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Free Download Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols, and Other Typographical Marks (Audiobook)
English | November 14, 2023 | ASIN: B0CLVT8X1S | M4B@64 kbps | 7h 9m | 213 MB
Author: Keith Houston | Narrator: Elliot Fitzpatrick
A charming and indispensable tour of two thousand years of the written word, Shady Characters weaves a fascinating trail across the parallel histories of language and typography.
Whether investigating the asterisk (*) and dagger ()-which alternately illuminated and skewered heretical verses of the early Bible-or the at sign (@), which languished in obscurity for centuries until rescued by the Internet, Keith Houston draws on myriad sources to chart the life and times of these enigmatic squiggles, both exotic () and everyday (&).

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Free Download Service Model (Audiobook)
English | June 04, 2024 | ASIN: B0CMYJRJPB | M4B@64 kbps | 12h 21m | 362 MB
Author and Narrator: Adrian Tchaikovsky
Murderbot meets Redshirts in a delightfully humorous tale of robotic murder from the Hugo-nominated author of Elder Race and Children of Time.
To fix the world they must first break it, further.

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Free Download Seen Yet Unseen: A Black Woman Crashes the Tech Fraternity (Audiobook)
English | May 14, 2024 | ASIN: B0CLW71CVZ | M4B@64 kbps | 7h 33m | 212 MB
Author and Narrator: Bärí A. Williams
Part memoir, part searing revelation, Seen Yet Unseen takes listeners behind the scenes of some of the world's biggest tech companies and exposes the way their exclusion of and, at times, hostility toward Black women have lasting impacts on the technology we use every day.
Over the years the products of big tech companies and Silicon Valley have become indispensable to our lives. They impact the way we socialize, make purchases, and even our medical decisions. But what happens when a major segment of the population-in this case Black women-isn't included in these companies?

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Free Download Chris Wroblewski, Garth Barnard, Julian Elfer (Narrator), "Sabotage!: An In-Depth Investigation of the 1943 Liberator Crash that Killed Polish General Sikorski"
English | ASIN: B0D4G6CNGW | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~05:05:00 | 140 MB
On the night of July 4, 1943, transport aircraft Liberator AL523 took off from Gibraltar's North Front tarmac and within moments crashed into the sea with only one survivor, the pilot. The commander-in-chief of the Polish army and prime minister of the Polish government-in-exile, General Wladyslaw Sikorski, was dead.
Rumors as to the cause of the crash abounded. Was it pilot error? Was it, as officially classified, merely an accident, or was it, as the authors conclude in this riveting and meticulous study, an act of sabotage?
In this extensive piece of research, Chris Wroblewski and Garth Barnard examine numerous primary sources, including the complete court of inquiry transcripts, produce detailed analysis of aircraft components and systems, and unearth many little-known eyewitness accounts to give this investigation a compelling conclusion. Within the book the authors also dispel several conspiracy theories that have emerged since this catastrophe; particularly that this event was a disastrous assassination attempt with blame on the British, Soviets, and Nazis.

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Free Download Riding with Cochise: The Apache Story of America's Longest War (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D3NNYJWS | 2024 | 6 hours and 19 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 324 MB
Author: Steve Price
Narrator: Kaipo Schwab
Riding with Cochise brings the violent drama of the American Southwest to life through the eyes of the legendary Apache chieftain Cochise and three other tribal leaders. Relying largely on the oral histories told by relatives of these great warriors as well as personal diaries of others who were involved, veteran author Steve Price takes listeners deep into the Cochise Stronghold, through Massacre Canyon, and across Apache Pass. You'll sit beside the campfires of Tom Jeffords, the only white man Cochise ever fully trusted, and touch the faded stone walls of Fort Craig, the rock cairns at Dragoon Springs, and the cottonwoods at Ojo Caliente.

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Free Download Rewire: Break the Cycle, Alter Your Thoughts and Create Lasting Change (Your Neurotoolkit for Everyday Life) (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CJG172J1 | 2024 | 6 hours and 19 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 174 MB
Author: Nicole Vignola
Narrator: Nicole Vignola
Change your mind to change your life-discover the neuroscience of a better you in this revolutionary book from neuroscientist and online sensation Nicole Vignola that teaches you how to rewire your brain to achieve peak mental wellbeing. In clear language, neuroscientist Nicole Vignola demystifies the science of breaking bad habits and how to make good ones, the principles of neuroplasticity, and neurohack methods for changing behavioral patterns. In the end, she helps you to see yourself in a different way and control how you react to any life situation, from overcoming negative, limiting beliefs to managing stress and achieving peak mental wellbeing. Think of your brain as your hardware and your mental health as your software. Your hardware must work well before you can upgrade your software; Once you learn the fundamentals of rewiring your brain, you can instill new habits, shift your mindset, and change unwanted behavior to create the best version of yourself. We all have habits and behaviors that hold us back from reaching our fullest potential. This book will help you see that you are not stuck, that you can rewrite your story-and shows you how.

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Free Download Redsight (Audiobook)
English | May 28, 2024 | ASIN: B0D3FHXC8H | M4B@128 kbps | 15h 35m | 866 MB
Author: Meredith Mooring | Narrator: Natalie Duke
Korinna has simple priorities: stay on the Navitas, stay out of trouble, and stay alive. She may be a Redseer, a blind priestess with the power to manipulate space-time, but she is the weakest in her Order. Useless and outcast. Or so she has been raised to believe.
As she takes her place as a navigator on an Imperium ship, Korinna's full destiny is revealed to her: blood brimming with magic, she is meant to become a weapon of the Imperium, and pawn for the Order that raised her. But when the ship is attacked by the notorious pirate Aster Haran, Korinna's world is ripped apart.

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Free Download Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice: A Treatise, Critique, and Call to Action (Manifesto) (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CHZ3X9F7 | 2024 | 4 hours and 38 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 258 MB
Author: J.F. Martel, Donna Tartt
Narrator: J.F. Martel, Donna Tartt
With a new Introduction by Donna Tartt, exclusive to the audiobook. Part treatise, part critique, part call to action, Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice is a journey into the uncanny realities revealed to us in the great works of art of the past and present. Received opinion holds that art is culturally determined and relative. We are told that whether a picture, a movement, a text, or sound qualifies as a "work of art" largely depends on social attitudes and convention. Drawing on examples ranging from Paleolithic cave paintings to modern pop music and building on the ideas of James Joyce, Oscar Wilde, Gilles Deleuze, Carl Jung, and others, J.F. Martel argues that art is an inborn human phenomenon that precedes the formation of culture and even society. Art is free of politics and ideology. Paradoxically, that is what makes it a force of liberation wherever it breaks through the trance of humdrum existence. Like the act of dreaming, artistic creation is fundamentally mysterious. It is a gift from beyond the field of the human, and it connects us with realities that, though normally unseen, are crucial components of a living world.

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Free Download Race, Rights, and Rifles: The Origins of the NRA and Contemporary Gun Culture (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D3J51DSC | 2024 | 14 hours and 21 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 358 MB
Author: Alexandra Filindra
Narrator: Peter Berkrot
An eye-opening examination of the ties between American gun culture and white male supremacy from the American Revolution to today. One-third of American adults-approximately 86 million people-own firearms. This is not just for protection or hunting. Although many associate gun-centric ideology with individualist and libertarian traditions in American political culture, Race, Rights, and Rifles shows that it rests on an equally old but different foundation. Instead, Alexandra Frilindra shows that American gun culture can be traced back to the American Revolution when republican notions of civic duty were fused with a belief in white male supremacy and a commitment to maintaining racial and gender hierarchies.

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Free Download Psychedelic Outlaws: The Movement Revolutionizing Modern Medicine (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CMF8BD6Z | 2024 | 11 hours and 8 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 318 MB
Author: Joanna Kempner
Narrator: Paige Reisenfeld
An award-winning sociologist unearths how a group of ordinary people debilitated by excruciating pain developed their own medicine from home-grown psilocybin mushrooms-crafting near-clinical grade dosing protocols-and fought for recognition in a broken medical system. Cluster headache, a diagnosis sometimes referred to as a 'suicide headache,' is widely considered the most severe pain disorder that humans experience. There is no cure, and little funding available for research into developing treatments. When Joanna Kempner met Bob Wold in 2012, she was introduced to a world beyond most people's comprehension-a clandestine network determined to find relief using magic mushrooms. These 'Clusterbusters,' a group united only by the internet and a desire to survive, decided to do the research that medicine left unfinished.

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