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![]() English | June 24, 2021 | ASIN: B097Q9P395 |MP3|M4B | 11h 4m | 306 MB Author: Mary Grand | Narrator: Karen Cass The Island - where everyone knows everyone and secrets are impossible to keep.... ![]() English | 2017 |MP3|M4B | ASIN: B06XH7Z4NC | Duration: 9:15 h | 255 MB Ellen Tadd / Narrated by Hillary Huber Written by internationally revered clairvoyant counselor and educator Ellen Tadd, The Infinite View is a spiritual classic in the making. ![]() English | January 28, 2021 | ASIN: B08KTRY98Y |MP3|M4B | 13h 22m | 368 MB Author: David Hewson | Narrator: Richard Armitage At his beloved Nonno Paolo's deathbed, 15-year-old Nico receives a gift that will change his life forever: a yellowing manuscript which tells the haunting, twisty tale of what really happened to his grandfather in Nazi-occupied Venice in 1943. ![]() English | ASIN: B08PL6X8C3 | 2021 | 13 hours and 29 minutes |MP3|M4B | 248 MB The untold story of Hitler's war on "degenerate" artists and the mentally ill that served as a model for the "Final Solution". As a veteran of the First World War and an expert in art history and medicine, Hans Prinzhorn was uniquely placed to explore the connection between art and madness. The work he collected - ranging from expressive paintings to life-size rag dolls and fragile sculptures made from chewed bread - contained a raw, emotional power, and the book he published about the material inspired a new generation of modern artists, Max Ernst, André Breton, and Salvador Dalí among them. By the mid-1930s, however, Prinzhorn's collection had begun to attract the attention of a far more sinister group. Modernism was in full swing when Adolf Hitler arrived in Vienna in 1907, hoping to forge a career as a painter. Rejected from art school, this troubled young man became convinced that modern art was degrading the Aryan soul, and once he had risen to power he ordered that modern works be seized and publicly shamed in "degenerate art" exhibitions, which became wildly popular. But this culture war was a mere curtain-raiser for Hitler's next campaign, against allegedly "degenerate" humans, and Prinzhorn's artist-patients were caught up in both. By 1941, the Nazis had murdered 70,000 psychiatric patients in killing centers that would serve as prototypes for the death camps of the Final Solution. Dozens of Prinzhorn artists were among the victims. The Gallery of Miracles and Madness is a spellbinding, emotionally resonant tale of this complex and troubling history that uncovers Hitler's wars on modern art and the mentally ill and how they paved the way for the Holocaust. Charlie English tells an eerie story of genius, madness, and dehumanization that offers listeners a fresh perspective on the brutal ideology of the Nazi regime. ![]() English | October 16, 2018 | ASIN: B07HJ9J7RQ |MP3|M4B | 5h 8m | 117.61 MB Author: Peter Watts Narrator: Emily Woo Zeller ![]() English | 2020 |MP3|M4B | ASIN: B085474JFZ | Duration: 0:57 h | 52 MB Ally Diwik, Junyi Han / Narrated by Wyatt Shell China-Burma-India is one of the most forgotten theaters of World War 2. ![]() English | Aug 22, 2017 | ISBN: 9781681687070 |MP3|M4B | 9 hours | 265 MB | Narrated by Esther Wane Greyhounds, streaks of lightning, were bred to be the fastest dogs on earth. Yet for decades tens of thousands were destroyed, abandoned, and abused each year when they couldn't run fast enough. Scrappy Marion Fitzgibbon, whose empathy for animals made her relentless, became obsessed with saving these dogs-despite the overwhelming power of dog-racing proponents-when she became head of the Irish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Along with an American greyhound rescuer, a foxhunter's wife, a British Lady, and a powerful German animal advocate, she fights to create a sanctuary-and a paradise-where animals heal and thrive. Their pioneering work is part of a global movement to close racetracks, including Massachusetts's Wonderland, and find homes for these gentle but misunderstood dogs [center] ![]() English | 2021 |MP3|M4B | ASIN: B092375Y43 | Duration: 12:23 h | 675 MB Jonathan Rauch / Narrated by Traber Burns Arming Americans to defend the truth from today's war on facts. ![]() English | Sep 18, 2019 | ISBN: 9781515942818 |MP3|M4B | 18 hours | 531 MB | Narrated by Christina Delaine A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist's panoramic history of California and its impact on the nation, from the Gold Rush to Silicon Valley - told through the lens of the family dynasty that led the state for nearly a quarter century. In The Browns of California, journalist and scholar Miriam Pawel weaves a narrative history that spans four generations, from August Schuckman, the Prussian immigrant who crossed the Plains in 1852 and settled on a northern California ranch, to his great-grandson Jerry Brown, who reclaimed the family homestead 140 years later. Through the prism of their lives, we gain an essential understanding of California and an appreciation of its importance. ![]() English | ASIN: B08MKZJ3P4 | 2021 | 11 hours and 9 minutes |MP3|M4B | 608 MB Your information has a life of its own, and it's using you to get what it wants. One of the most peculiar and possibly unique features of humans is the vast amount of information we carry outside our biological selves. But in our rush to build the infrastructure for the 20 quintillion bits we create every day, we've failed to ask exactly why we're expending ever-increasing amounts of energy, resources, and human effort to maintain all this data. Drawing on deep ideas and frontier thinking in evolutionary biology, computer science, information theory, and astrobiology, Caleb Scharf argues that information is, in a very real sense, alive. All the data we create - all of our emails, tweets, selfies, AI-generated text, and funny cat videos - amounts to an aggregate lifeform. It has goals and needs. It can control our behavior and influence our well-being. And it's an organism that has evolved right alongside us. This symbiotic relationship with information offers a startling new lens for looking at the world. Data isn't just something we produce; it's the reason we exist. This powerful idea has the potential to upend the way we think about our technology, our role as humans, and the fundamental nature of life. The Ascent of Information offers a humbling vision of a universe built of and for information. Scharf explores how our relationship with data will affect our ongoing evolution as a species. Understanding this relationship will be crucial to preventing our data from becoming more of a burden than an asset and to preserving the possibility of a human future. |