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Free Download Facing Down the Furies: Suicide, the Ancient Greeks, and Me (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CVLDZ1F5 | 2024 | 7 hours and 25 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 203 MB
Author: Edith Hall
Narrator: Edith Hall
An award-winning classicist turns to Greek tragedies for the wisdom to understand the damage caused by suicide and help those who are contemplating suicide themselves. In Sophocles' tragedy Oedipus the Tyrant, a messenger arrives to report that Jocasta, queen of Thebes, has killed herself. To prepare listeners for this terrible news, he announces, "The tragedies that hurt the most are those that sufferers have chosen for themselves." Edith Hall, whose own life and psyche have been shaped by such loss-her mother's grandfather, mother, and first cousin all took their own lives-traces the philosophical arguments on suicide, from Plato and Aristotle to David Hume and Albert Camus.

Free Download Eyes in the Sky: Space Telescopes from Hubble to Webb (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CWPKY7QM | 2024 | 5 hours and 29 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 151 MB
Author: Andrew May
Narrator: Kris Dyer
Over 50 years ago, astronomers launched the world's first orbiting telescope. This allowed them to gaze further into outer space and examine anything that appears in the sky above our heads, from comets and planets to galaxy clusters and stars. Since then, almost 100 space telescopes have been launched from Earth and are orbiting our planet, with 26 still active and relaying information back to us. As a result of these space-based instruments, such as NASA's iconic Hubble Space Telescope, we know much more about the universe than we did half a century ago. But why is Hubble, orbiting just 540 kilometres above the Earth, so much more effective than a ground-based telescope? How can a glorified camera tell us not only what distant objects look like, but their detailed chemical composition and three-dimensional structure as well? In Eyes in the Sky, science writer Andrew May takes us on a journey into space to answer these questions and more. Looking at the development of revolutionary instruments, such as Hubble and the James Webb Space Telescope, May explores how such technology has helped us understand the evolution of the Universe.

Free Download Expectations Investing: Reading Stock Prices for Better Returns (Audiobook)
English | September 20, 2022 | ASIN: B0BDGFQCBG | M4B@128 kbps | 6h 59m | 384 MB
Authors: Michael J. Mauboussin, Alfred Rappaport | Narrator: Steve Routman
Most investment books try to assess the attractiveness of a stock price by estimating the value of the company. Expectations Investing provides a powerful and insightful alternative to identifying gaps between price and value.
Michael J. Mauboussin and Alfred Rappaport suggest that an investor start with a known quantity, the stock price, and ask what it implies for future financial results. After showing how to read expectations, Mauboussin and Rappaport provide a guide to rigorous strategic and financial analysis to help investors assess the likelihood of revisions to these expectations. Their framework traces value creation from the triggers that shape a company's performance to the impact on the value drivers. This allows a practitioner of expectations investing to determine whether a stock is an attractive buy or sell candidate.

Free Download Everything No One Tells You About Parenting a Disabled Child: Your Guide to the Essential Systems, Services, and Supports (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CBNBQ1MW | 2024 | 8 hours and 25 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 242 MB
Author: Kelley Coleman
Narrator: Kelley Coleman
The honest, relatable, actionable roadmap to the practicalities of parenting a disabled child, featuring personal stories, expert interviews, and the foundational information parents need to know about topics including diagnosis, school, doctors, insurance, financial planning, disability rights, and what life looks like as a parent caregiver. For parents of disabled children, navigating the systems, services, and supports is a daunting and often overwhelming, task. No one explains to parents how to figure out the complex medical, educational, and social service systems essential to their child's success. Over and over, parents are being asked to reinvent the exact same wheels. According to the CDC, "Every 4 ½ minutes a baby is born with a birth defect in the United States." That's 1 in 33. There's no handbook for how to do this. Until now.

Free Download Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary (Audiobook)
English | February 21, 2024 | ASIN: B0CW3S22BN | M4B@128 kbps | 18h 18m | 997 MB
Author: David Hume | Narrator: Jonathan Keeble
David Hume (1711-1776) remains a major figure in British philosophy, particularly for two or three works, including A Treatise on Human Nature and An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding. But he was also a prolific essayist and historian. During his lifetime Essays Moral, Political and Literary went through a number of editions and collections, far outselling his philosophy. Now, the situation is reversed. But listening to the essays today it is difficult to see why. Even after 250 years they continue to be intellectually stimulating, witty, engrossing, and, in many cases, retain a relevance to our times. The variety of topics alone is appealing.
Presented here in the main collection are 47 essays, divided into two parts, though not organized in any specific thematic way. Among the political essays are: Of the First Principles of Government; Whether the British Government inclines more to Absolute Monarchy or to a Republic; Of the Liberty of the Press; Idea of a Perfect Commonwealth. Economic concerns are addressed: Of Money; Of Interest; Of Public Credit; Of Taxes. Hume opens the collection with Of the Delicacy of Taste and Passion, and also considered Of the Rise and Progress of the Arts and Sciences before turning his attention to The Epicurean; The Stoic; The Platonist and The Sceptic.

Free Download Erotic Vagrancy: Everything About Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor (Audiobook)
English | 26 October 2023 | ASIN (UK): B0BT4Z7ZG9 | M4B@128 kbps | 22h 58m | 1.22 GB
Author: Roger Lewis | Narrator: Justin Avoth
The comic genius of English writing takes on Hollywood, delusion, celebrity and last century's ultimate glamour couple: Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor.
Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor were a Sixties supercharged couple in an era of supercharged couples. As a pairing they were fantasy figures, impossibly desirable. Liz supple and soft, in perfumes and furs - yet with something demonic and lethal about her. Dick, in turn, with his ravaged, handsome face, looked as though lit by silver moonlight - poised to turn into a wolf.

Free Download English Grammar Rules You Must Know to Avoid Embarrassing Mistakes: Unlock the Secrets to Impeccable English (Audiobook)
English | May 10, 2023 | ASIN: B0C4RGGQWY | M4B@128 kbps | 5h 50m | 318 MB
Author: Lessie Bradach | Narrator: Sera Champman
Have you ever wondered why you're so bad at English grammar? Afraid to open your mouth for fear of being laughed at? Discouraged from writing an email because you don't know the difference between your, and you're, or which way to use a comma? Do you need help with tenses and parts of speech?
This book is the perfect solution. It will teach the basics of English grammar in a simple, clear, and concise way. You will be able to better understand how English works its magic behind the scenes. And, by the end of this book, you'll be able to confidently and correctly use English grammar every day.

Free Download Anne Berg, Suzanne Toren (Narrator), "Empire of Rags and Bones: Waste and War in Nazi Germany"
English | ASIN: B0CX5PQYB8 | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~11:46:00 | 323 MB
Paper, kitchen garbage, rubber, hair, fat, rags, and bones-the Nazi empire demanded its population collect anything that could be reused. Citizens conjured up schemes to squeeze value from waste or invent new purposes for defunct or spent material, no matter the cost to people or the environment. As WWII dragged on, rescued loot-much of it waste-clogged transport routes and piled up in warehouses across Europe.
Historicizing the much-championed ideal of zero waste, Anne Berg shows that the management of waste was central to the politics of war and to the genesis of genocide in the Nazi Germany. Destruction and recycling were part of an overarching strategy to redress raw material shortages, procure lebensraum, and cleanse the continent of Jews and others considered undesirable. Resource extending schemes obscured the crucial political role played by virtually all German citizens to whom salvaging, scrapping, and recycling were promoted as inherently virtuous and orderly behaviors.
Throughout Nazi occupied-Europe, Jews, POWs, concentration camp inmates, and enemy civilians were forced to recycle the loot, discards, and debris of the Nazi race war. In the end, the materials that were fully exploited and the people who had been bled dry were cast aside, buried, burned, or left to rot. Nonetheless, waste reclamation did not have the power to win the war.

Free Download Elevate and Dominate: 21 Ways to Win On and Off the Field (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CL1B3DT2 | 2024 | 9 hours and 5 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 261 MB
Author: Deion Sanders, Don Yaeger, John C. Maxwell
Narrator: Deion Sanders
Deion "Coach Prime" Sanders is one of the greatest motivators and inspirational leaders of all time-on the field, in business, with family, and in his community. Now, he delivers the ultimate playbook of inspiring personal stories, winning strategies, and the motivation required to help us "elevate and dominate" in all aspects of our lives. The twenty-one inspirational ways to win here are based on the motivational stories and experiences of Sanders's incredible life.

Free Download Egyptian Made: Women, Work, and the Promise of Liberation (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BP5JRTCW | 2024 | 12 hours and 53 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 372 MB
Author: Leslie T. Chang
Narrator: Rasha Zamamiri
An incisive exploration of women and work, showing how globalization's promise of liberation instead set the stage for repression. What happens to the women who choose to work in a country struggling to reconcile a traditional culture with the demands of globalization? In this sharply drawn portrait of Egyptian society-deepened by two years of immersive reporting-Leslie T. Chang follows three women as they persevere in a country that throws up obstacles to their progress at every step, from dramatic swings in economic policy to conservative marriage expectations and a failing education system. Working in Egypt's centuries-old textile industry, Riham is a shrewd businesswoman who nevertheless struggles to attract workers to her garment factory and to compete in the global marketplace.