Audio Books

Free Download Addiction: A Very Short Introduction (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BXBC18WG | 2023 | 3 hours and 55 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 212 MB
Author: Keith Humphreys
Narrator: Rudy Sanda
Addiction is a subject which straddles public and personal interests; societal and criminal justice concerns; and family, social, and medical responses. It is a continuing area of uncertainty and concern for society and professionals trained in the field. This Very Short Introduction presents the basic facts about addiction: what it is, how and why it develops, how it is treated, and how society can respond to it. Addictions to both illicit drugs and licit drugs (e.g., alcohol) are covered, as is the possibility that certain behaviors not involving drug use (e.g., compulsive gambling) can qualify as addictions. Keith Humphreys provides a jargon-free account of our present understanding of addiction, from treatment evaluations to studies on the effects of public policies. He also illuminates the personal experience of addiction and recovery. Humphreys considers why some people become addicted and others do not, what treatments exist to help people who are addicted, and how the laws and regulations society establishes about drugs affects the rate and experience of addiction.

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Free Download Active Listening: Improve Your Conversation Skills, Learn Effective Communication Techniques, Achieve Successful Relationships with 6 Essential Guidelines (Audiobook)
English | ISBN: 9798368946115 | 2023 | 3 hours and 6 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 172 MB
Author: Joseph Sorensen
Narrator: J.M. DeBord
"Active Listening: Improve Your Conversation Skills, Learn Effective Communication Techniques, Achieve Successful Relationships with 6 Essential Guidelines" is an audiobook that provides essential guidelines to help you improve your communication skills and build successful relationships. These guidelines are easy to implement and can be added to your daily routine, leading to positive changes in your overall lifestyle. It covers various communication techniques and provides step-by-step methods to improve your listening skills. It also includes practical tips to achieve active listening skills and build highly successful individualized relationships. You'll learn how to incorporate these skills into your daily routine and achieve personal and professional success.

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Free Download A Stranger in Your Own City: Travels in the Middle East's Long War (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0B5M3D2JN | 2023 | 14 hours and 00 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 384 MB
Author: Ghaith Abdul-Ahad
Narrator: Ghaith Abdul-Ahad
An award-winning journalist's powerful portrait of his native Baghdad, the people of Iraq, and twenty years of war. The history of reportage has often depended on outsiders-Ryszard Kapuściński witnessing the fall of the shah in Iran, Frances FitzGerald observing the aftermath of the American war in Vietnam. What would happen if a native son was so estranged from his city by war that he could, in essence, view it as an outsider? What kind of portrait of a war-wracked place and people might he present? A Stranger in Your Own City is award-winning writer Ghaith Abdul-Ahad's vivid, shattering response. This is not a book about Iraq's history or an inventory of the many Middle Eastern wars that have consumed the nation over the past several decades.

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Free Download A Rulebook for Arguments 5th (Fifth) Edition (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0B91982LZ | 2022 | 3 hours and 25 minutes | M4B@192 kbps | 282 MB
Author: Anthony Weston
Narrator: Scott R. Pollak
From academic writing to personal and public discourse, the need for good arguments and better ways of arguing is greater than ever before. This timely audio edition of A Rulebook for Arguments sharpens an already-classic text, adding updated examples and a new chapter on public debates that provides rules for the etiquette and ethics of sound public dialogue as well as clear and sound thinking in general.

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Free Download A Love That Kills: Stories of Forensic Psychology and Female Violence (Audiobook)
English | 02 March 2023 | ASIN: B0BJXDYQHQ | M4B@128 kbps | 9h 17m | 506 MB
Author and Narrator: Anna Motz
Introducing us to eleven ordinary women who came to commit extreme acts, Anna Motz - one of Britain's leading forensic psychotherapists - sheds light on women's capacity for violence. She takes the reader on a journey into psychotherapy, uncovering their motives and the fault lines in their psyche that led to their crimes.
We meet Mary, who turned to arson after her son was taken into care, Maja, whose fantasy life led to her stalking an ex-boyfriend, and Dolores, whose terrible crime is unimaginable to most people. Always treating her patients with care and compassion, despite often struggling to process the details of their deeds, Anna Motz explores the dance between patient and therapist and the tortuous pathways to recovery and understanding. Deeply affecting, compelling and profound, A Love That Kills offers a rare glimpse inside the world of the forensic psychotherapist and asks us to consider vital questions about how society treats women who commit terrible crimes.

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Free Download A Good Spy Leaves No Trace: Big Oil, CIA Secrets, and A Spy Daughter's Reckoning (Audiobook)
English | February 07, 2023 | ASIN: B0BV11KNKY | M4B@128 kbps | 9h 2m | 492 MB
Author: Anne E. Tazewell | Narrator: Ann Simmons
Spies, lies and family ties
Her father was a man cloaked in mystery, a man of contradiction. James M. Eichelberger was a writer, philosopher, decorated WWII intelligence officer, CIA Agent, and oil industry consultant who died a penniless alcoholic. After he left her family in Beirut, Lebanon when she was six years old, Anne E. Tazewell only saw her father seven times before his death in 1989.

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Free Download A Companion to Marx's Grundrisse (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BVXLJPSF | 2023 | 19 hours and 56 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 548 MB
Author: David Harvey
Narrator: David Stifel
David Harvey tackles Marx's notebooks that have spawned wide-ranging and raging controversies. When leading scholar of Marx, Roman Rosdolsky, first encountered the virtually unknown text of Marx's Grundrisse-his preparatory work for his masterpiece Das Capital-in the 1950s in New York Public Library, he recognized it as "a work of fundamental importance," but declared "its unusual form" and "obscure manner of expression, made it far from suitable for reaching a wide circle of readers." David Harvey's Companion to Marx's Grundrisse builds upon his widely acclaimed companions to the first and second volumes of Capital in a way that will reach as wide an audience as possible. Marx's stated ambition for this text is to reveal "the exact development of the concept of capital as the fundamental concept of modern economics, just as capital itself is the foundation of bourgeois society." While respecting Marx's desire to "bring out all the contradictions of bourgeois production, as well as the boundary where it drives beyond itself," David Harvey also pithily illustrates the relevance of Marx's text to understanding the troubled state of contemporary capitalism.

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Free Download 27 Essential Principles of Story: Master the Secrets of Great Storytelling, from Shakespeare to South Park (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0B7QNJLMF | 2022 | 13 hours and 4 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 376 MB
Author: Daniel Joshua Rubin
Narrator: Daniel Joshua Rubin
A master class of 27 lessons, drawn from 27 diverse narratives, for novelists, storytellers, filmmakers, graphic designers, and more. Author Daniel Joshua Rubin unlocks the secrets of what makes a story work, and then shows how to understand and use these principles in your own writing. The result is "an invaluable resource" (Publishers Weekly, starred review), offering priceless advice like escalate risk, with an example from Pulp Fiction. Write characters to the top of their intelligence, from the Eminem song "Stan." Earn transformations, from Alison Bechdel's Fun Home. Attack your theme, from The Brothers Karamazov. Insightful, encouraging, filled with attitude, and, as Booklist puts it, "perfect for any writer looking to ensure their stories operate and resonate at the top of their potential," this audiobook gives contemporary storytellers of all kinds a lifeline of inspiration and relatable instruction.

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Free Download 10 Days That Shaped Modern Canada (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BX1BYCGT | 2023 | 12 hours and 15 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 336 MB
Author: Aaron W. Hughes
Narrator: Tyler Hyrchuk
Revisiting ten notable days from recent history, Aaron W. Hughes invites listeners to think about the tensions, events, and personalities that make Canada distinct. These indelible dates interweave to offer an account of the political, social, cultural, and demographic forces that have shaped the modern nation. The diverse episodes include the enactment of the War Measures Act, hockey's Summit Series, the patriation of the Constitution, the Multiculturalism Act, the École Polytechnique Massacre, victories for gay rights, Quebec's second referendum on secession, The Tragically Hip's farewell concert, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and ongoing Black equality struggles. Each day represents a window on contemporary Canada, jumpstarting reflection and conversation about who we are as a nation and how we got here. 10 Days That Shaped Modern Canada is the perfect guide for all those curious about the forces that shape our country and about how we understand our place in the world.

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Free Download Your Strategy Needs a Strategy: How to Choose and Execute the Right Approach (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BWKCJQPH | 2023 | 6 hours and 52 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 198 MB
Author: Martin Reeves, Knut Haanaes, Janmejaya Sinha
Narrator: Jeffrey Schmidt
Executives are bombarded with bestselling ideas and best practices for achieving competitive advantage, but many of these ideas and practices contradict each other. Should you aim to be big or fast? Should you create a blue ocean, be adaptive, play to win-or forget about a sustainable competitive advantage altogether? In a business environment that is changing faster and becoming more uncertain and complex almost by the day, it's never been more important-or more difficult-to choose the right approach to strategy. In this book, The Boston Consulting Group's Martin Reeves, Knut Haanæs, and Janmejaya Sinha offer a proven method to determine the strategy approach that is best for your company.

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