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Free Download Women in the Picture: What Culture Does with Female Bodies by Catherine McCormack
English | November 16, 2021 | ISBN: 0393542084 | 240 pages | MOBI | 8.50 Mb
Art historian Catherine McCormack challenges how culture teaches us to see and value women, their bodies, and their lives.
Venus, maiden, wife, mother, monster―women have been bound so long by these restrictive roles, codified by patriarchal culture, that we scarcely see them. Catherine McCormack illuminates the assumptions behind these stereotypes whether writ large or subtly hidden. She ranges through Western art―think Titian, Botticelli, and Millais―and the image-saturated world of fashion photographs, advertisements, and social media, and boldly counters these depictions by turning to the work of women artists like Morisot, Ringgold, Lacy, and Walker, who offer alternative images for exploring women's identity, sexuality, race, and power in more complex ways. 20 illustrations
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Free Download Woke or Not?: A Guide to Woke for Older People (Audiobook)
English | ISBN: 9798882296413 | 2024 | 4 hours and 43 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 262 MB
Author: Nina Thom
Narrator: Deidra O'ree
What does woke mean? Learn about wokeness, its origin, and why it has become controversial. You may have heard this hotly debated buzzword. Perhaps you feel sidelined in conversations about social justice issues and are surprised by how quickly its meaning has changed from a compliment to a slur. This is not a critical race theory book or a cancel culture guide, but it explains these highly nuanced concepts. In today's amplified "fake news" environment, we need a straightforward and unbiased social justice book for adults. Navigate woke culture and understand its terminology without a political or social science degree. Nina Thom has written this well-researched, anti-racist book for adults to help you distinguish between "genuine" and "performative activism." This is the ultimate wokeness book that explains the societal impacts on politics, education, sports, and the arts.

Free Download Wisdom from the Wild: The Nine Unbreakable Laws of Leadership from the Animal Kingdom (Audiobook)
English | ISBN: 9798886452389 | 2024 | 7 hours and 54 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 226 MB
Author: Julie C. Henry
Narrator: Julie C. Henry
Take a walk on the wild side with fascinating and compelling leadership lessons from the animal kingdom. Nature is the perfect teacher for the challenging and very personal concept of leadership. And no one knows this better than former zoo and aquarium senior leader turned leadership consultant Julie C. Henry. Wisdom from the Wild shows you-whether you're a new or experienced leader-how to learn from and be inspired by the wildlife and wild places all around you. This fun, new approach to leadership presents nine "Unbreakable Laws" from the animal kingdom. These true, fundamental guidelines with concrete examples from wildlife can steer your work and decisions as a leader.

Free Download Win Your Breakup: How to Be the One That Got Away (Audiobook)
English | March 22, 2022 | ASIN: B09S4XWLVD | M4B@128 kbps | 4h 20m | 239 MB
Author and Narrator: Natasha Adamo
You picked up this book because your breakup has been reduced to something that you feel you must "win" to emotionally survive and move on.
This reduction can only take place if you were involved with a toxic person. Toxic people are selfish, empathetically bankrupt, and have a limited relationship with reality. Anyone who feels validated by exploiting your hunger for theirs is toxic - to your peace, your life, and your mental health.

Free Download Wild Life: Finding My Purpose in an Untamed World (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CY3JW5HX | 2024 | 8 hours and 18 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 236 MB
Author: Dr. Rae Wynn-Grant
Narrator: Dr. Rae Wynn-Grant
In this vulnerable and urgent memoir, Rae Wynn-Grant explores the ever-shifting relationship between humans, animals, and the earth through her personal journey to becoming a wildlife ecologist. Growing up in the diverse and bustling California Bay Area, renowned wildlife ecologist Dr. Rae Wynn-Grant always felt worlds away from the white male adventurers she watched explore the wilderness on TV. She dreamed of a future where she could spend sleepless nights under the crowded canopies of the Amazon and the starry skies of the savanna.

Free Download Wild Chorus: Finding Harmony with Whales, Wolves, and Other Animals (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CZ4N87MZ | 2024 | 9 hours and 3 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 251 MB
Author: Brenda Peterson
Narrator: Kate Coventry
In Wild Chorus, award-winning author Brenda Peterson draws on her lifelong relationship with animals to explore the wisdom we humans can glean from them. Looking beyond the companionship we enjoy with domesticated animals, Peterson explores how wild animals can become our guides and fellow travelers, helping us navigate the stresses of daily life and a rapidly changing planet. From beluga whales to wolves, raccoons to bears, elk to herons, the stories in this collection offer insights into the intricacies of animals' intuitive communication, compassionate attention, and peaceful adaptation. Featuring vivid, visionary stories, Wild Chorus reveals a world filled with inspiring lessons of kinship, connection, and living in the present. Join Peterson on an incredible journey as she speaks for animals as both an artist and an activist to discover the power of learning from the natural world.

Free Download Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders?: (And How to Fix It) (Audiobook)
English | November 24, 2020 | ASIN: B08P3T5VM2 | M4B@64 kbps | 4h 55m | 140 MB
Author: Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic | Narrator: Gary Tiedemann
Look around your office. Turn on the TV. Incompetent leadership is everywhere, and there's no denying that most of these leaders are men.
In this timely and provocative book, Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic asks two powerful questions: Why is it so easy for incompetent men to become leaders? And why is it so hard for competent people - especially competent women - to advance? Marshaling decades of rigorous research, Chamorro-Premuzic points out that although men make up a majority of leaders, they underperform when compared with female leaders. In fact, most organizations equate leadership potential with a handful of destructive personality traits, like overconfidence and narcissism. In other words, these traits may help someone get selected for a leadership role, but they backfire once the person has the job.

Free Download White Collar Criminal Law Explained [TTC Audio]
English | September 11, 2020 | ASIN: B08H6TRJHW | M4B@96 kbps | 12h 25m | 524 MB
Lecturer: Randall D. Eliason
We are surrounded by real-life stories of white-collar crime, with pharmaceutical executives going to jail for their roles in the opioid crisis, titans of Wall Street prosecuted for insider trading and securities fraud, and senior government officials charged with fraud and corruption. But although it's widespread, a fascinating aspect of white-collar crime is just how blurry its boundaries are.
In 24 lessons, consider the characteristics of white-collar crime that set it apart from other areas of criminal law. Early lessons offer you a foundational understanding of the nature and tools of federal white-collar prosecutions, including the role of federal prosecutors, federal grand juries, subpoenas and search warrants, and the federal criminal justice system. At the heart of this series: in-depth looks at the most common white-collar offenses, including mail and wire fraud, conspiracy, obstruction of justice, money laundering, insider trading, and extortion.

Free Download What Is Art? Unabridged (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BHZRMT85 | 2022 | 8 hours and 23 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 239 MB
Author: Leo Tolstoy
Narrator: Malk Williams, Stephane Cornicard
During the decades of his world fame as sage and preacher, Leo Tolstoy wrote prolifically in a series of essays and polemics on issues of morality, social justice and religion. These culminated in What Is Art?, published in 1898. Although Tolstoy perceived the question of art to be a religious one, he considered and rejected the idea that art reveals and reinvents through beauty. The works of Dante, Michelangelo, Shakespeare, Beethoven, Baudelaire, and even his own novels are condemned in the course of Tolstoy's impassioned and iconoclastic redefinition of art as a force for good; for the improvement of humankind.

Free Download We Loved It All: A Memory of Life (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CPZKGBGL | 2024 | 7 hours and 15 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 402 MB
Author: Lydia Millet
Narrator: Xe Sands
Acclaimed novelist Lydia Millet's first work of nonfiction is a genre-defying tour de force that makes an impassioned argument for people to see their emotional and spiritual lives as infinitely dependent on the lives of nonhuman beings. Drawing on a quarter-century of experience as an advocate for endangered species at the Center for Biological Diversity, Millet offers intimate portraits of what she calls "the others"-the extraordinary animals with whom we still share the world, along with those already lost. Humans, too, fill this book, as Millet touches on the lives of her world-traveling parents, fascinating partners and friends, and colorful relatives, from diplomats to nut farmers-all figures in the complex tapestry each of us weaves with the surrounding world. Written in the tradition of Annie Dillard or Robert Macfarlane, We Loved It All is an incantatory work that will appeal to anyone concerned about the future of life on earth-including our own.