English | ASIN: B08D3Z88D4 | 2021 | 8 hours and 5 minutes |MP3|M4B | 223 MB
From acclaimed Wall Street Journal reporter Josh Mitchell, the dramatic, untold story of student debt in America. In 1982, a new executive at Sallie Mae took home the company's financial documents to review. "You've got to be shitting me," he later told the company's CEO. "This place is a gold mine." Over the next four decades, the student loan industry that Sallie Mae and Congress created blew up into a crisis that would submerge a generation of Americans into $1.5 trillion in student debt. In The Debt Trap, Wall Street Journal reporter Josh Mitchell tells the untold story of the scandals, scams, predatory actors, and government malpractice that have created the behemoth that one of its original architects called a "monster".

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English | ASIN: B099X8VK23 | 2021 | 8 hours and 38 minutes |MP3|M4B | 238 MB
Tells the story of the founding of American Christianity against the backdrop of devastating disease and of the Indigenous survivors who kept the nascent faith alive. Many scholars have come to think of the European Christian mission to the Americas as an inevitable success. But in its early period it was very much on the brink of failure. In 1576, Indigenous Mexican communities suffered a catastrophic epidemic that took almost two million lives and simultaneously left the colonial church in ruins. In the crisis and its immediate aftermath, Spanish missionaries and surviving pueblos de indios held radically different visions for the future of Christianity in the Americas.
The Church of the Dead offers a counter-history of American Christian origins. It centers the power of Indigenous Mexicans, showing how their Catholic faith remained intact even in the face of the faltering religious fervor of Spanish missionaries. While the Europeans grappled with their failure to stem the tide of death, succumbing to despair, Indigenous survivors worked to reconstruct the church. They reasserted ancestral territories as sovereign, with Indigenous Catholic states rivaling the jurisdiction of the diocese and the power of friars and bishops.

English | ASIN: B093HLHXNJ | 2021 | 8 hours and 56 minutes |MP3|M4B | 246 MB
From renowned yogi meditation teacher Rebecca Pacheco comes Still Life, offering an in-depth exploration of mindfulness and meditation misconceptions to arm the listener with inspirational and practical tools for cultivating a consistent mindfulness practice. For years Rebecca Pacheco has taught listeners and students alike how to embrace the wisdom of the yoga sutras and reap the mental, emotional, and spiritual benefits of the ancient tradition. Now, in Still Life, she turns her focus to mindfulness, demystifying a seemingly esoteric practice and giving listeners practical, real-life tools to implement mindfulness in their own lives - regardless of experience level or lifestyle. Still Life challenges listeners to dig deep and develop the tools that can ultimately lead to joy - including to waking up in the present, reclaiming the moment, and living life fully.

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English | ASIN: B09BDG595V | 2021 | 7 hours and 5 minutes |MP3|M4B | 194 MB
"What is it like to be a bat?", the philosopher Thomas Nagel famously asked concerning consciousness. For biologist Martin Stevens, the question forms the starting point of an exploration of animal senses. How indeed does a bat - or an owl, a bee, or a platypus - experience the world? Very differently to us humans, as we discover. Many animals experience a world far richer in sight, sound, and smell and interact with each other in ways we simply don't pick up, and which continue to surprise researchers. Who would imagine that rats and mice sing complex songs while courting; or that the humble dung beetle relies on light from the Milky Way above for guidance as it carries its precious cargo away from competitors? The world must show so much more colour to many birds, with four types of cones in their eyes instead of our three, and the ability to see into the ultraviolet. And that's just considering the senses we share.
What of those we have no inkling of - like the electric fields sensed by so many animals; or the magnetic maps used by migrating birds, and by sea turtles to find a current and return after many years to the shore where they hatched? In this enthralling account, we learn not only of the wonder of animal senses, but how they work and how scientists go about investigating them. And, throughout, we consider how these senses came to be. For evolution is at the root of it all, as Stevens explains. Senses arose to enable animals to catch prey, to hide, and to mate more effectively, usually honed through fierce competition and arms races with predators. The result, over millions of years, is a wondrous panoply of ways of experiencing the world, against which our own senses often pale into insignificance.

English | ASIN: B099FJCC68 | 2021 |MP3|M4B | ~11:30:00 | 359 MB
Zoe Mendelson (Author, Narrator), Maria Conejo - illustrator, Heather Corinna - foreword (Author), Mercedes White (Narrator), Maria Conejo (Narrator), Heather Corinna (Narrator), "Pussypedia: A Comprehensive Guide"
Written by the creators of the popular website, this rigorously fact-checked, accessible, and fully illustrated guide is essential for anyone with a pussy.

English | ASIN: B099X8Z865 | 2021 | 13 hours and 21 minutes |MP3|M4B | 367 MB
American and British appeasement of Nazism during the early years of the Third Reich went far beyond territorial concessions. In Prologue to Annihilation: Ordinary American and British Jews Challenge the Third Reich, Stephen H. Norwood examines the numerous ways that the two nations' official position of tacit acceptance of Jewish persecution enabled the policies that ultimately led to the Final Solution and how Nazi annihilationist intentions were clearly discernible even during the earliest years of Hitler's rule.
Further, Norwood looks at the nature and impact of American and British Jewish resistance to Nazi persecution and the efforts of Jews at the grassroots level to press Jewish organizations to respond more forcefully to the Nazi menace. He examines the worldwide protest and boycott movements against Germany and German goods as well as mass demonstrations by working-class and lower-middle-class Jews in many American and British cities. Prologue to Annihilation details how the events of 1930-1936 tested American and British societies' willingness to accept Nazism and its anti-Jewish philosophy and illuminates the divisions that existed even within the Jewish community about how best to challenge Nazi anti-Semitic policies and atrocities.

English | ASIN: B08N8PG1LR | 2021 |MP3|M4B | ~13:56:00 | 395 MB
Tim Higgins, Will Damron (Narrator), "Power Play: Tesla, Elon Musk, and the Bet of the Century"
The outrageous inside story of Elon Musk and Tesla's bid to build the world's greatest car - from award-winning Wall Street Journal tech and auto reporter Tim Higgins

English | ASIN: B097NJJ4PY | 2021 | 11 hours and 33 minutes |MP3|M4B | 318 MB
Since the original publication of Nudge more than a decade ago, the title has entered the vocabulary of businesspeople, policy makers, engaged citizens, and consumers everywhere. The book has given rise to more than 200 "nudge units" in governments around the world and countless groups of behavioral scientists in every part of the economy. It has taught us how to use thoughtful "choice architecture" - a concept the authors invented - to help us make better decisions for ourselves, our families, and our society.
Now, the authors have rewritten the book from cover to cover, making use of their experiences in and out of government over the past dozen years as well as an explosion of new research in numerous academic disciplines. To commit themselves to never undertaking this daunting task again, they are calling this the "final edition." It offers a wealth of new insights, for both its avowed fans and newcomers to the field, about a wide variety of issues that we face in our daily lives - COVID-19, health, personal finance, retirement savings, credit card debt, home mortgages, medical care, organ donation, climate change, and "sludge" - all while honoring one of the cardinal rules of nudging: make it fun!

English | ASIN: B099FN1RX9 | 2021 |MP3|M4B | ~22:14:00 | 630 MB
John Gooch, Bruce Mann (Narrator), "Mussolini's War: Fascist Italy from Triumph to Collapse: 1935-1943"
While staying closely aligned with Hitler, Mussolini remained carefully neutral until the summer of 1940. At that moment, with the wholly unexpected and sudden collapse of the French and British armies, Mussolini declared war on the Allies in the hope of making territorial gains in Southern France and Africa. This decision proved a horrifying miscalculation, dooming Italy to its own prolonged and unwinnable war, immense casualties, and an Allied invasion in 1943 that ushered in a terrible new era for the country.

English | ASIN: B099X9HY6T | 2021 | 4 hours and 35 minutes |MP3|M4B | 126 MB
Explore strategies, ideas, and advice for overcoming loneliness. Anyone, whatever their age, gender, culture, or abilities, can find themselves separate and disconnected from others and feeling lonely. If you feel lonely, you are lonely. And it's not nice. But your situation can change for the better! In Lonely Less, best-selling author Gill Hasson delivers practical strategies you can implement immediately to counter loneliness and connect with other people. The book recognizes that as social beings, we each need to interact with others; to connect in positive ways and feel that we are understood, that we belong and are valued by others.
It offers: a guide to meeting new people and making friends; advice on how best to "fit in" with others; ideas on how to spend time alone; recommendations for keeping connected when working from home; and expert advice on managing existential loneliness, the disconnection that can follow a traumatic experience. Whether you're looking to empower yourself or help someone else, Lonely Less is a must-listen in order to better connect with others, take part in social activities, make friends, be understood, and feel a sense of belonging.