Audio Books

Free Download Down and Dirty Pictures: Miramax, Sundance and the Rise of Independent Film (Audiobook)
English | December 01, 2008 | ASIN: B001MUU14C | MP3@64 kbps | 23h 30m | 646 MB
Author: Peter Biskind | Narrator: Phil Gigante
It wasn't so long ago that the Sundance Film Festival was an inconsequential event somewhere in Utah, and Miramax was a tiny distributor of music documentaries and soft-core trash. Today, of course, Sundance is the most important film festival this side of Cannes, and Miramax has become an industry giant, part of the huge Disney empire. Likewise, the directors who emerged from the independent movement, such as Quentin Tarantino, Steven Soderbergh, and David O. Russell - who once had to max out their credit cards to realize their visions on the screen - are now among the best-known directors in Hollywood. Not to mention the actors who emerged with them, like Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Ethan Hawke, and Uma Thurman.

Free Download Do Not Comply: Taking Power Back from America's Corrupt Elite (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BXTCLY8D | 2023 | 5 hours and 8 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 288 MB
Author: Will Witt
Narrator: Will Witt, Dennis Prager

Free Download Crucible of Command: Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee - the War They Fought, the Peace They Forged (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B00REPTS5M | 2015 | 21 hours and 59 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 623 MB
Author: William C. Davis
Narrator: Traber Burns

Free Download City of Echoes: A New History of Rome, Its Popes, and Its People (Audiobook)
English | ISBN: 9781004140817 | 2023 | 12 hours and 42 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 362 MB
Author: Jessica Wärnberg
Narrator: Julie Teal

Free Download China and Japan: Facing History by Ezra F. Vogel, Eric Jason Martin, Tantor Audio
English | 2020 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B08377GBYX | M4B@128 kbps | ~22:51:00 + PDF | 345 Mb
China and Japan have cultural and political connections that stretch back 1,500 years. But today, their relationship is strained. China's military buildup deeply worries Japan, while Japan's brutal occupation of China in World War II remains an open wound. In recent years, less than 10 percent of each population had positive feelings toward the other, and both countries insist that the other side must deal openly with its history before relations can improve.
Ezra Vogel's China and Japan examines key turning points in Sino-Japanese history. Throughout much of their past, the two countries maintained deep cultural ties, but China, with its great civilization and resources, had the upper hand. Japan's success in modernizing in the 19th century and its victory in the 1895 Sino-Japanese War changed the dynamic, putting Japan in the dominant position. The bitter legacy of World War II has made cooperation difficult, despite efforts to promote trade and, more recently, tourism.

Free Download Benjamin Franklin: The Religious Life of a Founding Father by Thomas S. Kidd, Tom Perkins, HighBridge, a Division of Recorded Books
English | 2017 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B071YPMRFX | MP3@64 kbps | ~09:53:00 + PDF | 136 Mb
Renowned as a printer, scientist, and diplomat, Benjamin Franklin also published more works on religious topics than any other 18th-century American layperson. Born to Boston Puritans, by his teenage years Franklin had abandoned the exclusive Christian faith of his family and embraced deism. But Franklin, as a man of faith, was far more complex than the "thorough deist" who emerges in his autobiography. As Thomas Kidd reveals, deist writers influenced Franklin's beliefs, to be sure, but devout Christians in his life - including George Whitefield, the era's greatest evangelical preacher; his parents; and his beloved sister Jane - kept him tethered to the Calvinist creed of his Puritan upbringing. Based on rigorous research into Franklin's voluminous correspondence, essays, and almanacs, this fresh assessment of a well-known figure unpacks the contradictions and conundrums faith presented in Franklin's life.
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Free Download Bad Gays: A Homosexual History (Audiobook)
English | July 19, 2022 | ASIN: B0B6X5CQ8Q | MP3@64 kbps | 13h 31m | 348.14 MB
Author: Huw Lemmey, Ben Miller
Narrator: Ben Allen

Free Download Athenian Democracy: An Experiment for the Ages by The Great Courses, Professor Robert Garland University College London
English | 2018 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B07CZ3BPTV | Format: M4B / Bitrate: 32 Kbps / 12 hours and 40 minutes + PDF | 184 Mb
Roughly 2,500 years ago, the Athenian people established a radical democracy in which power derived from the votes of everyday citizens. At a time when local governments ranged from oligarchy to tyranny, the elite classes of Athens gradually ceded power to the inexperienced masses, whose votes served as referendums for everything from taxation to war to welfare. The sequence of events that led to this development is astonishing, and the society that flourished under Athenian democracy is one of the greatest - even if greatly flawed - achievements in world history.
Today, when the foundations of our own democracy are under greater and greater scrutiny, the Athenian experiment in citizen rule offers a powerful object lesson in national politics. How did the Athenian system of democracy work? What were its strengths and weaknesses? And how does it compare to democracy in our world today? Athenian Democracy: An Experiment for the Ages answers these questions and more with 24 captivating lectures. Professor Robert Garland of Colgate University takes us back to ancient Greece and unpacks the development and workings of Athenian democracy. You'll witness the story of history through the lens of Athenian government, going inside the assemblies and courts to find out how democracy worked - and where it came up short.

Free Download Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BVRTLM7H | 2023 | 8 hours and 19 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 238 MB
Author: Anderson Cooper, Katherine Howe
Narrator: Anderson Cooper

Free Download Alone but Not Lonely: Exploring for Extraterrestrial Life (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CGVQ7BHB | 2023 | 5 hours and 50 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 323 MB
Author: Louis Friedman
Narrator: Patrick Lawlor