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Free Download The Case against Perfection: Ethics in the Age of Genetic Engineering (Audiobook)
English | August 14, 2019 | ASIN: B07W62C2M1 | M4B@128 kbps | 2h 45m | 161 MB
Author: Michael J. Sandel | Narrator: Pete Cross
Breakthroughs in genetics present us with a promise and a predicament. The promise is that we will soon be able to treat and prevent a host of debilitating diseases. The predicament is that our newfound genetic knowledge may enable us to manipulate our nature - to enhance our genetic traits and those of our children. Although most people find at least some forms of genetic engineering disquieting, it is not easy to articulate why.
The Case Against Perfection explores these and other moral quandaries connected with the quest to perfect ourselves and our children. Michael Sandel argues that the pursuit of perfection is flawed for reasons that go beyond safety and fairness. The drive to enhance human nature through genetic technologies is objectionable because it represents a bid for mastery and dominion that fails to appreciate the gifted character of human powers and achievements. Carrying us beyond familiar terms of political discourse, this book contends that the genetic revolution will change the way philosophers discuss ethics and will force spiritual questions back onto the political agenda.

Free Download The Burning Sea: The Furyck Saga by A.E. Rayne, Finty Williams, Podium Audio
English | June 15, 2021 | ISBN: B094Q7DM3X | 21 hours and 18 minutes | M4B 127 Kbps | 1.16 Gb
The Furyck Saga continues with this thrilling second volume in A.E. Rayne's epic fantasy adventure!
As the kingdoms prepare for war, unexpected visitors and a horrifying murder throw everyone's plans into disarray. Amidst the chaos, Jael must find a way to lead her warriors to victory against King Haaron and his sons, watching as Eadmund drifts away from her, powerless to save him.

Free Download The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War (Audiobook)
English | October 01, 2013 | ASIN: B00FFHI2G2 | M4B@64 kbps | 13h 28m | 379 MB
Author: Stephen Kinzer | Narrator: David Cochran Heath
A joint biography of John Foster Dulles and Allen Dulles, who led the United States into an unseen war that decisively shaped today's world
During the 1950s, when the Cold War was at its peak, two immensely powerful brothers led the United States into a series of foreign adventures whose effects are still shaking the world.

Free Download The British in India: A Social History of the Raj (Audiobook)
English | December 18, 2018 | ASIN: B07KRHL5YG | M4B@64 kbps | 23h 11m | 687 MB
Author: David Gilmour | Narrator: Michael Page
An immersive portrait of the lives of the British in India, from the seventeenth century to Independence
Who of the British went to India, and why? We know about Kipling and Forster, Orwell and Scott, but what of the youthful forestry official, the enterprising boxwallah, the fervid missionary? What motivated them to travel halfway around the globe, what lives did they lead when they got there, and what did they think about it all?

Free Download The Brand Benefits Playbook: Why Customers Aren't Buying What You're Selling-And What to Do About It (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D5ZJGF3P | 2024 | 7 hours and 30 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 391 MB
Author: Allen Weiss, Debbie J. MacInnis
Narrator: Allen Weiss
Today's customers think less about products and more about brands, no matter whether those brands are organizational, nonprofit, individuals, or service oriented. Customers also care less about the features of your product-what it has-than about its benefits-what it does for them. While this sounds like common sense, shockingly few organizations actually conduct business this way. Drs. Allen Weiss and Debbie J. MacInnis, professors and branding, brand benefits, and positioning experts, are about to change that. In The Brand Benefits Playbook, Weiss and MacInnis help listeners understand, and transition to, a benefits-based model. This focus on customer benefits will teach organizations what market they are in (or could be operating in); how customers perceive their brand (and that of their competitors) in terms of benefits; the most effective way to segment a market and position a brand in terms of benefits; how to deliver benefits throughout the customer journey; and how a focus on benefits facilitates growth. Evidence-based, integrated, and simple, this innovative approach can be applied to all markets-and ensures that any brand can deliver the benefits its customers truly want.

Free Download The Boys of Riverside: A Deaf Football Team and a Quest for Glory (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CPTF436N | 2024 | 7 hours and 35 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 218 MB
Author: Thomas Fuller
Narrator: Thomas Fuller
The incredible story of an all-deaf high school football team's triumphant climb from underdog to undefeated, their inspirational brotherhood, a fascinating portrait of deafness in America, and the indefatigable head coach who spearheaded the team, by New York Times reporter and San Francisco Bureau Chief, Thomas Fuller. In November 2021, an obscure email from the California Department of Education landed in New York Times reporter, Thomas Fuller's, inbox. The football team at the California School for the Deaf in Riverside, a state-run school with only 168 high school students, was having an undefeated season. After years of covering wildfires, war, pandemic, and mass shootings, Fuller was captivated by the story about this deaf football team. It was uplifting. During the pandemic's gloom, it was a happy story.

Free Download Adolfo Ovies, Al Kessel (Narrator), "The Boy Generals: George Custer, Wesley Merritt, and the Cavalry of the Army of the Potomac: From the Gettysburg Retreat Through the Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1864"
English | ASIN: B0D5FCHQ4K | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~13:33:00 | 372 MB
Once below the Potomac River, the Union troopers raced down the east side of the Blue Ridge Mountains but were unable to prevent General Lee's wounded Army of Northern Virginia from reaching Culpeper. The balance of 1863 was a series of maneuvers, raids, and fighting that witnessed the near-destruction of the Michigan Cavalry Brigade at Buckland Mills and the indecisive and frustrating efforts of the Bristoe Station and Mine Run campaigns. Alfred Pleasonton's controversial command of the mounted arm ended abruptly, only to be replaced by the more controversial Philip H. Sheridan, whose combustible personality intensified the animosity burning between George Custer and Wesley Merritt.
Victory and glory followed the Cavalry Corps during the early days of the Overland Campaign. The spirited rivalry between Custer and Merritt took a turn for the worse and at Trevilian Station, the bitterness and rancor permeating their relationship broke into the open and made it into their official reports.
This well-researched and meticulously detailed account of the increasingly dysfunctional relationship between Custer and Merritt follows the same entertaining style as Ovies's first installment. The Boy Generals will change the way Civil War enthusiasts understand and judge the actions of the Union's bold riders.

Free Download The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CPTDT7SH | 2024 | 10 hours and 15 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 296 MB
Author: Evan Friss
Narrator: Jay Myers
An affectionate and engaging history of the American bookstore and its central place in American cultural life, from department stores to indies, from highbrow dealers trading in first editions to sidewalk vendors, and from chains to special-interest community destinations. Bookstores have always been unlike any other kind of store, shaping readers and writers, and influencing our tastes, thoughts, and politics. They nurture local communities while creating new ones of their own. Bookshops are powerful spaces, but they are also endangered ones. In The Bookshop,we see the stakes: what has been, and what might be lost. Evan Friss's history of the bookshop draws on oral histories, archival collections, municipal records, diaries, letters, and interviews with leading booksellers to offer a fascinating look at this institution beloved by so many.

Free Download The Book of Elsewhere: A Novel (Audiobook)
English | July 23, 2024 | ASIN: B0CPFWT9LP | M4B@128 kbps | 12h 1m | 668 MB
Authors: Keanu Reeves, China Miéville | Narrators: Keanu Reeves, China Miéville, Allan Corduner, Asia Kate Dillon, Edoardo Ballerini, Joshua Manning, Lily Rabe, Michiel Huisman
An "action-packed [and] profoundly stylish" (Los Angeles Times) epic from Keanu Reeves and China Miéville, unlike anything these two genre-bending pioneers have created before, inspired by the world of the BRZRKR comic books
"An exceptionally innovative collaboration from two remarkable minds."-William Gibson, author of Neuromancer

Free Download The Bomb Doctor: A Scientist's Story of Bombers, Beakers, and Bloodhounds (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D4XMZQNM | 2024 | 9 hours and 49 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 282 MB
Author: Kirk Yeager, Selene Yeager
Narrator: Paul Bellantoni
This is not CSI. What you encounter as a true bomb detective-or "Bomb Doctor," as some in the FBI call me-are fields of twisted metal containing soot-covered fragments intermingled with human remains. You have carnage and chaos. As you wade into that sea of wailing sirens and screaming survivors awash with the stench of diesel fuel and decaying bodies, your job is to ferret out forensic clues in a type of macabre scavenger hunt to ultimately reconstruct the scene and the explosive device and determine what happened and what the bomb looked like before it was torn asunder.