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Free Download AI Needs You: How We Can Change AI's Future and Save Our Own (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CW27C8TG | 2024 | 8 hours and 30 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 234 MB
Author: Verity Harding
Narrator: Daisy Donovan
An electrifying vision of how we can safeguard AI's future for the public good. Artificial intelligence may be the most transformative technology of our time. As AI's power grows, so does the need to figure out what-and who-this technology is really for. AI Needs You argues that it is critical for society to take the lead in answering this urgent question and ensuring that AI fulfills its promise. Verity Harding draws inspiring lessons from the histories of three twentieth-century tech revolutions-the space race, in vitro fertilization, and the internet-to empower each of us to join the conversation about AI and its possible futures.

Free Download A World Divided: The Global Struggle for Human Rights in the Age of Nation-States (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B07VXRPHMQ | 2019 | 17 hours and 36 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 504 MB
Author: Eric D. Weitz
Narrator: Robert Slade
A global history of human rights in a world of nation-states that grant rights to some while denying them to others. Once dominated by vast empires, the world is now divided into close to 200 independent countries with laws and constitutions proclaiming human rights - a transformation that suggests that nations and human rights inevitably developed together. But the reality is far more problematic, as Eric Weitz shows in this compelling global history of the fate of human rights in a world of nation-states. Through vivid histories drawn from virtually every continent, A World Divided describes how, since the 18th century, nationalists have struggled to establish their own states that grant human rights to some people. At the same time, they have excluded others through forced assimilation, ethnic cleansing, or even genocide. From Greek rebels, American settlers, and Brazilian abolitionists in the 19th century to anticolonial Africans and Zionists in the 20th, nationalists have confronted a crucial question: Who has the "right to have rights?" A World Divided tells these stories in colorful accounts focusing on people who were at the center of events. And it shows that rights are dynamic.

Free Download A Very Private School: A Memoir (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CCSV1NQP | 2024 | 7 hours and 57 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 233 MB
Author: Charles Spencer
Narrator: Charles Spencer
In this poignant memoir, Charles Spencer recounts the trauma of being sent away from home at age eight to attend boarding school. A Very Private School offers a clear-eyed, first-hand account of a culture of cruelty at the school Charles Spencer attended in his youth and provides important insights into an antiquated boarding system. Drawing on the memories of many of his schoolboy contemporaries, as well as his own letters and diaries from the time, he reflects on the hopelessness and abandonment he felt at aged eight, viscerally describing the intense pain of homesickness and the appalling inescapability of it all. Exploring the long-lasting impact of his experiences, Spencer presents a candid reckoning with his past and a reclamation of his childhood.

Free Download A Synthesizing Mind: A Memoir from the Creator of Multiple Intelligences Theory (Audiobook)
English | October 09, 2020 | ASIN: B08KWLH8BV | M4B@128 kbps | 7h 28m | 409 MB
Author: Howard Gardner | Narrator: Graham Winton
An authority on the human mind reflects on his intellectual development, his groundbreaking work, and different types of intelligences - including his own.
Howard Gardner's Frames of Mind was that rare publishing phenomenona mind-changer. Widely consumed by the general public as well as by educators, this influential book laid out Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences. It debunked the primacy of the IQ test and inspired new approaches to education; entire curricula, schools, museums, and parents' guides were dedicated to the nurturing of the several intelligences. In his new book, A Synthesizing Mind, Gardner reflects on his intellectual development and his groundbreaking work, tracing his evolution from bookish child to eager college student to disengaged graduate student to Harvard professor.

Free Download Mary Oliver, Kimberly Farr (Narrator), "A Poetry Handbook"
English | ASIN: B0CRWDY8L1 | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~03:33:00 | 98 MB
"Mary Oliver would probably never admit to anything so grandiose as an effort to connect the conscious mind and the heart (that's what she says poetry can do), but that is exactly what she accomplishes in this stunning little handbook."-Los Angeles Times
From the beloved, legendary poet, the ultimate guide to writing and understanding poetry.
With passion and wit, Mary Oliver skillfully imparts expertise from her long, celebrated career as a disguised poet. She walks listeners through exactly how a poem is built, from meter and rhyme, to form and diction, to sound and sense, drawing on poems by Robert Frost, Elizabeth Bishop, and others. This handbook is an invaluable glimpse into Oliver's prolific mind-a must-have for all poetry-lovers.

Free Download A People's History of the United States (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0030MR076 | 2009 | 34 hours and 8 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 979 MB
Author: Howard Zinn
Narrator: Jeff Zinn
For much of his life, historian Howard Zinn chronicled American history from the bottom up, throwing out the official version taught in schools - with its emphasis on great men in high places - to focus on the street, the home, and the workplace. Known for its lively, clear prose as well as its scholarly research, A People's History of the United States is the only volume to tell America's story from the point of view of - and in the words of - America's women, factory workers, African-Americans, Native Americans, the working poor, and immigrant laborers. As Zinn shows, many of our country's greatest battles - the fights for a fair wage, an eight-hour workday, child-labor laws, health and safety standards, universal suffrage, women's rights, racial equality - were carried out at the grassroots level, against bloody resistance. Covering Christopher Columbus' arrival through President Clinton's first term, A People's History of the United States features insightful analysis of the most important events in our history.

Free Download A Mystery from the Mummy-Pits: The Amazing Journey of Ankh-Hap (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CX2939T7 | 2024 | 4 hours and 55 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 271 MB
Author: Frank L. Holt
Narrator: Nigel Patterson
As the world recently commemorated the hundredth anniversary of the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun, our fascination with the pharaoh begs for a balanced view. Most recovered mummies have not escaped the modern trafficking in ancient bodies and body parts. The story of Ankh-Hap, a Ptolemaic-era mummy seized in the nineteenth century from the infamous mummy-pits of Egypt, provides a salutary example of what most mummies have endured. Frank Holt makes use of a robust combination of scientific tools and archival research to tell the story of Ankh-Hap's life, death, and his mummified remains, which ended up in the back of an American college classroom.

Free Download A More Beautiful Question: The Power of Inquiry to Spark Breakthrough Ideas, Updated 2024 Edition (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CW1ZRSWS | 2024 | 7 hours and 36 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 219 MB
Author: Warren Berger
Narrator: Dale Nichols
To get the best answer-in business, in life-you have to ask the best possible question. Innovation expert Warren Berger shows that ability is both an art and a science. It may be the most underappreciated tool at our disposal, one we learn to use well in infancy-and then abandon as we grow older. Critical to learning, innovation, success, even to happiness-yet often discouraged in our schools and workplaces-it can unlock new business opportunities and reinvent industries, spark creative insights at many levels, and provide a transformative new outlook on life. It is the ability to question-and to do so deeply, imaginatively, and "beautifully."

Free Download A History of Women in 101 Objects (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CCZ31D48 | 2024 | 13 hours and 8 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 380 MB
Author: Annabelle Hirsch
Narrator: Annabelle Hirsch, Gillian Anderson, Katy Hessel, Anita Rani, Jackie Kay, Len Pennie, Shirley Manson, Rebecca Solnit, Sandi Toksvig, Marina Hyde, Naomi Shimada
Discover the hidden history of women-and the world-through this visual exploration of intimate objects and the surprising, sometimes shocking stories behind them. This is a neglected history. Not a sweeping, definitive, exhaustive history of the world but something quieter, more intimate and particular: a single journey, picked out in 101 objects, through the fascinating, manifold, and too often overlooked histories of women. With engaging prose and compelling stories, Annabelle Hirsch's book contains a curated and diverse compendium of women and their things, uncovering the thoughts and feelings at the heart of women's daily lives. The result is an intimate and stirring alternative history of humans in the world.

Free Download A Good Bad Boy: Luke Perry and How a Generation Grew Up (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CMJDQ9N3 | 2024 | 7 hours and 6 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 399 MB
Author: Margaret Wappler
Narrator: Margaret Wappler, Jennifer Jill Araya, George Newbern
An artful and contemplative tribute to the late actor famed for his role as Dylan McKay in Beverly Hills, 90210. Best known for playing loner rebel Dylan McKay in Beverly Hills 90210, Luke Perry was fifty-two years old when he died of a stroke in 2019. There have been other deaths of 90's stars, but this one hit different. Gen X was reminded of their own inescapable mortality, and robbed of an exciting career resurgence for one of their most cherished icons-with recent roles in the hit series Riverdale and Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time In Hollywood bringing him renewed attention and acclaim. Only upon his death, as stories poured out online about his authenticity and kindness, did it become clear how little was known about the exceedingly humble actor and how deeply he impacted popular culture.