English | ASIN: B09C11JT6X | 2021 | 22 hours and 12 minutes |MP3|M4B | 609 MB
The first truly global history of work, an upbeat assessment from the age of the hunter-gatherer to the present day. We work because we have to, but also because we like it: from hunting-gathering over 700,000 years ago to the present era of zoom meetings, humans have always worked to make the world around them serve their needs. Jan Lucassen provides an inclusive history of humanity's busy labor throughout the ages.
Spanning China, India, Africa, the Americas, and Europe, Lucassen looks at the ways in which humanity organizes work: in the household, the tribe, the city, and the state. He examines how labor is split between men, women, and children; the watershed moment of the invention of money; the collective action of workers; and at the impact of migration, slavery, and the idea of leisure. From peasant farmers in the first agrarian societies to the precarious existence of today's gig workers, this surprising account of both cooperation and subordination at work throws essential light on the opportunities we face today.

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English | ASIN: B0923BP6QB | 2021 |MP3|M4B | ~05:30:00 | 157 MB
Matt Siegel, Roger Wayne (Narrator), "The Secret History of Food: Strange but True Stories About the Origins of Everything We Eat"
An irreverent, surprising, and entirely entertaining look at the little-known history surrounding the foods we know and love.

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English | 2006 |MP3|M4B | ASIN: B000KLO76W | Duration: 11:30 h | 475 MB
Justin Pollard, Howard Reid / Narrated by Simon Vance
Founded by Alexander the Great and built by self-styled Greek pharaohs, the city of Alexandria at its height dwarfed both Athens and Rome. It was the marvel of its age, legendary for its vast palaces, safe harbors, and magnificent lighthouse. But it was most famous for the astonishing intellectual efflorescence it fostered and the library it produced. If the European Renaissance was the "rebirth" of Western culture, then Alexandria, Egypt, was its birthplace.

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English | ASIN: B08FRQPMYY | 2020 | 9 hours and 30 minutes |MP3|M4B | 262 MB
The dramatic and tragic story of the only successful Native American uprising against the Spanish, the Pueblo Revolt of 1680. With the conquest of New Mexico in 1598, Spanish governors, soldiers, and missionaries began their brutal subjugation of the Pueblo Indians in what is today the Southwestern United States. This oppression continued for decades, until, in the summer of 1680, led by a visionary shaman named Pope, the Puebloans revolted. In total secrecy they coordinated an attack, killing 401 settlers and soldiers and routing the rulers in Santa Fe. Every Spaniard was driven from the Pueblo homeland, the only time in North American history that conquering Europeans were thoroughly expelled from Indian territory.
Yet today, more than three centuries later, crucial questions about the Pueblo Revolt remain unanswered. How did Pope succeed in his brilliant Description? And what happened in the Pueblo world between 1680 and 1692, when a new Spanish force reconquered the Pueblo peoples with relative ease? David Roberts set out to try to answer these questions and to bring this remarkable historical episode to life. He visited Pueblo villages, talked with Native American and Anglo historians, combed through archives, discovered backcountry ruins, sought out the vivid rock art panels carved and painted by Puebloans contemporary with the events, and pondered the existence of centuries-old Spanish documents never seen by Anglos.

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English | ASIN: B08DG6NGNK | 2021 | 7 hours and 10 minutes |MP3|M4B | 196 MB
Be energized, but not overwhelmed. What's the most pressure you've ever been under? How did you react? What helped? What didn't? Over the past five years, Dane Jensen has asked these questions of thousands of high performers - from Olympic gold medalists to Navy SEALs, politicians, executives, and busy parents. What has emerged from these conversations is that while everyone's experiences under pressure are unique, pressure follows patterns and develops in predictable ways. If we can recognize the patterns, we can improve our ability to sidestep the biological traps that can sabotage us - and use the energy that accompanies pressure to thrive.
The Power of Pressure combines the insights gathered from Jensen's work with the latest research in biology and neuroscience to help you: Understand and use the "pressure equation" of importance, uncertainty, and volume. Escape the traps of pressure with effective tools and tactics. Be ambidextrous so that you can handle pressure both in peak pressure moments and over the long haul. Reduce tension, sleep better, and have more energy so that you can meet challenges head-on. Recognize pressure moments so that you can prepare for when you will likely the feel the heat. Leverage strategies so that you can give everything you've got when it's most important. And more! How we navigate our highest-pressure moments has a huge impact on the overall trajectory of our lives, both in terms of how successful we are and how much we enjoy the journey along the way.

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English | January 11, 2021 | ASIN: B08SMQQZB2 |MP3|M4B | 1h 19m | 32.6 MB
Author: Marco Trombetti
Narrator: Paul Kinney

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English | ASIN: B08YM3QKQD | 2021 | 8 hours and 30 minutes |MP3|M4B | 242 MB
The extraordinarily moving memoir by a Holocaust survivor who saved an untold number of lives at Auschwitz through everyday acts of courage and kindness - in the vein of A Bookshop in Berlin and The Nazi Officer's Wife. In March 1942, 25-year-old kindergarten teacher Magda Hellinger and nearly a thousand other young women were deported as some of the first Jews to be sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp. The SS soon discovered that by putting prisoners in day-to-day charge of the accommodation blocks, they could deflect attention away from themselves.
Magda was one such prisoner selected for leadership and put in charge of hundreds of women in the notorious Experimental Block 10. She found herself constantly walking a dangerously fine line: saving lives while avoiding suspicion by the SS and risking execution. Through her inner strength and shrewd survival instincts, she was able to rise above the horror and cruelty of the camps and build pivotal relationships with the women under her watch, and even some of Auschwitz's most notorious Nazi senior officers. Based on Magda's personal account and completed by her daughter's extensive research, this awe-inspiring tale offers us incredible insight into human nature, the power of resilience, and the goodness that can shine through even in the most horrific of conditions.

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English | 2014 |MP3|M4B | ASIN: B00JAJZ8GS | Duration: 4:10 h | 229 MB
Thomas F. Madden
The Middle Ages is not only a period of Romance, but of legends, tales, and mysteries. In this course, Professor Thomas F. Madden guides listeners through the most famous and enduring narratives of medieval Europe. Beginning with King Arthur, Professor Madden peels back layers of exaggeration and fiction to lay bare the historical basis for the mythical king. Madden then examines myths of the medieval church, sexual myths of the Middle Ages, and myths about Robin Hood and the Shroud of Turin, all the time imparting an understanding of just what medieval people thought about their planet.

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English | ASIN: B09D42XLHX | 2021 | 11 hours and 35 minutes |MP3|M4B | 318 MB
The year 2020 marks 75 years since the end of World War II, yet even as the war slips from living memory, its legacies continue to influence current political and military thinking. This anthology will analyze these legacies for a number of countries and regions, including China, Russia, the United States, the Near East, and Germany, illustrating in detail how World War II is not merely a historical event, but a defining moment for current military and political thinking around the globe. This book will therefore be of interest for those interested in history, but also political and military decision makers and followers of current political and military affairs.

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English | 2008 |MP3|M4B | ASIN: B002SQFG44 | Duration: 75:23 h | 1,88 GB
Narrated by Max McLean
Max McLean brings his compelling voice and artistic narrative skills to the ESV Bible. This Gold Medallion-winning new translation combines a word-for-word translation approach with a literary beauty that is perfect for the oral expression of God's Word.

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