English | ASIN: B07F1Z9LQX | 2018 | 10 hours and 28 minutes |MP3|M4B | 286 MB
Roger Scruton is a polymath. He has written authoritatively on a huge range of subjects from the environment to wine, from cosmology to the Middle East. He is also an accomplished musician (organ and piano) and a composer of works including an opera and a song cycle. This is Scruton's second major work on music for Bloomsbury - the first being Understanding Music (Continuum, 2009). In this new book he turns again to the meaning of tonality and sound. His abstract, somewhat mystical argument on these topics includes slashing attacks on Marxist reductionism, on the authenticity of Early Music, on rival aestheticians such as Adorno and on sentimentality and cliché in any form. As with Understanding Music, he also expounds his views on pop music in a most satisfying and provocative new work.

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English | ASIN: B09HRDJRHC | 2021 | 3 hours and 8 minutes |MP3|M4B | 114 MB
Music exists, first and foremost, in the soul, mind and body. It is something we feel before we understand it. Your introduction to the wonderful world of music theory, this audiobook will help you to decipher the language used to describe the intoxicating combination of art and science that is music. You'll be guided through the fundamental underpinnings of modern western music theory and the building blocks used to create melodies and chords, leaving you well-prepared to tackle any piece that you might encounter in your development as a musician. You'll learn the 12 notes of the musical alphabet, be able to differentiate between the two systems that exist for writing music in treble and bass clefs, understand the rhythmic values of notes and discover many rhythmic concepts.

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English | ASIN: B0971TJPY9 | 2021 |MP3|M4B | ~11:00:00 | 312 MB
Ahmir Khalib Thompson, Questlove (Author, Narrator), "Music Is History"

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English | ASIN: B08WHSJ8XP | 2021 | 8 hours and 46 minutes |MP3|M4B | 242 MB
In Murders with a Twist, Browne recounts seven true crime stories with atypical elements, including weird motives, unusual perpetrators and bizarre murder weapons. In one case, we meet a man who is willing to kill to possess a human voice. In another, two women play a deadly game to prove their love to each other. Perpetual Puzzles covers six stories that remain unresolved and will leave you with more questions than answers. They include the archaeological find of the century, which turns out to be something far more sinister, as well as the discovery of a dead man on the beach with a mysterious clue in his pocket. The book concludes with Notable Disasters, which describes some of the most tragic and deadly events in history.

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English | August 24, 2021 | ASIN: B09BZXQPSN |MP3|M4B | 7h 20m | 192 MB
Author: Jeff Coen

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English | ASIN: B08ZJY66MJ | 2021 |MP3|M4B | ~01:40:00 | 53 MB
Haruki Murakami, Philip Gabriel - translator, Kotaro Watanabe (Narrator), "Murakami T: The T-Shirts I Love"

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English | ASIN: B08ZYXC5BC | 2021 | 10 hours and 45 minutes |MP3|M4B | 296 MB
A compelling look at the powerful global forces that will cause billions of us to move geographically over the next decades, ushering in an era of radical change. In the 60,000 years since people began colonizing the continents, a recurring feature of human civilization has been mobility - the ever-constant search for resources and stability. Seismic global events - wars and genocides, revolutions and pandemics - have only accelerated the process. The map of humanity isn't settled - not now, not ever. As climate change tips toward full-blown crisis, economies collapse, governments destabilize, and technology disrupts, we're entering a new age of mass migrations - one that will scatter both the dispossessed and the well-off.

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English | ASIN: B09MGCBP7G | 2021 | 6 hours and 43 minutes |MP3|M4B | 184 MB
In 1804, John Colter set out with Meriwether Lewis and William Clark on the first US expedition to traverse the North American continent. During the 28-month ordeal, Colter served as a hunter and scout, and honed his survival skills on the western frontier. But when the journey was over, Colter stayed behind. He spent two more years trekking alone through dangerous and unfamiliar territory, charting some of the West's most treasured landmarks. Historian David W. Marshall crafts this captivating history from Colter's primary sources, and has retraced Colter's steps - experiencing firsthand how he survived in the wilderness.

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English | ASIN: B0931R3941 | 2021 | 12 hours and 41 minutes |MP3|M4B | 348 MB
Feminist philosophy meets family memoir in this new essay collection from Siri Hustvedt, an exploration of the shifting borders that define human experience, including boundaries we usually take for granted - between ourselves and others, nature and nurture, viewer and artwork - which turn out to be far less stable than we imagine. Described as "a 21st-century Virginia Woolf" in the Literary Review (UK), Man Booker-longlisted Hustvedt displays her expansive intellect and interdisciplinary knowledge in this collection that moves effortlessly between stories of her mother, grandmother, and daughter to artistic mothers, Jane Austen, Emily Brontë, and Lousie Bourgeois, to the broader meanings of maternal in a culture shaped by misogyny and fantasies of paternal authority.

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English | ASIN: B09M5WPX1K | 2021 | 6 hours and 47 minutes |MP3|M4B | 186 MB
When the casket reached the front of the sanctuary, there was a loud cracking sound as the bottom fell out. And with a thump, down came Father Iggy. From shoot-outs at funerals to dead men screaming and runaway corpses, undertakers have plenty of unusual stories to tell - and a special way of telling them. In this macabre and moving compilation, funeral directors across the country share their most embarrassing, jaw-dropping, irreverent, and deeply poignant stories about life at death's door. Discover what scares them and what moves them to tears.

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