Tag: Rise

Free Download Raiders, Rulers, and Traders: The Horse and the Rise of Empires (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D9WSFVMV | 2024 | 13 hours and 56 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 402 MB
Author: David Chaffetz
Narrator: Paul Boehmer
No animal is so entangled in human history as the horse. The thread starts in prehistory, with a slight, shy animal, hunted for food. Domesticating the horse allowed early humans to settle the vast Eurasian steppe; later, their horses enabled new forms of warfare, encouraged long-distance trade routes, and ended up acquiring deep cultural and religious significance. Over time, horses came to power mighty empires in Iran, Afghanistan, China, India, and, later, Russia. Genghis Khan and the thirteenth-century Mongols offer the most famous example, but from ancient Assyria and Persia, to the seventeenth-century Mughals, to the high noon of colonialism in the early twentieth century, horse breeding was indispensable to conquest and statecraft. Scholar of Asian history David Chaffetz tells the story of how the horse made rulers, raiders, and traders interchangeable, providing a novel explanation for the turbulent history of the "Silk Road," which might be better called the Horse Road. Drawing on recent research in fields including genetics and forensic archeology, Chaffetz presents a lively history of the great horse empires that shaped civilization.

Free Download Oceans Rise Empires Fall: Why Geopolitics Hastens Climate Catastrophe (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0DC73LGDP | 2024 | 8 hours and 39 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 249 MB
Author: Gerard Toal
Narrator: Al Kessel
In the last few years, it has become abundantly clear that the effects of accelerating climate change will be catastrophic, from rising seas to more violent storms to desertification. Yet why do nation-states find it so difficult to implement transnational policies that can reduce carbon output and slow global warming? In Oceans Rise, Empires Fall, Gerard Toal identifies geopolitics as the culprit. States would prefer to reduce emissions in the abstract, but in the great global competition for geopolitical power, states always prioritize access to carbon-based fuels necessary for generating the sort of economic growth that helps them compete with rival states.

Free Download Let the Lord Sort Them: The Rise and Fall of the Death Penalty (Audiobook)
English | January 26, 2021 | ASIN: B087Y254DC | M4B@64 kbps | 11h 25m | 327 MB
Author: Maurice Chammah | Narrator: Kevin R. Free
A deeply reported, searingly honest portrait of the death penalty in Texas – and what it tells us about crime and punishment in America
"If you’re one of those people who despair that nothing changes, and dream that something can, this is a story of how it does." (Anand Giridharadas, The New York Times Book Review)

Free Download David Remnick, Bill Andrew Quinn (Narrator), Salman Rushdie – introduction, "King of the World: Muhammad Ali and the Rise of an American Hero"
English | ASIN: B0D829VHKJ | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~11:47:00 | 323 MB
The bestselling biography of Muhammad Ali-with an Introduction by Salman Rushdie
On the night in 1964 that Muhammad Ali (then known as Cassius Clay) stepped into the ring with Sonny Liston, he was widely regarded as an irritating freak who danced and talked way too much. Six rounds later Ali was not only the new world heavyweight boxing champion: He was "a new kind of black man" who would shortly transform America’s racial politics, its popular culture, and its notions of heroism.
No one has captured Ali-and the era that he exhilarated and sometimes infuriated-with greater vibrancy, drama, and astuteness than David Remnick, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lenin’s Tomb (and editor of the New Yorker). In charting Ali’s rise from the gyms of Louisville, Kentucky, to his epochal fights against Liston and Floyd Patterson, Remnick creates a canvas of unparalleled richness. He gives us empathetic portraits of wisecracking sportswriters and bone-breaking mobsters; of the baleful Liston and the haunted Patterson; of an audacious Norman Mailer and an enigmatic Malcolm X. Most of all, King of the World does justice to the speed, grace, courage, humor, and ebullience of one of the greatest athletes and irresistibly dynamic personalities of our time.

Free Download I Am on the Hit List: A Journalist’s Murder and the Rise of Autocracy in India (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CPTDSJ5F | 2024 | 13 hours and 50 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 408 MB
Author: Rollo Romig
Narrator: Rollo Romig
A gripping investigation into the mysterious assassination of a journalist in India, revealing the courage and vulnerability of those who are fighting the decline of democracy around the world. When Gauri Lankesh, an outspoken journalist in the South Indian city of Bangalore, was assassinated in September 2017 outside her home, it wasn’t just a loss to her close-knit community of writers and activists-the shock reverberated nationwide, making headlines and sparking mass protests. Why was she targeted, and who was behind it? Following the case to its stunning, unsettling conclusion, Rollo Romig uncovers a world of political extremists, fearless writers, organized crime, and shadowy religious groups. I Am on the Hit List is an epic narrative that moves between a historic booksellers’ district and brand-new high rises funded by IT wealth, to a secretive ashram in Goa and the kitchens of an international vegetarian restaurant chain, boldly interrogating whether we can break the cycle of polarization and bloodshed inspiring political murder across the globe.

Free Download To Overthrow the World: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Communism by Sean McMeekin
English | September 10, 2024 | ISBN: 1541601963 | True EPUB | 544 pages | 5.3 MB
From an award-winning historian, a new global history of Communism

Free Download The Rise of Machines Future of Work in the Age of AI First Edition
by Adrian David Cheok, Chamari Edirisinghe, Mangesh Lal Shrestha
English | 2025 | ISBN: 1032582200 | 305 pages | True PDF EPUB | 6.36 MB

Free Download The Rise and Fall of Alexandria: Birthplace of the Modern World by Justin Pollard, Howard Reid
English | October 19, 2006 | ISBN: 0670037974, 0143112511 | True EPUB | 352 pages | 1.5 MB
Founded by Alexander the Great and built by self-styled Greek pharaohs, the city of Alexandria at its height dwarfed both Athens and Rome. It was the marvel of its age, legendary for its vast palaces, safe harbors, and magnificent lighthouse. But it was most famous for the astonishing intellectual efflorescence it fostered and the library it produced. If the European Renaissance was the "rebirth" of Western culture, then Alexandria, Egypt, was its birthplace.

Free Download Stolen Pride: Loss, Shame, and the Rise of the Right by Arlie Russell Hochschild
English | September 10, 2024 | ISBN: 1620976463 | True EPUB | 400 pages | 2 MB
In her first book since the widely acclaimed Strangers in Their Own Land, National Book Award finalist and bestselling author Arlie Russell Hochschild now ventures to Appalachia, uncovering the "pride paradox" that has given the right’s appeals such resonance.

Free Download Kheir Al-Kodmany, "Humanizing the High-Rise City: Podiums, Plazas, Parks, Pedestrian Networks, and Public Art"
English | ISBN: 1032362650 | 2024 | 332 pages | PDF | 85 MB
The transformative power of urban design in shaping our experiences within high-rise cities takes center stage in Humanizing the High-Rise City: Podiums, Plazas, Parks, Pedestrian Networks, and Public Art. This captivating exploration delves into the art of turning towering skyscraper cities into vibrant havens that foster human connection, celebrate culture, and build communities. Unveiling the secrets behind the creation of urban spaces, from dynamic plazas that encourage social interaction to tranquil parks that infuse life into steel and glass, the book unfolds a narrative that resonates with the innate rhythms of humanity. Examining 20 major high-rise cities worldwide (including Chicago, New York City, Dubai, Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Singapore, among others), synthesizing extensive literature, and enriched with over 200 photographs, this book showcases projects seamlessly weaving nature, art, and connectivity into the urban fabric. These endeavors craft environments that enhance well-being and instill a profound sense of belonging amid the challenges of urban density. As the global landscape increasingly tilts toward vertical living, this book serves as a guiding light, illuminating the path to a heightened and enriched experience of high-rise urban living. This book will be useful to practitioners and students of architecture, urban planning, and urban design interested in improving high-rise cities.