Tag: World

Free Download The Big 100: The New World of Super-Aging (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C7S21D57 | 2023 | 9 hours and 15 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 508 MB
Author: William J. Kole
Narrator: Patrick Lawlor
By 2050, the world’s centenarian population-those aged 100 or more-will increase eightfold. Half of today’s 5-year-olds can expect to reach the same heights. It’s going to upend everything we thought we knew about health care, personal finance, retirement, politics, and more. Whether we’re 18 or 81, this tectonic demographic shift will affect us all. The Big 100 confronts listeners with both the brightness and potential bleakness of a fate few of us thought possible. Journalist William Kole guides us on this journey into our future, an optimistic but sometimes fraught exploration of super-aging as the grandson of a centenarian.

Free Download Task Force Hogan: The World War II Tank Battalion That Spearheaded the Liberation of Europe (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BVGKMV1L | 2023 | 11 hours and 28 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 331 MB
Author: William R. Hogan
Narrator: Kaleo Griffith
A fourth-generation soldier tells the story of his father’s tank battalion, the "Spearhead," that selflessly led the charge on the front lines from Normandy into Germany-against impossible odds, technologically superior weaponry, and a fanatical enemy on its home turf-and the heroes whose sacrifice won World War II. At twenty-eight, Sam Hogan is one of the youngest lieutenant colonels in the US Army. The West Point graduate from Texas stands in the commander’s hatch of his Sherman tank, behind him a steel wedge of seventeen other Shermans of his tank battalion. Two weeks after the now-infamous D-Day landings, Sam is preparing to give the order to advance into the German defenses that enclose the Normandy beachheads. Ahead of Sam lies seemingly impossible odds for survival: technologically superior Nazi tanks, camouflaged anti-tank guns, and infantry armed with new anti-tank rockets. But Sam has prepared for this moment for the past seven years. With a guttural call to move out accompanied by diesel fumes and the squeak of tank treads, Sam and his men begin their long journey to liberate Europe-a journey from which many of them would not return.

Free Download Property: The Myth That Built The World (Audiobook)
English | ISBN: 9781004140541 | 2023 | 8 hours and 20 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 238 MB
Author: Rowan Moore
Narrator: Antonia Beamish
Property carries a great promise: that it will make you rich and set you free. But it is also a weapon, an agent of displacement and exploitation, the currency of kleptocrats and oligarchs. Property is a vivid, far-reaching analysis of our concept of property ownership, from 16th-century feudalism to the present day. It tells powerful stories-of life in the developer-led boomtown of Gurugram in India, of the struggles to form black communities in Missouri and Georgia, of a giant experiment in co-operative living in the Bronx, of the theatrics of developer-kings like President Aliyev of Azerbaijan and the Trump family. Above all, Property asks how we have come to view our homes not as a natural human right, but as investments-and it offers hope for how things could be better, with reform that might enable the social wealth of property to be returned to society.

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 Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization, Unabridged 2023 Edition (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BXFM4F7P | 2023 | 15 hours and 11 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 443 MB
Author: Ed Conway
Narrator: Ed Conway
Sand, salt, iron, copper, oil, and lithium. These fundamental materials have created empires, razed civilizations, and fed our ingenuity and greed for thousands of years. Without them, our modern world would not exist, and the battle to control them will determine our future. The fiber-optic cables that weave the World Wide Web, the copper veins of our electric grids, the silicon chips and lithium batteries that power our phones and cars: though it can feel like we now live in a weightless world of information-what Ed Conway calls "the ethereal world"-our twenty-first-century lives are still very much rooted in the material. In fact, we dug more stuff out of the earth in 2017 than in all of human history before 1950.

Free Download Lost Cities of the Ancient World (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CMYKCL5F | 2023 | 6 hours and 51 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 376 MB
Author: Philip Matyszak
Narrator: Jennifer M. Dixon
The ruins of ancient Athens, Luxor, and Rome are familiar cornerstones of world history, visited by travelers from across the globe. But what about the cities that have dropped off the map? Where are they, and what can they tell us about our past? In this compendium of forgotten cities, Philip Matyszak explores the trials, tribulations, and triumphs these cities faced. Lost Cities of the Ancient World brings to life the sites and settlements across Europe, the Middle East, and beyond that time forgot, from the sunken city of Pavlopetri in the Mediterranean to the deep cave dwellings of Derinkuyu in Turkey.

Free Download Losing a Kingdom, Gaining the World: The Catholic Church in the Age of Revolution and Democracy (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CLSDZXNQ | 2023 | 18 hours and 29 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 529 MB
Author: Ambrogio A. Caiani
Narrator: Mark Elstob
An ambitious, authoritative history of the Roman Catholic Church in the modern age. Despite its many crises, especially in Western Europe, there are still 1.2 billion Catholics in the world and the Church remains a powerful, controversial and defiantly archaic institution. After the French Revolution and the democratic rebellions of 1848, the Church retreated, especially under Pius IX, into a fortress of unreason, denouncing almost every aspect of modern life, including liberalism and socialism. The Pope proclaimed his infallibility; the cult of the Virgin Mary and her apparitions to semi-illiterate shepherds became articles of faith; the Vatican refused all accommodation with the modern state, until a disastrous series of concordats with fascist states in the 1930s. In Losing a Kingdom, Gaining the World, Dr. Ambrogio A. Caiani narrates the epic, fascinating, entertaining and horrifying history of the Roman Catholic Church. It is an account of the Church’s fraught encounter with modernity in all its forms, from representative democracy and the nation state to science, literature and secular culture.

Free Download Judgment at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CHFVXFKL | 2023 | 31 hours and 23 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 904 MB
Author: Gary J. Bass
Narrator: Simon Vance
A landmark, magisterial history of the trial of Japan’s leaders as war criminals-the largely overlooked Asian counterpart to Nuremberg. In the weeks after Japan finally surrendered to the Allies to end World War II, the world turned to the question of how to move on from years of carnage and destruction. For Harry Truman, Douglas MacArthur, Chiang Kai-shek, and their fellow victors, the question of justice seemed clear: Japan’s militaristic leaders needed to be tried and punished for the surprise attack at Pearl Harbor; shocking atrocities against civilians in China, the Philippines, and elsewhere; and rampant abuses of prisoners of war in notorious incidents such as the Bataan death march. For the Allied powers, the trial was an opportunity to render judgment on their vanquished foes, but also to create a legal framework to prosecute war crimes and prohibit the use of aggressive war, building a more peaceful world under international law and American hegemony. For the Japanese leaders on trial, it was their chance to argue that their war had been waged to liberate Asia from Western imperialism and that the court was victors’ justice.

Free Download Germany in the World: A Global History, 1500-2000 (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CL5HRY77 | 2023 | 36 hours and 47 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 1010 MB
Author: David Blackbourn
Narrator: Peter Noble
Brilliantly conceived and majestically written, this monumental work of European history recasts the five-hundred-year history of Germany. With Germany in the World, award-winning historian David Blackbourn radically revises conventional narratives of German history, demonstrating the existence of a distinctly German presence in the world centuries before its unification-and revealing a national identity far more complicated than previously imagined. Blackbourn traces Germany’s evolution from the loosely bound Holy Roman Empire of 1500 to a sprawling colonial power to a twenty-first-century beacon of democracy. Viewed through a global lens, familiar landmarks of German history-the Reformation, the Revolution of 1848, the Nazi regime-are transformed, while others are unearthed and explored, as Blackbourn reveals Germany’s leading role in creating modern universities and its sinister involvement in slave-trade economies. A global history for a global age, Germany in the World is a bold and original account that upends the idea that a nation’s history should be written as though it took place entirely within that nation’s borders.

Free Download Flora!: A Woman in a Man’s World (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CNQCX218 | 2023 | 14 hours and 20 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 410 MB
Author: Flora MacDonald, Geoffrey Stevens
Narrator: Sarah Orenstein
Flora Isabel MacDonald-politician, humanitarian, adventurer, and role model for a generation of women-was known across Canada and beyond simply as Flora. In her memoir, co-authored by award-winning journalist and author Geoffrey Stevens, she tells her personal story for the very first time. Flora! describes her amazing journey from her childhood and her time at secretarial school in Cape Breton, through her years in backroom Progressive Conservative politics, to elected office and her appointment as Canada’s first female minister of foreign affairs. Finally, she details her exceptional humanitarian work in India and in war-torn Africa and Afghanistan.