Free Download Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy (Audiobook)
English | 25 January 2022 | ASIN: B09LZ1HZXB | M4B@125 kbps | 17h 12m | 938.32 MB
Author: David J. Chalmers
Narrator: Grant Cartwright
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Free Download Reading the Rocks: The Autobiography of the Earth (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BLXZB3HY | 2023 | 8 hours and 9 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 236 MB
Author: Marcia Bjornerud
Narrator: Alma Cuervo
To many of us, the Earth's crust is a relic of ancient, unknowable history. But to a geologist, stones are richly illustrated narratives, telling gothic tales of cataclysm and reincarnation. For more than four billion years, in beach sand, granite, and garnet schists, the planet has kept a rich and idiosyncratic journal of its past. Fulbright Scholar Marcia Bjornerud takes the listener along on an eye-opening tour of Deep Time, explaining in elegant prose what we see and feel beneath our feet. Both scientist and storyteller, Bjornerud uses anecdotes and metaphors to remind us that our home is a living thing with lessons to teach. She shows how our planet has long maintained a delicate balance, and how the global give-and-take has sustained life on Earth through numerous upheavals. But with the rapidly escalating effects of human beings on their home planet, that cosmic balance is being threatened-and the consequences may be catastrophic. Containing a glossary and detailed timescale, as well as vivid descriptions and historic accounts, Reading the Rocks is literally a history of the world, for all friends of the Earth.

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Free Download Reading Pride and Prejudice in the 21st Century (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CBSP6FZD | 2023 | 1 hour and 43 minutes | M4B@320 kbps | 238 MB
Author: Patricia A. Matthew, The Great Courses
Narrator: Patricia A. Matthew
After Romeo and Juliet, Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy might just be the world's most famous fictional couple. The story of how they fall in love-Pride and Prejudice-has left an indelible imprint on popular culture. Readers, novelists, playwrights, filmmakers, and even zombies can't leave Pride and Prejudice alone. Which raises the question: Why has this novel, of all Jane Austen's works, remained the general favorite? In Reading Pride and Prejudice in the 21st Century, Professor Patricia A. Matthew, a specialist in British Romanticism and the history of the novel, examines how fans and scholars engage with the novel today-and how contemporary storytellers continually surprise us with new retellings. Through this Audible Original, you'll explore fresh perspectives on the heroic ideals of Elizabeth Bennet and the values of the women around her, the enduring sex appeal of Mr. Darcy and his various cinematic interpretations, how today's readers grapple with the novel's depictions of gender and class in the 1800s, the timeless power of Austen's satire, and even the promises of a Pride and Prejudice multiverse of parodies, murder mysteries, and more.

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Free Download Racing for the Bomb: The True Story of General Leslie R. Groves, the Man Behind the Birth of the Atomic Age by Robert S. Norris, Peter Johnson, Audible Studios
English | 2014 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B00P71I0TA | M4B@64 kbps | 23h 1m | 627 Mb
In September 1942, Colonel Leslie R. Groves was given the job of building the atomic bomb. As a career officer in the Army Corps of Engineers, Groves had overseen hundreds of military construction projects, including the Pentagon. Until now, scientists have received the credit for the Manhattan Project's remarkable achievements. And yet, it was Leslie R. Groves who made things happen. It was Groves who drove manufacturers, construction crews, scientists, industrialists, and military and civilian officials to come up with the money, the materials, and the plans to solve thousands of problems and build the bomb in only two years. It was his operation, and in Racing for the Bomb, he emerges as a take-charge, can-do figure who succeeds in the face of formidable odds. Revealed for the first time in Racing for the Bomb, Groves played a crucial and decisive role in the planning, timing, and targeting of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki missions. Norris offers new insights into the complex and controversial questions surrounding the decision to drop the bomb in Japan and Groves's actions during World War II, which had a lasting imprint on the nuclear age and the Cold War that followed. Groves's extensive influence on key institutions of postwar America has been overlooked for too long. In this full-scale biography, which includes archival material and family letters and documents and features several previously unpublished photographs, Norris places Groves at the center of the amazing Manhattan Project story.
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Free Download Proof of Life After Life: 7 Reasons to Believe There Is an Afterlife (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C28Q6JH1 | 2023 | 7 hours and 50 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 226 MB
Author: Raymond A. Moody, Paul Perry
Narrator: Phil Thron
A groundbreaking book that combines nearly fifty years of afterlife and near-death experience research to provide proof of the existence of the soul and life after death from psychiatrist and bestselling author Dr. Raymond Moody and New York Times bestselling author Paul Perry. After spending nearly five decades studying near-death experiences, Dr. Raymond Moody finally has the answer to humanity's most pressing question: What happens when we die? In Proof of Life After Life, Moody and coauthor Paul Perry reveal that consciousness survives after the death of the body. Featuring in-depth case studies, the latest research, and eye-opening interviews with experts, Proof explores everything from common paranormal signs to shared-death experiences, and much more.

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Free Download Praying for Your Future Husband: Preparing Your Heart for His (Audiobook)
English | April 24, 2018 | ASIN: B07C43DV6K | MP3@64 kbps | 4h 41m | 129.83 MB
Author: Tricia Goyer, Robin Jones Gunn
Narrator: Randye Kaye
Have you ever thought about praying for your future husband? Will it make a difference? There's only one way to find out . . .

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Free Download Post-Liberalism: Recovering a Shared World (Audiobook)
English | August 27, 2019 | ASIN: B07WD5YSKZ | MP3@64 kbps | 7h 9m | 192.06 MB
Author: Fred Dallmayr
Narrator: Sean Runnette
Liberal democracy is the dominant political ideology in the West today. Taken at face value it suggests an equivalency between its two central components-liberalism and democracy - but as Fred Dallmayr argues here, the two operate in very different registers. The two frequently conflict, endangering our public life. This is evident in the rise of self-centered neo-liberalism as well as autocratic movements in our world today.

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Free Download Politics on the Edge: A Memoir from Within (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C1KWZXH2 | 2023 | 16 hours and 20 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 884 MB
Author: Rory Stewart
Narrator: Rory Stewart
From the former Conservative Cabinet minister and co-presenter of 2022's breakout hit podcast The Rest is Politics, a searing insider's account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament. Over the course of a decade from 2010, Rory Stewart went from being a political outsider to standing for prime minister - before being sacked from a Conservative Party that he had come to barely recognise. Tackling ministerial briefs on flood response and prison violence, engaging with conflict and poverty abroad as a foreign minister, and Brexit as a Cabinet minister, Stewart learned first-hand how profoundly hollow and inadequate our democracy and government had become.

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Free Download Pockets: An Intimate History of How We Keep Things Close (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BZX1F3VW | 2023 | 6 hours and 38 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 372 MB
Author: Hannah Carlson
Narrator: Stephanie Cannon
A thought-provoking microhistory of the humble pocket that uncovers what pockets reveal about us-and why it matters. It's a subject that stirs up plenty of passion: Why do men's clothes have so many pockets and women's so few? In her captivating book, Hannah Carlson, a lecturer in dress history at the Rhode Island School of Design, shows us how we tuck gender politics, security, sexuality, and privilege inside our pockets. Throughout the medieval era in Europe, the purse was an almost universal dress feature carried by men and women alike. But when tailors stitched the first pockets into men's trousers 500 years ago, it ignited controversy and introduced a range of social issues that we continue to wrestle with today, from concealed pistols to gender inequality, as noted in hashtags like #GiveMePocketsOrGiveMeDeath. This abundantly illustrated book explores much more than who has pockets and why. How is it that putting your hands in your pocket can be seen as a sign of laziness, arrogance, confidence, or perversion? Walt Whitman's author photograph, hand in pocket, for Leaves of Grass, seemed like an affront to middle class respectability. When W.E.B. DuBois posed for a portrait, his pocketed hands signaled defiant coolness. Pockets is a perfect gift for the legions of people obsessed with pockets and their absence, and for anyone interested in how our clothes influence the way we navigate the world.

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Free Download Plato of Athens: A Life in Philosophy (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CGJP1FXT | 2023 | 9 hours and 52 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 287 MB
Author: Robin Waterfield
Narrator: Tristam Summers
Considered by many to be the most important philosopher ever, Plato was born into a well-to-do family in wartime Athens at the end of the fifth century BCE. He finally decided to go into politics, but became disillusioned, especially after the Athenians condemned his teacher, Socrates, to death. He began teaching in his twenties and later founded the Academy, the world's first higher-educational research and teaching establishment. Eventually, he returned to practical politics and spent a considerable amount of time and energy trying to create a constitution for Syracuse in Sicily that would reflect and perpetuate some of his political ideals.

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