The Real Work On the Mystery of Mastery [Audiobook]
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English | ASIN: B0BTQ3JC6S | 2023 | MP3@64 kbps | ~07:50:00 | 222 MB
Longtime New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik investigates a foundational human question: How do we learn―and master―a new skill?
For decades, Adam Gopnik has been one of our most beloved writers, a brilliantly perceptive critic of art, food, France, and more. But recently, he became obsessed by a fundamental matter: How did the people he was writing about learn their outlandish skill, whether it was drawing a nude or baking a sourdough loaf? In The Real Work―his title the term magicians use for the accumulated craft that makes for a great trick―Gopnik apprentices himself to an artist, a dancer, a boxer, and even a driving instructor (from the DMV), among others, trying his late-middle-age hand at things he assumed were beyond him. He finds that mastering a skill is a process of methodically breaking down and building up, piece by piece―and that true mastery, in any field, requires mastering other people's minds. Read by the author, The Real Work is exuberant and profound, and is ultimately about why we relentlessly seek to better ourselves in the first place.


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The Rape of Europa The Intriguing History of Titian's Masterpiece [Audiobook]
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English | February 26, 2015 | ASIN: B00TXT4DNY | M4B@64 kbps | 8h 5m | 226 MB
Author: Charles FitzRoy | Narrator: Jeremy Clyde
The Rape of Europa is a completely novel popular history of art book centering on one of Titian's most celebrated masterpieces.
By telling the history of this painting from its origin to the present day, Charles FitzRoy includes fascinating accounts of King Philip II of Spain and how his art collecting reveals a dichotomy at its heart. The painting itself is an extremely erotic description of the famous classical myth based on the account in Ovid's Metamorphoses. It was commissioned as a wedding present for Charles I and his French queen Henrietta Maria, and was later copied by Rubens and exerted a strong influence on Velázquez. In the eighteenth century the painting was given by the King of Spain to the Duke of Orleans, brother of Louis XV. Orleans was the greatest art collector of his day, using the brilliant connoisseur and dealer Pierre Crozat as his agent. At this stage the story becomes one of skullduggery.


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The Power of Neuroplasticity [Audiobook]
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English | May 18, 2021 | ASIN: B094W7B59G | M4B@64 kbps | 6h 18m | 175 MB
Author: Shad Helmstetter PhD | Narrator: Douglas Martin
In The Power of Neuroplasticity, Shad Helmstetter, PhD, presents the scientific discovery that the thoughts we think physically rewire and reshape our brains and change our lives.
Dr. Helmstetter shows how to use the latest research from the field of neuroscience to wire your brain to change attitudes, overcome negativity, improve health and fitness, reach personal goals, increase mental sharpness and clarity, improve usable IQ, super-charge your thinking, and reshape your life, all with neuroscience on your side.


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The Power of Focusing A Practical Guide to Emotional Self-Healing [Audiobook]
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English | June 06, 2017 | ASIN: B071JFJ31Z | M4B@62 kbps | 3h 54m | 99.57 MB
Author: Ann Weiser Cornell
Narrator: Margo Trueblood

Focusing is a gentle yet powerful self-awareness technique that lets you tap into your body's wisdom and make positive changes in your life. The Power of Focusing guides you in learning this vital technique of self-exploration and self-discovery.


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The People's Hospital Hope and Peril in American Medicine [Audiobook]
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English | ASIN: B0B4ZHF8QV | 2023 | 10 hours and 53 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 312 MB
Author: Ricardo Nuila
Narrator: Ricardo Nuila

Where does one go without health insurance, when turned away by hospitals, clinics, and doctors? In The People's Hospital, physician Ricardo Nuila's stunning debut, we follow the lives of five uninsured Houstonians as their struggle for survival leads them to a hospital where insurance comes second to genuine care. First, we meet Stephen, the restaurant franchise manager who signed up for his company's lowest priced plan, only to find himself facing insurmountable costs after a cancer diagnosis. Then Christian-a young college student and retail worker who can't seem to get an accurate diagnosis, let alone treatment, for his debilitating knee pain. Geronimo, thirty-six years old, has liver failure, but his meager disability check disqualifies him for Medicaid-and puts a life-saving transplant just out of reach.


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The Other Family Doctor A Veterinarian Explores What Animals Can Teach Us About Love, Life, and Mortality [Audiobook]
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English | ASIN: B0B646KG5B | 2023 | 9 hours and 2 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 248 MB
Author: Karen Fine
Narrator: Karen Fine

A tribute to our furry, feathery, scaley, and wet family members, All Creatures Great and Small meets Being Mortal in this compelling memoir of one woman's dream to become a veterinarian. Karen Fine always knew that she wanted to be a vet and wasn't going to let anything stop her: not her allergy to cats, and not the fact that in the '80s veterinary medicine was still a mostly male profession. Inspired by her grandfather, a compassionate doctor who paid house calls to all his (human) patients, Dr. Fine persevered, and brought her Oupa's principles into her own practice, which emphasizes the need to understand her patients' stories to provide the best possible care. Woven into Dr. Fine's story are, of course, also the stories of her own pets: the birds, cats, and dogs who have taught her the most valuable lessons-how caring for the animals in our lives can teach us to better care for ourselves, especially when life seems precarious.


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The One Thing We've Never Spoken About Exposing Our Untold Mental Health Crisis [Audiobook]
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English | ASIN: B0BVD82K7H | 2023 | 9 hours and 43 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 279 MB
Author: Elfy Scott
Narrator: Elfy Scott

Journalist Elfy Scott grew up in a household where her mother's schizophrenia was rarely, if ever, spoken about. They navigated this silence outside the family home too; for many years, this complex mental health condition was treated as an open secret. Over the past two decades, we have started talking more about common mental health conditions like depression and anxiety. But complex conditions like schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and psychosis have been left behind, as have many of the people who live with these conditions or who care for them. Part memoir, part deep-dive investigation, The One Thing We've Never Spoken About is filled with rage at how our nation's public discourse, emergency services and healthcare systems continue to fail so many people. It is also a work of care, telling the little-heard stories of people who live with these conditions and work at the front lines of mental health. Above all, this timely, compelling book is informed by hope and courage, breaking down taboos and asking big questions about vulnerability, justice and duty of care.


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The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge [Audiobook]
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English | December 05, 2020 | ASIN: B08PC76SQG | M4B@128 kbps | 6h 50m | 368 MB
Author: Rainer Maria Rilke | Narrator: Jamie Parker
This remarkable book is the only novel by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926), the greatest German-language poet of his time. It is, in a sense, a true curiosity - dark and intense - and possesses, not surprisingly, strong elements of autobiography.
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge (Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge) has even been described as an anti-novel. It is set in Paris in the period just before the First World War, but it presents a bleaker milieu than that described by Proust. The language is terse, the atmosphere painful, the images uncompromising. Rilke drew on the short period he spent in Paris in 1903 where, in contrast to the rural circumstances in which he had lived before, he found the underbelly of urban life distressing. He saw the sick, the vagrants, the beggars and those descending into mental and emotional confusion and despair. And he worried that he, too, might become like them.


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The New Primal Blueprint Reprogram Your Genes for Effortless Weight Loss, Vibrant Health and Boundless Energy [Audiobook]
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English | ASIN: B01N12BQMS ISBN: 9798368976501 | 2023 | 11 hours and 53 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 348 MB
Author: Mark Sisson
Narrator: Brad Kearns

The New Primal Blueprint serves as the ultimate road map for anyone wishing to make the shift from flawed conventional wisdom about diet and exercise to a healthy, happy empowering lifestyle patterned after the evolutionary-tested behaviors of our hunter-gatherer ancestors. The book details the 10 immutable Primal Blueprint lifestyle laws that enable empower you to reprogram your genes to direct in the direction of weight loss, health, and longevity.


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The Never-Ending End of the World [Audiobook]
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English | March 08, 2023 | ASIN: B0BXQPW3NQ | M4B@128 kbps | 13h 19m | 739 MB
Author: Ann Christy | Narrators: Thérèse Plummer, Ari Fliakos
Station Eleven meets The Last of Us in this post-apocalyptic sci-fi epic from USA Today and Wall Street Journal best-selling author Ann Christy.
Coco Wells hasn't seen another living person since she was a teenager. All of Manhattan is reliving the same few seconds, minutes, or hours on a loop...and they have been for years. Everything looks normal from a distance, but up close, it's a nightmare.


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