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Free Download Triumph of the Yuppies: America, the Eighties, and the Creation of an Unequal Nation (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CKNK6RMN | 2024 | 10 hours and 15 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 294 MB
Author: Tom McGrath
Narrator: Stacy Carolan
The "entertaining and insightful" first history of the Yuppie phenomenon, chronicling the roots, rise, triumph and (seeming) fall of the young urban professionals who radically altered American life between 1980 and 1987 (New York Times bestselling author Ben Mezrich). By the time their obituary was being written in the late 1980s, Yuppies-the elite, uber‑educated faction of the Baby Boom generation-had become a cultural punchline. But amidst the Yuppies' preoccupation with money, work, and the latest status symbols, something serious was happening, too, something that continues to have profound ramifications on American culture four decades later. Brimming with lively and nostalgic details (think Jane Fonda, The Sharper Image, and over-the-top fashion), Triumph of the Yuppies charts Boomers' transformation from hippy idealists in the late 1960s to careerists in the early 1980s, and details how marketers, the media, and politicians pivoted to appeal to this influential new group. Yuppie values had an undeniable impact on the worlds of fashion, food, and fitness, as well as affecting the broader culture-from gentrification and an obsession with career success to an indulgent materialism. Most significantly, the me‑first mindset typical of Yuppieness helped create the largest income inequality in a century. Tom McGrath's masterful cultural history reveals how Yuppies reshaped American society. It is a portrait of America just as it was beginning to come apart-and the origin story of the fractured country we live in today.

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Free Download Tiny Buddha's Guide to Loving Yourself: 40 Ways to Transform Your Inner Critic and Your Life (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D3JB8DSR | 2024 | 6 hours and 12 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 343 MB
Author: Lori Deschene
Narrator: Camille Mazant
Learn to love yourself. From stress to happiness. Many of us know intellectually that we need to be good to ourselves if we want to be happy. But it feels so hard. We are simultaneously the harsh judge and the lost, scared child who wants to stop feeling judged. It becomes a vicious cycle. It only stops when we step outside ourselves and observe how we got ourselves stuck. Only then can we learn to practice gratitude and positive thinking. Joy and peace. Lori Deschene, creator of TinyBuddha and the self-help journals Tiny Buddha's Worry Journal and Tiny Buddha's Gratitude Journal, shares 40 unique perspectives and insights to help you stop judging yourself so harshly. Featuring stories selected from hundreds of TinyBuddha contributors, Tiny Buddha's Guide to Loving Yourself provides an honest look at what it means to overcome critical, self-judging thoughts to create a peaceful, empowered life. More than a self-help audiobook. Tiny Buddha's Guide to Loving Yourself is a collection of vulnerable reflections and epiphanies from people who are learning to love themselves, just like you.

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Free Download Through the Dark Wood: Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life (Audiobook)
English | September 23, 2014 | ASIN: B00NUD3830 | M4B@48 kbps | 7h 25m | 155 MB
Author and Narrator: James Hollis PhD
Have you ever looked at your career, your relationships, or your role in life and wondered, "Is this why I'm really here?" If so, then you are ready for your "midlife crisis" - the pivotal time when you have the opportunity to become the person your soul seeks to be.
"When the illusions of our youth begin to crumble," explains James Hollis, "we reach a turning point that the poet Dante called the 'dark wood.'" With Through the Dark Wood, this author and Jungian analyst reveals the steps we all must take on our road to true maturity, meaning, and fulfillment.

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Free Download Thorns, Lust, and Glory: The Betrayal of Anne Boleyn (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CZ4GTL4Z | 2024 | 8 hours and 17 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 239 MB
Author: Estelle Paranque
Narrator: Anna Wilson-Jones
Anne Boleyn has mesmerized people for centuries. Her tragic execution, orchestrated by her own husband, the infamous Henry VIII, never ceases to intrigue. How did this courtier's daughter become the queen of England, and what was it that really tore apart this illustrious marriage, making her the whore of England, an abandoned woman executed on the scaffold? While many stories of Anne Boleyn's downfall have been told, few have truly traced the origins of her tragic fate. In Thorns, Lust, and Glory, Estelle Paranque takes us back to where it all started: to France, where Anne learned the lessons that would set her on the path to becoming one of England's most infamous queens. At the court of the French king as a resourceful teenage girl, Anne's journey to infamy began, and this landmark biography explores the world that shaped her, and how these loyalties would leave her vulnerable, leading to her ruin at the English court. Featuring new archival research from sources across Europe, this book reveals the girl before the myth-and the formidable woman she grew up to become. A fascinating new perspective on Tudor history's most enduring story, Thorns, Lust, and Glory is an unmissable account of a queen on the edge.

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Free Download This Time No Mistakes: How to Remake Britain (Audiobook)
English | April 11, 2024 | ASIN: B0CZPCCPSN, B0CZPDS3PS | M4B@128 kbps | 15h 23m | 840 MB
Author: Will Hutton | Narrators: Will Hutton, Alastair Campbell
Every thinking person knows that a great change is needed in our country.
Will Hutton's passionate book shows how the right and left have gone wrong over the course of the last century - and how we can remake a better Britain. Britain's inability to invest in itself is at the heart of our problems. The malevolent thread linking the grievous errors of the last forty-five years is the attempt to create the utopia of free markets and a minimal state. The terrible consequences scar our country today. We need an alternative economic and political philosophy, especially if we are to ward off a nihilist populism.

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Free Download This Strange Eventful History (Audiobook)
English | May 14, 2024 | ASIN: B0CQPK997P | M4B@64 kbps | 16h 33m | 464 MB
Author: Claire Messud | Narrator: Cassandra Campbell
An immersive, masterful story of a family born on the wrong side of history, from one of our finest contemporary novelists.
Over seven decades, from 1940 to 2010, the pieds-noirs Cassars live in an itinerant state-separated in the chaos of World War II, running from a complicated colonial homeland, and, after Algerian independence, without a homeland at all. This Strange Eventful History, told with historical sweep, is above all a family story: of patriarch Gaston and his wife Lucienne, whose myth of perfect love sustains them and stifles their children; of François and Denise, devoted siblings connected by their family's strangeness; of François's union with Barbara, a woman so culturally different they can barely comprehend one another; of Chloe, the result of that union, who believes that telling these buried stories will bring them all peace.

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Free Download This Ordinary Stardust: A Scientist's Path from Grief to Wonder (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CJFY7TYX | 2024 | 6 hours and 41 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 374 MB
Author: Alan Townsend
Narrator: Alan Townsend
A compassionate exploration of scientific wonder that offers "a fresh perspective on life, death, and the bittersweet consequences of impermanence," (Jon Krakauer) as illuminated through the tragic dual cancer diagnoses of author Dr. Alan Townsend's wife and daughter. A decade ago, Dr. Alan Townsend's family received two unthinkable, catastrophic diagnoses: his 4-year-old daughter and his brilliant scientist wife developed unrelated, life-threatening forms of brain cancer. As he witnessed his young daughter fight during the courageous final months of her mother's life, Townsend - a lifelong scientist - was indelibly altered. He began to see scientific inquiry as more than a source of answers to a given problem, but also as a lifeboat: a lens on the world that could help him find peace with the painful realities he could not change. Through scientific wonder, he found ways to bring meaning to his darkest period. At a time when society's relationship with science is increasingly polarized while threats to human life on earth continue to rise, Townsend offers a balanced, moving perspective on the common ground between science and religion through the spiritual fulfillment he found in his work. Awash in Townsend's electrifying and breathtaking prose, THIS ORDINARY STARDUST offers hope that life can carry on even in the face of near-certain annihilation.

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Free Download This Is Why You Dream: What Your Sleeping Brain Reveals About Your Waking Life (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CDQKB8DF | 2024 | 6 hours and 11 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 345 MB
Author: Rahul Jandial
Narrator: Rahul Jandial
A fascinating dive into the purpose and potential of dreams. Dreaming is one of the most deeply misunderstood functions of the human brain. Yet recent science reveals that our very survival as a species has depended on it. This Is Why You Dream explores the landscape of our subconscious, showing why humans have retained the ability to dream across millennia and how we can now harness its wondrous powers in both our sleeping and waking lives. Dreaming fortifies our ability to regulate emotions. It processes and stores memories, amplifies creativity, and promotes learning. Dreams can even forecast future mental and physical ailments. Dreams can also be put to use. Tracing recent cutting-edge dream research and brain science, dual-trained neuroscientist and neurosurgeon Dr. Rahul Jandial shows how to use lucid dreaming to practice real-life skills, how to rewrite nightmares, what our dreams reveal about our deepest desires, and how to monitor dreams for signs of Parkinson's and Alzheimer's.

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Free Download There Was Nothing You Could Do: Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the U.S.A." and the End of the Heartland (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CKNFHWHW | 2024 | 8 hours and 13 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 238 MB
Author: Steven Hyden
Narrator: Steven Hyden
A thought-provoking exploration of Bruce Springsteen's iconic album, Born in the U.S.A.-a record that both chronicled and foreshadowed the changing tides of modern America. On June 4, 1984, Columbia Records issued what would become one of the best-selling and most impactful rock albums of all time. An instant classic, Bruce Springsteen's Born in the U.S.A. would prove itself to be a landmark not only for the man who made it, but rock music in general, and even the larger American culture over the next 40 years. In There Was Nothing You Could Do, veteran rock critic Steven Hyden shows exactly how this record became such a pivotal part of the American tapestry. Alternating between insightful criticism, meticulous journalism, and personal anecdotes, Hyden delves into the songs that made-and didn't make-the final cut, including the tracks that wound up on its sister album, 1982's Nebraska. He also investigates the myriad reasons why Springsteen ran from and then embraced the success of his most popular (and most misunderstood) LP, as he carefully toed the line between balancing his commercial ambitions and being co-opted by the machine.

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Free Download There Is No Ethan: How Three Women Caught America's Biggest Catfish (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CKNMSYW4 | 2024 | 9 hours and 57 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 294 MB
Author: Anna Akbari
Narrator: Anna Akbari, Justin Price
Part memoir, part explosive window into the mind of a catfisher, a thrilling personal account of three women coming face-to-face with an internet predator and teaming up to expose them. In 2011, three successful and highly educated women fell head over heels for the brilliant and charming Ethan Schuman. Unbeknownst to the others, each exchanged countless messages with Ethan, staying up late into the evenings to deepen their connections with this fascinating man. His detailed excuses about broken webcams and complicated international calling plans seemed believable, as did last minute trip cancellations. After all, why would he lie? Ethan wasn't after money-he never convinced his marks to shell out thousands of dollars for some imagined crisis. Rather, he ensnared these women in a web of intense emotional intimacy.

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