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Free Download Afghanistan: Graveyard of Empires: Why the Most Powerful Armies of Their Time Found Only Defeat or Shame in This Land of Endless Wars (Audiobook)
English | December 01, 2021 | ASIN: B09MRDP68L | MP3@64 kbps | 3h 17m | 92.81 MB
Author: John A. Tyler
Narrator: Elliot Fitzpatrick
During the spring and summer of 2021, global news reports were filled with the impending US/NATO withdrawal from Afghanistan. At best, it would be viewed as a stalemate, with an orderly transition to a stable, US-backed Afghan government. At worse, it would be looked upon as two decades of futile war, ending with a shameful retreat that left the county at the mercy of a ruthless Taliban regime. What went wrong?

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Free Download A Brief History of Thought: A Philosophical Guide to Living (Learning to Live, Book 1) (Audiobook)
English | November 30, 2021 | ASIN: B09M5GVLKQ | MP3@64 kbps | 7h 40m | 206.8 MB
Author: Luc Ferry
Narrator: Bob Souer
From the timeless wisdom of the ancient Greeks to Christianity, the Enlightenment, existentialism, and postmodernism, Luc Ferry's instant classic brilliantly and accessibly explains the enduring teachings of philosophy - including its profound relevance to modern daily life and its essential role in achieving happiness and living a meaningful life. This lively journey through the great thinkers will enlighten every listener, young and old.

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Free Download Zen Body-Being: An Enlightened Approach to Physical Skill, Grace, and Power (Audiobook)
English | ISBN: 9798889840121 | 2023 | 6 hours and 44 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 376 MB
Author: Peter Ralston, Laura Ralston
Narrator: Toby Sheets
A program of "physical education" for martial arts practitioners and anyone interested in body improvement. Using simple, clear language to demystify the Zen mindset, he draws on more than three decades of experience teaching students and apprentices worldwide who have applied his body-being approach. More of a transformative guide than a specific list of exercises devoted to any particular physical approach, Zen Body-Being explains how to create a state of mental control, enhanced feeling-awareness, correct structural alignment, increased spatial acuity, and even a greater interactive presence. Exercises are simple, often involving feeling-imagery and meditative awareness, which have a profound and sometimes instant effect. Where similar guides teach audiences what to do, this book teaches audiences how to be.

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Free Download Your Future Self: How to Make Tomorrow Better Today (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BJ554T6M | 2023 | 7 hours and 4 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 204 MB
Author: Hal Hershfield
Narrator: Sean Pratt
Based on over a decade of research, psychologist Hal Hershfield explores how connecting with our future selves can both improve our lives right now and help us achieve our goals and hopes for the future. We've all had the desire to travel through time and see what our lives will be like later in life. While we want the best possible future for ourselves, we often fail to make decisions that would truly make that a reality. Why do we choose steak over vegetables at dinner, waving off concerns about high cholesterol? Why do we splurge on luxury cars rather than save for retirement? Why can't we stick to our exercise programs? Why are so many of us so disconnected from our future selves?

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Free Download You've Got This: Seven Steps to a Life You Love (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BBK73PJX | 2023 | 4 hours and 24 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 245 MB
Author: Dr. Michaela Dunbar
Narrator: Dr. Michaela Dunbar
From a rising clinical psychologist and founder of Instagram's @myeasytherapy, an accessible, life-enhancing guide to reframing self-doubt and negative thought patterns to unlock your potential. We all experience self-doubt and anxiety at certain points throughout our lives, some of us more often and more intensely than others. Anxiety is an emotion, a chemical reaction, and a fundamental part of being human. It can help us to stay alert and focused, spur us to action, and motivate us to solve problems. But left unchecked, it can have the opposite effect, holding us back and preventing us from living the lives we want. Dr. Michaela's goal is to help you struggle less and thrive more. Instead of succumbing to self-doubt, Dr. Michaela teaches you how to set boundaries, avoid burnout, and free yourself from the traps of overthinking. Accessible, inclusive, and deeply informative, You've Got This is for anyone who wants to let go of limiting beliefs, overthinking, and anxiety-and learn to step confidently into a life they love.

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Free Download Yoga Myths: What You Need to Learn and Unlearn for a Safe and Healthy Yoga Practice (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C5BBD4H6 | 2023 | 8 hours and 18 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 232 MB
Author: Judith Hanson Lasater
Narrator: Devon Sorvari
The essential guide to correcting yoga misconceptions and avoiding injuries in your practice from Judith Hanson Lasater, a yoga instructor, physical therapist, and bodywork expert. "Tuck your tailbone to protect your back." "Increase your breath." "Pull your abdominal muscles into your backbone." Following these movement cues is often believed to benefit your yoga practice and protect your body when entering and holding poses. However, what may seem like a helpful correction can actually lead to injury or physical harm.

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Free Download Write Yourself Out of a Corner: 100 Exercises to Unlock Creativity (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C629C2SJ | 2023 | 10 hours and 30 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 296 MB
Author: Alice LaPlante
Narrator: Daniela Acitelli
100 imagination-stretching writing exercises inspired by the idea of creative constraints. When you are facing down a blank page (or screen), a constraint-based prompt-for example, "you must use the words 'cloud' and 'green'" or "you must set the scene in a crowded grocery store"-can get your brain working in unexpected ways. In this creative writing guide, longtime teacher and novelist Alice LaPlante shares 100 original exercises that will simultaneously push you into a corner and give you the tools to write yourself out of it. LaPlante explains the purpose of each exercise-to sharpen your ear for dialogue, generate surprising images, or access intense emotions-and breaks down student examples to reveal how to achieve these goals. Whether you are looking to jumpstart new ideas or find a fresh angle on a work in progress, and whether you write fiction, creative nonfiction, or poetry, Write Yourself Out of a Corner will strengthen your imagination and your craft.

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Free Download Women We Buried, Women We Burned: A Memoir (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C6V4JWJB | 2023 | 9 hours and 48 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 279 MB
Author: Rachel Louise Snyder
Narrator: Rachel Louise Snyder
For decades, Rachel Louise Snyder has been a fierce advocate reporting on the darkest social issues that impact women's lives. This is her own story. Snyder was eight years old when her mother died, and her distraught father thrust the family into an evangelical, cult-like existence halfway across the country. Furiously rebellious, she was expelled from school and home at age sixteen. Living out of her car and relying on strangers, Rachel found herself masquerading as an adult, talking her way into college, and eventually traveling the globe.

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Free Download Why We Hurt: The Natural History of Pain (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C6BDYZFH | 2023 | 9 hours and 45 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 265 MB
Author: Frank T. Vertosick Jr.
Narrator: Tom Parks
A top neurosurgeon and acclaimed author's unique and highly listenable study of the paradox of pain, with fascinating anecdotes on migraines, cancer, and more. Medical science has made brilliant discoveries over the last century but as any cancer patient can attest, it has yet to conquer, or even fully comprehend, pain. Beginning with his own battle against severe migraines, and citing numerous case studies of his patients, in Why We Hurt Dr. Frank Vertosick explains how pain evolved, and by highlighting the critical functions it serves, he helps us to understand its value. Well written, expertly researched, and movingly told, each chapter offers an amalgam of medicine, history, anthropology, drama, inspiration, and practical advice on a myriad of pain syndromes, from back pain to angina, arthritis to carpal tunnel syndrome. A skilled writer and compassionate physician, Vertosick believes knowledge is often the first, and best, analgesic, and in Why We Hurt, "he offers fascinating insight into the greatest mystery of all: what it means to be human".

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Free Download Where Are Your Boys Tonight?: The Oral History of Emo's Mainstream Explosion 1999-2008 (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B09SGNN9LC | 2023 | 13 hours and 54 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 398 MB
Author: Chris Payne
Narrator: Graham Halstead, Chris Abell
An explosive oral history of emo's takeover from 1999 to 2008, featuring. If Meet Me in the Bathroom traced New York City's early 2000's rock scene, Where Are Your Boys Tonight? gives the inside story of the turn-of-the-millennium emo subculture that became bigger than anyone thought possible. There was Pete Wentz, the Fall Out Boy leader who launched a litany of scene-stealing bands and preposterous side-hustles, and Gerard Way, the wizard behind My Chemical Romance and The Black Parade.

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