English | ASIN: B0B8F25RTR | 2022 | 11 hours and 9 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 306 MB
The term "emerging market" refers to a country where incomes are currently low but that is likely to experience rapid growth and increasing economic competitiveness. Yet many of the characteristics of emerging markets—including demographic shifts, rising educational attainment, and growing urbanization—are also found closer to home, in communities that have been underserved by the existing financial-services system. Gregory Fairchild introduces listeners to the rising set of entrepreneurs whose efforts to reach marginalized groups are reshaping the emerging markets of the United States. He explores how minority-owned and community-development institutions are achieving innovations in consumer- and small-business-targeted financial services to further economic development and reduce inequality. He analyzes the models of these organizations, measures their successes and failures, and provides suggestions for sustainable growth of similar organizations. Bringing together quantitative research, powerful stories of real-world entrepreneurs, and nuanced insights on public policy, Emerging Domestic Markets offers a vital set of prescriptions for inclusive financial development.
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English | 2022 | MP3 | M4B | ASIN: B09Y7KLBCK | Duration: 10:56 h | 596 MB
Frank Close / Narrated by Richard Burnip
The first major biography of Peter Higgs, revealing how a short burst of work changed modern physics

English | ASIN: B09SGK437D | 2022 | 10 hours and 8 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 278 MB
A fearless deep dive into the 2020 election from MSNBC "Road Warrior" Ali Vitali, who covered the campaign trail every step of the way—investigating the sexist double standards placed on women presidential candidates, and what it will take for a woman to finally break the glass ceiling, and win the White House. Starting at the finale of the 2020 race—the long, drawn-out determination of our next (current) President of the United States, Joe Biden, and the resulting and disputed defeat of Donald Trump—Electable is a moment-by-moment examination of the women on the campaign trail. As the reporter embedded with Elizabeth Warren, Ali Vitali witnessed up-close the way that our most recent election was unique—not simply for the way in which the incumbent conducted himself, but for the ways in which the field, rich with Democrats from all kinds of backgrounds, was both modern but also more of the same.
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English | ASIN: B09Y2GR4R5 | 2022 | 7 hours and 27 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 406 MB
A deep dive into the underlying cellular cause of chronic fatigue, burnout, and brain fog, with a framework for restoring cognitive function, alertness, and an abundance of energy. Chronic fatigue, burnout, brain fog—no matter what we call it, our constant feeling of being drained affects all that we hold dear. But the very real culprits of our fatigue don't lie in our preconceived notions of caffeine intake or adrenal fatigue, nor does the replenishment of our energy lie in overhauling our lifestyle in time-consuming and unrealistic ways. Instead, the core underlying cause lies in our cells, specifically our mitochondrial deficiency, and the solution can be found in simple, straightforward, nutritional strategies that address our body's biology.
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English | ASIN: B09HN9DFBG | 2021 | 7 hours and 55 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 218 MB
You want to be healthy. You want energy and vitality. You want to live your best life. We all do. Perhaps you've heard about the benefits of a whole-food, plant-based (beyond vegan) lifestyle. You're interested, but don't know where to begin. In Eat Plants Feel Whole, Dr. George Guthrie shows you the way. For over 30 years, Dr. Guthrie has been helping his patients achieve better health through an evidence-based, whole-food, plant-based lifestyle. Now, in Eat Plants Feel Whole, he shares not only his years of experience, but the scientific evidence for this powerful lifestyle. Eat Plants Feel Whole includes an 18-day QuickStart Plan, 50 plant-based recipes, a starter menu, shopping list, and lifestyle tips. In short, everything you need to initiate your health transformation.
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English | ASIN: B0BB13HBWP | 2022 | 11 hours and 3 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 304 MB
The census isn't just a data-collection process; it's a ritual, and a tool, of American democracy. Behind every neat grid of numbers is a collage of messy, human stories—you just have to know how to read them. In Democracy's Data, data historian Dan Bouk examines the 1940 U.S. census, uncovering what those numbers both condense and cleverly abstract: a universe of meaning and uncertainty, of cultural negotiation and political struggle. He introduces us to the men and women employed as census takers. He takes us into the makeshift halls of the Census Bureau, where hundreds of civil servants, not to mention machines, labored with pencil and paper to divide and conquer the nation's data.
And he uses these little points to paint bigger pictures, such as of the ruling hand of white supremacy, the place of queer people in straight systems, and the struggle of ordinary people. The 1940 census is a crucial entry in American history, a controversial dataset that enabled the creation of New Deal era social programs, but that also, with the advent of World War Two, would be weaponized against many of the citizens whom it was supposed to serve. In our age of quantification, Democracy's Data not only teaches us how to read between the lines but gives us a new perspective on the relationship between representation, identity, and governance.

English | 2017 | MP3 | M4B | ASIN: B075WXTZPC | Duration: 11:27 h | 312 MB
William R. Maples, Michael Browning / Narrated by Stephen Bel Davies
From a skeleton, a skull, or a mere fragment of burnt thighbone, prominent forensic anthropologist Dr. William Maples can deduce the age, gender, and ethnicity of a murder victim, the manner in which the person was dispatched, and, ultimately, the identity of the killer. In Dead Men Do Tell Tales, Dr. Maples revisits his strangest, most interesting, and most horrific investigations, from the baffling cases of conquistador Francisco Pizarro and Vietnam MIAs to the mysterious deaths of President Zachary Taylor and the family of Czar Nicholas II.

English | 2017 | MP3 | M4B | ASIN: B071P7LS7T | Duration: 4:46 h | 130 MB
Sarah Raymond Herndon / Narrated by Brian V. Hunt, Claire Dayton
Winner of the 2022 award for biography from the American Society of Journalists and Authors

English | August 16, 2022 | ASIN: B0B8F21G7L | MP3 | M4B | 8h 26m | 262 MB
Authors: Hal Brands, Michael Beckley | Narrator: Nancy Wu
It has become conventional wisdom that America and China are running a "superpower marathon." Yet Hal Brands and Michael Beckley pose a counterintuitive question: What if the sharpest phase of that competition is more like a decade-long sprint?

English | July 26, 2022 | ISBN: 9798822636729 | MP3 | M4B | 6h 22m | 173.22 MB
Author: Eva Ruell
Narrator: Hanley Swanson, Pia Nebrada