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Consorting with Spirits

Your Guide to Working with Invisible Allies

by Jason Miller ...

Narrated by Tom Beyer ...

Unabridged

7 hours 52 min

Throughout history, humans have sought power and knowledge from spirits. Learning how to conjure, communicate, and negotiate with these unseen powers is one of the keys to success in magic.This book will teach you different ways of interacting with spirits, from offerings and invitations to forceful conjurations. With these tools in hand, you can work with your spirit allies to achieve any goal, ... Read more

$19.99 USD

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Throughout history, humans have sought power and knowledge from spirits. Learning how to conjure, communicate, and negotiate with these unseen powers is one of the keys to success in magic.This book will teach you different ways of interacting with spirits, from offerings and invitations to forceful conjurations. With these tools in hand, you can work with your spirit allies to achieve any goal,
... Read more

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Becoming AI Native

Charting the Next AI Frontier

by Terence C.M. Tse, Mark Esposito, Paul Lee, Danny Goh ...

Narrated by Tom Beyer ...

Unabridged

8 hours 42 min

This engaging guide is designed to demystify artificial intelligence (AI) in the business world, no advanced math degrees or robotic companions are necessary. It tackles everything from traditional AI to the exciting realm of Generative AI, clearly distinguishing between what is genuinely beneficial and what is merely hype, all while demonstrating how to leverage AI to address real-world business ... Read more

$18.99 USD

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This engaging guide is designed to demystify artificial intelligence (AI) in the business world, no advanced math degrees or robotic companions are necessary. It tackles everything from traditional AI to the exciting realm of Generative AI, clearly distinguishing between what is genuinely beneficial and what is merely hype, all while demonstrating how to leverage AI to address real-world business
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The Shortest History of Eugenics

From “Science” to Atrocity―How a Dangerous Movement Shaped the World, and Why It Persists

by Erik L. Peterson ...

Narrated by Tom Beyer ...

Unabridged

8 hours 11 min

A harrowing history of a grim chapter in politics and science, in which groups of influential thinkers shaped global policy with the aim of determining who had the right to have children—and who was worthy of life.For the last two centuries, groups of influential men have, in the professed interest of fiscal responsibility, crime reduction, and outright racism, attempted to control who was allowed ... Read more

$19.99 USD

A harrowing history of a grim chapter in politics and science, in which groups of influential thinkers shaped global policy with the aim of determining who had the right to have children—and who was worthy of life.For the last two centuries, groups of influential men have, in the professed interest of fiscal responsibility, crime reduction, and outright racism, attempted to control who was allowed
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The Wehrmacht's Last Stand

The German Campaigns of 1944-1945

by Robert M. Citino ...

Narrated by Tom Beyer ...

Unabridged

25 hours 59 min

By 1943, the war was lost, and most German officers knew it. What kept the German army going in an increasingly hopeless situation? Where some historians have found explanations in the power of Hitler or the role of ideology, Robert M. Citino, the world's leading scholar on the subject, posits a more straightforward solution: Bewegungskrieg, the way of war cultivated by the Germans over the course ... Read more

$29.99 USD

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By 1943, the war was lost, and most German officers knew it. What kept the German army going in an increasingly hopeless situation? Where some historians have found explanations in the power of Hitler or the role of ideology, Robert M. Citino, the world's leading scholar on the subject, posits a more straightforward solution: Bewegungskrieg, the way of war cultivated by the Germans over the course
... Read more

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Death of the Wehrmacht

The German Campaigns of 1942

by Robert M. Citino ...

Narrated by Tom Beyer ...

Unabridged

16 hours 10 min

For Hitler and the German military, 1942 was a key turning point of World War II, as an overstretched but still lethal Wehrmacht replaced brilliant victories and huge territorial gains with stalemates and strategic retreats. In this major reevaluation of that crucial year, Robert Citino shows that the German army's emerging woes were rooted as much in its addiction to the "war of movement" ... Read more

$24.99 USD

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For Hitler and the German military, 1942 was a key turning point of World War II, as an overstretched but still lethal Wehrmacht replaced brilliant victories and huge territorial gains with stalemates and strategic retreats. In this major reevaluation of that crucial year, Robert Citino shows that the German army's emerging woes were rooted as much in its addiction to the "war of movement"
... Read more

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The Nazi Seizure of Power

The Experience of a Single German Town, 1922-1945, Revised Edition

by William Sheridan Allen ...

Narrated by Tom Beyer ...

Unabridged

16 hours 58 min

In this classic work of twentieth-century history, William Sheridan Allen demonstrates how dictatorship subtly surmounted democracy in Germany and how the Nazi seizure of power encroached from below. Relying upon legal records and interviews with primary sources, Allen dissects Northeim, Germany with microscopic precision to depict the transformation of a sleepy town to a Nazi stronghold. This ... Read more

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In this classic work of twentieth-century history, William Sheridan Allen demonstrates how dictatorship subtly surmounted democracy in Germany and how the Nazi seizure of power encroached from below. Relying upon legal records and interviews with primary sources, Allen dissects Northeim, Germany with microscopic precision to depict the transformation of a sleepy town to a Nazi stronghold. This
... Read more
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Power and Prediction

The Disruptive Economics of Artificial Intelligence

by Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans, Avi Goldfarb ...

Narrated by Tom Beyer ...

Unabridged

10 hours 7 min

In their bestselling first book, Prediction Machines, eminent economists Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans, and Avi Goldfarb explained the simple yet game-changing economics of AI. Now, in Power and Prediction, they go deeper, examining the most basic unit of analysis: the decision. The authors explain that the two key decision-making ingredients are prediction and judgment, and we perform both together ... Read more

$19.99 USD

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In their bestselling first book, Prediction Machines, eminent economists Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans, and Avi Goldfarb explained the simple yet game-changing economics of AI. Now, in Power and Prediction, they go deeper, examining the most basic unit of analysis: the decision. The authors explain that the two key decision-making ingredients are prediction and judgment, and we perform both together
... Read more

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The Hollow Parties

The Many Pasts and Disordered Present of American Party Politics

by Daniel Schlozman, Sam Rosenfeld ...

Narrated by Tom Beyer ...

Unabridged

14 hours 33 min

America's political parties are hollow shells of what they could be, locked in a polarized struggle for power and unrooted as civic organizations. The Hollow Parties takes listeners from the rise of mass party politics in the Jacksonian era through the years of Barack Obama and Donald Trump. Today's parties, overbearing and ineffectual, have emerged from the interplay of multiple party traditions ... Read more

$24.99 USD

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America's political parties are hollow shells of what they could be, locked in a polarized struggle for power and unrooted as civic organizations. The Hollow Parties takes listeners from the rise of mass party politics in the Jacksonian era through the years of Barack Obama and Donald Trump. Today's parties, overbearing and ineffectual, have emerged from the interplay of multiple party traditions
... Read more

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How to Become Famous

Lost Einsteins, Forgotten Superstars, and How the Beatles Came to Be

by Cass R. Sunstein ...

Narrated by Tom Beyer ...

Unabridged

7 hours 45 min

It's hard to imagine our world without its stars and celebrity geniuses—they become a part of our culture and history, seeming permanent and preordained. But as Cass Sunstein shows in this startling book, that is far from the case. Focusing on both famous and forgotten (or simply overlooked) artists and luminaries in music, literature, business, science, politics, and other fields, he explores why ... Read more

$19.99 USD

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It's hard to imagine our world without its stars and celebrity geniuses—they become a part of our culture and history, seeming permanent and preordained. But as Cass Sunstein shows in this startling book, that is far from the case. Focusing on both famous and forgotten (or simply overlooked) artists and luminaries in music, literature, business, science, politics, and other fields, he explores why
... Read more

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Mobfather

The Story of a Wife and a Son Caught in the Web of the Mafia

by George Anastasia ...

Narrated by Tom Beyer ...

Unabridged

10 hours 47 min

In Mobfather, George Anastasia exposes what it really means to be married to the mob—and fathered by it. As revealed in their harrowing personal accounts, life for the wife and sons of Thomas "Tommy Del" DelGiorno became a descent into hell. When Maryann Welch ignored misgivings on her wedding day and plunged into marriage with the small-time gangster, she could not have foreseen how swiftly his ... Read more

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In Mobfather, George Anastasia exposes what it really means to be married to the mob—and fathered by it. As revealed in their harrowing personal accounts, life for the wife and sons of Thomas "Tommy Del" DelGiorno became a descent into hell. When Maryann Welch ignored misgivings on her wedding day and plunged into marriage with the small-time gangster, she could not have foreseen how swiftly his
... Read more
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The Hidden River

A Murder in the Everglades

by Mark Thielman ...

Narrated by Tom Beyer ...

Series series Johnson and Nance Mysteries
Unabridged

11 hours 15 min

In the Everglades, a senseless murder unearths long-buried secrets.When artist Hezekiah Freeman is found drowned in the shallow waters of Everglades National Park, Special Agent Alison Nance and Clarence Johnson are tasked with uncovering the truth behind his death. What initially seems like a tragic accident soon reveals itself to be part of a larger, more intricate conspiracy.As they begin their ... Read more

$19.99 USD

In the Everglades, a senseless murder unearths long-buried secrets.When artist Hezekiah Freeman is found drowned in the shallow waters of Everglades National Park, Special Agent Alison Nance and Clarence Johnson are tasked with uncovering the truth behind his death. What initially seems like a tragic accident soon reveals itself to be part of a larger, more intricate conspiracy.As they begin their
... Read more
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Canopy of Titans

The Life and Times of the Great North American Temperate Rainforest

by Paul Koberstein, Jessica Applegate ...

Narrated by Tom Beyer ...

Unabridged

10 hours 1 min

In Canopy of Titans, Paul Koberstein and Jessica Applegate examine the global importance of the Pacific Coastal Temperate Rainforest that stretches from Northern California to Alaska. Their urgent and authoritative account sets out the threats facing a vital environmental resource, and celebrates the beauty and complexity of one of the world's great forests.Drawing on years of on-the-ground ... Read more

$19.99 USD

In Canopy of Titans, Paul Koberstein and Jessica Applegate examine the global importance of the Pacific Coastal Temperate Rainforest that stretches from Northern California to Alaska. Their urgent and authoritative account sets out the threats facing a vital environmental resource, and celebrates the beauty and complexity of one of the world's great forests.Drawing on years of on-the-ground
... Read more