Free Download Putting Ourselves Back in the Equation: Why Physicists Are Studying Human Consciousness and AI to Unravel the Mysteries of the Universe (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BVKYFVV2 | 2023 | 8 hours and 45 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 252 MB
Author: George Musser
Narrator: Alan Peterson
A revelatory exploration of how a "theory of everything" depends upon our understanding of the human mind. The whole goal of physics is to explain what we observe. For centuries, physicists believed that observations yielded faithful representations of what is out there. But when they began to study the subatomic realm, they found that observation often interferes with what is being observed-that the act of seeing changes what we see. The same is true of cosmology: our view of the universe is inevitably distorted by observation bias. And so whether they're studying subatomic particles or galaxies, physicists must first explain consciousness-and for that they must turn to neuroscientists and philosophers of mind. Neuroscientists have painstakingly built up an understanding of the structure of the brain.

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Free Download Property: The Myth That Built The World (Audiobook)
English | ISBN: 9781004140541 | 2023 | 8 hours and 20 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 238 MB
Author: Rowan Moore
Narrator: Antonia Beamish
Property carries a great promise: that it will make you rich and set you free. But it is also a weapon, an agent of displacement and exploitation, the currency of kleptocrats and oligarchs. Property is a vivid, far-reaching analysis of our concept of property ownership, from 16th-century feudalism to the present day. It tells powerful stories-of life in the developer-led boomtown of Gurugram in India, of the struggles to form black communities in Missouri and Georgia, of a giant experiment in co-operative living in the Bronx, of the theatrics of developer-kings like President Aliyev of Azerbaijan and the Trump family. Above all, Property asks how we have come to view our homes not as a natural human right, but as investments-and it offers hope for how things could be better, with reform that might enable the social wealth of property to be returned to society.

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Free Download Project UnLonely: Healing Our Crisis of Disconnection (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BVNL9R1P | 2023 | 9 hours and 12 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 264 MB
Author: Jeremy Nobel
Narrator: Marc Cashman
Insight into our new world of loneliness that offers solace, hope, and solutions. Even before 2020, chronic loneliness was a private experience of profound anguish that had become a public health crisis. Since then it has reached new heights. Loneliness assumes many forms, from enduring physical isolation to feeling rejected because of difference, and it can have devastating consequences for our physical and mental health. As the founder of Project UnLonely, Jeremy Nobel unpacks our personal and national experiences of loneliness to discover its roots and to show how we can take steps to find comfort and connection.

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Free Download Procrastinate on Purpose: 5 Permissions to Multiply Your Time, 2023 Edition (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C6R8NDCB | 2023 | 6 hours and 14 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 348 MB
Author: Rory Vaden
Narrator: Rory Vaden
From the New York Times bestselling author-a bold new way to get things done. New York Times bestselling author and sales-performance trainer Rory Vaden brings his high-energy approach and can-do spirit to the most nagging problem in our professional lives: stalled productivity. Millions are overworked, organizationally challenged, or have a motivation issue that's holding them back. Vaden presents a simple yet powerful paradigm that will set listeners free to do their best work-on time and without stress and anxiety.

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Free Download Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C6YMTR29 | 2023 | 13 hours and 9 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 718 MB
Author: Rachel Maddow
Narrator: Rachel Maddow
Rachel Maddow traces the fight to preserve American democracy back to World War II, when a handful of committed public servants and brave private citizens thwarted far-right Descriptionters trying to steer our nation toward an alliance with the Nazis. Inspired by her research for the hit podcast Ultra, Rachel Maddow charts the rise of a wild American strain of authoritarianism that has been alive on the far-right edge of our politics for the better part of a century. Before and even after our troops had begun fighting abroad in World War II, a clandestine network flooded the country with disinformation aimed at sapping the strength of the U.S. war effort and persuading Americans that our natural alliance was with the Axis, not against it. It was a sophisticated and shockingly well-funded campaign to undermine democratic institutions, promote antisemitism, and destroy citizens' confidence in their elected leaders, with the ultimate goal of overthrowing the U.S. government and installing authoritarian rule.

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Free Download Powered by Me: From Burned Out to Fully Charged at Work and in Life (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CHSTH8RK | 2023 | 12 hours and 45 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 365 MB
Author: Neha Sangwan
Narrator: Neha Sangwan
Burnout isn't a personal failure. It's a wake-up call. This global epidemic is not merely a case of working too hard or feeling physically exhausted for an extended period of time. According to physician, executive coach, and speaker Neha Sangwan-an expert empowering corporate leaders and organizational teams to excel under pressure-burnout is due to prolonged stress and an ongoing net drain of energy on one or more of five levels: physical, mental, emotional, social, and spiritual. When we burn out, our productivity suffers, our health declines, and we're more reactive in our relationships.

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Free Download Positively Geared: How to Build a Multi-Million Dollar Property Portfolio from a $40K Deposit (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CJGXZH5N | 2023 | 7 hours and 30 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 214 MB
Author: Lloyd Edge
Narrator: Greg Newman
Fast-track your financial dreams! Positively Geared offers a powerful approach for clever property investment, empowering people to make money when they buy properties, not just when you sell them. This sustainable approach to wealth building will equip you with the knowledge, skills and insider strategies to not only build a diverse property portfolio, but also maintain a portfolio that achieves passive income to reach your goal of financial freedom. Working as a teacher, author Lloyd Edge started to grow his wealth with an initial $30k investment. By the age of 40, he was able to retire from his nine-to-five job. Now a leading property investment strategist, Lloyd's shares his personal story and proven strategies with the hope of inspiring everyone-young and old-to dream big and proactively craft the lifestyle they really want.

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Free Download Political Rumors: Why We Accept Misinformation and How to Fight It (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CMW3GQ9C | 2023 | 5 hours and 51 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 319 MB
Author: Adam J. Berinsky
Narrator: Tom Campbell
Political rumors and misinformation pollute the political landscape. This is not a recent phenomenon; before the currently rampant and unfounded rumors about a stolen election and vote-rigging, there were other rumors that continued to spread even after they were thoroughly debunked, including doubts about 9/11 (an "inside job") and the furor over President Obama's birthplace and birth certificate. If misinformation crowds out the truth, how can Americans communicate with one another about important issues? In this book, Adam Berinsky examines why political rumors exist and persist despite their unsubstantiated and refuted claims, who is most likely to believe them, and how to combat them.

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Free Download Plastics: Just a Load of Rubbish? (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C11GTG6X | 2023 | 9 hours and 26 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 268 MB
Author: Alicia Chrysostomou
Narrator: Jennifer Ness
A decade to save the planet. That's the current call to arms. Targets are set, governments vow to do their bit and on a societal level we are encouraged to do ours by choosing to forego all things plastic. The question is whether this is the right decision or are we inadvertently at risk of doing more harm than good? Are there other factors in play needing equal consideration? The book will follow the story of plastic, and to an extent rubber (known collectively as polymers), and all with an eye to the overarching theme of the environment. It will ask some challenging questions but also sets out to inform. It begins by building a picture. Just what exactly is a plastic, how did it gain such a dominant role in our lives? Are recent denouncements fully justified? By better understanding plastics, a clearer opinion can be formed of their usefulness and their potential to alleviate serious environmental concerns.

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Free Download Performance All the Way Down: Genes, Development, and Sexual Difference (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CPYPQWJL | 2023 | 13 hours and 56 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 398 MB
Author: Richard O. Prum
Narrator: Graham Winton
The idea that gender is a performance-a tenet of queer feminist theory since the 1990s-has spread from college classrooms to popular culture. In Performance All the Way Down, MacArthur Fellow and Pulitzer Prize finalist Richard O. Prum brings gender performativity into conversation with genetics, development, and evolutionary biology, arguing that the sexual binary is not essential to human genes, chromosomes, or embryos. Our genomes are not blueprints, algorithms, or recipes for the physical representation of our personal sexual essences or fates. In accessible language, Prum shows that gene expression is a material action in the world, a performance through which individuals regulate and achieve their own becoming. Human development is a performative continuum from a fertilized egg to a complex adult with tissues and organs, neurological control, immune defenses, psychological mechanisms, gender, and sexual behavior. This complex hierarchy of self-enactment reflects the evolved agency of distinct genes, molecules, cells, and tissues. Sure to inspire a conversation, Performance All the Way Down is a book about biology for feminists, a book about feminist theory for biologists, and a book for anyone curious about how our sexual bodies grow.

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