Free Download Some of Us Just Fall: On Nature and Not Getting Better by Polly Atkin
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Narrator: Polly Atkin
After years of unexplained health problems, Polly Atkin's perception of her body was rendered fluid and disjointed. When she was finally diagnosed with two chronic conditions in her thirties, she began to piece together what had been happening to her - all the misdiagnoses, the fractures, the dislocations, the bone-crushing exhaustion, the not being believed.
Some of Us Just Fall combines memoir, pathography and nature writing to trace a fascinating journey through illness, a journey which led Polly to her current home in the Lake District, where outdoor swimming is purported to cure all, and where every day Polly uses the natural world to help tame her illness. Polly delves into the history of her two genetic conditions, uncovering how these illnesses were managed (or not) in times gone by and exploring how best to plan for her own future.

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Free Download Solar Storm: Moon Base Delta by Gerald M. Kilby, Jeffrey Kafer, Podium Audio
English | 2023 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0C5JYJJCQ | M4B@128 Kbps | Duration: 7:35 h | 414 Mb
In space, all that matters is survival.
Rapid colonization of the moon is pushing both national space agencies and powerful corporations to negotiate a New Lunar Accord in an effort to prevent escalating conflicts over valuable resources and territory.

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Free Download Snakes and Ladders: Navigating the Ups and Downs of Politics (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C6FJTQ6B | 2023 | 8 hours and 29 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 462 MB
Author: Andrea Leadsom
Narrator: Andrea Leadsom
In the high-stakes world of politics, there are superb highs and terrible lows - and never more so than in the period since 2010. Few are better placed to give an insider's view of the turmoil than the Rt Hon. Dame Andrea Leadsom MP. From taking to the stage at Wembley as a key figure in the campaign to leave the European Union, through two leadership bids, Cabinet intrigue and squaring off against an increasingly erratic Speaker, Andrea's very personal account tracks the ups and downs of a life in politics and particularly the challenges for female MPs. In this updated edition, which sheds new light on the fraught leadership campaigns of 2022, Andrea argues that political careers don't always - as is so often claimed - end in failure, and explains how, like a game of snakes and ladders, politics is often about getting yourself into the right place at the right time.

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Free Download Smellosophy: What the Nose Tells the Mind (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B08C49V7WN | 2020 | 10 hours and 30 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 299 MB
Author: A.S. Barwich
Narrator: Chloe Cannon
A pioneering exploration of olfaction that upsets settled notions of how the brain translates sensory information. Decades of cognition research have shown that external stimuli "spark" neural patterns in particular regions of the brain. This has fostered a view of the brain as a space that we can map: here the brain responds to faces, there it perceives a sensation in your left hand. But it turns out that the sense of smell - only recently attracting broader attention in neuroscience - doesn't work this way. A. S. Barwich asks a deceptively simple question: What does the nose tell the brain, and how does the brain understand it? Barwich interviews experts in neuroscience, psychology, chemistry, and perfumery in an effort to understand the biological mechanics and myriad meanings of odors. She argues that it is time to stop recycling ideas based on the paradigm of vision for the olfactory system. Scents are often fickle and boundless in comparison with visual images, and they do not line up with well-defined neural regions. Although olfaction remains a puzzle, Barwich proposes that what we know suggests the brain acts not only like a map, but also as a measuring device, one that senses and processes simple and complex odors.

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Free Download Smell: A Very Short Introduction (Audiobook)
English | July 31, 2020 | ASIN: B08D5M59PJ | M4B@128 kbps | 3h 56m | 217 MB
Author: Matthew Cobb | Narrator: Dennis Kleinman
Our sense of smell - or olfaction as it is technically known - is our most enigmatic sense. It can conjure up memories, taking us back to very specific places and emotions, whilst powerful smells can induce strong feelings of hunger or nausea. In the animal kingdom smell can be used to find food, a mate, or a home; to sense danger; and to send and receive complex messages with other members of a species. Yet despite its fundamental importance in our mental life and in the existence of all animals, our scientific understanding of how smell works is limited.

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Free Download Small Victories in a Great Big War: The Terrifying and Sometimes Hilarious Adventures of a World War Two Paratrooper (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CCG9MD1P | 2023 | 4 hours and 22 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 226 MB
Author: John H. Canfield
Narrator: Eric Smies
An incredible journey of traumatic near-death moments, day to day drudgery, amusing situations, and brushes with greatness in World War II. Life for a World War II paratrooper was grave and perilous; John H. Canfield's experience was no different. However, this young man found himself in so many crazy-sometimes humorous-situations that he almost forgot about how dangerous it was. Filled with pranksters and superiors full of bravado and an unfortunate brush with racial bigotry with a fellow African American soldier, Canfield shares his many stories from basic training and jump school.

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Free Download Sipping Dom Pérignon Through a Straw: Reimagining Success as a Disabled Achiever (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BJ4GSLMH | 2023 | 5 hours and 46 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 324 MB
Author: Eddie Ndopu
Narrator: Eddie Ndopu
A memoir penned with one good finger, Ndopu writes about being profoundly disabled and profoundly successful. Global humanitarian Eddie Ndopu was born with spinal muscular atrophy, a rare degenerative motor neuron disease affecting his mobility. He was told that he wouldn't live beyond age five and yet, Ndopu thrived. He grew up loving pop music, lip syncing the latest hits, and watching The Bold and the Beautiful for the haute couture, and was the only wheelchair user at his school, where he flourished academically. By his late teens, he had become a sought after speaker, travelling the world to address audiences about disability justice. Ndopu was ecstatic when he was later accepted on a full scholarship into one of the world's most prestigious schools, Oxford University. But he soon learns that it's not just the medical community he must thwart-it's the educational one too. In Sipping Dom Pérignon Through a Straw, we follow Ndopu, sporting his oversized, bejewelled sunglasses, as he scales the mountain of success, only to find exclusion, discrimination, and neglect waiting for him on the other side.

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Free Download Simplify Your Life: Get Organized and Stay That Way (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BTMZJZ3V | 2023 | 5 hours and 56 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 329 MB
Author: Marcia Ramsland
Narrator: Amy Deuchler
Is it really possible to simplify your life? The answer is a resounding "yes," if you know the necessary steps to unclutter your life and lifestyle. Get the inside scoop from professional organizer Marcia Ramsland and begin to solve your life management issues like a pro. With fast-paced, step-by-step instructions, Marcia walks you through refreshing new ways to manage your daily schedule, your life at home and at work. Simplify Your Life reveals do-able tips and practical systems using Marcia's trademark "PuSH" Sequence-an acronym for Project, you (the key component), System, Habit-which not only gets you organized but help you stay that way. Offering practical solutions designed to change your life immediately, this simplified style of living gives you and your loved ones more time to do the things you really enjoy-starting today.

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Free Download Shy: The Alarmingly Outspoken Memoirs of Mary Rodgers (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BYF7JQ7W | 2023 | 15 hours and 45 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 458 MB
Author: Mary Rodgers, Jesse Green
Narrator: Jesse Green, Christine Baranski
The memoirs of Mary Rodgers―writer, composer, Broadway royalty, and "a woman who tried everything." "What am I, bologna?" Mary Rodgers (1931-2014) often said. She was referring to being stuck in the middle of a talent sandwich: the daughter of one composer and the mother of another. And not just any composers. Her father was Richard Rodgers, perhaps the greatest American melodist; her son, Adam Guettel, a worthy successor. What that leaves out is Mary herself, also a composer, whose musical Once Upon a Mattress remains one of the rare revivable Broadway hits written by a woman. Shy is the story of how it all happened: how Mary grew from an angry child, constrained by privilege and a parent's overwhelming gift, to become not just a theater figure in her own right but also a renowned author of books for young readers (including the classic Freaky Friday) and, in a final grand turn, a doyenne of philanthropy and the chairman of the Juilliard School.

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Free Download Show Them a Good Time (Audiobook)
English | October 29, 2019 | ASIN: B07YZV1RC2 | M4B@128 kbps | 6h 10m | 336 MB
Author: Nicole Flattery | Narrator: Jill Crawford
The debut collection from the White Review short story prize winner.

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