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Free Download Money for Millennials: Manage and Build Your Financial Security (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CXFCSJNX | 2024 | 9 hours and 53 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 285 MB
Author: Sarah Young Fisher, Susan Shelly McGovern
Narrator: Barbara Barnes
The all-inclusive guide to managing your money in your 20s and 30s! Money for Millennials provides you with the basic tools you need to manage your life and plan for your future financially. You will learn to manage every aspect of your personal finances, as well as strengthen your financial plan to yield better returns on your investments. In this guide, you get: The basics of personal finance: creating and following a budget, learning to maintain a robust savings, and building an emergency fund. A more relevant look at online banking and best account options available. Honesty about credit cards, how to use them, and how to pay off debt judiciously. Innovative plans for paying off student loan debt and understanding your options if you choose to further your education. Advice on making big purchases such as homes and transportation. Tips on making the right choices when unemployed or underemployed or lack employer-sponsored healthcare options. A thorough explanation of how to make the most of retirement plans: 401(k) plans, individual retirement accounts (IRAs), etc.

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Free Download Minority Rule: The Right-Wing Attack on the Will of the People - and the Fight to Resist It (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CY7GVX8H | 2024 | 11 hours and 7 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 618 MB
Author: Ari Berman
Narrator: Gary Tiedemann
The mob that stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2021, represented an extreme form of the central danger facing American democracy today: a blatant disregard for the will of the majority. Through voter suppression, election subversion, gerrymandering, dark money, the takeover of the courts, and the whitewashing of history, reactionary white conservatives have strategically entrenched power in the face of a massive demographic and political shift. Ari Berman charts these efforts with sweeping historical research and incisive on-the-ground reporting, chronicling how a wide range of antidemocratic tactics interact with profound structural inequalities in institutions like the Electoral College, the Senate, and the Supreme Court to threaten the survival of representative government in America. Some counter-majoritarian measures were built into the Constitution, which was designed in part to benefit a small propertied upper class, but they have metastasized to a degree that the Founding Fathers could never have anticipated, undermining the very notion of "a government of the people, by the people, and for the people." Chilling and revelatory, Minority Rule exposes the long history of the conflict between white supremacy and multiracial democracy that has reached a fever pitch today-while also telling the inspiring story of resistance to these regressive efforts.

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Free Download Mind Magic: The Neuroscience of Manifestation and How It Changes Everything (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CGRVHY2K | 2024 | 9 hours and 32 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 276 MB
Author: James R. Doty
Narrator: James R. Doty
A deep exploration of the neuroscience behind manifestation, with a six-part plan for realizing your dreams. For decades the practice of manifestation has been widely dismissed as self-involved, materialistic pseudoscience. But as neuroscientist and recognized compassion leader Dr. James Doty reveals, manifestation introduces us to different possibilities, and it lays the groundwork for a kinder, better world. Doty grounds us in the practices that change our brain structures: attention, meditation, visualization, and compassion. This mind magic allows us to move through the world in ways that help us see clearly-reclaiming our agency, realizing our dreams, and reaching out to help others along the path. Where previous works about manifestation have focused narrowly on outward success and individual benefit, Mind Magic delivers an openhearted call to make manifestation part of a deeper contribution to healing the problems we face today.

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Free Download Medieval Horizons: Why the Middle Ages Matter (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CZ2HWFG9 | 2024 | 10 hours and 23 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 576 MB
Author: Ian Mortimer
Narrator: Ian Mortimer
The essential introduction to the Middle Ages by the bestselling author. We tend to think of the Middle Ages as a dark, backward, and unchanging time characterized by violence, ignorance, and superstition. By contrast, we believe progress arose from science and technological innovation, and that inventions of recent centuries created the modern world. We couldn't be more wrong. As Ian Mortimer shows in this fascinating book, people's horizons-their knowledge, experience, and understanding of the world-expanded dramatically. Life was utterly transformed between 1000 and 1600, marking the transition from a warrior-led society to that of Shakespeare. Medieval Horizons provides the perfect primer to the era as a whole. It outlines the enormous cultural changes that took place-from literacy to living standards, inequality, and even the developing sense of self-thereby correcting misconceptions and presenting the period as a revolutionary age of fundamental importance in the development of the Western world.

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Free Download Medicine Wheel for the Planet: A Journey Toward Personal and Ecological Healing (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CWVTYNVW | 2024 | 8 hours and 26 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 246 MB
Author: Dr. Jennifer Grenz
Narrator: Dr. Jennifer Grenz
This beautiful book can completely change how we approach science, using both Indigenous and Western perspectives, and how we can work collaboratively to help foster balance in nature. A farm kid at heart, and a Nlaka'pamux woman of mixed ancestry, Dr. Jennifer Grenz always felt a deep connection to the land. Which is why, after nearly two decades of working as a restoration ecologist in the Pacific Northwest, she became frustrated that she and her colleagues weren't making the meaningful change needed for plant, animal and human communities to adapt to a warming climate. She began to question the central conceit of restoration ecology: that somehow, we must return the natural world to an untouched, pristine state, placing humans in a godlike role-a notion at odds with Indigenous histories of purposeful, reciprocal interaction with the environment.

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Free Download Mean Boys: A Personal History (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CZ152R5V | 2024 | 7 hours and 51 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 228 MB
Author: Geoffrey Mak
Narrator: Geoffrey Mak
A ferocious inquiry into art and desire, style and politics, madness and salvation, and coming of age in our volatile, image-obsessed present. You know them when you see them: mean boys take up space, wielding cruelty to claim their place in the pecking order. Some mean boys make art or music or fashion; others make memes. Mean boys stomp the runways in Milan and Paris; mean boys marched at Charlottesville. And in the eyes of critic and style expert Geoffrey Mak, mean boys are the emblem of our society: an era ravenous for novelty, always thirsting for the next edgy thing, even at our peril. In this pyrotechnic memoir-in-essays, Mak ranges widely over our landscape of paranoia, crisis, and frenetic, clickable consumption.

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Free Download Math-ish: Finding Creativity, Diversity, and Meaning in Mathematics (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CF6WX83D | 2024 | 7 hours and 20 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 201 MB
Author: Jo Boaler
Narrator: Jo Boaler
From Stanford professor, youcubed founder, and leading expert in the field of mathematics education Jo Boaler comes a groundbreaking guide to finding joy and understanding by adopting a diverse approach to learning math. Mathematics is a fundamental part of life, yet every one of us has a unique relationship with learning and understanding the subject. Working with numbers may inspire confidence in our abilities or provoke anxiety and trepidation. Stanford researcher, mathematics education professor, and the leading expert on math learning Dr. Jo Boaler argues that our differences are the key to unlocking our greatest mathematics potential.

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Free Download Massacre in the Clouds: An American Atrocity and the Erasure of History (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CK2T3M8S | 2024 | 10 hours and 28 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 304 MB
Author: Kim A. Wagner
Narrator: Robert Petkoff
In March 1906, American soldiers on the island of Jolo in the southern Philippines surrounded and killed 1000 local men, women, and children, known as Moros, on top of an extinct volcano. The so-called 'Battle of Bud Dajo' was hailed as a triumph over an implacable band of dangerous savages, a "brilliant feat of arms" according to President Theodore Roosevelt. Some contemporaries, including W.E.B. Du Bois and Mark Twain, saw the massacre for what it was, but they were the exception and the U.S. military authorities successfully managed to bury the story. Despite the fact that the slaughter of Moros had been captured on camera, the memory of the massacre soon disappeared from the historical record. In Massacre in the Clouds, Kim A. Wagner meticulously recovers the history of a forgotten atrocity and the remarkable photograph that exposed its grim logic. His vivid, unsparing account of the massacre-which claimed hundreds more lives than Wounded Knee and My Lai combined-reveals the extent to which practices of colonial warfare and violence, derived from European imperialism, were fully embraced by Americans with catastrophic results.

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Free Download Kathy Wilson, Kitty Hendrix (Narrator), "Marshall's Great Captain: Lieutenant General Frank M. Andrews and Air Power in the World Wars"
English | ASIN: B0CZGBLJVP | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~10:26:00 | 287 MB
On May 3, 1943, dozens of planes could be seen flying in and out of Royal Air Force Bovingdon Airfield. Among the aircraft seen that day was a B-24D bomber named Hot Stuff, which carried the Commanding General of US Forces in Europe, Lieutenant General Frank M. Andrews-the officer charged with formulating a plan to invade Europe. Speculation was that General George C. Marshall had called Andrews back to Washington, DC, leading many to believe that Marshall had another promotion in store for Andrews. Tragically, Andrews would never arrive. While attempting to land in Iceland, the bomber crashed into a mountain, with no survivors other than the tail gunner; Andrews's personal papers were also destroyed.
In Marshall's Great Captain, author Kathy Wilson details Andrews's extraordinary life and career. The first biography dedicated to the namesake of Joint Base Andrews, this book sheds a light on Andrews's crucial role in orchestrating US involvement in WWII, as well as the professional relationship between Andrews and Marshall. Wilson raises Andrews's legacy to its legitimate place within the annals of both air power and WWII history and posits that there is a high probability that Andrews was Marshall's first choice for the office of Supreme Allied Commander. Marshall recounted that Andrews was the only one he had a chance to prepare for such a command.

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Free Download Henrik Meinander, Bruce Mann (Narrator), "Mannerheim, Marshal of Finland: A Life in Geopolitics"
English | ASIN: B0D18JYDTQ | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~10:17:00 | 289 MB
Field marshal and statesman Gustaf Mannerheim (1867-1951) was the most acclaimed and the most hated Finn of the twentieth century. After three decades of loyal and distinguished service in the Russian Tsarist army, he returned to his homeland in 1917 to defend its new independence. This iconic figure led the Finnish forces as Commander-in-Chief during both World Wars, then ended his career as President of Finland.
This new critical biography sets Mannerheim's entire life's work, and his often nerve-wracking decisions as a Finnish leader on the world stage, against the backdrop of his elite upbringing and lifestyle, his adventurous imperial career, his outspoken anti-communism, and his keen instincts for great power politics. Painful details emerge about Mannerheim's private life, and myths and rumors are scrutinized, as Henrik Meinander charts the complex legacy of this nationalist cosmopolitan who found himself fighting on the same side as Hitler.
Meinander paints his portrait with strong contrasts and bright colors. This is the story of a multicultural Russian empire, a newborn nation-state treading warily between Europe's military titans, a front of the Second World War not easily reduced to moral binaries-and, above all, a shrewd political operator playing many a dangerous game.

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