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Free Download Sick Money: The Truth About the Global Pharmaceutical Industry (Audiobook)
English | October 07, 2021 | ASIN: B099X8HDC6 | M4B@128 kbps | 13h 51m | 770 MB
Author: Billy Kenber | Narrator: Ciaran Saward
The pharmaceutical industry is broken. From the American hedge fund manager who hiked the price of an AIDS pill from $17.50 to $750 overnight to the children's cancer drugs left intentionally to expire in a Spanish warehouse, the signs of this dysfunction are all around. A system that was designed to drive innovation and patient care has been relentlessly distorted to drive up profits.
Medicines have become nothing more than financial assets. The focus of drug research, how drugs are priced and who has access to them, is now dictated by shareholder value, not the good of the public. Drug companies fixated on ever-higher profits are being fined for bribing doctors and striking secret price-gouging deals, while patients desperate for life-saving medicines are driven to the black market in search of drugs that national health services can't afford.

Free Download Shallow Graves: My Life as a Forensic Scientist on Britain's Biggest Cases, 2024 Edition (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D4R5T14Y | 2024 | 10 hours and 29 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 301 MB
Author: Ray Fysh
Narrator: Michael Chance
Shortlisted for the True Crime Awards Best New True Crime Author. The murder of Sarah Payne, Adam the Thames Torso, the London bombings, the Night Stalker and the poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko . . . The solving of all these cases can be linked to one man: Ray Fysh, a beer-swigging Charlton Athletic fan from Woolwich, a natural raconteur, and also one of the finest forensic detectives the country has ever seen. Ray began work for the Met Police in the 1970s when forensic investigation was seen as little more than a geeky side show, only in existence to confirm or eliminate evidence. But by the mid '90s Ray and his team had made huge progress in their field, contributing to the UK becoming a world-leading innovator in forensic techniques, with Ray himself being named as special advisor to the Forensic Science Service. As the SA, Ray worked alongside senior investigating officers from day one of a case, directing his team to identify forensic opportunities and harvest case-cracking clues. As Ray looks back over his career at the cases he worked on, the listener is given unparalleled insight into the highs and lows of an astonishing career, the historic classist snobbery of the Met, and the stunning realities of crime and forensics.

Free Download Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols, and Other Typographical Marks (Audiobook)
English | November 14, 2023 | ASIN: B0CLVT8X1S | M4B@64 kbps | 7h 9m | 213 MB
Author: Keith Houston | Narrator: Elliot Fitzpatrick
A charming and indispensable tour of two thousand years of the written word, Shady Characters weaves a fascinating trail across the parallel histories of language and typography.
Whether investigating the asterisk (*) and dagger ()-which alternately illuminated and skewered heretical verses of the early Bible-or the at sign (@), which languished in obscurity for centuries until rescued by the Internet, Keith Houston draws on myriad sources to chart the life and times of these enigmatic squiggles, both exotic () and everyday (&).

Free Download Service Model (Audiobook)
English | June 04, 2024 | ASIN: B0CMYJRJPB | M4B@64 kbps | 12h 21m | 362 MB
Author and Narrator: Adrian Tchaikovsky
Murderbot meets Redshirts in a delightfully humorous tale of robotic murder from the Hugo-nominated author of Elder Race and Children of Time.
To fix the world they must first break it, further.

Free Download Seen Yet Unseen: A Black Woman Crashes the Tech Fraternity (Audiobook)
English | May 14, 2024 | ASIN: B0CLW71CVZ | M4B@64 kbps | 7h 33m | 212 MB
Author and Narrator: Bärí A. Williams
Part memoir, part searing revelation, Seen Yet Unseen takes listeners behind the scenes of some of the world's biggest tech companies and exposes the way their exclusion of and, at times, hostility toward Black women have lasting impacts on the technology we use every day.
Over the years the products of big tech companies and Silicon Valley have become indispensable to our lives. They impact the way we socialize, make purchases, and even our medical decisions. But what happens when a major segment of the population-in this case Black women-isn't included in these companies?

Free Download Chris Wroblewski, Garth Barnard, Julian Elfer (Narrator), "Sabotage!: An In-Depth Investigation of the 1943 Liberator Crash that Killed Polish General Sikorski"
English | ASIN: B0D4G6CNGW | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~05:05:00 | 140 MB
On the night of July 4, 1943, transport aircraft Liberator AL523 took off from Gibraltar's North Front tarmac and within moments crashed into the sea with only one survivor, the pilot. The commander-in-chief of the Polish army and prime minister of the Polish government-in-exile, General Wladyslaw Sikorski, was dead.
Rumors as to the cause of the crash abounded. Was it pilot error? Was it, as officially classified, merely an accident, or was it, as the authors conclude in this riveting and meticulous study, an act of sabotage?
In this extensive piece of research, Chris Wroblewski and Garth Barnard examine numerous primary sources, including the complete court of inquiry transcripts, produce detailed analysis of aircraft components and systems, and unearth many little-known eyewitness accounts to give this investigation a compelling conclusion. Within the book the authors also dispel several conspiracy theories that have emerged since this catastrophe; particularly that this event was a disastrous assassination attempt with blame on the British, Soviets, and Nazis.

Free Download Riding with Cochise: The Apache Story of America's Longest War (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D3NNYJWS | 2024 | 6 hours and 19 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 324 MB
Author: Steve Price
Narrator: Kaipo Schwab
Riding with Cochise brings the violent drama of the American Southwest to life through the eyes of the legendary Apache chieftain Cochise and three other tribal leaders. Relying largely on the oral histories told by relatives of these great warriors as well as personal diaries of others who were involved, veteran author Steve Price takes listeners deep into the Cochise Stronghold, through Massacre Canyon, and across Apache Pass. You'll sit beside the campfires of Tom Jeffords, the only white man Cochise ever fully trusted, and touch the faded stone walls of Fort Craig, the rock cairns at Dragoon Springs, and the cottonwoods at Ojo Caliente.

Free Download Rewire: Break the Cycle, Alter Your Thoughts and Create Lasting Change (Your Neurotoolkit for Everyday Life) (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CJG172J1 | 2024 | 6 hours and 19 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 174 MB
Author: Nicole Vignola
Narrator: Nicole Vignola
Change your mind to change your life-discover the neuroscience of a better you in this revolutionary book from neuroscientist and online sensation Nicole Vignola that teaches you how to rewire your brain to achieve peak mental wellbeing. In clear language, neuroscientist Nicole Vignola demystifies the science of breaking bad habits and how to make good ones, the principles of neuroplasticity, and neurohack methods for changing behavioral patterns. In the end, she helps you to see yourself in a different way and control how you react to any life situation, from overcoming negative, limiting beliefs to managing stress and achieving peak mental wellbeing. Think of your brain as your hardware and your mental health as your software. Your hardware must work well before you can upgrade your software; Once you learn the fundamentals of rewiring your brain, you can instill new habits, shift your mindset, and change unwanted behavior to create the best version of yourself. We all have habits and behaviors that hold us back from reaching our fullest potential. This book will help you see that you are not stuck, that you can rewrite your story-and shows you how.

Free Download Redsight (Audiobook)
English | May 28, 2024 | ASIN: B0D3FHXC8H | M4B@128 kbps | 15h 35m | 866 MB
Author: Meredith Mooring | Narrator: Natalie Duke
Korinna has simple priorities: stay on the Navitas, stay out of trouble, and stay alive. She may be a Redseer, a blind priestess with the power to manipulate space-time, but she is the weakest in her Order. Useless and outcast. Or so she has been raised to believe.
As she takes her place as a navigator on an Imperium ship, Korinna's full destiny is revealed to her: blood brimming with magic, she is meant to become a weapon of the Imperium, and pawn for the Order that raised her. But when the ship is attacked by the notorious pirate Aster Haran, Korinna's world is ripped apart.

Free Download Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice: A Treatise, Critique, and Call to Action (Manifesto) (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CHZ3X9F7 | 2024 | 4 hours and 38 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 258 MB
Author: J.F. Martel, Donna Tartt
Narrator: J.F. Martel, Donna Tartt
With a new Introduction by Donna Tartt, exclusive to the audiobook. Part treatise, part critique, part call to action, Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice is a journey into the uncanny realities revealed to us in the great works of art of the past and present. Received opinion holds that art is culturally determined and relative. We are told that whether a picture, a movement, a text, or sound qualifies as a "work of art" largely depends on social attitudes and convention. Drawing on examples ranging from Paleolithic cave paintings to modern pop music and building on the ideas of James Joyce, Oscar Wilde, Gilles Deleuze, Carl Jung, and others, J.F. Martel argues that art is an inborn human phenomenon that precedes the formation of culture and even society. Art is free of politics and ideology. Paradoxically, that is what makes it a force of liberation wherever it breaks through the trance of humdrum existence. Like the act of dreaming, artistic creation is fundamentally mysterious. It is a gift from beyond the field of the human, and it connects us with realities that, though normally unseen, are crucial components of a living world.