English | ASIN: B09FM6NQWZ | 2021 | 13 hours and 19 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 365 MB
The human mind can grapple with the future, visualising and calculating solutions to complex problems, giving us tremendous advantages over other species throughout our evolution. However, this capability comes with a curse. By five to ten years of age, all humans know where they are heading: to the grave. In Mortals, Rachel Menzies and Ross Menzies, both acclaimed psychologists whose life's work has focused on death anxiety, examine all the major human responses to death across history. From the development of religious systems denying the finality of death to 'immortality projects' involving enduring art, architecture and literature, some of the consequences of our fear of death have been glorious while others have been destructive, leading to global conflicts and genocide. Looking forward, Mortals hypothesises that worse could be to come - our unconscious dread of death has led to rampant consumerism and overpopulation, driving the global warming and pandemic crises that now threaten our very existence. In a terrible irony, Homo sapiens may ultimately be destroyed by our knowledge of our own mortality.
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English | ASIN: B0B7876FZF | 2022 | 9 hours and 47 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 269 MB
The story has so often been told: Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne of the Habsburg Empire, was shot dead on June 28, 1914, in the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo. Thirty days later, the Archduke's uncle, Emperor Franz Joseph, declared war on the Kingdom of Serbia, producing the chain reaction of European powers entering the First World War. In Misfire, Paul Miller-Melamed narrates the history of the Sarajevo assassination and the origins of World War I from the perspective of the Balkans.
Miller-Melamed embeds the incident in the longer-term conditions of the Balkans that gave rise to the political murder. He thus illuminates the centrality of the Bosnian Crisis and the Balkan Wars of the early twentieth century to European power politics, while explaining how Serbs, Bosnians, and Habsburg leaders negotiated their positions in a dangerous geopolitical environment. Despite the absence of evidence tying official Serbia to the assassination conspiracy, Miller-Melamed shows how it spiraled into a diplomatic crisis that European statesmen proved unable to resolve peacefully. Contrasting the vast disproportionality between a single deadly act and an act of war that would leave ten million dead, Misfire contends that the real causes for the world war lie in "civilized" Europe rather than the endlessly discussed political murder.

English | 2019 | MP3 | M4B | ASIN: B07PLKRKN2 | Duration: 3:01 h | 82 MB
Dale Owen / Narrated by Tim Edwards
Is struggling to remember things something you find difficult? Often find yourself thinking that nothing can help? Or maybe you're just constantly fed up of using prescription drugs and so-called miracle cures. If this sounds all too familiar, then keep reading.

English | 2021 | MP3 | M4B | ASIN: B08W2H9BLL | Duration: 9:15 h | 255 MB
John "Alexander" Arezzi, Greg Oliver / Narrated by John Arezzi
John Arezzi was a lifelong Mets fan who dreamed of a job in baseball. In 1981, he took a job with the Mets Class A team in North Carolina. But Arezzi had another love: professional wrestling. He ran a fan club for the villainous "Classy" Freddie Blassie as a teenager, then progressed to wrestling photographer, and finally even stepped into the ring himself as John Anthony. Eventually he escaped to pursue a new life in altogether different world: country music. After adopting a new name, John Alexander, his many accomplishments include discovering both Patty Loveless and (decades later) Kelsea Ballerini. But wrestling is tough to shake....

English | 2021 | MP3 | M4B | ASIN: B08XWHSPLQ | Duration: 1:05 h | 59 MB
Steven Wallace / Narrated by Thomas Rode
Martin Van Buren: A Fascinating Biography of the 8th United States President showcases the life and political career of a man who championed for the expansion of voting rights and would later overcome an attempt to rig the presidential election by the opposing party to take his place in American history.

English | July 10, 2020 | ASIN: B08BVVLBDX | MP3 | M4B | 8h 3m | 218.45 MB
Author: Richard L. Peterson, Frank F. Murtha
Narrator: Mark Moseley

English | 2022 | MP3 | M4B | ASIN: B0B15K2SM4 | Duration: 8:01 h | 437 MB
Spencer Schneider / Narrated by Austin Rising
Right under the noses of neighbors, clients, spouses, children, and friends, a secret society, simply called School—a cult of snared Manhattan professionals—has been led by the charismatic, sociopathic, and dangerous leader Sharon Gans for decades. Spencer Schneider was recruited in the eighties, and he stayed for more than twenty-three years as his life disintegrated, his self-esteem eroded, and he lined the pockets of Gans and her cult.

English | October 30, 2015 | ASIN: B017BQ7JD6 | MP3 | M4B | 8h 27m | 230.01 MB
Author: Barry N. Katz
Narrator: Sean Ptratt

English | 2021 | MP3 | M4B | ASIN: B09F9XMNZL | Duration: 8:20 h | 229 MB
Claire G. Coleman / Narrated by Lisa Maza
A deeply personal exploration of Australia's colonisation past, present and future by one of Australia's finest contemporary authors.

English | December 08, 2020 | ASIN: B08LDT9BSC | MP3 | M4B | 10h 30m | 285.05 MB
Author: Nicholas P. Sargen
Narrator: Steve Menasche