Free Download Whistling Dixie: Ronald Reagan, the White South, and the Transformation of the Republican Party (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D1SQFHQJ | 2024 | 10 hours and 53 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 605 MB
Author: Jonathan Bartho
Narrator: Frank Block
Jonathan Bartho's Whistling Dixie explores the interdependent political relationship between Ronald Reagan and the white conservative South-a relationship that had a profound impact on Reagan's own career, on the political landscape of the South and the entire United States, and on the identity of the modern Republican Party. Millions of southerners were attracted to the GOP by Reagan's anti-statist ideology and their affection for the man himself-an affection that had been built over decades of appearances in the region. The support of these white southern conservatives was crucial to Reagan's political success, ultimately propelling him to the White House in 1980.

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Free Download Where Tenderness Lives: On Healing, Liberation, and Holding Space for Oneself (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CKM4496W | 2024 | 7 hours and 9 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 352 MB
Author: Heather Plett
Narrator: Heather Plett
A journey of self-exploration, forgiveness, and individual and collective healing. Where Tenderness Lives is a loving exploration of what it means to unravel what we've learned from our families, societies, religions, and cultures in order to heal and create a purposeful and joyful life. Each chapter in this heartfelt and honest book contains a revelation about how to move from shades of fear and doubt to freedom and joy. By reflecting on her own life with vulnerability and self-compassion, Plett provides a springboard for your own self-exploration, as well as a path to individual and collective healing.

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Free Download When You Care: The Unexpected Magic of Caring for Others (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CNBHPYFW | 2024 | 8 hours and 56 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 259 MB
Author: Elissa Strauss
Narrator: Helen Laser
In this "brilliantly argued and timely book" (Brigid Schulte, New York Times bestselling author), journalist Elissa Strauss explores the powerful role caring for others plays in our individual and communal lives, weaving together research about care and stories from parents and caregivers with a feminist bent. Behind our current caregiving crisis, in which a broken system has left parents and caregivers exhausted, sits a fierce addiction to independence. But what would happen if we started to appreciate dependency, and the deep meaning of one person caring for another? If we start to care about care? Drawing on research into parenting and caregiving, as well as her own experiences as a mother, journalist Elissa Strauss delves into the history and power of care in our lives and communities.

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Free Download What a Fool Believes: A Memoir (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CGJKJ4YD | 2024 | 10 hours and 57 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 312 MB
Author: Michael McDonald, Paul Reiser
Narrator: Michael McDonald, Paul Reiser
A sweeping and evocative memoir from the Rock & Roll Hall of Famer, Grammy Award-winning, platinum selling singer-songwriter Michael McDonald, written with his friend, Emmy Award-nominated actor, comedian, and #1 New York Times bestselling author Paul Reiser. Doobie Brothers. Steely Dan. Chart topping soloist. Across a half-century of American music, Michael McDonald's unmistakably smooth baritone voice defined an era of rock and R&B with hit records like "What A Fool Believes," "Takin' It to the Streets," "I Keep Forgettin'," "Peg," "It Keeps You Running," "You Belong to Me," and "Yah Mo B There." In his candid, freewheeling memoir, written with his friend, the Emmy Award-nominated actor and comedian Paul Reiser, Michael tells the story of his life and music. A high school dropout from Ferguson, Missouri, Michael chased his dreams in 1970's California, a heady moment of rock opportunity and excess.

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Free Download What This Comedian Said Will Shock You (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CQ3PHTVD | 2024 | 12 hours and 50 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 372 MB
Author: Bill Maher
Narrator: Bill Maher
The hilarious and controversial host of HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher has written his funniest, most opinionated, and most necessary book ever-a brilliantly astute and acerbically funny vivisection of American life, politics, and culture. Some of the smartest commentary about what's happening in America is coming from a comedian-this comedian being Bill Maher. If you want to understand what's wrong with this country, it turns out that one of the best informed and most thought-provoking analysts is this very funny pothead.

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Free Download Mathieu Lihoreau, Alison Duncan, Elliot Fitzpatrick (Narrator), "What Do Bees Think About?"
English | ASIN: B0CYF2XPZP | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~06:06:00 | 168 MB
Explore the mind of a bee and learn what drives its behavior.
Have you ever observed a bee up close and wondered what was going on inside its head? Like ours, insects' brains take up most of the space in their heads, but their brains are smaller than a grain of rice, only 0.0002% as large as ours. But what purpose does the insect brain serve, and how does that drive their creativity, morality, and emotions?
Bees in particular exhibit unexpected and fascinating cognitive skills. In What Do Bees Think About?, animal cognition researcher Mathieu Lihoreau examines a century of research into insect evolution and behavior. He explains recent scientific discoveries, recounts researchers' anecdotes, and reflects on the cognition of these fascinating creatures. Lihoreau's and other scientists' research on insects reinforces the importance of protecting and preserving insects such as bees: after all, our survival on the planet is deeply dependent on theirs.

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Free Download We Are Home: Becoming American in the 21st Century: An Oral History (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CFC75YM8 | 2024 | 11 hours and 3 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 319 MB
Author: Ray Suarez
Narrator: Ray Suarez
From a veteran broadcaster and historian comes a richly reported portrait of the newest Americans, immigrants from all over the globe who are living all across the country, filled with their own voices. We are a nation of immigrants, never more than now. In recent decades, the numbers have skyrocketed, thanks to people coming from many continents-especially Asia, Africa, and South America. Just like their predecessors, they face countless obstacles, including political hatred. And yet, just like their predecessors, they work hard. They persist. And they become us. The newest Americans are poorly understood and frequently presented only in stereotypes. Veteran journalist, broadcaster, and interviewer Ray Suarez has crisscrossed the country to speak to new Americans from all corners of the globe, and to record their stories. This portrait of our newest citizens is full of their own, compelling voices. It's a story as old as the country, yet each new wave of arrivals tells that classic story in new and crucially important ways.

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Free Download Warren and Bill: Gates, Buffett and the Friendship that Changed the World (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CJX2BD5M | 2024 | 9 hours and 19 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 256 MB
Author: Anthony McCarten
Narrator: George Newbern
From the Academy Award-nominated screenwriter comes the fascinating account of Bill Gates and Warren Buffett's friendship-one of the most impactful relationships in history, and the basis of an upcoming play and film. Few friendships have had such far-reaching implications for the world-from finance to technology to philanthropy-than that between Bill Gates and Warren Buffett. After meeting at a party in 1991, the two played cards and golf, shared jokes, swapped trade secrets, ate junk food, talked and listened. Their growing friendship would impact each man and lead to change on a grander scale, culminating in the development of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which holds nearly $50 billion in assets.

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Free Download War of the Flea: The Classic Study of Guerrilla Warfare (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D27JH8YM | 2024 | 6 hours and 54 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 382 MB
Author: Robert Taber
Narrator: Scott Pollak
"The guerrilla fights the war of the flea, and his military enemy suffers the dog's disadvantages: too much to defend; too small, ubiquitous, and agile an enemy to come to grips with." With these words, Robert Taber began a revolution in conventional military thought that has dramatically impacted the way armed conflicts have been fought since the book's initial publication in 1965. Whether ideological, nationalistic, or religious, all guerrilla insurgencies use similar tactics to advance their cause. War of the Flea's timeless analysis of the guerrilla fighter's means and methods provides a fundamental resource for anyone seeking to understand this distinct form of warfare and the challenge it continues to present to today's armed forces in the Philippines, Colombia, and elsewhere.

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Free Download Vows: The Modern Genius of an Ancient Rite (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CQ2XKZJ9 | 2024 | 6 hours and 00 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 346 MB
Author: Cheryl Mendelson
Narrator: Cassandra Campbell
From the bestselling author comes the story of our wedding vows-what they mean and why they still matter. In the West, marrying is so thoroughly identified with ceremonial promises that "taking vows" is a synonym for getting married. So, it's a surprise to realize that this custom is actually a historical and anthropological oddity. Most of the world, for most of history, married without making promises. And there's a reason for that. Marriage by vow presupposes free choice, and free choice makes a love-match possible. It is a very modern arrangement. Vows is both a moving memoir of two marriages and a thoughtful meditation on marriage itself.

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