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Free Download Great Utopian and Dystopian Works of Literature [TTC Audio]
English | February 03, 2017 | ASIN: B01N9R5PHE | M4B@128 kbps | 12h 29m | 714 MB
Lecturer: Pamela Bedore
Can literature change our real world society? At its foundation, utopian and dystopian fiction asks a few seemingly simple questions aimed at doing just that. Who are we as a society? Who do we want to be? Who are we afraid we might become? When these questions are framed in the speculative versions of Heaven and Hell on earth, you won't find easy answers, but you will find tremendously insightful and often entertaining perspectives.
Utopian and dystopian writing sits at the crossroads of literature and other important academic disciplines such as philosophy, history, psychology, politics, and sociology. It serves as a useful tool to discuss our present condition and future prospects - to imagine a better tomorrow and warn of dangerous possibilities. To examine the future of mankind through detailed and fascinating stories that highlight and exploit our anxieties in adventurous, thought-provoking, and engaging ways. From Thomas More's foundational text Utopia published in 1516 to the 21st-century phenomenon of The Hunger Games, dive into stories that seek to find the best - and the worst - in humanity, with the hope of better understanding ourselves and the world.

Free Download Gothic Tales (Penguin Classics) (Audiobook)
English | October 21, 2021 | ASIN: B097TM8ZYK | M4B@128 kbps | 16h 25m | 894 MB
Author: Elizabeth Gaskell | Narrator: Olivia Forrest
This Penguin Classic is performed by Olivia Forrest. This definitive recording includes an introduction by Laura Keanzler.
Elizabeth Gaskell's chilling Gothic Tales blends the real and the supernatural to eerie, compelling effect. 'Disappearances', inspired by local legends of mysterious vanishings, mixes gossip and fact; Lois the Witch, a novella based on an account of the Salem witch hunts, shows how sexual desire and jealousy lead to hysteria; while in 'The Old Nurse's Story', a mysterious child roams the freezing Northumberland moors. Whether darkly surreal, such as 'The Poor Clare', where an evil doppelgänger is formed by a woman's bitter curse, or mischievous like 'Curious, If True', a playful reworking of fairy tales, all the stories in this volume form a stark contrast to the social realism of Gaskell's novels, revealing a darker and more unsettling style of writing.

Free Download Glorious Lessons: John Trumbull, Painter of the American Revolution (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D3FH25CX | 2024 | 9 hours and 13 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 264 MB
Author: Richard Brookhiser
Narrator: Rick Adamson
The complicated life and legacy of John Trumbull, whose paintings portrayed both the struggle and the principles that distinguished America's founding moment. John Trumbull (1756-1843) experienced the American Revolution firsthand-he served as aid to George Washington and Horatio Gates, was shot at, and was jailed as a spy. He made it his mission to record the war, giving visual form to what most citizens of the new United States thought: that they had brought into the world a great and unprecedented political experiment. His purpose, he wrote, was "to preserve and diffuse the memory of the noblest series of actions which have ever presented themselves in the history of man." Although Trumbull's contemporaries viewed him as a painter, Trumbull thought of himself as a historian. Richard Brookhiser tells Trumbull's story of acclaim and recognition, a story complicated by provincialism, war, a messy personal life, and, ultimately, changing fashion. He shows how the artist's fifty-year project embodied the meaning of American exceptionalism and played a key role in defining the values of the new country. Trumbull depicted the story of self-rule in the modern world-a story as important and as contested today as it was 250 years ago.

Free Download Get Honest or Die Lying: Why Small Talk Sucks (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CFYNS3V3 | 2024 | 6 hours and 5 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 342 MB
Author: Charlamagne Tha God
Narrator: Charlamagne Tha God, Elliot Connie, Landon Woodson
From Charlamagne Tha God, multi-hyphenate mogul, host of the morning radio phenomenon The Breakfast Club, and founder and CEO of iHeartRadio's Black Effect Podcast Network, a rundown on how small talk from small minds have taken over our world, and the BIG conversations needed to climb our way back. For fourteen years, Charlamagne Tha God has been cohost of iHeartRadio'snationally syndicated morning radio show The Breakfast Club and has proven his power as a culture mover and thought leader, by being his completely authentic self on-air, from his famous "You ain't black" moment with President Biden, to heartfelt chats with cultural icons like Sean "Jay-Z" Carter and Judy Blume, to viral classics with Kamala Harris and Soulja Boy, his incredible reach and impact on the pulse of America continues to grow.

Free Download From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds (Audiobook)
English | February 07, 2017 | ASIN: B01N25FKSU | M4B@64 kbps | 15h 44m | 428 MB
Author: Daniel C. Dennett | Narrator: Tom Perkins
What is human consciousness, and how is it possible? This question fascinates thinking people from poets and painters to physicists, psychologists, and philosophers. From Bacteria to Bach and Back is Daniel C. Dennett's brilliant answer, extending perspectives from his earlier work in surprising directions, exploring the deep interactions of evolution, brains, and human culture.
Part philosophical whodunit, part bold scientific conjecture, this landmark work enlarges themes that have sustained Dennett's legendary career at the forefront of philosophical thought. In his inimitable style - laced with wit and arresting thought experiments - Dennett shows how culture enables reflection by installing a bounty of thinking tools, or memes, in our brains. Language, itself composed of memes, turbocharged this interplay. The result, a mind that can comprehend the questions it poses, emerges from a process of cultural evolution.

Free Download Fire Exit: A Novel (Audiobook)
English | June 04, 2024 | ASIN: B0CQPL2P5Y | M4B@64 kbps | 6h 35m | 158 MB
Author: Morgan Talty | Narrator: Darrell Dennis
Does she remember this day? Does she remember it at all? Does she know this history-this story-her body holds secret from her?
From the porch of his home, Charles Lamosway has watched the life he might have had unfold across the river on Maine's Penobscot Reservation. On the far bank, he caught brief moments of Roger and Mary raising their only child, Elizabeth from the day she came home from the hospital to her early twenties. But there's always been something deeper and more dangerous than the river that divides him from this family and the rest of the tribal community. It's the secret that Elizabeth is his daughter, a secret Charles is no longer willing to keep.

Free Download Finding Fortunato: How a Peruvian Adventure Inspired the Sweet Success of a Family Chocolate Business (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D2F7RLKG | 2024 | 6 hours and 48 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 378 MB
Author: Adam Pearson
Narrator: Adam Pearson
Embark on an up-close and personal journey into the northern Peruvian jungle as last-chance entrepreneurs accidentally stumble upon a variety of cacao thought to be extinct, in this chocolate-rich business adventure memoir. Take a front row seat to a family of entrepreneurs searching relentlessly for a sustainable competitive advantage in the wake of many failed attempts at starting a family business. When they inadvertently discover the legendary Nacional white cacao bean in a remote canyon of the Peruvian jungle, the USDA calls it "an unprecedented discovery." The cacao is so rare that even acclaimed author and travel host Anthony Bourdain and chef Eric Ripert trek to this particular jungle to film a segment for Bourdain's "Parts Unknown."

Free Download Fighting Shadows: Overcoming 7 Lies That Keep Men from Becoming Fully Alive (Audiobook)
English | May 21, 2024 | ASIN: B0CB1SSP4S | M4B@128 kbps | 4h 50m | 270 MB
Authors and Narrators: Jefferson Bethke, Jon Tyson
Discover the satisfaction of becoming the man God created you to be. In a world that's grown increasingly confused about-and hostile toward-the very notion of masculinity, authors Jefferson Bethke and Jon Tyson send a powerful call to men everywhere: it's time to step into the light of Jesus' vision for you as a man.
There's a shadow that's settled over the hearts of men today. Masculinity is in crisis. Critiques about the dangers of toxic masculinity and the abuses of patriarchal systems have grown louder than ever. The very notions of masculinity and manhood are under attack. In response to cultural shifts, some have doubled down on old stereotypes in ways that just add to the conflict and confusion.

Free Download Fifty-Two Stories: 1883-1898 (Audiobook)
English | April 14, 2020 | ASIN: B086N3G9J2 | M4B@128 kbps | 20h 13m | 1.1 GB
Author: Anton Chekhov | Narrator: Jim Frangione | Translators: Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky
From the celebrated, award-winning translators of Anna Karenina and The Brothers Karamazov: a lavish volume of stories by one of the most influential short fiction writers of all time
Anton Chekhov left an indelible impact on every literary form in which he wrote, but none more so than short fiction. Now, renowned translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky give us their renderings of fifty-two Chekhov stories. These stories, which span the complete arc of his career, reveal the extraordinary variety and unexpectedness of his work, from the farcically comic to the darkly complex, showing that there is no one single type of "Chekhov story." They are populated by a remarkable range of characters who come from all parts of Russia and all walks of life, including landowners, peasants, soldiers, farmers, teachers, students, hunters, shepherds, mistresses, wives, and children. Taken together, they demonstrate how Chekhov democratized the form.