Free Download Asheesh Kapur Siddique, Keval Shah (Narrator), "The Archive of Empire: Knowledge, Conquest, and the Making of the Early Modern British World"
English | ASIN: B0D9YT68S2 | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~09:50:00 | 270 MB
How modern data-driven government originated in the creation and use of administrative archives in the British Empire
Over the span of two hundred years, Great Britain established, governed, lost, and reconstructed an empire that embraced three continents and two oceanic worlds. The British ruled this empire by correlating incoming information about the conduct of subjects and aliens in imperial spaces with norms of good governance developed in London. Officials derived these norms by studying the histories of government contained in the official records of both the state and corporations and located in repositories known as archives.

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Free Download That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0DBM8J99F | 2024 | 9 hours and 56 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 284 MB
Author: Amanda Jones
Narrator: Amanda Jones
Part memoir, part manifesto, the inspiring story of a Louisiana librarian advocating for inclusivity on the front lines of our vicious culture wars. One of the things small town librarian Amanda Jones values most about books is how they can affirm a young person's sense of self. So in 2022, when she caught wind of a local public hearing that would discuss "book content," she knew what was at stake. Schools and libraries nationwide have been bombarded by demands for books with LGTBQ+ references, discussions of racism, and more to be purged from the shelves. Amanda would be damned if her community were to ban stories representing minority groups. She spoke out that night at the meeting. Days later, she woke up to a nightmare that is still ongoing.

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Free Download Tell Me Everything: A Novel (Audiobook)
English | September 10, 2024 | ASIN: B0CRZFH8DP | M4B@128 kbps | 10h 59m | 598 MB
Author: Elizabeth Strout | Narrator: Kimberly Farr
From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Elizabeth Strout comes a "generous, compassionate novel" (San Francisco Chronicle) about new friendships, old loves, and the very human desire to leave a mark on the world.
"A rich tapestry, intricately wrought yet effortlessly realized, both suspenseful and meditative."-The Boston Globe

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Free Download Talk to Strangers: How Everyday, Random Encounters Can Expand Your Business, Career, Income, and Life by David Topus, Tantor Audio
English | July 10, 2020 | ISBN: B08C6HQCMC | 4 hours and 39 minutes | MP3 128 Kbps | 383 Mb
Connect to the world around you and realize the enormous potential in talking to strangers.
Every day, random encounters really can change lives, when you make them happen the right way and leverage the connection at the other end. Talk to Strangers explains how to stand out and tap the potential of others by taking notice of who is standing alongside you on the bank line, the latte pickup point, or the ticket counter at the airport. David Topus' life-changing message is that we should "always connect", which means going beyond online relationships and engaging in the random, real-life interactions that have unlimited potential to supercharge businesses, accelerate careers, and enrich your life.
In Talk to Strangers, you will discover

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Free Download Tales of the Elders of Ireland (Audiobook)
English | July 01, 2024 | ASIN: B0D8JZS65Z | M4B@128 kbps | 9h 17m | 515 MB
Author: Uncredited | Narrator: Gerry O'Brien
Tales of the Elders of Ireland (Acallam na Senórach) represents the largest literary text surviving from 12th-century Ireland, the most comprehensive early collection of Fenian stories and poetry.
Three parallel worlds interact: the contemporary Christian world of Saint Patrick with his scribes, clerics, occasional angels, and souls rescued from Hell; the earlier pagan world of the ancient, giant Fenians and an array of Irish kings; and the timeless Otherworld, peopled by ever-young shape-shifting fairies. The Tales dwell in detail on the inhabitants of the Irish Otherworld and provide an extensive account of their music and magic, their internecine wars and their malice toward, and infatuation with, humankind-themes that still feature in the story-telling of present-day Ireland.

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Free Download Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT, and the Race that Will Change the World (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CMJPFPXQ | 2024 | 9 hours and 25 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 274 MB
Author: Parmy Olson
Narrator: Lisa Flanagan
In November 2022, a webpage was posted online with a simple text box. It was ChatGPT, and was unlike any app people had used before. It was more human than a customer service agent, more convenient than a Google search. Behind the scenes, battles for control and prestige between the world's two leading AI firms, OpenAI and DeepMind, who now steers Google's AI efforts, has remained elusive-until now. In Supremacy, Olson, tech writer at Bloomberg, tells the astonishing story of the battle between these two AI firms, their struggles to use their tech for good, and the hazardous direction they could go as they serve two tech monopolies whose power is unprecedented in history.

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Free Download Superparenting for ADD: An Innovative Approach to Raising Your Distracted Child (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D1LQDSVW | 2024 | 5 hours and 9 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 289 MB
Author: Edward M. Hallowell M.D., Peter S. Jensen
Narrator: William Hughes
With decades of experience working with ADD children, Dr. Edward Hallowell-a pediatric psychiatric clinician, father of two ADD children, and himself an adult with ADD-understands how easily the gifts of this condition are lost on a child amid negative comments from doctors, teachers, and even loving but frustrated parents. Hallowell has long argued that ADD is too often misunderstood, mistreated, and mislabeled as a "disability." Now he teams up with top academic ADD researcher Peter S. Jensen, M.D., who is himself a father of an ADD child, to bring you an upbeat and encouraging new approach to living with and helping your ADD child. The practical strength-based techniques Drs. Hallowell and Jensen present put the talents, charms, and positive essence of your child ahead of any presumed shortcomings. Clearly outlined and organized, Superparenting for ADD offers a specific game plan. Drs. Hallowell and Jensen fully understand the real and everyday challenges-both at home and at school-facing parents of an ADD child. Now this important book shows you how to unwrap the wonderful, surprising gifts of ADD and turn what is too often labeled a lifelong disability into a lifelong blessing.

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Free Download Strive: 8 Steps to Find Your Awesome (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D1S4PM1Q | 2024 | 7 hours and 18 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 405 MB
Author: Venus Williams, Myatt Murphy
Narrator: Venus Williams, Joniece Abbott-Pratt
An inspiring and innovative guide towards living your best life-made easy-from Venus Williams, one of the greatest tennis players of all time. Throughout Venus Williams' incredible career in tennis, she's been asked almost every question imaginable. What she eats, how she trains, what she does to unwind, and most frequently, how does she manage to do it all? Venus harnessed a rich blend of hard-won wisdom and core discipline to achieve her goals while keeping a simple promise to herself: to keep things fun. But after being diagnosed with an incurable autoimmune disorder that affected her emotional and physical wellness, Venus's vow was put to the test. She came up with the STRIVE strategy-a winning combination of holistic and scientific approaches to wellness and performance that focuses on making self-improvements reachable and sustainable. In STRIVE, listeners will learn how eight tiny but essential tenets can help turn smart choices into habits. And once that happens, you'll forge a lifestyle you return to because you want to, not because you have to-and that's when you start winning.

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Free Download Stolen Family: Captive in Saudi Arabia (Audiobook)
English | September 10, 2024 | ASIN: B0DFQJ7QDR | M4B@64 kbps | 6h 9m | 176 MB
Author: Johanne Durocher | Narrator: Teri Schnaubelt
Johanne Durocher fights to free her daughter and four grandchildren from a nightmarish life of abuse and poverty in Saudi Arabia.
In 2001, Nathalie Morin was just seventeen when she met Saeed, a Saudi man who claimed to be studying in Montreal. She fell in love with him, but soon after she gave birth to their son, Saeed was deported back to his country of origin. Struggling as a single mother and wanting Samir to know his father, Nathalie travelled to Saudi Arabia to reunite her family, confident that she would be able to return to Canada whenever she wanted. But a trap was closing around her ― her partner turned out to be authoritarian and violent, the abuse continuing until their last child was born.

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