The Question of Canon: Challenging the Status Quo in the New Testament Debate (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BP32F6CX | 2022 | 6 hours and 43 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 184 MB
Author: Michael J. Kruger
Narrator: Brian P. Craig
Did the New Testament canon arise naturally from within the early Christian faith? Were the books written as Scripture, or did they become Scripture? Why did early Christians have a canon at all? These are the types of questions that led Michael J. Kruger to pick apart modern scholarship's dominant view that the New Testament is a late creation of the church imposed on books originally written for another purpose. Calling into question this commonly held "extrinsic" view, Kruger tackles the five most prevalent objections to the classic understanding of a collection of authoritative scriptures. Kruger addresses foundational and paradigmatic assumptions of the extrinsic model as he provides powerful rebuttals and further support for the classic, "intrinsic" view. Unlike many books written on the emergence of the New Testament canon that ask "when?" or "how?" Kruger focuses this work on the "why?"-exposing weaknesses in the five major tenets of the extrinsic model as he goes. While The Question of Canon scrutinizes today's popular scholastic view, it also offers an alternative concept to lay a better empirical foundation for biblical canon studies.

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The Privatization of Everything: How the Plunder of Public Goods Transformed America and How We Can Fight Back (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BN4S7TDQ | 2022 | 12 hours and 17 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 338 MB
Author: Donald Cohen, Allen Mikaelian
Narrator: Brian P. Craig
As people reach for social justice and better lives, they create public goods that must be kept out of the market. When private interests take over, they strip public goods of their power to lift people up, creating instead a tool to diminish democracy, further inequality, and separate us from each other. The Privatization of Everything, by the founder of In the Public Interest, chronicles the efforts to turn our public goods into private profit centers. Ever since Ronald Reagan labeled government a dangerous threat, privatization has touched every aspect of our lives. The Privatization of Everything connects the dots across a broad spectrum of issues and raises larger questions about who controls the public things we all rely on, exposing the hidden crisis of privatization that has been slowly unfolding over the last fifty years and giving us a road map for taking our country back.

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The Other Side of Prospect: A Story of Violence, Injustice, and the American City (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BKB29PSG | 2022 | 17 hours and 27 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 479 MB
Author: Nicholas Dawidoff
Narrator: Diontae Black
A landmark work of intimate reporting on inequality, race, class, and violence, told through a murder and intersecting lives in an iconic American neighborhood. One New Haven summer evening in 2006, a retired grandfather was shot point-blank by a young stranger. A hasty police investigation culminated in innocent sixteen-year-old Bobby being sentenced to prison for thirty-eight years. New Haven native Nicholas Dawidoff returned home and spent eight years reporting the deeper story of this injustice, and what it reveals about the enduring legacies of social and economic disparity.

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The Oswalds: An Untold Account of Marina and Lee (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0B61S8V6J | 2022 | 8 hours and 11 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 214 MB
Author: Paul R. Gregory
Narrator: Traber Burns
The closest friend of Lee Harvey Oswald and his Soviet wife Marina upon the couple's arrival in Texas breaks a sixty-year silence with a riveting story of his time with JFK's assassin and his candid assessment of the murder that marked a turning point in our country's history. Merely two hours after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, television cameras captured police escorting a suspect into Dallas police headquarters. Meanwhile at the University of Oklahoma, watching the coverage in the student center, Paul Gregory scanned the figure in dark trousers and a white, V-neck tee shirt and saw the bruised and battered face of Lee Harvey Oswald. Shocked, Gregory said, "I know that man." In fact, he knew Oswald and his wife Marina better than almost anyone in America. After sixty years, Paul Gregory finally tells everything he knows about the Oswalds and how he watched the soul of a killer take shape. As a scholar and skilled researcher, Gregory debunks the vast array of assassination conspiracy theories by demonstrating that Lee Harvey Oswald did it and did it alone-that the Oswald he once called a friend had the motive, the intelligence, and the means to commit one of the most shocking crimes in American history.

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The Original Meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment: Its Letter & Spirit (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BLQNK1KW | 2022 | 18 hours and 6 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 514 MB
Author: Randy E. Barnett, Evan D. Bernick
Narrator: David de Vries
Adopted in 1868, the Fourteenth Amendment profoundly changed the Constitution, giving the federal judiciary and Congress new powers to protect the fundamental rights of individuals from being violated by the states. Yet, according to Randy Barnett and Evan Bernick, the Supreme Court has long misunderstood or ignored the original meaning of the amendment's key clauses, covering the privileges and immunities of citizenship, due process of law, and the equal protection of the laws. Antislavery advocates advanced arguments informed by natural rights, the Declaration of Independence, and the common law. Although their arguments lost in the courts, the Republican Party was formed to advance an antislavery political agenda, eventually bringing about abolition. Then, when abolition alone proved insufficient to thwart Southern repression and provide for civil equality, the Fourteenth Amendment was enacted. Finally, Congress used its powers to pass Reconstruction-era civil rights laws that tell us much about the original scope of the amendment.

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The Open-Air Life: Discover the Nordic Art of Friluftsliv and Embrace Nature Every Day (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B09XBXXYWR | 2022 | 7 hours and 26 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 191 MB
Author: Linda Akeson Mcgurk
Narrator: Laura Jennings
A complete guide to Friluftsliv, the Nordic secret to unplugging and connecting more deeply with nature. In The Open-Air Life, Swedish-American writer Linda McGurk introduces listeners to a wide array of Nordic customs and practices that focus on slowing down and spending more and more of ones' time outdoors. An outdoorsy cousin of hygge, friluftsliv is what Nordic people do outside all day before they cozy up in front of the fireplace with their wool socks on and a cup of hot cocoa. From the pleasures of foraging for wild berries and birding to how to stay warm and cozy outside in the middle of winter, this inspirational guide shows listeners how to harness the power-of-nature to improve their physical and mental health.

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The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B09V6PKFYZ | 2022 | 10 hours and 12 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 272 MB
Author: Amitav Ghosh
Narrator: Sam Dastor
In this ambitious successor to The Great Derangement, acclaimed writer Amitav Ghosh finds the origins of our contemporary climate crisis in Western colonialism's violent exploitation of human life and the natural environment. A powerful work of history, essay, testimony, and polemic, Amitav Ghosh's new book traces our contemporary planetary crisis back to the discovery of the New World and the sea route to the Indian Ocean. The Nutmeg's Curse argues that the dynamics of climate change today are rooted in a centuries-old geopolitical order constructed by Western colonialism.

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The Nine Lives of Florida's Famous Key Marco Cat (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BN6R1Y3S | 2022 | 7 hours and 26 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 206 MB
Author: Austin J. Bell
Narrator: Stephen Graybill
Excavated from a waterlogged archaeological site on the shores of subtropical Florida by legendary anthropologist Frank Hamilton Cushing in 1896, the Key Marco Cat has become a modern icon of heritage, history, and local identity. This book takes listeners into the deep past of the artifact and the Native American society in which it was created. The Nine Lives of Florida's Famous Key Marco Cat is the story of a timeless masterpiece of staggering simplicity that has prevailed over impossibly long odds.

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The New Megatrends: Seeing Clearly in the Age of Disruption (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B09J1PLV1P | 2022 | 9 hours and 57 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 254 MB
Author: Marian Salzman
Narrator: Vivienne Leheny
A pioneering forecaster predicts the trends and technologies that will shape global culture and commerce in the next two decades-a must-read guide for business leaders, entrepreneurs, and anyone looking for an edge. A little more than twenty years ago, the Y2K computer glitch threatened to bring the global economy to its knees. But instead of overnight disruption, humankind slipped into two decades of economic turmoil, ecological angst, and tribalism, all set against the backdrop of a newly global and digital civilization. Sometimes the events that seem pivotal are just blips, while the more meaningful cultural shifts are hiding in plain sight. Marian Salzman's job is to uncover those hidden shifts.

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The New Art of Ideas: Unlock Your Creative Potential (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BKCCP66X | 2022 | 4 hours and 45 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 136 MB
Author: Robin Landa
Narrator: Natalie Hoyt
In a world with a surplus of ideas, what separates a good idea from a bad one? Learn how to cultivate a mindset that produces the kind of ideas people can't turn down. Most professionals cannot generate a solid idea. They either offer up tired or reused ones, or they generate lots of ideas but none that are worth pursuing. A great idea presents a well-formulated thought or plan of action that spurs growth, change, advancement, adaptation, or new insight. Worthwhile ideas move the needle; they change the playing field altogether. With explanations and examples of each component, this book demystifies the process of effective ideation and hands you the key to unlock your creative potential.

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