Free Download The Righteous and People of Conscience of the Armenian Genocide (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CS3XZ5DS | 2024 | 14 hours and 37 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 415 MB
Author: Gérard Dédéyan, Ago Demirdjian, Nabil Saleh
Narrator: Nigel Patterson
This book tells the stories of the Muslims, Christians, Jews and others who made a courageous stand against the mass slaughter of Ottoman Armenians in 1915, the first modern genocide. Foreigners and Ottomans alike ran considerable risks to bear witness and rescue victims, sometimes sacrificing their lives. Diplomats, humanitarians, missionaries, lawyers and other visitors to the Empire stood up, including Tolstoy's daughter, Alexandra; Raphael Lemkin, the jurist who first established genocide as an international crime; and the polar explorer Fridtjof Nansen, who recognized and relieved the plight of stateless Armenian refugees. Ottoman subjects-from officials and officers to ordinary townspeople and villagers-faced near-certain death for their entire family by resisting orders and helping Armenians. Unlike the Righteous of the Holocaust, these heroes have been systematically ignored and erased-a major injustice. Based on fresh research and hoping to repay a moral debt to Ottoman Muslims who braved everything to rescue the authors' forebears, this book is an important, moving testament to a grievously overlooked aspect of the Armenian tragedy.

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Free Download The Phone Fix: The Brain-Focused Guide to Building Healthy Digital Habits and Breaking Bad Ones (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CSHBXNVM | 2024 | 10 hours and 27 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 287 MB
Author: Dr. Faye Begeti
Narrator: Sofia Engstrand
What is really happening in your brain when you use your phone, and how to harness it. Humans are often fearful of the day the world will be ruled by machines, but have they not already taken over? The average person spends 4-5 hours a day on their phone, about a third of the time they are awake. We self-interrupt our work and social lives, forgo sleep, procrastinate important tasks and opt for digital distraction when we're bored or feel uncomfortable. NHS neurology doctor and neuroscientist Faye Begeti describes what is happening in our brain when we use our phones and why we have formed so many fixed and negative habits around them.

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Free Download The Ottomans and Christians: The History and Legacy of the Ottomans' Conflicts with Catholic and Orthodox Nations (Audiobook)
English | ISBN: 9798868633096 | 2024 | 9 hours and 52 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 282 MB
Author: Charles River Editors
Narrator: Jim Walsh
In terms of geopolitics, perhaps the most seminal event of the Middle Ages was the successful Ottoman siege of Constantinople in 1453. The city had been an imperial capital as far back as the 4th century, when Constantine the Great shifted the power center of the Roman Empire there, effectively establishing two almost equally powerful halves of antiquity's greatest empire. Constantinople would continue to serve as the capital of the Byzantine Empire even after the Western half of the Roman Empire collapsed in the late 5th century. Naturally, the Ottoman Empire would also use Constantinople as the capital of its empire after their conquest effectively ended the Byzantine Empire, and thanks to its strategic location, it has been a trading center for years and remains one today under the Turkish name of Istanbul.

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Free Download The Ottoman Empire's Greatest Sultans: The Lives and Legacies of Osman I, Mehmed II, and Suleiman the Magnificent (Audiobook)
English | ISBN: 9798868750816 | 2023 | 3 hours and 50 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 212 MB
Author: Charles River Editors
Narrator: Jim Walsh
In terms of geopolitics, perhaps the most seminal event of the Middle Ages was the successful Ottoman siege of Constantinople in 1453. The city had been an imperial capital as far back as the 4th century, when Constantine the Great shifted the power center of the Roman Empire there, effectively establishing two almost equally powerful halves of antiquity's greatest empire. Constantinople would continue to serve as the capital of the Byzantine Empire even after the Western half of the Roman Empire collapsed in the late 5th century. Naturally, the Ottoman Empire would also use Constantinople as the capital of its empire after their conquest effectively ended the Byzantine Empire, and thanks to its strategic location, it has been a trading center for years and remains one today under the Turkish name of Istanbul.

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Free Download The Manipulation Defense: Strategies to Arm and Defend Yourself Against People Who Try to Manipulate You (Audiobook)
English | ISBN: 9798868652929 | 2023 | 5 hours and 24 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 299 MB
Author: John D. Kody
Narrator: Duke Holm
Embark on a transformative journey with "The Manipulation Defense: Strategies to Arm and Defend Yourself Against People Who Try to Manipulate You," your ultimate guide to recognizing, resisting, and reclaiming control from manipulative influences in every corner of your life. Delve into the nuanced dynamics of intimate relationships, uncovering the covert tactics used to erode your autonomy and learning the art of resilience against these subtle invasions. Navigate the treacherous waters of social and digital media, where manipulation often hides behind a veneer of connection, equipping yourself with critical discernment skills to separate genuine interactions from deceptive facades. Dissect the insidious influence of advertising, exploring how manipulators skillfully play on your emotions and desires to shape your decisions and opinions.

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Free Download Michael Gervais (Author, Narrator), Kevin Lake - contributor, "The First Rule of Mastery: Stop Worrying About What People Think of You"
English | ASIN: B0CKWLR28B | 2024 | M4B@64 kbps | ~05:03:00 | 141 MB
High-performance psychologist Michael Gervais presents a groundbreaking guide for overcoming what may be the single greatest constrictor of human potential: our fear of people's opinions (FOPO).
FOPO shows up almost everywhere in our lives-and the consequences are great. When we let FOPO take control, we play it safe and small because we're afraid of what will happen on the other side of critique. When challenged, we surrender our viewpoint. We trade in authenticity for approval. We please rather than provoke. We chase the dreams of others rather than our own. But it doesn't have to be this way.
In The First Rule of Mastery, Michael Gervais shows us that the key to leading a high-performance life is to redirect our attention from the world outside us to the world inside us. He reveals the mental skills and practices we need to overcome FOPO-the same skills he's taught to the top performers in the world, including sports MVPs, world-renowned artists and musicians, and Fortune 100 leaders and teams. Filled with fascinating stories from the worlds of sports and business, leading-edge science, and insights from the frontier of human performance, The First Rule of Mastery is a much-needed wake-up call that when we give more value to other people's opinions than we do our own, we live life on their terms, not ours.

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Free Download The Enlightenment: An Enthralling Guide to a Period of Scientific, Political, and Philosophical Discourse in European History (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CLYQ1VV6 | 2023 | 3 hours and 33 minutes | M4B@192 kbps | 294 MB
Author: Billy Wellman, Enthralling History
Narrator: Jay Herbert
Can you imagine how the world would be different today if there had been no Enlightenment era? The Age of Enlightenment, which lasted throughout the 18th century, brought about fundamental changes in people's thinking and transformed the entire fabric of society. Even ordinary people began to question their entrenched beliefs and dogmas. They wanted education, justice, freedom, and progress. They struggled to eliminate despotic rulers and desired to be governed by democratically elected representatives. But how did this fundamental shift in thinking occur in a relatively short period? And who were the great thinkers and philosophers of that era who dared to go against the established authority of the church and the power of the autocrats? Are you curious about how the Enlightenment influenced the French and American revolutions? If so, this audiobook holds the answers you seek.

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Free Download The End of Love: Racism, Sexism, and the Death of Romance (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C47KLG8W | 2024 | 8 hours and 27 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 245 MB
Author: Sabrina Strings
Narrator: Janice Lynn Sykes
From Playboy to Jay-Z, the racial origins of toxic masculinity and its impact on women, especially Black and "insufficiently white" women . More men than ever are refusing loving partnerships and commitment, and instead seeking out "situationships." When these men deign to articulate what they are looking for in a steady partner, they'll often rely on superficial norms of attractiveness rooted in whiteness and anti-Blackness. Connecting the past to the present, sociologist Sabrina Strings argues that following the Civil Rights movement and the integration of women during the Second Wave Feminist movement, men aimed to hold on to their power by withholding love and commitment, a basic tenet of white supremacy and male domination, that served to manipulate all women. From pornography to hip hop, women-especially Black and "insufficiently white" women-were presented as gold diggers, props for masturbation, and side-pieces. Using historical research, personal stories, and critical analysis, Strings argues that the result is fuccboism, the latest incarnation of toxic masculinity. This work shows that men are not innately "toxic." Nor do they hate love, commitment, or sex. Instead, men across race have been working a new code to effectively deny loving partnerships to women who are not pliant, slim, and white as a new mode of male domination.

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Free Download The Dramatic Rise and Fall of the Portuguese Empire: The History and Legacy of Portugal's Mercantile Empire across the World (Audiobook)
English | ISBN: 9798868739149 | 2023 | 4 hours and 24 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 243 MB
Author: Charles River Editors
Narrator: Victoria Woodson
Trade was able to increase in Europe around the world due to more effective ships being introduced, and some of the improvements that were made to the ships were first introduced by the Chinese. The introduction of multiple mast ships and the sternpost rudders allowed the ships to travel quicker and be more maneuverable. By the start of the 15th century, ships were now much larger and able to support long distance travel with a minimum number of crew aboard. With that, the Portuguese started exploring the west coast of Africa and the Atlantic under orders from Prince Henry the Navigator. At this point, Europeans had not yet been capable of navigating completely around Africa since the ships being built were not yet fully capable of being able to sail very far from the coast and navigation in open waters was difficult, but the Portuguese continued pushing down the western African coast looking for ways to bypass the Ottomans and Muslims of Africa who had been making overland trade routes difficult.

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Free Download The Deconstruction of Christianity: What It Is, Why It's Destructive, and How to Respond (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CQD7JFF5 | 2024 | 7 hours and 10 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 402 MB
Author: Alisa Childers, Tim Barnett
Narrator: Alisa Childers, Tim Barnett
A groundbreaking book on the true nature of faith deconstruction. Alisa and Tim help the reader to deconstruct the deconstructionists and thus to respond to them, both with arguments and with love and sensitivity. A movement called 'deconstruction' is sweeping through our churches and it is affecting our loved ones. It has disrupted, dismantled, and destroyed the faith of so many, and this book can help you not only understand what's happening but also stand your ground and respond with clarity and confidence. Some who leave the faith feel wounded by the church.

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