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Brotherhood of the Flying Coffin The Glider Pilots of World War II [Audiobook]

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English | ASIN: B0BVRLHTT6 | 2023 | 9 hours and 12 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 264 MB
Author: Scott McGaugh
Narrator: Geoff Sugiyama
The first major history of the American glider pilots, the forgotten heroes of World War II, by New York Times bestselling author Scott McGaugh. A story of no guns, no engines and no second chances. This audiobook distills war down to individual young men climbing into defenseless gliders made of plywood, ready to trust the towing aircraft that would pull them into enemy territory by a single cable wrapped with a telephone wire. Based on their after-action reports, journals, oral histories, photos and letters home, The Brotherhood of the Flying Coffin reveals every terrifying minute of their missions. They were all volunteers, for a specialized duty that their own government projected would have a 50 percent casualty rate.

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Blood Rites Origins and History of the Passions of War [Audiobook]

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English | ASIN: B083QSJ6YL | 2020 | 9 hours and 56 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 284 MB
Author: Barbara Ehrenreich
Narrator: Amy Landon
What draws our species to war? What makes us see violence as a kind of sacred duty, or a ritual that boys must undergo to "become" men? Newly reissued, Blood Rites takes listeners on an original journey from the elaborate human sacrifices of the ancient world to the carnage and holocaust of 20th-century "total war." Ehrenreich sifts deftly through the fragile records of prehistory and discovers the wellspring of war in an unexpected place - not in a "killer instinct" unique to the males of our species, but in the blood rites early humans performed to reenact their terrifying experiences of predation by stronger carnivores. Brilliant in conception and rich in scope, Blood Rites is a monumental work that continues to transform our understanding of the greatest single threat to human life.

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An Infinity of Worlds Cosmic Inflation and the Beginning of the Universe [Audiobook]

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English | ASIN: B0BWSF1762 | 2023 | 5 hours and 15 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 286 MB
Author: Will Kinney
Narrator: Graham Rowat
In the beginning was the Big Bang: an unimaginably hot fire almost fourteen billion years ago in which the first elements were forged. The physical theory of the hot nascent universe-the Big Bang-was one of the most consequential developments in twentieth-century science. And yet it leaves many questions unanswered: Why is the universe so big? Why is it so old? What is the origin of structure in the cosmos? In An Infinity of Worlds, physicist Will Kinney explains a more recent theory that may hold the answers to these questions and even explain the ultimate origins of the universe: c, before the primordial fire of the Big Bang.

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12 Bytes How We Got Here, Where We Might Go Next [Audiobook]

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English | ASIN: B099P2LGHR | 2021 | 8 hours and 59 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 528 MB
Author: Jeanette Winterson
Narrator: Jeanette Winterson
Twelve eye-opening, mind-expanding, funny, and provocative essays on the implications of artificial intelligence for the way we live and the way we love from New York Times best-selling author Jeanette Winterson. In 12 Bytes, the New York Times best-selling author Jeanette Winterson draws on her years of thinking and reading about artificial intelligence in all its bewildering manifestations. In her brilliant, laser focused, uniquely pointed, and witty style of storytelling, Winterson looks to history, religion, myth, literature, the politics of race and gender, and computer science, to help us understand the radical changes to the way we live and love that are happening now.

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Winter Trials Threads of Fate, Book 2 [Audiobook]

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English | March 17, 2021 | ASIN: B08W9KQJQB | MP3@128 kbps | 9h 49m | 539.55 MB
Author: Michael Head
Narrator: Travis Baldree
He's told to save the world. To stop the death of billions. But the only thing he's given is a chance.

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Wild Isles [Audiobook]

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English | ASIN: B0BRNNVX51 | 2023 | 10 hours and 40 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 306 MB
Author: Patrick Barkham, Alastair Fothergill
Narrator: Patrick Barkham
This beautiful overview of the wildlife of the British Isles showcases the diversity of our plant and animal life. Wild Isles is a celebration of the wildlife found on a relatively modest collection of islands positioned at a latitude so northerly to be unattractive to many animals and plants. Despite these unpromising foundations, the islands of Britain and Ireland, together with more than 6,000 lesser islets that make up our archipelago, contain some of the most diverse, beautiful and wildlife-rich landscapes and seas on our planet. This audiobook will explore the fascinating relationships within and between species who make their home on our beautiful isles.

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What's the Use How Mathematics Shapes Everyday Life [Audiobook]

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English | ASIN: B09BBNHHNH | 2021 | 9 hours and 6 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 264 MB
Author: Ian Stewart
Narrator: Quentin Cooper
See the world in a completely new way as an esteemed mathematician shows how math powers the world - from technology to health care and beyond. Almost all of us have sat in a math class, wondering when we'd ever need to know how to find the roots of a polynomial or graph imaginary numbers. And in one sense, we were right: If we needed to, we'd use a computer. But as Ian Stewart argues in What's the Use?, math isn't just about boring computations. Rather, it offers us new and profound insights into our world, allowing us to accomplish feats as significant as space exploration and organ donation. From the trigonometry that keeps a satellite in orbit to the prime numbers used by the world's most advanced security systems to the imaginary numbers that enable augmented reality, math isn't just relevant to our lives. It is the very fabric of our existence.

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Uncertain Harvest The Future of Food on a Warming Planet [Audiobook]

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English | ASIN: B0BWWYCVSJ | 2023 | 13 hours and 26 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 384 MB
Author: Ian Mosby, Sarah Rotz, Evan D.G. Fraser
Narrator: Jenny Hoops
A menu for an edible future. In a world expected to reach a staggering population of 10 billion by 2050, and with global temperatures rising fast, humanity must fundamentally change the way it grows and consumes food. Uncertain Harvest brings together scientists, chefs, activists, entrepreneurs, farmers, philosophers, and engineers working on the global future of food to answer questions on how to make a more equitable, safe, sustainable, and plentiful food future. Navigating cutting-edge research on the science, culture, and economics of food, Ian Mosby, Sarah Rotz, and Evan D. G. Fraser present a roadmap for a global food policy, while examining eight foods that could save us: algae, caribou, kale, millet, tuna, crickets, milk, and rice.

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Today Hong Kong, Tomorrow the World What China's Crackdown Reveals About Its Plans to End Freedom Everywhere [Audiobook]

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English | ASIN: B0BWYZ3B9X | 2023 | 11 hours and 41 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 329 MB
Author: Mark L. Clifford
Narrator: Rick Adamson
For 150 years as a British colony, Hong Kong was a beacon of prosperity where people, money, and technology flowed freely, and residents enjoyed many civil liberties. In preparation for handing the territory over to China in 1997, Deng Xiaoping promised that it would remain highly autonomous for fifty years. An international treaty established a Special Administrative Region (SAR) with a far freer political system than that of Communist China. But as the halfway mark of the SAR's lifespan approaches in 2022, it is clear that China has not kept its word. Universal suffrage and free elections have not been instituted, harassment and brutality have become normalized, and activists are being jailed en masse.

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