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Free Download Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis (Audiobook)
English | Datum: March 10, 2015 | ASIN: B00TJ1FX6C | MP3@64 kbps | 10h 18m | 242.80 MB
Author: Robert D. Putnam
Narrator: Arthur Morey
A groundbreaking examination of the growing inequality gap from the best-selling author of Bowling Alone: why fewer Americans today have the opportunity for upward mobility.

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Free Download Nonverts: The Making of Ex-Christian America (Audiobook)
English | December 01, 2022 | ASIN: B0BMB8SHDW | M4B@125 kbps | 6h 43m | 366.73 MB
Author: Stephen Bullivant
Narrator: Liam Gerrard
An entertaining and insightful exploration of the American ex-religious

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Free Download Nine Lives and Counting: A Bounty Hunter's Journey to Faith, Hope, and Redemption (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B09Y666TZJ | 2024 | 5 hours and 54 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 326 MB
Author: Duane "Dog" Chapman
Narrator: Duane "Dog" Chapman, Mike Ortego, Francie Chapman
Includes an audiobook-exclusive introduction from the author. Go behind-the-scenes with Duane "Dog" Chapman, star of the hit reality show Dog the Bounty Hunter and two-time New York Times bestselling author, as he shares new stories about his faith in Jesus, family, and the discovery of God's grace at work throughout his life. From being in a motorcycle gang, to being incarcerated, and then becoming a widely-know TV personality, Duane's life has been anything but ordinary. But, through every success and failure, the one constant has been his faith in God. For the first time, Daune is sharing how his faith has brought him through life's greatest difficulties, giving him renewed purpose and meaning. In Nine Lives and Counting Duane offers fresh insight into some of his well-known life events, and he also gives you access to previously untold stories. You will be inspired.

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Free Download New Cold Wars: China's Rise, Russia's Invasion, and America's Struggle to Defend the West (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CDQJ4HJN | 2024 | 18 hours and 6 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 536 MB
Author: David E. Sanger, Mary K. Brooks
Narrator: David E. Sanger, Robertson Dean
Three decades after the end of the Cold War, the United States finds itself in a volatile rivalry with the other two great nuclear powers-Xi Jinping's China and Vladimir Putin's Russia-in a world far more complex and dangerous than that of half a century ago. New Cold Wars-the latest from the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author David E. Sanger-is a fast-paced account of America's plunge into simultaneous confrontations with two very different adversaries. For years, the United States was confident that the newly democratic Russia and increasingly wealthy China could be lured into a Western-led order that promised prosperity and relative peace-so long as they agreed to Washington's terms. By the time America emerged from the age of terrorism, it was clear that this had been a fantasy. Now the three powers are engaged in a high-stakes struggle for military, economic, political, and technological supremacy, with nations around the world pressured to take sides.

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Free Download Never Say You've Had a Lucky Life: Especially If You've Had a Lucky Life (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CCW64BC8 | 2024 | 7 hours and 39 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 219 MB
Author: Joseph Epstein
Narrator: Fred Sanders
A rich and comic portrait of the radical changes in American life and the literary world over the last eighty years. An autobiography usually requires a justification. The great autobiographies-those by Benvenuto Cellini, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Benjamin Franklin, and Henry Brooks Adams-were justified by their authors living in interesting times, harboring radically new ideas, or participating in great events. Joseph Epstein qualifies on none of these counts. His life has been quiet, lucky in numerous ways, and far from dramatic. But it has also been emblematic of the great changes in our country since World War II. He grew up in a petit-bourgeois, Midwestern milieu, and the city of Chicago looms large in his life. He drew a lucky ticket in the parent lottery and his was a happy boyhood spent on playgrounds and hanging around drug stores. At high school dances, he was the rhumba king and at drive-in movies he was never allowed to go as far with girls as he so ardently desired.

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Free Download Native Nations: A Millennium in North America (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CDHKPFWL | 2024 | 21 hours and 30 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 618 MB
Author: Kathleen DuVal
Narrator: Carolina Hoyos
A magisterial history of Indigenous North America that places the power of Native nations at its center, telling their story from the rise of ancient cities more than a thousand years ago to fights for sovereignty that continue today. Long before the colonization of North America, Indigenous Americans built diverse civilizations and adapted to a changing world in ways that reverberated globally. And, as award-winning historian Kathleen DuVal vividly recounts, when Europeans did arrive, no civilization came to a halt because of a few wandering explorers, even when the strangers came well armed.

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Free Download My Black Country: A Journey Through Country Music's Black Past, Present, and Future (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CLWQ3PKZ | 2024 | 11 hours and 10 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 321 MB
Author: Alice Randall
Narrator: Alice Randall
Alice Randall, award-winning professor, songwriter, and author with a "lively, engaging, and often wise" (The New York Times Book Review) voice, offers a lyrical, introspective, and unforgettable account of her past and her search for the first family of Black country music. Country music had brought Randall and her activist mother together and even gave Randall a singular distinction in American music history: she is the first Black woman to cowrite a number one country hit, Trisha Yearwood's "XXX's and OOO's". Randall found inspiration and comfort in the sounds and history of the first family of Black country music: DeFord Bailey, Lil Hardin, Ray Charles, Charley Pride, and Herb Jeffries who, together, made up a community of Black Americans rising through hard times to create simple beauty, true joy, and sometimes profound eccentricity. What emerges in My Black Country is a celebration of the most American of music genres and the radical joy in realizing the power of Black influence on American culture. As country music goes through a fresh renaissance today, with a new wave of Black artists enjoying success, My Black Country is the perfect gift for longtime country fans and a vibrant introduction to a new generation of listeners who previously were not invited to give the genre a chance.

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Free Download My Beloved Monster: Masha, the Half-Wild Rescue Cat Who Rescued Me (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CFCDGMFZ | 2024 | 13 hours and 47 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 396 MB
Author: Caleb Carr
Narrator: James Lurie
The #1 bestselling author tells the extraordinary story of Masha, a half-wild rescue cat who fought off a bear, tackled Caleb like a linebacker-and bonded with him as tightly as any cat and human possibly can. Caleb Carr has had special relationships with cats since he was a young boy in a turbulent household, famously peopled by the founding members of the Beat Generation, where his steadiest companions were the adopted cats that lived with him both in the city and the country. As an adult, he has had many close feline companions, with relationships that have outlasted most of his human ones. But only after building a three-story home in rural, upstate New York did he enter into the most extraordinary of all of his cat pairings: Masha, a Siberian Forest cat who had been abandoned as a kitten, and was languishing in a shelter when Caleb met her.

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Free Download Music and Mind: Harnessing the Arts for Health and Wellness (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C4VS8SWT | 2024 | 22 hours and 19 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 648 MB
Author: Renée Fleming
Narrator: Gina Daniels, Carin Gilfry, Patty Nieman, Cary Hite, Vikas Adam, Renée Fleming
This book inspires us all to immerse ourselves in the vast potential of music and other creative arts to heal our wounds, sharpen our minds, enliven our bodies, and restore our broken connections. World-renowned soprano and arts/health advocate Renée Fleming curates a collection of essays from leading scientists, artists, creative arts therapists, educators, and healthcare providers about the powerful impacts of music and the arts on health and the human experience. A compelling and growing body of research has shown music and arts therapies to be effective tools for addressing a widening array of conditions, from providing pain relief and alleviating anxiety and depression to regaining speech after stroke or traumatic brain injury, and improving mobility for people with disorders that include Parkinson's disease and MS. In Music and Mind Renée Fleming draws upon her own experience as an advocate to showcase the breadth of this booming field, inviting leading experts to share their discoveries. In addition to describing therapeutic benefits, the book explores evolution, brain function, childhood development, and technology as applied to arts and health. With essays from notable musicians, writers, and artists, as well as leading neuroscientists, Music and Mind is a groundbreaking book, the perfect introduction and overview of this exciting new field.

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Free Download Gowan Dawson, Nigel Patterson (Narrator), "Monkey to Man: The Evolution of the March of Progress Image"
English | ASIN: B0CZ1SP6H4 | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~11:23:00 | 313 MB
The first book to examine the iconic depiction of evolution, the "march of progress," and its role in shaping our understanding of how humans evolved
We are all familiar with the "march of progress," the representation of evolution that depicts a series of apelike creatures becoming progressively taller and more erect before finally reaching the upright human form. Its emphasis on linear progress has had a decisive impact on public understanding of evolution, yet the image contradicts modern scientific conceptions of evolution as complex and branching.
This book is the first to examine the origins and history of this ubiquitous and hugely consequential illustration. In a story spanning more than a century, from Victorian Britain to America in the Space Age, Gowan Dawson traces the interconnected histories of the two most important versions of the image: the frontispiece to Thomas Henry Huxley's Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature (1863) and "The Road to Homo Sapiens," a fold-out illustration in the bestselling book Early Man (1965). Dawson explores how the recurring appearances of this image pointed to shifting scientific and public perspectives on human evolution, as well as indicated novel artistic approaches, and advancements in technology.

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