Free Download The Infernal Machine: A True Story of Dynamite, Terror, and the Rise of the Modern Detective (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CL7N59R8 | 2024 | 10 hours and 7 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 294 MB
Author: Steven Johnson
Narrator: Steven Johnson
A sweeping account of the anarchists who terrorized the streets of New York and the detective duo who transformed policing to meet the threat-a tale of fanaticism, forensic science, and dynamite from the bestselling author. Steven Johnson's engrossing account of the epic struggle between the anarchist movement and the emerging surveillance state stretches around the world and between two centuries-from Alfred Nobel's invention of dynamite and the assassination of Czar Alexander II to New York City in the shadow of World War I. April 1914. The NYPD is still largely the corrupt, low-tech organization of the Tammany Hall era. To the extent the police are stopping crime-as opposed to committing it-their role has been almost entirely defined by physical force: the brawn of the cop on the beat keeping criminals at bay with nightsticks and fists. The solving of crimes is largely outside their purview.

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Free Download The Importance of Being Educable: A New Theory of Human Uniqueness (Audiobook)
English | Datum: April 16, 2024 | ASIN: B0CXR9P12R | MP3@64 kbps | 07h 43m | 208.28 MB
Author: Leslie Valiant
Narrator: Rachel Perry
If we hope to share our planet successfully with one another and the AI systems we are creating, we must reflect on who we are, how we got here, and where we are heading. The Importance of Being Educable puts forward a provocative new exploration of the extraordinary facility of humans to absorb and apply knowledge. The remarkable "educability" of the human brain can be understood as an information processing ability. It sets our species apart, enables the civilization we have, and gives us the power and potential to set our planet on a steady course. While we can readily absorb systems of thought about worlds of experience beyond our own, we struggle to judge correctly what information we should trust.

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Free Download The Humor Habit: Rewire Your Brain to Stress Less, Laugh More, and Achieve More'er (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CYVK69HH | 2024 | 5 hours and 44 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 158 MB
Author: Paul Osincup
Narrator: Paul Osincup
In The Humor Habit, veteran speaker, corporate trainer, and comedian Paul Osincup delivers a hilarious and effective new take on how to make yourself and your team more productive and resilient by focusing on the funny side of work and life. In the book, you'll learn why humor isn't an in-born quality you're either born with or without. Instead, it's a habit you can develop over time. You'll find 100 ways to have more fun at work, methods to improve your resilience in dealing with adversity, and an explanation of the author's "LAFTER" model that shows you how to leverage levity at work. Perfect for managers, executives, team leads, directors, and other business leaders, The Humor Habit is the practical, hands-on guide to improved productivity that's actually fun to listen to-and even more fun to implement.

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Free Download The Hollow Parties: The Many Pasts and Disordered Present of American Party Politics (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D1J3V661 | 2024 | 14 hours and 33 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 416 MB
Author: Daniel Schlozman, Sam Rosenfeld
Narrator: Tom Beyer
America's political parties are hollow shells of what they could be, locked in a polarized struggle for power and unrooted as civic organizations. The Hollow Parties takes listeners from the rise of mass party politics in the Jacksonian era through the years of Barack Obama and Donald Trump. Today's parties, overbearing and ineffectual, have emerged from the interplay of multiple party traditions that reach back to the Founding. Daniel Schlozman and Sam Rosenfeld paint unforgettable portraits of figures such as Martin Van Buren, whose pioneering Democrats invented the machinery of the mass political party, and Abraham Lincoln and other heroic Republicans of that party's first generation who stood up to the Slave Power.

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Free Download The History of England Volume 1: From the Invasion of Julius Caesar to King John (Audiobook)
English | ISBN: 9781004161683 | 2024 | 20 hours and 29 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 587 MB
Author: David Hume
Narrator: Mark Elstob
Though David Hume (1711-1776) is now best known for his role as a prominent philosopher of the Enlightenment rather than an historian, it was his momentous six-volume The History of England that really brought him national attention during his lifetime. It came out in instalments between 1754 and 1762 and proved an instant success. As it covers the ground from Julius Caesar to James II and the Glorious Revolution, it may not be so surprising that it is now overshadowed by A Treatise on Human Nature and An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding. Surely its limited purview - taking English history only to 1688, virtually a century before Hume - would seem of limited interest to 21st century readers? This is not the case. Hume undertook widespread and careful research in his preparation for his History, as is evidenced by the voluminous references underpinning his information.

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Free Download The History Lessons (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D2RMGJ9S | 2024 | 10 hours and 15 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 559 MB
Author: Shalina Patel
Narrator: Shalina Patel
Taking a tour through history, from the Romans to the Second World War via Tudor courts, medieval castles and more, this hugely entertaining debut from an award-winning history teacher explores a variety of historical topics in a thoughtful and engaging way. It will appeal to anybody seeking to expand their historical knowledge, with an approachable and accessible style that will take you on an eye-opening and jaw-dropping journey. The History Lessons invites listeners to reclaim our history education. It is for curious minds keen to look beyond the usual narratives and celebrate the stories and people that may be less familiar - but no less remarkable or fascinating.

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Free Download The Healing Power of Storytelling: Using Personal Narrative to Navigate Illness, Trauma, and Loss (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CNHF5C7G | 2024 | 7 hours and 17 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 214 MB
Author: Annie Brewster, Rachel Zimmerman
Narrator: Annie Brewster
Reframe your story-and reclaim your life-through writing and storytelling in this "invaluable guide". A Harvard-trained doctor draws on narrative therapy and her own multiple sclerosis diagnosis to offer chronic illness patients a way through anxiety, confusion, and trauma. When Harvard-trained physician Dr. Annie Brewster was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2001, she realized firsthand that the medical system to which she'd devoted her entire career was failing patients. The experience was dehumanizing. Her doctors weren't listening. And the confusion, fear, and shame she felt around her diagnosis was preventing her from truly healing, claiming her story, and living her fullest, richest life. Here, Dr. Brewster and journalist Rachel Zimmerman each share their own personal stories, acting as expert guides as you move forward on your healing journey. The fact is, doctors can give you a life-changing diagnosis, but they're not equipped to help you deal with the inner fallout: the confusion, anxiety, trauma, and dread that comes after "I have some bad news." Dr. Brewster shows how writing your own unique healing story can help you process what comes next-to come to terms, create new ways to thrive, and even reclaim your personal power amid fear, change, and uncertainty.

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Free Download The Great Silver Bull: Crush Inflation and Profit as the Dollar Dies (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BRBTCFVQ | 2022 | 8 hours and 22 minutes | MP3@128 kbps | 462 MB
Author: Peter Krauth
Narrator: Peter Krauth
Inflation. Debt. Chaos. Uncertainty. Central planners have blown up the world's money supply by five times in two decades. Inflation is turning cash into trash. The COVID-19 pandemic triggered an acceleration of money-printing, leading to a reset of the global financial system. Silver is your chance to survive and thrive in the next crisis. Silver is a proven inflation hedge anda crucial industrial metal for solar panels, electric vehicles, electronics, and medicine. As the world shifts to green energy, silver demand will soar. Supply will not be able to keep pace. This audiobook is the essential guideto profiting from silver's generational opportunity.

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Free Download The Great Abolitionist: Charles Sumner and the Fight for a More Perfect Union (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CZZ6HHD6 | 2024 | 17 hours and 36 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 506 MB
Author: Stephen Puleo
Narrator: Jonathan Yen
In the tempestuous mid-nineteenth century, as slavery consumed Congressional debate and America careened toward civil war and split apart-when the very future of the nation hung in the balance-Charles Sumner's voice rang strongest, bravest, and most unwavering. Where others preached compromise and moderation, he denounced slavery's evils to all who would listen and demanded that it be wiped out of existence. Before and during the Civil War, at great personal sacrifice, Sumner was the conscience of the North and the most influential politician fighting for abolition.

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Free Download Olivia Laing (Author, Narrator), "The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise"
English | ASIN (UK): B0CW6L7V84 | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~09:18:00 | 256 MB
Narrated by the author, Olivia Laing.
'What a wonderful book this is. I loved the enchanting and beautifully written story but also the fascinating and thoughtful excursions along the way.' - Nigel Slater
'A garden contains secrets, we all know that: buried elements that might put on strange growth or germinate in unexpected places. The garden that I chose had walls, but like every garden it was interconnected, wide open to the world . . .'

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