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Free Download The Bill Gates Problem: Reckoning with the Myth of the Good Billionaire by Tim Schwab
English | November 14, 2023 | ISBN: 1250850096 | 496 pages | PDF | 4.83 Mb
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Free Download Growth: A History and a Reckoning by Daniel Susskind
English | April 16th, 2024 | ISBN: 0674294491 | 304 pages | True EPUB | 4.14 MB
A vivid account of the past, present, and future of economic growth, showing how and why we must continue to pursue it while responding to the challenges it creates.

Free Download Rational Accidents: Reckoning with Catastrophic Technologies
English | 2023 | ISBN: 026254699X | 341 Pages | PDF (True) | 6.5 MB
Nuclear reactors, deep-sea drilling platforms, deterrence infrastructures-these are all complex and formidable technologies with the potential to fail catastrophically. In Rational Accidents, John Downer outlines a new perspective on technological failure, arguing that undetectable errors can lurk in even the most rigorous and "rational" assessments of these systems due to the inherent limits of engineering tests and models. Downer finds that it should be impossible, from an epistemological viewpoint, to achieve the near-perfect reliability that we require of our most safety-critical technologies. There is, however, one such technology that demonstrably appears to achieve these "impossible" reliabilities: jetliners.

Free Download Philip D. Dillard, "The American Civil War: A Racial Reckoning "
English | ISBN: 036748563X | 2022 | 134 pages | PDF | 7 MB
The American Civil War: A Racial Reckoning provides a concise but comprehensive overview of the American Civil War, placing race at the center of the war and Reconstruction experience.

Free Download Reckoning with the U.S. Role in Global Ocean Plastic Waste
by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
English | 2022 | ISBN: 0309458854 | 269 Pages | True PDF | 7.5 MB

Free Download The Bill Gates Problem: Reckoning with the Myth of the Good Billionaire by Tim Schwab
English | November 14th, 2023 | ISBN: 1250850096 | 496 pages | True EPUB | 2.21 MB
A powerful investigation of Bill Gates and the Gates Foundation, showing how he uses philanthropy to exercise enormous political power without accountability

Free Download Amelia M. Fiske, "Reckoning with Harm: The Toxic Relations of Oil in Amazonia"
English | ISBN: 1477327789 | 2023 | 280 pages | PDF | 8 MB
An ethnography of the Ecuadorian Amazon that demonstrates the need for a relational, place-based, contingent understanding of harm and toxicity.

Free Download Alfred Price – Battle of Britain: A Summer of Reckoning
Ian Allan | 2010 | ISBN: 1906537135 | English | 152 pages | PDF | 171.46 MB
Dr. Alfred Price, who is a recognized and respected authority on the Battle of Britain, recounts the story of the conflict, both in terms of the strategic and tactical battle between two mighty air forces of the day and the fascinating and often traumatic human element as the civilians of Britain faced the reality of German invasion. The book starts with the skirmishes across the Channel in the opening phase of the battle, July 10 through August 12, testing Britain’s defenses, then the Luftwaffe’s main assault on the airfields and radar installations of Southern England from August 12 to September 6, when it attempted to knock out the RAF. The turning point came when the Luftwaffe, faced with mounting losses, shifted its focus to London and other cities in early September in a final attempt to break Britain’s morale, giving the RAF much-needed breathing space to build up its strength and counter the enemy.

Free Download The Bill Gates Problem: Reckoning with the Myth of the Good Billionaire (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BWFV9RB9 | 2023 | 15 hours and 55 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 464 MB
Author: Tim Schwab
Narrator: Tim Schwab
A powerful investigation of Bill Gates and the Gates Foundation, showing how he uses philanthropy to exercise enormous political power without accountability. Through his vaunted philanthropy, Bill Gates transformed himself from a tech villain into one of the most admired people on the planet. Even as divorce proceedings and allegations of misconduct have recently tarnished his public image, the beneficence of the Gates Foundation, celebrated for spending billions to save lives around the globe, is taken as a given. But as Tim Schwab shows in this fearless investigation, Gates is still exactly who he was at Microsoft: a bully and monopolist, convinced of his own righteousness and intent on imposing his ideas, his solutions, and his leadership on everyone else. At the core, he is not a selfless philanthropist but a power broker, a clever engineer who has innovated a way to turn extreme wealth into immense political influence-and who has made us believe we should applaud his acquisition of power, not challenge it.

Free Download Romney: A Reckoning (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C3MXH9PL | 2023 | 12 hours and 31 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 361 MB
Author: McKay Coppins
Narrator: McKay Coppins, Jonathan Davis
A remarkably illuminating biography of one of America’s most fascinating political figures-including news-making revelations from Mitt Romney himself about dissension within today’s Republican Party-written with his full cooperation by an award-winning writer at The Atlantic. Few figures in American politics have seen more and said less than Mitt Romney. An outspoken dissident in Donald Trump’s GOP, he has made headlines in recent years for standing alone against the forces he believes are poisoning the party he once led. Romney was the first senator in history to vote to remove from office a president of his own party. When that president’s supporters went on to storm the US Capitol, Romney delivered a thundering speech from the Senate floor accusing his fellow Republicans of stoking insurrection.