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    Spain and the Independence of the United States: An Intrinsic Gift , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 700min
    The role of Spain in the birth of the United States is a little known and little understood aspect of U.S. independence. Through actual fighting, provision of supplies, and money, Spain helped the young British colonies succeed in becoming an independent nation. Soldiers were recruited from all over the Spanish empire, from Spain itself and from throughout Spanish America. Many died fighting British soldiers and their allies in Central America, the Caribbean, along the Mississippi River from New Orleans to St. Louis and as far north as Michigan, along the Gulf Coast to Mobile and Pensacola, as well as in Europe. Based on primary research in the archives of Spain, this book is about United States history at its very inception, placing the war in its broadest international context. In short, the information in this book should provide a clearer understanding of the independence of the United States, correct a longstanding omission in its history, and enrich its patrimony. It will appeal to anyone interested in the history of the Revolutionary War and in Spain's role in the development of the Americas.The book is published by University of New Mexico Press."Chavez's book will become the launching point for most future research about his subject. . . it is a worthy contribution to the field." (Journal of American History)"The sweep of this book and the depth of secondary and archival research on which it rests are impressive. Chavez succeeds in his goal of placing the North American aspects of the war into their full Atlantic-Caribbean context." (The Journal of Military History)"The text is beautifully composed and highly exciting as a wide cast of fascinating historic figures spans the Americas, the Caribbean, Europe, and even North Africa in a high-stakes game that resulted in events that literally changed the face of the world. This is one of the most engaging and compelling historical works to come along in m ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: J. D. Rowlett. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/013829/bk_acx0_013829_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Pacific Skies: American Flyers in World War II , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 522min
    From 1941 to 1945 the skies over the Pacific Ocean afforded the broadest arena for battle and the fiercest action of air combat during World War II. It was in the air above the Pacific that America's involvement in the war began. It was in these skies that air power launched from carriers became a new form of engagement and where the war ultimately ended with kamikaze attacks and with atomic bombs dropped over Japan. Throughout the conflict American flyers felt a compelling call to supplement the official news and military reports. In vivid accounts written soon after combat and in reflective memoirs recorded in the years after peace came, both pilots and crew members detailed their stories of the action that occurred in the embattled skies. Their first-person testimonies describe a style of warfare invented at the moment of need and at a time when the outcome was anything but certain. Gathering more than a hundred personal narratives from Americans and from Japanese, Pacific Skies recounts a history of air combat in the Pacific theater. Together their stories express fierce individualism and resourcefulness and convey the vast panorama of war that included the skies over Pearl Harbor, Wake, and Guadalcanal and missions from Saipan and Tinian. As Pacific Skies recounts the perilous lives of pilots in their own words, Jerome Klinkowitz weaves the individual stories into a gripping historical narrative that exposes the shades of truth and fiction that can become blurred over time. A book about experiencing and remembering, Pacific Skies also is a story of unique perspectives on the war. Jerome Klinkowitz, a professor of English at the University of Northern Iowa, is the author of forty books, including such World War II titles as Their Finest Hours, Yanks over Europe, and With Tigers over China.The book is published by the University Press of Mississippi. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Al Kessel. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/033158/bk_acx0_033158_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    How to Start Your First Index Funds Investment: A Beginner’s Guide to Low-Risk Investment with Index Funds , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 177min
    Index funds are proving to be the silent yet successful investment vehicle. They are silent passive return earners that weather short-term risks, but in the end, when they mature, the index funds will have beaten every other investment vehicle in the market.To that end, How to Start Your First Index Funds Investment: A Beginner’s Guide to Low-Risk Investment with Index Funds is the ultimate keeper of secrets behind the success of investors who deal with index funds. It contains a clear explanation of index funds and how to invest in them.   In this audiobook, you will find information to help you distinguish index funds from other forms of mutual funds like ETFs. You will get to know the reason why it is wiser to make lump sum deposits when investing instead of making small deposits. Listening to this audiobook will also let you in on the secrets of choosing the right index funds. Most people do not make tax considerations when purchasing index funds, but this audiobook will teach you the importance of it and how to do it.   Do not let bits of misleading information and fear keep you from reaping the undeniable benefits of investing in index funds, take action by purchasing this special auiobook today, and begin the movement that will see you benefit from this wealth of knowledge as you start your journey to financial freedom by using index funds to compound your passive income.Inside you will find: The most explicit definition of index funds and how index funds differ from other forms of mutual funds The categorization of various kinds of index funds A guided list of steps to take when venturing into index funds investment An accurate statement of the minimum initial investment and the expense ratios for different kinds of index fundsThe broadest list of advantages an investor is bound to get when they invest in index fundsA helpful explanation of the downsides of ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Peter R. Ormond. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/146408/bk_acx0_146408_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Can College Level the Playing Field? (eBook, ePUB)
    Why higher education is not a silver bullet for eradicating economic inequality and social injusticeWe often think that a college degree will open doors to opportunity regardless of one's background or upbringing. In this eye-opening book, two of today's leading economists argue that higher education alone cannot overcome the lasting effects of inequality that continue to plague us, and offer sensible solutions for building a more just and equitable society.Sandy Baum and Michael McPherson document the starkly different educational and social environments in which children of different races and economic backgrounds grow up, and explain why social equity requires sustained efforts to provide the broadest possible access to high-quality early childhood and K-12 education. They dismiss panaceas like eliminating college tuition and replacing the classroom experience with online education, revealing why they fail to provide better education for those who need it most, and discuss how wages in our dysfunctional labor market are sharply skewed toward the highly educated. Baum and McPherson argue that greater investment in the postsecondary institutions that educate most low-income and marginalized students will have a bigger impact than just getting more students from these backgrounds into the most prestigious colleges and universities.While the need for reform extends far beyond our colleges and universities, there is much that both academic and government leaders can do to mitigate the worst consequences of America's deeply seated inequalities. This book shows how we can address the root causes of social injustice and level the playing field for students and families before, during, and after college.
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    The Oxford Handbook of Emily Dickinson (eBook, PDF)
    The Oxford Handbook of Emily Dickinson is designed to engage, inform, interest, and delight students and scholars of Emily Dickinson, of nineteenth-century US literature and cultural studies, of American poetry, and of the lyric. It also establishes potential agendas for future work in the field of Dickinson studies. This is the first collection on Dickinson to foreground the material and social culture of her time while opening new windows to interpretive possibility in ours. The volume strives to balance Dickinson's own center of gravity in the material culture and historical context of nineteenth-century Amherst with the significance of important critical conversations of our present, thus understanding her poetry with the broadest "Latitude of Home"-as she puts it in her poem "Forever-is composed of Nows." Debates about the lyric, about Dickinson's manuscripts and practices of composition, about the viability of translation across language, media, and culture, and about the politics of class, gender, place, and race circulate through this volume. These debates matter to our moment but also to our understanding of hers. Although rooted in the evolving history of Dickinson criticism, the chapters foreground truly new original research and a wide range of innovative critical methodologies, including artistic responses to her poetry by musicians, visual artists, and other poets. The suppleness and daring of Dickinson's thought and uses of language remain open to new possibilities and meanings, even while they are grounded in contexts from over 150 years ago, and this collection expresses and celebrates the breadth of her accomplishments and relevance.
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    Ask and It Is Given : Learning to Manifest Your Desires , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 411min
    Sunlight is beginning to spill across the Malibu coastline as I begin this preface. And the deep indigo tint of the Pacific Ocean at this time of the morning seems to match the depth of pleasure I'm feeling as I'm imagining the value you're about to receive from the revelations within this book.Ask and It Is Given is certainly a book about our ''asking'' being answered by all-that-is. But it's primarily about how whatever we're asking for is being given to us - and it's also the first book to ever, in such clear terminology, give us the simple practical formula for how to ask for, and then how to receive, whatever we want to be, do, or have. Decades ago, while searching for plausible answers to my never-ending quest to know what ''it'' is all about, I discovered the word ineffable (meaning ''incapable of being expressed in words''). Ineffable coincided with a conclusion I'd formed relative to it. I had decided that the closer we get to knowing the ''non-physical,'' the fewer words we have for clearly expressing it. And so, any state of complete knowing would also, therefore, be a state of ineffability. In other words, at this point in our time-space reality the non-physical cannot be clearly expressed with physical words. Throughout physical history, we've evolved to, through, and into billions of philosophies, religions, opinions, and beliefs. Yet, with the billions upon billions of thinkers thinking, concluding, and passing their beliefs on to the next generations, we have not - at least not in any words we can agree on - found physical words to express the non-physical.This book offers you a hands-on course in spiritual practicality. It's a how-to book in the broadest sense of the term - that is, how to be, do, or have anything that pleases you. This book also teaches you how not to be, do, or have anything that displeases you.-JerryPLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jerry Hicks. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/175654/bk_acx0_175654_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Intermittent Fasting & Keto Hacks: How to Turn Your Body into a Fat-Burning Machine and Lose 20 Pounds in 30 Days! , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 180min
    Is weight loss always on your mind, from each bite of food through every workout you dread doing?Have you hit a wall with your current diet and exercise, trying to lose those few extra pounds?Or have you had some success with weight loss and are ready to take it to the next level?If any of these questions resonated with you, this guide is going to offer you a solution that promises real results.You have probably heard of intermittent fasting (IF) as a dieting method, and you have probably heard of ketogenic, or keto diet.But have you ever heard of combining these two methods?Research has proven that there are great benefits such as weight loss, reduced cholesterol, and improving overall health and wellbeing with both IF and the keto diet.So, why can’t we use what the research has shown us to get benefits from both?Both IF and the keto diet focus on the same process: turning fat into energy, or the process of ketosis.While IF will help you determine the times when you should eat, the keto diet will guide what foods you should be eating to move you into ketosis and ultimately speed up your weight loss.Based on several scientific studies focused on both IF and keto, this guide gives you the broadest range of proven evidence of the health benefits of these weight loss strategies.One example of a study is the 2005 study by Heilbronn, L. K. et al. published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition entitled “Alternate-Day Fasting in Nonobese Subjects: Effects on Body Weight, Body Composition, and Energy Metabolism.”Their research revealed how IF lowered calorie consumption of its subjects, no matter if they had high or low levels of physical activity.In this guide, you will discover:How to actually stick with the IF and keto plan, even if you’ve tried dozens of diets in the past with no successFoolproof tricks for social gatherings, so you can sti ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gerard O'Brien. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/185020/bk_acx0_185020_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    People Born in October: Anti-Horoscope: Human "Software," Book 10 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 253min
    Anti-Horoscope: Human "Software" (Series of 12 books) Did you know that those people who were born on October 5th of leap years or October 6th of common years are not only people-accumulators in the broadest sense of the word and natural hoarders, but they can also accumulate so many negative emotions towards someone, that no apologies or pleas for forgiveness will help? Or, did you know that those people, who were born on October 7th of leap years or October 8th of common years are not only authoritarian individuals, who are strong, active, possess formidable grace, ambitious, eager to measure strength, subdue, control everything and everyone, but also for the sake of achieving their goals, are ready to become werewolves (they can instantly change their appearance)? Hence the question: Are you sure that you know people whom you think you know as your own self? Yes, of course, you know them, if we take word-play into account. You really do know them, like you know yourself - that is - just as bad! You know your own and other people's masks and roles, but that is all. You do not believe this? Then, open this audiobook and see for yourself! This audiobook is for those people who are fed up with "horoscopism," who are tired of listening to nonsense about themselves and other people from psychologists or their "all-knowing" relatives, friends, and acquaintances. It will help you save not just some time in your life, but your whole life, because otherwise you will spend your entire life on something that is impossible. And, it is impossible not because you are idiots, but because Homo Sapiens cannot fully know themselves and other people without an external (and most importantly, objective) source. Perhaps that is the reason why humanity was left "factory instructions" to each one of us the Catalog of Human Population. Yes, that is right! There exists the Catalog of Human Population, which you can open and find out everythin ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Josh Berndt. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/095749/bk_acx0_095749_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Dominion
    'If great books encourage you to look at the world in an entirely new way, then Dominion is a very great book indeed . . . Written with terrific learning, enthusiasm and good humour, Holland's book is not just supremely provocative, but often very funny' Sunday Times History Book of the YearChristianity is the most enduring and influential legacy of the ancient world, and its emergence the single most transformative development in Western history. Even the increasing number in the West today who have abandoned the faith of their forebears, and dismiss all religion as pointless superstition, remain recognisably its heirs. Seen close-up, the division between a sceptic and a believer may seem unbridgeable. Widen the focus, though, and Christianity's enduring impact upon the West can be seen in the emergence of much that has traditionally been cast as its nemesis: in science, in secularism, and yes, even in atheism. That is why Dominion will place the story of how we came to be what we are, and how we think the way that we do, in the broadest historical context. Ranging in time from the Persian invasion of Greece in 480 BC to the on-going migration crisis in Europe today, and from Nebuchadnezzar to the Beatles, it will explore just what it was that made Christianity so revolutionary and disruptive; how completely it came to saturate the mind-set of Latin Christendom; and why, in a West that has become increasingly doubtful of religion's claims, so many of its instincts remain irredeemably Christian. The aim is twofold: to make the reader appreciate just how novel and uncanny were Christian teachings when they first appeared in the world; and to make ourselves, and all that we take for granted, appear similarly strange in consequence. We stand at the end-point of an extraordinary transformation in the understanding of what it is to be human: one that can only be fully appreciated by tracing the arc of its parabola over millennia.
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    The Unwritten Book (eBook, ePUB)
    "A beautiful, inventive collection shot through with wildness and grace." -Maggie Nelson, author of On FreedomFrom Samantha Hunt, the award-winning author of The Dark Dark, comes The Unwritten Book, her first work of nonfiction, a genre-bending creation that explores the importance of books, the idea of haunting, and messages from beyond I carry each book I've ever read with me, just as I carry my dead-those things that aren't really there, those things that shape everything I am. A genre-bending work of nonfiction, Samantha Hunt's The Unwritten Book explores ghosts, ghost stories, and haunting, in the broadest sense of each. What is it to be haunted, to be a ghost, to die, to live, to read? Books are ghosts; reading is communion with the dead. Alcohol is a way of communing, too, as well as a way of dying. Each chapter gathers subjects that haunt: dead people, the forest, the towering library of all those books we'll never have time to read or write. Hunt, like a mad crossword puzzler, looks for patterns and clues. Through literary criticism, history, family history, and memoir, inspired by W. G. Sebald, James Joyce, Ali Smith, Toni Morrison, William Faulkner, and many others, Hunt explores motherhood, hoarding, legacies of addiction, grief, how we insulate ourselves from the past, how we misinterpret the world. Nestled within her inquiry is a very special ghost book, an incomplete manuscript about people who can fly without wings, written by her father and found in his desk just days after he died. What secret messages might his work reveal? What wisdom might she distill from its unfinished pages? Hunt conveys a vivid and grateful life, one that comes from living closer to the dead and shedding fear for wonder. The Unwritten Book revels in the randomness, connectivity, and magic of everyday existence. And at its heart is the immense weight of love.
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