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 Free Download The Forgotten Man by Amity Shlaes, Terence Aselford, HarperAudio English | June 04, 2007 | ISBN: B000SAGY7A | 14 hours and 34 minutes | MP3 64 Kbps | 386 Mb It's difficult today to imagine how America survived the Great Depression. Only through the stories of the common people who struggled during that era can we really understand how the nation endured. In The Forgotten Man, Amity Shlaes offers a striking reinterpretation of the Great Depression. Rejecting the old emphasis on the New Deal, she turns to the neglected and moving stories of individual Americans, and shows how they helped establish the steadfast character we developed as a nation. Shlaes also traces the mounting agony of the New Dealers themselves as they discovered their errors. She shows how both Presidents Hoover and Roosevelt failed to understand the prosperity of the 1920s and heaped massive burdens on the country that more than offset the benefit of New Deal programs. The real question about the Depression, she argues, is not whether Roosevelt ended it with World War II. It is why the Depression lasted so long. From 1929 to 1940, federal intervention helped to make the Depression great-in part by forgetting the men and women who sought to help one another. The Forgotten Man, offers a new look at one of the most important periods in our history, allowing us to understand the strength of American character today.
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 Free Download The Forgotten Foundations of Fundraising: Practical Advice and Contrarian Wisdom for Nonprofit Leaders by Jeremy Beer, Jeffrey Cain, Steve Menasche English | April 23, 2019 | ISBN: B07QHZZ17W | 6 hours and 50 minutes | MP3 128 Kbps | 375 Mb In The Forgotten Foundations of Fundraising, Jeremy Beer and Jeffrey Cain, cofounders of American Philanthropic, a leading consulting firm for nonprofit organizations, offer practical lessons and unconventional wisdom for both nonprofit leaders and novices in the art and science of raising money. Drawing upon a wealth of experience, deploying an army of anecdotes, and using eye-opening American Philanthropic survey data, the authors provide a brisk, irreverent, and supremely useful introduction to fundraising for charities and nonprofits. The book explains the hows and whys of a variety of fundraising techniques, from direct mail to planned giving programs. It explores the benefits and pitfalls of prospect research, the keys to donor retention, and the essential elements of a healthy nonprofit culture. It gives insightful advice on making personal meetings count, soliciting foundations, and training young fundraisers. And it does so with sprightly prose and sharp observations. You'll never listen to another fundraising book quite like this one. ![The Forever War America's Unending Conflict with Itself [Audiobook]](https://i124.fastpic.org/big/2024/0916/18/8a7994cd30036837caf07bdc67015818.webp) Free Download The Forever War: America's Unending Conflict with Itself (Audiobook) English | June 06, 2024 | ASIN: B0D5DJ9VWX | M4B@128 kbps | 12h 31m | 682 MB Author and Narrator: Nick Bryant From the author of When America Stopped Being Great, an insightful and urgent reassessment of America's past, present and future - as a country which is forever at war with itself. The Forever War tells the story of how America's extreme polarisation is 250 years in the making, and argues that the roots of its modern-day malaise are to be found in its troubled and unresolved past.
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From making the transition from team member to team leader, to holding team members accountable, to managing challenging situations and resolving conflict, The First-Time Manager's Guide to Team Building tells listeners how their own management style can influence how successful their teams become. ![The First Emperor of China [Audiobook]](https://i124.fastpic.org/big/2024/0916/04/1bdb6dfeef0821cc5bd3245c72330304.webp) Free Download The First Emperor of China (Audiobook) English | ASIN: B0D6NMG8MN | 2024 | 7 hours and 1 minute | MP3@64 kbps | 192 MB Author: Jonathan Clements Narrator: Kathleen Li The First Emperor In 1974, Chinese peasants made the discovery of the century . . . Thousands of terracotta soldiers guarding the tomb of a tyrant. Ying Zheng was born to rule the world, claiming descent from gods, crowned king while still a child. He was the product of a heartless, brutal regime devoted to domination, groomed from an early age to become the First Emperor of China after a century of scheming by his ancestors. He faked a foreign threat to justify an invasion. He ruled a nation under twenty-four-hour surveillance. He ordered his interrogators to torture suspects. He boiled his critics alive. He buried dissenting scholars. He declared war on death itself. Jonathan Clements uses modern archaeology and ancient texts to outline the First Emperor's career and the grand schemes that followed unification: the Great Wall that guarded his frontiers and the famous Terracotta Army that watches over his tomb. 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Even younger mainstream directors have earned more than one volume of academic attention - and yet Howard, who has continually developed himself, seems to only get treated with pop-culture-trivia "fun fact" regarding his acting career. There is no definitive visual aesthetic we can pinpoint to Howard's movies, which in of itself is part of his authorship. The Films of Ron Howard looks at the themes he has addressed repeatedly throughout four-plus decades of directing movies.  Free Download The Façade of Excellence: Defining a New Normal of Leadership Author: John Dyer Narrator: John Dyer English | 2024 | ASIN: B0D9HWHR91 | MP3@64 kbps | Duration: 7h 22m | 454 MB The crucial need to substitute true leadership for bad management practices such as Management By Objectives (MBO) and the use of fear is now well known and was often championed by Dr. W. Edwards Deming. 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The Fate of Africa has been hailed by reviewers as "A masterpiece....The nonfiction book of the year" (The New York Post); "a magnificent achievement" (Weekly Standard); "a joy," (Wall Street Journal) and "one of the decade's most important works on Africa" (✅Publishers Weekly, starred review).
![The Fall of the Roman Empire A New History of Rome and the Barbarians [Audiobook] (2024)](https://i124.fastpic.org/big/2024/0916/e9/39e11f5143b5a22e037ddb9da22e2ae9.webp) Free Download The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians (Audiobook) English | February 04, 2014 | ASIN: B00I8WE260 | M4B@64 kbps | 21h 43m | 645 MB Author: Peter Heather | Narrator: Allan Robertson The death of the Roman Empire is one of the perennial mysteries of world history. Now, in this groundbreaking book, Peter Heather proposes a stunning new solution: Centuries of imperialism turned the neighbors Rome called barbarians into an enemy capable of dismantling an Empire that had dominated their lives for so long. A leading authority on the late Roman Empire and on the barbarians, Heather relates the extraordinary story of how Europe's barbarians, transformed by centuries of contact with Rome on every possible level, eventually pulled the empire apart. He shows first how the Huns overturned the existing strategic balance of power on Rome's European frontiers, to force the Goths and others to seek refuge inside the Empire. This prompted two generations of struggle, during which new barbarian coalitions, formed in response to Roman hostility, brought the Roman west to its knees. The Goths first destroyed a Roman army at the battle of Hadrianople in 378, and went on to sack Rome in 410. The Vandals spread devastation in Gaul and Spain, before conquering North Africa, the breadbasket of the Western Empire, in 439. We then meet Attila the Hun, whose reign of terror swept from Constantinople to Paris, but whose death in 453 ironically precipitated a final desperate phase of Roman collapse, culminating in the Vandals' defeat of the massive Byzantine Armada: the west's last chance for survival. ![The Fall of Rome End of a Superpower [Audiobook]](https://i124.fastpic.org/big/2024/0916/19/4be900ed84c13093fb8c8770a6c2d919.webp) Free Download The Fall of Rome: End of a Superpower (Audiobook) English | ASIN: B0D5DNGZ4Y | 2024 | 7 hours and 32 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 207 MB Author: Nick Holmes Narrator: Nigel Patterson A skilled storyteller, Holmes presents a riveting account of the wars, intrigues and personalities that contributed to Rome's decline, with entire chapters devoted to single battles. Why did Rome Fall? In this gripping retelling of one of the most momentous chapters in history, Nick Holmes presents a new interpretation of an old story. The fate of Rome was decided not just by emperors, soldiers, and barbarians but also by an environmental disaster. A catastrophic megadrought on the Asian steppes in the fourth century AD forced the migration of entire peoples-Huns, Goths, Vandals, and others-west into the Roman Empire. They met an empire weakened from war with Persia. Rome's misfortunes multiplied as it made tactical errors on the battlefield. Civil war, religious unrest, and political incompetence compounded a worsening situation. The result was one of the greatest disasters in the ancient world-the sack of Rome by the Goths in AD 410. |
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