I'm Your Man: The Life of Leonard Cohen By Sylvie Simmons
2013 | 592 Pages | ISBN: 0061995002 | EPUB | 4 MB
Singer/songwriter Leonard Cohen is one of the most important and influential musical artists of the past fifty years-and one of the most elusive. In I'm Your Man, journalist Sylvie Simmons, one of the foremost chroniclers of the world of rock 'n' roll and popular music, explores the extraordinary life and creative genius of Leonard Cohen.I'm Your Man is an intimate and insightful appreciation of the man responsible for "Suzanne," "Bird on a Wire," "Hallelujah," and so many other unforgettable, oft-covered ballads and songs. Based on Simmons's unparalleled access to Cohen-and written with her hallmark blend of intelligence, integrity, and style-I'm Your Man is the definitive biography of a major musical artist widely considered in a league with the great Bob Dylan.Readers of Life by Rolling Stone Keith Richards and Patti Smith's phenomenal Just Kids will be riveted by this fascinating portrait of a singular musical icon.

English | 2022 | ISBN: 1398446971 | 244 pages | True EPUB | 3.48 MB
Brainwashed by the school propaganda at the end of Stalin's rule, Yakov Grinshpun becomes an ardent young patriot. Unable to reconcile the communist ideals with the anti-Semitism he encounters throughout his school years, Yakov dreams of a way to escape the shell of propaganda.

Candace Fleming, "Presenting Buffalo Bill: The Man Who Invented the Wild West"
English | 2016 | ISBN: 1596437634 | EPUB | pages: 288 | 10.1 mb
Everyone knows the name Buffalo Bill, but few these days know what he did or, in some cases, didn't do. Was he a Pony Express rider? Did he serve Custer at the Battle of Little Big Horn? Did he scalp countless Native Americans, or did he defend their rights?

English | 2021 | MP3 | M4B | ASIN: B097BH7RGJ | Duration: 8:40 h | 472 MB
Ernest Spencer / Narrated by Ernest Spencer

English | ASIN: B09NCJR95G | 2022 | 9 hours and 23 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 576 MB
The New York Times best-selling author goes on a rollicking journey to understand the enduring power of puzzles: why we love them, what they do to our brains, and how they can improve our world. What makes puzzles—jigsaws, mazes, riddles, sudokus—so satisfying? Be it the formation of new cerebral pathways, their close link to insight and humor, or their community-building properties, they're among the fundamental elements that make us human. Convinced that puzzles have made him a better person, A.J. Jacobs—four-time New York Times best-selling author, master of immersion journalism, and nightly crossworder—set out to determine their myriad benefits. And maybe, in the process, solve the puzzle of our very existence. Well, almost.

English | 2022 | MP3 | M4B | ASIN: B09NCJR95G | Duration: 9:23 h | 522 MB
A.J. Jacobs, Greg Pliska / Narrated by A.J. Jacobs

English | ASIN: B095LDDQF1 | 2022 | 15 hours and 37 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 429 MB
In time for the 50th anniversary of President Nixon's epic trips to China and Russia, as well as his incredible Watergate downfall, the man who was at his side for a decade as his aide and White House Deputy takes listeners inside the life and administration of Richard Nixon. From Richard Nixon's "You-won't-have-Nixon-to-kick-around-anymore" 1962 gubernatorial campaign through his world-changing trips to China and the Soviet Union and epic downfall, Dwight Chapin was by his side. As his personal aide and then deputy assistant in the White House, Chapin was with him in his most private and most public moments. He traveled with him, assisted, advised, strategized, campaigned and learned from America's most controversial president.

English | ASIN: B094DT3BD7 | 2022 | 9 hours and 28 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 261 MB
In The Man Who Tasted Words, Guy Leschziner leads listeners through the five senses and how, through them, our brain understands or misunderstands the world around us. Vision, hearing, taste, smell, and touch are what we rely on to perceive the reality of our world. Our five senses are the conduits that bring us the scent of a freshly brewed cup of coffee or the notes of a favorite song suddenly playing on the radio. But are they really that reliable? The Man Who Tasted Words shows that what we perceive to be absolute truths of the world around us is actually a complex internal reconstruction by our minds and nervous systems. The translation into experiences with conscious meaning - the pattern of light and dark on the retina that is transformed into the face of a loved one, for instance - is a process that is invisible, undetected by ourselves and, in most cases, completely out of our control.

English | ASIN: B09FFSZ4ZX | 2022 | 11 hours and 59 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 329 MB
A thrilling history about the invention of the motion picture and the mysterious man behind it—detailing his life, work, disappearance, and legacy. The year is 1888, and Louis Le Prince is finally testing his "taker" or "receiver" device for his family on their front lawn. The device is meant to capture 10 to 12 images per second on film, creating a reproduction of reality that can be replayed as many times as desired. In an otherwise separate and detached world, occurrences from one end of the globe could now be viewable with only a few days delay on the other side of the world. No human experience—from the most mundane to the most momentous—would need to be lost to history.

English | ASIN: B09L57P9KK | 2022 | 9 hours and 19 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 256 MB
New York Times reporter and "Corner Office" columnist David Gelles reveals legendary GE CEO Jack Welch to be the root of all that's wrong with capitalism today and offers advice on how we might right those wrongs. In 1981, Jack Welch took over General Electric and quickly rose to fame as the first celebrity CEO. He golfed with presidents, mingled with movie stars, and was idolized for growing GE into the most valuable company in the world. But Welch's achievements didn't stem from some greater intelligence or business prowess. Rather, they were the result of a sustained effort to push GE's stock price ever higher, often at the expense of workers, consumers, and innovation. In this captivating, revelatory book, David Gelles argues that Welch single-handedly ushered in a new, cutthroat era of American capitalism that continues to this day.