Audio Books

Free Download Chasing the Intact Mind: How the Severely Autistic and Intellectually Disabled Were Excluded from the Debates That Affect Them Most (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CNQ55HKM | 2023 | 6 hours and 44 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 371 MB
Author: Amy S.F. Lutz
Narrator: Suzie Althens
The concept of the intact mind, first described in a 2006 memoir, refers to the idea that inside every autistic child is an intelligent, typical child waiting to be liberated by the right diet, the right treatment intervention, the right combination of supports and accommodations. The sentiment itself is not new. Though the idea gives hope to parents devastated by a child's diagnosis, Amy Lutz argues that it has also contributed to widespread dismantling of services badly needed by severely disabled children and their families. In Chasing the Intact Mind, Lutz traces the history of the intact mind concept, explaining how it influences current policy and practice affecting those with autism.

Free Download Chasing Bright Medusas: A Life of Willa Cather (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BVNJZLNG | 2023 | 3 hours and 54 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 218 MB
Author: Benjamin Taylor
Narrator: Benjamin Taylor
A tender biography of one of the greatest authors of the twentieth century and an elegant exploration of artistic endurance, as told by a lifelong lover of Willa Cather's work. The story of Willa Cather is defined by a lifetime of determination, struggle, and gradual emergence. Some show their full powers early, yet Cather was the opposite-she took her time and transformed herself by stages. The writer who leapt to the forefront of American letters with O Pioneers! (1913), The Song of the Lark (1915), and My Ántonia (1918) was already well into middle age.

Free Download Charlie Chaplin vs. America: When Art, Sex, and Politics Collided (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BW263Z1D | 2023 | 13 hours and 53 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 400 MB
Author: Scott Eyman
Narrator: Phil Thron
The remarkable, must-listen story of Charlie Chaplin's years of exile from the United States during the postwar Red Scare, and how it ruined his film career, from bestselling biographer Scott Eyman. Bestselling Hollywood biographer and film historian Scott Eyman tells the story of Charlie Chaplin's fall from grace. In the aftermath of World War Two, Chaplin was criticized for being politically liberal and internationalist in outlook. He had never become a US citizen, something that would be held against him as xenophobia set in when the postwar Red Scare took hold. Politics aside, Chaplin had another problem: his sexual interest in young women.

Free Download Casual Artificial Intelligence: The Next Step in Effective Business AI (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CKWGTM6C | 2023 | 10 hours and 55 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 262 MB
Author: Judith S. Hurwitz, John K. Thompson
Narrator: Tim Andres Pabon
In Causal Artificial Intelligence: The Next Step in Effective, Efficient, and Practical AI, a team of dedicated tech executives delivers a business-focused approach based on a deep and engaging exploration of the models and data used in causal AI. The book's discussions include both accessible and understandable technical detail and business context and concepts that frame causal AI in familiar business settings. An enlightening and easy-to-understand treatment of an essential business topic, Causal Artificial Intelligence is a must-listen for data scientists, subject matter experts, and business leaders seeking to familiarize themselves with a rapidly growing area of AI application and research.

Free Download Cashvertising Online: How to Use the Latest Findings in Buyer Psychology to Explode Your Online Ad Response (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CHT9WJLF | 2023 | 6 hours and 33 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 364 MB
Author: Drew Eric Whitman
Narrator: Johnny Heller
The latest book from Dr. Direct will show you how to master online advertising and enhance your social media strategies. With Cashvertising Online, Whitman reveals even more and how to implement his advice in clear-language to increase your bottom line. Most books discussing online ads teach things like: how to create accounts, how to select demographics, what options to select (video vs. carousel vs. slideshow, etc.), and other topics like maximizing the use of Facebook pixels for fine-tuning your target audience. To create successful Facebook, Instagram, Twitter ads, not only do you need to know copywriting basics, but you also need to understand the highly personal nature of the medium. The successful copywriter needs to make the shift to the highly personal "you and me" approach and learn how to sell without expressing the typical appearance of salesmanship.

Free Download Cashing Out: The Flight of Nazi Treasure, 1945-1948 (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BV8SRYRP | 2023 | 10 hours and 6 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 298 MB
Author: Neill Lochery
Narrator: Kevin Stillwell
When Nazis looked to flee Europe with stolen art, gems, and gold in tow, certain "neutral" countries were all too willing to assist them. By the end of January 1945, it was clear to Germany that the war was lost. The Third Reich was in freefall, and its leaders, apart from those clustered around Hitler in his Berlin bunker, sought to abscond before they were besieged. But they wanted to take their wealth with them. Their escape routes were diverse: Sweden and Switzerland boasted proximity, banking, and industrial closeness, while Spain and Portugal offered an inviting Atlantic coastline and shipping routes to South America. And in various ways, each of these so-called neutral nations welcomed the Nazi escapees, along with the clandestine wealth they carried. Cashing Out tells the riveting history of the race to intercept the stolen assets before they disappeared, and before the will to punish Germany was replaced by the political considerations of the fast-approaching Cold War. Bestselling author Neill Lochery here brilliantly recounts the flight of the Nazi-looted riches-the last great escape of World War II-and the Allied quest for justice.

Free Download Canopy of Titans: The Life and Times of the Great North American Temperate Rainforest (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CNBBWZNP | 2023 | 10 hours and 1 minute | M4B@64 kbps | 294 MB
Author: Paul Koberstein, Jessica Applegate
Narrator: Tom Beyer
In Canopy of Titans, Paul Koberstein and Jessica Applegate examine the global importance of the Pacific Coastal Temperate Rainforest that stretches from Northern California to Alaska. Their urgent and authoritative account sets out the threats facing a vital environmental resource, and celebrates the beauty and complexity of one of the world's great forests. Drawing on years of on-the-ground reporting, Koberstein and Applegate pull back the curtain on policies of governmental bodies that have seriously diminished the rainforest's capacity to store carbon, and uncover industry practices that have led to the destruction of swaths of a major ecological resource. Additionally, using an environmental justice perspective, Canopy of Titans shines a light on the Indigenous communities that have lived in the rainforest for millennia, and the impact forest policies have had on their lives.

Free Download Candace Pert: Genius, Greed, and Madness in the World of Science (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BYBNT1CZ | 2023 | 8 hours and 42 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 252 MB
Author: Pamela Ryckman
Narrator: Pamela Ryckman, Jess Nahikian
The story of maverick scientist Candace Pert, whose groundbreaking research introduced the world to the mind-body connection, opioid receptors, and peptide T, and her fight for recognition in a toxic healthcare system. Candace Pert stood at the dawn of three revolutions: the women's movement, integrative health, and psychopharmacology. A scientific prodigy, she was 30 years ahead of her time, preaching a holistic, interdisciplinary approach to healthcare and medicine long before yoga hit the mainstream and "wellness" took root in our vernacular. Her bestselling book Molecules of Emotion made her the mother of the Mind/Body Revolution, launching a paradigm shift in medicine. Deepak Chopra credits her with creating his career, and he said as much in his eulogy at her funeral.

Free Download Cacophony of Bone: The Circle of a Year (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CNKZQV54 | 2023 | 9 hours and 38 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 278 MB
Author: Kerri ní Dochartaigh
Narrator: Kerri ní Dochartaigh
Two days after the winter solstice in 2019, Kerri and her partner moved to a remote cottage in the heart of Ireland. They were looking for a home, somewhere to settle into a stable life. Then the pandemic arrived and their secluded abode became a place of enforced isolation. What was meant to be the beginning of an enriching new chapter was instead marked by uncertainty and fear. The seasons still passed, the swallows returned, the rhythms of the natural world went on, but in many ways 2020 was unlike any year we had seen before. And for Kerri there would be one more change: a baby, longed for but utterly, beautifully unexpected.

Free Download Burning Steel: A Tank Regiment at War, 1939-45 (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CLMBN1HD | 2023 | 13 hours and 33 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 392 MB
Author: Peter Hart
Narrator: Julian Elfer
This is the story of a tank regiment: the 2nd Fife and Forfar Yeomanry in the Second World War. Raw and visceral personal recollections from the men themselves recall some of the most dramatic and horrific scenes imaginable-the sheer nerve-wracking tension of serving in highly inflammable Sherman tanks, the sudden impact of German shells, the desperate scramble to bail out, and the awful fate of those who couldn't. Even if they made it out of the tank, they were still vulnerable to being brutally cut down by German infantry. Yet amidst these horrors, the humanity of these men shines through. And as we follow in their tracks, through letters, diaries, and eye-witness accounts, they will change how we think about tank warfare forever.