Audio Books

Free Download Benjamin Shestakofsky, Rick Adamson (Narrator), "Behind the Startup: How Venture Capital Shapes Work, Innovation, and Inequality"
English | ASIN: B0D386G4DS | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~11:36:00 | 319 MB
In recent years, dreams about our technological future have soured as digital platforms have undermined privacy, eroded labor rights, and weakened democratic discourse. In light of the negative consequences of innovation, some blame harmful algorithms or greedy CEOs. Behind the Startup focuses instead on the role of capital and the influence of financiers. Drawing on nineteen months of participant-observation research inside a successful Silicon Valley startup, this book examines how the company was organized to meet the needs of the venture capital investors who funded it.
Investors push startups to scale as quickly as possible to inflate the value of their asset. Benjamin Shestakofsky shows how these demands create organizational problems that managers solve by combining high-tech systems with low-wage human labor. With its focus on the financialization of innovation, Behind the Startup explains how the gains generated by these companies are funneled into the pockets of a small cadre of elite investors and entrepreneurs. To promote innovation that benefits the many rather than the few, Shestakofsky compellingly argues that we must focus less on fixing the technology and more on changing the financial infrastructure that supports it.

Free Download Becoming an Emotionally Focused Therapist: The Workbook, 2nd Edition (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D4ZL7Z56 | 2024 | 20 hours and 26 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 508 MB
Author: James L. Furrow, Susan M. Johnson, Brent Bradley, Lorrie Brubacher, T. Leanne Campbell, Veronica Kallos-Lilly, Gail Palmer, Kathryn Rheem, Scott Woolley
Narrator: Jane McDowell
This second edition of Becoming an Emotionally Focused Therapist: The Workbook has been fully revised by expert therapists with advances in attachment science and emotionally focused therapy (EFT) practice, the integration of the EFT Tango-a guide to the EFT process-and new chapters on working with both individuals and families, it provides an easy road-map toward mastering the ins and outs of EFT with practice exercises, review questions, and compelling clinical examples. Invaluable for clinicians and students, this workbook takes the listener on an adventure: the quest to become a competent, confident, and passionate emotionally focused therapist.

Free Download Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America's Food Industry (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D3MD5Q6M | 2024 | 6 hours and 56 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 376 MB
Author: Austin Frerick, Eric Schlosser
Narrator: Stephen Bel Davies
Barons is the story of seven corporate titans, their rise to power, and the consequences for everyone else. Take Mike McCloskey, chairman of Fair Oaks Farms. In a few short decades, he went from managing a modest dairy herd to running the Disneyland of agriculture. Mike benefited from deregulation of the American food industry, a phenomenon that has consolidated wealth in the hands of select tycoons, and along the way, hollowed out the nation's rural towns and local businesses. Along with Mike McCloskey, listeners will meet a secretive German family that took over the global coffee industry in less than a decade, relying on wealth traced back to the Nazis to gobble up countless independent roasters.

Free Download Baby X: A Thriller (Audiobook)
English | June 04, 2024 | ASIN: B0CZS96WTY | M4B@64 kbps | 10h 10m | 314 MB
Author: Kira Peikoff | Narrators: Jennifer Jill Araya, Imani Jade Powers, Abigail Reno
When any biological matter can be used to create life, stolen celebrity DNA sells to the highest bidder-or the craziest stalker-in this propulsive thriller.
With a vivid imagining of the future, _Gattaca _meets Black Mirror in Kira Peikoff's Baby X.

Free Download Awakening from the Daydream: Reimagining the Buddha's Wheel of Life (Audiobook)
English | July 08, 2021 | ASIN: B098TZR7HW | M4B@128 kbps | 3h 27m | 195 MB
Author and Narrator: David Nichtern
Hell realms, gods, and hungry ghosts - these are just a few of the images on the Buddhist wheel of life. In Awakening from the Daydream, discover how these ancient symbols are still relevant to our modern life.
In Awakening from the Daydream, meditation teacher David Nichtern reimagines the ancient Buddhist allegory of the Wheel of Life. Famously painted at the entryway to Buddhist monasteries, the Wheel of Life encapsulates the entirety of the human situation. In the image of the Wheel we find a teaching about how to make sense of life and how to find peace within an uncertain world.

Free Download Automated Machine Learning in Action
Author: Qingquan Song
Narrator: n/a
English | 2022 | ISBN: 9781617298059 | MP3@64 kbps | Duration: 8h 57m | 727 MB
Optimize every stage of your machine learning pipelines with powerful automation components and cutting-edge tools like AutoKeras and KerasTuner.

Free Download Authenticity, Identity, and Being Yourself at Work: HBR Work Smart Series (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CZBTY8QW | 2024 | 3 hours and 16 minutes | M4B@192 kbps | 271 MB
Author: Harvard Business Review
Narrator: Christopher Douyard
Just be yourself, right? We're complex people. Professionally, we're recent graduates, employees, star performers, and first-time managers. But we're also best friends, devoted family members, sports fans, pet parents, social justice activists, or any other combination of these and other traits. How much of ourselves-from cultural self-expression, to thinking style and beliefs, to gender identity-should we bring to the workplace? Authenticity, Identity, and Being Yourself at Work is filled with practical advice from HBR experts who can help you answer this and other questions like: What does authenticity really mean at work? How do I disclose personal information without oversharing? In what ways can I overcome feelings of imposter syndrome? What should I do when who I am conflicts with those around me? This book will help you figure out how much of "you" to bring to work so that you feel more comfortable and confident in who you are and what you're bringing to your career.

Free Download Another Word for Love: A Memoir (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CKLYRV9T | 2024 | 6 hours and 7 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 342 MB
Author: Carvell Wallace
Narrator: Carvell Wallace
A transformative memoir that reimagines the conventions of love and posits a radical vision for healing. In Another Word for Love, Carvell Wallace excavates layers of his own history, situated in the struggles and beauty of growing up Black and queer in America. Wallace is an award-winning journalist who has built his career on writing unforgettable profiles, bringing a provocative and engaged sensitivity to his subjects. Now he turns the focus on himself, examining his own life and the circumstances that frame it-to make sense of seeking refuge from homelessness with a young single mother, living in a ghostly white Pennsylvania town, becoming a partner and parent, raising two teenagers in what feels like a collapsing world. With courage, vulnerability, and a remarkable expansiveness of spirit-not to mention a thrilling, and unrivaled, storytelling verve-Another Word for Love makes an irresistible case for life, healing, the fullness of our humanity, and, of course, love. It could be called a theory of life itself-a theory of being that will leave you open to the wonder of the world.

Free Download Another England: How to Reclaim Our National Story (Audiobook)
English | April 18, 2024 | ASIN: B0CMV8G5NY, B0CMV6QD7D | M4B@128 kbps | 6h 28m | 352 MB
Author and Narrator: Caroline Lucas
The right have hijacked Englishness. Can it be reclaimed?
With the UK more divided than ever, England has re-emerged as a potent force in our culture and politics. But today the dominant story told about our country serves solely the interests of the right. The only people who dare speak of Englishness are cheerleaders for Brexit, exceptionalism and imperial nostalgia.

Free Download American Tyrannies in the Long Age of Napoleon (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D2PKYY4Z | 2024 | 17 hours and 38 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 506 MB
Author: Elizabeth Duquette
Narrator: Diana Blue
What if the American experiment is twofold, encompassing both democracy and tyranny? That is the question at the core of this book, which traces some of ways that Americans across the nineteenth century understood the perversions tyranny introduced into both their polity and society. While some informed their thinking with reference to classical texts, which comprehensively consider tyranny's dangers, most drew on a more contemporary source-Napoleon Bonaparte, the century's most famous man and its most notorious tyrant.