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Free Download Death Row Welcomes You: Visiting Hours in the Shadow of the Execution Chamber (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0DBWK2YL2 | 2024 | 9 hours and 13 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 265 MB
Author: Steven Hale
Narrator: Tim Fannon
In 2018, after nearly a decade's hiatus, the state of Tennessee began executing death row inmates, bucking national trends that showed the death penalty in decline. In less than two years, the state put seven men to death. It was an execution spree unlike any seen in Tennessee since the 1940s, only brought to a halt by a global pandemic. Award-winning journalist Steven Hale was the leading reporter on these executions, covering them both locally for the Nashville Scene alt-weekly and nationally for The Appeal. In Death Row Welcomes You, Hale traces the lives of condemned prisoners at the Riverbend Maximum Security Institution-and the people who come to visit them.

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Free Download Dear Cisgender People: A Guide to Trans Allyship and Empathy (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CZ7MWNVV | 2024 | 6 hours and 15 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 349 MB
Author: Kenny Ethan Jones
Narrator: Kenny Ethan Jones
Conversations on the transgender experience may be becoming more commonplace but the topic is still all too often the subject of fierce debate. But behind the shock headlines, what does it really mean to be trans? In this powerful, extensively researched, and deeply personal memoir, Kenny Ethan Jones, trans activist and writer, offers an authentic and in-depth insight into the trans experience. Drawing on his own experience, experts and the stories of others, Kenny unpacks the reality of living with gender dysphoria, navigating the difficult intersection of being Black and trans, the complexities of accessing gender-affirming care, the big debate about trans youth and so much more. Dear Cisgender People is a powerful call-to-arms, equipping all its listeners with the tools to step forward as allies and bring about meaningful change in creating a safer, equal and more accepting world for trans people everywhere.

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Free Download Rick Brinkman, Rick Kirschner, Walter Dixon (Narrator), "Dealing With People You Can't Stand, 4th Edition: How to Bring Out the Best in People at Their Worst"
English | ASIN: B0DC74KY6V | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~15:32:00 | 427 MB
Today, new technologies, the increased role of social media, and the ubiquity of remote work have resulted in more polarized workplaces, the breakdown of social mores, and downright rude behavior. These days, it seems like there are more people we can't stand-not fewer-and, too often, if we aren't yelling at each other, we've just quit talking altogether.
The global bestseller Dealing with People You Can't Stand has been helping people make the best of tough situations for nearly three decades, and this new edition has been fully updated to address the needs of our time. You'll learn how to get along and get things done when you're dealing with people who have the uncanny ability to sabotage, derail, and interfere with your plans, needs, and wants. Brand-new chapters cover: narcissism, polarization, remote work, meetings, video communication, social media communication, and communicating with relatives.
Whether you're dealing with a manager who won't let you get a word in edgewise in a virtual or hybrid meeting, a coworker who holds beliefs you find extreme, a family member who doesn't respect your boundaries, or trolls on social media, Dealing with People You Can't Stand provides the tools for bringing out the best in people at their worst.

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Free Download Dead Wrong: Diagnosing and Treating Healthcare's Misinformation Illness
English | ASIN: B0D4MRDFKZ | 2024 | 5 hours and 59 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 323 MB
Author: Geeta Dr. G Nayyar, Tom Castles, Jack Murtha
Narrator: Shelley Baldiga
Save lives and improve public health by countering misinformation. In Dead Wrong: Diagnosing and Treating Healthcare's Misinformation Illness, a team of health misinformation experts delivers a first-hand account of the dangers posed by false narratives and snake oil in the face of deadly healthcare crises, like the COVID-19 pandemic. In the book, you'll explore the challenges facing those who fight to restore truth to a place of primacy in the United States healthcare system, the strategies they use, and the lessons you can draw from their real-world stories. Through interviews with healthcare leaders on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic and an intuitive discussion of contemporary academic research, the authors highlight issues of critical importance in the quest to bring accurate information to the American public. Perfect for clinicians, public health leaders, health-tech leaders, and health marketers, Dead Wrong will also earn a place in the libraries of media professionals and community leaders with an interest in keeping the American public healthy and vibrant.

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Free Download Day of Reckoning: How the Far Right Declared War on Democracy (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D45WBTXN | 2024 | 4 hours and 39 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 256 MB
Author: Mike Wendling
Narrator: Mike Wendling
The United States has become an almost unrecognizable country-with millions in thrall to conspiracy theories, toxic populism, and the far right edging closer to total power-a dire threat to civil society and democratic institutions. While the MAGA movement was in remission due to Donald Trump's defeat in 2020, the fascist fringes have not just survived but have continued to thrive and burrow into the mainstream. The January 6th Capitol Riot prosecutions have done little to curb their enthusiasm for mayhem. Trump's base in the Republican Party is committed to their candidate like never before. The institutionalization of racist voter suppression and the outdated logic behind the Electoral College means he could take back the White House. Apocalyptic messaging ensures the alt-right, anti-government, anti-LGBT, and white nationalist groups see the next election as a life-or-death struggle and are uniting to back the one person they can all agree on-guaranteeing another chaotic election. In this chilling expose, Wendling encounters Capital rioters, COVID deniers, QAnon supporters, and Proud Boys and uncovers the roots of a movement that threatens to shatter the foundations of democracy.

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Free Download Daughter of Calamity (Audiobook)
English | 18 June 2024 | ASIN: B0CL7GLTDD, B0CKLZC279 | M4B@64 kbps | 13h 43m | 473 MB
Author: Rosalie M. Lin | Narrator: Si Chen
Genres collide in this dark and atmospheric reimagining of 1930s Shanghai for fans of Nghi Vo and S. A. Chakraborty.
Jingwen spends her nights as a showgirl at the Paramount, one of the most lavish clubs in Shanghai, competing ruthlessly to charm wealthy patrons. To cap off her shifts, she runs money for her grandmother, the exclusive surgeon to the most powerful gang in the city. A position her grandmother is pressuring her to inherit...

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Free Download Dateable: Swiping Right, Hooking Up, and Settling Down While Chronically Ill and Disabled (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CNBDSRT3 | 2024 | 7 hours and 21 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 414 MB
Author: Jessica Slice, Caroline Cupp
Narrator: Dana Swanson, Courtney Lin
A much-needed guide to dating-from apps to hooking up, sex, long-term relationships and more-from disabled essayist and author Jessica Slice and bioethicist Caroline Cupp. Disabled people date, have casual sex, marry, and parent. Yet our romantic lives are conspicuously absent from the media and cultural conversation. Sexual education does not typically address the specific information needed by disabled students. Mainstream dating apps fail to include disability as an aspect of one's identity alongside race, ethnicity, gender identity, and sexual orientation. The few underutilized disability-focused apps are paternalistic and unappealing.

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Free Download Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs: The Astounding Interconnectedness of the Universe by Lisa Randall, Carrington MacDuffie, HarperAudio
English | 2005 | ISBN: B00YI0B6BU | 12 hours and 32 minutes | MP3 64 Kbps | 344 Mb
In this brilliant exploration of our cosmic environment, the renowned particle physicist and New York Times best-selling author of Warped Passages and Knocking on Heaven's Door uses her research into dark matter to illuminate the startling connections between the furthest reaches of space and life here on Earth.
Sixty-six million years ago, an object the size of a city descended from space to crash into Earth, creating a devastating cataclysm that killed off the dinosaurs, along with three-quarters of the other species on the planet. What was its origin? In Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs, Lisa Randall proposes it was a comet that was dislodged from its orbit as the solar system passed through a disk of dark matter embedded in the Milky Way. In a sense it might have been dark matter that killed the dinosaurs.
Working through the background and consequences of this proposal, Randall shares with us the latest findings - established and speculative - regarding the nature and role of dark matter and the origin of the universe, our galaxy, our solar system, and life, along with the process by which scientists explore new concepts. In Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs, Randall tells a breathtaking story that weaves together the cosmos' history and our own, illuminating the deep relationships that are critical to our world and the astonishing beauty inherent in the most familiar things.

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Free Download Dark Calories: How Vegetable Oils Destroy Our Health and How We Can Get It Back (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CKNN8GHT | 2024 | 11 hours and 50 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 343 MB
Author: Catherine Shanahan
Narrator: Catherine Shanahan MD, Eliza Foss
The New York Times bestselling author explains how a group of eight little-known oils cause the cellular damage that underlies virtually all chronic disease, exposes the corruption that deceives doctors and consumers into eating them, and gives us a clear roadmap to recovery and rejuvenation. Did you know that eating a large serving of french fries-cooked in vegetable oil-delivers the toxicity of smoking 24 cigarettes? Cornell-trained biochemist turned family physician Dr. Cate Shanahan introduces us to well-respected scientists who warn that vegetable oils are a public health disaster, wreaking havoc on our bodies' cells by depleting antioxidants and promoting free radical toxicity. As a solution, she proposes a clear, no-nonsense plan that aligns with our genetic needs and nature's laws. Thankfully, recovering our health is simplified by the fact that nutrients that treat one condition also tend to treat all the rest. As an added bonus, we also revive our sense of taste so that our cravings shift to wholesome, nourishing foods instead.

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