English | ASIN: B0B2BM1H2B | 2022 | MP3 | M4B | ~15:24:00 | 436 MB
Immerse yourself in more than 400 years of the world's most celebrated operas and discover the fascinating stories behind them. Explore the lives of singers such as Maria Callas, Luciano Pavarotti, and Jonas Kaufmann. Meet composers like Mozart, Wagner, and Britten, and the librettists with whom they collaborated to create the magical blend of words and music that make up opera.
From its origins in the 17th-century courts of Italy to live screenings in public spaces today, Opera: The Definitive Story follows the history of opera from Monteverdi's L'Orfeo in 1607, to Cosi fan Tutte, La Bohème, and modern operas such as Brokeback Mountain. It explains musical terminology, traces historical developments, and sets everything in cultural context.

English | 2016 | MP3 | M4B | ASIN: B01IWIJVVK | Duration: 18:16 h | 505 MB
Robert Greenberg / Narrated by Robert Greenberg
In the worlds of painting and literature, it's easy to see where history and art intersect. In Picasso's Guernica or Tolstoy's War and Peace, it's evident how works of art mirror and participate in the life of their times, sometimes even playing roles in historical events. But what about music?

English | ASIN: B0B8DZVF97 | 2022 | 12 hours and 22 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 339 MB
A lucid in-depth presentation of the meditative techniques and practices used by the ancient Kabbalists. The Kabbalah is divided into three branches—the theoretical, the meditative, and the magical. While many books, both in Hebrew and English, have explored the theoretical Kabbalah, very little has been published regarding the meditative methods of the various schools of Kabbalah. Aryeh Kaplan's landmark work reveals the methodology of the ancient Kabbalists and stresses the meditative techniques that were essential to their discipline.
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English | 2016 | MP3 | M4B | ASIN: B01AWQ7GQM | Duration: 3:03 h | 84 MB
Bernadette Jiwa / Narrated by Bernadette Jiwa
Our new digital landscape has spawned an entrepreneurial culture and the belief that anyone with a laptop and an Internet connection has the power to change the world - to create an idea that flies. But for every groundbreaking business that started this way, a thousand others have stalled or failed. Why? What's the secret to success? What do Khan Academy, the GoPro camera, the Dyson vacuum cleaner, and Kickstarter have in common?

Sam Harris / Narrated by Sam Harris

English | 2013 | MP3 | M4B | ASIN: B00FK4ZSJO | Duration: 1:15 h | 52 MB

English | 2022 | MP3 | M4B | ASIN: B093NKCG2H | Duration: 7:26 h | 204 MB
Kathryn Schulz / Narrated by Kathryn Schulz
One spring morning, Kathryn Schulz went to lunch with a stranger and fell in love. Having spent years looking for the right relationship, she was dazzled by how swiftly everything changed when she finally met her future wife. But as the two of them began building a life together, Schulz's beloved father—a charming, brilliant, absentminded Jewish refugee—went into the hospital with a minor heart condition and never came out. Newly in love yet also newly bereft, Schulz was left contending simultaneously with wild joy and terrible grief.

English | 2013 | MP3 | M4B | ASIN: B00DTO3WH2 | Duration: 12:06 h | 163 MB
Marc C. Conner / Narrated by Marc C. Conner
Shakespeare's works are among the greatest of humanity's cultural expressions and, as such, demand to be experienced and understood.

English | July 20, 2022 | ISBN: 9798822611276 | MP3 | M4B | 5h 50m | 158.85 MB
Author: Eva Ruell
Narrator: Hanley Swanson, Miranda Cantrell, Pia Nebrada

English | ASIN: B0B8TDV2VZ | 2022 | 4 hours and 23 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 121 MB
Bacteria form a fundamental branch of life. They are the oldest forms of life and the most prolific of all living organisms, inhabiting every part of the Earth's surface, its ocean depths, and even such inhospitable places as boiling hot springs. In this Very Short Introduction, bacteriologist Sebastian Amyes explores the nature of bacteria, their origin and evolution, bacteria in the environment, and bacteria and disease. Amyes discusses some of the major infections caused by bacteria-bacteria causes pneumonia, diphtheria, cholera, and many other diseases-and shows how these pathogens avoid the defenses of the human body. But the book looks at all aspects of bacteria, not just the negative side, stressing the key benefits of bacteria, which have been harnessed to preserve food, dispose of waste and to provide compost for horticulture. Indeed, life for man and for many animals would be impossible without bacteria. Amyes also offers a glance into the future, describing how bacteria might be manipulated to perform tasks that they previous were unable to perform and discussing the recent construction of a completely synthetic bacterial cell.
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English | 2022 | MP3 | M4B | ASIN: B09LRLWBGP | Duration: 13:56 h | 383 MB
Emi Nietfeld / Narrated by Julia Knippen
A luminous, generation-defining memoir of foster care and homelessness, Harvard and Big Tech, examining society's fixation with resilience—and its cost