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Free Download The Extinction of Experience: Being Human in a Disembodied World (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0DDV2N9FP | 2024 | 8 hours and 42 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 476 MB
Author: Christine Rosen
Narrator: Suzie Althens
A reflective, original invitation to recover and cultivate the human experiences that have atrophied in our virtual world. We embraced the mediated life-from Facetune and Venmo to meme culture and the Metaverse-because these technologies offer novelty and convenience. But they also transform our sense of self and warp the boundaries between virtual and real. What are the costs? Who are we in a disembodied world? In The Extinction of Experience, Christine Rosen investigates the cultural and emotional shifts that accompany our embrace of technology. In warm, philosophical prose, Rosen reveals key human experiences at risk of going extinct, including face-to-face communication, sense of place, authentic emotion, and even boredom. Considering cultural trends, like TikTok challenges and mukbang, and politically unsettling phenomena, like sociometric trackers and online conspiracy culture, Rosen exposes an unprecedented shift in the human condition, one that habituates us to alienation and control. To recover our humanity and come back to the real world, we must reclaim serendipity, community, patience, and risk.

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Free Download Sabrina B. Little, Patricia Shade (Narrator), "The Examined Run: Why Good People Make Better Runners"
English | ASIN: B0DDZ6L7MZ | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~09:41:00 | 266 MB
Can running make me a more moral person? Can striving to be a better person make me a better runner?
In The Examined Run, philosopher and ultramarathon runner Sabrina B. Little asks whether running can be a laboratory for developing our character. She looks at the key ideas in virtue ethics-virtue, vice, exemplarism, moral emotions, and competition-and brings them into conversation with her experience in training and racing. Little pushes against the frequent conversations about ethics and sport that focus on the negative-doping and other forms of cheating or on simplistic expressions like "no pain, no gain." She argues that these ideas don't address the rich picture of how athletics inform a good life, and sport's relationship to acts of justice or courage. A good athlete is not just one who avoids cheating-rather, they perform feats of perseverance and courage, and succeed by working to develop their natural capacities. Little employs her own experiences in training, coaching, and racing in world class ultramarathons to reveal how athletics and virtue are deeply interconnected.

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Free Download The Evolution of Modern Medicine (Audiobook)
English | ISBN: 9781802560442 | 2024 | 6 hours and 33 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 361 MB
Author: William Osler
Narrator: James Harrington
"The Evolution of Modern Medicine" by William Osler is a seminal work tracing the historical trajectory of medical science. Osler, a renowned physician, delves into the origins of medical practices, exploring key breakthroughs and the development of modern healthcare. This comprehensive overview illuminates the evolution of medical knowledge, from ancient civilizations to contemporary times, providing valuable insights into the foundations of the medical field. Osler's meticulous examination offers a profound understanding of the challenges and advancements that have shaped the practice of medicine throughout history.

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Free Download Rebecca Ahmed, Samara Naeymi (Narrator), "The Energy of Success: Power Up Your Productivity, Transform Your Habits, and Maximize Workplace Motivation"
English | ASIN: B0DF98TK5W | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~06:32:00 | 180 MB
In The Energy of Success, award-winning energy expert Rebecca Ahmed reveals precisely how to shift your physical, emotional, and mental potential through proven, easy-to-use strategies you can start using today. When you learn to shift your own and your team's energy (even if you are not in charge!), you will immediately increase their joy and enthusiasm, transform your workplace, and infuse positivity into your workplace . . . for everyone.
In the book, you'll find five energetic success principles and practical steps you can take immediately to improve your life and the positive influence you can have on the people around you. You'll also discover:

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Free Download The Empowered Manager: Positive Political Skills at Work, 2nd Edition
Author: Peter Block
Narrator: Bill Andrew Quinn
English | 2024 | ASIN: B0DB3N7N7M | MP3@64 kbps | Duration: 7h 11m | 482 MB
Bestselling author Peter Block is a true visionary: author of the classic Flawless Consulting, his work is about empowerment, stewardship, chosen accountability, and reconciliation of community. In The Empowered Manager, he returns his eye toward management to renew our efforts to create a shift in the traditional hierarchy. Twenty years after the original book, Block talks of why it is so difficult to both open the door to empowerment and more importantly, have people walk through it. It is more important than ever to create a culture in which all members of an organization are treated as entrepreneurs, giving them ownership over their role and responsibilities. This is in the face of the reality that most employees want safety, not the adventure of empowerment.

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Free Download Addison Wiggin, William Bonner, David Colacci (Narrator), "The Empire of Debt: We Came, We Saw, We Borrowed"
English | ASIN: B0DDQL1V24 | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~18:25:00 | 506 MB
Building on the uncannily accurate predictions in previous editions, this latest edition of The Empire of Debt: We Came, We Saw, We Borrowed, written by New York Times bestselling authors Addison Wiggin and Bill Bonner, explores the economic, political, and financial events between 2008-09 and 2023, placing them in historical context and explaining what's likely to happen for the remaining years of the 2020s.
The book imparts practical advice on how to protect wealth in the face of ongoing and rapidly intensifying crises, as well as suggestions on how these trends can be played to put investors' own money to work. In this book, listeners will learn аbout:

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Free Download The Empathy Dilemma: How Successful Leaders Balance Performance, People, and Personal Boundaries (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0DG37G2ZB | 2024 | 5 hours and 32 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 284 MB
Author: Maria Ross
Narrator: Tom Cantlet
We have entered a new world of work. It's a world where successful leaders embrace a human-centric approach, prioritizing the mental health and personal responsibilities of their employees alongside their professional ones. However, post-pandemic, a dark side to the empathetic workplace has emerged and many well-intentioned business leaders are struggling to keep both productivity and morale high. In The Empathy Dilemma, author, speaker, and empathy advocate, Maria Ross, explores the difficulties organizational leaders are having, and the solutions they need to get back on track. Drawing on her decades of experience, thorough research, and extensive interviews, Ross goes back to the basics of what empathy is, and what it isn't.

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Free Download The Econocracy: On the Perils of Leaving Economics to the Experts by Joe Earle, Cahal Moran, Zach Ward-Perkins
English | July 06, 2017 | ISBN: B073QXXZBQ | 6 hours and 56 minutes | M4B 64 Kbps | 189 Mb
A century ago, the idea of 'the economy' didn't exist. Now economics is the supreme ideology of our time, with its own rules and language. The trouble is, most of us can't speak it.
This is damaging democracy. Dangerous agendas are hidden inside mathematical wrappers; controversial policies are presented as 'proven' by the models of economic 'science'. Government is being turned over to a publicly unaccountable technocratic elite.
The Econocracy reveals that economics is too important to be left to the economists - and shows us how we can begin to participate more fully in the decisions which affect all our futures.

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Free Download The Eastern Front: A History of the Great War 1914-1918 (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0DDRFSG6S | 2024 | 22 hours and 43 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 648 MB
Author: Nick Lloyd
Narrator: Elliot Fitzpatrick
The first major history in fifty years of the often overlooked Eastern Front of the First World War. Drawing on the latest scholarship as well as eyewitness reports, diary entries, and memoirs, Lloyd moves from the great battles of 1914 to the final collapse of the Central Powers in 1918, showing how a local struggle between Austria-Hungary and Serbia spiraled into a massive conflagration that pulled in Germany, Russia, Italy, Romania, and Bulgaria. Lloyd narrates the repeated invasions of Serbia as well as the great battles between Russian, German, and Austrian forces at Tannenberg, Komarow, Gorlice-Tarnow, and the Masurian Lakes. All along, he takes us into the strategy of the generals who decided the war's course, from the Germans Ludendorff and Hindenburg to the Austro-Hungarian chief, Conrad von Hötzendorf, to the brilliant Russian Brusilov. Perhaps the most radical aspect of the struggle in the east was that the violence was not confined to combatants. The Eastern Front witnessed calculated attacks against civilians that ripped the ethnic and religious fabric of numerous societies, paving the way for the horrors of the Holocaust. Lloyd's magisterial, definitive account of the war in the east will fundamentally alter our understanding of the cataclysmic events that reshaped Europe and the world.

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