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Free Download The Ritual Effect: From Habit to Ritual, Harness the Surprising Power of Everyday Actions (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CGBSJDZJ | 2024 | 5 hours and 33 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 309 MB
Author: Dr. Michael Norton
Narrator: Dr. Michael Norton
Our lives are filled with repetitive tasks meant to keep us on track-what we come to know as habits. Over time, these routines (for example, brushing your teeth or putting on your right sock first) tend to be performed automatically. But when we're more mindful about these actions-when we focus on the precise way they are performed-they can instead become rituals. Shifting from a "habitual" mindset to a "ritual" mindset can convert ordinary acts from black and white to technicolor. Think of the way you savor a certain beverage, the care you take with a particular outfit that gets worn only on special occasions, the unique way that your family gathers around the table during holidays, or the secret language you enjoy with your significant other. To some, these behaviors may seem quirky, but because rituals matter so deeply to us on a personal level, they imbue our lives with purpose and meaning. Drawing on a decade of original research, Norton shows that rituals play a role in healing communities experiencing a great loss, marking life's major transitions, driving a stadium of sports fans to ecstasy, and helping us rise to challenges and realize opportunities. Compelling, insightful, and practical, The Ritual Effect reminds us of the intention-filled acts that drive human behavior and create surprising satisfaction and enjoyment.

Free Download The Psychology of Secrets: My Adventures with Murderers, Cults and Influencers (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CN1J23BJ | 2024 | 11 hours and 36 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 332 MB
Author: Andrew Gold
Narrator: Andrew Gold
Cult leaders, murderers, psychopaths - and you. Take a deep dive into the bizarre psychology of secrecy with Andrew Gold, award-winning investigative journalist and host of On the Edge With Andrew Gold. We all keep secrets. 97 per cent of us are hiding a secret right now, and on average we each hold thirteen at any one time. There's a one-in-two chance that those secrets involve a breach of trust, a lie or a financial impropriety. They are the stuff of gossip, of novels and of classic dramas; secrets form a major part of our hidden inner lives. Andrew Gold knows this better than anyone. As a public figure, he has found himself the unwitting recipient of hundreds of strangers' most private revelations. This set him on a journey to understand this critical part of our societies and lives. Why do we keep secrets? Why are we fascinated by those of others? What happens to our mind when we confess? Drawing from psychology, history, social science, philosophy and personal interviews, The Psychology of Secrets is a rollicking journey through the history of secrecy.

Free Download The Psychology of Human Sexuality (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CYN45YM5 | 2024 | 24 hours and 48 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 682 MB
Author: Justin J. Lehmiller
Narrator: Daniel Henning
The Psychology of Human Sexuality is a comprehensive guide to major theoretical perspectives on human sexuality and the vast diversity of sexual attitudes around the world, with topics including anatomy, gender and sexual orientation, sexual behaviors, sexual difficulties and solutions, sex work, and pornography. Written from a sex-positive perspective with material that is inclusive and respectful of a diverse audience, the text includes cutting edge research on the origins of sexual orientation and gender identity, as well as new treatments for sexually transmitted infections and diseases.

Free Download The Practical Path to Stoicism: Finding Serenity in a Frantic World (Audiobook)
English | ISBN: 9781456648855 | 2024 | 3 hours and 48 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 208 MB
Author: Dr John Sorensen
Narrator: Tanya Calmwood
Discover inner peace in today's chaos with "The Practical Path to Stoicism: Finding Serenity in a Frantic World." This guide modernizes Stoic philosophy, offering practical wisdom for contemporary life. Learn to apply Stoic principles to enhance productivity, manage stress, and foster meaningful relationships. Through engaging insights, exercises, and real-world examples, embark on a transformative journey toward resilience and purpose. Whether a Stoicism novice or expert, find solace and inspiration in this practical approach to a timeless philosophy.

Free Download The Power of Positive Purpose, 2nd Edition (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CRVWMLTZ | 2024 | 4 hours and 37 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 256 MB
Author: Jay Scott Neale
Narrator: Paula Langguth Ryan
Navigating your life's journey just became a lot more straightforward - and fun. Dr. Jay Scott Neale is a natural-born teacher who empowers you with clarity and humor to discover the positive purpose that waits patiently within you. This dynamic guide to affirmative prayer and forgiveness helps you release every idea you think holds you back. Dissolve guilt, unworthiness and powerlessness and let vibrant energy, creativity and joy fill your life. As one reader said: With simplicity, clarity and a divine sense of humor, this book is more than a map...it's an everlasting compass meant for a lifetime...yours!.

Free Download Bruce Ackerman, Jonathan Todd Ross (Narrator), "The Postmodern Predicament: Existential Challenges of the Twenty-First Century"
English | ASIN: B0CYVJFBWM | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~09:19:00 | 264 MB
Human beings have taken one thing for granted since our earliest days: we are bodily creatures dealing with one another on a face-to-face basis. The internet has shattered this fundamental feature of human existence. We are suddenly living our lives in two worlds at once-shifting endlessly from virtual to physical reality as we reach out to others.
Worse yet, we are developing different personal identities in our two worlds. We say and do things in virtual reality that flatly contradict our face-to-face commitments to family, friends, and fellow-workers-and vice versa. The Postmodern Predicament explores these dilemmas at each phase of the life cycle, beginning at the moment a young child picks up a cell phone.
The existentialist tradition of the twentieth century provides a precious perspective on our postmodern dilemmas. Thinkers and doers like Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre considered the fragmentation of modern life as a central source of contemporary anxieties. Like them, Ackerman views the challenges of the internet age as a political, no less than personal, problem-and proposes concrete reforms that that could mobilize broad-based support for democracy against demagogic assaults on its very foundations.

Free Download The Polymath: A Cultural History from Leonardo da Vinci to Susan Sontag (Audiobook)
English | September 08, 2020 | ASIN: B08GSSRN2F | M4B@128 kbps | 11h 48m | 655 MB
Author: Peter Burke | Narrator: Nigel Patterson
The first history of the western polymath, from the 15th century to the present day
From Leonardo Da Vinci to John Dee and Comenius, from George Eliot to Oliver Sacks and Susan Sontag, polymaths have moved the frontiers of knowledge in countless ways. But history can be unkind to scholars with such encyclopaedic interests. All too often these individuals are remembered for just one part of their valuable achievements.

Free Download The Physics Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained (Audiobook)
English | Datum: April 15, 2020 | ASIN: B0874YXR3W | M4B@125 kbps | 15h 45m | 837.82 MB
Author: DK
Narrator: Richard Trinder
Using a bold approach, The Physics Book sets out more than 80 key concepts and discoveries that have defined the subject and influenced our technology since the beginning of time. With the focus firmly on unpicking the thought behind each theory-as well as exploring when and how each idea and breakthrough came about-seven themed chapters examine the history and developments in areas such as energy and matter, and electricity and magnetism, as well as quantum, nuclear, and particle physics.

Free Download The Maps We Carry: Psychedelics, Trauma and Our New Path to Mental Health (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CRRYWBTR | 2024 | 8 hours and 25 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 239 MB
Author: Rose Cartwright
Narrator: Rose Cartwright
In this revolutionary book, Rose Cartwright reveals how the failure of the mental health system to cure her OCD led her to radical action. While she explored her trauma through a series of mind-bending psychedelic trips, Rose started to interrogate our dominant medical paradigm. What if people's intense distress is not a symptom of illness, but a desperate expression of our need for love and connection? Rose set out on a quest to draw a new map of mental health, interviewing experts in psychiatry and neuroscience along the way: what she discovered will have implications for generations to come.

Free Download The Luzon Campaign 1945: MacArthur Returns (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CYQWKG7Y | 2024 | 15 hours and 4 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 418 MB
Author: Nathan N. Prefer
Narrator: David Stifel
The Luzon campaign of 1945 was the longest island campaign of the Pacific War, lasting from January 1945 to September 1945, and only ended with the surrender of Imperial Japan. It is often overlooked or mentioned in passing by most histories of that war, yet hundreds of thousands of Americans and Japanese fought in some of the worst conditions imaginable for eight months to clear Luzon of the invaders. This full account of the Luzon campaign stretches from planning stages to the end of the war and the surrender of over 50,000 Japanese troops under the noted Japanese general Yamashita.