Free Download The Unclaimed: Abandonment and Hope in the City of Angels (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CBCWMLDS | 2024 | 9 hours and 39 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 278 MB
Author: Pamela Prickett, Stefan Timmermans
Narrator: Nan McNamara
For centuries, people who died destitute or alone were buried in potters' fields-a Dickensian end that even the most hard-pressed families tried to avoid. Today, more and more relatives are abandoning their dead, leaving it to local governments to dispose of the bodies. Up to 150,000 Americans now go unclaimed each year. Who are they? Why are they being forgotten? And what is the meaning of life if your death doesn't matter to others? In this extraordinary work of narrative nonfiction, eight years in the making, sociologists Pamela Prickett and Stefan Timmermans uncover a hidden social world. They follow four individuals in Los Angeles, tracing the twisting, poignant paths that put each at risk of going unclaimed, and introducing us to the scene investigators, notification officers, and crematorium workers who care for them when no one else will.

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Free Download The Truth About Things That Suck (and How to Make Them Suck Less) (Audiobook)
English | July 26, 2022 | ASIN: B0B78CGR9Y | MP3@64 kbps | 6h 46m | 177.88 MB
Author: Mindy Henderson
Narrator: Mindy Henderson

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Free Download The Trading Game: A Confession (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CBZW16PT | 2024 | 12 hours and 41 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 364 MB
Author: Gary Stevenson
Narrator: Gary Stevenson
A vivid, blistering memoir that takes listeners inside the high-stakes drama and hubris of the trading floor, a rags-to-riches tale of Citibank's one-time most profitable trader, and why he gave it all up. If you were gonna rob a bank and you saw the vault door there, left open, what would you do? Would you wait around? Ever since he was a kid, kicking broken soccer balls on the run-down streets of East London, Gary Stevenson dreamed of something bigger. As luck would have it, he was good at numbers. At the London School of Economics, wearing tracksuits and sneakers, Stevenson shocked his posh classmates by winning a competition called "The Trading Game." The prize? A golden ticket to a new life, as the youngest trader at Citibank. A place where you could make more money than you'd ever imagined.

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Free Download The Thirty-First of March: An Intimate Portrait of Lyndon Johnson (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CVP84MGS | 2024 | 9 hours and 53 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 282 MB
Author: Horace Busby, Scott Busby
Narrator: David Colacci
An intimate retelling of Lyndon B. Johnson's politics and presidency by one of his closest advisors. Horace Busby was one of LBJ's most trusted advisors; their close working and personal relationship spanned twenty years. In The Thirty-First of March he offers an indelible portrait of a president and a presidency at a time of crisis. From the aftereffects of the Kennedy assassination, when Busby was asked by the newly sworn-in president to sit by his bedside during his first troubled nights in office, to the concerns that defined the Great Society-civil rights, the economy, social legislation, housing, and the Vietnam War-Busby not only articulated and refined Johnson's political thinking, he also helped shape the most ambitious, far-reaching legislative agenda since FDR's New Deal. Here is Johnson the politician, Johnson the schemer, Johnson who advised against JFK's choice of an open limousine that fateful day in Dallas, and Johnson the father, sickened by the deaths of young men fighting and dying in Vietnam on his orders. The Thirty-first of March is a rare glimpse into the inner sanctum of Johnson's presidency, as seen through the eyes of one of the people who understood him best.

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Free Download David Gregson, Jay S. Efran Ph. D., G. Alan Marlatt Ph. D. - foreword, William Sarris (Narrator), "The Tao of Sobriety: Helping You to Recover from Alcohol and Drug Addiction"
English | ASIN: B0CVNP6BZ3 | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~04:48:00 | 136 MB
The Tao of Sobriety shows how to apply eastern philosophy to enhance recovery from addiction to alcohol and other drugs. With a few simple mental exercises, listeners can learn how to quiet "The Committee," those nasty mental voices that undermine serenity and self-esteem. With leaders of the recovery movement enthusiastically endorsing this uniquely helpful book, The Tao of Sobriety is an invaluable addition to the recovery bookshelf.
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Free Download Brandon Rickabaugh, J.P. Moreland, Stephen R. Thorne (Narrator), "The Substance of Consciousness: A Comprehensive Defense of Contemporary Substance Dualism"
English | ASIN: B0CVNNHSMN | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~21:31:00 | 591 MB
In The Substance of Consciousness, two distinguished philosophers deliver a unique and powerful defense of contemporary substance dualism, which makes the claim that the human person is an embodied fundamental, immaterial, and unifying substance.
The authors present the most comprehensive, up-to-date work on substance dualism in the field, as well as a detailed history of how property and substance dualism have been presented and evaluated over the last 150 years. Listeners will also find:
- A thorough examination of the recent shift away from standard physicalism and the renaissance of substance dualism

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Free Download The Sky Was Falling: A Young Surgeon's Story of Bravery, Survival, and Hope (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C831S2FX | 2024 | 5 hours and 48 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 324 MB
Author: Dr. Cornelia Griggs
Narrator: Dr. Cornelia Griggs
The dramatic, unforgettable, and ultimately cathartic diary of a young pediatric surgeon and mother working on the front lines as the COVID-19 pandemic hit one of New York City's busiest hospitals. In the spring of 2020, many of us were sequestered in our homes, attempting to teach our children and learn to bake while the pings of news alerts and wails of sirens reminded us of the devastation outside. Dr. Cornelia Griggs's experience was nothing like ours. A pediatric surgery fellow in New York City, Griggs was entering the final victory lap at the end of nine grueling years of training. She was set for a big graduation celebration and looking forward to spending some real time with her husband and two toddlers. When COVID-19 arrived, Griggs initially encouraged her friends and family not to panic.

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Free Download The Secret Library: A Book-Lovers' Journey Through Curiosities of History (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CV5XJWBJ | 2024 | 8 hours and 25 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 232 MB
Author: Oliver Tearle
Narrator: Greg Wagland
A fascinating tour through the curious history of Western civilization told through its most emblematic invention-the book. As well as leafing through the well-known titles that have helped shape the world in which we live, Oliver Tearle also dusts off some of the more neglected items to be found hidden among the bookshelves of the past. You'll learn about the forgotten Victorian novelist who outsold Dickens, the woman who became the first published poet in America and the eccentric traveller who introduced the table-fork to England. Through exploring a variety of books-novels, plays, travel books, science books, cookbooks, joke books and sports almanacs-The Secret Library highlights some of the most fascinating aspects of our history. It also reveals the surprising connections between various works and historical figures. What links Homer's Iliad to Aesop's Fables? Or Wisden Cricketers' Almanack to the creator of Sherlock Holmes? The Secret Library brings these little-known stories to light, exploring the intersections between books of all kinds and the history of the Western world over 3,000 years.

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Free Download The Second Age of Computer Science: From Algol Genes to Neural Nets (Audiobook)
English | December 28, 2018 | ASIN: B07LFKBN4T | M4B@64 kbps | 14h 38m | 403 MB
Author: Subrata Dasgupta | Narrator: Mike Chamberlain
By the end of the 1960s, a new discipline named computer science had come into being. A new scientific paradigm - the "computational paradigm" - was in place, suggesting that computer science had reached a certain level of maturity. Yet as a science, it was still precociously young. New forces, some technological, some socioeconomic, some cognitive, impinged upon it; the outcome of which was that new kinds of computational problems arose over the next two decades. Indeed, by the beginning of the 1990s, the structure of the computational paradigm looked markedly different in many important respects from how it was at the end of the 1960s.
Author Subrata Dasgupta named the two decades from 1970 to 1990 as the second age of computer science to distinguish it from the preceding genesis of the science and the age of the Internet/World Wide Web that followed. This book describes the evolution of computer science in this second age in the form of seven overlapping, intermingling, parallel histories that unfold concurrently in the course of the two decades.

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Free Download T.M. Devine, James Cameron Stewart (Narrator), "The Scottish Nation: A Modern History"
English | ASIN: B0CX36C2VJ | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~33:44:00 | 927 MB
An account of the last three hundred years of Scottish history offers a look at Scottish identity and culture.
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