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Free Download Kirstie Petrou, "If Everyone Returned, The Island Would Sink: Urbanisation and Migration in Vanuatu "
English | ISBN: 1789206219 | 2020 | 214 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Focusing on the small island of Paama, Vanuatu, and the capital, Port Vila, this book presents a rare and recent study of the ongoing significance of urbanisation and internal migration in the Global South. Based on longitudinal research undertaken in rural ‘home’ places, urban suburbs and informal settlements over thirty years, this book reveals the deep ambivalence of the outcome of migration, and argues that continuity in the fundamental organising principles of cultural life – in this case centred on kinship and an ‘island home’ – is significantly more important for urban and rural lives than the transformative impacts of migration and urbanisation.

Free Download The Mystics Would Like a Word: Six Women Who Met God and Found a Spirituality for Today (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CTN1ZDCF | 2024 | 5 hours and 33 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 308 MB
Author: Shannon K. Evans
Narrator: Shannon K. Evans
Discover a rich legacy of audacious women who forged a spirituality that is more inclusive, surprising, and empowering than we ever imagined. Is there a Christian spirituality that embraces the entire reality of womanhood? The answer, Shannon K. Evans suggests, is an emphatic yes. There is a spirituality that meets us in every part of our lives, developed by the women who came before us. Six mystics-Teresa of Ávila, Margery Kempe, Hildegard of Bingen, Julian of Norwich, Catherine of Siena, and Thérèse of Lisieux-revealed a faith big enough to hold the female experiences of sex and desire, the yearning for bodily autonomy, the challenges of motherhood and identity, as well as life with male authority and-sometimes-violence. These women, self-determining, stubborn, and unapologetically themselves, asked questions in their time that are startlingly prescient today, and fought for women’s experiences to be heard, understood, respected, and recognized as holy. In The Mystics Would Like a Word, listeners will discover the story of Christian faith and spirituality as told by these extraordinary and wise women, one that speaks directly to today’s unique experiences, and leads to wholeness, healing, and spiritual vitality.

Free Download All the Wonder That Would Be: Exploring Past Notions of the Future (Audiobook)
English | May 11, 2021 | ASIN: B08WJNKL2B | M4B@32 kbps | 15h 29m | 213 MB
Author: Stephen Webb | Narrator: Alex Boyles
It has been argued that science fiction (SF) gives a kind of weather forecast – not the telling of a fortune but rather the rough feeling of what the future might be like. The intention in this audiobook is to consider some of these bygone forecasts made by SF and to use this as a prism through which to view current developments in science and technology.
In each of the ten main chapters – dealing in turn with antigravity, space travel, aliens, time travel, the nature of reality, invisibility, robots, means of transportation, augmentation of the human body, and, last but not least, mad scientists – common assumptions once made by the SF community about how the future would turn out are compared with our modern understanding of various scientific phenomena and, in some cases, with the industrial scaling of computational and technological breakthroughs.

Free Download The Mystics Would Like a Word: Six Women Who Met God and Found a Spirituality for Today by Shannon K. Evans
English | September 10, 2024 | ISBN: 0593727274 | True EPUB | 208 pages | 5.2 MB
Discover a rich legacy of audacious women who forged a spirituality that is more inclusive, surprising, and empowering than we ever imagined.

Free Download How Would You Like Your Mammoth?: 12,000 Years of Culinary History in 50 Bite-Size Essays by Uta Seeburg, Max Miller
English | May 7, 2024 | ISBN: 1891011596 | 256 pages | PDF | 3.43 Mb
A culinary romp through 50 dishes that define human history―from prehistoric roasted mammoth to space-age dehydrated soup

Free Download How Would You Like Your Mammoth?: 12,000 Years of Culinary History in 50 Bite-Size Essays (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D2367H76 | 2024 | 6 hours and 1 minute | M4B@128 kbps | 334 MB
Author: Uta Seeburg, Max Miller
Narrator: Adi Cabral
Did you know that Egyptians mummified beef ribs for their dearly departed to enjoy in the afterlife? That Roman gladiators were relegated to a vegan diet of grains and beans? That the fast-food hamburger was a result of a postwar, high-efficiency work ethic? This is not a cookbook. Instead, How Would You Like Your Mammoth? is a chronological journey through the culinary history of humankind, with fifty short, snackable essays packed to the brim with juicy tidbits and cultural insights. With author Uta Seeburg as your guide, you’ll learn not only which dishes are linked to key cultural moments, but also how each represents the social hierarchy and values of the civilization that invented it. Discover how and why: the Columbian exchange gave Indian curry its spicy kick; roasted swan became the centerpiece of choice in spectacle-loving 1650s high society; a Portuguese princess helped popularize tea in England; the first dish ever to be prepared live on television was an omelet; and much more.

Free Download Joel Engel, "What Would Martin Say?"
English | 2008 | ISBN: 006167267X, 0061253200 | EPUB | pages: 256 | 0.4 mb
"What Would Martin Say? about the pressing issues of our time is a bold question to ask. To presume to know the answer is even bolder. Clarence Jones is one of the few who possesses the moral authority necessary to even attempt such a task. One that he more than accomplishes with a compelling candor and an uncommon grace and dignity." -Tavis Smiley

Free Download Stanley Bing, "What Would Machiavelli Do? The Ends Justify the Meanness"
English | 2002 | ISBN: 0066620104 | EPUB | pages: 176 | 0.8 mb
A sly send-up of the successful What Would Jesus Do? books, here is a satisfyingly mean light-hearted approach to business success-the Machiavellian way.

Free Download Free and Equal: What Would a Fair Society Look Like? (Audiobook)
English | 20 April 2023 | ASIN: B0BM4MR2PX | M4B@128 kbps | 11h 46m | 642 MB
Author and Narrator: Daniel Chandler
Despite the enormous problems we face and widespread dissatisfaction with the status quo, it’s surprisingly hard to find a coherent vision of what a better, fairer society would look like.

Free Download What Would Reagan Do?: Life Lessons from the Last Great President (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CHHCXQVP | 2024 | 8 hours and 42 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 249 MB
Author: Chris Christie, Ellis Henican
Narrator: Danny Campbell
With the nation badly divided and the two major parties on a bitter collision course, what can we learn from America’s last great president? A lot, says New York Times bestselling author and former New Jersey governor Chris Christie. In What Would Reagan Do?, Christie takes a fresh look at President Ronald Reagan’s character-driven political instincts and deeply impactful relationships across party lines-finding plenty of compelling insights for our current national dysfunction. In each chapter, Christie spells out a lesson from a different point in Reagan’s journey, then ties all those lessons to the national challenges of today. When Reagan turned from Hollywood to politics, America was at another breaking point. The economy was battered. Trust in government was at an all-time low.