English | July 08, 2013 | ASIN: B00DTNW6AC |MP3|M4B | 5h 53m | 315.32 MB
Author: Robert Sapolsky, The Great Courses
Narrator: The Great Courses

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English | July 20, 2021 | ASIN: B08KSKGF32 |MP3|M4B | 13h 15m | 366 MB
Author: Karin Tanabe | Narrator: Jennifer Jill Araya
From "a master of historical fiction" (NPR), Karin Tanabe's A Woman of Intelligence is an exhilarating tale of post-war New York City, and one remarkable woman's journey from the United Nations, to the cloistered drawing rooms of Manhattan society, to the secretive ranks of the FBI.

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English | July 13, 2017 | ASIN: B0714MVXG4 |MP3|M4B | 8h 18m | 456 MB
Author and Narrator: Andrew O'Neill
Based on the "absolutely hilarious" (Neil Gaiman) stand-up show.

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English | June 08, 2021 | ASIN: B095XKX1Y1 |MP3|M4B | 10h 34m | 579 MB
Author: Anne deCourcy | Narrator: Maggie Ollerenshaw
A wonderful portrait of British upper-class life in the season of 1939 - the last before the Second World War.

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Arup Banerji, "Writing History in the Soviet Union: Making the Past Work"
English | ISBN: 1138503940 | 2017 | 342 pages | PDF | 3 MB
The history of the Soviet Union has been charted in several studies over the decades. These depictions while combining accuracy, elegance, readability and imaginativeness, have failed to draw attention to the political and academic environment within which these histories were composed. Writing History in the Soviet Union: Making the Past Work is aimed at understanding this environment. The book seeks to identify the significant hallmarks of the production of Soviet history by Soviet as well as Western historians. It traces how the Russian Revolution of 1917 triggered a shift in official policy towards historians and the publication of history textbooks for schools. In 1985, the Soviet past was again summoned for polemical revision as part and parcel of an attitude of openness (glasnost') and in this, literary figures joined their energies to those of historians. The Communist regime sought to equate the history of the country with that of the Communist Party itself in 1938 and 1962 and this imposed a blanket of conformity on history writing in the Soviet Union. The book also surveys the rich abundance of writing the Russian Revolution generated as well as the divergent approaches to the history of the period. The conditions for research in Soviet archives are described as an aspect of official monitoring of history writing. Another instance of this is the manner by which history textbooks have, through the years, been withdrawn from schools and others officially nursed into circulation. This intervention, occasioned in the present circumstance by statements by President Putin himself, in the manner in which history is taught in Russian schools, continues to this day. In other words, over the years, the regime has always worked to make the past work.

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Allison Stanger, "Whistleblowers: Honesty in America from Washington to Trump"
English | ISBN: 0300258542 | 2021 | 304 pages | PDF | 2 MB
A magisterial exploration of whistleblowing in America, from the Revolutionary War to the Trump era

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Weather, Religion and Climate Change by Sigurd Bergmann
English | Dec 14, 2020 | ISBN: 0367358808 | 260 pages | PDF | 11 MB
Weather, Religion and Climate Change is the first in-depth exploration of the fascinating way in which the weather impacts on the fields of religion, art, culture, history, science, and architecture.

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Watches Without Time: An American Soldier in Afghanistan by Matt Zeller
English | July 1st, 2012 | ISBN: 1935982206 | 302 pages | True EPUB | 4.62 MB
For eight months in 2008, U.S. Army Capt. Matt Zeller served as an embedded combat adviser with Afghan security forces in Ghazni, Afghanistan. Watches Without Time is a compilation of the emails he sent home to family and friends during that period-so that, as he writes in the Preface, "should anything have ever happened to me, they would know what I went through."Watches Without Time gives a granular account of the challenges Zeller and his men encountered in Ghazni, and of the complex missions they undertook there. Written in clear and searingly intimate prose, it highlights the many emotion-laden experiences he underwent both during his tour and after his return to the United States.

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Vaxxers: The Inside Story of the Oxford AstraZeneca Vaccine and the Race Against the Virus by Sarah Gilbert, Catherine Green
English | July 8, 2021 | ISBN: 1529369851, 1529369878 | EPUB | 352 pages | 0.4 MB
This is the story of a race - not against other vaccines or other scientists, but against a deadly and devastating virus.

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Daniel Broudy, "Under Occupation: Resistance and Struggle in a Militarised Asia-Pacific"
English | ISBN: 144384750X | 2013 | 305 pages | PDF | 2 MB
This edited volume provides a vehicle for the expression of geographical and historical perspectives on the militarisation of East Asia and the Pacific. Among the questions the authors explore are: How have groups and individuals variously enforced, justified, supported, resisted, and acquiesced in military occupation? How have concepts of nationality, identity, and self-determination been shaped, reshaped, and erased by historical processes? How can communities escape from their perceived or actual dependence on centralised loci of power? Chapters draw upon philosophical, theoretical, empirical, and anecdotal evidence. The book is aimed at, inter alia, activists for social justice and researchers in international and strategic relations, colonial and post-colonial studies, Asian, Okinawan, and Pacific island studies, critical theory, and ethics. Contributors to this volume include David Vine, Douglas Lummis, Miyume Tanji, Kyle Kajihiro, chinin usii, Leevin Camacho, Andrew Yeo, Mitzi Uehara Carter, Gwisook Gwon, Christopher Melley, Yukinori Tokuyama, Kiyomi Maedomari-Tokuyama, Nika Nashiro, Chie Miyagi, Makoto Arakaki, Peter Simpson, and Daniel Broudy.

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