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![We Are Experiencing a Slight Delay (tips, tales, travels) [Audiobook]](https://i124.fastpic.org/big/2024/0916/34/ade90df96ecc59a7012c99d2a1dc9434.webp) Free Download We Are Experiencing a Slight Delay: (tips, tales, travels) (Audiobook) English | ASIN: B0CPJSB163 | 2024 | 4 hours and 33 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 252 MB Author: Gary Janetti Narrator: Gary Janetti In this hilarious and often touching collection, the New York Times bestselling author, television writer, and producer takes us with him on travels across the globe. Gary Janetti has gained a devoted following, with a huge audience on social media, and two bestselling collections of essays under his belt. His new collection will prompt laughter but also delighted recognition as Janetti tackles the absurdity and glory of travel. In We Are Experiencing a Slight Delay, he shares stories of his varied trips around the world. Tag along as he enjoys an unexpectedly transformative stay at a rigorous Italian spa where he and his husband go from deep grumpiness to exaltation. Take a ride on the Orient Express to Venice and discover a surprising side of London, including a hilarious dinner with actress Maggie Smith.
![Wars of Ambition The United States, Iran, and the Struggle for the Middle East [Audiobook]](https://i124.fastpic.org/big/2024/0916/cd/743e4d62f5a1492c7c161f88cb92fbcd.webp) Free Download Wars of Ambition: The United States, Iran, and the Struggle for the Middle East (Audiobook) English | ASIN: B0CW3TQ384 | 2024 | 13 hours and 33 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 389 MB Author: Afshon Ostovar Narrator: Fajer Al-Kaisi The September 11 attacks upended America's relatively strong influence in the Middle East and prompted President George W. Bush's plan to remake the region through a war in Iraq. By bringing liberal democracy to Iraq, Bush hoped that the country would be a springboard for the spread of democracy to neighboring authoritarian states. Yet the war's disruption created an opportunity for Iran to advance its own opposing ambitions-one that would turn the Middle East into a bastion of resistance to Western hegemony and bring an end to Israel's existence as a Jewish state. The resulting clash not only intensified the Iraq War, it reverberated in states across the region. ![Warming Up How Climate Change is Changing Sport [Audiobook]](https://i124.fastpic.org/big/2024/0916/26/27059ded0d0f1b2ddeecc7189768ca26.webp) Free Download Warming Up: How Climate Change is Changing Sport (Audiobook) English | ASIN: B0D92M4KLG | 2024 | 9 hours and 48 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 536 MB Author: Madeleine Orr Narrator: Deborah McBride The world of sport has a new opponent: climate change. In recent years, a world championship marathon was held at midnight to avoid the blistering sun. Professional athletes needed oxygen tanks to play during wildfire season in California. Players collapsed and play was suspended amid the heat and bushfire smoke at the Australian Tennis open. Ski resorts in the Alps have turned into ghost towns. Golf courses are sinking into the sea. And then there's the Qatar World Cup, among the greatest follies in sporting history, one that saw hundreds (perhaps thousands) of heat-induced deaths before a ball was even kicked. ![Warhol After Warhol Secrets, Lies, & Corruption in the Art World [Audiobook]](https://i124.fastpic.org/big/2024/0916/00/f53f4518b89847a606e1e73f69edf900.webp) Free Download Warhol After Warhol: Secrets, Lies, & Corruption in the Art World (Audiobook) English | ASIN: B0D9HSXZ47 | 2024 | 7 hours and 56 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 208 MB Author: Richard Dorment Narrator: Peter Noble Long-time art critic Richard Dorment reveals the corruption and lies of the art world and its mystifying authentication process. Late one afternoon in the winter of 2003, art critic Richard Dorment answered a telephone call from a stranger. The caller was Joe Simon, an American film producer and art collector. He was ringing at the suggestion of David Hockney, his neighbor in Malibu. A committee of experts called the Andy Warhol Art Authentication Board had declared the two Warhols in his collection to be fake. He wanted to know why and thought Dorment could help. This call would mark the beginning of an extraordinary story that would play out over the next ten years and would involve a cast of characters straight out of a novel. From rock icons and film stars; art dealers and art forgers; to a murdered Russian oligarch and a lawyer for the mob; from courtrooms to auction houses: all took part in a bitter struggle debating the authenticity of a series of paintings by the most famous American artist of the twentieth century. Part detective story, part art history, part memoir, and part courtroom drama, Warhol After Warhol is a spellbinding account of the dark connection between money, power, and art.
 Free Download Waking the Buddha: How the Most Dynamic and Empowering Buddhist Movement in History Is Changing Our Concept of Religion by Clark Strand, Mel Foster, Tantor Audio English | November 04, 2014 | ISBN: B00P2RPBTG | 3 hours and 59 minutes | M4B 64 Kbps | 54 Mb Is there more to Buddhism than sitting in silent meditation? Is modern Buddhism relevant to the problems of daily life? Does it empower individuals to transform their lives? Or has Buddhism become too detached, so still and quiet that the Buddha has fallen asleep? Waking the Buddha tells the story of the Soka Gakkai International, the largest, most dynamic Buddhist movement in the world today - and one that is waking up and shaking up Buddhism so it can truly work in ordinary people's lives. Drawing on his long personal experience as a Buddhist teacher, journalist, and editor, Clark Strand offers broad insight into how and why the Soka Gakkai, with its commitment to social justice and its egalitarian approach, has become a role model, not only for other schools of Buddhism, but for other religions as well. [center] Telegram Join Here ![WASP of the Ferry Command Women Pilots, Uncommon Deeds [Audiobook]](https://i124.fastpic.org/big/2024/0916/25/1faf8c9254453719bbb8cae23b525225.webp) Free Download WASP of the Ferry Command: Women Pilots, Uncommon Deeds (Audiobook) English | August 18, 2018 | ASIN: B07GJXKHQP | M4B@64 kbps | 10h 16m | 288 MB Author: Sarah Byrn Rickman | Narrator: Michelle Murillo In December 1943 the women ferry pilots went back to school to learn to fly high-performance WWII fighters, known as pursuits. By January 1944 they began delivering high -erformance P-51s, 47s, and 39s. Prior to D-day and beyond, P-51s were crucial to the air war over Germany. They had the range to escort B-17s and B-24s from England to Berlin and back on bombing raids that ultimately brought down the German Reich. Getting those pursuits to the docks in New Jersey for shipment abroad became these women's primary job. Ultimately, more than 100 WASP pursuit pilots were engaged in this vital movement of aircraft.
![Voices from Gettysburg Letters, Papers, and Memoirs from the Greatest Battle of the Civil War [Audiobook]](https://i124.fastpic.org/big/2024/0916/5f/450b7207d54b842eb10de95efd386a5f.webp) Free Download Voices from Gettysburg: Letters, Papers, and Memoirs from the Greatest Battle of the Civil War (Audiobook) English | ASIN: B0CQZ2T9VX | 2024 | 12 hours and 00 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 321 MB Author: Allen C. Guelzo Narrator: George Guidall Powerful, haunting, and unforgettable, this remarkable gathering of original documents, including never-before-published letters and papers, creates a day-by-day eyewitness account of the monumental collision at Gettysburg, in the words of the commanders, soldiers, politicians, and civilians from both the North and the South who experienced firsthand the changing course of the Civil War. July 1st through July 3rd in 1863, the crossroads town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, marked the beginning of the end of the Civil War. Lost to history are the voices of those who watched it unfold. Voices from Gettysburg brings together scores of original documents-a treasure trove of riches for both Civil War buffs and those discovering it anew-for a uniquely personal, chronological narrative of the Great Rebellion and the impetus for Lincoln's Gettysburg Address.  Free Download Visions of Inequality: From the French Revolution to the End of the Cold War by Branko Milanovic, Adam Barr, Tantor Audio English | July 30, 2024 | ISBN: B0DB3LJPGJ | 11 hours and 42 minutes | M4B 64 Kbps | 336 Mb A sweeping and original history of how economists across two centuries have thought about inequality, told through portraits of six key figures. Visions of Inequality takes us from Quesnay and the physiocrats, for whom social classes were prescribed by law, through the classic nineteenth-century treatises of Smith, Ricardo, and Marx, who saw class as a purely economic category driven by means of production. It shows how Pareto reconceived class as a matter of elites versus the rest of the population, while Kuznets saw inequality arising from the urban-rural divide. And it explains why inequality studies were eclipsed during the Cold War, before their remarkable resurgence as a central preoccupation in economics today. Meticulously extracting each author's view of income distribution from their often voluminous writings, Milanovic offers an invaluable genealogy of the discourse surrounding inequality. These intellectual portraits are infused not only with a deep understanding of economic theory but also with psychological nuance, reconstructing each thinker's outlook given what was knowable to them within their historical contexts and methodologies. Milanovic argues that we cannot speak of "inequality" as a general concept: any analysis of it is inextricably linked to a particular time and place.
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![Violence Over the Land Indians and Empires in the Early American West [Audiobook]](https://i124.fastpic.org/big/2024/0916/b2/_2fb868162512cbcbf23fbf0ade2c7eb2.webp) Free Download Ned Blackhawk, Curtis Michael Holland (Narrator), "Violence Over the Land: Indians and Empires in the Early American West" English | ASIN: B0D79LDF58 | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~12:19:00 | 339 MB American Indians remain familiar as icons, yet poorly understood as historical agents. In this ambitious book that ranges across Utah, Nevada, New Mexico, Colorado, and eastern California (a region known as the Great Basin), Ned Blackhawk places Native peoples squarely at the center of a dynamic and complex story as he chronicles two centuries of Indian and imperial history that profoundly shaped the American West. On the distant margins of empire, Great Basin Indians increasingly found themselves engulfed in the chaotic storms of European expansion and responded in ways that refashioned themselves and those around them. Focusing on Ute, Paiute, and Shoshone Indians, Blackhawk illuminates this history through a lens of violence, excavating the myriad impacts of colonial expansion. Brutal networks of trade and slavery forged the Spanish borderlands, and the use of violence became for many Indians a necessary survival strategy, particularly after Mexican Independence when many became raiders and slave traffickers. Throughout such violent processes, these Native communities struggled to adapt to their changing environments, sometimes scoring remarkable political ends while suffering immense reprisals. Violence over the Land is a passionate reminder of the high costs that the making of American history occasioned for many indigenous peoples. ![Viewfinder A Memoir of Seeing and Being Seen [Audiobook]](https://i124.fastpic.org/big/2024/0916/4e/b8fb9e9c7e1870d54e27edf404c7dd4e.webp) Free Download Viewfinder: A Memoir of Seeing and Being Seen (Audiobook) English | ASIN: B0CXZJH9LQ | 2024 | 7 hours and 44 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 224 MB Author: Jon M. Chu, Jeremy McCarter Narrator: Jon M. Chu From visionary director Jon M. Chu comes a powerful, inspiring memoir of belonging, creativity, and learning to see who you really are. Long before he directed Wicked, In The Heights, or the groundbreaking film Crazy Rich Asians, Jon M. Chu was a movie-obsessed first-generation Chinese American, helping at his parents' Chinese restaurant in Silicon Valley and forever facing the cultural identity crisis endemic to children of immigrants. Growing up on the cutting edge of twenty-first-century technology gave Chu the tools he needed to make his mark at USC film school, and to be discovered by Steven Spielberg, but he soon found himself struggling to understand who he was. |
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