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Audiobook: The Battle For Spain - Antony Beevor (Unabridged - 16 CDs)

Category: eBooks, Magazines, Audio Books
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Audio Books : Misc. Educational : MP3/64Kbps : English The civil war that tore Spain apart between 1936 and 1939 and attracted liberals and socialists from across the world to support the cause against Franco was one of the most hard-fought and bitterest conflicts of the 20th century: a war of atrocities and political genocide and a military testing ground before WWII for the Russians, Italians and Germans, whose Condor Legion so notoriously destroyed Guernica. This was Antony Beevor's first work of non-fiction, pre-dating his international bestselling STALINGRAD and BERLIN: THE DOWNFALL 1945. Now, more than 20 years later, he has substantially rewritten it drawing on masses of newly-discovered material from the Spanish, Russian and German archives. His account narrates the origins of the Civil War and its violent and dramatic course from the coup d'etat in July 1936 through the savage fighting of the next three years which ended in catastrophic defeat for the Republicans in 1939. And he succeeds especially well in unravelling the complex political and regional forces that played such an important part in the origins and history of the war. From the Inside Flap When the first version of this book was published in 1982 under the title, The Spanish Civil War, Gerald Brenan described it as 'by a long way the best, and fairest and the most accurate book upon it'. Over the intervening years, a huge amount of new material has appeared in Spain and from documents finally emerging from Russian, German and other archives. Antony Beevor's Spanish publisher persuaded him that the time was right, with the approach of the war's seventieth anniversary, to rewrite the book, taking advantage of the new information and reinforcing it with new research. The Spanish edition, published in September, 2005, ran to over 900 pages, and received a [adjective to be chosen later depending on the outcome!!] reception in Spain as the first major history of the subject for the 21st Century. This version, incorporating still more detail from foreign archives, is necessarily condensed for British and overseas markets. The Spanish Civil War, even after all these years, remains one of the most passionately debated conflicts of modern times. Many see it as the opening round of the Second World War and almost a world war by proxy, with Nazi, Fasist and Soviet intervention. Some supporters of the Republic still believe that a victory of the left in Spain would have defeated fascism and saved Europe from the horrors to come. Nationalists, on the other hand, argue that the civil war was in fact the opening round of the Cold War between western civilisation and Soviet dictatorship. This book charts not only the course of the war in a fresh light, but illuminates the vicious infighting on both sides. The hopes and fears of a whole generation foundered in disillusionment and despair at the cruel war which destroyed the Spanish Republic. From reviews of the original work 'It is a rare book which cannot be supplemented, and Antony Beevor writes with insight, skill and an admirably pithy style both in narrative and characterisation.' John Keegan in The Sunday Times. 'Bold, clean driving narrative.' The Times Literary Supplement. 'Lucid, expert and even-handed.' The Economist. Antony Beevor served as a regular officer in the 11th Hussars in Germany. STALINGRAD and BERLIN: THE DOWNFALL have been translated into 25 languages and won a plethora of the major prizes. His latest work, A WRITER AT WAR - VASILY GROSSMAN WITH THE RED ARMY 1941-1945, is an edition, with his Russian researcher, Dr Luba Vinogradova, of Grossman's wartime notebooks. A fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et Lettres in France, Beevor has been chairman of Society of Authors; he is a visiting professor at Birkbeck College, University of London. He is married to the writer Artemis Cooper. From the Back Cover FROM REVIEWS OF THE SPANISH 2005 EDITION WHICH RECEIVED THE LA VANGUARDIA PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION. 'From the very first moment, Beevor recreates the political climate of the period. . . The structure of the book, the rhythm of the action, his insights on the characters, the white terror, the red terror, the revolution and the political infighting, the foreign intervention: all, despite belonging to that 'other country', put us right back in the war amid the flames of those years. Yet it is in his account of the military operations that Beevor is at his most brilliant. . . . This book is destined for the first rank of general histories of the Civil War.' Santos Julia in El Pais. 'All in all, perhaps the best general work on the war to be published in the last decades.' Rafael Nunez Florencio in El Mundo 'Beevor has surpassed the challenge he set himself with efficacy, rigour, soundness and clarity.' Xavier Casals in Clio 'His narrative capacity, which has fascinated his readers since Stalingrad, is confirmed once again in this book, which will contribute, without doubt, to constructing the historical memory of the civil war which we need: a non-sectarian memory, broad and deep, which covers all sides of the miasma and which explores the reasons which led to to that sleep of the reason which was our last civil war.' Ricardo Garcia Carcel, ABC 'The magnificent book of Antony Beevor on the Civil War, really using this time the Moscow archives and the recent bibliography of the war, shows how to explain the logic of the war.' Antonio Elorza in El Pais About the Author Antony Beevor served as a regular officer in the 11th Hussars in Germany. STALINGRAD and BERLIN: THE DOWNFALL have been translated into 25 languages and won a plethora of the major prizes. His latest work, A WRITER AT WAR - VASILY GROSSMAN WITH THE RED ARMY 1941-1945, is an edition, with his Russian researcher, Dr Luba Vinogradova, of Grossman's wartime notebooks. A fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et Lettres in France, Beevor has been chairman of Society of Authors; he is a visiting professor at Birkbeck College, University of London. He is married to the writer Artemis Cooper.
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Gina Kolata - Rethinking Thin [Audio Book] [unabridged]

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Audio Books : Misc. Educational : MP3/128Kbps : English Rethinking Thin: The New Science of Weight Loss---and the Myths and Realities of Dieting Unabridged (~8.5 hours) Read by Ellen Archer A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice In this eye-opening report, New York Times science writer Gina Kolata shows that our society's obsession with dieting is less about keeping trim and staying healthy than about money, power, trends, and impossible ideals. Kolata's account of four determined dieters in a study comparing the Atkins diet to a low-calorie one becomes a broad tale of science and society, of social mores and social sanctions, and of the place of diets in American society. Brimming with anecdote, scientific data, and common sense, Rethinking Thin offers a challenge to the conventional wisdom about diets and weight loss. From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. New York Times reporter Kolata may be the best writer around covering the science of health. Here she offers an eye-opening book that questions all our received wisdom about why we get fat and the health hazards of those extra pounds. In chapters equally entertaining and dismaying, Kolata (Flu) traces the history of dieting fads back to the 19th century; discusses our changing ideas about the ideal body (thinner and thinner); and, most importantly, explains how genetic and biochemical understanding has (at least among researchers) replaced the view of obesity as a lack of self-control. Most dramatic is Kolata's recounting of Jeff Friedman's groundbreaking search at Rockefeller University for the "satiety factor," a hormone he called leptin that tells our brains when we're full. The science alternates with moving chapters in which Kolata follows a group of people in a weight-loss study who are trying desperately to get thin—a quest that, as Kolata makes increasingly clear is sadly futile. In her final—and perhaps most surprising—chapter, Kolata blasts those in the obesity industry—such as Jenny Craig and academic obesity research centers—who are invested in promoting the idea that overweight is unhealthy and diet and exercise are effective despite a raft of evidence to the contrary. This book will change your thinking about weight, whether you struggle with it or not. From Booklist *Starred Review* When New York Times science writer Kolata took an unbiased look at society's war on fatness, she found that the spoils of the conflict fatten the pockets of a multibillion-dollar dieting industry, while most ever-hopeful yet hapless dieters lose only money. Why, then, do we still repeat a mantra--"eat less and exercise more"--that has failed dieters for 2,000 years? Why, in diet study after diet study, do chubby participants consistently fail to reach their target weights? And why do the majority of dieters end up regaining most of their hard-lost weight, or regaining and then exceeding it? Following up on participants in a two-year clinical weight-loss study comparing the overall efficacies of the Atkins diet and a highly regarded low-calorie, low-fat diet opened Kolata's eyes to the plight of millions who can't seem to measure down to today's weight ideals. The experience led her to examine the millennia-old history of humanity's battle against the bulge. She interviewed several credentialed authorities, and she cites sound scientific evidence that calls in question the productiveness of common weight-loss methods. Her report reveals well-documented intelligence certain to annoy those segments of society and commerce that stubbornly cling to the ignis fatuus that all one needs to be thin is willpower.
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The Myth of Male Power

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Farrell debunks the myth of male power. He dares to question the image of male-as-oppressor, arguing that this misconception has hindered not only men, but women as well.From Wikipedia:Dr. Warren Farrell (1943-present) is an American author of seven books on women and men's issues. His books are published in more than fifty countries, and in fifteen languages. His books & contributions cover twelve fields : history, law, sociology and politics (The Myth of Male Power); couples communication (Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say); economic and career issues (Why Men Earn More); child psychology and child custody (Father and Child Reunion); and teenage to adult psychology and socialization, (Why Men Are the Way they Are and The Liberated Man). All of his books contribute to women and men's studies and critique the image of the sexes in the media. For example, about his most recent book, Does Feminism Discriminate Against Men?, the publisher, Oxford University Press states "A perfect book to get students thinking and debating... ideal for courses in gender studies, sociology, psychology, economics, feminist philosophy, and contemporary moral issues." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Myth_Of_Male_Powerhttp://www.amazon.com/Myth-Male-Power-Warren-Farrell/dp/0425181448/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1224393334&sr=8-1NOTE: You may need to crank the volume up a bit to hear the audio book.
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All the Shah's Men (Unabridged)

Category: Documentary
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All the Shah's Men (Unabridged) Audio Books : Other : MP3/128Kbps : English Nonfiction. Written by Stephen Kinzer, a foreign correspondent for the New York Times. Narrated by Michael Prichard. The true story about Operation Ajax - the U.S.and British backed coup of the democratically elected government of Iran in the 1950's - as revealed by the CIA's declassified documents. Good read. In two parts, about 10 hours total.
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The Shock Doctrine - The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein [128kbs]

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Naomi Klein's Shock Doctrine follows the evolution of the use of shock to undemocratically install Milton Friedman style economic "reforms". She shows the methodical use of both collective as in a natural disaster or coup d'état, and shock perpetrated against individuals as torture and it's cousins, from the experiments in brain washing done at McGill University in the 1950s to modern day applications from the September 11th, 1973 coup in Chile to Katrina to Iraq. She has a wealth of irrefutable documentation to support her assertions including names, places, documents and the long list of impoverished populations the Neo Cons have left in their wake. This audio book is in MP3 format at 128 k/sec.
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Noam Chomsky Audio+Text Pack (incomplete) FIXED

Category: Chomsky
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i had some trouble with thepiratebay, but now it's all fixed, ok? if you had the old torrent, stop it, download this one and point it to the same directory as the old one, it will work. ** this is a pre-release and includes a few duplicates, broken files, and is generally incomplete, but there is so much stuff here, that you probably don't care anyway! the text files are in text.rar so you NEED WINRAR OR 7zip to extract the text. 7zip is free: http://www.7-zip.org/ video is not included (it's fucking huge!) and will be released in a separate release called "Noam Chomsky Video Pack" more noam can be found on planetchomsky.com and chomsky.info
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John Pilger - Documentaries that changed the world (2006) [DVDrip.luft.ISAhub]

Category: Documentary
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This is a 4 disc DVD box that I ripped in order to shrink it (original size was 17 GB). Now you can also choose which documentaries you want and which you want to skip. For more documentaries by John Pilger, as well as interviews and articles, please visit The ISA hub (see below). Also see the newer DVD box from 2007, "In the name of justice": https://onebigtorrent.org/torrents/2854/John-Pilger--In-the-name-of-justice-2007-DVDRip-Luftwaffe //Luft(waffe) Contents: **** Disc One **** 1.1 YEAR ZERO - THE SILENT DEATH OF CAMBODIA [1979] - At the time of its release, Year Zero was for many the first glimpse of a harrowing injustice that had been played out with little fanfare. John Pilger lays bare the entire chain of events, from the removal of King Norodom Sihanouk to ensuing famine and genocide under the Khmer Rouge. The film is both disturbing and poignant, a sobering portrait of Cambodia's recent history. 1.2 NICARAGUA - A NATION'S RIGHT TO SURVIVE [1983] - In 1979, the Sandinistas won a popular revolution in Nicaragua, putting an end to decades of the corrupt US-backed Somoza dictatorship. They based their reformist ideology on that of the English Co-operative Movement, but was to prove too ‘radical’ for the Reagan administration. In this film, Pilger describes the achievements of the Sandinistas and their "threat of a good example". 1.3 BURP! PEPSI V COKE IN THE ICE COLD WAR [1984] - Burp! Pepsi v Coke in The Ice Cold War looks at the worldwide struggle for soft drink supremacy by the Coca Cola Company, illuminating the overwhelming power of multinational corporations over poorer countries and their struggling economies. **** Disc Two **** 2.1 VIETNAM - THE QUIET MUTINY [1970] - Filmed at Camp Snuffy in 1970, The Quiet Mutiny presents a character study of the common soldier during the Vietnam War, revealing for the first time the shifting morale and open rebellion of Western troops. 2.2 DEATH OF A NATION - THE TIMOR CONSPIRACY [1994] - The exposure of another terrible human tragedy to which governments turned a blind eye, East Timor - a tiny country off the northern tip of Australia - is ruled by bloodshed and fear. More than 200,000 people were wiped out by neighbouring Indonesia. Since East Timor's liberation in 1999, this film's contribution has been recognised worldwide. Won the Gold Award in the 'Political/International Issues category' (Film & Video Production division) at Worldfest-Houston, 1994; Certificate for Creative Excellence (third place) in the category of 'Documentary, Current Events, Special Events', at the U.S. Film & Video Festival in Chicago, 1994; Silver Plaque for 'Social/Political Documentary (National) category' at the Chicago International Film Festival, 1994; Audience Award for Best Documentary at the International Documentary Festival of Amsterdam, 1994; Certificate of Merit in the category of 'Documentary - Disputed Lands', Golden Gate Awards, San Francisco, 1995. 2.3 INSIDE BURMA - LAND OF FEAR [1996, updated 1998] - John Pilger and David Munro go undercover in one of the world's most isolated, and extraordinary countries, Burma, which Amnesty International calls 'a prison without bars'. They discover slave labour preparing for tourism and foreign investment. International Actual Award for Risk Journalism, Barcelona, Spain, 1996; Bronze Plaque in the category of 'Social Issues - International Relations', The Chris Awards, Ohio, 1996; Gold Special Jury Award, 'Film & Video Production division', WorldFest-Charleston, 1996; Award for Best Factual Programme, RTS Midland Centre Awards, Birmingham, 1996; Gold Apple in the category 'Politics: Social organisations in other lands', National Educational Media Network Film & Video Competition at The 1997 NEMN Apple Awards, Oakland, California, 1997; the updated version won a Gold Special Jury Award in the 'Film & Video Production division', WorldFest-Houston, 1999. 2.4 WELCOME TO AUSTRALIA [1999] - With the run-up to the Sydney Olympics, John Pilger and Alan Lowery take a look at what's behind the curtain of hype and glamour. Australia's Aborigines are still exculded, impoverished and mistreated - while their part in the brilliant history of Australia's sports successes goes virtually unrecognized. Won the Gold Medal in the 'National/International Affairs category' of the 1999 New York Festivals TV Programming & Promotion competition, 2000; Gold Award in the Television Documentary & Information Programmes: 'Political/International Issues category' of WorldFest-Flagstaff, 1999. **** Disc Three **** 3.1 PAYING THE PRICE - KILLING THE CHILDREN OF IRAQ [2000] - John Pilger and Alan Lowery travel to Iraq with Denis Halliday, a former assistant secretary-general of the United Nations who resigned over what he called the "immoral policy" of economic sanctions. There they find a suffering nation held hostage to the compliance of a dictator, Saddam Hussein, over whom they have no control. 3.2 PALESTINE IS STILL THE ISSUE [2002] - John Pilger returns to the Occupied Teritories of the West Bank and Gaza where he filmed a documentary with the same title, about the same issues, in 1974. He finds the basic problems unchanged: a desperate, destitute people whose homeland is illegally occupied by the world's fourth biggest military power. He hears extraordinary stories from Palestinians, though most of his interviews are with Israelis whose voices are seldom heard, including the remarkable witness of a man who lost his daughter in a suicide bombing. This film was nominated for a BAFTA, a British Academy Award. 3.3 BREAKING THE SILENCE - TRUTH AND LIES IN THE WAR ON TERROR [2003] - This film, set in Afghanistan, Iraq and Washington, looks at President Bush's 'war on terror' and the 'liberation' of countries where bloodshed and repression continue. In Afghanistan, Pilger investigates the claim that life has improved for the women of Afghanistan now that the Taliban have gone. In Washington, he interviews leading American officials, 'neo-cons' in the Bush regime. John Bolton, of the State Department, now the US Ambassador to the United Nations, says he regards the figure of 10,000 civilian deaths in Iraq as 'quite low'. Breaking the Silencewon a number of awards, and was nominated for a BAFTA, a British Academy Award. **** Disc Four **** 4.1 STEALING A NATION [2004] - Pilger tells a story literally 'hidden from history'. In the 1960s and 70s, British governments, conspiring with American officials, tricked into leaving, then expelled the entire population of the Chagos islands in the Indian Ocean. The aim was to give the principal island of this Crown Colony, Diego Garcia, to the Americans who wanted it as a major military base. Indeed, from Diego Garcia US planes have since bombed Afghanistan and Iraq. The story is told by islanders who were dumped in the slums of Mauritius and in the words of the British officials who left a 'paper trail' of what the International Criminal Court now describes as 'a crime against humanity' . In March 2005, 'Stealing a Nation' was awarded Britain's most prestigous documentary prize - the Royal Television Society Award. 4.2 INTERVIEW AT HAY FESTIVAL [2006] - An interview with Anthony Hayward about Pilger's work and the media in general, including a Q&A session. ISA = International Socialist Alliance hub = network of users using a filesharing program called DC++. Although torrent applications are more popular than ever, DC++ has some uniqe features that makes it especially useful for filesharing. The live chat feature offers discussion with people with the same interests. The ISA hub is mainly concerned with these issues: - Politics - History - Philosophy - Media - Economics - Science - Nature There are many gigabytes of unique documentaries, books and audio books available here. We actively work to gather new and updated material from all over the web. Click on the username here on Demonoid to see our other torrents. These are the hub rules: - No porn - No racism - English in mainchat - Minimum of 5GB relevant material From now on, every once in a while we will upload some of the material that is available in the hub here. We don't have the bandwith to share everything here, but you are always welcome to visit us at enter.theISAhub.net (see further instructions in our first torrent https://onebigtorrent.org/torrents/3417/DC-filesharing-application-for-beginners-International-Socialist-Alliance or send us a message) Good luck, and keep seeding the torrents /The administrators at International Socialist Alliance
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DC++ (filesharing application) for beginners [International Socialist Alliance]

Category: Misc
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Hello, This is The ISA hub's first torrent. First, an introduction ISA = International Socialist Alliance hub = network of users using a filesharing program called DC++. Although torrent applications are more popular than ever, DC++ has some uniqe features that makes it especially useful for filesharing. The live chat feature offers discussion with people with the same interests. The ISA hub is mainly concerned with these issues: - Politics - History - Philosophy - Media - Economics - Science - Nature There are many gigabytes of unique documentaries, books and audio books available here. We actively work to gather new and updated material from all over the web. Click on the username here on Demonoid to see our other torrents. These are the hub rules: - No porn - No racism - English in mainchat - Minimum of 5GB relevant material From now on, every once in a while we will upload some of the material that is available in the hub here. We don't have the bandwith to share everything here, but you are always welcome to visit us at enter.theISAhub.net (see further instructions in the torrent) The hub also offers a good forum for serious discussion and debate on various topics. Good luck, and keep seeding the torrents /The administrators at International Socialist Alliance
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Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by Chapter

Category: eBooks, Magazines, Audio Books
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'Confessions Of An Economic Hit Man' by John Perkins. This upload contains a text version and the audio book version re-upped after dividing the original download into chapters. My thanks to the original uploaders of these files which I consider essential in gaining an understanding the economic motivation and methodology of the human caused strife. Mr. Perkins\' job for several decades was essentially to talk third world countries into loans from the IMF and the World Bank that they would not be able to pay back and thus become become perpetual debtors. Conditions of these loans generally included which U.S. companies they must pay to do the work the loans were granted for and later restructuring their national economies, always at devastating consequences to their citizens, when inevitable default loomed. In other words he was the point man for loan sharking on an international scale.
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Jeremy Scahill - Blackwater (Audio Book)

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Scahill writes, “Blackwater is the elite Praetorian Guard for the ‘global war on terror,’ with its own military base, a fleet of twenty aircraft, and 20,000 private contractors at the ready. Run by a multimillionaire Christian conservative who bankrolls President Bush and his allies, its forces are capable of overthrowing governments.” From Iraq to New Orleans, Blackwater has continued to pull in multi-million-dollar government contracts, mostly without accountability and in near-secrecy.
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