Free Download The Damascus Events: The 1860 Massacre and the Making of the Modern Middle East (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CV2LF8T1 | 2024 | 9 hours and 7 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 265 MB
Author: Eugene Rogan
Narrator: Ronan Summers
An award-winning scholar's account of an ancient city's descent into unprecedented communal violence-an event that would mark the end of the old Ottoman order and the beginning of the modern Middle East. On July 9, 1860, a violent mob swept through the Christian quarters of Damascus. For eight days, violence raged, leaving five thousand Christians dead, thousands of shops looted, and churches, houses, and monasteries razed. The sudden and ferocious outbreak shocked the world, leaving Syrian Christians vulnerable and fearing renewed violence. Drawn from never-before-seen eyewitness accounts of the Damascus Events, eminent Middle East historian Eugene Rogan tells the story of how a peaceful multicultural city came to be engulfed in slaughter.

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Free Download The Court v. The Voters: The Troubling Story of How the Supreme Court Has Undermined Voting Rights (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CHGLFZ1K | 2024 | 7 hours and 33 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 203 MB
Author: Joshua A. Douglas
Narrator: Chris Baetens
An urgent and gripping look at the erosion of voting rights and its implications for democracy, told through the stories of 9 Supreme Court decisions-and the next looming case. In The Court v. The Voters, law professor Joshua Douglas takes us behind the scenes of significant cases in voting rights-some surprising and unknown, some familiar-to investigate the historic crossroads that have irrevocably changed our elections and the nation. In crisp and accessible prose, Douglas tells the story of each case, sheds light on the intractable election problems we face as a result, and highlights the unique role the highest court has played in producing a broken electoral system. The Court v. The Voters powerfully reminds us of the tangible, real-world effects from the Court's voting rights decisions. While we can-and should-lament the democracy that might have been, Douglas argues that we can-and should-double down in our efforts to protect the right to vote.

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Free Download The Complications: On Going Insane in America (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BJXQZCGQ | 2024 | 12 hours and 56 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 374 MB
Author: Emmett Rensin
Narrator: James Gloucester
An unflinching, rare account of living with severe mental illness that is also a bold commentary on how we misunderstand this often debilitating disease. The Complications is an intimate portrait of what it's like to live with schizoaffective disorder of the bipolar type as well as a biting, revelatory critique of America's mental health culture. Emmett Rensin has written and edited articles for major national media outlets, and taught writing and literature at prestigious schools. But he has also lost jobs and friends, been hospitalized and institutionalized, and cycled through a daunting combination of medications. With scorching honesty, he reflects on his messy, fragile attempt to live his life, his periods of grace, and his near misses with disaster and death.

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Free Download The Cleopatras: The Forgotten Queens of Egypt (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CJFXQG12 | 2024 | 14 hours and 26 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 415 MB
Author: Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
Narrator: Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
The definitive story of the seven Cleopatras, the powerful goddess-queens of ancient Egypt. One of history's most iconic figures, Cleopatra is rightly remembered as a clever and charismatic ruler. But few today realize that she was the last in a long line of Egyptian queens who bore that name. In The Cleopatras, historian Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones tells the dramatic story of these seven incomparable women, vividly recapturing the lost world of Hellenistic Egypt and tracing the kingdom's final centuries before its fall to Rome. The Cleopatras were Greek-speaking descendants of Ptolemy, the general who conquered Egypt alongside Alexander the Great.

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Free Download The Burning Shore: How Hitler's U-Boats Brought World War II to America (Audiobook)
English | March 25, 2014 | ASIN: B00IREMAE0 | M4B@128 kbps | 7h 18m | 401 MB
Author: Ed Offley | Narrator: Robertson Dean
On June 15, 1942, as thousands of vacationers lounged in the sun on Virginia Beach, a massive fireball erupted from a convoy of oil tankers steaming into Chesapeake Bay. By the next day, three ships lay at the bottom of the channel, victims of Lieutenant-Commander Horst Degen and his crew on the German submarine U-701.
In The Burning Shore, acclaimed military reporter Ed Offley presents a thrilling account of Degen's rampage along the American coast and of US Lieutenant Harry J. Kane's quest to bring him down. Since the beginning of 1942, German U-boats had prowled the waters of the Atlantic, sinking merchant ships and threatening to sever the lifeline of supplies flowing from the United States to Great Britain. But when Kane and his crew spotted the silhouette of U-701 offshore that summer, the ensuing clash signaled a critical turning point in the Battle of the Atlantic-and the beginning of an unlikely friendship between the two rival commanders.

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Free Download Yossi Chalamish, Boyd Barrett (Narrator), "The Brain Code: Using Neuroscience to Improve Learning, Memory and Emotional Intelligence"
English | ASIN: B0CXY9BZFK | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~09:50:00 | 270 MB
This practical and accessible book empowers readers to access their brain's full potential, featuring cutting-edge neuroscience research presented for the first time.
This book introduces the new and fascinating field of Clinical Neuroscience, which argues that the brain has the power to prevent and treat a variety of neurobiological disorders, from autism to attention deficit disorder. With ground-breaking neuroscience research presented in an accessible, easy-to-understand way The Brain Code teaches readers how to get the most from their brains and how to access their peak cognitive function.
Each chapter will look at different functions of the brain:

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Free Download The Book of Mothers: How Literature Can Help Us Reinvent Modern Motherhood (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CT3WY26D | 2024 | 8 hours and 15 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 238 MB
Author: Carrie Mullins
Narrator: Sarab Kamoo
Sweet, supportive, dependable, selfless. Long before she had children of her own, journalist Carrie Mullins knew how mothers should behave. But how? Where did these expectations come from-and, more importantly, are they serving the mothers whose lives they shape? Carrie's suspicion, later crystallized while raising two small children, was that our culture's idealization of motherhood was not only painfully limiting but harmful, leaving women to cope with impossible standards-standards rarely created by mothers themselves. To discover how we might talk about motherhood in a more realistic, nuanced, and inclusive way, Carrie turned to literature with memorable maternal figures for answers.

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Free Download The Book of Japanese Folklore: An Encyclopedia of the Spirits, Monsters, and Yokai of Japanese Myth: The Stories of the Mischievous Kappa, Trickster Kitsune, Horrendous Oni, and More (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CMJG97WK | 2024 | 6 hours and 52 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 386 MB
Author: Thersa Matsuura
Narrator: Thersa Matsuura
Discover everything you've ever wondered about the legendary spirits, creatures, and figures of Japanese folklore including how they have found their way into every corner of our pop culture from the creator of the podcast Uncanny Japan. Welcome to The Book of Japanese Folklore: a fascinating journey through Japan's folklore through profiles of the legendary creatures and beings who continue to live on in pop culture today. From the sly kitsune to the orgrish oni and mischievous shape-shifting tanuki, learn all about the origins of these fantastical and mythical creatures. This gorgeous package is complete with stained edges and stunning four-color illustrations. With information on their cultural significance, a retelling of a popular tale tied to that particular yokai, and how it's been spun into today's popular culture, this handsome tome teaches you about the stories and histories of the beings that inspired characters in your favorite movies, animes, manga, and games. Adventure, mystery, and amazing tales await in The Book of Japanese Folklore.

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Free Download Martin Gonzalez, Joshua Yellin, Sean Patrick Hopkins (Narrator), "The Bonfire Moment: Bring Your Team Together to Solve the Hardest Problems Startups Face"
English | ASIN: B0CJCS8PNV | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~07:58:00 | 219 MB
Unique insights from pioneers of Google's Startup Accelerator on why building teams is harder than building tech-and a proven way to develop a strong, resilient and effective team.
Most startups fail not because of a bad product, poor timing, or mismanaged cash, but because of people problems: conflicts over strategy, decision-making, and team culture. Even the smartest entrepreneurs have been derailed by these soft problems: How do you fire a loyal friend who's not up to par? How do you motivate your team to give their all? What happens when egos and emotions overpower facts and reason? The soft stuff can be shockingly hard.
Martin Gonzalez and Josh Yellin outline the common traps startup teams fall into, and share their powerful one-day workshop that helps teams escape those traps. The unique process of The Bonfire Moment brings colleagues together for a full day of facing hard truths, noticing hidden dynamics, and gearing up for the intense challenges of startup life. When the constant hustle feels overwhelming, a team's Bonfire Moment pulls them out of the day-to-day intensity to reflect and reboot.

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Free Download The Birds That Audubon Missed: Discovery and Desire in the American Wilderness (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CQ2VC2CM | 2024 | 12 hours and 6 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 354 MB
Author: Kenn Kaufman
Narrator: Mack Sanderson
Renowned naturalist Kenn Kaufmanexamines the scientific discoveries of John James Audubon and his artistic and ornithologist peers to show how what they saw (and what they missed) reflects how we perceive and understand the natural world. Raging ambition. Towering egos. Competition under a veneer of courtesy. Heroic effort combined with plagiarism, theft, exaggeration, and fraud. This was the state of bird study in eastern North America during the early 1800s, as a handful of intrepid men raced to find the last few birds that were still unknown to science. The most famous name in the bird world was John James Audubon, who painted spectacular portraits of birds. But although his images were beautiful, creating great art was not his main goal. Instead, he aimed to illustrate (and write about) as many different species as possible, obsessed with trying to outdo his rival, Alexander Wilson. George Ord, a fan and protégé of Wilson, held a bitter grudge against Audubon for years, claiming he had faked much of his information and his scientific claims.

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