Free Download Earth: Over 4 Billion Years in the Making (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C59G38ZP | 2023 | 5 hours and 16 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 292 MB
Author: Chris Packham, Andrew Cohen
Narrator: Rupert Evans
With the trademark dramatic storytelling techniques of The Planets and The Universe, Andrew Cohen and Chris Packham narrate the biography of the Earth, revealing the most epic moments from its history, from the first seconds of its existence to the arrival of its most incredible inhabitants, us. But humans take a back seat for this story as the Earth takes centre stage. We'll witness those moments where our planet's future hung in the balance in the face of massive bombardments from space, extreme changes in climate, the collision of whole continents and more, and we'll tell the story of how Earth's most incredible creations - life and intelligence - are set to have the same lasting impact on Earth's story as any meteorite or earthquake. This is the epic 4-billion-year story of the place we call home.

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Free Download Deeper Mindfulness: The New Way to Rediscover Calm in a Chaotic World (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BCCJNYLF | 2023 | 21 hours and 6 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 604 MB
Author: Mark Williams, Danny Penman
Narrator: Mark Williams
From the authors of Mindfulness: A Practical Guide to Finding Peace in a Frantic World, this anticipated follow-up allows both new and seasoned practitioners of mindfulness and meditation to deepen their practice and alleviate anxiety, stress, depression, and improve overall quality of life. Based on Mark Williams's research into the therapeutic powers of mindfulness, and an extension of Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), Deeper Mindfulness continues the story told by Mark Williams and Danny Penman's runaway success, Mindfulness: A Practical Guide to Finding Peace in a Frantic World.

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Free Download Credible: The Power of Expert Leaders (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BLXS871Q | 2023 | 7 hours and 5 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 398 MB
Author: Amanda Goodall
Narrator: Amanda Goodall
A leading business expert shows why expertise really matters, and how leaders who deeply understand the nuts and bolts of their industry and organization-from businesses, to hospitals, to universities, to sports-make all the difference for its success and the happiness of people who work there. Amanda Goodall has spent a decade researching what makes organizations tick, everywhere from the business world to hospitals and healthcare systems, football and basketball teams, and Formula 1 organizations. By debunking the cult of managerialism (the notion that smart people can run anything and the emphasis on leadership personality), Goodall reshapes our understanding of bosses and the traits necessary for organizational success.

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Free Download Biomimetics: How Lessons from Nature Can Transform Technology (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C62KHH7Z | 2023 | 4 hours and 48 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 267 MB
Author: Brian Clegg
Narrator: Mark Peachey
An exploration of the transformative ways in which nature has inspired the technological advancement of humankind. Biomimetics literally means emulating biology-and in a broader sense the term covers technological advances where the original inspiration came from nature. The Earth is a vast laboratory where the mechanisms of natural selection have enabled evolutionary solutions to be developed to a wide range of problems. Science writer Brian Clegg looks at how humans have piggybacked on natural experimentation, redeploying a solution to create things that make our lives easier. He looks at how the hooks on burdock seeds inspired the creation of Velcro, how the stickiness of the feet of geckos and frogs has been used to create gripping surfaces, such as tyre treads, and how even the most basic optical enhancement in the form of spectacles is itself a form of biomimetics.

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Free Download After Work: A History of the Home and the Fight for Free Time (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B09Y69T4HJ | 2023 | 6 hours and 16 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 352 MB
Author: Helen Hester, Nick Srnicek
Narrator: Marisa Calin
A vital and timely proposal for a feminist post-work politics. Would you let a robot clean your house? When we think about work, we still tend to think about workplaces-if we think about reducing work, we think about reducing working hours and spending more time at home. But the home has never been free from work, and with the continued gendered division of labor, women still do the bulk of domestic activities. As two-income families find themselves ever more time-poor, many look to outsource to cleaners, nannies, and care workers. More and more, it would seem, people are finding themselves without either the emotional or the financial resources to take care of themselves and each other.

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Free Download Write in Tune: Contemporary Music in Fiction By Erich Hertz (editor)
2014 | 280 Pages | ISBN: 1623564220 | PDF | 5 MB
Contemporary popular music provides the soundtrack for a host of recent novels, but little critical attention has been paid to the intersection of these important art forms. Write in Tune addresses this gap by offering the first full-length study of the relationship between recent music and fiction. With essays from an array of international scholars, the collection focuses on how writers weave rock, punk, and jazz into their narratives, both to develop characters and themes and to investigate various fan and celebrity cultures surrounding contemporary music. Write in Tune covers major writers from America and England, including Don DeLillo, Jonathan Franzen, Zadie Smith, and Jim Crace. But it also explores how popular music culture is reflected in postcolonial, Latino, and Australian fiction. Ultimately, the book brings critical awareness to the power of music in shaping contemporary culture, and offers new perspectives on central issues of gender, race, and national identity.

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Free Download Woodworking: The Ultimate Guide to Building Creative Projects (A Step-by-step Beginner's Guide to Woodworking and Its Techniques) by Kristi Olivarria
English | January 4, 2022 | ISBN: 1774853450 | 114 pages | EPUB | 0.25 Mb
Woodworking is a really rewarding hobby, but if you have no experience, it will take some time before you can start producing intricate pieces, so don't try to rush into it. Just have fun learning, and be willing to scrap first attempts and start over!

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Free Download Women's Work: Labour, Gender, Authorship, 1750-1830 By Jennie Batchelor
2010 | 272 Pages | ISBN: 0719082579 | PDF | 2 MB
*Women's Work* challenges influential accounts about gender and the novel by revealing the complex ways in which labour, as material reality and philosophical concept, informed the lives and writing of a number of middling and genteel women authors publishing between 1750 and 1830. This period saw momentous changes in the configuration of the domestic household and the labour market, as well as in the practice and conceptualization of that most precarious of occupations, authorship. As such, Batchelor contends, it provides a particularly rich, yet largely neglected, seam of texts for exploring the vexed relationship between gender, work and writing. The book's introduction explores some of the reasons why women's work has been historically absent from the stories we've told about eighteenth-century women writers' lives and novels, and suggests how recognition of its presence can complicate these narratives in important ways. The four chapters that follow contain thoroughly contextualized case studies of the treatment of manual, intellectual and domestic labour in the work and careers of Sarah Scott, Charlotte Smith, Mary Wollstonecraft and women applicants to the writer's charity, the Literary Fund. By making women's work visible in our studies of female-authored fiction of the period, Batchelor reveals the crucial role that these women played in articulating debates about the gendered division of labour, the (in)compatibility of women's domestic and professional lives and the status and true value of women's work that shaped eighteenth-century culture as surely as they shape our own.

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Free Download Women and Slavery, Volume One: Africa, the Indian Ocean World, and the Medieval North Atlantic By Gwyn Campbell; Suzanne Miers; Joseph C. Miller
2007 | 392 Pages | ISBN: 0821417231 | PDF | 9 MB
The literature on women enslaved around the world has grown rapidly in the last ten years, evidencing strong interest in the subject across a range of academic disciplines. Until Women and Slavery, no single collection has focused on female slaves who-as these two volumes reveal-probably constituted the considerable majority of those enslaved in Africa, Asia, and Europe over several millennia and who accounted for a greater proportion of the enslaved in the Americas than is customarily acknowledged. Women enslaved in the Americas came to bear highly gendered reputations among whites-as "scheming Jezebels," ample and devoted "mammies," or suffering victims of white male brutality and sexual abuse-that revealed more about the psychology of enslaving than about the courage and creativity of the women enslaved. These strong images of modern New World slavery contrast with the equally expressive virtual invisibility of the women enslaved in the Old-concealed in harems, represented to meddling colonial rulers as "wives" and "nieces," taken into African families and kin-groups in subtlely nuanced fashion. Women and Slavery presents papers developed from an international conference organized by Gwyn Campbell.Volume 1 ContributorsSharifa AhjumRichard B. AllenKatrin BromberGwyn CampbellCatherine Coquery-VidrovitchJan-Georg DeutschTimothy FernyhoughPhilip J. HavikElizabeth Grzymala JordanMartin A. KleinGeorge Michael La RuePaul E. LovejoyFred MortonRichard RobertsKirsten A. Seaver

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Free Download Wild History: Journeys through Lost Scotland by James Crawford
English | 4 May 2023 | ISBN: 1780277865 | True EPUB | 336 pages | 48 MB
From the presenter of BBC One's Scotland from the Sky

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