Syrian Dust: Reporting from the Heart of the War (Audiobook)

Syrian Dust: Reporting from the Heart of the War By Francesca Borri, read by Ruth Urquhart
2016 | ASIN: B01DYO47JS | English | MP3@96 kbps | 5 hrs 39 min | 232 MB

ugust 21, 2013: A chemical weapons attack on the suburbs of Damascus reminds the world of the existence of the Syrian war. Hundreds of journalists from every corner of the world rush to the frontier only to leave disappointed when Obama decides not to bomb. They leave behind 200,000 estimated victims, and more than half of a population of 22 million people dispersed or refugeed in nearby countries: the worst humanitarian crisis since WWII according to the UN.

Francesca Borri is one of them. But she does not leave. She is 30 years old. For months she covers the battle of Aleppo as a freelance reporter. And she quickly realizes that to report a war is to hide with dozens of women and children, even a baby, born there, in a grave, “a piece of soil under the ground that is as expensive as three houses” or to scavenge for anything to burn for some warmth, “a broken slipper, the plastic hand of a toy” or to mistake bloody figments of skull for rubble. To report a war is also to meet with officials more worried about the stain of snow on their Clarks than the people they are supposed to help. It is to explain what is happening in Aleppo to journalists who have only been there once, on vacation, and bought a carpet. It is risking one’s life because of the jealousy of a fellow reporter. And it is also about dreaming of driving at night with the windows open, about remembering impossible little things, the particular light on that day in that café at the beach when you were a kid, the eyes of people you love, all the minuscule simple joys that can be lost in a moment.

Syrian Dust is a raw and powerful account of the Syrian war that throws the listener right in the middle of it, without any shelter.

The Everything Low-Cholesterol Cookbook: Keep you heart healthy with 300 delicious low-fat, low-carb recipes

Linda Larsen, “The Everything Low-Cholesterol Cookbook: Keep you heart healthy with 300 delicious low-fat, low-carb recipes”
2008 | EPUB + MOBI | 304 pages | ISBN: 1598694014 | English | 1.49 MB

Each year in America, more than one million people suffer from heart attacks caused by high cholesterol – and half a million die from related heart disease. Don’t become a statistic – take control of your health now! The Everything Low Cholesterol Cookbook provides everything from information on how to create a sensible diet and fitness plan to practical tips for improving your overall well-being. This comprehensive, authoritative guide edited by Sandra K. Nissenberg, M.S., R.D., provides you with all the information you need to lower your cholesterol and reduce your risk of a heart attack.

Features timely, reliable information on:

The differences between “good” and “bad” cholesterol

The effects of high cholesterol and artery blockage

Suggestions to improve your overall health

Nutrition and exercise tips to keep you fit and well

Up-to-date government cholesterol guidelines

Also including more than seventy-five heart-healthy recipes for the whole family, The Everything Low Cholesterol Cookbook provides you with all the up-to-the-minute information to keep you informed and healthy.

Into the Heart of Our World: A Journey to the Center of the Earth: A Remarkable Voyage of Scientific Discovery

David Whitehouse, “Into the Heart of Our World: A Journey to the Center of the Earth: A Remarkable Voyage of Scientific Discovery”

ISBN: 1605989592 | 2016 | EPUB | 288 pages | 4 MB

An enthralling and extraordinary adventure vividly charting the mysteries of the deep Earth, the history of our planet, and the latest discoveries about its inner core.

The journey to the center of the earth is a voyage like no other we can imagine. Over 3000 km below the earth’s surface, an extraordinary inner world the size of Mars awaits us. Dive through the molten iron of the outer core and eventually you will reach a solid sphere —an iron-clad world held within a metal sea and unattached to anything above. At the earth’s core is the history of our planet written in temperature and pressure, crystals and minerals …

Our planet appears tranquil from outer space. And yet the arcs of volcanoes, the earthquake zones, and the auroral glow rippling above our heads are testimony to the remarkable happenings within the earth’s core. For thousands of years these phenomena were explained in legend and myth. Only in recent times has the brave new science of seismology emerged. One hundred and fifty years after the extraordinary, imaginative feat of Jules Verne’s Journey to the Center of the Earth, David Whitehouse embarks on a voyage of scientific discovery into the heart of our world.

Seismologists today reveal a planet astonishingly buried within a planet. We watch as supercomputers convert signals from the ground into three-dimensional scans of subterranean continents. We will visit laboratories where scientists attempt to reproduce the intense conditions at the center of the Earth, travel down the throat of a volcano, look into the deepest hole ever drilled, and imagine a voyage through enormous crystals of iron…all at the center of our incredible Earth.