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Free Download How We Ended Racism: Realizing a New Possibility in One Generation (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CKFLZ82P | 2023 | 10 hours and 25 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 287 MB
Author: Justin Michael Williams, Shelly Tygielski
Narrator: Justin Michael Williams, Shelly Tygielski
"It's the year 2050... and racism has ended." Could this really be our future? If so, what has to happen now to achieve such a radical change? In How We Ended Racism, Justin Michael Williams and Shelly Tygielski reveal a path for real and lasting global impact-not just talking about it, studying it, or making small steps, but actually ending racism in one generation. Williams and Tygielski draw from a wide array of scientific studies, as well as their practical successes in teaching a multitude of diverse groups across perceived "divides," to show us how to shift our perspective and enact lasting change in our families, workplaces, communities, and beyond. Here they provide solid answers to the questions future generations will ask about this pivotal time in history, by laying out the eight conditions that needed to arise in humanity to realize this possibility.

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Free Download How They Broke Britain (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C9DHKY98 | 2023 | 10 hours and 23 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 568 MB
Author: James O'Brien
Narrator: James O'Brien
Something has gone really wrong in Britain. Our economy has tanked, our freedoms are shrinking, and social divisions are growing. Our politicians seem most interested in their own careers, and much of the media only make things worse. We are living in a country almost unrecognisable from the one that existed a decade ago. But whose fault is it really? Who broke Britain and how did they do it? Bold and incisive as ever, James O'Brien reveals the shady network of influence that has created a broken Britain of strikes, shortages and scandals. He maps the web connecting dark think tanks to Downing Street, the journalists complicit in selling it to the public and the media bosses pushing their own agendas. Over ten chapters, each focusing on a particular person complicit in the downfall, James O'Brien reveals how a select few have conspired - sometimes by incompetence, sometimes by design - to bring Britain to its knees.

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Free Download How Not to Age: The Scientific Approach to Getting Healthier as You Get Older (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B09Q7FR4ZF | 2023 | 27 hours and 58 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 804 MB
Author: Michael Greger
Narrator: Michael Greger
Uncover the evidence-based science to slowing the effects of aging, from the New York Times bestselling author. When Dr. Michael Greger, founder of NutritionFacts.org, dove into the top peer-reviewed anti-aging medical research, he realized that diet could regulate every one of the most promising strategies for combating the effects of aging. We don't need Big Pharma to keep us feeling young-we already have the tools. In How Not to Age, the internationally renowned physician and nutritionist breaks down the science of aging and chronic illness and explains how to help avoid the diseases most commonly encountered in our journeys through life. Physicians have long treated aging as a malady, but getting older does not have to mean getting sicker. There are eleven pathways for aging in our bodies' cells and we can disrupt each of them.

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Free Download How Migration Really Works: The Facts About the Most Divisive Issue in Politics (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BYB5MDV8 | 2023 | 16 hours and 13 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 469 MB
Author: Hein de Haas
Narrator: Matthew Spencer
An authoritative guide to global migration that corrects decades of misunderstanding and misguided policy, "defying orthodoxy on all sides of the debate". As debates on immigration have reached fever pitch, so has political and media fearmongering. But what are the facts behind the headlines? Drawing on three decades of research, migration expert Hein de Haas destroys the myths that politicians, interest groups, and media spread about immigration. He reveals: Global migration is not at an all-time high. Climate change will not lead to mass migration. Immigration mainly benefits the wealthy, not workers. Border restrictions have paradoxically produced more migration. Ultimately, de Haas shows migration not as a problem to be solved, nor as a solution to a problem, but as it really is. This book is an essential guide to one of our most divisive political issues, showing how we can move beyond today's deeply polarized debate and make migration work better for everyone.

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Free Download How Life Works: A User's Guide to the New Biology (Audiobook)
English | ISBN: 9781529096026 | 2023 | 17 hours and 40 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 500 MB
Author: Philip Ball
Narrator: Philip Ball
A cutting-edge new vision of biology that proposes to revise our concept of what life is - from Science Book Prize winner and former Nature editor Philip Ball. Biology is undergoing a quiet but profound transformation. Several aspects of the standard picture of how life works have been exposed as incomplete, misleading, or wrong. In How Life Works, Philip Ball explores the new biology, revealing life to be a far richer, more ingenious affair than we had guessed. With this knowledge come new possibilities. Today we can redesign and reconfigure living systems, tissues, and organisms. We can reprogram cells, for instance, to carry out new tasks and grow into structures not seen in the natural world. Some researchers believe that ultimately we will be able to regenerate limbs and organs, and perhaps even create new life forms that evolution has never imagined. Incorporating the latest research and insights, How Life Works is a sweeping journey into this new frontier of the nature of life, a realm that will reshape our understanding of life as we know it.

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Free Download How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BVNLX4HT | 2023 | 11 hours and 25 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 332 MB
Author: Deb Chachra
Narrator: Kathe Mazur
A new way of seeing the essential systems hidden inside our walls, under our streets, and all around us. Infrastructure is a marvel, meeting our basic needs and enabling lives of astounding ease and productivity that would have been unimaginable just a century ago. It is the physical manifestation of our social contract-of our ability to work collectively for the public good-and it consists of the most complex and vast technological systems ever created by humans. A soaring bridge is an obvious infrastructural feat, but so are the mostly hidden reservoirs, transformers, sewers, cables, and pipes that deliver water, energy, and information to wherever we need it. When these systems work well, they hide in plain sight.

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Free Download Homer and His Iliad (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BWGGJR2T | 2023 | 16 hours and 44 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 478 MB
Author: Robin Lane Fox
Narrator: Steve John Shepherd
A groundbreaking reassessment of the Iliad, uncovering how the poem was written and why it remains enduringly powerful. The Iliad is the world's greatest epic poem-heroic battle and divine fate set against the Trojan War. Its beauty and profound bleakness are intensely moving, but great questions remain: Where, how, and when was it composed and why does it endure? Robin Lane Fox addresses these questions, drawing on a lifelong love and engagement with the poem. He argues for a place, a date, and a method for its composition-subjects of ongoing controversy-combining the detailed expertise of a historian with a poetic reader's sensitivity. Lane Fox considers hallmarks of the poem; its values, implicit and explicit; its characters; its women; its gods; and even its horses. Thousands of listeners turn to the Iliad every year. Drawing on 50 years of listening and research, Lane Fox offers us a breathtaking tour of this magnificent text, revealing why the poem has endured for ages.

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Free Download Holy Wars: 3000 Years of Battles in the Holy Land (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CHWWVFR7 | 2023 | 9 hours and 9 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 264 MB
Author: Gary L. Rashba
Narrator: Jim Denison
Holy Wars describes three thousand years of war in the Holy Land with the unique approach of focusing on pivotal battles or campaigns, beginning with the Israelites' capture of Jericho and ending with Israel's last full-fledged assault against Lebanon. Its chapters stop along the way to examine key battles fought by the Philistines, Assyrians, Greeks, Romans, Arabs, Crusaders, and Mamluks-the latter clash, at Ayn Jalut, comprising the first time the Mongols suffered a decisive defeat. The modern era saw the rise of the Ottomans and an incursion by Napoleon, who only found bloody stalemate outside the walls of Akko.

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Free Download Hitchcock's Blondes: The Unforgettable Women Behind the Legendary Director's Dark Obsession (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BVNYDR77 | 2023 | 10 hours and 29 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 302 MB
Author: Laurence Leamer
Narrator: Sharmila Devar
Bestselling author Laurence Leamer shares an engrossing account of the enigmatic director Alfred Hitchcock that finally puts the dazzling actresses he cast in his legendary movies at the center of the story. Alfred Hitchcock was fixated-not just on the dark, twisty stories that became his hallmark, but also by the blond actresses who starred in many of his iconic movies. The director of North by Northwest, Rear Window, and other classic films didn't much care if they wore wigs, got their hair coloring out of a bottle, or were the rarest human specimen-a natural blonde-as long as they shone with a golden veneer on camera. The lengths he went to in order to showcase (and often manipulate) these women would become the stuff of movie legend. But the women themselves have rarely been at the center of the story, until now.

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Free Download Higher Power: An American Town's Story of Faith, Hope, and Nuclear Energy (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CNS3W8YL | 2023 | 19 hours and 18 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 542 MB
Author: Casey Bukro
Narrator: Adam Barr
Nuclear power once promised to be the solution to the world's energy crisis, but that all changed in the late twentieth century after multiple high-profile accidents and meltdowns. Power plant workers, finding themselves the subject of public opposition, became leery of reporters. But one plant in Zion, Illinois, allowed unrestricted access to one journalist: the Chicago Tribune's Casey Bukro. Bukro spent two years inside the Zion nuclear plant, interviewing employees, witnessing high-risk maintenance procedures, and watching the radiation exposure counter on his own dosimeter tick up and up. In Higher Power, Bukro's reporting from the plant is prefaced by a compelling history of the city of Zion, including a tell-all of John Alexander Dowie, a nineteenth-century "faith healer" who founded Zion, and whose evangelism left a mark on the city well into the modern era, even as a new "higher" power-nuclear energy-moved into town. With the acceleration of climate change, the questions and challenges surrounding nuclear power have never been more relevant. Should we try to address the mistakes made in the past? What part could nuclear power play in our energy future? Higher Power explores these questions and examines one American town's attempts to build a better society as a bellwether for national policy and decision making.

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