Tag: History

Free Download The New Breed: What Our History with Animals Reveals About Our Future with Robots (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B091MJL58Y | 2021 | 9 hours and 48 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 279 MB
Author: Kate Darling
Narrator: Hillary Huber
A bold, exciting exploration of how building diverse kinds of relationships with robots – inspired by how we interact with animals – could be the key to making our future with robotic technology work. There has been a lot of ink devoted to discussions of how robots will replace us and take our jobs. But MIT Media Lab researcher and technology policy expert Kate Darling argues just the opposite, and that treating robots with a bit of humanity, more like the way we treat animals, will actually serve us better. From a social, legal, and ethical perspective, she shows that our current ways of thinking don’t leave room for the robot technology that is soon to become part of our everyday routines.

Free Download The History of the United States Navy [TTC Audio]
English | August 11, 2023 | ASIN: B0CDQNYL2X | M4B@64 kbps | 12h 43m | 370 MB
Lecturer: Craig L. Symonds
The United States Navy has played an essential role both in resolving conflicts and in peacekeeping throughout the entire history of the United States. Today, the US Navy, the world’s most powerful naval force, remains a critical tool of American foreign policy, and a key player in preserving geopolitical stability throughout the world.

Free Download The History of Time: A Very Short Introduction by Leofranc Holford-Strevens, Ben Esner, Tantor Audio
English | 2021 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B096WD83G2 | 3 hours and 56 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 108 Mb
Why do we measure time in the way that we do? Why is a week seven days long? At what point did minutes and seconds come into being? Why are some calendars lunar and some solar?
The organization of time into hours, days, months, and years seems immutable and universal but is actually far more artificial than most people realize. For example, the French Revolution resulted in a restructuring of the French calendar, and the Soviet Union experimented with five- and then six-day weeks.

Free Download The Great Revolutions of Modern History [TTC Audio]
English | March 26, 2021 | ASIN: B08ZDVD519 | M4B@96 kbps | 12h 33m | 524 MB
Lecturer: Lynne Ann Hartnett
The great revolutions of the past 300 years have profoundly shaped the social, cultural, political, and military landscape of the 21st century. These epic changes tore down established orders and built new ones in their place. What drives individuals and groups to embrace revolution? At what point does a society decide to revolt? Is there such a thing as a peaceful revolution? Why have some revolutions failed while others changed the world?

Free Download The Great Railroad Revolution: The History of Trains in America (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CGMKX7P9 | 2023 | 17 hours and 4 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 494 MB
Author: Christian Wolmar
Narrator: Mike Chamberlain
America was made by the railroads. The opening of the Baltimore & Ohio line-the first American railroad-in the 1830s sparked a national revolution in the way that people lived thanks to the speed and convenience of train travel. Built through heroic effort, the American railroad network was bigger in every sense than Europe’s, and facilitated everything from long-distance travel to commuting and transporting goods to waging war. It united far-flung parts of the country, boosted economic development, and was the catalyst for America’s rise to world-power status. E

Free Download The Flamingo’s Smile: Reflections in Natural History (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CGRYJSV6 | 2023 | 13 hours and 33 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 394 MB
Author: Stephen Jay Gould
Narrator: Jonathan Sleep
Evolutionary theory in the theme that binds together these essays on such seemingly disparate topics as the feeding habits of flamingos, flowers and snails that change from male to female and sometimes back again, and the extinction from baseball of the .400 hitter.

Free Download The Fifties: An Underground History (Audiobook)
English | February 08, 2022 | ASIN: B0998F891G | MP3@64 kbps | 8h 11m | 225.15 MB
Author: James R. Gaines
Narrator: James Fouhey
An "exciting and enlightening revisionist history" (Walter Isaacson, #1 New York Times bestselling author) that upends the myth of the 1950s as a decade of conformity and celebrates a few solitary, brave, and stubborn individuals who pioneered the radical gay rights, feminist, civil rights, and environmental movements, from historian James R. Gaines.

Free Download The Care of the Self: Volume 3 of the History of Sexuality (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CG7C787X | 2023 | 9 hours and 36 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 278 MB
Author: Michel Foucault
Narrator: Elliot Fitzpatrick
Michel Foucault takes us into the first two centuries of our own era, into the Golden Age of Rome, to reveal a subtle but decisive break from the classical Greek vision of sexual pleasure. He skillfully explores the whole corpus of moral reflection among philosophers (Plutarch, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Seneca) and physicians of the era, and uncovers an increasing mistrust of pleasure and growing anxiety over sexual activity and its consequences.

Free Download Pockets: An Intimate History of How We Keep Things Close (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BZX1F3VW | 2023 | 6 hours and 38 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 372 MB
Author: Hannah Carlson
Narrator: Stephanie Cannon
A thought-provoking microhistory of the humble pocket that uncovers what pockets reveal about us-and why it matters. It’s a subject that stirs up plenty of passion: Why do men’s clothes have so many pockets and women’s so few? In her captivating book, Hannah Carlson, a lecturer in dress history at the Rhode Island School of Design, shows us how we tuck gender politics, security, sexuality, and privilege inside our pockets. Throughout the medieval era in Europe, the purse was an almost universal dress feature carried by men and women alike. But when tailors stitched the first pockets into men’s trousers 500 years ago, it ignited controversy and introduced a range of social issues that we continue to wrestle with today, from concealed pistols to gender inequality, as noted in hashtags like #GiveMePocketsOrGiveMeDeath. This abundantly illustrated book explores much more than who has pockets and why. How is it that putting your hands in your pocket can be seen as a sign of laziness, arrogance, confidence, or perversion? Walt Whitman’s author photograph, hand in pocket, for Leaves of Grass, seemed like an affront to middle class respectability. When W.E.B. DuBois posed for a portrait, his pocketed hands signaled defiant coolness. Pockets is a perfect gift for the legions of people obsessed with pockets and their absence, and for anyone interested in how our clothes influence the way we navigate the world.

Free Download One Person, One Vote: A Surprising History of Gerrymandering in America (Audiobook)
English | June 14, 2022 | ASIN: B09MR5QV7Y | MP3@64 kbps | 12h 25m | 317.78 MB
Author: Nick Seabrook
Narrator: Reynaldo Piniella
A redistricting crisis is now upon us. This surprising, compelling book tells the history of how we got to this moment-from the Founding Fathers to today’s high-tech manipulation of election districts-and shows us as well how to protect our most sacred, hard-fought principle of one person, one vote. Here is THE book on gerrymandering for citizens, politicians, journalists, activists, and voters.