English | ASIN: B09NF5WHPK | 2021 | 8 hours and 53 minutes |MP3 | M4B | 245 MB
The hidden costs of artificial intelligence - from natural resources and labor to privacy, equality, and freedom. What happens when artificial intelligence saturates political life and depletes the planet? How is AI shaping our understanding of ourselves and our societies? Drawing on more than a decade of research, award-winning scholar Kate Crawford reveals how AI is a technology of extraction: from the minerals drawn from the earth, to the labor pulled from low-wage information workers, to the data taken from every action and expression. This book reveals how this planetary network is fueling a shift toward undemocratic governance and increased inequity. Rather than taking a narrow focus on code and algorithms, Crawford offers us a material and political perspective on what it takes to make AI and how it centralizes power. This is an urgent account of what is at stake as technology companies use artificial intelligence to reshape the world.

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English | ASIN: B08SGD77JT | 2021 | 5 hours and 16 minutes |MP3 | M4B | 287 MB
You deserve to stop living at an unsustainable pace. An influential podcaster and thought leader shows you how. Overwhelmed. Overcommitted. Overworked. That's the false script an inordinate number of people adopt to be successful. Does this sound familiar: Slammed is normal. Distractions are everywhere. Life gets reduced to going through the motions. Tired of living that way? At Your Best gives you the strategies you need to win at work and at home by living in a way today that will help you thrive tomorrow.

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January 18, 2022 | ISBN: 9781797135854 | Language: English | File size: 230 MB |MP3 | M4B | 8.4 Hours
A groundbreaking, authoritative exploration-rich with powerful personal stories and convincing research-of the many ways the living can and do accompany the dying on their journey into the afterlife.

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English | February 12, 2021 | ASIN: B08WDSNYKQ |MP3 | M4B | 3h 21m | 91.14 MB
Author: Sofia Visconti

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English | ASIN: B085Z284R3 | 2020 |MP3 | M4B| 4 hours and 36 minutes | 251 MB
For going on two decades, Scientific American's "Ask the Experts" column has been answering listener questions on all fields of science. We've taken your questions from the basic to the esoteric and reached out to top scientists, professors, and researchers to find out why the sky is blue or whether we really only use 10 percent of our brains.

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English | ASIN: B08CS1CVND | 2020 |MP3 | M4B| 4 hours and 6 minutes | 224 MB
From irrational phobias to a midlife crisis, we've all experienced moments of utter confusion about the nature of our own behavior, emotions, or perception of reality. In this audiobook, neurologists and other scientists share what they know about how the mind works, including some of these baffling psychological experiences.

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English | ASIN: B01E46IMFK | 2016 |MP3 | M4B| 10 hours and 35 minutes | 288 MB
From world-renowned biologist and primatologist Frans de Waal comes this groundbreaking work on animal intelligence destined to become a classic.

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English | ASIN: B078PQ98DV | 2018 |MP3 | M4B| 7 hrs and 47 mins | 212 MB
This book is geared to the average citizen with little or no economics background who would like the tools to think critically about economic issues. Many of today's economic issues are obscured by their inherent complexity and the often confusing and conflicting views coming from political talking heads. Sowell, a leading conservative economist and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, seeks to alleviate this confusion. He begins by elucidating the differences between politicians, who are often compelled by political considerations to act for the short term, and economists, who are more concerned with long-term ramifications. Sowell then focuses on the application of economics to major contemporary real-world problems - housing, medical care, discrimination, and the economic development of nations.

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English | ASIN: B09MWMCQM5 | 2021 | 10 hours and 51 minutes |MP3 | M4B | 298 MB
In Appearance in Reality, John Heil addresses a question at the heart of metaphysics: How are the appearances related to reality, how does what we find in the sciences comport with what we encounter in everyday experience and in the laboratory? Objects, for instance, appear to be colorful, noisy, self-contained, and massively interactive. Physics tells us they are dynamic swarms of colorless particles, or disturbances in fields, or something equally strange. Is what we experience illusory, present only in our minds? But then what are minds? Do minds elude physics? Or are the physicist's depictions mere constructs with no claim to reality? Perhaps reality is hierarchical: physics encompasses the fundamental things, the less than fundamental things are dependent on, but distinct from these. Heil's investigation advances a fourth possibility: The scientific image (what we have in physics) affords our best guide to the nature of what the appearances are appearances of.

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English | ASIN: B091J8XNGG | 2021 | 9 hours and 51 minutes |MP3 | M4B | 259 MB
Emmy Award-winning actress Sharon Gless tells all in this laugh-out-loud, juicy, and touching memoir about her five decades in Hollywood, where she took on some of the most groundbreaking roles of her time. Anyone who has seen Sharon Gless act in Cagney and Lacey, Queer as Folk, Burn Notice, and countless other shows and movies, knows that she's someone who gives every role her all. She holds nothing back in Apparently There Were Complaints, a hilarious, deeply personal memoir that spills all about Gless' five decades in Hollywood.

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