Audio Books

The Myth of Disenchantment: Magic, Modernity, and the Birth of the Human Sciences (Audiobook)
English | June 08, 2021 | ASIN: B095J2848D | M4B@64 kbps | 16h 9m | 459 MB
Author: Jason A. Josephson-Storm | Narrator: Chris MacDonnell
A great many theorists have argued that the defining feature of modernity is that people no longer believe in spirits, myths, or magic. Jason A. Josephson-Storm argues that as broad cultural history goes, this narrative is wrong, as attempts to suppress magic have failed more often than they have succeeded. Even the human sciences have been more enchanted than is commonly supposed. But that raises the question: How did a magical, spiritualist, mesmerized Europe ever convince itself that it was disenchanted?
Josephson-Storm traces the history of the myth of disenchantment in the births of philosophy, anthropology, sociology, folklore, psychoanalysis, and religious studies. Ironically, the myth of mythless modernity formed at the very time that Britain, France, and Germany were in the midst of occult and spiritualist revivals. Indeed, Josephson-Storm argues, these disciplines' founding figures were not only aware of, but profoundly enmeshed in, the occult milieu; and it was specifically in response to this burgeoning culture of spirits and magic that they produced notions of a disenchanted world.

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The Multiethnic Soviet Union and Its Demise (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BPMSTP2P | 2022 | 4 hours and 52 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 271 MB
Author: Brigid O'Keeffe
Narrator: Leighton Pugh
This audiobook is the first to offer a concise, accessible overview of the evolution of the Soviet Union as a multiethnic empire. It reflects on how the Soviet Union was home to many ethnic minorities, and how their fates, and that of the USSR itself, were bound to the question of how the Soviet state responded variously throughout its existence to the fundamental question of ethnic difference across its vast and diverse territory. The audiobook then examines how the Soviet collapse in 1991 fractured the Union along markedly national lines, leading to a variety of new nation-states - including the Russian Federation - being born.

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The Magic of Mushrooms: Fungi in Folklore, Superstition and Traditional Medicine (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BW25SJZB | 2023 | 5 hours and 10 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 282 MB
Author: Sandra Lawrence
Narrator: Christina Delaine
Explore the wonderful world of some of the most incredible natural forms on our planet-fungi. At the center of countless superstitions, folkloric tales, and magical beliefs, as well as appearing in recipes and medicines both traditional and modern, mushrooms have incredible powers. The Magic of Mushrooms shows that from saving lives to expanding the mind, the potential of these fascinating organisms should not be underestimated.

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The LinkedIn Book for Network Marketing: Simple Strategies for Massive Success
Author: Scott Aaron
Narrator: Eric Robertson
English | 2020 | ASIN: B087N4LQ4W | MP3@64 kbps | 2h | 219 MB
This book has helped thousands of network marketers, entrepreneurs, and individuals experience explosive growth following the program featured in this book. Scott's strategic approach to teaching others how to create wealth online is people-focused and results driven, with a focus on organic traffic, a game changer when it comes to competing in a saturated digital world.

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The Hard Parts: A Memoir of Courage and Triumph (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0B4WV1SKX | 2023 | 10 hours and 57 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 314 MB
Author: Oksana Masters
Narrator: Oksana Masters, Emily Tremaine
Oksana Masters, the United States' most decorated winter Paralympic or Olympic athlete, tells her jaw-dropping story of triumphing over extraordinary Chernobyl disaster-caused physical challenges to create a life that, by example, challenges everyone to push through what is holding them back. Oksana Masters was born in Ukraine-in the shadow of Chernobyl-seemingly with the world against her. She was born with one kidney, a partial stomach, six toes on each foot, webbed fingers, no right bicep, and no thumbs. Her left leg was six inches shorter than her right, and she was missing both tibias. Relinquished to the orphanage system by birth parents daunted by the staggering cost of what would be their child's medical care, Oksana encountered numerous abuses, some horrifying. Salvation came at age seven when Gay Masters, an unmarried American professor who saw a photo of the little girl and became haunted by her eyes, waged a two-year war against stubborn adoption authorities to rescue Oksana from her circumstances.

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The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0B5M2DVF7 | 2023 | 10 hours and 26 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 298 MB
Author: Jake Bittle
Narrator: Matt Godfrey
The untold story of climate migration in the United States-the personal stories of those experiencing displacement, the portraits of communities being torn apart by disaster, and the implications for all of us as we confront a changing future. Even as climate change dominates the headlines, many of us still think about it in the future tense-we imagine that as global warming gets worse over the coming decades, millions of people will scatter around the world fleeing famine and rising seas. What we often don't realize is that the consequences of climate change are already visible, right here in the United States. In communities across the country, climate disasters are pushing thousands of people away from their homes. A human-centered narrative with national scope, The Great Displacement is "a vivid tour of the new human geography just coming into view".

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The Future of Humankind: Why We Should Be Optimistic (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0B46N52VV | 2023 | 9 hours and 35 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 264 MB
Author: John Hands
Narrator: Ralph Lister
In his acclaimed Cosmosapiens, renowned scientist John Hands looked back on how we humans evolved from the origin of the universe to the present day. Building on that work, The Future of Humankind: Why We Should Be Optimistic looks ahead to our ultimate destiny. Listeners embark on a fascinating journey in which Hands evaluates current major predictions for our future in three categories-extinction, survival, and transformation-before making his own unique and astonishing forecast.

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The Flowering Wand: Rewilding the Sacred Masculine (Audiobook)
English | November 29, 2022 | ASIN: B0BNJJ522L | M4B@64 kbps | 5h 19m | 140 MB
Author and Narrator: Sophie Strand
Reveals the restorative fungi archetype of Osiris, the Orphic mysteries as an underground mycelium linking forests and people, how Dionysus teaches us about invasive species and playful sexuality, and the ecology of Jesus as depicted in his nature-focused parables
Liberates Tristan, Merlin, and the Grail legends from the bounds of Campbell's hero's journey and invites the masculine into more nuanced, complex ways of dealing with trauma, growth, and self-knowledge

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The Emotional Lives of Teenagers: Raising Connected, Capable, and Compassionate Adolescents (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0B6GMX8SX | 2023 | 6 hours and 15 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 182 MB
Author: Lisa Damour
Narrator: Lisa Damour
An urgently needed guide to help parents understand their teenagers' intense and often fraught emotional lives-and how to support them through this critical developmental stage-from the New York Times bestselling author. In teenagers, powerful emotions come with the territory. And with so many of today's teens contending with academic pressure, social media stress, worries about the future, and concerns about their own mental health, it's easy for them-and their parents-to feel anxious and overwhelmed. But it doesn't have to be that way. With clear, research-informed explanations alongside illuminating, real-life examples, The Emotional Lives of Teenagers gives parents the concrete, practical information they need to steady their teens through the bumpy yet transformational journey into adulthood.

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The Diary Keepers: World War II in the Netherlands, as Written by the People Who Lived Through It (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0B2KFSVB9 | 2023 | 17 hours and 00 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 468 MB
Author: Nina Siegal
Narrator: Nina Siegal, Maggi-Meg Reed, Nan McNamara, Catherine Taber, Jenna Lamia, Rob Shapiro, Mike Ortego, Robert Petkoff, Steven Jay Cohen, Jim Meskimen
A riveting look at the story of World War II and the Holocaust through the diaries of Dutch citizens, firsthand accounts of ordinary people living through extraordinary times. Based on select writings from a collection of more than two thousand Dutch diaries written during World War II in order to record this unparalleled time, and maintained by devoted archivists, The Diary Keepers illuminates a part of history we haven't seen in quite this way before, from the stories of a Nazi sympathizing police officer to a Jewish journalist who documented daily activities at a transport camp.

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