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Free Download Starborn: How the Stars Made Us (and Who We Would Be Without Them) (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BYKN22HX | 2023 | 11 hours and 1 minute | M4B@64 kbps | 302 MB
Author: Roberto Trotta
Narrator: George Weightman
A sweeping inquiry into how the night sky has shaped human history. For as long as humans have lived, we have lived beneath the stars. But under the glow of today’s artificial lighting, we have lost the intimacy our ancestors once shared with the cosmos. In Starborn, cosmologist Roberto Trotta reveals how stargazing has shaped the course of human civilization. The stars have served as our timekeepers, our navigators, our muses-they were once even our gods. How radically different would we be, Trotta also asks, if our ancestors had looked up to the night sky and seen… nothing? He pairs the history of our starstruck species with a dramatic alternate version, a world without stars where our understanding of science, art, and ourselves would have been radically altered. Revealing the hidden connections between astronomy and civilization, Starborn summons us to the marvelous sight that awaits us on a dark, clear night-to lose ourselves in the immeasurable vastness above.

Free Download Real Soldiering: The US Army in the Aftermath of War, 1815-1980 (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CM462K89 | 2023 | 11 hours and 20 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 326 MB
Author: Brian McAllister Linn
Narrator: Jonathan Todd Ross
What happens to the US Army after the battles are over, the citizen soldiers depart, and all that remains is the Regular Army? In this pathbreaking work, Brian Linn argues that in each decade following every major conflict since the War of 1812 the postwar army has undergone a long, painful, and remarkably consistent recovery process as it struggled to build a new model force to replace the "Old Army" that entered the conflict. Real Soldiering provides the first comprehensive study of the US Army’s transition from war to peace.

Free Download On the World Around Us: 25 Explorations of Britain, Past and Present (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BMGB47Y2 | 2023 | 6 hours and 49 minutes | MP3@128 kbps | 376 MB
Author: Andrew Martin
Narrator: Andrew Martin
Andrew Martin reflects on Britain’s customs, attitudes and social and supernatural phenomena in these six BBC Radio series. Drawn from Radio 3’s The Essay strand and presented by journalist and award-winning author Andrew Martin, this beguiling collection brings together his witty, Alan Bennett-esque observations on England’s disappearing pastimes, rituals and beliefs. Yorkshire sees him musing on the county of his birth and upbringing, as he considers his ‘Tyke’ identity and the ancient rivalry between Yorkshire and Lancashire; chews over questions of class in ‘God’s Own County’; ponders its past and future; and recalls the coastal jaunts of his youth. In Hanging On, Martin celebrates five aspects of British life that are still with us – just, as he raises a toast to the boating pond; the ventriloquist’s doll; the telephone; the milkman and sex shops.

Free Download Listen: On Music, Sound and Us (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BX4SJZPR | 2023 | 12 hours and 48 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 371 MB
Author: Michel Faber
Narrator: Nathaniel Priestley
"I’m not here to change your mind about Dusty Springfield or Shostakovich or Tupac Shakur or synthpop. I’m here to change your mind about your mind." There are countless books on music with much analysis given to musicians, bands, eras and/or genres. But rarely does a book delve into what’s going on inside us when we listen. Michel Faber explores two big questions: how do we listen to music and why do we listen to music? To answer these questions, he considers a range of factors, which includes age, illness, the notion of "cool," commerce, the dichotomy between "good" and "bad" taste and much more. From the award-winning author, this idiosyncratic and philosophical book reflects Michel Faber’s lifelong obsession with music of all kinds. Listen will change your relationship with the heard world.

Free Download Cold Rivals: The New Era of US-China Strategic Competition (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CMYT8FKR | 2023 | 19 hours and 1 minute | M4B@64 kbps | 551 MB
Author: Evan S. Medeiros
Narrator: Tom Parks
Leading authorities analyze growing tensions in US-China relations and what this means for the future. The US-China relationship is now defined by "strategic competition." In Cold Rivals, a distinguished group of scholars from the United States and China examine the reasons for this deterioration and its implications for world politics. The two countries are now competitors locked in a long-term rivalry, but how volatile this rivalry will become is still to be determined. The book explores not only the historical roots and contemporary foreign policy aspects of this era, but also looks at the economic, military, and technological arenas of US-China strategic competition. In doing so, this volume highlights important differences in US and Chinese perspectives. A final section of the volume explores future scenarios for this relationship from a variety of perspectives, all coming to a sobering conclusion. This policy-relevant book provides a comprehensive overview of US-China strategic competition and reinvigorates thinking about how to avoid reaching a crisis point.

Free Download Alvita Akiboh, "Imperial Material: National Symbols in the US Colonial Empire"
English | ISBN: 0226828484 | 2023 | 296 pages | PDF | 11 MB
An ambitious history of flags, stamps, and currency-and the role they played in US imperialism.

Free Download Cruelty: A Book About Us by Maggie Schein
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2023 | 263 Pages | ISBN : 3031243188 | 4.2 MB
Cruelty is such a ubiquitous and at the same time disturbing phenomenon that we take for granted that we understand what it is, and how it impacts the ways in which we think about our humanity as a moral condition-how we understand our moral significance. Cruelty: A Book About Us offers an accessible interrogation of cruelty and humanity, and, most critically, it provides a groundwork for us to raise questions collectively; it is an invitation for us all to join in the dialogue. Through academic studies, literary works, and’ personal stories and observations, this book provokes deeper insights into why cruel acts trouble our usual ways of articulating and addressing wrongness. Mining interdisciplinary sources, it excavates what we may not know we don’t know and guides us in conversations about this profoundly evocative and often uneasy subject.

Free Download Classroom Detracking in the US: Examples for School Leadership by Margaret Thornton
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2023 | 158 Pages | ISBN : 3031464435 | 5 MB
This book offers a comprehensive examination of how school leaders can institute detracking in their school with research-based best practices. Since the 1980s, researchers and educators have called for detracking as an alternative to the common practice of seperating students into classes by supposed achievement levels. In its most basic form, detracking places students in the same classroom regardless of perceived previous achievement. In this book, Thornton focuses on four high-quality detracking programs across the US to provide a roadmap of best practices for school leaders. Focusing on schools in diverse suburban and urban areas, this book will be beneficial to a wide variety of school leaders as well as school leadership researchers. With the effects of the pandemic still felt in schools and the heated debates at school boards across the country, leaders and researchers both need a path forward for equity-focused work. This book helps to provide way finders on that path while also speaking to the need to travel the path in the first place.

Free Download Jordan Tama, "Bipartisanship and US Foreign Policy: Cooperation in a Polarized Age"
English | ISBN: 0197745660 | 2023 | 332 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 15 MB
In an era of ever-increasing polarization in the US Congress, American foreign policy remains marked by frequent bipartisanship. In Bipartisanship and US Foreign Policy, Jordan Tama shows that, even as polarization in American politics reaches new heights, Democrats and Republicans in Washington continue to cooperate on important international issues. Looking closely at congressional voting patterns and recent debates over military action, economic sanctions, international trade, and foreign policy spending, Tama reveals that bipartisanship remains surprisingly common when US elected officials turn their attention overseas. Yet bipartisanship today rarely involves complete unity. Instead, bipartisan coalitions spanning members of both parties often coexist with intra-party divisions or disagreement between Congress and the president, making it difficult for the United States to speak with one voice on the global stage. Drawing on new data and interviews of more than 100 foreign policy practitioners, this book documents the persistence of bipartisanship on international issues and highlights key factors that facilitate or impede cooperation on foreign policy challenges.

Free Download Jordan Tama, "Bipartisanship and US Foreign Policy: Cooperation in a Polarized Age"
English | ISBN: 0197745660 | 2023 | 332 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 15 MB
In an era of ever-increasing polarization in the US Congress, American foreign policy remains marked by frequent bipartisanship. In Bipartisanship and US Foreign Policy, Jordan Tama shows that, even as polarization in American politics reaches new heights, Democrats and Republicans in Washington continue to cooperate on important international issues. Looking closely at congressional voting patterns and recent debates over military action, economic sanctions, international trade, and foreign policy spending, Tama reveals that bipartisanship remains surprisingly common when US elected officials turn their attention overseas. Yet bipartisanship today rarely involves complete unity. Instead, bipartisan coalitions spanning members of both parties often coexist with intra-party divisions or disagreement between Congress and the president, making it difficult for the United States to speak with one voice on the global stage. Drawing on new data and interviews of more than 100 foreign policy practitioners, this book documents the persistence of bipartisanship on international issues and highlights key factors that facilitate or impede cooperation on foreign policy challenges.