Noble Obsession: Charles Goodyear, Thomas Hancock and the Race to Unlock the Greatest Industrial Secret of the Nineteenth Century (Audiobook) By Charles Slack
Publisher: Hyperion 2002 | 7 hours and 54 mins | ISBN: 0786867892 | MP3 | 159 MB
The Race To Create Rubber: The Miracle Substance Of The Industrial Age; Rubber was to the 1830s what the Internet boom was to the 1990s: a flawed but potentially world-altering discovery that made and destroyed fortunes. It took the vision, courage, and perseverance of one man – Charles Goodyear to reinvent rubber into the indispensable substance it is today. Noble Obsession is the riveting work of history that reads like enthralling fiction. It tells how Goodyear, a single-minded genius, risked his own life and his family’s in a quest to unlock the secrets of rubber, and how Thomas Hancock, the scholarly English inventor who raced against Goodyear ultimately robbed him of fame and fortune. Filled with villains, con men, and entrepreneurs, and brimming with fascinating facts about the science and business of rubber, Noble Obsession takes readers from the jungles of Brazil to the laboratories of Europe to the courtrooms of America to tell one of the strangest and most affecting sagas in the history of human discovery.
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Playing for Pizza: A Novel (Audiobook) By John Grisham, Christopher Evan Welch
Publisher: Random House Audio; Unabridged edition 2008 | 6 hours and 52 mins | ISBN: 0739383191 | MP3 | 168 MB
Grisham comes into his own. The man knows how to crank up the tension, we are soon on the edge of our seats. Read this book, enjoy it. –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Playing for Pizza is a lyrical page-turner and a gasp-inducing reminder of the scope of this man’s genius with the written word. Grisham is something of a Da Vinci with words. He can blow your brains out with the power of truth or paint pictures that magically reveal the reality beneath. This is a smooth, satisfying and delightful read.
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Joe David Brown – Paper Moon {Addie Pray} (1971) Unabridged
Clipper Audio | ISBN 1405623608 | Narrator Laurel Lefkow (2000) | 10CDs | MP3 96kbps | 10Hrs 40Mins | 442Mb
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The novel is narrated by Addie, an orphaned girl, who travels with confidence man “Long Boy” Moses Pray during the early 1930s. Their travels are mainly in the State of Alabama, but they do go elsewhere on occasion.
Addie states at the beginning of the novel that Long Boy may or may not be her father; she says that her late mother was the “wildest” girl in her town, and that Long Boy is one of three possible fathers for her. Read the rest of this entry
Jules Verne – A Journey to the Center of the Earth
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks | ISBN: 9626344318 | Publish Year: 2000 | MP3 @ 64Kbps | 260 MB
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What a stunning discovery: an old, coded note that actually contains directions for reaching the Earth’s very core! And once he finds it, renowned geologist Professor Liedenbrock can’t resist setting out with his 16-year-old nephew to go where only one man has gone before. Jules Verne takes young readers on one of the most incredible journeys ever imagined, from Iceland’s frozen tundra far down into fantastic underground prehistoric worlds and back up again through the fires of an erupting volcano. |
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Foundation (Audiobook) By Isaac Asimov
Publisher: Random House Audio; Abridged edition 1988 | 6 hours and 10 mins | ISBN: 0553451146 | MP3 | 168 MB
Foundation marks the first of a series of tales set so far in the future that Earth is all but forgotten by humans who live throughout the galaxy. Yet all is not well with the Galactic Empire. Its vast size is crippling to it. In particular, the administrative planet, honeycombed and tunneled with offices and staff, is vulnerable to attack or breakdown. The only person willing to confront this imminent catastrophe is Hari Seldon, a psychohistorian and mathematician. Seldon can scientifically predict the future, and it doesn’t look pretty: a new Dark Age is scheduled to send humanity into barbarism in 500 years. He concocts a scheme to save the knowledge of the race in an Encyclopedia Galactica. But this project will take generations to complete, and who will take up the torch after him? The first Foundation trilogy (Foundation, Foundation and Empire, Second Foundation) won a Hugo Award in 1965 for “Best All-Time Series.” It’s science fiction on the grand scale; one of the classics of the field.
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