Tag: Modern

Dust The Modern World in a Trillion Particles by Jay Owens

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Aug 31, 2023 | English | ASIN: B0BZDNV51D | 14 hrs 46 mins | M4B & MP3@126 kbps
Combining history and science, a sweeping look at the smallest substance and the biggest challenges facing people and the planet
Four-and-a-half billion years ago, Planet Earth was formed from a vast spinning nebula of cosmic dust, the detritus left over from the birth of the sun. Within the next 100 years, human life on swathes of the Earth’s surface will end in a haze of heat, drought, and, again, dust. Dust is a legacy of 20th-century progress and a profound threat to life in the 21st century.
And yet dust is something we hardly ever consider-it is so small and so mundane as to be beyond the threshold of thought.

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Mindful in Minutes Meditation for the Modern Family Over 100 Practices to Help Families Find Peace Calm Connection [Audiobook]


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English | ISBN: 9780760386521 | 2023 | 5 hours and 1 minute | M4B@128 kbps | 279 MB
Author: Kelly Smith
Narrator: Kelly Smith

Slow down, calm down, and come together with this complete guide to meditation for the whole family. As a certified yoga teacher, meditation teacher, and host of the chart-topping podcast Mindful in Minutes, Kelly Smith is no stranger to the wide-ranging health benefits of meditation. Mindful in Minutes: Meditation for the Modern Family helps families of all kinds learn how to use meditation to cope with the everyday struggles of being a person who is also part of a family. Covering topics ranging from quieting the mind and managing stress to handling resentment and cultivating compassion, this book offers specialized practices for each family member. With three distinct, age-appropriate practices for each topic, Kelly ensures that every member of the family has access to a practical, focused meditation "toolkit" to draw on when they need a little extra help. Whether you are a meditation beginner or a long-term practitioner, this book will help you and your family feel calmer, happier, and more connected.

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Ludwig Von Mises Fountainhead of the Modern Microeconomics Revolution


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English | 2009 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B002SKYTCA | M4B@64 Kbps | Duration: 10:14 h | 279 Mb
The Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises is increasingly recognized as one of the most important originators of modern economic thought. This book studies his ideas in a clear and systematic way and pulls out from Mises’s own writings the main themes of his work. Mises’s central theme is an emphasis on microeconomics. All real economic decisions, he insists, are taken by particular people at particular times and places; the motivating forces, therefore, are personal and psychological. In this view, economics is not a science at all, but a discipline more like mathematics or geometry. Its principles are deduced not by observation and experiment, but from certain axiomatic facts about the nature of human choice. This basic insight allows Mises to study important topics such as entrepreneurship and competition in new and fruitful ways.

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The Great Revolutions of Modern History [TTC Audio]


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English | March 26, 2021 | ASIN: B08ZDVD519 | M4B@96 kbps | 12h 33m | 524 MB
Lecturer: Lynne Ann Hartnett
The great revolutions of the past 300 years have profoundly shaped the social, cultural, political, and military landscape of the 21st century. These epic changes tore down established orders and built new ones in their place. What drives individuals and groups to embrace revolution? At what point does a society decide to revolt? Is there such a thing as a peaceful revolution? Why have some revolutions failed while others changed the world?

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Software Architecture The Hard Parts Modern Trade-Off Analyses for Distributed Architectures [Audiobook]


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English | ASIN: B0CFVZTP97 | 2023 | 12 hours and 53 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 362 MB
Author: Neal Ford, Mark Richards, Pramod Sadalage, Zhamak Dehghani
Narrator: Dena Dahilig

There are no easy decisions in software architecture. Instead, there are many hard parts-difficult problems or issues with no best practices-that force you to choose among various compromises. With this book, you’ll learn how to think critically about the trade-offs involved with distributed architectures. Architecture veterans and practicing consultants Neal Ford, Mark Richards, Pramod Sadalage, and Zhamak Dehghani discuss strategies for choosing an appropriate architecture. By interweaving a story about a fictional group of technology professionals, they examine everything from how to determine service granularity, manage workflows and orchestration, manage and decouple contracts, and manage distributed transactions to how to optimize operational characteristics, such as scalability, elasticity, and performance. This book provides techniques to help you discover and weigh the trade-offs as you confront the issues you face as an architect.

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Power over People Classical and Modern Political Theory [TTC Audio]


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English | July 08, 2013 | ASIN: B00DTO5Q1M | M4B@64 kbps | 12h 11m | 346 MB
Lecturer: Dennis Dalton
What is the connection between individual freedom and social and political authority? Are human beings fundamentally equal or unequal? In 16 in-depth lectures, Professor Dalton puts the key theories of power formulated by several of history’s greatest minds within your reach.

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Margaret Thatcher A Modern Leader [Audiobook]


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English | ASIN: B0C74SWP5G | 2023 | 2 hours and 49 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 154 MB
Author: Amy Edwards, The Great Courses
Narrator: Amy Edwards

The 1980s was a decade of change for many countries, but for Great Britain, it could be considered radical. The economic transformation of Britain during that period bears the indelible mark of Margaret Thatcher and her policies. In this Audible Original, Professor Amy Edwards takes you through the life and leadership of Margaret Thatcher. See how she went from being a shopkeeper’s daughter who lived above her parent’s corner shop to holding Britain’s top job and earning a reputation as one of the most influential politicians of the 20th century. In addition, Professor Edwards considers just how revolutionary the social, economic, and political changes overseen by Thatcher’s government really were and the effects they had on the daily lives of Britons of all ages and classes. And she concludes with Thatcher’s contentious fall from power, showing how, even after the end of her premiership, "Thatcherism" continued to live on under her successors.

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