Free Download Sean H. Vanatta, Stephen R. Thorne (Narrator), "Plastic Capitalism: Banks, Credit Cards, and the End of Financial Control"
English | ASIN: B0CZYK1LCH | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~16:36:00 | 456 MB
American households are awash in expensive credit card debt. But where did all this debt come from? In this history of the rise of postwar American finance, Sean H. Vanatta shows how bankers created our credit card economy and, with it, the indebted nation we know today.
America's consumer debt machine was not inevitable. In the years after World War II, state and federal regulations ensured that many Americans enjoyed safe banks and inexpensive credit. Bankers, though, grew restless amid restrictive rules that made profits scarce. They experimented with new services and new technologies. They settled on credit cards, and in the 1960s mailed out reams of high-interest plastic to build a debt industry from scratch.
In the 1960s and 70s consumers fought back, using federal and state policy to make credit cards safer and more affordable. But bankers found ways to work around local rules. Beginning in 1980, Citibank and its peers relocated their card plans to South Dakota and Delaware, states with the weakest consumer regulations, creating "on-shore" financial havens and drawing consumers into an exploitative credit economy over which they had little control. We live in the world these bankers made.

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Free Download William H. McNeill, Douglas James (Narrator), "Plagues and Peoples"
English | ASIN: B0D362N52M | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~10:47:00 | 298 MB
The history of disease is the history of humankind: an interpretation of the world as seen through the extraordinary impact-political, demographic, ecological, and psychological-of disease on cultures.
A book of the first importance, a truly revolutionary work. -The New Yorker
From the conquest of Mexico by smallpox as much as by the Spanish, to the bubonic plague in China, to the typhoid epidemic in Europe, William H. McNeill's Plagues and Peoples is a brilliantly conceptualized and challenging achievement (Kirkus Reviews). Upon its original publication, Plagues and Peoples was an immediate critical and popular success, offering a radically new interpretation of world history. With the identification of AIDS in the early 1980s, another chapter was added to this chronicle of events, which William McNeill explores in his introduction to this edition. McNeill's highly acclaimed work is a brilliant and challenging account of the effects of disease on human history. His sophisticated analysis and detailed grasp of the subject make this book fascinating.

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Free Download Sandra M. Gustafson, Lauren Pedersen (Narrator), "Peace in the US Republic of Letters, 1840-1900"
English | ASIN: B0D15X19BX | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~11:06:00 | 305 MB
Peace in the US Republic of Letters, 1840-1900 explores the early peace movement as it captured the imagination of leading writers. The book charts the rise of the peace cause from its sources in the works of William Penn and John Woolman, through the founding of the first peace societies in 1815 and the mid-century peace congresses, to the postbellum movement's consequential emphasis on arbitration. The Civil War is the central axis for the book, with three chapters organized around readings of novels by James Fenimore Cooper, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Nathaniel Hawthorne spanning the period from 1840 to 1865.
The volume also explores fiction engaged with problems that arose in the aftermath of that war, including novels by Henry Adams and John Hay on political corruption and class conflict; works on the failures of Reconstruction by Albion Tourgee and Charles Chesnutt; and the varied treatments of Indigenous experience in Helen Hunt Jackson's Ramona and Simon Pokagon's Queen of the Woods. All of these writers focused on issues related to the cause of peace, expanding its thematic reach and anticipating key insights of twentieth-century peace scholars.

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Free Download Patton's Prayer: A True Story of Courage, Faith, and Victory in World War II
English | ASIN: B0CGRW95H1 | 2024 | 7 hours and 49 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 228 MB
Author: Alex Kershaw
Narrator: Rob Shapiro
From Alex Kershaw, New York Times bestselling author, comes an epic story of courage, resilience, and faith during the Second World War. General George Patton needed a miracle. In December 1944, the Allies found themselves stuck. Rain had plagued the troops daily since September, turning roads into rivers of muck, slowing trucks and tanks to a crawl. A thick ceiling of clouds had grounded American warplanes, allowing the Germans to reinforce. The sprint to Berlin had become a muddy, bloody stalemate, costing thousands of American lives. Patton seethed, desperate for some change, any change, in the weather. A devout Christian, he telephoned his head chaplain. "Do you have a good prayer for the weather?" he asked.

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Free Download John R. Miles (Author, Narrator), "Passion Struck: Twelve Powerful Principles to Unlock Your Purpose and Ignite Your Most Intentional Life"
English | ASIN: B0D2DSWSSC | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~10:47:00 | 600 MB
Are you living intentionally, with purpose and passion? Are you embracing the flame that ignites within you, or are you evading it? Will your future self be proud of your story, or do you yearn for something more?
John R. Miles-entrepreneur, award-winning podcast host, former US Navy officer, and Fortune 50 senior executive-reveals his groundbreaking discoveries that allow you to reshape your past and create an empowered and limitless future through authentic and candid personal stories. Alongside these narratives are twelve science-based principles on mindset and behavior that Miles discovered by examining and interviewing successful professionals including Marc Benioff, David Rubenstein, Katy Milkman, Bernie Marcus, Uri Levine, Marshall Goldsmith, Robin Sharma, Susan Cain, Shawn Springs, Thaddeus Bullard, Elon Musk, Susan Wojcicki, and Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson.
In this book, you will learn how to create a meaningful mission that will enhance your life's purpose from Square founder Jim McKelvey; identify the root causes of self-doubt and overcome fears that are holding you back from Oprah Winfrey; transform the way you lead from General McChrystal and the Honorable Keith Krach, former Under Secretary of State; transform the world around you by harnessing the power of adaptability from Jeff Bezos; and more.

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Free Download Parenting with Hope: Raising Teens for Christ in a Secular Age (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CV9123RK | 2024 | 6 hours and 38 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 365 MB
Author: Melissa B. Kruger
Narrator: Charity Spencer
As children mature, it's important for parents to prepare for the unique changes and challenges of adolescence. With so many cultural pressures and influences vying for teens' attention, parents need a secure foundation for creating an environment where faith can flourish. Parenting with Hope invites you to anchor your hopes and expectations in Christ-the true source of wisdom, strength, contentment, and fruitful parenting. Integrating sound biblical teaching, insights from developmental experts, and her own experiences as a teacher and mother, Melissa Kruger will wisely guide you through today's most common concerns. Emphasizing principles over prescriptions, Melissa will help you to understand how you can build up and bless your teens in God-honoring ways. When you recognize God as the ultimate parent, you'll begin to truly understand that he is presently at work in the hearts of both parents and teens. This encouraging and practical guide will equip you with the wisdom to cultivate a Christ-centered household, passing on a legacy of faithfulness to your teenage children.

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Free Download Paradise of the Damned: The True Story of an Obsessive Quest for El Dorado, the Legendary City of Gold (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CJFYRXGY | 2024 | 10 hours and 1 minute | M4B@64 kbps | 287 MB
Author: Keith Thomson
Narrator: Timothy Andrés Pabon
The transporting account of an obsessive quest to find El Dorado, set against the backdrop of Elizabethan political intrigue and a competition with Spanish conquistadors for the legendary city's treasure. As early as 1530, reports of El Dorado, a city of gold in the South American interior, beckoned to European explorers. Whether there was any truth to the stories remained to be seen, but the allure of unimaginable riches was enough to ensnare dozens of would-be heroes and glory hounds in the desperate hunt. Among them was Sir Walter Raleigh: ambitious courtier, confidant to Queen Elizabeth, and, before long, El Dorado fanatic. Entering the Elizabethan court as an upstart from a family whose days of nobility were far behind them, Raleigh used his military acumen, good looks, and sheer audacity to scramble into the limelight. Yet, that same swagger proved to be his undoing, as his secret marriage to a lady-in-waiting enraged Queen Elizabeth and landed him in the Tower of London.

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Free Download Our Kindred Creatures: How Americans Came to Feel the Way They Do About Animals (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CDF5JGP4 | 2024 | 13 hours and 46 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 399 MB
Author: Bill Wasik, Monica Murphy
Narrator: Tanis Parenteau
A compassionate, sweeping history of the transformation in American attitudes toward animals by the best-selling authors. Over just a few decades at the end of the nineteenth century, the United States underwent a moral revolution on behalf of animals. Before the Civil War, their suffering had rarely been discussed; horses pulling carriages and carts were routinely beaten in public view, and dogs were pitted against each other for entertainment and gambling. But in 1866, a group of activists began a dramatic campaign to change the nation's laws and norms, and by the century's end, most Americans had adopted a very different way of thinking and feeling about the animals in their midst. In Our Kindred Creatures, Bill Wasik, editorial director of The New York Times Magazine, and veterinarian Monica Murphy offer a fascinating history of this crusade and the battles it sparked in American life.

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Free Download Other People's Words: A Memoir of Friendship, Love, and Conversations with the Dead (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CVLFDXZ2 | 2024 | 5 hours and 12 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 284 MB
Author: Lissa Soep
Narrator: Lissa Soep
An illuminating, intricately woven memoir about friendships, loss, and language-a stunning affirmation of the conversations that shape and sustain us, even in the presence of death. Lissa Soep lost two friends in quick succession. Christine died slowly, from a mysterious illness, while Jonnie died suddenly, too young. In the ten years since, Soep has found herself among those left behind-spouses, lovers, family, friends-whose grief could have rendered them silent, at a loss for words. Instead, she has discovered the opposite: a wild and inexhaustible dialogue unleashed by their absence. Other People's Words is an incandescent tribute to deep friendship, honoring this lasting bond that has no special name and showing us how we can both cherish and grieve our loved ones through the words that have described and defined our lifetimes.

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Free Download David Stahel, Philip Battley (Narrator), "Operation Typhoon: Hitler's March on Moscow, October 1941"
English | ASIN: B0D2375D27 | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~12:18:00 | 338 MB
In October 1941, Hitler launched Operation Typhoon-the German drive to capture Moscow and knock the Soviet Union out of the war. As the last chance to escape the dire implications of a winter campaign, Hitler directed seventy-five German divisions, almost two million men and three of Germany's four panzer groups into the offensive, resulting in huge victories at Viaz'ma and Briansk-among the biggest battles of the Second World War.
David Stahel's groundbreaking new account of Operation Typhoon captures the perspectives of both the German high command and individual soldiers, revealing that despite success on the battlefield the wider German war effort was in far greater trouble than is often acknowledged. Germany's hopes of final victory depended on the success of the October offensive, but the autumn conditions and the stubborn resistance of the Red Army ensured that the capture of Moscow was anything but certain.

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