Free Download How the War Was Won: Air-Sea Power and Allied Victory in World War II (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C9R9TTX3 | 2023 | 22 hours and 57 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 631 MB
Author: Phillips Payson O'Brien
Narrator: Peter Noble
World War II is usually seen as a titanic land battle, decided by mass armies, most importantly those on the Eastern Front. Phillips Payson O'Brien shows us the war in a completely different light. In this compelling new history of the Allied path to victory, he argues that in terms of production, technology, and economic power, the war was far more a contest of air and sea than of land supremacy. He shows how the Allies developed a predominance of air and sea power which put unbearable pressure on Germany and Japan's entire war-fighting machine from Europe and the Mediterranean to the Pacific. Air and sea power dramatically expanded the area of battle and allowed the Allies to destroy over half of the Axis's equipment before it had even reached the traditional 'battlefield'. Battles such as El Alamein, Stalingrad, and Kursk did not win World War II; air and sea power did.

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Free Download Histories of Racial Capitalism (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C9RT6D7K | 2023 | 9 hours and 4 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 262 MB
Author: Destin Jenkins, Justin Leroy
Narrator: Janina Edwards, Jaime Lincoln Smith
The relationship between race and capitalism is one of the most enduring and controversial historical debates. The concept of racial capitalism offers a way out of this impasse. Racial capitalism is not simply a permutation, phase, or stage in the larger history of capitalism-since the beginning of the Atlantic slave trade and the colonization of the Americas, capitalism, in both material and ideological senses, has been racial, deriving social and economic value from racial classification and stratification. Although Cedric J. Robinson popularized the term, racial capitalism has remained undertheorized for nearly four decades.

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Free Download Everybody's Favorite: Tales from the World's Worst Perfectionist (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BKNHR7YF | 2023 | 6 hours and 31 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 361 MB
Author: Lillian Stone
Narrator: Brittany Pressley
From one of the Internet's favorite self-deprecating commentators comes Everybody's Favorite, a laugh-out-loud essay collection that tackles the relentless pursuit of perfection while navigating growing up in the early 2000s. Lillian Stone-childhood evangelical, AOL girlfriend, and professional nail biter is always living on the edge of anxiety. From the pitfalls of a girl plagued by religious trauma, the incomprehensible yet unforgiving need for perfection, and a poorly-behaved twenty-pound beagle, Everybody's Favorite is a refreshing story of what it means to pick yourself when the world is telling you otherwise.

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Free Download Easy Money: Cryptocurrency, Casino Capitalism, and the Golden Age of Fraud (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BYFC28ZJ | 2023 | 10 hours and 33 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 304 MB
Author: Ben McKenzie, Jacob Silverman
Narrator: Ben McKenzie
From a famous actor and an experienced journalist, a wildly entertaining debunking of cryptocurrency, one of the greatest frauds in history and on course for a spectacular crash. At the height of the pandemic, TV star Ben McKenzie (The O.C., Gotham) was the perfect mark for cryptocurrency: a dad stuck at home with some cash in his pocket, worried about his family, armed with only the vague notion that people were making heaps of money on something he-despite a degree in economics-didn't entirely understand. Lured in by the promise of taking power from banks, possibly improving democracy, and sure, a touch of FOMO, McKenzie dove deep into blockchain, Bitcoin, and the various other coins and exchanges on which they are traded.

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Free Download Doom Guy: Life in First Person (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C47N4ZWB | 2023 | 17 hours and 4 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 932 MB
Author: John Romero
Narrator: John Romero
The inspiring autobiography of video game designer and DOOM cocreator John Romero. Doom Guy: Life in First Person is the long-awaited autobiography of gaming's original rock star and the cocreator of DOOM, Quake, and Wolfenstein-some of the most recognizable and important titles in video game history. Credited with the invention of the first-person shooter, a genre that continues to dominate the market today, he is gaming royalty. Told in remarkable detail, a byproduct of his hyperthymesia, Romero recounts his storied career-from his early days submitting Apple II code to computer magazines and sneaking computers out of the back door of his day job to do programming projects at night in his garage to a high-profile falling out with his id Software cofounder John Carmack, as well as his continued role in the gaming industry today as the managing director of Romero Games Ltd. His story is truly one of a self-made man, founding multiple companies after a childhood filled with violence and abuse drove him to video game design where he could create new worlds and places to escape to. An alcoholic father, a racist grandfather who did not approve of Romero's parents' mixed-race coupling, and a grandmother who once ran a brothel in Mexico combine for an illuminating story of his youth-a story that has never before been revealed. After years in the gaming spotlight, Romero is now telling his story-the whole story-in his own words.

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Free Download Blowback: A Warning to Save Democracy from the Next Trump (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BVXWY9M3 | 2023 | 12 hours and 57 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 376 MB
Author: Miles Taylor
Narrator: Miles Taylor
Donald Trump will be president again, whether he is on the ballot or not. That is because Trumpism is overtaking the Republican Party and will mount a vigorous comeback, potentially in the hands of a savvier successor-The Next Trump. This prophecy will come true, according to Miles Taylor, if we do not learn the lessons of the recent past. With the 2024 election approaching, the formerly "Anonymous" official is back with bombshell revelations and a sobering national forecast. Through interviews with dozens of ex-Trump aides and government leaders, Taylor predicts what could happen inside "Trump 2.0," the White House of a more competent and more formidable copycat.

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Free Download Blight: Fungi and the Coming Pandemic (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C3F3JG2P | 2023 | 8 hours and 39 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 255 MB
Author: Emily Monosson
Narrator: Rosemary Benson
A prescient warning about the mysterious and deadly world of fungi-and how to avert further loss across species, including our own. Fungi are everywhere. Most are harmless, some are helpful. A few are killers. Collectively, infectious fungi are the most devastating agents of disease on Earth, and a fungus that can persist in the environment without its host is here for the long haul. In gripping, accessible prose, Emily Monosson documents how changing climate, trade, and travel are making us all more vulnerable to invasion. Populations of bats, frogs, and salamanders face extinction, and scientists don't have a cure.

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Free Download Behold the Monster: Confronting America's Most Prolific Serial Killer (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C5B8W84V | 2023 | 12 hours and 42 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 342 MB
Author: Jillian Lauren
Narrator: Nikki Zakocs
Jillian Lauren had no idea what she was getting into when she wrote her first letter to prolific serial killer Samuel Little. All she knew was her research had led her to believe he was good for far more murders than the three for which he had been convicted. While the two exchanged dozens of letters and embarked on hundreds of hours of interviews, Lauren gained the trust of a monster. After maintaining his innocence for decades, Little confessed to the murders of ninety-three women, often drawing his victims in haunting detail as he spoke. How could one man evade justice, manipulating the system for over four decades?

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Free Download Beastly: The 40,000-Year Story of Animals and Us (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C9S24HCS | 2023 | 16 hours and 38 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 482 MB
Author: Keggie Carew
Narrator: Pippa Haywood
Animals have shaped our minds, our lives, our land, and our civilization. Humanity would not have gotten very far without them-making use of their labor for transportation, agriculture, and pollination; their protection from predators; and their bodies for food and to make clothing, music, and art. And over the last two centuries, humans have made unprecedented advances in science, technology, behavior, and beliefs. Yet how is it that we continue to destroy the animal world and lump its magnificence under the sterile concept of biodiversity?

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Free Download America's Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BF1B1PTW | 2023 | 11 hours and 23 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 326 MB
Author: Christopher F. Rufo
Narrator: Charles Constant
For decades, left-wing radicals patiently built a revolution in the shadows. Then suddenly, after the death of George Floyd, their ideas exploded into American life. Corporations denounced the United States as a "system of white supremacy." Universities pushed racially segregated programs that forced students to address their racial and sexual "privilege." And schools injected critical race theory in the classroom, dividing children into "oppressor" and "oppressed." In this stunning new book, Christopher F. Rufo exposes the inner history of the left-wing intellectuals and militants who slowly and methodically captured America's institutions, with the goal of subverting them from within.

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