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Histories of the Hidden God

Concealment and Revelation in Western Gnostic, Esoteric, and Mystical Traditions

Edited by April D DeConick, Grant Adamson ...

Series series Gnostica
In Western religious traditions, God is conventionally conceived as a humanlike creator, lawgiver, and king, a being both accessible and actively present in history. Yet there is a concurrent and strong tradition of a God who actively hides. The two traditions have led to a tension between a God who is simultaneously accessible to humanity and yet inaccessible, a God who is both immanent and ... Read more

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In Western religious traditions, God is conventionally conceived as a humanlike creator, lawgiver, and king, a being both accessible and actively present in history. Yet there is a concurrent and strong tradition of a God who actively hides. The two traditions have led to a tension between a God who is simultaneously accessible to humanity and yet inaccessible, a God who is both immanent and
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The Forgotten Depression

1921: The Crash That Cured Itself

by James Grant ...

Narrated by Rick Adamson ...

Unabridged

9 hours 18 min

James Grant's story of America's last governmentally untreated depression: A bible for conservative economists, this "carefully researched history . . . makes difficult economic concepts easy to understand, and it deftly mixes major events with interesting vignettes"—The Wall Street Journal.In 1920-1921, Woodrow Wilson and Warren G. Harding met a deep economic slump by seeming to ignore it, ... Read more

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James Grant's story of America's last governmentally untreated depression: A bible for conservative economists, this "carefully researched history . . . makes difficult economic concepts easy to understand, and it deftly mixes major events with interesting vignettes"—The Wall Street Journal.In 1920-1921, Woodrow Wilson and Warren G. Harding met a deep economic slump by seeming to ignore it,
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Fears of a Setting Sun

The Disillusionment of America's Founders

by Dennis C. Rasmussen ...

Narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright ...

Unabridged

9 hours 16 min

Americans seldom deify their Founding Fathers any longer, but they do still tend to venerate the Constitution and the republican government that the founders created. Strikingly, the founders themselves were far less confident in what they had wrought, particularly by the end of their lives. In fact, most of them—including George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson ... Read more

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Americans seldom deify their Founding Fathers any longer, but they do still tend to venerate the Constitution and the republican government that the founders created. Strikingly, the founders themselves were far less confident in what they had wrought, particularly by the end of their lives. In fact, most of them—including George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson
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Unsinkable

Five Men and the Indomitable Run of the USS Plunkett

by James Sullivan ...

Narrated by Jacques Roy ...

Unabridged

10 hours 9 min

In the bestselling tradition of Indianapolis and In Harm’s Way comes a “captivating…gripping” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) account of the USS Plunkett—a US Navy destroyer that sustained the most harrowing attack on any Navy ship by the Germans during World War II, later made famous by John Ford and Herman Wouk.“A reflection on the nature of storytelling itself” (The Wall Street Journal), ... Read more

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In the bestselling tradition of Indianapolis and In Harm’s Way comes a “captivating…gripping” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) account of the USS Plunkett—a US Navy destroyer that sustained the most harrowing attack on any Navy ship by the Germans during World War II, later made famous by John Ford and Herman Wouk.“A reflection on the nature of storytelling itself” (The Wall Street Journal),
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1932

FDR, Hoover, and the Dawn of a New America

by Scott Martelle ...

Narrated by David Stifel ...

Unabridged

10 hours 58 min

At the start of 1932, the nation's worst economic crisis has left one-in-four workers without a job, countless families facing eviction, banks shutting down as desperate depositors withdraw their savings, and growing social and political unrest. Amid this turmoil, a political decision looms that will determine the course of the nation. It's a choice between two men with very different visions of ... Read more

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At the start of 1932, the nation's worst economic crisis has left one-in-four workers without a job, countless families facing eviction, banks shutting down as desperate depositors withdraw their savings, and growing social and political unrest. Amid this turmoil, a political decision looms that will determine the course of the nation. It's a choice between two men with very different visions of
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The New Deal

A Modern History

by Michael Hiltzik ...

Narrated by Traber Burns ...

Unabridged

19 hours 35 min

New York Times bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Michael Hiltzik tells the epic story of the New Deal through the outsized personalities of the people who fought for it, opposed it, and benefited from it, rendering vital lessons for our own time.As America struggles with an economic debacle akin to the Great Depression, nothing could be timelier than an authoritative account ... Read more

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New York Times bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Michael Hiltzik tells the epic story of the New Deal through the outsized personalities of the people who fought for it, opposed it, and benefited from it, rendering vital lessons for our own time.As America struggles with an economic debacle akin to the Great Depression, nothing could be timelier than an authoritative account
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Knowledge and Power

The Information Theory of Capitalism and How It Is Revolutionizing Our World

by George Gilder ...

Narrated by David Cochran Heath ...

Unabridged

10 hours 10 min

Just when our economy desperately needs a new direction, Ronald Reagan's most quoted living author—George Gilder—is back with an all-new paradigm-shifting theory of capitalism that will upturn conventional wisdom.America's struggling economy needs a better philosophy than the college student's lament, "I can't be out of money, I still have checks in my checkbook!" We've tried a government spending ... Read more

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Just when our economy desperately needs a new direction, Ronald Reagan's most quoted living author—George Gilder—is back with an all-new paradigm-shifting theory of capitalism that will upturn conventional wisdom.America's struggling economy needs a better philosophy than the college student's lament, "I can't be out of money, I still have checks in my checkbook!" We've tried a government spending
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General Lee’s Army

From Victory to Collapse

by Joseph T. Glatthaar ...

Narrated by Robertson Dean ...

Unabridged

25 hours 17 min

This sweeping history of the Civil War and the Confederacy is told through the lens of its most crucial army, the Army of Northern Virginia commanded by Robert E. Lee.General Lee’s Army takes listeners across the Rebel landscape, from campfires to battlefields to their homes, as it portrays a world of life, death, healing, and hardship. Detailing the feelings and conduct of officers and enlisted ... Read more

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This sweeping history of the Civil War and the Confederacy is told through the lens of its most crucial army, the Army of Northern Virginia commanded by Robert E. Lee.General Lee’s Army takes listeners across the Rebel landscape, from campfires to battlefields to their homes, as it portrays a world of life, death, healing, and hardship. Detailing the feelings and conduct of officers and enlisted
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Proof!

How the World Became Geometrical

by Amir Alexander ...

Narrated by Jonathan Todd Ross ...

Unabridged

10 hours 47 min

An eye-opening narrative of how geometric principles fundamentally shaped our worldOne night in 1661, Nicholas Fouquet, a superintendent under Louis XIV, was arrested. His crime was peculiar: he had dared to construct a grand geometrical garden. In doing so, he violated an irrefutable hierarchy: that geometry, in its perfection, was a testament to divine right. The elegant, symmetrical designs ... Read more

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An eye-opening narrative of how geometric principles fundamentally shaped our worldOne night in 1661, Nicholas Fouquet, a superintendent under Louis XIV, was arrested. His crime was peculiar: he had dared to construct a grand geometrical garden. In doing so, he violated an irrefutable hierarchy: that geometry, in its perfection, was a testament to divine right. The elegant, symmetrical designs
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Majestie

The King Behind the King James Bible

by David Teems ...

Narrated by Bob Souer ...

Unabridged

7 hours 31 min

In the Beginning, James. Orphaned, bullied, lonely, and unloved as a boy, in time the young King of Scots overcame his troubled beginnings to ascend the English throne at the height of EnglandÆs Golden Age. In an effort to pacify rising tensions in the Anglican Church, and to reflect the majesty of his new reign, he spearheaded the most important literary undertaking in Western historyùthe ... Read more

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In the Beginning, James. Orphaned, bullied, lonely, and unloved as a boy, in time the young King of Scots overcame his troubled beginnings to ascend the English throne at the height of EnglandÆs Golden Age. In an effort to pacify rising tensions in the Anglican Church, and to reflect the majesty of his new reign, he spearheaded the most important literary undertaking in Western historyùthe
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The Hidden History of the War on Voting

Who Stole Your Vote—and How to Get It Back

by Thom Hartmann ...

Narrated by Sean Pratt ...

Unabridged

4 hours 11 min

"Hartmann's history of voter suppression in America is necessary information given current news about voter registration purges and redistricting...a particularly timely topic for an election year, and anyone who is seriously concerned about the survival of American democracy will want to read this book and apply its lessons."-BooklistIn today's America, only a slim majority of people register to ... Read more

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"Hartmann's history of voter suppression in America is necessary information given current news about voter registration purges and redistricting...a particularly timely topic for an election year, and anyone who is seriously concerned about the survival of American democracy will want to read this book and apply its lessons."-BooklistIn today's America, only a slim majority of people register to
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The Hidden History of the Supreme Court and the Betrayal of America

by Thom Hartmann ...

Narrated by Sean Pratt ...

Unabridged

4 hours 15 min

"Hartmann delivers a full-throated indictment of the U.S. Supreme Court in this punchy polemic." -Publishers WeeklyTaking his typically in-depth, historically informed view, Thom Hartmann asks, What if the Supreme Court didn't have the power to strike down laws? According to the Constitution, it doesn't. From the founding of the republic until 1803, the Supreme Court was the final court of appeals ... Read more

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"Hartmann delivers a full-throated indictment of the U.S. Supreme Court in this punchy polemic." -Publishers WeeklyTaking his typically in-depth, historically informed view, Thom Hartmann asks, What if the Supreme Court didn't have the power to strike down laws? According to the Constitution, it doesn't. From the founding of the republic until 1803, the Supreme Court was the final court of appeals
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