Tag: Peril

Free Download Trippy: The Peril and Promise of Medicinal Psychedelics (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CKLWRMNF | 2024 | 11 hours and 49 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 342 MB
Author: Ernesto Londoño
Narrator: Ernesto Londoño
This program is read by the author and is accompanied by original audio from their ayahuasca experiences. This deeply personal and immersive listen invites you to observe the profound impact of ayahuasca and its transformative effect upon the author’s life. A riveting look at the tremendous promise and inherent risks of the use of psychedelics in mental-health treatment through the lens of a New York Times reporter whose journalistic exploration of this emerging field began with a personal crisis. When he signed up for a psychedelic retreat run by a mysterious Argentine woman deep in Brazil’s rainforest in early 2018, Ernesto Londoño, a veteran New York Times journalist, was so depressed he had come close to jumping off his terrace weeks earlier. His nine-day visit to Spirit Vine Ayahuasca Retreat Center included four nighttime ceremonies during which participants imbibed a vomit-inducing plant-based brew that contained DMT, a powerful mind-altering compound.

Free Download Women! In! Peril! by Jessie Ren Marshall
English | April 2, 2024 | ISBN: 1639732276 | True EPUB | 288 pages | 2.4 MB
Full of wry humor, sharp social commentary, and an irrepressible sense of hope, a ferociously feminist debut short story collection from award-winning playwright Jessie Ren Marshall.

Free Download Waters in Peril by Leah Bendell-Young, Patricia Gallaugher
English | 2001 | ISBN: 1461355818 | 248 Pages | PDF | 7.8 MB
Who Speaks for the Oceans? The question has been asked a lot in recent years – just who is looking out for our oceans?

Free Download Timothy R. Heath, "The Autocrat’s Predicament: The Political Peril of Economic Upgrade in Single-Party Authoritarian Regimes"
English | ISBN: 1666947393 | 2023 | 232 pages | EPUB, PDF | 315 KB + 2 MB
In their quest for national revival, China’s leaders under Xi Jinping have sought to improve the economy’s performance. The disappointing economic record of authoritarian regimes provides ample grounds for doubt, yet not all have failed. Why have some succeeded where most did not? The theory of the "enabling condition" highlights the central role that politics plays in the pursuit of economic advancement. The theory explains that a political situation characterized by a strong central leadership, weak elite opposition, and a united public offers favorable prospects for enacting concentrated growth policies. This arrangement enables the central leadership to enlist the public in convincing elites to implement policies that they might otherwise resist. Focusing on the experience of single party, authoritarian regimes, The Autocrat’s Predicament: The Political Peril of Economic Upgrade in Single Party, Authoritarian Regimes examines episodes in the histories of the People’s Republic of China, Taiwan, and the Soviet Union. It concludes that China’s unfavorable political situation could be potentially unfriendly for its ambitions to build an efficient, highly productive economy.

Free Download Tools and Weapons: The Promise and the Peril of the Digital Age by Brad Smith, Carol Ann Browne, Bill Gates – foreword
English | 2019 | ISBN: B07RLS88MQ | Format: MP3 / 11 hours and 11 minutes + EPUB | 232 Mb
The instant New York Times best seller
From Microsoft’s president and one of the tech industry’s broadest thinkers, a frank and thoughtful reckoning with how to balance enormous promise and existential risk as the digitization of everything accelerates.
"A colorful and insightful insiders’ view of how technology is both empowering us and threatening us. From privacy to cyberattacks, this timely book is a useful guide for how to navigate the digital future." (Walter Isaacson)

Free Download Trevor Norris, "Strong Democracy in Crisis: Promise or Peril?"
English | ISBN: 1498533612 | 2016 | 280 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
This is a robust and relevant collection from a truly distinguished group of political theorists actively rethinking the promise and perils of democracy. The book is coherent in its focus on a common theme and aim: to advance and refine the political project of promoting democratic theory and practice. While the contributors are admirers of the promotion of various models of democracy they also express distinct approaches and concerns. Each builds on and expands the central theme of democracy and ultimately contends with potential limits of current configurations of democratic life. While to some extent they share common concerns they express considerable dissent and fruitful opposition that deepens and advances the debate. Contributors explore democracy from different perspectives: law and constitutionalism, globalization and development, public life and the arts, pluralism, democracy and education, and democratic listening and democratic participation. The contributions point towards new ways of living and thinking politically, new directions for contending with some of the more significant and seemingly intractable political problems, challenging conventional presuppositions about democracy by expanding the boundaries of what kinds of democracy may be possible.

Free Download Superpower in Peril: A Battle Plan to Renew America by David McCormick
English | March 14, 2023 | ISBN: 1546001956 | 320 pages | PDF | 22 Mb
Discover a groundbreaking vision for how to unlock America’s full potential for greatness from one of the country’s foremost conservative leaders: David McCormick, the former CEO of Bridgewater Associates. It’s easy to be pessimistic about the state of our country these days, but as McCormick explains, if the true test of a great country is its capacity for self-renewal, the United States of America stands apart. Our country has continually defeated grave threats and overcome domestic divisions when the odds have been stacked against us. That’s the American story, and we can do it again.