Tag: Reckoning

Free Download Amelia M. Fiske, "Reckoning with Harm: The Toxic Relations of Oil in Amazonia"
English | ISBN: 1477327789 | 2023 | 280 pages | PDF | 8 MB
An ethnography of the Ecuadorian Amazon that demonstrates the need for a relational, place-based, contingent understanding of harm and toxicity.

Free Download Alfred Price – Battle of Britain: A Summer of Reckoning
Ian Allan | 2010 | ISBN: 1906537135 | English | 152 pages | PDF | 171.46 MB
Dr. Alfred Price, who is a recognized and respected authority on the Battle of Britain, recounts the story of the conflict, both in terms of the strategic and tactical battle between two mighty air forces of the day and the fascinating and often traumatic human element as the civilians of Britain faced the reality of German invasion. The book starts with the skirmishes across the Channel in the opening phase of the battle, July 10 through August 12, testing Britain’s defenses, then the Luftwaffe’s main assault on the airfields and radar installations of Southern England from August 12 to September 6, when it attempted to knock out the RAF. The turning point came when the Luftwaffe, faced with mounting losses, shifted its focus to London and other cities in early September in a final attempt to break Britain’s morale, giving the RAF much-needed breathing space to build up its strength and counter the enemy.

Free Download The Bill Gates Problem: Reckoning with the Myth of the Good Billionaire (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BWFV9RB9 | 2023 | 15 hours and 55 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 464 MB
Author: Tim Schwab
Narrator: Tim Schwab
A powerful investigation of Bill Gates and the Gates Foundation, showing how he uses philanthropy to exercise enormous political power without accountability. Through his vaunted philanthropy, Bill Gates transformed himself from a tech villain into one of the most admired people on the planet. Even as divorce proceedings and allegations of misconduct have recently tarnished his public image, the beneficence of the Gates Foundation, celebrated for spending billions to save lives around the globe, is taken as a given. But as Tim Schwab shows in this fearless investigation, Gates is still exactly who he was at Microsoft: a bully and monopolist, convinced of his own righteousness and intent on imposing his ideas, his solutions, and his leadership on everyone else. At the core, he is not a selfless philanthropist but a power broker, a clever engineer who has innovated a way to turn extreme wealth into immense political influence-and who has made us believe we should applaud his acquisition of power, not challenge it.

Free Download Romney: A Reckoning (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C3MXH9PL | 2023 | 12 hours and 31 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 361 MB
Author: McKay Coppins
Narrator: McKay Coppins, Jonathan Davis
A remarkably illuminating biography of one of America’s most fascinating political figures-including news-making revelations from Mitt Romney himself about dissension within today’s Republican Party-written with his full cooperation by an award-winning writer at The Atlantic. Few figures in American politics have seen more and said less than Mitt Romney. An outspoken dissident in Donald Trump’s GOP, he has made headlines in recent years for standing alone against the forces he believes are poisoning the party he once led. Romney was the first senator in history to vote to remove from office a president of his own party. When that president’s supporters went on to storm the US Capitol, Romney delivered a thundering speech from the Senate floor accusing his fellow Republicans of stoking insurrection.

Free Download In the Pines: A Lynching, a Lie, a Reckoning (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BY9YY8W8 | 2023 | 7 hours and 8 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 204 MB
Author: Grace Elizabeth Hale
Narrator: Nicole Swanson, Matt Godfrey
An award-winning scholar of white supremacy tackles her toughest research assignment yet: the unsolved murder of a Black man in rural Mississippi while her grandfather was the local sheriff-a cold case that sheds new light on the hidden legacy of racial terror in America. Grace Hale was home from college when she first heard the family legend. In 1947, while her beloved grandfather had been serving as a sheriff in the Piney Woods of south-central Mississippi, he prevented a lynch mob from killing a Black man who was in his jail on suspicion of raping a white woman-only for the suspect to die the next day during an escape attempt. It was a tale straight out of To Kill a Mockingbird, with her grandfather as the tragic hero. This story, however, hid a dark truth.

Free Download Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain’s Gulag in Kenya (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CPN3RNZ8 | 2023 | 17 hours and 27 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 496 MB
Author: Caroline Elkins
Narrator: Teri Schnaubelt
As part of the Allied forces, thousands of Kenyans fought alongside the British in World War II. But just a few years after the defeat of Hitler, the British colonial government detained nearly the entire population of Kenya’s largest ethnic minority, the Kikuyu-some one and a half million people. The compelling story of the system of prisons and work camps where thousands met their deaths has remained largely untold-the victim of a determined effort by the British to destroy all official records of their attempts to stop the Mau Mau uprising, the Kikuyu people’s ultimately successful bid for Kenyan independence. Caroline Elkins, an assistant professor of history at Harvard University, spent a decade in London, Nairobi, and the Kenyan countryside interviewing hundreds of Kikuyu men and women who survived the British camps, as well as the British and African loyalists who detained them. The result is an unforgettable account of the unraveling of the British colonial empire in Kenya-a pivotal moment in twentieth-century history with chilling parallels to America’s own imperial project.