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Free Download It's Your Body: The Young Woman's Guide to Empowered Sexual Health (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D9R7F65G | 2024 | 6 hours and 7 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 312 MB
Author: Dena Moes
Narrator: Candace Fitzgerald
Detailed information on birth control, STIs, emergency contraception, and more: a guide to what today's young women need to know about their bodies, from a compassionate, experienced practitioner. Access to reproductive healthcare is no longer guaranteed, and information on the internet is increasingly unreliable, so it's more crucial than ever to be armed with the knowledge to make informed decisions about reproductive health. In It's Your Body, Dena Moes provides a compassionate and informative roadmap to the complex landscape of reproductive health. She explores topics ranging from birth control methods, emergency contraception, and STIs to consent and safe abortion access. Thoughtful journal prompts encourage listeners to reflect on newfound knowledge, feelings about a changing body, and self-care. Combining medical information with a focus on empowerment and autonomy, this guide is a trusted companion, supporting young women in taking control of their sexual health and advocating for the care and respect they deserve.

Free Download It's Personal, Not Personnel: Leadership Lessons for the Battlefield and the Boardroom by Colonel Rob Campbell, General James T. Hill - foreword, Paul Heitsch
English | December 19, 2019 | ISBN: B082DM8ZBV | 6 hours | MP3 128 Kbps | 330 Mb
There has never been a more important time - in corporate America and in the American military - for leaders, at all levels, to understand how to invest in people. This book teaches you to do just that. Written by a 27-year army colonel, veteran, and leader of more than 5,000 troops in the 1st Brigade of the 101st Airborne Division, It's Personal, Not Personnel offers true stories and practical frameworks you can apply to the people in your organization and on your team.
Whether from lack of will, experience or training, many leaders pay lip service to investing in people. Instead, they manage them on spreadsheets and in HR-focused software applications without personal consideration, failing to truly know them, care for them or establish healthy, fulfilling environments in which they can work and serve. Those appointed to guide and delegate often miss the opportunity to create a people-centric environment where productivity and efficiency will improve. It's less about making mechanics, IT managers, or soldiers better at their trade, and it's more about making people better people.
Explore the intricacies of personal connection in the workplace by following Rob Campbell through his own experiences leading large teams in high-stakes work, and then learn to apply those insights to your own work as a leader.

Free Download Is There No Place on Earth for Me? by Susan Sheehan, Kaleo Griffith, Kate Reading
English | July 01, 2014 | ISBN: B00LFWNT9Q | 13 hours and 33 minutes | M4B 64 Kbps | 369 Mb
This renowned journalist's classic Pulitzer Prize winning investigation of schizophrenia - now reissued with a new postscript - follows a flamboyant and fiercely intelligent young woman as she struggles in the throes of mental illness.
"Sylvia Frumkin" was born in 1948 and began showing signs of schizophrenia in her teens. She spent the next seventeen years in and out of mental institutions. In 1978, reporter Susan Sheehan took an interest in her and, for more than two years, became immersed in her life: Talking with her, listening to her monologues, sitting in on consultations with doctors - even, for a period, sleeping in the bed next to her in a psychiatric center.
With Sheehan, we become witness to Sylvia's plight: Her psychotic episodes, the medical struggle to control her symptoms, and the overburdened hospitals that, more often than not, she was obliged to call home. The resulting book, first published in 1982, was hailed as an extraordinary achievement: Harrowing, humanizing, moving, and bitingly funny. Now, some two decades later, Is There No Place on Earth for Me continues to set the standard for accounts of mental illness.

Free Download Invitation to Sociology: A Humanistic Perspective (Audiobook)
English | August 29, 2023 | ASIN: B0CG2PDTXH | M4B@64 kbps | 7h 10m | 189 MB
Author: Peter L. Berger | Narrator: Joel Richards
This lucid and lively book, punctuated with witty, incisive examples, is addressed both to the layman who wants to know what sociology is all about and to students and sociologists who are concerned about the larger implications and dimensions of their discipline. Professor Berger places sociology in the humanist tradition and recognizes it as a "peculiarly modern, peculiarly timely form of critical thought." Without underestimating the importance of scientific procedures in sociology, he points out its essential affinity with history and philosophy, and he shows how sociology in this sense can contribute to a fuller awareness of the human world.
"Unlike puppets," he notes, "we have the possibility of stopping in our movements, looking up and perceiving the machinery by which we have been moved. In this act lies the first step towards freedom." Professor Berger discusses this consciousness in detail, in relation to one's own biography, to the operations of social institutions, and to the makeup of an individual as a product of this institutions. In each instance, he outlines the major contributions to sociology of such classical sociologists as Weber, Pareto, and Drukheim in Europe; Veblen, Cooley, and Mead in the United States; and some of the most important names in the field today.

Free Download Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies into Reality (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CKNKKMGZ | 2024 | 15 hours and 00 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 436 MB
Author: Renee DiResta
Narrator: Anna Caputo
A brilliant, original analysis of the radical shift in the dynamics of power and influence, revealing how the machinery that powered the Big Lie works to create bespoke realities revolutionizing politics, culture, and society. Renée DiResta's powerful, original investigation into the way power and influence have been profoundly transformed reveals how a virtual rumor mill of niche propagandists increasingly shapes public opinion. While propagandists position themselves as trustworthy Davids, their reach, influence, and economics make them classic Goliaths-invisible rulers who create bespoke realities to revolutionize politics, culture, and society. Their work is driven by a simple maxim: if you make it trend, you make it true.

Free Download Invisible Loss: Recognizing and Healing the Unacknowledged Heartbreak of Everyday Grief (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D18ZY1GN | 2024 | 7 hours and 35 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 218 MB
Author: Christina Rasmussen
Narrator: Christina Rasmussen
From an acclaimed grief educator and author comes a road map to recognize and heal the unspoken, often misunderstood experience of everyday loss, so you can finally reenter and live your life in full. "Compared to most, my problems are small. I should be happy with what I've got." Our inner judge often tells us grief is "allowed" for big losses, but that we should tough out everyday heartbreak. The loss of a loved one and a devastating divorce are likely to be accepted as grief events. But what about moments when we feel overlooked, disregarded, or misunderstood? This could look like rejection in the workplace, lack of intimacy in a relationship, being overlooked by friends, or working in a position that's not a dream job. "These are losses society doesn't recognize, mirror back to us, or validate," says acclaimed grief educator Christina Rasmussen. "As a result, we don't recognize or validate them either."

Free Download Invisible Labor: The Untold Story of the Cesarean Section (Audiobook)
English | June 04, 2024 | ASIN: B0CF6PJV82 | M4B@64 kbps | 10h 34m | 296 MB
Author: Rachel Somerstein | Narrator: Xe Sands
An incisive yet personal look at the science and history of the most common surgery performed in America-the cesarean section-and an exposé on the disturbing state of maternal medical care
When Rachel Somerstein had an unplanned C-section with her first child, the experience was anything but the "routine" operation her doctor described. A series of errors by her clinicians led to a real-life nightmare: surgery without anesthesia. The ensuing mental and physical complications left her traumatized and desperate for answers about how things could have gone so wrong.

Free Download Investments Unlimited: A Novel About DevOps, Security, Audit Compliance, and Thriving in the Digital Age
Author: Helen Beal
Narrator: Rachel Fulginiti
English | 2024 | ASIN: B0B5LVCBBP | MP3@64 kbps | Duration: 5h 40m | 465 MB
Over the past several years, IUI had executed a digital transformation strategy following the business accelerating principles of Agile and DevOps. By any metric they had seemingly done things right. Feedback from customers was astounding and conversion rates for new accounts was growing faster than ever. But along the way IUIs manual governance process had become inundated with friction, frustration, and failure for the teams attempting to deliver value for their organizations.

Free Download Pagan Kennedy, Jonathan Todd Ross (Narrator), "Inventology: How We Dream Up Things That Change the World"
English | ASIN: B0CQ8VQ3R6 | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~07:47:00 | 212 MB
Find out where great ideas come from.
A father cleans up after his toddler and imagines a cup that won't spill. An engineer watches people using walkie-talkies and has an idea. A doctor figures out how to deliver patients to the operating room before they die.
By studying inventions like these - the sippy cup, the cell phone, and an ingenious hospital bed - we can learn how people imagine their way around "impossible" problems to discover groundbreaking answers. Pagan Kennedy reports on how these enduring methods can be adapted to the twenty-first century, as millions of us deploy tools like crowdfunding, big data, and 3-D printing to find hidden opportunities.