Category: Audio Books

Free Download Unsettled, Updated and Expanded Edition: What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn’t, and Why It Matters (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D8LF1RL7 | 2024 | 8 hours and 49 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 252 MB
Author: Steven E. Koonin
Narrator: Jay Aaseng
In this updated and expanded edition of climate scientist Steven Koonin’s groundbreaking book, go behind the headlines to discover the latest eye-opening data about climate change-with unbiased facts and realistic steps for the future. "Greenland’s ice loss is accelerating." "Extreme temperatures are causing more fatalities." "Rapid ‘climate action’ is essential to avoid a future climate disaster." You’ve heard all this presented as fact. But according to science, all of these statements are profoundly misleading.

Free Download Unraveling: Remaking Personhood in a Neurodiverse Age by Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer, Mike Lenz, Tantor Audio
English | December 17, 2020 | ISBN: B08PMZTPPD | 11 hours and 50 minutes | MP3 | 325 Mb
Developing a cybernetic model of subjectivity and personhood that honors disability experiences to reconceptualize the category of the human.
Twentieth-century neuroscience fixed the brain as the basis of consciousness, the self, identity, individuality, even life itself, obscuring the fundamental relationships between bodies and the worlds that they inhabit. In Unraveling, Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer draws on narratives of family and individual experiences with neurological disorders, paired with texts by neuroscientists and psychiatrists, to decenter the brain and expose the ableist biases in the dominant thinking about personhood.
Unraveling articulates a novel cybernetic theory of subjectivity in which the nervous system is connected to the world it inhabits rather than being walled off inside the body, moving beyond neuroscientific, symbolic, and materialist approaches to the self to focus instead on such concepts as animation, modularity, and facilitation. It does so through close readings of memoirs by individuals who lost their hearing or developed trauma-induced aphasia, as well as family members of people diagnosed as autistic – texts that rethink modes of subjectivity through experiences with communication, caregiving, and the demands of everyday life.

Free Download Unlocking the ADHD Advantage: Why Your Brain Being Wired Differently Is Your Superpower (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D84CWK7Y | 2024 | 5 hours and 23 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 301 MB
Author: Dr. Anders Hansen
Narrator: Dr. Anders Hansen, Nikolas Salmon
Learn to accept and harness your ADHD traits for a happier and more productive life-from one of the world’s leading psychiatrists. Do you have trouble sitting still, staying patient, or maintaining concentration? You might be surprised to learn that these traits, commonly associated with ADHD, were once crucial evolutionary advantages, potentially shaping our species’ survival. In Unlocking the ADHD Advantage, Dr. Anders Hansen, a bestselling author and psychiatrist, delves into the role these traits may have played in our ancestors’ ability to thrive and how these traits can powerful tools in modern life. Discover strategies for success: With Dr. Hansen’s holistic approach, explore practical strategies to help you harness even the most challenging of these traits and learn to enhance your focus, manage impulsivity, and tap into your innate creativity. Be empowered by personal stories: Inspiring stories from individuals who have learned to utilize their ADHD traits and achieved remarkable success will motivate and inspire you on your own unique journey.

Free Download Unit X: How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley Are Transforming the Future of War (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CSGZBG52 | 2024 | 9 hours and 37 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 281 MB
Author: Raj M. Shah, Christopher Kirchhoff
Narrator: Raj M. Shah, Christopher Kirchhoff, Sean Patrick Hopkins
A riveting inside look at an elite unit within the Pentagon-the Defense Innovation Unit, also known as Unit X-whose mission is to bring Silicon Valley’s cutting-edge technology to America’s military: from the two men who launched the unit. A vast and largely unseen transformation of how war is fought as profound as the invention of gunpowder or advent of the nuclear age is occurring. Flying cars that can land like helicopters, artificial intelligence-powered drones that can fly into buildings and map their interiors, microsatellites that can see through clouds and monitor rogue missile sites-all these and more are becoming part of America’s DIU-fast-tracked arsenal. Until recently, the Pentagon was known for its uncomfortable relationship with Silicon Valley and for slow-moving processes that acted as a brake on innovation.

Free Download Unhumans: The Secret History of Communist Revolutions (And How to Crush Them) (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D81FH1VJ | 2024 | 10 hours and 1 minute | M4B@128 kbps | 546 MB
Author: Jack Posobiec, Joshua Lisec
Narrator: Chase Macdonald
If you don’t understand communist revolutions, you aren’t ready for what’s coming. The old rules are over. The old order is over. Accusations are evidence. Activism means bigotry and hate. Criminals are allowed to roam free. Citizens are locked up. An appetite for vengeance is unleashed-to deplatform, debank, destroy. This is the daily news, yet none of it’s new. Patterns from the past make sense of our present. They also foretell a terrifying future we might be condemned to endure. For nearly 250 years, far-left uprisings have followed the same battle plans-from the first call for change to last innocent executed, from denial a revolution is even happening to declaration of the new order.

Free Download Underwriters of the United States: How Insurance Shaped the American Founding (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D4Y1NWCT | 2024 | 10 hours and 59 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 308 MB
Author: Hannah Farber
Narrator: Linda Jones
Unassuming but formidable, American maritime insurers used their position at the pinnacle of global trade to shape the new nation. The international information they gathered and the capital they generated enabled them to play central roles in state building and economic development. During the Revolution, they helped the U.S. negotiate foreign loans, sell state debts, and establish a single national bank. Afterward, they increased their influence by lending money to the federal government and to its citizens. Even as federal and state governments began to encroach on their domain, maritime insurers adapted, preserving their autonomy and authority through extensive involvement in the formation of commercial law. Leveraging their claims to unmatched expertise, they operated free from government interference while simultaneously embedding themselves into the nation’s institutional fabric. By the early nineteenth century, insurers were no longer just risk assessors. They were nation builders and market makers. Deeply and imaginatively researched, Underwriters of the United States uses marine insurers to reveal a startlingly original story of risk, money, and power in the founding era.

Free Download Understanding Imperial China: Dynasties, Life, and Culture [TTC Audio]
English | September 22, 2017 | ASIN: B0758HW4XJ | M4B@96 kbps | 12h 32m | 532 MB
Lecturer: Andrew R. Wilson
A knowledge of China’s imperial history is vital for any understanding of its present, as modern China is linked in many ways to the extraordinary culture of its empire. These 24 lectures take you to the heart of life during China’s imperial era, through the lives of individual subjects of all social ranks. Across the arc of the course, you’ll witness what daily life was like for government bureaucrats, for scholars, for women of the court, for soldiers, merchants, craftspeople, courtesans, imperial cooks, and many others – all against the backdrop of the diversity, the genius, and the majesty of imperial China.
You’ll hear about such memorable sights as the grand boulevards; splendorous palaces; imposing temples of Chang’an, the medieval world’s greatest city; and the Qingming Shanghetu, a 17-foot painted scroll that gloriously portrays Song Dynasty life. And you’ll meet unforgettable human beings, whose lives vividly reveal the world around them, such as Ban Zhao, Han-era woman of letters, poet, scholar, and teacher; Tao Yuanming, Daoist luminary and the empire’s first great poet; Zhu Yuanzhang, powerful warlord and founder of the Ming Dynasty; and Hong Xiuquan, visionary reformer and architect of the religiously inspired Taiping Rebellion.

Free Download Understanding Addiction: Know Science, No Stigma (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D5ZNMR9N | 2024 | 2 hours and 45 minutes | M4B@192 kbps | 227 MB
Author: Dr. Chuck (Charles) Smith, Dr. Jason Hunt
Narrator: Scott R. Pollak
In Understanding Addiction: Know Science, No Stigma, doctors Chuck Smith and Jason Hunt bring a unique and important perspective to the subject of addiction. Experts in the field, Smith and Hunt have personal, firsthand experience with the humiliation and shame that accompanies substance use disorder. But addiction, as they point out, is a disease, no less so than diabetes or heart disease, and it needs to be treated as such. If you, or a loved one, is struggling with addiction, you’ll find help in Smith and Hunt’s book. When one understands the science behind addiction, one can begin to move forward. Beyond the stigma lies hope.

Free Download Under the Dome: Politics, Crisis, and Architecture at the United States Capitol (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D4X8HC86 | 2024 | 10 hours and 7 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 294 MB
Author: Alan M. Hantman, Sen. Harry M. Reid Jr.
Narrator: Peter Lerman
The domed US Capitol Building is recognized around the world as America’s most iconic symbol, the forum for representative democracy, and the physical stage for the transfer of executive power. As the United States grew in size and complexity, the Capitol was built, rebuilt, enlarged, and extended many times under the direction of the few who have served as Architect of the Capitol. This official heads the agency dedicated to preserving and upgrading this magnificent structure, and all the buildings and grounds of Capitol Hill. In Under the Dome, Alan Hantman, the Architect of the Capitol from 1997 to 2007, provides a personal account of how the Capitol works as a physical space; who runs it, how and why decisions are made about the security of the Capitol and the people who work there, and how politicians think about the Capitol Building. He also recounts security threats to the Capitol during his tenure-including the 1998 shooting murder of two police officers and the Capitol evacuation on 9/11 as a hijacked airplane approached-that underscore one of his greatest challenges as Architect. The tension between securing the Capitol and opening it to the public drove the design and construction under his direction of the Capitol Visitor Center, the largest expansion of the Capitol in its history, increasing its size by seventy percent.

Free Download Under a Rock: A Memoir (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CKLY9JLZ | 2024 | 10 hours and 18 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 301 MB
Author: Chris Stein, Debbie Harry
Narrator: Chris Stein, Debbie Harry, Dennis Boutsikaris, Romy Ashby
This program includes a foreword written and read by Debbie Harry. The main text is read by Dennis Boutsikaris, known for his roles in Better Call Saul, The Good Wife, and Sugar. It also includes "Heartbreak Kid," a song from the upcoming Blondie album. "A Downtown Memory" is written and read by Romy Ashby. Debbie Harry defined iconic band Blondie’s look. Chris Stein-her performing partner, lover, and lifelong friend-was its architect and defined its sound. "Parallel Lines", their third album, catapulted to #1, sold 20 million copies, and launched singles like "Heart of Glass", "Hangin’ On the Telephone," and "One Way or Another", providing the beat when Bianca Jagger and Halston danced at Studio 54 and the soundtrack to every 1970’s punk-soundtracked romance. Chris Stein knows how to tell a story. Under A Rock is his nothing-spared autobiography. It’s about the founding of the band, ascending to the heights of pop success, and the hazards of fortune. Famous names march through this book-Warhol, Bowie, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and more-but you can get famous names anywhere. What you can’t get anywhere else is a plunge into the moments that made a giant 1980’s artistic sensation. Stein takes us there in this revelatory, propulsive, distinctive memoir.