English | ASIN: B09BBJ3QHQ | 2021 | 9 hours and 5 minutes |MP3|M4B | 249 MB
This biography evokes the pervasive importance of religion to Queen Victoria's life, but also that life's centrality to the religion of Victorians around the globe. The first comprehensive exploration of Victoria's religiosity, it shows how moments in her life - from her accession to her marriage and her successive bereavements - enlarged how she defined and lived her faith. Drawing on a systematic reading of her journals and a rich selection of manuscripts from British and German archives, Michael Ledger-Lomas sheds new light not just on Victoria's private beliefs, but also on her activity as a monarch, who wielded her powers energetically in questions of church and state.
Unlike a conventional biography, this book interweaves its account of Victoria's life with a panoramic survey of what religious communities made of it. It shows how different churches and world religions expressed an emotional identification with their Queen and Empress, turning her into an embodiment of their different and often rival conceptions of what her Empire ought to be. The result is a fresh vision of a familiar life, which also explains why monarchy and religion remained close allies in the 19th-century British world.

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English | ASIN: B09B2YRKQ2 | 2021 | 4 hours and 53 minutes |MP3|M4B | 134 MB
Postcolonialism explores the political, social, and cultural effects of decolonization, continuing the anti-colonial deconstruction of Western dominance. This Very Short Introduction discusses both the history and key debates of postcolonialism, and considers its importance as a means of changing the way we think about the world. Robert J. C. Young examines the key strategies that postcolonial thought has developed to engage with the impact of sometimes centuries of Western political and cultural domination.
Situating the discussion in a wide cultural and geographical context, he draws on examples such as the status of Indigenous peoples, of those dispossessed from their land, Algerian rai music, and global social and ecological movements. In this new edition, he also includes updated material on race, slavery, and postcolonial gender politics. Above all, Young argues that postcolonialism offers a political philosophy of activism that contests the current situation of global inequality, which in a new way continues the anti-colonial struggles of the past and enables us to decolonize our own lives in the present.

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English | August 10, 2021 | ASIN: B0985NFRT4 |MP3|M4B | 9h 41m | 528 MB
Authors: James Rosone, Miranda Watson | Narrator: Marc Vietor
Through the cyber-fog of war, the national security advisor had one worry: Would he be able to save the US from defeat?

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English | June 01, 2021 | ASIN: B093QLNH65 |MP3|M4B | 12h 5m | 659 MB
Authors: James Rosone, Miranda Watson | Narrator: Marc Vietor
It was called Jade Dragon...and it threatened to destroy the West.

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English | ASIN: B08KSGT5BT | 2021 | 10 hours and 45 minutes |MP3|M4B | 296 MB
In an engaging and anecdotal social history, Siân Evans's Maiden Voyages explores how women's lives were transformed by the Golden Age of ocean liner travel between Europe and North America. During the early 20th century, transatlantic travel was the province of the great ocean liners. It was an extraordinary undertaking made by many women, whose lives were changed forever by their journeys between the Old World and the New. Some traveled for leisure, some for work; others to reinvent themselves or find new opportunities. They were celebrities, migrants and millionaires, refugees, aristocrats and crew members whose stories have mostly remained untold - until now.
Maiden Voyages is a fascinating portrait of these women as they crossed the Atlantic. The ocean liner was a microcosm of contemporary society, divided by class: from the luxury of the upper deck, playground for the rich and famous, to the cramped conditions of steerage or third class travel. In first class you'll meet A-listers like Marlene Dietrich, Wallis Simpson, and Josephine Baker; the second class carried a new generation of professional and independent women, like pioneering interior designer Sibyl Colefax. Down in steerage, you'll follow the journey of émigré Maria Riffelmacher as she escapes poverty in Europe. Bustling between decks is a crew of female workers, including Violet "The Unsinkable Stewardess" Jessop, who survived the Titanic disaster. Entertaining and informative, Maiden Voyages captures the golden age of ocean liners through the stories of the women whose transatlantic journeys changed the shape of society on both sides of the globe.

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English | April 28, 2020 | ASIN: B0872J6V93 |MP3|M4B | 10h 19m | 278 MB
Editors: Christopher Golden, Rachel Autumn Deering | Narrator: Amy McFadden
Brand-new stories of witches and witchcraft written by popular female fantasy authors, including Kelley Armstrong, Rachel Caine, and Sherrilyn Kenyon writing in their own best-selling universes!

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English | June 18, 2019 | ASIN: B07SNW36BP |MP3|M4B | 10h 23m | 250.57 MB
Author: Marios Christou, David Ramenah
Narrator: Derek Perkins

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English | July 09, 2020 | ASIN: B08BPK3BSP |MP3|M4B | 9h 53m | 273 MB
Authors: Paul R. Lawrence, Nitin Nohria | Narrator: Ken Kliban
A touchstone for understanding how we behave on the job

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Mastering Kafka Streams and ksqlDB: Building Real-Time Data Systems by Example (True PDF)
English | 2021 | ISBN: 1492062499 | 435 pages | True PDF | 8.94 MB

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English | ASIN: B08X1JSBDZ | 2021 | 6 hours and 33 minutes |MP3|M4B | 181 MB
From legendary Brazilian jujitsu and MMA master Rickson Gracie comes a riveting, insightful memoir that weaves together the story of Gracie's stunning career with the larger history of the Gracie family dynasty and the founding of the Ultimate Fighting Championship, showing how the connection between mind and body can be harnessed for success both inside and outside the ring. Undefeated from the late 1970s through his final fight in the Tokyo Dome in 2000, Rickson Gracie amassed hundreds of victories in the street, on the mat, at the beach, and in the ring. He has joined the pantheon that includes Bruce Lee, Chuck Norris, and Jackie Chan as one of the most famous martial artists of the 20th century. Jujitsu, the fighting style developed and pioneered by his family, has become one of the world's most prominent martial arts, and Vale Tudo, the "anything goes" style of Brazilian street fighting over which the Gracies had a monopoly, was an early precursor to the Ultimate Fighting Championship. Simply put, without the Gracie family, there would be no sport of "MMA", no four-billion-dollar UFC empire, and no "Brazilian jujitsu" at strip malls all across America.
In Breathe, for the first time, Rickson will share the full story of how his father and uncles came to develop jujitsu, what it was like to grow up among several generations of world-renowned fighters from the Gracie clan, and the principles and skills that guided him to his undefeated record. From learning to assert himself on the streets of Rio to gaining fame and honor in Japan and emerging through heartbreaking tragedy, the martial arts master shares tales of overcoming challenges, extolling universal virtues and showing listeners how pride and ego are the enemies of success. With profound insights into the sport and way of life that only a studied legend can provide, Breathe is an entertaining and magnified view of an enduring legacy as well as an inspiring tale of weathering life's complexities and overcoming them with style and grace.

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