Free Download Alien Earths: The New Science of Planet Hunting in the Cosmos (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CW28JKBC | 2024 | 8 hours and 31 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 247 MB
Author: Dr. Lisa Kaltenegger
Narrator: Dr. Lisa Kaltenegger, Cassandra Campbell
Riveting and timely, a look at the research that is transforming our understanding of the cosmos in the quest to discover whether we are alone. For thousands of years, humans have wondered whether we're alone in the cosmos. Now, for the first time, we have the technology to investigate. But once you look for life elsewhere, you realize it is not so simple. How do you find it over cosmic distances? What actually is life? As founding director of Cornell University's Carl Sagan Institute, astrophysicist Lisa Kaltenegger has built a team of tenacious scientists from many disciplines to create a specialized toolkit to find life on faraway worlds. In Alien Earths, she demonstrates how we can use our homeworld as a Rosetta Stone, creatively analyzing Earth's history and its astonishing biosphere to inform this search.

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Free Download Algorithms and Data Structures for Massive Datasets (Audiobook)
English | October 20, 2022 | ASIN: B0BJTK4WBQ | M4B@128 kbps | 9h 46m | 702 MB
Authors: Dzejla Medjedovic, Emin Tahirovic | Narrator: Mark Thomas
Massive modern datasets make traditional data structures and algorithms grind to a halt. This fun and practical guide introduces cutting-edge techniques that can reliably handle even the largest distributed datasets.
In Algorithms and Data Structures for Massive Datasets you will learn:

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Free Download After 1177 B.C.: The Survival of Civilizations (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CXVDHRWV | 2024 | 9 hours and 18 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 256 MB
Author: Eric H. Cline
Narrator: Eric H. Cline, John Chancer
This audiobook narrated by John Chancer tells the gripping story of what happened after the Bronze Age collapsed-why some civilizations endured, why some gave way to new ones, and why some disappeared forever. Features Eric Cline's FAQs as bonus content. At the end of Eric Cline's bestselling history 1177 B.C., many of the Late Bronze Age civilizations of the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean lay in ruins, undone by invasion, revolt, natural disasters, famine, and the demise of international trade. An interconnected world that had boasted major empires and societies, relative peace, robust commerce, and monumental architecture was lost and the so-called First Dark Age had begun. Now, in After 1177 B.C., Cline tells the compelling story of what happened next, over four centuries, across the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean world.

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Free Download Addiction, Attachment, Trauma, and Recovery: The Power of Connection (Audiobook)
English | Datum: October 01, 2019 | ASIN: B07Y8SNBDV | M4B@125 kbps | 10h 47m | 548.93 MB
Author: Oliver J. Morgan, Louis Cozolino
Narrator: James Anderson Foster
Understanding addiction is no longer just about understanding neurons or genes, broken brain functioning, learning, or faulty choices. Oliver J. Morgan provides a fresh take on addiction and recovery by presenting a more inclusive framework than traditional understanding. Cutting-edge work in attachment, interpersonal neurobiology, and trauma is integrated with ecological-systems thinking to provide a consilient and comprehensive picture of addiction.

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Free Download Acquisitional Wealth: The Fastest, Most Proven Way to Create Life-Changing Prosperity (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D1564S5X | 2024 | 6 hours and 49 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 378 MB
Author: Josh Tolley
Narrator: Josh Tolley
Discover the fastest, safest proven method of creating wealth in the history of the world. For millennia, the wealthiest amongst us-including Warren Buffet, Elon Musk, and so many others-have known the secret to real wealth creation. Find out how you can access the same results in as little as 90 days. If you've had a job longer than a year, you probably wish there was a way to leapfrog ahead of where you are financially. With this life-changing approach, you can go from earning $50K per year to $500K with the stroke of a pen. From Josh Tolley, leading business strategist and host of The Josh Tolley Show and Acquisitional Wealth, this methodology is easy to put into action regardless of age, income, education, or other typical limiting factors. All you need to decide is how soon you're ready to get started.

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Free Download Abolitionist Intimacies (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CYVRPDQ4 | 2024 | 9 hours and 26 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 259 MB
Author: El Jones
Narrator: Aiza Ntibarikure
In Abolitionist Intimacies, El Jones examines the movement to abolish prisons through the Black feminist principles of care and collectivity. Understanding the history of prisons in Canada in their relationship to settler colonialism and anti-Black racism, Jones observes how practices of intimacy become imbued with state violence at carceral sites including prisons, policing and borders, as well as through purported care institutions such as hospitals and social work. The state also polices intimacy through mechanisms such as prison visits, strip searches and managing community contact with incarcerated people. Despite this, Jones argues, intimacy is integral to the ongoing struggles of prisoners for justice and liberation through the care work of building relationships and organizing with the people inside. Through characteristically fierce and personal prose and poetry, and motivated by a decade of prison justice work, Jones observes that abolition is not only a political movement to end prisons; it is also an intimate one deeply motivated by commitment and love.

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Free Download Osamah F. Khalil, Rick Adamson (Narrator), "A World of Enemies: America's Wars at Home and Abroad from Kennedy to Biden"
English | ASIN: B0CZ2MSBXJ | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~14:34:00 | 401 MB
Over the past half-century, Americans have watched their country extend its military power to what seemed the very ends of the earth. America's might is felt on nearly every continent-and even on its own streets. Decades ago, the Wars on Drugs and Terror broke down the walls separating law enforcement from military operations. A World of Enemies tells the story of how an America plagued by fears of waning power and influence embraced foreign and domestic forever wars.
Osamah Khalil argues that the militarization of US domestic and foreign affairs was the product of America's failure in Vietnam. Unsettled by their inability to prevail in Southeast Asia, US leaders increasingly came to see a host of problems as immune to political solutions. Rather, crime, drugs, and terrorism were enemies spawned in "badlands"-whether the Middle East or stateside inner cities. Characterized as sites of endemic violence, badlands lay beyond the pale of civilization, their ostensibly racially and culturally alien inhabitants best handled by force.
Its failures-in Iraq, Afghanistan, US cities, and increasingly rural and borderland America-have only served to reinforce fears of weakness. It is time, Khalil argues, for a new approach. Instead of managing never-ending conflicts, we need to reinvest in the tools of traditional politics and diplomacy.

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Free Download A Really Strange and Wonderful Time: The Chapel Hill Music Scene: 1989-1999 (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CFBVBKHN | 2024 | 10 hours and 20 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 302 MB
Author: Tom Maxwell
Narrator: Tom Maxwell
The first biography of the thriving and influential rock scene in Chapel Hill, which gave the world artists like Ben Folds Five, Superchunk, and Squirrel Nut Zippers. North Carolina has always produced extraordinary music of every description. But the indie-rock boom of the late 1980s and early '90s brought the state most fully into the public consciousness, while the subsequent post-Grunge free-for-all bestowed its greatest commercial successes. In addition to the creation of legacy label Merge Records and a slate of excellent indie bands like Superchunk, Archers of Loaf, and Polvo, this was the decade when other North Carolina artists broke Billboard's Top 200 and sold millions of records―several million of which were issued by another indie label based in Carrboro, Chapel Hill's smaller next-door neighbor.

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Free Download A Leap in the Dark: The Struggle to Create the American Republic (Audiobook)
English | Datum: December 17, 2013 | ASIN: B00GLXWBE8 | MP3@64 kbps | 23h 58m | 612.02 MB
Author: John Ferling
Narrator: Mark Yoshimoto Nemcoff
It was an age of fascinating leaders and difficult choices, of grand ideas eloquently expressed and of epic conflicts bitterly fought. Now comes a brilliant portrait of the American Revolution, one that is compelling in its prose, fascinating in its details, and provocative in its fresh interpretations.

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Free Download A Field Guide to the Apocalypse: A Mostly Serious Guide to Surviving Our Wild Times (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CFC43Y45 | 2024 | 6 hours and 58 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 391 MB
Author: Athena Aktipis
Narrator: Athena Aktipis
A common sense field guide to understanding, surviving, and thriving in our time of complex chaos and crises. Is this finally it? The end times? Because from COVID-19 to climate catastrophe to the looming AI revolution-not to mention the ever-growing background hum of rage, fear, and anxiety-it's starting to feel like the party we call civilization is just about over. The good news? It's always felt that way. Drawing on evolutionary psychology, history, brain science, game theory, and more, cooperation theorist (and, coincidentally, zombie expert) Athena Aktipis reassuringly explains how we, as a species, are hardwired to survive big existential crises. And how we can do so again by leveraging our innate abilities to communicate and cooperate. Pack a ukulele in your prep kit. Practice your risk-management skills. Enlist your crew into a survival team. And embrace the apocalypse. You might just enjoy it. Plus, it will help us build a better and more resilient future for all humankind.

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