English | ASIN: B098GHHTB3 | 2021 | 10 hours and 27 minutes |MP3|M4B | 569 MB
A young entrepreneur makes the case that politics has no place in business and sets out a new vision for the future of American capitalism. There's a new invisible force at work in our economic and cultural lives. It affects every advertisement we see and every product we buy, from our morning coffee to a new pair of shoes. "Stakeholder capitalism" makes rosy promises of a better, more diverse, environmentally friendly world, but in reality, this ideology, championed by America's business and political leaders, robs us of our money, our voice, and our identity. Vivek Ramaswamy is a traitor to his class. He's founded multibillion-dollar enterprises, led a biotech company as CEO; he became a hedge fund partner in his 20s, trained as a scientist at Harvard and a lawyer at Yale, and grew up the child of immigrants in a small town in Ohio.
Now he takes us behind the scenes into corporate boardrooms and five-star conferences, into Ivy League classrooms and secretive nonprofits, to reveal the defining scam of our century. The modern woke-industrial complex divides us as a people. By mixing morality with consumerism, America's elites prey on our innermost insecurities about who we really are. They sell us cheap social causes and skin-deep identities to satisfy our hunger for a cause and our search for meaning, at a moment when we as Americans lack both.This book not only rips back the curtain on the new corporatist agenda, it offers a better way forward. America's elites may want to sort us into demographic boxes, but we don't have to stay there. Woke, Inc. begins as a critique of stakeholder capitalism and ends with an exploration of what it means to be an American in 2021 - a journey that begins with cynicism and ends with hope.

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English | ASIN: B08GGF8JHW | 2020 | 6 hours and 39 minutes |MP3|M4B | 367 MB
During his life and even after his death, Captain William Kidd's name was known around England and the American colonies. He was infamous for the very crime for which he was hanged, piracy. This book by Rebecca Simon dives into the details of the two-year manhunt for Captain Kidd and the events that ensued afterward. Captain Kidd was hanged in 1701, and from that sprung a massive hunt for all pirates led by the British during a period known as the Golden Age of Piracy. Ironically, public executions only led to pirates' growth in popularity and interest. In addition, because the American colonies relied on pirates for smuggled goods such as spices, wines, and silks, they sought to protect pirates from being captured.
The more pirates were hunted and executed, the more people became supportive of them. They felt for the "Robin Hoods of the Sea" - both because they saw the British's treatment of them as an injustice and because they treasured the goods that pirates brought to them. These historical events were pivotal in creating the portrayal of pirates as we know them today. They grew into romantic antiheroes - which ultimately led to characters like the mischievous but lovable Captain Jack Sparrow. Simon has presented her research on the history of pirates around the world, and now she's bringing the spectacular story of Captain Kidd to her listeners.

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English | ASIN: B09BTJQXH2 | 2021 |MP3|M4B | ~08:37:00 | 244 MB
Howard Markel, Steven Jay Cohen (Narrator), "When Germs Travel: Six Major Epidemics That Have Invaded America and the Fears They Have Unleashed"
The struggle against deadly microbes is endless. Diseases that have plagued human beings since ancient times still exist, new maladies make their way into the headlines, we are faced with vaccine shortages, and the threat of germ warfare has reemerged as a worldwide threat.

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English | ASIN: B09C7DY8HW | 2021 | 8 hours and 13 minutes |MP3|M4B | 226 MB
What if you uncovered a Nazi paper trail that revealed your father a man very different from the quiet, introspective dad you knew...or thought you knew? Growing up, author Mel Laytner saw his father as a quintessential Type B: Passive and conventional. As he uncovered documents the Nazis didn't burn, another man emerged: A black market ringleader and wily camp survivor who made his own luck. But the tattered papers also reveal painful secrets his father took to his grave. Melding the intimacy of personal memoir with the rigors of investigative journalism, What They Didn't Burn is a heartwarming, inspiring story of resilience and redemption. A story of how desperate survivors turned hopeful refugees rebuild their shattered lives in America, all the while struggling with the lingering trauma that has impacted their children to this day.

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English | 2005 |MP3|M4B | ASIN: B004EX0R84 | Duration: 6:39 h | 457 MB
Liza Picard / Narrated by Anton Lesser
Like her previous books, this book is the result of the author's passionate interest in the realities of everyday life, and the conditions in which most people lived, so often left out of history books.

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English | ASIN: B09B2QR4N2 | 2021 | 9 hours and 1 minute |MP3|M4B | 248 MB
Want to know the secret of selling at a higher margin? This book will explain how. Whether you are completely new to sales or have many years' experience as a business owner, The Profit Secret reveals something that has been hiding in full view for years, something that frequently means we lose out on profit, even though we win the sale. This book has a wealth of ideas, mechanisms and strategies to challenge conventional thinking about how to sell profitably. Remember: sales are vanity; profit is sanity.

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English | ASIN: B09BT4RKMS | 2021 | 11 hours and 17 minutes |MP3|M4B | 310 MB
Based on previously undisclosed archival materials, this book tells the fascinating, untold, and troubling story of an anti-Protestant campaign in Italy that lasted longer, consumed more clerical energy and cultural space, and generated far more literature than the war against Italy's Jewish population. Because clerical leaders in Rome were seeking to build a new Catholic world in the aftermath of the Great War, Protestants embodied a special menace, and were seen as carriers of dangers like heresy, secularism, modernity, and Americanism - as potent threats to the Catholic precepts that were the true foundations of Italian civilization, values, and culture. The pope and cardinals framed the threat of evangelical Christianity as a peril not only to the Catholic Church but to the fascist government as well, recruiting some very powerful fascist officials to their cause. This important book is the first full account of this dangerous alliance.

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English | 2009 |MP3|M4B | ASIN: B004DRYF98 | Duration: 8:36 h | 234 MB
Henry Louis Mencken / Narrated by Charlton Griffin
Mention the name of Friedrich Nietzsche almost anywhere and you are apt to receive a strong emotional response, either negatively or positively. Few persons will say they have no opinion. And for good reason. Employing some of the most withering attacks and scathing criticism conceivable against, among other things, Christianity, education, government, Wagner, and the judicial systems of his day, Nietzsche was a one-man wrecking ball of European society in the latter half of the 19th century.

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English | ASIN: B08NQ4R25N | 2021 | 13 hours and 52 minutes |MP3|M4B | 381 MB
Paul Selig's profound gift is to channel the unfiltered wisdom of The Guides - higher beings who exist beyond the borders of traditional human understanding - and share it with the world. The Kingdom is a transcription of Paul's channeled messages, direct from the Guides in their complete and unedited form. With beautiful language and profound wisdom, The Guides share an awe-inspiring glimpse into an understanding apart from and above our own.

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English | ASIN: B09BG4JDNR | 2021 | 6 hours and 41 minutes |MP3|M4B | 184 MB
In The Jewish World of Alexander Hamilton, Andrew Porwancher debunks a string of myths about the origins of this founding father to arrive at a startling conclusion: Hamilton, in all likelihood, was born and raised Jewish. For more than two centuries, his youth in the Caribbean has remained shrouded in mystery. Hamilton himself wanted it that way, and most biographers have simply assumed he had a Christian boyhood. With a detective's persistence and a historian's rigor, Porwancher upends that assumption. This radical reassessment of Hamilton's religious upbringing gives us a fresh perspective on both his adult years and the country he helped forge.
Although he didn't identify as a Jew in America, Hamilton cultivated a relationship with the Jewish community that made him unique among the founders. As a lawyer, he advocated for Jewish citizens in court. As a financial visionary, he invigorated sectors of the economy that gave Jews their greatest opportunities. As an alumnus of Columbia, he made his alma mater more welcoming to Jewish people. And his efforts are all the more striking given the pernicious antisemitism of the era. By setting Hamilton in the context of his Jewish world for the first time, this fascinating book challenges us to rethink the life and legend of America's most enigmatic founder.

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