Free Download These Six Things Will Kill You (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C3DMKRBF | 2023 | 2 hours and 38 minutes | M4B@192 kbps | 218 MB
Author: Brandy Schillace, The Great Courses
Narrator: Brandy Schillace
We might be afraid of lions, tigers, and bears (oh, my!), but much more frequently, our worst foes come without teeth and claws and in teeny, tiny packages. In These Six Things Will Kill You, medical historian Brandy Schillace introduces you to half a dozen deadly forces, often microscopic and invisible, that might be coming for you at this very moment. Dr. Schillace will introduce you to bacteria and fungi; cancer, Lyme, and heart disease; and some of the ways the very environment around us is out to get us. She will also arm you with the knowledge of how to avoid these fatal elements when possible, and what modern science is doing to help us protect ourselves against them. Dr. Schillace will also introduce you to the growing field of personalized medicine and how your unique genome might dictate which of these diseases you should be giving particular attention. Whether you are young or old, healthy or frail, this course offers pragmatic guidance on how to avoid disease and reduce your risk for early death.

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Free Download Theories of Human Development (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B00DTO6DB4 | 2013 | 12 hours and 21 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 351 MB
Author: Malcolm W. Watson, The Great Courses
Narrator: Malcolm W. Watson
In these 24 lectures, probe the field of "human development"; the science that studies how we learn and develop psychologically, from birth to the end of life. This very young science not only enables us to understand children and help them develop optimally, but also gives us profound insights into who we are as adults. Professor Watson introduces you to the six theories that have had perhaps the greatest influence on this field. Each of them has had a pervasive impact on the way we think about and see ourselves. Among the theories you'll encounter are Sigmund Freud's psychodynamic theory (including such concepts as the Oedipus Complex and the five stages of psycho-sexual development), Erik Erikson's psycho-social theory (which gave rise to the term "identity crisis"), and Albert Bandura's social learning theory (influential in such areas as the effect of media violence on children).

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Free Download The Zero Transaction Cost Entrepreneur: Powerful Techniques to Reduce Friction and Scale Your Business (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CFM77XH7 | 2023 | 7 hours and 6 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 376 MB
Author: Dermot Berkery
Narrator: James Cameron Stewart
For many business professionals, the daily "to-do" list is hard enough to stay on top of, let alone coming up with the "big ideas" necessary to take their company-or a whole economy-to the next level. But if coming up with those ideas-or finding startups that do-is your job, then The Zero Transaction Cost Entrepreneur is an absolute must-listen for you. In this book Dermot Berkery shares the key ingredient successful businesses have in common: Smart transaction cost economics. Simply put, these businesses lower or eliminate transaction costs for their customers.

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Free Download The Young Man (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C7S4LV6F | 2023 | 00 hours and 34 minutes | M4B@320 kbps | 79 MB
Author: Annie Ernaux, Alison L. Strayer
Narrator: Tavia Gilbert
This is Annie Ernaux's account of her passionate love affair with A., a man some thirty years younger, when she was in her fifties. The relationship pulls her back to memories of her own youth and, at the same time, leaves her feeling ageless, outside of time-together with a sense that she is living her life backwards. Amidst talk of having a child together, she feels time running its course and menopause approaching. The Young Man recalls Ernaux as the "scandalous girl" she once was but is composed with the mastery and the self-assurance she has achieved across decades of writing.

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Free Download The Writing Retreat: A Novel (Audiobook)
English | February 21, 2023 | ASIN: B0B51Z1HG9 | M4B@63 kbps | 11h 30m | 322.81 MB
Author: Julia Bartz
Narrator: Gail Shalan
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

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Free Download The Warner Brothers (Audiobook)
English | September 12, 2023 | ASIN: B0CGJNK3PJ | MP3@64 kbps | 13h 7m | 302.9 MB
Author: Chris Yogerst
Narrator: Daniel Henning
Warner Bros. Studio is best known as a media conglomerate with a broad range of intellectual property, spanning movies, TV shows, and streaming content. Despite popular interest in the origins of this empire, the core of the Warner Bros. saga cannot be found in its commercial successes. It is the story of four brothers-Harry, Albert, Sam, and Jack-whose vision for Hollywood helped shape the world of entertainment.

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Free Download The Visionaries: Arendt, Beauvoir, Rand, Weil, and the Power of Philosophy in Dark Times (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BP575N82 | 2023 | 12 hours and 26 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 358 MB
Author: Wolfram Eilenberger, Shaun Whiteside
Narrator: Hannah Curtis
A soaring intellectual narrative starring the radical, brilliant, and provocative philosophers Simone de Beauvoir, Hannah Arendt, Simone Weil, and Ayn Rand by the critically acclaimed author, Wolfram Eilenberger. The period from 1933 to 1943 was one of the darkest and most chaotic in human history, as the Second World War unfolded with unthinkable cruelty. It was also a crucial decade in the dramatic, intersecting lives of some of history's greatest philosophers. There were four women, in particular, whose parallel ideas would come to dominate the twentieth century-at once in necessary dialogue and in striking contrast with one another. Simone de Beauvoir, already in a deep emotional and intellectual partnership with Jean-Paul Sartre, was laying the foundations for nothing less than the future of feminism. Born Alisa Rosenbaum in Saint Petersburg, Ayn Rand immigrated to the United States in 1926 and was honing one of the most politically influential voices of the twentieth century.

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Free Download The United States of English: The American Language from Colonial Times to the Twenty-First Century (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CGMKYG6Z | 2023 | 11 hours and 9 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 321 MB
Author: Rosemarie Ostler
Narrator: Christa Lewis
The story of how English became American-and how it became Southern, Bostonian, Californian, African American, Chicano, elite, working-class, urban, rural, and everything in between. By the time of the Revolution, the English that Americans spoke was recognizably different from the British variety. Americans added dozens of new words to the language, either borrowed from Native Americans (raccoon, persimmon, caucus) or created from repurposed English (backwoods, cane brake, salt lick). Americans had their own pronunciations (bath rhymed with hat, not hot) and their own spelling (honor, not honour), not to mention a host of new expressions that grew out of the American landscape and culture (blaze a trail, back track, pull up stakes). Americans even invented their own slang, like stiff as a ringbolt to mean drunk. American English has continued to grow and change ever since. The United States of English tells the engrossing tale of how the American language evolved over four hundred years, explaining both how and why it changed and which parts of the "mother tongue" it preserved (I guess was heard in the British countryside long before it became a typical Americanism). Plentiful examples of the American vernacular, past and present, bring the language to life and make for an engaging as well as enlightening listen.

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Free Download The Ultimate Guide to Power and Influence: Everything You Need to Know (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CB8Z6472 | 2023 | 4 hours and 22 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 236 MB
Author: Robert L. Dilenschneider
Narrator: A.T. Chandler
From respected consultant Robert Dilenschneider, The Ultimate Guide to Power & Influence explains how technology and globalization have revolutionized the ways to both build and keep success-and tells listeners that to accomplish your goals, you must not only gain power, but also apply it with proper wisdom. The Ultimate Guide to Power & Influence arms its listeners with intellectual, technical, and moral weapons-tools you need to get and stay ahead in the increasingly competitive and ever-evolving business world. Acquiring both power and influence is crucial to advancing not only your personal interests, but also a more prosperous society at large. Drawing from current-day lessons and the wisdom of hundreds of drivers of change in all fields of business, The Ultimate Guide to Power & Influence is Robert Dilenschneider's latest guide to harnessing the universal principles for success.

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Free Download The Ultimate Engineer: The Remarkable Life of NASA's Visionary Leader George M. Low by Richard Jurek, Gerald D. Griffin - foreword, Mike Chamberlain
English | 2020 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B087MZQ38T | M4B@32 Kbps | Duration: 10:49 h | 149 Mb
Described as the "ultimate engineer" during his career at NASA, George M. Low was a visionary architect and leader from the agency's inception in 1958 to his retirement in 1976. As chief of manned spaceflight at NASA, Low was instrumental in the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo programs. Low's pioneering work paved the way for President Kennedy's decision to make a lunar landing NASA's primary goal in the 1960s. After the tragic 1967 Apollo 1 fire that took the lives of three astronauts and almost crippled the program, Low took charge of the redesign of the Apollo spacecraft, and he helped lead the program from disaster and toward the moon. Under Low there were five manned missions, including Apollo 11, the first manned lunar landing.
Low's clandestine negotiations with the Soviet Union resulted in a historic joint mission in 1975 that was the precursor to the Shuttle-Mir and International Space Station programs. At the end of his NASA career, Low was one of the leading figures in the development of the space shuttle in the early 1970s, and he was instrumental in NASA's transition into a post-Apollo world. Afterward, he embarked on a distinguished career in higher education as a transformational president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, his alma mater.

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