English | ASIN: B08XB28N6F | 2021 | 11 hours and 32 minutes |MP3|M4B | 317 MB
From the former news policy lead at Google, an urgent and groundbreaking account of the high-stakes global cyberwar brewing between Western democracies and the autocracies of China and Russia that could potentially crush democracy. From 2016 to 2020, Jacob Helberg led Google's global internal product policy efforts to combat disinformation and foreign interference. During this time, he found himself in the midst of what can only be described as a quickly escalating two-front technology cold war between democracy and autocracy. On the front-end, we're fighting to control the software - applications, news information, social media platforms, and more - of what we see on the screens of our computers, tablets, and phones, a clash which started out primarily with Russia but now increasingly includes China and Iran. Even more ominously, we're also engaged in a hidden back-end battle - largely with China - to control the internet's hardware, which includes devices like cellular phones, satellites, fiber-optic cables, and 5G networks.
English | ASIN: B09LTDLX8K | 2021 | 6 hours and 56 minutes |MP3|M4B | 191 MB
Almost 75 years later, the question persists: accident or arson? As America slept in the pre-dawn hours of December 7, 1946 - in preparation for a somber remembrance of the fifth anniversary of Pearl Harbor Day - 280 of its citizens awoke suddenly in a hotel already burning out of control. For the next two and a half hours, they would fight their own war, mostly against their own surging, unrelenting fear. Like the unsinkable Titanic, Atlanta's Winecoff Hotel had been billed as "fireproof".
English | ASIN: B08WG336FH | 2021 | 10 hours and 00 minutes |MP3|M4B | 274 MB
Over the past 30 years, Gregory Boyle has transformed thousands of lives through his work as the founder of Homeboy Industries, the largest and most successful gang-intervention program in the world. Boyle's new book, The Whole Language, hailed as an "astounding literary and spiritual feat" (Publishers Weekly) that is "destined to become a classic of both urban reportage and contemporary spirituality" (Los Angeles Times), and Barking to the Choir, deemed "a beautiful and important and soul-transporting book" by Elizabeth Gilbert and declared by Ann Patchett to be "a book that shows what the platitudes of faith look like when they're put into action". Bursting with encouragement, humor, and hope, The Whole Language invites us to treat others - and ourselves - with acceptance and tenderness.
English | ASIN: B09FV7M9H3 | 2021 | 6 hours and 59 minutes |MP3|M4B | 192 MB
In 1859, at the largest recorded slave auction in American history, more than 400 men, women, and children were sold by the Butler Plantation estates. This book is one of the first to analyze the operation of this auction and trace the lives of slaves before, during, and after their sale. Immersing herself in the personal papers of the Butlers, accounts from journalists that witnessed the auction, genealogical records, and oral histories, Anne C. Bailey weaves together a narrative that brings the auction to life. Demonstrating the resilience of African American families, she includes interviews from the living descendants of slaves sold on the auction block, showing how the memories of slavery have shaped people's lives today. Using the auction as the focal point, The Weeping Time is a compelling and nuanced narrative of one of the most pivotal eras in American history, and how its legacy persists today.
English | ASIN: B088P52JDY | 2021 | 4 hours and 50 minutes |MP3|M4B | 132 MB
A groundbreaking mind-body protocol to heal chronic pain, backed by new research. Alan Gordon, a psychotherapist and the founder of the Pain Psychology Center in Los Angeles, was in grad school when he started experiencing chronic pain, and it completely derailed his life. He saw multiple doctors and received many diagnoses, but none of the medical treatments helped. Frustrated with conventional pain management, he developed Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT), a mind-body protocol that eliminated his own chronic pain and has transformed the lives of thousands of his patients.
English | ASIN: B09M1JLSL4 | 2021 | 12 hours and 13 minutes |MP3|M4B | 336 MB
Fifty years after President Richard Nixon declared a "War on Drugs", the United States government has spent more than a trillion dollars fighting a losing battle. In recent years, about 1.5 million people have been arrested annually on drug charges - most of them involving cannabis - and nearly 500,000 Americans are currently incarcerated for drug offenses. Today, as a response to the dire human and financial costs, Americans are fast losing their faith that a war on drugs is fair, moral, or effective.
English | 2016 |MP3|M4B | ASIN: B01CDEK7AI | Duration: 6:12 h | 170 MB
DeVon Franklin, Meagan Good / Narrated by JD Jackson, Allyson Johnson
English | August 30, 2019 | ASIN: B07WZTRPN2 |MP3|M4B | 1h 24m | 38.3 MB
Author: Charles River Editors
English | ASIN: B09MV3DT68 | 2021 | 9 hours and 32 minutes |MP3|M4B | 262 MB
In November 2018, Baptist preacher Mark Harris beat the odds, narrowly fending off a blue wave in the sprawling Ninth District of North Carolina. But word soon got around that something fishy was going on in rural Bladen County. At the center of the mess was a local political operative named McCrae Dowless. Dowless had learned the ins and outs of the absentee ballot system from Democrats before switching over to the Republican Party. Bladen County's vote-collecting cottage industry made national headlines, led to multiple election fraud indictments, toppled North Carolina GOP leadership, and left hundreds of thousands of North Carolinians without congressional representation for nearly a year.
English | ASIN: B08W9K5251 | 2021 | 12 hours and 22 minutes |MP3|M4B | 339 MB
Voodoo hoodoo is the unique variety of Creole voodoo found in New Orleans. This rich compendium includes more than 300 authentic voodoo and hoodoo recipes, rituals, and spells for love, justice, luck, prosperity, health, and success. Cultural psychologist and root worker Denise Alvarado, who grew up in New Orleans, draws from a lifetime of recipes and spells learned from family, friends, and local practitioners. She traces the history of the African-based folk magic brought by slaves to New Orleans, showing how it evolved over time to include influences from Native-American spirituality, Catholicism, and Pentecostalism. She shares her research into folklore collections and 19th- and 20th-century formularies along with her own magical arts. The Voodoo Hoodoo Spellbook includes more than 100 spells for banishing, binding, fertility, luck, protection, money, and more.