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Free Download Recovery: The Lost Art of Convalescence (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BWPVTHX1 | 2023 | 2 hours and 20 minutes | M4B@256 kbps | 258 MB
Author: Gavin Francis
Narrator: Gavin Francis
A gentle, expert guide to the secrets of recovery, showing why we need it and how to do it better. For many of us, time spent in recovery-from a broken leg, a virus, chronic illness, or the crisis of depression or anxiety-can feel like an unwelcome obstacle on the road to health. Modern medicine too often assumes that once doctors have prescribed a course of treatment, healing takes care of itself. But recovery isn't something that "just happens." It is an act that we engage in and that has the potential to transform our lives, if only we can find ways to learn its rhythms and invest our time, energy, and participation. Drawing on thirty years of medicine, and on insights from practitioners, psychologists, and writers across history, physician Gavin Francis delivers a profound, practical, and deeply hopeful guide to recovery. Rejecting the idea that healing is passive, Recovery offers tools and wisdom for convalescence, and shows how tending to our bodies, environments, and perspectives can help us move through the landscape of illness-and come out the other side whole.

Free Download Reading Pride and Prejudice in the 21st Century (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CBSP6FZD | 2023 | 1 hour and 43 minutes | M4B@320 kbps | 238 MB
Author: Patricia A. Matthew, The Great Courses
Narrator: Patricia A. Matthew
After Romeo and Juliet, Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy might just be the world's most famous fictional couple. The story of how they fall in love-Pride and Prejudice-has left an indelible imprint on popular culture. Readers, novelists, playwrights, filmmakers, and even zombies can't leave Pride and Prejudice alone. Which raises the question: Why has this novel, of all Jane Austen's works, remained the general favorite? In Reading Pride and Prejudice in the 21st Century, Professor Patricia A. Matthew, a specialist in British Romanticism and the history of the novel, examines how fans and scholars engage with the novel today-and how contemporary storytellers continually surprise us with new retellings. Through this Audible Original, you'll explore fresh perspectives on the heroic ideals of Elizabeth Bennet and the values of the women around her, the enduring sex appeal of Mr. Darcy and his various cinematic interpretations, how today's readers grapple with the novel's depictions of gender and class in the 1800s, the timeless power of Austen's satire, and even the promises of a Pride and Prejudice multiverse of parodies, murder mysteries, and more.

Free Download Racing for the Bomb: The True Story of General Leslie R. Groves, the Man Behind the Birth of the Atomic Age by Robert S. Norris, Peter Johnson, Audible Studios
English | 2014 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B00P71I0TA | M4B@64 kbps | 23h 1m | 627 Mb
In September 1942, Colonel Leslie R. Groves was given the job of building the atomic bomb. As a career officer in the Army Corps of Engineers, Groves had overseen hundreds of military construction projects, including the Pentagon. Until now, scientists have received the credit for the Manhattan Project's remarkable achievements. And yet, it was Leslie R. Groves who made things happen. It was Groves who drove manufacturers, construction crews, scientists, industrialists, and military and civilian officials to come up with the money, the materials, and the plans to solve thousands of problems and build the bomb in only two years. It was his operation, and in Racing for the Bomb, he emerges as a take-charge, can-do figure who succeeds in the face of formidable odds. Revealed for the first time in Racing for the Bomb, Groves played a crucial and decisive role in the planning, timing, and targeting of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki missions. Norris offers new insights into the complex and controversial questions surrounding the decision to drop the bomb in Japan and Groves's actions during World War II, which had a lasting imprint on the nuclear age and the Cold War that followed. Groves's extensive influence on key institutions of postwar America has been overlooked for too long. In this full-scale biography, which includes archival material and family letters and documents and features several previously unpublished photographs, Norris places Groves at the center of the amazing Manhattan Project story.
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Free Download Praying for Your Future Husband: Preparing Your Heart for His (Audiobook)
English | April 24, 2018 | ASIN: B07C43DV6K | MP3@64 kbps | 4h 41m | 129.83 MB
Author: Tricia Goyer, Robin Jones Gunn
Narrator: Randye Kaye
Have you ever thought about praying for your future husband? Will it make a difference? There's only one way to find out . . .

Free Download Post-Liberalism: Recovering a Shared World (Audiobook)
English | August 27, 2019 | ASIN: B07WD5YSKZ | MP3@64 kbps | 7h 9m | 192.06 MB
Author: Fred Dallmayr
Narrator: Sean Runnette
Liberal democracy is the dominant political ideology in the West today. Taken at face value it suggests an equivalency between its two central components-liberalism and democracy - but as Fred Dallmayr argues here, the two operate in very different registers. The two frequently conflict, endangering our public life. This is evident in the rise of self-centered neo-liberalism as well as autocratic movements in our world today.

Free Download Pockets: An Intimate History of How We Keep Things Close (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BZX1F3VW | 2023 | 6 hours and 38 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 372 MB
Author: Hannah Carlson
Narrator: Stephanie Cannon
A thought-provoking microhistory of the humble pocket that uncovers what pockets reveal about us-and why it matters. It's a subject that stirs up plenty of passion: Why do men's clothes have so many pockets and women's so few? In her captivating book, Hannah Carlson, a lecturer in dress history at the Rhode Island School of Design, shows us how we tuck gender politics, security, sexuality, and privilege inside our pockets. Throughout the medieval era in Europe, the purse was an almost universal dress feature carried by men and women alike. But when tailors stitched the first pockets into men's trousers 500 years ago, it ignited controversy and introduced a range of social issues that we continue to wrestle with today, from concealed pistols to gender inequality, as noted in hashtags like #GiveMePocketsOrGiveMeDeath. This abundantly illustrated book explores much more than who has pockets and why. How is it that putting your hands in your pocket can be seen as a sign of laziness, arrogance, confidence, or perversion? Walt Whitman's author photograph, hand in pocket, for Leaves of Grass, seemed like an affront to middle class respectability. When W.E.B. DuBois posed for a portrait, his pocketed hands signaled defiant coolness. Pockets is a perfect gift for the legions of people obsessed with pockets and their absence, and for anyone interested in how our clothes influence the way we navigate the world.

Free Download Pessoa: A Biography (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CBW3KH44 | 2023 | 42 hours and 45 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 1.2 GB
Author: Richard Zenith
Narrator: Nigel Patterson
Like Richard Ellmann's James Joyce, Richard Zenith's Pessoa immortalizes the life of one of the twentieth century's greatest writers. Nearly a century after his wrenching death, the Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) remains one of our most enigmatic writers. Believing he could do "more in dreams than Napoleon," yet haunted by the specter of hereditary madness, Pessoa invented dozens of alter egos, or "heteronyms," under whose names he wrote in Portuguese, English, and French. Unsurprisingly, this "most multifarious of writers" (Guardian) has long eluded a definitive biographer-but in renowned translator and Pessoa scholar Richard Zenith, he has met his match.

Free Download Personality Tests and What They Can Tell Us (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BL96D81S | 2022 | 2 hours and 58 minutes | M4B@192 kbps | 246 MB
Author: Jaime Kurtz, The Great Courses
Narrator: Jaime Kurtz
The ancient Greek maxim "know thyself" speaks to the age-old human desire for self-understanding. Generations have made countless attempts to force the very subjective concept of self-understanding into a scientific measurement of what makes us us. From these endeavors have emerged a selection of questionnaires that purport to measure our personality, which we can then use to help us determine what will likely make us happy or unhappy, in which environments will we thrive, what methods of communications we respond best to, and-in general-who we are.

Free Download Paddy Mayne: Lt Col Blair 'Paddy' Mayne, 1 SAS Regiment (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CD8YN828 | 2023 | 11 hours and 36 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 331 MB
Author: Hamish Ross
Narrator: Alan Turkington
'Paddy' Mayne was one of the most outstanding special forces leaders of the Second World War. Hamish Ross's authoritative study follows Mayne from solicitor and a rugby international to troop commander in the Commandos and then the SAS, whose leader he later became and whose annals he graced, winning the DSO and three bars, the Croix de Guerre and the Légion d'Honneur. Mayne's achievements attracted attention, and after his early death legends emerged, based largely on anecdote and assertion. Hamish Ross's closely researched biography challenges much of the received version, using contemporary sources, the official war diaries, the chronicle of 1 SAS, Mayne's papers and diaries, and a number of extended interviews with key contemporaries. It has the support of the Mayne family and the SAS Regimental Association. In Ross's analysis Mayne is a dynamic, yet principled and thoughtful man, committed to the unit's original concepts; not flawless, but whose leadership qualities and tactical brilliance in the field secured the reputation of the SAS.

Free Download Optimal Illusions: The False Promise of Optimization (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BWQ7LZMN | 2023 | 6 hours and 30 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 362 MB
Author: Coco Krumme
Narrator: Coco Krumme
How optimization took over the world and the urgent case for a new approach. Optimization is the driving principle of our modern world. We now can manufacture, transport, and organize things more cheaply and faster than ever. Optimized models underlie everything from airline schedules to dating site matches. We strive for efficiency in our daily lives, obsessed with productivity and optimal performance. How did a mathematical concept take on such outsize cultural shape? And what is lost when efficiency is gained?