Audio Books

English | ASIN: B094SWVJSG | 2021 | 5 hours and 41 minutes |MP3|M4B | 156 MB
Documentary film can encompass anything from Robert Flaherty's pioneering ethnography Nanook of the North to Michael Moore's anti-Iraq War polemic Fahrenheit 9/11, from Dziga Vertov's artful Soviet propaganda piece Man with a Movie Camera to Luc Jacquet's heart-tugging wildlife epic March of the Penguins. In this concise, crisply written guide, Patricia Aufderheide takes listeners along the diverse paths of documentary history and charts the lively, often fierce debates among filmmakers and scholars about the best ways to represent reality and to tell the truths worth telling.
Beginning with an overview of the central issues of documentary filmmaking - its definitions and purposes, its forms and founders - Aufderheide focuses on several of its key subgenres, including public affairs films, government propaganda (particularly the works produced during World War II), historical documentaries, and nature films. Her thematic approach allows listeners to enter the subject matter through the kinds of films that first attracted them to documentaries, and it permits her to make connections between eras, as well as revealing the ongoing nature of documentary's core controversies involving objectivity, advocacy, and bias. Interwoven throughout are discussions of the ethical and practical considerations that arise with every aspect of documentary production.

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English | November 19, 2019 | ASIN: B081DC14XD |MP3|M4B | 3h 48m | 103.37 MB
Author: David L. Lewis
Narrator: Russell Newton

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English | ASIN: B08M42WKTJ | 2021 | 11 hours and 40 minutes |MP3|M4B | 323 MB
In this delightful tour of France, England, and Italy, YouTube star Katie Quinn shares the stories and science behind everyone's fermented favorites - cheese, wine, and bread - along with classic recipes. Delicious staples of a great meal, bread, cheese, and wine develop their complex flavors through a process known as fermentation. Katie Quinn spent months as an apprentice with some of Europe's most acclaimed experts to study the art and science of fermentation. Visiting grain fields, vineyards, and dairies, Katie brings the stories and science of these foods to the table, explains the process of each craft, and introduces the people behind them. Part artisanal survey, part travelogue, and part cookbook, Cheese, Wine, and Bread is an outstanding gastronomic tour for foodies, cooks, artisans, and armchair travelers alike.

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English | ASIN: B085LTQRTM | 2020 | 3 hours and 54 minutes |MP3|M4B | 216 MB
Is your quest to love yourself more actually making you miserable? We're told that the key to happiness is self-love. Instagram influencers, self-help gurus, and even Christian teachers promise that if we learn to love ourselves, we'll be successful, secure, and complete. But the promise doesn't deliver. Instead of feeling fulfilled, our pursuit of self-love traps us in an exhausting cycle: as we strive for self-acceptance, we become addicted to self-improvement. The truth is we can't find satisfaction inside ourselves because we are the problem. We struggle with feelings of inadequacy because we are inadequate. Alone, we are not good enough, smart enough, or beautiful enough. This book isn't about battling your not-enoughness; it's about embracing it.

Read More: You're Not Enough (and That's Okay) Escaping the Toxic Culture of Self-Love [Audiobook]

English | ASIN: B098BHWBF3 | 2021 | 5 hours and 14 minutes |MP3|M4B | 143 MB
A blend of history, analysis, and theory, Understanding Socialism is an honest and approachable text that knocks down false narratives, confronts failures and challenges of various socialist experiments throughout history, and offers a path to a new socialism based on workplace democracy.

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English | July 13, 2021 | ASIN: B098BNNDTD |MP3|M4B | 8h 34m | 255 MB
Author and Narrator: Helen Scales
A golden era of deep-sea discovery is underway as revolutionary studies rewrite the very notion of life on Earth and the rules of what is possible. In the process, the abyss is being revealed as perhaps the most amazing part of our planet, its topography even more varied and extreme than its landmass counterpart.

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English | ASIN: B08TLJQM8Z | 2021 | 9 hours and 6 minutes |MP3|M4B | 251 MB
Was John Lennon meeting Paul McCartney more significant than John Lennon meeting Yoko Ono? Rubber Soul or Revolver? Which Wings album was Paul McCartney's solo pinnacle? In 100 brief chapters, John M. Borack breaks down the biggest moments in Beatles history. Based on a life time of being an avid Beatles fan and a career as a music journalist, Borack digs into the hard questions. A book to nod along to, disagree with, and start conversations about, The Beatles 100 is a love letter to the biggest rock band of all time.

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English | ASIN: B098BJQV25 | 2021 | 4 hours and 52 minutes |MP3|M4B | 134 MB
For many, the terrorist attacks of September 2001 changed the face of the world, pushing terrorism to the top of political agendas, and leading to a series of world events, including the war in Iraq and the invasion of Afghanistan. The recent terror attacks in various European cities have shown that terrorism remains a crucial issue today. Charting a clear path through the efforts to understand and explain modern terrorism, Charles Townshend examines the historical, ideological, and local roots of terrorist violence.
This new edition analyzes the emergence of terrorism as a political strategy and discusses the objectives that have been pursued by users of this strategy from French revolutionaries to Islamic jihadists. Considering the kinds of groups and individuals who adopt terrorism, Townshend discusses the emergence of ISIS and the upsurge in individual suicide action, and he explores the issues involved in finding a proportionate response to the threat they present, particularly by liberal democratic societies. Analyzing the growing use of knives and other edged weapons in attacks, and the issue of "cyberterror", Townshend details the use of counterterrorist measures, from control orders to drone strikes, including the Belgian and French responses to the Brussels, Paris, Nice, and Rouen attacks.

Read More: Terrorism (3rd Edition) A Very Short Introduction [Audiobook]

English | June 08, 2021 | ASIN: B0957ZNCFY, B08SMQ57GL |MP3|M4B | 17h 47m | 974 MB
Author: Anne deCourcy | Narrator: Theo Solomon
How did a photographer who was a relentless playboy, an unashamed womanizer, and a leather-clad motorcyclist marry the Queen's sister and become the Establishment figure Lord Snowdon? The brilliantly talented Antony Armstrong-Jones often humiliated Princess Margaret, yet he was compassionate to the causes he cared about. Since his death in 2017, Snowdon still hasn't escaped the limelight, as more and more is revealed about his wild and intriguing life.

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English | ASIN: B091ZBMMWT | 2021 | 9 hours and 22 minutes |MP3|M4B | 510 MB
Two centuries before the daring exploits of Navy SEALs and Marine Raiders captured the public imagination, the US Navy and Marine Corps were already engaged in similarly perilous missions: raiding pirate camps, attacking enemy ships in the dark of night, and striking enemy facilities and resources on shore. Even John Paul Jones, father of the American navy, saw such irregular operations as critical to naval warfare. With Jones's own experience as a starting point, Benjamin Armstrong sets out to take irregular naval warfare out of the shadow of the blue-water battles that dominate naval history.
Beginning with the Continental Navy, Small Boats and Daring Men traces maritime missions through the wars of the early republic, from the coast of modern-day Libya to the rivers and inlets of the Chesapeake Bay. At the same time, Armstrong examines the era's conflicts with nonstate enemies and threats to American peacetime interests along Pacific and Caribbean shores. Armstrong brings a uniquely informed perspective to his subject; and his work - with reference to original naval operational reports, sailors' memoirs and diaries, and officers' correspondence - is at once an exciting narrative of danger and combat at sea and a thoroughgoing analysis of how these events fit into concepts of American sea power.

Read More: Small Boats and Daring Men Maritime Raiding, Irregular Warfare, and the Early American Navy [Audiobook]