Audio Books

Free Download Paper Soldiers: How the Weaponization of the Dollar Changed the World Order (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CB9DBVFF | 2024 | 9 hours and 3 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 261 MB
Author: Saleha Mohsin
Narrator: Soneela Nankani
From Bloomberg News reporter Saleha Mohsin, the untold story of how one of America's most invincible institutions-the Treasury-has used the U.S. dollar to define America's role in the world, and our economic future. In 1995, Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin re-defined the next thirty years of currency policy with the mantra, "A strong dollar is in America's interest." That mantra held, ushering in exceptional prosperity and cheap foreign goods, but the strong dollar policy also played a role in the devastating hollowing out of America's manufacturing sector. Meanwhile, abroad, the United States increasingly turned to the dollar as a weapon of war. In Paper Soldiers, Saleha Mohsin reveals how the Treasury Department has shaped U.S. policy at home and overseas by wielding the American dollar as a weapon-and what that means in a new age of crisis. For decades, America has preferred its currency superpower-strong, the basis of a "strong dollar" policy that attracted foreign investors and pleased consumers.

Free Download Pace Yourself: How to Have Energy in an Exhausting World (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CQ3D3CW3 | 2024 | 6 hours and 16 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 296 MB
Author: Amy Arthur
Narrator: Amy Arthur
Life these days can feel like an endless, exhausting to-do list with far too many to-dos and not nearly enough time to complete them. Self-help gurus will tell you to time block, to wake up at five am, to try the Pomodoro method, and get rid of everything in your life that doesn't spark joy-but the reality is you can't bullet journal your way out of exhaustion. Instead, science journalist Amy Arthur argues for a radical new approach: we must learn to manage not our time, but our energy. While time passes at the same rate for everyone, energy expenditure is as fluid and as individual as our personalities.

Free Download Shawn Blake, Lia Goodman (Narrator), "PTCB Exam Prep 2023-2024: Study Guide with 270 Practice Questions and Answer Explanations for the Pharmacy Technician Certification Board Test"
English | ASIN: B0C6R7WGMY | 2023 | MP3@64 kbps | ~06:21:00 | 193 MB
Become a certified pharmacy technician and land the job of your dreams with this comprehensive study guide that will fully prepare you for the PTCB exam! With a passing rate of only 59 percent over the past seven years, the exam has earned a reputation for being extremely difficult.
But there's no reason to stress out. With the proper preparations and focused, consistent study, you can be one of the special few who only need to take it once. While self-study and making your own materials are good options, you'll save time and effort with a ready-made comprehensive study guide covering all the topics that will be included in the test. You'll have a significant head start on the exam without having to sift through mountains of materials.
In this manual, you won't just find all the information you need to study-you'll also have detailed practice tests, similar to what you'll encounter in the exam, so you know what to expect on the big day.

Free Download Over the Influence: Why Social Media is Toxic for Women and Girls - And How We Can Take it Back (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CPTFGSP3 | 2024 | 8 hours and 14 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 237 MB
Author: Kara Alaimo
Narrator: Sarah Mollo-Christensen
This essential audiobook is a rallying cry for women to recognize and reject the ways social media is being weaponized against us-and instead wield it to empower ourselves. In Over the Influence, communication professor and CNN Opinion contributor Kara Alaimo reveals how social media is affecting every aspect of the lives of women and girls-from our relationships and our parenting to our physical and mental well-being. Over the Influence is an audiobook about what it means to live in the world social media has wrought-whether you're constantly connected or have deleted your accounts forever. Alaimo shows why you're likely to get fewer followers if you're a woman. She explains how fake news is crafted to prey on women's vulnerabilities.

Free Download Ours: A Novel (Audiobook)
English | February 20, 2024 | ASIN: B0C6YJLHZ1 | M4B@128 kbps | 22h 48m | 1.24 GB
Author: Phillip B. Williams | Narrator: Joniece Abbott-Pratt
From a writer of singular voice and vision, a mesmerizing epic that reimagines the past to explore the true nature of freedom
In this ingenious, sweeping novel, Phillip B. Williams introduces us to an enigmatic woman named Saint, a fearsome conjuror who, in the 1830s, annihilates plantations all over Arkansas to rescue the people enslaved there. She brings those she has freed to a haven of her own creation: a town just north of St. Louis, magically concealed from outsiders, named Ours.

Free Download Geoffrey Levin, Jonathan Todd Ross (Narrator), "Our Palestine Question: Israel and American Jewish Dissent, 1948-1978"
English | ASIN: B0CVNNGTD3 | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~10:23:00 | 294 MB
A new history of the American Jewish relationship with Isreal focused on its most urgent and sensitive issue: the question of Palestinian rights
American Jews began debating Palestinian rights issues even before Israel's founding in 1948. Geoffrey Levin recovers the voices of American Jews who, in the early decades of Israel's existence, called for an honest reckoning with the moral and political plight of Palestinian Sephardic roots, a former Yiddish journalist, anti-Zionist Reform rabbis, and young left-wing Zionist activists, felt drawn to support Palestinian rights by their understanding of Jewish history, identity, and ethics. They sometimes worked with mainstream American Jewish leaders who feared that ignoring Palestinian rights could foster antisemitism, leading them to press Israeli officials for reform. But Israeli diplomats viewed any American Jewish interest in Palestinian affairs with deep suspicion, provoking a series of quiet confrontations that ultimately kept Palestinian rights off the American Jewish agenda up to the present era.
In reconstructing this hidden history, Levin lays the groundwork for more forthright debates over Palestinian rights issues, American Jewish identity, and the U.S.-Israel relationship more broadly.

Free Download John Dinges, Gary Tiedemann (Narrator), "Our Man in Panama: The Shrewd Rise and Brutal Fall of Manuel Noriega"
English | ASIN: B0CX2Z8M3W | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~14:08:00s | 388 MB
A "carefully researched" account of the rise and fall of notorious dictator Manuel Noriega-and America's role in both (The Washington Post).
Written by a prize-winning NPR veteran who spent years covering Latin America, this blend of biography, history, and political reporting details the events that lead to the American invasion of Panama.
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year

Free Download Our Crumbling Foundation: How We Solve Canada's Housing Crisis (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CD2PZKY5 | 2024 | 8 hours and 00 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 232 MB
Author: Gregor Craigie
Narrator: Gregor Craigie
An urgent and illuminating examination of the unrelenting housing crisis Canadians find ourselves facing, by Balsillie Prize finalist and CBC Radio host Gregor Craigie, A Crumbling Foundation offers real-life solutions from around the world and hope for new housing innovation in the face of seemingly impossible obstacles. Canada is experiencing a housing shortage. Although house prices in major Canadian cities appear to have topped out in early 2023, new housing isn't coming onto the market quickly enough. Rising interest rates have only tightened the pressure on buyers, and renters, too, as rising mortgage rates cost landlords more, which are passed along to tenants in rent increases. Even with the recent federal budget commitment to bring more housing online by 2030, there will still be a shortfall of 3.5 million homes by 2030. Gregor Craigie is a CBC journalist in Victoria, one of the highest-priced housing markets in the country. On his daily radio show On the Island he's been talking for over 15 years to local experts and to those across the country about housing.

Free Download Our Biggest Fight: Reclaiming Liberty, Humanity, and Dignity in the Digital Age (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CRSVH5BL | 2024 | 6 hours and 33 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 367 MB
Author: Frank H. McCourt Jr., Michael J. Casey
Narrator: Frank H. McCourt Jr., Michael J. Casey, Jonathan Beville
The internet as we know it is broken. Here's how we can seize back control of our lives from the corporate algorithms and create a better internet-before it's too late. It was once a utopian dream. But today's internet, despite its conveniences and connectivity, is the primary cause of a pervasive unease that has taken hold in the U.S. and other democratic societies. It's why youth suicide rates are rising, why politics has become toxic, and why our most important institutions are faltering. Information is the lifeblood of any society, and our current system for distributing it is corrupted at its heart. Everything comes down to our ability to communicate openly and trustfully with each other. But, thanks to the dominant digital platforms and the ways they distort human behavior, we have lost that ability-while, at the same time, we've been robbed of the data that is rightfully ours.

Free Download Operation Chastise: The RAF's Most Brilliant Attack of World War II (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B082MPTH49 | 2020 | 11 hours and 49 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 338 MB
Author: Max Hastings
Narrator: Max Hastings, Peter Noble
The RAF had identified the Ruhr dams as strategic objectives as far back as 1938; in those five years Wing Commander Guy Gibson formed and trained the 617 Squadron. Hastings observes that while the dropping of Wallis's mines provided the dramatic climax, only two of the eight aircraft lost came down over the dams - the rest were shot down on the flight to, or back from, the mission. And while the 617 Squadron's valor is indisputable, the ultimate industrial damage caused by the dam raid was actually rather modest. In 1943, these brave men caught the imagination of the world and uplifted the weary spirits of the British people. Their achievement unnerved the Nazi high command, and caused them to expend large resources on dam defenses - making the mission a success. An example of Churchill's "military theatre" at its best, what 617 Squadron did was an extraordinary and heroic achievement, and a triumph of British ingenuity and technology - a story to be told for generations to come.