Free Download Ian Buruma, Lee Beddow (Narrator), "Spinoza: Freedom's Messiah"
English | ASIN: B0CYCQCXPF | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~06:22:00 | 175 MB
Ian Buruma explores the life and death of Baruch Spinoza, the Enlightenment thinker whose belief in freedom of thought and speech resonates in our own time
Baruch (Benedictus) Spinoza (1632-1677) was a radical free thinker who led a life guided by strong moral principles despite his disbelief in an all-seeing God. Seen by many as Satan's disciple during his lifetime, Spinoza has been regarded as a secular saint since his death. Many contradictory beliefs have been attached to his name: rationalism or metaphysics, atheism or pantheism, liberalism or despotism, Jewishness or anti-Semitism. However, there is no question that he viewed freedom of thought and speech as essential to an open and free society.
In this insightful account, the award-winning author Ian Buruma stresses the importance of the time and place that shaped Spinoza, beginning with the Sephardim of Amsterdam and followed by the politics of the Dutch Republic. Though Spinoza rejected the basic assumptions of his family's faith, and was consequently expelled from his Sephardic community, Buruma argues that Spinoza did indeed lead a modern Jewish life. To Heine, Hess, Marx, Freud, and no doubt many others today, Spinoza exemplified how to be Jewish without believing in Judaism. His defense of universal freedom is as important for our own time as it was in his.

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Free Download Speak the Blessing: Send Your Words in the Direction You Want Your Life to Go (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CFC5H81W | 2024 | 3 hours and 13 minutes | M4B@192 kbps | 265 MB
Author: Joel Osteen
Narrator: Joel Osteen
New York Times bestselling author Joel Osteen shares how the power of our words can help create a better reality. Your words are like seeds. Every time you say them, they're taking root and growing. Are you planting good seeds? Are you seeing the increase, the health, the relationships, and the happiness you dream about? If not, check out what you're saying. Whether you realize it or not, the words you speak today are setting the direction for the rest of your life. In Speak the Blessing, New York Times bestselling author Joel Osteen offers you unique insights into this profound truth: Your words have creative power. There is a miracle in your mouth. There is healing in your mouth, freedom in your mouth, and new levels in your mouth. But nothing happens until you speak the blessing. Your words become your reality. Start blessing your future today. Use the words you speak to unlock the power within and create the life you were designed to live. The life-changing possibilities are limitless.

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Free Download Somehow: Thoughts on Love (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CBQS89D3 | 2024 | 4 hours and 16 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 238 MB
Author: Anne Lamott
Narrator: Anne Lamott
In Somehow: Thoughts on Love, Lamott explores the transformative power that love has in our lives: how it surprises us, forces us to confront uncomfortable truths, reminds us of our humanity, and guides us forward. "Love just won't be pinned down," she says. "It is in our very atmosphere" and lies at the heart of who we are. We are, Lamott says, creatures of love. In each chapter of Somehow, Lamott refracts all the colors of the spectrum. She explores the unexpected love for a partner later in life. The bruised (and bruising) love for a child who disappoints, even frightens.

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Free Download Slow Burn: The Hidden Costs of a Warming World (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CYRBVWJH | 2024 | 11 hours and 12 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 308 MB
Author: R. (Robert) Jisung Park
Narrator: Davis Brooks
This audiobook narrated by Davis Brooks reveals how the subtle but significant consequences of a hotter planet have already begun-from lower test scores to higher crime rates-and how we might tackle them today. It's hard not to feel anxious about the problem of climate change, especially if we think of it as an impending planetary catastrophe. In Slow Burn, R. Jisung Park encourages us to view climate change through a different lens: one that focuses less on the possibility of mass climate extinction in a theoretical future, and more on the everyday implications of climate change here and now. Drawing on a wealth of new data and cutting-edge economics, Park shows how climate change headlines often miss some of the most important costs. When wildfires blaze, what happens to people downwind of the smoke? When natural disasters destroy buildings and bridges, what happens to educational outcomes?

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Free Download Slouch: Posture Panic in Modern America (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CSHHKZJ5 | 2024 | 11 hours and 18 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 326 MB
Author: Beth Linker
Narrator: Laurel Lefkow
This audiobook narrated by Laurel Lefkow recounts the strange and surprising history of the so-called epidemic of bad posture in modern America-from eugenics and posture pageants to today's promoters of "paleo posture". In 1995, a scandal erupted when the New York Times revealed that the Smithsonian possessed a century's worth of nude "posture" photos of college students. In this riveting history, Beth Linker tells why these photos were only a small part of the incredible story of twentieth-century America's largely forgotten posture panic-a decades-long episode in which it was widely accepted as scientific fact that Americans were suffering from an epidemic of bad posture, with potentially catastrophic health consequences. Tracing the rise and fall of this socially manufactured epidemic, Slouch also tells how this period continues to feed today's widespread anxieties about posture.

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Free Download Sex, Spies and Scandal: The John Vassall Affair (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CNDVR5P5 | 2024 | 18 hours and 20 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 521 MB
Author: Alex Grant
Narrator: Gordon Griffin
Sex, Spies and Scandal is the story of John Vassall, a civil servant who was unmasked as a Soviet spy in 1962. Having been photographed in compromising positions while working at the British embassy in Moscow in 1954, Vassall was blackmailed into handing over secrets from the British Admiralty to his Soviet handlers, both in Moscow and in London, for more than seven years. There has been a rash of successful recent books and film adaptations on the Profumo, Thorpe and Duchess of Argyll affairs. The story of John Vassall, who was responsible for a far more serious intelligence breach than Profumo, is ripe for retelling. It has got the lot-a honeytrap, spying on an industrial scale, gay affairs with Tory MPs, journalists jailed for not revealing their sources, and the first modern tabloid witch-hunt, which resulted in a ministerial resignation and almost brought down Harold Macmillan's government.

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Free Download Sex, Lies and Sensibility (Audiobook)
English | February 13, 2024 | ASIN: B0BWPN18JV | M4B@64 kbps | 11h 9m | 325 MB
Author: Nikki Payne | Narrators: Nikki Payne, Kacie Rogers, Phil Ava
"Nikki Payne skillfully spins the tale of a well-known Jane Austen classic and makes it entirely her own. Thoughtful, hilarious, and smolderingly steamy."-Kristina Forest, author of The Partner Description
Two sisters roll up their sleeves to run a dilapidated inn but must learn to work with the locals in this deliciously spicy novel inspired by Sense and Sensibility.

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Free Download Sensorimotor Psychotherapy: Interventions for Trauma and Attachment (Audiobook)
English | Datum: July 28, 2020 | ASIN: B08CWMW4JR | M4B@125 kbps | 17h 12m | 918.68 MB MB
Author: Pat Ogden, Janina Fisher
Narrator: Paul Brion
A book for clinicians and clients to use together that explains key concepts of body psychotherapy.

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Free Download Secrets of Greek Mysticism: A Modern Guide to Daily Practice with the Greek Gods and Goddesses (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CYN8JL79 | 2024 | 8 hours and 8 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 214 MB
Author: George Lizos
Narrator: George Lizos
Secrets of Greek Mysticism is the first spiritual book about the Greek gods and goddesses written by a native, practicing priest of Hellenic Polytheism. It goes beyond the simplistic and archetypical representation of the Greek pantheon and reintroduces the gods and goddesses from a theological perspective. Rather than presenting the gods and goddesses as symbolic, lifeless figures one can use to embellish spiritual practice, Secrets of Greek Mysticism teaches listeners how to find each god or goddess within them. This is achieved through grounded insights on the gods' virtues as they relate to modern life, explaining the deeper spiritual meaning of popular myths, practicing guided meditations, activating the gods' energies with mantras and hymns, and performing rituals. Secrets of Greek Mysticism makes the claim that for the Divine Feminine to rise, the Divine Masculine needs to rise, too. Rather than solely focusing on female goddesses, it brings together the male and female deities of the Greek pantheon to help listeners experience divine union. Secrets of Greek Mysticism covers: the twelve gods' birth stories, essence, and virtues; how to live and work with the gods; setting up altars; the foundation of ancient Greek spirituality, cosmology, and theology; and symbols, hymns, and meditations to guide listeners' practice of connecting with the gods.

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Free Download Searching for Franklin: New Answers to the Great Arctic Mystery (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CYN6VVC2 | 2024 | 9 hours and 41 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 278 MB
Author: Ken McGoogan
Narrator: Bob Souer
Two of Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin's expeditions were monumental failures. Yet many still see the Royal Navy man as a heroic figure who sacrificed himself to discover the Northwest Passage. This book interweaves two narratives. The first treats the Royal Navy's Arctic Overland Expedition of 1819, a harbinger-misadventure during which Franklin rejected the advice of Dene and Metis leaders and lost eleven of his twenty-one men. The second discovers a startling new answer to that greatest of Arctic mysteries: what was the root cause of the catastrophe that engulfed Franklin's last expedition?

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