English | ISBN: 9781705206669, ASIN: B086K497B7 | 2020 | 3 hours and 47 minutes |MP3|M4B | 103 MB
Throughout history scepticism and the urge to question accepted truths has been a powerful force for change and growth. Today, as we are bombarded by adverts, scientific studies praising the latest superfoods, and political rhetoric, a healthy amount of scepticism is widely encouraged. But when is such scepticism legitimate-for example, as a driver of new ideas-and when is it problematic? And what role might adopting a sceptical outlook play in leading an intellectually virtuous life?
In this Very Short Introduction Duncan Pritchard explores both the advantages of scepticism, in challenging outdated notions, and also how it can have unhelpful social consequences, in generating distrust. He considers the role of scepticism at the source of contemporary social and political movements such as climate change denial, post-truth politics, and fake news. Pritchard also examines the philosophical arguments for a radical form of scepticism which maintains that knowledge is impossible, and explores some of the main responses to these arguments. Finally, he considers the part scepticism might play in applying better thinking and learning to achieve a more meaningful life.

English | 2020 |MP3|M4B | ASIN: B08BSXWB3G | Duration: 10:59 h | 302 MB
Donald Luskin, Andrew Greta / Narrated by Alex Hyde-White
Inspired by Ayn Rand's characters in Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead, penetrating profiles of both the innovators who move our world forward and those who seek to destroy the achievement of others...

English | ASIN: B08MFSZ9D2 | 2020 | 11 hours and 3 minutes |MP3|M4B | 610 MB
The riveting story of the history-making mission to reach the bottom of all five of the world's oceans - the ultimate frontier of our planet. Humankind has explored every continent on earth, climbed its tallest mountains, and gone into space. But the largest areas of our planet remain a mystery: the deep oceans. At over 36,000 feet deep, these areas closest to earth's core have remained nearly impossible to reach - until now. Technological innovations, engineering breakthroughs and the derring-do of a unique team of engineers and scientists, led by explorer Victor Vescovo, brought together an audacious global quest to dive to the deepest points of all five oceans for the first time in history.
Expedition Deep Ocean reveals the marvelous and other-worldly life found in the ocean's five deepest trenches, including several new species that have posed as of yet unanswered questions about survival and migration between oceans. Then there are the newly discovered sea mounts that cause tsunamis when they are broken by shifting tectonic plates and jammed back into the earth's crust, something that can now be studied to predict future disasters. Filled with high drama, adventure and the thrill of discovery, Expedition Deep Ocean celebrates courage and ingenuity and reveals the majesty and importance of the deep ocean.

English | April 30, 2019 | ASIN: B07QS5L7FQ |MP3|M4B | 4h 58m | 134.86 MB
Author: Kris Ferraro
Narrator: Kris Ferraro

English | ASIN: B09B4FCT78 | 2021 | 10 hours and 51 minutes |MP3|M4B | 592 MB
In a rare combination of comprehensive coverage and sustained critical focus, this book examines Japan's progress through its entire history to its current status as an economic, technological, and cultural superpower. A key factor is a pragmatic determination to succeed. Little-known facts are also brought to light, and the latest findings used.

English | 2013 |MP3|M4B | ASIN: B00BNI1Z8Y | Duration: 10:37 h | 291 MB
John Mullan / Narrated by Paul Collins
Which important Austen characters never speak? Is there any sex in Austen? What do the characters call one another, and why? What are the right and wrong ways to propose marriage? In What Matters in Jane Austen?, John Mullan shows that we can best appreciate Austen's brilliance by looking at the intriguing quirks and intricacies of her fiction. Asking and answering some very specific questions about what goes on in her novels, he reveals the inner workings of their greatness.

English | 2019 |MP3|M4B | ASIN: B07P161RQQ | Duration: 11:56 h | 325 MB
Bill V. Mullen / Narrated by Brad Enright
Un-American is Bill Mullen's revisionist account of renowned author and activist W.E.B. Du Bois' political thought toward the end of his life, a period largely dismissed and neglected by scholars. He describes Du Bois' support for what the Communist International called "world revolution" as the primary objective of this aged radical's activism.

English | June 24, 2021 | ASIN: B08RGNB6HG |MP3|M4B | 12h 6m | 670 MB
Author: Edward White | Narrator: Qarie Marshall
In The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock, Edward White explores the Hitchcock phenomenon - what defines it, how it was invented, what it reveals about the man at its core, and how its legacy continues to shape our cultural world.

English | ASIN: B091WZFBST | 2021 | 7 hours and 15 minutes |MP3|M4B | 199 MB
The definitive history of the pervasiveness of racial inequality in American higher education. America's colleges and universities have a shameful secret: They have never given Black people a fair chance to succeed. From its inception, our higher education system was not built on equality or accessibility, but on educating - and prioritizing - White students. Black students have always been an afterthought. While governments and private donors funnel money into majority White schools, historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), and other institutions that have high enrollments of Black students, are struggling to survive, with state legislatures siphoning away federal funds that are legally owed to these schools. In The State Must Provide, Adam Harris reckons with the history of a higher education system that has systematically excluded Black people from its benefits.
Harris weaves through the legal, social, and political obstacles erected to block equitable education in the United States, studying the Black Americans who fought their way to an education, pivotal Supreme Court cases like Plessy v. Ferguson and Brown v. Board of Education, and the government's role in creating and upholding a segregated education system. He explores the role that Civil War-era legislation intended to bring agricultural education to the masses had in creating the HBCUs that have played such a major part in educating Black students when other state and private institutions refused to accept them. The State Must Provide is the definitive chronicle of higher education's failed attempts at equality and the long road still in front of us to remedy centuries of racial discrimination - and poses a daring solution to help solve the underfunding of HBCUs. Told through a vivid cast of characters, The State Must Provide examines what happened before and after schools were supposedly integrated in the 20th century, and why higher education remains broken to this day.

English | October 14, 2014 | ASIN: B00OH75CAU |MP3|M4B | 5h 25m | 296.01 MB
Author: Napoleon Hill
Narrator: Napoleon Hill