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Free Download Jack Gedney, Jonathan Todd Ross (Narrator), "The Private Lives of Public Birds: Learning to Listen to the Birds Where We Live"
English | ASIN: B0CRJW8G5J | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~06:15:00 | 177 MB
A book to help the ordinary birdwatcher appreciate the fascinating songs, stories, and science of common birds.
Jack Gedney's studies of birds provide resonant, affirming answers to the questions: Who is this bird? In what way is it beautiful? Why does it matter? Masterfully linking an abundance of poetic references with up-to-date biological science, Gedney shares his devotion to everyday Western birds in fifteen essays.
Each essay illuminates the life of a single species and its relationship to humans, and how these species can help us understand birds in general. A dedicated birdwatcher and teacher, Gedney finds wonder not only in the speed and glistening beauty of the Anna's hummingbird, but also in her nest building. He acclaims the turkey vulture's and red-tailed hawk's roles in our ecosystem, and he venerates the inimitable California scrub jay's work planting acorns.

Free Download The History of Emotions: A Very Short Introduction (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CKGSLQFP | 2023 | 4 hours and 00 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 216 MB
Author: Thomas Dixon
Narrator: Mike Cooper
Emotions are complex mental states that resist reduction. They are visceral reactions but also beliefs about the world. They are spontaneous outbursts but also culturally learned performances. And just as our emotions in any given moment display this complex structure, so their history is plural rather than singular. The history of emotions is where the history of ideas meets the history of the body, and where the history of subjectivity meets social and cultural history. In this Very Short Introduction, Thomas Dixon traces the historical ancestries of feelings ranging from sorrow, melancholy, rage, and terror to cheerfulness, enthusiasm, sympathy, and love.

Free Download Marcel Link, Brian Wiggins (Narrator), "The High Probability Options Trader: Winning Strategies to Take You to the Next Level"
English | ASIN: B0CR1WHN54 | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~10:03:00 | 285 MB
The complete guide to building the mindset, knowledge, and skills of a professional options trader.
Professional options trader Marcel Link argues that the most successful traders are the ones who treat trading like a business. It's how he turned trading into a full-time job, and he shares all his secrets with you. In The High Probability Options Trader, Link explains how to take advantage of online tools, offers a thorough but easy-to-understand explanation of option Greeks, and provides many effective strategies, including selling options and spreads with high volatility, making time decay work in your favor, using different time spreads, staying delta neutral, and using butterflies and condors. He explains how to trade during earnings, how to use technical analyses to time trades, and how to manage risk. Specific topics include: learning to understand and take full advantage of a broker's platform; what options are and how they're best used; methods for valuing options; choosing underlying stocks, indexes, ETFs, and futures to trade; using options to protect your portfolio from market turns; managing your options portfolio; reading marketing conditions to make the right investing decisions; placing orders and timing trades; and developing and implanting risk-management strategies.

Free Download Jonathan D.T. Ward, Rick Adamson (Narrator), "The Decisive Decade: American Grand Strategy for Triumph Over China"
English | ASIN: B0CRM6548J | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~11:39:00 | 320 MB
In The Decisive Decade, Dr. Jonathan D. T. Ward offers a comprehensive framework for how the US can, and must, defeat China on the world stage economically, diplomatically, militarily, and ideologically.
International security and American supremacy are at stake-and now is the time for the US to take action. China's global power and influence grows every day. Working from a deep sense of national identity, the Chinese Communist Party is leading its country toward what it deems "the great rejuvenation of the Chinese Nation," and executing a long-term Grand Strategy to topple over its chief adversary, the US. As China becomes increasingly repressive domestically and aggressive overseas, it threatens to upend America's global dominance at every turn.
Ward provides novel and practical strategies that our government, as well as our businesses and our citizens, can utilize to undermine our adversary. Exhaustive campaigns in the economic, diplomatic, military, and ideological arenas, he argues, must be taken to achieve victory. With expert analysis of the history of US-China relations, as well as insight into how the Russia-Ukrainian war can inform our strategic thinking, The Decisive Decade presents a unique toolkit for our triumph over China. We can succeed, but it won't be easy; it will take all of our nation's ingenuity, confidence, and willpower to win.

Free Download Jim Morris, Jeff Zinn (Narrator), "The Cancer Factory: Industrial Chemicals, Corporate Deception, and the Hidden Deaths of American Workers"
English | ASIN: B0C3NN6ZF4 | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~10:08:00 | 288 MB
The story of a group of Goodyear Tire and Rubber workers fatally exposed to toxic chemicals, the lawyer who sought justice on their behalf, and the shameful lack of protection our society affords all workers
A gripping narrative in the tradition of A Civil Action and Toms River
Working at the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company chemical plant in Niagara Falls, New York, was considered a good job. It was the kind of industrial manufacturing job that allowed blue-collar workers to thrive in the latter half of the 20th century-that allowed them to buy their own home, and maybe a boat for the lake.

Free Download The Art of Taking It Easy: How to Cope with Bears, Traffic, and the Rest of Life's Stressors (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CQZ6VY6G | 2024 | 6 hours and 25 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 176 MB
Author: Dr. Brian King
Narrator: George Newbern
From a psychologist and stand-up comedian comes a practical, yet laugh-out-loud guide to embracing humor to reduce stress and live a happier, fuller life. Dr. Brian King got a degree in psychology before becoming a world-touring comic and the host of humor therapy seminars attended by more than ten thousand people each year. In this brilliant guide he presents hands-on techniques for managing stress by rewiring our brains to approach potentially difficult situations through a lens of positivity. To do so, Dr. King explores what stress is, where it comes from, and what it does to our bodies and brains. He delves deep into how to address everyday stress-as well as anxiety, insecurities, repression, and negativity-and gives insight into resulting ailments such as anxiety disorders, depression, hypertension, obesity, substance abuse disorders, and more. Dr. King's techniques are chemical and cost free, and embrace humor, resilience, relaxation, optimism, gratitude, and acceptance. Instead of a dry medical approach to dealing with stress, this unique volume is filled with life-changing tips and instructions presented with humor and a wealth of memorable, smile-inducing anecdotes.

Free Download The Adventure: A Practical Guide to Spiritual Awakening (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CRZDFFRV | 2024 | 7 hours and 8 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 393 MB
Author: Steve Taylor, Eckhart Tolle
Narrator: Kern Schmid
Step-by-step practices for cultivating spiritual awakening, from a renowned spiritual psychologist who has studied the phenomenon in hundreds of people and experienced it himself. Steve Taylor has devoted his life to investigating spiritual awakening. In his books, he discussed case histories of dozens of people who experienced profound shifts in consciousness. The Adventure draws on this groundbreaking research, together with Taylor's own awakening experiences, to offer guided meditations, contemplative exercises, and other practices for catalyzing spiritual transformation, as well as lyric poems and inspirational stories.

Free Download Greg Fisher, John E. Wisneski, Rene M. Bakker, Al Kessel (Narrator), "Strategy in 3D: Essential Tools to Diagnose, Decide, and Deliver"
English | ASIN: B0CR1W9Z1Z | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~06:22:00 | 175 MB
Strategy decision making and action used to be off limits to all but the select few at the very top of an organization. It was a largely cerebral activity focused on grand long-terms plans made at annual off-site retreats away from the daily challenges of the business. That is no longer the case.
The current business environment does not wait for companies to slowly adjust in an annual meeting. The relentless pace of change renders today's long-term future tomorrow's history. Does this mean strategy is no longer useful, or even feasible? No. Good strategists are needed now more than ever. But today's high-performing organizations think of strategy differently than in the past. These companies make strategy part of every manager's role; they strategize continuously and tackle strategic problems through individuals from all parts of the organization.
Strategy in this fast-paced new world is about diagnosing the diverse array of complex challenges confronting organizations, deciding on novel solutions to address those challenges, and delivering by taking action on those solutions. Including a novel organizational framework and application examples, Strategy in 3D helps build these foundational skills and prepares the listener for success as a strategist in the twenty-first century.

Free Download George G. M. James, Karen Chilton (narrator), "Stolen Legacy: The Egyptian Origins of Western Philosophy"
English | ISBN: 9798868646034 | 2024 | M4B@64 kbps | ~05:50:00 | 169 MB
In this bold and uncompromising book, George G. M. James argues that the "Greek philosophy" in which nearly all of Western culture has its roots actually originated in ancient Egypt.
Drawing on careful historical research and a radical rethinking of the conventional narrative of Greek history, James asserts that our celebration of the ancient Greeks as the creators of Western civilization and philosophy is misattributed. In fact, he argues, our praise rightfully belongs to the people of Africa. Furthermore, this massive intellectual and cultural theft has helped lend credence to the damaging notion that the entire continent of Africa has contributed nothing to world civilization.
James explorers documented connections between celebrated Greek philosophers and the influence of Egyptian thought, proposing other possible links between northern Africa and Greece as well. An important book for understanding the history of philosophy, culture, and race in the modern world, Stolen Legacy is not to be missed. This definitive audio edition of Stolen Legacy is skillfully read by Karen Chilton, award-winning narrator of The New Jim Crow.

Free Download Shiloh and the Western Campaign of 1862 (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CKK32CVY | 2023 | 13 hours and 7 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 354 MB
Author: O. Edward Cunningham
Narrator: Brian P. Craig
The bloody two-day battle of Shiloh changed the course of the American Civil War. The conflagration at Shiloh had its roots in the strong Union advance that resulted in the capture of Forts Henry and Donelson in Tennessee. The offensive collapsed General Albert S. Johnston's advanced line in Kentucky and forced him to withdraw to northern Mississippi. Anxious to attack the enemy, Johnston began concentrating Southern forces at Corinth, a major railroad center just below the Tennessee border. His bold plan called for his Army of the Mississippi to march north and destroy General Grant's Army of the Tennessee before it could link up with another Union army on the way to join him.