Practices for Embracing Anxiety Accessing the Wisdom and Energy of This Vital Emotion [Audiobook]
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English | June 30, 2020 | ASIN: B0891R2F19 | M4B@128 kbps | 4h 47m | 262 MB
Author and Narrator: Karla McLaren MEd
Guided audio practices to stop fighting your anxiety and start working with it as an untapped source of energy, focus, foresight, and productivity.
Are you struggling with anxiety? If so, you've probably tried the usual options - distraction, repression, medication, exercise, or just trying to ignore it. But anxiety evolved to help us. And when we know how to work with it, this powerful emotion gives us the clarity and motivation to complete our tasks and fulfill our goals.

Mystery Cults in the Ancient World [Audiobook]
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English | ASIN: B0CRLHC5LX | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~07:56:00 | 226 MB
Mystery cults are one of the most intriguing areas of Greek and Roman religion. In the nocturnal mysteries at Eleusis, participants dramatically reenacted the story of Demeter's loss and recovery of her daughter Persephone; in the Bacchic cult, bands of women ran wild in the Greek countryside to honor Dionysus; in the mysteries of Mithras, men came to understand the nature of the universe and their place within it through frightening initiation ceremonies and astrological teachings.
These cults were an important part of life in the ancient Mediterranean world, but their actual practices were shrouded in secrecy. Mystery Cults in the Ancient World makes plentiful use of artistic and archaeological evidence, as well as ancient literature and epigraphy, to reconstruct the sacred rituals and explore their origins. Greek painted pottery, Roman frescoes, inscribed gold tablets from Greek and Southern Italian tombs, and the excavated sites of religious sanctuaries all contribute to our understanding of ancient mystery cults. Not only is this clearly written book a significant contribution to the study of these cults, it is also accessible to a general audience. More than any other book on ancient religion, it allows the listener to understand what it was like to participate in these life-altering religious events.

Madness Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum [Audiobook]
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English | ASIN: B0C9S83JN4 | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~11:02:00 | 313 MB
In the tradition of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, a compelling 93-year history of Crownsville Hospital, one of the nation's last segregated asylums, told by an award-winning journalist on her decade-long search for sanity in America's mental healthcare system.
On a cold day in March of 1911, officials marched twelve Black men into the heart of a forest in Maryland. Under the supervision of a doctor, the men were forced to clear the land, pour cement, lay bricks, and harvest tobacco. When construction finished, they became the first twelve patients of the state's Hospital for the Negro Insane. For centuries, Black patients have been absent from our history books. Madness transports listeners behind the brick walls of a Jim Crow asylum.
In Madness, Peabody and Emmy award-winning journalist Antonia Hylton tells the 93-year-old history of Crownsville Hospital, one of the last segregated asylums with surviving records and a campus that still stands to this day in Anne Arundel County, Maryland. She blends the intimate tales of patients and employees whose lives were shaped by Crownsville with a decade-worth of investigative research and archival documents. Madness chronicles the stories of Black families whose mental health suffered as they tried, and sometimes failed, to find safety and dignity. Hylton also grapples with her own family's experiences with mental illness, and the secrecy and shame that it reproduced for generations.

Infectious Generosity The Ultimate Idea Worth Spreading [Audiobook]
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English | ASIN: B0CCYW9D1C | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~065900 | 198 MB
The bestselling author, media pioneer, and curator of TED explores one of humankind's defining but overlooked impulses, and how we can super-charge its potential to build a hopeful future-"an essential read to kick off the new year" (Forbes, "16 Must Have Books and Podcasts for Leaders in 2024")
"I flew through these pages with an increasing sense of joy. I hope that millions read this book."-Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love
Let's face it: Recent years have been tough on optimists. Hopes that the Internet might bring people together have been crushed by the ills of social media. Is there a way back?

Illuminations Essays and Reflections [Audiobook]
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English | November 30, 2021 | ASIN: B099T6SZY5 | M4B@128 kbps | 10h 12m | 571 MB
Author: Walter Benjamin | Editor: Hannah Arendt | Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki
Walter Benjamin was an icon of criticism, renowned for his insight on art, literature, and philosophy. This volume includes his views on Kafka, with whom he felt a close personal affinity; his studies on Baudelaire and Proust; and his essays on Leskov and Brecht's epic theater. Illuminations also includes his penetrating study "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction", an enlightening discussion of translation as a literary mode, and his theses on the philosophy of history.
Hannah Arendt selected the essays for this volume and introduces them with a classic essay about Benjamin's life in a dark historical era. Leon Wieseltier's preface explores Benjamin's continued relevance for our times.

I'm Not Okay and That's Okay Mental Health Microskills to Deal with Life's Inevitable Struggles [Audiobook]
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English | ASIN: B0CQZ3G51V | 2024 | 3 hours and 59 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 109 MB
Author: Steff Du Bois
Narrator: Steff Du Bois

Everybody struggles. Whether you're breaking down in tears at the grocery store, on the verge of cussing out your toxic family member or coworker, screaming at cars in traffic, or feeling completely alone and friendless on a Saturday night-we've ALL been there. Fortunately, there are simple ways to help you identify and improve your negative thoughts, calm the chaos of emotional overwhelm, and feel better quickly. I'm Not Okay and That's Okay offers in-the-moment microskills-little strategies for big change-based in proven-effective cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), and real-life experience. You'll learn to recognize unhelpful thinking patterns; cope with feelings of sadness, anger, worry, fear, and frustration; and improve your relationships. Most importantly, you'll uncover the root cause of why you feel the way you do, what's making you feel worse, and how you can deal with these intense feelings in healthier ways. The world is rapidly changing and becoming more and more uncertain. But you can stay grounded-even when everything around you is spiraling out of control. You've got this. And this fun, heartfelt guide has your back.

How Music and Mathematics Relate [TTC Audio]
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English | March 06, 2019 | ASIN: B07PD9FVV7 | M4B@128 kbps | 9h 23m | 523 MB
Lecturer: David Kung
Great minds have long sought to understand the relationship between music and mathematics. Both involve patterns, structures, and relationships. Both generate ideas of great beauty and elegance. Music is a fertile testing ground for mathematical principles, while mathematics explains the sounds instruments make and how composers put those sounds together.
Understanding the connections between music and mathematics helps you appreciate both, even if you have no special ability in either field - from knowing the mathematics behind tuning an instrument to understanding the features that define your favorite pieces. By exploring the mathematics of music, you also learn why non-Western music sounds so different, gain insight into the technology of modern sound reproduction, and start to hear the world around you in exciting new ways.

Everyday Freedom Designing the Framework for a Flourishing Society [Audiobook]
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English | ASIN: B0CS3WY3LL | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~02:06:00 | 58 MB
Something basic is missing in our culture. Americans know it. Nothing much works as it should. Simple daily choices seem impossible, or fraught with peril. In the workplace, we walk on eggshells. Big projects get stalled in years of review. Endemic social problems such as homelessness become, well, more endemic.
Everyday Freedom offers a radical reinterpretation of the corrosion of American culture. The assault on authority after the 1960s, aimed at enhancing freedom, instead created a plague of powerlessness. The teacher in the classroom, the principal in a school, the nurse in the hospital, the official in Washington, the parent on a field trip . . . all have their hands tied. Things don't work, and Americans have lost the freedom to be themselves.
Everyday Freedom offers a radical vision for change: Re-empower Americans in their everyday choices. The massive legal structures erected since the 1960s were based on flawed notions that human judgment could be replaced by elaborate dictates. These failed structures must be replaced with simpler frameworks activated by human responsibility and accountability. Nothing will work sensibly until Americans are free to draw on their skills, intuitions, and values when confronting daily challenges. This is the only cure to alienation. This is also the only way to deliver good government.

Cool Food Erasing Your Carbon Footprint One Bite at a Time [Audiobook]
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English | ASIN: B0CD88LT47 | 2024 | 6 hours and 10 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 348 MB
Author: Robert Downey Jr., Thomas Kostigen
Narrator: Thomas Kostigen, Robert Downey Jr, Deepti Gupta

In Cool Food, celebrated actor and philanthropist Robert Downey Jr. and New York Times bestselling author Thomas Kostigen team up to discover how we can erase our carbon footprints-one bite at a time. What we eat matters-to us, and to the planet. Cool food is a game-changing new food category and way of thinking that can help fix the climate. This engaging and persuasive book will show you how to make simple choices, starting today-in the supermarket, in your kitchen, and in the world-to reduce your environmental impact. Hundreds of cool foods exist, but until now have gone largely uncelebrated for their climate-positive powers.

Comedy Book How Comedy Conquered Culture-and the Magic That Makes It Work [Audiobook]
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English | November 07, 2023 | ASIN: B0CL1JZ86B | M4B@128 kbps | 9h 21m | 511 MB
Author and Narrator: Jesse David Fox
"Comedy Book changes the way we talk about an art form that is more diverse and exciting than ever before." (Seth Meyers)
"A sharp, loving, well written exploration and analysis of the art form that makes us smile, helps us relate, and is perpetually mysterious." (Jenny Slate)