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Free Download The Revolutionary Temper: Paris, 1748-1789 (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CXQ56F8V | 2024 | 21 hours and 00 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 607 MB
Author: Robert Darnton
Narrator: Andrew J. Andersen
When a Parisian crowd stormed the Bastille in July 1789, it triggered an event of global consequence: the overthrow of the monarchy and the birth of a new society. Most historians account for the French Revolution by viewing it in retrospect as the outcome of underlying conditions such as a faltering economy, social tensions, or the influence of Enlightenment thought. But what did Parisians themselves think they were doing-how did they understand their world? What were the motivations and aspirations that guided their actions? In this dazzling history, Robert Darnton addresses these questions by drawing on decades of close study to conjure a past as vivid as today's news.

Free Download The Return of Great Powers: Russia, China, and the Next World War (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CDMXHYLV | 2024 | 10 hours and 57 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 301 MB
Author: Jim Sciutto
Narrator: Jim Sciutto
The essential new book by CNN anchor and chief national security analyst Jim Sciutto, identifying a new, more uncertain global order with reporting on the frontlines of power from existing wars to looming ones across the globe. The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 dawned what Francis Fukuyama called "The End of History." Three decades later, Jim Sciutto said on CNN's air as the Ukraine war began, that we are living in a "1939 moment." History never ended-it barely paused-and the global order as we long have known it is now gone. Powerful nations are determined to assert dominance on the world stage. And as their push for power escalates, a new order will affect everyone across the globe. Russia's invasion of Ukraine is a part of it, but in reality, this power struggle impacts every corner of our world-from Helsinki to Beijing, from Australia to the North Pole.

Free Download The Real Hoosiers: Crispus Attucks High School, Oscar Robertson, and the Hidden History of Hoops (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CBL7MH63 | 2024 | 10 hours and 12 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 301 MB
Author: Jack McCallum
Narrator: Cary Hite
The true story behind Crispus Attucks High School and the all-Black basketball team loosely depicted as the championship opponent in the beloved classic sports movie Hoosiers. For far too long the mythology of Indiana basketball has been dominated by Hoosiers. Framed as the ultimate underdog, feel-good story, there has also long been a cultural debate surrounding the film. The Real Hoosiers sets out to illuminate the narrative that the film omits, the story of the unheralded Crispus Attucks Tigers, playing the game at the highest level in the 1950s in a racially divided Indiana. After a crushing loss to Milan High School in the 1954 semifinal, which was the game that the final scenes in Hoosiers are based on, Attucks went on to win back-to-back Indiana state championships.

Free Download The Race for Nuclear Weapons during World War II: The History and Legacy of Both Sides' Efforts to Build an Atomic Bomb (Audiobook)
English | ISBN: 9798868607110 | 2024 | 3 hours and 31 minutes | M4B@192 kbps | 291 MB
Author: Charles River Editors
Narrator: Bill Caufield
Before the Second World War, military conflicts were fought under orthodox conditions, usually termed "conventional warfare," but several innovations had significantly changed combat, leading inextricably to the race for a nuclear weapon in the 1930s and 1940s. Conflicts had been fought by armies on horseback with guns of varying sophistication since the 16th century, but mechanized warfare and machine guns changed this calculus and set the stage for future combat by the end of World War I. Other sinister changes entered the fray during this conflict, such as chemical weapons like chlorine and mustard gas. The total warfare brought about by World War I and ensuing wars like the Spanish Civil War made the quest for the most powerful weapons somewhat necessary.

Free Download The Pulse Cure: Balance Stress, Optimise Health and Live Longer (Audiobook)
English | January 04, 2024 | ASIN: B0CN1TWVPF | M4B@64 kbps | 7h 18m | 199 MB
Author: Dr Torkil Færø | Translator: Robert Moses | Narrator: Richard Burnip
What if you could see the toll that over-work, too much sugar or bad sleep really take on your system?
What if you knew what boosts your energy, and what saps it, and when you are heading for burnout?

Free Download The Price of Life: In Search of What We're Worth and Who Decides (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CL7PG5PT | 2024 | 8 hours and 43 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 243 MB
Author: Jenny Kleeman
Narrator: Jenny Kleeman
We say that life is priceless. Yet the cost of saving a life, creating a life or compensating for a life taken is routinely calculated and put into practice. In a world in love with data, it is possible to run a cost-benefit analysis on anything - including life itself. For philanthropists, judges, criminals, healthcare providers and government ministers, it's just part of the job. In The Price of Life, journalist, broadcaster and documentary-maker Jenny Kleeman takes us on an adventure to meet some of the people who decide what we're worth. In a series of extraordinary encounters - with people who have faked their own death or lost a loved one to terrorism, with hitmen and with modern day slaves - she discovers more questions than answers.

Free Download Laura Robson, Lisa S. Ware (Narrator), "The Politics of Mass Violence in the Middle East: Zones of Violence"
English | ASIN: B0CWMBPQWG | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~10:16:00 | 292 MB
The Middle East today is characterized by an astonishingly bloody civil war in Syria, a highly racialized and militarized approach to the concept of a Jewish state in Israel and the Palestinian territories, an Iraqi state paralyzed by the emergence of class- and region-inflected sectarian identifications, a Lebanon teetering on the edge of collapse from the pressures of its huge numbers of refugees and its sect-bound political system, and the rise of a wide variety of Islamist paramilitary organizations seeking to operate outside all these states.
The region's emergence as a "zone of violence," characterized by a viciously dystopian politics of identity, is a relatively recent phenomenon, developing only over the past century; but despite these shallow historical roots, the mass violence and dispossession now characterizing Syria, Lebanon, Israel/Palestine, and Iraq have emerged as some of the twenty-first century's most intractable problems. In this study, Laura Robson uses a framework of mass violence-encompassing the concepts of genocide, ethnic cleansing, forced migration, appropriation of resources, mass deportation, and forcible denationalization-to explain the emergence of a dystopian politics of identity across the Eastern Mediterranean in the modern era and to illuminate the contemporary breakdown of the state from Syria to Iraq to Israel.
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Free Download Christine Leuenberger, Izhak Schnell, Rachel Perry (Narrator), "The Politics of Maps: Cartographic Constructions of Israel/Palestine"
English | ASIN: B0CWMLBFJC | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~08:11:00 | 225 MB
Blending science and technology studies, sociology, and geography with a host of archival material, in-depth interviews, and ethnographies, The Politics of Maps explores how the geographical sciences came to be entangled with the politics, territorial claim-making, and nation-state building of Israel/Palestine. Chapters chart the cartographic history of the region, from the introduction of Western scientific and legal paradigms that seemingly legitimized and depoliticized new land regimes to the rise of new mapping technologies and software that expanded access to cartography into the public sphere. Maps produced by various sectors like the "peace camps" or the Jewish community enhanced national belonging, while others, like that of the Green Line, served largely to divide.
The stories of Israel's many boundaries reveal that there is no absolute, technocratic solution to boundary-making. As boundaries continue to be controversial and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict remains intractable and unresolved, The Politics of Maps uses nationally-based cartographic discourses to provide insight into the complexity, fissures, and frictions within internal political debates, illuminating the persistent power of the nation-state as a framework for forging identities, citizens, and alliances.
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Free Download The Politics of Fear: The Peculiar Persistence of American Paranoia (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CB9CG2GK | 2024 | 7 hours and 36 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 221 MB
Author: Arthur Goldwag
Narrator: Ray Montecalvo
A probing exploration of the bizarre and dangerous conspiracies that have roiled America over the past decade and captured the minds of so many Americans. Some of the conspiracy theories now gripping American politics contend that Joe Biden was executed and replaced by a clone and that John F. Kennedy Jr., faked his death and will one day return to slay Trump's enemies. But who is susceptible to them, and what makes them so politically potent? Investigating the historical roots of our peculiar brand of political paranoia, Arthur Goldwag helps us make sense of the senseless and, in so doing, uncovers three uncomfortable truths: that it is older than Trumpism and will outlast it; that theocratic authoritarianism is as hardwired in our American heritage as the principles of the Enlightenment; and that the fear that our system is "rigged" is not altogether unfounded. A probing, surprising, and critical examination of America's paranoid style, The Politics of Fear sheds new light on the age-old question: What exactly are we so afraid of?

Free Download The Other Side of History: Daily Life in the Ancient World [TTC Audio]
English | July 08, 2013 | ASIN: B00DTO5FW2 | M4B@64 kbps | 24h 29m | 685 MB
Lecturer: Robert Garland
Look beyond the abstract dates and figures, kings and queens, and battles and wars that make up so many historical accounts. Over the course of 48 richly detailed lectures, Professor Garland covers the breadth and depth of human history from the perspective of the so-called ordinary people, from its earliest beginnings through the Middle Ages.
The past truly comes alive as you take a series of imaginative leaps into the world of history's anonymous citizens, people such as a Greek soldier marching into battle in the front row of a phalanx; an Egyptian woman putting on makeup before attending an evening party with her husband; a Greek citizen relaxing at a drinking party with the likes of Socrates; a Roman slave captured in war and sent to work in the mines; and a Celtic monk scurrying away with the Book of Kells during a Viking invasion.