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Free Download Around the World in Eighty Games: From Tarot to Tic-Tac-Toe, Catan to Chutes and Ladders, a Mathematician Unlocks the Secrets of the World’s Greatest Games AKA Around the World in 80 Games: A Mathematician Unlocks the Secrets of the Greatest Games (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BYKQN478, B0CB6XTFC2 | 2023 | 12 hours and 36 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 359 MB
Author: Marcus du Sautoy
Narrator: Mark Elstob
Spanning millennia, oceans and continents, countries and cultures, Around the World in Eighty Games gleefully explores how mathematics and games have always been deeply intertwined. Renowned mathematician Marcus du Sautoy investigates how games provided the first opportunities for deep mathematical insight into the world, how understanding math can help us play games better, and how both math and games are integral to human psychology and culture. For as long as there have been people, there have been games, and for nearly as long, we have been exploring and discovering mathematics. A grand adventure, Around the World in Eighty Games teaches us not just how games are won, but how they, and their math, shape who we are.

Free Download Arctic Convoys: Bletchley Park and the War for the Seas (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CN1MWYVV | 2023 | 10 hours and 25 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 308 MB
Author: David Kenyon
Narrator: Mike Cooper
An incisive account of the Arctic convoys, and the essential role Bletchley Park and Special Intelligence played in Allied success. Between 1941 and 1945, more than eight hundred shiploads of supplies were delivered to the Soviet Union protected by allied naval forces. Each journey was a battle against the elements, with turbulent seas, extreme cold, and the constant dread of torpedoes. These Arctic convoys have been mythologized as defenseless vessels at the mercy of deadly U-boats-but was this really the case?

Free Download Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C6R88SW4 | 2023 | 21 hours and 26 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 620 MB
Author: Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari
Narrator: Jon Orsini
When it first appeared in France, Anti-Oedipus was hailed as a masterpiece by some and "a work of heretical madness" by others. In it, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari set forth the following theory: Western society’s innate herd instinct has allowed the government, the media, and even the principles of economics to take advantage of each person’s unwillingness to be cut off from the group. What’s more, those who suffer from mental disorders may not be insane, but could be individuals in the purest sense, because they are by nature isolated from society. More than twenty-five years after its original publication, Anti-Oedipus still stands as a controversial contribution to a much-needed dialogue on the nature of free thinking.

Free Download Annuities for Dummies (2nd Edition) (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CKJNP6J6 | 2023 | 14 hours and 00 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 367 MB
Author: Kerry Pechter
Narrator: Steve Menasche
Looking for steady retirement income? Turning retirement savings into a steady income is a big step toward a worry-free retirement. This book introduces you to how to add annuities to your investment mix. It helps you evaluate how to select the best annuities for your needs and steer clear of the worst. You’ll learn how different types of annuities can help you turn your retirement savings into a monthly paycheck, protect your investments from market ups and downs, postpone taxes, stay in your home for the rest of your life, and even buy long-term care insurance for less. Written by an annuity thought leader who is a frequent guest-expert on webcasts, podcasts, and radio broadcasts as well as editor and publisher of Retirement Income Journal, the book offers the knowledge earned from interviews with hundreds of annuity industry insiders on their own turf. Get insight into which annuities do (or don’t) provide near-retirees and retirees with solid value. Annuities For Dummies is the must-have guide for anyone making retirement plans or managing their retirement savings.

Free Download An End to Upside Down Medicine: Contagion, Viruses, and Vaccines-and Why Consciousness Is Needed for a New Paradigm of Health (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CN7K255X | 2023 | 7 hours and 7 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 228 MB
Author: Mark Gober
Narrator: Mark Gober
In An End to Upside Down Medicine, Mark Gober dives into fundamental beliefs about health and disease. These beliefs are so fundamental, in fact, that most of us probably haven’t thought to question them. For example, do bacteria cause disease, or are they part of the body’s cleanup crew that appears at the scene of an underlying toxicity or injury? Do researchers follow the scientific method when they claim to isolate viruses and show that they cause disease in their hosts? How are studies conducted that allegedly demonstrate the transmission of germs from sick people to healthy people? How do long-term health outcomes differ between vaccinated and unvaccinated populations?

Free Download An Empire of Laws: Legal Pluralism in British Colonial Policy (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CMY861KW | 2023 | 7 hours and 55 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 226 MB
Author: Christian R. Burset
Narrator: Perry Daniels
For many years, Britain tried to impose its own laws on the peoples it conquered, and English common law usually followed the Union Jack. But the common law became less common after Britain emerged from the Seven Years’ War as the world’s most powerful empire. At that point, imperial policymakers adopted a strategy of legal pluralism: some colonies remained under English law, while others retained much of their previous legal regimes. As legal historian Christian R. Burset argues, determining how much English law a colony received depended on what kind of colony Britain wanted to create.

Free Download An Alternative History of Britain: The Anglo-Saxon Age (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CLVXFQ58 | 2023 | 10 hours and 36 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 289 MB
Author: Timothy Venning
Narrator: Liam Gerrard
Timothy Venning explores the various decision points in a fascinating period of British history and the alternative paths that it might have taken. Dr. Timothy Venning starts within an outline of the process by which much of Britain came to be settled by Germanic tribes after the end of Roman rule, as far as it can be determined from the sparse and fragmentary sources. He then moves on to discuss a series of scenarios, which might have altered the course of subsequent history dramatically. For example, was a reconquest by the native British ever a possibility (under ‘Arthur’ or someone else)? Which of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms might have united England sooner and would this have kept the Danes out? And, of course, what if Harold Godwinson had won at Hastings? While necessarily speculative, all the scenarios are discussed within the framework of a deep understanding of the major driving forces, tensions and trends that shaped British history and help to shed light upon them. In so doing they help the listener to understand why things panned out as they did, as well as what might have been.

Free Download Among the Bros: A Fraternity Crime Story (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BSSB98TK | 2023 | 8 hours and 29 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 245 MB
Author: Max Marshall
Narrator: Stephen Graybill
A brilliant young investigative journalist traces a murder and a multi-million-dollar drug ring, leading to an unprecedented look at elite American fraternity life. When Max Marshall arrived on the campus of the College of Charleston in 2018, he hoped to investigate a small-time fraternity Xanax trafficking ring. Instead, he found a homicide, several student deaths, and millions of dollars circulating around the Deep South. He also opened up an elite world hidden to outsiders. Behind the pop culture cliches of "Greek life" lies one of the major breeding grounds of American power: 80 percent of Fortune 500 executives, 85 percent of Supreme Court justices, and all but four presidents since 1825 have been fraternity members.

Free Download Among the Braves: Hope, Struggle, and Exile in the Battle for Hong Kong and the Future of Global Democracy (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BY9Z5PZL | 2023 | 11 hours and 31 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 336 MB
Author: Shibani Mahtani, Timothy McLaughlin
Narrator: Jason Vu
Through the eyes of two frontline journalists comes a gripping narrative history of the Hong Kong pro-democracy movement centered around a cast of core activists, culminating in the 2019 mass protests and Beijing’s brutal crackdown. Hong Kong was an experiment in governance. Handed back to China in 1997 after 156 years of British rule, it was meant to be a carve-out between hostile systems: a bridge between communism and capitalism, authoritarianism and liberal democracy. "One country, two systems" kept its media free, its courts independent and its protests boisterous, designed also to convince Taiwan of a peaceful solution to Beijing’s desire for reunification. Yet this formulation excluded Hong Kong’s own people, their future negotiated by political titans in faraway capitals. In 2019, an ill-conceived law spear-headed by a sycophantic leader pushed millions to take to the streets in one of the most enduring protest movements the world has ever seen.

Free Download American Shield: The Immigrant Sergeant Who Defended Democracy (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C9S7VDBL | 2023 | 6 hours and 55 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 386 MB
Author: Aquilino Gonell, Susan Shapiro
Narrator: Robb Moreira
Set against the extraordinary events of January 6, 2021, Aquilino Gonell’s inspirational memoir is rooted in the joys and struggles of the immigrant experience that have long defined the American experiment. Aquilino Gonell came to the United States from the Dominican Republic as a young boy. Although he spoke no English, he dedicated himself to his adopted land, striving for the American dream. Determined to be a success story, he joined the army to pay for college. He saw action in Iraq and returned home with PTSD. Believing in the promise of our government, he focused on healing himself and supporting his family. His hard work paid off when he landed a coveted position with the United States Capitol Police and rose to the rank of sergeant.