Free Download Your Public Persona: Self-Presentation in Everyday Life [TTC Audio]
English | September 11, 2020 | ASIN: B08H5XNNYM | M4B@96 kbps | 6h 34m | 279 MB
Lecturer: Mark Leary
Humans are social animals, and the impressions we make on others can critically impact the quality of our lives. Consequently, we spend much of our lives, both consciously and unconsciously, working to shape other people's ideas about who we are. In this eye-opening 12-lecture series with Professor Leary, explore the "self-presentational underpinnings of human behavior" as well as the what, how, and why of impression management.
People form impressions of us - who we are and what we're like - very quickly and, right or wrong, those impressions determine significant aspects of our outcomes in life, both in the present as well as the future. In just a few short minutes, others assess our personality, interests, attitudes, and moods, taking into account everything from the content of our words to the style of our clothing, and much more. Sometimes their assessments are accurate, other times less so, but the impressions other people form of us significantly impacts how they treat us.

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Free Download You're Not Done Yet: Parenting Young Adults in an Age of Uncertainty (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C3NVGLTQ | 2024 | 10 hours and 5 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 292 MB
Author: Dr. B. Janet Hibbs, Dr. Anthony Rostain
Narrator: Kirsten Potter
A clear-eyed, optimistic guide for parents with adult children who need help navigating the challenges to launching an independent life. Times were already tough for young adults looking for ways to start living independent lives after high school and college: rents were up, wages were down, student loan debt was burdensome, then the Covid-19 pandemic hit. A generation of young people were forced out of their classrooms, jobs, and social lives, returning home to live with their parents. Now many of these young adults carry the scars of the internal pandemic, with increased anxiety and depression, poor coping, and the uncertainty of how to restart their lives. Parents want to help, but the old rules of advice-giving can clash with the need to respect their child's autonomy.

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Free Download Work Backwards: The Revolutionary Method to Work Smarter and Live Better (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CYHH8YBY | 2024 | 8 hours and 28 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 232 MB
Author: Tim Duggan
Narrator: Tim Duggan
Something's about to break, and if we don't change direction soon, it's going to be us. It doesn't matter in which industry or where: too many of us are overworked, disengaged and apprehensive about the future of work. In his life-affirming new book, bestselling author and founder Tim Duggan argues that we approach work and life the wrong way around. Fuelled by a powerful realignment that's questioning the way we traditionally think about and interact with our workplaces. Learn valuable, practical tools to work better and live a fulfilled and meaningful life that takes advantage of this once-in-a-generations opportunity to reverse your thinking and reclaim your life from work.

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Free Download Helen De Cruz, Lisa S. Ware (Narrator), "Wonderstruck: How Wonder and Awe Shape the Way We Think"
English | ASIN: B0CXQ9PSXB | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~06:29:00 | size KB
Wonder and awe lie at the heart of life's most profound questions. Wonderstruck shows how these emotions respond to our fundamental need to make sense of ourselves and everything around us, and how they enable us to engage with the world as if we are experiencing it for the first time.
Drawing on the latest psychological insights on emotions, Helen De Cruz argues that wonder and awe are emotional drives that motivate us to inquire and discover new things, and that humanity has deliberately nurtured these emotions in cultural domains such as religion, science, and magic. Tracing how wonder and awe unify philosophy, the humanities, and the sciences, De Cruz provides new perspectives on figures such as Plato, Aristotle, Adam Smith, William James, Rachel Carson, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Abraham Heschel. Along the way, she explains how these singular emotions empower us to be open-minded, to experience joy and hope, and to be resilient in the face of personal troubles and global challenges.
Taking inspiration from Descartes's portrayal of wonder as "that sudden surprise of the soul," this illuminating book reveals how wonder and awe are catalysts that can help us reclaim what makes life worth living and preserve the things we find wonderful and valuable in our lives.

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Free Download Women in the Picture: What Culture Does with Female Bodies by Catherine McCormack
English | November 16, 2021 | ISBN: 0393542084 | 240 pages | MOBI | 8.50 Mb
Art historian Catherine McCormack challenges how culture teaches us to see and value women, their bodies, and their lives.
Venus, maiden, wife, mother, monster―women have been bound so long by these restrictive roles, codified by patriarchal culture, that we scarcely see them. Catherine McCormack illuminates the assumptions behind these stereotypes whether writ large or subtly hidden. She ranges through Western art―think Titian, Botticelli, and Millais―and the image-saturated world of fashion photographs, advertisements, and social media, and boldly counters these depictions by turning to the work of women artists like Morisot, Ringgold, Lacy, and Walker, who offer alternative images for exploring women's identity, sexuality, race, and power in more complex ways. 20 illustrations
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Free Download Woke or Not?: A Guide to Woke for Older People (Audiobook)
English | ISBN: 9798882296413 | 2024 | 4 hours and 43 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 262 MB
Author: Nina Thom
Narrator: Deidra O'ree
What does woke mean? Learn about wokeness, its origin, and why it has become controversial. You may have heard this hotly debated buzzword. Perhaps you feel sidelined in conversations about social justice issues and are surprised by how quickly its meaning has changed from a compliment to a slur. This is not a critical race theory book or a cancel culture guide, but it explains these highly nuanced concepts. In today's amplified "fake news" environment, we need a straightforward and unbiased social justice book for adults. Navigate woke culture and understand its terminology without a political or social science degree. Nina Thom has written this well-researched, anti-racist book for adults to help you distinguish between "genuine" and "performative activism." This is the ultimate wokeness book that explains the societal impacts on politics, education, sports, and the arts.

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Free Download Wisdom from the Wild: The Nine Unbreakable Laws of Leadership from the Animal Kingdom (Audiobook)
English | ISBN: 9798886452389 | 2024 | 7 hours and 54 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 226 MB
Author: Julie C. Henry
Narrator: Julie C. Henry
Take a walk on the wild side with fascinating and compelling leadership lessons from the animal kingdom. Nature is the perfect teacher for the challenging and very personal concept of leadership. And no one knows this better than former zoo and aquarium senior leader turned leadership consultant Julie C. Henry. Wisdom from the Wild shows you-whether you're a new or experienced leader-how to learn from and be inspired by the wildlife and wild places all around you. This fun, new approach to leadership presents nine "Unbreakable Laws" from the animal kingdom. These true, fundamental guidelines with concrete examples from wildlife can steer your work and decisions as a leader.

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Free Download Win Your Breakup: How to Be the One That Got Away (Audiobook)
English | March 22, 2022 | ASIN: B09S4XWLVD | M4B@128 kbps | 4h 20m | 239 MB
Author and Narrator: Natasha Adamo
You picked up this book because your breakup has been reduced to something that you feel you must "win" to emotionally survive and move on.
This reduction can only take place if you were involved with a toxic person. Toxic people are selfish, empathetically bankrupt, and have a limited relationship with reality. Anyone who feels validated by exploiting your hunger for theirs is toxic - to your peace, your life, and your mental health.

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Free Download Wild Life: Finding My Purpose in an Untamed World (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CY3JW5HX | 2024 | 8 hours and 18 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 236 MB
Author: Dr. Rae Wynn-Grant
Narrator: Dr. Rae Wynn-Grant
In this vulnerable and urgent memoir, Rae Wynn-Grant explores the ever-shifting relationship between humans, animals, and the earth through her personal journey to becoming a wildlife ecologist. Growing up in the diverse and bustling California Bay Area, renowned wildlife ecologist Dr. Rae Wynn-Grant always felt worlds away from the white male adventurers she watched explore the wilderness on TV. She dreamed of a future where she could spend sleepless nights under the crowded canopies of the Amazon and the starry skies of the savanna.

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Free Download Wild Chorus: Finding Harmony with Whales, Wolves, and Other Animals (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CZ4N87MZ | 2024 | 9 hours and 3 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 251 MB
Author: Brenda Peterson
Narrator: Kate Coventry
In Wild Chorus, award-winning author Brenda Peterson draws on her lifelong relationship with animals to explore the wisdom we humans can glean from them. Looking beyond the companionship we enjoy with domesticated animals, Peterson explores how wild animals can become our guides and fellow travelers, helping us navigate the stresses of daily life and a rapidly changing planet. From beluga whales to wolves, raccoons to bears, elk to herons, the stories in this collection offer insights into the intricacies of animals' intuitive communication, compassionate attention, and peaceful adaptation. Featuring vivid, visionary stories, Wild Chorus reveals a world filled with inspiring lessons of kinship, connection, and living in the present. Join Peterson on an incredible journey as she speaks for animals as both an artist and an activist to discover the power of learning from the natural world.

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