Audio Books

English | ASIN: B09XGNPLZL | 2022 | 13 hours and 38 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 374 MB
When Dungeons & Dragons was first released to a small hobby community, it hardly seemed destined for mainstream success—and yet this arcane tabletop role-playing game became an unlikely pop culture phenomenon. In Game Wizards, Jon Peterson chronicles the rise of Dungeons & Dragons from hobbyist pastime to mass market sensation, from the initial collaboration to the later feud of its creators, Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson. As the game's fiftieth anniversary approaches, Peterson—a noted authority on role-playing games—explains how D&D and its creators navigated their successes, setbacks, and controversies.

English | ASIN: B09WZFSTXZ | 2022 | 4 hours and 2 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 110 MB
Brian Clegg was always fascinated by Isaac Asimov's classic Foundation series of books, in which the future is predicted using sophisticated mathematical modeling of human psychology and behavior. Only much later did he realize that Asimov's "psychohistory" had a real-world equivalent: game theory. Originating in the study of probabilistic gambling games that depend on a random source—the throw of a dice or the toss of a coin—game theory soon came to be applied to human interactions: essentially, what was the best strategy to win whatever you were doing? Its mathematical techniques have been applied, with varying degrees of wisdom, to fields such as economics, evolution, and questions such as how to win a nuclear war. Clegg delves into game theory's colorful history and significant findings and shows what we can all learn from this oft-misunderstood field of study.

English | ASIN: B09PVQ471L | 2022 | MP3 | M4B | ~11:43:00 | 331 MB
Grant Hill (Author, Narrator), "Game: An Autobiography"

English | ASIN: B09JXNSVRG | 2022 | 5 hours and 3 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 139 MB
A psychologist confronts our pervasive misunderstanding of anxiety and presents a powerful new framework for reimagining and reclaiming the confounding emotion as the advantage it evolved to be. We taught people that anxiety is dangerous and damaging, and that the solution to its pain is to eradicate it like we do any disease—prevent it, avoid it, and stamp it out at all costs. Yet cutting-edge therapies, hundreds of self-help books, and a panoply of medications have failed to keep debilitating anxiety at bay.

English | ASIN: B0B11KB3G9 | 2022 | MP3 | M4B | ~10:54:00 | 308 MB
David Christian, Jamie Jackson (Narrator), "Future Stories: What's Next?"

English | ASIN: B09Y9CLXBC | 2022 | MP3 | M4B | ~06:39:00 | 189 MB
Robert H. Latiff (Author), Rick Adamson (Narrator), "Future Peace: Technology, Aggression, and the Rush to War"

English | ASIN: B09XVK1CK3 | 2022 | 8 hours and 22 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 456 MB
Are you finding it tough to fund your start-up? Especially in the post-COVID-19 world, where money is scarce? Well, then, this book is for you. It takes you through stories of early-stage start-ups and how they successfully managed to raise funding. Even better, it takes you through stories of failures—start-ups that couldn't raise funding, and why. After all, you can learn as much from failures as you can from successes.

English | ASIN: B0000545NG | 1999 | 7 hours and 25 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 204 MB
Few would question that humankind is the crowning achievement of evolution—that history yields progress over time from the primitive and simple to the more advanced and complex—or that identifying an existing trend can be helpful in making important life decisions. We have always identified trends as bad or good. But Stephen Jay Gould argues that this mode of interpretation is a bias that needs correcting. In Full House, Gould presents the truth about progress, evolution, and excellence, as well as a different way to understand trends other than as entities moving in a definite direction. Gould examines how the misinterpretation of data and statistics can result in bad science and social policy, while focusing on the nature of excellence from Plato to Darwin and the misconception that progress is inevitable.

English | ASIN: B09ZYT4HG2 | 2022 | 5 hours and 58 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 164 MB
If technology is making modern life easier, why are we suffering from more stress and mental illness? In this trailblazing book, Dr. Mark Rego, who has practiced psychiatry in the community and taught at Yale for thirty years, explores why mental illness and stress are skyrocketing alongside technology that was ostensibly created to improve our world. Using decades of experience and pioneering scientific research, Dr. Rego presents his innovative hypothesis of Frontal Fatigue, the background condition from which many of us now suffer.

English | ASIN: B07ZHNVPHM | 2019 | 7 hours and 22 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 203 MB
The founder of the international Transition Towns movement asks why true creative, positive thinking is in decline, asserts that it's more important now than ever, and suggests ways our communities can revive and reclaim it. In these times of deep division and deeper despair, if there is a consensus about anything in the world, it is that the future is going to be awful. There is an epidemic of loneliness, an epidemic of anxiety, a mental health crisis of vast proportions, especially among young people. There's a rise in extremist movements and governments. Catastrophic climate change. Biodiversity loss. Food insecurity. The fracturing of ecosystems and communities beyond, it seems, repair. The future - to say nothing of the present - looks grim. But as Transition movement cofounder Rob Hopkins tells us, there is plenty of evidence that things can change, and cultures can change, rapidly, dramatically, and unexpectedly - for the better.