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Free Download Abolitionist Intimacies (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CYVRPDQ4 | 2024 | 9 hours and 26 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 259 MB
Author: El Jones
Narrator: Aiza Ntibarikure
In Abolitionist Intimacies, El Jones examines the movement to abolish prisons through the Black feminist principles of care and collectivity. Understanding the history of prisons in Canada in their relationship to settler colonialism and anti-Black racism, Jones observes how practices of intimacy become imbued with state violence at carceral sites including prisons, policing and borders, as well as through purported care institutions such as hospitals and social work. The state also polices intimacy through mechanisms such as prison visits, strip searches and managing community contact with incarcerated people. Despite this, Jones argues, intimacy is integral to the ongoing struggles of prisoners for justice and liberation through the care work of building relationships and organizing with the people inside. Through characteristically fierce and personal prose and poetry, and motivated by a decade of prison justice work, Jones observes that abolition is not only a political movement to end prisons; it is also an intimate one deeply motivated by commitment and love.

Free Download Osamah F. Khalil, Rick Adamson (Narrator), "A World of Enemies: America's Wars at Home and Abroad from Kennedy to Biden"
English | ASIN: B0CZ2MSBXJ | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~14:34:00 | 401 MB
Over the past half-century, Americans have watched their country extend its military power to what seemed the very ends of the earth. America's might is felt on nearly every continent-and even on its own streets. Decades ago, the Wars on Drugs and Terror broke down the walls separating law enforcement from military operations. A World of Enemies tells the story of how an America plagued by fears of waning power and influence embraced foreign and domestic forever wars.
Osamah Khalil argues that the militarization of US domestic and foreign affairs was the product of America's failure in Vietnam. Unsettled by their inability to prevail in Southeast Asia, US leaders increasingly came to see a host of problems as immune to political solutions. Rather, crime, drugs, and terrorism were enemies spawned in "badlands"-whether the Middle East or stateside inner cities. Characterized as sites of endemic violence, badlands lay beyond the pale of civilization, their ostensibly racially and culturally alien inhabitants best handled by force.
Its failures-in Iraq, Afghanistan, US cities, and increasingly rural and borderland America-have only served to reinforce fears of weakness. It is time, Khalil argues, for a new approach. Instead of managing never-ending conflicts, we need to reinvest in the tools of traditional politics and diplomacy.

Free Download A Really Strange and Wonderful Time: The Chapel Hill Music Scene: 1989-1999 (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CFBVBKHN | 2024 | 10 hours and 20 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 302 MB
Author: Tom Maxwell
Narrator: Tom Maxwell
The first biography of the thriving and influential rock scene in Chapel Hill, which gave the world artists like Ben Folds Five, Superchunk, and Squirrel Nut Zippers. North Carolina has always produced extraordinary music of every description. But the indie-rock boom of the late 1980s and early '90s brought the state most fully into the public consciousness, while the subsequent post-Grunge free-for-all bestowed its greatest commercial successes. In addition to the creation of legacy label Merge Records and a slate of excellent indie bands like Superchunk, Archers of Loaf, and Polvo, this was the decade when other North Carolina artists broke Billboard's Top 200 and sold millions of records―several million of which were issued by another indie label based in Carrboro, Chapel Hill's smaller next-door neighbor.

Free Download A Leap in the Dark: The Struggle to Create the American Republic (Audiobook)
English | Datum: December 17, 2013 | ASIN: B00GLXWBE8 | MP3@64 kbps | 23h 58m | 612.02 MB
Author: John Ferling
Narrator: Mark Yoshimoto Nemcoff
It was an age of fascinating leaders and difficult choices, of grand ideas eloquently expressed and of epic conflicts bitterly fought. Now comes a brilliant portrait of the American Revolution, one that is compelling in its prose, fascinating in its details, and provocative in its fresh interpretations.

Free Download A Field Guide to the Apocalypse: A Mostly Serious Guide to Surviving Our Wild Times (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CFC43Y45 | 2024 | 6 hours and 58 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 391 MB
Author: Athena Aktipis
Narrator: Athena Aktipis
A common sense field guide to understanding, surviving, and thriving in our time of complex chaos and crises. Is this finally it? The end times? Because from COVID-19 to climate catastrophe to the looming AI revolution-not to mention the ever-growing background hum of rage, fear, and anxiety-it's starting to feel like the party we call civilization is just about over. The good news? It's always felt that way. Drawing on evolutionary psychology, history, brain science, game theory, and more, cooperation theorist (and, coincidentally, zombie expert) Athena Aktipis reassuringly explains how we, as a species, are hardwired to survive big existential crises. And how we can do so again by leveraging our innate abilities to communicate and cooperate. Pack a ukulele in your prep kit. Practice your risk-management skills. Enlist your crew into a survival team. And embrace the apocalypse. You might just enjoy it. Plus, it will help us build a better and more resilient future for all humankind.

Free Download 60 Days to a Greener Life: Ease Eco-Anxiety Through Joyful Daily Action (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CB1WV8NT | 2024 | 3 hours and 17 minutes | M4B@192 kbps | 271 MB
Author: Heather White
Narrator: Heather White
Are you worried about the climate crisis? Are you suffering from eco-anxiety? Do you want to help but you're not sure how? Do you want to learn how to make greener choices? If you answered yes to any of those questions, author and environmentalist Heather White's 60 Days to a Greener Life is the resource you need. You can listen to an entry every day or at your own pace. Each entry provides valuable insights and easy-to-apply ways you can live a more eco-friendly, joyful life.

Free Download Your Public Persona: Self-Presentation in Everyday Life [TTC Audio]
English | September 11, 2020 | ASIN: B08H5XNNYM | M4B@96 kbps | 6h 34m | 279 MB
Lecturer: Mark Leary
Humans are social animals, and the impressions we make on others can critically impact the quality of our lives. Consequently, we spend much of our lives, both consciously and unconsciously, working to shape other people's ideas about who we are. In this eye-opening 12-lecture series with Professor Leary, explore the "self-presentational underpinnings of human behavior" as well as the what, how, and why of impression management.
People form impressions of us - who we are and what we're like - very quickly and, right or wrong, those impressions determine significant aspects of our outcomes in life, both in the present as well as the future. In just a few short minutes, others assess our personality, interests, attitudes, and moods, taking into account everything from the content of our words to the style of our clothing, and much more. Sometimes their assessments are accurate, other times less so, but the impressions other people form of us significantly impacts how they treat us.

Free Download You're Not Done Yet: Parenting Young Adults in an Age of Uncertainty (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C3NVGLTQ | 2024 | 10 hours and 5 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 292 MB
Author: Dr. B. Janet Hibbs, Dr. Anthony Rostain
Narrator: Kirsten Potter
A clear-eyed, optimistic guide for parents with adult children who need help navigating the challenges to launching an independent life. Times were already tough for young adults looking for ways to start living independent lives after high school and college: rents were up, wages were down, student loan debt was burdensome, then the Covid-19 pandemic hit. A generation of young people were forced out of their classrooms, jobs, and social lives, returning home to live with their parents. Now many of these young adults carry the scars of the internal pandemic, with increased anxiety and depression, poor coping, and the uncertainty of how to restart their lives. Parents want to help, but the old rules of advice-giving can clash with the need to respect their child's autonomy.

Free Download Work Backwards: The Revolutionary Method to Work Smarter and Live Better (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CYHH8YBY | 2024 | 8 hours and 28 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 232 MB
Author: Tim Duggan
Narrator: Tim Duggan
Something's about to break, and if we don't change direction soon, it's going to be us. It doesn't matter in which industry or where: too many of us are overworked, disengaged and apprehensive about the future of work. In his life-affirming new book, bestselling author and founder Tim Duggan argues that we approach work and life the wrong way around. Fuelled by a powerful realignment that's questioning the way we traditionally think about and interact with our workplaces. Learn valuable, practical tools to work better and live a fulfilled and meaningful life that takes advantage of this once-in-a-generations opportunity to reverse your thinking and reclaim your life from work.

Free Download Helen De Cruz, Lisa S. Ware (Narrator), "Wonderstruck: How Wonder and Awe Shape the Way We Think"
English | ASIN: B0CXQ9PSXB | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~06:29:00 | size KB
Wonder and awe lie at the heart of life's most profound questions. Wonderstruck shows how these emotions respond to our fundamental need to make sense of ourselves and everything around us, and how they enable us to engage with the world as if we are experiencing it for the first time.
Drawing on the latest psychological insights on emotions, Helen De Cruz argues that wonder and awe are emotional drives that motivate us to inquire and discover new things, and that humanity has deliberately nurtured these emotions in cultural domains such as religion, science, and magic. Tracing how wonder and awe unify philosophy, the humanities, and the sciences, De Cruz provides new perspectives on figures such as Plato, Aristotle, Adam Smith, William James, Rachel Carson, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Abraham Heschel. Along the way, she explains how these singular emotions empower us to be open-minded, to experience joy and hope, and to be resilient in the face of personal troubles and global challenges.
Taking inspiration from Descartes's portrayal of wonder as "that sudden surprise of the soul," this illuminating book reveals how wonder and awe are catalysts that can help us reclaim what makes life worth living and preserve the things we find wonderful and valuable in our lives.