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Free Download This Is Your Brain on Birth Control: The Surprising Science of Women, Hormones, and the Law of Unintended Consequences (Audiobook)
English | October 01, 2019 | ASIN: B07Y3ZZGNZ | M4B@128 kbps | 8h 57m | 492 MB
Author: Sarah Hill | Narrator: Nan McNamara
An eye-opening book that reveals crucial information every woman taking hormonal birth control should know
This groundbreaking book sheds light on how hormonal birth control affects women-and the world around them-in ways we are just now beginning to understand. By allowing women to control their fertility, the birth control pill has revolutionized women's lives. Women are going to college, graduating, and entering the workforce in greater numbers than ever before, and there's good reason to believe that the birth control pill has a lot to do with this. But there's a lot more to the pill than meets the eye.

Free Download This Is Berlin: Radio Broadcasts from Nazi Germany (Audiobook)
English | February 15, 2024 | ASIN: B0CSZ945YW | M4B@128 kbps | 21h 42m | 1.16 GB
Author: William L. Shirer | Narrator: Grover Gardner
Legendary CBS news journalist's iconic radio broadcasts from Europe during WWII
This collection of William L. Shirer's radio broadcasts tells the vivid story of WWII and brings the suspense of the times to life for today's audience.

Free Download This Book Is Cheaper than Therapy: A No-Nonsense Guide to Improving Your Mental Health (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CX3D8J7R | 2024 | 8 hours and 22 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 231 MB
Author: Liz Kelly
Narrator: Ann Sprinkle
Finding a good therapist is hard. Finding a good therapist you vibe with-and who won't break the bank-is even harder. In This Book Is Cheaper Than Therapy, seasoned therapist Liz Kelly brings the therapy office to you. So even if money is tight, your insurance doesn't cover therapy, you can't find quality practitioners in your area, or you've been stuck on a therapist's waitlist for months, you can still feel better now. With her cheeky humor, undeniable wit, and perfectly timed f-bombs, Liz has a talent for explaining complex mental health concepts in a way you can understand and can put into practice immediately. And don't worry-at no point in this book will you ever hear the phrase "healing journey," "your truth," or any other over-used therapy platitudes. Imagine if Tina Fey were your best friend and next-door neighbor . . . and she also just happened to be an experienced therapist. It is possible to feel better-just take that first step and let Liz be your guide.

Free Download Think Remarkable: 9 Paths to Transform Your Life and Make a Difference (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CW6K6J2Q | 2024 | 4 hours and 46 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 131 MB
Author: Guy Kawasaki, Madisun Nuismer
Narrator: Guy Kawasaki, Madisun Nuismer, Perry Daniels
In Think Remarkable, tech titan and creator of the Remarkable People podcast Guy Kawasaki delivers a practical, tactical, and sometimes radical discussion of how to make a difference in the world and live a fulfilling life. By synthesizing knowledge from more than forty years of working with organizations such as Apple, Canva, Google, Mercedes Benz, and Wikipedia, with insights from over 200 extraordinary people, such as Jane Goodall, Olivia Julianna, Stacey Abrams, Steve Wozniak, Mark Rober, and Bob Cialdini, Kawasaki and coauthor Madisun Nuismer offer a roadmap to finding internal remarkableness. An essential guide to focusing on what really matters in life, Think Remarkable is perfect for anyone who wants to make the world-and themselves-a little (or a lot) better.

Free Download Think: A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy (Audiobook)
English | January 29, 2014 | ASIN: B00I4CA1XM | M4B@64 kbps | 10h 27m | 285 MB
Author: Simon Blackburn | Narrator: Norman Dietz
This is an audiobook about the big questions in life: knowledge, consciousness, fate, God, truth, goodness, justice. It is for anyone who believes there are big questions out there, but does not know how to approach them. Think sets out to explain what they are and why they are important. Simon Blackburn begins by putting forward a convincing case for the study of philosophy and goes on to give the listener a sense of how the great historical figures such as Descartes, Hume, Kant, and Wittgenstein have approached its central themes.
Each chapter explains a major issue, and gives the listener a self-contained guide through the problems that philosophers have studied. The large scope of topics covered range from skepticism, the self, mind and body, and freedom to ethics and the arguments surrounding the existence of God. Lively and approachable, this audiobook is ideal for all those who want to learn how the basic techniques of thinking shape our existence.

Free Download Lauren Benton, Raquel Beattie (Narrator), "They Called It Peace: Worlds of Imperial Violence"
English | ASIN: B0CW22F9Q4 | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~09:38:00 | 265 MB
Imperial conquest and colonization depended on pervasive raiding, slaving, and plunder. European empires amassed global power by asserting a right to use unilateral force at their discretion. They Called It Peace is a panoramic history of how these routines of violence remapped the contours of empire and reordered the world from the fifteenth to the twentieth centuries.
In an account spanning from Asia to the Americas, Lauren Benton shows how imperial violence redefined the nature of war and peace. Instead of preparing lasting peace, fragile truces ensured an easy return to war. Serial conflicts and armed interventions projected a de facto state of perpetual war across the globe. Benton describes how seemingly limited war sparked atrocities, from sudden massacres to long campaigns of dispossession and extermination. She brings vividly to life a world in which warmongers portrayed themselves as peacemakers and Europeans imagined "small" violence as essential to imperial rule and global order.
Holding vital lessons for us today, They Called It Peace reveals how the imperial violence of the past has made perpetual war and the threat of atrocity endemic features of the international order.

Free Download The World's Religions: Our Great Wisdom Traditions (Audiobook)
English | 2010 | ISBN: 1440728208 | M4B@84 kbps | 20h 12m | 739 MB
Author: Huston Smith | Narrator: Jonathan Davis
Huston Smith's masterpiece explores the essential elements and teachings of the world's predominant faiths, including Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and the native traditions of Australia, Africa, Oceania, and the Americas. Emphasizing the inner-rather than the institutional-dimension of these religions, Smith devotes special attention to Zen and Tibetan Buddhism, Sufism, and the teachings of Jesus. He convincingly conveys the unique appeal and gifts of each of the traditions and reveals their hold on the human heart and imagination.
This revised and updated edition provides sympathetic descriptions of the various traditions, explaining how they work "from the inside," which is a big reason why this cherished classic has sold more than two million copies since it first appeared in 1958.

Free Download Charles River Editors , Michelle Humphries (Narrator), "The World's Deadliest Plagues: The History and Legacy of the Worst Global Pandemics"
English | ISBN: 9798868781698 | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~05:45:00 | 159 MB
Human beings seem to have a particular fascination for microbiological threats. They are invisible, unpredictable and mysterious, and it is only in the past 150 years or so that scientists have begun to understand microorganisms and the maladies they can cause. Modern society has long been horrified and enthralled by accounts of such pestilences as the Black Death, which exterminated up to 60% of the population of Europe from 1347-1351. Less known is the Plague of Justinian which was even more deadly in that it carried away a quarter of the world's population within the space of one year (542 CE). The Great Plague of London, which killed 100,000 in 1666, is another infamous pestilence, as is the Spanish Flu of 1918, which took the lives of as many as one million worldwide, making that epidemic even deadlier than the medieval Black Death.
Such virulent outbreaks of disease are by no means distant historical events. While scientific and technological advances have limited and in many places eradicated such community-devastating diseases as cholera, smallpox, bubonic plague, typhus, Salmonella and yellow fever, new microscopic threats have arisen, including Ebola, SARS, bird flu, and most recently Coronavirus 2.
The terror associated with pestilence speaks to people's insecurities concerning the unknown and invisible. The ancients had no knowledge of microorganisms that caused disease-instead they postulated that pestilence was caused by miasma, air fouled by decomposing matter. That said, modern awareness of microscopic viruses and bacteria does nothing to lessen humanity's insecurity. If anything, it is terrifying that such tiny creatures have the capacity to overthrow powerful and vibrant societies. This is one of the themes of H. G. Wells' famous War of the Worlds (1897). When the human race fails to survive the onslaught of Martian invaders and was on the point of extinction, it is microbes, not men, that destroys them. Microscopic organisms become the ultimate lords of Earth, over both humans and Martians.

Free Download The World War I Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CKZKKYLJ | 2024 | 14 hours and 44 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 429 MB
Author: DK
Narrator: Charles Armstrong
Discover the key battles, tactics, technologies and turning points of the First World War-the epic conflict that was supposed to be "the war to end all wars". With authoritative, exciting text, The World War I Book explores the historical background to the war, its causes, all of key events across the major theatres of conflict, and its aftermath. Using the original approach of the series, entries profile more than 90 of the key events during and surrounding the conflict-from the growing tensions between Europe's major powers to the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the German invasion of Belgium, the endless slaughter in the trenches, the American entry into the war, the Russian Revolution, the Armistice, and the creation of the League of Nations. Offering a uniquely compelling, accessible, and immediate history of the war, The World War I Book shows how certain key battles, individual leaders, political and economic forces, and technological advances influenced the course of the conflict, and the decades that followed.

Free Download The World Beneath Their Feet: Mountaineering, Madness, and the Deadly Race to Summit the Himalayas (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B084Q11G6D | 2020 | 13 hours and 33 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 738 MB
Author: Scott Ellsworth
Narrator: Scott Ellsworth
A saga of survival, technological innovation, and breathtaking human physical achievement - all set against the backdrop of a world headed toward war - that became one of the most compelling international dramas of the 20th century. While tension steadily rose between European powers in the 1930s, a different kind of battle was raging across the Himalayas. Contingents from Great Britain, Nazi Germany, and the United States had set up rival camps at the base of the mountains, all hoping to become recognized as the fastest, strongest, and bravest climbers in the world. Carried on across nearly the entire sweep of the Himalayas, this contest involved not only the greatest mountain climbers of the era, but statesmen and millionaires, world-class athletes and bona fide eccentrics, scientists and generals, obscure villagers and national heroes.