Free Download The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CDD593GY | 2024 | 15 hours and 41 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 453 MB
Author: Hampton Sides
Narrator: Peter Noble
From New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides, an epic account of the most momentous voyage of the Age of Exploration, which culminated in Captain James Cook's death in Hawaii, and left a complex and controversial legacy still debated to this day. On July 12th, 1776, Captain James Cook, already lionized as the greatest explorer in British history, set off on his third voyage in his ship the HMS Resolution. Two-and-a-half years later, on a beach on the island of Hawaii, Cook was killed in a conflict with native Hawaiians. How did Cook, who was unique among captains for his respect for Indigenous peoples and cultures, come to that fatal moment? At once a ferociously-paced story of adventure on the high seas and a searching examination of the complexities and consequences of the Age of Exploration, THE WIDE WIDE SEA is a major work from one of our finest narrative nonfiction writers.

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Free Download The Weight of Nature: How a Changing Climate Changes Our Brains (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CDQMQWJV | 2024 | 9 hours and 1 minute | M4B@64 kbps | 262 MB
Author: Clayton Page Aldern
Narrator: Clayton Page Aldern
A deeply reported, eye-opening book about climate change, our brains, and the weight of nature on us all. The march of climate change is stunning and vicious, with rising seas, extreme weather, and oppressive heat blanketing the globe. But its effects on our very brains constitute a public-health crisis that has gone largely unreported. Based on seven years of research, this book by the award-winning journalist and trained neuroscientist Clayton Page Aldern, synthesizes the emerging neuroscience, psychology, and behavioral economics of global warming and brain health. A masterpiece of literary journalism, this book shows listeners how a changing environment is changing us today, from the inside out.

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Free Download The Wealth Money Can't Buy: The 8 Hidden Habits to Live Your Richest Life (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CNKVJN83 | 2024 | 8 hours and 27 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 232 MB
Author: Robin Sharma
Narrator: Adam Sims
A groundbreaking book redefining success to show listeners how they can create truly abundant and fulfilling lives by following Sharma's model of the eight forms of wealth-growth, wellness, family, craft, money, community, adventure, and service-from the #1 international bestselling author, speaker, YouTuber, and leadership expert. In a world fixated on the conventional notion of success-marked by relentless hustle, sacrificing wellbeing, and missing out on cherished moments with loved ones in the pursuit of fame and material possessions-Robin Sharma introduces a paradigm shift.

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Free Download The Value of Values: How Leaders Can Grow Their Businesses and Enhance Their Careers by Doing the Right Thing (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CTJ1GPVL | 2024 | 8 hours and 19 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 462 MB
Author: Daniel Aronson
Narrator: Alan Carlson
How business leaders can grow profits and competitive advantage by doing the right thing. Acting on values-doing good for the benefit of all-can substantially benefit the bottom line, but many business leaders mistakenly believe that doing the right thing lowers profits. This belief is the greatest barrier holding businesses back from being more financially and competitively successful-and delivering more good for the world. Not only can it be a winning business strategy to act on values, as Daniel Aronson suggests in The Value of Values, but it is also a savvy choice, increasing a company's power, profit, and competitive advantage-in many cases with little additional investment or risk. It starts with seeing what others miss.

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Free Download The Vacancy in Room 10 (Audiobook)
English | April 09, 2024 | ASIN: B0C6FR3YGB | M4B@64 kbps | 9h 43m | 272 MB
Author: Seraphina Nova Glass | Narrators: Brittany Pressley, Stacey Glemboski
The Paris Apartment meets The Wrong Family in this thrilling tale of crime, passion and murder set in a run-down apartment complex packed with shady characters willing to go to deadly lengths to keep their darkest secrets from the stranger in their midst.
When Anna Hartley's husband, Henry, calls her with a terrible, guilty confession, she can't believe what she hears. It has to be a bad joke-the mild, predictable artist she married would never hurt a fly, let alone commit murder. But her confusion turns to horror when police find his body washed up on the banks of the Rio Grande.

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Free Download The Unknown Face: A Memoir of Marriage, Mental Illness, and the Search for Why (Audiobook)
English | March 28, 2024 | ASIN: B0CZ9SYHPV | M4B@128 kbps | 7h 8m | 389 MB
Author and Narrator: Gregory Duncan
A marriage with an imperfect love story goes tragically wrong one summer in a small college town in Virginia, and the husband is left picking up the pieces of pain and regret. How did it end in suicide instead of divorce?
What he discovers six months later is both heartbreaking and astonishing. In a time when extreme events and behavior are more prevalent, this in-depth psychological account of a seemingly normal relationship describes how things kept hidden underneath provide one's greatest downfall, and shows what one can learn from loss after the walls come tumbling down.

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Free Download The Truce: Progressives, Centrists, and the Future of the Democratic Party (Audiobook)
English | March 05, 2024 | ASIN: B0CSPPRNWC | M4B@128 kbps | 9h 53m | 551 MB
Authors: Hunter Walker, Luppe B. Luppen | Narrator: Mike Chamberlain
The Truce is a definitive history of a half-decade of upheaval in the Democratic Party in which a new generation aggressively pursued their progressive ideals while the powerful, centrist establishment adapted to remain in command. Journalists Hunter Walker and Luppe B. Luppen illuminate this story of backroom maneuvering and political strategy with new revelations about pivotal events and exclusive, on-the-record comments from activists, campaign operatives, and members of Congress.
The Truce explores the major fault lines that define Democratic politics today and asks big questions about the future of the party. Will economic or social justice hold primacy at the top of the Democratic agenda? Who will lead the major wings of the party after two defining figures, Biden and Sanders, exit the stage? The Truce surveys the major shifts underway, from the rise of the Squad and new Democratic leadership in the House to a complete overhaul of the primary process. By digging into the divide between left and center, Walker and Luppen expose the creeping generational and political tensions that Biden has-for the moment-kept at bay.

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Free Download The Stoic Mindset: Living the Ten Principles of Stoicism (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C3P9N95F | 2024 | 2 hours and 41 minutes | M4B@192 kbps | 221 MB
Author: Mark Tuitert
Narrator: Mark Tuitert
A ten-step guide to reaching your peak potential through the wisdom of Stoic philosophy by entrepreneur and Olympic champion speed skater Mark Tuitert. For twenty years, Mark Tuitert has used the principles of Stoic philosophy to become a gold-medal winning Olympic champion athlete, successful entrepreneur, as well as to deal with the challenges in his professional and private life. Now, in the internationally bestselling book The Stoic Mindset, Mark lays out the ten practical lessons through which everyone, in any situation, can develop a Stoic mindset.

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Free Download The Smart Neanderthal: Bird Catching, Cave Art & The Cognitive Revolution (Audiobook)
English | MP3@192 kbps | 06h 22m | 2019 | 442.79 MB
Author: Clive Finlayson
Narrator: James Cameron Stewart
Since the late 1980s the dominant theory of human origins has been that a "cognitive revolution" (c. 50,000 years ago) led to the advent of our species, Homo sapiens. As a result of this revolution our species spread and eventually replaced all existing archaic Homo species, ultimately leading to the superiority of modern humans. Or so we thought.

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Free Download Charles River Editors, Michelle Humphries (Narrator), "The Slave Trade in Africa: The History and Legacy of the Transatlantic Slave Trade and East African Slave Trade across the Indian Ocean"
English | ISBN: 9798882287312 | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~02:27:00 | 68 MB
It was the sail that linked the continents of Africa and America, and thus it was also the sail that facilitated the greatest involuntary human migration of all time. The African slave trade is a complex and deeply divisive subject that has had a tendency to evolve according the political requirements of any given age, and is often touchable only with the correct distribution of culpability. It has for many years, therefore, been deemed singularly unpalatable to implicate Africans themselves in the perpetration of the institution, and only in recent years has the large-scale African involvement in both the Atlantic and Indian Ocean Slave Trades come to be an accepted fact. There can, however, be no doubt that even though large numbers of indigenous Africans were liable, it was European ingenuity and greed that fundamentally drove the industrialization of the Transatlantic slave trade in response to massive new market demands created by their equally ruthless exploitation of the Americas.
In time, the Atlantic slave trade provided for the labor requirements of the emerging plantation economies of the New World. It was a specific, dedicated and industrial enterprise wherein huge profits were at stake, and a vast and highly organized network of procurement, processing, transport and sale existed to expedite what was in effect a modern commodity market.
The East African Slave Trade on the other hand, or the Indian Ocean Slave Trade as it was also known, was a far more complex and nuanced phenomenon, far older, significantly more widespread, rooted in ancient traditions, and governed by rules very different to those in the western hemisphere. It is also often referred to as the Arab Slave Trade, although this, specifically, might perhaps be more accurately applied to the more ancient variant of organized African slavery.

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