Principles for Navigating Big Debt Crises (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B09ZFCQ2T1 | 2022 | 16 hours and 52 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 782 MB
Author: Ray Dalio
Narrator: Stephen Graybill
Ray Dalio, the legendary investor and #1 New York Times bestselling author-whose books have sold more than five million copies worldwide-shares his unique template for how debt crises work and principles for dealing with them well. Whether you're an investor, a policy maker, or are simply interested in debt, this unconventional perspective from one of the few people who navigated the crisis successfully, Principles for Navigating Big Debt Crises will help you understand the economy and markets in revealing new ways.

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Princess Margaret: The Royal House of Windsor (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BMDMM63M | 2022 | 8 hours and 39 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 248 MB
Author: Helen Cathcart
Narrator: Lorna Bennett
A compelling biography of Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon. Loyal sister and friend to Queen Elizabeth II, Princess Margaret grew up in the public gaze and was one of the most-discussed women in the world. But what was early life like for the younger sibling of the future monarch? And what role did she carve for herself within the Royal Family? Royal biographer Helen Cathcart offers a fascinating personal study of the first four decades of the Princess's life, from her birth at Glamis Castle and phenomenal childhood popularity in the nostalgic era of "the two little princesses," through watching her parents crowned in Westminster Abbey and dancing among the crowds after her sister's Coronation. The author casts crucial new light on "the Townsend affair," a crisis once compared with that of the Duke of Windsor, and the culminating love story of the Princess and the young photographer, Antony Armstrong-Jones. Against the changing scenes of royal palaces, Thames-side hideaways and Caribbean islands, and with deep family insight, Princess Margaret is the definitive inner story of the Queen's beloved sister, charismatic and unconventional, yet always her steadfast self.

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Postcards from Absurdistan: Prague at the End of History (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BN2HZZ98 | 2022 | 27 hours and 59 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 751 MB
Author: Derek Sayer
Narrator: Daniel Henning
Postcards from Absurdistan is a cultural and political history of Prague from 1938, when the Nazis destroyed Czechoslovakia's artistically vibrant liberal democracy, to 1989, when the country's socialist regime collapsed after more than four decades of communist dictatorship. Derek Sayer shows that Prague's twentieth century, far from being a story of inexorable progress toward some "end of history," whether fascist, communist, or democratic, was a tragicomedy of recurring nightmares played out in a land Czech dissidents dubbed Absurdistan. Situated in the eye of the storms that shaped the modern world, Prague holds up an unsettling mirror to the absurdities and dangers of our own times.

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Poetry RX: How Fifty Inspiring Poems Can Heal and Bring Joy to Your Life (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B095J4YKCV | 2021 | 9 hours and 11 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 242 MB
Author: Norman E. Rosenthal
Narrator: Marguerite Gavin, Sean Pratt
Poetry to heal, inspire, and enjoy. Poetry Rx presents 50 great poems as seen through the eyes of a renowned psychiatrist and New York Times best seller. In this book, you will find insights into love, sorrow, ecstasy, and everything in between: love in the moment or for a lifetime; love that is fulfilling or addictive; when to break up; and how to survive when someone breaks up with you. Separate sections deal with responses to the natural world and the varieties of human experience (such as hope, reconciliation, leaving home, faith, self-actualization, trauma, anger, and the thrill of discovery). Other sections involve finding your way in the world and the search for meaning, as well as the final stages of life.

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Playing Under the Piano: From Downton to Darkest Peru (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BH9FB1QC | 2022 | 10 hours and 14 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 262 MB
Author: Hugh Bonneville
Narrator: Hugh Bonneville
A moving, laugh-out-loud memoir from one of today's best-loved British actors, whose credits include Downton Abbey, Notting Hill, and Paddington. From getting his big break as Third Shepherd in the school nativity play, to mistaking a Hollywood star for an estate agent, Hugh Bonneville creates a brilliantly vivid picture of a career on stage and screen. What is it like working with Judi Dench and Julia Roberts, or playing Robert De Niro's right leg, or not being Gary Oldman, twice? A wickedly funny storyteller, Bonneville also writes with poignancy about his father's dementia and of his mother, whose life in the secret service emerged only after her death. Whether telling stories of working with divas, Dames, or a bear with a penchant for marmalade, this is a richly entertaining account of his life as an actor.

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Picking Presidents: How to Make the Most Consequential Decision in the World (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BN2MSJ29 | 2022 | 7 hours and 33 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 215 MB
Author: Gautam Mukunda
Narrator: Graham Rowat
Celebrated leadership expert and political scientist Gautam Mukunda provides a comprehensive, objective, and non-partisan method for answering the most important question in the world: is someone up to the job of president of the United States?In Picking Presidents, Gautam Mukunda sets his sights on presidential candidates, proposing a tested method to assess whether they will succeed or fail if they win the White House. Combining political science, psychology, organizational behavior, and economics, Picking Presidents will enable every American to cast an informed vote.

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Pests: How Humans Create Animal Villains (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B09VQ6W751 | 2022 | 10 hours and 51 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 310 MB
Author: Bethany Brookshire
Narrator: Courtney Patterson
An engrossing and revealing study of why we deem certain animals "pests" and others not-from cats to rats, elephants to pigeons-and what this tells us about our own perceptions, beliefs, and actions, as well as our place in the natural world. A squirrel in the garden. A rat in the wall. A pigeon on the street. Humans have spent so much of our history drawing a hard line between human spaces and wild places. When animals pop up where we don't expect or want them, we respond with fear, rage, or simple annoyance. It's no longer an animal. It's a pest. At the intersection of science, history, and narrative journalism, Pests is not a simple call to look closer at our urban ecosystem.

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Pacific Carrier War: Carrier Combat from Pearl Harbor to Okinawa (Audiobook)
English | ISBN: 9798765074909 | 2022 | 9 hours and 4 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 254 MB
Author: Mark E. Stille
Narrator: Christopher Douyard
A detailed and comprehensive study of the carrier formations of the Pacific War, including their origins, development, and key battles from the Coral Sea, through Midway and Guadalcanal to the battle of the Philippine Sea. The defining feature of the Pacific Theater of World War II was the clash of carriers that ultimately decided the fate of nations. The names of the battles become legendary as some of the most epic encounters in the history of naval warfare. Pre-war assumptions about the impact and effectiveness of carriers were comprehensively tested in early war battles such as Coral Sea, while US victories at Midway and in the waters around Guadalcanal established the supremacy of its carriers.

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Our Unfinished March: The Violent Past and Imperiled Future of the Vote-A History, a Crisis, a Plan (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B09P918G17 | 2022 | 6 hours and 18 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 162 MB
Author: Eric Holder, Sam Koppelman
Narrator: Eric Holder
A brutal, bloody, and at times hopeful history of the vote; a primer on the opponents fighting to take it away; and a playbook for how we can save our democracy before it's too late-from the former US Attorney General on the front lines of this fight. Voting is our most important right as Americans-"the right that protects all the others," as Lyndon Johnson famously said when he signed the Voting Rights Act-but it's also the one most violently contested throughout US history. Since the gutting of the act in the landmark Shelby County v. Holder case in 2013, many states have passed laws restricting the vote. After the 2020 election, President Trump's effort to overturn the vote has evolved into a slow-motion coup, with many Republicans launching an all-out assault on our democracy. The vote seems to be in unprecedented peril. Full of surprising history, intensive analysis, and actionable plans for the future, this is a powerful primer on our most urgent political struggle from one of the country's leading advocates.

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Our Data, Ourselves: A Personal Guide to Digital Privacy (Audiobook)
English | ISBN: 9781696609319 | 2022 | 9 hours and 44 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 274 MB
Author: Jacqueline D. Lipton
Narrator: Corinne Davies
A practical, user-friendly handbook for understanding and protecting our personal data and digital privacy. Our Data, Ourselves addresses a common and crucial question: What can we as private individuals do to protect our personal information in a digital world? In this practical handbook, legal expert Jacqueline D. Lipton guides listeners through important issues involving technology, data collection, and digital privacy as they apply to our daily lives. Our Data, Ourselves covers a broad range of everyday privacy concerns with easily digestible, accessible overviews and real-world examples.

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