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Free Download Becoming Earth: How Our Planet Came to Life (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CKM3P33F | 2024 | 9 hours and 27 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 276 MB
Author: Ferris Jabr
Narrator: Joe Ochman
A vivid account of a major shift in how we understand Earth, from an exceptionally talented new voice. Earth is not simply an inanimate planet on which life evolved, but rather a planet that came to life. One of humanity’s oldest beliefs is that our world is alive. Though once ridiculed by some scientists, the idea of Earth as a vast interconnected living system has gained acceptance in recent decades. We, and all living things, are more than inhabitants of Earth-we are Earth, an outgrowth of its structure and an engine of its evolution. Life and its environment have coevolved for billions of years, transforming a lump of orbiting rock into a cosmic oasis-a planet that breathes, metabolizes, and regulates its climate.

Free Download Young John McGahern: Becoming a Novelist by Denis Sampson
English | March 21, 2012 | ISBN: 0199641773, 0199682348 | True EPUB | 196 pages | 1.8 MB
John McGahern was the most admired Irish novelist of the past fifty years. His accessible fiction won him a wide readership throughout Ireland, but the accomplishment of his craft ensured that he also became known as a writer’s writer. He set his novels in places he knew intimately-Dublin, London, and the West of Ireland, where he grew up-and became known for the intimacy and honesty of his mapping of home truths of Irish life. His first novel, The Barracks, was widely hailed as a classic on publication in 1963, and his later work, including Amongst Women and That They May Face the Rising Sun, and, indeed, Memoir, is built on the stylistic foundation of that novel. The first ten years of McGahern’s career were the crucial, for it was during this time that he became an artist.

Free Download Becoming a Critical Thinker: A Workbook to Help Students Think Well in an Age of Disinformation by Julie Bogart
English | May 7th, 2024 | ISBN: 0593712811 | 224 pages | True EPUB | 1.71 MB
A practical resource to grow students’ ability to think well in an age of information overload

Free Download Becoming Mr. October By Reggie Jackson, Kevin Baker
2013 | 304 Pages | ISBN: 038553311X | EPUB | 5 MB
A soul-baring, brutally candid, and richly eventful memoir of the two years-1977 and 1978-when Reggie Jackson went from outcast to Yankee legendIn the spring of 1977 Reggie Jackson should have been on top of the world. The best player of the Oakland A’s dynasty, which won three straight World Series, he was the first big-money free agent, wooed and flattered by George Steinbrenner into coming to the New York Yankees, which hadn’t won a World Series since 1962. But Reggie was about to learn, as he writes in this vivid and surprising memoir, that until his initial experience on the Yankees "I didn’t know what alone meant." His manager, the mercurial, alcoholic, and pugilistic Billy Martin, never wanted him on the team and let Reggie-and the rest of the team-know it. Most of his new teammates, resentful of his contract, were aloof at best and hostile at worst. Brash and outspoken, but unused to the ferocity of New York’s tabloid culture, Reggie hadn’t realized how rumor and offhand remarks can turn into screaming negative headlines-especially for a black athlete with a multimillion-dollar contract. Sickened by Martin’s anti-Semitism, his rages, and his quite public disparagement of his new star, ostracized by his teammates, and despairing of how he was stereotyped in the press, Reggie had long talks with his father about quitting. Things hit bottom when Martin Descriptionted to humiliate him during a nationally televised game against the Red Sox. It seemed as if a glorious career had been derailed. But then: Reggie vowed to persevere; his pride, work ethic, and talent would overcome Martin’s nearly sociopathic hatred. Gradually, he would win over the fans, then his teammates, as the Yankees surged to the pennant. And one magical autumn evening, he became "Mr. October" in a World Series performance for the ages. He thought his travails were over-until the next season when the insanity began again. Becoming Mr. October is a revelatory self-portrait of a baseball icon at the height of his public fame and private anguish. Filled with revealing anecdotes about the notorious "Bronx Zoo" Yankees of the late 1970s and bluntly honest portrayals of his teammates and competitors, this is eye-opening baseball history as can be told only by the man who lived it.

Free Download The Goddess Path: 13 Steps to Becoming Your Most Intuitive, Authentic and Powerful Self by Kirsty Gallagher
English | March 7th, 2024 | ISBN: 1846047765 | 272 pages | True EPUB | 0.47 MB
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Free Download John C. Carr LCSW, "Great Expectations: Becoming a Dad: The First Three Years"
English | ISBN: 1402756305 | 2010 | 208 pages | EPUB | 325 KB
Few authors are better prepared to write about fatherhood than John C. Carr, a social worker and psychotherapist who understands the psychological development of both infants and men. And, as a dad of three, he’s on the front lines of fathering.

Free Download Becoming an ICF Credentialed Coach: The Journey to ACC, PCC and MCC – Practice Insights from ICF Assessors by Jonathan Passmore, Judit Ábri von Bartheld
English | August 28th, 2024 | ISBN: 1911451324 | 358 pages | True PDF | 3.93 MB
Becoming an ICF Credentialed Coach aims to help professional coaches on their journey to mastery. Whether you are an ICF coach in training, preparing for your ACC assessment, progressing towards PCC, or getting ready for your MCC submission, this book is essential reading.

Free Download Becoming a Translator For Dummies by Regina Galasso
English | August 20th, 2024 | ISBN: 1394232020 | 288 pages | True EPUB | 4.51 MB
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Free Download Emily V. Thornbury, "Becoming a Poet in Anglo-Saxon England "
English | ISBN: 1107643074 | 2016 | 338 pages | AZW3 | 2 MB
Combining historical, literary and linguistic evidence from Old English and Latin, Becoming a Poet in Anglo-Saxon England creates a new, more complete picture of who and what pre-Conquest English poets really were. It includes a study of Anglo-Saxon words for ‘poet’ and the first list of named poets in Anglo-Saxon England. Its survey of known poets identifies four social roles that poets often held – teachers, scribes, musicians and courtiers – and explores the kinds of poetry created by these individuals. The book also offers a new model for understanding the role of social groups in poets’ experience: it argues that the presence or absence of a poetic community affected the work of Anglo-Saxon poets at all levels, from minute technical detail to the portrayal of character. This focus on poetic communities provides a new way to understand the intersection of history and literature in the Middle Ages.

Free Download Xolela Mangcu, Ntongela Masilela, Frederik van Zyl Slabbert, "Becoming Worthy Ancestors: Archive, public deliberation and identity in South Africa"
English | 2011 | ISBN: 1868145328 | EPUB | pages: 184 | 0.3 mb
Why does it matter that nations should care for their archives, and that they should develop a sense of shared identity? And why should these processes take place in the public domain? How can nations possibly speak about a shared sense of identity in pluralistic societies where individuals and groups have multiple identities? And how can such conversations be given relevance in public discussions of reconciliation and development in South Africa? These are the issues that the Public Conversations lecture series – an initiative of the Constitution of Public Intellectual Life Project at Wits University – proceeded from in 2006. Five years later, cross currents in contemporary South Africa have made the resumption of a public debate to clarify the meanings of identity and citizenship even more imperative, and an understanding of ‘archive’ even more urgent. The 2006 lectures were subsequently collected, resulting in this volume which takes its title from Weber’s point, elaborated on in the chapter by Benedict Anderson, that the future asks us to be worthy ancestors to the yet unborn. The book, as did the lecture series, aims to reach a broad and informed reading public because the topic is still of pressing interest in contemporary public discourse. In a changed (and, some might say, degraded) environment of public dialogue, the editor hopes to inspire a re-thinking of the very essence of what it means to be a citizen of South Africa. Becoming Worthy Ancestors aims to make accessible the theoretically informed, sometimes highly academic work of its various contributors. With chapters from high profile international and local contributors, it will be of interest to South African and international audiences. Editing for publication has further enhanced the accessibility of each speaker’s thinking without forfeiting any of its complexity, and the addition of an introductory chapter by the editor contributes to the coherence of the volume. While the target audience is the broad public, the book is based on a core of academic thinking and research.