Free Download Imperial Twilight: The Opium War and the End of China's Last Golden Age by Stephen R. Platt, Mark Deakins, Random House Audio
English | 2018 | ISBN: B07C3CPG3V | MP3@64 kbps | ~17:50:00 pages | EPUB | 567 Mb
As China reclaims its position as a world power, Imperial Twilight looks back to tell the story of the country's last age of ascendance and how it came to an end in the 19th-century Opium War.
As one of the most potent turning points in the country's modern history, the Opium War has since come to stand for everything that today's China seeks to put behind it.
In this dramatic, epic story, award-winning historian Stephen Platt sheds new light on the early attempts by Western traders and missionaries to "open" China even as China's imperial rulers were struggling to manage their country's decline and Confucian scholars grappled with how to use foreign trade to China's advantage.

Read More: Imperial Twilight The Opium War and the End of China's Last Golden Age

Free Download If Science Is to Save Us by Martin Rees, Derek Perkins, Tantor Audio
English | 2022 | ISBN: B0BQZHJR1D | 5 hours and 35 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 153 Mb
There has never been a time when 'following the science' has been more important for humanity. At no other point in history have we had such advanced knowledge and technology at our fingertips, nor had such astonishing capacity to determine the future of our planet.
But the decisions we must make on how science is applied belong outside the lab and should be the outcome of wide public debate. For that to happen, science needs to become part of our common culture. Science is not just for scientists: if it were, it could never save us from the multiple crises we face. For science can save us, if its innovations mesh carefully into society and its applications are channeled for the common good.
As Martin Rees argues in this expert and personal analysis of the scientific endeavor on which we all depend, we need to think globally, we need to think rationally and we need to think long-term, empowered by twenty-first-century technology but guided by values that science alone cannot provide.

Read More: If Science Is to Save Us

Free Download I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War Against Reconstruction (Audiobook)
English | April 04, 2023 | ASIN: B0BZZQ8NJY | M4B@128 kbps | 12h 24m | 718 MB
Author: Kidada E. Williams | Narrator: Karen Chilton
From a groundbreaking scholar, a heart-wrenching reexamination of the struggle for survival in the Reconstruction-era South and what it cost.
The story of Reconstruction is often told from the perspective of the politicians, generals, and journalists whose accounts claim an outsized place in collective memory. But this pivotal era looked very different to African Americans in the South transitioning from bondage to freedom after 1865. They were besieged by a campaign of white supremacist violence that persisted through the 1880s and beyond. For too long, their lived experiences have been sidelined, impoverishing our understanding of the obstacles post-Civil War Black families faced, their inspiring determination to survive, and the physical and emotional scars they bore because of it.

Read More: I Saw Death Coming A History of Terror and Survival in the War Against Reconstruction [Audiobook]

Free Download I Live in the Future & Here's How It Works: Why Your World, Work, and Brain Are Being Creatively Disrupted by Nick Bilton, Mike Chamberlain, Random House Audio
English | 2010 | ISBN: B00435DZAK | Format: MP3 / Bitrate: 128 Kbps / 8 hours + EPUB | 437 Mb
Are we driving off a digital cliff and heading for disaster, unable to focus, maintain concentration, or form the human bonds that make life worth living? Are media and business doomed and about to be replaced by amateur hour?
The world, as Nick Bilton - with tongue-in-cheek - shows, has been going to hell for a long, long time, and what we are experiencing is the 21st-century version of the fear that always takes hold as new technology replaces the old. In fact, as Bilton shows, the digital era we are part of is, in all its creative and disruptive forms, the foundation for exciting and engaging experiences not only for business but society as well.
Both visionary and practical, I Live in the Future & Here's How It Works captures the zeitgeist of an emerging age, providing the understanding of how a radically changed media world is influencing human behavior:

Read More: I Live in the Future & Here's How It Works Why Your World, Work, and Brain Are Being Creatively Disrupted

Free Download I Know How She Does It: How Successful Women Make the Most of Their Time by Laura Vanderkam, Penguin Audio
English | 2015 | ISBN: B00X4B886A | 7 hours and 36 minutes / Format: MP3 | 163 Mb
From the best-selling author of What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast, powerful insights from 1001 actual days in the lives of high-achieving women.
Balancing work and family life is a constant struggle, especially for women with children and ambitious career goals. It's been the subject of countless books, articles, blog posts, and tweets in the last few years, and passions run high in all directions.
Now Laura Vanderkam, the acclaimed time-management expert, comes at the "having it all" debate by asking a very practical question. Given that we all have the same 168 hours every week, how do people who do have it all - women with thriving careers and families - use those hours? When you study how such women fit together the pieces of their lives like tiles in a mosaic, the results are surprising.

Read More: I Know How She Does It How Successful Women Make the Most of Their Time

Free Download I Killed Pink Floyd's Pig: Inside Stories of Sex, Drugs, and Rock & Roll (Audiobook)
English | October 07, 2016 | ASIN: B01LWT1RW9 | M4B@64 kbps | 6h 27m | 176 MB
Author and Narrator: Beau Phillips
I Killed Pink Floyd's Pig is an all-access behind-the-scenes VIP tour of when rock was great, courtesy of Beau Phillips, a respected radio programmer and former head of marketing at MTV.
Phillips was an insider and occasional accomplice who witnessed the legends of classic rock in their heyday and takes listeners inside the dressing rooms, hotel suites, and private planes of Led Zeppelin, the Rolling Stones, AC/DC, Eric Clapton, Paul McCartney, and dozens more to enjoy funny, decadent, and never-been-told stories of sex, drugs, and rock and roll.

Read More: I Killed Pink Floyd's Pig Inside Stories of Sex, Drugs, and Rock & Roll [Audiobook]

Free Download Hunting Game: Audible Original (Audiobook)
English | November 09, 2023 | ASIN: B0CMJMGG1T | M4B@128 kbps | 4h 31m | 252 MB
Author: Candice Fox | Narrators: Krysten Ritter, Anthony Mackie, Tony Goldwyn, L J. Ganser, Chris Ciulla, Marc Vietor, Piper Goodeve, Helen Laser, Khristine Hvam, Dina Pearlman, Elizabeth Evans, Gabriel Vaughan, Kevin T. Collins, Brian Nishii, Mirron Willis
Prepare to be captivated by acclaimed crime writer Candice Fox's gripping audio thriller, Hunting Game. Featuring an all-star cast including Krysten Ritter, Anthony Mackie, and Tony Goldwyn, you're about to enter a high-stakes game of cat and mouse.
NYPD Detective Esme 'Es' Compran (Krysten Ritter) finds herself torn between her duty and her own desperate circumstances when a child is kidnapped. The victim's father, Jack Dengate (Tony Goldwyn), is a controversial big pharma CEO whose company's price hikes on life-saving drugs have dire consequences for Es' ailing daughter.

Read More: Hunting Game Audible Original [Audiobook]

Free Download Hunch: Turn Your Everyday Insights into the Next Big Thing by Bernadette Jiwa, Penguin Audio
English | 2017 | ISBN: B07111Q16G | Format: MP3 / 3 hours and 52 minutes | 84 Mb
Penguin presents the unabridged downloadable audiobook edition of Hunch, written and read by Bernadette Jiwa.
Learn to trust your intuition and uncover insights that could lead to the next big thing.
What do the Dyson vacuum cleaner, the GoPro camera, Starbucks, Instagram, Facebook, and Lululemon yoga pants have in common? Every one of them was the result not of data-driven analytics or corporate brainstorming sessions but a hunch - the intuitive understanding of a deep unmet need, informed by insight and foresight. Anxiety over being more innovative leads entrepreneurs to create solutions in search of problems. But what if you could use your intuition to identify an existing problem that's begging for a solution?

Read More: Hunch Turn Your Everyday Insights into the Next Big Thing

Free Download Humor, Seriously: Why Humor Is a Secret Weapon in Business and Life (And How Anyone Can Harness It. Even You.) by Jennifer Aaker, Naomi Bagdonas, Michael Lewis
English | 2021 | ISBN: B085LLMNF7 | Format: MP3 / Bitrate: 48 Kbps / 6 hours and 5 minutes + EPUB | 136 Mb
Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, and USA Today Best Seller
Anyone - even you! - can learn how to harness the power of humor in business (and life), based on the popular class at Stanford's Graduate School of Business.
Don't miss the authors' TED Talk, "Why Great Leaders Take Humor Seriously", online now.

Read More: Humor, Seriously Why Humor Is a Secret Weapon in Business and Life (And How Anyone Can Harness It. Even You.)

Free Download Toni Mount, Derek Perkins (Narrator), "How to Survive in Medieval England"
English | ASIN: B0CP8FVFKT | 2023 | M4B@128 kbps | ~04:58:00 | 284 MB
Imagine you were transported back in time to Medieval England and had to start a new life there. Without mobile phones, iPads, internet, and social media networks, when transport means walking or, if you're fortunate, horseback, how will you know where you are or what to do? Where will you live? What is there to eat? What shall you wear? How can you communicate when nobody speaks as you do and what about money? Who can you go to if you fall ill or are mugged in the street? However can you fit into and thrive in this strange environment full of odd people who seem so different from you?
All these questions and many more are answered in this new guidebook for time-travelers: How to Survive in Medieval England. A handy guide with tips and suggestions to make your visit to the Middle Ages much more fun, this lively and engaging book will help the listener deal with the new experiences they may encounter and the problems that might occur. Know the laws so you don't get into trouble or show your ignorance in an embarrassing faux pas.

Read More: How to Survive in Medieval England [Audiobook]