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Consorting with Spirits

Your Guide to Working with Invisible Allies

de Jason Miller ...

Narrado por Tom Beyer ...

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7 hora 52 minutos

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, ... Leer más

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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,
... Leer más

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Power and Prediction

The Disruptive Economics of Artificial Intelligence

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

Narrado por Tom Beyer ...

Completo

10 hora 7 minutos

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 ... Leer más

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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
... Leer más

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The Nazi Seizure of Power

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

de William Sheridan Allen ...

Narrado por Tom Beyer ...

Completo

16 hora 58 minutos

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 ... Leer más

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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
... Leer más
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Mobfather

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

de George Anastasia ...

Narrado por Tom Beyer ...

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10 hora 47 minutos

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 ... Leer más

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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
... Leer más
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One Last Lie

de Rob Kaufman ...

Narrado por Tom Beyer ...

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10 hora 23 minutos

Angela is beautiful and charismatic on the outside. But on the inside, evil rages and she's determined to get anyone and anything she wants. And now with her biological clock ticking, she seduces her old friend Philip, and his partner Jonathan, into having a child with her through artificial insemination.As time passes, Angela's mask of deceit slips away and she leads the fathers-to-be on a ... Leer más

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Angela is beautiful and charismatic on the outside. But on the inside, evil rages and she's determined to get anyone and anything she wants. And now with her biological clock ticking, she seduces her old friend Philip, and his partner Jonathan, into having a child with her through artificial insemination.As time passes, Angela's mask of deceit slips away and she leads the fathers-to-be on a
... Leer más

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Rent Boy

de Gary Indiana ...

Narrado por Tom Beyer ...

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4 hora 6 minutos

A noir tour-de-force set in the world of hustlers from "one of America's darkest and funniest chroniclers." (The Guardian)It's New York City, 1981, and everyone wants to be at the Emerson Club, from Cindy Crawford to Cindy Adams; from Famous Roger, one-time lion of the talk shows, to Sandy Miller, the "downtown" writer with the tattoos and the leather; from Lauren Hutton to the art star who does ... Leer más

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A noir tour-de-force set in the world of hustlers from "one of America's darkest and funniest chroniclers." (The Guardian)It's New York City, 1981, and everyone wants to be at the Emerson Club, from Cindy Crawford to Cindy Adams; from Famous Roger, one-time lion of the talk shows, to Sandy Miller, the "downtown" writer with the tattoos and the leather; from Lauren Hutton to the art star who does
... Leer más

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The Hollow Parties

The Many Pasts and Disordered Present of American Party Politics

de Daniel Schlozman, Sam Rosenfeld ...

Narrado por Tom Beyer ...

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14 hora 33 minutos

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 ... Leer más

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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
... Leer más

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The Shortest History of Eugenics

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

de Erik L. Peterson ...

Narrado por Tom Beyer ...

Completo

8 hora 11 minutos

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 ... Leer más

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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
... Leer más

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How to Become Famous

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

de Cass R. Sunstein ...

Narrado por Tom Beyer ...

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7 hora 45 minutos

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 ... Leer más

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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
... Leer más

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Death of the Wehrmacht

The German Campaigns of 1942

de Robert M. Citino ...

Narrado por Tom Beyer ...

Completo

16 hora 10 minutos

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" ... Leer más

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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"
... Leer más

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Murder at Breakheart Hill Farm

The Shocking 1900 Case that Gripped Boston's North Shore

de Douglas L. Heath, Alison C. Simcox ...

Narrado por Tom Beyer ...

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4 hora 43 minutos

On a dark, rainy night in October 1900, George E. Bailey, caretaker of Breakheart Hill farm, disappeared. He no longer made his daily milk runs to town or stopped at the tavern for his favorite cherry rum. Some suspected foul play right away, as Bailey's "wife" had recently gone to Maine, leaving Bailey alone with his farmhand, John C. Best, who was known to be a drunk and a potentially violent ... Leer más

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On a dark, rainy night in October 1900, George E. Bailey, caretaker of Breakheart Hill farm, disappeared. He no longer made his daily milk runs to town or stopped at the tavern for his favorite cherry rum. Some suspected foul play right away, as Bailey's "wife" had recently gone to Maine, leaving Bailey alone with his farmhand, John C. Best, who was known to be a drunk and a potentially violent
... Leer más

Disponible también en: eBook
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Canopy of Titans

The Life and Times of the Great North American Temperate Rainforest

de Paul Koberstein, Jessica Applegate ...

Narrado por Tom Beyer ...

Completo

10 hora 1 minutos

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 ... Leer más

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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
... Leer más