Audio Books

Free Download On a MOVE: Philadelphia's Notorious Bombing and a Native Son's Lifelong Battle for Justice (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CCW7Z4HK | 2024 | 10 hours and 6 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 289 MB
Author: Mike Africa Jr., D. Watkins
Narrator: Mike Africa Jr.
The incredible story of MOVE, the revolutionary Black civil liberties group that Philadelphia police bombed in 1985, killing 11 civilians-by one of the few people born into the organization, raised during the bombing's tumultuous aftermath, and entrusted with repairing what was left of his family. Before police dropped a bomb on a residential neighborhood on May 13, 1985, few people outside Philadelphia were aware that a Black-led civil liberties organization had taken root there. Founded in 1972 by a charismatic ideologue called John Africa, MOVE's mission was to protect all forms of life from systemic oppression. They drew their ideology from the Black Panther Party and pre-dated animal and environmental rights groups like PETA and Earth First. MOVE emerged in an era when Black Philadelphians suffered under devastating policies brought by the long, doomed war in Vietnam, Mayor Frank Rizzo's overtly racist police surveillance, and, eventually, President Ronald Reagan's War on Drugs. MOVE members lived together in a collection of West Philadelphia row houses and took the surname Africa out of admiration for the group's founder. But in MOVE's lifestyle, city officials saw threats to their status quo.

Free Download On Trial... for Murder: Courtroom Dramas That Gripped the World (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CZ7PWWZX | 2024 | 9 hours and 34 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 276 MB
Author: Emily G. Thompson
Narrator: Avena Mansergh-Wallace
The dramatic events of some of the world's most controversial murder trials. The stakes are never higher when the charge is murder. Explore the riveting twists and turns of some of the most notorious and controversial murder trials in history, such as the O. J. Simpson, Phil Spector, and Oscar Pistorius cases. Each of the trials detailed in this audiobook-the latest in DK's highly successful series of true crime investigations-dominated the world's news media and gripped public attention. After examining the evidence, if you had been a member of the jury, what would have been your verdict? Guilty? Or Not Guilty?

Free Download On Living and Dying Well (Penguin Classics) (Audiobook)
English | February 25, 2021 | ASIN: B08VW6VC9H | M4B@128 kbps | 7h 20m | 400 MB
Author: Cicero | Narrator: John Hastings | Translator: Thomas Habinek
This Penguin Classic is performed by John Hastings. This definitive recording includes an introduction by Thomas Habinek read by John Hastings.
In the first century BC, Marcus Tullius Cicero, orator, statesman and defender of republican values, created these philosophical treatises on such diverse topics as friendship, religion, death, fate and scientific inquiry. A pragmatist at heart, Cicero's philosophies were frequently personal and ethical, drawn not from abstract reasoning but through careful observation of the world. The resulting works remind us of the importance of social ties, the questions of free will and the justification of any creative endeavour.

Free Download On Call: A Doctor's Journey in Public Service (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CV5ZR4C9 | 2024 | 19 hours and 12 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 519 MB
Author: Anthony Fauci
Narrator: Anthony Fauci
The memoir by the doctor who became a beacon of hope for millions through the COVID pandemic, and whose six-decade career in high-level public service put him in the room with seven presidents. Anthony Fauci is arguably the most famous-and most revered-doctor in the world today. His role guiding America sanely and calmly through Covid (and through the torrents of Trump) earned him the trust of millions during one of the most terrifying periods in modern American history, but this was only the most recent of the global epidemics in which Dr. Fauci played a major role. His crucial role in researching HIV and bringing AIDS into sympathetic public view and his leadership in navigating the Ebola, SARS, West Nile, and anthrax crises, make him truly an American hero. His memoir reaches back to his boyhood in Brooklyn, New York, and carries through decades of caring for critically ill patients, navigating the whirlpools of Washington politics, and behind-the-scenes advising and negotiating with seven presidents on key issues from global AIDS relief to infectious disease preparedness at home. ON CALL will be an inspiration for listeners who admire and are grateful to him and for those who want to emulate him in public service. He is the embodiment of "speaking truth to power," with dignity and results.

Free Download Of Sound Mind: How Our Brain Constructs a Meaningful Sonic World (Audiobook)
English | September 28, 2021 | ASIN: B09FYHB9KD | M4B@64 kbps | 9h 26m | 282 MB
Author: Nina Kraus | Narrator: Elizabeth Wiley
How sound leaves a fundamental imprint on who we ar
Making sense of sound is one of the hardest jobs we ask our brains to do. In Of Sound Mind, Nina Kraus examines the partnership of sound and brain, showing for the first time that the processing of sound drives many of the brain's core functions. Our hearing is always on - we can't close our ears the way we close our eyes - and yet we can ignore sounds that are unimportant. We don't just hear; we engage with sounds. Kraus explores what goes on in our brains when we hear a word - or a chord, or a meow, or a screech.

Free Download Of Fear and Strangers: A History of Xenophobia (Audiobook)
English | September 14, 2021 | ASIN: B097J1QBPW | M4B@128 kbps | 12h 4m | 690 MB
Author: George Makari | Narrator: Paul Heitsch
A startling work of historical sleuthing and synthesis, Of Fear and Strangers reveals the forgotten histories of xenophobia - and what they mean for us today.
By 2016, it was impossible to ignore an international resurgence of xenophobia. What had happened? Looking for clues, psychiatrist and historian George Makari started out in search of the idea's origins. To his astonishment, he discovered an unfolding series of never-told stories. While a fear and hatred of strangers may be ancient, he found that the notion of a dangerous bias called "xenophobia" arose not so long ago.

Free Download Of Consolation: To Marcia, to Helvia, to Polybius (Audiobook)
English | July 20, 2023 | ASIN: B0C9KSG6JR | M4B@128 kbps | 3h 58m | 220 MB
Author: Seneca the Younger | Narrator: Mike Rogers
These three 'Consolations', written by Seneca to his mother and two friends, have been described as 'the crowning achievement in the canon of 'consolation letters'. But sentimental they are not, for they emerge from the writer's deep-seated commitment to Stoicism, where individuals are exhorted to inhabit qualities of virtue, positivity, resilience, and indifference. This recording opens with Seneca's consolatory letter to Marcia, who, after three years, was still mourning the death of her son. He recognizes her exceptional personal qualities and what benefits she has brought to her family, having rescued her father's legacy as a historian following his death. He cites other noble Roman mothers who lost their sons, and enjoins her to adopt a more Stoic attitude of mind: we are all destined to die, he declares.
The second letter is to his mother sent after he had been exiled to Corsica by Emperor Caligula. He counsels Helvia not to mourn his absence-not least because he himself does not feel grief at the prospect of his own exile. He acknowledges the trials of his mother during her life, remarking 'ill-fortune has given you no respite'. But her grief at the absence of her son may be put to one side in the knowledge that as he has 'never trusted in Fortune,' she can be comforted that her son is not discommoded. And history points to far harsher separations.

Free Download Oceans Rise Empires Fall: Why Geopolitics Hastens Climate Catastrophe (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0DC73LGDP | 2024 | 8 hours and 39 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 249 MB
Author: Gerard Toal
Narrator: Al Kessel
In the last few years, it has become abundantly clear that the effects of accelerating climate change will be catastrophic, from rising seas to more violent storms to desertification. Yet why do nation-states find it so difficult to implement transnational policies that can reduce carbon output and slow global warming? In Oceans Rise, Empires Fall, Gerard Toal identifies geopolitics as the culprit. States would prefer to reduce emissions in the abstract, but in the great global competition for geopolitical power, states always prioritize access to carbon-based fuels necessary for generating the sort of economic growth that helps them compete with rival states.

Free Download Obitchuary: The Big Hot Book of Death (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CP9WTC1K | 2024 | 5 hours and 39 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 319 MB
Author: Spencer Henry, Madison Reyes
Narrator: Spencer Henry, Madison Reyes, Annette Amelia Oliveira
Based on the popular podcast, Obitchuary: The Big Hot Book of Death is a smart, funny look at the American culture of death and how we're remembered. It's safe to say everyone thinks about death-whether they want to or not. But have you ever wondered about what sort of keepsakes you can make with your remains, or given any thought to the most scandalous deathbed confessions throughout history? Well Madison Reyes and Spencer Henry have, and they've spent countless hours scouring the darkest corners of the internet, digging through newspaper archives, devouring documents, and picking the brains of death industry experts to bring you Obitchuary, a darkly funny and deeply poignant exploration of all things death.

Free Download Now It Can Be Told: The Story of the Manhattan Project (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0DCK9WDP6 | 2024 | 16 hours and 27 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 468 MB
Author: General Leslie R. Groves
Narrator: Scott R. Pollak
General Leslie Groves and J. Robert Oppenheimer were the two men chiefly responsible for the building of the first atomic bomb at Los Alamos, code name The Manhattan Project. As the ranking military officer in charge of marshalling men and material for what was to be the most ambitious, expensive engineering feat in history, it was General Groves who hired Oppenheimer (with knowledge of his left-wing past), planned facilities that would extract the necessary enriched uranium, and saw to it that nothing interfered with the accelerated research and swift assembly of the weapon. This is his story of the political, logistical, and personal problems of this enormous undertaking which involved foreign governments, sensitive issues of press censorship, the construction of huge plants at Hanford and Oak Ridge, and a race to build the bomb before the Nazis got wind of it. The role of groves in the Manhattan Project has always been controversial. In his new introduction the noted physicist Edward Teller, who was there at Los Alamos, candidly assesses the general's contributions-and Oppenheimer's-while reflecting on the awesome legacy of their work.