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Free Download Max Felker-Kantor, Michael Butler Murray (Narrator), "DARE to Say No: Policing and the War on Drugs in Schools"
English | ASIN: B0CY6JR54X | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~08:45:00 | 248 MB
With its signature "DARE to keep kids off drugs" slogan and iconic t-shirts, DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) was the most popular drug education program of the 1980s and 1990s. But behind the cultural phenomenon is the story of how DARE and other antidrug education programs brought the War on Drugs into schools and ensured that the velvet glove of antidrug education would be backed by the iron fist of rigorous policing and harsh sentencing.
Max Felker-Kantor has assembled the first history of DARE, which began in Los Angeles in 1983 as a joint venture between the police department and the unified school district. By the mid-'90s, it was taught in seventy-five percent of school districts across the United States. DARE received near-universal praise from parents, educators, police officers, and politicians and left an indelible stamp on many millennial memories. But the program had more nefarious ends, and Felker-Kantor complicates simplistic narratives of the War on Drugs. He shows how policing entered US schools and framed drug use as the result of personal responsibility, moral failure, and poor behavior deserving of punishment rather than something deeply rooted in state retrenchment, the abandonment of social service provisions, and structures of social and economic inequality.
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Free Download Customer Magic: The Macquarie Way: How to Reimagine Customer Experience to Transform Your Business (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CRS2Y22X | 2024 | 4 hours and 24 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 249 MB
Author: Joseph A. Michelli
Narrator: Joseph A. Michelli
It takes a special kind of magic for a challenger brand to achieve seemingly impossible customer-centric results. It's that magic that makes Australian telecommunications company Macquarie Technology world leaders in award-winning customer experience. Joseph A. Michelli-the bestselling author of books about brands renowned for their stellar service and outstanding growth. Customer Magic is a practical, easy-to-digest guide that, consistent with Macquarie's commitment to delivering customer value, shares transferrable knowledge on how to identify and solve customer pain points; craft a compelling unique value proposition; attract, select, grow, and retain customer service talent and subject matter expertise; set, measure, track, and incentivize mission-critical business goals and customer-driven growth; innovate solutions that meet your customers' stated and unstated needs; and maintain a growth mindset and leave a legacy of success.

Free Download Cuckooland: Where the Rich Own the Truth (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CP64S9D4 | 2024 | 6 hours and 11 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 343 MB
Author: Tom Burgis
Narrator: Joe Eyre
From the bestselling author, a true story about Cuckooland - a world where the rich can buy everything - including the truth. Everywhere, the powerful are making a renewed claim to the greatest prize of all: to own the truth. The power to choose what you want reality to be and impose that reality on the world. For three years, Tom Burgis followed a lead that took him deeper and deeper into Cuckooland - the place where the rich own the truth. The trail snaked from the Kremlin to Kathmandu, Stockholm to the Steppe, from a blood-soaked town square in Uzbekistan to a royal retreat in Scotland. Burgis hunted down oligarchs, developed secret sources and traced vast sums of money flowing between multinational corporations, ex-Soviet dictators and the west's ruling elites.

Free Download Creepy Analytics: Avoid Crossing the Line and Establish Ethical HR Analytics for Smarter Workforce Decisions
Author: Salvatore V. Falletta
Narrator: Stephen R. Thorne
English | 2024 | ASIN: B0CX9JVLLD | MP3@64 kbps | Duration: 11h 23m | 671 MB
The potential of HR analytics is a major discussion among scholars, practitioners, thought leaders, and technology vendors, with companies like Amazon, Apple, Google, and Meta digging deeply into HR research and analytics practices that extend beyond simple metrics, scorecards, and reporting.

Free Download Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Made Simple: 10 Strategies for Managing Anxiety, Depression, Anger, Panic, and Worry (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B07KYQX4QS | 2018 | 5 hours and 46 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 158 MB
Author: Seth J. Gillihan
Narrator: Stephen Hoye
Cognitive behavioral therapy is a proven form of psychotherapy that is often the first-line of treatment recommended for managing depression, anxiety, worry, and other common issues. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Made Simple delivers a simplified approach to learning the most essential parts of cognitive behavioral therapy and applying them to your life. Written by licensed psychologist and best-selling author Seth Gillihan, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Made Simple replaces workbook pages and technical language with quick and highly accessible cognitive behavioral therapy strategies that can be used on an as-needed basis. For people who are interested in realizing the proven benefits of CBT, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Made Simple is a vital resource that will promote personal growth as you overcome challenges and improve your wellbeing.

Free Download Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CNFCRJ77 | 2024 | 4 hours and 39 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 258 MB
Author: Ethan Mollick
Narrator: Ethan Mollick
From Wharton professor and author Ethan Mollick comes the definitive playbook for working, learning, and living in the new age of AI. Something new entered our world in November 2022-the first general purpose AI that could pass for a human and do the kinds of creative, innovative work that only humans could do previously. Wharton professor Ethan Mollick immediately understood what ChatGPT meant: after millions of years on our own, humans had developed a kind of co-intelligence that could augment, or even replace, human thinking. Through his writing, speaking, and teaching, Mollick has become one of the most prominent and provocative explainers of AI, focusing on the practical aspects of how these new tools for thought can transform our world. In Co-Intelligence, Mollick urges us to engage with AI as co-worker, co-teacher, and coach. He assesses its profound impact on business and education, using dozens of real-time examples of AI in action. Co-Intelligence shows what it means to think and work together with smart machines, and why it's imperative that we master that skill. Mollick challenges us to utilize AI's enormous power without losing our identity, to learn from it without being misled, and to harness its gifts to create a better human future. Wide ranging, hugely thought-provoking, optimistic, and lucid, Co-Intelligence reveals the promise and power of this new era.

Free Download Clear Mind, Peaceful Heart: 50 Devotions for Sleeping Well in a World Full of Worry (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CB1X29ZZ | 2024 | 3 hours and 49 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 212 MB
Author: Lysa TerKeurst
Narrator: Ginny Welsch
What lies heaviest on your heart as you lay your head on your pillow? Are paralyzing fear and anxiety stealing tomorrow's peace? Experiencing this kind of rest won't come from escapism, more vacation days, or stuffing our feelings. Jesus Himself provides rest to our weary souls. While He may not always fix everything right away, we can fix our thoughts on His Word. In doing this, we can sleep at night with ease knowing that God has it all under control. Through the book Clear Mind, Peaceful Heart, written by New York Times bestselling author Lysa TerKeurst and her friends at Proverbs 31 Ministries, you will be equipped to: Quiet fearful and anxious thoughts that always seem to be the loudest before bedtime by incorporating the Bible into your nightly routine. Find relief from the stress of daily obligations and pressures through 50 encouraging devotions and guided prayers. Release the heaviness you feel about hard situations in your life so you can wake up refreshed and walk into the next day with courage. We may feel afraid, but we don't have to live afraid. Let this devotional help you fall asleep tonight with a clear mind and a peaceful heart.

Free Download City in Ruins: A Novel (The Danny Ryan Trilogy, Book 3) (Audiobook)
English | April 02, 2024 | ASIN: B0C92LXZK7 | M4B@128 kbps | 8h 57m | 487 MB
Author: Don Winslow | Narrator: Ari Fliakos
"The Godfather for our generation." - Adrian McKinty
"City in Ruins is Don Winslow showing the rest of us how it's done. Winslow has saved the best for last." - James Patterson

Free Download City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America's Highways (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CDD3QZ4X | 2024 | 10 hours and 25 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 301 MB
Author: Megan Kimble
Narrator: Megan Kimble
An eye-opening investigation into how our ever-expanding urban highways accelerated inequality and fractured communities-and a call for a more just, sustainable path forward. Every major American city has a highway tearing through its center. Seventy years ago, planners sold these highways as progress, essential to our future prosperity. The automobile promised freedom, and highways were going to take us there. Instead, they divided cities, displaced people from their homes, chained us to our cars, and locked us into a high-emissions future. And the more highways we built, the worse traffic got. Nowhere is this more visible than in Texas. In Houston, Dallas, and Austin, residents and activists are fighting against massive, multi-billion-dollar highway expansions that will claim thousands of homes and businesses, entrenching segregation and sprawl. In City Limits, journalist Megan Kimble weaves together the origins of urban highways with the stories of ordinary people impacted by our failed transportation system.

Free Download Christianity and Wokeness: How the Social Justice Movement Is Hijacking the Gospel - and the Way to Stop It (Audiobook)
English | July 20, 2021 | ASIN: B099KPFPYG | M4B@125 kbps | 7h 59m | 435.6 MB
Author: Owen Strachan
Narrator: Axel Bosley
In a world that is "woke", how many Christians are actually awake? This short theologically sound primer is a resource for pastors, ministry leaders, community leaders, and other thinking Christians that explains carefully and clearly what critical race theory and wokeness truly are, what the Bible teaches about race and ethnicity, why wokeness is distinct from Christianity and should be rejected, and how the church can work for unity based in the gospel of grace.