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No Road Leading Back An Improbable Escape from the Nazis and the Tangled Way We Tell the Story of the Holocaust [Audiobook]


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English | ASIN: B0CB9DCKDB | 2024 | 21 hours and 14 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 614 MB
Author: Chris Heath
Narrator: Vas Eli

This by turns shattering and hope-giving account of prisoners who dug their way to freedom from the Nazis is both a stunning escape narrative and an object lesson in the ways we remember and continually forget the particulars of the Holocaust. No Road Leading Back is the remarkable story of a dozen prisoners who escaped from the site where more than 70,000 Jews were shot in the Lithuanian forest of Ponar after the Nazi invasion of Eastern Europe in 1941. Anxious to hide the incriminating evidence of the murders, the S.S. later in the war enslaved a group of Jews to exhume every one of the bodies and incinerate them all in a months-long labor-an episode whose specifics are staggering and disturbing, even within the context of the Holocaust. From within that dire circumstance emerges the improbable escape made by some of the men, who dug a tunnel with bare hands and spoons while they were trapped and guarded day and night-an act not just of bravery and desperation but of awesome imagination. Based on first-person accounts of the escapees and on each scrap of evidence that has been documented, repressed, or amplified since, this book resurrects their lives, while also providing a complex, urgent analysis of why their story has rarely been told, and never accurately. Heath explores the cultural use and misuse of Holocaust testimony and the need for us to face it-and all uncomfortable historical truths-with honesty and accuracy.

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LOST Back to the Island The Complete Critical Companion to The Classic TV Series [Audiobook]

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English | ASIN: B0DG64HQHX | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~13:30:00 | 371 MB
Before it premiered in the fall of 2004, LOST looked doomed to be an expensive, disastrous plane crash of a TV show. Instead, LOST was a massive hit, debuting with the biggest audience for a new drama on ABC in over a decade, reaching heights of over 23 million viewers at its peak, and holding on to a hefty fan-base for its entire six-season run. The elements that made the series seem like a boondoggle proved, instead, to be a big part of its appeal. Audiences loved the exotic island setting, became invested in the morally compromised characters, and feverishly tried to unravel the show’s many mysteries.
In LOST: Back to the Island, TV critics and veteran LOST recappers Emily St. James and Noel Murray revisit what made the show such a success and an object of enduring cultural obsession, twenty years later. Through essays, episode summaries, and cultural analysis, they take us back to the island and examine LOST’s lasting impact-and its complicated, sometimes controversial legacy-with a clear-eyed and lively investigation.

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Back Roads and Better Angels A Journey into the Heart of American Democracy [Audiobook]


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English | ASIN: B0D5SBDGLK | 2024 | 24 hours and 00 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 687 MB
Author: Francis S. Barry
Narrator: Mike Chamberlain

Bringing together two of America’s unifying loves – road trips and Abraham Lincoln – Frank Barry takes listeners on a thought-provoking journey into the heart of our democracy and the soul of our country. A year into his marriage and having never driven an RV, Frank and his wife Laurel set out from New York City in a Winnebago to drive the nation’s first transcontinental route, the Lincoln Highway, which zigzags through small towns and big cities from Times Square to San Francisco. Using the spirit of Abraham Lincoln to guide them across the land, they hope to see more clearly what holds the country together-and how we can keep it together, even amidst political divisions that have grown increasingly rancorous, bitter, and exhausting. Along the way, Frank and Laurel meet Americans whose personal experiences help humanize the nation’s divisions, and they encounter historical figures and events whose legacies are still shaping our sense of national identity and the struggles over it. This unforgettable journey is full of what makes any great road trip memorable and enjoyable: music, conversation, and laughter. By the end, listeners will have a clearer picture of how we have arrived at a period that carries echoes of the Civil War era, and-using Lincoln as a guide-where the path forward lies.

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Claiming Back Your Work-Life Balance


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English | June 13, 2024 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0D6C2NCVR | 403 pages | EPUB | 0.76 Mb
Setting Boundaries – Claiming Back Your Work-Life Balance

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Back-Arc Spreading Systems Geological, Biological, Chemical, and Physical Interactions


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2006 | 305 Pages | ISBN: 0875904319 | PDF | 39 MB
Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Geophysical Monograph Series. New ocean crust is continuously created where tectonic plates diverge. A distinctive type of oceanic crust is formed by back-arc spreading systems that parallel oceanic island arcs on the side away from the subducting plate. Volatile-rich and spatially variable, back-arc spreading systems are a natural laboratory for multi-disciplinary studies of seafloor creation, the flow of magma from the deep earth, and the hydrothermal ecosystems that this flow sustains. Derived from the prestigious Ridge 2000 InterRidge Theoretical Institute held in 2004, Back-Arc Spreading Systems: Geological, Biological, Chemical, and Physical Interactions reviews the state of the science, with select case studies.Experienced researchers in, and students of, marine geology, biological oceanography, marine geochemistry, volcanology, petrology, and geo- and paleomagnetism will find this volume a significant resource now and for the near future.Content:

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The Ultimate Guide for Bank Directors Back to Basics


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English | May 21, 2024 | ISBN: 1977270689 | 184 pages | PDF | 1.54 Mb
The recent bank failures demonstrate a need to get back to the basics of banking. The Ultimate Guide for Bank Directors – Back to Basics helps bank directors and management focus on what matters: keeping all aspects of the bank in balance by minimizing concentrations, keeping the risks at bay, and maintaining good liquidity, capital, earnings and credit quality. And all the while keeping a steady hand on the controls of the bank. This book is a concise, fast-paced and indispensable guide providing bank directors and management with practical advice, as well as best practices, to help them face the challenges in the banking industry today and fulfill their fiduciary responsibilities. A must read for any new board member, long-time board members or bank executives who want to get back to the basics of sound banking.

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Back In Time For Dinner From Spam to Sushi How We’ve Changed the Way We Eat


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English | June 1, 2015 | ISBN: 0593075242 | 304 pages | PDF | 36 Mb
Do you remember the arrival of the fish finger, the rise and fall of Angel Delight, Vesta curries, and Wimpy hamburgers? Did you own a fondue set or host a Tupperware party, or were you starving yourself on the Cabbage Soup Diet? Was life always too short to stuff a mushroom? And what was the point of Nouvelle Cuisine? There has been a revolution in our kitchens. In 1950, the average housewife worked a 75-hour week. No one owned a fridge or had seen a teabag, let alone an avocado or a Curly Wurly. 10 years later, sugar consumption had rocketed: we ate more biscuits for dinner than vegetables and fruit. It was not until the mid 1990s that we started to worry about "five a day." And now, nearly 20 years on from the first vegetable-box delivery scheme, we are fatter than ever before. Has there ever been a golden age of the family meal? Full of delicious detail, this marvelous companion to the BBC series is rich with nostalgia and provides a feast of extraordinary factual nuggets. Who can guess the filling of the first pre-packed sandwich in 1984? And who could have foreseen then that a kitchen robot that can write your shopping list is now just around the corner? Reflecting all the fads and fashions that have graced our table, Back in Time for Dinner is much more than a book about dinner; it holds a mirror to our changing family lives.

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