How to Stand Up to a Dictator: The Fight for Our Future (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B09TWX2W3M | 2022 | 10 hours and 14 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 558 MB
Author: Maria Ressa
Narrator: Maria Ressa, Rebecca Mozo
From the recipient of the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize, an impassioned and inspiring memoir of a career spent holding power to account. Maria Ressa is one of the most renowned international journalists of our time. For decades, she challenged corruption and malfeasance in her native country, the Philippines, on its rocky path from an authoritarian state to a democracy. As a reporter from CNN, she transformed news coverage in her region, which led her in 2012 to create a new and innovative online news organization, Rappler. Harnessing the emerging power of social media, Rappler crowdsourced breaking news, found pivotal sources and tips, harnessed collective action for climate change, and helped increase voter knowledge and participation in elections. But by their fifth year of existence, Rappler had gone from being lauded for its ideas to being targeted by the new Philippine government, and made Ressa an enemy of her country's most powerful man: President Duterte. Still, she did not let up, tracking government seeded disinformation networks which spread lies to its own citizens laced with anger and hate. Hounded by the state and its allies using the legal system to silence her, accused of numerous crimes, and charged with cyberlibel for which she was found guilty, Ressa faces years in prison and thousands in fines.

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How to Meet Your Self: The Workbook for Self-Discovery (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B09VQ3P197 | 2022 | 5 hours and 49 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 168 MB
Author: Dr. Nicole LePera
Narrator: Courtney Patterson
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How to Be Charismatic: The Secret to Being Charming, Sociable, Confident and Likeable by Everyone (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BL24V8SX | 2022 | 3 hours and 17 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 179 MB
Author: Michelle Mann
Narrator: Jack Wolff
Inside this book is the essential formula to getting what you want through cultivating charisma. This is a book and workbook combination that is well constructed for whatever level you're at. It's an inspiring experience where you can practice charm in real-time and not just in theory. You'll feel an immediate sense of accomplishment and growth. Best of all, the book is broken down into exercises that are fun and easy to follow. This book focuses on the practical real-world approach. You're given the truth about people, perceptions, and how to navigate all of it in any circumstance successfully. This book ensures that you unleash the limitless power that is within you, at the right time, and in the right place for your ultimate success.

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How We Win the Civil War: Securing a Multiracial Democracy and Ending White Supremacy for Good (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BLTFJH6L | 2022 | 13 hours and 16 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 376 MB
Author: Steve Phillips
Narrator: Bill Andrew Quinn
In How We Win the Civil War, Phillips charts the way forward for progressives and people of color after four years of Trump, arguing that Democrats must recognize the nature of the fight we're in, which is a contest between democracy and white supremacy left unresolved after the Civil War. We will not overcome, Phillips writes, until we govern as though we are under attack-until we finally recognize that the time has come to finish the conquest of the Confederacy and all that it represents. With his trademark blend of political analysis and historical argument, Phillips lays out razor-sharp prescriptions for 2022 and beyond, from increasing voter participation and demolishing racist immigration policies to reviving the Great Society programs of the 1960s-all of them geared toward strengthening a new multiracial democracy and ridding our politics of white supremacy, once and for all.

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How We Heal: Uncover Your Power and Set Yourself Free (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BGT8WJKM | 2022 | 4 hours and 48 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 128 MB
Author: Alexandra Elle
Narrator: Alexandra Elle
Beloved wellness author and teacher Alexandra Elle shares this practical and empowering guide to self-healing. In How We Heal, bestselling author Alexandra Elle offers a life-changing invitation to heal yourself and reclaim your peace. In this book, listeners will discover essential techniques for self-healing, including journaling rituals to cultivate innate strength, accessible tools for processing difficult emotions, and restorative meditations to ease the mind. Alex Elle elegantly weaves together themes like self-healing, mindfulness, inner child work, and boundary setting and presents the listener with easy-to-follow practices that have changed her life and the lives of the thousands of people she has taught. Her 5-part framework for healing will appeal to anyone who wants a clear process, while the compelling personal stories leave the listener feeling connected and ready to begin again.

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How We Grow Through What We Go Through: Self-Compassion Practices for Post-Traumatic Growth (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BMNPHXWR | 2022 | 4 hours and 19 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 116 MB
Author: Christopher Willard
Narrator: Kent Klineman
Turn your everyday experiences into a source of strength with the easy-to-learn practices in this uplifting guide to post-traumatic growth. Trauma pervades every aspect of our lives, particularly in recent years between climate change, social justice issues, the coronavirus pandemic, and more. But the truth is that post-traumatic growth, rather than post-traumatic stress, is not only possible but probable. In this book, you'll discover the conditions and compassionate practices that make growth and resilience possible, including: how to regulate your nervous system by regulating your breath and body; trauma-informed self-compassion practices that make you more resilient to the world around you; skills to set boundaries to aid in your healing; and dozens of other ways to turn your difficult experiences toward growth. Simple and to the point, each chapter offers practices, self-assessments, enlightening science facts, and advice for the real world. No one gets a pass from life's challenges. The good news is, we are hardwired to turn them into a source of strength. Turn to this book anytime you need to find out How We Grow Through What We Go Through.

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How Sex Changed the Internet and the Internet Changed Sex: An Unexpected History (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0B5YMK6NY | 2022 | 8 hours and 24 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 216 MB
Author: Samantha Cole
Narrator: Brittany Pressley
From the moment there was an "online," there was sex online. The famous test image used by software engineers to develop formats like the jpeg was "Lena," taken from Playboy's November 1972 centerfold. Early bulletin boards and multi-user domains quickly came to serve their members' sexual musings. Facebook started as a way to rate "hot or not" Harvard co-eds. In fact, virtually every significant development that defines the Internet we know and love (and hate) today-privacy issues, online payments and online banking, dating, social media, streaming technology, mass data collection-came out of the meeting of sexuality and technology. And the kicker is, not only did sexuality vastly influence the Internet, but the Internet arguably changed modern human sexuality by giving every imaginable non-heteronormative community a place to explore, fantasize, thrive, and be accepted. A lively history, filled with broad themes and backstories, pioneering personalities and eureka-moments, How the Internet Changed Sex... is a short, serious, and highly entertaining look at the intertwining convergence of sex and the Internet.

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How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0B2BZGV4Z | 2022 | 5 hours and 41 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 152 MB
Author: Sabrina Imbler
Narrator: Sabrina Imbler
A queer, mixed race writer working in a largely white, male field, science and conservation journalist Sabrina Imbler has always been drawn to the mystery of life in the sea, and particularly to creatures living in hostile or remote environments. Each essay in their debut collection profiles one such creature: the mother octopus who starves herself while watching over her eggs, the Chinese sturgeon whose migration route has been decimated by pollution and dams, the bizarre Bobbitt worm (named after Lorena), and other uncanny creatures lurking in the deep ocean, far below where the light reaches. Imbler discovers that some of the most radical models of family, community, and care can be found in the sea, from gelatinous chains that are both individual organisms and colonies of clones to deep-sea crabs that have no need for the sun, nourished instead by the chemicals and heat throbbing from the core of the Earth. Exploring themes of adaptation, survival, sexuality, and care, and weaving the wonders of marine biology with stories of their own family, relationships, and coming of age, How Far the Light Reaches is a book that invites us to envision wilder, grander, and more abundant possibilities for the way we live.

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How China Escaped the Poverty Trap (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BMJ26J2Z | 2022 | 11 hours and 50 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 341 MB
Author: Yuen Yuen Ang
Narrator: Catherine Ho
How can poor and weak societies escape poverty traps? Political economists have traditionally offered three answers: "stimulate growth first," "build good institutions first," or "some fortunate nations inherited good institutions that led to growth." Yuen Yuen Ang rejects all three schools of thought and their underlying assumptions: linear causation, a mechanistic worldview, and historical determinism. Instead, she launches a new paradigm grounded in complex adaptive systems, which embraces the reality of interdependence and humanity's capacity to innovate. Her analysis reveals two broad lessons on development. First, transformative change requires an adaptive governing system that empowers ground-level actors to create new solutions for evolving problems. Second, the first step out of the poverty trap is to "use what you have"-harnessing existing resources to kick-start new markets, even if that means defying first-world norms. Bold and meticulously researched, How China Escaped the Poverty Trap opens up a whole new avenue of thinking for scholars, practitioners, and anyone seeking to build adaptive systems.

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How Asia Found Herself: A Story of Intercultural Understanding (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BM57FC3M | 2022 | 17 hours and 37 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 501 MB
Author: Nile Green
Narrator: Rick Adamson
A pioneering history of cross-cultural knowledge that exposes enduring fractures in unity across the world's largest continent. The nineteenth century saw European empires build vast transport networks to maximize their profits from trade, and it saw Christian missionaries spread printing across Asia to bring Bibles to the colonized. The unintended consequence was an Asian communications revolution: the maritime public sphere expanded from Istanbul to Yokohama. From all corners of the continent, curious individuals confronted the challenges of studying each other's cultures by using the infrastructure of empire for their own exploratory ends. Whether in Japanese or Persian, Bengali or Arabic, they wrote travelogues, histories, and phrasebooks to chart the vastly different regions that European geographers labeled "Asia." Yet comprehension does not always keep pace with connection. Far from flowing smoothly, inter-Asian understanding faced obstacles of many kinds, especially on a landmass with so many scripts and languages. Here is the dramatic story of cross-cultural knowledge on the world's largest continent, exposing the roots of enduring fractures in Asian unity.

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