English | ASIN: B0B46KTHTV | 2022 | 8 hours and 38 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 231 MB
A darkly witty, deeply affecting, and finely crafted memoir by the Big Bang Theory and Speechless star and comedian, John Ross Bowie. From his earliest memories of watching Rhoda with his parents in their tiny Hell's Kitchen apartment, John knew that he wanted to be an actor. The strange, alternate world of television—where people always cracked the perfect joke, lived in glamorous Upper East Side buildings, and made up immediately after fighting—seemed far better than his own home life, with a mother and father on the brink of divorce and a neighborhood full of crumbling pre-war architecture and not-so-occasional muggings. And yet that other world also seems unattainable. Besides crippling stage fright (which would take him years to overcome) John's father, ever aloof and cynical, has instilled within him the notion that acting is "no job for a man."

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English | ASIN: B0BK59BTWY | 2022 | 2 hours and 22 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 132 MB
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English | MP3 | M4B | 9h 32m | ISBN: 9781982781545 | 2019 | 786.5 MB
Picture how great you'll feel when you will be able to cultivate gratitude and positivity in your life. It's good to realize this is possible for you, isn't it? One of the things you are going to love about this program is how it will help you develop a positive inner world. As you consider the benefits of increased inner peace, you might like to think of how your life will improve with a calmer inner world.

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English | ASIN: B09Q77TDGB | 2022 | 5 hours and 28 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 151 MB
A concise, elegant, and thought-provoking exploration of the mystery of consciousness and the functioning of the brain. Despite decades of research, remarkable imagery, and insights from a range of scientific and medical disciplines, the human brain remains largely unexplored. Consciousness has eluded explanation. Nineteen Ways of Looking at Consciousness offers a brilliant overview of the state of modern consciousness research in twenty brief, revealing chapters. Neuroscientist and author Patrick House describes complex concepts in accessible terms, weaving brain science, technology, gaming, analogy, and philosophy into a tapestry that illuminates how the brain works and what enables consciousness. This remarkable book fosters a sense of mystery and wonder about the strangeness of the relationship between our inner selves and our environment.

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English | ASIN: B0BLJ1GCZS | 2022 | 2 hours and 47 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 146 MB
Without the nineteen upstate reservoirs that supply its water, New York City as we know it would not exist today. From 1907 to 1967, a network of reservoirs and aqueducts was built across more than one million acres in upstate New York, including Greene, Delaware, Sullivan, and Ulster Counties. This feat of engineering served to meet New York City's ever-increasing need for water, sustaining its inhabitants and cementing it as a center of industry. West of the Hudson, it meant that twenty-six villages, with their farms, forest lands, orchards, and quarries, were bought for a fraction of their value, demolished, and submerged, profoundly altering ecosystems in ways we will never fully appreciate.

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English | 2013 | MP3 | M4B | ASIN: B00GUMIELE | Duration: 7:09 h | 196 MB
Matthew Lysiak / Narrated by Adam Verner

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English | ASIN: B09TQVWB4R | 2022 | 7 hours and 39 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 421 MB
Over her four decades of working in newsrooms big and small, Margaret Sullivan has become a trusted champion and critic of the American news media. In this bracing memoir, Sullivan traces her life in journalism and how trust in the mainstream press has steadily eroded. Sullivan began her career at the Buffalo News, where she rose from summer intern to editor in chief. In Newsroom Confidential she chronicles her years in the trenches battling sexism and throwing elbows in a highly competitive newsroom. In 2012, Sullivan was appointed the public editor of The New York Times, the first woman to hold that important role. She was in the unique position of acting on behalf of readers to weigh the actions and reporting of the paper's staff, parsing potential lapses in judgment, unethical practices, and thorny journalistic issues.

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English | 2019 | MP3 | M4B | ASIN: B07N6NT65Z | Duration: 5 h | 152 MB
Tanya Eby / Narrated by Christa Lewis (et al.)

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English | ASIN: B09SNF17TK | 2022 | 13 hours and 55 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 336 MB
There are many infamous stories about the Roman emperor Nero: He set fire to Rome and thrummed his lyre as it burned. Cruel, vain, and incompetent, he then cleared the charred ruins and built a vast palace. He committed incest with his mother, who had schemed and killed to place him on the throne, and later murdered her. Nero has long been the very image of a bad ruler, a legacy left behind by the historians of his day, who despised him. But there is a mystery. For a long time after his death, anonymous hands laid flowers on his grave. The monster was loved. In this nuanced biography, Anthony Everitt, the celebrated biographer of classical Greece and Rome, and investigative journalist Roddy Ashworth reveal the contradictions inherent in Nero and offer a reappraisal of his life.

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English | ASIN: B09PFH6WFK | 2022 | 9 hours and 39 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 265 MB
In the vein of You're Never Weird on the Internet (Almost) and Black Nerd Problems, this witty, incisive essay collection from New York Times critic at large Maya Phillips explores race, religion, sexuality, and more through the lens of her favorite pop culture fandoms. From the moment Maya Phillips saw the opening scroll of Star Wars, Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back, her childhood changed forever. Her formative years were spent loving not just the Star Wars saga, but superhero cartoons, anime, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Harry Potter, Tolkien, and Doctor Who—to name just a few.

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