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Free Download Alexandra Stark, Emily Durante (Narrator), "The Yemen Model: Why U.S. Policy Has Failed in the Middle East"
English | ASIN: B0CZSD29SF | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~08:44:00 | 240 MB
A close look at failed US policies in the Middle East, offering a fresh perspective on how best to reorient goals in the region.
In this book, Alexandra Stark argues that the US approach to Yemen offers insights into the failures of American foreign policy throughout the Middle East. Stark makes the case that despite often being drawn into conflicts within Yemen, the United States has not achieved its policy goals because it has narrowly focused on counterterrorism and regional geopolitical competition rather than on the well-being of Yemenis themselves.
She offers recommendations designed to reorient US policy in the Middle East in pursuit of US national security interests, and to support the people of these countries in their efforts to make their own communities safe, secure, and prosperous.

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Free Download The Year of Living Constitutionally: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Constitution's Original Meaning (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CKRZTQHV | 2024 | 9 hours and 33 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 276 MB
Author: A.J. Jacobs
Narrator: A.J. Jacobs
A.J. Jacobs learned the hard way that donning a tricorne hat and marching around Manhattan with a 1700s musket will earn you a lot of strange looks. In the wake of several controversial rulings by the Supreme Court and the on-going debate about how the Constitution should be interpreted, Jacobs set out to understand what it means to live by the Constitution. In The Year of Living Constitutionally, A.J. Jacobs tries to get inside the minds of the Founding Fathers by living as closely as possible to the original meaning of the Constitution. He asserts his right to free speech by writing his opinions on parchment with a quill and handing them out to strangers in Times Square. He consents to quartering a soldier, as is his Third Amendment right.

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Free Download Glenn Kenny, Stephen Graybill (Narrator), "The World Is Yours: The Story of Scarface"
English | ASIN: B0CPTBQKQZ | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~09:19:00 | 256 MB
The behind-the-scenes story of the iconic film, featuring new interviews with the cast and crew.
An unflinching confrontation of humanity's dark side, Brian De Palma's crime drama film Scarface gave rise to a cultural revolution upon its release in 1983. Its impact was unprecedented, making globe-spanning waves as a defining portrait of the gritty Miami street life. From Al Pacino's masterful characterization of Tony Montana to the iconic "Say hello to my little friend," Scarface maintains its reputation as an unwavering game changer in cult classic cinema.
With brand-new interviews and untold stories of the film's production, longtime film critic Glenn Kenny takes us on an unparalleled journey through the making of American depictions of crime. The World Is Yours highlights the influential characters and themes within Scarface, reflecting on how its storied legacy played such a major role in American culture.

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Free Download The Wolves of K Street: The Secret History of How Big Money Took Over Big Government (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CLHHKWXK | 2024 | 19 hours and 54 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 546 MB
Author: Brody Mullins, Luke Mullins
Narrator: Jacques Roy
Two veteran investigative journalists trace the rise of the modern lobbying industry through the three dynasties-one Republican, two Democratic-that have enabled corporate interests to infiltrate American politics and undermine our democracy. On K Street, a few blocks from the White House, you'll find the offices of the most powerful men in Washington. In the 1970s, the city's center of gravity began to shift away from elected officials in big marble buildings to a handful of savvy, handsomely paid operators who didn't answer to any fixed constituency. A dazzling and infuriating portrait of fifty years of corporate influence in Washington, The Wolves of K Street is a masterpiece of narrative nonfiction-irresistibly dramatic, spectacularly timely, explosive in its revelations, and absolutely impossible to put down.

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Free Download The White Bonus: Five Families and the Cash Value of Racism in America (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CY7GZ6C5 | 2024 | 11 hours and 50 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 342 MB
Author: Tracie McMillan
Narrator: Tavia Gilbert
In The White Bonus, McMillan asks a provocative question about racism in America: When people of color are denied so much, what are white people given? And how much is it worth-not in amorphous privilege, but in dollars and cents? McMillan begins with her family, tracking their modest wealth to its roots: American policy that helped whites first. Simultaneously, she details the complexities of their advantage, exploring her mother's death in a nursing home, at forty-four, on Medicaid; her family's implosion; and a small inheritance from a grandfather. In the process, McMillan puts a cash value to whiteness in her life and assesses its worth. She expands her investigation to four other white subjects of different generations across the United States. McMillan shows how, and to what degree, racial privilege begets material advantage across class, time, and place. McMillan brings groundbreaking insight on the white working class. And for fans of Tara Westover's Educated and Kiese Laymon's Heavy, McMillan reckons with the connection between the abuse we endure at home and the abuse America allows.

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Free Download The Well-Connected Animal: Social Networks and the Wondrous Complexity of Animal Societies (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D2PCMXR9 | 2024 | 6 hours and 16 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 339 MB
Author: Lee Alan Dugatkin
Narrator: Patrick Lawlor
An engaging exploration of the wondrous social webs that permeate life in animal societies around the world. It's all about who you know. Whether vampire bats sharing blood meals for survival, field crickets remembering champion fighters, macaque monkeys forming grooming pacts after a deadly hurricane, or great tit birds learning the best way to steal milk-it pays to be well connected. In this tour of the animal kingdom, evolutionary biologist Lee Alan Dugatkin reveals a new field of study, uncovering social networks that existed long before the dawn of human social media. He accessibly describes the latest findings from animal behavior, evolution, computer science, psychology, anthropology, genetics, and neurobiology, and incorporates interviews and insights from researchers he finds swimming with manta rays, avoiding pigeon poop, and stopping monkeys from stealing iPads. With Dugatkin as our guide, we investigate social networks in giraffes, elephants, kangaroos, Tasmanian devils, whales, bats, and more. From animal networks in Australia and Asia to Africa, Europe, and the Americas, The Well-Connected Animal is an eye-opening expose of wild friends, enemies, and everything in between.

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Free Download The Way of the Champion: Pain, Persistence, and the Path Forward (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CKKKCW8D | 2024 | 5 hours and 52 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 328 MB
Author: Paul Rabil, Bill Belichick
Narrator: Paul Rabil, David Cohen
From lacrosse legend Paul Rabil, lessons on becoming a true champion-in sports, business, and life. Long before Paul Rabil had become lacrosse's most acclaimed player, the sport's first million-dollar man, and the cofounder of the Premier Lacrosse League, he always strove for greatness. The problem was he lacked a manual for how to achieve it-so, he set out to create one himself. He talked to Bill Belichick about how to prepare, Steph Curry about how to practice, Sue Bird about how to develop resilience, and Mark Cuban about how to build a career with longevity. From the wisdom of these and other legends, and through his own-often painful-trial and error, he forged himself into a true champion.

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Free Download The Way of Ronin: Defying the Odds on Battlefields, in Business and in Life (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CMVT7Q3V | 2024 | 12 hours and 9 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 334 MB
Author: Tu Lam
Narrator: Tu Lam, Pun Bandhu
From Special Forces veteran and internationally respected teacher of Rōnin Tactics to streaming and videogame fan favorite, Tu Lam's memoir will captivate, astonish, exhilarate, and even profoundly resonate. Tu Lam has become known not just for his accomplishments as a decorated Green Beret, but also for his work outside the military. In The Way of Rōnin, he reveals his against-all-odds story. Tu Lam's resilience, dedication, and relentless pursuit of freedom saw him achieving Full Spectrum US Special Operations across twenty-seven countries worldwide for more than twenty years, only to pay the price of his own physical and mental trauma as well as addiction.

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Free Download The Way You Make Me Feel: Love in Black and Brown (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CGRXBF5N | 2024 | 9 hours and 21 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 272 MB
Author: Nina Sharma
Narrator: Nina Sharma
A hilarious and moving memoir in essays about love and allyship, told through one Asian and Black interracial relationship. When Nina Sharma meets Quincy while hitching a ride to a friend's Fourth of July barbecue, she spots a favorite book, Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior,in the back seat of his cramped car, and senses a sadness from him that's all too familiar to her. She is immediately intrigued-who is this man? In The Way You Make Me Feel, Sharma chronicles her and Quincy's love story, and in doing so, examines how their Black and Asian relationship becomes the lens through which she moves through and understands the world. In a series of sensual and sparkling essays, Sharma reckons with caste, race, colorism, and mental health, moving from her seemingly idyllic suburban childhood through her and Quincy's early sweeping romance in the so-called postracial Obama years and onward to their marriage.

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Free Download The Way That Leads Among the Lost: Life, Death, and Hope in Mexico City's Anexos (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C3P2FF17 | 2024 | 8 hours and 39 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 251 MB
Author: Angela Garcia
Narrator: Inés del Castillo
Based on over a decade of research, a powerful, moving work of narrative nonfiction that illuminates the little-known world of the anexos of Mexico City, the informal addiction treatment centers where mothers send their children to escape the violence of the drug war. The Way That Leads Among the Lost reveals a hidden place where care and violence are impossible to separate: the anexos of Mexico City. The prizewinning anthropologist Angela Garcia takes us deep into the world of these small rooms, informal treatment centers for alcoholism, addiction, and mental illness, spread across Mexico City's tenements and reaching into the United States. Run and inhabited by Mexico's most marginalized populations, they are controversial for their illegality and their use of coercion. Yet for many Mexican families desperate to keep their loved ones safe, these rooms offer something of a refuge from what lies beyond them-the intensifying violence surrounding the drug war. This is the first book ever written on the anexos.

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