English | ASIN: B09VMKNLL2 | 2022 | 6 hours and 52 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 189 MB
In Profit over Privacy, Matthew Crain gives internet surveillance a much-needed origin story by chronicling the development of its most important historical catalyst: web advertising. Profit over Privacy uses the 1990s as its backdrop to show how the massive data-collection infrastructure that undergirds the internet today is the result of twenty-five years of technical and political economic engineering. Crain considers the social causes and consequences of the internet's rapid embrace of consumer monitoring, detailing how advertisers and marketers adapted to the existential threat of the internet and marshaled venture capital to develop the now-ubiquitous business model called "surveillance advertising."

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English | ASIN: B0009I6MCI | 2005 | 13 hours and 46 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 374 MB
Based on a wealth of documents long buried in the Vatican archives, Prisoner of the Vatican tells the story of the Church's secret attempt to block the unification of Italy and seize control, not in ancient times, but in the late 19th century. For more than 50 years, the pope was a self-imposed prisoner within the Vatican walls, planning to flee Italy, to return only as the restored ruler of Rome and the Papal States. The scheme to dismantle the newborn Italian nation involved not only the cardinals and the Curia but also attempts to exploit the rivalries among France, Germany, Austria, Spain, and England.

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English | ASIN: B07L9TNQQ5 | 2019 | 4 hours and 47 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 132 MB
Find everyday calmness and clarity with simple mindfulness meditations and exercises. Mindfulness meditations are a great way to cultivate awareness and acceptance of the here and now - Practicing Mindfulness makes it easy and accessible with 75 evidence-based exercises designed to bring calmness and compassion into your day-to-day. From finding focus with a five-minute The Power of the Mind exercise to embracing the experience with a 25-minute Open-Awareness Meditation, Practicing Mindfulness provides the tools you need to relieve stress, improve wellness, and practice peace of mind moment to moment and throughout the daily grind.

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English | ASIN: B09P2H3WDQ | 2021 | 7 hours and 5 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 194 MB
The half century extending from the imperial crisis between Britain and its colonies in the 1760s to the early decades of the new republic of the United States was the greatest and most creative era of constitutionalism in American history, and perhaps in the world. During these decades, Americans explored and debated all aspects of politics and constitutionalism - the nature of power, liberty, representation, rights, the division of authority between different spheres of government, sovereignty, judicial authority, and written constitutions. The results of these issues produced institutions that have lasted for over two centuries.

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English | ASIN: B09W369QQR | 2022 | 2 hours and 38 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 143 MB
A practical relaxation programme to settle the mind and unlock higher performance and productivity. You need to relax. No, really, you do. Life is busy, full of things competing for our time and attention, and it's easy to believe that the best way to get things done is just to keep going—as fast as possible. But that just isn't true. In fact, taking time to re-centre ourselves can have tremendous personal and professional benefits. In this concise programme, sports psychologist Dr Josephine Perry and yoga for sports specialist Lexie Williamson will guide you through tried-and-tested relaxation techniques designed especially for busy people—which, let's face it, is all of us. Optimise your downtime, boost your performance, improve your productivity and wellbeing—power down to power up.

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English | ASIN: B0B2Y4VW8G | 2022 | 12 hours and 21 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 339 MB
In this book, Vaclav Smil argues that power density is a key determinant of the nature and dynamics of energy systems. Any understanding of complex energy systems must rely on quantitative measures of many fundamental variables. Power density—the rate of energy flux per unit of area—is an important but largely overlooked measure. Smil provides the first systematic, quantitative appraisal of power density, offering detailed reviews of the power densities of renewable energy flows, fossil fuels, thermal electricity generation, and all common energy uses.

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English | ASIN: B09PRQ9V75 | 2022 | 2 hours and 13 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 121 MB
Do you want more optimism, confidence, resilience and motivation? We currently live in a time of unprecedented challenges, uncertainty, overwhelming stress, loss of hope at times and a need for mental strength and adaptability to a new way of life. Traditional 'positive thinking', trying to constantly tell yourself that everything is okay, no matter the circumstances, just isn't enough to make any lasting difference. After 30 years working as a therapist, Paul McKenna has developed a unique approach - one that can guide you towards an all-round feeling of positivity - putting you into optimal states of mind, building up your resilience and enabling good decisions and actions that lead to successful results in life.

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English | ASIN: B0B27BMJ9N | 2022 | 9 hours and 50 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 271 MB
Every porn scene is a record of people at work. But on-camera labor is only the beginning of the story. Porn Work takes listeners behind the scenes to explore what porn performers think of their work and how they intervene to hack it. Blending extensive fieldwork with feminist and anti-work theorizing, Porn Work details entrepreneurial labor on the boundaries between pleasure and tedium. Rejecting any notion that sex work is an aberration from straight work, it reveals porn workers' creative strategies as prophetic of a working landscape in crisis. In the end, it looks to what porn has to tell us about what's wrong with work, and what it might look like to build something better.

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English | ASIN: B07JWCNRM3 | 2018 | MP3 | M4B | 22 min | 30.3 MB
Learn to successfully play Online & offline Texas No Limit Hold Em' poker & more!

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English | 2011 | MP3 | M4B | ASIN: B004Q3KZYS | Duration: 2:14 h | 91 MB
Seth Godin / Narrated by Seth Godin

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