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Free Download Dangerous Jokes: How Racism and Sexism Weaponize Humor
English | ASIN: B0D45W5MZR | 2024 | 7 hours and 56 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 228 MB
Author: Claire Horisk
Narrator: Rachel Perry
People often get away with belittling others if they frame their speech as jokes-speech that would be condemned if stated seriously. "It's just a joke," they say. But what is different or special about joking? And if jokes about lawyers and politicians are morally acceptable, then what is wrong with joking about race or gender? Furthermore, if we may joke about a politician's shirts, may we joke about his weight? People who are targeted by demeaning jokes feel their impact but may not be able to pinpoint where the harm lies. Dangerous Jokes develops a novel, well-researched, and compelling argument that lays bare the power of demeaning jokes in ordinary conversations. Claire Horisk draws on her expertise in philosophy of language and on evidence from sociology, law, and cognitive science to explain how the element of humor-so often used as a defense-makes jokes more potent than regular speech in communicating prejudice and reinforcing social hierarchies. She addresses the morality of telling, being amused by, and laughing at, derogatory jokes, and she gives a new account of listening that addresses the morality of listening to demeaning speech. She leaves us with no illusions about whether "it's just a joke" is an excuse for demeaning humor.

Free Download D-Day: The Unheard Tapes: Powerful Eye-Witness Accounts of the Battle for Normandy 1944 (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CWLW1PPZ | 2024 | 11 hours and 53 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 326 MB
Author: Geraint Jones
Narrator: Geraint Jones, Justin Avoth
This audio edition includes archived recordings from interviews taken with Second World War soldiers, as well as an Introduction and Epilogue read by the author. A powerful, immersive account published for the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings and battle for Normandy, and tied into the groundbreaking BBC2 documentary series D-Day: The Unheard Tapes. D-Day was bloody, chaotic and frequently terrifying. Its outcome was far from certain. And at its epicentre were tens of thousands of young men, many seeing their first active service. It was a single day that changed millions of lives. A critical turning point of the Second World War. Using audio interviews from the archives of the Imperial War Museum and National World War II Museum, this immersive oral history describes what it was actually like to take part in the landings on 6 June 1944 and the weeks of ferocious fighting in Normandy that followed.

Free Download Cybersecurity Career Guide
Author: Alyssa Miller
Narrator: n/a
English | 2022 | ISBN: 9781617298202 | MP3@64 kbps | Duration: 7h 22m | 611 MB
Kickstart a career in cybersecurity by adapting your existing technical and non-technical skills. Author Alyssa Miller has spent fifteen years in cybersecurity leadership and talent development, and shares her unique perspective in this revealing industry guide.

Free Download Cunning Folk: Life in the Era of Practical Magic (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D37ZZG1N | 2024 | 8 hours and 15 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 238 MB
Author: Tabitha Stanmore
Narrator: Anna Wilson-Jones
A vibrant look at an unsettled and strangely familiar time that overturns our assumptions about the history of magic. Imagine: it's the year 1600 and you've lost your precious silver spoons, or maybe they've been stolen. Perhaps your child has a fever. Or you're facing a trial. Maybe you're looking for love or escaping a husband. What do you do? In medieval and early modern Europe, your first port of call might have been cunning folk: practitioners of "service magic." Neither feared (like witches), nor venerated (like saints), they were essential to daily life. For people across ages, genders, and social ranks, practical magic was a cherished resource for navigating life's many challenges.

Free Download Craft and Conscience: How to Write About Social Issues (Audiobook)
English | October 04, 2022 | ASIN: B0BFJQD9K1 | M4B@64 kbps | 13h 31m | 404 MB
Author: Kavita Das | Narrator: Lynnette R. Freeman
The first major book for writers to more effectively engage with complex socio-political issues-a critical first step in creating social change
Writers are witnesses and scribes to society's conscience but writing about social issues in the twenty-first century requires a new, sharper toolkit. Craft and Conscience helps writers weave together their narrative craft, analytical and research skills, and their conscience to create prose which makes us feel the individual and collective impact of crucial issues of our time. Kavita Das guides writers to take on nuanced perspectives and embrace intentionality through a social justice lens. She challenges writers to unpack their motivations for writing about an issue and to understand that "writing, irrespective of genre or outlet, is an act of political writing," regardless of intention.

Free Download Counter-Intelligence: What the Secret World Can Teach Us About Problem-Solving and Creativity (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CVSF9C4Z | 2024 | 8 hours and 17 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 228 MB
Author: Robert Hannigan
Narrator: Robert Hannigan
From the codebreakers and problem solvers, to the engineers, mathematicians and other problem-solvers - what the secret world can teach us about performance and creativity. How do you hire smart people who can work together to prevent terrorist attacks and decode encrypted technology? How do you come up with creative, counterintuitive solutions to solve major global problems? How do you provide the right environment for these people to thrive and work at their best when under immense pressure? Written by Robert Hannigan, the former Director of GCHQ, this book explores the role of the counter-intelligence services in history and today's world - from the codebreakers and problem solvers, to innovation and creativity, secrecy and transparency and the global tech community. It will trace the history of counter-intelligence - from the early days of Bletchley Park, to the ongoing work of GCHQ - while reflecting on some of the unique characteristics of the engineers, mathematicians and other problem-solvers that make up the world's intelligence community. An exhaustive and authoritative account of the history of counter-intelligence from Bletchley Park to modern day GCHQ, this brilliant and unique book will appeal to business readers, history readers and fans of smart thinking and big ideas around the world.

Free Download Commander in Chief: Partisanship, Nationalism, and the Reconstruction of Congressional War Powers (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CZYMFCNZ | 2024 | 8 hours and 24 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 237 MB
Author: Casey B. K. Dominguez
Narrator: Nancy Peterson
The constitutional balance of war powers has shifted from Congress to the president over time. Today, presidents broadly define their constitutional authority as commander in chief. In the nineteenth century, however, Congress was the institution that claimed and defended expansive war powers authority. This discrepancy raises important questions: How, specifically, did Congress define the boundaries between presidential and congressional war powers in the early republic? Did that definition change? Casey Dominguez's Commander in Chief systematically analyzes the authority that members of Congress ascribe to the president as commander in chief and the boundaries they put around that authority.

Free Download Codename Nemo: The Hunt for a Nazi U-Boat and the Elusive Enigma Machine (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CT1HVSVQ | 2024 | 10 hours and 42 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 595 MB
Author: Charles Lachman
Narrator: Qarie Marshall
On June 4, 1944, the course of World War II was forever changed. That day, a US Navy task force achieved the impossible-capturing a German U-Boat. Called Operation Nemo, it was the first seizure of an enemy ship in battle since the War of 1812, one of the greatest achievements of the US Navy and a victory that shortened the duration of the war. Charles Lachman's white-knuckled war saga and thrilling cat-and-mouse game is told through the eyes of the men on both sides of Operation Nemo-German U-Boaters and American heroes like Lieutenant Albert David ("Mustang"), who led the boarding party that took control of U-505, and Chief Motor Machinist Zenon Lukosius ("Zeke"), whose quick thinking saved the day when a hole threatened to sink U-505.

Free Download Chop Fry Watch Learn: Fu Pei-mei and the Making of Modern Chinese Food (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D4R6S3MP | 2024 | 8 hours and 28 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 243 MB
Author: Michelle T. King
Narrator: Rebecca Lam
In 1949, a young Chinese housewife arrived in Taiwan and transformed herself from a novice to a natural in the kitchen. She launched a career as a cookbook author and television cooking instructor. Years later, in America, flipping through her mother's copies of Fu Pei-mei's Chinese cookbooks, historian Michelle T. King discovered more than the recipes to meals of her childhood. She found, in Fu's story and in her food, a portal to another time, when a generation of middle-class female home cooks navigated the postwar transformations taking place across the world. In Chop Fry Watch Learn, King weaves together stories from her own family and contemporary oral history to present a remarkable argument for how understanding the story of Fu's life enables us to see Chinese food as both an inheritance of tradition and a truly modern creation. King reveals how and why, for audiences in Taiwan and around the world, Fu became the ultimate culinary touchstone: the figure against whom all other cooking authorities were measured. And Fu's legacy continues. Informed by the voices of fans across generations, King illuminates the story of Chinese food from the inside. The result is a revelatory work, a rich banquet of past and present tastes that will resonate deeply for all of us looking for our histories in the kitchen.