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![]() English | ASIN: B085S6C7D5 | 2020 | 10 hours and 9 minutes |MP3|M4B | 278 MB The industrial revolution shifted workers from farms to factories. In the first era of automation, machines relieved humans of manually exhausting work. Today, Era Two of automation continues to wash across the entire services-based economy that has replaced jobs in agriculture and manufacturing. Era Three, and the rise of AI, is dawning. Smart computers are demonstrating they are capable of making better decisions than humans. Brilliant technologies can now decide, learn, predict, and even comprehend much faster and more accurately than the human brain, and their progress is accelerating. ![]() English | ASIN: B0924X79PW | 2021 | 16 hours and 10 minutes |MP3|M4B | 886 MB Only once in a lifetime does a war so brutal erupt. A war that becomes an official genocide, causes millions to run from their homes, compels the slaughtering of thousands in the most horrific of ways, and inspires terrorist attacks to transpire across the world. That is the chilling legacy of the ISIS onslaught, and Only Cry for the Living takes a profoundly personal, unprecedented dive into one of the most brutal terrorist organizations in the world. Journalist Hollie S. McKay offers a raw, on-the-ground journey chronicling the rise of ISIS in Iraq - exposing the group's vast impact and how and why it sought to wage terror on civilians in a desperate attempt to create an antiquated "caliphate". ![]() English | ASIN: B09MGD9GYV | 2021 | 11 hours and 19 minutes |MP3|M4B | 311 MB This heart-wrenching story immerses listeners in the dramatic survival of one outspoken man who illuminates the souls of a billion ordinary Chinese citizens. An Wei - a stubborn, hardworking peasant who has lived by his values and stood up for his convictions - has succeeded against all odds in the authoritarian environment of China. Despite grinding poverty, hunger, reeducation campaigns, and attacks from jealous peers, An Wei continues to inspire with his daring achievements, such as launching a democratic congress in his own village. His compelling life provides a vivid backdrop for understanding the development of modern China from the unique perspective of an outspoken citizen. Through his audacious determination and survival skills forged in rural poverty, An Wei's unstoppable drive to improve himself and rural China will captivate and enthrall listeners. ![]() English | 2021 |MP3|M4B | ASIN: B0933CHL2V | Duration: 13:21 h | 366 MB Peter Schmeichel / Narrated by Richard Burnip ![]() English | 2020 | ASIN: B08BMXG8X8 | 15 hours and 8 minutes |MP3|M4B | 412 MB An inside look at what it really takes to become a better trader. ![]() English | ASIN: B09DDKVXQT | 2021 |MP3|M4B | ~06:37:00 | 188 MB Ethan Lou, Raymond J. Lee (Narrator), "Once a Bitcoin Miner: Scandal and Turmoil in the Cryptocurrency Wild West" ![]() English | 2016 |MP3|M4B | ASIN: B01BI4NC6A | Duration: 7:21 h | 200 MB Frank E. Walton / Narrated by David Randall Hunter ![]() English | ASIN: B00CW668NI | 2013 | 11 hours and 52 minutes |MP3|M4B | 324 MB Jim Garrison's classic account of his investigation and prosecution of the murder of JFK. Almost 50 years after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, his murder continues to haunt the American psyche and stands as a turning point in our nation's history. The Warren Commission rushed out its report in 1964, but questions continue to linger: Was there a conspiracy? Was there a coup at the highest levels of government? On March 1, 1967, New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison shocked the world by arresting local businessman Clay Shaw for conspiracy to murder the president. His alleged co-conspirator, David Ferrie, had been found dead a few days before. Garrison charged that elements of the United States government, in particular the CIA, were behind the crime. ![]() English | ASIN: B09K4H2DBF | 2021 | 7 hours and 32 minutes |MP3|M4B | 412 MB Never was the sadness of the end of an affair so poignantly expressed than in Flanders and Swann's elegy The Slow Train. This audiobook will take the listener on the slow train to another era when travel meant more than hurrying from one place to the next, the journey meaning nothing but time lost in crowded carriages, condemned by broken timetables. On the Slow Train will reconnect with that long-missed need to lift our heads from the daily grind and reflect that there are still places in Britain where we can stop and stare. It will tap into many things: a love of railways, a love of history, a love of nostalgia. These 12 spectacular journeys will help free us from what Baudelaire denounced as 'the horrible burden of time'. ![]() English | ASIN: B006D5Q1EK | 2011 | 7 hours and 28 minutes |MP3|M4B | 204 MB Michael Williams has spent the past year travelling along the fascinating rail byways of Britain for this new collection of journeys. Here is the 'train to the end of the world' running for more than four splendid hours through lake, loch and moorland from Inverness to Wick, the most northerly town in Britain. He discovers a perfect country branch line in London's commuterland, and travels on one of the slowest services in the land along the shores of the lovely Dovey estuary to the far west of Wales. From the most luxurious and historic - aboard the Orient Express - to the most futuristic - on the driverless trains of London's Docklands Light Railway - here is a unique travel companion celebrating the treasures of our railway heritage from one of Britain's most knowledgeable railway writers. |