Audio Books

Global Crisis: War, Climate Change, & Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BN2L3Z6J | 2022 | 18 hours and 13 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 521 MB
Author: Geoffrey Parker
Narrator: Peter Noble
The acclaimed historian demonstrates a link between climate change and social unrest across the globe during the mid-seventeenth century. Revolutions, droughts, famines, invasions, wars, regicides, government collapses-the calamities of the mid-seventeenth century were unprecedented in both frequency and severity. The effects of what historians call the "General Crisis" extended from England to Japan and from the Russian Empire to sub-Saharan Africa and the Americas. In this meticulously researched volume, historian Geoffrey Parker presents the firsthand testimony of men and women who experienced the many political, economic, and social crises that occurred between 1618 to the late 1680s. He also incorporates the scientific evidence of climate change during this period into the narrative, offering a strikingly new understanding of the General Crisis. Changes in weather patterns, especially longer winters and cooler and wetter summers, disrupted growing seasons and destroyed harvests. This in turn brought hunger, malnutrition, and disease; and as material conditions worsened, wars, rebellions, and revolutions rocked the world.

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Ghost of the Hardy Boys: The Writer Behind the World's Most Famous Boy Detectives (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BM575CRY | 2022 | 8 hours and 20 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 232 MB
Author: Leslie McFarlane
Narrator: Keith Sellon-Wright
In 1926, twenty-three-year-old cub newspaper reporter Leslie McFarlane responded to an ad: "Experienced Fiction Writer Wanted." The ad was signed by Edward Stratemeyer, whose syndicate effectively invented mass-market children's book publishing in America. McFarlane, who had a few published adventure stories to his name, was hired and his first job was to write Dave Fearless Under the Ocean as Roy Rockwood-for a flat fee of $100, no royalties. His pay increased to $125 when Stratemeyer proposed a new series of detective stories for kids involving two high school aged brothers who would solve mysteries.

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Getting to Diversity: What Works and What Doesn't (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BM56GHZT | 2022 | 7 hours and 37 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 214 MB
Author: Frank Dobbin, Alexandra Kalev
Narrator: Linda Jones
Every year America becomes more diverse, but change in the makeup of the management ranks has stalled. The problem has become an urgent matter of national debate. How do we fix it? Arguing that it's time to focus on changing systems rather than individuals, two of the world's leading experts on workplace diversity show us a better way in the first comprehensive, data-driven analysis of what succeeds and what fails. The surprising results will change how America works.

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G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B09S3ZZSYM | 2022 | 36 hours and 36 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 936 MB
Author: Beverly Gage
Narrator: Gabra Zackman
A major new biography of J Edgar Hoover that draws from never-before-seen sources to create a groundbreaking portrait of a colossus who dominated half a century of American history and planted the seeds for much of today's conservative political landscape. We remember him as a bulldog-squat frame, bulging wide-set eyes, fearsome jowls-but in 1924, when he became director of the FBI, he had been the trim, dazzling wunderkind of the administrative state, buzzing with energy and big ideas for reform. He transformed a failing law-enforcement backwater, riddled with scandal, into a modern machine. He believed in the power of the federal government to do great things for the nation and its citizens. He also believed that certain people-many of them communists or racial minorities or both-did not deserve to be included in that American project. Hoover rose to power and then stayed there, decade after decade, using the tools of state to create a personal fiefdom unrivaled in U.S. history.

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Freedom's Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BLQNMQPN | 2022 | 16 hours and 5 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 428 MB
Author: Jefferson Cowie
Narrator: André Chapoy
A prize-winning historian chronicles a sinister idea of freedom: white Americans' freedom to oppress others and their fight against the government that got in their way. American freedom is typically associated with the fight of the oppressed for a better world. But for centuries, whenever the federal government intervened on behalf of nonwhite people, many white Americans fought back in the name of freedom-their freedom to dominate others. In Freedom's Dominion, historian Jefferson Cowie traces this complex saga by focusing on a quintessentially American place: Barbour County, Alabama, the ancestral home of political firebrand George Wallace. In a land shaped by settler colonialism and chattel slavery, white people weaponized freedom to seize Native lands, champion secession, overthrow Reconstruction, question the New Deal, and fight against the civil rights movement. A riveting history of the long-running clash between white people and federal authority, this book radically shifts our understanding of what freedom means in America.

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Fowl Play: A History of the Chicken from Dinosaur to Dinner Plate (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BMHXMMFD | 2022 | 6 hours and 46 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 192 MB
Author: Sally Coulthard
Narrator: Sally Coulthard
From dinosaur to dinner plate, Sally Coulthard tells the fascinating - and sometimes shocking - story of the domestic chicken. Earth is home to 23 billion chickens, at least ten times more than any other bird. For every human on the planet, there are three chickens. Despite being capable of flying only a few metres, this most adaptable animal has somehow managed to conquer the world. In Fowl Play, Sally Coulthard probes every aspect of the genus Gallus: the evolution and domestication of the chicken; its social life and startling variety, from tiny Bantams to gigantic Buff Orpintons, prolific egg-layers to pampered show birds; the hen and the cockerel's importance in ancient Roman augury, medieval superstition and Christian theology; its starring role as a symbol of rustic life; and the darker reality of modern poultry farming and society's insatiable appetite for chicken breasts, wings and nuggets. Throughout history, chickens have been both worshipped and ridiculed, loved and loathed. From its dinosaurian beginnings to modern fast food, this is the ultimate tale of humankind's strange, and often paradoxical, relationship with nature.

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Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B09V1Z579S | 2022 | 8 hours and 43 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 204 MB
Author: Paul Greenberg
Narrator: Christopher Lane
Acclaimed author of American Catch and The Omega Princple and life-long fisherman, Paul Greenberg takes us on a journey, examining the four fish that dominate our menus: salmon, sea bass, cod, and tuna. Investigating the forces that get fish to our dinner tables, Greenberg reveals our damaged relationship with the ocean and its inhabitants. Just three decades ago, nearly everything we ate from the sea was wild. Today, rampant overfishing and an unprecedented biotech revolution have brought us to a point where wild and farmed fish occupy equal parts of a complex marketplace. Four Fish offers a way for us to move toward a future in which healthy and sustainable seafood is the rule rather than the exception.

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Forgiveness: An Alternative Account (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BM58725Y | 2022 | 12 hours and 50 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 354 MB
Author: Matthew Ichihashi Potts
Narrator: Roman Howell
A deeply researched and poignant reflection on the practice of forgiveness in an unforgiving world. In this sensitive and probing book, Matthew Ichihashi Potts explores the complex moral terrain of forgiveness, which he claims has too often served as a salve to the conscience of power rather than as an instrument of healing or justice. Though forgiveness is often linked with reconciliation or the abatement of anger, Potts resists these associations, asserting instead that forgiveness is simply the refusal of retaliatory violence through practices of penitence and grief. It is an act of mourning irrevocable wrong, of refusing the false promises of violent redemption, and of living in and with the losses we cannot recover.

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Folk Music: A Bob Dylan Biography in Seven Songs (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BGMGN674 | 2022 | 7 hours and 37 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 194 MB
Author: Greil Marcus
Narrator: Ian Porter
Across seven decades, Bob Dylan has been the first singer of American song. As a writer and performer, he has rewritten the national songbook in a way that comes from his own vision and yet can feel as if it belongs to anyone who might listen. In Folk Music, Greil Marcus tells Dylan's story through seven of his most transformative songs. Marcus's point of departure is Dylan's ability to "see myself in others." Like Dylan's songs, this book is a work of implicit patriotism and creative skepticism. It illuminates Dylan's continuing presence and relevance through his empathy-his imaginative identification with other people. This is not only a deeply felt telling of the life and times of Bob Dylan, but a rich history of American folk songs and the new life they were given as Dylan sat down to write his own.

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Fire Magic: Elements of Witchcraft (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BN4TDQB3 | 2022 | 9 hours and 23 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 229 MB
Author: Josephine Winter
Narrator: Tegan Ashton Cohan
Help Your Magic Burn Brighter with the History, Lore, and Uses of Fire. Featuring spells, rituals, recipes, and folklore, Fire Magic shows you how to fully harness the flame and add new meaning and energy to your life. Join author Josephine Winter on an illuminating exploration of fire and its many uses in witchcraft. Discover candle and bonfire magic throughout history, how fire is depicted in mythology, and fire-related celebrations for the sabbats. Learn about correspondences, sacred herbs and woods, and how to stay safe while honoring this element.

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