Audio Books

Free Download Technically Wrong: Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and Other Threats of Toxic Tech (Audiobook)
English | October 10, 2017 | ASIN: B075Y7J3S2 | M4B@62 kbps | 5h 42m | 155.57 MB
Author: Sara Wachter-Boettcher
Narrator: Andrea Emmes
Buying groceries, tracking our health, finding a date: whatever we want to do, odds are that we can now do it online. But few of us ask how all these digital products are designed, or why. It's time we change that. Many of the services we rely on are full of oversights, biases, and downright ethical nightmares. Chatbots that harass women. Signup forms that fail anyone who's not straight. Social media sites that send peppy messages about dead relatives. Algorithms that put more black people behind bars.

Free Download Survival of the Thickest: Essays (Audiobook)
English | December 08, 2020 | ASIN: B07Z8BTYSB | MP3@64 kbps | 6h 34m | 178.95 MB
Author: Michelle Buteau
Narrator: Michelle Buteau
*Now a comedy series on Netflix!*

Free Download Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate over Science and Religion (Audiobook)
English | October 03, 2017 | ASIN: B075Z7ZDZ6 | MP3@64 kbps | 10h 47m | 288.41 MB
Author: Edward J. Larson
Narrator: Brian Troxell
The Pulitzer Prize-winning history of the Scopes "Monkey" Trial and the battle over evolution and creationism in America's schools, now updated with a new afterword.

Free Download Soviet Union Spy Operations: KGB, CIA & Stasi: Learn Fast What It Takes To Be A Secret Service Agent (Audiobook)
English | June 28, 2022 | ISBN: 9798822643697 | MP3@64 kbps | 3h 39m | 99.37 MB
Author: History Forever
Narrator: Khai Lannor
★ Do you like real spy stories? ★

Free Download Social Security Horror Stories: Protect Yourself From the System & Avoid Clawbacks (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CNF8F5Q1 | 2023 | 5 hours and 57 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 326 MB
Author: Laurence Kotlikoff, Terry Savage
Narrator: Terry Savage, Alexander Kotlikoff
Learn how to make sure you get the correct Social Security benefits, avoid frightening clawbacks, and how to deal with the opaque bureaucracy of Social Security. Social Security admits it has made $21.6 billion in incorrect benefits payments! Now it wants its money back-from widows, orphans, retired schoolteachers, and even young children whose parents received disability benefits on their behalf. Often with no explanation, they send threatening letters clawing back amounts ranging from several thousand dollars to more than $100,000.

Free Download So I'm a Spider, So What?, Vol. 7 (Audiobook)
English | November 14, 2023 | ASIN: B0CCFV53NM | M4B@125 kbps | 7h 39m | 429 MB
Author: Okina Baba, Tsukasa Kiryu - illustrator, Jennifer McKeon
Narrator: Caitlin Kelly
Seriously! What genre is this?!

Free Download Small Business Revolution: How Owners and Entrepreneurs Can Succeed (Audiobook)
English | March 15, 2022 | ASIN: B09TV9XC35 | MP3@64 kbps | 7h 58m | 218.84 MB
Author: Barry McCarthy
Narrator: Barry Abrams
In Small Business Revolution president and CEO of Deluxe Corp. Barry C. McCarthy delivers a stirring combination of uplifting narrative and small business instruction manual. Featuring inspiring stories from the company's 106-year history and anecdotes from its Emmy-nominated TV show Small Business Revolution, this book offers listeners the opportunity to learn how to grow and thrive in their business in any environment, from a booming economy to a post-pandemic marketplace.

Free Download Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems (Audiobook)
English | February 05, 2021 | ASIN: B08VKWBJFS | M4B@125 kbps | 20h 8m | 1.06 GB
Author: Betsy Beyer, Chris Jones, Jennifer Petoff, Niall Richard Murphy
Narrator: Liz Porter
The overwhelming majority of a software system's lifespan is spent in use, not in design or implementation. So, why does conventional wisdom insist that software engineers focus primarily on the design and development of large scale computing systems?

Free Download Simply Put: Why Clear Messages Win and How to Design Them (Audiobook)
English | ISBN: 9781663733344 | 2023 | 4 hours and 31 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 124 MB
Author: Ben Guttmann
Narrator: Brian Wiggins
How do you break through the noise? Why do some messages work when others don't? Why do some ideas break through, why do some slogans stick in your brain, and why do some leaders inspire change-when others don't? The answer is simple. Literally. The most effective communicators in the world all structure their messages the same way, by designing for simplicity. But the problem is, simple is hard work. Our brains are programmed to complicate. Our world incentivizes more, more, more. It takes deliberate, intentional effort to communicate in a way that seems effortless. In Simply Put, award-winning marketing entrepreneur Ben Guttmann unveils a five-part framework that allows anybody to communicate with clarity. With this book, you'll be able to design messages that are beneficial, focused, salient, empathetic, and minimal-and that work.

Free Download Shipwrecked: A True Civil War Story of Mutinies, Jailbreaks, Blockade-Running, and the Slave Trade (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CPQX2L96 | 2023 | 11 hours and 31 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 346 MB
Author: Jonathan W. White
Narrator: Al Kessel
Historian Jonathan W. White tells the riveting story of Appleton Oaksmith, a swashbuckling sea captain whose life intersected with some of the most important moments, movements, and individuals of the mid-nineteenth century, from the California Gold Rush, filibustering schemes in Nicaragua, Cuban liberation, and the Civil War and Reconstruction. Most importantly, the book depicts the extraordinary lengths the Lincoln Administration went to destroy the illegal trans-Atlantic slave trade. Using Oaksmith's case as a lens, White takes listeners into the murky underworld of New York City, where federal marshals plied the docks in lower Manhattan in search of evidence of slave trading.