Elon Musk - Walter Isaacson

Elon Musk - Walter Isaacson
English | eBook | Size: 1.14 GB

From the author of Steve Jobs and other bestselling biographies, this is the astonishingly intimate story of the most fascinating and controversial innovator of our era—a rule-breaking visionary who helped to lead the world into the era of electric vehicles, private space exploration, and artificial intelligence. Oh, and took over Twitter.
Wrapped in Plastic Twin Peaks [Audiobook]
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English | March 26, 2024 | ASIN: B0CVJKYP2H | M4B@64 kbps | 2h 51m | 81.7 MB
Author: Andy Burns | Narrator: Marcus Zarco
Damn good coffee, cherry pie, and the "big bang of auteur television"―why Twin Peaks deserves to be a pop culture classic In 1990, avant garde filmmaker David Lynch (Eraserhead, The Elephant Man, Dune, Blue Velvet) and acclaimed television writer Mark Frost (Hill Street Blues) teamed up to create a television show that would redefine what the medium could achieve in a one-hour drama.
With Twin Peaks, the duo entranced audiences with the seemingly idyllic town, its quirky characters, and a central mystery―who killed Laura Palmer? In a town like Twin Peaks, nothing is as it seems, and in Wrapped in Plastic, pop culture writer Andy Burns uncovers and explores the groundbreaking stylistic and storytelling methods that have made the series one of the most influential and enduring shows of the past 25 years.

Win the Day 7 Daily Habits to Help You Stress Less & Accomplish More [Audiobook] (2024)
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English | December 29, 2020 | ASIN: B08B6DJXPZ | M4B@128 kbps | 7h 46m | 434 MB
Author and Narrator: Mark Batterson
The New York Times best-selling author of Chase the Lion reveals seven powerful habits that can help you tackle God-sized goals by turning yesterday's regrets and tomorrow's anxieties into fuel for a better today.
"This book will change the trajectory of your life." (John Maxwell, number one New York Times best-selling author, entrepreneur, and leadership expert)

We the Dead Preserving Data at the End of the World [Audiobook]
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English | June 28, 2022 | ASIN: B0B4TVNZ11 | M4B@128 kbps | 9h 13m | 516 MB
Author: Brian Michael Murphy | Narrator: Roger Wayne
Locked away in refrigerated vaults, sanitized by gas chambers, and secured within bombproof caverns deep under mountains are America's most prized materials: the ever-expanding collection of records that now accompany each of us from birth to death. This data complex backs up and protects our most vital information against decay and destruction, and yet it binds us to corporate and government institutions whose power is also preserved in its bunkers, infrastructures, and sterilized spaces.
We the Dead traces the emergence of the data complex in the early 20th century and guides listeners through its expansion in a series of moments when Americans thought they were living just before the end of the world. Depression-era eugenicists feared racial contamination and the downfall of the White American family, while contemporary technologists seek ever denser and more durable materials for storing data, from micro-etched metal discs to cryptocurrency keys encoded in synthetic DNA.

Unraveled A Climber's Journey Through Darkness and Back [Audiobook]
English | Datum: April 18, 2023 | ASIN: B0C1HNM4SD | M4A@66 kbps | 08h 30m | 240.80 MB
Author: Katie Brown
Narrator: Sarah Zimmerman

As a teenager in the 1990s, Katie Brown was one of climbing's first "comp kids"-a young natural who, along with her peers, redefined the image of a strong and successful climber. After climbing for less than two years, Brown won her first junior national title. The next year she became the Junior World Champion at age fourteen in Laval, France. In 1996 she won both the Rock Master-a prestigious international contest in Arco, Italy-and the esteemed X-Games. From 1996 on, Brown won every US Adult National that she entered, as well as a World Cup Title in France in 1999.
Yet even as she reigned on the podium, Brown felt her life begin to unravel. A quiet child, she struggled with a home life that was very different behind closed doors than it seemed on television. A fundamentalist version of Christianity was at the center of the household, and Brown fought to live according to rules that were strict, ever-changing, and irrational. Isolated and feeling hopeless, Brown latched onto food as something she could control. She quit competitive climbing and bounced in and out of the industry, eventually disappearing in her late twenties.

Truth to Power A History of the U.S. National Intelligence Council [Audiobook]
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English | June 28, 2019 | ASIN: B07T8ZH1HD | M4B@128 kbps | 8h 47m | 489 MB
Editors: Robert Hutchings, Gregory F. Treverton | Narrator: David Marantz
This historic mission of this remarkable but little-known organization, the US National Intelligence Council (NIC), now 40 years old, is strategic intelligence assessment in service of senior American foreign policymakers. Its signature inside products, National Intelligence Estimates, are now accompanied by the NIC's every-four-years Global Trends. Unclassified, Global Trends has become a noted NIC brand, its release awaited by officials, academics, and private sector managers around the world.
Truth to Power tracks the NIC's role in providing strategic analysis on every major foreign policy issue confronting the United States during this consequential period. Chapters provide insider insights on the Balkan wars of the 1990s, the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the invasion and occupation of Iraq in 2003, the nuclear weapons programs in Iran and North Korea, upheaval in the Middle East including the rise and fall of the Islamic State, the rise of China, and Russia's turn toward aggression under Vladimir Putin. The book also assesses the NIC's newly expanded role in direct support to meetings of the National Security Council as well as its longstanding role in producing longer-range strategic intelligence.

Trotsky in New York, 1917 A Radical on the Eve of Revolution [Audiobook]
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English | September 23, 2016 | ASIN: B01LWMS2PR | M4B@64 kbps | 11h 32m | 329 MB
Author: Kenneth D. Ackerman | Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki
Lev Davidovich Trotsky burst onto the world stage in November 1917 as coleader of a Marxist Revolution seizing power in Russia. It made him one of the most recognized personalities of the 20th century, a global icon of radical change. Yet just months earlier, this same Lev Trotsky was a nobody, a refugee expelled from Europe, writing obscure pamphlets and speeches, barely noticed outside a small circle of fellow travelers. Where had he come from to topple Russia and change the world? Where else? New York City.
Between January and March 1917, Trotsky found refuge in the United States. America had kept itself out of the European Great War, leaving New York the freest city on earth. During his time there - just over 10 weeks - Trotsky immersed himself in the local scene. He settled his family in the Bronx, edited a radical left wing tabloid in Greenwich Village, sampled the lifestyle, and plunged headlong into local politics. His clashes with leading New York socialists over the question of US entry into World War I would reshape the American left for the next 50 years.

Trickster Makes This World Mischief, Myth, and Art [Audiobook] (2024)
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English | May 31, 2022 | ASIN: B0B25WRXZP | M4B@64 kbps | 14h 31m | 398 MB
Author: Lewis Hyde | Narrator: Michael Butler Murray
In Trickster Makes This World, Lewis Hyde brings to life the playful and disruptive side of human imagination as it is embodied in trickster mythology. He first visits the old stories-Hermes in Greece, Eshu in West Africa, Krishna in India, Coyote in North America, among others-and then holds them up against the lives and work of more recent creators: Picasso, Duchamp, Ginsberg, John Cage, and Frederick Douglass. Twelve years after its first publication, Trickster Makes This World-authoritative in its scholarship, loose-limbed in its style-has taken its place among the great works of modern cultural criticism.
This new edition includes an introduction by Michael Chabon.