Audio Books

English | ASIN: B097Q6TN4H | 2021 | 8 hours and 23 minutes |MP3|M4B | 231 MB
Recent scholarship has explored the lives of enslaved people beyond the watchful eye of their masters. Building on this work and the study of space, social relations, gender, and power in the Old South, Stephanie Camp examines the everyday containment and movement of enslaved men and, especially, enslaved women. In her investigation of the movement of bodies, objects, and information, Camp extends our recognition of slave resistance into new arenas and reveals an important and hidden culture of opposition. She brings new depth to our understanding of the lives of enslaved women, whose bodies and homes were inevitably political arenas.
Through Camp's insight, truancy becomes an act of pursuing personal privacy. Illegal parties ("frolics") become an expression of bodily freedom. And bondwomen who acquired printed abolitionist materials and posted them on the walls of their slave cabins (even if they could not read them) become the subtle agitators who inspire more overt acts. The culture of opposition created by enslaved women's acts of everyday resistance helped foment and sustain the more visible resistance of men in their individual acts of running away and in the collective action of slave revolts. Ultimately, Camp argues, the Civil War years saw revolutionary change that had been in the making for decades.

English | Jul 10, 2021 | ASIN: B07ZKZNQ2H |MP3|M4B | 4h 28m | 121.49 MB
Author: Luis Angel Echeverria
Narrator: Luis Angel Echeverria

English | July 20, 2021 | ASIN: B0992MJY2P |MP3|M4B | 4h 27m | 243 MB
Lecturer: Mark Canada
How did a young tradesman in early 18th-century Philadelphia with no money, no connections, and no formal education end up as a leading scientist, an inventor, a master diplomat - and even a Founding Father of the United States of America?

English | ASIN: B0973JVCBL | 2021 | 3 hours and 16 minutes |MP3|M4B | 104 MB
What causes autism? Is it a genetic disorder, or due to some unknown environmental hazard? Are we facing an autism epidemic? What are the main symptoms, and how does it relate to Asperger syndrome? Everyone has heard of autism, but the disorder itself is little understood. It has captured the public imagination through films and novels portraying individuals with baffling combinations of disability and extraordinary talent, and yet the reality is that it often places a heavy burden on sufferers and their families.
This Very Short Introduction offers a clear statement on what is currently known about autism and Asperger syndrome. Explaining the vast array of different conditions that hide behind these two labels, and looking at symptoms from the full spectrum of autistic disorders, it explores the possible causes for the apparent rise in autism and also evaluates the links with neuroscience, psychology, brain development, genetics, and environmental causes including MMR and Thimerosal. This VSI also explores the psychology behind social impairment and savantism, and sheds light on what it is like to live inside the mind of the sufferer.

English | July 06, 2021 | ASIN: B098FH77SS |MP3|M4B | 13h 1m | 709 MB
Author: Giuseppe Fiori | Narrator: Tim Bruce
Antonio Gramsci was born in Sardinia in 1891, became the leader of the Italian Communist Party in his early 30s, was arrested by Mussolini's police in 1927, and remained imprisoned until shortly before his death 10 years later. The posthumous publication of his Prison Notebooks established him as a major thinker whose influence continues to increase.

English | ASIN: B08S5TSCDM | 2021 | 6 hours and 8 minutes |MP3|M4B | 168 MB
In this revelatory and original book, the award-winning author of the acclaimed surf memoir On a Wave illuminates the connection between waves, addiction, and recovery, exploring what surfing can teach us about the powerful undertow of addictive behaviors and the ways to swim free of them. Addiction is arguably the dominant feature of contemporary life: sex, gambling, exercise, eating, shopping, internet use - there's virtually no pleasurable activity that can't morph into a destructive obsession.
As neurologists have recently discovered, surfing is a kind of study in the mechanism of addiction, delivering dopamine to the "pleasure" center of the brain and reshaping priorities and desire in a feedback loop of narrowing focus. In this unique, groundbreaking book, part addiction memoir, Ziolkowski dismantles the myth of surfing as a radiantly wholesome lifestyle immune to the darker temptations of the culture and discovers among the rubble a new way to understand and ultimately overcome addiction.

English | ASIN: B099TM4JVN | 2021 | 4 hours and 29 minutes |MP3|M4B | 124 MB
Are you fond of hearing amusing real-life stories mixed with an interesting, true-life mystery? If so, check out Shakey's Madness. Does a mental disorder reveal the "real" William Shakespeare? Back in the 16th and 17th centuries, bipolar disorder was a mystery, and even as late as the early 2000s, most doctors had difficulties diagnosing it. Unlike COVID-19, there is no swab test for antibodies. No blood test. It is a mood disorder, so doctors rely on their patients to "self-report" their symptoms and ask them questions like, "Were you in a good mood yesterday?" What has this got to do with William Shakespeare? His poems, plays, and sonnets talk about the author feeling "melancholy" or depressed along with thoughts of deep distress and suicide. After all, who has not heard of Hamlet's famous line, "To be or not to be, that is the question", and in that very line, Hamlet contemplates taking his own life.

English | ASIN: B072B5JDGF | 2017 | 5 hours and 44 minutes |MP3|M4B | 156 MB
In 1977, two extraordinary spacecraft called Voyager were launched to the stars. Affixed to each Voyager craft was a gold-coated copped phonograph record as a message to possible extra-terrestrial civilizations that might encounter the spacecraft in some distant space and time. Each record contained 118 photographs of our planet; almost 90 minutes of the world's greatest music; an evolutionary audio essay on "The Sounds of Earth"; and greetings in almost sixty human languages (and one whale language). This book is an account, written by those chiefly responsible for the contents of the Voyager Record, of why they did it, how they selected the repertoire, and precisely what the record contains.

English | April 09, 2020 | ASIN: B086TY9M1C |MP3|M4B | 6h 12m | 168.42 MB
Author: Dominik Nischwitz
Narrator: Madison Niederhauser

English | ISBN: 9781483007298 | 2021 | 14 hours and 33 minutes |MP3|M4B | 408 MB
British politician Daniel Hannan's Inventing Freedom is an ambitious account of the historical origin and spread of the principles that have made America great and their role in creating a sphere of economic and political liberty that is as crucial as it is imperiled. The ideas and institutions we consider essential to maintaining and preserving our freedoms-individual rights, private property, the rule of law, and the institutions of representative government-are the legacy of a very specific tradition that was born in England and was inherited by Americans, along with other former British colonies.
By the tenth century, England was a nation-state whose people were already starting to define themselves with reference to inherited common-law rights. The story of liberty is the story of how that model triumphed: How it was enshrined in a series of landmark victories-the Magna Carta, the English Civil War, the Glorious Revolution, the US Constitution-and how it came to defeat every international rival. Today we see those ideas abandoned and scorned in the places where they once went unchallenged. Inventing Freedom is a chronicle of the success of Anglosphere exceptionalism, and it is offered at a time that may turn out to be the end of the age of political freedom.