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![]() English | 2022 | MP3 | M4B | ASIN: B09B2YVR6R | Duration: 7:44 h | 159 MB Jennifer Robertson, Stephen Kimber / Narrated by Stephanie Willing ![]() English | 2022 | MP3 | M4B | ASIN: B09P3QPG9L | Duration: 11:54 h | 649 MB Lucy Cooke / Narrated by Lucy Cooke ![]() English | ISBN: 9781696600613 | 2022 | MP3 | M4B | 4h026m | 124 MB Rodney grew up during the crack epidemic, with guns, drugs, and the threat of incarceration an accepted part of daily life for nearly everyone he knew. To rent his own apartment, he needed a paycheck-something the money from dealing drugs didn't provide. For that, he took a position in 1992 with a new nonprofit, the Earth Conservation Corps. Gradually, Rodney fell in love with the work to restore and conserve the polluted Anacostia River that flows through DC. As conditions along the river improved, he helped to reintroduce bald eagles to the region and befriended an injured Eurasian Eagle Owl named Mr. Hoots, the first of many birds whose respect he would work hard to earn. Bird Brother is a story about pursuing dreams against all odds, and the importance of second chances. Rodney's life was nearly upended when he was arrested on drug charges in 2002. The jail sentence sharpened his resolve to get out of the hustling life. With the fierceness of the raptors he had admired for so long, he began to train to become a master falconer and to develop his own raptor education program and sanctuary. Rodney's son Mike, a DC firefighter, has also begun his journey to being a master falconer, with his own kids cheering him along the way. ![]() English | ASIN: B09K4JF35W | 2022 | MP3 | M4B | ~12:24:00 | 352 MB Dade Hayes, Dawn Chmielewski, Will Damron (Narrator), "Binge Times: Inside Hollywood's Furious Billion-Dollar Battle to Take Down Netflix" ![]() English | ASIN: B08XWH8W2X | 2021 | 12 hours and 10 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 334 MB Billy Graham Was the World's Best-Known Evangelist - Loved and Admired by Millions. But Very Few Knew Him Personally. Bestselling author Greg Laurie was one of those fortunate few, blessed with an insider's view of Billy Graham's world for more than two decades. With the same painstaking research and eye for detail that distinguishes his previous biographies, Laurie now turns to the life of his beloved mentor, offering the intimate perspective of a disciple and friend. From the evangelist's private challenges and public successes to his disappointments and joys, Billy Graham: The Man I Knew provides a vivid portrait of one of history's most remarkable Christian lives. ![]() English | ASIN: B09FW5D8WN | 2022 | MP3 | M4B | ~05:48:00 | 171 MB Liz Fosslien (Author, Narrator), Mollie West Duffy (Author, Narrator), "Big Feelings: How to Be Okay When Things Are Not Okay" ![]() English | ASIN: B0B449T11R | 2022 | 5 hours and 22 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 148 MB Big Data is everywhere. It shapes our lives in more ways than we know and understand. This comprehensive introduction unravels the complex terabytes that will continue to shape our lives in ways imagined and unimagined. Drawing on case studies like Amazon, Facebook, this book looks at how Big Data is changing the way we behave, consume and respond to situations in the digital age. It looks at how big data has the potential to transform disaster management and healthcare, as well as prove to be authoritarian and exploitative in the wrong hands. The latest offering from the authors of Artificial Intelligence: Evolution, Ethics and Public Policy, this accessibly written volume is essential for the researcher in science and technology studies, media and culture studies, public policy and digital humanities, as well as act as a beacon for the general listener to make sense of the digital age. ![]() English | ASIN: B09X5YMTFM | 2022 | 19 hours and 40 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 541 MB Bibliophobia is a book about material books, how they are cared for, and how they are damaged, throughout the 5,000-year history of writing from Sumeria to the smartphone. Bibliophobia is a global history, covering six continents and seven religions, describing written examples from each of the last thirty centuries (and several earlier). It discusses topics such as the origins of different kinds of human script; the development of textual media such as scrolls, codices, printed books, and artificial intelligence; the collection and destruction of libraries; the use of books as holy relics, talismans, or shrines; and the place of literacy in the history of slavery, heresy, blasphemy, censorship, and persecution. ![]() English | 2020 | MP3 | M4B | ASIN: B08NWK75SQ | Duration: 6:49 h | 372 MB Pavitra Kumar / Narrated by Neha Gargava ![]() English | ISBN: 9780571373833 | 2022 | 10 hours and 2 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 276 MB We measure rainfall and radiation, the depths of space and the emptiness of atoms, calories and steps, happiness and fear. If we could not measure then we could not observe the world around us; we could not experiment, learn, and co-operate. But why did this urge to measure flourish? And when did measurement become ubiquitous? It is an incredible story that spans hunter-gatherer societies to ancient Egyptians, the French Revolution to the relentless quantification of the 21st-century self. It is a tale that tracks humanity's search for dependable truths in a chaotic universe. Full of mavericks and visionaries, adventure and breakthroughs, Beyond Measure shows that measurement has not only made the world we live in, it has made us too. |