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Learn more about the history of England with Paul and Calum Waite.

In December of 1971, a war broke out on both India’s eastern and western fronts and within a mere 13 days gave Indian armed forces its greatest victory and Pakistan its worst defeat. In this, Manthan was born a new nation: Bangladesh. We bring you: the heroic stories about this war & conflict: the bravery and glory of the Indian armed forces through this audiobook. So hold your breath and don’t miss this scintillating journey that will make you proud to be an Indian.

A definitive, analytical and meticulous account of the present state of the nation - from a constitutional perspective - by one of India’s most respected legal luminaries. An ardent defender of the Constitution of India, Fali Nariman has today attained the status of an outstanding lawyer who strongly believes in the rule of the law and stands by his convictions. In this timely volume, the author highlights crucial issues that the legislature, the executive, judiciary, the bar and the common people have to deal with virtually on a day-to-day basis.

"How ‘The Birth of a Nation’ Silences Black Women" is from the October 13, 2016 Entertainment section of The New York Times. It was written by Salamishah Tillet and narrated by Caroline Miller.

"‘The Birth of a Nation’ Sweeps Top Awards at the Sundance Film Festival" is from the Arts section of The New York Times. It was written by Brooks Barnes and narrated by Fleet Cooper.

"Fox Searchlight Bids $17 Million for 'the Birth of a Nation'" is from the Business section of The New York Times. It was written by Brooks Barnes and Cara Buckley and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

New attention from historians and journalists is raising pointed questions about the founding period: was the American revolution waged to preserve slavery, and was the Constitution a pact with slavery or a landmark in the antislavery movement? We have long needed a history of the founding that fully includes Black Americans in the Revolutionary protests, the war, and the debates over slavery and freedom that followed. We now have that history in Edward J. Larson's insightful synthesis of the founding.

Introducing a new podcast brought to you by the PTB Media Network. "The Mister" Mike Agostinho @mikeagostinho will take you on a nostalgic trip back to when the game of soccer wasn't even on the radar of most Americans. Today there are up to 100 live matches on TV and Streaming in America every weekend but this podcast will take you back to when that wasn't the case, because we can't know where we are headed if we don't know where we've been. The podcast will start it's timeline at the collapse of the #NASL and take you through the birth of #MLS

In 2004 and 2005, striking images from the Ukraine made their way around the world, among them boisterous, orange-clad crowds protesting electoral fraud and the hideously scarred face of a poisoned opposition candidate. Europe's second-largest country but still an immature state only recently independent, Ukraine has become a test case of post-communist democracy, as millions of people in other countries celebrated the protesters' eventual victory.

John Adams told Thomas Jefferson that “history is to ascribe the American Revolution to Thomas Paine.” Thomas Edison called him “the equal of Washington in making American liberty possible.” He was a founder of both the United States and the French Revolution. He invented the phrase, “The United States of America.” He rose from abject poverty in working-class England to the highest levels of the era’s intellectual elite. And yet, by the end of his life, Thomas Paine was almost universally reviled.

Psychology is the scientific study of the mind and behavior, and psychologists are actively involved in studying and understanding mental processes, including brain functions, and behavior. In fact, the field of psychology is considered a "Hub Science" with strong connections to the medical sciences, social sciences, and education. Human nature is a related concept but nevertheless a bit different, as it denotes the fundamental dispositions and characteristics—including ways of thinking, feeling, and acting—that humans are said to have naturally.