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Free Download The End of Overeating: Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite (Audiobook)
English | April 28, 2009 | ASIN: B00282MS1W | M4B@64 kbps | 7h 20m | 212 MB
Author: David A. Kessler MD | Narrator: Blair Hardman
Most of us know what it feels like to fall under the spell of food - when one slice of pizza turns into half a pie, or a handful of chips leads to an empty bag. But it's harder to understand why we can't seem to stop eating - even when we know better. When we want so badly to say "no," why do we continue to reach for food?
Dr. David Kessler, the dynamic former FDA commissioner who reinvented the food label and tackled the tobacco industry, now reveals how the food industry has hijacked the brains of millions of Americans. The result? America's number-one public health issue.

Free Download The Empire of Climate: A History of An Idea (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CYVZXLCQ | 2024 | 19 hours and 38 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 539 MB
Author: David N. Livingstone
Narrator: Derek Perkins
Scientists, journalists, and politicians increasingly tell us that human impacts on climate constitute the single greatest threat facing our planet and may even bring about the extinction of our species. Yet behind these anxieties lies an older, much deeper fear about the power that climate exerts over us. The Empire of Climate traces the history of this idea and its pervasive influence over how we interpret world events and make sense of the human condition, from the rise and fall of ancient civilizations to the afflictions of the modern psyche. David Livingstone reveals how climate has been critically implicated in the politics of imperial control and race relations; been used to explain industrial development, market performance, and economic breakdown; and served as a bellwether for national character and cultural collapse. He examines how climate has been put forward as an explanation for warfare and civil conflict, and how it has been identified as a critical factor in bodily disorders and acute psychosis. A panoramic work of scholarship, The Empire of Climate maps the tangled histories of an idea that has haunted our collective imagination for centuries, shedding critical light on the notion that everything from the wealth of nations to the human mind itself is subject to climate's imperial rule.

Free Download Marc Bekoff, Jane Goodall - foreword, Kane Stewart (Narrator), "The Emotional Lives of Animals, Revised Edition: A Leading Scientist Explores Animal Joy, Sorrow, and Empathy-and Why They Matter"
English | ASIN: B0CYRBGD3Y | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~08:47:00 | 242 MB
The original (2007) edition of this book presaged the dramatic growth in research on animal minds, going on to sell more than 55,000 copies
This revised edition packs in more than 15 years of new science that bolsters Bekoff's original claims about animal emotions
Bekoff is recognized as a preeminent voice in the media for animal sentience and dog behavior, with high-profile appearances in Time, Life, the New York Times, New Scientist, and BBC Wildlife and on Good Morning America, 60 Minutes, and 20/20, among others

Free Download The Devil to Pay: A Mobster's Road to Perdition (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CZPJTX6M | 2024 | 8 hours and 23 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 238 MB
Author: Sean Scott Hicks
Narrator: Keith Szarabajka
Goodfellas meets the Irish mob in The Devil to Pay, the incredible true story of one man's unconventional upbringing in the criminal gangs of Boston and his eventual road to redemption. Growing up in South Boston, Sean Scott Hicks was running jobs for the Irish mob before his voice changed. Mistreated by his drug-addled mother, Hicks found sanctuary with his adoptive family of felonious uncles-known to law enforcement officials as the Winter Hill Gang. These crooks knew where all the bodies were buried-because they'd done the burying-but they also looked out for young Sean. Even the notorious gangster known worldwide as Whitey Bulger was simply "Uncle Jim" to him.

Free Download The Day After: Why America Wins the War but Loses the Peace (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B07RWL12NP | 2019 | 10 hours and 33 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 576 MB
Author: Brendan R. Gallagher
Narrator: Lloyd James
Since 9/11, why have we won smashing battlefield victories only to botch nearly everything that comes next? In the opening phases of war in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya, we mopped the floor with our enemies. But in short order, things went horribly wrong. We soon discovered we had no coherent plan to manage the "day after". The ensuing debacles had truly staggering consequences - many thousands of lives lost, trillions of dollars squandered, and the apparent discrediting of our foreign policy establishment. This helped set the stage for an extraordinary historical moment in which America's role in the world, along with our commitment to democracy at home and abroad, have become subject to growing doubt. With the benefit of hindsight, can we discern what went wrong? Why have we had such great difficulty planning for the aftermath of war?

Free Download The Conservative Environmentalist: Common Sense Solutions for a Sustainable Future (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CKK9P4FK | 2024 | 5 hours and 54 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 331 MB
Author: Benji Backer
Narrator: Benji Backer
A conservative young environmentalist provides an intrepid vision for both solving our climate crisis and prioritizing the American national interest. Politicians, pseudo-experts, and other partisans have led us to believe that there are only two approaches to climate change: doomerism or denial. Benji Backer, Founder and Executive Chairman of the American Conservation Coalition, argues that both are dead ends. In The Conservative Environmentalist, he delivers an entirely new strategy to take care of the planet while putting the economic interest of the American people first. Backer makes the compelling case that conservative principles are the key to climate solutions that actually work. In this book, you'll visit the country's most diverse ecosystems and consequential manufacturing hubs-from Utah coal mines and Texas oil fields to Louisiana wetlands and Rhode Island offshore wind farms-witnessing the power of individual entrepreneurship and local problem-solving.

Free Download The Cambridge Companion to Sherlock Holmes (Audiobook)
English | November 28, 2019 | ASIN: B0822XLWN5 | M4B@128 kbps | 11h 52m | 681 MB
Editors: Janice M. Allan, Christopher Pittard | Narrators: Elizabeth Sastre, John Keating
Sherlock Holmes is the most famous fictional detective in history, with a popularity that has never waned since catching the imagination of his late-Victorian readership. This Companion explores Holmes' popularity and his complex relationship to the late-Victorian and modernist periods; on one hand bearing the imprint of a range of Victorian anxieties and preoccupations, while on the other shaping popular conceptions of criminality, deviance, and the powers of the detective.
This collection explores these questions in three parts. 'Contexts' explores late-Victorian culture, from the emergence of detective fiction to ideas of evolution, gender, and Englishness. 'Case Studies' reads selected Holmes adventures in the context of empire, visual culture, and the gothic. Finally, 'Holmesian Afterlives' investigates the relationship between Holmes and literary theory, film and theatre adaptations, new Holmesian novels, and the fandom that now surrounds him.

Free Download The Britannias: An Island Quest (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CDXQ8M8C | 2023 | 12 hours and 32 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 376 MB
Author: Alice Albinia
Narrator: Alice Albinia
The Britannias tells the story of Britain's islands and how they are woven into its collective cultural psyche. From Neolithic Orkney to modern-day Thanet, Alice Albinia explores the furthest reaches of Britain's island topography, once known (wrote Pliny) by the collective term, Britanniae. Sailing over borders, between languages and genres, trespassing through the past to understand the present, this book knocks the centre out to foreground neglected epics and subversive voices.

Free Download The Breakout Principle: How to Activate the Natural Trigger That Maximizes Creativity, Athletic Performance, Productivity and Personal Well-Being (Audiobook)
English | 2004 | ASIN: n/a | M4B@128 kbps | 9h 25m | 526 MB
Authors: Herbert Benson M.D., William Proctor | Narrator: James Jenner
Would it surprise you to learn that to solve a seemingly unsolvable problem, you need to get up and leave the room? A walk in the woods will help you finish your novel? Humming can make you a better tennis player? Or that completely giving up is the way to succeed?
In The Breakout Principle, Dr. Herbert Benson delivers the ultimate self-help principle - simple instructions to activate a powerful biological trigger that converts conflict and confusion into clarity and extraordinary performance, a state athletes refer to as "the zone."

Free Download The Blind Spot: Why Science Cannot Ignore Human Experience (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CYDF4G5P | 2024 | 11 hours and 59 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 329 MB
Author: Adam Frank, Marcelo Gleiser, Evan Thompson
Narrator: Perry Daniels
In The Blind Spot, astrophysicist Adam Frank, theoretical physicist Marcelo Gleiser, and philosopher Evan Thompson call for a revolutionary scientific worldview, where science includes-rather than ignores or tries not to see-humanity's lived experience as an inescapable part of our search for objective truth. They urge practitioners to reframe how science works for the sake of our future in the face of the planetary climate crisis and increasing science denialism. When we try to understand reality only through external physical things imagined from this outside position, we lose sight of the necessity of experience. This is the Blind Spot, which the authors show lies behind our scientific conundrums about time and the origin of the universe, quantum physics, life, AI and the mind, consciousness, and Earth as a planetary system. The authors propose an alternative vision: scientific knowledge is a self-correcting narrative made from the world and our experience of it evolving together. The Blind Spot goes where no science book goes, urging us to create a new scientific culture that views ourselves both as an expression of nature and as a source of nature's self-understanding, so that humanity can flourish in the new millennium.