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The Sarajevo Olympics

A History of the 1984 Winter Games

de Jason Vuic ...

To most observers, the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, were an unmitigated success. That year, the unlikeliest of candidate cities in the unlikeliest of candidate countries did what many had thought impossible: it hosted an international sports competition at the highest level, housing and feeding hundreds of athletes and thousands of tourists while broadcasting a positive image of ... Leer más

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To most observers, the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, were an unmitigated success. That year, the unlikeliest of candidate cities in the unlikeliest of candidate countries did what many had thought impossible: it hosted an international sports competition at the highest level, housing and feeding hundreds of athletes and thousands of tourists while broadcasting a positive image of
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The Yucks

Two Years in Tampa with the Losingest Team in NFL History

de Jason Vuic ...

Friday Night Lights meets The Bad News Bears in “a brisk, warmhearted reminder of how professional sports can occasionally reach stunning unprofessional depths” (Publishers Weekly): the first two seasons with the worst team in NFL history, the hapless, hilarious, and hopelessly winless 1976–1977 Tampa Bay Buccaneers.Long before their first Super Bowl victory in 2003, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers did ... Leer más

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Friday Night Lights meets The Bad News Bears in “a brisk, warmhearted reminder of how professional sports can occasionally reach stunning unprofessional depths” (Publishers Weekly): the first two seasons with the worst team in NFL history, the hapless, hilarious, and hopelessly winless 1976–1977 Tampa Bay Buccaneers.Long before their first Super Bowl victory in 2003, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers did
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A Town without Pity

AIDS, Race, and Resistance in Florida’s Deep South

de Jason Vuic ...

Two heartbreaking tales of small-town injustice revealing America’s struggles with AIDS and racial bias in the 1980sFlorida Historical Society Harry T. and Harriette V. Moore AwardIn the 1980s, the tiny town of Arcadia, Florida, was “fifty miles and fifty years from Sarasota.” With its cowboy roots, low-wage agricultural industries, and violent frontier history, Arcadia was a curious mix of the ... Leer más

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Two heartbreaking tales of small-town injustice revealing America’s struggles with AIDS and racial bias in the 1980sFlorida Historical Society Harry T. and Harriette V. Moore AwardIn the 1980s, the tiny town of Arcadia, Florida, was “fifty miles and fifty years from Sarasota.” With its cowboy roots, low-wage agricultural industries, and violent frontier history, Arcadia was a curious mix of the
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The Yugo

The Rise and Fall of the Worst Car in History

de Jason Vuic ...

"[A] rollicking chronicle of the rise and fall of the homely little hatchback that couldn't." —Dick Teresi, Wall Street JournalSix months after its American introduction in 1985, the Yugo was a punch line; within a year, it was a staple of late-night comedy. By 2000, NPR's Car Talk declared it "the worst car of the millennium." The short, unhappy life of the car, the men who built it, the men who ... Leer más

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"[A] rollicking chronicle of the rise and fall of the homely little hatchback that couldn't." —Dick Teresi, Wall Street JournalSix months after its American introduction in 1985, the Yugo was a punch line; within a year, it was a staple of late-night comedy. By 2000, NPR's Car Talk declared it "the worst car of the millennium." The short, unhappy life of the car, the men who built it, the men who
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The Swamp Peddlers

How Lot Sellers, Land Scammers, and Retirees Built Modern Florida and Transformed the American Dream

de Jason Vuic ...

Florida has long been a beacon for retirees, but for many, the American dream of owning a home there was a fantasy. That changed in the 1950s, when the so-called “installment land sales industry” hawked billions of dollars of Florida residential property, sight unseen, to retiring northerners. For only $10 down and $10 a month, working-class pensioners could buy a piece of the Florida dream: a ... Leer más

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Florida has long been a beacon for retirees, but for many, the American dream of owning a home there was a fantasy. That changed in the 1950s, when the so-called “installment land sales industry” hawked billions of dollars of Florida residential property, sight unseen, to retiring northerners. For only $10 down and $10 a month, working-class pensioners could buy a piece of the Florida dream: a
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The Swamp Peddlers

How Lot Sellers, Land Scammers, and Retirees Built Modern Florida and Transformed the American Dream

de Jason Vuic ...

Narrado por Mike Chamberlain ...

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9 hora 35 minutos

Florida has long beckoned retirees seeking to spend their golden years in the sun, but, for many, the American dream of owning a home there was financially impossible. That changed in the 1950s, when the so-called "installment land sales industry" appeared out of nowhere to hawk billions of dollars of Florida residential property, sight unseen, to retiring northerners. For only $10 down and $10 a ... Leer más

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Florida has long beckoned retirees seeking to spend their golden years in the sun, but, for many, the American dream of owning a home there was financially impossible. That changed in the 1950s, when the so-called "installment land sales industry" appeared out of nowhere to hawk billions of dollars of Florida residential property, sight unseen, to retiring northerners. For only $10 down and $10 a
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The Yucks

Two Years in Tampa with the Losingest Team in NFL History

de Jason Vuic ...

Narrado por Patrick Lawlor ...

Completo

7 hora 19 minutos

Long before their first Super Bowl victory in 2003, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers did something no NFL team had ever done before and that none will ever likely do again: They lost twenty-six games in a row. It started in 1976, in their first season as an expansion team, and it lasted until the penultimate game of the 1977 season, when they defeated Archie Manning and the New Orleans Saints on the road. ... Leer más

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Long before their first Super Bowl victory in 2003, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers did something no NFL team had ever done before and that none will ever likely do again: They lost twenty-six games in a row. It started in 1976, in their first season as an expansion team, and it lasted until the penultimate game of the 1977 season, when they defeated Archie Manning and the New Orleans Saints on the road.
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The Yugo

The Rise and Fall of the Worst Car in History

de Jason Vuic ...

Narrado por Erik Synnestvedt ...

Completo

8 hora 57 minutos

Six months after its American introduction in 1985, the Yugo was a punch line; within a year, it was a staple of late-night comedy. By 2000, NPR's Car Talk declared it "the worst car of the millennium." And for most Americans that's where the story begins and ends.Hardly.The short, unhappy life of the car, the men who built it, the men who imported it, and the decade that embraced and discarded it ... Leer más

$17.99 USD

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Six months after its American introduction in 1985, the Yugo was a punch line; within a year, it was a staple of late-night comedy. By 2000, NPR's Car Talk declared it "the worst car of the millennium." And for most Americans that's where the story begins and ends.Hardly.The short, unhappy life of the car, the men who built it, the men who imported it, and the decade that embraced and discarded it
... Leer más

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Closing the Courthouse Door

How Your Constitutional Rights Became Unenforceable

de Erwin Chemerinsky ...

Narrado por Mike Chamberlain ...

Completo

9 hora 52 minutos

The Supreme Court's decisions on constitutional rights are well known and much talked about. But individuals who want to defend those rights need something else as well: access to courts that can rule on their complaints. And on matters of access, the Court's record over the past generation has been almost uniformly hostile to the enforcement of individual citizens' constitutional rights. The ... Leer más

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The Supreme Court's decisions on constitutional rights are well known and much talked about. But individuals who want to defend those rights need something else as well: access to courts that can rule on their complaints. And on matters of access, the Court's record over the past generation has been almost uniformly hostile to the enforcement of individual citizens' constitutional rights. The
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The Little Book of Prosperity

The 12 Principles of Wealth and Abundance

de Chris Gentry ...

Narrado por Pat Grimes ...

Completo

2 hora 15 minutos

This book provides a blueprint for a life beyond your wildest dreams. It is a primer for achieving wealth, loaded with the most salient prosperity wisdom of the last hundred years. The content is further enhanced by thoughtful exercises that will aid listeners in their personal-success journeys. Each of the chapters focuses on one of twelve principles—including Dreams, Goals, Taking Action, and ... Leer más

$24.99 USD

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This book provides a blueprint for a life beyond your wildest dreams. It is a primer for achieving wealth, loaded with the most salient prosperity wisdom of the last hundred years. The content is further enhanced by thoughtful exercises that will aid listeners in their personal-success journeys. Each of the chapters focuses on one of twelve principles—including Dreams, Goals, Taking Action, and
... Leer más

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Foodopoly

The Battle Over the Future of Food and Farming in America

de Wenonah Hauter ...

Narrado por Nancy Peterson ...

Completo

15 hora 24 minutos

Wenonah Hauter owns an organic family farm that provides healthy vegetables to hundreds of families as part of the Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) movement. Yet, as a leading healthy-food advocate, Hauter believes that the local food movement is not enough to solve America's food crisis and the public health debacle it has created. In Foodopoly, she takes aim at the real culprit: the control ... Leer más

$24.99 USD

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Wenonah Hauter owns an organic family farm that provides healthy vegetables to hundreds of families as part of the Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) movement. Yet, as a leading healthy-food advocate, Hauter believes that the local food movement is not enough to solve America's food crisis and the public health debacle it has created. In Foodopoly, she takes aim at the real culprit: the control
... Leer más

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Frankenstein's Cat

Cuddling Up to Biotech's Brave New Beasts

de Emily Anthes ...

Narrado por Hillary Huber ...

Completo

6 hora 23 minutos

For centuries, we've toyed with our creature companions, breeding dogs that herd and hunt, housecats that look like tigers, and teacup pigs that fit snugly in our handbags. But what happens when we take animal alteration a step further, engineering a cat that glows green under ultraviolet light or cloning the beloved family Labrador? Science has given us a whole new toolbox for tinkering with life ... Leer más

$16.99 USD

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For centuries, we've toyed with our creature companions, breeding dogs that herd and hunt, housecats that look like tigers, and teacup pigs that fit snugly in our handbags. But what happens when we take animal alteration a step further, engineering a cat that glows green under ultraviolet light or cloning the beloved family Labrador? Science has given us a whole new toolbox for tinkering with life
... Leer más

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