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Only the Dead Know Peace A Thriller [Audiobook]


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English | August 01, 2023 | ASIN: B0BV3BXVJS | M4B@64 kbps | 9h 45m | 273 MB
Author: Alberto Mansur | Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki
In the spirit of The Cartel, The Little Drummer Girl, and I Am Pilgrim, Alberto Mansur’s debut thriller offers a bracing, wide-angle portrait of the fence dividing Israel and Palestine, the most controversial border on earth. It follows a diverse cast of characters as they fight for love, belief, country, and power.
In Israel and Palestine, religious and political tensions are boiling, threatening to explode an untenable status quo. A renowned baker and his son are at odds, one turning his back on Allah, the other determined to prove himself worthy of God’s love. A rich playboy shatters his life in the States and joins Israel’s special forces searching for purpose and meaning. An Israeli vixen with a tragic past and a penchant for violence finds herself torn between her work for the Russian mob and the people she loves. And a charismatic Jewish leader starts a movement with the most surprising goal of all.

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You’re Only as Good as Your Next One 100 Great Films, 100 Good Films, and 100 for which I Should Be Shot [Audiobook]


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English | April 23, 2009 | ASIN: B0027IQ5IE | M4B@128 kbps | 13h 18m | 706 MB
Authors: Mike Medavoy, Josh Young | Narrator: Robertson Dean
Mike Medavoy is a Hollywood rarity: a studio executive who, though never far from controversy, remained loved and respected through four decades of moviemaking. He helped bring to the screen some of the most acclaimed Oscar-winning films of our time, including Apocalypse Now, One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Amadeus, The Silence of the Lambs, Philadelphia, and Sleepless in Seattle.
Of course, there are the box-office disasters, which also have a place in his fascinating memoir, a pull-no-punches account of financial and political maneuvering, of creativity stymied, and of working with the industry’s brightest star power.

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Only Humans Need Apply Winners and Losers in the Age of Smart Machines


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English | 2020 | ISBN: B085S6TVKR | 10 hours and 9 minutes / Format: MP3 | 210 Mb
Nearly half of all working Americans could risk losing their jobs because of technology. It’s not only blue-collar jobs at stake. Millions of educated knowledge workers are threatened by accelerating advances in artificial intelligence.
The industrial revolution shifted workers from farms to factories. In the first era of automation, machines relieved humans of manually exhausting work. Today, Era Two of automation continues to wash across the entire services-based economy that has replaced jobs in agriculture and manufacturing. Era Three, and the rise of AI, is dawning. Smart computers are demonstrating they are capable of making better decisions than humans. Brilliant technologies can now decide, learn, predict, and even comprehend much faster and more accurately than the human brain, and their progress is accelerating.
In Only Humans Need Apply, Thomas Hayes Davenport and Julia Kirby reframe the conversation about automation, arguing that the future of increased productivity and business success isn’t either human or machine. It’s both. The key is augmentation, utilizing technology to help humans work better, smarter, and faster. Instead of viewing these machines as competitive interlopers, we can see them as partners and collaborators in creative problem solving as we move into the next era.

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The Only Way Home One Woman, Two Donkeys and an Extraordinary Outback Journey of Healing and Renewal


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English | 2020 | ISBN: 1925868206 | EPUB | pages: 256 | 1.0 mb
One woman, two donkeys and an extraordinary outback journey of healing and renewalOn a warm day in May 2004 Liz Byron set off from Cooktown with her two companions, donkeys Grace and Charley, on a self-imposed challenge to walk 2500 kilometres of the Bicentennial National Trail over 9 months. This epic journey was a rite of passage to mark leaving 40 years of marriage and embarking on life as a single woman at the age of 61. She foresaw that self-reliance, physical stamina and route-finding would be challenges but couldn’t have known how the environment in Queensland was to test her to the limit. Years of drought had left much of her route a dusty wasteland, without food or water for her animals. Years of suffering from childhood abuse and a family tragedy had left her unwilling to ask for help. Walking became a meditation, an exercise in being in the moment even when that moment was 43 degrees or she hadn’t eaten for 7 hours.In her moving memoir, Liz reveals how she healed herself step by step on the way to her new home in northern NSW – by learning to trust her intuition, the wisdom of her animals and the kindness of strangers.

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Prorogatio Only the Chosen


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English | 2012 | ISBN: 1477102620 | EPUB | pages: 224 | 1.3 mb
Those that had the secret word "Prorogatio"on a chain around their neck belonged to a world of chosen elite for special life-prolonging surgery that would keep them going until the medical research papers of Dr Reichmann were found. The world population was too great to share the secret of immortality, and the answer was a pseudo nuclear war to rid the world of unwanted billions. The son of a Jew who knew Dr Reichmann in a concentration camp found out the long range plan and set out to thwart the instigators.

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If You Were Only White The Life of Leroy Satchel Paige (Sports and American Culture)


Free Download Donald Spivey, "If You Were Only White: The Life of Leroy "Satchel" Paige (Sports and American Culture)"
English | 2013 | ISBN: 0826220142, 0826219780 | EPUB | pages: 376 | 4.4 mb
If You Were Only White explores the legacy of one of the most exceptional athletes ever-an entertainer extraordinaire, a daring showman and crowd-pleaser, a wizard with a baseball whose artistry and antics on the mound brought fans out in the thousands to ballparks across the country. Leroy "Satchel" Paige was arguably one of the world’s greatest pitchers and a premier star of Negro Leagues Baseball. But in this biography Donald Spivey reveals Paige to have been much more than just a blazing fastball pitcher.

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If Only I Had The Time How To Keep Writing When The World Stops Moving


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English | ASIN : B08SHQFH8C | 2021 | pages | EPUB | 771 KB
"It was as though the universe was challenging us. Okay friend, you said your problem with following your dream of becoming a writer is lack of time, this thing is impossible to fit into your busy life – well then, here you are. The gift of time. Come on you big wuss, what’s stopping you?" Comedian, Comedy Store Players founder with Mike Myers and Paul Merton and now top comedy writer, Dave has written for dozens of BBC shows: Have I Got News For You, Not Going Out, and Horrible Histories which has won 8 BAFTAs. Dave is one of the best known teachers of comedy writing in the UK and has written two books The Complete Comedy Writer and How To Be Averagely Successful At Comedy.

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For Equals Only Race, Equality, and the Equal Protection Clause


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English | ISBN: 1498501230 | 2018 | 142 pages | EPUB | 831 KB
This book philosophically explores how changing conceptions of race and equality have affected Supreme Court interpretations of the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution over the years. In the years since the 14th Amendment was ratified in 1868, in its decisions interpreting the Equal Protection Clause, the Supreme Court has switched from using a sociocultural concept of race to using a biological concept of race, and during the same time period has switched from using a social to a legal concept of equality. One result of these trends is the recent emergence of something called ‘reverse discrimination.’ Another result is that the Equal Protection Clause no longer specially protects racialized persons from racial discrimination, as it was originally intended to do. Using the tools of legal hermeneutics, critical philosophy of race, and critical race theory, key cases of racial discrimination in equal protection law are examined through a historical lens. The Supreme Court’s switch, over the years, from interpreting the Equal Protection Clause as specially protecting racialized persons from continued racial discrimination after the end of the institution of chattel slavery, to interpreting the Clause as protecting everyone from racial discrimination, is tracked alongside changing conceptions of race and equality. As the concept of race became biological, the concept of equality became legal, and the result was the elimination of remedying the negative effects of chattel slavery on the equality status of racialized persons from the Supreme Court’s list of priorities.

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