Crazy Joy: Finding Wild Happiness in a World That's Upside Down (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B09SBTW7YD | 2022 | 5 hours and 24 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 145 MB
Author: Mary Katherine Backstrom
Narrator: Mary Katherine Backstrom
A bestselling author helps listeners find radical joy in a world full of constant comparison by accepting that life is a wild ride and happiness fluctuates with our circumstances. Happiness is considered a destination, but the finish line is constantly moving. With her trademark candor and hilarious storytelling, MK paints a picture of a different life-one bursting with a force that is far more sustainable and vibrant: joy. Witty and refreshingly honest, MK invites her listeners to embark on a counter-cultural journey toward a life filled to the brim with contentment, humor, and most importantly, Crazy Joy.

Con/Artist: The Life and Crimes of the World's Greatest Art Forger (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0B2DYLQKF | 2022 | 8 hours and 29 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 226 MB
Author: Tony Tetro, Giampiero Ambrosi
Narrator: Tony Tetro, Giampiero Ambrosi, Richard Ferrone
The world's most renowned art forger reveals the secrets behind his decades of painting like the masters-exposing an art world that is far more corrupt than we ever knew while providing an art history lesson wrapped in sex, drugs, and Caravaggio. The art world is a much dirtier, nastier business than you might expect. Tony Tetro, one of the most renowned art forgers in history, will make you question every masterpiece you've ever seen in a museum, gallery, or private collection. Tetro's "Rembrandts," "Caravaggios," "Miros," and hundreds of other works now hang on walls around the globe. In 2019, it was revealed that Prince Charles received into his collection a Picasso, Dali, Monet, and Chagall, insuring them for over 200 million pounds, only to later discover that they're actually "Tetros." And the kicker? In Tony's words: "Even if some tycoon finds out his Rembrandt is a fake, what's he going to do, turn it in? Now his Rembrandt just became motel art. Better to keep quiet and pass it on to the next guy. It's the way things work for guys like me." The Prince Charles scandal is the subject of a forthcoming feature documentary with Academy Award nominee Kief Davidson and coauthor Giampiero Ambrosi, in cooperation with Tetro.

Communication Essentials: The Tools You Need to Master Every Type of Professional Interaction (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BN2GML4J | 2022 | 7 hours and 16 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 196 MB
Author: Trey Guinn
Narrator: Derek Dysart
No matter how great your knowledge, expertise, or experience, poor communication skills undermine your ability to get your message across, achieve your objectives, and build crucial relationships. To advance your career-and succeed in other aspects of life, as well-building theses skills is essential. In Communication Essentials, expert Trey Guinn takes you step-by-step through the process of improvement, from understanding the importance of message clarity to specific, goal-based strategies to develop and maximize your skills. Packed with insights, anecdotes, exercises, and Essential Takeaways to wrap up each chapter, Communication Essentials ensures you'll walk away feeling fully equipped and prepared to put your skills into action right away.

Coming to Terms with John F. Kennedy (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BLTJ3ZJF | 2022 | 10 hours and 26 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 301 MB
Author: Stephen F. Knott
Narrator: Christopher P. Brown
Coming to Terms with John F. Kennedy offers a nuanced assessment of the thirty-fifth president, whose legacy and impact people continue to debate to this day. Stephen F. Knott examines Kennedy through the lens of five critical issues: his interpretation of presidential power, his approach to civil rights, and his foreign policy toward Cuba, the Soviet Union, and Vietnam. Knott also explores JFK's assassination and the evolving interpretations of his presidency, both highly politicized subject matters. What emerges is a president as complex as the author's shifting views about him.

China as a Twenty-First-Century Naval Power: Theory Practice and Implications (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BMHPCXQN | 2022 | 9 hours and 56 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 267 MB
Author: Michael A. McDevitt
Narrator: Ian Putnam
Xi Jinping has made his ambitions for the People's Liberation Army (PLA) perfectly clear, first, that China should become a "great maritime power" and secondly, that the PLA "become a world-class armed force by 2050." China as a Twenty-First-Century Naval Power focuses on China's navy and how it is being transformed to satisfy the "world class" goal. Beginning with an exploration of why China is seeking to become such a major maritime power, author Michael McDevitt first explores the strategic rationale behind Xi's two objectives.

Changing to Thrive: Using the Stages of Change to Overcome the Top Threats to Your Health and Happiness (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BMGZLXSH | 2022 | 9 hours and 6 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 251 MB
Author: James O. Prochaska, Janice M. Prochaska
Narrator: Walter Dixon
This book can help you understand and learn to manage change to improve health and happiness. Changing unhealthy behaviors is easier said than done. Through interactive exercises, backed by countless research studies, Changing to Thrive will help listeners progress through the Stages of Change and find the will power to create lasting change that will allow them to thrive. If you're like most of us, you have already made repeated attempts to change your lifestyle and improve your wellbeing without lasting success. You may attribute those failures to things like lack of motivation, but it's more likely that you simply don't know how to change. In this book, James O. Prochaska, PhD, and Janice M. Prochaska, PhD, guide you through a six-stage process designed to help you assess your readiness to change, then tap the inner resources necessary to thrive physically, emotionally, and socially. Through interactive exercises, Changing to Thrive will help you progress through the stages of change and learn that you have the power within to thrive.

COVID-19: The Conspiracy Theories (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0B7CKMX27 | 2022 | 11 hours and 32 minutes | MP3@48 kbps | 259 MB
Author: David Gardner
Narrator: Kris Dyer
Investigative journalist David Gardner turns his uncompromising gaze on the many conspiracy theories connected with the COVID pandemic. With first-hand reporting and detailed investigations into the people who originated these COVID theories-some of them plausible, some driven by an agenda and some plainly mad-he answers the questions that everyone has been asking for nearly two years since the pandemic began, and left us doubting our leaders as never before. When COVID-19 struck early in 2020, first in China and inexorably through the rest of the world, it quickly became the subject of the most virulent outbreak of conspiracy theories we have ever seen. The pandemic quickly became an infodemic.

Butts: A Backstory (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B09SKCPP9Y | 2022 | 8 hours and 13 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 236 MB
Author: Heather Radke
Narrator: Heather Radke, Emily Tremaine
Whether we love them or hate them, think they're sexy, think they're strange, consider them too big, too small, or anywhere in between, humans have a complicated relationship with butts. It is a body part unique to humans, critical to our evolution and survival, and yet it has come to signify so much more: sex, desire, comedy, shame. A woman's butt, in particular, is forever being assessed, criticized, and objectified, from anxious self-examinations trying on jeans in department store dressing rooms to enduring crass remarks while walking down a street or high school hallways. But why? In Butts: A Backstory, reporter, essayist, and RadioLab contributing editor Heather Radke is determined to find out.

Burn Rate: Launching a Startup and Losing My Mind (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B09FFS3CVJ | 2022 | 8 hours and 26 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 216 MB
Author: Andy Dunn
Narrator: Andy Dunn
The co-founder of the menswear startup Bonobos opens up about the struggle with bipolar disorder that nearly cost him everything in this gripping, radically honest memoir of mental illness and entrepreneurship. At twenty-eight, fresh from Stanford's MBA program and steeped in the move-fast-and-break-things ethos of Silicon Valley, Andy Dunn was on top of the world. He was building a new kind of startup-a digitally native, direct-to-consumer brand-out of his Manhattan apartment. Bonobos was a new-school approach to selling an old-school product: men's pants. Against all odds, business was booming. Hustling to scale the fledgling venture, Dunn raised tens of millions of dollars while boundaries between work and life evaporated. As he struggled to keep the startup afloat, Dunn was haunted by a ghost: a diagnosis of bipolar disorder he received after a frightening manic episode in college, one that had punctured the idyllic veneer of his midwestern upbringing.

Brain Weaver: Creating the Fabric for a Healthy Mind Through Integrative Medicine (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BN2MXV3Z | 2022 | 7 hours and 58 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 228 MB
Author: Andrew Newberg, Daniel A. Monti
Narrator: William Sarris
Though adult cognitive development has previously been thought to be unyielding and static, Brain Weaver offers new hope and empowerment to remain mentally vibrant for a lifetime. Doctors Newberg and Monti's team at Thomas Jefferson University's Marcus Institute of Integrative Health are at the forefront of research in brain functioning and applications of the most advanced understanding in real-world strategies to expand options for optimizing our complex neurophysiology. Their findings show that optimal brain health is achievable by successfully weaving together a tapestry of our bio-psycho-social-spiritual dimensions. Brain Weaver also coincides with a decades-long surge in the public's interest in whole-person treatments-body, mind, and spirit evidence-based integrative therapies that include pharmaceuticals, electromagnetics, nutrition, and meditation. Brain Weaver's timeliness is all the more important now to address a new paradigm for post-pandemic wellness that emphasizes our individual and collective responsibility for proactive healthcare.