Category: E-Books

The Invention of Miracles Language, Power, and Alexander Graham Bell’s Quest to End Deafness [Audiobook]


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English | April 06, 2021 | ASIN: B08ML4TT34 | MP3@64 kbps | 12h 8m | 330.46 MB
Author: Katie Booth
Narrator: Samantha Desz

An astonishingly revisionist biography of Alexander Graham Bell, telling the true – and troubling – story of the inventor of the telephone. We think of Alexander Graham Bell as the inventor of the telephone, but that’s not how he saw his own career. Bell was an elocution teacher by profession. As the son of a deaf woman and, later, husband to another, his goal in life from adolescence was to teach the deaf to speak. Even his tinkering sprang from his teaching work; the telephone had its origins as a speech-reading machine. And yet by the end of his life, despite his best efforts – or perhaps, more accurately, because of them – Bell had become the American Deaf community’s most powerful enemy.

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The Innovation Tournament Handbook A Step-by-Step Guide to Finding Exceptional Solutions to Any Challenge [Audiobook]


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English | ASIN: B0C8PVX9GS | 2023 | 4 hours and 1 minute | M4B@128 kbps | 201 MB
Author: Christian Terwiesch, Karl Ulrich
Narrator: Jason Leikam

What new products or services should you launch next year? How can you improve the productivity of a paint line? What should you name your new venture? How can you decrease patient waiting times? How can you improve the customer experience? Pretty much any creative problem-solving task can be framed as seeking a new match between solution and need, from operational process improvements to creating strategies to foster organic growth. Innovation tournaments aim to find a match that is not just good, but exceptional.

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The Injustice of Place Uncovering the Legacy of Poverty in America [Audiobook]


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English | ASIN: B0BSP58TFL | 2023 | 9 hours and 55 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 284 MB
Author: Kathryn J. Edin, H. Luke Shaefer, Timothy J. Nelson
Narrator: Janina Edwards

A sweeping and surprising new understanding of extreme poverty in America. Three of the nation’s top scholars -known for tackling key mysteries about poverty in America-turn their attention from the country’s poorest people to its poorest places. Based on a fresh, data-driven approach, they discover that America’s most disadvantaged communities are not the big cities that get the most notice. Instead, nearly all are rural. Little if any attention has been paid to these places or to the people who make their lives there. This revelation set in motion a five-year journey across Appalachia, the Cotton and Tobacco Belts of the Deep South, and South Texas.

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The Hot Young Widows Club TED Books [Audiobook]


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English | April 30, 2019 | ASIN: B07L3BCN9M | MP3@64 kbps | 2h 5m | 57.26 MB
Author: Nora McInerny
Narrator: Nora McInerny

From the host of the popular podcast Terrible, Thanks for Asking comes a wise, humorous road map and caring resource for anyone going through the loss of a loved one – or even a difficult life moment.

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The Hitler Bloodline Uncovering the Fuhrer’s Secret Family [Audiobook]


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English | ASIN: B0BWNTDH9K | 2023 | 8 hours and 17 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 212 MB
Author: David Gardner
Narrator: Jonathan Keeble

The astounding story of the quest to find the living descendants of the most monstrous tyrant in history – Adolf Hitler. Adolf Hitler was one of six children born to his mother, and one of eight born to his father from two of his three marriages. Alois Hitler, nĂ© Schicklgruber, was an official of the Austrian customs service, and the combination of an imperial uniform and a severe drinking habit seems to have ensured that Hitler’s father was a drunken bully given to beating his children if they were not instantly obedient. Alois had two children, Alois junior and Angela, by his second wife, and six by his third, Hitler’s mother Clara, of whom four, all boys, died at birth or in infancy.

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The History of Science 1700-1900


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English | 2013 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B00DTO6CO2 | MP3@64kbps | 18h17m | 502 Mb
The scientific theories that were first discovered and made public in the years 1700-1900 are some of the most pivotal in history. Landmark theories of planetary motion, the workings of nature, and the speed of light were all ideas that took the world by storm.
Now you can share in that story of discovery in a series of 36 lectures designed to give you a rock-solid understanding of the great discoveries of Newton, Darwin, Franklin, Pasteur, and so many others. You’ll see clearly how these great thinkers brought their ideas into a world and a time that resisted them, gaining a new admiration for their achievements in an atmosphere where scientific advancement had to struggle against established ways of both scientific and religious thinking.

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The Great White Bard How to Love Shakespeare While Talking About Race [Audiobook]


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English | ASIN: B0BP571T29 | 2023 | 8 hours and 46 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 254 MB
Author: Farah Karim-Cooper
Narrator: Farah Karim-Cooper, Adjoa Andoh

As we witness monuments of white Western history fall, many are asking how is Shakespeare still relevant? Professor Farah Karim-Cooper has dedicated her career to the Bard, which is why she wants to take the playwright down from his pedestal to unveil a Shakespeare for the twenty-first century. If we persist in reading Shakespeare as representative of only one group, as the very pinnacle of the white Western canon, then he will truly be in peril. Combining piercing analysis of race, gender and otherness in famous plays from Antony and Cleopatra to The Tempest with a radical reappraisal of Elizabethan London, The Great White Bard asks us neither to idealize nor bury Shakespeare but instead to look him in the eye and reckon with the discomforts of his plays, playhouses and society. In inviting new perspectives and interpretations, we may yet prolong and enrich his extraordinary legacy.

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