Audio Books

Free Download James B. Rule, Gregory Abbey (Narrator), "Taking Privacy Seriously: How to Create the Rights We Need While We Still Have Something to Protect"
English | ASIN: B0CXVZPQB5 | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~09:56:00 | 273 MB
A STEP-BY-STEP PROGRAM TO CREATE A MORE PRIVATE AND EGALITARIAN DIGITAL WORLD
Taking Privacy Seriously offers both a hard-hitting assessment of the origins of today's privacy-eroding practices and a robust road map for creating individual authority over our personal data. James B. Rule proposes eleven key reforms in the control and use of personal information-including far-reaching new rights for individuals and meaningful responsibilities for data-keeping organizations-all aimed at redressing the balance of power between ordinary citizens and data hungry corporate and government institutions.
What a privacy-deprived America needs most is not less technology, Rule argues, but profound political realignment. His proposed reforms include the creation of websites that publicly document what organizations are holding what forms of personal data; the establishment of a right for citizens to withdraw from personal data systems not required by law; and the institution of a universal property right over commercial exploitation of data on oneself-so that no organization could profit from the use or sale of such data without permission.

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Free Download Take Back Your Brain: How a Sexist Society Gets in Your Head-and How to Get It Out (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CGRWV1P1 | 2024 | 7 hours and 38 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 223 MB
Author: Kara Loewentheil
Narrator: Kara Loewentheil
A manual for every woman who wants to stop endless negative self-talk, create unshakable confidence, and jump-start a life of joy and power. It all begins with your thoughts. I never look good in tight skirts. I can't ask for a raise or my boss will think I'm greedy. I'm getting too old to find a partner. I'm a bad mom. I'm always behind. I'll never be good enough. What if every time you had a self-critical thought, you heard it in a man's voice? The truth is not far off. Living in a patriarchy, women absorb a lifetime of messages that say your worth is defined by your looks, your accomplishments, and how well you take care of everyone around you. In fact, these messages are so pervasive that, even knowing they exist, they still manage to program themselves into our brains. The result is that women end up feeling anxious, guilty, and vaguely ashamed of themselves no matter how much they do for others or achieve for themselves. So how do we deprogram our thoughts from patriarchy's corrosive influence? And once we do, how can we create new, self-empowering beliefs?

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Free Download Surviving Modern Yoga: Cult Dynamics, Charismatic Leaders, and What Survivors Can Teach Us (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CJ44TFJC | 2024 | 16 hours and 21 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 477 MB
Author: Matthew Remski
Narrator: Matthew Remski
Grounded in investigative research and real survivor stories, Surviving Modern Yoga uncovers the physical and sexual abuse perpetrated by Ashtanga yoga leader Pattabhi Jois-and reckons with the culture, structures, and mythos that enabled it. Yoga culture sells well-meaning westerners the full package: physical health, good vibes, and spiritual growth. Here, investigative journalist Matthew Remski explores how cultic dynamics, institutional self-interest, and spiritualized indifference collude to obscure the truth: Harm happens in plain sight. Through in-depth interviews, insider analysis, and Remski's own history with high-demand groups, Surviving Modern Yoga brings to light how we're each susceptible to cult abuse and exploitation.

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Free Download Superior: Creating a Superior Culture of Excellence (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CNHV1LMG | 2024 | 11 hours and 24 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 331 MB
Author: Rusty Komori
Narrator: Rusty Komori
Prepare to elevate your game with Superior: Creating a Superior Culture of Excellence, a book that combines the unparalleled wisdom of Rusty Komori's acclaimed works: Beyond the Lines and Beyond the Game, each a standalone marvel in its own right. Rusty Komori masterfully fuses the essence of these two groundbreaking books while preserving their individual spirits, delivering the best of both worlds in one extraordinary collection. Beyond the Lines delves into the intricate challenges of positive problem-solving, offering a time-tested game plan for any leader in pursuit of sustainable success. Beyond the Game takes this foundational wisdom to the next level, providing a versatile toolbox for leaders eager to enhance their team dynamics.

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Free Download Superfoods, Silkworms, and Spandex: Science and Pseudoscience in Everyday Life (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D325B8WC | 2024 | 8 hours and 9 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 224 MB
Author: Dr. Joe Schwarcz
Narrator: Rich Miller
In this new collection of bite-size pop science essays, bestselling author, chemistry professor, and radio broadcaster Dr. Joe Schwarcz shows that you can find science virtually anywhere you look. And the closer you look, the more fascinating it becomes. In this volume, we look through our magnifying glass at maraschino cherries, frizzy hair, duct tape, pickle juice, yellow school buses, aphrodisiacs, dental implants, and bull testes. If those don't tickle your fancy, how about aconite murders, shot towers, book smells, Swarovski crystals, French wines, bees, or head transplants? You can also learn about the scientific escapades of James Bond, California's confusing Proposition 65, the problems with oxygen on Mars, Valentine's Meat Juice, the benefits of pasteurization, the pros and cons of red light therapy, the controversy swirling around perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), why English cucumbers are wrapped in plastic, and how probiotics may have seeded Hitler's downfall. Superfoods, Silkworms, and Spandex answers all your burning questions about the science of everyday life.

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Free Download Colin Odell, Michelle Le Blanc, Abigail Reno (Narrator), "Studio Ghibli: The Films of Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata, 4th Edition"
English | ASIN: B0CRXCN5DP | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~06:54:00 | 190 MB
REVISED AND UPDATED TO INCLUDE THE BOY AND THE HERON
The animations of Japan's Studio Ghibli are among the most respected in the movie industry. Their films rank alongside the most popular non-English language films ever made, with each new release a guaranteed box office hit. Yet this highly profitable studio has remained fiercely independent, producing a stream of imaginative and individual animations. The studio's founders, Hayao Miyazaki and the late Isao Takahata, have created timeless masterpieces. Their films are distinctly Japanese but the themes are universal: humanity, community and a love for the environment.
Studio Ghibli outlines the history of the studio and explores the early output of its founders. It examines all the studio's major works including Laputa: Castle in the Sky, Grave of the Fireflies, My Neighbour Totoro, Kiki's Delivery Service, Only Yesterday, Porco Rosso, Pom Poko, Whisper of the Heart, Princess Mononoke and Howl's Moving Castle, as well as the Oscar-winning Spirited Away. Also included are the more recent animations: Hayao Miyazaki's Oscar-nominated masterpiece The Wind Rises, Isao Takahata's The Tale of Princess Kaguya, Goro Miyazaki's Earwig and the Witch and Hayao Miyazaki's latest box office success, The Boy and the Heron, which recently won a BAFTA, Golden Globe and Academy Award.

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Free Download Karen Casey, Dr. John Duffy, Joana Garcia (Narrator), "Stop Smoking and Vaping Now!: How to Recover from Nicotine Addiction"
English | ASIN: B0D15TKCP2 | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~08:56:00 | 246 MB
Quitting nicotine is a healing process. For many people, smoking has become a part of their daily habits, which can make quitting for health or personal reasons even more difficult. But you don't have to let that deep compulsion get the best of you again. By sharing her own story of smoking dependency and recovery, author Karen Casey's impactful quit-smoking book will help you find your strength to flourish without ever needing a cigarette (or e-cigarette) again.
Breaking the habit with powerful affirmations. You don't have to go through this alone. Stop Smoking (and Vaping) Now! will connect you with listeners who have experienced the same road to recovery from addiction as you, and how they fought to live smoke-free through guided meditation for healing. Featuring inspiring wisdom and practices that have helped thousands of listeners learn how to quit, you can expect amazing change from your download of Karen Casey's addiction recovery audiobook.
Inside Stop Smoking (and Vaping) Now!, you'll find:

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Free Download Stop People Pleasing: And Find Your Power (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CP6FBF58 | 2024 | 11 hours and 00 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 318 MB
Author: Hailey Magee
Narrator: Hailey Magee
A viral life coach offers a practical, empathetic, and inspiring guide to breaking people-pleasing patterns that can harm our careers, relationships, physical, and psychic health. For most of Hailey Magee's life, people-pleasing came so naturally to her that she didn't even have a word for it. When somebody wanted something from her-even a stranger-she gave it, no matter how uncomfortable, exhausted, or resentful she felt inside. People-pleasing, she learned, was a coping mechanism that had kept her physically and emotionally safe in the past, but wreaked havoc on her life in the present-and she was committed to breaking the pattern once and for all.

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Free Download Spin Doctors: How Media and Politicians Misdiagnosed the Covid-19 Pandemic (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D23LM3FL | 2024 | 23 hours and 29 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 669 MB
Author: Nora Loreto
Narrator: Nora Loreto
As Canada was in the grips of the worst pandemic in a century, Canadian media struggled to tell the story. Newsrooms, already run on threadbare budgets, struggled to make broader connections that could allow their audience to better understand what was really happening, and why. Politicians and public health officials were mostly given the benefit of the doubt that what they said was true and that they acted in good faith. This book documents each month of the first year of the pandemic and examines the issues that emerged, from racialized workers to residential care to policing. It demonstrates how politicians and uncritical media shaped the popular understanding of these issues and helped to justify the maintenance of a status quo that created the worst ravages of the crisis. Spin Doctors argues alternative ways in which Canadians should understand the big themes of the crisis and create the necessary knowledge to demand large-scale change.

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Free Download Sovereign: Reclaim Your Freedom, Energy, and Power in a Time of Distraction, Uncertainty, and Chaos (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CNHBM3YW | 2024 | 6 hours and 49 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 379 MB
Author: Emma Seppälä
Narrator: Emma Seppälä
The acclaimed author maps a bold and fresh, science-backed path to break the bonds of self-destructive patterns and beliefs and live a fuller, more authentic life. In the post-pandemic era of war, polarization, and economic and environmental challenges, is it any wonder that we're questioning a lot of things we thought we knew? We're ready to reevaluate what's important and rethink how we are living our lives. We need a new perspective-and acclaimed psychologist Emma Seppälä offers one. Sovereign delivers a radically new and enlightening message, made for this age of suffering and confusion. It's a manifesto that awakens us to all the areas in our life where we have subjugated ourselves to self-destructive beliefs and tendencies. And it's a roadmap to reclaim our full psychological sovereignty so we can live free, happy, and authentic lives. Backed by psychological data, neuroscience, and empirically validated methodologies, Sovereign takes us further along the path of personal transformation than we may ever have ventured before-and gives us the true freedom to live life to our fullest potential.

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