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Free Download Magical/Realism: Essays on Music, Memory, Fantasy, and Borders (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CJ5PSYF1 | 2024 | 12 hours and 24 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 358 MB
Author: Vanessa Angélica Villarreal
Narrator: Vanessa Angélica Villarreal
A brilliant, singular collection of essays that looks to music, fantasy, and pop culture-from Beyoncé to Game of Thrones-to excavate and reimagine what has been disappeared by migration and colonialism. Upon becoming a new mother, Vanessa Angélica Villarreal was called to Mexico to reconnect with her ancestors and recover her grandmother's story, only to return to the sudden loss of her marriage, home, and reality. In Magical/Realism, Villarreal crosses into the erasure of memory and self, fragmented by migration, borders, and colonial and intimate violence, reconstructing her story with pieces of American pop culture, and the music, video games, and fantasy that have helped her make sense of it all. The border between the real and imagined is a speculative space where we can remember, or re-world, what has been lost-and each chapter engages in this essential project of world-building.

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Free Download Magic Pill: The Extraordinary Benefits and Disturbing Risks of the New Weight-Loss Drugs (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CNF8FBSL | 2024 | 8 hours and 26 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 243 MB
Author: Johann Hari
Narrator: Johann Hari
The bestselling author offers a revelatory look at the new drugs transforming weight loss as we know it-from his personal experience on Ozempic to our ability to heal our society's dysfunctional relationship with food, weight, and our bodies. In January 2023, Johann Hari started to inject himself once a week with Ozempic, one of the new drugs that produces significant weight loss. He wasn't alone-some predictions suggest that in a few years, a quarter of the U.S. population will be taking these drugs. While around 80 percent of diets fail, someone taking one of the new drugs will lose up to a quarter of their body weight in six months. To the drugs' defenders, here is a moment of liberation from a condition that massively increases your chances of diabetes, cancer, and an early death. Still, Hari was wildly conflicted. Can these drugs really be as good as they sound? Are they a magic solution-or a magic trick?

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Free Download Made You Look: How to Use Brain Science to Attract Attention and Persuade Others (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CZ1Z61CT | 2024 | 7 hours and 21 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 202 MB
Author: Carmen Simon
Narrator: Ann Richardson
There's an overlooked but critical scientific fact that every marketing professional needs to know: Many decisions start with attention, and it's your job to grab the attention of every prospective customer as effectively as possible. But in this increasingly fast-paced, busy, and noisy world, how do you capture people's attention, much less persuade them? To answer this question, cognitive neuroscientist Carmen Simon leverages insights gleaned from her use of advanced technologies to study where people look, for how long, what type of attention leads to memories, and what keeps the brain coming back for more, to determine the effectiveness of sales pitches, marketing materials, corporate presentations, training videos, and other business content. In Made You Look, Simon presents her four-part framework for effectively attracting the attention of customers and impacting their buying decision. Each section of the book provides detailed guidelines you can use in your communication materials immediately. Attract attention and, as a result, influence memory and decisions with Made You Look, and lead your company to the top of your industry.

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Free Download Machine Learning Engineering in Action
Author: Ben Wilson
Narrator: n/a
English | 2022 | ISBN: 9781617298714 | MP3@64 kbps | Duration: 14h 48m | 1.17 GB
Field-tested tips, tricks, and design patterns for building machine learning projects that are deployable, maintainable, and secure from concept to production.

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Free Download MacArthur's Air Force: American Airpower Over the Pacific and the Far East, 1941-51 (Audiobook)
English | September 17, 2019 | ASIN: B07XHN7PMH | M4B@128 kbps | 10h 30m | 573 MB
Author: Bill Yenne | Narrator: Joe Barrett
General Douglas MacArthur is one of the towering figures of World War II, and indeed of the 20th century, but his leadership of the second largest air force in the USAAF is often overlooked. When World War II ended, the three numbered air forces (the Fifth, Thirteenth, and Seventh) under his command possessed 4,004 combat aircraft, 433 reconnaissance aircraft, and 922 transports. After being humbled by the Japanese in the Philippines in 1942, MacArthur and his air chief General George Kenney rebuilt the US aerial presence in the Pacific, helping Allied naval and ground forces to push back the Japanese Air Force, re-take the Philippines, and carry the war north towards the Home Islands.
Following the end of World War II, MacArthur was the highest military and political authority in Japan, and at the outbreak of the Korean War in June 1950 he was named as Commander in Chief, United Nations Command. In the 10 months of his command, his Far East Air Forces increased dramatically and saw the first aerial combat between jet fighters.

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Free Download Love Life: How to Raise Your Standards, Find Your Person, and Live Happily (No Matter What) (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CCW6FSWH | 2024 | 11 hours and 1 minute | MP3@64 kbps | 302 MB
Author: Matthew Hussey
Narrator: Matthew Hussey
An essential set of tools and principles for healing your heart, finding love, and loving life. Finding love can be hard. Being single can feel even harder. InLove Life, world-renowned coachand New York Times bestselling author Matthew Hussey provides a practical roadmap for letting go of past relationships, overcoming the fear of getting left behind, and finding the love we want. Sometimes it feels like life and love are working against us. Just finding someone we like can be a struggle. Even when we do, we often find they're not ready, or they want different things. Then there's the internal fears and anxieties that lead us to self-sabotage-the ones that make us indulge the wrong behavior, hold back from expressing our needs for fear of losing someone, or overinvest in people and lose ourselves in the process.

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Free Download Love Is a Burning Thing: A Memoir (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CGRYV2NC | 2024 | 8 hours and 55 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 259 MB
Author: Nina St. Pierre
Narrator: Nina St. Pierre
A riveting memoir about a daughter's investigation into the wirings of her loving, unpredictable mother: a woman who lived her life in pursuit of the divine, and who started two big fires, decades apart. Ten years before Nina was born, her mother lit herself on fire in a dual suicide attempt. During her recovery in the burn-unit, a nurse initiated her into Transcendental Meditation. From that day on, her mother's pain became intertwined with the pursuit of enlightenment. Growing up, Nina longed for a normal life; instead, she and her brother were at the whims of their mother, who chased ascension up and down the state of California, swapping out spiritual practices as often as apartments.

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Free Download Lotus Girl: My Life at the Crossroads of Buddhism and America (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CRZCFCRF | 2024 | 12 hours and 46 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 369 MB
Author: Helen Tworkov
Narrator: Helen Tworkov
The daughter of an artist, Helen Tworkov grew up in the heady climate of the New York School of Abstract Expressionism; yet from an early age, she questioned the value of Western cultural norms. At the age of twenty-two, she set off for Japan, then traveled through Cambodia, India, and eventually to Tibetan refugee camps in Nepal. Set against the arresting cultural backdrop of the sixties and their legacy, this intimate self-portrait depicts Tworkov's search for a true home as she interacts with renowned artists and spiritual luminaries including the Dalai Lama, Pema Chödrön, Joseph Goldstein, Bernie Glassman, Charles Mingus, Elizabeth Murray, and Richard Serra. Interweaving experience, research, and revelation, Helen Tworkov explores the relationship between Buddhist wisdom and American values, presenting a wholly unique look at the developing landscape of Buddhism in the West. Lotus Girl offers insight not only into Tworkov's own search for the truth but also into the ways each of us can better understand and transform ourselves.

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Free Download Look Away: A True Story of Murders, Bombings, and a Far-Right Campaign to Rid Germany of Immigrants (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CJDMV6Q9 | 2024 | 11 hours and 13 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 324 MB
Author: Jacob Kushner
Narrator: Samantha Desz
From a journalist and foreign correspondent, the harrowing history of how an economic crisis and far-right extremists catalyzed a shocking resurgence of violence in 21st-century Germany. Not long after the Berlin Wall fell, three teenagers became friends in the East German town of Jena. It was a time of excitement, but also of economic crisis: some four million East Germans found themselves out of jobs. The friends began attending far-right rallies with people who called themselves National Socialists: Nazis. Like the Hitler-led Nazis before them, they blamed minorities for their ills. From 2000 to 2011, they embarked on the most horrific string of white nationalist killings since the Holocaust. Their target: immigrants.

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