audiobook helps to destigmatize this misunderstood drug and educate listeners on the history of cannabis and how it is used by the medical community today.

A writer resembling Zoé Valdés - a Cuban exile living in Paris with her husband and young daughter - is preparing a novel on the life of Dora Maar, one of the most promising artists in the Surrealist movement, until she met Pablo Picasso. The middle-aged Picasso was already the god of the art world's avant-garde. Dora became his lover, muse, and ultimately, his victim. She became The Weeping Woman captured in his famous portrait, the mistress he betrayed with other mistress-muses, and their affair ended with her commitment to an asylum at the hands of Picasso's friends.

To make this groundbreaking audiobook, Dr. James Lyons-Weiler combed through the past fifty years of published research on autism, exploring subjects such as genetic variation, mechanisms of neurotoxicity of metals and pesticides, and the central and combined roles of each in causing autism.

In his best-selling A Planet for Rent, Yoss pays homage to Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles and 334 by Thomas M. Disch. A critique of Cuba in the 90s, after the fall of the Soviet Union and the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact, A Planet for Rent marks the debut in English of an astonishingly brave and imaginative Latin American voice.

Media and public discussion tends to understand Russian politics as a direct reflection of Vladimir Putin's seeming omnipotence or Russia's unique history and culture. Yet Russia is remarkably similar to other autocracies - and recognizing this illuminates the inherent limits to Putin's power. Weak Strongman challenges the conventional wisdom about Putin's Russia, highlighting the difficult trade-offs that confront the Kremlin on issues ranging from election fraud and repression to propaganda and foreign policy.

In a distant future in which Latin Americans have pioneered faster-than-light space travel, Dr. Jan Amos Sangan Dongo has a job with large and unusual responsibilities: He’s a veterinarian who specializes in treating enormous alien animals. Mountain-sized amoebas, multisex species with bizarre reproductive processes, razor-nailed, carnivorous humanoid hunters: Dr. Sangan has seen it all.

Meet Jovie. How do you escape the past when it lurks at every small town corner? That's what Jovie is trying to figure out as she does her absolute best to move on and sweep those dirty parts of her past under the rug. It's not quite so simple when everyone knows: knows your past, knows you're untouchable, and knows...him. Meet Bleu. A new town. A new life. That’s what Bleu was in search of when he came across an advertisement for the perfect bachelor pad. He never thought he would retire from the military before he had a gray hair. Funny how life changes in the blink of an eye.

With A Hard Rain, Gaillard gives us a deeply personal history, bringing his keen storyteller's eye to this pivotal time in American life. He explores the competing story arcs of tragedy and hope through the political and social movements of the times: civil rights, black power, women's liberation, the war in Vietnam, and the protests and movements against it.

Through the lens of Sammy Davis Jr.'s six-decade career in show business—from vaudeville to Vegas to Broadway, Hollywood, and network TV—Dancing Down the Barricades examines the workings of race in American culture. The title phrase holds two contradictory meanings regarding Davis's cultural politics: Did he dance the barricades down, as he liked to think, or did he simply dance down them, as his more radical critics would have it?

This is a grab bag of fun where you never really know what you're going to get. Every week we have a different grab bag with a different topic that has so many different ancillary topics that can lead to so many different paths. When a few words on a little scrap of paper can send four minds in different directions every episode is an adventure. So put your hands in our grab bag and see what comes to your mind when you pull out a topic. Welcome to GORP!

Welcome to The SadFan Podcast where we talk about sports... well kind of. In this we cover all of the big stories and even well the sad ones, that's right all the teams that no one is talking about because they're not the Patriots, Lakers, Yankees and even Lebron James. Covering all of major sports and even some obscure ones we hope to inform you make you laugh and realize that it's just not that serious. Join Wes, Frye and Taylor as we fumble our way through this crazy world where each season can only end with one champion so let us help you enjoy the ride!

Become a Paid Subscriber: https://anchor.fm/emma-frye/subscribe We will talk about current events, entertainment, sports and everything in between.

There are a few things in this world we all refuse to change our minds about. It could be Helen Keller's credibility or Call Me Maybe being the greatest song of all time. Here, Lily unpacks all the discussions where no one can sway her. Facts and figures involved? Doesn't matter. Actual evidence to disprove her opinion? Nice try! And maybe once in a while, there will be someone joining her to try and change her mind. But as the saying goes, argue with the wall. ✨new episodes every Wednesday✨ follow the pod on IG ⁠@arguewthewall⁠ and subscribe to the 'tube channel ⁠

Are you a Tiki Freak? Then join us on the Tiki Freaks Show, which celebrates the crazy and wild world of Tiki Culture — from the music, events, and Tiki bars, to the beautifully designed mugs, and all the drinks, people, and community that come with it. Tiki is having a resurgence, and we want to make sure it stays FUN, YOUNG, and YOUNG AT HEART... grab your mug, your rum, and let's keep this party going!

My name is Naomi. I ramble about my aspirations, new age spirituality, and personal development journey. The goal is to encourage or give clarity to others through voicing my struggles and life lessons.

When a lesser king and his two Sword Lords refuse to slay the dragon, Elendria, in order to steal her Star Fire, High King Manix declares them outlaws. When he orders that their three children are to be executed, Lucas, Alex, and Celeste become determined to rescue them - for one is to be a legendary Sword Lord, the other is to become the Lion Lord, and the third is destined to become the queen, Alicia the Black Rose.

Ryan has goals to be like his father, the sheriff of Riverview, North Dakota. When he ventures into Stag-Heart Woods to rescue his friend's runaway dog, he stumbles upon the bloody aftermath of a shoot-out between an FBI agent and a Lakota man from nearby Stone Ridge Reservation. To Ryan, everything about the killing points to the Lakota man, Tallman Thunder Hawk, left unconscious by the shoot-out. But Dawn Red Feather, a young Lakota juvenile delinquent, has witnessed the shooting, and she brings Ryan evidence that would clear Tall of the murder.

In a coming-of-age story reminiscent of The Outsiders, 13-year-old Reason Nelson attends a party that is busted by the local police. As he flees, he collides with a detective and a drug dealer. He snatches up what he believes to be his leather jacket and crawls into a doghouse. In the pocket of this coat, Reason discovers a key that opens a safe-deposit box containing evidence that will solve the murder of a young female informant. Reason finds himself running from both the drug dealer who murdered her and the detective trying to solve her murder.