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Free Download Charles D. Ellis, Alicia H. Munnell, Andrew D. Eschtruth, Michael Butler Murray (Narrator), "Falling Short: The Coming Retirement Crisis and What to Do About It"
English | ASIN: B0CQZ5QNQS | 2024 | M4B@64 kbps | ~03:48:00 | 106 MB
The United States faces a serious retirement challenge. Many of today’s workers will lack the resources to retire at traditional ages and maintain their standard of living in retirement. Solving the problem is a major challenge in today’s environment in which risk and responsibility have shifted from government and employers to individuals. For this reason, Charles D. Ellis, Alicia H. Munnell, and Andrew D. Eschtruth have written this concise guide for anyone concerned about their own-and the nation’s-retirement security.
Falling Short offers the necessary context for understanding the nature and size of the retirement income shortfall, which is caused by both increasing income needs-due to longer lifespans and rising health costs-and decreasing support from Social Security and employer-sponsored pension plans.
The solutions are to work longer and save more by building on the existing retirement system. To work longer, individuals should plan to stay in the labor force until age seventy if possible. To save more, policymakers should shore up Social Security’s long-term finances; make all 401(k) plans fully automatic, with workers allowed to opt out; and ensure that everyone has access to a retirement savings plan. Individuals should also recognize that their house is a source of saving, which they can tap in retirement.

Free Download The History of Emotions: A Very Short Introduction (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CKGSLQFP | 2023 | 4 hours and 00 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 216 MB
Author: Thomas Dixon
Narrator: Mike Cooper
Emotions are complex mental states that resist reduction. They are visceral reactions but also beliefs about the world. They are spontaneous outbursts but also culturally learned performances. And just as our emotions in any given moment display this complex structure, so their history is plural rather than singular. The history of emotions is where the history of ideas meets the history of the body, and where the history of subjectivity meets social and cultural history. In this Very Short Introduction, Thomas Dixon traces the historical ancestries of feelings ranging from sorrow, melancholy, rage, and terror to cheerfulness, enthusiasm, sympathy, and love.

Free Download Highlighted in Yellow: A Short Course In Living Wisely And Choosing Well By H. Jackson Brown, Rochelle Pennington
2001 | 244 Pages | ISBN: 1558538348 | EPUB | 1 MB
A life well lived comes from listening to the advice of others. But with so many competing voices, where do you look? When a student wants to remember the most important parts of a text in school, he highlights them in yellow. Those highlighted words are the ones that must be reviewed carefully to understand the subject and pass the test.H. Jackson Brown, Jr., with sales of more than 27 million books in the past decade, and Rochelle Pennington have highlighted the essential and best quotations and stories that point to an understanding of the elements that are key to a life well lived: kindness, attitude, generosity, character, simple pleasures, and dreams. From the wealth of their study comes a short course in living wisely and choosing well. Highlighted in Yellow offers inspiration for confronting issues that we all face daily.

Free Download A Short History of the Middle Ages, Sixth Edition by Barbara Rosenwein
English | January 16, 2023 | ISBN: 148754099X | 384 pages | EPUB | 45 Mb
In this new edition of A Short History of the Middle Ages, Barbara H. Rosenwein offers a panoramic view of the medieval world from Iceland to China and from Sweden to West Africa. Yet the book never loses sight of the main contours of the period (c.300 to c.1500) or of the fate of the heirs of the Roman Empire. Its lively and informative narrative covers the major events, political and religious movements, men and women, saints and sinners, economic and cultural changes, ideals, fears, and fantasies of the period in Europe, Byzantium, and the Islamic world.

Free Download A Short History of the Crimean War By Trudi Tate
2019 | 224 Pages | ISBN: 1848858612 | PDF | 14 MB
The Crimean War (1853-1856) was the first modern war. A vicious struggle between imperial Russia and an alliance of the British, French and Ottoman Empires, it was the first conflict to be reported first-hand in newspapers, painted by official war artists, recorded by telegraph and photographed by camera. In her new short history, Trudi Tate discusses the ways in which this novel representation itself became part of the modern war machine. She tells forgotten stories about the war experience of individual soldiers and civilians, including journalists, nurses, doctors, war tourists and other witnesses. At the same time, the war was a retrograde one, fought with the mentality, and some of the equipment, of Napoleonic times. Tate argues that the Crimean War was both modern and old-fashioned, looking backwards and forwards, and generating optimism and despair among those who lived through it. She explores this paradox while giving full coverage to the bloody battles (Alma, Balaklava, Inkerman), the siege of Sebastopol, the much-derided strategies of the commanders, conditions in the field and the cultural impact of the anti-Russian alliance.

Free Download Finland True Crime – Harrowing Short Stories About Murder, Robbery, Kidnapping, Abuse, and Theft: True Crime International English 7 (Audiobook)
English | July 09, 2023 | ASIN: B0C8JP97B3 | MP3@64 kbps | 6h 40m | 184.46 MB
Author: Adrian Langenscheid, Lisa Bielec, Fabian Maysenhölder, Heike Schlosser
Narrator: Tom Chandler

Free Download Sarah Orne Jewett, "The Country of the Pointed Firs and Selected Short Fiction"
English | 2005 | pages: 416 | ISBN: 1593082622 | EPUB | 0,8 mb

Free Download Modern Greece: A Short History By C.M. Woodhouse
1999 | 379 Pages | ISBN: 0571197949 | PDF | 39 MB
Acclaimed for its penetration, balance and insight, Modern Greece tells the story of Greece and the Greek people from the founding of Constantinople to the late twentieth century.’Very readable, very informative.’ Sunday Times

Free Download Nigel Short: Chess Prodigy by David Short
English | 1981 | ISBN: 0571117864 | 258 Pages | PDF | 10.1 MB
Though still a schoolboy, Nigel Short is already a chess celebrity. He qualified for the national men’s final at eleven years old, was joint first in the British championship at fourteen and became the world’s youngest international master at fifteen. His latest achievement is to win the BBC £2,500 Master Game Tournament in the face of competition from some of the world’s leading players. Nigel’s life both as chess star and as a growing boy are fully described here by his father, David Short, who taught him the moves and accompanied him to all his early tournaments. Some fifty of Nigel’s best games, specially chosen by Nigel himself for this volume, are analysed in detail by George Botterill, former British champion and a leading writer. Leonard Barden, manager of the England junior squad, who picked out nine-year-old Nigel as a future master, explains what makes a prodigy and assesses Nigel’s future.

Free Download The Book of Gaza: A City in Short Fiction (Reading the City) edited by Atef Abu Saif
English | July 3, 2014 | ISBN: 1905583648 | EPUB | 224 pages | 4.3 MB
Bringing together a dozen of Palestine’s greatest modern prose writers, this unique anthology sets contemporary stories against the backdrop of one of the world’s most talked-about cities, presenting them in English translation for the first time.