This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Discover the Empire That Ruled the Ancient WorldLong before Rome reached its height, the Persian Empire rose to dominate vast lands stretching from Egypt to India. Built by visionary rulers like Cyrus the Great and transformed into a global superpower under Darius I, this was the largest and most sophisticated empire the world had ever seen.Yet for cen...

Classroom-tested and lucidly written, Multivariable Calculus gives a thorough and rigoroustreatment of differential and integral calculus of functions of several variables. Designed as ajunior-level textbook for an advanced calculus course, this book covers a variety of notions,including continuity , differentiation, multiple integrals, line and surface integrals, differentialforms, and infinite series. Numerous exercises and examples throughout the book facilitatethe student's understandi...

What made Iran, Iran?The answer begins in 1501, when a teenage mystic-warrior named Ismail rode into Tabriz with an army of fanatical followers and declared himself Shah of Persia. Within a decade, he had conquered a fractured land, imposed Twelver Shi'a Islam at the point of a sword, and set in motion a chain of events that would echo for five centuries.The Safavid Empire ruled Persia for over two hundred years - and no dynasty before or since has left a d...

What if the most important country in the world is also the least understood?What is Russia, really? A European nation that looks east? An Asian empire that dreams west? A civilization perpetually on the edge of collapse - and perpetually returning from it?For a thousand years, Russia has confounded the world. It has been conquered, burned, frozen, starved, and carved apart - and each time, it has risen into something stranger and more powerful than what ca...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.The History of Iran: From the Persian Empire to the Islamic RevolutionWhat if you could understand one of the world’s oldest civilizations - clearly, quickly, and without getting lost in academic jargon?The History of Iran takes you on a powerful journey through more than 2,500 years of history, from the rise of the mighty Persian Empire to the complex realities of modern Iran. Whether...

The American story has never been fully told. Until now.As the United States marks its 250th anniversary, one question hangs over every celebration: whose story are we actually telling? American History: The Untold Story of We the Many answers that question - boldly, compellingly, and completely.Spanning 22 richly detailed chapters from the pre-Revolutionary tensions that lit the fuse of independence, all the way to a republic at 250, this landmark popular ...

Over a period of five years, the BBC took groups to the world’s most inhospitable places for Serious Jungle, Serious Amazon, Serious Desert, Serious Andes and Serious Arctic. This is what they had to learn to survive…Do you take a tent to the jungle, waterproofs to the Andes, does sand really get everywhere and how do you poo in the Arctic? Serious Survival is what you really need to know before you visit out-of-the-way places – without it you will have a seriously uncomfortable ti...

Does your child love soccer - or want to discover why billions of people go crazy for one tournament every four years?The World Cup is more than a sports event. It's where legends are born, hearts are broken, and history is made - 90 minutes at a time. And now, kids ages 8-12 can experience every thrilling moment of it.History of the World Cup for Kids takes young readers on an action-packed journey from the very first tournament in Uruguay in 1930 all the ...

WHY DOES EVERYTHING HAPPEN? NOW YOU CAN ACTUALLY FIND OUT.Every curious kid has a list of questions as long as their arm. Why is the sky blue? Why do volcanoes explode? Why did the dinosaurs disappear? Why does thunder boom after lightning flashes?Most books give you a sentence. Maybe two. Then they move on.100,000 Whys for Kids does something different.Instead of skimming across hundreds of topics with shallow one-liners, this book takes 20...

Everything you think you know about the Fourth of July is wrong - and that makes it so much better.July 4, 1776 isn't actually when independence was declared. The Liberty Bell almost certainly never rang that day. John Hancock's oversized signature? There's a reason for that. And the most powerful speech ever delivered on Independence Day was a searing indictment of America itself.As America reaches its 250th birthday - its Semiquincentennial - America 250:...

They call me the mediator.The charming one who can stop a fight right in its tracks.Except, I don’t want to charm, or smile, or dance.I’m tired of society picking off my family one by one.It’s time to burn, to punish, to destroy. In order to take down the council once and for all, I need someone on the inside.Julia is looking to make up for past mistakes and fight back against the organization that used her and threw her away. She’ll buy me my ticket inside...

The Empire Rome Could Not Break: A History of the Parthian EmpireFor five centuries, one empire stood between Rome and the East - and Rome never broke it.While Caesar conquered Gaul and Augustus remade the Mediterranean world, a rival power ruled an empire stretching from the Euphrates to the borders of China. The Parthians - heirs of ancient Iran, masters of the steppe, guardians of the Silk Road - built a civilization that absorbed Greek culture without s...