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Free Download The Tragedy of Empire: From Constantine to the Destruction of Roman Italy (Audiobook)
English | May 11, 2021 | ASIN: B093HYHDTQ | M4B@128 kbps | 15h 11m | 843 MB
Author: Michael Kulikowski | Narrator: Simon Shepherd
The Tragedy of Empire begins in the late fourth century with the reign of Julian, the last non-Christian Roman emperor, and takes listeners to the final years of the Western Roman Empire at the end of the sixth century. One hundred years before Julian’s rule, Emperor Diocletian had resolved that an empire stretching from the Atlantic to the Euphrates, and from the Rhine and Tyne to the Sahara, could not effectively be governed by one man. He had devised a system of governance, called the tetrarchy by modern scholars, to respond to the vastness of the empire, its new rivals, and the changing face of its citizenry. Powerful enemies like the barbarian coalitions of the Franks and the Alamanni threatened the imperial frontiers. The new Sasanian dynasty had come into power in Persia. This was the political climate of the Roman world that Julian inherited.

Free Download The Three Deaths of Willa Stannard by Kate Robards, Susannah Jones, Dreamscape Media
English | 2023 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0BSB3BYZF | MP3@64 Kbps | Duration: 8:52 h | 246 Mb
It’s not that they’ve been all that close in the past few years, but sisters Willa and Sawyer Stannard are bonded by the ups and downs of the life they’ve lived with their mercurial single mother. When Willa is found dead in her apartment from an apparent suicide, Sawyer just knows it’s not possible. A cryptic note from the acclaimed broadcast journalist leads police to rule out foul play. Shattered by grief-and obsessed by the idea that her sister’s death was not a suicide-Sawyer plunges into a search for the truth.
When Sawyer learns that Willa was writing an explosive true-crime book about the decades-old disappearance of a toddler that rocked a small town hundreds of miles away, she’s even more convinced that Willa’s death is suspicious. Believing it is somehow connected to the research Willa was doing for the book, Sawyer begins to trace her sister’s steps, deep into a community she can’t begin to understand and to a truth that could destroy her as easily as it did Willa.

Free Download The Terror of History: Mystics, Heretics, and Witches in the Western Tradition [TTC Audio]
English | July 08, 2013 | ASIN: B00DTO4MI0 | M4B@128 kbps | 12h 15m | 682 MB
Lecturer: Teofilo F. Ruiz
Western civilization is closely associated with reason and science, and with exceptional accomplishments in art, architecture, music, and literature.Yet it has also been characterized by widespread belief in the supernatural and the irrational – with mystics who have visions of the divine and entire movements of people who wait in fervent anticipation of the apocalypse.

Free Download The Starch Solution: Eat the Foods You Love, Regain Your Health, and Lose the Weight for Good! (Audiobook)
English | 27 September 2016 | ASIN: B01LWJC3OY | MP3@64 kbps | 6h 52m | 189.16 MB
Author: John McDougall, Mary McDougall
Narrator: Stephen R. Thorne
From Atkins to Dukan, fear of the almighty carb has taken over the diet industry for the past few decades – even the mere mention of a starch-heavy food is enough to trigger an avalanche of shame and longing. But the truth is, carbs are not the enemy. Now, best-selling author John A. McDougall, MD, and his kitchen-savvy wife, Mary, prove that a starch-rich diet can actually help us lose weight, prevent a variety of ills, and even cure common diseases. By fueling the body primarily with carbohydrates rather than proteins and fats, listeners will feel satisfied, boost energy, and look and feel their best.

Free Download The Social Transformation of American Medicine: The Rise of a Sovereign Profession and the Making of a Vast Industry (Audiobook)
English | July 18, 2018 | ASIN: B07FCPL7WB | MP3@64 kbps | 24h 5m | 636.44 MB
Author: Paul Starr
Narrator: Sean Runnette
Considered the definitive history of the American healthcare system, The Social Transformation of American Medicine examines how the roles of doctors, hospitals, health plans, and government programs have evolved over the last two and a half centuries. How did the financially insecure medical profession of the 19th century become a most prosperous one in the 20th century? Why was national health insurance blocked? And why are corporate institutions taking over our medical care system today?

Free Download The Slip: The New York City Street That Changed American Art Forever (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BPZXT953 | 2023 | 11 hours and 9 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 318 MB
Author: Prudence Peiffer
Narrator: Melissa Redmond
The never-before-told story of an obscure little street at the lower tip of Manhattan and the remarkable artists who got their start there. For just over a decade, from 1956 to 1967, a collection of dilapidated former sail-making warehouses clustered at the lower tip of Manhattan became the quiet epicenter of the art world. Coenties Slip, a dead-end street near the water, was home to a circle of wildly talented and varied artists that included Robert Indiana, Ellsworth Kelly, Agnes Martin, James Rosenquist, Delphine Seyrig, Lenore Tawney, and Jack Youngerman. As friends and inspirations to one another, they created a unique community for unbridled creative expression and experimentation, and the works they made at the Slip would go on to change the course of American art. An ambitious and singular account of a time, a place, and a group of extraordinary people, The Slip investigates the importance of community, and makes an argument for how we are shaped by it, and how it in turns shapes our work.

Free Download The Silk Roads: A New History of the World (Audiobook)
English | February 16, 2016 | ASIN: B01B6OC1J6 | M4B@64 kbps | 24h 13m | 660 MB
Author: Peter Frankopan | Narrator: Laurence Kennedy
The epic history of the crossroads of the world – the meeting place of East and West and the birthplace of civilization.

Free Download The Silent Twins by Marjorie Wallace, Jodhi May, Penguin Audio
English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B09RQ4SFMP | MP3@64 Kbps | Duration: 12:27 h | 342 Mb
Brought to you by Penguin.
Now a major motion picture starring Letitia Wright.

Free Download The Severan Dynasty: The History and Legacy of the Ancient Roman Empire’s Rulers Before Rome’s Imperial Crisis by Charles River Editors, Jim D. Johnston
English | 2009 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B07Q3XDS11 | MP3@64 kbps | 1.7 Hours | 46 Mb
"If a man were called upon to fix that period in the history of the world during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the deaths of Domitian to the accession of Commodus." (Edward Gibbon)
"The Five Good Emperors," a reference to the five emperors who ruled the Roman Empire between 96 and 180 CE (Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus Pius, and Marcus Aurelius), was a term first coined by Machiavelli and later adopted and popularized by historian Edward Gibbon, who said that under these men, the Roman Empire "was governed by absolute power under the guidance of wisdom and virtue."

Free Download The Self-Assembling Brain: How Neural Networks Grow Smarter (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CCC1XKD8 | 2023 | 12 hours and 22 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 338 MB
Author: Peter Robin Hiesinger
Narrator: Joel Richards
How does a neural network become a brain? While neurobiologists investigate how nature accomplishes this feat, computer scientists interested in AI strive to achieve this through technology. The Self-Assembling Brain tells the stories of both fields, exploring the historical and modern approaches taken by the scientists pursuing answers to the quandary: What information is necessary to make an intelligent neural network? As Peter Robin Hiesinger argues, "the information problem" underlies both fields. How does genetic information unfold during the process of human brain development-and is there a quicker path to creating human-level artificial intelligence?