Category: Audio Books

Free Download Land Between the Rivers: A 5000-Year History of Iraq (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0DDVSHWCR | 2024 | 22 hours and 17 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 634 MB
Author: Bartle Bull
Narrator: Jonathan Keeble
Land Between the Rivers is the result of ten years of research, writing, and thinking about the subject. It is an enormous topic: five thousand years, beginning with Gilgamesh at the edge of historical time. It is a big topic in another way. More than anywhere else, the famous Land Between the Rivers, where civilization was born, where East and West have mixed and clashed since long before Alexander, has led an existence that could be called, from a certain perspective, a history of the world. We begin the story with ancient Sumer, and Gilgamesh building the walls of Uruk (‘Iraq’) to make a great name for himself around the turn of the third millennium BC. We end it in 1958, as the last royal family of Iraq is slaughtered on the steps of a small royal palace in Baghdad, the most effervescent, free, and promising capital in the Middle East. Above all, the story of Iraq, the world’s hinge country, is that of the great clash pitting humanism against the outlooks of power and fate.

Free Download Emily St. James, Noel Murray, Natasha Soudek (Narrator), "LOST: Back to the Island: The Complete Critical Companion to The Classic TV Series"
English | ASIN: B0DG64HQHX | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~13:30:00 | 371 MB
Before it premiered in the fall of 2004, LOST looked doomed to be an expensive, disastrous plane crash of a TV show. Instead, LOST was a massive hit, debuting with the biggest audience for a new drama on ABC in over a decade, reaching heights of over 23 million viewers at its peak, and holding on to a hefty fan-base for its entire six-season run. The elements that made the series seem like a boondoggle proved, instead, to be a big part of its appeal. Audiences loved the exotic island setting, became invested in the morally compromised characters, and feverishly tried to unravel the show’s many mysteries.
In LOST: Back to the Island, TV critics and veteran LOST recappers Emily St. James and Noel Murray revisit what made the show such a success and an object of enduring cultural obsession, twenty years later. Through essays, episode summaries, and cultural analysis, they take us back to the island and examine LOST’s lasting impact-and its complicated, sometimes controversial legacy-with a clear-eyed and lively investigation.

Free Download Kissinger: A Biography by Walter Isaacson, Malcolm Hillgartner, Blackstone Audio, Inc.
English | July 10, 2013 | ISBN: B00D3MYZPS | 34 hours and 30 minutes | M4B 64 Kbps | 940 Mb
By the time Henry Kissinger was made secretary of state in 1973, he had become, according to a Gallup poll, the most admired person in America and one of the most unlikely celebrities ever to capture the world’s imagination. Yet Kissinger was also reviled by large segments of the American public, ranging from liberal intellectuals to conservative activists.
Kissinger explores the relationship between this complex man’s personality and the foreign policy he pursued. Drawing on extensive interviews with Kissinger as well as 150 other sources, including US presidents and his business clients, this first full-length biography makes use of many of Kissinger’s private papers and classified memos to tell his uniquely American story.
The result is an intimate narrative, filled with surprising revelations, that follows this grandly colorful statesman from his childhood as a persecuted Jew in Nazi Germany, through his tortured relationship with Richard Nixon, to his later years as a globe-trotting business consultant.

Free Download Kingmaker: Pamela Harriman’s Astonishing Life of Power, Seduction, and Intrigue (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CTNTWM9Y | 2024 | 16 hours and 58 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 491 MB
Author: Sonia Purnell
Narrator: Louise Brealey
From the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author, an electrifying re-examination of one of the 20th century’s greatest unsung power players. When Pamela Churchill Harriman died in 1997, the obituaries that followed were predictably scathing-and many were downright sexist. Written off as a mere courtesan and social climber, her true legacy was overshadowed by a glamorous social life and her infamous erotic adventures. Much of what she did behind the scenes-on both sides of the Atlantic-remained invisible and secret. That is, until now: with a wealth of fresh research, interviews and newly discovered sources, Sonia Purnell unveils for the first time the full, spectacular story of how she left an indelible mark on the world today. At age 20 Churchill’s beloved daughter-in-law became a "secret weapon" during World War II, strategically wining, dining, and seducing diplomats and generals to help win over American sentiment (and secrets) to the British cause against Hitler.

Free Download King Arthur’s Wars: The Anglo-Saxon Conquest of England (Audiobook)
English | July 09, 2019 | ASIN: B07TS4XSD8 | M4B@128 kbps | 11h 52m | 647 MB
Author: Jim Storr | Narrator: Julian Elfer
The story of an era shrouded in mystery, and the gradual changing of a nation’s cultural identity.
We speak English today, because the Anglo-Saxons took over most of post-Roman Britain. How did that happen? There is little evidence: not much archaeology, and even less written history. There is, however, a huge amount of speculation. King Arthur’s Wars brings an entirely new approach to the subject – the answers are out there, in the British countryside, waiting to be found.

Free Download Just Good Manners: A Quintessential Guide to Courtesy, Charm, Grace and Decorum (Audiobook)
English | September 12, 2024 | ASIN: B0CY2X1NPN, B0CY2X7PXS | M4B@118 kbps | 4h 1m | 206 MB
Author and Narrator: William Hanson
What is the correct way to queue at the bar? Why should we care about asking for people’s pronouns? And why exactly do the English say sorry so much?
No one makes such a fuss about manners quite as much as the UK, yet in a fast-changing world, no one can seem to agree on precisely what the ‘done thing’ is, either. William Hanson, world-leading etiquette expert is on a mission to reclaim the British crown of good manners. In Just Good Manners, he shares his definitive guidance on how to behave in every situation – as well as celebrating our country’s distinctively British way of doing things!

Free Download It’s a Gas: The Magnificent and Elusive Elements That Expand Our World (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BLCNSCSX | 2024 | 6 hours and 50 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 374 MB
Author: Mark Miodownik
Narrator: Daniel Weyman
The secret life of gases – the strange, elusive and fascinating substances that shape our world. Why are most gases invisible, odourless and tasteless? Why do some poison us and others make us laugh? And why do some power our engines while others make drinks fizzy? In It’s a Gas, Mark Miodownik masterfully reveals an invisible world through his unique brand of scientific storytelling. Taking us back to that exhilarating – and often dangerous – moment when scientists tried to work out exactly what they had discovered, Miodownik shows that gases are the formative substances of our modern world, each with its own weird and wonderful personality. We see how seventeenth-century laughing gas parties led to the first use of anaesthetics in surgery, how the invention of the air valve in musical instruments gave us bicycles, cars and trainers, and how gases made us masters of the sea (by huge steamships) and skies (via extremely flammable balloons). This delight of a book reveals the immense importance of gases to modern civilisation.

Free Download It All Makes Sense Now: Embrace Your ADHD Brain to Live a Creative and Colorful Life (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D5MVXB6R | 2024 | 6 hours and 2 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 339 MB
Author: Meredith Carder
Narrator: Meredith Carder
From the personal and coaching experience of an ADHDer, actionable tools and techniques to understand your ADHD brain and unlock life’s possibilities. Do you often feel that your emotions are intense and difficult to regulate? Does boredom get to you seemingly more than most? Do you struggle with your perception of time? You’re not alone. As cultural and medical awareness around ADHD shifts, millions of adults who are diagnosed with ADHD are unclear on the many ways ADHD symptoms present and how it affects the experience of their everyday life. Meredith Carder, an ADHD coach and ADHDer herself, shares real-life stories from her coaching practice and own lived experience along with actionable exercises and strategies to help you. By learning more about the way your mind works, you too can rewrite your inner dialogue and fully realize the life you want to live.

Free Download Is Earth Exceptional?: The Quest for Cosmic Life (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CS3VDFKT | 2024 | 10 hours and 36 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 304 MB
Author: Mario Livio PhD, Jack Szostak
Narrator: Graham Winton
A New York Times-bestselling astrophysicist and a Nobel laureate describe the quest to discover how and where the universe breathed life into matter. For a long time, scientists have wondered how life has emerged from inanimate chemistry, and whether Earth is the only place where it exists. Charles Darwin speculated about life on Earth beginning in a warm little pond. Some of his contemporaries believed that life existed on Mars. It once seemed inevitable that the truth would be known by now. It is not. For more than a century, the origins and extent of life have remained shrouded in mystery. But, as Mario Livio and Jack Szostak reveal in Is Earth Exceptional?, the veil is finally lifting. The authors describe how life’s building blocks-from RNA to amino acids and cells-could have emerged from the chaos of Earth’s early existence. They then apply the knowledge gathered from cutting-edge research across the sciences to the search for life in the cosmos: both life as we know it and life as we don’t. Why and where life exists are two of the biggest unsolved problems in science. Is Earth Exceptional? is the ultimate exploration of the question of whether life is a freak accident or a chemical imperative.

Free Download Joseph Coohill, Enda Oates (Narrator), "Ireland: A Short History, 5th Edition"
English | ASIN: B0D7WG2BZZ | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~08:30:00 | 234 MB
From the first prehistoric inhabitants of the island to the St Andrews Agreement and decommissioning of IRA weapons, this uniquely concise account of Ireland and its people reveals how differing interpretations of history, ancient and modern, have influenced modern Irish society. Combining factual information with a critical approach, Coohill covers all the key events, including the Great Famine, Home Rule, and the Good Friday Agreement.
Updated with two new chapters expanding the discussion of pre-modern Ireland, as well as developments in the 21st century, this highly accessible and balanced account will continue to provide a valuable resource to all those wishing to acquaint themselves further with the complex identity of the Irish people.