Audio Books

People Stuff: Beyond Personality Problems: An Advanced Handbook for Leadership (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B08RSS9KP8 | 2021 | 5 hours and 41 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 157 MB
Author: Zoe Routh
Narrator: Zoe Routh, Jules Brooke, Dave Stokes

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Frank Ramsey: A Sheer Excess of Powers (Audiobook) by Cheryl Misak
English | September 23, 2020 | ASIN: B08HJMJWG3 | MP3@64 kbps | 19h 55m | 548 MB
Narrator: Liam Gerrard
When he died in 1930 aged 26, Frank Ramsey had already invented one branch of mathematics and two branches of economics, laying the foundations for decision theory and game theory. Keynes deferred to him; he was the only philosopher whom Wittgenstein treated as an equal. Had he lived he might have been recognized as the most brilliant thinker of the century. This amiable shambling bear of a man was an ardent socialist, a believer in free love, and an intimate of the Bloomsbury set. For the first time Cheryl Misak tells the full story of his extraordinary life.

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Andrew C. Scott, James Cameron Stewart (Narrator), "Fire: A Very Short Introduction"
English | ASIN: B08QL3TC86 | 2020 | MP3@64 kbps | ~04:46:00 | 136 MB
Fire is rarely out of the headlines, from large natural wildfires raging across the Australian or Californian countrysides to the burning of buildings such as the disasters of Grenfell tower and Notre Dame. Fire on these scales can represent a serious risk to human life and property. But the advent of fire made and controlled by humans also represented a crucial point in our evolution, allowing us to cook our food, forge our weapons, and warm our homes.
This Very Short Introduction audiobook covers the fundamentals of fire, whether wild or under human control, starting with the basics of ignition, combustion, and fuel. Andrew Scott considers both natural wildfires and the role of humans in making and suppressing fire. Despite frightening reports of wildfire destruction, he also shows how landscape fires have been part of our planet's history for 400 million years and do not always have to be extinguished. He also considers the problem of fires in urban settings, including new ways to prevent fires. The cost of wildfire can be steep - as well as the burning, post-fire erosion and flooding can have a great impact on both humans and the environment. It can also have a lasting effect in shaping ecosystems and plant life. Scott ends by examining the relationship between fire and the climate and considering the future of wildfire in a warming world.

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Zakiyyah Iman Jackson, Diana Blue (Narrator), "Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World"
English | ASIN: B08QVDMY9F | 2020 | MP3@64 kbps | ~10:43:00 | 304 MB
Rewriting the pernicious, enduring relationship between blackness and animality in the history of Western science and philosophy, Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World breaks open the rancorous debate between Black critical theory and posthumanism. Through the cultural terrain of literature by Toni Morrison, Nalo Hopkinson, Audre Lorde, and Octavia Butler, the art of Wangechi Mutu and Ezrom Legae, and the oratory of Frederick Douglass, Zakiyyah Iman Jackson both critiques and displaces the racial logic that has dominated scientific thought since the Enlightenment. In so doing, Becoming Human demonstrates that the history of racialized gender and maternity, specifically antiblackness, is indispensable to future thought on matter, materiality, animality, and posthumanism.
Jackson argues that African diasporic cultural production alters the meaning of being human and engages in imaginative practices of world-building against a history of the bestialization and thingification of blackness - the process of imagining the Black person as an empty vessel, a non-being, an ontological zero - and the violent imposition of colonial myths of racial hierarchy. What emerges is a radically unruly sense of a being, knowing, feeling existence: one that necessarily ruptures the foundations of "the human".

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DK, Tim Rumboll (Narrator), "Warfare: From Ancient Egypt to Iraq"
English | ASIN: B087YY3368 | 2020 | MP3@64 kbps | ~22:25:00 | 635 MB
Visit every major conflict through the ages.
Trace the epic 5,000-year story of warfare from the earliest battles to the War on Terror.

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Travelers in the Third Reich: The Rise of Fascism: 1919-1945 (Audiobook) by Julia Boyd
English | January 10, 2019 | ASIN: B07MH2ZCYS | M4B@64 kbps | 13h 46m | 375 MB
Narrator: Christa Lewis
This fascinating and shocking history of the rise of the Nazis draws together a multitude of expatriate voices - even Charles Lindbergh and Samuel Beckett - into a powerful narrative charting this extraordinary phenomenon.

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The Earth Is Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B01M00ZX8R | 2016 | 18 hours and 39 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 512 MB
Author: Peter Cozzens
Narrator: John Pruden

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Richard Striner, Paul Heitsch (Narrator), "Summoned to Glory: The Audacious Life of Abraham Lincoln"
English | ASIN: B08NC493B8 | 2020 | MP3@64 kbps | ~20:08:00 | 570 MB
A radical reinterpretation of America's greatest president
Where previous Lincoln biographers describe his temperament as "moderate", "passive", or even "conservative", historian Richard Striner offers a stunningly original perspective that will shed significant new light on one of the most studied figures in American history. Striner shows Lincoln's audacity as no other book has ever done. By emphasizing the workings of Lincoln's mind - stressing his cunning, his overall honesty, strategic thinking - even his ability to change his mind - Striner looks anew at many topics and themes important to Lincoln's story that either revise or add new meaning to the work of previous biographers. His insights into Lincoln's life, but also into antebellum America, and the military and political history of the Civil War, make this book indispensable for well-read armchair historians, seasoned students of Lincoln, the Civil War, or the American presidency and newcomers alike.

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Dani Shapiro (Author, Narrator), "Slow Motion: A Memoir of a Life Rescued by Tragedy"
English | ASIN: B088P8HH4P | 2020 | MP3@64 kbps | ~08:10:00 | 232 MB
From one of the most gifted writers of her generation comes the harrowing and exquisitely written true story of how a family tragedy saved her life.
Dani Shapiro was a young girl from a deeply religious home who became the girlfriend of a famous and flamboyant married attorney - her best friend's stepfather. The moment Lenny Klein entered her life, everything changed: She dropped out of college, began to drink heavily, and became estranged from her family and friends. But then the phone call came. There had been an accident on a snowy road near her family's home in New Jersey, and both her parents lay hospitalized in critical condition. This haunting memoir traces her journey back into the world she had left behind. At a time when she was barely able to take care of herself, she was faced with the terrifying task of taking care of two people who needed her desperately.

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Dr. Aoife Abbey, Esther Wane (Narrator), "Seven Signs of Life: Unforgettable Stories from an Intensive Care Doctor"
English | ASIN: B08N59P3DG | 2020 | MP3@64 kbps | ~05:14:00 | 147 MB
For fans of Paul Kalanithi's When Breath Becomes Air, an intensive care doctor reveals how everyday emotions are taken to extremes in the ICU.
Dr. Aoife Abbey takes us beyond the medical perspective to see the humanity at work inside our hospitals through the eyes of doctors and nurses as they witness and experience the full spectrum of human emotion with every shift. It is their responsibility to mitigate the grief of a family in mourning, calm a patient about to die, and confront their own fear of failure when lives are on the line. Whether they're providing hospice care, tending to victims of car accidents or violent attacks, determining the correct treatment for someone displaying signs of a heart attack or stroke, and managing staff, stress is a doctor's number-one companion. Cycling through the whirlwind of emotion that accompanies every case isn't only exhausting - it can be fatal.

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