Sold Out: How Broken Supply Chains, Surging Inflation, and Political Instability Will Sink the Global Economy (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0B2BGXP8V | 2022 | 7 hours and 44 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 198 MB
Author: James Rickards
Narrator: James Rickards
From the man who predicted the worst economic crisis in US history comes Jim Rickards' second prediction-the collapse of our global economy. The supply chain crisis is coming to a head. Today, your favorite products are missing from store shelves, caught in supply chain limbo somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. But what does this supply chain disruption look like six months, or even three years, from now? While we hope that post-pandemic recovery will absolve these issues, the reality is that digital currency, meme stonks, and social media can't solve the age-old problem of producing and moving physical goods across oceans and continents. According to Jim Rickards, consumer frustration is only the tip of a very large, menacing iceberg that threatens global economic collapse.

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Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0B2F3WWQL | 2022 | 20 hours and 13 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 1.1 GB
Author: J. Bradford DeLong
Narrator: Allan Aquino
From one of the world's leading economists, a grand narrative of the century that made us richer than ever, yet left us unsatisfied. Before 1870, humanity lived in dire poverty, with a slow crawl of invention offset by a growing population. Then came a great shift: invention sprinted forward, doubling our technological capabilities each generation and utterly transforming the economy again and again. Our ancestors would have presumed we would have used such powers to build utopia. But it was not so. When 1870-2010 ended, the world instead saw global warming; economic depression, uncertainty, and inequality; and broad rejection of the status quo. Economist Brad DeLong's Slouching Towards Utopia tells the story of how this unprecedented explosion of material wealth occurred, how it transformed the globe, and why it failed to deliver us to utopia. Of remarkable breadth and ambition, it reveals the last century to have been less a march of progress than a slouch in the right direction.

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Skyway: The True Story of Tampa Bay's Signature Bridge and the Man Who Brought It Down (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BMDPM6ZY | 2022 | 7 hours and 15 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 206 MB
Author: Bill DeYoung
Narrator: Chris Sorensen
On the morning of May 9, 1980, harbor pilot John Lerro was guiding a 600-foot freighter, the Summit Venture, into Tampa Bay. Directly in the ship's path was the Sunshine Skyway Bridge. Suddenly, a violent weather cell reduced visibility to zero at the precise moment when Lerro attempted to direct the 20,000-ton vessel underneath the bridge. Unable to stop or see where he was going, Lerro drove the ship into a support pier. Skyway tells the entire story of this horrific event, from the circumstances that led up to it through the years-long legal proceedings. Bill DeYoung pieces together the harrowing moments of the collision, including the accounts of witnesses and survivors. Among those whose lives were changed forever was Wesley MacIntire, the motorist whose truck ricocheted off the hull of the Summit Venture and sank. The lone survivor, MacIntire, like Lerro, was emotionally scarred and remained haunted by the tragedy for the rest of his life. DeYoung offers a history of the ill-fated bridge, from its construction in 1954, through the addition of a second parallel span in 1971, to its eventual replacement. The result is a detailed portrait of the rise and fall of a Florida landmark.

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Sister Novelists: The Trailblazing Porter Sisters, Who Paved the Way for Austen and the Brontës (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BHZVPLWG | 2022 | 22 hours and 11 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 568 MB
Author: Devoney Looser
Narrator: Larissa Thompson
A fascinating, insightful biography of the most famous sister novelists before the Brontës. Before the Brontë sisters picked up their pens, or Jane Austen's heroines Elizabeth and Jane Bennet became household names, the literary world was celebrating a different pair of sisters: Jane and Anna Maria Porter. The Porters-exact contemporaries of Jane Austen-were brilliant, attractive, self-made single women of polite reputation who between them published 26 books and achieved global fame. They socialized among the rich and famous, tried to hide their family's considerable debt, and fell dramatically in and out of love. Their moving letters to each other confess every detail. Because the celebrity sisters expected their renown to live on, they preserved their papers, and the secrets they contained, for any biographers to come.

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Sideways: The City Google Couldn't Buy (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B09XY3D3YS | 2022 | 11 hours and 12 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 308 MB
Author: Josh O'Kane
Narrator: Ian Lake
From the Globe and Mail tech reporter who revealed countless controversies while following the Sidewalk Labs fiasco in Toronto, an uncompromising investigation into the bigger story and what the Google sister company's failure there reveals about Big Tech, data privacy and the monetization of everything. When former New York deputy mayor Dan Doctoroff landed in Toronto, promising a revolution in better living through technology, the locals were starstruck. In 2017 a small parcel of land on the city's woefully underdeveloped lakeshore was available for development, and with Google co-founder Larry Page and his trusted chairman Eric Schmidt leaning into Sidewalk Labs' pitch for the long-forsaken property-with Doctoroff as the urban-planning company's CEO-Sidewalk's bid crushed the competition. But as soon as the bid was won, cracks appeared in the partnership between Doctoroff's team and Waterfront Toronto, the government-sponsored organization behind the contest.

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Shadowlands: A Journey Through Britain's Lost Cities and Vanished Villages (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BMFJXY62 | 2022 | 9 hours and 55 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 272 MB
Author: Matthew Green
Narrator: Matthew Green
Drowned. Buried by sand. Decimated by plague. Plunged off a cliff. This is the extraordinary tale of Britain's eerie and remarkable ghost towns and villages; shadowlands that once hummed with life. Matthew Green, a British historian and broadcaster, tells the astonishing tales of the rise and demise of these places, animating the people who lived, worked, dreamed, and died there. Traveling across Britain to explore their haunting and often-beautiful remains, Green transports the listener to these lost towns and cities as they teeter on the brink of oblivion, vividly capturing the sounds of the sea clawing away row upon row of houses, the taste of medieval wine, or the sights of puffin hunting on the tallest cliffs in the country. We experience them in their prime, look on at their destruction, and revisit their lingering remains as they are mourned by evictees and reimagined by artists, writers, and mavericks. A stunning and original excavation of Britain's untold history, Shadowlands gives us a truer sense of the progress and ravages of time, in a moment when many of our own settlements are threatened as never before.

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See the Good: Finding Grace, Gratitude, and Optimism in Every Day (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BLTGRL8D | 2022 | 3 hours and 56 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 216 MB
Author: Zach Windahl
Narrator: Zach Windahl
See the Good will show you not only how but why you should focus on the positive and see the extraordinary in everything around you. Life is hard-there's no denying that. But choosing to put our focus on the good leads to the profound benefits that come from seeing life as an amazing gift.

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Scorched Earth: Beyond the Digital Age to a Post-Capitalist World (Audiobook)
English | ISBN: 9798765055069 | 2022 | 4 hours and 39 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 132 MB
Author: Jonathan Crary
Narrator: Gareth Richards
Refusing the digital world of late capitalism. In this uncompromising essay, Jonathan Crary presents the obvious but unsayable reality: our "digital age" is synonymous with the disastrous terminal stage of global capitalism and its financialization of social existence, mass impoverishment, ecocide, and military terror. Scorched Earth surveys the wrecking of a living world by the internet complex and its devastation of communities and their capacities for mutual support. This polemic by the author of 24/7 dismantles the presumption that social media could be an instrument of radical change and contends that the networks and platforms of transnational corporations are intrinsically incompatible with a habitable earth or with the human interdependence needed to build egalitarian post-capitalist forms of life.

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Scoops: Behind the Scenes of the BBC's Most Shocking Interviews (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0B57C8MRG | 2022 | 6 hours and 29 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 142 MB
Author: Sam McAlister
Narrator: Sam McAlister
She is the woman who clinched the 2019 interview with Prince Andrew described as 'a plane crashing into an oil tanker, causing a tsunami, triggering a nuclear explosion'. Sam McAlister is many things beside: the first in her family to go to university; a trained barrister; a single mum; a master of persuasion. In her former BBC colleagues' words, she was the 'booker extraordinaire', responsible for many of Newsnight's exclusives over the past decade, including Stormy Daniels, Sean Spicer, Brigitte Hoss, Steven Seagal, Mel Greig and Julian Assange. This is a backstage pass to the most unforgettable journalism of our times.

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Scoff: A History of Food and Class in Britain (Audiobook)
English | ISBN: 9781004103355 | 2022 | 15 hours and 11 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 389 MB
Author: Pen Vogler
Narrator: Emma Gregory
In this fascinating social history of food in Britain, Pen Vogler examines the origins of our eating habits and reveals how they are loaded with centuries of class prejudice. Covering such topics as fish and chips, roast beef, avocados, tripe, fish knives and the surprising origins of breakfast, Scoff reveals how in Britain we have become experts at using eating habits to make judgements about social background. Bringing together evidence from cookbooks, literature, artworks and social records from 1066 to the present, Vogler traces the changing fortunes of the food we encounter today, and unpicks the aspirations and prejudices of the people who have shaped our cuisine for better or worse.

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