Audio Books

English | ASIN: B09MGCBP7G | 2021 | 6 hours and 43 minutes |MP3|M4B | 184 MB
In 1804, John Colter set out with Meriwether Lewis and William Clark on the first US expedition to traverse the North American continent. During the 28-month ordeal, Colter served as a hunter and scout, and honed his survival skills on the western frontier. But when the journey was over, Colter stayed behind. He spent two more years trekking alone through dangerous and unfamiliar territory, charting some of the West's most treasured landmarks. Historian David W. Marshall crafts this captivating history from Colter's primary sources, and has retraced Colter's steps - experiencing firsthand how he survived in the wilderness.

English | ASIN: B0931R3941 | 2021 | 12 hours and 41 minutes |MP3|M4B | 348 MB
Feminist philosophy meets family memoir in this new essay collection from Siri Hustvedt, an exploration of the shifting borders that define human experience, including boundaries we usually take for granted - between ourselves and others, nature and nurture, viewer and artwork - which turn out to be far less stable than we imagine. Described as "a 21st-century Virginia Woolf" in the Literary Review (UK), Man Booker-longlisted Hustvedt displays her expansive intellect and interdisciplinary knowledge in this collection that moves effortlessly between stories of her mother, grandmother, and daughter to artistic mothers, Jane Austen, Emily Brontë, and Lousie Bourgeois, to the broader meanings of maternal in a culture shaped by misogyny and fantasies of paternal authority.

English | ASIN: B09M5WPX1K | 2021 | 6 hours and 47 minutes |MP3|M4B | 186 MB
When the casket reached the front of the sanctuary, there was a loud cracking sound as the bottom fell out. And with a thump, down came Father Iggy. From shoot-outs at funerals to dead men screaming and runaway corpses, undertakers have plenty of unusual stories to tell - and a special way of telling them. In this macabre and moving compilation, funeral directors across the country share their most embarrassing, jaw-dropping, irreverent, and deeply poignant stories about life at death's door. Discover what scares them and what moves them to tears.

English | ASIN: B096W43SCY | 2021 | 8 hours and 23 minutes |MP3|M4B | 458 MB
In the spring of 1987, over 60 million viewers tuned in to watch Maddie Hayes (Cybill Shepherd) and David Addison (Bruce Willis) "get together" in one of the most famously controversial scenes in television history on Moonlighting, ABC's groundbreaking series about an epically mismatched pair of private detectives. Two years later, the show was canceled due to low ratings. What happened? In Moonlighting: An Oral History, author Scott Ryan (The Last Days of Letterman) interviews over 20 members of the cast and creative team to get to the bottom of this perplexing mystery, uncovering hilarious, provocative, poignant, and sometimes flat-out crazy never-before-told stories about what went on behind the scenes during production of this unforgettable series.

English | 2021 | ASIN: B098BM9VNP | Duration: 06:07:02 |MP3|M4B | 168.21 MB
The Montessori method is gaining popularity, and for good reason - it is eminently child-centered and is focused on laudable values such as curiosity, independence, and respect. Research shows that Montessori-schooled children are calm, confident, and intelligent and grow up to become responsible, community-minded, emotionally intelligent adults. The world needs more such people!

English | ASIN: B09GTFXNNX | 2021 | 8 hours and 56 minutes |MP3|M4B | 246 MB
From award-winning writer and critic Alison Croggon, Monsters is a hybrid of memoir and essay that takes as its point of departure the painful breakdown of a relationship between two sisters. It explores how our attitudes are shaped by the persisting myths that underpin colonialism and patriarchy, how the structures we are raised within splinter and distort the possibilities of our lives and the lives of others. Monsters asks how we maintain the fictions that we create about ourselves, what we will sacrifice to maintain these fictions - and what we have to gain by confronting them.

English | 2012 |MP3|M4B | ASIN: B008H0PA6Y | Duration: 6:53 h | 94 MB
Kevin Bales, Alex Kent Williamson, Zoe Trodd / Narrated by Andrea Powell

English | ISBN: 9781666120783 | 2021 | 4 hours and 12 minutes |MP3|M4B | 146 MB
China today is never out of the news: from international finance to human rights controversies, global coverage of its rising international presence, and the Chinese 'economic miracle'. It seems to be a country of contradictions: a peasant society with some of the world's most futuristic cities, heir to an ancient civilization that is still trying to find a modern identity. This Very Short Introduction offers the reader an entry to understanding the world's most populous nation, giving an integrated picture of modern Chinese society, culture, economy, politics, and art. In this new edition, Rana Mitter addresses China's current global position, accounting for the country's growth in global significance over the past decade.

English | ASIN: B09LZBBP57 | 2021 | 4 hours and 11 minutes |MP3|M4B | 116 MB
China today is never out of the news: from international finance to human rights controversies, global coverage of its rising international presence, and the Chinese "economic miracle". It seems to be a country of contradictions: a peasant society with some of the world's most futuristic cities, heir to an ancient civilization that is still trying to find a modern identity. This Very Short Introduction audiobook offers the listener an entry to understanding the world's most populous nation, giving an integrated picture of modern Chinese society, culture, economy, politics, and art. In this new edition, Rana Mitter addresses China's current global position, accounting for the country's growth in global significance over the past decade.

English | ASIN: B09LGDQJZL | 2021 | 5 hours and 56 minutes |MP3|M4B | 164 MB
With technological advances and information sharing so prevalent, health care should be more transparent and easier to access than ever before. So why does it seem like everything about it - from pricing, drug development, and the emergence of new diseases to the intricacies of biologic and precision medicine therapies - is becoming more complex, not less? Rohit Khanna's Misunderstanding Health examines some of today's most revealing health care trends while imploring us to look at these issues with alacrity, humor, and vigilance. Each provocative chapter covers a familiar aspect of health care in a clear and succinct way. Offering inquisitive listeners a warts-and-all view of American health care, Misunderstanding Health is the book that you'll want to listen to if you know enough to be frustrated by the system but want a deeper dive into its challenges and opportunities.