How Sex Changed the Internet and the Internet Changed Sex: An Unexpected History (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0B5YMK6NY | 2022 | 8 hours and 24 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 216 MB
Author: Samantha Cole
Narrator: Brittany Pressley
From the moment there was an "online," there was sex online. The famous test image used by software engineers to develop formats like the jpeg was "Lena," taken from Playboy's November 1972 centerfold. Early bulletin boards and multi-user domains quickly came to serve their members' sexual musings. Facebook started as a way to rate "hot or not" Harvard co-eds. In fact, virtually every significant development that defines the Internet we know and love (and hate) today-privacy issues, online payments and online banking, dating, social media, streaming technology, mass data collection-came out of the meeting of sexuality and technology. And the kicker is, not only did sexuality vastly influence the Internet, but the Internet arguably changed modern human sexuality by giving every imaginable non-heteronormative community a place to explore, fantasize, thrive, and be accepted. A lively history, filled with broad themes and backstories, pioneering personalities and eureka-moments, How the Internet Changed Sex... is a short, serious, and highly entertaining look at the intertwining convergence of sex and the Internet.

How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0B2BZGV4Z | 2022 | 5 hours and 41 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 152 MB
Author: Sabrina Imbler
Narrator: Sabrina Imbler
A queer, mixed race writer working in a largely white, male field, science and conservation journalist Sabrina Imbler has always been drawn to the mystery of life in the sea, and particularly to creatures living in hostile or remote environments. Each essay in their debut collection profiles one such creature: the mother octopus who starves herself while watching over her eggs, the Chinese sturgeon whose migration route has been decimated by pollution and dams, the bizarre Bobbitt worm (named after Lorena), and other uncanny creatures lurking in the deep ocean, far below where the light reaches. Imbler discovers that some of the most radical models of family, community, and care can be found in the sea, from gelatinous chains that are both individual organisms and colonies of clones to deep-sea crabs that have no need for the sun, nourished instead by the chemicals and heat throbbing from the core of the Earth. Exploring themes of adaptation, survival, sexuality, and care, and weaving the wonders of marine biology with stories of their own family, relationships, and coming of age, How Far the Light Reaches is a book that invites us to envision wilder, grander, and more abundant possibilities for the way we live.

How China Escaped the Poverty Trap (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BMJ26J2Z | 2022 | 11 hours and 50 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 341 MB
Author: Yuen Yuen Ang
Narrator: Catherine Ho
How can poor and weak societies escape poverty traps? Political economists have traditionally offered three answers: "stimulate growth first," "build good institutions first," or "some fortunate nations inherited good institutions that led to growth." Yuen Yuen Ang rejects all three schools of thought and their underlying assumptions: linear causation, a mechanistic worldview, and historical determinism. Instead, she launches a new paradigm grounded in complex adaptive systems, which embraces the reality of interdependence and humanity's capacity to innovate. Her analysis reveals two broad lessons on development. First, transformative change requires an adaptive governing system that empowers ground-level actors to create new solutions for evolving problems. Second, the first step out of the poverty trap is to "use what you have"-harnessing existing resources to kick-start new markets, even if that means defying first-world norms. Bold and meticulously researched, How China Escaped the Poverty Trap opens up a whole new avenue of thinking for scholars, practitioners, and anyone seeking to build adaptive systems.

How Asia Found Herself: A Story of Intercultural Understanding (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BM57FC3M | 2022 | 17 hours and 37 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 501 MB
Author: Nile Green
Narrator: Rick Adamson
A pioneering history of cross-cultural knowledge that exposes enduring fractures in unity across the world's largest continent. The nineteenth century saw European empires build vast transport networks to maximize their profits from trade, and it saw Christian missionaries spread printing across Asia to bring Bibles to the colonized. The unintended consequence was an Asian communications revolution: the maritime public sphere expanded from Istanbul to Yokohama. From all corners of the continent, curious individuals confronted the challenges of studying each other's cultures by using the infrastructure of empire for their own exploratory ends. Whether in Japanese or Persian, Bengali or Arabic, they wrote travelogues, histories, and phrasebooks to chart the vastly different regions that European geographers labeled "Asia." Yet comprehension does not always keep pace with connection. Far from flowing smoothly, inter-Asian understanding faced obstacles of many kinds, especially on a landmass with so many scripts and languages. Here is the dramatic story of cross-cultural knowledge on the world's largest continent, exposing the roots of enduring fractures in Asian unity.

History of the Caribbean: A Captivating Guide to Caribbean History, Starting from Christopher Columbus through the Wars of Religion, Slavery, and Colonial Laws to the Present (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BNLWV5QB | 2022 | 3 hours and 39 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 203 MB
Author: Captivating History
Narrator: Jason Zenobia
The history of the Caribbean is an exciting ride, but few outside of the region know much about it in depth beyond Columbus's discovery. This audiobook will lead you through the history of the region, which witnessed some of the world's most important events.

His Masterly Pen: A Biography of Jefferson the Writer (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B09TWVW383 | 2022 | 24 hours and 4 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 687 MB
Author: Fred Kaplan
Narrator: Mark Bramhall
As he did for Abraham Lincoln and John Quincy Adams, award-winning biographer Fred Kaplan offers a fresh, illuminating look at the life of Thomas Jefferson and his contributions as a writer. In this unique biography, Fred Kaplan emphasizes Thomas Jefferson's genius with language and his ability to use the power of words to inspire and shape a nation. A man renowned for many talents, writing was one of the major activities of the statemen's life, though much of his best, most influential writing-with the exception of the letters he wrote up to his death, numbering approximately 100,000-was done by 1789, when Jefferson was just 46. All of his works-from his earliest correspondence; his essays and proclamations, including A Summary View of British America, the Declaration of Independence, and Notes on the State of Virginia; his religious and scientific writings; his inaugural addresses; his addresses to Indian nations; and his exchanges with Washington, Madison, Hamilton, John and Abigail Adams, and dear friends such as Maria Cosway-demonstrate his remarkable intelligence, prescient wisdom, and literary flair and reveal the man in all his complex and controversial brilliance.

Hidden Mind of Freedom (Audiobook)
English | ISBN: 9781669668879 | 2022 | 2 hours and 32 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 123 MB
Author: Tarthang Tulku
Narrator: Audrey Regan
Hidden Mind of Freedom helps us to awaken our inner resources through meditation and self-observation. In simple, direct language, Tarthang Tulku shows us how to activate the healing qualities latent within the mind. Breathing techniques, mantra, and visualization exercises foster deep relaxation, promoting clarity and concentration. Awareness of mind's hidden resources opens a gateway to lasting freedom and peace. An accessible text that has surprising depth on repeated listening.

Help Is Here: Finding Fresh Strength and Purpose in the Power of the Holy Spirit (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B09M97VT3Z | 2022 | 4 hours and 38 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 132 MB
Author: Max Lucado
Narrator: Max Lucado
Bills pile up. Savings accounts go down. Pandemics rage. Work goes off the rails. Stress goes off the charts. Suddenly, you feel powerless to calm life's chaos. It's all too much to take on by yourself. But pastor and bestselling author Max Lucado has great news for you-Help Is Here. Now more than ever, we're all weary from the loads we carry and the challenges we face. We have questions we cannot answer and problems we cannot solve. We'd hoped that life would be an invigorating adventure or an inspiring journey. We never expected to grow so tired so quickly. But Max teaches us that we can find fresh strength and purpose in the power of the Holy Spirit.

Hate and Reconciliation: Approaches to Fostering Relationships Between People and Peace (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BN6W1ZQT | 2022 | 8 hours and 17 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 234 MB
Author: Guido Cuyvers
Narrator: Graham Rowat
Hatred is human and current. It is an intrinsic part of what can happen between people. Personal experiences can lead people to hate someone. In society and even on a global level, hatred is again and again the motor of misunderstanding and often also of violence between people. Sometimes hate smolders almost unconsciously; at other times he is furious and serves as a flag for serious violence. Hatred has many faces and seems omnipresent, that much is clear. The term "Erida complex," after the Greek goddess of hate, symbolizes the common and deeply rooted nature of hatred. After examining the nature of hate, this book focuses a wide-angle lens on its many faces, in individuals and groups as well as peoples. Facing the negativity of hatred, this book presents constructive approaches to fostering relationships between people and peace.

Hangry: A Startup Journey (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0B522F1XX | 2022 | 8 hours and 46 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 234 MB
Author: Mike Evans
Narrator: Mike Evans
GrubHub founder Mike Evans reveals the inside story of how he grew a multibillion-dollar behemoth that changed the way we eat. Hungry and tired one night, Mike wanted a pizza, but getting a pizza delivered was a pain in the neck. He didn't want to call a million restaurants to see what was open. So, as an avid coder, he created GrubHub in his spare bedroom to figure out who delivered to his apartment. Then, armed with a $140 check from his first customer and ignoring his crushing college debt, he quit his job. Over the next decade, Mike grew his little delivery guide into the world's premier online ordering website. In doing so, he entered the company of an elite few entrepreneurs to take a startup from an idea all the way to an IPO.