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Free Download The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John von Neumann by Ananyo Bhattacharya, Nicholas Camm, Random House Audio
English | 2022 | ISBN: B09M2LTKSH | Format: M4B / Bitrate: 128 Kbps / 11 hours and 56 minutes | 650 Mb
An electrifying biography of one of the most extraordinary scientists of the twentieth century and the world he made.
The smartphonesin our pockets and computerslikebrains. The vagaries of game theory and evolutionary biology.Nuclear weaponsand self-replicating spacecrafts. All bear the fingerprints of one remarkable, yet largelyoverlooked,man: John von Neumann.
Born in Budapest at the turn of the century,von Neumannisone ofthe most influential scientists to have ever lived.A child prodigy, he mastered calculus by the age of eight,andin high schoolmade lasting contributions to mathematics.InGermany, where he helped lay the foundations of quantum mechanics,and laterat Princeton, von Neumann’scolleagues believed he had the fastest brain on the planet-bar none.Hewas instrumental in the Manhattan Projectand the design of the atom bomb; hehelped formulate the bedrock of Cold War geopolitics and modern economic theory; he created the first ever programmable digital computer; heprophesized the potential of nanotechnology; and, from his deathbed,heexpounded on the limits of brains and computers-and how they might be overcome.

Free Download Lynda Drews, Megan Trout (Narrator), "The Maid and the Socialite: The Brave Women Behind Green Bay’s Scandalous Minahan Trials"
English | ASIN: B0CQ3WR6YP | 2023 | M4B@64 kbps | ~10:28:00 | 301 MB
In the shadows of progress, two women’s stories were erased. Until now.
What if a respected surgeon could destroy your life with just one diagnosis?

Free Download The Mad Emperor: Heliogabalus and the Decadence of Rome by Harry Sidebottom, Saul Reichlin, Tantor Audio
English | 2023 | ISBN: B0C9F59ZD7 | Format: M4B / Bitrate: 64 Kbps / 12 hours and 18 minutes | 670 Mb
A Financial Times, BBC History, and Spectator Book of the Year
On 8 June 218 AD, a fourteen-year-old Syrian boy, egged on by his grandmother, led an army to battle in a Roman civil war. Against all expectations, he was victorious.
Varius Avitus Bassianus, known to the modern world as Heliogabalus, was proclaimed emperor. The next four years were to be the strangest in the history of the empire.

Free Download The Lost Peace: Leadership in a Time of Horror and Hope: 1945-1953 (Audiobook)
English | October 19, 2010 | ASIN: B0047T2OK4 | M4B@128 kbps | 15h 11m | 848 MB
Author: Robert Dallek | Narrator: Jonathan Davis
In a striking reinterpretation of the postwar years, Robert Dallek examines what drove the leaders of the most powerful and populous nations around the globe – Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, Mao, de Gaulle, and Truman – to rely on traditional power politics despite the catastrophic violence their nations had endured. The decisions of these men, for better and often for worse, had profound consequences for decades to come, influencing relations and conflicts with China, Korea, in the Middle East, and around the globe.
The Lost Peace is a penetrating look at the misjudgments that caused enormous strife and suffering during this critical period, from the closing months of World War II through the early years of the Cold War. From Hitler’s killing program to Stalin’s paranoia to Truman’s decision to build hydrogen bombs, the men who led the world at this time executed astonishingly unwise actions that propelled the nuclear arms race and extended the Cold War. Dallek has written a cautionary tale that considers what might have been done differently to avoid the difficulties that strong and weak nations around the globe encountered in the mid-twentieth century.

Free Download Richard Sakwa (Author), Stewart Crank (Narrator), "The Lost Peace: How the West Failed to Prevent a Second Cold War"
English | ASIN: B0CNKZY524 | 2023 | M4B@128 kbps | ~14:08:00 | 810 MB
The end of the Cold War was an opportunity-our inability to seize it has led to today’s renewed era of great power competition
1989 heralded a unique prospect for an enduring global peace, as harsh ideological divisions and conflicts began to be resolved. Now, three decades on, that peace has been lost. With war in Ukraine and increasing tensions between China, Russia, and the West, great power politics once again dominates the world stage. But could it have been different?

Free Download The Lost Gospel: Decoding the Ancient Text That Reveals Jesus’ Marriage to Mary the Magdalene by Simcha Jacobovici, Barrie Wilson, Bob Souer
2014 | English | ISBN: B00P1L8BGI | Format: M4B / 12 hours and 55 minutes + EPUB | 357 Mb
In a startling follow-up to the New York Times best-seller The Jesus Family Tomb, a historical detective story that unravels a newly translated document filled with startling revelations and fascinating detail about the life and times of Jesus.
Waiting to be rediscovered in the British Library is an ancient manuscript of the early Church, copied by an anonymous monk. The manuscript is at least 1,450 years old, possibly dating to the first century, Jesus’ lifetime. And now, The Lost Gospel provides the first-ever translation from Syriac into English of this unique document that tells the inside story of Jesus’ social, family, and political life.
The Lost Gospel takes listeners on an unparalleled historical adventure through a paradigm-shifting manuscript. What the authors eventually discover is astounding: confirmation of Jesus’ marriage to Mary the Magdalene; the names of their two children; the towering presence of Mary the Magdalene; a previously unknown Description on Jesus’ life, thirteen years prior to the crucifixion; an assassination attempt against Mary the Magdalene and their children; Jesus’ connection to political figures at the highest level of the Roman Empire; and a religious movement that antedates that of Paul – the Church of Mary the Magdalene. Part historical detective story, part modern adventure, The Lost Gospel reveals secrets that have been hiding in plain sight for millennia.

Free Download The Lost Cause (Audiobook)
English | November 14, 2023 | ISBN: 5184389278341 | M4B@64 kbps | 11h 35m | 329 MB
Author and Narrator: Cory Doctorow
It’s thirty years from now. We’re making progress, mitigating climate change, slowly but surely. But what about all the angry old people who can’t let go?
For young Americans a generation from now, climate change isn’t controversial. It’s just an overwhelming fact of life. And so are the great efforts to contain and mitigate it. Entire cities are being moved inland from the rising seas. Vast clean-energy projects are springing up everywhere. Disaster relief, the mitigation of floods and superstorms, has become a skill for which tens of millions of people are trained every year. The effort is global. It employs everyone who wants to work. Even when national politics oscillates back to right-wing leaders, the momentum is too great; these vast programs cannot be stopped in their tracks.

Free Download The Lost Cause (Audiobook)
English | November 14, 2023 | ISBN: 5184389278341 | M4B@64 kbps | 11h 35m | 329 MB
Author and Narrator: Cory Doctorow
It’s thirty years from now. We’re making progress, mitigating climate change, slowly but surely. But what about all the angry old people who can’t let go?
For young Americans a generation from now, climate change isn’t controversial. It’s just an overwhelming fact of life. And so are the great efforts to contain and mitigate it. Entire cities are being moved inland from the rising seas. Vast clean-energy projects are springing up everywhere. Disaster relief, the mitigation of floods and superstorms, has become a skill for which tens of millions of people are trained every year. The effort is global. It employs everyone who wants to work. Even when national politics oscillates back to right-wing leaders, the momentum is too great; these vast programs cannot be stopped in their tracks.

Free Download Alex Kershaw, Grover Gardner (Narrator), "The Longest Winter: The Battle of the Bulge and the Epic Story of World War II’s Most Decorated Platoon"
English | ASIN: B07D91T2BT | 2018 | M4B@64 kbps | ~09:42:00 | 274 MB
December 1944: Deep in the Ardennes forest, a platoon of 18 men under the command of 20-year-old lieutenant Lyle Bouck huddle in their foxholes. Under attack and vastly outnumbered, they repulse three German assaults in a fierce day-long battle, killing more than 500 Germans.
Only when Bouck’s men run out of ammunition do they surrender. As POWs, Bouck’s platoon experience an ordeal far worse than combat: trigger-happy German guards, Allied bombing raids, and a daily ration of thin soup. Somehow, the men of Bouck’s platoon all miraculously survive.

Free Download The Lonely Century: How to Restore Human Connection in a World that’s Pulling Apart by Noreena Hertz, Random House Audio
English | 2021 | ISBN: B086PC6Y5D | MP3@64 kbps | ~11:35:00 | 330 Mb
A bold, hopeful, and thought-provoking account by "one of the world’s leading thinkers" (The Observer) of how we built a lonely world, how the pandemic accelerated the problem, and what we must do to come together again
"A compelling vision for how we can bridge our many divides at this time of great change and disruption." (Arianna Huffington, founder and CEO of Thrive Global)
"An important new book." (The Economist)