Tag: Life

American Cicero The Life of Charles Carroll


Free Download American Cicero: The Life of Charles Carroll by Bradley J. Birzer
English | June 20th, 2023 | ISBN: 193385989X | 230 pages | True EPUB | 3.48 MB
Aristocrat. Catholic. Patriot. Founder. Before his death in 1832, Charles Carroll of Carrollton-the last living signer of the Declaration of Independence-was widely regarded as one of the most important Founders. Today, Carroll’s signal contributions to the American Founding are overlooked, but the fascinating new biography American Cicero rescues Carroll from unjust neglect.

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After Life


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English | 2014 | ISBN: 1500668753 | EPUB | pages: 450 | 0.5 mb
Mara’s brother Soren remembers when his name was Cole. He remembers how he used to play pirate ship with his brothers in the backyard, the taste of his mother’s soft and chewy chocolate-chip cookies, and that he rode the number eight bus to get to school. And he also remembers the night he died. On a dark and windy night, Soren tells Mara about the person who killed him before he chose to live with their family. Mara sets out to investigate her little brother’s claims of a past life and discovers that the small tidbits of memory appear to match the life of a boy who was murdered fifteen years ago. As she inserts herself deeper into the life Cole left behind, Mara’s world begins to unravel. Those who believe her are worried for her safety, and those that don’t are worried for her emotional wellbeing. Confused and frightened, Mara begins a journey deep into the heart of what it means to be alive, what it means to be dead, and everything in-between.

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Zealot The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth


Free Download Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth by Reza Aslan, Random House Audio
English | 2013 | ISBN: B00DYMLQEU | 8 hours and 8 minutes / Format: MP3 / Bitrate: 64 Kbps | 226 Mb
From the internationally best-selling author of No god but God comes a fascinating, provocative, and meticulously researched biography that challenges long-held assumptions about the man we know as Jesus of Nazareth.
Two-thousand years ago, an itinerant Jewish preacher and miracle worker walked across the Galilee, gathering followers to establish what he called the "Kingdom of God". The revolutionary movement he launched was so threatening to the established order that he was captured, tortured, and executed as a state criminal.
Within decades after his shameful death, his followers would call him God.

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We Are the Nerds The Birth and Tumultuous Life of Reddit, the Internet’s Culture Laboratory


Free Download We Are the Nerds: The Birth and Tumultuous Life of Reddit, the Internet’s Culture Laboratory by Christine Lagorio-Chafkin, Chloe Cannon, Hachette Audio
English | 2018 | ISBN: B07H5Q5JGS | Format: MP3 / 16 hours and 22 minutes + EPUB | 370 Mb
Named a Best Book of 2018 by Fast Company, this is a "sharply written and brilliantly reported" (Shelf Awareness) look inside Reddit, the wildly popular, often misunderstood website that has changed the culture of the internet.
Reddit hails itself as "the front page of the Internet". It’s the third-most visited website in the United States-and yet, millions of Americans have no idea what it is.
We Are the Nerds is an engrossing look deep inside this captivating, maddening enterprise, whose army of obsessed users have been credited with everything from solving cold-case crimes and spurring tens of millions of dollars in charitable donations to seeding alt-right fury and landing Donald Trump in the White House. We Are the Nerds is a gripping start-up narrative: the story of how Reddit’s founders, Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian, rose up from their suburban childhoods to become millionaires and create an icon of the digital age-before seeing the site engulfed in controversies and nearly losing control of it for good.

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The Way to the Spring Life and Death in Palestine


Free Download The Way to the Spring: Life and Death in Palestine by Ben Ehrenreich, Penguin Audio
English | 2016 | ISBN: B01FCU17WC | Format: Opus / Bitrate: 32 Kbps / 12 hours and 17 minutes | 159 Mb
From an award-winning journalist, a brave and necessary immersion into the everyday struggles of Palestinian life.
Over the past three years, American writer Ben Ehrenreich has been traveling to and living in the West Bank, staying with Palestinian families in its largest cities and its smallest villages.Along the way he has written major stories for American outlets, including a remarkableNew York Times Magazinecover story. Now comes the powerful new work that has always been his ultimate goal,The Way to the Spring.
We are familiar with brave journalists who travel to bleak or war-torn placeson a mission to listen and understand, to gather the stories ofpeople suffering from extremes of oppression and want: KatherineBoo,Ryszard Kapuściński, Ted Conover,and PhilipGourevitch among them. Palestine is, by any measure, whatever one’s politics, one such place. Ruled by the Israeli military, set upon and harassed constantly by Israeli settlers who admit unapologetically to wanting to drive them from the land, forced to negotiate an ever more elaborate and more suffocating series of fences, checkpoints, and barriers that have sundered home from field, home from home, this is a population whose living conditions are unique, and indeed hard to imagine. In a great act of bravery, empathy and understanding, Ben Ehrenreich, by placing us in the footsteps of ordinary Palestinians and telling their story with surpassing literary power and grace, makes it impossible for us to turn away.

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The Psychopathology of Everyday Life [Audiobook]


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English | January 16, 2017 | ASIN: B01N0Z7CP5 | M4B@64 kbps | 8h 6m | 220 MB
Author: Sigmund Freud | Narrator: Derek Le Page
The Psychopathology of Everyday Life, which appeared first in 1901 and was then expanded in a series of subsequent editions, has proved to be one of Freud’s most popular works, and one of his most influential during his lifetime. It was here that he proposed that many slips and errors of memory common to the average man in everyday life actually signals unconscious issues that beset the individual, and, if examined, can be extremely revealing.
Freud opens the work with the following statement: ‘During the year 1898 I published a short essay on the Psychic Mechanism of Forgetfulness. I shall now repeat its contents and take it as a starting-point for further discussion. I have there undertaken a psychologic analysis of a common case of temporary forgetfulness of proper names, and from a pregnant example of my own observation I have reached the conclusion that this frequent and practically unimportant occurrence of a failure of a psychic function – of memory – admits an explanation which goes beyond the customary utilization of this phenomenon.’

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The Man from the Future The Visionary Life of John von Neumann


Free Download The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John von Neumann by Ananyo Bhattacharya, Nicholas Camm, Random House Audio
English | 2022 | ISBN: B09M2LTKSH | Format: M4B / Bitrate: 128 Kbps / 11 hours and 56 minutes | 650 Mb
An electrifying biography of one of the most extraordinary scientists of the twentieth century and the world he made.
The smartphonesin our pockets and computerslikebrains. The vagaries of game theory and evolutionary biology.Nuclear weaponsand self-replicating spacecrafts. All bear the fingerprints of one remarkable, yet largelyoverlooked,man: John von Neumann.
Born in Budapest at the turn of the century,von Neumannisone ofthe most influential scientists to have ever lived.A child prodigy, he mastered calculus by the age of eight,andin high schoolmade lasting contributions to mathematics.InGermany, where he helped lay the foundations of quantum mechanics,and laterat Princeton, von Neumann’scolleagues believed he had the fastest brain on the planet-bar none.Hewas instrumental in the Manhattan Projectand the design of the atom bomb; hehelped formulate the bedrock of Cold War geopolitics and modern economic theory; he created the first ever programmable digital computer; heprophesized the potential of nanotechnology; and, from his deathbed,heexpounded on the limits of brains and computers-and how they might be overcome.

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The Life-Changing Science of Detecting Bullshit


Free Download The Life-Changing Science of Detecting Bullshit by John V. Petrocelli, Larry Herron, Macmillan Audio
English | 2021 | ISBN: B08KSKG27R | Format: MP3 / 7 hours and 28 minutes + EPUB | 165 Mb
"An excellent introduction to behavioral science with relatable examples is presented by an expert narrator." – AudioFile Magazine on The Life-Changing Science of Detecting Bullshit
Expanding upon his viral TEDx Talk, psychology professor and social scientist John V. Petrocelli’s The Life-Changing Science of Detecting Bullshit reveals the critical thinking habits you can develop to recognize and combat pervasive false information and delusional thinking that has become a common feature of everyday life.
"This is the perfect moment for…the psychology of detecting fake news in the world around us-and false beliefs about ourselves too."

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The Life of Milarepa The Classic Biography of the Eleventh-Century Yogin and Poet [Audiobook]


Free Download The Life of Milarepa: The Classic Biography of the Eleventh-Century Yogin and Poet – One of the Most Renowned Spiritual Figures in Tibetan Buddhist History (Audiobook)
English | December 18, 2015 | ASIN: B019G5EY6A | M4B@64 kbps | 10h 24m | 283 MB
Author: Tsangnyön Heruka | Narrator: William Hope
The Life of Milarepa is one of the most beloved stories of the Tibetan people and a great literary example of the contemplative life. Jetsun Milarepa, the 11th-century Buddhist yogin and poet, started life as a black magician, gaining revenge for loss of heritage by casting terrible hailstorms and committing multiple murders.
Distraught with remorse, he sought to expiate his crimes and, with the fiercely compassionate help of his lama, Marpa, devoted himself to unremitting practice – meditation in caves, existing only on nettles and turning green as a result. And he gained liberation in one lifetime.

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