Tag: Life

Free Download Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void (Audiobook)
English | August 02, 2010 | ASIN: B003Y56QYC | M4B@96 kbps | 10h 27m | 441 MB
Author: Mary Roach | Narrator: Sandra Burr
Space is a world devoid of the things we need to live and thrive: air, gravity, hot showers, fresh produce, privacy, beer. Space exploration is in some ways an exploration of what it means to be human. How much can a person give up? How much weirdness can they take? What happens to you when you can’t walk for a year? Have sex? Smell flowers? What happens if you vomit in your helmet during a space walk? Is it possible for the human body to survive a bailout at 17,000 miles per hour?
To answer these questions, space agencies set up all manner of quizzical and startlingly bizarre space simulations. As Mary Roach discovers, it’s possible to preview space without ever leaving Earth. From the space shuttle training toilet to a crash test of NASA’s new space capsule (cadaver filling in for astronaut), Roach takes us on a surreally entertaining trip into the science of life in space and space on Earth.

Free Download Not Funny: Essays on Life, Comedy, Culture, Et Cetera (Audiobook)
English | April 18, 2023 | ASIN: B0B4Z8M3WX | M4B@128 kbps | 7 hours | 382 MB
Author and Narrator: Jena Friedman
For fans of the perceptive comedy of Hannah Gadsby, Lindy West, and Sarah Silverman, Academy Award-nominated and acclaimed stand-up comedian Jena Friedman presents a witty and insightful collection of essays on the cultural flashpoints of today.
Growing up, Jena Friedman didn’t care about being likable. And she never wanted to be a comedian, either. A child of the 90s, she wouldn’t discover her knack for the funny business until research for her college thesis led her to take an improv class in Chicago.

Free Download No Red Lights: Reflections on Life, 50 Years in Venture Capital, and Never Driving Alone by Alan J. Patricof, Alan Patricof, Audible Studios
English | 2022 | ISBN: B09VY6SZKR | 8 hours and 32 minutes | M4B@128 kbps pages | PDF | 465 Mb
Extensive media and online coverage of the business arena, news of start-ups, mergers, and deals are familiar headlines these days. But that wasn’t always the case. The early years of venture capital were a far cry from today’s very public dealings. Alan Patricof, one of the pioneers of the venture arena, offers a behind-the-scenes look at the past 50 years of the industry. From buying stock in Apple when its market valuation was only $60 million to founding New York Magazine to investing in AOL, Audible, and more recently, Axios, his discerning approach to finding companies is almost peerless.
All of Patricof’s investments-from Xerox to Venmo-share certain qualities. Each company had sound product with wide appeal, the economics were solid, and the management team was talented and committed to seeing their visions come to fruition.

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Free Download My Pride: Mastering Life’s Daily Performance (Audiobook)
English | November 07, 2017 | ASIN: B076MFCHGW | M4B@64 kbps | 6h 30m | 180 MB
Authors: Alton Fitzgerald White, Michael Lassell | Narrator: Alton Fitzgerald White
Drawing on his own life and career and the rich lore of The Lion King, Alton Fitzgerald White, Broadway’s longest-running "King", delivers his message of service – taking responsibility for and deriving happiness from commonplace achievements – as a philosophy that anyone can get through each day with satisfaction, pride, and a sense of accomplishment.
If you’ve ever wondered how an actor can perform the same role hundreds of times without burning out, in White’s book you’ll meet someone who does it for thousands more with unabated joy and renewal of purpose. From his life experience, White has learned the secret of tapping his inner resources to meet the challenge of routine and repetition in work and relationships.

Free Download Muscle for Life: Get Lean, Strong, and Healthy at Any Age! by Michael Matthews
English | 2022 | ISBN: B099CKZW1X | Format: MP3 / 7 hours and 48 minutes | 197 Mb
A new fitness book for men and women over forty from bestselling author and trainer Michael Matthews.
Is this a workout book that can make you look and feel like you’re twenty again in thirty days flat?
No.

Free Download Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends on It by Kamal Ravikant, HarperAudio
English | 2020 | ISBN: B07T9NYCFL | MP3@64 kbps | 4h 6m | 112 Mb
The self-published phenomenon – fully revised and expanded
I almost didn’t publish Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends on It. Here I was, a CEO who’d fallen apart after his company failed, writing a book about how loving himself saved him. I thought I’d be a laughingstock and my career would be finished.
But I stepped through the fears and shared my truth with the world. The book went viral. Amazing people all over bought copies for friends and family. For some, this book saved their lives. For others, it was the first time they ever loved themselves.

Free Download Life with Picasso (Audiobook)
English | January 21, 2020 | ASIN: B083MYQ6MK | M4B@64 kbps | 15h 2m | 773 MB
Authors: Francoise Gilot, Carlton Lake | Narrator: Mary Sarah
Françoise Gilot’s candid memoir remains the most revealing portrait of Picasso written, and gives fascinating insight into the intense and creative life shared by two modern artists.
Françoise Gilot was in her early 20s when she met the 61-year-old Pablo Picasso in 1943. Brought up in a well-to-do, upper-middle-class family, who had sent her to Cambridge and the Sorbonne and hoped that she would go into law, the young woman defied their wishes and set her sights on being an artist. Her introduction to Picasso led to a friendship, a love affair, and a relationship of 10 years, during which Gilot gave birth to Picasso’s two children, Paloma and Claude. Gilot was one of Picasso’s muses; she was also very much her own woman, determined to make herself into the remarkable painter she did indeed become.

Free Download Laurel Canyon: The Inside Story of Life in L.A.’s Legendary Rock and Roll Neighborhood (Audiobook)
English | May 18, 2006 | ASIN: B000FSDLLW | M4B@64 kbps | 8h 23m | 229 MB
Author: Michael Walker | Narrator: Lloyd James
Michael Walker’s Laurel Canyon presents the inside story of the once hottest rock and roll neighborhood in LA.
In the late sixties and early seventies, an impromptu collection of musicians colonized a eucalyptus-scented canyon deep in the Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles and melded folk, rock, and savvy American pop into a sound that conquered the world as thoroughly as the songs of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones had before them. Thirty years later, the music made in Laurel Canyon continues to pour from radios, iPods, and concert stages around the world. During the canyon’s golden era, the musicians who lived and worked there scored dozens of landmark hits, from "California Dreamin’" to "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes" to "It’s Too Late," selling tens of millions of records and resetting the thermostat of pop culture.

Free Download J. Krishnamurti: A Life of Compassion Beyond Boundaries (Audiobook)
English | February 07, 2023 | ASIN: B0BKC58T5Q | M4B@64 kbps | 15h 23m | 419 MB
Author: Roshen Dalal | Narrator: Suyash Mohan
Among the most famous visionaries of our times, J. Krishnamurti (1895-1986) continues to transform thought, lifestyles and education across continents more than three decades after his death. In this new biography, tracing the nine long decades of his life, from his growing-up years, his relationships to his writings and talks, Roshen Dalal provides a much-needed corrective-an objective and balanced view of his legacy.
Adopted by Theosophists at the age of 14, and proclaimed a world teacher and messiah, in 1929, Krishnamurti dissolved the Order of the Star created for him and went on to develop his own philosophy.

Free Download Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel by Max Blumenthal, Richard Powers, Blackstone Audio, Inc.
English | 2015 | ISBN: B00FJRRE58 | Format: MP3 / 22 hours and 19 minutes | 733 Mb
In Goliath, New York Times best-selling author Max Blumenthal takes us on a journey through the badlands and high roads of Israel-Palestine, painting a startling portrait of Israeli society under the siege of increasingly authoritarian politics as the occupation of the Palestinians deepens.
Beginning with the national elections carried out during Israel’s war on Gaza in 2008/9, which brought into power the country’s most right-wing government to date, Blumenthal tells the story of Israel in the wake of the collapse of the Oslo peace process.
As Blumenthal reveals, Israel has become a country where right-wing leaders like Avigdor Lieberman and Bibi Netanyahu are sacrificing democracy on the altar of their power politics, where the loyal opposition largely and passively stands aside and watches the organized assault on civil liberties, where state-funded Orthodox rabbis publish books that provide instructions on how and when to kill gentiles, where half of Jewish youth declare their refusal to sit in a classroom with an Arab, and where mob violence targets Palestinians and African asylum seekers scapegoated by leading government officials as "demographic threats".