Trafficking dаta: How China is Winning the Battle for Digital Sovereignty (Audiobook)
English | ISBN: 9781696609364 | 2022 | 10 hours and 21 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 296 MB
Author: Aynne Kokas
Narrator: Hannah Choi
From TikTok and Fortnite to Grindr and Facebook, Aynne Kokas delivers an urgent look into the technology firms that gather our data, and how the Chinese government is capitalizing on this data flow for political gain. In Trafficking Data, Aynne Kokas looks at how technology firms in the two largest economies in the world, the United States and China, have exploited government policy (and the lack thereof) to gather information on citizens, putting US national security at risk. Kokas argues that US government leadership failures, Silicon Valley's disruption fetish, and Wall Street's addiction to growth have fueled China's technological goldrush. In turn, American complacency yields an unprecedented opportunity for Chinese firms to gather data in the United States and quietly send it back to China, and by extension, to the Chinese government. Drawing on years of fieldwork in the US and China and a large trove of corporate and policy documents, Trafficking Data explains how China is fast becoming the global leader in internet governance and policy, and thus of the data that defines our public and private lives.

Reader's Digest Laughter is the Best Medicine: All Time Favorites: The funniest jokes, stories, and cartoons from 100 years of Reader's Digest (Laughter Medicine) by Reader's Digest
English | April 5, 2022 | ISBN: 1621455963 | 216 pages | PDF | 15 Mb
A hilarious collection of the funniest family-friendly jokes, quotes, stories, cartoons, and anecdotes from the past 100 years of Reader's Digest magazine. A little chuckle every day will keep the doctor away.

Lucky Planet: Why Earth is Exceptional-and What That Means for Life in the Universe By David Waltham
2014 | 208 Pages | ISBN: 0465039995 | PDF | 5 MB
Humankind has long fantasized about life elsewhere in the universe. And as we discover countless exoplanets orbiting other stars-among them, rocky super-Earths and gaseous Hot Jupiters-we become ever more hopeful that we may come across extraterrestrial life. Yet even as we become aware of the vast numbers of planets outside our solar system, it has also become clear that Earth is exceptional. The question is: why?In Lucky Planet, astrobiologist David Waltham argues that Earth's climate stability is one of the primary factors that makes it able to support life, and that nothing short of luck made such conditions possible. The four-billion-year stretch of good weather that our planet has experienced is statistically so unlikely, he shows, that chances are slim that we will ever encounter intelligent extraterrestrial others.Describing the three factors that typically control a planet's average temperature-the heat received from its star, how much heat the planet absorbs, and the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere-Waltham paints a complex picture of how special Earth's climate really is. He untangles the mystery of why, although these factors have shifted by such massive measures over the history of life on Earth, surface temperatures have never fluctuated so much as to make conditions hostile to life. Citing factors such as the size of our Moon and the effect of an ever-warming Sun, Waltham challenges the prevailing scientific consensus that other Earth-like planets have natural stabilizing mechanisms that allow life to flourish.A lively exploration of the stars above and the ground beneath our feet, Lucky Planet seamlessly weaves the story of Earth and the worlds orbiting other stars to give us a new perspective of the surprising role chance plays in our place in the universe.

Character is beauty: Redefining Yoruba culture and identity By Olu Obafemi; Femi Abodunrin; Wole Ogundele
2001 | 410 Pages | ISBN: 0865436231 | PDF | 21 MB
Iwalewa-Haus, under the directorship of Ulli Beier has actively participated in the revitalization and continuation of the different cultural and artistic lives of the Third World societies. Within the small, in-house publication operation of Iwalewa-Haus can be found almost every third world culture and society, but because of Ulli Beier's special connection with Yoruba society and people, its collection and publications on that society are unique--including numerous interviews with Wole Soyinka and other Yoruba scholars on Yoruba music, art, philosophy, religion, and culture. In addition, the house has been actively promoting all aspects of Yoruba theatrical performances and artistic practices where they are active, or reviving and supporting them where they have been threatened.The papers herein deal with the past and present state of Yoruba society and culture. The connected themes of past glory, (brief) renaissance, and present crises are made coherent. The motivation to assemble the papers which make this book is more than merely academic. In the tradition of Ulli Beier himself and Iwalewa-Haus it aims to directly intervene and provoke debate and take action.This book is addressed to Yoruba English-reading/speaking audiences and to all (Black) African societies facing the same kind of crisis the Yoruba face. All have been existing precariously in the cusp between technologized modernity and traditional ways. Thus, although this collection is specifically on Yoruba society, its broad concerns apply to most African societies.ABOUT THE AUTHORSOlu Obafemi is professor of English and Dramatic Literature at the department of Modern European languages at the University of Ilorin.Wole Ogundeleis a Senior lecturer at Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria.Femi Abodunrin is a Humboldt fellow at the University of Bayreuth in Germany.

Five Major Reasons Africa is Poor: A Deep Introspection on the Perpetuating Factors and what we can do to Change Them (Audiobook)
English | ISBN: 9798822656970 | 2022 | 7 hours and 49 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 226 MB
Author: Walter Franklin Mwambazi
Narrator: Chilu Lemba
Africa is one of the oldest continents but hasn't it struck you as absolutely odd how a continent endowed with such wealth in terms of both ground resource as well as human resource, unbelievably great weather and wonderful soil can have such unbelievably high levels of poverty? It is nothing short of preposterous. What makes this worse for is the fact that 58 years later, Africa still grapples with so much challenges that make you wonder why it has taken us so long as a people to be emancipated in every way.

The Dieting Soulmate's Cookbook: Dieting is Always Easier in Pairs by Layla Tacy
English | 2021 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B09HML747G | 65 pages | EPUB | 2.96 Mb
Before we go any further, let us just clarify this cookbook isn't about any type of diet in particular. All we wanted was to create fun recipes for couples or pairs (friends, dogs, cats, anything you want) who want to start having healthier diets, and here we are!

Curtis Honeycutt, "Good Grammar is the Life of the Party: Tips for a Wildly Successful Life"
English | ISBN: 0578560038 | 2020 | 244 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
Grammar rules!Good Grammar is the Life of the Party: Tips for a Wildly Successful Life will convert certified grammar goofballs into bonafide word nerds.As the writer of the award-winning humor column "Grammar Guy," Curtis Honeycutt's grammar advice appears in over thirty newspapers each week. His debut book-filled with witty word wisdom-is designed to make your life more awesome by improving your grammar.Do you love language, but sometimes get tripped up by confusing grammar rules?

Pat Brown, "Black and White: How the Left is Destroying the Dream of Martin Luther King, Jr. and our Founding Fathers"
English | ISBN: 1642936812 | 2021 | 224 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
The Left is out to destroy the dream of Martin Luther King, Jr. and it is up to the conservatives of our country-conservatives of all races-to not only understand what is happening, but also stand strong in order to Make America Great Again.

Preserving what is Valued: Museums, Conservation, and First Nations By Miriam Clavir; University of British Columbia. Museum of Anthropology
2002 | 295 Pages | ISBN: 0774808608 | PDF | 3 MB
Museum practice regarding handling and preservation of objects has been largely taken as a given, and it can be difficult to see how these activities are politicized. Author Miriam Clavir argues that museum practices are historically grounded and represent values that are not necessarily held by the originators of the objects. She first focuses on conservation and explains the principles and methods conservators practise. She then discusses First Nations people's perspectives on preservation, quoting extensively from interviews done throughout British Columbia, and comparing the British Columbia situation with that in New Zealand.

Digital Physics: Consciousness is Primary by Ediho Lokanga
English | May 17, 2022 | ISBN: 173962470X | 210 pages | EPUB | 0.66 Mb
In this important book, Dr. Ediho Lokanga tells us that consciousness is primary and nonlocal, the source and the origin of everything that exists. It is a creative force that shapes the universe, including matter. It seems likely that everything in the universe is shaped by nonlocal consciousness. We live in a field or sea of consciousness, called a unified field of consciousness, where our consciousness exists both in our bodies and in this unified field.