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Free Download Empires of the Dead: Inca Mummies and the Peruvian Ancestors of American Anthropology (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CL1JXD9Y | 2023 | 13 hours and 29 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 384 MB
Author: Christopher Heaney
Narrator: Christian Barillas
When the Smithsonian's Hall of Physical Anthropology opened in 1965 it featured 160 Andean skulls affixed to a wall to visualize how the world's human population had exploded since the birth of Christ. Through a history of Inca mummies, a preHispanic surgery called trepanation, and Andean crania like these, Empires of the Dead explains how "ancient Peruvians" became the single largest population in the Smithsonian and many other museums in Peru, the Americas, and beyond.

Free Download Empire of the Sum: The Rise and Reign of the Pocket Calculator (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CLYXM7Y4 | 2023 | 9 hours and 7 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 264 MB
Author: Keith Houston
Narrator: Elliot Fitzpatrick
The hidden history of the pocket calculator-a device that ushered in modern mathematics, helped build the atomic bomb, and went with us to the moon-and the mathematicians, designers, and inventors who brought it to life. Starting with hands, abacus, and slide rule, humans have always reached for tools to simplify math. Pocket-sized calculators ushered in modern mathematics, helped build the atomic bomb, took us to the bottom of the ocean, and accompanied us to the moon. The pocket calculator changed our world, until it was supplanted by more modern devices that, in a cruel twist of irony, it helped to create. The calculator is dead; long live the calculator. In this witty mathematic and social history, Keith Houston transports listeners from the nascent economies of the ancient world to World War II, where a Jewish engineer calculated for his life at Buchenwald, and into the technological arms race that led to the first affordable electronic pocket calculators. At every turn, Houston is a scholarly, affable guide to this global history of invention. Empire of the Sum will appeal to math lovers, history buffs, and anyone seeking to understand our trajectory to the computer age.

Free Download Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient World (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CJG1W63J | 2023 | 17 hours and 00 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 409 MB
Author: Mary Beard
Narrator: Mary Beard
A sweeping account of the social and political world of the Roman emperors by "the world's most famous classicist" (Guardian). In her international bestseller, Mary Beard told the thousand-year story of ancient Rome. Now she shines her spotlight on the emperors who ruled the Roman empire, from Julius Caesar (assassinated 44 BCE) to Alexander Severus (assassinated 235 CE). Emperor of Rome is not your usual chronological account of Roman rulers, one after another: the mad Caligula, the monster Nero, the philosopher Marcus Aurelius. Beard asks bigger questions: What power did emperors actually have? Was the Roman palace really so bloodstained? She tracks down the emperor at home, at the races, on his travels, even on his way to heaven. She introduces his wives and lovers, rivals and slaves, court jesters and soldiers-and the ordinary people who pressed begging letters into his hands. Emperor of Rome goes directly to the heart of Roman (and our own) fantasies about what it was to be Roman, offering an account of Roman history as it has never been presented before.

Free Download Embracing Shame: How to Stop Resisting Shame and Turn It into a Powerful Ally (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CKD24S8D | 2023 | 7 hours and 9 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 403 MB
Author: Bret Lyon, Sheila Rubin
Narrator: Carla Emmons
Discover a proven pathway for transforming shame from a self-punishing emotion into a powerful ally for your health and happiness. Why do we feel shame? Given how painful and destructive shame can be, it's easy to see this emotion as an inner demon that turns our own mind against us. Yet shame is a universal emotion-and it serves an important purpose. "While toxic shame can keep us stuck in a self-defeating vortex," say Bret Lyon and Sheila Rubin, "there is a healthy expression of shame designed to protect us, help us change, and actually build our self-esteem."

Free Download Einstein's Wife: The Real Story of Mileva Einstein-Maric (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B07PH3WRY7 | 2019 | 9 hours and 15 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 265 MB
Author: Allen Esterson, David C. Cassidy, Ruth Lewin Sime
Narrator: Elizabeth Wiley
Albert Einstein's first wife, Mileva Einstein-Maric, was forgotten for decades. When a trove of correspondence between them beginning in their student days was discovered in 1986, her story began to be told. Some of the tellers of the "Mileva Story" made startling claims: that she was a brilliant mathematician who surpassed her husband and that she made uncredited contributions to his most celebrated papers in 1905, including his paper on special relativity. Mileva was one of the few women of her era to pursue higher education in science; she and Einstein were students together at the Zurich Polytechnic.

Free Download Einstein in Time and Space: A Life in 99 Particles (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C4VPSNRR | 2023 | 9 hours and 5 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 264 MB
Author: Samuel Graydon
Narrator: George Reid
Walter Isaacson's Einstein meets Craig Brown's 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret, in this innovative biography of the famous physicist told in ninety-nine dazzling vignettes. Most of us would agree that Albert Einstein's name is synonymous with "genius" and that his likeness is often used as a shorthand for all scientists, appearing everywhere from cartoons to textbooks. He has become more myth than man. That being the case, how best to capture his essence? In Einstein in Time and Space, talented young science journalist Samuel Graydon answers that question with an illuminating mosaic-99 intriguingly different particles that cumulatively reveal Einstein's contradictory and multitudinous nature.

Free Download Eight Little Piggies: Reflections in Natural History (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CLVSW54S | 2023 | 15 hours and 17 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 445 MB
Author: Stephen Jay Gould
Narrator: Jonathan Sleep
Among scientists who write, no one illuminates as well as Stephen Jay Gould does the wonderful workings of the natural world. Now in a new volume of collected essays-his sixth since Ever Since Darwin-Gould speaks of the importance of unbroken connections within our own lives and to our ancestral generations. Along with way, he opens to us the mysteries of fish tails, frog calls, and other matters, and shows once and for all why we must take notice when a seemingly insignificant creature is threatened, like the land snail Partula from Moorea, whose extinction he movingly relates.

Free Download Edge of Reality: Journeys Through the Rabbit Hole of Reality Television, 2023 Edition (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C9FMJL9V | 2023 | 8 hours and 20 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 239 MB
Author: Jacques Peretti
Narrator: Jacques Peretti
Go behind the scenes of the most shocking, hilarious, controversial genre of entertainment: reality television. Reality TV's influence is seismic: twenty-five years ago, the concept didn't exist. Yet today, it is one of the most powerful cultural forces on earth; a multi-billion-dollar machine. Despite that, it is often derided as "trash"; a cultural McDonalds not worthy of examination. The truth is that reality TV offers a profound insight into who we are as human beings, questioning the very nature of what we deem to be entertaining.

Free Download Economics in America: An Immigrant Economist Explores the Land of Inequality (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CFRJSV94 | 2023 | 8 hours and 38 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 248 MB
Author: Angus Deaton
Narrator: Angus Deaton
When economist Angus Deaton immigrated to the United States from Britain in the early 1980s, he was awed by America's strengths and shocked by the extraordinary gaps he witnessed between people. Economics in America explains in clear terms how the field of economics addresses the most pressing issues of our times-from poverty, retirement, and the minimum wage to the ravages of the nation's uniquely disastrous health care system-and narrates Deaton's own account of his experiences as a naturalized US citizen and academic economist.

Free Download Eavesdropping on Millionaires: Investment Strategies and Advice on How to Build and Maintain Wealth (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CMJRX5CS | 2023 | 6 hours and 41 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 316 MB
Author: John Mauldin, Tiffani Mauldin
Narrator: Hector Carrillo
Discover how the wealthy think about, earn, spend, and invest money. In Eavesdropping on Millionaires, John and Tiffani Mauldin of Mauldin Economics follow millionaires over twelve years to deliver a one-of-a-kind money management guide based on the investment habits, lessons, and techniques used by a cross-section of affluent people. The authors show you how to achieve significant wealth by demonstrating how real people have already traveled that road. An inspiring and eminently practical resource about how people gain, maintain, and grow significant fortunes in the real world, Eavesdropping on Millionaires is a must-listen roadmap to wealth for contemporary investors and those serious about financial freedom.