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Free Download Populus: Living and Dying in the Wealth, Smoke and Din of Ancient Rome (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CBKYRWF6 | 2024 | 15 hours and 24 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 839 MB
Author: Guy de la Bédoyère
Narrator: Mark Meadows
A Time Travellers Guide to Ancient Rome - by one of the best historians of the ancient world. Living in ancient Rome was superbly and vividly recorded by Rome's historians, philosophers, and poets who were acutely aware of the seething and voluptuous nature of a city that ruled the known world. Through the words of Tacitus, Seneca, Martial, and a host of others including ordinary Romans, Guy de la Bédoyère takes the reader into a world of violent politics, civil disorder, unspeakably brutal entertainments, extravagance, decadence, eroticism, exotica, and staggering inequality, participated in daily by the Roman people from the hyper-rich elite to the lowliest slaves. Populus places those who experienced Rome in person at the forefront of their story, from the rabble-rousing senator Clodius Pulcher to Pliny the Elder and Hortensia who defended the rights of women in court to the ex-slave and celebrity baker Eurysaces.

Free Download Piranesi (Audiobook)
English | Datum: September 15, 2020 | ASIN: B084NVNFBH | M4B@125 kbps | 06h 59m | 373.53 MB
Author: Susanna Clarke
Narrator: Chiwetel Ejiofor
Bloomsbury presents Piranesi by Susanna Clarke, read by Chiwetel Ejiofor.

Free Download Piping Hot Bees and Boisterous Buzz-Runners: 20 Mysteries of Honey Bee Behavior Solved (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CYDXP375 | 2024 | 8 hours and 25 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 224 MB
Author: Thomas D. Seeley
Narrator: Daniel Henning
Piping Hot Bees and Boisterous Buzz-Runners takes listeners inside a world seldom seen even by beekeepers, shedding light on twenty of the most compelling mysteries of honey bee behavior. Thomas Seeley has devoted a lifetime to the study of honey bees and their colonies, unraveling the secrets of these wondrous insects in a career spanning six decades. In this book, he weaves illuminating personal stories with the latest science, explaining such mysteries as how worker bees function as scouts to choose a home site for their colony, furnish their home with beeswax combs, and stock it with brood and food while keeping tens of thousands of colony inhabitants warm and defended from intruders. Along the way, he shares the experiences that drew him to these studies, the small observations that led to big breakthroughs, and the sense of excitement that came with probing each mystery. Piping Hot Bees and Boisterous Buzz-Runners provides a rare look at how a singularly passionate scientist and his colleagues deciphered the pipings, shakings, and puzzling tremble dances of honey bees, and how this journey of scientific discovery continues to shape our understanding of these remarkably intelligent and vitally important insects.

Free Download Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis (Audiobook)
English | Datum: March 10, 2015 | ASIN: B00TJ1FX6C | MP3@64 kbps | 10h 18m | 242.80 MB
Author: Robert D. Putnam
Narrator: Arthur Morey
A groundbreaking examination of the growing inequality gap from the best-selling author of Bowling Alone: why fewer Americans today have the opportunity for upward mobility.

Free Download Nonverts: The Making of Ex-Christian America (Audiobook)
English | December 01, 2022 | ASIN: B0BMB8SHDW | M4B@125 kbps | 6h 43m | 366.73 MB
Author: Stephen Bullivant
Narrator: Liam Gerrard
An entertaining and insightful exploration of the American ex-religious

Free Download Nine Lives and Counting: A Bounty Hunter's Journey to Faith, Hope, and Redemption (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B09Y666TZJ | 2024 | 5 hours and 54 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 326 MB
Author: Duane "Dog" Chapman
Narrator: Duane "Dog" Chapman, Mike Ortego, Francie Chapman
Includes an audiobook-exclusive introduction from the author. Go behind-the-scenes with Duane "Dog" Chapman, star of the hit reality show Dog the Bounty Hunter and two-time New York Times bestselling author, as he shares new stories about his faith in Jesus, family, and the discovery of God's grace at work throughout his life. From being in a motorcycle gang, to being incarcerated, and then becoming a widely-know TV personality, Duane's life has been anything but ordinary. But, through every success and failure, the one constant has been his faith in God. For the first time, Daune is sharing how his faith has brought him through life's greatest difficulties, giving him renewed purpose and meaning. In Nine Lives and Counting Duane offers fresh insight into some of his well-known life events, and he also gives you access to previously untold stories. You will be inspired.

Free Download New Cold Wars: China's Rise, Russia's Invasion, and America's Struggle to Defend the West (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CDQJ4HJN | 2024 | 18 hours and 6 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 536 MB
Author: David E. Sanger, Mary K. Brooks
Narrator: David E. Sanger, Robertson Dean
Three decades after the end of the Cold War, the United States finds itself in a volatile rivalry with the other two great nuclear powers-Xi Jinping's China and Vladimir Putin's Russia-in a world far more complex and dangerous than that of half a century ago. New Cold Wars-the latest from the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author David E. Sanger-is a fast-paced account of America's plunge into simultaneous confrontations with two very different adversaries. For years, the United States was confident that the newly democratic Russia and increasingly wealthy China could be lured into a Western-led order that promised prosperity and relative peace-so long as they agreed to Washington's terms. By the time America emerged from the age of terrorism, it was clear that this had been a fantasy. Now the three powers are engaged in a high-stakes struggle for military, economic, political, and technological supremacy, with nations around the world pressured to take sides.

Free Download Never Say You've Had a Lucky Life: Especially If You've Had a Lucky Life (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CCW64BC8 | 2024 | 7 hours and 39 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 219 MB
Author: Joseph Epstein
Narrator: Fred Sanders
A rich and comic portrait of the radical changes in American life and the literary world over the last eighty years. An autobiography usually requires a justification. The great autobiographies-those by Benvenuto Cellini, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Benjamin Franklin, and Henry Brooks Adams-were justified by their authors living in interesting times, harboring radically new ideas, or participating in great events. Joseph Epstein qualifies on none of these counts. His life has been quiet, lucky in numerous ways, and far from dramatic. But it has also been emblematic of the great changes in our country since World War II. He grew up in a petit-bourgeois, Midwestern milieu, and the city of Chicago looms large in his life. He drew a lucky ticket in the parent lottery and his was a happy boyhood spent on playgrounds and hanging around drug stores. At high school dances, he was the rhumba king and at drive-in movies he was never allowed to go as far with girls as he so ardently desired.

Free Download Native Nations: A Millennium in North America (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CDHKPFWL | 2024 | 21 hours and 30 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 618 MB
Author: Kathleen DuVal
Narrator: Carolina Hoyos
A magisterial history of Indigenous North America that places the power of Native nations at its center, telling their story from the rise of ancient cities more than a thousand years ago to fights for sovereignty that continue today. Long before the colonization of North America, Indigenous Americans built diverse civilizations and adapted to a changing world in ways that reverberated globally. And, as award-winning historian Kathleen DuVal vividly recounts, when Europeans did arrive, no civilization came to a halt because of a few wandering explorers, even when the strangers came well armed.

Free Download My Black Country: A Journey Through Country Music's Black Past, Present, and Future (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CLWQ3PKZ | 2024 | 11 hours and 10 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 321 MB
Author: Alice Randall
Narrator: Alice Randall
Alice Randall, award-winning professor, songwriter, and author with a "lively, engaging, and often wise" (The New York Times Book Review) voice, offers a lyrical, introspective, and unforgettable account of her past and her search for the first family of Black country music. Country music had brought Randall and her activist mother together and even gave Randall a singular distinction in American music history: she is the first Black woman to cowrite a number one country hit, Trisha Yearwood's "XXX's and OOO's". Randall found inspiration and comfort in the sounds and history of the first family of Black country music: DeFord Bailey, Lil Hardin, Ray Charles, Charley Pride, and Herb Jeffries who, together, made up a community of Black Americans rising through hard times to create simple beauty, true joy, and sometimes profound eccentricity. What emerges in My Black Country is a celebration of the most American of music genres and the radical joy in realizing the power of Black influence on American culture. As country music goes through a fresh renaissance today, with a new wave of Black artists enjoying success, My Black Country is the perfect gift for longtime country fans and a vibrant introduction to a new generation of listeners who previously were not invited to give the genre a chance.