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Free Download The Learning Brain [TTC Audio]
English | May 25, 2018 | ASIN: B07CZ18VZZ | M4B@64 kbps | 12h 23m | 358 MB
Lecturer: Thad A. Polk
One of the most complicated and advanced computers on Earth can't be purchased in any store. This astonishing device, responsible for storing and retrieving vast quantities of information that can be accessed at a moment's notice, is the human brain. How does such a dynamic and powerful machine make memories, learn a language, and remember how to drive a car? What habits can we adopt in order to learn more effectively throughout our lives? And how do external factors like traumatic injuries and mood affect our gray matter? The answers to these questions are merely the tip of the iceberg in The Learning Brain.
These 24 half-hour lectures offer in-depth and surprising lessons about how the brain learns and how we can optimize that learning. Begin your journey by focusing on which parts of the brain are responsible for different kinds of memory, from personal experiences and memorized facts to short-term memory, and how these systems work on a psychological and biological level. Then, discover how to better absorb and retain all kinds of memories in all stages of life. This course is chock-full of valuable information, whether you're learning a new language at 60 or discovering calculus at 16. If you need better study habits, struggle with learning a new skill, or just worry about memories fading with age, The Learning Brain will provide illuminating insights.

Free Download Michael Useem, Tom Parks (Narrator), "The Leader's Checklist, 10th Anniversary Edition: 16 Mission-Critical Principles"
English | ASIN: B0D7R1GB2K | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~02:50:00 | 78 MB
In The Leader's Checklist, 10th Anniversary Edition: 16 Mission-Critical Principles, world-renowned leadership expert and Wharton professor Michael Useem shows you how to lead through any challenge.
In this illuminating guide, Useem offers a Leader's Checklist that will help you develop your ability to make good and timely decisions in unpredictable and stressful environments-for those moments when leadership really matters.
To illustrate the principles, Useem examines where leaders go right-and wrong. He looks at: how Ramos, the former CEO of ITT, turned around the once-struggling enterprise; how AIG's tone-deaf response to the tumultuous events of the global financial crisis left the company vulnerable to one of the greatest corporate collapses in business history; and how Virginia Rometty, the former executive chair of IBM, acquired and integrated a cloud-computing company to help turn around IBM's fortunes. Based on Useem's own research experience and an array of leadership investigators, thinkers, and practitioners, The Leader's Checklist offers actionable insights you can put into practice as a leader today.

Free Download The Lazy Genius Way: Embrace What Matters, Ditch What Doesn't, and Get Stuff Done (Audiobook)
English | August 11, 2020 | ASIN: B082QXVZKJ | M4B@128 kbps | 7h 8m | 389 MB
Author: Kendra Adachi | Narrators: Kendra Adachi, Emily P. Freeman
Being a lazy genius isn't about doing more or doing less. It's about doing what matters to you.
The chorus of "shoulds" is loud. You should enjoy the moment, dream big, have it all, get up before the sun, track your water consumption, go on date nights, and be the best. Or maybe you should ignore what people think, live on dry shampoo, be a negligent PTA mom, have a dirty house, and claim your hot mess like a badge of honor.

Free Download The Lazy Genius Kitchen: Have What You Need, Use What You Have, and Enjoy It Like Never Before (Audiobook)
English | May 03, 2022 | ASIN: B09B2RH26V | M4B@64 kbps | 6h 3m | 189 MB
Author and Narrator: Kendra Adachi
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Lazy Genius Way comes a fresh perspective for getting the most out of your kitchen!
You want your kitchen to be the heartbeat of the home, but you're overwhelmed and out of breath trying to make it happen. Meals are on a never-ending loop, and you don't have time to prepare dinner, much less enjoy it. Popular Lazy Genius expert and bestselling author Kendra Adachi is here to help!

Free Download The Latino Century: How America's Largest Minority Is Transforming Democracy (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CSGN7298 | 2024 | 8 hours and 18 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 241 MB
Author: Mike Madrid
Narrator: Lee Osorio
An insightful investigation of how and why the two major political parties have failed to appeal to the Latino vote-the largest ethnic voting group in the country-and the impact it will have on American democracy and politics for decades to come. In 2020, Latinos became the second largest ethnic voting group in the country. They make up the largest plurality of residents in the most populous states in the union, as well as the fastest segment of the most important swing states in the US Electoral College. Fitting neither the stereotype of the aggrieved minority voter nor the traditional assimilating immigrant group, Latinos are challenging both political parties' notions of race, religious beliefs, economic success, and the American dream. Given their exploding numbers-and their growing ability to determine the fate of local, state, and national elections-you'd think the two major political parties would understand Latino voters. After all, their emergence on the national scene is not a new phenomenon.

Free Download The Lasting Harm: Witnessing the Trial of Ghislaine Maxwell (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CZP7PR6T | 2024 | 10 hours and 30 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 289 MB
Author: Lucia Osborne-Crowley
Narrator: Madeleine Leslay
The explosive account of the trial of the century. In November 2021, Ghislaine Maxwell was convicted of five counts of sex-trafficking of minors, and now faces twenty years in prison for the role she played in Jeffrey Epstein's abuse of four girls. The trial was meticulously covered by journalist and legal reporter Lucia Osborne-Crowley, one of the only reporters allowed into the courtroom every day. The Lasting Harm is her account of that trial, a gripping true crime drama and a blistering critique of a criminal justice system ill-equipped to deliver justice for abuse survivors, no matter the outcome. Giving voice to four women and their testimonies, and supplemented by exclusive interviews, The Lasting Harm brings this incendiary trial to life, questions our age-old appetite for crime and punishment and offers a new blueprint for meaningful reparative justice.

Free Download Gisli Palsson, Paul Woodson (Narrator), "The Last of Its Kind: The Search for the Great Auk and the Discovery of Extinction"
English | ASIN: B0D7WD384P | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~08:38:00 | 238 MB
The great auk is one of the most tragic and documented examples of extinction. A flightless bird that bred primarily on the remote islands of the North Atlantic, the last of its kind were killed in Iceland in 1844. Gísli Pálsson draws on firsthand accounts from the Icelanders who hunted the last great auks to bring to life a bygone age of Victorian scientific exploration while offering vital insights into the extinction of species.
Pálsson vividly recounts how British ornithologists John Wolley and Alfred Newton set out for Iceland to collect specimens only to discover that the great auks were already gone. At the time, the Victorian world viewed extinction as an impossibility or trivialized it as a natural phenomenon. Pálsson chronicles how Wolley and Newton documented the fate of the last birds through interviews with the men who killed them, and how the naturalists' Icelandic journey opened their eyes to the disappearance of species as a subject of scientific concern-and as something that could be caused by humans.
Blending a richly evocative narrative with rare, unpublished material as well as insights from ornithology, anthropology, and Pálsson's own North Atlantic travels, The Last of Its Kind reveals how the saga of the great auk opens a window onto the human causes of mass extinction.

Free Download The Language of Climate Politics: Fossil-Fuel Propaganda and How to Fight It (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D8CJ6KX7 | 2024 | 8 hours and 4 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 228 MB
Author: Genevieve Guenther
Narrator: Genevieve Guenther
In an illuminating analysis, Dr. Genevieve Guenther shows that the climate debate is not, in fact, neatly polarized, with Republicans obstructing climate action and Democrats advancing climate solutions. Partisans on the right and the left often repeat the same fossil-fuel talking points, and this repetition produces a centrist consensus upholding the status quo, even as global heating accelerates. Weaving this analysis through fascinating critical histories of the terms that dominate the language of climate politics-the words we, alarmist, cost, growth, "India and China," innovation, and resilience-Dr. Guenther shows how this consensus is established.

Free Download The King's Witches (Audiobook)
English | June 06, 2024 | ASIN: B0CL7WQWND | M4B@58 kbps | 9h 36m | 247 MB
Author: Kate Foster | Narrators: Rihanna McGreevy, Paula Masterton, Kristin Atherton
The King's Witches by Kate Foster is a compelling and beautiful historical novel that gives voices to the women at the heart of the real-life witch trials in sixteenth-century Scotland.
Women whisper secrets to each other; it is how we survive.

Free Download The KLF: Chaos, Magic, and the Band Who Burned a Million Pounds, 2024 Edition (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CW3SD7YZ | 2024 | 6 hours and 51 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 381 MB
Author: John Higgs
Narrator: John Higgs
In the early '90s, the KLF was the biggest-selling singles band in the world-until they destroyed their records, erased themselves from music history, and literally set fire to one million pounds. In this fascinating and in-depth biography, popular British writer and cultural historian John Higgs digs into the story behind the end of one of the most popular bands of the late twentieth century. The band members themselves, when asked in interviews, were never able to satisfactorily explain their behavior, but looked haunted every time it came up. With his characteristically creative mind, Higgs leads listeners on a journey to understand "a story that no one knows they are in-least of all the main characters." Ranging from music history to chaos theory to Carl Jung and Doctor Who, this brilliant pop biography has been named one of the top ten music books of the year by The Guardian, The Independent, and Mojo magazine. Perfect for music buffs and mystery fans alike, The KLF is an engrossing and entertaining listen.