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 English | 2020 | MP3 | M4B | ASIN: B07SRD5L8H | Duration: 7:36 h | 208 MB Justus Rosenberg / Narrated by Rob Shapiro An unforgettable World War II memoir set in Nazi-occupied France and filled with romance and adventure: a former Eastern European Jew remembers his flight from the Holocaust and his extraordinary four years in the French underground. Justus Rosenberg, now 98, has taught literature at Bard College for the past 50 years.  English | 2015 | MP3 | M4B | ASIN: B00YD4G51C | Duration: 7:20 h | 202 MB Mary Karr / Narrated by Mary Karr Credited with sparking the current memoir explosion, Mary Karr's The Liars' Club spent more than a year at the top of the New York Times list. She followed with two other smash best sellers: Cherry and Lit, which were critical hits as well.  English | 2016 | MP3 | M4B | ASIN: B01M0XJ3HZ | Duration: 5:43 h | 157 MB Joel McHale / Narrated by Joel McHale From actor and comedian Joel McHale comes the most important celebrity-penned book of this - or any - generation: Thanks for the Money: How to Use My Life Story to Become the Best Joel McHale You Can Be. ![Suppression, Deception, Snobbery, and Bias Why the Press Gets So Much Wrong—And Just Doesn't Care [Audiobook]](https://i120.fastpic.org/big/2022/0720/f0/bbb1a0be160c71fde6ae905db28c57f0.jpeg) English | ASIN: B09JXMXT4Z | 2022 | 8 hours and 39 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 238 MB Media consultant and former Bush Administration Press Secretary Ari Fleischer accuses American journalism of becoming the domain of the woke young urban elite—a class which has no respect or tolerance for dissenting views. According to Ari Fleischer, there is a new elite in America—the Journalist Class. Today's mainstream media is dominated by younger, urban college grads who write stories for younger, urban college grads. These journalists haven't just slanted the media. They've pulled the whole Democrat party over to their own worldview, he contends. This is the true source of anger in the country and the growing sense that media elites look down on everyone else. Because they do. If you're older or not urban or not a college grad, the Journalist Class doesn't think you're worth impressing. But there's a problem for progressives—the Journalist Class's point of view does not persuade enough people to win elections. Before 2016, they tried to appeal to those citizens living in what they call "flyover country," but after 2016 they began writing only for each other. The way this narrow worldview has constricted news and cultural language is intellectually impoverishing for a country as diverse and varied as the United States. In Suppression, Deception, Snobbery, and Bias Fleischer argues that the new media elite is shutting down the very conversations which we must have to bring the country back together. ![Strength in Numbers How Polls Work and Why We Need Them [Audiobook]](https://i120.fastpic.org/big/2022/0720/c2/9bd73a7993fc70e67b77fa0731cb53c2.jpeg) English | ASIN: B0B5VXYKLW | 2022 | 7 hours and 37 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 209 MB Public opinion polling is the ultimate democratic process; it gives every person an equal voice in letting elected leaders know what they need and want. But in the eyes of the public, polls today are tarnished. Recent election forecasts have routinely missed the mark and media coverage of polls has focused solely on predicting winners and losers. In Strength in Numbers, data journalist G. Elliott Morris argues that the larger purpose of political polls is to improve democracy, not just predict elections. Whether used by interest groups, the press, or politicians, polling serves as a pipeline from the governed to the government, giving citizens influence they would otherwise lack. No one who believes in democracy can afford to give up on polls; they should commit, instead, to understanding them better. Morris takes listeners from the first semblance of data-gathering in the ancient world through to the development of modern-day scientific polling. He explains how the internet and "big data" have solved many challenges in polling—and created others. He covers the rise of polling aggregation and methods of election forecasting, reveals how data can be distorted and misrepresented, and demystifies the uncertainty of polling. Acknowledging where polls have gone wrong in the past, Morris charts a path for the industry's future. ![Soundings Journeys in the Company of Whales A Memoir [Audiobook]](https://i120.fastpic.org/big/2022/0720/90/0090eb681e70bf44d87dba468e1c6290.jpeg) English | ASIN: B09KYGVDT8 | 2022 | 10 hours and 19 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 284 MB In this striking blend of nature writing, whale science, and memoir, Doreen Cunningham interweaves two stories: tracking the extraordinary northward migration of the grey whales with a mischievous toddler in tow and living with an Iñupiaq family in Alaska seven years earlier. Throughout the journey she explores the stories of the whales and their young calves—their history, their habits, and their attempts to survive the changes humans have brought to the ocean. Lyrical, brave, and fearlessly honest, Soundings is an unforgettable journey. [center]  English | 2013 | MP3 | M4B | ASIN: B00CHQ8AL6 | Duration: 8:49 h | 245 MB Jim Downs / Narrated by Gabriel Bush Bondspeople who fled from slavery during and after the Civil War did not expect that their flight toward freedom would lead to sickness, disease, suffering, and death. But the war produced the largest biological crisis of the nineteenth century, and as historian Jim Downs reveals in this groundbreaking volume, it had deadly consequences for hundreds of thousands of freed people.  English | 2017 | MP3 | M4B | ASIN: B074B9ZZRJ | Duration: 10:14 h | 281 MB Andrew Shtulman / Narrated by Barry Abrams Humans are born to create theories about the world - unfortunately, they're usually wrong, and keep us from understanding the world as it really is. Why do we catch colds? What causes seasons to change? And if you fire a bullet from a gun and drop one from your hand, which bullet hits the ground first? In a pinch, we almost always get these questions wrong. Worse, we regularly misconstrue fundamental qualities of the world around us.  English | 2013 | MP3 | M4B | ASIN: B00DTO4HIK | Duration: 12:23 h | 173 MB Steven L. Goldman / Narrated by Steven L. Goldman Choose one: (A) Science gives us objective knowledge of an independently existing reality, or (B) Scientific knowledge is always provisional and tells us nothing that is universal, necessary, or certain about the world.  English | 2022 | MP3 | M4B | ASIN: B09S7YKDPS | Duration: 6:45 h | 190 MB Mike Lee / Narrated by James Edward Thomas The left's partisan push to pack the Supreme Court with liberal justices has fully migrated from the fringes into the mainstream of Democratic politics. |
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