Free Download Behind Their Screens: What Teens Are Facing (and Adults Are Missing) by Emily Weinstein, Carrie James, Blackstone Publishing
English | 2022 | ISBN: B0B325DM3V | 6 hours and 38 minutes / Format: MP3 | 138 Mb
How teens navigate a networked world and how adults can support them
What are teens actually doing on their smartphones? Contrary to many adults' assumptions, they are not simply "addicted" to their screens, oblivious to the afterlife of what they post, or missing out on personal connection. They are just trying to navigate a networked world. In Behind Their Screens, Emily Weinstein and Carrie James, Harvard researchers who are experts on teens and technology, explore the complexities that teens face in their digital lives, and suggest that many adult efforts to help-"Get off your phone!" "Just don't sext!"-fall short.
Weinstein and James warn against a single-minded focus by adults on "screen time." Teens worry about dependence on their devices, but disconnecting means being out of the loop socially, with absence perceived as rudeness or even a failure to be there for a struggling friend. Drawing on a multiyear project that surveyed more than 3,500 teens, the authors explain that young people need empathy not exasperated eye-rolling. Adults should understand the complicated nature of teens' online life rather than issue commands, and they should normalize-let teens know that their challenges are shared by others-without minimizing or dismissing. Along the way, Weinstein and James describe different kinds of sexting and explain such phenomena as watermarking nudes, comparison quicksand, digital pacifiers, and collecting receipts. Behind Their Screens offers essential listening for any adult who cares about supporting teens in an online world.

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Free Download Befriend Your Brain: A Young Person's Guide to Dealing with Anxiety, Depression, Anger, Freak-Outs, and Trigger by Faith G. Harper, Faith G. Harper, Blackstone Publishing
English | 2022 | ISBN: B09RYY58HM | Format: M4B / 3 hours and 25 minutes + EPUB | 195 Mb
Do you freak out at small things? Do you yell at people or things when you don't mean to? Do you you sometime cry or get scared and you aren't sure why? Does it sometimes feel like your feelings control you?
All of these feelings are a normal part of life for everybody, but sometimes they're just too much and it seems like you're the only one the planet that feels them.
Our brains are doing their best to help us out, but sometimes we get hurt instead. And sometimes we hurt people we love, too, because we just don't know what to do with all of our feelings. With humor and patience, Dr. Faith G. Harper shows you the science behind why your brain is acting up and ideas for new ways to respond when you're feeling scared, sad, anxious, or angry. You can train your brain to be your friend and help you live a happy, calm, and healthy life. If you have experienced trauma or if you have a hard time feeling good and getting along with other people, this book can help.

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Free Download Jewher Ilham (Author, Narrator), "Because I Have To: The Path to Survival, the Uyghur Struggle"
English | ASIN: B0CPR6L5ZL | 2023 | M4B@64 kbps | ~03:38:00 | 100 MB
When Jewher Ilham's father, Ilham Tohti, an internationally known advocate for peaceful dialogue between his Uyghur people and Han Chinese, was detained at the Beijing airport in February 2013 on charges of "separatism," and later sentenced to life in prison, Jewher was forced to begin a new life apart from her family in a new country. There, she found her voice as an advocate for her father, and for Uyghur people being forced into concentration camps by the Chinese government.
In Because I Have To: The Path To Survival, The Uyghur Struggle, Jewher shares an intimate account of how she maintained the strength and courage to fight for her father, the sometimes emotional toll it took on her, and the inspiration and loss of her mentor. With the inclusion of testimonials of Uyghur camp survivors and others affected by the crackdown on Uyghurs in China, Because I Have To:The Path to Survival, The Uyghur Struggle tells the story of one person, and of an entire culture under threat.

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Free Download Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics by Ross Douthat, Lloyd James, Tantor Audio
English | 2012 | ISBN: B007V5SZMM | Format: M4B / Bitrate: 32 Kbps / 13 hours and 12 minutes + EPUB | 181 Mb
As the youngest-ever op-ed columnist for the New York Times and the author of the critically acclaimed books Privilege and Grand New Party, Ross Douthat has emerged as one of the most provocative and influential voices of his generation. Now he offers a masterful and hard-hitting account of how American Christianity has gone off the rails - and why it threatens to take American society with it.
In a story that moves from the 1950s to the age of Obama, Douthat brilliantly charts traditional Christianity's decline from a vigorous, mainstream, and bipartisan faith - which acted as a "vital center" and the moral force behind the Civil Rights movement - through the culture wars of the 1960s and 1970s and down to the polarizing debates of the present day. He argues that Christianity's place in American life has increasingly been taken over, not by atheism, but by heresy: debased versions of Christian faith that breed hubris, greed, and self-absorption.
Ranging from Glenn Beck to Eat Pray Love, Joel Osteen to The Da Vinci Code, Oprah Winfrey to Sarah Palin, Douthat explores how the prosperity gospel's mantra of "pray and grow rich", a cult of self-esteem that reduces God to a life coach, and the warring political religions of left and right have crippled the country's ability to confront our most pressing challenges and accelerated American decline. His urgent call for a revival of traditional Christianity is sure to generate controversy, and it will be vital listening for all those concerned about the imperiled American future.

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Free Download Awakening Joy: 10 Steps That Will Put You on the Road to Real Happiness by James Baraz, Shoshana Alexander, Audible Studios
English | 2010 | ISBN: B004GK03PM | Format: M4B / 13 hours and 27 minutes + EPUB | 369 Mb
Joy is not for just the lucky few - it's a choice anyone can make. In this groundbreaking book, based on his popular course, James Baraz helps you discover a path to the happiness that's right in front of you, offering a step-by-step program that will reorient your mind away from dissatisfaction and distraction and toward the contentment and delight that is abundantly available in our everyday lives. You can decide to be happy.
For years, James Baraz's online Awakening Joy course has offered participants from around the world the benefits of this simple but profoundly radical proposition. Grounded in simple Buddhist principles but accessible to people of all faiths- or no faith at all - this concept provides the jumping-off point for a transformational journey toward a richer, more meaningful, more positive outlook on life.
Now listeners everywhere can follow the same 10 steps Baraz teaches to his program participants. In this practical down-to-earth guide, you will learn how to:Make happiness a habit by inclining your mind toward states that lead to well-beingFind joy, even during difficult times, and avoid the pitfalls that prevent you from achieving the contentment you seekCultivate effective practices for sustaining joyfulness, such as reclaiming your natural sense of wonder and finding joy in the midst of everyday experiences

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Free Download Marie Loughran, Wendy Tremont King (Narrator), "Auditing for Dummies"
English | ASIN: B07ZS3N4RX | 2019 | MP3@64 kbps | ~16:19:00 | 463 MB
Want to be an auditor and need to hone your investigating skills? Look no further. This friendly guide gives you an easy-to-understand explanation of auditing - from gathering financial statements and accounting information to analyzing a client's financial position. Packed with examples, it gives you everything you need to ace an auditing course and begin a career today.
Auditing 101 - get a crash course in the world of auditing and a description of the types of tasks you'll be expected to perform during a typical day on the job

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Free Download Chase Hill, Dave Thackara (Narrator), "Assertiveness Training: How to Stand Up for Yourself, Boost Your Confidence, and Improve Assertive Communication Skills"
English | ISBN: 9798868660306 | 2024 | M4B@64 kbps | ~03:40:00 | 104 MB
Stop being a pushover - it's time for you to be seen, be heard, and to get what you deserve.
Are you constantly considerate of others' feelings, having made too many compromises in the past that have left you feeling unfulfilled and empty?

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Free Download Artificial Intelligence and Life: A Complete Guide to the Basic Concepts in AI, Neural Networks, Machine Learning and Data Science by Hans Weber, Jim D. Johnston
English | 2019 | ISBN: B081MZXZS4 | Format: MP3 / 1 hour and 48 minutes + EPUB | 40 Mb
Have you always wondered how it is that a machine understands what you are saying? Did you wonder how Siri or Alexa always knows exactly what to show you when you ask them something? If you did, you have come to the right place.
Machines are able to interpret and understand human beings and also interpret the data that is fed to them because of artificial intelligence (AI). So, what is artificial intelligence? If you have been trying to learn the basics of artificial intelligence, you will know that it is a human being's attempt to make a machine smart enough to handle processes that a human being would normally do.
It is not easy to do this since you will need to understand the system and also learn the required programming languages to instruct the computer to behave in the required manner. Before you delve into the world of artificial intelligence, it is important for you to understand the basics so you know what to expect.

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Free Download Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art (Audiobook)
English | August 17, 2023 | ASIN: B0CCW4F1DC, B0CN79YBT7 | M4B@128 kbps | 9h 37m | 524 MB
Author and Narrator: Lauren Elkin
A dazzlingly original reassessment of women's stories, bodies and art - and how we think about them.
For decades, feminist artists have confronted the problem of how to tell the truth about their experiences as bodies. Queer bodies, sick bodies, racialised bodies, female bodies, what is their language, what are the materials we need to transcribe it?

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Free Download Areté: Activate Your Heroic Potential (Audiobook)
English | November 14, 2023 | ASIN: B0CFYQN2S5 | M4B@128 kbps | 19h 57m | 1.07 GB
Author and Narrator: Brian Johnson
"This book will change your life. And, if enough of us commit, it will change the world." - Phil Stutz, MD, bestselling author of The Tools, featured in the Netflix documentary Stutz
In Areté, Brian Johnson integrates ancient wisdom, modern science, and practical tools to, as per the subtitle of the book, help you win the ultimate game of life and fulfill your destiny.

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