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Free Download The Great White Bard: How to Love Shakespeare While Talking About Race (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BP571T29 | 2023 | 8 hours and 46 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 254 MB
Author: Farah Karim-Cooper
Narrator: Farah Karim-Cooper, Adjoa Andoh
As we witness monuments of white Western history fall, many are asking how is Shakespeare still relevant? Professor Farah Karim-Cooper has dedicated her career to the Bard, which is why she wants to take the playwright down from his pedestal to unveil a Shakespeare for the twenty-first century. If we persist in reading Shakespeare as representative of only one group, as the very pinnacle of the white Western canon, then he will truly be in peril. Combining piercing analysis of race, gender and otherness in famous plays from Antony and Cleopatra to The Tempest with a radical reappraisal of Elizabethan London, The Great White Bard asks us neither to idealize nor bury Shakespeare but instead to look him in the eye and reckon with the discomforts of his plays, playhouses and society. In inviting new perspectives and interpretations, we may yet prolong and enrich his extraordinary legacy.

Free Download The Great Train Robber: My Autobiography: The Inside Story of Britain's Most Notorious Heist (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BWNQ6HL9 | 2023 | 11 hours and 49 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 342 MB
Author: Chris Pickard
Narrator: Nick Reynolds
What is it that fascinates so many people about Ronnie Biggs and makes him a household name sixty years on from the crime that made his name? Is it the man or the myth that makes Ron a latter-day Robin Hood, and the odd man out who is best remembered from a gang of sixteen who held up a mail train in August 1963? This book covers Ron's entire life including the Great Train Robbery, his conviction and subsequent escape from HMP Wandsworth. Ron tells how he managed to outrun and outthink the posse of law enforcement officers and the media that chased him around the world as one of its most wanted men. From his time in Australia, to his discovery and arrest in Brazil in 1974, it is all included here. It covers the two attempts to kidnap him, and his son Mike's rise to stardom.

Free Download The Good Virus: The Amazing Story and Forgotten Promise of the Phage (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C2ZTZR7H | 2023 | 10 hours and 20 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 292 MB
Author: Tom Ireland
Narrator: Ben Deery
How a mysterious, super-powerful-yet long-neglected-microbe rules our world and can rescue our health in the age of antibiotic resistance. At every moment, within our bodies and all around us, trillions of microscopic combatants are waging a war that shapes our health and life on Earth. Countless times per second, viruses known as phages attack and destroy bacteria while leaving all other life forms, including us, unscathed. Vastly outnumbering the viruses that do us harm, phages power ecosystems, drive evolutionary innovation, and harbor a remarkable capacity to heal life-threatening infections when conventional antibiotics fail. Yet most of us have never heard of them, thinking of viruses only as enemies to be feared. The Good Virus prompts us to reconsider, and to discover, how these viruses could save countless lives if we can learn to harness their extraordinary abilities.

Free Download The Good Spy: The Life and Death of Robert Ames
May 20, 2014 | English | ASIN: 080416648X | 14 hrs 47 mins | M4B & MP3@63 kbps | 444 to 448 MB
Author: Kai Bird
Narrator: René Ruiz
On April 18, 1983, a bomb exploded outside the American Embassy in Beirut, killing 63 people. The attack was a geopolitical turning point. It marked the beginning of Hezbollah as a political force, but even more important, it eliminated America's most influential and effective intelligence officer in the Middle East - CIA operative Robert Ames. What set Ames apart from his peers was his extraordinary ability to form deep, meaningful connections with key Arab intelligence figures. Some operatives relied on threats and subterfuge, but Ames worked by building friendships and emphasizing shared values - never more notably than with Yasir Arafat's charismatic intelligence chief and heir apparent Ali Hassan Salameh (aka "The Red Prince"). Ames' deepening relationship with Salameh held the potential for a lasting peace. Within a few years, though, both men were killed by assassins, and America's relations with the Arab world began heading down a path that culminated in 9/11, the War on Terror, and the current fog of mistrust.

Free Download The First Atomic Bomb: The Trinity Site in New Mexico (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CCW8GWFK | 2023 | 9 hours and 40 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 282 MB
Author: Janet Farrell Brodie
Narrator: Linda Jones
On July 16, 1945, just weeks before the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that brought about the surrender of Japan and the end of WWII, the US unleashed the world's first atomic bomb at the Trinity testing site located in the remote Tularosa Valley in New Mexico. In The First Atomic Bomb Janet Farrell Brodie explores the history of the Trinity test and those whose contributions have rarely been discussed-the men and women who constructed, served, and witnessed the first test-as well as the downwinders who suffered the consequences of radiation. Concentrating on these ordinary people, laborers, ranchers, and Indigenous peoples who lived in the region and participated in the testing, Brodie corrects the lack of coverage in existing scholarship on the essential details and everyday experiences of this globally significant event.

Free Download The Fall of Heaven: The Pahlavis and the Final Days of Imperial Iran (Audiobook)
English | August 02, 2016 | ASIN: B01E97TNK2 | M4B@64 kbps | 22h 1m | 607 MB
Author: Andrew Scott Cooper | Narrator: Assaf Cohen
An immersive, gripping account of the rise and fall of Iran's glamorous Pahlavi dynasty, written with the cooperation of the late shah's widow, Empress Farah.

Free Download The Faded Map: Lost Kingdoms of Scotland (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CCCBF5HS | 2023 | 9 hours and 20 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 256 MB
Author: Alistair Moffat
Narrator: Neil McFarlane
Dive into Northern Britain's Dark Ages in "a book which gives a satisfying and convincing account of this little-known part of Scotland's history" (Undiscovered Scotland). Modern communications have driven motorways and pylons through the countryside, dwarfed us with TV and telephone masts, and drastically altered the way in which we move around, see, and understand Scotland. Recent politics and logistics have established borders and jurisdictions which now seem permanent and impervious. The Faded Map looks beyond these to remember a land that was once quiet and green.

Free Download The Exponential Age: How Accelerating Technology Is Transforming Business, Politics, and Society (Audiobook)
English | September 07, 2021 | ASIN: B0945QKHSV | M4B@128 kbps | 9h 43m | 530 MB
Author and Narrator: Azeem Azhar
From Azeem Azhar, renowned technology analyst and host of the global tech podcast Exponential View, comes a bold exploration and call-to-arms over the widening gap between AI, automation, and big data - and our ability to deal with its effects

Free Download The Evolved Nest: Nature's Way of Raising Children and Creating Connected Communities (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BGM9QDFB | 2023 | 7 hours and 5 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 392 MB
Author: Darcia Narvaez, G. A. Bradshaw
Narrator: Cindy Kay
A fascinating look into nurturing and parenting in the natural world, supplemented with original illustrations. A beautiful resource for Nature advocates, parents-to-be, Animal lovers, and anyone who seeks to restore wellbeing on our planet, The Evolved Nest reconnects us to lessons from the Animal world and shows us how to restore wellness in our families, communities, and lives. Each of 10 chapters explores a different animal's parenting model, sharing species-specific adaptations that allow each to thrive in their "evolved nests." Psychologists Drs. Darcia Narvaez and Gay Bradshaw show us how each evolved nest offers inspiration for reexamining our own systems of nurturing, understanding, and caring for our young and each other. Alongside beautiful illustrations, stunning scientific facts, and lessons in neuroscience, psychology, and evolutionary biology, we learn to care deeper: to restore our innate place within the natural world and fight for an ecology of life that supports our flourishing in balance with Nature alongside our human and non-human family.

Free Download The Evangelical Imagination: How Stories, Images, and Metaphors Created a Culture in Crisis (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CBW4B2Z5 | 2023 | 10 hours and 19 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 284 MB
Author: Karen Swallow Prior
Narrator: Susan Hanfield
Contemporary American evangelicalism is suffering from an identity crisis-and a lot of bad press. In this book, acclaimed author Karen Swallow Prior examines evangelical history, both good and bad. By analyzing the literature, art, and popular culture that has surrounded evangelicalism, she unpacks some of the movement's most deeply held concepts, ideas, values, and practices to consider what is Christian rather than merely cultural. The result is a clearer path forward for evangelicals amid their current identity crisis-and insight for others who want a deeper understanding of what the term "evangelical" means today. This book explores ideas including conversion, domesticity, empire, sentimentality, and more. In the end, it goes beyond evangelicalism to show us how we might be influenced by images, stories, and metaphors in ways we cannot always see.