Free Download How Life Works: A User's Guide to the New Biology (Audiobook)
English | ISBN: 9781529096026 | 2023 | 17 hours and 40 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 500 MB
Author: Philip Ball
Narrator: Philip Ball
A cutting-edge new vision of biology that proposes to revise our concept of what life is - from Science Book Prize winner and former Nature editor Philip Ball. Biology is undergoing a quiet but profound transformation. Several aspects of the standard picture of how life works have been exposed as incomplete, misleading, or wrong. In How Life Works, Philip Ball explores the new biology, revealing life to be a far richer, more ingenious affair than we had guessed. With this knowledge come new possibilities. Today we can redesign and reconfigure living systems, tissues, and organisms. We can reprogram cells, for instance, to carry out new tasks and grow into structures not seen in the natural world. Some researchers believe that ultimately we will be able to regenerate limbs and organs, and perhaps even create new life forms that evolution has never imagined. Incorporating the latest research and insights, How Life Works is a sweeping journey into this new frontier of the nature of life, a realm that will reshape our understanding of life as we know it.

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Free Download How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BVNLX4HT | 2023 | 11 hours and 25 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 332 MB
Author: Deb Chachra
Narrator: Kathe Mazur
A new way of seeing the essential systems hidden inside our walls, under our streets, and all around us. Infrastructure is a marvel, meeting our basic needs and enabling lives of astounding ease and productivity that would have been unimaginable just a century ago. It is the physical manifestation of our social contract-of our ability to work collectively for the public good-and it consists of the most complex and vast technological systems ever created by humans. A soaring bridge is an obvious infrastructural feat, but so are the mostly hidden reservoirs, transformers, sewers, cables, and pipes that deliver water, energy, and information to wherever we need it. When these systems work well, they hide in plain sight.

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Free Download Homer and His Iliad (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BWGGJR2T | 2023 | 16 hours and 44 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 478 MB
Author: Robin Lane Fox
Narrator: Steve John Shepherd
A groundbreaking reassessment of the Iliad, uncovering how the poem was written and why it remains enduringly powerful. The Iliad is the world's greatest epic poem-heroic battle and divine fate set against the Trojan War. Its beauty and profound bleakness are intensely moving, but great questions remain: Where, how, and when was it composed and why does it endure? Robin Lane Fox addresses these questions, drawing on a lifelong love and engagement with the poem. He argues for a place, a date, and a method for its composition-subjects of ongoing controversy-combining the detailed expertise of a historian with a poetic reader's sensitivity. Lane Fox considers hallmarks of the poem; its values, implicit and explicit; its characters; its women; its gods; and even its horses. Thousands of listeners turn to the Iliad every year. Drawing on 50 years of listening and research, Lane Fox offers us a breathtaking tour of this magnificent text, revealing why the poem has endured for ages.

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Free Download Holy Wars: 3000 Years of Battles in the Holy Land (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CHWWVFR7 | 2023 | 9 hours and 9 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 264 MB
Author: Gary L. Rashba
Narrator: Jim Denison
Holy Wars describes three thousand years of war in the Holy Land with the unique approach of focusing on pivotal battles or campaigns, beginning with the Israelites' capture of Jericho and ending with Israel's last full-fledged assault against Lebanon. Its chapters stop along the way to examine key battles fought by the Philistines, Assyrians, Greeks, Romans, Arabs, Crusaders, and Mamluks-the latter clash, at Ayn Jalut, comprising the first time the Mongols suffered a decisive defeat. The modern era saw the rise of the Ottomans and an incursion by Napoleon, who only found bloody stalemate outside the walls of Akko.

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Free Download Hitchcock's Blondes: The Unforgettable Women Behind the Legendary Director's Dark Obsession (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BVNYDR77 | 2023 | 10 hours and 29 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 302 MB
Author: Laurence Leamer
Narrator: Sharmila Devar
Bestselling author Laurence Leamer shares an engrossing account of the enigmatic director Alfred Hitchcock that finally puts the dazzling actresses he cast in his legendary movies at the center of the story. Alfred Hitchcock was fixated-not just on the dark, twisty stories that became his hallmark, but also by the blond actresses who starred in many of his iconic movies. The director of North by Northwest, Rear Window, and other classic films didn't much care if they wore wigs, got their hair coloring out of a bottle, or were the rarest human specimen-a natural blonde-as long as they shone with a golden veneer on camera. The lengths he went to in order to showcase (and often manipulate) these women would become the stuff of movie legend. But the women themselves have rarely been at the center of the story, until now.

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Free Download Higher Power: An American Town's Story of Faith, Hope, and Nuclear Energy (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CNS3W8YL | 2023 | 19 hours and 18 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 542 MB
Author: Casey Bukro
Narrator: Adam Barr
Nuclear power once promised to be the solution to the world's energy crisis, but that all changed in the late twentieth century after multiple high-profile accidents and meltdowns. Power plant workers, finding themselves the subject of public opposition, became leery of reporters. But one plant in Zion, Illinois, allowed unrestricted access to one journalist: the Chicago Tribune's Casey Bukro. Bukro spent two years inside the Zion nuclear plant, interviewing employees, witnessing high-risk maintenance procedures, and watching the radiation exposure counter on his own dosimeter tick up and up. In Higher Power, Bukro's reporting from the plant is prefaced by a compelling history of the city of Zion, including a tell-all of John Alexander Dowie, a nineteenth-century "faith healer" who founded Zion, and whose evangelism left a mark on the city well into the modern era, even as a new "higher" power-nuclear energy-moved into town. With the acceleration of climate change, the questions and challenges surrounding nuclear power have never been more relevant. Should we try to address the mistakes made in the past? What part could nuclear power play in our energy future? Higher Power explores these questions and examines one American town's attempts to build a better society as a bellwether for national policy and decision making.

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Free Download Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C5Y6DM2D | 2023 | 7 hours and 21 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 212 MB
Author: Adam Grant
Narrator: Adam Grant, Maurice Ashley, R. A. Dickey, Evelyn Glennie, Sara Maria Hasbun, Francis Idehen, Alison Levine, Benny Lewis, Kari Louhivuori, Nelli Louhivuori, Brandon Payne, Richard Pine, Gil Winch, full cast
This brilliant book will shatter your assumptions about what it takes to improve and succeed. The #1 New York Times bestselling author illuminates how we can elevate ourselves and others to unexpected heights. We live in a world that's obsessed with talent. We celebrate gifted students in school, natural athletes in sports, and child prodigies in music. But admiring people who start out with innate advantages leads us to overlook the distance we ourselves can travel. We underestimate the range of skills that we can learn and how good we can become. We can all improve at improving. And when opportunity doesn't knock, there are ways to build a door.

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Free Download Hell's Angels: The True Story of the 303rd Bomb Group in World War II, 2023 Edition (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C6FJPV3W | 2023 | 14 hours and 2 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 412 MB
Author: Jay A. Stout
Narrator: Robertson Dean
The true story of World War 2's legendary Hell's Angels-the 8th Air Force's 303rd Bomb Group. Although the United States declared war against Germany in December 1941, a successful assault on Nazi-occupied Europe could not happen until Germany's industrial and military might were crippled. The first target was the Luftwaffe-the most powerful and battle-hardened air force in the world. The United States Army Air Forces joined with Great Britain's already-engaged Royal Air Force to launch a strategic air campaign that ultimately brought the Luftwaffe to its knees. One of the standout units of this campaign was the legendary 303rd Bomb Group-Hell's Angels. This is the 303rd's story, as told by the men who made it what it was. Taking their name from their B-17 of the same name, they became one of the most distinguished and important air combat units in history. The dramatic and terrible air battles they fought against Germany ultimately changed the course of the war.

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Free Download Hearing Loss for Dummies (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CN1NNZZ6 | 2023 | 8 hours and 26 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 452 MB
[i]Author: Frank Lin, Nicholas Reed
Narrator: [Danny Hughes/i]
Improve your hearing, enhance your life-with new advice on just-released over-the-counter hearing aids. Hearing loss can be frustrating, but in fact it's common and treatable. Hearing Loss For Dummies, written by top experts in the field in collaboration with AARP, walks you through how to get the help you need to clearly hear the sounds of life-whether you're at home, at work, or out and about. And hearing health is critical: Hearing loss can increase your risk of falls and injuries, isolation and depression, and even cognitive decline and dementia.

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Free Download Healing Pluto Problems: An Astrological Guide (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CNHC312Q | 2023 | 8 hours and 12 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 209 MB
Author: Donna Cunningham
Narrator: Gina Rogers
Pluto's energy is extremely potent and powerful. Within Astrology, it is considered to be a "generational planet" as it influences both individuals and entire generations. The planet governs our compulsive behavior, all those things we know we shouldn't do but feel compelled to do anyway. It also represents the hidden dimension of our emotional lives, all the parts of ourselves that we'd rather bury in our subconscious. In Healing Pluto Problems, Donna Cunningham explains how Pluto functions in the birth chart and shows how Plutonian problems can manifest. She presents her material with warmth and compassion, without avoiding the tough lessons that Pluto has to offer. She addresses such topics as: guilt, resentment, and fear; emotional secrets and their contribution to self-isolation; incest, abuse, and domestic violence; Pluto and the need for power and control; the psychology of being a victim; death and transformation; and the consequences of avoiding grief. Interested not only in diagnosing Pluto problems, Cunningham also gives us tools for healing those problems-affirmations, flower remedies, exercises for working with the chakras-and shows us how to use Pluto transits for growth.

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