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ID: 763857

Title: Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI

Author: Ethan Mollick

Narrator: Ethan Mollick

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4:39:10

Language: English

Release date: 04-11-24

Publisher: PGRH UK

Genres: Science & Technology, Computers, Technology & Engineering

Summary:

Brought to you by Penguin.

Consumer AI has arrived. And with it, inescapable upheaval as we grapple with what it means for our jobs, lives and the future of humanity.

Cutting through the noise of AI evangelists and AI doom-mongers, Wharton professor Ethan Mollick has become one of the most prominent and provocative explainers of AI, focusing on the practical aspects of how these new tools for thought can transform our world. In Co-Intelligence, he urges us to engage with AI as co-worker, co-teacher and coach. Wide ranging, hugely thought-provoking and optimistic, Co-Intelligence reveals the promise and power of this new era.

'Co-Intelligence is the very best book I know about the ins, outs, and ethics of generative AI. Drop everything and read it cover to cover NOW' Angela Duckworth

© Ethan Mollick 2024 (P) Penguin Audio 2024

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ID: 764327

Title: Slow Burn: The Hidden Costs of a Warming World

Author: Robert Jisung Park

Narrator: Davis Brooks

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:12:23

Language: English

Release date: 04-09-24

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Genres: Business & Economics, Politics, Public Policy

Summary:

This audiobook narrated by Davis Brooks reveals how the subtle but significant consequences of a hotter planet have already begun—from lower test scores to higher crime rates—and how we might tackle them today

It’s hard not to feel anxious about the problem of climate change, especially if we think of it as an impending planetary catastrophe. In Slow Burn, R. Jisung Park encourages us to view climate change through a different lens: one that focuses less on the possibility of mass climate extinction in a theoretical future, and more on the everyday implications of climate change here and now.

Drawing on a wealth of new data and cutting-edge economics, Park shows how climate change headlines often miss some of the most important costs. When wildfires blaze, what happens to people downwind of the smoke? When natural disasters destroy buildings and bridges, what happens to educational outcomes? Park explains how climate change operates as the silent accumulation of a thousand tiny conflagrations: imperceptibly elevated health risks spread across billions of people; pennies off the dollar of productivity; fewer opportunities for upward mobility.

By investigating how the physical phenomenon of climate change interacts with social and economic institutions, Park illustrates how climate change already affects everyone, and may act as an amplifier of inequality. Wealthier households and corporations may adapt quickly, but, without targeted interventions, less advantaged communities may not.

Viewing climate change as a slow and unequal burn comes with an important silver lining. It puts dollars and cents behind the case for aggressive emissions cuts and helps identify concrete steps that can be taken to better manage its adverse effects. We can begin to overcome our climate anxiety, Park shows us, when we begin to tackle these problems locally.

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ID: 698406

Title: What Was the Great Molasses Flood of 1919?

Author: Kirsten Anderson

Narrator: Allison Strong

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1:01:09

Language: English

Release date: 04-09-24

Publisher: Listening Library (Audio)

Genres: Kids, Animals & Nature, Historical

Summary:

Learn about Boston's molasses disaster of 1919, when a storage tank burst and flooded the streets, in this latest addition to the New York Times Bestselling What Was? series.

An unusually warm winter day resulted in 2.3 million gallons of molasses flooding the North End neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. The disaster killed twenty-one people and injured 150 others. Rescue missions were launched to save people from the sticky and deadly mess, led by the Red Cross, the Army, the Navy, and the Massachusetts Nautical School. With the help of hundreds of volunteers over the course of several weeks, the streets were cleaned up. But the smell of molasses and the horror of the preventable tragedy lingered for decades to come.

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ID: 760795

Title: DK Life Stories: Helen Keller

Author: Libby Romero

Narrator: Penelope Rawlins

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1:38:17

Language: English

Release date: 04-09-24

Publisher: DK Audio

Genres: Kids, Biography & Memoir

Summary:

In this kids' biography, discover the inspiring story of Helen Keller, who overcame the odds by learning to understand and communicate with the world.

Helen Keller lost her sight and hearing due to an early childhood illness and spent the first 6 years of her life unable to interact with other people. She remained isolated from the outside world until Anne Sullivan came to work as her teacher. In this biography audiobook for kids ages 8-11, learn all about Helen Keller's amazing life and achievements - how she learned to read Braille and speak, go to college, write books, and ultimately revolutionize the world through her activism on behalf of the deaf and blind.

© Libby Romero © 2024 DK Audio

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ID: 703200

Title: Star Wars: The Living Force

Author: John Jackson Miller

Narrator: Marc Thompson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 16:10:00

Language: English

Release date: 04-09-24

Publisher: Random House (Audio)

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fiction & Literature, Action & Adventure, Space Opera

Summary:

In the year before The Phantom Menace, Yoda, Mace Windu, and the entire Jedi Council confront a galaxy on the brink of change.

 

The Jedi have always traveled the stars, defending peace and justice across the galaxy. But the galaxy is changing, and the Jedi Order along with it. More and more, the Order finds itself focused on the future of the Republic, secluded on Coruscant, where the twelve members of the Jedi Council weigh crises on a galactic scale.

As yet another Jedi Outpost left over from the Republic’s golden age is set to be decommissioned on the planet Kwenn, Qui-Gon Jinn challenges the Council about the Order’s increasing isolation. Mace Windu suggests a bold response: All twelve Jedi Masters will embark on a goodwill mission to help the planet and to remind the people of the galaxy that the Jedi remain as stalwart and present as they have been across the ages.

But the arrival of the Jedi leadership is not seen by all as a cause for celebration. In the increasing absence of the Jedi, warring pirate factions have infested the sector. To maintain their dominance, the pirates unite, intent on assassinating the Council members. And they are willing to destroy countless innocent lives to secure their power.

Cut off from Coruscant, the Jedi Masters must reckon with an unwelcome truth: While no one thinks more about the future than the Jedi Council, nobody needs their help more than those living in the present.

This audiobook includes a downloadable PDF of a map of Kwenn

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ID: 760789

Title: Money for Millennials: Manage and Build Your Financial Security

Author: Sarah Young Fisher, Susan Shelly Mcgovern

Narrator: Barbara Barnes

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9:53:48

Language: English

Release date: 04-09-24

Publisher: DK Audio

Genres: Business & Economics, Career Development, Personal Finance

Summary:

The all-inclusive guide to managing your money in your 20s and 30s!

Money for Millennials provides you with the basic tools you need to manage your life and plan for your future financially. You will learn to manage every aspect of your personal finances, as well as strengthen your financial plan to yield better returns on your investments.

In this guide, you get:

- The basics of personal finance: creating and following a budget, learning to maintain a robust savings, and building an emergency fund.

- A more relevant look at online banking and best account options available.

- Honesty about credit cards, how to use them, and how to pay off debt judiciously.

- Innovative plans for paying off student loan debt and understanding your options if you choose to further your education.

- Advice on making big purchases such as homes and transportation.

- Tips on making the right choices when unemployed or underemployed or lack employer-sponsored healthcare options.

- A thorough explanation of how to make the most of retirement plans: 401(k) plans, individual retirement accounts (IRAs), etc.

© Sarah Young Fisher © Susan Shelly McGovern © 2024 DK Audio

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ID: 760786

Title: Stephen Hawking Genius at Work

Author: Roger Highfield

Narrator: Roger Highfield

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7:47:12

Language: English

Release date: 04-09-24

Publisher: DK Audio

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Science & Technology, History, General

Summary:

An intimate exploratory tour of Stephen Hawking's office, providing a unique insight into the mind of a genius, the things that inspired him and explanations of his seminal theories.

A behind-the scenes tour of the inner sanctum of one of the world's most prominent scientific thinkers.

In 2021, the Science Museum made a once-in-a-lifetime acquisition of the contents of Stephen Hawking's office. This audiobook delves into that remarkable collection, using the seminal papers, items and curiosities in his office to explain his theories and reveal more about one of the greatest minds in modern science. It's an unprecedented glimpse into the life of the best-known scientist of modern times.

Roger Highfield OBE is the Science Director of the Science Museum Group. Roger has visiting professorships at the Department of Chemistry, UCL, and at the Dunn School, University of Oxford, is a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, and a member of the Medical Research Council and Longitude Committee. He has written or co-authored ten popular science books, including two bestsellers.

The Science Museum is part of the Science Museum Group, the worlds leading group of science museums that share a world-class collection providing an enduring record of scientific, technological and medical achievements from across the globe.

© 2024 Roger Highfield © 2024 DK Audio

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ID: 768346

Title: Conscious Uncoupling: 5 Steps to Living Happily Even After

Author: Katherine Woodward Thomas

Narrator: Katherine Woodward Thomas

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9:24:03

Language: English

Release date: 04-09-24

Publisher: Random House (Audio)

Genres: Self Development, Health & Wellness, Marriage & Family

Summary:

And Then They Lived Happily…

 

We enter our romantic relationships with great love, hope, and excitement--we've found the 'one', so we plan and forge our futures together.  But sometimes, for many different reasons, relationships come undone; they don't work out. Commonly, we view this as a personal failure, rather than an opportunity. And instead of honoring what we once meant to each other, we hoard bitterness and anger, stewing in shame and resentment.  Sometimes even lashing out in destructive and hurtful ways, despite the fact that we’re good people at heart. That's natural: we're almost biologically primed to respond this way. 

 

Yet there is another path to the end of a relationship--one filled with mutual respect, kindness, and deep caring.  Katherine Woodward Thomas's groundbreaking method, Conscious Uncoupling, provides the valuable skills and tools for you to travel this challenging terrain with these five thoughtful and thought-provoking steps:

Step 1: Find Emotional Freedom

Step 2: Reclaim Your Power and Your Life

Step 3: Break the Pattern, Heal Your Heart

Step 4: Become a Love Alchemist

Step 5: Create Your Happy Even After Life

 

This paradigm-shifting guide will steer you away from a bitter end and toward a new life that’s empowered and flourishing.

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ID: 710474

Title: Secret Language of Birds

Author: Lynne Kelly

Narrator: Ferdelle Capistrano

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4:44:36

Language: English

Release date: 04-09-24

Publisher: Listening Library (Audio)

Genres: Kids, Health & Family

Summary:

An instant USA Today bestseller! From the award-winning author of Song for a Whale comes a poignant and heartwarming tale about a girl who discovers a pair of endangered birds about to lay eggs in the marshes of her summer camp...and the secret plan she hatches to help them.

Nina is used to feeling like the odd one out, both at school and in her large family. But while trying to fit in at summer camp, she discovers something even more peculiar: two majestic birds have built a nest in the marsh behind an abandoned infirmary. They appear to be whooping cranes, but that’s impossible—Nina is an amateur bird-watcher, and all her resources tell her that those rare birds haven’t nested in Texas for over a hundred years.

When Nina reports the sighting to wildlife officials, more questions arise. Experts track all the endangered birds, but they can’t identify the female bird that Nina found. Who is she, and where did she come from?

With the help of some fellow campers, Nina sets out to discover who the mystery bird really is. As she gets closer to the truth, will she find a flock of her own?

This instant classic captures the coming-of-age moment of learning to spread your wings in a way you'll never forget.

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ID: 729519

Title: City Girls

Author: Loretta Lopez

Narrator: Ana Osorio, Jesse Vilinsky, Victoria Villarreal

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3:50:50

Language: English

Release date: 04-09-24

Publisher: Listening Library (Audio)

Genres: Kids, Health & Family

Summary:

Readers of Lucky Broken Girl, Hurricane Child, and The House on Mango Street, will love this story of finding sanctuary with friends who understand the enormous changes life can throw you when you're 11.

What Elisa, Lucia, and Alice see–and judge–of each other from the outside is drastically different from how each girl feels inside. They attend the same classes in the same New York City middle school, but no one knows that Elisa is trying to navigate the bewildering asylum process having just arrived from El Salvador; or that Lucia, who also speaks Spanish and brims with self-confidence, is caught in the middle of her parents’ heartbreaking divorce; or that Alice, who appears to be a rebel in combat boots, carries the burden of her mother’s progressing cancer.

Narrated by each girl in alternating chapters, City Girls captures the vulnerability of being a middle schooler and the relief and joy of finding friendship where you least expect it.

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