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This title describes how the fourth age, unregulated populism, took over from third age, regulated populism from FDR to Obama, and how the Democrats need to focus on not going out of business like the Federalists and Whigs.

A companion and guide to using Uber and Lyft as a driver, a passenger, and an observer of this phenomenon in modern life....

Agatha Christie was born in 1890 and created the detective Hercule Poirot in her debut novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920). She achieved wide popularity with The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926) and produced a total of 80 novels and short story collections over six decades.

Co-parenting is critical for successful divorces, and yes, Sam Margulies, an expert mediator of over 4,000 divorces, there are successful, as well as unsuccessful, divorces defined as everyone adapting and moving on productively with their lives. These co-parenting skills and help by each spouse for the other is important to achieve this end. A short must hear audiobook for those with children in a post divorce situation and family members of either couple.

Lincoln: In His Own Words includes his thoughts on his life and those of his time. This includes his most famous five speeches, The House Divided, Eulogy of Henry Clay, two Inaugurals, and The Gettysburg Address as well as the Emancipation Proclamation. The perfect audiobook for a discussion of the time between the Declaration and his death.

Simply works to liberate yoga from being held a cultural hostage to a sociopolitical agenda. How to do it? Just exercise for good health with the poses and exercises developed in Asia and the U.S. over the last several hundred years. What to do first? Get started on day one, whether for one minute or 10.

"The Men in the Storm" is a warm story by Stephen Crane relating to the struggles of homeless men against the cold, the elements, and hunger, while trying to keep a certain level of human dignity and optimism.

This title is laser-focused on making you sound smarter and becoming more respected by using a larger, more sophisticated vocabulary. Simply has systematically excluded words here that did meet this goal - words that are perfectly good in some contexts, but will not make you sound smarter. Included words sound appropriate in conversation, work seamlessly, and will not be interpreted as "show off" words.

This audiobook was created based on Peter Drucker's long business, consulting, and writing career. He focuses on what to do, what not to do, and how to keep a clear corporate identity and mission. He addresses how all organizations eventually go obsolete and their theory of their business no longer works.

With this audio, you will learn about Thomas Jefferson through a compilation of original readings and commentary, such as the Declaration of Independence, the Louisiana Purchase, the Lewis and Clark Expedition, the Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom, Jefferson's 10 Canons for Observation in Practical Life, his various correspondence and quotes, details on his presidential campaign, and his first and second Inaugural Address. Also included is an overview of his education and early life.

Irrational is the 10th mystery in the Tom Walker series. This book is about a young woman who tries to get a rich man to marry her for his money. Her plans work out. But she doesn't realize he has one, too. In the Patricia Highsmith ironic sense seen in Strangers on a Train and The Talented Mr. Ripley.

Writing Effective Business Proposals is all about using Power Points to make your point and close the deal, whether internally or externally. This audiobook tells you what is important, what isn't, and how to craft the most effective presentation for the audience you are addressing. Then it describes the specifics to make your presentation sizzle and close. A must-listen.

Eighty to 90 percent of candidates fail this test. This test prep helps guide you through the process to increase your chances for success in interviewing and getting hired. The author points candidates to three websites that can help the candidate do better, all free at the first level.

Willa Cather was perhaps most famous for her great novels such as My Antonia and Death Comes to the Archbishop. However, her short stories were enchanting and practical, local and cosmopolitan. Of the great American writers of the early part of the twentieth century she stood alone in her vision. No American writer ever had her breadth of experience and knowledge of people and places, relating to farmers in Nebraska, to barons in New York, and artists in Paris.

Steve Jobs visited the author in the 1970s to find out what it was like to be an entrepreneur. It was still a pre-tech age with computer companies being like other corporations of the era, complete with suits and ties. Steve was the new wave; he sought out the author because his company was different than the old line companies but not what Steve imagined. The conversations were scintillating and imaginative.

"The Knife" is a story about temptation, a near betrayal, and then a recovery. A cycle of danger and redemption, told with Crane's ironic touch. A black man with a penchant for fun jokes with the White owner of a watermelon patch. They both enjoy the racial stereotyping image of the black man being entranced by watermelons. Well, Peter Washington has a moment of such entrancement. He tells his friend Alek Williams and they work themselves into a fit of envy about those watermelons....

Plato's Allegory of the Cave is what many believe to be the foundation of Western Philosophy. It addresses what is visible and invisible, seen and observed versus intuited and imagined, and what is public versus private and just versus unjust. It also concerns the meaning and importance of education, the state of the soul, the conflict between truth and beauty, animal urges versus higher aspirations, knowledge versus ignorance, and on and on.

Make your financial statements work for you. This audiobook includes 11 sections, covering such topics as balance sheets, cash flow, and income statements.

A must listen for couples more than 15 years apart in age. Best to listen prior to marriage but important to read if a marriage sours. Sam Margulies, who has mediated 4,000 divorces has found this group having specially identifiable issues that can be dealt with productively and fairly. The younger spouse, generally a woman, grows up during the marriage and seeks an equality not there in the beginning. The older, generally richer spouse, bargained for this kind of relationship and must now decide whether to change the status of the younger party or move on.

Four American Revolution documents: Common Sense by Thomas Paine; the Declaration of Independence by Thomas Jefferson; the Constitution and the Bill of Rights by James Madison.