Audio Books

English | ASIN: B09JHV88QV | 2022 | 11 hours and 12 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 307 MB
From Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Will Bunch, the epic untold story of college—the great political and cultural fault line of American life. Today there are two Americas, separate and unequal, one educated and one not. And these two tribes—the resentful "non-college" crowd and their diploma-bearing yet increasingly disillusioned adversaries—seem on the brink of a civil war. The strongest determinant of whether a voter was likely to support Donald Trump in 2016 was whether or not they attended college, and the degree of loathing they reported feeling toward the so-called "knowledge economy" of clustered, educated elites. Somewhere in the winding last half-century of the United States, the quest for a college diploma devolved from being proof of America's commitment to learning, science, and social mobility into a kind of Hunger Games contest to the death. That quest has infuriated both the millions who got shut out and millions who got into deep debt to stay afloat.
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Read More: After the Ivory Tower Falls How College Broke the American Dream and Blew Up Our Politics—and How to Fix It [Audiobook]

English | 2017 | MP3 | M4B | ASIN: B06X3XVFGL | Duration: 15:41 h | 427 MB
Francis Russell / Narrated by Patrick Lawlor
John and Abigail Adams and their descendants have profoundly influenced life in the United States for more than two centuries. From the great political and philosophical contributions of Founding Father and President John Adams, the roster of Adams luminaries is unprecedented: diplomat and sixth president, John Quincy Adams; pre-Civil War "Voice of Honor", Charles Francis Adams; and authors Henry and Brook Adams. The story of the Adams dynasty is as impressive and compelling as its legacy.

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English | 2016 | MP3 | M4B | ASIN: B01GKG0CB4 | Duration: 1:37 h | 44 MB
Scott Gilfillan, Jason Xidias / Narrated by Macat.com
What really happened when the world's two greatest superpowers went head to head during the Cold War? We Now Know is a major reappraisal of the struggle for political and ideological supremacy between the United States and the Soviet Union from 1945 to the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962.

Read More: A Macat Analysis of John Lewis Gaddis's We Now Know Rethinking Cold War History (Audiobook)

English | 2022 | MP3 | M4B | ASIN: B09NYMQZQ3 | Duration: 10:28 h | 570 MB
Rebecca Humphries / Narrated by Rebecca Humphries
Actor, writer and hopeless romantic Rebecca Humphries had often been called crazy by her boyfriend. But when paparazzi caught him kissing his Strictly Come Dancing partner, she realised the only crazy thing was believing she didn't deserve more.

Read More: Why Did You Stay (Audiobook)

English | ASIN: B0B6Y8KKGK | 2022 | 9 hours and 55 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 272 MB
Kerri ní Dochartaigh was born in Derry, on the border of the North and South of Ireland, at the very height of the Troubles. She was brought up on a council estate on the wrong side of town—although for her family, and many others, there was no right side. One parent was Catholic; the other was Protestant. In the space of one year, they were forced out of two homes. When she was eleven, a homemade bomb was thrown through her bedroom window. Terror was in the very fabric of the city, and for families like ní Dochartaigh's, the ones who fell between the cracks of identity, it seemed there was no escape.
In Thin Places, a luminous blend of memoir, history, and nature writing, ní Dochartaigh explores how nature kept her sane and helped her heal, how violence and poverty are never more than a stone's throw from beauty and hope, and how we are, once again, allowing our borders to become hard and terror to creep back in. Ní Dochartaigh asks us to reclaim our landscape through language and study, and remember that the land we fight over is much more than lines on a map. It will always be ours, but—at the same time—it never really was.

Read More: Thin Places A Natural History of Healing and Home [Audiobook]

English | ASIN: B0B75X33DG | 2022 | 9 hours and 59 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 274 MB
The story of four remarkable women who shaped the intellectual history of the 20th century: Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley, and Iris Murdoch. On the cusp of the Second World War, four women went to Oxford to begin their studies: a fiercely brilliant Catholic convert; a daughter of privilege longing to escape her stifling upbringing; an ardent Communist and aspiring novelist with a list of would-be lovers as long as her arm; and a quiet, messy lover of newts and mice who would become a great public intellectual of our time. They became lifelong friends. At the time, only a handful of women had ever made lives in philosophy. But when Oxford's men were drafted in the war, everything changed.
As Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley, and Iris Murdoch labored to make a place for themselves in a male-dominated world, as they made friendships and families, and as they drifted toward and away from each other, they never stopped insisting that some lives are better than others. They argued that courage and discernment and justice—and love—are the heart of a good life. This book presents the first sustained engagement with these women's contributions: with the critique and the alternative they framed. Drawing on a cluster of recently opened archives and extensive correspondence and interviews with those who knew them best, Benjamin Lipscomb traces the lives and ideas of four friends who gave us a better way to think about ethics, and ourselves.

Read More: The Women Are Up to Something How Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley, and Iris Murdoch Revolutionized [Audiobook]

English | ASIN: B094DSSGDT | 2022 | 9 hours and 26 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 259 MB
From social critic and journalist Steven W. Thrasher comes a powerful and crucial exploration of one of the most pressing issues of our times: how viruses expose the fault lines of society. Having spent a ground-breaking career studying the racialization, policing, and criminalization of HIV, Dr. Thrasher has come to understand a deeper truth at the heart of our society: that there are vast inequalities in who is able to survive viruses and that the ways in which viruses spread, kill, and take their toll are much more dependent on social structures than they are on biology alone. Told through the heart-rending stories of friends, activists, and teachers navigating the novel coronavirus, HIV, and other viruses, Dr. Thrasher brings the listener with him as he delves into the viral underclass and lays bare its inner workings. The Viral Underclass helps us understand the world more deeply by showing the fraught relationship between privilege and survival.
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Read More: The Viral Underclass The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide [Audiobook]

English | 2019 | MP3 | M4B | ASIN: B0828CS5JM | Duration: 8:28 h | 461 MB
Christina Wodtke / Narrated by Samantha Desz
An actionable leadership book in the form of a fable...

Read More: The Team That Managed Itself A Story of Leadership (Audiobook)

English | 2022 | MP3 | M4B | ASIN: B09XJGNC9W | Duration: 5:06 h | 112 MB
John Connell / Narrated by John Connell
The Stream of Everything is both a reverie and a celebration of close observation—a winding, bucolic account of the summer we discovered home, from best-selling author, John Connell.

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English | 2018 | MP3 | M4B | ASIN: B07FNWSSSY | Duration: 9:54 h | 288 MB
Valerie Hansen / Narrated by Jo Anna Perrin
The Silk Road is as iconic in world history as the Colossus of Rhodes or the Suez Canal. But what was it, exactly? It conjures up a hazy image of a caravan of camels laden with silk on a dusty desert track reaching from China to Rome. The reality was different - and far more interesting - as revealed in this new history.

Read More: The Silk Road A New History (Audiobook)