English | ASIN: B08S5TSCDM | 2021 | 6 hours and 8 minutes |MP3|M4B | 168 MB
In this revelatory and original book, the award-winning author of the acclaimed surf memoir On a Wave illuminates the connection between waves, addiction, and recovery, exploring what surfing can teach us about the powerful undertow of addictive behaviors and the ways to swim free of them. Addiction is arguably the dominant feature of contemporary life: sex, gambling, exercise, eating, shopping, internet use - there's virtually no pleasurable activity that can't morph into a destructive obsession.
As neurologists have recently discovered, surfing is a kind of study in the mechanism of addiction, delivering dopamine to the "pleasure" center of the brain and reshaping priorities and desire in a feedback loop of narrowing focus. In this unique, groundbreaking book, part addiction memoir, Ziolkowski dismantles the myth of surfing as a radiantly wholesome lifestyle immune to the darker temptations of the culture and discovers among the rubble a new way to understand and ultimately overcome addiction.

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English | ASIN: B099TM4JVN | 2021 | 4 hours and 29 minutes |MP3|M4B | 124 MB
Are you fond of hearing amusing real-life stories mixed with an interesting, true-life mystery? If so, check out Shakey's Madness. Does a mental disorder reveal the "real" William Shakespeare? Back in the 16th and 17th centuries, bipolar disorder was a mystery, and even as late as the early 2000s, most doctors had difficulties diagnosing it. Unlike COVID-19, there is no swab test for antibodies. No blood test. It is a mood disorder, so doctors rely on their patients to "self-report" their symptoms and ask them questions like, "Were you in a good mood yesterday?" What has this got to do with William Shakespeare? His poems, plays, and sonnets talk about the author feeling "melancholy" or depressed along with thoughts of deep distress and suicide. After all, who has not heard of Hamlet's famous line, "To be or not to be, that is the question", and in that very line, Hamlet contemplates taking his own life.

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English | ASIN: B072B5JDGF | 2017 | 5 hours and 44 minutes |MP3|M4B | 156 MB
In 1977, two extraordinary spacecraft called Voyager were launched to the stars. Affixed to each Voyager craft was a gold-coated copped phonograph record as a message to possible extra-terrestrial civilizations that might encounter the spacecraft in some distant space and time. Each record contained 118 photographs of our planet; almost 90 minutes of the world's greatest music; an evolutionary audio essay on "The Sounds of Earth"; and greetings in almost sixty human languages (and one whale language). This book is an account, written by those chiefly responsible for the contents of the Voyager Record, of why they did it, how they selected the repertoire, and precisely what the record contains.

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English | April 09, 2020 | ASIN: B086TY9M1C |MP3|M4B | 6h 12m | 168.42 MB
Author: Dominik Nischwitz
Narrator: Madison Niederhauser

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English | ISBN: 9781483007298 | 2021 | 14 hours and 33 minutes |MP3|M4B | 408 MB
British politician Daniel Hannan's Inventing Freedom is an ambitious account of the historical origin and spread of the principles that have made America great and their role in creating a sphere of economic and political liberty that is as crucial as it is imperiled. The ideas and institutions we consider essential to maintaining and preserving our freedoms-individual rights, private property, the rule of law, and the institutions of representative government-are the legacy of a very specific tradition that was born in England and was inherited by Americans, along with other former British colonies.
By the tenth century, England was a nation-state whose people were already starting to define themselves with reference to inherited common-law rights. The story of liberty is the story of how that model triumphed: How it was enshrined in a series of landmark victories-the Magna Carta, the English Civil War, the Glorious Revolution, the US Constitution-and how it came to defeat every international rival. Today we see those ideas abandoned and scorned in the places where they once went unchallenged. Inventing Freedom is a chronicle of the success of Anglosphere exceptionalism, and it is offered at a time that may turn out to be the end of the age of political freedom.

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English | ASIN: B094TJCJ91 | 2021 | 4 hours and 34 minutes |MP3|M4B | 126 MB
India has a long, rich, and diverse tradition of philosophical thought. In this intriguing introduction to Indian philosophy, the diversity of Indian thought is emphasized. It is structured around six schools of thought that have received classic status. Sue Hamilton explores how the traditions have attempted to understand the nature of reality in terms of inner or spiritual quest and introduces distinctively Indian concepts, such as karma and rebirth. She also explains how Indian thinkers have understood issues of reality and knowledge - issues that are also an important part of the Western philosophical tradition.

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English | ASIN: B07QF2XP72 | 2019 | 6 hours and 23 minutes |MP3|M4B | 348 MB
How to Stop Losing Your Sh*t with Your Kids is as honest and compassionate as it is pragmatic about helping you work through your sh*t to be a more present and positive parent. Increasingly relevant to today's parents, who are more overloaded, overwhelmed, and overworked than ever before, Carla Naumburg, PhD has the antidote to the feelings of complete despair and rage. How to Stop Losing Your Sh*t with Your Kids is a simple, accessible and humorous guide to more effective and mindful parenting.

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English | ASIN: B098XWC63Z | 2021 | 6 hours and 25 minutes |MP3|M4B | 176 MB
In High Ten: An Inspiring Story About Building Great Team Culture, Martin Rooney draws from his extensive experience developing top-level teams around the world to help leaders of all kinds foster and sustain winning cultures. This engaging parable shows you that every business, sports team, and family has a culture. Whether you deliberately created it or not, it's always there, and it didn't come with a manual. That's where High Ten comes in. This must-have book is your personal leadership manual. Stop spending your day unhappy or complaining about a dream that hasn't come true.

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English | ASIN: B092B95X4N | 2021 | 4 hours and 45 minutes |MP3|M4B | 131 MB
Even when everything is going wrong, the science of happiness can help you! Pioneering positive psychologist and New York Times-bestselling author Tal Ben-Shahar shows us how in Happier, No Matter What. Ben-Shahar busts the all-too-common ideas that success brings happiness and that we can seek happiness itself. When hard times thwart our success and steal our joy, these ideas actually invite despair by leaving us with nothing to do. But we can do something: We can climb the SPIRE-Ben-Shahar's five-step staircase to hope and purpose. By truly living these five elements of well-being, we build the resilience to carry us through anything. Ben-Shahar's all-new SPIRE method shows us the way to becoming "whole again"-and when we're whole, we invite happiness in.

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English | ASIN: B095413FGR | 2021 | 4 hours and 31 minutes |MP3|M4B | 124 MB
How much have women's lives really changed? In the West, women still come up against the "glass ceiling" at work, most earning considerably less than their male counterparts. What are we to make of the now commonplace insistence that feminism deprives men of their rights and dignities? And how does one tackle the issue of female emancipation in different cultural and economic environments - in, for example, the Middle East, the Indian subcontinent, and Africa?
This book provides a historical account of feminism, exploring its earliest roots as well as key issues including voting rights, the liberation of the '60s, and its relevance today. Margaret Walters touches on the difficulties and inequities that women still face more than 40 years after the "new wave" of 1960s feminism, such as how successful women are at combining domesticity, motherhood, and work outside the house. She brings the subject completely up to date by providing an analysis of the current situation of women across the globe, from Europe and the United States to Third World countries.

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