Free Download Bruce Ackerman, Jonathan Todd Ross (Narrator), "The Postmodern Predicament: Existential Challenges of the Twenty-First Century"
English | ASIN: B0CYVJFBWM | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~09:19:00 | 264 MB
Human beings have taken one thing for granted since our earliest days: we are bodily creatures dealing with one another on a face-to-face basis. The internet has shattered this fundamental feature of human existence. We are suddenly living our lives in two worlds at once-shifting endlessly from virtual to physical reality as we reach out to others.
Worse yet, we are developing different personal identities in our two worlds. We say and do things in virtual reality that flatly contradict our face-to-face commitments to family, friends, and fellow-workers-and vice versa. The Postmodern Predicament explores these dilemmas at each phase of the life cycle, beginning at the moment a young child picks up a cell phone.
The existentialist tradition of the twentieth century provides a precious perspective on our postmodern dilemmas. Thinkers and doers like Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre considered the fragmentation of modern life as a central source of contemporary anxieties. Like them, Ackerman views the challenges of the internet age as a political, no less than personal, problem-and proposes concrete reforms that that could mobilize broad-based support for democracy against demagogic assaults on its very foundations.

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Free Download The Polymath: A Cultural History from Leonardo da Vinci to Susan Sontag (Audiobook)
English | September 08, 2020 | ASIN: B08GSSRN2F | M4B@128 kbps | 11h 48m | 655 MB
Author: Peter Burke | Narrator: Nigel Patterson
The first history of the western polymath, from the 15th century to the present day
From Leonardo Da Vinci to John Dee and Comenius, from George Eliot to Oliver Sacks and Susan Sontag, polymaths have moved the frontiers of knowledge in countless ways. But history can be unkind to scholars with such encyclopaedic interests. All too often these individuals are remembered for just one part of their valuable achievements.

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Free Download The Physics Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained (Audiobook)
English | Datum: April 15, 2020 | ASIN: B0874YXR3W | M4B@125 kbps | 15h 45m | 837.82 MB
Author: DK
Narrator: Richard Trinder
Using a bold approach, The Physics Book sets out more than 80 key concepts and discoveries that have defined the subject and influenced our technology since the beginning of time. With the focus firmly on unpicking the thought behind each theory-as well as exploring when and how each idea and breakthrough came about-seven themed chapters examine the history and developments in areas such as energy and matter, and electricity and magnetism, as well as quantum, nuclear, and particle physics.

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Free Download The Maps We Carry: Psychedelics, Trauma and Our New Path to Mental Health (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CRRYWBTR | 2024 | 8 hours and 25 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 239 MB
Author: Rose Cartwright
Narrator: Rose Cartwright
In this revolutionary book, Rose Cartwright reveals how the failure of the mental health system to cure her OCD led her to radical action. While she explored her trauma through a series of mind-bending psychedelic trips, Rose started to interrogate our dominant medical paradigm. What if people's intense distress is not a symptom of illness, but a desperate expression of our need for love and connection? Rose set out on a quest to draw a new map of mental health, interviewing experts in psychiatry and neuroscience along the way: what she discovered will have implications for generations to come.

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Free Download The Luzon Campaign 1945: MacArthur Returns (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CYQWKG7Y | 2024 | 15 hours and 4 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 418 MB
Author: Nathan N. Prefer
Narrator: David Stifel
The Luzon campaign of 1945 was the longest island campaign of the Pacific War, lasting from January 1945 to September 1945, and only ended with the surrender of Imperial Japan. It is often overlooked or mentioned in passing by most histories of that war, yet hundreds of thousands of Americans and Japanese fought in some of the worst conditions imaginable for eight months to clear Luzon of the invaders. This full account of the Luzon campaign stretches from planning stages to the end of the war and the surrender of over 50,000 Japanese troops under the noted Japanese general Yamashita.

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Free Download The Long Shadow of the Ancient Greek World [TTC Audio]
English | July 08, 2013 | ASIN: B00DTO4CJ4 | M4B@128 kbps | 24h 52m | 1.36 GB
Lecturer: Ian Worthington
Immerse yourself in this comprehensive survey of ancient Greece from 750 to 323 B.C. - from the emergence of Greece at the end of the Dark Ages to the final disintegration of Greek autonomy through the Macedonian kings Philip II and Alexander the Great.
These 48 riveting lectures tell the story of ancient Greek institutions and the people who molded them during the Archaic and Classical periods.

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Free Download David Attenborough (Author, Narrator), "The Life of Birds, Updated Edition"
English | ASIN: B0CDQH5K31 | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~09:59:00 | 274 MB
A fully updated new edition of David Attenborough's bestselling classic.
BIRDS. Over 9,000 species, the most widespread of all animals: on icebergs, in the Sahara or under the sea, at home in our gardens or flying for over a year at a time. Earthbound, we can only look and listen, enjoying their lightness, freedom and richness of plumage and song.
David Attenborough has been watching and learning all his life. His classic book, now fully updated with the latest discoveries in ornithology, is a brilliant introduction to bird behaviours around the world: what they do and why they do it. He looks at each step in birds' lives and the problems they have to solve: learning to fly; finding food; communicating; mating and caring for nests, eggs and young; migrating; facing dangers and surviving harsh conditions.

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Free Download The Lies of the Land: Seeing Rural America for What It Is―and Isn't (Audiobook)
English | February 27, 2024 | ASIN: B0CVJCKR4B | M4B@128 kbps | 10h 1m | 557 MB
Author: Steven Conn | Narrator: Tom Perkins
A "piercing, unsentimental" (New Yorker) history that boldly challenges the idea of a rural American crisis.
It seems everyone has an opinion about rural America. Is it gripped in a tragic decline? Or is it on the cusp of a glorious revival? Is it the key to understanding America today? Steven Conn argues that we're missing the real question: Is rural America even a thing? No, says Conn, who believes we see only what we want to see in the lands beyond the suburbs-fantasies about moral (or backward) communities, simpler (or repressive) living, and what it means to be authentically (or wrongheadedly) American. If we want to build a better future, Conn argues, we must accept that these visions don't exist and never did.

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Free Download Roger D. Silk, Katherine A. Silk, Charles Constant (Narrator), "The Investor's Dilemma Decoded: Recognize Misinformation, Filter the Noise, and Reach Your Goals"
English | ASIN: B0CYCN3L73 | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~07:17:00 | 200 MB
Few aspects of life are as important as personal finance, as subject to your control, and as suffused with misinformation, noise, and confusion.
Now, authors Dr. Roger D. Silk and Katherine A. Silk cut through that confusion and share with you the fruits of their knowledge and experience developed over the last forty-three years.
Unlike many authors in the Personal Finance space, the Silks have the deep technical expertise, decades of experience, and the rare ability to express complex ideas in clear, easy-to-understand prose.

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Free Download The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CZMBVQMW | 2024 | 14 hours and 46 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 426 MB
Author: Stefanos Geroulanos
Narrator: Elizabeth Wiley
Books about the origins of humanity dominate bestseller lists, while national newspapers present breathless accounts of new archaeological findings and speculate about what those findings tell us about our earliest ancestors. We are obsessed with prehistory-and, in this respect, our current era is no different from any other in the last three hundred years. In this coruscating work, acclaimed historian Stefanos Geroulanos demonstrates how claims about the earliest humans not only shaped Western intellectual culture, but gave rise to our modern world.

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