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Life on Route 66

Personal Accounts Along the Mother Road to California

by Claudia Heller, Alan Heller ...

A celebration of America's most historic highway, in words and pictures.Winding through the rugged heartland of the American West, Route 66 has resonated for generations in hardscrabble tales of hopeful seekers of new homes and new lives. It also inspired Alan and Claudia Heller, longtime residents of Duarte, a California town along Route 66, to hitch their trailer to a retirement dream and travel ... Read more

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A celebration of America's most historic highway, in words and pictures.Winding through the rugged heartland of the American West, Route 66 has resonated for generations in hardscrabble tales of hopeful seekers of new homes and new lives. It also inspired Alan and Claudia Heller, longtime residents of Duarte, a California town along Route 66, to hitch their trailer to a retirement dream and travel
... Read more
Curiosities of the California Desert

Historic, Offbeat & Forgotten Attractions

by Claudia Heller, Alan Heller ...

One might not expect to find much in the middle of California's hot, dry deserts. But to the curious explorer, they're scattered with strange and extraordinary sights. On old Route 66, the desert traveler can find quirky roadside art and mementos left by motorists. In the El Paso Mountains of the Mojave, the daring adventurer can crawl through a tunnel that was hand dug by an old prospector named ... Read more

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One might not expect to find much in the middle of California's hot, dry deserts. But to the curious explorer, they're scattered with strange and extraordinary sights. On old Route 66, the desert traveler can find quirky roadside art and mementos left by motorists. In the El Paso Mountains of the Mojave, the daring adventurer can crawl through a tunnel that was hand dug by an old prospector named
... Read more
As Good As It Got

The 1944 St. Louis Browns

by David Alan Heller ...

Series series Images of Baseball
World War II threatened to ruin Major League Baseball. By 1945, over 500 major leaguers and 3,000 minor league prospects had been enlisted for the war effort, leaving a dearth of talent for the Big Leagues. The St. Louis Browns, like other AL and NL clubs, would be forced to fill holes in their roster with scrubs-4-F players (those dismissed from the military due to physical ailments), retired ... Read more

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World War II threatened to ruin Major League Baseball. By 1945, over 500 major leaguers and 3,000 minor league prospects had been enlisted for the war effort, leaving a dearth of talent for the Big Leagues. The St. Louis Browns, like other AL and NL clubs, would be forced to fill holes in their roster with scrubs-4-F players (those dismissed from the military due to physical ailments), retired
... Read more
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Twilight in Hazard

An Appalachian Reckoning

by Alan Maimon ...

Narrated by Johnny Heller ...

Unabridged

7 hours 54 min

When Alan Maimon got the assignment in 2000 to report on life in rural Eastern Kentucky, his editor at the Louisville Courier-Journal told him to cover the region "like a foreign correspondent would."And indeed, when Maimon arrived in Hazard, Kentucky, fresh off a reporting stint for the New York Times's Berlin bureau, he felt every bit the outsider. He had landed in a place in the vice grip of ... Read more

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When Alan Maimon got the assignment in 2000 to report on life in rural Eastern Kentucky, his editor at the Louisville Courier-Journal told him to cover the region "like a foreign correspondent would."And indeed, when Maimon arrived in Hazard, Kentucky, fresh off a reporting stint for the New York Times's Berlin bureau, he felt every bit the outsider. He had landed in a place in the vice grip of
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Mandate for Change

Policies and Leadership for 2009 and Beyond

by Chester Hartman, Catherine Albisa, Robert Alvarez, Sarah Anderson, Nan Aron, Dean Baker, Phyllis Bennis, Angela Glover Blackwell, Congressman Earl Blumenauer, Robert L. Borosage0, Kate Bronfenbrenner1, John Cavanagh2, Oscar Chacón3, Chuck Collins4, Stuart Comstock-Gay5, Charlie Cray6, Sheila Crowley7, Martha F. Davis8, Karen Dolan9, Peter Edelman0, Carroll L. Estes1, John Feffer2, Bill Fletcher Jr.3, Maria Foscarinis4, Kim Gandy5, Jaime Grant6, Mark Greenberg7, Jim Harkness8, Farrah Hassen9, Simon Heller0, Alan W. Houseman1, Tomás R. Jiménez2, Barbara B. Kennelly3, Gloria Ladson-Billings4, Saul Landau5, Erik Leaver6, Nicole Lee7, Gerald LeMelle8, Ben Lilliston9, Bart Lubow0, Eric Mann1, Ben Manski2, Marc Mauer3, Patrice McDermott4, Dedrick Muhammad5, Douglas W. Nelson6, Miriam Pemberton7, Manuel Pérez-Rocha8, Frances Fox Piven9, Sam Pizzigati0, Ron Pollack1, William Quigley2, Miles S. Rapoport3, Marcus Raskin4, Janet Redman5, Michael A. Replogle6, Jon Rynn7, Rebecca Sawyer8, Daniel Scheer9, Ben Scott0, Rinku Sen1, Amy Shannon2, Cynthia Soohoo3, Nancy Starnes4, Betsy Taylor5, Sanho Tree6, Katrina vanden Heuvel7, Dorian Warren8, Emira Woods9, Daphne Wysham0 ...

Three decades ago, conservative ideologues at The Heritage Foundation produced a primer on the Reagan Revolution entitled Mandate for Leadership, which offered an overarching philosophy against the role of government and in favor of markets. This volume, produced by the Institute for Policy Studies, which since 1963 has been the nation's leading progressive policy organization, offers a set of ... Read more

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Three decades ago, conservative ideologues at The Heritage Foundation produced a primer on the Reagan Revolution entitled Mandate for Leadership, which offered an overarching philosophy against the role of government and in favor of markets. This volume, produced by the Institute for Policy Studies, which since 1963 has been the nation's leading progressive policy organization, offers a set of
... Read more
Duarte Chronicles

by Claudia Heller ...

Series series American Chronicles
Andres Duarte was a Mexican army veteran who was awarded a 6,595-acre grant south of the San Gabriel Mountains in 1841. Parceled out to settlers and farmers, the Rancho Azusa de Duarte began thriving when rail lines were built to access the citrus crops. Duarte was home to the City of Hope, a tuberculosis clinic that became a world-class cancer research and treatment center. The old U.S. Route 66 ... Read more

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Andres Duarte was a Mexican army veteran who was awarded a 6,595-acre grant south of the San Gabriel Mountains in 1841. Parceled out to settlers and farmers, the Rancho Azusa de Duarte began thriving when rail lines were built to access the citrus crops. Duarte was home to the City of Hope, a tuberculosis clinic that became a world-class cancer research and treatment center. The old U.S. Route 66
... Read more
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The Politics of Petulance

America in an Age of Immaturity

by Alan Wolfe ...

Narrated by Johnny Heller ...

Unabridged

6 hours 25 min

In The Politics of Petulance Alan Wolfe argues the core of our problem isn't Trump himself—it's that we are mired in an age of political immaturity. That immaturity is not grounded in any one ideology, nor is it a function of age or education. In 2016, many Americans were offered tantalizingly simple answers to complicated problems, and, like children being offered a lunch of Pop Rocks and Coke, ... Read more

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In The Politics of Petulance Alan Wolfe argues the core of our problem isn't Trump himself—it's that we are mired in an age of political immaturity. That immaturity is not grounded in any one ideology, nor is it a function of age or education. In 2016, many Americans were offered tantalizingly simple answers to complicated problems, and, like children being offered a lunch of Pop Rocks and Coke,
... Read more

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Government Employment and Pay: Some International Comparisons

by Alan Mr. Tait, Peter Mr. Heller ...

Series Book 24 - Occasional Papers
How many people are employed by the government? How many are employed by the central government compared with the state and local authorities? How many are employed in public enterprise? How much are they all paid? How much are they paid relative to each other, or relative to the private sector? Such questions interest people in general and economists and policymakers in particular; yet it is ... Read more

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How many people are employed by the government? How many are employed by the central government compared with the state and local authorities? How many are employed in public enterprise? How much are they all paid? How much are they paid relative to each other, or relative to the private sector? Such questions interest people in general and economists and policymakers in particular; yet it is
... Read more
International Comparisons of Government Expenditure

by Peter Mr. Heller, Alan Mr. Tait ...

Series Book 10 - Occasional Papers
Many studies on International tax compaisons have been undertaken since the early 1970s. While controversial, such studies have facilitated more subtle comparisons of a country's tax performance than would be afforded by focusing on its simple tax ratio. ... Read more

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Many studies on International tax compaisons have been undertaken since the early 1970s. While controversial, such studies have facilitated more subtle comparisons of a country's tax performance than would be afforded by focusing on its simple tax ratio.
... Read more

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Truth

How the Many Sides to Every Story Shape Our Reality

by Hector Macdonald ...

Narrated by Robert Fass ...

Unabridged

9 hours 34 min

"In a time when truth is under assault, Hector Macdonald is here to defend it. He offers clear-eyed, compelling guidelines for becoming a more accurate consumer and producer of information."-Adam Grant, author of Give and Take, Originals, and Option B with Sheryl SandbergFor fans of Nudge, Sway, and The Art of Thinking Clearly, a fascinating dive into the many ways in which "competing truths" ... Read more

$27.99 USD

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"In a time when truth is under assault, Hector Macdonald is here to defend it. He offers clear-eyed, compelling guidelines for becoming a more accurate consumer and producer of information."-Adam Grant, author of Give and Take, Originals, and Option B with Sheryl SandbergFor fans of Nudge, Sway, and The Art of Thinking Clearly, a fascinating dive into the many ways in which "competing truths"
... Read more

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Fascism Comes to America

A Century of Obsession in Politics and Culture

by Bruce Kuklick ...

Narrated by Auto-narrated ...

Unabridged

8 hours 46 min

A deeply relevant look at what fascism means to Americans.From the time Mussolini took power in Italy in 1922, Americans have been obsessed with and brooded over the meaning of fascism and how it might migrate to the United States. Fascism Comes to America examines how we have viewed fascism overseas and its implications for our own country. Bruce Kuklick explores the rhetoric of politicians, who ... Read more

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A deeply relevant look at what fascism means to Americans.From the time Mussolini took power in Italy in 1922, Americans have been obsessed with and brooded over the meaning of fascism and how it might migrate to the United States. Fascism Comes to America examines how we have viewed fascism overseas and its implications for our own country. Bruce Kuklick explores the rhetoric of politicians, who
... Read more

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Faster, Fewer, Better Emails

Manage the Volume, Reduce the Stress, Love the Results

by Dianna Booher ...

Narrated by Dianna Booher ...

Unabridged

4 hours 11 min

Business communication expert and bestselling author Dianna Booher shares practical wisdom on how to write effective emails that get results and how to organize documents to gain control and increase your productivity.The majority of business writing is email writing. Yet many of us still struggle to write effective emails that get results. And we feel overwhelmed by the volume of email we receive ... Read more

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Business communication expert and bestselling author Dianna Booher shares practical wisdom on how to write effective emails that get results and how to organize documents to gain control and increase your productivity.The majority of business writing is email writing. Yet many of us still struggle to write effective emails that get results. And we feel overwhelmed by the volume of email we receive
... Read more

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