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    Economist on Wall Street: Notes on the Sanctity of Gold, the Value of Money, the Security of Investments, and Other Delusions , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 449min
    One of the foremost financial writers of his generation, Peter Bernstein has the unique ability to synthesize intellectual history and economics with the theory and practice of investment management. Now, with classic titles such as Economist on Wall Street, A Primer on Money, Banking, and Gold, and The Price of Prosperity, which have forewords by financial luminaries and new introductions by the author, you can enjoy some of the best of Bernstein in his earlier Wall Street days. Peter Bernstein's Economist on Wall Street is a collection of work from 1955 to 1970. The audio is especially interesting because so many of Bernstein's observations reflect the most important issues of the present - the outlook for inflation and its control, the intricacies of monetary policy, the future of the dollar, and the dilemmas of household finances. Bernstein was also concerned with developments in portfolio management, including the new influence of institutional investors and rules for optimal asset mixes. He provides light touches, too, as he indulges in fantasies and philosophical musings over a wide variety of topics.With so many years of hindsight, we should not be surprised to find some of Bernstein's predictions running awry. But why? In each instance, these forecasts were biased by memories of the past. There is a big lesson to be learned there. Economist on Wall Street is a remarkable audio work, with lasting relevance and keen insights into the art of investment management, the capital markets, gold and the dollar, and the fun of being alive. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Sean Pratt. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/gdan/000221/bk_gdan_000221_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Think & Grow Rich - Lectures by Napoleon Hill, Hörbuch, Digital, 108min
    This is a great synopsis of the Think & Grow Rich philosophy, by Napoleon Hill himself! Make no mistake about it, listening to and following the principles of Think & Grow Rich will help individuals in all walks of life achieve their goals. For instance, former heavyweight champion and International Boxing Hall of Fame Ken Norton credited his winning ways to Think & Grow Rich. Norton's victory over "The Greatest", Muhammad Ali, in 1973 is a great illustration of how individuals can beat the odds, achieve their goals, and reach their fullest potential using the principles contained in the motivational book Think & Grow Rich, a book that Norton discusses as a foundation for inspiration on the road to becoming a world champion. Norton also attributes what he learned from Think & Grow Rich for helping him to handle severe adversity from a near-fatal car accident in 1986. Individuals will accomplish their particular goal(s) in proportion to the effort they put into following the Think and Grow Rich philosophy. Listening to and following the principles in this book will change your life. Think & Grow Rich is one of the greatest self-help books ever. P.S. Another great book that Norton kept at hand on the road to becoming a world champion was Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude by Napoleon Hill and W. Clement Stone. P.P.S. One more excellent companion to Think & Grow Rich is Everything I Needed to Know About Success, I Learned in the Bible (And So Can You!). This book uses principles of success from the Bible and Think & Grow Rich. Language: English. Narrator: Napoleon Hill. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bnpp/000037/bk_bnpp_000037_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Debt-Free U: How I Paid for an Outstanding College Education Without Loans, Scholarships, or Mooching off My Parents , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 594min
    This audiobook can save you more than $100,000. These days, most people assume you need to pay a boatload of money for a quality college education. As a result, students and their parents are willing to go into years of debt and potentially sabotage their financial futures just to get a fancy name on a diploma. But Zac Bissonnette is walking proof that the assumption is not only false, but dangerous. From his unique double perspective—he’s a personal finance expert (at AOL Money and Finance) AND a current senior at the University of Massachusetts—Zac figured out how too get an outstanding education at a public college, without bankrupting his parents or taking on loans.Armed with his personal knowledge, the latest data, and smart analysis, Zac takes on the sacred cows and conventional wisdom about choosing and financing college. You’ll discover, for instance, that: Student loans are NOT a necessary evil. Ordinary middle-class families can—and must—find ways to avoid them, even without scholarships. College “rankings” are useless—designed to sell magazines and generate hype, if you trust one of the major guides when picking a college, you face a potential financial disaster. The elite graduate programs accept lots of people with nonelite bachelor’s degrees. So do America’s most selective employers.Zac can prove every one of hose bold assertions—and more. He has a simple message for parents: “RELAX! Your kid will be able to get a champagne education on a beer budget!” ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Sean Pratt. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/gdan/000477/bk_gdan_000477_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Egyptian Mythology: Captivating Stories of the Gods, Goddesses, Monsters and Mortals , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 106min
    This book on Egyptian mythology is part of the best-selling series, Norse Mythology - Egyptian Mythology - Greek Mythology. In this ultimate guide on Egyptian mythology, you will discover captivating stories of the gods, goddesses, monsters, and mortals. In this audiobook, you will also find factual history as well as insightful information regarding Egyptian mythology. This audiobook is broken into three parts: Fantastic Images - Ancient Egyptian myths and legends as we know them today Factual History - Covering pre-history through classical antiquity Unraveling Myth - Looking at Egyptian mythology from a fresh perspective This audiobook is jam-packed with fascinating facts and stories. For instance, it covers perhaps the most popular of all the Egyptian stories - the myth of Osiris. Pieces of this story have been found throughout Egypt. One of the most appealing aspects of the Osiris myth is the human-like behavior of the gods within the story. Many of the other gods of the Egyptian pantheon were rather emotionless and their stories far less interesting. With the Osiris story, the gods display a broad range of emotions that made them more real to mere mortals. Just some of the questions and topics covered in this audiobook include: Egypt in context Creation Fall of humanity Osiris myth Chief gods of the egyptian pantheon Lesser known pantheon Secrets of Giza - sphinx and pyramids King list Ancient Egyptian history Classical antiquity Dragons and other creatures Osiris, Isis, Seth and Horus The meaning of myth Listen to this audiobook now! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: JD Kelly. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/082127/bk_acx0_082127_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Lights on the Champs-Elysees: Slumming in Paris With the Children, Part 5 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 104min
    Lights on the Champs-Elysees - Fourth of seven novellas in the "Slumming in Paris, With the Children" series. Which is Part Five of my "Slumming in Paris" Series. Part 5 is the fourth of seven novellas forming a subset with Slumming in Paris, additionally titled, With the Children. Further, an identifying title "Part" is given to each of the seven in the "With the Children" series. This book is Lights on the Champs-Elysees. The story continues with the children, and the adults having welcomed the arrival of their grandparents and small neighbor child, and the larger expanded family group venturing out into Paris together. A full list of those titles, including all the currently named chapters (rather than numbered as in my previous work) is at the end of each book. Parts 2 through 8 are comprehensive, with an over-arching theme and story of experiencing Paris, and finding what that experience means within. While Part One, Slumming in Paris, Arthur & Gricinda is more obviously focussed on the two adults, Parts 2-8 prominently feature the children. Experiencing Paris is, in this work, both symbolic, and an engulfing immersion all its own. The mystery, for each person who visits this wonderful city, is how to individually reconcile everything they have known before, and hope to know. And knowing in this instance, because there are so many young characters, is a variable thing. And realizing that, that "knowing is a process," for us as people, is, I truly believe, one of the greatest gifts Paris, and fiction, we can receive. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Paul Woodson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/024403/bk_acx0_024403_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Experience Curating: How to Gain Focus, Increase Influence, and Simplify Your Life , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 334min
    Imagine what would happen if you spent 0.1% of your time adding value to the other 99.9%. Could you harness an otherwise overwhelming world of endless information, gratifying moments, and dizzying possibilities? How much social currency could you create if you knew how to capture, organize, and share anything to improve everything? The open secret is that curating your entire existence - or "experience curating" as rising author Joel Zaslofsky calls it - is just as powerful today as it was 2,000 years ago. Experience Curating isn't just about Zaslofsky's unique FAOCAS framework and how to reap its rewards with your favorite tools. It's a three-part blueprint for achieving your own brand of success, complete with real-world case studies from Evernote, The Huffington Post, and even the Brothers Grimm. Through Experience Curating, you'll learn how to embrace your curating gifts to: Simplify your physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual landscape Enjoy faster, tastier, and healthier food Become an expert and go-to community resource in any topic Gain more freedom by breaking out of the Internet's "filter bubbles" What you use your curated experiences for - making money, mastering personal finance, improving your relationships, creating truly useful to-do lists, or world domination (for instance) - is up to you. You can join countless others in pushing the boundaries of your potential. You can constantly prove that your existence is meaningful. And you can unearth the timeless and specific steps to convert your curating currency into social, intellectual, or physical capital. All it takes is some simple and intentional Experience Curating. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Joel Zaslofsky. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/036339/bk_acx0_036339_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Theseus and the Minotaur: The History of One of Greek Mythology's Most Famous Legends , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 75min
    Countless civilizations have come and gone over the course of time, but interest in mythology is one of the great constants. People have approached myths from countless angles, some denigrating and self-righteous, others earnest and open-minded, but there is something mystical and universal in all myths that speaks to the reader across the years, regardless of what they know of historiography or "schools of thought". The truth is that all of these stories live in a murky, anachronistic history so entangled that trying to unravel it can mean everything or nothing at all. One of the reasons for this is the age of most myths, especially those from ancient times (the name Theseus can be traced back as far as 1450 BCE, for instance). Another is the sheer volume of possible versions there can be of a given myth. A lot of mythological stories span centuries, so it's likely that nothing like an "original version" of Theseus and the Minotaur will ever be known. In fact, even if the story could be traced all the way back, the "original" is likely to be so far removed from the beloved modern-day version that it would not be adopted as canon anyway. Nor, it has to be said, can a version of the story be isolated that would have been read at a specific point in time, such as the Classical Period, since a lot of the sources for stories like Theseus are either fragmentary or come even later. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kenneth Ray. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/079583/bk_acx0_079583_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Origins of Value: The Financial Innovations That Created Modern Capital Markets , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 874min
    From the invention of interest in Mesopotamia and the origin of paper money in China, to the creation of mutual funds, inflation-indexed bonds, and global financial securities, here is a sweeping survey of financial innovations that have changed the world. Written by a distinguished group of experts - including Robert Shiller, Niall Ferguson, Valerie Hansen, and many others - The Origins of Value traces the evolution of finance through 4,000 years of history. Listeners see how and why many of our most important financial tools and institutions - loans, interest rates, stocks, bonds, mutual funds, the corporation, and the New York Stock Exchange, to name a few - came into being. We see, for instance, how ancient Rome developed an early form of equity finance that resembles the modern corporation and read about the first modern corporation - the Dutch East India Company - and its innovative means of financing the exploration and expansion of European business ventures around the globe. We also meet remarkable financial innovators, such as the 13th century Italian Fibonacci of Pisa, whose mathematics of money became the foundation for later developments in the technology of Western European finance (and may explain why the West surpassed the East in financial sophistication). And we even discover a still-surviving "perpetuity" dating from the Dutch Age of Reason - an instrument that has been paying interest since the mid-17th century. Placing our current age of financial revolution in fascinating historical perspective, The Origins of Value tells a remarkable story of invention, illuminating many key episodes in the course of financial history. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Christine Marshall. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/015524/bk_adbl_015524_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Mutual Funds: The Mutual Fund Retirement Plan for Long-Term Wealth Building , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 75min
    Mutual funds have become popular among investors, and they are easy to understand. They offer benefits and simplicity to investors with limited money, time, or knowledge. If you are still undecided about whether mutual funds are great for you, check out these advantages. Asset diversification is a key rule of investing for small investors and large ones. Diversification is the combination of various types of asset classes and investments within a portfolio. It helps in managing risk. To have a diversified portfolio, it is wise to purchase stocks that have different capitalization from various industries as well as bonds with different maturities from various issuers. This strategy may be costly for an individual investor. When you buy mutual funds, you get the advantage of instant asset allocation and diversification without the high cost you would have incurred when creating individual portfolios. The downside to this is that a single mutual fund may not provide you with enough diversification. Check whether the fund is industry- or sector-specific. For instance, if you invest in a certain sector, you may have your money spread over multiple companies. However, if that sector falls, your investment may suffer. To understand economies of scale easily and quickly, think of volume discount; the more of an item you purchase, the cheaper it becomes. The same applies when buying and selling securities. Buying a single security at a given time will see you pay higher transaction fees. Mutual funds lower their investors’ transaction costs by taking advantage of selling and buying volume. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: William Bahl. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/145406/bk_acx0_145406_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Explosion of the SS Sultana: The Deadliest Maritime Disaster in American History , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 77min
    There is a popular saying that declares "timing is everything", and in no other field of study is that truer than in history. For instance, under normal conditions, a ship that sank with more than 2,000 passengers aboard - most of whom died - would be big news, yet today the sinking of the SS Sultana is often overlooked if not entirely forgotten. While it might have generated the type of publicity and reaction of the Johnstown Flood of 1889 or the Galveston Hurricane of 1900 under normal circumstances, the explosion and sinking of the Sultana on April 27, 1865, has become something of a historical footnote. The irony is that the Sultana is a historical footnote because of the Civil War, but it was also intimately tied to the war. Although Robert E. Lee's surrender to Ulysses Grant at Appomattox was not technically the end of the Civil War, it took one of the last remaining Confederate armies out of the field. Furthermore, on the night of April 14, many of the Union's hopes for the future were dashed when President Abraham Lincoln was shot at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D. C. The people of the nation quickly became a volatile mix of grief and outrage, uninterested in anything that did not relate to the death of their beloved president. In fact, just the day before the disaster, as the Sultana was sailing up the Mississippi River to her rendezvous with destiny, Union Army soldiers cornered and killed Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ronald Printz. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/033273/bk_acx0_033273_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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