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Free Download ADHD Is Awesome: A Guide to (Mostly) Thriving with ADHD (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CB1NH49P | 2024 | 8 hours and 50 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 242 MB
Author: Penn Holderness, Kim Holderness
Narrator: Penn Holderness, Kim Holderness, Nathan Rosborough, Ann Marie Taepke, Tyrrell Harrell, Lola Holderness
You live in a world that wasn't designed for you. A world where you're expected to sit still, stay quiet, and focus. Because of the way your brain is wired, you can feel like you're failing at life. But you are not failing. You are awesome. Award-winning content creators Kim and Penn Holderness are on a mission to reboot how we think about the unfortunately named "attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder." As always, they are doing it by looking in the mirror, because they don't just study ADHD; they live it. Drawing on their often-hilarious insights and the expertise of doctors, researchers, and specialists; Kim and Penn provide fun, easy-to-digest advice and explanations. Take it from Penn: Having ADHD can be scary, but it comes with incredible upsides, including creativity, hyperfocus, and energy. You might even say it's kind of awesome. Whether you have ADHD or want to support someone else in their journey, this is the guide you need to make the life you want.

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Free Download A Seat at the Table: IT Leadership in the Age of Agility (Audiobook)
English | October 09, 2017 | ASIN: B0767H9ZMM | M4B@64 kbps | 9h 20m | 254 MB
Author: Mark Schwartz | Narrator: Eric Martin
Agile, Lean, and DevOps approaches are radical game changers, providing a fundamentally different way to think about how IT fits into the enterprise, how IT leaders lead, and how IT can harness technology to accomplish the objectives of the enterprise. But honest and open conversations are not taking place between management and Agile delivery teams.
In A Seat at the Table, CIO Mark Schwartz explores the role of IT leadership as it is now and opens the door to reveal IT leadership as it should be - an integral part of the value creation engine. With wit and easy style, Schwartz reveals that the only way to become an Agile IT leader is to be courageous - to throw off the attitude and assumptions that have kept CIOs from taking their rightful seat at the table. CIOs, step on up, your seat at the table is waiting for you.

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Free Download A Map of the New Normal: How Inflation, War, and Sanctions Will Change Your World Forever (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CFYM7TCJ | 2024 | 10 hours and 45 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 312 MB
Author: Jeff Rubin
Narrator: Jeff Rubin
Bestselling economist Jeff Rubin warns that the shock inflation of 2021 is the front of a perfect storm of war, supply-chain disruption, geopolitical realignment, domestic upheaval, and energy scarcity that will change everything. During the pandemic, government deficits skyrocketed to record highs while central banks primed the printing presses-and the time has come to pay for it. The ramifications of international COVID-19 spending could potentially last for decades, and inevitably one of the first consequences will be that central banks will lose control of interest rates, and subsequently, growth and inflation targets. The genie will be out of the bottle. That is just the first symptom of a series of cascading upheavals. Supply-chain disruptions have already shown the vulnerability of the globalist model that has fueled growth for the past decades.

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Free Download A Little History of Psychology (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D324Y4CJ | 2024 | 11 hours and 36 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 318 MB
Author: Nicky Hayes
Narrator: Gabrielle Baker
A rich and engaging guide to psychology, the science devoted to understanding human nature. What really drives our decisions? Where do language and memory come from? Why do our minds sometimes seem to work against us? Psychologists have long attempted to answer these questions, seeking to understand human behavior, feelings, and thoughts. But how to explore something so elusive? In this fascinating history, leading expert Nicky Hayes tells the story of psychology across the centuries and around the world. Hayes introduces key thinkers, including Carl Jung, Anna Freud, Frantz Fanon, and Daniel Kahneman. We see how they tried to expand our understanding, from Pavlov and his dogs to Milgram and his famous electric shock experiments to the CIA's secret mind-control projects. Hayes explores key concepts like child development, the inferiority complex, and PTSD and shows how psychological research has been used for both good and ill. This Little History shines a light on the ever-advancing study of psychology, how the field has evolved over time-and how much more we need to learn.

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Free Download A Life Impossible: Living with ALS: Finding Peace and Wisdom Within a Fragile Existence (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BWSM13XL | 2024 | 11 hours and 38 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 338 MB
Author: Steve Gleason, Jeff Duncan
Narrator: Daniel Cummings
From NFL player Steve Gleason, a powerful, inspiring memoir of love, heartbreak, resilience, family, and remarkable triumph in the face of ALS. In 2011, three years after leaving the NFL, Steve Gleason was diagnosed with ALS, a terminal disease that takes away the ability to move, talk, and breathe. Doctors gave him three years to live. He was thirty-three years old. As Steve says, he is now ten years past his expiration date. His memoir is the chronicle of a remarkable life, one filled with optimism and joy, despite the trauma and pain and despair he has experienced. Writing using eye-tracking technology, Gleason covers his pre-ALS life through the highs and lows of his NFL career with the New Orleans Saints, where he made one of the most memorable plays in Saints history, leading to a victory in the first post-Katrina home game, uplifting the city, making him a hero, and reflected in a nine-foot bronze statue outside the Superdome. Then came his heartbreaking diagnosis. Gleason lost all muscle function, he now uses Stephen Hawking-like technology to communicate, and breathes with the help of a ventilator. This book captures Gleason and his wife Michel's unmatched resilience as they reinvent their lives, refuse to succumb to despair, and face his disease realistically and existentially. This unsparing portrait argues that a person's true strength does not reside solely in one's body but also in the ability to face unfathomable adversity and still be able to love and treasure life.

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Free Download A Leader's Destiny: Why Psychology, Personality, and Character Make All the Difference (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CJCVCLVM | 2024 | 9 hours and 44 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 282 MB
Author: Elias Aboujaoude
Narrator: Pej Vahdat
A psychiatrist puts leadership "on the couch," with a provocative exploration of its crucial, often ignored, psychological and personal character foundations. Elias Aboujaoude's distinctive exploration of leadership provides unusual insight into understanding who should and should not be striving for leadership positions. Dr. Aboujaoude takes on the culture at large, explaining how our cult-like obsession with leadership gives narcissists an edge and results in leadership failure everywhere we look-and how resisting the imperative to rise at all costs can leave many with an inferiority complex. His takedown of the "leadership industrial complex," an unholy alliance of gurus, coaches, business school professors, and TED-talkers, from Harvard on down, pokes a very sharp elbow into an industry seemingly united in a modern form of alchemy to create leadership gold-a waste of time, money, and effort, since leadership cannot be taught through books or coaching and cannot be bought.

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Free Download A History of the Muslim World: From Its Origins to the Dawn of Modernity (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D1Z97GDK | 2024 | 52 hours and 00 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 1.4 GB
Author: Michael A. Cook
Narrator: Ric Jerrom
This audiobook narrated by Ric Jerrom traces the panoramic history of the Muslim world from the age of the Prophet Muḥammad to the the dawn of the modern era. This book describes and explains the major events, personalities, conflicts, and convergences that have shaped the history of the Muslim world. The body of the work takes listeners from the origins of Islam to the eve of the nineteenth century, and an epilogue continues the story to the present day. Michael Cook thus provides a broad history of a civilization remarkable for both its unity and diversity. After setting the scene in the Middle East of late antiquity, the book depicts the rise of Islam as one of the great black swan events of history.

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Free Download A History of Some of China's Most Famous Landmarks (Audiobook)
English | ISBN: 9798882232381 | 2024 | 4 hours and 46 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 264 MB
Author: Charles River Editors
Narrator: Victoria Woodson
China has always fascinated outsiders, much in the same way that distant light fascinates someone looking down a dark road. It is both familiar and mysterious, ancient and new, and fully understanding it seems to always remain just out of reach. From the Great Wall to the ancient teachings of Confucius, China's natural and man-made wonders have been topics of interest among Westerners since the Middle Ages and the pursuit of trade routes both by land and sea, amazing Marco Polo and 19th century British expeditions in similar ways despite the passage of several centuries between them. The Great Wall of China is perhaps the wonder of the world that has most captured the human imagination, and as the quotes about it indicate, the wall has acquired special significance even outside of China. The places and ways in which it has taken hold vary greatly, but one thing is certain: the Great Wall of China is as amazing as it is mysterious, and it's as mundane as it is magical.

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Free Download A Guide to Stress Free Living (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D363LJBY | 2024 | 3 hours and 52 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 224 MB
Author: Om Swami
Narrator: Om Swami
Audible presents A Guide To Stress Free Living. An Audible Original curated by Om Swami~ Om Swami's thoughts and words, in Om Swami's voice. In today's world, everyone has to deal with numerous difficult situations and people, leading to stress and agitation. Om Swami shares with us precious nuggets of wisdom from the inner recess of the universal consciousness to help us meet the challenges life throws at us. Let us take a deep dive into the ocean of transformation and bliss in this short series.

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Free Download A Grown-Up Guide to Dinosaurs [Audible Original]
English | July 10, 2019 | ASIN: B08DCCDPMV | M4B@128 kbps | 2h 48m | 155 MB
Author: Professor Ben Garrod
We're living through a golden age of paleontological research that, in the last couple of decades, has radically changed our understanding of dinosaurs. Through candid interviews with the world's top paleontologists, Professor Ben Garrod reveals new dinosaur facts from cutting edge research into the greatest animals ever to walk the planet.
When we're young, we all have a favourite dinosaur but, as time passes, other aspects of life get in the way. This is ultimate guide for grown-ups who have lost touch with their favourite childhood dinosaurs.

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