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Free Download Our Next Reality: How the AI-Powered Metaverse Will Reshape the World (Audiobook)
English | March 05, 2024 | ASIN: B0CRZB8VN7 | M4B@128 kbps | 11h 30m | 644 MB
Authors: Alvin Wang Graylin, Louis Rosenberg | Narrator: Ciaran Saward
Over the last 100 years, technology has changed our world. Over the next decade it will transform our reality.
We are entering a new technological age in which artificial intelligence and immersive media will transform society at all levels, mediating our lives by altering what we see, hear, and experience. Powered by immersive eyewear and driven by interactive AI agents, this new age of computing has the potential to make our world a magical place where the boundaries between the real and the virtual, the human and the artificial, rapidly fade away. If managed well, this could unleash a new age of abundance. If managed poorly, this technological revolution could easily go astray, deeply compromising our privacy, autonomy, agency, and even our humanity.

Free Download Our Green Heart: The Soul and Science of Forests (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CYHH5CMY | 2024 | 6 hours and 4 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 293 MB
Author: Diana Beresford-Kroeger
Narrator: Diana Beresford-Kroeger
In this inspiring culmination of Diana Beresford-Kroeger's life's work as a botanist, biochemist, biologist and poet of the global forest, she delivers a challenge to us all to dig deeper into the science of forests and the ways they will save us from climate breakdown-and then do our part to plant and protect them. As the last child in Ireland to receive a full Druidic education, Diana Beresford-Kroeger has brought an unusual and ancient holistic attitude to the science of trees, which has led her to many fresh insights into how closely we are tied to one another and to the natural world. Her influential message is to pay rapt attention to trees, because they are the green heart of the living world. Forests are our lungs, our medicine, our oxygen and the renewal of our soil.

Free Download Ordinary Disasters: How I Stopped Being a Model Minority (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CR52T97T | 2024 | 9 hours and 18 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 268 MB
Author: Anne Anlin Cheng
Narrator: Anne Anlin Cheng
The most personal writing yet to come from a noted scholar of race: a bold and moving look at race, gender, aging, and immigration that examines, through lenses both intimate and political, what it means to be an Asian American woman living in America today. Part memoir, part cultural criticism, part history, Anne Anlin Cheng's original essays focus on art, politics, and popular culture. Through personal stories woven with a keen eye and an open heart, Cheng summons up the grief, love, anger, and humor in negotiating the realities of being a scholar, an immigrant Asian American woman, a cancer patient, a wife of a white man, and a mother of biracial children . . . all in the midst of the (extra)ordinary stresses of recent years. Ordinary Disasters explores with lyricism and surgical precision the often difficult-to-articulate consequences of race, gender, migration, and empire. It is the story of Chinese mothers and daughters, of race and nationality, of ambition and gender, of memory and forgetting, and the intricate ways in which we struggle for interracial and intergenerational intimacies in a world where there can be no seamless identity.

Free Download Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory by Ben Macintyre, John Lee, Random House Audio
English | May 04, 2010 | ISBN: B003KQMFOA | 11 hours and 18 minutes | M4B 64 Kbps | 310 Mb
April, 1943: A sardine fisherman spots the corpse of a British soldier floating in the sea off the coast of Spain and sets off a train of events that would change the course of the Second World War.
Operation Mincemeat was the most successful wartime deception ever attempted, and the strangest. It hoodwinked the Nazi espionage chiefs, sent German troops hurtling in the wrong direction and saved thousands of lives by deploying a secret agent who was different, in one crucial respect, from any spy before or since: he was dead. His mission: to convince the Germans that instead of attacking Sicily, the Allied armies planned to invade Greece.
This is the true story of the most extraordinary deception ever planned by Churchill's spies: an outrageous lie that travelled from a Whitehall basement all the way to Hitler's desk.

Free Download Open to Desire: The Truth About What the Buddha Taught (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D7QKYRTZ | 2024 | 6 hours and 41 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 371 MB
Author: Mark Epstein
Narrator: Mark Epstein
It is common in both Buddhism and Freudian psychoanalysis to treat desire as if it is the root of all suffering and problems, but psychiatrist Mark Epstein believes this to be a grave misunderstanding. In his controversial defense of desire, he makes clear that it is the key to deepening intimacy with ourselves, each other, and our world. Proposing that spiritual attainment does not have to be detached from intimacy or eroticism, Open to Desire begins with an exploration of the state of dissatisfaction that causes us to cling to irrational habits. Dr. Epstein helps listeners overcome their own fears of desire so that they can more readily bridge the gap between self and other, cope with feelings of incompletion, and get past the perception of others as objects. Freed from clinging and shame, desire's spiritual potential can then be opened up.

Free Download One Bold Move a Day: Meaningful Actions Women Can Take to Fulfill Their Leadership and Career Potential by Shanna Hocking, Daniela Acitelli, McGraw Hill-Ascent Audio
English | November 15, 2022 | ISBN: B0BL22DCJZ | 5 hours and 41 minutes | MP3 128 Kbps | 468 Mb
An essential roadmap to help women at every stage of their career feel stronger, more confident, and more intentional in their goals
Even after being rejected 100 times right out of college, Shanna Hocking never strayed from her dream career and now, in One Bold Move a Day, you will benefit from lessons learned, and discover new, life-changing ways to build the confidence you need to succeed on your own terms.
In One Bold Move a Day, Hocking shows how a single, measurable act each day provides the daily challenge that will help you truly grow. With insight gleaned from years in multi-billion-dollar nonprofits and running a business to support women leaders, Hocking offers actionable advice and useful tools to facilitate your personal journey. In chapters that range from "Lead from Where You Are" and "Invest in Yourself" to "Putting Your Bold Move Mindset to the Test," you'll discover how even the smallest step in the direction you want to go will help accomplish your biggest goals. Inside you'll find information on: Bold Mindset Shifts; how to lead from where you are; believing in yourself; Bold Move Performance Patterns; why progress is greater than productivity; networking, and involving others in your growth; communicating courageously and compassionately; showing up for yourself and others, and more.

Free Download On Trails: An Exploration, 2024 Edition (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CX26K82X | 2024 | 11 hours and 53 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 342 MB
Author: Robert Moor
Narrator: Robert Moor
On Trails is a wondrous exploration of how trails help us understand the world-from invisible ant trails to hiking paths that span continents, from interstate highways to the Internet. While thru-hiking the Appalachian Trail, Robert Moor began to wonder about the paths that lie beneath our feet: How do they form? Why do some improve over time while others fade? What makes us follow or strike off on our own? Over the course of seven years, Moor traveled the globe, exploring trails of all kinds, from the miniscule to the massive. He learned the tricks of master trail-builders, hunted down long-lost Cherokee trails, and traced the origins of our road networks and the Internet. In each chapter, Moor interweaves his adventures with findings from science, history, philosophy, and nature writing.

Free Download On Settler Colonialism: Ideology, Violence, and Justice (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0DF8643H9 | 2024 | 3 hours and 55 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 218 MB
Author: Adam Kirsch
Narrator: Adam Barr
A prominent public intellectual tackles one of the most crucial political ideas of our moment. Since Hamas's attack on Israel last October 7, the term "settler colonialism" has become central to public debate in the United States. A concept new to most Americans, but already established and influential in academic circles, settler colonialism is shaping the way many people think about the history of the United States, Israel and Palestine, and a host of political issues. This short book is the first to examine settler colonialism critically for a general audience.

Free Download Timothy Snyder (Author, Narrator), "On Freedom"
English | ASIN: B0CTNNPK3B | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~10:48:00 | 297 MB
A brilliant exploration of freedom-what it is, how it's been misunderstood, and why it's our only chance for survival-by the acclaimed Yale historian and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller On Tyranny
"Much like life itself, freedom needs to be defined and redefined. On Freedom offers fresh insight into essential aspects of human existence-the values and obligations inherent in every individual's life."-Ai Weiwei

Free Download Oh Miriam!: Stories from an Extraordinary Life by Miriam Margolyes, John Murray
English | September 14, 2023 | ISBN: B0BNLHWR27 | 10 hours and 43 minutes | M4B 128 Kbps | 645 Mb
Join us on another unforgettable adventure through the extraordinary life and strong opinions of Miriam Margolyes.
'My new book is called Oh Miriam! - something that has been said to me a lot over the years, often in tones of strong disapproval. It contains lots more revelations and stories and discoveries and I can't wait to share it with you all!'
From being escorted off the Today programme (for saying what we were all thinking) to declaring her love to Vanessa Redgrave; from Tales of the Unexpected to Graham Norton's sofa, she is our most loved and most outspoken national treasure. Oh Miriam! takes you inside both her head and her heart. Buckle up for the most irrepressible, hilarious and moving listen of 2023.