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Free Download Beyond Self-Defense: How to Say No, Set Boundaries, and Reclaim Your Agency-An Empowering Guide to Safety, Risk Assessment, and Personal Protection (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CFG8QJKN | 2024 | 3 hours and 42 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 206 MB
Author: Shihan Michelle
Narrator: Zelda Gay
A feminist-forward guide to setting boundaries, assessing safety, and defusing violence by a six-time karate world champion-tools and skills to build confidence, fight back, and live life on your own terms. Disclaimer: this is not your average self-defense book. As educator, martial artist, movement analyst, somatic therapist, and rape crisis advocate Shihan Michelle explains, "Self-defense doesn't work to prevent assault; it's too late, you're in a fight." Instead, Michelle champions self-offense, a preventative personal protection strategy invested in defusing trouble before violence becomes necessary. Beyond Self-Defense empowers you to prevent and de-escalate violence without resorting to physical contact. Including personal stories, interactive practices, and reflective prompts, this practical, accessible, and timely handbook teaches you how to craft your own unique protection protocols.

Free Download Beyond Boundaries: The New Neuroscience of Connecting Brains with Machines-and How It Will Change Our Lives (Audiobook)
English | Datum: March 15, 2011 | ASIN: B004S4WZG6 | MP3@96 kbps | 14h 38m | 523.99 MB
Author: Miguel Nicolelis
Narrator: Patrick Egan
A pioneering neuroscientist shows how the long-sought merger of brains with machines is about to become a paradigm-shifting reality.

Free Download Between Two Trailers: A Memoir (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CDF9SYX5 | 2024 | 7 hours and 27 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 216 MB
Author: J. Dana Trent, Barbara Brown Taylor
Narrator: J. Dana Trent
A powerful, unforgettable memoir about a girl who escapes her childhood as a preschool drug dealer in rural Indiana-only to find that no one can really "make it out" until they make peace with where their story began: home. Home, it turns out, is where the war is. It's also where the healing begins. Dana Trent is only a preschooler the first time she uses a razor blade to cut up weed and fill dime bags for her schizophrenic father, King. While King struggles with his unmedicated psychosis, Dana's mother, the Lady, a cold and self-absorbed woman whose personality disorders rule the home, guards large bricks of drugs from the safety of their squalid trailer. But when the Lady impulsively plucks Dana from the Midwest and moves the two of them south, their fresh start results in homelessness and bankruptcy.

Free Download Nate Hendley, Adam Barr (Narrator), "Atrocity on the Atlantic: Attack on a Hospital Ship During the Great War"
English | ASIN: B0CYVP8KYY | 2024 | MP3@64 bksp | ~07:01:00 | 193 MB
How a German submarine sank a Canadian military hospital ship during the First World War and sparked outrage.
On the evening of June 27, 1918, the Llandovery Castle-an unarmed, clearly marked hospital ship used by the Canadian military-was torpedoed off the Irish Coast by U-Boat 86, a German submarine.
Sinking hospital ships violated international law. To conceal his actions, the U-86 commander had the submarine deck guns fire on survivors. One lifeboat escaped with witnesses to the atrocity. Global outrage over the attack ensued.

Free Download Matt Schulz, Danny Hughes (Narrator), "Ask Questions, Save Money, Make More: How to Take Control of Your Financial Life"
English | ASIN: B0CYCLMZ12 | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~07:52:00 | 218 MB
Asking credit card companies, banks, hospitals, schools, and other businesses for better rates and discounts works. Here's how to do it.
In this must-have money manual, personal finance expert Matt Schulz empowers you to ask forty-five fiscal questions in seven key areas of life: credit and debt, healthcare, housing, shopping, travel, work, and relationships. The questions feature decision trees, success stories, potential risks, and other practical tools that skillfully guide you through the pros and cons and explain the relevant data. Every request also comes with an easy-to-follow, fill-in-the-blank script. Gain the confidence to request a lower rate on your rent or mortgage, better financing for an auto loan, a higher salary, a refund on a cancelled flight, a lower phone bill, and even a fair split for that group dinner. You are the lifeblood of every company that you pay, and you have more power over your money than you realize. Put more of it in your pocket and keep it there. Sometimes all you have to do is ask.
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Free Download Ashoka: Portrait of a Philosopher King (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CYQWLHK7 | 2024 | 12 hours and 6 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 348 MB
Author: Patrick Olivelle
Narrator: Neil Shah
There are few historical figures more integral to South Asian history than Emperor Ashoka, a third-century BCE king who ruled over a larger area of the Indian subcontinent than anyone else before British colonial rule. Ashoka sought not only to rule his territory, but also to give it a unity of purpose and aspiration, to unify the people of his vastly heterogeneous empire not by a cult of personality, but by the cult of an idea-"dharma"-which served as the linchpin of a new moral order. He aspired to forge a new moral philosophy that would be internalized not only by the people of his empire, but also by rulers and subjects of other countries, and would form the foundation for his theory of international relations, in which practicing dharma would bring international conflicts to an end. His fame spread far and wide both in India and in other parts of Asia, and it prompted diverse reimaginations of the king and his significance. In this deeply researched book, Patrick Olivelle draws on Ashoka's inscriptions and on the art and architecture he pioneered to craft a detailed picture of Ashoka as a ruler, a Buddhist, a moral philosopher, and an ecumenist who governed a vast multiethnic, multi-linguistic, and multi-religious empire.

Free Download David Craig, Robert Iger - foreword, Kim Niemi (Narrator), "Apocalypse Television: How the Day After Helped End the Cold War"
English | ASIN: B0CY7CJRL8 | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~08:54:00 | 252 MB
On November 20, 1983, a three-hour made-for-TV movie, The Day After, premiered on ABC. Set in the heartland of Lawrence, Kansas, the film depicted the events before, during, and after a Soviet nuclear attack with vivid scenes of the post-apocalyptic hellscape that would follow. The film was viewed by over 100 million Americans and remains the highest rated TV movie in history.
The path to primetime for The Day After proved nearly as treacherous as the film's narrative. Battles ensued behind the scenes at the network, between the network and the filmmakers. But these skirmishes pale in comparison to the culture wars triggered by the film in the press, alongside a growing Nuclear Freeze movement, and from a united, pro-nuclear Right. Once efforts to alter the script failed, the White House conducted a full-throttled propaganda campaign to hijack the film's message.
Apocalypse Television features a dramatic insider's account of the making of and backlash against The Day After. No other book has told this story in similar fashion, venturing behind-the-scenes of the programming and news divisions at ABC, the backlash from the conservative movement and Religious Right, the challenges encountered by the film's production team, and the experiences of the citizens of Lawrence, Kansas, where the film was set and shot.

Free Download Anxiously Attached: Becoming More Secure in Life and Love (Audiobook)
English | June 14, 2022 | ASIN: B09HR9Z3W7 | M4B@128 kbps | 9h 26m | 527 MB
Author and Narrator: Jessica Baum LMHC
A road map for building strong and secure relationships for those who struggle with anxiety in their romantic connections.
An estimated 47 million Americans identify as having an anxious attachment style, which can make being in relationships turbulent and emotionally taxing for them. According to groundbreaking research in the field of attachment, anxious types are more prone to insecurity, jealousy, codependency, and other behaviors that get in the way of finding and sustaining love. In Anxiously Attached, seasoned psychotherapist and couples counselor Jessica Baum guides listeners through understanding their attachment style at its core and building the inner strength and self-love that will lead them to more secure and satisfying relationships.

Free Download Charles River Editors, Victoria Woodson (Narrator), "Ancient Greece's Most Important Islands: The History of Crete, Rhodes, and Sicily in Antiquity"
English | ISBN: 9798882288265 | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~04:02:00 | 111 MB
Nearly 2,500 years after the Golden Age of Athens, people across the world today continue to be fascinated by the ancient Greeks, but who did the Ancient Greeks look up to? The answer to that question can be found in Homer's The Odyssey, in which Odysseus makes note of "a great town there, Cnossus, where Minos reigned." It was perhaps the earliest reference to the Minoan civilization, a mysterious ancient civilization that historians and archaeologists still puzzle over, but a civilization that renowned historian Will Durant described as "the first link in the European chain." Nearly 2,000 years before Homer wrote his epic poems, the Minoan civilization was centered on the island of Crete, a location that required the Minoans to be a regional sea power. And indeed they were, stretching across the Aegean Sea from about 2700-1500 BCE with trade routes extending all the way to Egypt.
In the Archaic and Classical periods, Rhodes often stood as a prime exemplar of the highs and lows of its fellow Greek cities, and as the largest island of the Dodecanese, Rhodes' history is largely in line with that of the rest of those islands. Rhodes would reach the zenith of its power in the Hellenistic period following the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BCE. Even as the rest of the city-states waned compared to the much larger kingdoms of Alexander's successors in Egypt and Asia, Rhodes would come to the forefront as a main power in the Greek world, standing toe-to-toe with these Hellenistic kingdoms.
It was during the Classical era that, especially under the tyrants (dictators) of the Greek city of Syracuse, Sicily came the closest to being governed as a single, unified, and independent state. In time, it came to challenge the powerful trade empire of Carthage, a former Phoenician colony in North Africa, and it vied with the cities and kingdoms of mainland Greece for primacy in the Greek world.

Free Download An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CFYPM62V | 2024 | 17 hours and 38 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 509 MB
Author: Doris Kearns Goodwin
Narrator: Doris Kearns Goodwin, Bryan Cranston
The audio edition also includes archival recordings of John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Robert F. Kennedy. An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s by Doris Kearns Goodwin, one of America's most beloved historians, artfully weaves together biography, memoir, and history. She takes you along on the emotional journey she and her husband, Richard (Dick) Goodwin embarked upon in the last years of his life. Dick and Doris Goodwin were married for forty-two years and married to American history even longer. In his twenties, Dick was one of the brilliant young men of John F. Kennedy's New Frontier. In his thirties he both named and helped design Lyndon Johnson's Great Society and was a speechwriter and close advisor to Robert Kennedy. Doris Kearns was a twenty-four-year-old graduate student when selected as a White House Fellow. She worked directly for Lyndon Johnson and later assisted on his memoir. Over the years, with humor, anger, frustration, and in the end, a growing understanding, Dick and Doris had argued over the achievements and failings of the leaders they served and observed, debating the progress and unfinished promises of the country they both loved.