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Free Download Dickensland: The Curious History of Dickens's London (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CN1S6FXJ | 2023 | 9 hours and 3 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 241 MB
Author: Lee Jackson
Narrator: Hannah Curtis
The intriguing history of Dickens's London, showing how tourists have reimagined and reinvented the Dickensian metropolis for more than 150 years. Tourists have sought out the landmarks, streets, and alleys of Charles Dickens's London ever since the death of the world-renowned author. Late Victorians and Edwardians were obsessed with tracking down the locations-dubbed "Dickensland"-that famously featured in his novels. But his fans were faced with a city that was undergoing rapid redevelopment, where literary shrines were far from sacred. Over the following century, sites connected with Dickens were demolished, relocated, and reimagined.

Free Download Dick Sutphen's Hypnosis (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CHTC6Q52 | 2023 | 8 hours and 45 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 248 MB
Author: Roberta Sutphen
Narrator: Jo Anna Perrin
The amazing powers of hypnosis are well known, but few know how to use them to improve life and win success. Why is hypnosis so powerful? Because it allows to you to access the many dimensions of your mind-most of which you aren't even aware of. Hypnosis will help you make use of your limitless brain power. The late Dick Sutphen was a master of hypnosis. This book, which brings together his lectures and hypnosis scripts from over many decades. Your mind is by far your most valuable resource. Let this important and powerful book show you how to use it most effectively.

Free Download Diana: Remembering the Princess (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C94YNDS2 | 2023 | 7 hours and 24 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 209 MB
Author: Ken Wharfe, Ros (Rosalind) Coward
Narrator: Ken Wharfe, Emily Pennant-Rea
Today, twenty-five years since Diana's death, seems the right moment for a reassessment of this remarkable woman. Did the Royal Family learn lessons from her life, about protection and privacy, about how to incorporate outsiders into their ranks, about how to manage scandal? Did it take any lessons from her death-and the public's reaction not only to that but also to the behavior of, in particular, the Queen and Prince Charles, in the aftermath? Or have the family and the Palace-the men in grey suits, as Diana called them-continued on the same track, unchanged, repeating many of the mistakes made with her, from her first nervous ventures in royal circles to her later defiance of traditional protocols?

Free Download Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BVNSX4CQ | 2023 | 16 hours and 39 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 478 MB
Author: Robert M. Sapolsky
Narrator: Kaleo Griffith
One of our great behavioral scientists, the bestselling author, plumbs the depths of the science and philosophy of decision-making to mount a devastating case against free will, an argument with profound consequences. Robert Sapolsky's Behave, his now classic account of why humans do good and why they do bad, pointed toward an unsettling conclusion: We may not grasp the precise marriage of nature and nurture that creates the physics and chemistry at the base of human behavior, but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Now, in Determined, Sapolsky takes his argument all the way, mounting a brilliant (and in his inimitable way, delightful) full-frontal assault on the pleasant fantasy that there is some separate self telling our biology what to do. Determined offers a marvelous synthesis of what we know about how consciousness works-the tight weave between reason and emotion and between stimulus and response in the moment and over a life.

Free Download Design Social Change: Take Action, Work Toward Equity, and Challenge the Status Quo (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C5K4Q14X | 2023 | 2 hours and 53 minutes | M4B@192 kbps | 238 MB
Author: Lesley-Ann Noel
Narrator: Lesley-Ann Noel, Scott Doorley
Discover design strategies for using your own unique social identities and experiences as inspiration to challenge the status quo and create the kind of lasting change that leads to greater equity and social justice, from Stanford University's d.school. Who are you? What motivates you as a changemaker? What forces are preventing you (and others) from thriving? These questions are essential to the work of creating social change, and they are exactly what Design Social Change asks you to explore. Designer and design educator Lesley-Ann Noel shares the essential design strategies for making a lasting impact. This work starts with knowing yourself and builds outward into making change in your community and the larger world.

Free Download Deception: The Great COVID Cover-Up (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CKLTSKCJ | 2023 | 13 hours and 45 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 364 MB
Author: Rand Paul
Narrator: Joe Louis
Senator Rand Paul was on to Anthony Fauci from the start. Wielding previously unimaginable power, Fauci misled the country about the origins of the COVID pandemic and shut down scientific dissent. One of the few leaders who dared to challenge "America's Doctor" was Senator Rand Paul, himself a physician. Deception is his indictment of the catastrophic failures of the public health bureaucracy during the pandemic. It almost worked. At Fauci's insistence, the government imposed needlessly extreme lockdowns on Americans at the cost of immense personal and economic destruction. COVID-19 was deadly, but the real killer was the coverup, led by America's most durable medical bureaucrat-a man for whom the truth was too often expendable. Senator Paul makes a powerful case that funding dangerous bioengineering in a totalitarian country is madness. If we don't heed this warning, the next pandemic could be far worse.

Free Download Death Glitch: How Techno-Solutionism Fails Us in This Life and Beyond (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CLBLWPB1 | 2023 | 7 hours and 22 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 214 MB
Author: Tamara Kneese
Narrator: Linda Jones
An accessible yet erudite deep dive into how platforms are remaking experiences of death. Since the internet's earliest days, people have died and mourned online. In quiet corners of past iterations of the web, the dead linger. But attempts at preserving the data of the dead are often ill-fated, for websites and devices decay and die, just as people do. Death disrupts technologists' plans for platforms. It reveals how digital production is always collaborative, undermining the entrepreneurial platform economy and highlighting the flaws of techno-solutionism.

Free Download Daughter of the Dragon: Anna May Wong's Rendezvous with American History (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CKRW87HG | 2023 | 13 hours and 16 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 378 MB
Author: Yunte Huang
Narrator: Rebecca Lam
A trenchant reclamation of the Chinese American movie star, whose battles against cinematic exploitation and endemic racism are set against the currents of twentieth-century history. Born into the steam and starch of a Chinese laundry, Anna May Wong (1905-1961) emerged from turn-of-the-century Los Angeles to become Old Hollywood's most famous Chinese American actress, a screen siren who captivated global audiences and signed her publicity photos-with a touch of defiance-"Orientally yours." Now, more than a century after her birth, Yunte Huang narrates Wong's tragic life story, retracing her journey from Chinatown to silent-era Hollywood, and from Weimar Berlin to decadent, prewar Shanghai, and capturing American television in its infancy. As Huang shows, Wong's rendezvous with history features a remarkable parade of characters, including a smitten Walter Benjamin and (an equally smitten) Marlene Dietrich. Challenging the parodically racist perceptions of Wong as a "Dragon Lady," "Madame Butterfly," or "China Doll," Huang's biography becomes a truly resonant work of history that reflects the raging anti-Chinese xenophobia, unabashed sexism, and ageism toward women that defined both Hollywood and America in Wong's all-too-brief fifty-six years on earth.

Free Download Data Baby: My Life in a Psychological Experiment (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BF19YJ33 | 2023 | 6 hours and 54 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 184 MB
Author: Susannah Breslin
Narrator: Cassandra Campbell
Lab Girl meets Brain on Fire in this provocative and poignant memoir delving into a woman's formative experiences as a veritable "lab rat" in a lifelong psychological study, and her pursuit to reclaim autonomy and her identity as a adult. What if your parents turn you into a human lab rat when you're a child? Will that change the story of your life? Will that change who you are? When Susannah Breslin is a toddler, her parents enroll her in an exclusive laboratory preschool at the University of California, Berkeley, where she becomes one of over a hundred children who are research subjects in an unprecedented 30-year study of personality development that predicts who she and her cohort will grow up to be. Decades later, trapped in what she feels is an abusive marriage and battling breast cancer, she starts to wonder how growing up under a microscope shaped her identity and life choices.

Free Download Dark Matter: The New Science of the Microbiome (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BG8ZNHR3 | 2023 | 11 hours and 17 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 616 MB
Author: Dr. James Kinross
Narrator: Dr. James Kinross
An urgent investigation into the brave new world of the microbiome and how it shapes our lives and health. The microbiome is the missing link in modern medicine: a vast genetic universe of bacteria, yeasts, viruses and parasites that live inside us, influencing every aspect of our health, even the way we think and feel. In this mindblowing book, scientist and surgeon James Kinross explains how the organisms that live within us have helped us evolve, shaped our biology and defined the success of our species. But just as we have discovered this delicate and complex ecosystem within us, it is being irrevocably destroyed through the globalisation of our diets and lifestyles, our addiction to antibiotics, and the destruction of our environment. With dazzling science and fascinating stories spanning from the dawn of humankind to the current race to develop personalised healthcare, and practical advice on how to nurture your microbiome through your diet and lifestyle, this pioneering book will change the way you think about human health forever.