![]() |
![]() Free Download Today Hong Kong, Tomorrow the World: What China's Crackdown Reveals About Its Plans to End Freedom Everywhere (Audiobook) English | ASIN: B0BWYZ3B9X | 2023 | 11 hours and 41 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 329 MB Author: Mark L. Clifford Narrator: Rick Adamson For 150 years as a British colony, Hong Kong was a beacon of prosperity where people, money, and technology flowed freely, and residents enjoyed many civil liberties. In preparation for handing the territory over to China in 1997, Deng Xiaoping promised that it would remain highly autonomous for fifty years. An international treaty established a Special Administrative Region (SAR) with a far freer political system than that of Communist China. But as the halfway mark of the SAR's lifespan approaches in 2022, it is clear that China has not kept its word. Universal suffrage and free elections have not been instituted, harassment and brutality have become normalized, and activists are being jailed en masse. ![]() Free Download The Way of the Gardener: Lost in the Weeds Along the Camino de Santiago (Audiobook) English | ASIN: B0BX16XGPS | 2023 | 5 hours and 2 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 278 MB Author: Lyndon Penner Narrator: Lyndon Penner ![]() Free Download The Very Last Interview (Audiobook) English | April 12, 2022 | ASIN: B09RTN6WR4 | M4B@128 kbps | 2h 21m | 129 MB Author: David Shields | Narrator: Stephen Bowlby In the spirit of his highly acclaimed and influential book Reality Hunger, David Shields has composed a mordantly funny, relentlessly self-questioning self-portrait based on questions that interviewers have asked him over forty years. David Shields decided to gather every interview he's ever given, going back nearly forty years. If it was on the radio or TV or a podcast, he transcribed it. He wasn't sure what he was looking for, but he knew he wasn't interested in any of his own answers. The questions interested him-approximately 2,700, which he condensed and collated to form twenty-two chapters focused on such subjects as Process, Childhood, Failure, Capitalism, Suicide, and Comedy. Then, according to Shields, "the real work began: rewriting and editing and remixing the questions and finding a through-line." ![]() Free Download The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement (Audiobook) English | March 08, 2011 | ASIN: B004R0MU98 | M4B@62 kbps | 16h 9m | 440.21 MB Author: David Brooks Narrator: Arthur Morey With unequaled insight and brio, David Brooks, the New York Times columnist and best-selling author of Bobos in Paradise, has long explored and explained the way we live. Now, with the intellectual curiosity and emotional wisdom that make his columns among the most read in the nation, Brooks turns to the building blocks of human flourishing in a multilayered, profoundly illuminating work grounded in everyday life. ![]() Free Download The Patriarchs: The Origins of Inequality (Audiobook) English | ASIN: B0BFJWTQP6 | 2023 | 10 hours and 25 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 301 MB Author: Angela Saini Narrator: Sohm Kapila A groundbreaking exploration of gendered oppression-its origins, its histories, our attempts to understand it, and our efforts to combat it. For centuries, prominent thinkers have treated male domination among humans as natural or inevitable. But how would our understanding of gender inequality-our imagined past and contested present-look if we didn't assume that men have always ruled over women? If we saw gendered oppression as something fragile, that, alongside other forms of inequality, has had to be constantly remade and reasserted? In this bold and radical book, award-winning science journalist Angela Saini explores the roots of what we call patriarchy, uncovering a complex history of how it first became embedded in societies and spread across the globe from prehistory into the present. ![]() Free Download The Ottoman Empire (Audiobook) English | May 26, 2017 | ASIN: B0727YWTB5 | MP3@64 kbps | 18h 44m | 506.14 MB Author: Kenneth W. Harl, The Great Courses Narrator: Kenneth W. Harl By understanding the dramatic story of the Ottoman Empire - from its early years as a collection of raiders and conquerors to its undeniable power in the 15th and 16th centuries to its catastrophic collapse in the wreckage of the First World War - one can better grasp the current complexities of the Middle East. ![]() Free Download The Miracle of Flexibility: A Head-to-Toe Program to Increase Strength, Improve Mobility, and Become Pain Free (Audiobook) English | ASIN: B0BVSX6WVV | 2023 | 2 hours and 36 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 144 MB Author: Miranda Esmonde-White Narrator: Miranda Esmonde-White Gain strength and mobility while living a pain-free life at any age using this revolutionary technique created by former ballerina, New York Times bestselling author, and star of PBS's Classical Stretch Miranda Esmonde-White. The fields of sports and fitness are presently dominated by injury and chronic pain. Scientific studies are proving that the old philosophy of "No Pain, No Gain" is false and that pain and injuries are unnecessary biproducts of physical activity. For decades, former ballerina and New York Times bestselling author, Miranda Esmonde-White, has been developing a solution to the chronic pain produced by a lifetime of injuries and ageing, leaving her as spry later in life as most of us would dream to be in our twenties. ![]() Free Download The Joy Choice: How to Finally Achieve Lasting Changes in Eating and Exercise (Audiobook) English | ASIN: B09WXVJ6DV | 2022 | 6 hours and 13 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 348 MB Author: Michelle Segar Narrator: Jessica Rau It's time for a new story of behavior change-this time, with a happy ending. Welcome to the Joy Choice! What if you could easily and joyfully resolve the in-the-moment conflicts that often derail your eating and exercise goals? Much of what we've been taught about creating change in eating and exercise is simplistic, outdated, and for many, misguided. Sustainable-behavior-change researcher and lifestyle coach Michelle Segar has devoted decades to the study of how to achieve lasting changes in eating and exercise and other self-care behaviors. Segar explains the surprising reasons why our eating and exercise plans so often crash when they come up against real life. She calls these conflicts "choice points," and shows that they are the real place of power for achieving lasting changes in eating and exercise. ![]() Free Download The Great Gatsby (Audiobook) English | June 02, 2021 | ASIN: B0957Z169J | M4B@125 kbps | 4h 37m | 252.53 MB Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald Narrator: Frank Muller No one - fictional or factual - embodies the Jazz Age as completely as F. Scott Fitzgerald's Jay Gatsby. First published in 1925, this legendary novel continues to enthrall generations as it serves as a lens to view our not-so-distant past. Many of our notions about that period are taken from this book. Bathtub gin, flappers, and house parties that last all week enliven Fitzgerald's classic tale. Stylish and engaging, The Great Gatsby is also a startling literate portrait of Gatsby's search for meaning in his opulent world. ![]() Free Download The Devil Boats: A U.S. Navy PT Squadron in Action in World War II (Audiobook) English | ASIN: B0BW4YJFVC | 2023 | 9 hours and 5 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 259 MB Author: C.J. Skamarakas Narrator: Steve Menasche PT boats loom large in the popular imagination of World War II. In March 1942, a PT boat evacuated Gen. Douglas MacArthur, his family, and top staff from the Philippines, which inspired the war movie They Were Expendable, directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne. John F. Kennedy became a war hero while commanding PT-109, which collided with a Japanese destroyer and was sunk in August 1943. But the story of PT boats has never been told in the depth and detail that their exemplary service deserves. Naval historian C. J. Skamarakas uses one Pacific PT boat squadron to tell the story of PT boats in action in World War II. |