Tag: Life

Free Download Loaded: The Life (and Afterlife) of the Velvet Underground (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C1TBH5C3 | 2023 | 16 hours and 17 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 470 MB
Author: Dylan Jones
Narrator: Dylan Jones, Robert G. Slade
Drawing on contributions from remaining members, contemporaneous musicians, critics, filmmakers, and the generation of artists who emerged in their wake, this definitive oral history celebrates not only the impact of The Velvet Underground but their legacy, which burns brighter than ever in the 21st century. Rebellion always starts somewhere, and in the music world of the transgressive teen-whether it be the 1960s or the 2020s-The Velvet Underground represents ground zero. Crystallizing the idea of the bohemian, urban, narcissistic art school gang around a psychedelic rock and roll band-a stylistic idea that evolved in the rarefied environs of Andy Warhol’s Factory-The Velvets were the first major American rock group with a mixed gender line-up.

Free Download Johnny Cash: The Life in Lyrics (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BYB5RQHL | 2023 | 7 hours and 1 minute | M4B@128 kbps | 391 MB
Author: Johnny Cash, Mark Stielper, John Carter Cash
Narrator: John Carter Cash, Joshua Kane
The life of the Man in Black revealed by his lyrics, authorized by the Cash estate. Johnny Cash is one of the most beloved and influential country-music stars of all time, having composed more than six hundred songs and sold more than ninety million records. He received twenty-nine gold, platinum, and multiplatinum awards for his recordings and has been inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame, the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, the Country Music Hall of Fame, and the Hollywood Walk of Fame. This is the first time Cash’s fifty years of songwriting have been collected anywhere; this book includes the lyrics to 125 songs and the stories behind them.

Free Download How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology (Audiobook)
English | ISBN: 9781529096026 | 2023 | 17 hours and 40 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 500 MB
Author: Philip Ball
Narrator: Philip Ball
A cutting-edge new vision of biology that proposes to revise our concept of what life is – from Science Book Prize winner and former Nature editor Philip Ball. Biology is undergoing a quiet but profound transformation. Several aspects of the standard picture of how life works have been exposed as incomplete, misleading, or wrong. In How Life Works, Philip Ball explores the new biology, revealing life to be a far richer, more ingenious affair than we had guessed. With this knowledge come new possibilities. Today we can redesign and reconfigure living systems, tissues, and organisms. We can reprogram cells, for instance, to carry out new tasks and grow into structures not seen in the natural world. Some researchers believe that ultimately we will be able to regenerate limbs and organs, and perhaps even create new life forms that evolution has never imagined. Incorporating the latest research and insights, How Life Works is a sweeping journey into this new frontier of the nature of life, a realm that will reshape our understanding of life as we know it.

Free Download Fierce Ambition: The Life and Legend of War Correspondent Maggie Higgins (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CNFCVK2D | 2023 | 13 hours and 56 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 369 MB
Author: Jennet Conant
Narrator: EJ Lavery
Marguerite Higgins was both the scourge and envy of the journalistic world. A longtime reporter for the New York Herald Tribune, she first catapulted to fame with her dramatic account of the liberation of Dachau at the end of World War II. Brash, beautiful, ruthlessly competitive, and sexually adventurous, she forced her way to the front despite being told the combat zone was no place for a woman. While the Herald Tribune exploited her feminine appeal-regularly featuring the photogenic "girl reporter" on its front pages-it was Maggie’s dogged determination, talent for breaking news, and unwavering ambition that brought her success from one war zone to another.

Free Download Extinctions: How Life Survives, Adapts and Evolves (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CKJNTGXX | 2023 | 9 hours and 39 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 278 MB
Author: Michael J. Benton
Narrator: Peter Noble
Cutting-edge techniques across biology, chemistry, physics, and geology have transformed our understanding of the deep past, including the discovery of a previously unknown mass extinction. This compelling evidence, revealing a series of environmental crises resulting in the near collapse of life on Earth, illuminates our current dilemmas in exquisite detail. Beginning with the oldest, Professor Michael J. Benton takes us through the "big five" die outs: the Late Ordovician, which set the evolution of the first animals on an entirely new course; the Late Devonian, apparently brought on by global warming; the cataclysmic End-Permian, also known as the Great Dying, which wiped out over 90 percent of all life on Earth; the newly discovered Carnian Pluvial Event; and the End-Cretaceous asteroid. He examines how global warming, acid rain, ocean acidification, erupting volcanoes, and meteorite impact have affected conditions on Earth, and how life survived, adapted, and evolved. In Extinctions, listeners will learn about revolutionary new tools used to uncover ancient extinction events and processes in forensic detail, and how scientists are improving our understanding of the deep past. New research allows us to link long-ago upheavals to crises in our current age, the Anthropocene, with important consequences for us all.

Free Download Einstein in Time and Space: A Life in 99 Particles (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C4VPSNRR | 2023 | 9 hours and 5 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 264 MB
Author: Samuel Graydon
Narrator: George Reid
Walter Isaacson’s Einstein meets Craig Brown’s 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret, in this innovative biography of the famous physicist told in ninety-nine dazzling vignettes. Most of us would agree that Albert Einstein’s name is synonymous with "genius" and that his likeness is often used as a shorthand for all scientists, appearing everywhere from cartoons to textbooks. He has become more myth than man. That being the case, how best to capture his essence? In Einstein in Time and Space, talented young science journalist Samuel Graydon answers that question with an illuminating mosaic-99 intriguingly different particles that cumulatively reveal Einstein’s contradictory and multitudinous nature.

Free Download Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BVNSX4CQ | 2023 | 16 hours and 39 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 478 MB
Author: Robert M. Sapolsky
Narrator: Kaleo Griffith
One of our great behavioral scientists, the bestselling author, plumbs the depths of the science and philosophy of decision-making to mount a devastating case against free will, an argument with profound consequences. Robert Sapolsky’s Behave, his now classic account of why humans do good and why they do bad, pointed toward an unsettling conclusion: We may not grasp the precise marriage of nature and nurture that creates the physics and chemistry at the base of human behavior, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. Now, in Determined, Sapolsky takes his argument all the way, mounting a brilliant (and in his inimitable way, delightful) full-frontal assault on the pleasant fantasy that there is some separate self telling our biology what to do. Determined offers a marvelous synthesis of what we know about how consciousness works-the tight weave between reason and emotion and between stimulus and response in the moment and over a life.

Free Download Data Baby: My Life in a Psychological Experiment (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BF19YJ33 | 2023 | 6 hours and 54 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 184 MB
Author: Susannah Breslin
Narrator: Cassandra Campbell
Lab Girl meets Brain on Fire in this provocative and poignant memoir delving into a woman’s formative experiences as a veritable "lab rat" in a lifelong psychological study, and her pursuit to reclaim autonomy and her identity as a adult. What if your parents turn you into a human lab rat when you’re a child? Will that change the story of your life? Will that change who you are? When Susannah Breslin is a toddler, her parents enroll her in an exclusive laboratory preschool at the University of California, Berkeley, where she becomes one of over a hundred children who are research subjects in an unprecedented 30-year study of personality development that predicts who she and her cohort will grow up to be. Decades later, trapped in what she feels is an abusive marriage and battling breast cancer, she starts to wonder how growing up under a microscope shaped her identity and life choices.

Free Download Chasing Bright Medusas: A Life of Willa Cather (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BVNJZLNG | 2023 | 3 hours and 54 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 218 MB
Author: Benjamin Taylor
Narrator: Benjamin Taylor
A tender biography of one of the greatest authors of the twentieth century and an elegant exploration of artistic endurance, as told by a lifelong lover of Willa Cather’s work. The story of Willa Cather is defined by a lifetime of determination, struggle, and gradual emergence. Some show their full powers early, yet Cather was the opposite-she took her time and transformed herself by stages. The writer who leapt to the forefront of American letters with O Pioneers! (1913), The Song of the Lark (1915), and My Ántonia (1918) was already well into middle age.

Free Download Canopy of Titans: The Life and Times of the Great North American Temperate Rainforest (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CNBBWZNP | 2023 | 10 hours and 1 minute | M4B@64 kbps | 294 MB
Author: Paul Koberstein, Jessica Applegate
Narrator: Tom Beyer
In Canopy of Titans, Paul Koberstein and Jessica Applegate examine the global importance of the Pacific Coastal Temperate Rainforest that stretches from Northern California to Alaska. Their urgent and authoritative account sets out the threats facing a vital environmental resource, and celebrates the beauty and complexity of one of the world’s great forests. Drawing on years of on-the-ground reporting, Koberstein and Applegate pull back the curtain on policies of governmental bodies that have seriously diminished the rainforest’s capacity to store carbon, and uncover industry practices that have led to the destruction of swaths of a major ecological resource. Additionally, using an environmental justice perspective, Canopy of Titans shines a light on the Indigenous communities that have lived in the rainforest for millennia, and the impact forest policies have had on their lives.