Free Download Don't Call It Hair Metal: Art in the Excess of '80s Rock (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C5KYR6NX | 2023 | 10 hours and 4 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 286 MB
Author: Sean Kelly
Narrator: Sean Kelly
A love letter to the hard-rocking, but often snubbed, music of the era of excess: the 1980s. There may be no more joyous iteration in all of music than 1980s hard rock. It was an era where the musical and cultural ideals of rebellion and freedom of the great rock 'n' roll of the '50s, '60s, and '70s were taken to dizzying heights of neon excess. Attention to songcraft, showmanship, and musical virtuosity (especially in the realm of the electric guitar) were at an all-time high, and radio and MTV were delivering the goods en masse to the corn-fed children of America and beyond. Time hasn't always been kind to artists of that gold and platinum era, but Don't Call It Hair Metal analyzes the sonic evolution, musical diversity, and artistic intention of '80s commercial hard rock through interviews with members of such hard rock luminaries as Twisted Sister, Def Leppard, Poison, Whitesnake, Ratt, Skid Row, Quiet Riot, Guns N' Roses, Dokken, Mr. Big, and others.

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Free Download Domestic Extremist: A Practical Guide to Winning the Culture War (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C5S3HMFF | 2023 | 11 hours and 00 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 314 MB
Author: Peachy Keenan
Narrator: Peachy Keenan
Spot-on, often satirical, always insightful, contributing editor of The American Mind and mother of a brood Peachy Keenan argues that the only way we can save our families, ourselves, and the world-even California!-is by embracing our inner domestic extremists, and sweeping failed notions of third wave feminism and identity politics nonsense into the garbage can of history. ARE YOU A DOMESTIC EXTREMIST? You might be if you have common sense. If you think there are two sexes period-and that "gender" is a grammatical term you learned studying high school French. You might be a domestic extremist. If you think "fat acceptance" is wrong and unhealthy. You might be a domestic extremist. If you think Critical Race Theory is itself racist. You might be a domestic extremist. If you think civilization depends on men and women getting married, staying married, having kids, and raising them to be hard-working, faithful, and, well, sane. You might be a domestic extremist. If you think your family is more important than your career-then you're definitely a domestic extremist, and Peachy Keenan is here to be your spokeswoman and guide.

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Free Download Dinner with the President: Food, Politics, and a History of Breaking Bread at the White House (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C159QLLL | 2023 | 16 hours and 12 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 436 MB
Author: Alex Prud'homme
Narrator: Pat Grimes
Some of the most significant moments in American history have occurred over meals, as U.S. presidents broke bread with friends or foe: Thomas Jefferson's nation-building receptions in the new capital, Washington, D.C.; Ulysses S. Grant's state dinner for the king of Hawaii; Teddy Roosevelt's groundbreaking supper with Booker T. Washington; Jimmy Carter's cakes and pies that fueled a détente between Israel and Egypt at Camp David. Here Alex Prud'homme invites listeners into the White House kitchen to reveal the sometimes curious tastes of 26 of America's most influential presidents, how their meals were prepared and by whom, and the ways their choices affected food policy around the world.

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Free Download Defiant Dreams: The Journey of an Afghan Girl Who Risked Everything for Education (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BJ57HBBN | 2023 | 9 hours and 00 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 260 MB
Author: Sola Mahfouz, Malaina Kapoor
Narrator: Ariana Delawari
A searing, deeply personal memoir of a tenacious Afghan girl who educated herself behind closed doors and fought her way to a new life. "Stories like this inspire me. Seeing the way people like Sola Mahfouz think about the world reinforces my optimism about the future."―BILL GATES. Sola Mahfouz was born in Afghanistan in 1996. That same year, the Taliban took over her country for the first time. They banned television and photographs, presided over brutal public executions, and turned the clock backwards on women's rights, practically imprisoning women within their own homes and forcing them to wear all-concealing burqas. At age eleven, Sola was forced to stop attending school after a group of men threatened to throw acid in her face if she continued. After that she was confined to her home, required to cook and clean and prepare for an arranged marriage. She saw the outside world only a handful of times each year.

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Free Download Decades of Decadence: How Our Spoiled Elites Blew America's Inheritance of Liberty, Security, and Prosperity (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BKMHHPYX | 2023 | 8 hours and 11 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 234 MB
Author: Marco Rubio
Narrator: Marco Rubio
Thirty years of telling Americans they don't need families, communities, or a shared history is destroying what made our country the envy of the world. While many Americans have worried about China, open borders, opioids, failing communities, and families in crisis, our elites have told us that's all fine because it's not only inevitable; it's for the best. Every part of our nation is now in decline, and it's all connected. In Decades of Decadence, Marco Rubio exposes the elites' attacks on the four key elements of American strength: good local jobs, stable families, geographical communities, and a sovereign nation that serves as a beacon of freedom and prosperity.

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Free Download Cracking the China Conundrum: Why Conventional Economic Wisdom Is Wrong (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C5S3GM59 | 2023 | 11 hours and 10 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 321 MB
Author: Yukon Huang
Narrator: James Sie
China's rise is altering global power relations, reshaping economic debates, and commanding tremendous public attention. Despite extensive media and academic scrutiny, the conventional wisdom about China's economy is often wrong. Cracking the China Conundrum provides a holistic and contrarian view of China's major economic, political, and foreign policy issues. Yukon Huang trenchantly addresses widely accepted yet misguided views in the analysis of China's economy. Huang explains that misconceptions arise in part because China's economic system is unprecedented in many ways-namely because it's driven by both the market and state-which complicates the task of designing accurate and adaptable analysis and research.

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Free Download Counterpunch: An Unlikely Alliance of Americans Fighting Back for Faith and Freedom (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BX4SQ16Z | 2023 | 14 hours and 59 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 816 MB
Author: Floyd G. Brown
Narrator: Floyd G. Brown
In his groundbreaking new book, Counterpunch, Floyd G. Brown issues both the battle cry and a strategic action plan for a populist movement in America that goes beyond any president or political party. Issue by issue, the Left chooses new markers in the sand and waits to see who will embrace their agenda. Those who don't are canceled and silenced. This leads to alienation and the feeling that violence is the only option left. Brown wants listeners to know there is another way, a civil disobedience of the state that allows us to be peaceful-and potentially more successful.

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Free Download Comet Madness: How the 1910 Return of Halley's Comet (Almost) Destroyed Civilization (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C5K3B48D | 2023 | 10 hours and 00 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 289 MB
Author: Richard J. Goodrich
Narrator: Peter Lerman
Since the dawn of civilization, humans had believed comets were evil portents. In 1705, Edmond Halley liberated humanity from these primordial superstitions, proving that Newtonian mechanics rather than the will of the gods brought comets into our celestial neighborhood. Despite this scientific advance, when Halley's Comet returned in 1910, newspapers gleefully provoked a global hysteria that unfolded with tragic consequences. In Comet Madness, author and historian Richard J. Goodrich examines the 1910 appearance of Halley's Comet and the ensuing frenzy sparked by media manipulation, bogus science, and outright deception.

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Free Download Chaos Kings: How Wall Street Traders Make Billions in the New Age of Crisis (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BSB4HLDC | 2023 | 9 hours and 13 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 264 MB
Author: Scott Patterson
Narrator: Eric Yang
Written by a veteran Wall Street Journal reporter, this is a fascinating deep dive into the world of billion-dollar traders and high-stakes crisis predictors who strive to turn extreme events into financial windfalls. There's no doubt that our world has gotten more extreme. Pandemics, climate change, superpower rivalries, cyberattacks, political radicalization-virtually, everywhere we look there is mayhem bearing down on us, putting trillions of assets at risk. And at least two factions have formed around how to respond. In Chaos Kings, Scott Patterson depicts how one faction, led by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, bestselling author, believes humans can never see the big disaster coming. In their view, extreme events-so-called Black Swans-while inevitable, will always catch us by surprise.

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Free Download Bushcraft First Aid: A Field Guide to Wilderness Emergency Care (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BW1W7KVM | 2023 | 5 hours and 53 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 326 MB
Author: Dave Canterbury, Jason A. Hunt
Narrator: Travis Tonn
From wilderness expert Dave Canterbury and outdoor survival instructor Jason Hunt comes the next installment in the New York Times bestselling Bushcraft series-a go-to first aid resource for anyone headed into the woods. Out in the woods or on top of a mountain, there's no calling 9-1-1. Bushcraft First Aid teaches you how to be your own first responder. The authors' years of experience and training will help hikers and backpackers deal with a variety of emergency situations, from cuts and burns to broken bones and head injuries. You'll also learn what to pack and how to make bandages, dressings, and slings at a moment's notice. As bushcraft experts, Canterbury and Hunt explain how to use plants as medicine to treat various conditions. Bushcraft First Aid provides the lifesaving information you need to keep yourself and your fellow hikers safe on the trail.

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