Free Download Laura Forlano, Danya Glabau, Teri Schnaubelt (Narrator), "Cyborg: The MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series"
English | ASIN: B0CYRJVFZ9 | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~04:09:00 | 114 MB
This introduction to cyborg theory provides a critical vantage point for analyzing the claims around emerging technologies like automation, robots, and AI. Cyborg analyzes and reframes popular and scholarly conversations about cyborgs from the perspective of feminist cyborg theory. Drawing on their combined decades of training, teaching, and research in the social sciences, design, and engineering education, Laura Forlano and Danya Glabau introduce an approach called critical cyborg literacy. Critical cyborg literacy foregrounds power dynamics and pays attention to the ways that social and cultural factors such as gender, race, and disability shape how technology is imagined, developed, used, and resisted.
Forlano and Glabau offer critical cyborg literacy as a way of thinking through questions about the relationship between humanity and technology. Cyborg examines whether modern technologies make us all cyborgs-if we consider, for instance, the fact that we use daily technologies at work, have technologies embedded into our bodies in health care applications, or use technology to critically explore possibilities as artists, designers, activists, and creators. Lastly, Cyborg offers perspectives from critical race, feminist, and disability thinkers to help chart a path forward for cyborg theory in the twenty-first century.
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Free Download David J. Jepsen, David J. Norberg, Will Tulin (Narrator), "Contested Boundaries: A New Pacific Northwest History"
English | ASIN: B0CZ2JBSTX | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~13:44:00 | 377 MB
Contested Boundaries: A New Pacific Northwest History is an engaging, contemporary look at the themes, events, and people that have shaped the history of the Pacific Northwest over the last two centuries.
- An engaging look at the themes, events, and people that shaped the Pacific Northwest-Washington, Oregon, and Idaho-from when only Native Peoples inhabited the land through the twentieth century.
- Twelve theme-driven essays covering the human and environmental impact of exploration, trade, settlement, and industrialization in the nineteenth century, followed by economic calamity, world war, and globalization in the twentieth.

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Free Download Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CDF7ZF9Z | 2024 | 10 hours and 13 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 294 MB
Author: Suzanne Scanlon
Narrator: Suzanne Scanlon
A raw and masterful memoir about becoming a woman and going mad-and doing both at once. When Suzanne Scanlon was a student at Barnard in the '90s, grieving the loss of her mother-feeling untethered and swimming through inarticulable pain-she made a suicide attempt that landed her in the New York State Psychiatric Institute. After nearly three years and countless experimental treatments, Suzanne left the ward on shaky legs. In the decades it took her to recover from the experience, Suzanne came to understand her suffering as part of something larger: a long tradition of women whose complicated and compromised stories of self-actualization are reduced to "crazy chick" and "madwoman" narratives. It was a thrilling discovery, and she searched for more books, more woman writers, as the journey of her life converged with her journey through the literature that shaped her. Transporting, honest, and graceful, Committed is a story of discovery and recovery, reclaiming the idea of the madwoman as a template for insight and transcendence through the works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath, Janet Frame, Audre Lorde, Shulamith Firestone, and others.

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Free Download Commander of the Exodus (Audiobook)
English | Datum: December 30, 2004 | ASIN: B0007OB4J0 | M4B@62 kbps | 08h 14m | 216.19 MB
Author: Yoram Kaniuk
Narrator: William Sutherland
Hailed by the New York Times as "one of the most inventive, brilliant novelists in the Western world," internationally renowned Israeli writer Yoram Kaniuk turns his hand to nonfiction to bring us his most important work yet. Commander of the Exodus animates the story of Yossi Harel, a modern-day Moses who defied the blockade of the British Mandate to deliver more than 24,000 displaced Holocaust survivors to Palestine while the rest of the world (including the United States) closed its doors.

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Free Download Michael Kimmage, Paul Woodson (Narrator), "Collisions: The Origins of the War in Ukraine and the New Global Instability"
English | ASIN: B0CYQWJQ28 | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~15:00:00 | 412 MB
In Collisions, Michael Kimmage, a historian and former State Department official who focused on the Russia-Ukraine conflict, offers a wide-angle, historically informed account of the origins of the current Russia-Ukraine war.
From the halls of power in Washington, Kyiv, and Moscow to the battlefields of Ukraine, Kimmage chronicles Putin's ascendancy to the Russian presidency, delves into multiple American presidencies and their dealings with Russia and Europe, and recounts Europe's efforts to bring Ukraine closer to the European Union. He tells the story of how Ukraine went from an embattled country on the edge of Europe to a formidable military power capable of pushing back the Russian military. Just as importantly, Kimmage captures how the current war has transformed multiple centers of power-from China to the United States-and dramatically altered the path of globalization itself. He makes the case that the war in Ukraine has shifted the direction of major macro-trends in world politics, contributing to the fragmentation of international politics, higher inflation, greater food insecurity, and the general collapse of arms control. These intersecting dangers amount to a new age of global instability, born in war and in the collision between Russia and the United States that has brought the world to the brink of a new Cold War.
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Free Download Churchill's Empire: The World That Made Him and the World He Made (Audiobook)
English | August 03, 2010 | ASIN: B003YUZM74 | M4B@64 kbps | 13h 11m | 373 MB
Author: Richard Toye | Narrator: Michael Page
A charmer and a bully, Winston Churchill was driven by a belief that the English were a superior race whose goals went beyond individual interests to offer an enduring good to the entire world. No better example exists than Churchill's resolve to stand alone against a more powerful Hitler in 1940 while the world's democracies fell to their knees.
But there was also the Churchill who frequently inveighed against human rights, nationalism, and constitutional progress - the imperialist who could celebrate racism and believed India was unsuited to democracy.

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Free Download Character Matters: And Other Life Lessons from George H. W. Bush (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C5GJ5SFB | 2024 | 9 hours and 40 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 278 MB
Author: Jean Becker
Narrator: Jean Becker, George Dvorsky, Allan Robertson, Cynthia Barrett, James Edward Thomas, Widdi Turner, Jamie Renell, Barbara Benjamin-Creel, James Baker, Dan Quayle, Jon Meacham
Former Chief of Staff to President George H.W. Bush and New York Times bestselling author Jean Becker shares touching and pivotal life lessons from a leader that left a mark on people's hearts and souls. As America heads into what promises to be a tumultuous 2024 presidential election year, Character Matters will be a good reminder of the importance of character when defining true leadership. Colleagues, friends, and family will share their often very personal stories of what they learned from watching and listening to President Bush, including former United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice; Secretary of State James A. Baker;stand-up comedian Dana Carvey; "Queen of Country" star Reba McEntire; American columnist for The New York Times Maureen Dowd; American novelist Brad Meltzer; presidential biographer Jon Meacham; former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom John Major; former Prime Minister of Canada Brian Mulroney; Secretary of Defense Robert Gates; the Oak Ridge Boys and best-selling author Christopher Buckley; and of course his grandchildren. Character Matters will illustrate how George Bush never stopped showing us the way to lead by example.

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Free Download Chamber Divers: The Untold Story of the D-Day Scientists Who Changed Special Operations Forever (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CDN6VH95 | 2024 | 10 hours and 44 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 312 MB
Author: Rachel Lance
Narrator: Alex Wyndham
The previously classified story of the eccentric researchers who invented cutting-edge underwater science to lead the Allies to D-Day victory. In August 1942, more than 7,000 Allied troops rushed the beaches of Normandy, France, in an all but-forgotten landing. Only a small fraction survived unscathed. It was two summers before D-Day, and the Allies realized that they were in dire need of underwater intelligence if they wanted to stand a chance of launching another beach invasion and of winning the war. Led by the controversial biologists J. B. S. Haldane and Dr. Helen Spurway, an ingenious team of ragtag scientists worked out of homemade labs during the London Blitz.

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Free Download Catchpenny: A Novel (Audiobook)
English | April 09, 2024 | ASIN: B0CDHK9JW7 | M4B@64 kbps | 12h 32m | 351 MB
Author: Charlie Huston | Narrator: Pete Cross
A thief who can travel through mirrors, a video game that threatens to spill out of the virtual world, a doomsday cult on a collision course with destiny, and a missing teenager at the center of it all. With the world on the brink of every kind of apocalypse, humanity needs a hero. What it gets is Sid Catchpenny.
"I absolutely loved it. Catchpenny is a brilliant book, full of heart and the language is pitch-perfect. If Elmore Leonard had ever written a fantasy novel, this would be it."-Stephen King

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Free Download Career Pathways: From School to Retirement (Audiobook)
English | June 23, 2020 | ASIN: B089CHTT43 | M4B@128 kbps | 10h 52m | 592 MB
Editors: Jerry W. Hedge, Gary W. Carter | Narrators: Teri Schnaubelt, Gary Tiedemann
Career Pathways: From School to Retirement brings together leading workforce researchers and practitioners to provide new perspectives on school-to-work and workplace career pathways. This groundbreaking book explains the transformations that have taken place in the workplace over the past several decades and how those transformations have combined to produce a dramatically different career landscape.
It highlights the important role of career pathways as a framework for workforce and economic development within this quickly evolving career landscape. Bringing together top figures in the field, this volume addresses a wide variety of critically important career pathway topics such as the role of apprenticeships in career pathways, the gig economy and emerging career pathways, career crafting, the role of data analytics in providing career and workforce insights, and career pathways for late career workers.

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