English | ASIN: B09NF1KVRP | 2022 | 11 hours and 31 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 316 MB
An extended meditation on late style and last works from "one of our greatest living critics" (Kathryn Schulz, New York). When artists and athletes age, what happens to their work? Does it ripen or rot? Achieve a new serenity or succumb to an escalating torment? As our bodies decay, how do we keep on? In this beguiling meditation, Geoff Dyer sets his own encounter with late middle age against the last days and last works of writers, painters, footballers, musicians, and tennis stars who've mattered to him throughout his life. With a playful charm and penetrating intelligence, he recounts Friedrich Nietzsche's breakdown in Turin, Bob Dylan's reinventions of old songs, J. M. W. Turner's paintings of abstracted light, John Coltrane's cosmic melodies, Bjorn Borg's defeats, and Beethoven's final quartets―and considers the intensifications and modifications of experience that come when an ending is within sight. Throughout, he stresses the accomplishments of uncouth geniuses who defied convention, and went on doing so even when their beautiful youths were over.

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English | ASIN: B09B2SSDMJ | 2022 | 9 hours and 33 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 262 MB
A riveting, on-the-edge-of-your-seat tale about the notorious 1978 kidnapping of Baron Édouard-Jean "Wado" Empain, intertwined with the story of his famous grandfather, the first baron and builder of the Paris Métro. A multigenerational saga told against the backdrops of both Belle Époque and 1970s high-fashion Paris. What does it take to create a dynasty? What does it take to keep one going? And what does it take to save the life of the dazzling but flawed man who inherited it all? Launched in the 1880s by the first baron, the Empain industrial empire spread from Belgium and France to span more than a dozen countries. When Wado took over, he further expanded the company, became a key player in France's nuclear sector, and, by the mid-1970s, was one of the country's most powerful business leaders - a self-described "master of the universe". But these were also the "years of lead", marked by a rash of high-profile kidnappings around the globe, including the headline-grabbing seizure of American heiress Patty Hearst.

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English | ISBN: 9781705246382 | 2020 | MP3 | M4B | 5h | 159 MB
Across North America, dedicated language warriors are powering an upswell, a resurgence, a revitalization of indigenous languages and cultures. Through deliberate suppression and cultural destruction, the five hundred languages spoken on the continent before contact have dwindled to about 150. Their ongoing survival depends on immediate, energetic interventions.

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English | ASIN: B09WG9P7K9 | 2022 | 8 hours and 18 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 228 MB
For centuries, the city of Alexandria Beneath the Mountains was a meeting point of East and West. Then it vanished. In 1833, it was discovered in Afghanistan by the unlikeliest person imaginable: Charles Masson, deserter, pilgrim, doctor, archaeologist, spy, one of the most respected scholars in Asia, and the greatest of nineteenth-century travelers. On the way into one of history's most extraordinary stories, he would take tea with kings, travel with holy men and become the master of a hundred disguises; he would see things no Westerner had glimpsed before and few have glimpsed since. He would spy for the East India Company and be suspected of spying for Russia at the same time, for this was the era of the Great Game, when imperial powers confronted each other in these staggeringly beautiful lands.

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English | ASIN: B09XS433SN | 2022 | 16 hours and 47 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 462 MB
Hans Holbein the Younger is chiefly celebrated for his beautiful and precisely realised portraiture, which includes representations of Henry VIII, Thomas More, Thomas Cromwell, Anne of Cleves, Jane Seymour and an array of the Tudor lords and ladies he encountered during the course of two sojourns in England. But beyond these familiar images, which have come to define our perception of the world of the Henrician court, Holbein was a protean and multi-faceted genius: a humanist, satirist, political propagandist and contributor to the history of book design as well as a religious artist and court painter. The rich layers of symbolism and allusion that characterise his work have proved especially fascinating to scholars. Franny Moyle traces and analyses the life and work of an extraordinary artist against the backdrop of an era of political turbulence and cultural transformation, to which his art offers a subtle and endlessly refracting mirror.

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English | ASIN: B09XFDJGLN | 2022 | 7 hours and 52 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 216 MB
Kindness and leadership aren't often synonymous. Ask someone to describe "good leadership" to you and you will hear many adjectives used. And though there are many more that come to mind, kindness isn't one of them. And here's the problem with that. What a leader models—how they think, speak, and act—influences the people they lead. Leaders who think, speak, and act unkindly give legitimacy and permission to those they lead to think, speak, and act in exactly the same unkind ways. In an increasingly fragmented, polarized, and divided world, we need leaders who will bring people together, not divide them.

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English | 2016 | MP3 | M4B | ASIN: B01KU1P6QQ | Duration: 15:44 h | 432 MB
David I. Kertzer / Narrated by Arthur Morey

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English | 2022 | MP3 | M4B | ASIN: B098G79B1Q | Duration: 8:02 h | 436 MB
John Scalzi / Narrated by Wil Wheaton

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English | ASIN: B09V3FYD7H | 2022 | 3 hours and 25 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 186 MB
Quantum physicist, New York Times bestselling author, Jim Al-Khalili reveals how 8 lessons from the heart of science can help you get the most out of life. Today's world is unpredictable and full of contradictions, and navigating its complexities while trying to make the best decisions is far from easy. The Joy of Science presents 8 short lessons on how to unlock the clarity, empowerment, and joy of thinking and living a little more scientifically. In this brief guide to leading a more rational life, acclaimed physicist Jim Al-Khalili invites listeners to engage with the world as scientists have been trained to do.

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English | ASIN: B09V1TRMLF | 2022 | 5 hours and 2 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 276 MB
Numbers. Like the alphabet, they're one of the most elementary of concepts learned and memorized at a young age; but outside of figuring out tips and taxes, you probably haven't given much thought to them since then. To a mathematician, every number has its own unique properties and personality - and when studied, played with, and manipulated, numbers can actually be tons of fun. Learn to appreciate the wonder and awe of numbers as you count up through the sequence with renowned "mathemagician" Arthur T. Benjamin. You'll start with the original zero, lucky number seven, and the fabulous Fibonacci numbers and work your way through to irrational numbers, pi, and the awesome number infinity. While on this entertaining, humorous, and insightful journey, you'll pick up some amazing tips and tricks that will allow you to solve complex math problems in your head, take advantage of the odds...plus, so much more. Once you experience the joy of numbers, you'll find your passion for them is contagious.

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