Body Am I The New Science of Self-Consciousness [Audiobook]
Body Am I: The New Science of Self-Consciousness (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BVPMPKHY | 2023 | 7 hours and 23 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 201 MB
Author: Moheb Costandi
Narrator: Ray Greenley

The body is central to our sense of identity. Bodily awareness, says scientist-writer Moheb Costandi, is key to self-consciousness. In Body Am I, Costandi examines how the brain perceives the body, how that perception translates into our conscious experience of the body, and how that experience contributes to our sense of self. Along the way, he explores what can happen when the mechanisms of bodily awareness are disturbed, leading to such phenomena as phantom limbs, alien hands, and amputee fetishes. Costandi explains that the brain generates maps and models of the body that guide how we perceive and use it, and that these maps and models are repeatedly modified and reconstructed.


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Bloody Verrières The I. SS-Panzerkorps Defence of the Verrières-Bourguebus Ridges Volume 2 Defeat of Operation [Audiobook]
Bloody Verrières: The I. SS-Panzerkorps Defence of the Verrières-Bourguebus Ridges: Volume 2: The Defeat of Operation Spring and the Battles of Tilly-La-Campagne, 23 July - 5 August 1944 (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BVWPXNT9 | 2023 | 12 hours and 45 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 364 MB
Author: Arthur W. Gullachsen
Narrator: Bruce Mann

South of the Norman city of Caen, Verrieres Ridge was seen a key stepping-stone for the British Second Army if it was to break out of the Normandy bridgehead in late July 1944. Imposing in height and containing perfect terrain for armored operations, the Germans viewed it as the lynchpin to their defenses south of the city of Caen and east of the Orne river. Following the failure of British Operation Goodwood on 18-20 July and the containment of the Canadian Operation Atlantic, further Allied attacks to seize the ridge would have to defeat arguably the strongest German armored formation in Normandy: The I. SS-Panzerkorps "Leibstandarte." The fighting of 23 July-3 August is chronicled in detail, specifically the premier Anglo-Canadian operation to capture Verrieres Ridge, Operation Spring on 25 July. Designed as an attack to seize the ridge and exploit south with armor, this battle saw the 2nd Canadian Corps attack savaged again by German armored reserves brought in specifically to defeat another Goodwood. Not satisfied with this defensive victory, German armored forces would then seek to restore an earlier defensive line further north, attacking to destroy the 2nd Canadian Infantry Division. Largely unknown, these were some of the strongest and most successful German armored operations to take place in the Normandy campaign.


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Blind Spot The Global Rise of Unhappiness and How Leaders Missed It [Audiobook]
Blind Spot: The Global Rise of Unhappiness and How Leaders Missed It (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BW4VPM85 | 2023 | 6 hours and 12 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 176 MB
Author: Jon Clifton
Narrator: Fred Sanders

The rising unhappiness that leaders didn't see. That's because while leaders pay close attention to measures like GDP or unemployment, almost none of them track their citizens' well-being. The implications of this blind spot are significant and far-reaching-leaders missed the citizen unhappiness that triggered events ranging from the Arab uprisings to Brexit to the election of Donald Trump. What are they going to miss next? Grounded in Gallup's global research, Blind Spot makes the urgent case that leaders should measure and quantify wellbeing and happiness-how citizens' lives are going-and shows them how. It also discusses the five key elements of a great life where the world needs to improve in each of them to better the lives of people everywhere.


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Beyond Addiction How Science and Kindness Help People Change [Audiobook]
Beyond Addiction: How Science and Kindness Help People Change (Audiobook)
English | August 06, 2014 | ASIN: B00M4KQUU8 | M4B@64 kbps | 12h 2m | 344 MB
Authors: Jeffrey Foote PhD, Carrie Wilkens PhD, Nicole Kosanke PhD, Stephanie Higgs PhD | Narrator: Randye Kaye
Beyond Addiction eschews the theatrics of interventions and tough love to show family and friends how they can use kindness, positive reinforcement, and motivational and behavioral strategies to help their loved ones change. Drawing on forty collective years of research and decades of clinical experience, the authors present the best practical advice science has to offer.
Delivered with warmth, optimism, and humor, Beyond Addiction defines a new, empowered role for friends and family and a paradigm shift for the field. Learn how to tap the transformative power of relationships for positive change, guided by exercises and examples. Practice what really works in therapy and in everyday life, and discover many different treatment options along with tips for navigating the system. And have hope: this guide is designed not only to help someone change but to help someone want to change.


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Anthropocene A Very Short Introduction [Audiobook]
Anthropocene: A Very Short Introduction (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BTJTJMZ9 | 2023 | 5 hours and 10 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 274 MB
Author: Erle C. Ellis
Narrator: Jonathan Yen

The proposal that the impact of humanity on the planet has left a distinct footprint, even on the scale of geological time, has recently gained much ground. Global climate change, shifting global cycles of the weather, widespread pollution, radioactive fallout, plastic accumulation, species invasions, the mass extinction of species-these are just some of the many indicators that we will leave a lasting record in rock, the scientific basis for recognizing new time intervals in Earth's history. The Anthropocene, as the proposed new epoch has been named, is regularly in the news. Even with such robust evidence, the proposal to formally recognize our current time as the Anthropocene remains controversial both inside and outside the scholarly world. Instead, the Anthropocene has emerged as a powerful new narrative, a concept through which age-old questions about the meaning of nature and even the nature of humanity are being revisited and radically revised.


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An Affirming Flame Meditations on Life and Politics [Audiobook]
An Affirming Flame: Meditations on Life and Politics (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B09VLL72P6 | 2023 | 16 hours and 38 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 458 MB
Author: Roger Cohen
Narrator: Roger Cohen, Mark Deakins

A collection of the finest New York Times columns written by Roger Cohen over more than a decade, accompanied by an original, twenty-thousand-word essay on the state of the world. The countless readers who followed Roger Cohen's column and mourned its end responded above all to what they saw as the marriage in his writing of head and heart. That tenor permeates An Affirming Flame. During his twelve years as a columnist, Cohen aimed to hold power to account at home and abroad, in the name of freedom, decency, pluralism, and the importance of truth and dissent in open societies. He watched with alarm as the outside threat of 9/11 morphed into the internal threat of January 6. This time, the assailants were not jihadi terrorists; they were American white supremacists and seditionists convinced of American decadence but unable to see that they personified it.


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All My Knotted-Up Life A Memoir [Audiobook]
All My Knotted-Up Life: A Memoir (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BP9PFGF2 | 2023 | 8 hours and 29 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 233 MB
Author: Beth Moore
Narrator: Beth Moore

An incredibly thoughtful, disarmingly funny, and intensely vulnerable glimpse into the life and ministry of a woman familiar to many but known by few. "It's a peculiar thing, this having lived long enough to take a good look back. We go from knowing each other better than we know ourselves to barely sure if we know each other at all, to precisely sure that we don't. All my knotted-up life I've longed for the sanity and simplicity of knowing who's good and who's bad. I've wanted to know this about myself as much as anyone. This was not theological. It was strictly relational. God could do what he wanted with eternity. I was just trying to make it here in the meantime. As benevolent as he has been in a myriad of ways, God has remained aloof on this uncomplicated request."―Beth Moore. All My Knotted-Up Life is a beautifully crafted portrait of resilience and survival, a poignant reminder of God's enduring faithfulness, and proof positive that if we ever truly took the time to hear people's full stories . . . we'd all walk around slack-jawed.


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Against Democracy [Audiobook]
Against Democracy (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BV8Y99RZ | 2023 | 10 hours and 54 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 306 MB
Author: Jason Brennan
Narrator: Christopher Ragland

Most people believe democracy is a uniquely just form of government. They believe people have the right to an equal share of political power. And they believe that political participation is good for us-it empowers us, helps us get what we want, and tends to make us smarter, more virtuous, and more caring for one another. These are some of our most cherished ideas about democracy. But Jason Brennan says they are all wrong. In this trenchant book, Brennan argues that democracy should be judged by its results-and the results are not good enough. Just as defendants have a right to a fair trial, citizens have a right to competent government. But democracy is the rule of the ignorant and the irrational, and it all too often falls short.


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After the Dinosaurs The Age of Mammals [Audiobook]
After the Dinosaurs: The Age of Mammals (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BVPP5TMY | 2023 | 10 hours and 35 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 302 MB
Author: Donald R. Prothero
Narrator: Will Tulin

The fascinating group of animals called dinosaurs became extinct some 65 million years ago (except for their feathered descendants). In their place evolved an enormous variety of land creatures, especially mammals, which in their way were every bit as remarkable as their Mesozoic cousins. The Age of Mammals, the Cenozoic Era, has never had its Jurassic Park, but it was an amazing time in earth's history, populated by a wonderful assortment of bizarre animals. The rapid evolution of thousands of species of mammals brought forth many incredible creatures-including our own ancestors. Their story is part of a larger story of new life emerging from the greenhouse conditions of the Mesozoic, warming up dramatically about 55 million years ago, and then cooling rapidly so that 33 million years ago the glacial ice returned. The earth's vegetation went through equally dramatic changes, from tropical jungles in Montana and forests at the poles. Life in the sea underwent striking evolution reflecting global climate change, including the emergence of such creatures as giant sharks, seals, sea lions, dolphins, and whales. Engaging and insightful, After the Dinosaurs is a book for everyone who has an abiding fascination with the remarkable life of the past.


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Africatown America's Last Slave Ship and the Community It Created [Audiobook]
Africatown: America's Last Slave Ship and the Community It Created (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BHNTJZQ9 | 2023 | 13 hours and 27 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 369 MB
Author: Nick Tabor
Narrator: Chris Butler

An epic story, Africatown charts the fraught history of America from those who were brought here as slaves but nevertheless established a home for themselves and their descendants, a community which often thrived despite persistent racism and environmental pollution. In 1860, a ship called the Clotilda was smuggled through the Alabama Gulf Coast, carrying the last group of enslaved people ever brought to the US from West Africa. Five years later, the shipmates were emancipated, but they had no way of getting back home. Instead they created their own community outside the city of Mobile, where they spoke Yoruba and appointed their own leaders, a story chronicled in Zora Neale Hurston's Barracoon.


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