Free Download A Political Philosophy: Arguments for Conservatism by Roger Scruton, Kris Dyer, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
English | November 11, 2021 | ISBN: B09K82GLH7 | 9 hours and 14 minutes | MP3 128 Kbps | 345 Mb
Bloomsbury presents A Political Philosophy by Roger Scruton, read by Kris Dyer.
In this timely new edition of his classic book A Political Philosophy, celebrated conservative philosopher Roger Scruton interrogates contemporary values, virtues and morality. What principles should govern our relations to animals, the nation state, the environment and other ways of life? What does modern marriage look like? What is Enlightenment, and how has its inheritance made itself known? How should we approach religion, evil and death? What explains the rise of totalitarianism, and how should we respond to nihilism?
In these philosophical reflections, Scruton adopts his characteristically articulate and unorthodox tone, making no concessions to intellectual fashion. The result is a book of bold, clear thinking that will seem refreshingly logical to many, particularly those seeking a return to first principles in an increasingly baffling age of modernity.

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Free Download Susanna Ashton, Leon Nixon (Narrator), "A Plausible Man: The True Story of the Escaped Slave Who Inspired Uncle Tom's Cabin"
English | ASIN: B0DBMRRP3S | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~11:41:00 | 321 MB
In December of 1850, a faculty wife in Brunswick, Maine, named Harriet Beecher Stowe hid a fugitive slave in her house. While John Andrew Jackson stayed for only one night, he made a lasting impression: drawing from this experience, Stowe began to write Uncle Tom's Cabin, one of the most influential books in American history and the novel that helped inspire the overthrow of slavery in the United States.
A Plausible Man unfolds as a historical detective story, as Susanna Ashton combs obscure records for evidence of Jackson's remarkable flight from slavery to freedom, his quest to liberate his enslaved family, and his emergence as an international advocate for abolition. This fresh and original work takes us through the Civil War, Reconstruction, and the restoration of white supremacy-where we last glimpse Jackson losing his freedom again on a Southern chain gang.
In the spirit of Tiya Miles's prizewinning All That She Carried and Erica Armstrong Dunbar's Never Caught, Susanna Ashton breathes life into a striving and nuanced American character, one unmistakably rooted in the vast sweep of nineteenth-century America.

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Free Download A Plague on Both Your Houses: A Novel in the Shadow of the Russian Mafia by Robert Littell, Ramiz Monsef, Blackstone Publishing
English | February 06, 2024 | ISBN: B0CDDF4SGB | 6 hours and 39 minutes | MP3 64 Kbps | 207 Mb
A brand-new novel from New York Times bestselling author Robert Littell, A Plague on Both Your Houses is a thrilling tale of love and war.
On Christmas Day, 1991, Mikhail Gorbachev delivered a ten-minute televised speech announcing his resignation as Soviet president. Moments later, with little pomp and less circumstance, the red flag was lowered from its floodlit perch atop the Kremlin, and the Soviet Union ceased to exist.
Into the vacuum-before a new democracy had time to put down roots-surged the Russian mafia, supplying what the new state could not: krysha, or "roof"-protection for the privately owned businesses sprouting across the country. Rivalries turned bloody as Moscow's Jewish mafia battled the Ossete vory v zakone (literally "thieves-in-law") for control of the city. Caught up in the mayhem, Yulia, only daughter of the Jewish mafia godfather, and Roman, only son of the Ossete mafia godfather, are obliged to navigate the minefield of a star-crossed love affair as they attempt to escape a destiny that appears preordained.

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Free Download A Place of Our Own: Six Spaces That Shaped Queer Women's Culture (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D4W8QQRL | 2024 | 6 hours and 53 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 382 MB
Author: June Thomas
Narrator: June Thomas
Thomas blends her own experiences with archival research and rare interviews with pioneering figures like Elaine Romagnoli, Susie Bright, and Jacqueline Woodson. She richly illustrates the lives of the business owners, entrepreneurs, activists, and dreamers who shaped the long struggle for queer liberation. Thomas illuminates what is gained and lost in the shift from the exclusive, tight-knit women's spaces of the '70s toward today's more inclusive yet more diffuse LGBTQ+ communities. At once a love letter, a time capsule, and a bridge between generations of queer women, A Place of Our Own brings the history-and timeless present-of the lesbian community to vivid life.

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Free Download A Philosophical Enquiry into the Sublime and Beautiful (Audiobook)
English | April 10, 2020 | ASIN: B086XLFMQS | M4B@128 kbps | 5h 52m | 321 MB
Author: Edmund Burke | Narrator: Matt Addis
In A Philosophical Enquiry, Edmund Burke sets out to define the nature of beauty and sublimity, and establish an objective criterion for discussing aesthetics. His definition of beauty as rooted in pleasure and sexuality, and the sublime in pain and survival, aligned him with the empiricists John Locke and David Hume, as he replaced the metaphysics of Plato's aesthetics with a psychological and physiological perspective.
According to Burke, the sublime and the beautiful are experiences that can be explained by biological and sensual factors; thus he proceeds to explain how smooth lines, sweet tastes and middle frequencies of sound can be considered beautiful, and the terror created by high mountains and dark forests can be sublime.

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Free Download A Path through the Jungle: A Psychological Health and Wellbeing Programme to Develop Robustness and Resilience (Audiobook)
English | October 19, 2021 | ASIN: B09JSZ3J4S | M4B@80 kbps | 15h 50m | 569 MB
Author and Narrator: Prof Steve Peters
The new self-development programme from the author of the smash best seller The Chimp Paradox.
All of us face challenges, rough patches and struggles in life. And during these times we are often our own worst enemies, experiencing unwelcome emotions, thoughts and behaviours. The one thing that has stood out to Professor Peters in his years of supporting people as a Consultant Psychiatrist is that no matter what you may be facing in life, if you have the right mental toolkit in place then you will be able to cope - and even thrive.

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Free Download A Passionate Mind in Relentless Pursuit: The Vision of Mary McLeod Bethune (Audiobook)
English | July 23, 2024 | ASIN: B0CMJPZ24X | M4B@128 kbps | 3h 46m | 208 MB
Authors: Noliwe Rooks, Henry Louis Gates Jr. | Narrator: Danielle Lee James
An intimate and searching account of the life and legacy of one of America's towering educators, a woman who dared to center the progress of Black women and girls in the larger struggle for political and social liberation
When Mary McLeod Bethune died, tributes in newspapers around the country said the same thing: she should be on the Mount Rushmore of Black American achievement. Indeed, Bethune is the only Black American whose statue stands in Statuary Hall in the US Capitol, and yet for most, she remains a marble figure from the dim past. Now, seventy years later, Noliwe Rooks turns Bethune from stone to flesh, showing her to have been a visionary leader with lessons to still teach us as we continue on our journey toward a freer and more just nation.

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Free Download A New History of Management by Stephen Cummings, Todd Bridgman, John Hassard
English | December 10, 2019 | ISBN: B082DN7Q2K | 11 hours and 33 minutes | MP3 128 Kbps | 635 Mb
Existing narratives about how we should organize are built upon, and reinforce, a concept of "good management" derived from what is assumed to be a fundamental need to increase efficiency. But this assumption is based on a presentist, monocultural, and generally limited view of management's past. A New History of Management disputes these foundations. By reassessing conventional perspectives on past management theories and providing a new critical outline of present-day management, it highlights alternative conceptions of "good management" focused on ethical aims, sustainability, and alternative views of good practice. From this new historical perspective, existing assumptions can be countered and simplistic views disputed, offering a platform from which graduate students, researchers, and reflective practitioners can develop alternative approaches for managing and organizing in the 21st century.
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Free Download A New History of India: From Its Origins to the Twenty-First Century (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D4MQHH11 | 2024 | 9 hours and 47 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 268 MB
Author: Toby Sinclair, Shobita Punja, Rudrangsh Mukherjee
Narrator: Elvis Mathias
A complete one-volume history of India. The book covers all the major landmarks of Indian history from prehistoric times up to the 21st century-starting with the country's geological origins a few billion years in the past and the migration of Homo sapiens from Africa into the region several millennia ago. It traces the evolution of Indian civilization through a multitude of epochs, personalities and turning points, including the Harappan Culture, Vedic Society, the age of Mahavira and the Buddha, Ashoka and the Mauryas, the Gupta period, the Delhi Sultanate, major kingdoms in the east, west and south, the Mughal empire, European incursions into the subcontinent, the British Raj, the freedom struggle led by Gandhi, Nehru, Patel, Bose, Tagore and others, Independence and Partition and key developments in the life of the modern republic. Deepening the overarching narrative are essays on archaeology, caste, religion, art, architecture, philosophy, language, culture, the economy and various aspects of the nation's plural, diverse society. Written by award-winning historian Rudrangshu Mukherjee along with cultural historian Shobita Punja and photographer-archivist Toby Sinclair, A New History of India brings the story of one of the oldest, most complex countries on earth to vivid life with a text of depth, clarity and rigorous scholarship.

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Free Download James Tejani, Jonathan Todd Ross (Narrator), "A Machine to Move Ocean and Earth: The Making of the Port of Los Angeles and America"
English | ASIN: B0D9HTZB8Z | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~12:57:00 | 356 MB
The Port of Los Angeles is all around us. Objects we use on a daily basis pass through it: furniture, apparel, electronics, automobiles, and much more. Yet despite its centrality to our world, the port and the story of its making have been neglected in histories of the United States. In A Machine to Move Ocean and Earth, historian James Tejani corrects that significant omission, charting the port's rise out of the mud and salt marsh of San Pedro estuary.
By the mid-nineteenth century, Americans had identified the West Coast as the republic's destiny, a gateway to the riches of the Pacific. Tejani demonstrates how San Pedro came to be seen as all-important to the nation's future. It was not virgin land, but dominated by powerful Mexican estates that would not be dislodged easily. Yet American scientists would wrest control of the estuary and set the scene for the violence, inequality, and engineering marvels to come.
San Pedro was no place for a harbor, Tejani reveals. The port was carved in defiance of nature, using new engineering techniques and massive mechanical dredgers. Tejani vividly describes how a wild coast was made into the engine of American power. A Machine to Move Ocean and Earth is must-listen for anyone who seeks to understand what the United States was, what it is now, and what it will be.

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