Free Download Aram Sinnreich, Jesse Gilbert, Jonathan Todd Ross (Narrator), "The Secret Life of dаta: Navigating Hype and Uncertainty in the Age of Algorithmic Surveillance"
English | ASIN: B0CSZ8M6FY | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~11:04:00 | 304 MB
How data surveillance, digital forensics, and generative AI pose new long-term threats and opportunities-and how we can use them to make better decisions in the face of technological uncertainty.
In The Secret Life of Data, Aram Sinnreich and Jesse Gilbert explore the many unpredictable, and often surprising, ways in which data surveillance, AI, and the constant presence of algorithms impact our culture and society in the age of global networks. The authors build on this basic premise: no matter what form data takes, and what purpose we think it's being used for, data will always have a secret life. How this data will be used, by other people in other times and places, has profound implications for every aspect of our lives-from our intimate relationships to our professional lives to our political systems.
With the secret uses of data in mind, Sinnreich and Gilbert interview dozens of experts to explore a broad range of scenarios and contexts-from the playful to the profound to the problematic. Unlike most books about data and society that focus on the short-term effects of our immense data usage, The Secret Life of Data focuses primarily on the long-term consequences of humanity's recent rush toward digitizing, storing, and analyzing every piece of data about ourselves and the world we live in. The authors advocate for "slow fixes" regarding our relationship to data, such as creating new laws and regulations, ethics and aesthetics, and models of production for our data-fied society.

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Free Download The Secret Advantage: Core Fundamentals to Get Anything You Want (Audiobook)
English | July 19, 2017 | ASIN: B0741BKZ4H | MP3@128 kbps | 19h 35m | 1.05 GB
Author: Earl Nightingale | Narrators: Earl Nightingale, Joe Nuckols
Powerful Earl Nightingale messages organized into four skill sets demanded by leading corporations.
C - Competency and how to be the best prepared for any top position in any company

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Free Download The Science of Weird Shit: Why Our Minds Conjure the Paranormal (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CW7JX38D | 2024 | 13 hours and 33 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 753 MB
Author: Chris French
Narrator: Michael Langan
An accessible and gratifying introduction to the world of paranormal beliefs and bizarre experiences. Ghostly encounters, alien abduction, reincarnation, talking to the dead, UFO sightings, inexplicable coincidences, out-of-body and near-death experiences. Are these legitimate phenomena? If not, then how should we go about understanding them? In this fascinating book, Chris French investigates paranormal claims to discover what lurks behind this "weird shit." French provides authoritative evidence-based explanations for a wide range of superficially mysterious phenomena, and then goes further to draw out lessons with wider applications to many other aspects of modern society where critical thinking is urgently needed.

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Free Download The Science of Rights (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CYV65PLD | 2024 | 12 hours and 24 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 332 MB
Author: Johann Gottlieb Fichte
Narrator: Jonathan Booth
The Science of Rights (originally in German: Grundlage des Naturrechts nach Principien der Wissenschaftslehre) by Johann Gottlieb Fichte, was originally written in 1796 and later translated by Adolph Ernst Kroeger into English.

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Free Download The Science of Cleaning: Use the Power of Chemistry to Clean Smarter, Easier, and Safer (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CRX3TFMW | 2024 | 9 hours and 40 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 265 MB
Author: Dario Bressanini
Narrator: Robert Shiels
Chemistry professor Dario Bressanini is on a mission to teach listeners about safe, sustainable methods for cleaning their homes while debunking widespread myths. He uses scientific evidence to answer common queries, including the following: Is it more efficient to wash dishes in the sink or in the dishwasher? Can vinegar and baking soda actually unclog your drain? Does bleach remove dirt? How do I get rid of that white stuff on my showerhead? Bressanini covers these subjects and more by digging into chemistry basics like solubility, pH, and concentration. He explains how to choose the best product for any job, including advice on making selections at the store and using just the right amount to cut down on waste. Everything contains chemicals (yes, even water!)-but we should still be careful and eco-friendly about how we clean. With tips on tasks from scrubbing stubborn grease off a pan to getting that weird stink out of a pair of shoes, The Science of Cleaning reminds us that science can be both useful and exciting. No more searching online for cleaning hacks-in this book, the science speaks for itself!

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Free Download The Rulebreaker: The Life and Times of Barbara Walters (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CF6C8PG8 | 2024 | 14 hours and 5 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 405 MB
Author: Susan Page
Narrator: Susan Page
The definitive biography of the most successful female broadcaster of all time-Barbara Walters-a woman whose personal demons fueled an ambition that broke all the rules and finally gave women a permanent place on the air, written by bestselling author Susan Page. Barbara Walters was a force from the time TV was exploding on the American scene in the 1960s to its waning dominance in a new world of competition from streaming services and social media half a century later. She was not just a groundbreaker for women (Oprah announced when she was seventeen that she wanted to be Barbara Walters), but also expanded the big TV interview and then dominated the genre. By the end of her career, she had interviewed more of the famous and infamous, from presidents to movie stars to criminals to despots, than any other journalist in history. Then at sixty-seven, past the age many female broadcasters found themselves involuntarily retired, she pioneered a new form of talk TV called The View.

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Free Download The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CZYQRFVW | 2024 | 12 hours and 38 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 347 MB
Author: Joseph E. Stiglitz
Narrator: Paul Boehmer
Forces on the political Right have justified exploitation by cloaking it in the rhetoric of freedom, leading to pharmaceutical companies freely overcharging for medication, a Big Tech free from oversight, politicians free to incite rebellion, corporations free to pollute, and more. How did we get here? In The Road to Freedom, Nobel prize winner Joseph E. Stiglitz dissects America's current economic system and the political ideology that created it, laying bare their twinned failure. Free and unfettered markets have exploited consumers, workers, and the environment alike. These movements now pose a real threat to true economic and political freedom. As an economic advisor to presidents and as chief economist at the World Bank, Stiglitz has witnessed these profound changes firsthand. As he argues, the failures follow from the elites' unshakeable dedication to "the neoliberal experiment." The Road to Freedom breaks new ground, showing how economics reframes how to think about freedom and the role of the state in a twenty-first century society. Stiglitz explains a deeper, more humane way to assess freedoms-one that considers what to do when one person's freedom conflicts with another's.

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Free Download The Rich Flee and the Poor Take the Bus: How Our Unequal Society Fails Us during Outbreaks (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CY7DDVXW | 2024 | 13 hours and 25 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 384 MB
Author: Troy Tassier
Narrator: David Thorpe
How can we make society more resilient to outbreaks and avoid forcing the poor and working class to bear the brunt of their harm? When an epidemic outbreak occurs, the most physical and financial harm historically falls upon the people who can least afford it: the economically and socially marginalized. Where people live and work, how they commute and socialize, and more have a huge impact on the risks we bear during an outbreak. In The Rich Flee and the Poor Take the Bus, economist Troy Tassier examines examples ranging from the 430 BCE plague of Athens to the COVID-19 pandemic to demonstrate why marginalized groups bear the largest burden of epidemic costs-and how to avoid these systemic failures in the future.

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Free Download The Red Hotel: Moscow 1941, the Metropol Hotel, and the Untold Story of Stalin's Propaganda War (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D325YZPL | 2024 | 12 hours and 36 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 701 MB
Author: Alan Philps
Narrator: Michael Langan
In 1941, Lenin's body was moved from his tomb on Red Square and taken to Siberia. By 1945, a victorious Stalin had turned a poor country into a victorious superpower. Over the course of those four years, Stalin, at Churchill's insistence, accepted an Anglo-American press corps in Moscow to cover the Eastern Front. Stalin imposed the most draconian controls-unbending censorship, no visits to the battlefront, and a ban on contact with ordinary citizens. The Red Hotel explores this gilded cage of the Metropol Hotel. On the surface, this regime served Stalin well: his plans to control Eastern Europe as a Sovietized "outer empire" were never reported and the most outrageous Soviet lies went unchallenged. But beneath the surface, the Metropol was roiling with intrigue. Using British archives and Soviet sources, the unique role of the women of the Metropol, both as consummate propagandists and secret dissenters, is told for the first time. At the end of the war when Lenin returned to Red Square, the reporters went home, but the memory of Stalin's ruthless control of the wartime narrative lived on in the Kremlin. The story of the Metropol mirrors the struggles of our own modern era.

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Free Download The Random Factor: How Chance and Luck Profoundly Shape Our Lives and the World Around Us (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CYDSF5WZ | 2024 | 8 hours and 10 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 234 MB
Author: Mark Robert Rank
Narrator: Donald Corren
It's comforting to think that we can be successful because we work hard, climb ladders, and get what we deserve, but each of us has been profoundly touched by randomness. Chance is shown to play a crucial role in shaping outcomes across history, throughout the natural world, and in our everyday lives. In The Random Factor, Mark Robert Rank draws from a wealth of evidence, including interviews and research, to explain how luck and chance play out and reveals how we can use these lessons to guide our personal lives and public policies. This book traverses luck from macro to micro, from events like the Cuban Missile Crisis to our personal encounters and relationships. Rank also delves into the class and race dynamics of chance, emphasizing the stark disparities it brings to light. This transformative book prompts a new understanding of the twists and turns in our daily lives and encourages listeners to fully appreciate the surprising world of randomness in which we live.

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