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Free Download Fred Dallmayr University of Notre Dame, "Against Apocalypse: Recovering Humanity’s Wholeness"
English | ISBN: 1498524443 | 2015 | 148 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
The book denounces the irresponsible recklessness of some geopolitical agendas which are pushing the world relentlessly toward a major global war, and possibly toward nuclear destruction or apocalypse. The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists has recently placed the "Doomsday Clock" at three minutes to midnight. Signs pointing toward a possible grand disaster are multiple: everywhere one looks in our world today one finds ethnic and religious conflicts, bloody mayhem, incipient genocide, proxy wars and "hybrid" wars", renewal of the Cold War. Add to these ills global economic crises, massive streams of refugees, and the threats posed by global warming – and the picture of a world in complete disorder is complete. Thus, it is high time for humankind to wake up. Starting from the portrayal of global "anomie", the book issues a call to people everywhere to oppose the rush to destruction and to return to political sanity and the quest for peace. This is a call to global public responsibility. In ethical terms, it says that people everywhere have an obligation to prevent apocalypse and to "maintain" our world or "hold the world together" in all its dimensions – including the dimensions of human and social life, natural ecology, and human spiritual aspirations (or openness to the divine). Differently out: in lieu of the prevailing disorder and brokenness, the book urges us to search for a new "wholeness" and just peace.

Free Download The Conspiracy Against the Human Race: A Contrivance of Horror (Audiobook)
English | October 02, 2018 | ASIN: B07HKP18YQ | MP3@128 kbps | 8h 27m | 464.51 MB
Author: Thomas Ligotti
Narrator: Eric Martin
"There is a signature motif discernible in both works of philosophical pessimism and supernatural horror. It may be stated thus: Behind the scenes of life lurks something pernicious that makes a nightmare of our world."

Free Download Christians Against Christianity: How Right-Wing Evangelicals Are Destroying Our Nation and Our Faith (Audiobook)
English | July 06, 2021 | ASIN: B08L9NS7GT | MP3@64 kbps | 6h 39m | 183.75 MB
Author: Obery M. Hendricks
Narrator: Ron Butler
A timely and galvanizing work that examines how right-wing evangelical Christians have veered from an admirable faith to a pernicious, destructive ideology.

Free Download The Trump Indictments: The 91 Criminal Counts Against the Former President of the United States (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CHC836TQ | 2023 | 7 hours and 15 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 210 MB
Author: Ali Velshi
Narrator: Ali Velshi, Joe Knezevich
Edited and introduced by MSNBC’s Ali Velshi, The Trump Indictments collects the complete charging documents brought by the Department of Justice and the Fulton County (GA) and Manhattan (NY) district attorneys-a riveting and shocking narrative of the former president’s alleged crimes and conspiracies. "Despite having lost, the defendant was determined to remain in power…" So reads the compelling introduction to the Department of Justice’s second indictment against Donald Trump-one of four criminal cases brought against the former president.

Free Download Seven Against Thebes: The Quest of the Original Magnificent Seven (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C87TB54B | 2023 | 10 hours and 29 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 304 MB
Author: Stephen Dando-Collins
Narrator: Gildart Jackson
In the thirteenth century BC, a quarter of a century before the Trojan War, seven Greek warrior heroes went against the Greek city of Thebes to restore one of their number to the throne of his father, the famous King Oedipus. Several children of those seven heroes would later take part in the siege of Troy. This adventure was equal in the minds of Greeks and Romans with the siege of Troy as told in Homer’s epic The Iliad, an event which it predated by a generation. And while the story contains mythical elements, there are no factual, historical, or archaeological reasons to suggest that the military campaign did not take place much as described. Initially sung in verse and later committed to written form via histories, ancient poems, and plays, Seven Against Thebes is a historical narrative concerning one of the greatest military adventures of all time.

Free Download Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C6YMTR29 | 2023 | 13 hours and 9 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 718 MB
Author: Rachel Maddow
Narrator: Rachel Maddow
Rachel Maddow traces the fight to preserve American democracy back to World War II, when a handful of committed public servants and brave private citizens thwarted far-right Descriptionters trying to steer our nation toward an alliance with the Nazis. Inspired by her research for the hit podcast Ultra, Rachel Maddow charts the rise of a wild American strain of authoritarianism that has been alive on the far-right edge of our politics for the better part of a century. Before and even after our troops had begun fighting abroad in World War II, a clandestine network flooded the country with disinformation aimed at sapping the strength of the U.S. war effort and persuading Americans that our natural alliance was with the Axis, not against it. It was a sophisticated and shockingly well-funded campaign to undermine democratic institutions, promote antisemitism, and destroy citizens’ confidence in their elected leaders, with the ultimate goal of overthrowing the U.S. government and installing authoritarian rule.

Free Download Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B09SBS22JM | 2023 | 15 hours and 34 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 454 MB
Author: Brian Merchant
Narrator: Eric Jason Martin
The "rich and gripping" true story of the first time machines came for human jobs-and how the Luddite uprising explains the power, threat, and toll of big tech and AI today. The most urgent story in modern tech begins not in Silicon Valley but two hundred years ago in rural England, when workers known as the Luddites rose up rather than starve at the hands of factory owners who were using automated machines to erase their livelihoods. The Luddites organized guerrilla raids to smash those machines-on punishment of death-and won the support of Lord Byron, enraged the Prince Regent, and inspired the birth of science fiction. This all-but-forgotten class struggle brought nineteenth-century England to its knees. Today, technology imperils millions of jobs, robots are crowding factory floors, and artificial intelligence will soon pervade every aspect of our economy. How will this change the way we live? And what can we do about it? The answers lie in Blood in the Machine. Brian Merchant intertwines a lucid examination of our current age with the story of the Luddites, showing how automation changed our world-and is shaping our future.

Free Download Heather Douglas, "The Criminalization of Violence Against Women: Comparative Perspectives "
English | ISBN: 0197651844 | 2023 | 344 pages | EPUB, PDF | 902 KB + 14 MB
Historically states have failed to seriously confront violence against women. In response, in many countries women’s rights movements have called on the government to prioritize state intervention in cases involving violence between intimate partners, sexual harassment, rape, and sexual assault by both strangers and intimate partners. Those interventions have taken various forms, including the passage of substantive civil and criminal laws governing intimate partner violence, rape and sexual assault, and sexual harassment; the development of civil orders of protection; and the introduction of procedures in the criminal legal system to ensure the effective intervention of police and prosecutors. Indeed, many countries have relied upon intervention by the criminal legal system to meet their requirements under international human rights standards that obligate states to prevent, protect from, prosecute, punish, and provide redress for violence. Although states have taken divergent approaches to the passage and implementation of criminal laws and procedures to address violence against women, two things are clear: criminalization is a primary strategy relied upon by most nations, and yet criminalization is not having the desired impact.

Free Download James Ptacek, "Restorative Justice and Violence Against Women "
English | ISBN: 0195335481 | 2009 | 292 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Despite significant accomplishments over the past 35 years, antiviolence activists know that justice for most abused women remains elusive. Most victims do not call the police or seek help from the courts, making it crucial to identify new ways for survivors to find justice. This path-breaking book examines new justice practices for victims that are being used in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. These informal, dialogue-based practices, referred to as "restorative justice," seek to decrease the role of the state in responding to crime, and increase the involvement of communities in meeting the needs of victims and offenders. Restorative justice is most commonly used to address youth crimes and is generally not recommended or disallowed for cases of rape, domestic violence, and child sexual abuse. Nevertheless, restorative practices are beginning to be used to address violent crime.

Free Download Acharya Balkrishna, "Evidence-Based Research in Ayurveda against COVID-19 in Compliance with Standardized Protocols and Practices"
English | ISBN: 9815051199 | 2022 | 316 pages | PDF | 25 MB
This book details all the intricacies and essential knowledge involved in the research and development of the Coronil Kit – a combination of 3 ayurvedic medications for the common cold. It informs the reader about the huge potential of herbal drugs in fighting against any type of disease through evidence-based data from clinical trials and experiments. The book elaborates how current scientific techniques can be applied to understand the healing capacities of plants at their molecular level and thus utilize their different combinations to treat diseases by targeting harmful micro-organisms and simultaneously boosting the immune system. It covers methods of virtual screening and computational validation of identified phytochemicals as potential antiviral agents against the SARS-CoV-2 virus.