Free Download Ashoka: Portrait of a Philosopher King (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CYQWLHK7 | 2024 | 12 hours and 6 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 348 MB
Author: Patrick Olivelle
Narrator: Neil Shah
There are few historical figures more integral to South Asian history than Emperor Ashoka, a third-century BCE king who ruled over a larger area of the Indian subcontinent than anyone else before British colonial rule. Ashoka sought not only to rule his territory, but also to give it a unity of purpose and aspiration, to unify the people of his vastly heterogeneous empire not by a cult of personality, but by the cult of an idea-"dharma"-which served as the linchpin of a new moral order. He aspired to forge a new moral philosophy that would be internalized not only by the people of his empire, but also by rulers and subjects of other countries, and would form the foundation for his theory of international relations, in which practicing dharma would bring international conflicts to an end. His fame spread far and wide both in India and in other parts of Asia, and it prompted diverse reimaginations of the king and his significance. In this deeply researched book, Patrick Olivelle draws on Ashoka's inscriptions and on the art and architecture he pioneered to craft a detailed picture of Ashoka as a ruler, a Buddhist, a moral philosopher, and an ecumenist who governed a vast multiethnic, multi-linguistic, and multi-religious empire.

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Free Download David Craig, Robert Iger - foreword, Kim Niemi (Narrator), "Apocalypse Television: How the Day After Helped End the Cold War"
English | ASIN: B0CY7CJRL8 | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~08:54:00 | 252 MB
On November 20, 1983, a three-hour made-for-TV movie, The Day After, premiered on ABC. Set in the heartland of Lawrence, Kansas, the film depicted the events before, during, and after a Soviet nuclear attack with vivid scenes of the post-apocalyptic hellscape that would follow. The film was viewed by over 100 million Americans and remains the highest rated TV movie in history.
The path to primetime for The Day After proved nearly as treacherous as the film's narrative. Battles ensued behind the scenes at the network, between the network and the filmmakers. But these skirmishes pale in comparison to the culture wars triggered by the film in the press, alongside a growing Nuclear Freeze movement, and from a united, pro-nuclear Right. Once efforts to alter the script failed, the White House conducted a full-throttled propaganda campaign to hijack the film's message.
Apocalypse Television features a dramatic insider's account of the making of and backlash against The Day After. No other book has told this story in similar fashion, venturing behind-the-scenes of the programming and news divisions at ABC, the backlash from the conservative movement and Religious Right, the challenges encountered by the film's production team, and the experiences of the citizens of Lawrence, Kansas, where the film was set and shot.

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Free Download Anxiously Attached: Becoming More Secure in Life and Love (Audiobook)
English | June 14, 2022 | ASIN: B09HR9Z3W7 | M4B@128 kbps | 9h 26m | 527 MB
Author and Narrator: Jessica Baum LMHC
A road map for building strong and secure relationships for those who struggle with anxiety in their romantic connections.
An estimated 47 million Americans identify as having an anxious attachment style, which can make being in relationships turbulent and emotionally taxing for them. According to groundbreaking research in the field of attachment, anxious types are more prone to insecurity, jealousy, codependency, and other behaviors that get in the way of finding and sustaining love. In Anxiously Attached, seasoned psychotherapist and couples counselor Jessica Baum guides listeners through understanding their attachment style at its core and building the inner strength and self-love that will lead them to more secure and satisfying relationships.

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Free Download Charles River Editors, Victoria Woodson (Narrator), "Ancient Greece's Most Important Islands: The History of Crete, Rhodes, and Sicily in Antiquity"
English | ISBN: 9798882288265 | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~04:02:00 | 111 MB
Nearly 2,500 years after the Golden Age of Athens, people across the world today continue to be fascinated by the ancient Greeks, but who did the Ancient Greeks look up to? The answer to that question can be found in Homer's The Odyssey, in which Odysseus makes note of "a great town there, Cnossus, where Minos reigned." It was perhaps the earliest reference to the Minoan civilization, a mysterious ancient civilization that historians and archaeologists still puzzle over, but a civilization that renowned historian Will Durant described as "the first link in the European chain." Nearly 2,000 years before Homer wrote his epic poems, the Minoan civilization was centered on the island of Crete, a location that required the Minoans to be a regional sea power. And indeed they were, stretching across the Aegean Sea from about 2700-1500 BCE with trade routes extending all the way to Egypt.
In the Archaic and Classical periods, Rhodes often stood as a prime exemplar of the highs and lows of its fellow Greek cities, and as the largest island of the Dodecanese, Rhodes' history is largely in line with that of the rest of those islands. Rhodes would reach the zenith of its power in the Hellenistic period following the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BCE. Even as the rest of the city-states waned compared to the much larger kingdoms of Alexander's successors in Egypt and Asia, Rhodes would come to the forefront as a main power in the Greek world, standing toe-to-toe with these Hellenistic kingdoms.
It was during the Classical era that, especially under the tyrants (dictators) of the Greek city of Syracuse, Sicily came the closest to being governed as a single, unified, and independent state. In time, it came to challenge the powerful trade empire of Carthage, a former Phoenician colony in North Africa, and it vied with the cities and kingdoms of mainland Greece for primacy in the Greek world.

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Free Download An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CFYPM62V | 2024 | 17 hours and 38 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 509 MB
Author: Doris Kearns Goodwin
Narrator: Doris Kearns Goodwin, Bryan Cranston
The audio edition also includes archival recordings of John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Robert F. Kennedy. An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s by Doris Kearns Goodwin, one of America's most beloved historians, artfully weaves together biography, memoir, and history. She takes you along on the emotional journey she and her husband, Richard (Dick) Goodwin embarked upon in the last years of his life. Dick and Doris Goodwin were married for forty-two years and married to American history even longer. In his twenties, Dick was one of the brilliant young men of John F. Kennedy's New Frontier. In his thirties he both named and helped design Lyndon Johnson's Great Society and was a speechwriter and close advisor to Robert Kennedy. Doris Kearns was a twenty-four-year-old graduate student when selected as a White House Fellow. She worked directly for Lyndon Johnson and later assisted on his memoir. Over the years, with humor, anger, frustration, and in the end, a growing understanding, Dick and Doris had argued over the achievements and failings of the leaders they served and observed, debating the progress and unfinished promises of the country they both loved.

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Free Download An Emancipation of the Mind: Radical Philosophy, the War Over Slavery, and the Refounding of America (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CY3FZ6V4 | 2024 | 10 hours and 42 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 306 MB
Author: Matthew Stewart
Narrator: Mike Chamberlain
How a band of antislavery leaders recovered the radical philosophical inspirations of the first American Revolution to defeat the slaveholders' oligarchy in the Civil War. In their struggle against the slaveholding oligarchy of their time, America's antislavery leaders found their way back to the rationalist, secularist, and essentially atheist inspiration for the first American Revolution. Frederick Douglass's unusual interest in radical German philosophers and Abraham Lincoln's buried allusions to the same thinkers are but a few of the clues that underlie this propulsive philosophical detective story.

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Free Download American Tempest: How the Boston Tea Party Sparked a Revolution (Audiobook)
English | March 08, 2011 | ASIN: B004R0TY6K | M4B@210 kbps | 8h 13m | 749 MB
Author: Harlow Giles Unger | Narrator: William Hughes
On Thursday, December 16, 1773, an estimated seven dozen men, many amateurishly disguised as Indians-then a symbol of freedom-dumped about £10,000 worth of tea in the harbor. Whatever their motives at the time, they unleashed a social, political, and economic firestorm that would culminate in the Declaration of Independence two and a half years later.
The Boston Tea Party provoked a reign of terror in Boston and other American cities, with Americans inflicting unimaginable barbarities on each other. Tea parties erupted in American cities up and down the colonies. The turmoil stripped tens of thousands of Americans of their dignity, their homes, their properties, and their birthrights-in the name of liberty and independence. Nearly 100,000 Americans left the land of their forefathers forever in what was history's largest exodus of Americans from America. Nonetheless, John Adams called the Boston Tea Party nothing short of "magnificent." And he went on to say that the "destruction of tea is so bold, so daring, so firm...it must have important consequences."

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Free Download Dale Maharidge, Lee Goettl (Narrator), "American Doom Loop: Dispatches from a Troubled Nation, 1980s-2020s"
English | ASIN: B0CXR6XJVY | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~09:19:00 | 256 MB
Americans lived in a different reality in 1980: Vermont was the only state that let residents carry a concealed firearm without a permit. Twenty-four states now allow this-and numerous other gun laws have fallen by the wayside. When police were accused of wrongdoing, the default answer from society's arbiters was: "The police wouldn't lie." Editors steered clear of stories about rape and sexual violence. The word "homeless" wasn't in common use. The fabric of the middle class had not yet begun fraying.
America of the 2020s is living with cultural shapeshifting rooted in the 1980s. American Doom Loop chronicles the first part of that moving picture, then brings the story forward.
As a newspaper journalist, Dale Maharidge had a front-row seat to this decade. He was in the Philippines during the last days of Dictator Ferdinand Marcos, witnessing the US lose a critical piece of its empire dating to the Spanish-American War; he embedded with a group that was a precursor to the Oath Keepers; and he investigated police, who kept trying to get him fired.

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Free Download American Civil War Heroes: Forgotten Legends and Untold Stories of Bravery, Sacrifice, and Resilience (Audiobook)
English | ISBN: 9798882209543 | 2024 | 3 hours and 39 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 212 MB
Author: Ahoy Publications
Narrator: Jay Herbert
Step into the Heart of Heroism with "American Civil War Heroes". Journey back in time and stand shoulder to shoulder with the unsung heroes who defined a nation. "American Civil War Heroes" unveils a gripping narrative filled with the extraordinary tales of bravery, sacrifice, and resilience that history often overlooks. This audiobook isn't just a recounting of events; it's a deep dive into the hearts and minds of those who became legends. Whether you're a history enthusiast or a seeker of unsung stories, "American Civil War Heroes" offers a captivating journey through an era of courage and turmoil. Don't miss out on this epic exploration of the Civil War and its heroes who defied all odds!

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Free Download All You Need Is Love: The Beatles in Their Own Words: Unpublished, Unvarnished, and Told by The Beatles and Their Inner Circle (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C824T5YY | 2024 | 9 hours and 43 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 278 MB
Author: Peter Brown, Steven Gaines
Narrator: Adam Stevens, Anthony Howell, Ben Jacobson, Emma Gregory, Ken Bradshaw, Philip Stewart, Robert G. Slade, ShinFei Chen, Stefan Szwarc
An oral history of The Beatles from never-before-seen interviews. All You Need Is Love is a groundbreaking oral history of the one of the most enduring musical acts of all time. The material is comprised of intimate interviews with Paul McCartney, Yoko Ono, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, their families, friends and business associates that were conducted by Beatles intimate Peter Brown and author Steven Gaines in 1980-1981 during the preparation of their international bestseller, The Love You Make, which spent four months on the New York Times bestseller list in 1983 and remains the biggest selling biography worldwide about the Beatles.

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