Free Download Manipulating the Message: How Powerful Forces Shape the News (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CN1MRRC9 | 2023 | 8 hours and 59 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 261 MB
Author: Cecil Rosner
Narrator: Mike Chamberlain
Journalists hate the term fake news, but there's a troubling reality: spin doctors routinely try to dupe them into reporting misleading and distorted stories. Check the news on any given day and here's what you'll find: Governments routinely lie. Companies inflate claims about their products and practices. Institutions release studies with misleading data meant to deceive. Police departments, infected by systemic racism, downplay crimes against Indigenous and racialized people. The public depends on the media to help them understand the world, but are journalists catching all the daily lies, omissions, and distortions? Shrinking newsrooms and an army of spin doctors mean journalists can get duped. Despite valiant efforts by a handful of investigative journalists, the truth is routinely left behind. Award-winning journalist Cecil Rosner insists there is something we can do about this. We can pressure news organizations to stop blindly regurgitating the firehose of press releases and focus instead on determining what is actually true. Rosner empowers listeners by sharing his techniques for detecting misinformation and disinformation.

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Free Download Making the Supreme Court: The Politics of Appointments, 1930-2020 (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CN1QCF14 | 2023 | 15 hours and 54 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 439 MB
Author: Charles M. Cameron, Jonathan P. Kastellec
Narrator: Lee Goettl
Appointments to the United States Supreme Court are now central events in American political life. However, this has not always been the case. As late as the middle of the twentieth century, presidents invested little time and effort in finding and vetting nominees. Media coverage was desultory, public opinion was largely non-existent, and the justices often voted independently and erratically. In Making the Supreme Court, Charles M. Cameron and Jonathan P. Kastellec show how the growth of federal judicial power from the 1930s onward inspired a multitude of groups struggling to shape judicial policy. Over time, some groups moved beyond lobbying the Court to changing who sits on it.

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Free Download Make Possibilities Happen: How to Transform Ideas into Reality (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C5K2WLKB | 2023 | 2 hours and 41 minutes | M4B@192 kbps | 223 MB
Author: Grace Hawthorne
Narrator: Grace Hawthorne, Scott Doorley, Charlotte Burgess-Auburn
Scheme the impossible! Turn your vision into reality! Transform what if into what's next! Discover how to make your ideas work for you with this transformative guide from Stanford University's d.school. Possibility is the ability to see something in your imagination and materialize it in real life. You already possess (almost) everything you need to make things happen-Make Possibilities Happen helps you find your way. Discover tools and strategies for overcoming the hang-ups that prevent you from getting things done or even starting. Learn exercises for building the creative capacity of your brain. Explore ways to build on the momentum of your work so that you can keep going.

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Free Download Make Money Move: A Guide to Financial Wellness (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BSSBF8RB | 2023 | 5 hours and 1 minute | M4B@128 kbps | 280 MB
Author: Lauren Simmons
Narrator: Lauren Simmons
The popular host of the Money Moves podcast and youngest person ever to trade on the New York Stock Exchange provides winning tips for women to help them shift their financial mindset, become confident about their money, set them on a path to financial security, and live their best lives. Seventy three percent of Americans ranked their finances as the number one cause of stress in their lives. But financial wellness can have a positive effect on your entire life. Not only when it comes to money and finances, but the quality and ease of how you live. Financial wellness means freedom for your body and freedom for your mind. Financial stress can also cause the breakdown of relationships. But it doesn't have to be that way. In 2017, when she was only twenty-two, Lauren Simmons became the youngest full-time female trader at the New York Stock Exchange, and the second African American woman in the Exchange's 228-year history to hold such a position. Driven by a passion for empowering women, Millennials, Gen Zs, and minorities to become more financially savvy, she now shares her experience and knowledge in this savvy financial guide.

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Free Download Magic: The Life of Earvin "Magic" Johnson (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C31DW7B7, B0BVRQ1PVF | 2023 | 30 hours and 2 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 861 MB
Author: Roland Lazenby
Narrator: Roland Lazenby, JD Jackson
Magic Johnson is one of the most beloved, and at times controversial, athletes in history. His iconic smile lifted the dowdy sport of American professional basketball from a second-tier sport with low ratings into the global spotlight-a transformation driven by Magic's ability to eviscerate opponents with a playing style that featured his grand sense of fun. He was a master entertainer who directed the Los Angeles "Showtime" Lakers to the heights of both glory and epic excess, all of it driven by his mind-blowing no-look passes and personal charm. Then, in 1991, at the height of his charismatic power, Johnson shocked the world with a startling cautionary tale about sexually transmitted disease that pushed public awareness of the HIV/AIDS crisis. Then out came his confession of unprotected sex with hundreds of women each year, followed by his retirement, an attempted return, and a proper farewell on the iconic 1992 Olympic Dream Team.

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Free Download Made Whole: The Practical Guide to Reaching Your Financial Goals (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BZFJWQJP | 2023 | 6 hours and 25 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 356 MB
Author: Tiffany the Budgetnista Aliche
Narrator: Tiffany the Budgetnista Aliche
The ultimate hands-on workbook for anyone looking to get their finances in order-from budgeting to investing and everything in between-by Tiffany "The Budgetnista" Aliche, the New York Times bestselling author. We all want to live within our means, save for retirement, invest a little, and yet still have some left over each month for fun. But as most people know, real life can get in the way of even our best intentions! To help us set realistic goals and keep us on track to meeting them, New York Times bestselling financial educator Tiffany "The Budgetnista" Aliche has an invaluable 10-step action plan: Made Whole. With her signature down-to-earth style, she offers worksheets, checklists, and action items for ten important building blocks-from the ins and outs of budgeting, investing, credit rating, and estate planning, to getting insurance and getting the flow of our money automated. A hardworking tool for getting our financial ducks in a row. A masterclass in taking charge of your money, Made Whole has what every listener needs to achieve financial savvy, stability, and security.

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Free Download MCU: The Reign of Marvel Studios (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CFRKF7X3 | 2023 | 16 hours and 40 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 476 MB
Author: Joanna Robinson, Dave Gonzales, Gavin Edwards
Narrator: Andrew Kishino, Joanna Robinson
The unauthorized, behind-the-scenes story of the stunning rise and suddenly uncertain reign of the most transformative cultural phenomenon of our time: the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Marvel Entertainment was a moribund toymaker not even twenty years ago. Today, Marvel Studios is the dominant player both in Hollywood and in global pop culture. How did an upstart studio conquer the world? In MCU, beloved culture writers Joanna Robinson, Dave Gonzales, and Gavin Edwards draw on more than a hundred interviews with actors, producers, directors, and writers to present the definitive chronicle of Marvel Studios and its sole ongoing production, the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

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Free Download Loving You Is Hurting Me: A New Approach to Healing Trauma Bonds and Creating Authentic Connection (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BWFVZB9Q | 2023 | 10 hours and 32 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 304 MB
Author: Laura Copley
Narrator: Laura Copley, Donna Jay Fulks
Move forward in your journey and learn how to heal your emotional wounds, get unstuck, and get into healthy, loving, intimate relationships with the help of this eye-opening book. At the core of most toxic relationships is a painful trauma wound desperate to be healed. As a licensed professional counselor and trauma researcher, Dr. Laura Copley often found herself disturbed by the stigma that her profession puts on trauma survivors who are in these toxic bonds, often too quickly labeling them as victims or abusers and blaming them for their troubled relationships. But trauma survivors try to navigate romantic relationships in the only way they know how-fearfully and painfully.

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Free Download Lou Reed: The King of New York (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BVKWVPSR | 2023 | 20 hours and 48 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 602 MB
Author: Will Hermes
Narrator: Will Hermes
The most complete and penetrating biography of the rock master, whose stature grows every year. Since his death ten years ago, Lou Reed's living presence has only grown. The great rock-poet presided over the marriage of Brill Building pop and the European avant-garde, and left American culture transfigured. In Lou Reed: The King of New York, Will Hermes offers the definitive narrative of Reed's life and legacy, dramatizing his long, brilliant, and contentious dialogue with fans, critics, fellow artists, and assorted habitués of the demimonde. We witness Reed's complex partnerships with David Bowie, Andy Warhol, John Cale, and Laurie Anderson; track the deadpan wit, street-smart edge, and poetic flights that defined his craft as a singer and songwriter with the Velvet Underground and beyond; and explore the artistic ambition and gift for self-sabotage he took from his mentor Delmore Schwartz.

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Free Download Lost Cities of the Ancient World (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CMYKCL5F | 2023 | 6 hours and 51 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 376 MB
Author: Philip Matyszak
Narrator: Jennifer M. Dixon
The ruins of ancient Athens, Luxor, and Rome are familiar cornerstones of world history, visited by travelers from across the globe. But what about the cities that have dropped off the map? Where are they, and what can they tell us about our past? In this compendium of forgotten cities, Philip Matyszak explores the trials, tribulations, and triumphs these cities faced. Lost Cities of the Ancient World brings to life the sites and settlements across Europe, the Middle East, and beyond that time forgot, from the sunken city of Pavlopetri in the Mediterranean to the deep cave dwellings of Derinkuyu in Turkey.

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