Free Download Producing the Acceptable Sex Worker: An Analysis of Media Representations by Gwyn Easterbrook-Smith
English | 2022 | ISBN: B0B44DMWLB | Format: MP3 / Bitrate: 64 Kbps / 6 hours and 12 minutes | 170 Mb
Producing the Acceptable Sex Worker considers how sex work is produced in news media narratives, a site where much of the general public draws its understanding of the industry in the absence of lived interaction with it. Taking New Zealand as a case study, this book considers an emerging discourse of acceptability for some sex workers, primarily those who do low-volume indoor work. Their acceptability is established in comparison with other kinds of sex workers, resulting in a redistribution but not a reduction of stigma.
The conditions attached to acceptability reflect persistent anxieties about sex work: Workers who are acceptable must give the impression that the sexual labor of the job is enjoyable and virtually indistinguishable from their personal life, eliding the work involved. Unacceptable workers have existing marginalizations magnified by their association with the industry, with migrant sex workers produced as devious or exploited, and transgender women's involvement with the industry used to deny them the right to public space. The conditions attached to acceptability reveal how neoliberal discourses of choice, desire, authenticity, and personal responsibility inform the formation of sex work in the public eye.

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Free Download Penance: A Novel by Eliza Clark, Hollie-Jay Bowes, Anna Gilthorpe
English | 2023 | ISBN: B0BSVR8YBY | MP3@56 Kbps | Duration: 11:50 h | 272 Mb
One ofGranta's Best Young British Novelists 2023
From the author of the cult hit Boy Parts comes a chilling, brilliantly told story of murder among a group of teenage girls-a powerful and disturbing novel as piercing in its portrait of young women as Emma Cline's The Girls.

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Free Download Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B00CH7FWWU | 2013 | 10 hours and 48 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 296 MB
Author: Charles Wheelan
Narrator: Jonathan Davis

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Free Download Move: The 4-Question Go-to-Market Framework by Sangram Vajre, Bryan Brown, Paul Schmidt
English | 2021 | ISBN: B09KM74NVB | M4B@125 kbps | 2h 19m | 126 Mb
Ideation. Transition. Execution.
These are the three stages of business growth every C-suite leader must navigate throughout the life of their company. Surviving each one is not good enough. You want to thrive, evolve, and, when necessary, transform.

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Free Download Making a Metaverse That Matters: From Snow Crash & Second Life to a Virtual World Worth Fighting For
Author: Wagner James Au
Narrator: Shawn Compton
English | 2023 | ASIN: B0CCYYFKWD | MP3@64 kbps | Duration: 10h 53m | 701 MB

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Free Download Lost to the West: The Forgotten Byzantine Empire That Rescued Western Civilization by Lars Brownworth, Random House Audio
English | 2009 | ISBN: B002P9T8CU | MP3@128 kbps | 10h 3m | 277 Mb
Filled with unforgettable stories of emperors, generals, and religious patriarchs, as well as fascinating glimpses into the life of the ordinary citizen, Lost to the West reveals how much we owe to the Byzantine Empire that was the equal of any in its achievements, appetites, and enduring legacy. For more than a millennium, Byzantium reigned as the glittering seat of Christian civilization.
When Europe fell into the Dark Ages, Byzantium held fast against Muslim expansion, keeping Christianity alive. Streams of wealth flowed into Constantinople, making possible unprecedented wonders of art and architecture. And the emperors who ruled Byzantium enacted a saga of political intrigue and conquest as astonishing as anything in recorded history. Lost to the West is replete with stories of assassination, mass mutilation and execution, sexual scheming, ruthless grasping for power, and clashing armies that soaked battlefields with the blood of slain warriors numbering in the tens of thousands.

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Free Download Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Laural Merlington, Tantor Audio
English | 2018 | ISBN: B07JNNG1LV | MP3@64 kbps | 6h 35m + EPUB | 181 Mb
With President Trump suggesting that teachers arm themselves, with the NRA portrayed as a group of "patriots" helping to Make America Great Again, with high school students across the country demanding a solution to the crisis, everyone in America needs to engage in the discussion about our future with an informed, historical perspective on the role of guns in our society. America is at a critical turning point. What is the future for our children?
Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment is a deeply researched - and deeply disturbing - history of guns and gun laws in the United States, from the original colonization of the country to the present. As historian and educator Dunbar-Ortiz explains, in order to understand the current obstacles to gun control, we must understand the history of US guns, from their role in the "settling of America" and the early formation of the new nation, and continuing up to the present.

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Free Download Larry McMurtry: A Life (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C5ND6MPH | 2023 | 20 hours and 4 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 571 MB
Author: Tracy Daugherty
Narrator: Matt Godfrey

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Free Download Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern by Jing Tsu, Penguin Audio
English | 2022 | ISBN: B093MTVGB8 | M4B@64 kbps | 11h 18m | 329 Mb
What does it take to reinvent a language?
After a meteoric rise, China today is one of the world's most powerful nations. Just a century ago, it was a crumbling empire with literacy reserved for the elite few, as the world underwent a massive technological transformation that threatened to leave them behind. In Kingdom of Characters, Jing Tsu argues that China's most daunting challenge was a linguistic one: the century-long fight to make the formidable Chinese language accessible to the modern world of global trade and digital technology.

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Free Download Inside Scientology: The Story of America's Most Secretive Religion (Audiobook)
English | July 11, 2011 | ASIN: B005C2LNNO | M4B@96 kbps | 15h 40m | 690 MB
Author: Janet Reitman | Narrator: Stephen Hoye
Scientology, created in 1954 by a prolific sci-fi writer named L. Ron Hubbard, claims to be the world's fastest-growing religion, with millions of members around the world and huge financial holdings. Its celebrity believers keep its profile high, and its teams of "volunteer ministers" offer aid at disaster sites such as Haiti and the World Trade Center. But Scientology is also a notably closed faith, harassing journalists and others through litigation and intimidation, even infiltrating the highest levels of government to further its goals. Its attacks on psychiatry and its requirement that believers pay as much as tens and even hundreds of thousands of dollars for salvation have drawn scrutiny and skepticism. And ex-members use the Internet to share stories of harassment and abuse.

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