What's the Use How Mathematics Shapes Everyday Life [Audiobook]
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English | ASIN: B09BBNHHNH | 2021 | 9 hours and 6 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 264 MB
Author: Ian Stewart
Narrator: Quentin Cooper

See the world in a completely new way as an esteemed mathematician shows how math powers the world - from technology to health care and beyond. Almost all of us have sat in a math class, wondering when we'd ever need to know how to find the roots of a polynomial or graph imaginary numbers. And in one sense, we were right: If we needed to, we'd use a computer. But as Ian Stewart argues in What's the Use?, math isn't just about boring computations. Rather, it offers us new and profound insights into our world, allowing us to accomplish feats as significant as space exploration and organ donation. From the trigonometry that keeps a satellite in orbit to the prime numbers used by the world's most advanced security systems to the imaginary numbers that enable augmented reality, math isn't just relevant to our lives. It is the very fabric of our existence.


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Uncertain Harvest The Future of Food on a Warming Planet [Audiobook]
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English | ASIN: B0BWWYCVSJ | 2023 | 13 hours and 26 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 384 MB
Author: Ian Mosby, Sarah Rotz, Evan D.G. Fraser
Narrator: Jenny Hoops

A menu for an edible future. In a world expected to reach a staggering population of 10 billion by 2050, and with global temperatures rising fast, humanity must fundamentally change the way it grows and consumes food. Uncertain Harvest brings together scientists, chefs, activists, entrepreneurs, farmers, philosophers, and engineers working on the global future of food to answer questions on how to make a more equitable, safe, sustainable, and plentiful food future. Navigating cutting-edge research on the science, culture, and economics of food, Ian Mosby, Sarah Rotz, and Evan D. G. Fraser present a roadmap for a global food policy, while examining eight foods that could save us: algae, caribou, kale, millet, tuna, crickets, milk, and rice.


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Today Hong Kong, Tomorrow the World What China's Crackdown Reveals About Its Plans to End Freedom Everywhere [Audiobook]
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English | ASIN: B0BWYZ3B9X | 2023 | 11 hours and 41 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 329 MB
Author: Mark L. Clifford
Narrator: Rick Adamson

For 150 years as a British colony, Hong Kong was a beacon of prosperity where people, money, and technology flowed freely, and residents enjoyed many civil liberties. In preparation for handing the territory over to China in 1997, Deng Xiaoping promised that it would remain highly autonomous for fifty years. An international treaty established a Special Administrative Region (SAR) with a far freer political system than that of Communist China. But as the halfway mark of the SAR's lifespan approaches in 2022, it is clear that China has not kept its word. Universal suffrage and free elections have not been instituted, harassment and brutality have become normalized, and activists are being jailed en masse.


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The Way of the Gardener Lost in the Weeds Along the Camino de Santiago [Audiobook]
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English | ASIN: B0BX16XGPS | 2023 | 5 hours and 2 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 278 MB
Author: Lyndon Penner
Narrator: Lyndon Penner



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The Very Last Interview [Audiobook]
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English | April 12, 2022 | ASIN: B09RTN6WR4 | M4B@128 kbps | 2h 21m | 129 MB
Author: David Shields | Narrator: Stephen Bowlby
In the spirit of his highly acclaimed and influential book Reality Hunger, David Shields has composed a mordantly funny, relentlessly self-questioning self-portrait based on questions that interviewers have asked him over forty years.
David Shields decided to gather every interview he's ever given, going back nearly forty years. If it was on the radio or TV or a podcast, he transcribed it. He wasn't sure what he was looking for, but he knew he wasn't interested in any of his own answers. The questions interested him-approximately 2,700, which he condensed and collated to form twenty-two chapters focused on such subjects as Process, Childhood, Failure, Capitalism, Suicide, and Comedy. Then, according to Shields, "the real work began: rewriting and editing and remixing the questions and finding a through-line."


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The Social Animal The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement [Audiobook]
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English | March 08, 2011 | ASIN: B004R0MU98 | M4B@62 kbps | 16h 9m | 440.21 MB
Author: David Brooks
Narrator: Arthur Morey

With unequaled insight and brio, David Brooks, the New York Times columnist and best-selling author of Bobos in Paradise, has long explored and explained the way we live. Now, with the intellectual curiosity and emotional wisdom that make his columns among the most read in the nation, Brooks turns to the building blocks of human flourishing in a multilayered, profoundly illuminating work grounded in everyday life.


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The Patriarchs The Origins of Inequality [Audiobook]
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English | ASIN: B0BFJWTQP6 | 2023 | 10 hours and 25 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 301 MB
Author: Angela Saini
Narrator: Sohm Kapila

A groundbreaking exploration of gendered oppression-its origins, its histories, our attempts to understand it, and our efforts to combat it. For centuries, prominent thinkers have treated male domination among humans as natural or inevitable. But how would our understanding of gender inequality-our imagined past and contested present-look if we didn't assume that men have always ruled over women? If we saw gendered oppression as something fragile, that, alongside other forms of inequality, has had to be constantly remade and reasserted? In this bold and radical book, award-winning science journalist Angela Saini explores the roots of what we call patriarchy, uncovering a complex history of how it first became embedded in societies and spread across the globe from prehistory into the present.


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The Ottoman Empire [Audiobook] (Repost)
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English | May 26, 2017 | ASIN: B0727YWTB5 | MP3@64 kbps | 18h 44m | 506.14 MB
Author: Kenneth W. Harl, The Great Courses
Narrator: Kenneth W. Harl

By understanding the dramatic story of the Ottoman Empire - from its early years as a collection of raiders and conquerors to its undeniable power in the 15th and 16th centuries to its catastrophic collapse in the wreckage of the First World War - one can better grasp the current complexities of the Middle East.


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The Miracle of Flexibility A Head-to-Toe Program to Increase Strength, Improve Mobility, and Become Pain Free [Audiobook]
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English | ASIN: B0BVSX6WVV | 2023 | 2 hours and 36 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 144 MB
Author: Miranda Esmonde-White
Narrator: Miranda Esmonde-White

Gain strength and mobility while living a pain-free life at any age using this revolutionary technique created by former ballerina, New York Times bestselling author, and star of PBS's Classical Stretch Miranda Esmonde-White. The fields of sports and fitness are presently dominated by injury and chronic pain. Scientific studies are proving that the old philosophy of "No Pain, No Gain" is false and that pain and injuries are unnecessary biproducts of physical activity. For decades, former ballerina and New York Times bestselling author, Miranda Esmonde-White, has been developing a solution to the chronic pain produced by a lifetime of injuries and ageing, leaving her as spry later in life as most of us would dream to be in our twenties.


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The Joy Choice How to Finally Achieve Lasting Changes in Eating and Exercise [Audiobook]
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English | ASIN: B09WXVJ6DV | 2022 | 6 hours and 13 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 348 MB
Author: Michelle Segar
Narrator: Jessica Rau

It's time for a new story of behavior change-this time, with a happy ending. Welcome to the Joy Choice! What if you could easily and joyfully resolve the in-the-moment conflicts that often derail your eating and exercise goals? Much of what we've been taught about creating change in eating and exercise is simplistic, outdated, and for many, misguided. Sustainable-behavior-change researcher and lifestyle coach Michelle Segar has devoted decades to the study of how to achieve lasting changes in eating and exercise and other self-care behaviors. Segar explains the surprising reasons why our eating and exercise plans so often crash when they come up against real life. She calls these conflicts "choice points," and shows that they are the real place of power for achieving lasting changes in eating and exercise.


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