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Some 25 centuries after the Buddha started teaching, his message continues to inspire people across the globe, including those living in predominantly secular societies. What does it mean to adapt religious practices to secular contexts? Stephen Batchelor, an internationally known author and teacher, is committed to a secularized version of the Buddha's teachings. The time has come, he feels, to articulate a coherent, ethical, contemplative, and philosophical vision of Buddhism for our age.

The 30 years of contemporary US history following the fall of the Soviet Union tend to get short shrift, perhaps because this period of history is still being written, or perhaps because the end of the Cold War is a natural stopping point, an inflection point when one story ends and something new - something unpredictable - begins. Nonetheless, events of today have been profoundly shaped by the past several decades, and one must understand this recent history to understand the world today.

Alexander the Great's death in 323 BCE left a power vacuum that spawned three centuries of Greek-speaking empires stretching from the Aegean to the Indus. This show, hosted by Lucas and Luna, follows the Diadochi — Ptolemy, Seleucus, Antigonus, and their successors — as they carved up Alexander's conquests into Ptolemaic Egypt, Seleucid Asia, and Antigonid Macedon. We dissect the Battle of Ipsus (301 BCE), the rise of the Mauryan Empire under Chandragupta, and the cultural synthesis known as Hellenism: Alexandria's Library, the Rosetta Stone, and the fusion of Greek and Buddhist art in ...

Award-winning historian Frank Dikötter explores how the People’s Republic of China was transformed from a backwater economy in the 1970s into the world superpower of today. His account is the first to be based on hundreds of previously unseen archival documents, from the secret minutes of top party meetings to confidential bank reports. Unfolding with great narrative sweep, this riveting, richly detailed chronicle recasts our understanding of an era that both the regime and foreign admirers celebrate as an economic miracle.

Ancient Egyptian religion was a complex tapestry of myth, ritual, and belief in the afterlife that shaped one of the world's most enduring civilizations. From the Old Kingdom pyramid builders of the 4th Dynasty to the Ptolemaic temples of Dendera and Philae, Lucas and Luna guide listeners through the pantheon of gods like Ra, Osiris, Isis, and Horus, the intricate Book of the Dead, and the mummification practices that sought to preserve the body for eternity. Explore the mortuary complexes at Giza and Saqqara, the theological shifts under Akhenaten's Amarna revolution, and the role of magic, ...

Melissa Seligman is something rare in the world of military families - a military wife who is also a beautiful writer. Here she describes her feelings as she watches her husband walk away from her and her newborn, knowing full well that he might not return from the war in Iraq. She experiences saying goodbye twice - both times he left when their children were still infants. While he’s away from home again, Melissa struggles to remember the goodness of her husband and the joy of their life together. Working hard to raise a baby and a four-year old, Melissa tells of the heartbreak and desperation she experiences at home.

When Alexander the Great died in 323 BCE, his vast empire—stretching from Greece to India—shattered into a chaos of ambition, betrayal, and war. This show follows the epic aftermath: the forty-year struggle among his generals, the Diadochi, who carved out kingdoms from Macedon to Egypt. Lucas and Luna guide you through the rise of the Seleucid Empire, the Ptolemaic dynasty's grip on Egypt, and the bloody battles of Ipsus and Corupedium. Explore how Hellenistic culture fused Greek and Eastern traditions in cities like Alexandria and Antioch, while kingdoms like Bactria and Pergamon ...

Why did the Mauryan Empire, which once stretched from modern-day Afghanistan to Bengal, collapse within fifty years of Ashoka's death? Lucas and Luna explore this question through the lens of the empire's final decades (232–185 BCE), examining the reigns of Ashoka's successors—Dasaratha, Samprati, Salisuka, and the last Mauryan, Brihadratha. They analyze the administrative strain of a vast, ethnically diverse territory, the financial burden of maintaining a standing army and bureaucracy, and the growing power of regional governors. The show delves into the role of Ashoka's own policies: ...

A classic of JFK assassination literature, Sylvia Meagher's work is a relentless indictment of the Warren Commission and its work. Originally published in 1967, Meagher's masterful dissection of the Warren Report, based on the Warren Commission's own evidence, has stood the test of time. In some cases, declassifications of government records have corroborated the author's suspicions and analyses, such as her amazing assertion that Oswald had never actually been charged with Kennedy's murder, despite sworn testimony to the contrary.

At the end of Eric Cline's bestselling history 1177 B.C., many of the Late Bronze Age civilizations of the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean lay in ruins, undone by invasion, revolt, natural disasters, famine, and the demise of international trade. An interconnected world that had boasted major empires and societies, relative peace, robust commerce, and monumental architecture was lost and the so-called First Dark Age had begun. Now, in After 1177 B.C., Cline tells the compelling story of what happened next, over four centuries, across the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean world.

The women that history tried to erase are coming through from the other side, and they have a request: that we share their stories and wisdom, and what they wish they'd known when they were alive. Tune in to hear from women who were important, powerful, inspired, and... largely erased from most of our history books! Whether they were left out of our history books, or had their stories edited and changed to leave out important pieces, they're here to spill the tea and help those of us who are still living! All afterlife interviews and messages are spirit-led, meaning they tapped me on the ...

Five soldiers injured in the same 2009 bomb blast are a case study in a new epidemic among America's troops, who are grappling with a combination of concussion and post-traumatic stress disorder.

Following Hernando Cortés's conquest of Tenochtitlan in 1521, the Aztec empire became the center of the largest European colony in the Americas. It has long been assumed that Indigenous people's personal experiences of this cataclysmic era are inaccessible. Spanish records do not reflect how...

After the Impact is a storytelling podcast about the moments that change everything—and what happens next.From extinction events to modern life struggles, each episode explores the hidden consequences of powerful events, ideas, and habits.Not just what happened……but how it changes us.If you’ve ever wondered why people feel lost, overwhelmed, or stuck—this is where those answers begin.Slow down. Listen closely.Because the real story… starts after the impact.

Everything that happened after 2:21 a.m. April 15, 1912.

The 13th person to walk on the moon could soon be part of a crew establishing a base on the lip of a crater at the lunar south pole. The discovery of ice in the eternal shadows of the polar regions transforms our ability to live on the moon. From bases on the moon we can make the long, lonely and dangerous voyage to Mars, where there is also ice. The obstacles are many, not least the fragilities of the human body. And what type of world would the first Mars explorers find?

Meet eight combat-injured men who sustained life-altering injuries. Hear eight inspiring stories of heroism and the re-building of independent, productive and fulfilling lives after seemingly impossible circumstance. Hear how these incredible men manage to reshape their lives after combat. It also sets these stories within the context of current veteran healthcare, and injury, suicide, and disability statistics, and looks briefly at the impacts on the caregivers who support these men. R. J.

Alan S. Blinder - esteemed Princeton professor, Wall Street Journal columnist, and former vice chairman of the Federal Reserve Board under Alan Greenspan - is one of our wisest and most clear-eyed economic thinkers. In After the Music Stopped, he delivers a masterful narrative of how the worst economic crisis in postwar American history happened, what the government did to fight it, and what we must do to recover from it.

From May 1941 to the end of night raids in 1943, Luftwaffe bombers attacked provincial cities across England, Scotland, and Wales. However, these air raids are not considered part of the Blitz—at least, not according to the British Official History. The official historiography maintains that the Blitz on the United Kingdom ended when aircraft were redeployed to support the invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, after the final major raid against London that May.

Sambhaji's death was a big blow to the Marathas. He was the rightful heir and a daredevil; someone who could have challenged Aurangzeb had he not been given up by his own family members. The Marathas were not to give up so easily. The few years after Sambhaji's death were ruinous and confusing...