Free Download American Flannel: How a Band of Entrepreneurs Are Bringing the Art and Business of Making Clothes Back Home (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CB982X2J | 2024 | 6 hours and 24 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 358 MB
Author: Steven Kurutz
Narrator: Shawn K. Jain
The little-engine-that-could story of how a band of scrappy entrepreneurs are reviving the enterprise of manufacturing clothing in the United States. For decades, clothing manufacture was a pillar of U.S. industry. But beginning in the 1980s, Americans went from wearing 70 percent domestic-made apparel to almost none. Even the very symbol of American freedom and style-blue jeans-got outsourced. With offshoring, the nation lost not only millions of jobs but also crucial expertise and artistry. Dismayed by shoddy imported "fast fashion"-and unable to stop dreaming of re-creating a favorite shirt from his youth-Bayard Winthrop set out to build a new company, American Giant, that would swim against this trend. New York Times reporter Steven Kurutz, in turn, began to follow Winthrop's journey. He discovered other trailblazers as well, from the "Sock Queen of Alabama" to a pair of father-son shoemakers and a men's style blogger who almost single-handedly drove a campaign to make "Made in the USA" cool. Eye-opening and inspiring, American Flannel is the story of how a band of visionaries and makers are building a new supply chain on the skeleton of the old and wedding old-fashioned craftsmanship to cutting-edge technology and design to revive an essential American dream.

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Free Download Charles River Editors, Steve Knupp (Narrator), "America's First Korean War: The History and Legacy of the United States Expedition to Korea in 1871"
English | ASIN: B0CVSC9DBJ | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~01:20:00 | 38 MB
Though it's widely overlooked today, the U.S. has had a military presence in Asia for more than 200 years. The East Indies Squadron was formally established by President Andrew Jackson in 1835 to protect American property and trade in Asia, but U.S. warships were protecting American interests in Asia before then. In fact, American merchant vessels reached China as early as the 1780s.
Ships engaged in trade in Asia were at risk from pirates, and shipwrecked sailors were at the mercy of locals. Additionally, American whaling ships came to dominate the whaling trade in the Pacific and were also vulnerable to piracy and to incidents when they docked at Pacific ports to refresh supplies. American warships investigated incidents of piracy, including occasional punitive expeditions to punish pirates or their maltreatment of shipwrecked sailors.
Given the distances involved, the captains of warships had a great deal of discretion to commit their ships to action as they saw fit. Before they left port, they were usually given deliberately broad instructions by the Secretary of the Navy or by the President. U.S. ships got to Asia by way of Cape Horn at the tip of South America, or by the Cape of Good Hope around southern Africa, as there was no Suez Canal to shorten the very long voyage until 1869, and there was no easy communication between Washington and California until the transcontinental telegraph in 1861. California became a state in 1850, and the Navy was quick to establish a naval base there, setting up the Mare Island Navy Yard base near San Francisco in 1854. The first warship constructed there was in 1859.

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Free Download Airplane Mode: An Irreverent History of Travel (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CX3T53FC | 2024 | 8 hours and 46 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 239 MB
Author: Shahnaz Habib
Narrator: Deepa Samuel
The conditions of travel have long been dictated by the color of passports and the color of skin. The color of one's skin and passport have long dictated the conditions of travel. For Shahnaz Habib, travel and travel writing have always been complicated pleasures. Habib threads the history of travel with her personal story as a child on family vacations in India, an adult curious about the world, and an immigrant for whom roundtrips are an annual fact of life. Tracing the power dynamics that underlie tourism, this insightful debut parses who gets to travel, and who gets to write about the experience. Threaded through the book are inviting and playful analyses of obvious and not-so-obvious travel artifacts: passports, carousels, bougainvilleas, guidebooks, trains, the idea of wanderlust itself. Together, they tell a subversive history of travel as a Euro-American mode of consumerism-but as any traveler knows, travel is more than that. As an immigrant whose loved ones live across continents, Habib takes a deeply curious and joyful look at a troubled and beloved activity.

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Free Download Aaron Edwards, Nicholas Boulton (Narrator), "Agents of Influence: Britain's Secret Intelligence War Against the IRA"
English | ASIN: B0CX9H2VT2 | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~10:36:00 | 300 MB
Recruited by British Intelligence to infiltrate the IRA and Sinn Féin during the height of the Northern Ireland Troubles, they were 'agents of influence'. With codenames like INFLICTION, STAKEKNIFE, 3007 and CAROL, these spies played a pivotal role in the fight against Irish republicanism. Now, for the first time, some of these agents have emerged from the shadows to tell their compelling stories. Agents of Influence takes you behind the scenes of the secret intelligence war which helped bring the IRA's armed struggle to an end.
Historian Aaron Edwards, the critically acclaimed author of UVF: Behind the Mask, explains how the IRA was penetrated by British agents, with explosive new revelations about the hidden agendas of prominent republicans like Martin McGuinness and Freddie Scappaticci and lesser-known ones like Joe Haughey and John Joe Magee. Bringing to light recently declassified TOP SECRET documents and the firsthand testimonies of agents and their handlers, Edwards reveals how British Intelligence gained extraordinary access to the IRA's inner circle and manipulated them into engaging with the peace process.
With new insights into the spy masters behind the scenes, their strategies and tactics, and Britain's international intelligence network in Northern Ireland, Europe, and beyond, Agents of Influence offers a rare and shocking glimpse into the clandestine world of secret agents, British intelligence strategy and the betrayal at the heart of militant Irish republicanism during the vicious decades of the Troubles.

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Free Download Arash Javanbakht MD, Arash Javanbakht (Narrator), "Afraid: Understanding the Purpose of Fear and Harnessing the Power of Anxiety"
English | ASIN: B0CWLS79RT | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~07:47:00 | 211 MB
About a third of the world population suffers from an anxiety disorder, and half of Americans have had at least one traumatic experience like rape, assault, shooting, or natural disasters. Fear and anxiety are with us everywhere we go.
Fear is deeply woven into our biology, culture, politics, and day to day life. We sometimes don't even know what we are afraid of. What we know for sure is that we are afraid too often.
But why are we so scared? How does fear work in our brains? What is the evolutionary purpose of fear? Why do we enjoy watching horror movies? How do we learn to be afraid, and how can we unlearn? Can we use fear to our advantage?

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Free Download Acupressure with Essential Oils: A Self-Care Guide to Enhance Your Health and Lift Your Spirit-Includes 24 Common Conditions (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CJ3JJ4CM | 2024 | 5 hours and 59 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 332 MB
Author: Merina Ty-Kisera
Narrator: Merina Ty-Kisera
Discover the healing powers of pairing essential oils with ancient acupressure techniques in this holistic self-care guide for treating 24 common ailments such as cold/flu, migraines, and muscular aches and pains. Fast, easy, and fun, Acupressure with Essential Oils empowers you to take control of your health to dissolve tension patterns, relieve symptoms and pain, and rediscover an integrated sense of self. Author Merina Ty-Kisera introduces her unique Aroma Acupressure method for self-care-applying the healing properties of essential oils to points on the body that cue energetic changes to bring the body and mind back to balance.

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Free Download AI Needs You: How We Can Change AI's Future and Save Our Own (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CW27C8TG | 2024 | 8 hours and 30 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 234 MB
Author: Verity Harding
Narrator: Daisy Donovan
An electrifying vision of how we can safeguard AI's future for the public good. Artificial intelligence may be the most transformative technology of our time. As AI's power grows, so does the need to figure out what-and who-this technology is really for. AI Needs You argues that it is critical for society to take the lead in answering this urgent question and ensuring that AI fulfills its promise. Verity Harding draws inspiring lessons from the histories of three twentieth-century tech revolutions-the space race, in vitro fertilization, and the internet-to empower each of us to join the conversation about AI and its possible futures.

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Free Download A World Divided: The Global Struggle for Human Rights in the Age of Nation-States (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B07VXRPHMQ | 2019 | 17 hours and 36 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 504 MB
Author: Eric D. Weitz
Narrator: Robert Slade
A global history of human rights in a world of nation-states that grant rights to some while denying them to others. Once dominated by vast empires, the world is now divided into close to 200 independent countries with laws and constitutions proclaiming human rights - a transformation that suggests that nations and human rights inevitably developed together. But the reality is far more problematic, as Eric Weitz shows in this compelling global history of the fate of human rights in a world of nation-states. Through vivid histories drawn from virtually every continent, A World Divided describes how, since the 18th century, nationalists have struggled to establish their own states that grant human rights to some people. At the same time, they have excluded others through forced assimilation, ethnic cleansing, or even genocide. From Greek rebels, American settlers, and Brazilian abolitionists in the 19th century to anticolonial Africans and Zionists in the 20th, nationalists have confronted a crucial question: Who has the "right to have rights?" A World Divided tells these stories in colorful accounts focusing on people who were at the center of events. And it shows that rights are dynamic.

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Free Download A Very Private School: A Memoir (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CCSV1NQP | 2024 | 7 hours and 57 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 233 MB
Author: Charles Spencer
Narrator: Charles Spencer
In this poignant memoir, Charles Spencer recounts the trauma of being sent away from home at age eight to attend boarding school. A Very Private School offers a clear-eyed, first-hand account of a culture of cruelty at the school Charles Spencer attended in his youth and provides important insights into an antiquated boarding system. Drawing on the memories of many of his schoolboy contemporaries, as well as his own letters and diaries from the time, he reflects on the hopelessness and abandonment he felt at aged eight, viscerally describing the intense pain of homesickness and the appalling inescapability of it all. Exploring the long-lasting impact of his experiences, Spencer presents a candid reckoning with his past and a reclamation of his childhood.

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Free Download A Synthesizing Mind: A Memoir from the Creator of Multiple Intelligences Theory (Audiobook)
English | October 09, 2020 | ASIN: B08KWLH8BV | M4B@128 kbps | 7h 28m | 409 MB
Author: Howard Gardner | Narrator: Graham Winton
An authority on the human mind reflects on his intellectual development, his groundbreaking work, and different types of intelligences - including his own.
Howard Gardner's Frames of Mind was that rare publishing phenomenona mind-changer. Widely consumed by the general public as well as by educators, this influential book laid out Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences. It debunked the primacy of the IQ test and inspired new approaches to education; entire curricula, schools, museums, and parents' guides were dedicated to the nurturing of the several intelligences. In his new book, A Synthesizing Mind, Gardner reflects on his intellectual development and his groundbreaking work, tracing his evolution from bookish child to eager college student to disengaged graduate student to Harvard professor.

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