Free Download Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CDF7ZF9Z | 2024 | 10 hours and 13 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 294 MB
Author: Suzanne Scanlon
Narrator: Suzanne Scanlon
A raw and masterful memoir about becoming a woman and going mad-and doing both at once. When Suzanne Scanlon was a student at Barnard in the '90s, grieving the loss of her mother-feeling untethered and swimming through inarticulable pain-she made a suicide attempt that landed her in the New York State Psychiatric Institute. After nearly three years and countless experimental treatments, Suzanne left the ward on shaky legs. In the decades it took her to recover from the experience, Suzanne came to understand her suffering as part of something larger: a long tradition of women whose complicated and compromised stories of self-actualization are reduced to "crazy chick" and "madwoman" narratives. It was a thrilling discovery, and she searched for more books, more woman writers, as the journey of her life converged with her journey through the literature that shaped her. Transporting, honest, and graceful, Committed is a story of discovery and recovery, reclaiming the idea of the madwoman as a template for insight and transcendence through the works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath, Janet Frame, Audre Lorde, Shulamith Firestone, and others.

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Free Download Sheila R. Morris, Harlan Greene, "Southern Perspectives on the Queer Movement: Committed to Home"
English | 2017 | ISBN: 1611178134 | EPUB | pages: 240 | 2.9 mb
A collection of essays by South Carolina activists on the development of the LGBTQ movement

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Free Download The Committed (Audiobook)
English | 27 May 2021 | ASIN: B08R69WQBQ | M4B@125 kbps | 12h 28m | 680.37 MB
Author: Viet Thanh Nguyen
Narrator: Francois Chau
The long-awaited new novel from one of America's most highly regarded contemporary writers, The Committed follows the Sympathizer as he arrives in Paris as a refugee. There he and his blood brother, Bon, try to escape their pasts and prepare for their futures by turning their hands to capitalism in one of its purest forms: drug dealing. No longer in physical danger, but still inwardly tortured by his re-education at the hands of his former best friend, and struggling to assimilate into a dominant culture, the Sympathizer is both charmed and disturbed by Paris. As he falls in with a group of left-wing intellectuals and politicians who frequent dinner parties given by his French Vietnamese 'aunt', he finds not just stimulation for his mind but also customers for his merchandise - but the new life he is making has dangers he has not foreseen, from the oppression of the state, to the self-torture of addiction, to the seemingly unresolvable paradox of how he can reunite his two closest friends, men whose worldviews put them in absolute opposition.

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Living a Committed Life: Finding Freedom and Fulfillment in a Purpose Larger Than Yourself (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BHB7JHKV | 2022 | 6 hours and 19 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 169 MB
Author: Lynne Twist
Narrator: Lynne Twist
What would life be like if you committed to something larger than yourself? Find out in the newest book from global transformation thought leader Lynne Twist. How does one person make a difference in the world? People constantly seek to discover meaning in their lives, but as humans take on the challenges facing us in this decade and beyond, we're searching for it now more than ever. Living a Committed Life demonstrates the power of dedication that goes beyond the self and teaches how to live a committed life that enables you to draw on resources and capacities from your most authentic self.

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Richard E. Holl, "Committed to Victory: The Kentucky Home Front During World War II "
English | ISBN: 0813165636 | 2015 | 408 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
When World War II broke out in Europe in September 1939, Kentucky was still plagued by the Great Depression. Even though the inevitably of war had become increasingly apparent earlier that year, the citizens of the Commonwealth continued to view foreign affairs as a lesser concern compared to issues such as the lingering economic depression, the approaching planting season, and the upcoming gubernatorial race. It was only the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor that destroyed any lingering illusions of peace.

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Audrey L. Comstock, "Committed to Rights: Volume 1: UN Human Rights Treaties and Legal Paths for Commitment and Compliance"
English | ISBN: 1108830072 | 2021 | 200 pages | PDF | 3 MB
International treaties are the primary means for codifying global human rights standards. However, nation-states are able to make their own choices in how to legally commit to human rights treaties. A state commits to a treaty through four commitment acts: signature, ratification, accession, and succession. These acts signify diverging legal paths with distinct contexts and mechanisms for rights change reflecting legalization, negotiation, sovereignty, and domestic constraints. How a state moves through these actions determines how, when, and to what extent it will comply with the human rights treaties it commits to. Using legal, archival, and quantitative analysis this important book shows that disentangling legal paths to commitment reveals distinct and significant compliance outcomes. Legal context matters for human rights and has important implications for the conceptualization of treaty commitment, the consideration of non-binding commitment, and an optimistic outlook for the impact of human rights treaties.

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English | ASIN: B099BK4C3K | 2021 | 6 hours and 11 minutes |MP3|M4B | 170 MB
When all is said and done, a lot more gets said than done. What is the antidote to this? Ruthless consistency. According to Harvard Business Review, "most studies still show a 60-70% failure rate for organizational change projects - a statistic that has stayed constant from the 1970s to the present". Drawing on his 20-plus years of experience as a strategy and execution consultant specializing in midsize companies, Michael Canic helps committed leaders drive the odds in their favor. In Ruthless Consistency, he identifies the three surprising reasons most strategic change initiatives fail: Leaders unwittingly send mixed messages that demotivate their people and undermine those initiatives; leaders focus on what they do instead of what their people experience; and leaders are not as committed as they think they are or need to be. The book then introduces an intuitive yet comprehensive model for success. Simply put, leaders who develop the right focus, create the right environment, and build the right team - consistently - are leaders whose organizations win. Finally, it details each element of the model and offers ready-to-apply processes, practices, techniques, and tools to make it happen. It's a must-listen for every leader who wants to implement change successfully.

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