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'.

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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.

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English | 2000 |MP3|M4B | ASIN: B008K2UVPE | Duration: 7:59 h | 220 MB
Stephen King / Narrated by Stephen King

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English | ASIN: B0912KNMXX | 2021 | 7 hours and 19 minutes |MP3|M4B | 201 MB
Extraordinary is a choice. In On Purpose, productivity expert Tanya Dalton propels you to ask and answer your own deepest questions. Offering cutting-edge research and thought-provoking infographics, she leads you through innovative exercises designed to help you understand: How to create a map to your ideal future. Actionable strategies to move forward with confidence. Simple shifts to turn unexpected obstacles into opportunities. Daily steps you can take toward a more fulfilling life. Living On Purpose isn't about changing who you are. It's about rising up and becoming the best version of you. It's about adjusting your mindset so you can discover your daily choices. It's time to choose to be extraordinary.

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English | ASIN: B086H3DXDS | 2021 | 12 hours and 21 minutes |MP3|M4B | 171 MB
In the last two decades the uses of the term nationalism have increased steeply with the rising tide of nationalist parties. In this collection of historian Eric Hobsbawm's writing on nationalism, we see some of the critical historical insights he brings to bear on this contentious subject, which is more than ever relevant as we stand on the doorstep of an age when the internet and the globalisation of capital threaten to blow away many national boundaries while, as a reaction, nationalism seems to re-emerge with renewed strength. More than any other historian of our time, Hobsbawm took great care to seriously consider these movements and never to decry nationalism and patriotism as simply absurd. The clarity of his insight is as vital today as it was in his lifetime: On Nationalism is an essential work for anyone who wants to understand the phenomenon.

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English | ASIN: B097NKGHSL | 2021 | 19 hours and 24 minutes |MP3|M4B | 534 MB
In anthropology as much as in popular imagination, kings are figures of fascination and intrigue, heroes or tyrants in ways presidents and prime ministers can never be. This collection of essays by two of the world's most distinguished anthropologists - David Graeber and Marshall Sahlins - explores what kingship actually is, historically and anthropologically. As they show, kings are symbols for more than just sovereignty: indeed, the study of kingship offers a unique window into fundamental dilemmas concerning the very nature of power, meaning, and the human condition. Reflecting on issues such as temporality, alterity, and utopia - not to mention the divine, the strange, the numinous, and the bestial - Graeber and Sahlins explore the role of kings as they have existed around the world, from the BaKongo to the Aztec to the Shilluk and beyond. Richly delivered with the wit and sharp analysis characteristic of Graeber and Sahlins, this book opens up new avenues for the anthropological study of this fascinating and ubiquitous political figure.

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English | ASIN: B09HKYVKYD | 2021 | 3 hours and 31 minutes |MP3|M4B | 112 MB
In this short book, Roger Scruton presents an original and radical defense of human uniqueness. Confronting the views of evolutionary psychologists, utilitarian moralists, and philosophical materialists such as Richard Dawkins and Daniel Dennett, Scruton argues that human beings cannot be understood simply as biological objects. We are not only human animals; we are also persons, in essential relation with other persons, and bound to them by obligations and rights. Scruton develops and defends his account of human nature by ranging widely across intellectual history, from Plato and Averroës to Darwin and Wittgenstein.

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English | 2021 |MP3|M4B | ASIN: B094S95NXK | Duration: 10:05 h | 293 MB
Maggie Nelson / Narrated by Gabra Zackman

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English | ASIN: B097VV8F3F | 2021 |MP3|M4B | ~09:28:00 | 268 MB
Michael Ignatieff (Author, Narrator), "On Consolation: Finding Solace in Dark Times"

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English | ASIN: B08WHHCQCZ | 2021 |MP3|M4B | ~10:00:00 | 284 MB
Susan Orlean (Author, Narrator), "On Animals"

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