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  Tale of Two Cities A: How the...

  The War Department

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  The following is the audio track for the 1946 propaganda film released by the US War Department discussing how the atomic bomb destroyed the people and cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, during World War II, including eyewitness testimony from a priest living just outside the blast zone.

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  The Complete Philosophy...

  Marcus Aurelius, Sun Tzu,...

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  What do Stoics, strategists, and poets have in common? 
   They asked better questions—and lived bolder answers. 
  The Complete Philosophy Collection brings together 15+ of the most influential philosophical texts in human history—newly translated for clarity and narrated to inspire.  
  Spanning thousands of years and many traditions, this audiobook will help you cultivate resilience, sharpen your thinking, and explore the nature of truth, ethics, leadership, and existence. 
  This audiobook includes: 
  - Meditations by Marcus Aurelius 
  - The Art of War by Sun Tzu 
  - Beyond Good and Evil & Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche 
  - Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson 
  - Letters from a Stoic by Seneca 
  - The Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi 
  - Fear and Trembling by Søren Kierkegaard 
  - The Analects by Confucius 
  - The Republic by Plato 
  - On the Nature of Things by Lucretius 
  - Nicomachean Ethics & Politics by Aristotle 
  - The Enchiridion by Epictetus 
  - As a Man Thinketh by James Allen 
  And many more fundamental philosophical works. 
  Each section is introduced with helpful context, then presented in fresh, modern language—perfect for thoughtful listeners ready to absorb life-changing ideas. 
  This is more than an audiobook. It’s a timeless classroom for the mind and soul.

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  Vertical Progress - The New...

  K. Oxovuieu

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  Today people more than ever are overwhelmed by worry about current events. Why are some people devoured by hatred and bigotry? Can we avoid the next economic crisis? Can we prevent the next global war? Will computers take over our civilization any time soon? Even though Vertical Progress does not have all answers, it provides readers with plenty of new ideas to open the debate. Vertical Progress offers a hypothesis and rationale that provides not only a different look at past events but also explains much of what is happening now. The book sees the human society as a well-designed, complex information system that has a single purpose—to build a collective knowledge. Using results of the computer simulations author demonstrating that as just a heard of collaborative individuals, the society would not be able to make any substantial progress. The book logically connects the latest achievements of science with the findings of the computer simulation experiment to lead readers to the inevitable conclusion—the social information system would not make any progress unless it operates with more than one type of nodes. Hence, the author suggests that our civilization consists of more than one human kind.

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  The Price of Misfortune - Rights...

  Daniel Platt

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  A history of the struggle for debtors’ rights from the Civil War to the Great Depression 
   
  What can be taken from someone who has borrowed money and cannot repay? What do the victims of misfortune owe to their lenders, and what can they keep for themselves? The answers to those questions, immensely important for debtors, creditors, and society at large, have changed over time. The Price of Misfortune examines the cause of debtors’ rights in the modern United States and the struggles of reformers who fought to establish financial freedoms in law. 
    
  Daniel Platt shows how, in the wake of the Civil War, a range of advocates drew potent analogies between slavery, imprisonment for debt, and the experiences of wage garnishment and property foreclosure. He traces the ways those analogies were used to campaign for bold new protections for debtors, keeping them secure in their labor, property, and personhood. Yet, as Platt demonstrates, those reforms tended to assume as their ideal borrower someone who was white, propertied, and male. In subsequent decades, the emancipatory promise of debtors’ rights would be tested as women, wage earners, and African Americans seized on their language to challenge other structural inequalities: the dependency of marriage, the exploitation of industrial capitalism, and the oppression of Jim Crow. By reconstructing these forgotten developments—and recovering the experiences of indebted farmwives, sharecroppers, and wage workers—The Price of Misfortune narrates a new history of inequality, coercion, and law amid the early financialization of American capitalism.

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  Art and Institutional Racism

  Rasheed Araeen

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  Why is the history of modern art only about the work of White/European artists? This question is not rhetorical, but about the reality of Eurocentric legacies of colonialism and racism, which not only sees artists of Asian and African origins as outside of art history but also excludes them from it. In this pioneering work, Art & Institutional Racism, Rasheed Araeen reveals how Asian, African and the Caribbean artists in Britain have challenged this exclusion. Their work not only confronts the Eurocentricity of art history but also redefines modernism and its art history. And in doing so it aims to liberate art from Eurocentrism and also society as a whole from its lingering imperialism.

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  Swift Blaze of Fire - The Life...

  Lin Clark

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   Celebrated in song by Christy Moore and affectionately recalled in many memoirs, Robert "Bob" Hilliard, the author's grandfather, is one of Ireland's best-known International Brigadistas. His short life blazed with a rare intensity; his death in Spain left a dark shadow hanging over his family. This book unravels Hilliard's enigmas to bring us an absorbing character and a fresh understanding of the times that shaped him.  
   Hilliard was radicalised at school by the Irish revolution. Variously a journalist, an Olympic boxer for Ireland and a Church of Ireland priest, he became a communist and anti-fascist in London, fought with the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War and died of wounds sustained at the Battle of Jarama. Eloquent and colourful, he inspires puzzlement as well as admiration. Why was his life so full of contradictions? One question haunted the author's mother: how could he leave his children?  
   Lin Rose Clark sets out to find answers. Through meticulous research and a deeply personal exploration of her family's past, she brings together an engrossing picture of the man and a tale of flawed romance, passionate commitment and war, portraying Hilliard as part of a turbulent history that still reverberates today.  

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