Free Download Rome: An Empire's Story by Greg Woolf, Liam Gerrard, Tantor Audio
English | 2018 | ISBN: B07GT9Z8YL | Format: MP3 / 12 hours and 5 minutes | 332 Mb
The very idea of empire was created in ancient Rome, and even today, traces of its monuments, literature, and institutions can be found across Europe, the Near East, and North Africa - and sometimes even further afield.
In Rome, historian Greg Woolf expertly recounts how this mammoth empire was created, how it was sustained in crisis, and how it shaped the world of its rulers and subjects - a story spanning a millennium and a half of history. The personalities and events of Roman history have become part of the West's cultural lexicon, and Woolf provides brilliant retellings of each of these, from the war with Carthage to Octavian's victory over Cleopatra and the height of territorial expansion under the emperors Trajan and Hadrian to the founding of Constantinople and the barbarian invasions which resulted in Rome's ultimate collapse. Throughout, Woolf carefully considers the conditions that made Rome's success possible and so durable, covering topics as diverse as ecology, slavery, and religion. Woolf also compares Rome to other ancient empires and to its many later imitators, bringing into vivid relief the Empire's most distinctive and enduring features.
As Woolf demonstrates, nobody ever planned to create a state that would last more than a millennium and a half, yet Rome was able, in the end, to survive barbarian migrations, economic collapse, and even the conflicts between a series of world religions that had grown up within its borders, and in the process, generated an image and a myth of empire that is apparently indestructible.

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Free Download Rock Breaks Scissors: A Practical Guide to Outguessing and Outwitting Almost Everybody by William Poundstone, Joel Richards, Audible Studios
English | 2014 | ISBN: B00J08EN56 | 7 hours and 59 minutes / Format: MP3 / Bitrate: 32 Kbps | 115 Mb
A practical guide to outguessing everything from multiple-choice tests to the office football pool to the stock market. People are predictable even when they try not to be. William Poundstone demonstrates how to turn this fact to personal advantage in scores of everyday situations, from playing the lottery to buying a home. Rock Breaks Scissors is mind-reading for real life.
Will the next tennis serve go right or left? Will the market go up or down? Most people are poor at that kind of predicting. We are hard-wired to make bum bets on "trends" and "winning streaks" that are illusions. Yet ultimately we're all in the business of anticipating the actions of others. Poundstone reveals how to overcome the errors and improve the accuracy of your own outguessing. Rock Breaks Scissors is a hands-on guide to turning life's odds in your favor.
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Free Download River out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life (Audiobook)
English | July 20, 2018 | ASIN: B07FPTNJC1 | M4B@64 kbps | 5h 11m | 143 MB
Author: Richard Dawkins | Narrators: Richard Dawkins, Lalla Ward
How did the replication bomb we call "life" begin and where in the world, or rather, in the universe, is it heading? Writing with characteristic wit and an ability to clarify complex phenomena (the New York Times described his style as "the sort of science writing that makes the reader feel like a genius"), Richard Dawkins confronts this ancient mystery.
Dawkins has been named by the London Daily Telegraph "the most brilliant contemporary preacher of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution." More than any other contemporary scientist, he has lent credence to the idea that human beings - indeed, all living things - are mere vehicles of information, gene carriers whose primary purpose is propagation of their own DNA. In this book, Dawkins explains evolution as a flowing river of genes, genes meeting, competing, uniting, and sometimes separating to form new species.

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Free Download Risk Parity: How to Invest for All Market Environments (Audiobook)
English | January 31, 2022 | ASIN: B09R93PYL6 | M4B@64 kbps | 8h 58m | 236 MB
Author: Alex Shahidi | Narrator: Daniel Henning
Target high returns and greater consistency with this insightful guide from a leading investor
The market volatility exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic has led many to question their exposure to risk in their own portfolios. But what should one do about it?

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Free Download Matt Doyon, Mike Chamberlain (Narrator), "Revenue Revolution: Designing and Building a High-Performing Sales System"
English | ASIN: B0CQ3SNPFM | 2023 | M4B@64 kbps | ~09:06:00 | 257 MB
In Revenue Revolution: Designing and Building a High-Performing Sales System, the cofounder and CEO of Triple Session, Matt Doyon, delivers an insightful and practical discussion of how to maximize sales success by encouraging collaboration between sales leadership and front-line sales personnel. In the book, you'll learn how to utilize a design-build model to create a fully integrated sales organization made up of six interlocking systems.
The author explains why the commonly espoused executive-driven, top-down approach is incomplete, and why it's so necessary to include the bottom-up point of view of front-line sales technique specialists. You'll also discover: strategies for implementing a design-build model that work for both brand-new sales teams at recently launched companies and mature sales teams; rebooting an existing sales team's processes to incorporate the design-build model; and ways to both effectively plan and execute a system that scales with the growth of your firm.

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Free Download Gary Taubes, Arthur Morey (Narrator), "Rethinking Diabetes: What Science Reveals About Diet, Insulin, and Successful Treatments"
English | ASIN: B0C4C4HFX8 | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~16:25:00 | 466 MB
An eye-opening investigation into the history of diabetes research and treatment by the award-winning journalist and best-selling author of Why We Get Fat "[Gary] Taubes's meticulous, science-based work makes him the Bryan Stevenson of nutrition, an early voice in the wilderness for an unorthodox view that is increasingly becoming accepted."-Niel Barsky, The Guardian
Before the discovery of insulin, diabetes was treated almost exclusively through diet, from subsistence on meat, to reliance on fats, to repeated fasting and near-starvation regimens. After two centuries of conflicting medical advice, most authorities today believe that those with diabetes can have the same dietary freedom enjoyed by the rest of us, leaving the job of controlling their disease to insulin therapy and other blood-sugar-lowering medications. Rather than embark on "futile" efforts to restrict sugar or carbohydrate intake, people with diabetes can lead a normal life, complete with the occasional ice-cream cake, side of fries, or soda.

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Free Download Lauren Lassabe Shepherd, Emily Durante (Narrator), "Resistance from the Right: Conservatives and the Campus Wars in Modern America"
English | ASIN: B0CPMF4932 | 2023 | M4B@64 kbps | ~10:11:00 | 302 MB
Pivoting from studies that emphasize the dominance of progressivism on American college campuses during the late sixties and early seventies, Lauren Lassabe Shepherd positions conservative critiques of, and agendas in, American colleges and universities as an essential dimension of a broader conversation of conservative backlash against liberal education.
This book explores the story of how stakeholders in American higher education organized and reacted to challenges to their power from the New Left and Black Power student resistance movements of the late 1960s. By examining the range of conservative student organizations and coalition building, Shepherd shows how wealthy donors and conservative intellectuals trained future GOP leaders such as Karl Rove, Bill Barr, Jeff Sessions, Pat Buchanan, and others in conservative politics, providing them with tactics to consciously drive American politics and culture further to the authoritarian right and to "reclaim" American higher education.

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Free Download Ian Snape, Mike Weeks, Mike Chamberlain (Narrator), "Resilience by Design: How to Survive and Thrive in a Complex and Turbulent World "
English | ASIN: B09NQPFWSG | 2021 | M4B@128 kbps | ~11:33:00 | 662 MB
Resilience by Design: How to Survive and Thrive in a Complex and Turbulent World delivers the world's most detailed and research-backed how-to manual to integrate advances from neuroscience and complexity theory with real world expertise, providing practical techniques that you'll want to use every day.
You'll discover how resilience isn't just the ability to tough it out; it's dependent upon an interconnected set of skills, techniques, creative processes, and new understandings of how we think, act, and interact with our environments and each other.

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Free Download Republic of Lies: American Conspiracy Theorists and Their Surprising Rise to Power by Anna Merlan, Suehyla El-Attar, Anna Merlan - introduction
English | 2019 | ISBN: B07Q2F3VX8 | Format: MP3 / 10 hours and 24 minutes | 216 Mb
"This well-produced audiobook is also well researched, and well intentioned." (AudioFile Magazine)
This program includes an introduction read by the author.
A riveting tour through the landscape and meaning of modern conspiracy theories, exploring the causes and tenacity of this American malady, from birthers to Pizzagate and beyond.

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Free Download Reparations: A Christian Call for Repentance and Repair by Duke L. Kwon, Gregory Thompson, Mirron Willis
English | 2021 | ISBN: B08ZNVTL92 | Format: M4B / 8 hours and 46 minutes + EPUB | 125 Mb
Christians are awakening to the legacy of racism in America like never before. While public conversations regarding the realities of racial division and inequalities have surged in recent years, so has the public outcry to work toward the long-awaited healing of these wounds. But American Christianity, with its tendency to view the ministry of reconciliation as its sole response to racial injustice, and its isolation from those who labor most diligently to address these things, is underequipped to offer solutions. Because of this, the church needs a new perspective on its responsibility for the deep racial brokenness at the heart of American culture and on what it can do to repair that brokenness.
This book makes a compelling historical and theological case for the church's obligation to provide reparations for the oppression of African Americans. Duke Kwon and Gregory Thompson articulate the church's responsibility for its promotion and preservation of white supremacy throughout history, investigate the Bible's call to repent and make restitution, and offer concrete examples of the work of reparation at the local level. They lead listeners toward a moral imagination that views reparations as a long-overdue and necessary step in our collective journey toward healing and wholeness.
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