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  • A Town without Pity

    AIDS, Race, and Resistance in Florida’s Deep South

    de Jason Vuic ...
    Two heartbreaking tales of small-town injustice revealing America’s struggles with AIDS and racial bias in the 1980sFlorida Historical Society Harry T. and Harriette V. Moore AwardIn the 1980s, the tiny town of Arcadia, Florida, was “fifty miles and fifty years from Sarasota.” With its cowboy roots, low-wage agricultural industries, and violent frontier history, Arcadia was a curious mix of the ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • The Yugo

    The Rise and Fall of the Worst Car in History

    de Jason Vuic ...
    "[A] rollicking chronicle of the rise and fall of the homely little hatchback that couldn't." —Dick Teresi, Wall Street JournalSix months after its American introduction in 1985, the Yugo was a punch line; within a year, it was a staple of late-night comedy. By 2000, NPR's Car Talk declared it "the worst car of the millennium." The short, unhappy life of the car, the men who built it, the men who ... Leer más

    $14.39 USD

  • The Swamp Peddlers

    How Lot Sellers, Land Scammers, and Retirees Built Modern Florida and Transformed the American Dream

    de Jason Vuic ...
    Florida has long been a beacon for retirees, but for many, the American dream of owning a home there was a fantasy. That changed in the 1950s, when the so-called “installment land sales industry” hawked billions of dollars of Florida residential property, sight unseen, to retiring northerners. For only $10 down and $10 a month, working-class pensioners could buy a piece of the Florida dream: a ... Leer más

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  • The Yucks

    Two Years in Tampa with the Losingest Team in NFL History

    de Jason Vuic ...
    Friday Night Lights meets The Bad News Bears in “a brisk, warmhearted reminder of how professional sports can occasionally reach stunning unprofessional depths” (Publishers Weekly): the first two seasons with the worst team in NFL history, the hapless, hilarious, and hopelessly winless 1976–1977 Tampa Bay Buccaneers.Long before their first Super Bowl victory in 2003, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers did ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

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    The Swamp Peddlers

    How Lot Sellers, Land Scammers, and Retirees Built Modern Florida and Transformed the American Dream

    de Jason Vuic ...
    Narrado por Mike Chamberlain ...

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    9 hora 35 minutos

    Florida has long beckoned retirees seeking to spend their golden years in the sun, but, for many, the American dream of owning a home there was financially impossible. That changed in the 1950s, when the so-called "installment land sales industry" appeared out of nowhere to hawk billions of dollars of Florida residential property, sight unseen, to retiring northerners. For only $10 down and $10 a ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD

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    The Yugo

    The Rise and Fall of the Worst Car in History

    de Jason Vuic ...
    Narrado por Erik Synnestvedt ...

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    8 hora 57 minutos

    Six months after its American introduction in 1985, the Yugo was a punch line; within a year, it was a staple of late-night comedy. By 2000, NPR's Car Talk declared it "the worst car of the millennium." And for most Americans that's where the story begins and ends.Hardly.The short, unhappy life of the car, the men who built it, the men who imported it, and the decade that embraced and discarded it ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

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    The Yucks

    Two Years in Tampa with the Losingest Team in NFL History

    de Jason Vuic ...
    Narrado por Patrick Lawlor ...

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    7 hora 19 minutos

    Long before their first Super Bowl victory in 2003, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers did something no NFL team had ever done before and that none will ever likely do again: They lost twenty-six games in a row. It started in 1976, in their first season as an expansion team, and it lasted until the penultimate game of the 1977 season, when they defeated Archie Manning and the New Orleans Saints on the road. ... Leer más

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  • The Sarajevo Olympics

    A History of the 1984 Winter Games

    de Jason Vuic ...
    To most observers, the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, were an unmitigated success. That year, the unlikeliest of candidate cities in the unlikeliest of candidate countries did what many had thought impossible: it hosted an international sports competition at the highest level, housing and feeding hundreds of athletes and thousands of tourists while broadcasting a positive image of ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

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    The Apocalypse Factory

    Plutonium and the Making of the Atomic Age

    de Steve Olson ...
    Narrado por Jonathan Yen ...

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    11 hora 9 minutos

    It began with plutonium, the first element ever manufactured in quantity by humans. Fearing that the Germans would be the first to weaponize the atom, the United States marshaled brilliant minds and seemingly inexhaustible bodies to find a way to create a nuclear chain reaction of inconceivable explosive power. In a matter of months, the Hanford nuclear facility was built to produce and weaponize ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

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    Slime

    How Algae Created Us, Plague Us, and Just Might Save Us

    Narrado por Xe Sands ...

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    9 hora 7 minutos

    Say “algae” and most people think of pond scum. What they don’t know is that without algae, none of us would exist.There are as many algae on Earth as stars in the universe, and they have been essential to life on our planet for eons. Algae created the Earth we know today, with its oxygen-rich atmosphere, abundant oceans, and coral reefs. Crude oil is made of dead algae, and algae are the ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD

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    Nothing Random

    Bennett Cerf and the Publishing House He Built

    de Gayle Feldman ...
    Narrado por Gayle Feldman, Lisa Flanagan ...

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    35 hora 27 minutos

    A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS’ CHOICE • The “exhilarating” (The Boston Globe) story of the legendary Random House founder, whose seemingly charmed life at the apogee of the American Century afforded him a front-row seat to literary and cultural history in the making“[A] big, beautiful biography . . . There’s a new Power Broker in town.”—The New York Times“Feldman depicts a lost world, at ti ... Leer más

    $45.99 USD

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    AQ

    A New Kind of Intelligence for a World That's Always Changing

    de Liz Tran ...
    Narrado por Liz Tran ...

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    5 hora 37 minutos

    You’ve heard of IQ and EQ. But in today's world, they’re no longer enough. We need the Agility Quotient (AQ).“Holistic, practical, and easy to digest (without feeling corporate). If you’re looking for a quick, yet addictive read about how to manage uncertainty, this is one of those books that will make you feel a little more steady.”—theSkimmIn a time defined by nonstop disruptions, when jobs ... Leer más

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