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Free Download Alexander L. Chapman PhD, Kim L. Gratz PhD, Daniel Henning (Narrator), "The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook for Shame: Powerful DBT Skills to Cope with Painful Emotions and Move Beyond Shame"
English | ASIN: B0CNS2LCHJ | 2023 | M4B@64 kbps | ~06:29:00 | 168 MB
Shame is a devastating emotion, and one that’s often difficult to work through. If you are hurting, you should know that you aren’t alone. Shame may be the result of a past trauma, feelings of insecurity, or even guilt. Shame can also spiral out of control, make you feel trapped and hopeless, and lead to more serious mental health issues. So, how can you soothe intense feelings of shame and find lasting peace and emotional balance?
Written by renowned DBT experts, The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook for Shame offers a step-by-step evidence-based approach to healing from shame using the core skills of emotion regulation, distress tolerance, mindfulness, and interpersonal effectiveness. You’ll learn to cultivate nonjudgmental self-acceptance, and discover strategies for managing difficult emotions-even in situations that trigger feelings of shame, guilt, or self-directed anger.

Free Download The DevSecOps Playbook: Deliver Continuous Security at Speed
Author: Sean D. Mack
Narrator: William Sarris
English | 2023 | ASIN: B0CN1R2MCG | MP3@64 kbps | Duration: 7h 8m | 479 MB
In The DevSecOps Playbook: Deliver Continuous Security at Speed, the chief information and information security officer at Wiley, Sean D. Mack, delivers an insightful and practical discussion of how to keep your business secure. You’ll learn how to leverage the classic triad of people, process, and technology to build strong cybersecurity infrastructure and practices. You’ll also discover the shared responsibility model at the core of DevSecOps as you explore the principles and best practices that make up contemporary frameworks.

Free Download The DevSecOps Playbook: Deliver Continuous Security at Speed
Author: Sean D. Mack
Narrator: William Sarris
English | 2023 | ASIN: B0CN1R2MCG | MP3@64 kbps | Duration: 7h 8m | 479 MB
In The DevSecOps Playbook: Deliver Continuous Security at Speed, the chief information and information security officer at Wiley, Sean D. Mack, delivers an insightful and practical discussion of how to keep your business secure. You’ll learn how to leverage the classic triad of people, process, and technology to build strong cybersecurity infrastructure and practices. You’ll also discover the shared responsibility model at the core of DevSecOps as you explore the principles and best practices that make up contemporary frameworks.

Free Download The Design of Everyday Things: Revised and Expanded Edition (Audiobook)
English | December 07, 2018 | ASIN: B07L5Y9HND | M4B@64 kbps | 10h 39m | 323 MB
Author: Don Norman | Narrator: Neil Hellegers
Design doesn’t have to be complicated, which is why this guide to human-centered design shows that usability is just as important as aesthetics.
Even the smartest among us can feel inept as we fail to figure out which light switch or oven burner to turn on, or whether to push, pull, or slide a door. The fault, argues this ingenious – even liberating – audiobook, lies not in ourselves, but in product design that ignores the needs of users and the principles of cognitive psychology. The problems range from ambiguous and hidden controls to arbitrary relationships between controls and functions, coupled with a lack of feedback or other assistance and unreasonable demands on memorization.

Free Download The Description to Seize the Whitehouse: The Shocking True Story of the Conspiracy to Overthrow FDR by Jules Archer, Ken Maxon, Audible Studios
English | 2013 | ISBN: B00BAFOSZ2 | Format: M4B / Bitrate: 64 Kbps / 8 hours and 22 minutes | 228 Mb
Most people will be shocked to learn that in 1933 a cabal of wealthy industrialists – in league with groups like the K.K.K. and the American Liberty League – planned to overthrow the U.S. government in a fascist coup. Their plan was to turn discontented veterans into American "brown shirts," depose F.D.R., and stop the New Deal. They clandestinely asked Medal of Honor recipient and Marine Major General Smedley Darlington Butler to become the first American Caesar. He, though, was a true patriot and revealed the Description to journalists and to Congress. In a time when a sitting President has invoked national security to circumvent constitutional checks and balances, this episode puts the spotlight on attacks upon our democracy and the individual courage needed to repel them.

Free Download The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume 1 – 6 by Edward Gibbon, Philip Madoc, Neville Jason
English | 2000 | ISBN: B0000546YV | Format: MP3 / Bitrate: 32 Kbps + PDF | 2.03 Gb
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire has always maintained its initial appeal to both the general public and scholars alike. Its sheer scale is daunting, encompassing over a millennium of history, covering not merely the Western Empire from the days of the early emperors to its extinction in AD 476, but also the Eastern Empire, which lasted for another thousand years until the Turks vanquished it in 1453. But Gibbon’s style, part historical fact and part literature, is enticing, and the sheer honesty of the man, who endeavours to be scrupulously impartial in his presentation, endears him to the reader. In this recording, David Timson incorporates the most salient of Gibbon’s footnotes.
In Volume I (chapters I-XV), Gibbon opens by setting the scene with the Empire as it stood in the time of Augustus (d. AD 14) before praising the time of the Antonines (AD 98-180). The death of Marcus Aurelius and the accession of Commodus and his successors ushers in turbulent and dangerous times which were only occasionally marked by a wise and temperate ruler. The volume ends in AD 324, with Constantine the Great becoming undisputed Roman emperor, uniting both the East and Western Empires.
In Volume II (Chapters XVI-XXVI), Gibbon continues his powerful history of the Empire, shining the spotlight on some of the best-known figures and their impact on the growing influence of Christianity, including Nero and, three centuries later, Constantine, whose establishment of Constantinople resulted in the division of the Empire into East and West. Gibbon also presents a sympathetic portrait of Julian, whose wisdom, courage and clarity bore the hallmarks of the great emperor that Rome needed.

Free Download The Dead and Those About to Die: D-Day: The Big Red One at Omaha Beach by John C. McManus, Don Hagen, Gildan Media, LLC
English | 2014 | ISBN: B00K6XKSCQ | 10 hours and 34 minutes | 288 Mb
A white-knuckle account of the First Infantry Division’s harrowing D-Day assault on the eastern sector of Omaha Beach – acclaimed historian John C. McManus has written a gripping history that will stand as the last word on this titanic battle. Nicknamed the Big Red One, First Division had fought from North Africa to Sicily, earning a reputation as stalwart warriors on the front lines and rabble-rousers in the rear. Yet on D-Day, these jaded combat veterans melded with fresh-faced replacements to accomplish one of the most challenging and deadly missions ever. As the men hit the beach, their equipment destroyed or washed away, soldiers cut down by the dozens, courageous heroes emerged: men such as Sergeant Raymond Strojny, who grabbed a bazooka and engaged in a death duel with a fortified German antitank gun; T/5 Joe Pinder, a former minor-league pitcher who braved enemy fire to save a vital radio; Lieutenant John Spalding, a former sportswriter, and Sergeant Phil Streczyk, a truck driver, who together demolished a German strong point overlooking Easy Red, where hundreds of Americans had landed.
Along the way, McManus explores the Gap Assault Team engineers who dealt with the extensive mines and obstacles, suffering nearly a 50 percent casualty rate; highlights officers such as Brigadier General Willard Wyman and Colonel George Taylor, who led the way to victory; and punctures scores of myths surrounding this long-misunderstood battle.
The Dead and Those about to Die draws on a rich array of new or recently unearthed sources, including interviews with veterans. The result is history at its finest, the unforgettable story of the Big Red One’s 19 hours of hell – and their ultimate triumph – on June 6, 1944.

Free Download Martin van Creveld, Arthur Morey (Narrator), "The Culture of War"
English | ASIN: B003ZJFK08 | 2010 | MP3@64 kbps | ~18:26:00 | 525 MB
A respected scholar of military history and an expert on strategy, Martin van Creveld recently explored the modern world’s shifting method of combat in The Changing Face of War. Now, in The Culture of War, he argues that there is much more to war than just soldiers killing one another for whatever reason. War has always been a topic of deep intrigue. Fighting itself can be a source of great, perhaps even the greatest, joy; out of this joy and fascination an entire culture has grown – from the war paint of tribal warriors to today’s "tiger suits," from Julius Caesar’s red cloak to Douglas MacArthur’s pipe, from the decorative shields of ancient Greece to modern aircraft nose art, and from the invention of chess around A.D. 600 to cyber era combat simulators. The culture of war has had its own traditions, laws, rituals, music, art, literature, and monuments since the beginning of civilization. Through the ages, the culture of war has usually been highly esteemed. Not so in today’s advanced countries, which tend either to mock it ("Military intelligence is to intelligence what military music is to music") or to denounce it as "militaristic." This provocative book, the first of its kind, sets out to show how wrongheaded, and even dangerous, such attitudes are. The Culture of War argues that men and women today, contrary to the hopes of some, are just as fascinated by war as they have been in the past. A military that has lost touch with the culture of war is doomed not merely to defeat but to disintegration. Innovative, authoritative, and riveting, The Culture of War is a major work by one of the world’s greatest and most insightful military historians.

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Free Download The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land (Audiobook)
English | August 16, 2016 | ASIN: B01H41C1TU | M4B@64 kbps | 25h 32m | 745 MB
Author: Thomas Asbridge | Narrator: Derek Perkins
The Crusades is an authoritative, accessible single-volume history of the brutal struggle for the Holy Land in the Middle Ages. Thomas Asbridge-a renowned historian who writes with "maximum vividness" (Joan Acocella, The New Yorker)-covers the years 1095 to 1291 in this big, ambitious, readable account of one of the most fascinating periods in history.
From Richard the Lionheart to the mighty Saladin, from the emperors of Byzantium to the Knights Templar, Asbridge’s book is a magnificent epic of Holy War between the Christian and Islamic worlds, full of adventure, intrigue, and sweeping grandeur.

Free Download The Creative Tarot: A Modern Guide to an Inspired Life by Jessa Crispin, Chloe Cannon, Tantor Audio
English | 2020 | ISBN: B084CZVRZX | Format: MP3 / Bitrate: 64 Kbps / 7 hours and 50 minutes | 215 Mb
A hip, accessible, and practical guide for artists and creative people looking to tarot for guidance and inspiration in the tradition of The Secret Language of Birthdays and Steal Like an Artist.
What if the path to creativity was not as challenging as everyone thinks? What if you could find that spark, Description twist, or next project by simply looking at your life and your art through a different lens?
Written for novices and seasoned listeners alike, The Creative Tarot is a unique guidebook that reimagines tarot cards and the ways they can boost the creative process. Jessa Crispin guides you through the intuitive world of the tarot to get those creative juices flowing again. Thought to be esoteric and mystical, tarot cards are approachable and endlessly helpful to overcoming creative blocks. Crispin offers spiritual readings of the cards, practical information for the uninspired artist, and a wealth of fascinating anecdotes about famous artists including Virginia Woolf, Rembrandt, and David Bowie, and how they found inspiration.