Tag: Obsession

Free Download Uses for Obsession: A Chef’s Memoir by Ben Shewry
English | October 15, 2024 | ISBN: 1922616842 | 272 pages | EPUB | 0.67 Mb
Chef and restaurateur Ben Shewry knows obsession well. Whether it’s crispy-edged lasagne, saltwater crocodile ribs or the perfect potato, obsession is what motivates him and what makes him tick.

Free Download Charles Todd’s Magnificent Obsession: The epic race to connect Australia to the world by David Dufty
English | 3 September 2024 | ISBN: 176147135X | True EPUB | 368 pages | 6.5 MB
The construction of the Overland Telegraph in 1870 is an extraordinary feat of engineering and a wild gamble that nearly went terribly wrong.

Free Download Exam Nation: Why Our Obsession with Grades Fails Everyone – and a Better Way to Think About School (Audiobook)
English | August 15, 2024 | ASIN: B0D1DLKRYG, B0D1DRZ4XJ | M4B@64 kbps | 10h | 286 MB
Author and Narrator: Sammy Wright
Exams, grades, league tables, Ofsted reports. All of them miss the point of school and together they are undermining our whole approach to education.
What is school for? Drawing on his twenty years as a teacher, hundreds of interviews and his experience on the UK Government’s Social Mobility Commission, head teacher Sammy Wright exposes the fundamental misconception at the heart of our education system. By focussing on the grades pupils get in neatly siloed, academic subjects, we end up ranking them and our schools into winners and losers: some pupils are set on a trajectory to university – the rest are left ill-equipped for the world they actually face.

Free Download The Tree Collectors: Tales of Arboreal Obsession (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CLYQG53V | 2024 | 5 hours and 49 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 324 MB
Author: Amy Stewart
Narrator: Jade Wheeler
Fifty vignettes of remarkable people whose lives have been transformed by their obsessive passion for trees-written by the New York Times bestselling author. When Amy Stewart discovered a community of tree collectors, she expected to meet horticultural fanatics driven to plant every species of oak or maple. But she also discovered that the urge to collect trees springs from something deeper and more profound: a longing for community, a vision for the future, or a path to healing and reconciliation. In this slyly humorous, informative, often poignant volume, Stewart brings us captivating stories of people who spend their lives in pursuit of rare and wonderful trees and are transformed in the process.

Free Download Michael Hutchinson, "Faster: The Obsession, Science and Luck Behind the World’s Fastest Cyclists"
English | ISBN: 1408837773 | 2015 | pages | AZW3 | 357 KB
For professional cyclists, going faster and winning are, of course, closely related. Yet surprisingly, for many, a desire to go faster is much more important than a desire to win. Someone who wants to go faster will work at the details and take small steps rather than focusing on winning. Winning just happens when you do everything right – it’s the doing everything right that’s hard. And that’s what fascinates and obsesses Michael Hutchinson.

Free Download Bob Suren, "Crate Digger: An Obsession with Punk Records"
English | 2015 | pages: 362 | ISBN: 1621068781 | EPUB | 5,7 mb
A small-town Florida teenager discovers punk rock through a loaned mix tape, and punk music and culture slowly takes over all aspects of his life.

Free Download Weight Loss Without Obsession
Published 8/2024
MP4 | Video: h264, 1920×1080 | Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz
Language: English | Size: 2.59 GB | Duration: 1h 54m
Sustainable Weight Loss: Guilt-Free Strategies for a Healthier Body and Mind, Without Obsession or Deprivation

Free Download Toby Lester, "Da Vinci’s Ghost: Genius, Obsession, and How Leonardo Created the World in His Own Image"
English | 2012 | pages: 328 | ISBN: 1439189242, 1439189234 | EPUB | 23,7 mb
In Da Vinci’s Ghost, critically acclaimed historian Toby Lester tells the story of the world’s most iconic image, the Vitruvian Man, and sheds surprising new light on the artistry and scholarship of Leonardo da Vinci, one of history’s most fascinating figures.

Free Download Beautiful Trauma: An Explosion, an Obsession, and a New Lease on Life by Rebecca Fogg
English | April 4, 2023 | ISBN: 0593086775 | 209 pages | PDF | 2.48 Mb
A compelling account of surviving a freak accident, and a fascinating exploration of the science of trauma and recovery.

Free Download Mike Parker, "Map Addict: The Bestselling Tale of an Obsession"
English | 2009 | pages: 368 | ISBN: 0007351577, 0007300840 | EPUB | 22,4 mb
‘My name is Mike and I am a map addict. There, it’s said…’