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Free Download Female Masculinity (Audiobook)
English | September 28, 2022 | ASIN: B0BG91S46G | M4B@128 kbps | 13h 56m | 807 MB
Author: Jack Halberstam | Narrator: Lea DeLaria
In this quintessential work of queer theory, Jack Halberstam takes aim at the protected status of male masculinity and shows that female masculinity has offered a distinct alternative to it for well over two centuries. Demonstrating how female masculinity is not some bad imitation of virility, but a lively and dramatic staging of hybrid and minority genders, Halberstam catalogs the diversity of gender expressions among masculine women from 19th-century pre-lesbian practices to contemporary drag-king performances.
Through detailed textual readings as well as empirical research, Halberstam uncovers a hidden history of female masculinities while arguing for a more nuanced understanding of gender categories that would incorporate rather than pathologize them. He rereads Anne Lister's diaries and Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness as foundational assertions of female masculine identity; considers the enigma of the stone butch and the politics surrounding butch/femme roles within lesbian communities; and explores issues of transsexuality among "transgender dykes"-lesbians who pass as men-and female-to-male transsexuals who may find the label of "lesbian" a temporary refuge. Halberstam also tackles such topics as women and boxing, butches in Hollywood and independent cinema, and the phenomenon of male impersonators.

Free Download Farts Aren't Invisible: Mind-Blowing Facts from Science, History, Sport and the Universe (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D42D7YGV | 2024 | 4 hours and 45 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 234 MB
Author: Mick O'Hare
Narrator: Liam Gerrard
A mind-bending, brain-expanding cornucopia of facts for curious minds from the bestselling author. Own the room with this hilarious collection of fact-tastic myth-busters and jaw-dropping trivia exploring science, history, sport and lesser-known facts from across the universe. Did you know that the Moon has a Bishop? That ostriches DON'T bury their heads in the sand? And that powdered rice was used as cement in the Great Wall of China? What do souls weigh? What can't 60% of the human population smell? And what on earth is rhinotillexomania? And the big one . . . are farts actually invisible? The answers to these questions are all here. Challenge your brain, turn your world upside down and relish the irresistible mix of wit and wisdom. It's also a perfect gift for the brainiac in your life.

Free Download Explosion in a Cathedral (Audiobook)
English | September 12, 2023 | ASIN: B0BBY4FVNG | M4B@128 kbps | 12h 58m | 720 MB
Author: Alejo Carpentier | Narrator: Fajer Al-Kaisi | Translator: Adrian Nathan West
"If Carpentier is ever to get a new reading in English, it should be now. . . . West's translations . . . reintroduce English-language readers to this giant of Latin American fiction."-Natasha Wimmer, The New York Review of Books
One of Cuba's-and Latin America's-greatest historical novels, about imperial conquest carried out under the guise of liberation, in its first new English translation in sixty years and featuring a new foreword by Alejandro Zambra

Free Download Escaping the Housing Trap: The Strong Towns Response to the Housing Crisis (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D2LZF938 | 2024 | 10 hours and 2 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 274 MB
Author: Charles L. Marohn Jr., Daniel Herriges
Narrator: Stephen R. Thorne
In Escaping the Housing Trap: The Strong Towns Solution to the Housing Crisis, renowned urbanists Charles (Chuck) Marohn and Daniel Herriges introduce a first-of-its-kind discussion of the tension between housing as a financial product and housing as shelter. This is the key insight that's been missing from the Housing Crisis Conversation; and the insight that can help cities fight back against the crisis from the bottom-up. This book offers a serious, yet accessible, history of housing policy in the United States and explains how it led us to this point in time: where we face a market that is rigged against people who, only a few decades ago, could have been homeowners or stable, long-term rentals. Escaping the Housing Trap is the must-have resource for everyone with a stake in the future of housing in America-and that means everyone. Listeners will find discussions of housing as an investment and how the country's neighborhoods are being transformed by the introduction of large amounts of investment; explorations of housing as shelter, including discussions of zoning policy and NIMBYism; and a comprehensive overview of the Strong Towns approach to solving the American housing crisis.

Free Download Sarah Wells, Zura Johnson (Narrator), "Enabling Microservice Success: Managing Technical, Organizational, and Cultural Challenges"
English | ASIN: B0D4N9H8YV | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~18:48:00 | 517 MB
Microservices can be a very effective approach for delivering value to your organization and to your customers. If you get them right, microservices help you to move fast, making changes to small parts of your system hundreds of times a day. But get them wrong and microservices just make everything more complicated.
In this book, technical strategist Sarah Wells provides practical, in-depth advice for moving to microservices. Having built her first microservices architecture in 2013 for the Financial Times, Sarah discusses the approaches you need to take from the start, and explains the potential traps most likely to trip you up. You'll also learn how to maintain the architecture as your systems mature while minimizing the time you spend on support and maintenance.
With this book, you will:

Free Download Earth, Air, Fire & Water: More Techniques of Natural Magic (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D4R7NFS9 | 2024 | 5 hours and 25 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 298 MB
Author: Scott Cunningham
Narrator: Paul Boehmer
A leaf from an oak tree . . . a wildflower . . . water from a sparkling stream . . . dirt from a cool dark cave-these are the age-old tools of natural magic. Born of the earth, possessing inherent power, they await only our touch and intention to bring their magical qualities to life. The four elements are powerful magical tools. Using their energies, we can transform ourselves, our lives, and our world. This much-loved, classic guide offers more than seventy-five spells, rites, and simple rituals you can perform using the marvelous powers of the natural world.

Free Download Disciplined Entrepreneurship Startup Tactics: 15 Tactics to Turn Your Business Plan into a Business
Author: Paul Cheek
Narrator: Brandon Pollock
English | 2024 | ASIN: B0D3885CCL | MP3@64 kbps | Duration: 7h 22m | 453 MB
In Disciplined Entrepreneurship: Startup Tactics, renowned entrepreneur and executive director of the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship Paul Cheek delivers an actionable field guide to transforming your one great idea into a functional, funded, and staffed startup. Building on the ideas presented in the bestselling Disciplined Entrepreneurship, the author delivers a comprehensive set of solutions you can implement immediately to advance your company to its next stage of growth.

Free Download Decentralizing Finance: How DeFi, Digital Assets, and Distributed Ledger Technology Are Transforming Finance (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CZC8LQ8P | 2024 | 9 hours and 7 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 264 MB
Author: Kenneth Bok
Narrator: Tim Lounibos
In Decentralizing Finance, blockchain and digital assets expert Kenneth Bok offers an insightful exploration of the current state of decentralized finance (DeFi). As distributed ledger technology (DLT) increasingly optimizes and democratizes financial ecosystems worldwide, this book serves as a guide to the most salient aspects of the ongoing transformation. Authored by a former Goldman Sachs trader, past head of growth at Zilliqa, and an early Ethereum investor with extensive experience in both traditional finance and the crypto ecosystem, Decentralizing Finance provides you with an insider's perspective on the revolution that is DeFi.

Free Download Daughter of the Merciful Deep (Audiobook)
English | June 04, 2024 | ASIN: B0CKNH1Q2Y | M4B@64 kbps | 13h 35m | 312 MB
Author: Leslye Penelope | Narrator: Shayna Small
A woman journeys into a submerged world of gods and myth to save her home in this powerful historical fantasy that shines a light on the drowned Black towns of the American South.
"Our home began, as all things do, with a wish."

Free Download Dark Wire: The Incredible True Story of the Largest Sting Operation Ever (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CKNP2Z8B | 2024 | 11 hours and 40 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 339 MB
Author: Joseph Cox
Narrator: Peter Ganim
This cat-and-mouse story of a vast FBI sting operation reveals​ how the criminal underworld has become a globalized economy in its own right-one that can't be policed without crossing complicated ethical boundaries. Beginning in 2018, a powerful app for secure communications, called Anom, began to take root among drug dealers and other criminals. It had extraordinary safeguards to keep out prying eyes-the power to quickly wipe data, voice-masking technology, and more. It was better than other apps popular among organized crime syndicates, except for one thing: it was secretly run by law enforcement. Over the next few years, the FBI, along with law enforcement partners in Australia and parts of Europe, got a front row seat to the global criminal underworld.