Free Download Lone Stars Rising: The Fifty People Who Turned Texas into the Fastest-Growing, Most Exciting, and, Sometimes, Most Exasperating State in the Country (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BJ15L2CL | 2023 | 9 hours and 3 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 258 MB
Author: Editors of Texas Monthly
Narrator: Roxanne Hernandez
In celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of Texas Monthly, a collection of original essays and portraits of fifty groundbreaking Texans who have shaped the Lone Star State-and the nation-over the past half century. With a population of twenty-nine million, Texas has birthed some of America's most innovative, culture-altering politicians, entertainers, athletes, and activists of the last five decades. In Lone Stars Rising, the editors of Texas Monthly select fifty of the most trailblazing Texans who have shaped the Lone Star State and America today. Organized by decade and featuring essays from the magazine's legendary roster of contributors, this collection includes incisive commentary on the stars whose rise from Texas to the world stage has been meteoric, as well as the lesser-known individuals who have been toiling on the sidelines, quietly and intentionally shaping the way we think and talk about the Texas that exists today. Coinciding with the fiftieth anniversary of Texas Monthly, Lone Stars Rising is the quintessential ode to the Lone Star State in all its complexity.

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Free Download Leyte Gulf: A New History of the World's Largest Sea Battle (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BY3HKVH5 | 2023 | 14 hours and 14 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 776 MB
Author: Mark E. Stille
Narrator: John Chancer
A fascinating re-examination of the battle of Leyte Gulf, the largest naval encounter in history and probably the most decisive naval battle of the entire Pacific War, and one that saw the Imperial Japanese Navy eliminated as an effective fighting force and forced to resort to suicide tactics. Leyte was a huge and complex action, actually consisting of four major battles, each of which are broken down in detail in this book, using original sources. The plans of both sides, and how they dictated the events that followed, are also examined critically.

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Free Download Land of War: A History of European Warfare from Achilles to Putin (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C5S3WYR1 | 2023 | 23 hours and 15 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 671 MB
Author: William Nester
Narrator: David Colacci
War in Europe began with the first human migrants. Rival bands fought for thousands of years before the Greeks and Romans began writing about their military history, first as legend-for instance, the hero Achilles battling the Trojans-and then as fact. Finally, in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, technology exploded: railroads, steamships, telegraphs, machine guns, automobiles, airplanes, and tanks enabled European states to muster, equip, arm, transport, and command more men than ever before, with more firepower than ever before.

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Free Download Japanese Literature: A Very Short Introduction (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C5BNHMQF | 2023 | 3 hours and 56 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 218 MB
Author: Alan Tansman
Narrator: Derek Shoales
With a history stretching back nearly 1,500 years, written works originating from Japan encompass a vast range of forms and genres. Since the eighth century, poetry and the non-philosophical lyric voice have occupied a central position in Japanese cultural life. The art of narrative would soon follow, blossoming in the eleventh century with one of the world's great literary masterpieces, Murasaki Shikibu's The Tale of Genji. Japanese literature later developed other genres no less important than poetry and narrative, among them the diary, the free-flowing essay, drama, the picture book, and the literary treatise.

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Free Download Into the Void: From Birth to Black Sabbath-And Beyond (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BKNLZVH1 | 2023 | 8 hours and 31 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 245 MB
Author: Geezer Butler
Narrator: Geezer Butler
A rollicking, effusive, and candid memoir by the heavy metal musician and founding member of Black Sabbath, covering his years as the band's bassist and main lyricist through his later-career projects, and detailing how one of rock's most influential bands formed and prevailed. With over 70 million records sold, Black Sabbath, dubbed by Rolling Stone "the Beatles of heavy metal," helped create the genre itself, with their distinctive heavy riffs, tuned down guitars, and apocalyptic lyrics. Bassist and primary lyricist Geezer Butler played a gigantic part in the band's renown, from suggesting the band name to using his fascination with horror, religion, and the occult to compose the lyrics and build the foundation of heavy metal as we know it.

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Free Download Interconnected Realities: How the Metaverse Will Transform Our Relationship with Technology Forever (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C5S1DXVF | 2023 | 8 hours and 2 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 214 MB
Author: Leslie Shannon
Narrator: Rebecca H. Lee
Explore how the metaverse is changing our lives. In Interconnected Realities, Leslie Shannon, Head of Trend and Innovation Scouting at Nokia, delivers an energizing and optimistic new take on the Metaverse. Starting with metaverse realms already in existence today, the book explores the purpose that each independent platform serves, as well as how all these disparate realms will ultimately be stitched together to permanently transform our personal and business lives. A singularly insightful and informed exploration of a fascinating subject at the intersection of technology, business, and society, Interconnected Realities is an essential resource for executives, managers, board members, and other business leaders at companies in a wide range of industries, as well as tech enthusiasts, futurists, and anyone with an interest in the future of social interaction, business, or technology.

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Free Download Indiana Jones and Philosophy: Why Did it Have to Be Socrates (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C5S1MM2J | 2023 | 11 hours and 55 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 331 MB
Author: Dean A. Kowalski, William Irwin
Narrator: Chloe Cannon, Jonathan Yen
If adventure has a name, it must be Indiana Jones! He's both a mild-mannered archaeology professor and an intrepid adventurer traversing the globe in search of lost artifacts. Whether seeking the Ark of the Covenant in Egypt, the Sankara Stones in India, the Holy Grail in Turkey, or a mysterious crystal skull in Peru, Indy's adventures never fail to delight audiences. Indiana Jones and Philosophy takes you on a whirlwind journey to investigate some of the most enduring questions about the human condition.

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Free Download Ice: From Mixed Drinks to Skating Rinks-a Cool History of a Hot Commodity (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BHZXLPPZ | 2023 | 7 hours and 50 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 226 MB
Author: Amy Brady
Narrator: Jennifer Aquino
The unexpected and unexplored ways that ice has transformed a nation-from the foods Americans eat, to the sports they play, to the way they live today-and what its future might look like on a swiftly warming planet. Ice is everywhere: in gas stations, in restaurants, in hospitals, in our homes. Americans think nothing of dropping a few ice cubes into tall glasses of tea to ward off the heat of a hot summer day. Most refrigerators owned by Americans feature automatic ice machines. Ice on-demand has so revolutionized modern life that it's easy to forget that it wasn't always this way-and to overlook what aspects of society might just melt away as the planet warms.

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Free Download Humanifestations: On Trauma, Truth, and Transformation (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C47T3X6M | 2023 | 2 hours and 34 minutes | M4B@192 kbps | 212 MB
Author: Jeff Brown
Narrator: Jeff Brown
At a time when our world is fractured by polarized views and where abuse of power plagues our interpersonal landscape, Humanifestations provides a grounded and compassionate blueprint for individual and collective transformation. In his fiercely honest style, Brown speaks to the challenges of living our truth in this world and supports our efforts to heal and ReBrave. Humanifestations is a revolution of truthspeak that will ignite your power and awaken your magnificence. This audiobook packs a punch that will prepare you to humanifest the life you were born for.

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Free Download How to Write About Africa: Collected Works (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BJ468RCB | 2023 | 14 hours and 10 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 408 MB
Author: Binyavanga Wainaina
Narrator: Dominic Hoffman, Yinka Ladeinde
From one of Africa's most influential and eloquent essayists, a posthumous collection that highlights his biting satire and subversive wisdom on topics from travel to cultural identity to sexuality. "Africa is the only continent you can love-take advantage of this. . . . Africa is to be pitied, worshipped, or dominated. Whichever angle you take, be sure to leave the strong impression that without your intervention and your important book, Africa is doomed." Binyavanga Wainaina was a pioneering voice in African literature, an award-winning memoirist and essayist, and a gatherer of literary communities. Before his tragic death in 2019 at the age of forty-seven, he won the Caine Prize for African Writing and was named one of Time's 100 Most Influential People.

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