Audio Books

English | ASIN: B09LG5TM15 | 2021 | 7 hours and 34 minutes |MP3|M4B | 208 MB
A scientist's manifesto addressing a soil loss crisis accelerated by poor conservation practices and climate change. This book by celebrated biologist Jo Handelsman lays bare the complex connections among climate change, soil erosion, food and water security, and drug discovery. Humans depend on soil for 95 percent of global food production, yet let it erode at unsustainable rates. In the United States, China, and India, vast tracts of farmland will be barren of topsoil within this century. The combination of intensifying erosion caused by climate change and the increasing food needs of a growing world population is creating a desperate need for solutions to this crisis.

Read More: A World Without Soil The Past, Present, and Precarious Future of the Earth Beneath Our Feet [Audiobook]

English | ASIN: B08MFRVCM7 | 2020 | 14 hours and 19 minutes |MP3|M4B | 781 MB
A thrilling history of the West's scramble for the riches of ancient Egypt by the foremost Egyptologist of our time. From the decipherment of hieroglyphics in 1822 to the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb by Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon a hundred years later, the uncovering of Egypt's ancient past took place in an atmosphere of grand adventure and international rivalry.

Read More: A World Beneath the Sands The Golden Age of Egyptology [Audiobook]

English | ASIN: B09FMVB57C | 2021 | 10 hours and 20 minutes |MP3|M4B | 284 MB
It's women, not men, who've brewed beer throughout most of human history. Their role as family and village brewer lasted for hundreds of thousands of years - through the earliest days of Mesopotamian civilization, the reign of Cleopatra, the witch trials of Medieval and Renaissance Europe, and the settling of colonial America. A Woman's Place Is in the Brewhouse celebrates the contributions of female brewers and explores the forces that have erased them from the brewing world. It's a history that's simultaneously inspiring and demeaning.

Read More: A Woman's Place Is in the Brewhouse A Forgotten History of Alewives, Brewsters, Witches, and CEOs [Audiobook]

English | ASIN: B09LZ4R9KF | 2021 | 25 hours and 24 minutes |MP3|M4B | 1.3 GB
In 1941 and 1942 the British and Indian armies were brutally defeated and Japan reigned supreme in its newly conquered territories throughout Asia. But change was coming. New commanders were appointed, significant training together with restructuring took place and new tactics were developed. A War of Empires by acclaimed historian Robert Lyman expertly retells these coordinated efforts and describes how a new volunteer Indian Army, rising from the ashes of defeat, would ferociously fight to turn the tide of war.

Read More: A War of Empires Japan, India, Burma & Britain 1941-45 [Audiobook]

English | 2015 |MP3|M4B | ASIN: B00TJ3EDL6 | Duration: 24:15 h | 1,3 GB
Ronald K. Fierstein / Narrated by Pete Larkin

Read More: A Triumph of Genius Edwin Land, Polaroid, and the Kodak Patent War (Audiobook)

English | 2021 |MP3|M4B | ASIN: B093X3XPTR | Duration: 17:14 h | 952 MB
Elaine Brown

Read More: A Taste of Power A Black Woman's Story (Audiobook)

English | 2021 |MP3|M4B | ASIN: B095KZ8448 | Duration: 10:00 h | 545 MB
Laura Dodsworth

Read More: A State of Fear How the UK Government Weaponised Fear During the COVID-19 Pandemic (Audiobook)

English | ISBN: 9780008502843 | 2021 | 10 hours and 3 minutes |MP3|M4B | 276 MB
The incendiary untold story of Ireland's response to the most significant public health emergency of the past century, woven from a wealth of original research and dozens of interviews with ministers, politicians, public health experts, essential workers and ordinary people on whom the crisis exacted a personal toll. Ranging from the halls of government buildings, where a new cabinet riven by personal acrimony found itself beset by a series of unprecedented crises, to the frontlines of the containment effort itself, where medical practitioners and the communities they serve were pushed to breaking point, A State of Emergency is a landmark work of investigative journalism and the defining account of an extraordinary time in Irish history.

Read More: A State of Emergency The Story of Ireland's COVID Crisis [Audiobook]

English | ASIN: B089MDGVKD | 2020 | 16 hours and 36 minutes |MP3|M4B | 906 MB
Countless would-be readers and listeners of Finnegans Wake - James Joyce's 1939 masterwork, on which he labored for a third of his life - have given up after a few pages and "dismissed the book as a perverse triumph of the unintelligible." In 1944, a young professor of mythology and literature named Joseph Campbell, working with novelist and poet Henry Morton Robinson, wrote the first guide to understanding the fascinating world of Finnegans Wake. Page by page, chapter by chapter, A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake outlines the basic action of Joyce's book, simplifies and clarifies the complex web of images and allusions, and provides an understandable, continuous narrative from which the listener can venture out on his or her own. This edition includes a foreword and updates by Joyce scholar Dr. Edmund L. Epstein that add the context of sixty subsequent years of scholarship.

Read More: A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake Unlocking James Joyce's Masterwork [Audiobook]

English | ASIN: B09BNST2XD | 2021 | 12 hours and 6 minutes |MP3|M4B | 661 MB
The authoritative account of the race to produce the vaccines that are saving us all, from the number one New York Times best-selling author. Few were ready when a mysterious respiratory illness emerged in Wuhan, China, in January 2020. Politicians, government officials, business leaders, and public-health professionals were unprepared for the most devastating pandemic in a century. Many of the world's biggest drug and vaccine makers were slow to react or couldn't muster an effective response. It was up to a small group of unlikely and untested scientists and executives to save civilization. A French businessman dismissed by many as a fabulist. A Turkish immigrant with little virus experience. A quirky Midwesterner obsessed with insect cells. A Boston scientist employing questionable techniques. A British scientist despised by his peers. Far from the limelight, each had spent years developing innovative vaccine approaches. Their work was met with skepticism and scorn. By 2020, these individuals had little proof of progress.

Read More: A Shot to Save the World The Inside Story of the Life-or-Death Race for a COVID-19 Vaccine [Audiobook]