Audio Books

Free Download Getting to Know Death: A Meditation (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D5RHP4TD | 2024 | 3 hours and 39 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 204 MB
Author: Gail Godwin
Narrator: Rosemary Benson
From New York Times-bestselling, three-time National Book Award finalist Gail Godwin, a consideration of what makes for a life well lived-for listeners of Oliver Sacks's Gratitude and Deborah Levy's Cost of Living. I can't see a way out of this. Things will not necessarily get better. This is my life, but I may not get to do what I want in it. Ingmar Bergman once said that an artist should always have one work between himself and death. When renowned author Gail Godwin tripped and broke her neck while watering the dogwood tree in her garden at age eighty-five, a lifetime of writing and publishing behind her and a half-finished novel in tow, Bergman's idea quickly unfurled in front of her, forcing her to confront a creative life interrupted.

Free Download Steven Bucci, Walter Dixon (Narrator), "Getting Out of Debt For Dummies"
English | ASIN: B0D6WNDC7S | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~09:58:00 | 274 MB
Get out and stay out of debt the smart and easy way
This is a clear and simple guide to getting out from under credit card debt, student loan debt, and all other forms of owing people money. With simple changes and smart decisions, you can start today and enjoy financial stability moving forward. This book covers everything you need to know to take the sting out of those monthly repayments, offering strategies for coping with personal loans, car loans, mortgages, home equity loans, and beyond. Getting Out of Debt For Dummies will help you prioritize and consolidate debt, so you can pay off the most pressing bills first and reduce the number of debtors coming after you. You'll also get pro tips for using credit cards responsibly, building up your credit score, and avoiding debt-generating traps when you make purchases. Getting out of debt doesn't have to be overwhelming. Let this Dummies guide help you quickly and easily repair your finances.
You'll be able to: understand the different types of debt, including good and bad debt; develop a strategy for managing student loans and getting on a repayment plan; know what you're signing up for when you use credit cards and pay-later platforms; negotiate with collection agencies, the IRS, and angry creditors; and design a realistic and painless payback schedule-even for serious debt.

Free Download Getting MEAN with Mongo, Express, Angular, and Node by Simon Holmes, Chris Dunn, Manning Publications
English | January 06, 2020 | ISBN: B07MHXHHNB | 10 hours and 10 minutes | MP3 64 Kbps | 279 Mb
Getting MEAN with Mongo, Express, Angular, and Node teaches you how to develop web applications using the MEAN stack.
First, you'll create the skeleton of a static site in express and node and then push it up to a live web server. Next, you'll add a MongoDB database and build an API before using Angular to handle data manipulation and application logic in the browser. Finally, you'll add an authentication system to the application, using the whole stack. When you finish, you'll have all the skills you need to build a dynamic data-driven web application.
Traditional web dev stacks use a different programming language in every layer, resulting in a complex mashup of code and frameworks. Together, the MongoDB database, the Express and AngularJS frameworks, and Node.js constitute the MEAN stack - a powerful platform that uses only one language, top to bottom: jаvascript. Developers and businesses love it because it's scalable and cost-effective. End users love it because the apps created with it are fast and responsive. It's a win-win-win!

Free Download Getting Healthy in Toxic Times: An Ecological Doctor's Prescription for Healing Your Body and the Planet (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D6ZC2BHR | 2024 | 8 hours and 48 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 252 MB
Author: Dr. Jenny Goodman
Narrator: Dr. Jenny Goodman
How can we protect ourselves from the pollution, chemicals, and toxins that pervade our environment? Dr. Jenny Goodman connects the health of our planet with our own well-being, addressing the questions that very few doctors ask. We're all too aware of the traffic pollution in the air, the chemicals in our water, the toxins in the soil (and therefore our food), and the electromagnetic energy emanating from our gadgets. If we can also understand how they affect our health, not least in the worrying rises in asthma and allergies, infertility, obesity, heart disease, behavioral and neurological disorders, as well as cancer, then we can take positive steps to avoid them. Backed by the latest scientific and medical research, Getting Healthy in Toxic Times will empower you to look after your own health-and that of the planet. Let's put the good stuff in and take the bad stuff out!

Free Download Get Up and Get On It: A Black Entrepreneur's Lessons on Creating Legacy and Wealth (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D5SQM5GH | 2024 | 5 hours and 25 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 292 MB
Author: Dana Frank, Daymond John
Narrator: Deanna Anthony
In 1950 Gerald Frank, a determined Black man, arrived in Seattle at the age of eighteen. Fleeing the violence of Detroit and the suffocating grip of Jim Crow Laws, Gerald carried nothing but dreams and drumsticks in his heart. His unwavering belief that he could carve out a better life set the stage for an incredible journey. Today, over seventy years later, the real estate empire forged by Gerald and his wife, Theresa, continues to flourish under the guidance of the third generation of the Frank family. But theirs was not a journey paved with silver spoons. In this book, Dana Frank paints a vivid picture of the hurdles her family faced.

Free Download Get Me Through the Next Five Minutes: Odes to Being Alive (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D82NL2M2 | 2024 | 5 hours and 17 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 251 MB
Author: James Parker
Narrator: Stewart Crank
From the vertiginously talented James Parker, a collection of uproarious odes that show how to find gratitude in unexpected places. Our politics are broken; our world is melting; the next catastrophe looms. Enter James Parker, who for years now has been writing odes of appreciation on subjects from the seemingly minor ("Ode to Naps") to the unexpected ("Ode to Giving People Money") to the seemingly minor, unexpected, and hyperspecific ("Ode to Running in Movies"). Finally collecting Parker's beloved and much-lauded odes in one place, this volume demonstrates the profound power of the form. Each ode is an exercise in gratitude.

Free Download Get Growing: Get Clients, Grow Faster, and Spend Less Time Selling (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D73Z67NV | 2024 | 7 hours and 9 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 396 MB
Author: Dean Seddon
Narrator: Alex Dorman
Get Clients, Grow Faster, and Spend Less Time Selling. Small business owners have remarkable expertise but often struggle with sales and marketing. Many have issues with self-promotion and aren't comfortable selling. The challenges they face marketing themselves, building their business online, and securing clients can be overwhelming. It's common for solopreneurs to jump from tactic to tactic, never finding a consistent and comfortable way to promote and sell themselves. In Get Growing: Get Clients, Grow Faster, and Spend Less Time Selling, Dean Seddon provides clear and actionable advice that will help you promote and accelerate your business. You don't need to have a big budget or spend 24/7 harassing people for work. You didn't start your business to become a marketer or salesperson: you love what you do and want to share your expertise.

Free Download George Soros: A Life in Full (Audiobook)
English | April 05, 2022 | ASIN: B09WG8HTHY | M4B@128 kbps | 9h 58m | 545 MB
Editor: Peter L. W. Osnos | Narrators: Petrea Burchard, Shaun Grindell, Earl McLean, George Newbern
The name George Soros is recognized around the world. Universally known for his decades of philanthropy, progressive politics, and investment success, he is equally well known as the nemesis of the far right-the target of sustained attacks from nationalists, populists, authoritarian regimes, and anti-Semites-because of his commitment to open society, freedom of the press, and liberal democracy. At age ninety-one, Soros still looms large on the global stage, and yet the man himself is surprisingly little understood.
Biographers have attempted to tell the story of George Soros, but no single account of his life can capture his extraordinary, multifaceted character. Now, in this ambitious and revealing new book, Soros's longtime ✅Publisher, Peter L. W. Osnos, has assembled an intriguing set of contributors from a variety of different perspectives-public intellectuals (Eva Hoffman, Michael Ignatieff), journalists (Sebastian Mallaby, Orville Schell), scholars (Leon Botstein, Ivan Krastev), and nonprofit leaders (Gara LaMarche, Darren Walker)-to paint a full picture of the man beyond the media portrayals.

Free Download George Orwell: The Man and the Mind Behind 1984 [TTC Audio]
English | April 04, 2024 | ASIN: B0CYTJVWTL | M4B@128 kbps | 2h 13m | 121 MB
Lecturer: Michael Shelden
While many literary works have transcended their own time to become beloved classics, few novels have remained quite as politically relevant as George Orwell's dystopian masterpiece 1984. How has a book written in the 1940s-and set in a future that is now our past-become a cultural touchstone for every new generation of readers that encounters it? Why does Orwell's vision of a totalitarian future seem to constantly reflect the conditions of the present?
In George Orwell: The Man and the Mind Behind 1984, Professor Michael Shelden will show you how the novel presents a plausible reality of thought control and totalitarian power that feels contemporary even as it reflects its own time. In five illuminating lectures, you will see how Orwell drew on his own experiences and observations of the post-war world to craft a universal story of human oppression. Along the way, you will see how Orwell:

Free Download Jerry Kaplan, Jonathan Yen (Narrator), "Generative Artificial Intelligence: What Everyone Needs to Know ®"
English | ASIN: B0D6GWGXH2 | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~09:22:00 | 257 MB
Advances in Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI) have created a new class of computer systems that exhibit astonishing proficiency on a wide variety of tasks with superhuman performance, producing novel text, images, music, and software by analyzing enormous collections of digitized information. Soon, these systems will provide expert medical care; offer legal advice; draft documents; write computer programs; tutor our children; and generate music and art. These advances will accelerate progress in science, art, and human knowledge, but they will also bring new dangers.
Have we finally discovered the holy grail of AI-machines that match or exceed human intelligence? Which industries and professions will thrive, and which will wither? What risks and dangers will it pose? How can we ensure that these systems respect our ethical principles? Will the benefits be broadly distributed or accrue to a lucky few? How will GAI alter our political systems and international conflicts? Are we merely a stepping stone to a new form of non-biological life, or are we just getting better at building useful gadgets?
Generative Artificial Intelligence: What Everyone Needs to Know® equips listeners with the knowledge to answer these pressing questions.