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Free Download The Joy of Slow: Restoring Balance and Wonder to Homeschool Learning (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CPTF4QLG | 2024 | 8 hours and 10 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 236 MB
Author: Leslie M. Martino, Ainsley Arment
Narrator: Leslie M. Martino, Ainsley Arment
A parent's guide to cultivating an unhurried lifestyle and education that help their children thrive. In a culture that prizes productivity, efficiency, and success, it's easy to feel as though we're constantly falling short and to lose sight of joy. The homeschool community is not exempt from this pressure, but longtime educator Leslie Martino shows parents how to slow down to recapture the delight and depth that are hallmarks of meaningful learning. While parents of young children are more likely to embrace a slow childhood that nurtures wonder and imagination, panic often sets in as kids grow older, and parents worry about preparing them for the world beyond school. These fears are exacerbated by learning challenges, unspoken competition among peers, and standardized assessments. The Joy of Slow offers a much-needed reset, inspiring parents to prioritize the needs of each individual child and to help them find renewed freedom and passion.

Free Download The Joy of Actually Giving a F*ck: How Kindness Can Cure Stress and Make You Happy (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CT9W21H2 | 2024 | 7 hours and 7 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 402 MB
Author: Dr. David R. Hamilton
Narrator: Dr. David R. Hamilton
Learn how practicing the art of kindfulness can support your mental and physical health, assist with memory and concentration, and help you find true happiness. Kindfulness encapsulates all that mindfulness is but expands it with the addition of kindness. It brings all the benefits that mindfulness does and much more. Research has shown that kindfulness as a practice boosts happiness, relaxes the nervous system, reduces blood pressure and inflammation, helps to relieve muscular (especially back) pain, and even reduces the rate of wear and tear at the genetic level. Kindfulness takes us out of ourselves and our troubles and stresses, and shifts our focus onto the needs and well-being of others. It warms us from the inside. This audiobook is an invitation to bring kindness to work, to our neighborhoods, and into our homes.

Free Download The Joker: A Serious Study of the Clown Prince of Crime (Audiobook)
English | January 30, 2023 | ASIN: B0BTDVWJV8 | M4B@128 kbps | 11h 19m | 637 MB
Editors: Robert Moses Peaslee, Robert G. Weiner | Narrator: Rain Corbyn
Along with Batman, Spider-Man, and Superman, the Joker stands out as one of the most recognizable comics characters in popular culture. While there has been a great deal of scholarly attention on superheroes, very little has been done to understand supervillains. This is the first academic work to provide a comprehensive study of this villain, illustrating why the Joker appears so relevant to audiences today.
Batman's foe has cropped up in thousands of comics, numerous animated series, and three major blockbuster feature films since 1966. Actually, the Joker debuted in DC comics Batman 1 (1940) as the typical gangster, but the character evolved steadily into one of the most ominous in the history of sequential art. Batman and the Joker almost seemed to define each other as opposites, hero and nemesis, in a kind of psychological duality. Scholars from a wide array of disciplines look at the Joker through the lens of feature films, video games, comics, politics, magic and mysticism, psychology, animation, television, performance studies, and philosophy. As the first volume that examines the Joker as complex cultural and cross-media phenomenon, this collection adds to our understanding of the role comic book and cinematic villains play in the world and the ways various media affect their interpretation. Connecting the Clown Prince of Crime to bodies of thought as divergent as Karl Marx and Friedrich Nietzsche, contributors demonstrate the frightening ways in which we get the monsters we need.

Free Download The Investment Checklist: The Art of In-Depth Research (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B09BK29265 | 2021 | 13 hours and 13 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 381 MB
Author: Michael Shearn
Narrator: Brian Arens
A practical guide to making more informed investment decisions. Investors often buy or sell stocks too quickly. When you base your purchase decisions on isolated facts and don't take the time to thoroughly understand the businesses you are buying, stock-price swings and third-party opinion can lead to costly investment mistakes. Your decision making at this point becomes dangerous because it is dominated by emotions. The Investment Checklist has been designed to help you develop an in-depth research process, from generating and researching investment ideas to assessing the quality of a business and its management team. The purpose of The Investment Checklist is to help you implement a principled investing strategy through a series of checklists. In it, a thorough and comprehensive research process is made simpler through the use of straightforward checklists that will allow you to identify quality investment opportunities.

Free Download The Introvert's Edge: How the Quiet and Shy Can Outsell Anyone by Matthew Pollard, Jamie Jackson, Recorded Books
English | January 04, 2018 | ISBN: B074XKXNQZ | 4 hours and 57 minutes | MP3 64 Kbps | 171 Mb
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An introvert? Great at sales? Yes.

Free Download The Intersectional Environmentalist: How to Dismantle Systems of Oppression to Protect People + Planet by Leah Thomas, Hayden Bishop, Erin Walker
English | March 08, 2022 | ISBN: B09SRKKGQH | 4 hours and 1 minute | M4B 82 kbps | 145 Mb
From the activist who coined the term comes a primer on intersectional environmentalism for the next generation of activists looking to create meaningful, inclusive, and sustainable change.
The Intersectional Environmentalist examines the inextricable link between environmentalism, racism, and privilege and promotes awareness of the fundamental truth that we cannot save the planet without uplifting the voices of its people - especially those most often unheard. Written by Leah Thomas, a prominent voice in the field and the activist who coined the term intersectional environmentalism, this book is simultaneously a call to action, a guide to instigating change for all, and a pledge to work toward the empowerment of all people and the betterment of the planet.
Thomas shows how not only are Black, Indigenous, and people of color unequally and unfairly impacted by environmental injustices but she argues that the fight for the planet lies in tandem to the fight for civil rights; and in fact, that one cannot exist without the other. An essential listen, this book addresses the most pressing issues that the people and our planet face, examines and dismantles privilege, and looks to the future as the voice of a movement that will define a generation.

Free Download The Intelligent Fund Investor: Practical Steps for Better Results in Active and Passive Funds (Audiobook)
English | November 29, 2022 | ASIN: B0BMHMH2N8 | M4B@128 kbps | 6h 43m | 369 MB
Author: Joe Wiggins | Narrator: Jack Jacobs
Investing in funds is not straightforward. We are faced with a countless range of options and constantly distracted by meaningless noise and turbulent markets. To make matters worse, our flawed beliefs and behavioral biases lead to repeated and costly mistakes, such as a damaging obsession with past performance and a dangerous attraction to thematic funds.
There is a solution-a more intelligent way to invest in funds.

Free Download The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood (Audiobook)
English | March 01, 2011 | ASIN: B004Q3NKK4 | M4B@64 kbps | 16h 37m | 464 MB
Author: James Gleick | Narrator: Rob Shapiro
James Gleick, the author of the best sellers Chaos and Genius, now brings us a work just as astonishing and masterly: A revelatory chronicle and meditation that shows how information has become the modern era's defining quality - the blood, the fuel, the vital principle of our world.
The story of information begins in a time profoundly unlike our own, when every thought and utterance vanishes as soon as it is born. From the invention of scripts and alphabets to the long-misunderstood talking drums of Africa, Gleick tells the story of information technologies that changed the very nature of human consciousness. He provides portraits of the key figures contributing to the inexorable development of our modern understanding of information: Charles Babbage, the idiosyncratic inventor of the first great mechanical computer; Ada Byron, the brilliant and doomed daughter of the poet, who became the first true programmer; pivotal figures like Samuel Morse and Alan Turing; and Claude Shannon, the creator of information theory itself.

Free Download The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage
English | ASIN: B0CQ2VYMMY | 2024 | 14 hours and 56 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 431 MB
Author: Jonathan Turley
Narrator: Jonathan Turley
A timely, revelatory look at freedom of speech-our most basic right and the one that protects all the others. Free speech is a human right, and the free expression of thought is at the very essence of being human. The United States was founded on this premise, and the First Amendment remains the single greatest constitutional commitment to the right of free expression in history. Yet there is a systemic effort to bar opposing viewpoints on subjects ranging from racial discrimination to police abuse, from climate change to gender equity. These measures are reinforced by the public's anger and rage; flash mobs appear today with the slightest provocation. We all lash out against anyone or anything that stands against our preferred certainty. The Indispensable Right places the current attacks on free speech in their proper historical, legal, and political context.

Free Download The Incorruptibles: A True Story of Kingpins, Crime Busters, and the Birth of the American Underworld (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CJCVJFWX | 2024 | 11 hours and 13 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 321 MB
Author: Dan Slater
Narrator: Jonathan Todd Ross
This harrowing tale of early twentieth century New York reveals the true stories of an immigrant underworld, a secret vice squad, and the rise of organized crime. In the early 1900s, prior to World War I, New York City was a vortex of vice and corruption. On the Lower East Side, then the most crowded ghetto on earth, Eastern European Jews formed a dense web of crime syndicates. Gangs of horse poisoners and casino owners, pimps and prostitutes, thieves and thugs, jockeyed for dominance while their family members and neighbors toiled in the unregulated garment industry. But when the notorious murder of a gambler attracted global attention, a coterie of affluent German-Jewish uptowners decided to take matters into their own hands.