Free Download The Most Powerful Idea in the World: A Story of Steam, Industry, and Invention by William Rosen, Michael Prichard, Tantor Audio
English | 2012 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B003OXTOGG | MP3@68kbps | 13h 30m | 399 Mb
Hardly a week passes without some high-profile court case that features intellectual property at its center. But how did the belief that one could own an idea come about? And how did that belief change the way humankind lives and works?
William Rosen, author of Justinian's Flea, seeks to answer these questions and more with The Most Powerful Idea in the World. A lively and passionate study of the engineering and scientific breakthroughs that led to the steam engine, this book argues that the very notion of intellectual property drove not only the invention of the steam engine but also the entire Industrial Revolution: history's first sustained era of economic improvement. To do so, Rosen conjures up an eccentric cast of characters, including the legal philosophers who enabled most the inventive society in millennia, andthe scientists and inventors-Thomas Newcomen, Robert Boyle, and James Watt-who helped to create and perfect the steam engine over the centuries. With wit and wide-ranging curiosity, Rosen explores the power of creativity, capital, and collaboration in the brilliant engineering of the steam engine and how this power source, which fueled factories, ships, and railroads, changed human history.

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Free Download The Many Lives of Mama Love: A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BWSD2CG4 | 2023 | 8 hours and 59 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 261 MB
Author: Lara Love Hardin
Narrator: Lara Love Hardin
New York Times bestselling author Lara Love Hardin recounts her slide from soccer mom to opioid addict to jailhouse shot-caller and her unlikely comeback as a highly successful ghostwriter in this harrowing, hilarious, no-holds-barred memoir. No one expects the police to knock on the million-dollar, two-story home of the perfect cul-de-sac housewife. But soccer mom Lara Love Hardin has been hiding a shady secret: she is funding her heroin addiction by stealing her neighbors' credit cards. Lara is convicted of thirty-two felonies and becomes inmate S32179. She learns that jail is a class system with a power structure that is somewhere between an adolescent sleepover party and Lord of the Flies. Furniture is made from tampon boxes and Snickers bars are currency.

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Free Download The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece: A Novel (Audiobook)
English | May 09, 2023 | ASIN: B0BFCHRQ6D | M4B@64 kbps | 15h 57m | 450 MB
Author: Tom Hanks | Narrators: Tom Hanks, Peter Gerety, Natalie Morales, Ego Nwodim, Nasim Pedrad, Connor Ratliff, Holland Taylor, Rita Wilson, full cast
From the legendary actor and best-selling author: a novel about the making of a star-studded, multimillion-dollar superhero action film...and the humble comic books that inspired it. Funny, touching, and wonderfully thought-provoking, while also capturing the changes in America and American culture since World War II.

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Free Download The Magic of Self-Respect: Awakening to Your Own Awareness (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B08867Y8ZH | 2016 | 29 hours and 16 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 799 MB
Author: Osho
Narrator: Osho
"I have given you freedom, and I have given you individuality, and I have given you just a little taste of something that is always yours. You just have to claim it." The Magic of Self-Respect is the second volume in a series titled Authentic Living. So much of the experience of everyday life, says Osho in this insightful guide, is shaped by religious and social conditioning - and we are not even aware of the fact. We are constantly being pulled away from the unique nature that is our birthright. In place of that original and unique self, a false self, called the "ego", is constructed, and it eventually gains control of our creativity, our ideas about what it means to be successful, our relationships, and our very experience of who we are. At the same time, he argues, the collection of egos known as "society" shapes our political, educational, and religious institutions, which in turn combine to force the same old patterns onto new generations. In this series Osho shows how to discard these old patterns in favor of a new and nurturing trinity of watchfulness, awareness, and alertness. The talks that are published in this Authentic Living series were given by Osho in the United States as the beginning of a new phase of his work.

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Free Download The Lucky Galah by Tracy Sorensen (Author), Danielle Baynes (Narrator)
March 1, 2018 | English | ASIN: B079V2WTW3 | 7hrs 28 mins | M4B & MP3@63 kbps
224 to 227 MB | Unabridged | Retail
It's 1969, and a remote coastal town in Western Australia is poised to play a pivotal part in the moon landing.

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Free Download The King of Late Night (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BSB42RYT | 2023 | 5 hours and 41 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 314 MB
Author: Greg Gutfeld
Narrator: Kirby Heyborne, Greg Gutfeld
Greg Gutfeld, five-time New York Times bestselling author and host of the #1 rated late night show GUTFELD!, returns with a witty and tongue-in-cheek essay collection that is part memoir and part political manifesto. Greg Gutfeld is back with a hilarious essay collection about how he destroyed the mainstream late night landscape of heavyweights and became host of the #1 late night show in all of television. With his signature wit and whip-smart humor, Greg reveals never-before-told stories of his upbringing and early career, what it's like going head-to-head with the liberal media, and what it took to flip the script on the comedy landscape. How did the former health magazine editor take a show in a throwaway time slot in the middle of the night and turn it into a cult classic? And how did that show, Redeye, catapult Greg to The Five, the most watched show on TV, and GUTFELD!, his own late-night spot, with millions of viewers each night? Buckle up, because this story is one hell of a ride, especially if Greg is driving.

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Free Download The Karma of Success: Spiritual Strategies to Free Your Inner Genius (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BQ8BQ2VX | 2023 | 5 hours and 26 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 304 MB
Author: Liz Tran
Narrator: Liz Tran
Realize your innermost dreams and ambitions by turning up the volume on your intuition and re-connecting with your Inner Genius. We are all born with an inner spark of intuition-Buddhism calls it seeing Dhamma. Taoism calls it finding the way. But most of us in the Western world are socialized to prioritize external markers of success. Money, status, high powered careers-the pressure to perform superficially drowns out the inner voice. As a result, we barely know who we are and what we're truly capable of. The Karma of Success is the professional and personal success you will find once your internal world, your actions, and your values are in alignment. You'll feel more confident, capable, and enjoy more success as you learn how to access your own inner voice, stop following the paths of others, and redefine achievement on your own terms. Drawing from ancient sources of wisdom including Zen Buddhism, the Tao, Reiki healing, astrology, and Vipassana meditation, The Karma of Success shows you how to slow down and look inward to find the meaning and success you are meant to have.

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Free Download The Kaiju Preservation Society (Audiobook)
English | March 15, 2022 | ASIN: B098G79B1Q | M4B@125 kbps | 8h 2m | 438.49 MB
Author: John Scalzi
Narrator: Wil Wheaton
The Kaiju Preservation Society is John Scalzi's first stand-alone adventure since the conclusion of his New York Times best-selling Interdependency trilogy.

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Free Download The Italian Squad: The True Story of the Immigrant Cops Who Fought the Rise of the Mafia (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CB743DWM | 2023 | 7 hours and 53 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 232 MB
Author: Paul Moses
Narrator: Adam Barr
In Sicily, on March 12, 1909, four gunshots thundered in the night. Two men fled, and investigators soon discovered who they had killed: Giuseppe Petrosino, the legendary American detective whose exploits in New York were celebrated even in Italy. Veteran New York City journalist and historian Paul Moses explores the lives of the nationally celebrated detectives who followed in the slain Petrosino's footsteps as leaders of the New York City investigative squad: Anthony Vachris, Charles Corrao, and Michael Fiaschetti.

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Free Download The Iso-Stasis Experiment: The Experiments, Book 1 (Audiobook)
English | August 06, 2013 | ASIN: B00ED4BANK | MP3@32 kbps | 16h 15m | 218.77 MB
Author: Jacqueline Druga
Narrator: George Kuch
They thought it was an experiment. They thought wrong.

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