English | ASIN: B09RTH3GTC | 2022 | 8 hours and 41 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 474 MB
A pioneer of cultural psychology argues that emotions are not innate, but made as we live our lives together. "How are you feeling today?" We may think of emotions as universal responses, felt inside. Using decades-long, cutting-edge research, acclaimed psychologist Batja Mesquita asks us to reconsider emotions through the lens of what they do in our relationships, both one-on-one and within larger social networks. From an outside-in perspective, readers will understand why pride in a Dutch context does not translate well to North Carolina, or why one's anger at a boss does not mean the same as your anger to a partner in a close relationship. By looking outward at relationships at work, school, and home, we can better judge how our emotions will be understood, how they might change a situation, and how they change us. Brilliantly synthesizing original psychological studies and stories from peoples across time and geography, Between Us skillfully argues that acknowledging differences in emotions allows us to find common ground, humanizing and humbling us all for the better.
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English | 2021 | MP3 | M4B | ASIN: B092JQ79QB | Duration: 3:15 h | 177 MB
Charlie Bowyer / Narrated by Matyas J.
Free your mind from toxic thoughts and learn to live positively, passionately, and most of all, happily. Are you bombarded on a day-to-day basis with thoughts that are worrying, anxious, and downright toxic? Do you often belittle yourself in your mind and tell yourself that you can't do something? Are you tired of letting negativity control you and want to find a way to cleanse your mind and redirect your thoughts? Every idea and fleeting notion that crosses through your mind has an impact. Every time you tell yourself you can't, you reinforce that belief. When you assign yourself the victim role, you live it.

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English | 2016 | MP3 | M4B | ASIN: B01FWNUWUW | Duration: 14:39 h | 399 MB
Sarah Bakewell / Narrated by Antonia Beamish
Earphones Award Winner (AudioFile Magazine)

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English | ASIN: B0B6YDQJW2 | 2022 | 10 hours and 26 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 286 MB
The fascinating inside story of how the Android operating system came to be. In 2004, Android was two people who wanted to build camera software, but couldn't get investors interested. Today, Android is a large team at Google, delivering an operating system (including camera software) to over 3 billion devices worldwide. This is the inside story, told by the people who made it happen. Androids: The Team That Built the Android Operating System is a firsthand chronological account of how the startup began, how the team came together, and how they all built an operating system from the kernel level to its applications, and everything in between. It describes the tenuous beginnings of this ambitious project as a tiny startup, then as a small acquisition by Google that took on an industry with strong, entrenched competition. Author Chet Haase joined the Android team at Google in May 2010 and later recorded conversations with team members to preserve the early days of Android's history leading to the launch of 1.0. This engaging and accessible book captures the developers' stories in their own voices to answer the question: How did Android succeed?
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English | ISBN: 9798822616295 | 2022 | 5 hours and 33 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 152 MB
Ancient Mesopotamia: An Enthralling Overview of Mesopotamian History, Starting from Eridu through the Sumerians, Akkadians, Assyrians, Hittites, and Persians to Alexander the Great
Come explore the legacy of the brilliant ancient Mesopotamians who transformed the world. Ancient Mesopotamia's legacy was truly revolutionary. Childlike pictures scratched into wet clay evolved into the first written language. The Mesopotamians wrote the first epic poems, the first hymns, the first histories, and the first law codes. They developed the first wheel for transportation; simple carts that hauled bricks or produce morphed into chariots racing along at thirty-five miles per hour. They gazed at the sky and mapped it, observing the planets' retrograde motions and predicting lunar and solar eclipses. They developed the concept of time, measurements, basic counting, higher math, and hydraulic engineering. Mesopotamia gave birth to the world's first great empires—the Akkadians, Assyrians, Babylonians, and Achaemenids—which stretched over three continents.

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English | 2022 | MP3 | M4B | ASIN: B09WBLJTTG | Duration: 5:29 h | 303 MB
Konstantin Kisin / Narrated by Konstantin Kisin
For all of the West's failings—terrible food, cold weather and questionable politicians with funny hair to name a few—it has its upsides. Konstantin would know. Growing up in the Soviet Union, he experienced first-hand the horrors of a socialist paradise gone wrong, having lived in extreme poverty with little access to even the most basic of necessities. It wasn't until he moved to the UK that Kisin found himself thriving in an open and tolerant society, receiving countless opportunities he would never have had otherwise.

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English | 2019 | MP3 | M4B | ASIN: B07XGMMQCS | Duration: 8:08 h | 223 MB
Jane Caro / Narrated by Jane Caro
Women over 55 are of the generation that changed everything. We didn't expect to. Or intend to. We weren't brought up much differently from the women who came before us, and we rarely identified as feminists, although almost all of us do now.

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English | February 24, 2011 | ASIN: B004PAEN5Y | MP3 | M4B | 11h 58m | 325.26 MB
Author: Barton Biggs
Narrator: Don Hagen

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English | 2016 | MP3 | M4B | ASIN: B01AYARUHQ | Duration: 7:45 h | 212 MB
Susan Albers / Narrated by Margaret Strom
If you're an emotional overeater, you may turn to food to cope with stress and sadness, enhance joy, and bring a sense of comfort. But over time, overeating can cause weight gain, heart disease, diabetes, and many other health problems.

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English | ASIN: B0B6WM3XQR | 2022 | 6 hours and 38 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 182 MB
Athens, 416 BC. A tenuous peace holds. The city-state's political and military might are feared throughout the ancient world; it pushes the boundaries of social, literary, and philosophical experimentation in an era when it has a greater concentration of geniuses per capita than at any other time in human history. Yet even geniuses go to the bathroom, argue with their spouse, and enjoy a drink with friends. Few of the city's other inhabitants enjoy the benefits of such a civilized society, though—as multicultural and progressive as Athens can be, many are barred from citizenship.
No, for the average person, life is about making ends meet, whether that be selling fish, guarding the temple, or smuggling lucrative Greek figs. During the course of a day we meet twenty-four Athenians from all strata of society—from the slave-girl to the councilman, the vase painter to the naval commander, the housewife to the hoplite—and get to know what the real Athens was like by spending an hour in their company. We encounter a different one of these characters every chapter, with each chapter forming an hour in the life of the ancient city. We also get to spy on the daily doings of notable Athenians through the eyes of regular people as the city hovers on the brink of the fateful war that will destroy its golden age.

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