Free Download What Happens Next: A Traveler's Guide Through the End of This Age (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CWJSSVGY | 2024 | 6 hours and 56 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 384 MB
Author: Max Lucado
Narrator: Max Lucado
Be Prepared, Not Scared. Are we living in the end times? If so, what does that mean for you? In contrast to the confusion and anxiety that often comes with this topic, Max Lucado believes God wants us to be prepared, not scared; informed, not intimidated. He writes: "The future is not frightening if you know the future. And you can know the future when you know who holds it." What Happens Next is an optimistic, accessible, and nonsensational guide to what the Bible says about heaven's time line that will empower you to face the future with faith. Max takes you on a well-researched overview of what God's Word says, exploring the four big ideas that provide a solid foundation for understanding God's eternal plan. Whether you find yourself in the "I can't wait," "I'm almost ready," or "I'm not sure about all of this" camp, you will be encouraged to ponder God's promises for the future. In Max's signature encouraging style, he reminds us, "It's all about hope. It's all about him."

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Free Download What Does Israel Fear from Palestine? (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D74VMXTF | 2024 | 2 hours and 26 minutes | M4B@256 kbps | 268 MB
Author: Raja Shehadeh
Narrator: Khalid Abdalla
A poignant, incisive meditation on Israel's longstanding rejection of peace, and what the war on Gaza means for Palestinian and Israeli futures. When apartheid in South Africa ended in 1994, dismantled by internal activism and global pressure, why did Israel continue to pursue its own apartheid policies against Palestinians? In keeping with a history of antagonism, the Israeli state accelerated the establishment of settlements in the Occupied Territories as extreme right-wing voices gained prominence in government, with comparatively little international backlash. Condensing this complex history into a lucid essay, Raja Shehadeh examines the many lost opportunities to promote a lasting peace and equality between Israelis and Palestinians. Since the creation of Israel in 1948, known to Palestinians as the Nakba, or catastrophe, each side's perception of events has strongly diverged. What can this discrepancy tell us about Israel's undermining of a two-state solution? And will the current genocide in Gaza finally mark a shift in the world's response? With graceful, haunting prose, Shehadeh offers insights into a defining conflict that could yet be resolved.

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Free Download What Are Children For?: On Ambivalence and Choice (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CKLYPWSD | 2024 | 9 hours and 26 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 272 MB
Author: Anastasia Berg, Rachel Wiseman
Narrator: Jennifer Pickens, Kirsten Potter, Zura Johnson
A modern argument, grounded in philosophy and cultural criticism, about childbearing ambivalence and how to overcome it. Becoming a parent, once the expected outcome of adulthood, is increasingly viewed as a potential threat to the most basic goals and aspirations of modern life. We seek self-fulfillment; we want to liberate women to find meaning and self-worth outside the home; and we wish to protect the planet from the ravages of climate change. Weighing the pros and cons of having children, millennials and zoomers are finding it increasingly difficult to judge in its favor. With lucid argument and passionate prose, Anastasia Berg and Rachel Wiseman offer the guidance necessary to move beyond uncertainty. The decision whether or not to have children, they argue, is not just a women's issue but a basic human one. And at a time when climate change worries threaten the very legitimacy of human reproduction, Berg and Wiseman conclude that neither our personal nor collective failures ought to prevent us from embracing the fundamental goodness of human life-not only in the present but, in choosing to have children, in the future.

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Free Download What America's Founders Learned from Antiquity [TTC Audio]
English | July 19, 2024 | ASIN: B0D953TV21 | M4B@64 kbps | 13h 1m | 373 MB
Lecturer: Caroline Winterer
Many Americans know that our nation's founders drew inspiration from the political systems of ancient Rome and Greece. But what exactly were these influences? And did they shape the United States in far-reaching ways?
In these 24 compelling lectures, Professor Winterer takes you on a journey into the thought and actions of the American revolutionaries, showing how classical antiquity shaped every aspect of the revolutionary and founding era. In a multi-layered look at the founders' epoch, you'll investigate key aspects of the story, such as:

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Free Download We've Been Too Patient: Voices from Radical Mental Health-Stories and Research Challenging the Biomedical Model (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CJ3PHXWX | 2024 | 9 hours and 10 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 265 MB
Author: L. D. Green, Kelechi Ubozoh
Narrator: Dara Brown
25 unflinching stories and essays from the front lines of the radical mental health movement. Overmedication, police brutality, electroconvulsive therapy, involuntary hospitalization, traumas that lead to intense altered states and suicidal thoughts: these are the struggles of those labeled "mentally ill." While much has been written about the systemic problems of our mental-health care system, this book gives voice to those with personal experience of psychiatric miscare often excluded from the discussion, like people of color and LGBTQ+ communities. It is dedicated to finding working alternatives to the "Mental Health Industrial Complex" and shifting the conversation from mental illness to mental health.

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Free Download We Were Illegal: Uncovering a Texas Family's Mythmaking and Migration
English | ASIN: B0CKKK4F78 | 2024 | 12 hours and 37 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 364 MB
Author: Jessica Goudeau
Narrator: Jessica Goudeau
An award-winning author's deep exploration of pivotal moments in Texas history through multiple generations of her own family, and a ruthless reexamination of our national and personal myths. Seven generations of Jessica Goudeau's family have lived in Texas, and her family's legacy-a word she heard often growing up-was rooted in faith, right-living, and the hard work that built their great state. It wasn't until her aunt mentioned a stowaway ancestor and she began to dig more deeply into the story of the land she lives on today in suburban Austin, that Goudeau discovered her family's far more complicated role in Texas history: from a swindling land grant agent in the earliest days of Anglo settlement that brought slavery to Mexican land, up through her Texas Ranger great-uncle, who helped a sociopathic sheriff cover up mass murder.

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Free Download We Survived the End of the World: Lessons from Native America on Apocalypse and Hope (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D5DKYHHX | 2024 | 4 hours and 20 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 212 MB
Author: Steven Charleston
Narrator: Jason Grasl
From the moment European settlers reached these shores, the American apocalypse began. But Native Americans did not vanish. Apocalypse did not fully destroy them, and it doesn't have to destroy us. Pandemics and war, social turmoil and corrupt governments, natural disasters and environmental collapse-it's hard not to watch the signs of the times and feel afraid. But we can journey through that fear to find hope. With the warnings of a prophet and the lively voice of a storyteller, Choctaw elder and author of Ladder to the Light Steven Charleston speaks to all who sense apocalyptic dread rising around and within.

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Free Download We Are the Leaders We Have Been Looking For (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D3FDRRJ2 | 2024 | 4 hours and 20 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 214 MB
Author: Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
Narrator: Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
In We Are the Leaders We Have Been Looking For, one of the nation's preeminent scholars and a New York Times bestselling author, Eddie S. Glaude Jr., makes the case that the hard work of becoming a better person should be a critical feature of Black politics. Through virtuoso interpretations of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and Ella Baker, Glaude shows how we have the power to be the heroes that our democracy so desperately requires. Based on the Du Bois Lectures delivered at Harvard University, the book begins with Glaude's unease with the Obama years. He felt then, and does even more urgently now, that the excitement around the Obama presidency constrained our politics as we turned to yet another prophet-like figure. He examines his personal history and the traditions that both shape and overwhelm his own voice. Glaude weaves anecdotes about his evolving views on Black politics together with the writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, John Dewey, Toni Morrison, James Baldwin, and Ralph Ellison, encouraging us to reflect on the lessons of these great thinkers. Narrated with passion and philosophical intensity, this book is a powerful reminder that if American democracy is to survive, we must step out from under the shadows of past giants to build a better society-one that derives its strength from the pew, not the pulpit.

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Free Download We Are Not Able to Live in the Sky: The Seductive Promise of Microfinance (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D6WKB1LZ | 2024 | 17 hours and 6 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 494 MB
Author: Mara Kardas-Nelson
Narrator: Nene Nwoko
In the mid-1970s, Muhammad Yunus, an American-trained Bangladeshi economist, met a poor female stool maker who needed money to expand her business. In an act known as the beginning of microfinance, Yunus lent $27 to forty-two women, hoping small credit would help them to pull themselves out of poverty. Soon, Yunus's Grameen Bank was born, and very small, often high-interest loans for poor people took off. But there are mounting concerns that these small loans are as likely to bury poor people in debt as they are to pull them from poverty, with borrowers facing consequences such as jail time and forced land sales. Hundreds have even reportedly committed suicide.

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