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Free Download James Davey, Philip Battley (Narrator), "Tempest: The Royal Navy and the Age of Revolutions"
English | ASIN: B0CPNJNM45 | 2023 | M4B@64 kbps | ~11:45:00 | 353 MB
A major new history of the Royal Navy during the tumultuous age of revolution
The French Revolutionary Wars catapulted Britain into a conflict against a new enemy: Republican France. Britain relied on the Royal Navy to protect its shores and empire, but as radical ideas about rights and liberty spread across the globe, it could not prevent the spirit of revolution from reaching its ships.

Free Download Ted Templeman: A Platinum Producer’s Life in Music (Audiobook)
English | April 14, 2020 | ASIN: B086MN1NR6 | M4B@128 kbps | 14h 23m | 1.02 GB
Authors: Ted Templeman, Greg Renoff | Narrator: Sean Runnette
Crafting smash hits with Van Halen, the Doobie Brothers, Nicolette Larson, and Van Morrison, legendary music producer Ted Templeman changed the course of rock history.
This autobiography (as told to Greg Renoff) recounts Templeman’s remarkable life from child jazz phenom in Santa Cruz, California, in the 1950s to Grammy-winning music executive during the ’70s and ’80s. Along the way, Ted details his late-’60s stint as an unlikely star with the sunshine pop outfit Harpers Bizarre and his grind-it-out days as a Warner Bros. tape listener, including the life-altering moment that launched his career as a producer: his discovery of the Doobie Brothers.

Free Download Tech Trends in Practice: The 25 Technologies That Are Driving the 4th Industrial Revolution by Bernard Marr, Rich Miller, Gildan Media
English | 2021 | ISBN: B08VF5ZRTX | Format: M4B / Bitrate: 64 Kbps / 7 hours and 4 minutes | 192 Mb
How will the latest technologies transform your business? Tech Trends in Practice will give you the knowledge of today’s most important technology trends and how to take full advantage of them to grow your business. The book presents 25 real-world technology trends along with their potential contributions to organizational success. You’ll learn how to integrate existing advancements and plan for those that are on the way.
In this book, best-selling author, strategic business advisor, and respected futurist Bernard Marr explains the role of technology in providing innovative businesses solutions for companies of varying sizes and across different industries. He covers wide-ranging trends and provides an overview of how companies are using these new and emerging technologies in practice.
You, too, can prepare your company for the potential and power of trending technology by examining these and other areas of innovation described in Tech Trends in Practice: artificial intelligence, including machine and deep learning; the internet of things and the rise of smart devices; self-driving cars and autonomous drones; 3D printing and additive manufacturing; blockchain technology; genomics and gene editing; and augmented, virtual, and mixed reality.

Free Download Talk with Her: A Dad’s Essential Guide to Raising Healthy, Confident, and Capable Daughters by Kimberly Wolf, Keylor Leigh, Penguin Audio
English | 2022 | ISBN: B09FYL6V9F | 7 hours and 32 minutes / Format: MP3 / Bitrate: 48 Kbps | 157 Mb
A comprehensive guide to help dads support their daughters through the preteen and teen years up to adulthood
"Communication" with your daughter doesn’t mean having "big" conversations all the time. Creating even the smallest moments of father-daughter connection can build bonds. In Talk with Her, you’ll find information on nineteen topics defining your daughter’s life-including body positivity, romantic relationships, social media, mental health, and academic achievement-along with the communication strategies you’ll need to address them with care and confidence.
With cutting-edge research, expert perspectives, and talking points, Kimberly Wolf brings broad-ranging and often overwhelming topics into focus to help you make a positive, lifelong impact on your daughter one conversation at a time.

Free Download Tales from the Arabian Nights: A BBC Radio 4 Drama (Audiobook)
English | November 16, 2023 | ASIN: B0BYKBFJNX | M4B@128 kbps | 3h 53m | 216 MB
Dramatised by Colin Haydn Evans | Narrators: Derek Jacobi, Carolyn Backhouse, Mary Wimbush, Rachel Atkins, Simon Carter, Teresa Gallagher, John Baddeley, Geoffrey Banks, Philip Anthony, James Tefler, full cast
Seven of Shahrazad’s stories of love, magic and mystery – plus bonus documentary
A collection of fabulous tales of genies, heroes, flying carpets and fantastic voyages, The Arabian Nights has enchanted generations of children and adults. Forged in the Islamic Golden Age, it was brought to Europe in the 18th Century, where it became an instant sensation. Included here are seven full-cast dramatisations, starring Carolyn Backhouse as Shahrazad and Derek Jacobi as the King, as well as a bonus edition of In Our Time exploring the story behind the tales.

Free Download Tales from a Revolution: Bacon’s Rebellion and the Transformation of Early America by James D. Rice, Clay Teunis, Audible Studios
English | 2013 | ISBN: B00CP45CBQ | Format: M4B / Bitrate: 64 Kbps / 6 hours and 21 minutes | 176 Mb
In the spring of 1676, Nathaniel Bacon, a hotheaded young newcomer to Virginia, led a revolt against the colony’s Indian policies. Bacon’s Rebellion turned into a civil war within Virginia – and a war of extermination against the colony’s Indian allies – that lasted into the following winter, sending shock waves throughout the British colonies and into England itself.
James Rice offers a colorfully detailed account of the rebellion, revealing how Piscataways, English planters, slave traders, Susquehannocks, colonial officials, plunderers and intriguers were all pulled into an escalating conflict whose outcome, month by month, remained uncertain. In Rice’s rich narrative, the lead characters come to life: the powerful, charismatic Governor Berkeley, the sorrowful Susquehannock warrior Monges, the wiley Indian trader and tobacco planter William Byrd, the regal Pamunkey chieftain Cockacoeske, and the rebel leader himself, Nathaniel Bacon. The dark, slender Bacon, born into a prominent family, soon earned a reputation in America as imperious, ambitious, and arrogant. But the colonial leaders did not foresee how rash and headstrong Nathaniel Bacon could be, nor how adept he would prove to be at both inciting colonists and alienating Indians. As the tense drama unfolds, it becomes apparent that the struggle between Governor Berkeley and the impetuous Bacon is nothing less than a battle over the soul of America. Bacon died in the midst of the uprising and Governor Berkeley shortly afterwards, but the profoundly important issues at the heart of the rebellion took another generation to resolve.
The late 17th century was a pivotal moment in American history, full of upheavals and far-flung conspiracies. Tales From a Revolution brilliantly captures the swirling rumors and central events of Bacon’s Rebellion and its aftermath, weaving them into a dramatic tale that is part of the founding story of America.

Free Download Tailspin: The People and Forces Behind America’s Fifty-Year Fall – and Those Fighting to Reverse It by Steven Brill, Dan Woren, Random House Audio
English | 2018 | ISBN: B07B54JMM3 | MP3@64 kbps | 16 hrs 9 mins | 445 Mb
In this revelatory narrative covering the years 1967 to 2017, Steven Brill gives us a stunningly cogent picture of the broken system at the heart of our society. He shows us how, over the last half-century, America’s core values – meritocracy, innovation, due process, free speech, and even democracy itself – have somehow managed to power its decline into dysfunction. They have isolated our best and brightest, whose positions at the top have never been more secure or more remote. The result has been an erosion of responsibility and accountability, an epidemic of shortsightedness, an increasingly hollow economic and political center, and millions of Americans gripped by apathy and hopelessness.
By examining the people and forces behind the rise of big-money lobbying, legal and financial engineering, the demise of private-sector unions, and a hamstrung bureaucracy, Brill answers the question on everyone’s mind: How did we end up this way? Finally, he introduces us to those working quietly and effectively to repair the damages.
At once a diagnosis of our national ills, a history of their development, and a prescription for a brighter future, Tailspin is a work of riveting journalism – and a welcome antidote to political despair.

Free Download Systemic Racism 101: A Visual History of the Impact of Racism in America by Living Cities
English | 2022 | ISBN: B09L57CXG6 | Format: MP3 / Bitrate: 64 Kbps / 6 hours and 38 minutes | 181 Mb
Discover how – and why – Black, Indigenous, and people of color in America experience societal, economic, and infrastructural inequality throughout history covering everything from Columbus’ arrival in 1492 to the War on Drugs to the Black Lives Matter movement.
From reparations to the prison industrial complex and redlining, there are a lot of high-level concepts to systemic racism that are hard to digest. At a time where everyone is inundated with information on structural racism, it can be hard to know where to start or how to visualize the disenfranchisement of BIPOC Americans.
In Systemic Racism 101, you will find infographic spreads alongside explanatory text to help you visualize and truly understand societal, economic, and structural racism – along with what we can do to change it. Starting from the discovery of America in 1492, through the Civil Rights movement, all the way to the criminal justice reform today, this book has everything you need to know about the continued fight for equality.

Free Download Suspicious Minds: Why We Believe Conspiracy Theories by Rob Brotherton, Charles Constant, Tantor Audio
English | 2020 | ISBN: B08BDKHT92 | Format: MP3 / 8 hours and 42 minutes + EPUB | 181 Mb
Conspiracy theorists do not wear tin-foil hats (for the most part). They are not just a few kooks lurking on the paranoid fringes of society with bizarre ideas about shape-shifting reptilian aliens running society in secret. They walk among us. They are us.
Everyone loves a good conspiracy. Yet conspiracy theories are not a recent invention. And they are not always a harmless curiosity. In Suspicious Minds, Rob Brotherton explores the history and consequences of conspiracism, and delves into the research that offers insights into why so many of us are drawn to implausible, unproven and unproveable conspiracy theories. They resonate with some of our brain’s built-in quirks and foibles, and tap into some of our deepest desires, fears, and assumptions about the world.
The fascinating and often surprising psychology of conspiracy theories tells us a lot – not just why we are drawn to theories about sinister schemes, but about how our minds are wired and, indeed, why we believe anything at all. Conspiracy theories are not some psychological aberration – they’re a predictable product of how brains work. This book will tell you why, and what it means.

Free Download Surprised at Being Alive: An Accidental Helicopter Pilot in Vietnam and Beyond by Robert F. Curtis, David Colacci, Tantor Audio
English | 2019 | ISBN: B07VGLGRJ7 | Format: MP3 / Bitrate: 64 Kbps / 12 hours and 29 minutes | 344 Mb
Sometimes you do everything right, but it just isn’t your day. A part fails and your helicopter comes apart in flight, or, another aircraft runs into you and the pieces of both fall to the ground below, or the enemy gunner pulls the trigger at just the right moment and his rounds find your aircraft in exactly the right spot to take it out of the sky. Whichever way it happens, it wasn’t your day.
Which is why, after 24 years and over 5,000 flight hours with four armed services, Major Robert Curtis was so surprised at being alive when he passed his retirement physical. Starting with enlisting in the Army to fly helicopters during Vietnam, and continuing on through service with the National Guard, Marine Corps, and Royal Navy, he flew eight different helicopters – from the wooden-bladed OH-13E, through the Chinook, SeaKnight, and SeaKing, in war and peace around the world. During that time over 50 of his friends died in crashes, both in combat and in accidents, but somehow his skill, and not an inconsiderable amount of luck and superstition, saw him through.

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