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Free Download Bowie by Simon Critchley, Eric Hanson, Audible Studios
English | 2015 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B00S00SM98 | M4B@64 Kbps | Duration: 1:35 h | 43 Mb
Simon Critchley first encountered David Bowie in the early '70s, when the singer appeared on Britain's most-watched music show, Top of the Pops. His performance of "Starman" mesmerized Critchley: it was "so sexual, so knowing, so strange". Two days later Critchley's mum bought a copy of the single; she liked both the song and the performer's bright orange hair (she had previously been a hairdresser). The seed of a lifelong love affair was thus planted in the mind of her son, aged 12.
In this concise and engaging excursion through the songs of one of the world's greatest pop stars, Critchley, whose writings on philosophy have garnered widespread praise, melds personal narratives of how Bowie lit up his dull life in southern England's suburbs with philosophical forays into the way concepts of authenticity and identity are turned inside out in Bowie's work. The result is nearly as provocative and mind-expanding as the artist it portrays.

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Free Download Bourgeois Equality: How Ideas, Not Capital or Institutions, Enriched the World (Audiobook)
English | June 29, 2017 | ASIN: B073GKSLCB | M4B@62 kbps | 29h 38m | 807.74 MB
Author: Deirdre N. McCloskey
Narrator: Marguerite Gavin
There's little doubt that most humans today are better off than their forebears. Stunningly so, the economist and historian Deirdre McCloskey argues in the concluding volume of her trilogy celebrating the oft-derided virtues of the bourgeoisie. The poorest of humanity, McCloskey shows, will soon be joining the comparative riches of Japan and Sweden and Botswana.

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Free Download Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can't Explain the Modern World (Audiobook)
English | June 29, 2017 | ASIN: B073GJK5TF | MP3@64 kbps | 20h 42m | 571.59 MB
Author: Deirdre N. McCloskey
Narrator: Marguerite Gavin
The big economic story of our times is not the Great Recession. It is how China and India began to embrace neoliberal ideas of economics and attributed a sense of dignity and liberty to the bourgeoisie they had denied for so long. The result was an explosion in economic growth and proof that economic change depends less on foreign trade, investment, or material causes and a whole lot more on ideas and what people believe.

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Free Download Book of Queens: The True Story of the Middle Eastern Horsewomen Who Fought the War on Terror (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BTQ5HYY9 | 2023 | 10 hours and 40 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 306 MB
Author: Pardis Mahdavi
Narrator: Pardis Mahdavi, Shila Ommi, Suzanne Toren, Sitara Attaie, Nikki Massoud, Sean Rohani
The untold story of generations of Middle Eastern freedom fighters-horsewomen who safeguarded an ancient breed of Caspian horse-and their efforts to defend their homelands from the Taliban and others seeking to destroy them. Book of Queens reaches back centuries to the Persian Empire and a woman disguised as a man, facing an invading army, protected only by light armor and the stallion she sat astride. Mahdavi draws a thread from past to present: from her fearless Iranian grandmother, who guided survivors of domestic violence to independent mountain colonies in Afghanistan where the women, led by a general named Mina, became their country's first line of defense from marauding warlords.

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Free Download Bluefishing: The Art of Making Things Happen (Audiobook)
English | October 17, 2017 | ASIN: B0766215P6 | M4B@64 kbps | 3h 53m | 110 MB
Author and Narrator: Steve Sims
The man who created Bluefish, the internationally famous company that makes once-in-a-lifetime events happen for the rich and famous, reveals to the rest of us his trade secrets for making things happen.

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Free Download Blood on the Coal: The True Story of the Great Springhill Mine Disaster (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BT31Z8WP | 2023 | 10 hours and 1 minute | M4B@64 kbps | 286 MB
Author: Ken Cuthbertson
Narrator: Miles Meili
The riveting true story of one of Canada's worst mining disasters, told in the voices of the men who survived it. They said it was the world's deepest and most dangerous coal mine. Those who made that claim were probably correct. What is certain is that in October 1958, the Dominion Steel and Coal Corporation's No. 2 colliery at Springhill, Nova Scotia, was a leading candidate for both those dubious distinctions. The mine was the proverbial "disaster waiting to happen." And it did. Springhill was the quintessential one-industry town, whose existence depended on coal, a commodity with a dying market. And yet something far worse was soon to come.

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Free Download Bismarck's War: The Franco-Prussian War and the Making of Modern Europe (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BWG93PQ1 | 2023 | 17 hours and 37 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 508 MB
Author: Rachel Chrastil
Narrator: Sarah Borges
A new history of the war that toppled the French Empire, unified Germany, and set Europe on the path to World War I. Among the conflicts that convulsed Europe during the nineteenth century, none was more startling and consequential than the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1871. Deliberately engineered by Prussian chancellor Otto von Bismarck, the war succeeded in shattering French supremacy, deposing Napoleon III, and uniting a new German Empire. But it also produced brutal military innovations and a precarious new imbalance of power that together set the stage for the devastating world wars of the next century. In Bismarck's War, historian Rachel Chrastil chronicles events on the battlefield in full, while also showing in intimate detail how the war reshaped and blurred the boundaries between civilian and soldier as the fighting swept across France. The result is the definitive history of a transformative conflict that changed Europe, and the history of warfare, forever.

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Free Download Big Caesars and Little Caesars: How They Rise and How They Fall - from Julius Caesar to Boris Johnson (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BXYWG79V | 2023 | 11 hours and 10 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 818 MB
Author: Ferdinand Mount
Narrator: Paul Blezard
Who said that dictatorship was dead? The world today is full of Strong Men and their imitators. Caesarism is alive and well. Yet in modern times it's become a strangely neglected subject. Ferdinand Mount opens up a fascinating exploration of how and why Caesars seize power and why they fall. There is a comforting illusion shared by historians and political commentators from Fukuyama back to Macaulay, Mill and Marx, that history progresses in a nice straight line towards liberal democracy or socialism, despite the odd hiccup. In reality, every democracy, however sophisticated or stable it may look, has been attacked or actually destroyed by a would-be Caesar, from Ancient Greece to the present day. Marx was wrong. This Caesarism is not an absurd throwback, it is an ever-present danger.

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Free Download Belisarius & Antonina: Love and War in the Age of Justinian (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CGVNWKXV | 2023 | 9 hours and 34 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 274 MB
Author: David Alan Parnell
Narrator: Julia Anthony
Belisarius and Antonina were titans in the Roman world some 1,500 years ago. Belisarius was the most well-known general of his age, victor over the Persians, conqueror of the Vandals and the Goths, and as if this were not enough, wealthy beyond imagination. She made a name for herself by traveling with Belisarius on his military campaigns, deposing a pope, and scheming to disgrace important Roman officials. This unadulterated power and wealth did not mean that Belisarius and Antonina were universally successful in all that they undertook. These failures knock them from their lofty perch, humanize them, and make them even more relatable and intriguing to us today.

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Free Download Becoming a Matriarch (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BZK1YG59 | 2023 | 6 hours and 19 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 352 MB
Author: Helen Knott
Narrator: Helen Knott
When matriarchs begin to disappear, there is a choice to either step into the places they left behind, or to craft a new space. Helen Knott's debut memoir, wowed reviewers, award juries, and readers alike with its profoundly honest and moving account of addiction, intergenerational trauma, resilience, and survival. Now, in her highly anticipated second book, Knott returns with a chronicle of grief, love, and legacy. Having lost both her mom and grandmother in just over six months, forced to navigate the fine lines between matriarchy, martyrdom, and codependency, Knott realizes she must let go, not just of the women who raised her, but of the woman she thought she was. Woven into the book are themes of mourning, sobriety through loss, and generational dreaming. Becoming a Matriarch is charted with poetic insights, sass, humour, and heart, taking the listener over the rivers and mountains of Dane Zaa territory in Northeastern British Columbia, along the cobbled streets of Antigua, Guatemala, and straight to the heart of what matriarchy truly means. This is a journey through pain, on the way to becoming.

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