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The Lawyer Bubble: A Profession in Crisis , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 444min

A noble profession is facing its defining moment. From law schools to the prestigious firms that represent the pinnacle of a legal career, a crisis is unfolding. News headlines tell part of the story - the growing oversupply of new lawyers, widespread career dissatisfaction, and spectacular implosions of preeminent law firms. Yet eager hordes of bright young people continue to step over each other as they seek jobs with high rates of depression, life-consuming hours, and little assurance of financial stability. The Great Recession has only worsened these trends, but correction is possible and, now, imperative. In The Lawyer Bubble, Steven J. Harper reveals how a culture of short-term thinking has blinded some of the nation’s finest minds to the long-run implications of their actions. Law school deans have ceded independent judgment to flawed U.S. News & World Report rankings criteria in the quest to maximize immediate results. Senior partners in the nation’s large law firms have focused on current profits to enhance American Lawyer rankings and individual wealth at great cost to their institutions. Yet, wiser decisions - being honest about the legal job market, revisiting the financial incentives currently driving bad behavior, eliminating the billable hour model, and more - can take the profession to a better place. A devastating indictment of the greed, shortsightedness, and dishonesty that now permeate the legal profession, this insider account is essential reading for anyone who wants to know how things went so wrong and how the profession can right itself once again. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Walter Dixon. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/gdan/000945/bk_gdan_000945_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Yankee Way: The Blueprint That Created America , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 427min

How did America become great? How did this country become the most successful, powerful, and prosperous nation in the history of the world? Was it because of the nation’s unprecedented founding documents? Was it due to the scores of immigrants from all over the world who brought their dreams and talents to America’s shores? Or did America become great, as some contend, through racism, theft, and genocide? Author Troy Tyson proposes a unique argument as to the origins of American greatness: that the country’s unparalleled success is a result not of its founding documents, nor its celebrated openness to people of all backgrounds, nor of genocidal tyranny. Rather, The Yankee Way asserts that the nation’s great power and success stem primarily from the traits of a comparatively small, peculiar ethnic group from New England known as the Yankees. These traits, which include morality, industriousness, respect for law and order, commitment to education, and dedication to traditional family values, were developed first by the early Puritans of New England, then passed down to their Yankee descendants, who finally embedded them into the cultural DNA of the US. The Yankee Way explores, in fascinating detail, the history of the Yankees and the process by which they created modern America and instilled within it their distinct cultural characteristics. Further, though, the audiobook serves as a warning to Americans as to what the future might hold as the nation rapidly moves away from this critical cultural inheritance and leaves the Yankee way behind. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dan McDermott. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/137869/bk_acx0_137869_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Empire of Water: An Environmental and Political History of the New York City Water Supply , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 702min

Supplying water to millions is not simply an engineering and logistical challenge. As David Soll shows in his finely observed history of the nation’s largest municipal water system, the task of providing water to New Yorkers transformed the natural and built environment of the city, its suburbs, and distant rural watersheds. Almost as soon as New York City completed its first municipal water system in 1842, it began to expand the network, eventually reaching far into the Catskill Mountains, more than one hundred miles from the city.Empire of Water explores the history of New York City’s water system - from the late 19th century to the early 21st century - focusing on the geographical, environmental, and political repercussions of the city’s search for more water. By tracing the evolution of the city’s water conservation efforts and watershed management regime, Soll reveals the tremendous shifts in environmental practices and consciousness that occurred during the 20th century.Few episodes better capture the long-standing upstate-downstate divide in New York than the story of how mountain water came to flow from spigots in Brooklyn and Manhattan. His account of this unlikely environmental success story offers a "behind the scenes" perspective on the nation’s most ambitious and wide-ranging watershed protection program.The book is published by Cornell University Press. The audiobook is published by University Press Audiobooks."This is first-rate environmental history." (Martin Melosi, University of Houston, author of The Sanitary City)"Recommended." (Choice)"David Soll ably deepens our understanding of New York's water supply." (American Historical Review) ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Douglas R. Pratt. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/203982/bk_acx0_203982_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Chisholm Trail: Joseph McCoy's Great Gamble: Public Lands History , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 781min

One hundred fifty years ago, the McCoy brothers of Springfield, Illinois, bet their fortunes on Abilene, Kansas, then just a slapdash way station. Instead of an endless horizon of prairie grasses, they saw a bustling outlet for hundreds of thousands of Texas longhorns coming up the Chisholm Trail - and the youngest brother, Joseph, saw how a middleman could become wealthy in the process. This is the story of how that gamble paid off, transforming the cattle trade and with it, the American landscape and diet.The Chisholm Trail follows McCoy’s vision and the effects of the Chisholm Trail from post-Civil War Texas and Kansas to the multimillion-dollar beef industry that remade the Great Plains, the American diet, and the national and international beef trade. Joseph McCoy’s enterprise forged links between cattlemen, entrepreneurs, and restaurateurs; between ecology, disease, and technology; and between local, national, and international markets. Tracing these connections, The Chisholm Trail shows in vivid terms how a gamble made in the face of uncontrollable natural factors indelibly changed the environment, reshaped the Kansas prairie into the nation’s stockyard, and transformed Plains Indian hunting grounds into the hub of a domestic farm culture.“This engaging book, by a leading historian of America’s central plains, clearly and beautifully renders a sense of place....” (Jeffrey K. Stine, curator for environmental history, Smithsonian Institution)“Deftly spans the continent, synthesizing economic and environmental histories to reveal the fascinating evolution of one of the nation’s first big businesses - cattle. ” (Sara Dant, author of Losing Eden) ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kirk Winkler. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/146724/bk_acx0_146724_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Devil's Teardrop: A Novel of the Last Night of the Century , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 707min

After an early morning machinegun attack by a madman called the Digger leaves dozens dead in the Washington, D.C., subway, the mayor’s office receives a message demanding twenty million dollars by midnight or more innocents will die. It is New Year’s Eve, and with the ransom note as the only evidence, Special Agent Margaret Lukas calls upon retired FBI agent and the nation’s premier document examiner Parker Kincaid to join the manhunt for the Digger - or for hundreds, the first moments of the new year will be their last on earth. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: William Dufris. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/sans/005763/bk_sans_005763_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Stolen Destiny: Broken Throne Series, Book 4 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 427min

Only Merlin's descendant can answer Excalibur's call.An evil far greater than man has returned, and only she can heal the world and repair its failing magic.Can Winnie unite the nation’s charm runners and sable bosses?The world's survival depends on Winnie’s decision.Stolen Destiny is the fourth book in the action-packed Broken Throne series. Enter a magical world with gangster mages, crooked cops, and an ancient evil threatening to end it all. Join Winnie and her crew and find out what life is like as a charm runner.Click and get Stolen Destiny now. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Stacy Gonzalez. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/212569/bk_acx0_212569_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Hydrofracked?: One Man's Mystery Leads to a Backlash Against Natural Gas Drilling , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 101min

When the well water on Louis Meeks’ ranch turned brown and oily, he suspected that the thousands of natural gas wells dotting the once-empty Wyoming landscape were somehow to blame. The hard part was proving it. Meeks’ struggle to get the energy companies to take responsibility, meticulously documented through three years of investigative reporting by ProPublica’s Abrahm Lustgarten, coincide with a national uproar over the oil and gas drilling process called hydraulic fracturing – a technology that promises to open large new energy supplies, perhaps at the expense of the nation’s water. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Steven Menasche. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/012959/bk_adbl_012959_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Monroe Doctrine, Hörbuch, Digital, 41min

With this address, US President James Monroe set a precedent for the nation’s foreign policy. In it, he stated that “The American continents...are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers.” Monroe established this doctrine in a time where most of Spain and Portugal’s colonies in Latin America had gained independence. From then on, the Old World and the New World would operate in separate political spheres, and any European interference in North or South America would be considered a threat against the US. Language: English. Narrator: Adriel Brandt. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/comm/001153/bk_comm_001153_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Modern Scholar: Purpose and Persuasion: The Power of Rhetoric in American Political History, Hörbuch, Digital, 253min

In this series of lectures, Professor Ken Masugi of Johns Hopkins University examines the importance of rhetoric in American politics. Political speeches have, since the nation’s inception, defined and shaped American politics. Professor Masugi demonstrates how the greatest American political speeches take their bearings from the Declaration of Independence and the Federalist Papers. As the lectures proceed, Professor Masugi investigates the rhetoric of America’s most revered statesman, Abraham Lincoln, before exploring the works of other transformational U.S. presidents, including Woodrow Wilson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Ronald Reagan, and Barack Obama. Language: English. Narrator: Professor Ken Masugi. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/reco/006161/bk_reco_006161_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Thomas Ewing Jr.: Frontier Lawyer and Civil War General : Shades of Blue and Gray, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 969min

An Ohio family with roots in the South, the Ewings influenced the course of the Midwest for more than 50 years. Patriarch Thomas Ewing, a former Whig senator and cabinet member who made his fortune as a real estate lawyer, raised four major players in the nation’s history - including William Tecumseh “Cump” Sherman, taken into the family as a nine-year-old, who went on to marry his foster sister Ellen. Ronald D. Smith now tells of this extraordinary clan that played a role on the national stage through the illustrious career of one of its sons.He describes the seat-of-the-pants law practice in which Thomas Ewing Jr. worked with his brothers Hugh and Charlie and foster brother Cump. He then tells how Tom came to national prominence in the fight over the proslavery Lecompton Constitution, was instrumental in starting up the Union Pacific Railroad, and became the first chief justice of the Kansas Supreme Court.Ewing obtained a commission in the Union Army - as did his brothers - and raised a regiment that saw significant action in Arkansas and Missouri. After William Quantrill’s raid on Lawrence, Kansas, he issued the dramatic General Order No. 11 that expelled residents from sections of western Missouri. Then this confidant of Abraham Lincoln’s went on to courageously defend three of the assassination conspirators - including the disingenuous Samuel Mudd - and lobbied the key vote to block the impeachment of Andrew Johnson.This book fills the gaps in an interlocking family of remarkable people - one that helped shape a nation’s development in its courtrooms and business suites.The book is published by University of Missouri Press. The audiobook is published by University Press Audiobooks. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Scott Frick. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/184206/bk_acx0_184206_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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