Audio Books

English | ASIN: B08WPQFP5F | 2021 | 6 hours and 23 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 176 MB
Everything in nature evolves by trial and error. We cannot avoid this fundamental method of natural evolution, but our human advantage is that we can think about and learn from the errors before trying again. Trial, Error, and Success helps boost that advantage with 10 insights into realistic knowledge, thinking, and emotional intelligence. The authors use real-life examples to show how successful thinking avoids overgeneralization traps - the key trick is to focus on the differences between a new circumstance and existing knowledge. You'll discover: How the right thinking about a new circumstance creates new knowledge by alternating sharp analyses and broad analogies. How to use this knowledge to grasp both the risks and the benefits of the new circumstance and to make the best decisions. How to reduce personal risk and maximize benefits by collective applications of the trial-and-error method. It becomes obvious why machine learning and automatic actions cannot replace human intelligence and decision making!
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Read More: Trial, Error, and Success 10 Insights into Realistic Knowledge, Thinking, and Emotional Intelligence [Audiobook]

English | 2021 | MP3 | M4B | ASIN: B09BBKCLW2 | Duration: 7:33 h | 411 MB
Kati Morton / Narrated by Kati Morton
We hear the terms trauma and PTSD more and more. Yet many people still believe that trauma can only result from experiences that are particularly extreme. But trauma is an emotional response that can stem from a wide variety of upsetting experiences, leaving us feeling anxious, weighed down by negative emotions or memories, or feeling like we lack security.

Read More: Traumatized Identify, Understand, and Cope with PTSD and Emotional Stress (Audiobook)

English | ASIN: B08Y97H71T | 2021 | 13 hours and 55 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 382 MB
A deeply researched and propulsively written story of corrupt governance, police brutality, Black resistance, and violent white reaction in turn-of-the-century New Orleans that holds up a dark mirror to our own times. On a steamy Monday evening in 1900, New Orleans police officers confronted a black man named Robert Charles as he sat on a doorstep in a working-class neighborhood where racial tensions were running high. What happened next would trigger the largest manhunt in the city's history, while white mobs took to the streets, attacking and murdering innocent black residents during three days of bloody rioting. Finally cornered, Charles exchanged gunfire with the police in a spectacular gun battle witnessed by thousands.
Building outwards from these dramatic events, To Poison a Nation connects one city's troubled past to the modern crisis of white supremacy and police brutality. Historian Andrew Baker immerses listeners in a boisterous world of disgruntled laborers, crooked machine bosses, scheming businessmen, and the black radical who tossed a flaming torch into the powder keg. Baker recreates a city that was home to the nation's largest African American community, a place where racial antagonism was hardly a foregone conclusion - but which ultimately became the crucible of a novel form of racialized violence: modern policing. A major work of history, To Poison a Nation reveals disturbing connections between the Jim Crow past and police violence in our own times.

Read More: To Poison a Nation The Murder of Robert Charles and the Rise of Jim Crow Policing in America [Audiobook]

English | 2020 | MP3 | M4B | ASIN: B082WJWJ1F | Duration: 7:16 h | 396 MB
Niki Lauda / Narrated by Ryan Wichert, Kevin Eason
Niki Lauda drove a car for sport, but crossed the line between life and death and fought back to even greater glory. Even people who know nothing of Formula One have heard of his crash at Nurburgring in 1976, when he was dragged from the inferno of his Ferrari so badly injured he was given the last rites. Within 33 days, he was racing again at Monza. His wounds bled; he had no eyelids. He was terrified. A year later, he reclaimed his World Championship title.

Read More: To Hell and Back My Autobiography (Audiobook)

English | 2018 | MP3 | M4B | ASIN: B09KZJH8UN | Duration: 26:38 h | 731 MB
Diarmaid MacCulloch / Narrated by David Rintoul
Thomas Cromwell is one of the most famous - or notorious - figures in English history. Born in obscurity in Putney, he became a fixer for Cardinal Wolsey in the 1520s. After Wolsey's fall, Henry VIII promoted him to a series of ever greater offices, and by the end of the 1530s he was effectively running the country for the King. That decade was one of the most momentous in English history: it saw a religious break with the Pope, unprecedented use of parliament, the dissolution of all monasteries. Cromwell was central to all this, but establishing his role with precision, at a distance of nearly five centuries and after the destruction of many of his papers at his own fall, has been notoriously difficult.

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English | ASIN: B0B834HHTG | 2022 | 4 hours and 41 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 128 MB
Rachel Cusk meets Nora Ephron in this intimate and evolving portrait about the end of a marriage and how life can fall apart and be rebuilt in wonderful and surprising ways. One minute Elizabeth Crane and her husband of fifteen years are fixing up their old house in Upstate New York, finally setting down roots after stints in Chicago, Texas, and Brooklyn, when his unexpected admission—I'm not happy—changes everything. Suddenly she finds herself separated and in couples therapy, living in an apartment in the city with an old friend and his kid. It's understood that the apartment and bonus family are temporary, but the situation brings unexpected comfort and much-needed healing for wounds even older than her marriage. Crafting the story as the very events chronicled are unfolding, Crane writes from a place of guarded possibility, capturing through vignettes and collected moments a semblance of the real-time practice of healing. At turns funny and dark, with moments of poignancy, This Story Will Change is an unexpected and moving portrait of a woman in transformation, a chronicle of how even the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves are bound to change.
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Read More: This Story Will Change After the Happily Ever After [Audiobook]

English | 2011 | MP3 | M4B | ASIN: B005KFQS6U | Duration: 7:54 h | 218 MB
Sue Johnston / Narrated by Sue Johnston
'Seeing Mum lying in a hospital bed, in what would be the last few days of her life, it was hard to marry her with the mother I had known. She allowed me to help her in a way that she would have normally rebuffed. She was not the mother who had constantly battled with her own emotions, and with her inability to express them without anger, fear or regret. To say that throughout my life we hadn't always seen eye to eye might be something of an understatement....'

Read More: Things I Couldn't Tell My Mother My Autobiography (Audiobook)

English | 2015 | MP3 | M4B | ASIN: B00XNYZRZ8 | Duration: 15:34 h | 370 MB
Ronald Grigor Suny / Narrated by Eric Jason Martin
Starting in early 1915, the Ottoman Turks began deporting and killing hundreds of thousands of Armenians in the first major genocide of the 20th century. By the end of the First World War, the number of Armenians in what would become Turkey had been reduced by 90 percent - more than 1,000,000 people. A century later, the Armenian genocide remains controversial but relatively unknown, overshadowed by later slaughters and the chasm separating Turkish and Armenian versions of events. In this definitive narrative history, Ronald Suny cuts through nationalist myths, propaganda, and denial to provide an unmatched account of when, how, and why the atrocities of 1915-1916 were committed.

Read More: They Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else A History of the Armenian Genocide (Audiobook)

English | ASIN: B0B7Z7169H | 2022 | 8 hours and 15 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 226 MB
From acclaimed literary biographer Claire Tomalin, a complex and fascinating exploration of the early life of the influential writer and public figure H. G. Wells. How did the first forty years of H. G. Wells's life shape the father of science fiction? From his impoverished childhood in a working-class English family and determination to educate himself at any cost to his complicated marriages, love affair with socialism, and the serious ill health that dominated his twenties and thirties, H. G. Wells's extraordinary early life would set him on a path to become one of the world's most influential writers.
The sudden success of The Time Machine and The War of the Worlds transformed his life and catapulted him to international fame; he became the writer who most inspired Orwell and countless others and predicted men walking on the moon seventy years before it happened. In this remarkable, empathetic biography, Claire Tomalin paints a fascinating portrait of a man like no other, driven by curiosity and desiring reform, a socialist and a futurist whose new and imaginative worlds continue to inspire today.

Read More: The Young H. G. Wells Changing the World [Audiobook]

English | ASIN: B09HN6DS24 | 2021 | 12 hours and 57 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 356 MB
In a tour de force of historical reportage, Timothy Egan's National Book Award-winning story rescues an iconic chapter of American history from the shadows. The dust storms that terrorized the High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression were like nothing ever seen before or since. Following a dozen families and their communities through the rise and fall of the region, Timothy Egan tells of their desperate attempts to carry on through blinding black dust blizzards, crop failure, and the death of loved ones. Brilliantly capturing the terrifying drama of catastrophe, he does equal justice to the human characters who become his heroes, "the stoic, long-suffering men and women whose lives he opens up with urgency and respect" (New York Times). In an era that promises ever-greater natural disasters, The Worst Hard Time is "arguably the best nonfiction book yet" (Austin Statesman Journal) on the greatest environmental disaster ever to be visited upon our land and a powerful reminder about the dangers of trifling with nature.
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Read More: The Worst Hard Time The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl [Audiobook]