Free Download Design Social Change: Take Action, Work Toward Equity, and Challenge the Status Quo (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C5K4Q14X | 2023 | 2 hours and 53 minutes | M4B@192 kbps | 238 MB
Author: Lesley-Ann Noel
Narrator: Lesley-Ann Noel, Scott Doorley
Discover design strategies for using your own unique social identities and experiences as inspiration to challenge the status quo and create the kind of lasting change that leads to greater equity and social justice, from Stanford University's d.school. Who are you? What motivates you as a changemaker? What forces are preventing you (and others) from thriving? These questions are essential to the work of creating social change, and they are exactly what Design Social Change asks you to explore. Designer and design educator Lesley-Ann Noel shares the essential design strategies for making a lasting impact. This work starts with knowing yourself and builds outward into making change in your community and the larger world.

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Free Download Deception: The Great COVID Cover-Up (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CKLTSKCJ | 2023 | 13 hours and 45 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 364 MB
Author: Rand Paul
Narrator: Joe Louis
Senator Rand Paul was on to Anthony Fauci from the start. Wielding previously unimaginable power, Fauci misled the country about the origins of the COVID pandemic and shut down scientific dissent. One of the few leaders who dared to challenge "America's Doctor" was Senator Rand Paul, himself a physician. Deception is his indictment of the catastrophic failures of the public health bureaucracy during the pandemic. It almost worked. At Fauci's insistence, the government imposed needlessly extreme lockdowns on Americans at the cost of immense personal and economic destruction. COVID-19 was deadly, but the real killer was the coverup, led by America's most durable medical bureaucrat-a man for whom the truth was too often expendable. Senator Paul makes a powerful case that funding dangerous bioengineering in a totalitarian country is madness. If we don't heed this warning, the next pandemic could be far worse.

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Free Download Death Glitch: How Techno-Solutionism Fails Us in This Life and Beyond (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CLBLWPB1 | 2023 | 7 hours and 22 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 214 MB
Author: Tamara Kneese
Narrator: Linda Jones
An accessible yet erudite deep dive into how platforms are remaking experiences of death. Since the internet's earliest days, people have died and mourned online. In quiet corners of past iterations of the web, the dead linger. But attempts at preserving the data of the dead are often ill-fated, for websites and devices decay and die, just as people do. Death disrupts technologists' plans for platforms. It reveals how digital production is always collaborative, undermining the entrepreneurial platform economy and highlighting the flaws of techno-solutionism.

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Free Download Daughter of the Dragon: Anna May Wong's Rendezvous with American History (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CKRW87HG | 2023 | 13 hours and 16 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 378 MB
Author: Yunte Huang
Narrator: Rebecca Lam
A trenchant reclamation of the Chinese American movie star, whose battles against cinematic exploitation and endemic racism are set against the currents of twentieth-century history. Born into the steam and starch of a Chinese laundry, Anna May Wong (1905-1961) emerged from turn-of-the-century Los Angeles to become Old Hollywood's most famous Chinese American actress, a screen siren who captivated global audiences and signed her publicity photos-with a touch of defiance-"Orientally yours." Now, more than a century after her birth, Yunte Huang narrates Wong's tragic life story, retracing her journey from Chinatown to silent-era Hollywood, and from Weimar Berlin to decadent, prewar Shanghai, and capturing American television in its infancy. As Huang shows, Wong's rendezvous with history features a remarkable parade of characters, including a smitten Walter Benjamin and (an equally smitten) Marlene Dietrich. Challenging the parodically racist perceptions of Wong as a "Dragon Lady," "Madame Butterfly," or "China Doll," Huang's biography becomes a truly resonant work of history that reflects the raging anti-Chinese xenophobia, unabashed sexism, and ageism toward women that defined both Hollywood and America in Wong's all-too-brief fifty-six years on earth.

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Free Download Data Baby: My Life in a Psychological Experiment (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BF19YJ33 | 2023 | 6 hours and 54 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 184 MB
Author: Susannah Breslin
Narrator: Cassandra Campbell
Lab Girl meets Brain on Fire in this provocative and poignant memoir delving into a woman's formative experiences as a veritable "lab rat" in a lifelong psychological study, and her pursuit to reclaim autonomy and her identity as a adult. What if your parents turn you into a human lab rat when you're a child? Will that change the story of your life? Will that change who you are? When Susannah Breslin is a toddler, her parents enroll her in an exclusive laboratory preschool at the University of California, Berkeley, where she becomes one of over a hundred children who are research subjects in an unprecedented 30-year study of personality development that predicts who she and her cohort will grow up to be. Decades later, trapped in what she feels is an abusive marriage and battling breast cancer, she starts to wonder how growing up under a microscope shaped her identity and life choices.

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Free Download Dark Matter: The New Science of the Microbiome (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BG8ZNHR3 | 2023 | 11 hours and 17 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 616 MB
Author: Dr. James Kinross
Narrator: Dr. James Kinross
An urgent investigation into the brave new world of the microbiome and how it shapes our lives and health. The microbiome is the missing link in modern medicine: a vast genetic universe of bacteria, yeasts, viruses and parasites that live inside us, influencing every aspect of our health, even the way we think and feel. In this mindblowing book, scientist and surgeon James Kinross explains how the organisms that live within us have helped us evolve, shaped our biology and defined the success of our species. But just as we have discovered this delicate and complex ecosystem within us, it is being irrevocably destroyed through the globalisation of our diets and lifestyles, our addiction to antibiotics, and the destruction of our environment. With dazzling science and fascinating stories spanning from the dawn of humankind to the current race to develop personalised healthcare, and practical advice on how to nurture your microbiome through your diet and lifestyle, this pioneering book will change the way you think about human health forever.

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Free Download Dark Carnival: The Secret World of Tod Browning, Hollywood's Master of Macabre (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BG3L9X22 | 2022 | 9 hours and 14 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 264 MB
Author: David J. Skal, Elias Savada
Narrator: David J. Skal
One of the most original and unsettling filmmakers of all time-the creator of the horror classics Dracula and Freaks, among others-Tod Browning is also one of the most enigmatic directors who ever worked in Hollywood. A complicated, troubled, and fiercely private man, he confounded would-be biographers hoping to penetrate his secret, obsessive world-both during his lifetime and afterward. Now, film historians David J. Skal and Elias Savada, using newly discovered family documents and revealing published interviews with friends and colleagues, join forces for the first full-length biography of the man who earned a reputation as "the Edgar Allan Poe of the cinema."

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Free Download Dancing with the Devil: Why Bad Feelings Make Life Good (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CKFNSCNX | 2023 | 6 hours and 14 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 346 MB
Author: Krista K. Thomason
Narrator: Coleen Marlo
We tend to think about bad feelings-feelings like anger, envy, spite, and contempt-as the weeds in life's garden. You may not be able to get rid of them completely, but you're supposed to battle them as best you can. The best garden is one with no weeds. The best life is one with no bad feelings. But this isn't quite right, according to philosopher Krista K. Thomason. Bad feelings are the worms, not the weeds. They're just below the surface, and we like to pretend they aren't there, but they serve an important purpose. Thomason draws on insights from the history of philosophy to show what we've gotten wrong about bad feelings and to show listeners how we can live better with them.

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Free Download Damn This War!: Between the Blitz and the Desert, a Story of War-Crossed Love (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CNS815LH | 2023 | 8 hours and 39 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 246 MB
Author: Julie Hankey
Narrator: Julie Hankey
The love story of Zippa and Tony is nothing without the context of the Second World War. The war introduced them-they met as blackout wardens in London. It gave them darkened streets to wander in, hand in hand, then, by sending Tony away to officer training camps, it sharpened their hunger for each other, casting a glow over his comings and goings. It turned them into schemers and wanglers against fate and army regulations. It pressed them into marriage, and when the war decided to deploy him to North Africa, it whispered the urgent question of a baby. To which Tony, thinking of the war, replied maybe not; and Zippa, thinking of the war, said yes. In spite of themselves, the war experience was changing them both, and yet both were hanging on, looking back, suspended in memory and time, and living from letter to letter. Decades later, their daughter Julie discovered their letters, and piecing them together began to create a portrait of her parents and their relationship that was completely unfamiliar to her. Vivid, honest and completely absorbing, Damn This War! is a true insight into a wartime love story.

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Free Download Curious Species: How Animals Made Natural History (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CN87ZJH1 | 2023 | 9 hours and 57 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 281 MB
Author: Whitney Barlow Robles
Narrator: Daniela Acitelli
Can corals build worlds? Do rattlesnakes enchant? What is a raccoon, and what might it know? Animals and the questions they raised thwarted human efforts to master nature during the so-called Enlightenment-a historical moment when rigid classification pervaded the study of natural history, people traded in people, and imperial avarice wrapped its tentacles around the globe. Whitney Barlow Robles makes animals the unruly protagonists of eighteenth-century science through journeys to four spaces and ecological zones: the ocean, the underground, the curiosity cabinet, and the field.

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