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Free Download The Other Fab Four: The Remarkable True Story of the Liverbirds, Britain's First Female Rock Band (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CBN9WLQR | 2024 | 10 hours and 46 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 308 MB
Author: Mary McGlory, Sylvia Saunders
Narrator: Mary McGlory, Sylvia Saunders
A fiercely feminist, heartwarming story of friendship and music about The Liverbirds, Britain's first all-female rock group. The idea for Britain's first female rock band, The Liverbirds, started one evening in 1962, when Mary McGlory, then age 16, saw The Beatles play live at The Cavern Club in Liverpool, the nightclub famously known as the "cradle of British pop music." Then and there, she decided she was going to be just like them-and be the first girl to do it. Joining ranks in 1963 with three other working-class girls from Liverpool-drummer Sylvia Saunders and guitarists Valerie Gell and Pamela Birch, also self-taught musicians determined to "break the male monopoly of the beat world"-The Liverbirds went on to tour alongside the Rolling Stones, the Kinks, and Chuck Berry, and were on track to hit international stardom-until life intervened, and the group was forced to disband just five years after forming in 1968. Now, Mary and Sylvia, the band's two surviving members, are ready to tell their stories. From that fateful night in 1962, when Mary, who once aspired to become a nun, decided to provide for her family by becoming a rich-and-famous rocker, to the circumstances that led to the band splitting up-Sylvia's dangerously complicated pregnancy, and the tragic accident that paralyzed Valerie's beau-The Liverbirds tackles family, friendship, addiction, aging, and the forces-even destiny-that initially brought the four women together.

Free Download The Only Constant: A Guide to Embracing Change and Leading an Authentic Life (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CBQR34ZG | 2024 | 7 hours and 42 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 223 MB
Author: Najwa Zebian
Narrator: Najwa Zebian
You can become the change driver of your own life. The celebrated poet, educator, and author shows you how in this practical, wise, and tender guide to all of life's changes. In The Only Constant, Najwa Zebian guides you through the changes we must make and those we must endure in life, offering support, stabilizing practices, and step-by-step guidance to make it through the uncertainty. A highly practical guide to unfamiliar terrain, The Only Constant teaches that the purpose of change is to be true to yourself. Zebian simplifies change, teaches us to accept ourselves as we are now, and helps us focus on the necessity and unexpected beauty of those messy transitional times. And she guides you through it so that you can not only reach the better life that awaits you on the other side, but also so that you can take the wheel and become the driver of change in your own life.

Free Download The Observable Universe: An Investigation (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CB9BWWKQ | 2024 | 9 hours and 48 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 282 MB
Author: Heather McCalden
Narrator: Heather McCalden
Is anyone ever truly lost in the internet age? A moving, original memoir of a young woman reckoning with her parents' absence, the virus that took them, and what it means to search for meaning in a hyperconnected world. In the early 1990s, Heather McCalden lost both her parents to AIDS. She was seven when her father died, ten when she lost her mother. Raised by her grandmother, Nivia, she grew up in Los Angeles, also known as ground zero for the virus and its destruction. Years later, she begins researching online the history of HIV as a way to deal with her loss, which leads her to the unexpected realization that the AIDS crisis and the internet developed on parallel timelines.

Free Download Beth Py-Lieberman, Leanne Woodward (Narrator), "The Object at Hand: Intriguing and Inspiring Stories from the Smithsonian Collections"
English | ASIN: B0CX3FJRDN | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~10:27:00 | 296 MB
With charm and exuberance, The Object at Hand presents a behind-the-scenes vantage point of the Smithsonian collections. Veteran Smithsonian magazine editor Beth Py-Lieberman weaves together adaptations of the magazine's extensive and compelling coverage and interviews with scholars, curators, and historians to take listeners on an unforgettable journey through the Smithsonian museums.
Objects are grouped into the themes audacity, utopia, fierce, haunting, deception, lost, desire, triumph, scale, optimism, playful, rhythm, and revealing to engage with the emotional dimensions of each object, how they relate to each other, and how they fit into the larger American story.
Py-Lieberman reflects on the profound connections between even outwardly dissimilar objects and offers insight and stories from Smithsonian experts. The book explores artworks, scientific specimens, historical artifacts, airplanes, spacecraft, plants, and so much more, contemplating how each item represents different facets of humanity and resonates with cultural meaning in surprising ways. Whimsical, affecting, and insightful, The Object at Hand offers an intimate and exclusive tour of the Smithsonian collections.

Free Download Len Travers, Paul Woodson (Narrator), "The Notorious Edward Low: Pursuing the Last Great Villain of Piracy's Golden Age"
English | ASIN: B0CWMJ385G | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~08:33:00 | 235 MB
Following the War of the Spanish Succession (1702-1713) a decade-long wave of sea-robbery plagued the Atlantic rim-often glamorized as the "Golden Age of Piracy". Boston-based laborer, Edward Low, left his mark on pirate history as the most vicious and sadistic raider of them all. Low's reputation, and those of other pirates, was crafted through newspapers and literature. Romanticized as anti-heroes and egalitarians in a monarchical world who had liberated themselves from the constraints of law and society ashore, these marauders came to enjoy an immortality bestowed upon them by generations of historians, novelists, and movie makers. That persistent gloss masks a more sordid reality.
Travers demonstrates that, feared as they certainly were, pirates were largely ordinary seamen trapped in desperate circumstances who, in the end, had little to show for their efforts. Contrary to popular portrayals, for pirates it was a time of radically diminishing returns, scant treasure, and increasingly successful suppression by state authorities. The Notorious Edward Low puts individual actors, from colonial governors to captains to common seamen, at center stage, and reveals how British authorities used new anti-piracy laws to reclaim authority over their fractious North American colonies-a compelling story with its own brand of true-life swashbuckling on the high seas.
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Free Download The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression (Audiobook)
English | May 25, 2012 | ASIN: B008636TKS | MP3@64 kbps | 20h 10m | 610.24 MB
Author: Andrew Solomon
Narrator: Barrett Whitener

Free Download Michael H. Bernstein, Ph.D., Charlotte Blease, Ph.D., Jeff Zinn (Narrator), "The Nocebo Effect: When Words Make You Sick"
English | ASIN: B0CPYWYS8V | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~06:53:00 | 195 MB
Can beliefs make you sick? Consider "The June Bug" incident from a US textile factory in the early 1960s. Many employees began to feel dizzy, had an upset stomach, and vomited. Some were even hospitalized. The illness was attributed to a mysterious bug biting workers. However, when the CDC investigated this outbreak, no bugs or any other cause of the illnesses could be identified. Instead, it appears to be an illness caused by the mind - that is, sickness due to expectation.
The June Bug story is one of many striking examples of the nocebo effect, a phenomenon best summarized as the occurrence of a harmful event that stems from expecting it. The nocebo effect plays a role in side effects for some of the most commonly prescribed medications. It provides a lens for understanding how sensationalized media reports that sound alarm about public health might even become a self-fulfilling prophecy. It might even explain the mysterious symptoms associated with Havana Syndrome, during which dozens of US government employees fell ill after reportedly being exposed to an unidentified sound wave in Cuba.
We are just discovering the power behind this effect and how it can be ethically mitigated. Enlightening and startling, The Nocebo Effect is the first book dedicated to investigating this fascinating phenomenon by the foremost experts in the field.

Free Download The New York Game: Baseball and the Rise of a New City (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CB9BHC63 | 2024 | 19 hours and 59 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 574 MB
Author: Kevin Baker
Narrator: L.J. Ganser
A hugely entertaining history of baseball in New York City, bursting with bigger than life figures, and long-forgotten heroes, spanning the game's founding to the early 1940s. Baseball is "the New York game" because the city is where the white lines were first drawn, where a bunt was first laid, and where the curve ball was first thrown. It's also where the superstars first emerged, and where social progress in the sport was first made. With nuance and depth, historian Kevin Baker brings this all back to life: the games-World Series in 1905, 1919, 1932; the players-Babe Ruth, Joe DiMaggio, Lou Gehrig; the coaches and managers-John McGraw, "Foxy Ned" Hanlon, Clark Griffith; and even the writers, reporters, and spectators. The result is a portrait of baseball's most transformative years amidst New York City's evolution from a heaving, stinking, fantastic city to a global capital.

Free Download The New World on Mars: What We Can Create on the Red Planet (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CWC3Z6M1 | 2024 | 8 hours and 44 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 239 MB
Author: Robert Zubrin
Narrator: Lee Goettl
We will settle on Mars, and with our knowledge of the planet, analyzed in depth by Dr. Zubrin, we will utilize the resources and tackle the challenges that await us. What we will we build? Populous Martian city-states producing air, water, food, power, and more. Zubrin's Martian economy will pay for necessary imports and generate income from varied enterprises, such as real estate sales-homes that are airtight and protect against cosmic space radiation, with fish-farm aquariums positioned overhead, letting in sunlight and blocking cosmic rays while providing fascinating views. Zubrin even predicts the Red Planet customs, social relations, and government that will overcome traditional forms of oppression to draw Earth immigrants. With all of this in place, Zubrin's Red Planet will become a pressure cooker for invention, benefiting humans on Earth, Mars, and beyond. We can create this magnificent future, making life better, less fatalistic. The New World on Mars proves that there is no point killing each other over provinces and limited resources when, together, we can create planets.

Free Download The Naked Neanderthal (Audiobook)
English | 21 September 2023 | ASIN: B0BW12V4K9, B0BW11NFH1 | M4B@128 kbps | 6h 14m | 339 MB
Author: Ludovic Slimak | Narrator: John Sackville
What do we really know about our cousins, the Neanderthals?
For over a century we saw Neanderthals as inferior to Homo Sapiens. After new discoveries, the pendulum swung the other way and they are generally seen as our relatives: not quite human, but similar enough, and still not equal. Now, thanks to an ongoing revolution in palaeoanthropology in which he has played a key part, Ludovic Slimak shows us that they are something altogether different - and they should be understood on their own terms rather than by comparing them to ourselves. As he reveals in this stunning book, the Neanderthals had their own history, their own rituals, their own customs. Their own intelligence, very different from ours.