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The Politics of Mass Violence in the Middle East Zones of Violence [Audiobook]

Free Download Laura Robson, Lisa S. Ware (Narrator), "The Politics of Mass Violence in the Middle East: Zones of Violence"
English | ASIN: B0CWMBPQWG | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~10:16:00 | 292 MB
The Middle East today is characterized by an astonishingly bloody civil war in Syria, a highly racialized and militarized approach to the concept of a Jewish state in Israel and the Palestinian territories, an Iraqi state paralyzed by the emergence of class- and region-inflected sectarian identifications, a Lebanon teetering on the edge of collapse from the pressures of its huge numbers of refugees and its sect-bound political system, and the rise of a wide variety of Islamist paramilitary organizations seeking to operate outside all these states.
The region's emergence as a "zone of violence," characterized by a viciously dystopian politics of identity, is a relatively recent phenomenon, developing only over the past century; but despite these shallow historical roots, the mass violence and dispossession now characterizing Syria, Lebanon, Israel/Palestine, and Iraq have emerged as some of the twenty-first century's most intractable problems. In this study, Laura Robson uses a framework of mass violence-encompassing the concepts of genocide, ethnic cleansing, forced migration, appropriation of resources, mass deportation, and forcible denationalization-to explain the emergence of a dystopian politics of identity across the Eastern Mediterranean in the modern era and to illuminate the contemporary breakdown of the state from Syria to Iraq to Israel.
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The Politics of Maps Cartographic Constructions of IsraelPalestine [Audiobook]

Free Download Christine Leuenberger, Izhak Schnell, Rachel Perry (Narrator), "The Politics of Maps: Cartographic Constructions of Israel/Palestine"
English | ASIN: B0CWMLBFJC | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~08:11:00 | 225 MB
Blending science and technology studies, sociology, and geography with a host of archival material, in-depth interviews, and ethnographies, The Politics of Maps explores how the geographical sciences came to be entangled with the politics, territorial claim-making, and nation-state building of Israel/Palestine. Chapters chart the cartographic history of the region, from the introduction of Western scientific and legal paradigms that seemingly legitimized and depoliticized new land regimes to the rise of new mapping technologies and software that expanded access to cartography into the public sphere. Maps produced by various sectors like the "peace camps" or the Jewish community enhanced national belonging, while others, like that of the Green Line, served largely to divide.
The stories of Israel's many boundaries reveal that there is no absolute, technocratic solution to boundary-making. As boundaries continue to be controversial and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict remains intractable and unresolved, The Politics of Maps uses nationally-based cartographic discourses to provide insight into the complexity, fissures, and frictions within internal political debates, illuminating the persistent power of the nation-state as a framework for forging identities, citizens, and alliances.
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Free Download The Politics of Fear: The Peculiar Persistence of American Paranoia (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CB9CG2GK | 2024 | 7 hours and 36 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 221 MB
Author: Arthur Goldwag
Narrator: Ray Montecalvo
A probing exploration of the bizarre and dangerous conspiracies that have roiled America over the past decade and captured the minds of so many Americans. Some of the conspiracy theories now gripping American politics contend that Joe Biden was executed and replaced by a clone and that John F. Kennedy Jr., faked his death and will one day return to slay Trump's enemies. But who is susceptible to them, and what makes them so politically potent? Investigating the historical roots of our peculiar brand of political paranoia, Arthur Goldwag helps us make sense of the senseless and, in so doing, uncovers three uncomfortable truths: that it is older than Trumpism and will outlast it; that theocratic authoritarianism is as hardwired in our American heritage as the principles of the Enlightenment; and that the fear that our system is "rigged" is not altogether unfounded. A probing, surprising, and critical examination of America's paranoid style, The Politics of Fear sheds new light on the age-old question: What exactly are we so afraid of?

Free Download The Other Side of History: Daily Life in the Ancient World [TTC Audio]
English | July 08, 2013 | ASIN: B00DTO5FW2 | M4B@64 kbps | 24h 29m | 685 MB
Lecturer: Robert Garland
Look beyond the abstract dates and figures, kings and queens, and battles and wars that make up so many historical accounts. Over the course of 48 richly detailed lectures, Professor Garland covers the breadth and depth of human history from the perspective of the so-called ordinary people, from its earliest beginnings through the Middle Ages.
The past truly comes alive as you take a series of imaginative leaps into the world of history's anonymous citizens, people such as a Greek soldier marching into battle in the front row of a phalanx; an Egyptian woman putting on makeup before attending an evening party with her husband; a Greek citizen relaxing at a drinking party with the likes of Socrates; a Roman slave captured in war and sent to work in the mines; and a Celtic monk scurrying away with the Book of Kells during a Viking invasion.

Free Download The Other Fab Four: The Remarkable True Story of the Liverbirds, Britain's First Female Rock Band (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CBN9WLQR | 2024 | 10 hours and 46 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 308 MB
Author: Mary McGlory, Sylvia Saunders
Narrator: Mary McGlory, Sylvia Saunders
A fiercely feminist, heartwarming story of friendship and music about The Liverbirds, Britain's first all-female rock group. The idea for Britain's first female rock band, The Liverbirds, started one evening in 1962, when Mary McGlory, then age 16, saw The Beatles play live at The Cavern Club in Liverpool, the nightclub famously known as the "cradle of British pop music." Then and there, she decided she was going to be just like them-and be the first girl to do it. Joining ranks in 1963 with three other working-class girls from Liverpool-drummer Sylvia Saunders and guitarists Valerie Gell and Pamela Birch, also self-taught musicians determined to "break the male monopoly of the beat world"-The Liverbirds went on to tour alongside the Rolling Stones, the Kinks, and Chuck Berry, and were on track to hit international stardom-until life intervened, and the group was forced to disband just five years after forming in 1968. Now, Mary and Sylvia, the band's two surviving members, are ready to tell their stories. From that fateful night in 1962, when Mary, who once aspired to become a nun, decided to provide for her family by becoming a rich-and-famous rocker, to the circumstances that led to the band splitting up-Sylvia's dangerously complicated pregnancy, and the tragic accident that paralyzed Valerie's beau-The Liverbirds tackles family, friendship, addiction, aging, and the forces-even destiny-that initially brought the four women together.

Free Download The Only Constant: A Guide to Embracing Change and Leading an Authentic Life (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CBQR34ZG | 2024 | 7 hours and 42 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 223 MB
Author: Najwa Zebian
Narrator: Najwa Zebian
You can become the change driver of your own life. The celebrated poet, educator, and author shows you how in this practical, wise, and tender guide to all of life's changes. In The Only Constant, Najwa Zebian guides you through the changes we must make and those we must endure in life, offering support, stabilizing practices, and step-by-step guidance to make it through the uncertainty. A highly practical guide to unfamiliar terrain, The Only Constant teaches that the purpose of change is to be true to yourself. Zebian simplifies change, teaches us to accept ourselves as we are now, and helps us focus on the necessity and unexpected beauty of those messy transitional times. And she guides you through it so that you can not only reach the better life that awaits you on the other side, but also so that you can take the wheel and become the driver of change in your own life.

Free Download The Observable Universe: An Investigation (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CB9BWWKQ | 2024 | 9 hours and 48 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 282 MB
Author: Heather McCalden
Narrator: Heather McCalden
Is anyone ever truly lost in the internet age? A moving, original memoir of a young woman reckoning with her parents' absence, the virus that took them, and what it means to search for meaning in a hyperconnected world. In the early 1990s, Heather McCalden lost both her parents to AIDS. She was seven when her father died, ten when she lost her mother. Raised by her grandmother, Nivia, she grew up in Los Angeles, also known as ground zero for the virus and its destruction. Years later, she begins researching online the history of HIV as a way to deal with her loss, which leads her to the unexpected realization that the AIDS crisis and the internet developed on parallel timelines.

The Object at Hand Intriguing and Inspiring Stories from the Smithsonian Collections [Audiobook]

Free Download Beth Py-Lieberman, Leanne Woodward (Narrator), "The Object at Hand: Intriguing and Inspiring Stories from the Smithsonian Collections"
English | ASIN: B0CX3FJRDN | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~10:27:00 | 296 MB
With charm and exuberance, The Object at Hand presents a behind-the-scenes vantage point of the Smithsonian collections. Veteran Smithsonian magazine editor Beth Py-Lieberman weaves together adaptations of the magazine's extensive and compelling coverage and interviews with scholars, curators, and historians to take listeners on an unforgettable journey through the Smithsonian museums.
Objects are grouped into the themes audacity, utopia, fierce, haunting, deception, lost, desire, triumph, scale, optimism, playful, rhythm, and revealing to engage with the emotional dimensions of each object, how they relate to each other, and how they fit into the larger American story.
Py-Lieberman reflects on the profound connections between even outwardly dissimilar objects and offers insight and stories from Smithsonian experts. The book explores artworks, scientific specimens, historical artifacts, airplanes, spacecraft, plants, and so much more, contemplating how each item represents different facets of humanity and resonates with cultural meaning in surprising ways. Whimsical, affecting, and insightful, The Object at Hand offers an intimate and exclusive tour of the Smithsonian collections.

The Notorious Edward Low Pursuing the Last Great Villain of Piracy's Golden Age [Audiobook]

Free Download Len Travers, Paul Woodson (Narrator), "The Notorious Edward Low: Pursuing the Last Great Villain of Piracy's Golden Age"
English | ASIN: B0CWMJ385G | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~08:33:00 | 235 MB
Following the War of the Spanish Succession (1702-1713) a decade-long wave of sea-robbery plagued the Atlantic rim-often glamorized as the "Golden Age of Piracy". Boston-based laborer, Edward Low, left his mark on pirate history as the most vicious and sadistic raider of them all. Low's reputation, and those of other pirates, was crafted through newspapers and literature. Romanticized as anti-heroes and egalitarians in a monarchical world who had liberated themselves from the constraints of law and society ashore, these marauders came to enjoy an immortality bestowed upon them by generations of historians, novelists, and movie makers. That persistent gloss masks a more sordid reality.
Travers demonstrates that, feared as they certainly were, pirates were largely ordinary seamen trapped in desperate circumstances who, in the end, had little to show for their efforts. Contrary to popular portrayals, for pirates it was a time of radically diminishing returns, scant treasure, and increasingly successful suppression by state authorities. The Notorious Edward Low puts individual actors, from colonial governors to captains to common seamen, at center stage, and reveals how British authorities used new anti-piracy laws to reclaim authority over their fractious North American colonies-a compelling story with its own brand of true-life swashbuckling on the high seas.
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The Politics of Mass Violence in the Middle East Zones of Violence [Audiobook]

The Politics of Maps Cartographic Constructions of IsraelPalestine [Audiobook]

The Politics of Fear The Peculiar Persistence of American Paranoia [Audiobook]

The Other Side of History Daily Life in the Ancient World [TTC Audio]

The Other Fab Four The Remarkable True Story of the Liverbirds, Britain's First Female Rock Band [Audiobook]

The Only Constant A Guide to Embracing Change and Leading an Authentic Life [Audiobook]

The Observable Universe An Investigation [Audiobook]

The Object at Hand Intriguing and Inspiring Stories from the Smithsonian Collections [Audiobook]

The Notorious Edward Low Pursuing the Last Great Villain of Piracy's Golden Age [Audiobook]

The Noonday Demon An Atlas of Depression [Audiobook]