Category: E-Books

Free Download Tyranny of the Gene: Personalized Medicine and Its Threat to Public Health (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BPF5PF6V | 2023 | 9 hours and 4 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 267 MB
Author: James Tabery
Narrator: George Newbern
A revelatory account of how power, politics, and greed have placed the unfulfilled promise of personalized medicine at the center of American medicine. The United States is embarking on a medical revolution. Supporters of personalized, or precision, medicine-the tailoring of health care to our genomes-have promised to usher in a new era of miracle cures. Advocates of this gene-guided health-care practice foresee a future where skyrocketing costs can be curbed by customization and unjust disparities are vanquished by biomedical breakthroughs. Progress, however, has come slowly, and with a price too high for the average citizen. In Tyranny of the Gene, James Tabery exposes the origin story of personalized medicine-essentially a marketing idea dreamed up by pharmaceutical executives-and traces its path from the Human Genome Project to the present, revealing how politicians, influential federal scientists, biotech companies, and drug giants all rallied behind the genetic hype.

Free Download Twilight Cities: Lost Capitals of the Mediterranean
July 6, 2023 | English | ASIN: B0BK9DD67Q | M4B & MP3@126 kbps | 11 hrs 58 mins | 752 to 759 MB
Unabridged | Retail
Of the many cities that dot this ancient coastline, Tyre, Carthage, Syracuse, Ravenna, and Antioch are among the oldest and most intriguing. All are beautifully situated, and for layers of history and cultural riches, they are rivalled only by their sister cities of Rome, Istanbul and Jerusalem. Yet their fates have been remarkably different. Once major power centres, all five have declined into relative obscurity. Nevertheless, their entwined history takes in Alexander the Great, Nebuchadnezzar, Archimedes and the Roman, Byzantine, Arab and Norman conquests, and their greatness still lingers for those who seek it out.
To bring these mysterious lost capitals to life, historian Katherine Pangonis sets out on a voyage from the dawn of civilisation on the Lebanese coast to a modern-day Turkey wracked by the devastation of the 2023 earthquake. Combining on-the-ground research with spellbinding storytelling skills, here is a revelatory new story of the Mediterranean and a powerful reflection on the sometimes fleeting glory of empires.

Free Download Tsar: An Epic Chronicle of the Russian Leaders (Audiobook)
English | September 06, 2018 | ASIN: B07GH97LNL | MP3@64 kbps | 10h 22m | 282.89 MB
Author: Mike Walker
Narrator: David Threlfall, Hugo Speer, Samantha Spiro, Anton Lesser, Amanda Root, Raymond Coulthard, Paul Ritter, full cast, Hattie Morahan
Eleven compelling BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramas telling the stories of the Russian tsars.

Free Download Trial (Audiobook)
English | July 21, 2023 | ASIN: B0C29DXVB6 | M4B@64 kbps | 18h 8m | 528 MB
Author: Richard North Patterson | Narrator: William DeMeritt
Trial confirms Richard North Patterson’s place as "our most important author of popular fiction."

Free Download Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BV91ZGLV | 2023 | 10 hours and 3 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 289 MB
Author: Andrea Lankford
Narrator: Kristi Burns
From an award-winning former law enforcement park ranger and investigator, this female-driven true crime adventure follows the author’s quest to find missing hikers along the Pacific Crest Trail by pairing up with an eclectic group of unlikely allies. As a park ranger with the National Park Service’s law enforcement team, Andrea Lankford led search and rescue missions in some of the most beautiful (and dangerous) landscapes across America, from Yosemite to the Grand Canyon. But though she had the support of the agency, Andrea grew frustrated with the service’s bureaucratic idiosyncrasies, and left the force after twelve years. Two decades later, however, she stumbles across a mystery that pulls her right back where she left off: three young men have vanished from the Pacific Crest Trail, the 2,650-mile trek made famous by Cheryl Strayed’s Wild, and no one has been able to find them. It’s bugging the hell out of her. Andrea’s concern soon leads her to a wild environment unlike any she’s ever encountered: missing person Facebook groups.

Free Download Traders in Men: Merchants and the Transformation of the Transatlantic Slave Trade (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C9163TJY | 2023 | 8 hours and 54 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 258 MB
Author: Nicholas Radburn
Narrator: Julian Elfer
A sweeping new history that reveals how British, African, and American merchants developed the transatlantic slave trade. During the eighteenth century, Britain’s slave trade exploded in size. Formerly a small and geographically constricted business, the trade had, by the eve of the American Revolution, grown into a transatlantic system through which fifty thousand men, women, and children were enslaved every year. In this wide-ranging history, Nicholas Radburn explains how thousands of merchants collectively transformed the slave trade by devising highly efficient but violent new business methods. African brokers developed commercial infrastructure that facilitated the enslavement and sale of millions of people. Britons invented shipping methods that quelled enslaved people’s constant resistance on the Middle Passage. And American slave traders formulated brutal techniques through which shiploads of people could be quickly sold to colonial buyers. Truly Atlantic-wide in its vision, this study shows how the slave trade dragged millions of people into its terrible vortex and became one of the most important phenomena in world history.

Free Download Topology: A Very Short Introduction (Audiobook)
English | June 16, 2020 | ASIN: B089B4T6YN | M4B@128 kbps | 4h 45m | 264 MB
Author: Richard Earl | Narrator: Bruce Mann
How is a subway map different from other maps? What makes a knot knotted? What makes the Möbius strip one-sided? These are questions of topology, the mathematical study of properties preserved by twisting or stretching objects. In the 20th century, topology became as broad and fundamental as algebra and geometry, with important implications for science, especially physics.

Free Download Top Eight: How Myspace Changed Music (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CCF9DHNN | 2023 | 13 hours and 48 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 389 MB
Author: Michael Tedder
Narrator: Graham Rowat
In extensive interviews with scene pioneers and mainstays, including Chris Carrabba (Dashboard Confessional), Geoff Rickly (Thursday), Frank Iero (My Chemical Romance), Gabe Saporta (Midtown/Cobra Starship), and Max Bemis (Say Anything), veteran music journalist Michael Tedder has crafted a once-in-a-generation exploration of emo and The Scene that is as forthright as it is tenderly nostalgic, taking to task the elements of toxic masculinity and crass consumerism that bled out of the early 2000s cultural milieu and ultimately led to the implosion of emo’s first home and the best social media network, MySpace. When MySpace thrived, the Internet was still fun. Top Eight recalls the excitement and freedom of the era, an unprecedented time when a generation of fans were able to connect directly with the bands and musicians they idolized, from Colbie Caillat to Lil Jon. MySpace changed everything, and Top Eight gives major voices of the era the chance to tell us why it couldn’t last.

Free Download Too Dumb for Democracy?: Why We Make Bad Political Decisions and How We Can Make Better Ones (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CBVZQDBH | 2023 | 9 hours and 28 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 272 MB
Author: David Moscrop
Narrator: David Moscrop
David Moscrop asks why we make irrational political decisions and whether our Stone-Age brains can process democracy in the information age. In this accessible and compelling investigation narrated by the author, Moscrop explains what’s going wrong in today’s political landscape and how individuals, societies, and institutions can work together to set things right.

Free Download Tom Lake: A Novel (Audiobook)
English | August 01, 2023 | ASIN: B0BPZYH97W | M4B@64 kbps | 11h 22m | 321 MB
Author: Ann Patchett | Narrator: Meryl Streep
In this beautiful and moving novel about family, love, and growing up, Ann Patchett once again proves herself one of America’s finest writers.