Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed ( Audiobook)

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed ( Audiobook)
mp3 | 978-0670033379 | English | 130 MB

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (also titled Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive) is a 2005 book by Jared M. Diamond, professor of geography and physiology at University of California, Los Angeles. Diamond's book deals with "societal collapses involving an environmental component, and in some cases also contributions of climate change, hostile neighbors, and trade partners, plus questions of societal responses". In writing the book Diamond intended that its readers should learn from history.

In the prologue, Diamond summarizes Collapse in one paragraph:

“ This book employs the comparative method to understand societal collapses to which environmental problems contribute. My previous book (Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies), had applied the comparative method to the opposite problem: the differing rates of buildup of human societies on different continents over the last 13,000 years. In the present book focusing on collapses rather than buildups, I compare many past and present societies that differed with respect to environmental fragility, relations with neighbors, political institutions, and other "input" variables postulated to influence a society's stability. The "output" variables that I examine are collapse or survival, and form of the collapse if collapse does occur. By relating output variables to input variables, I aim to tease out the influence of possible input variables on collapses.


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Jared Diamond's Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed is the glass-half-empty follow-up to his Pulitzer Prize-winning Guns, Germs, and Steel. While Guns, Germs, and Steel explained the geographic and environmental reasons why some human populations have flourished, Collapse uses the same factors to examine why ancient societies, including the Anasazi of the American Southwest and the Viking colonies of Greenland, as well as modern ones such as Rwanda, have fallen apart. Not every collapse has an environmental origin, but an eco-meltdown is often the main catalyst, he argues, particularly when combined with society's response to (or disregard for) the coming disaster. Still, right from the outset of Collapse, the author makes clear that this is not a mere environmentalist's diatribe. He begins by setting the book's main question in the small communities of present-day Montana as they face a decline in living standards and a depletion of natural resources. Once-vital mines now leak toxins into the soil, while prion diseases infect some deer and elk and older hydroelectric dams have become decrepit. On all these issues, and particularly with the hot-button topic of logging and wildfires, Diamond writes with equanimity.

Because he's addressing such significant issues within a vast span of time, Diamond can occasionally speak too briefly and assume too much, and at times his shorthand remarks may cause careful readers to raise an eyebrow. But in general, Diamond provides fine and well-reasoned historical examples, making the case that many times, economic and environmental concerns are one and the same. With Collapse, Diamond hopes to jog our collective memory to keep us from falling for false analogies or forgetting prior experiences, and thereby save us from potential devastations to come. While it might seem a stretch to use medieval Greenland and the Maya to convince a skeptic about the seriousness of global warming, it's exactly this type of cross-referencing that makes Collapse so compelling.

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Richest Man in Babylon and The Magic Story By Napoleon Hill

Napoleon Hill, «Richest Man in Babylon and The Magic Story»
Publisher: High Roads Media; Unabridged edition (January 5, 2002) | ISBN-10: 1559276924 | ISBN-13: 978-1559276924 | Audio - MP3 | 29.6 MB

Two classic allegorical dramatizations about building wealth and achieving personal success
The Richest Man in Babylon
George Clason's all-time motivational classic comes to life in this audio dramatization adapted by the Napoleon Hill Foundation. It is the story of Akrad, a man of humble of origins; a simple tradesman who was widely known to be the richest man in Babylon.
Regardless of who you are or what work you do, security, riches, and all that comes with them can be yours by combining discipline and imagination with these deceptively simple yet universally profound principles of saving and investing. You too can become the richest man in Babylon.
The Magic Story
Something was happening to all of Jay's friends-they were becoming self-confident, setting goals, and achieving success, and it was all because of a story that was being told to them by a mutual friend, Sturtevant.
About the Author
Napoleon Hill, born in poverty, became one of the world's most distinguished authors and speakers. Inspired by Andrew Carnegie, Hill was a confidant and advisor to businessmen and presidents. Among his associates were Franklin D. Roosevelt, Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, and hundreds of other world leaders.


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Furious Love: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and the Marriage of the Century (Audio Book)

Furious Love: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and the Marriage of the Century
by Sam Kashner, Nancy Schoenberger, and Paul Boehmer (Narrator)
Harper Audio | 2010 | ASIN: B003S830HQ | English | MP3 56kbps | 438 Mb

The definitive story of Hollywood's most famous couple.

He was a tough-guy Welshman softened by the affections of a breathtakingly beautiful woman; she was a modern-day Cleopatra madly in love with her own Mark Antony. For nearly a quarter of a century, Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton were Hollywood royalty, and their fiery romance - often called "the marriage of the century" - was the most notorious, publicized, and celebrated love affair of its day.

For the first time, Vanity Fair contributing editor Sam Kashner and acclaimed biographer Nancy Schoenberger tell the complete story of this larger-than-life couple, showing how their romance and two marriages commanded the attention of the world. And for the first time, in exclusive access given to the authors, Elizabeth Taylor herself gives never-revealed details and firsthand accounts of her life with Burton.

Drawing upon brand-new information and interviews and on Burton's private, passionate, and heartbreaking letters to Taylor, Furious Love sheds new light on the movies, the sex, the scandal, the fame, the brawls, the booze, the bitter separations, and, of course, the fabled jewels. It offers an intimate glimpse into Elizabeth and Richard's privileged world and their elite circle of friends, among them Princess Grace, Montgomery Clift, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Peter O'Toole, Michael Caine, Marlon Brando, Rex Harrison, Mike Nichols, Laurence Olivier, Robert Kennedy, Tennessee Williams, Noel Coward, John Huston, Ava Gardner, the Rothschilds, Maria Callas, and Aristotle Onassis. It provides an entertaining, eye-opening look at their films, their wildly lucrative reign in Europe and in Hollywood, and the price they paid for their extravagant lives.

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Daytime Dating: Never Sleep Alone

Daytime Dating: Never Sleep Alone, by Jeremy Soul
Publisher: Lovesystems | English | ISBN: N/A | 2010 | Mp3 128kbps | 91MB

Daytime Dating by Soul is a tried and tested 3-part system you can use to meet, attract and date any of the gorgeous women you just happen to see during your day-to-day life. At your local cafe, on the way home... or even "that" cute girl from work.
Here's the simple truth. Meeting women during the day can be much easier than at bars or clubs.
Even better, you have a much greater selection of women to choose from during the day... all different types of looks, styles, interests, jobs and hobbies. So whether you're looking for a one-night stand or something more serious... more choice means more fun and getting the 'kind' of girl you want.

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In Part One Soul gives you:

* A System You Can Use Today. An instant coaching session from the world's NUMBER ONE daytime dating instructor (it only takes about 10 minutes and it will change your life... you can start meeting and attracting the women you see today).
* The Confidence You Need. Soul reveals the 5 secrets to "inner game" and how you can gain the confidence to comfortably and easily approach women you're interested in.
* The Women You Want. The 6 best places to consistently meet a huge range of desirable women (during the day) and 4 specific ways to immediately improve your "day-time game."
* Is It Worth It? The advantages and disadvantages of meeting women during the day - and some guaranteed venues you can try to meet 'your kind' of gal.
* 4 things that you can do today, to immediately and dramatically boost your confidence and remove any 'approach anxiety' so that you can happily and easily strike up a conversation with any pretty woman who interests you.
* A POWERFUL System to develop sexual or romantic relationships with beautiful women, even if you're not rich, famous or good-looking, (President and founder of Love Systems, Savoy guest authors to reveal an effective method for getting what you want... when and where you want it!)
* Starting EASY Conversations with beautiful women (the 7 crucial fundamentals of approaching women who strike your fancy.)

Part 2: Emotional Progression (What To Say and Do)
In Part Two of Daytime Dating, Soul gives you the exact techniques and strategies you need to take things further with women you like, including:

* The simplest, easiest and most powerful way you can approach a woman in the daytime (and some specific examples so that you know exactly how to pull this off)
* 8 Sure-Fire Signs Of Attraction - How to "read" the signals of women who are dying to date you right now! (They think they're being obvious, but I'll bet you're blind to these signals. Just learning this one secret -- how to "read" women -- will boost your "romance potential" through the roof!)
* OFF The Radar - Why it is in fact far EASIER to meet, attract and approach gorgeous girls you see during the day rather than at bars or clubs (hmmm... no competition, no girlfriends, and no distractions just to name a few)
* The 8 Habits Of Highly Effective PUAs that you can use to overcome "Approach Anxiety," forget any nerves and tap into your natural inner confidence (brought to you by master instructor KEYCHAIN)
* 5 "Copy & Paste" Compliments that you can use to build her attraction to you without sounding needy or over-interested (plus three important guidelines for making sure she knows you're not just another 'nice guy')
* The REVOLUTIONARY Concept of "Conversation Mapping" - Soul reveals this potent tool to ensure that any conversation is scientifically engineered to build attraction and desire within any woman
* The 7 Rules Of "Building Comfort" so that she will feel "comfortable" going to bed with you... even if you only just met that day (it's a powerful psychological shift and Soul knows exactly how you can artfully manufacture it)

Part 3: Physical Progression (How To Get What You Want)
In Part Three Soul reveals:

* The Surprising Truth. Women enjoy sex as much as men do (if not more so), but the route they prefer to get there is different - Soul gives you the roadmap on page 125.
* 4 Stages Of Getting Physical. Learn each of the steps you need to go through to easily progress to the next level, without it being awkward or forced.
* Seeing Her Again. How to set up traditional or 'instant' dates with a cute girl you just met - how to ensure she is comfortable, interested and not going to stand you up!
* 6 Killer Statements you can borrow from Soul that will help you to easily set up another meeting that she's eager to attend (even when she knows exactly what you're after)
* How It All Works. Soul gives you 5 very detailed case studies so that you can understand exactly how to apply this entire strategy and start using it today (giving you real-life examples, rather than abstract theory)
* Soul's Library. For fast improvement and personal reference, Soul has included a very handy resource guide listing all of the books, sites, training and methods that he has personally used, or recommends (helping you to cut through the clutter and get where you need to be).
* The Spanish Brunette. How Soul scored a stunning, tall Spanish brunette who just walked by him in the street one day... he didn't even need to take her on a date before things got "interesting!" You can learn a lot from this man.
* Traditional Vs 'Instant' Dates. How to ensure that once you have met a new girl you like, you continue the interaction (and the attraction) afterwards. A truly crucial step.


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The Help by Kathryn Stockett

The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Publisher: Penguin Audio; Unabridged edition | 2009 | ISBN: 0143144189 | English | Audio CD in MP3/64kbps | 513.20 Mb

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The Washington Post's Book World:

Southern whites' guilt for not expressing gratitude to the black maids who raised them threatens to become a familiar refrain. But don't tell Kathryn Stockett because her first novel is a nuanced variation on the theme that strikes every note with authenticity. In a page-turner that brings new resonance to the moral issues involved, she spins a story of social awakening as seen from both sides of the American racial divide.

Newly graduated from Ole Miss with a degree in English but neither an engagement ring nor a steady boyfriend, Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan returns to her parents' cotton farm in Jackson. Although it's 1962, during the early years of the civil rights movement, she is largely unaware of the tensions gathering around her town.

Skeeter is in some ways an outsider. Her friends, bridge partners and fellow members of the Junior League are married. Most subscribe to the racist attitudes of the era, mistreating and despising the black maids whom they count on to raise their children. Skeeter is not racist, but she is naive and unwittingly patronizing. When her best friend makes a political issue of not allowing the "help" to use the toilets in their employers' houses, she decides to write a book in which the community's maids -- their names disguised -- talk about their experiences.

Fear of discovery and retribution at first keep the maids from complying, but a stalwart woman named Aibileen, who has raised and nurtured 17 white children, and her friend Minny, who keeps losing jobs because she talks back when insulted and abused, sign on with Skeeter's risky project, and eventually 10 others follow.

Aibileen and Minny share the narration with Skeeter, and one of Stockett's accomplishments is reproducing African American vernacular and racy humor without resorting to stilted dialogue. She unsparingly delineates the conditions of black servitude a century after the Civil War.

The murders of Medgar Evers and Martin Luther King Jr. are seen through African American eyes, but go largely unobserved by the white community. Meanwhile, a room "full of cake-eating, Tab-drinking, cigarette-smoking women" pretentiously plan a fundraiser for the "Poor Starving Children of Africa." In general, Stockett doesn't sledgehammer her ironies, though she skirts caricature with a "white trash" woman who has married into an old Jackson family. Yet even this character is portrayed with the compassion and humor that keep the novel levitating above its serious theme.

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Agatha Christie - The Secret of Chimneys

Agatha Christie - The Secret of Chimneys
Minotaur Books | 2001 | ISBN: 0312979746 | MP3 | 215 MB

A bit of adventure and quick cash is all that good-natured drifter Anthony Cade is looking for when he accepts a messenger job from an old friend. It sounds so simple: deliver the provocative memoirs of a recently deceased European count to a London publisher. But the parcel holds ore than scandalous royal secrets. It contains a stash of letters that suggest blackmail--and lead to the murder of a stranger who's been shadowing Anthony's every move. Discovering the dead man's identity means retracing his steps--to the rambling estate of Chimneys where darker secrets, and deadlier threats, await anyone who dares to enter.
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Agatha Christie - Hallowe'en Party

Agatha Christie - Hallowe'en Party
Berkley | 2004 | ISBN: 0425129632 | MP3 | 475 MB

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At a Hallowe'en party a lying-thirteen-year-old brags that she had once seen a murder. Only one person, the murderer, believes her and when she bobs for apples she doesn't come up. Hercule Poirot must reach into a past in which a number of seemingly separate crimes - a knifing

China232.com : Fun English Lessons (2009-2010) with PDFs

China232.com : Fun English Lessons (2009-2010) with PDFs
Andrew and Addison Best | 2009 | MP3+PDF | 2 GB

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Mit Erfolg zur Mittelstufenprüfung

Hans-Jürgen Hantschel, Paul Krieger, "Mit Erfolg zur Mittelstufenprüfung"
Ernst Klett International GmbH | 2004 | ISBN: 3126753914 | 103 pages, Audio CD | PDF, mp3 | 41 MB

Die sichere Vorbereitung auf die Zentrale Mittelstufenprüfung des Goethe-Instituts. Auch für Selbstlernende hervorragend geeignet. AutorenH. -J. Hantschel und P. KriegerÜbungsbuchWiederholt die wichtigsten Grammatikkapitel. Trainiert den Wortschatz der Lerner in thematischen Kontexten. Lese- und Hörstrategien werden systematisch erarbeitet. Enthält nützliche Redemittel zum Briefeschreiben. Testbuch Enthält- 4 komplette Prüfungen zum Übenmit allen Aufgabentypen, die in der Prüfung möglich sind- Erklärung der Prüfungsbedingungen- Lösungen und Kommentare zur Selbstkontrolle- Transkriptionen der Hörtexte. Kassette oder Audio-CD zum TestbuchEnthält alle Hörtexte zum Prüfungsteil 'Hörverstehen' sowie einen Test zur Einstimmung: Was für ein Lerntyp sind Sie?

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Nuevo Ven (Curso De Espanol Para Extranjeros) 1-3

Nuevo Ven (Curso De Espanol Para Extranjeros) 1-3
Edelsa Grupo Didascalia | 2000 | PDF+MP3 | 471 MB

Building on the success of "Ven", "Nuevo Ven" retains the methodological clarity and ease-of-use of the Ven course while following the recommendations of the Common European Framework and the structure of the Plan Curricular del Instituto Cervantes.
With an emphasis on communicative, lexical and grammatical language, an organised, sequential language learning process is covered through each of the 15 units which allows students to take responsibility and control over their own learning.
Oral comprehension, spelling rules, key vocabulary and grammar explanations, together with cultural activities relevant to both Spanish and Latin American society feature throughout.


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Sueña 2. Español Lengua Extranjera

Sueña 2. Español Lengua Extranjera
Aranzazu Cabrerizo Ruiz | 2007 | PDF/mp3 | 192 Pages | 136 MB

Sueña 2 está dirigido a aquellos estudiantes con un conocimiento básico de español. El libro está compuesto de 10 lecciones, divididas en dos ámbitos cada una, lo que permite ofrecer una mayor variedad de contextos funcionales.

En cada lección se trabajan de forma integrada los contenidos funcionales, gramaticales y léxicos, mientras que para los de escritura y fonética se han reservado los apartados Toma Nota y Suena Bien. La información gramatical se presenta de manera fragmentada en fichas, tras las cuales aparece un bloque de actividades donde se trabaja el contenido de forma gradual: se pasa de actividades totalmente dirigidas a otras de práctica libre. En general, la doble página constituye una unidad de trabajo, y en ella se presenta la información lingüística que, a continuación, se practica con ejercicios de diversa tipología, que permiten el desarrollo de las cuatro destrezas. Al final de cada lección se incluyen el apartado A nuestra manera (destinado a la cultura y costumbres de España e Hispanoamérica) y una Recapitulación. El manual se cierra con un Glosario con una selección del léxico estudiado, traducido al inglés, francés, alemán, italiano y portugués (con la variante brasileña). El Libro del Alumno incluye dos CD con las audiciones de los ejercicios audio. Sueña 2 se corresponde con el nivel B1 del Marco común europeo de referencia.



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Gramática Didática del Español (Volume Único)

Gramática Didática del Español (Volume Único)
Leonardo Gómez Torrego | 2005 | ISBN: 857675066x | PDF | 543 Pages | 104 MB

The grammar of Spanish offers clear explanations, multiple examples, and exercises with solutions.The textbook is organized in the form of cards and a convenient subject index.


LA GRAMÁTICA MÁS DIDÁTICA
RESUELVE DUDAS GRAMATICALES
. Explicaciones claras
. Múltiples ejemplos
. Ejercicios resueltos
ES FÁCIL DE USAR
. Organización en forma de ficha
. Índice temático
PRESENTA UN ENFOQUE DESCRIPTIVO Y NORMATIVO
. Aclaraciones terminológicas
. Cuadros de norma
Resolve de maneira clara e simples dúvidas sobre a gramática do espanhol, com ampla exemplificação e múltiplas explicações. Fácil de consultar pela organização em forma de ficha e o índice temático.
Traz exercícios práticos com soluções no final do livro.
UNA GRAMÁTICA QUE OFRECE RESPUESTAS AL ALCANCE DE TODOS



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The Relative Pitch Ear Training SuperCourse: Complete Course

The Relative Pitch Ear Training SuperCourse: Complete Course by David Lucas Burge
Publisher: PerfectPitch.com (November 1, 1999) | ISBN: 0942542304 | Language English
5 Audio CD in MP3/160 kbps (Manual + CD's) | 5 Levels х aprox.470 MB each one ~ total 2.3 GB

Now you can learn to UNDERSTAND and SPEAK the language of music -- all BY EAR -- with this gold mine of ear-opening CDs by David Lucas Burge.
The Relative Pitch Ear Training SuperCourse will give you a PROFESSIONAL EAR for MUSIC.
You'll learn how to compose all possible kinds of chords -- and then NAME them all by EAR ALONE. You'll also learn musical intervals, cadences, chord inversions, scales, compound intervals, and countless other essentials -- all to build up your virtuoso ear for music.
• For ALL BEGINNING musicians: to tune up your ear from scratch.
• For ALL ADVANCED musicians: to retune and fully overhaul your ear to keep it in shape.
Complete Relative Pitch Ear Training SuperCourse includes Five (5) Graduated Levels, written Notes for each Level (no music reading skills required) -- a grand total of 41 Power Lessons for your ear.


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The Silence of the Lambs

The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris ~ Frank Muller (Narrator)
Publisher: Recorded Books, LLC. (1993) | ISBN: 155690830X | Language English | Audio CD in MP3/80 kbps | 291 MB

There's a killer on the loose who knows that beauty is only skin deep, and a trainee investigator who's trying to save her own hide. The only man that can help is locked in an asylum. But he's willing to put a brave face on - if it will help him escape.



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Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain

Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks ~ Simon Prebble (Reader)
Publisher: Random House Audio; Abridged edition (October 16, 2007) | ISBN: 0739357395 | Language English | Audio CD in MP3/64 kbps OGG Vorbis | 173 MB

Amazon Best of the Month, December 2007: Legendary R&B icon Ray Charles claimed that he was "born with music inside me," and neurologist Oliver Sacks believes Ray may have been right. Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain examines the extreme effects of music on the human brain and how lives can be utterly transformed by the simplest of harmonies. With clinical studies covering the tragic (individuals afflicted by an inability to connect with any melody) and triumphant (Alzheimer's patients who find order and comfort through music), Sacks provides an erudite look at the notion that humans are truly a "musical species." --Dave Callanan --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
From Publishers Weekly
Neurologist and professor Sacks, best known for his books Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, dedicates his latest effort to the relationship between music and unusual brain disorders. Embracing the notion that neurology is an inherently British phenomenon, foreign to the New World, Sacks's book is read by impeccably polished actor Prebble (PW's 2006 Narrator of the Year). As befitting so urbane and smooth a reader, Prebble sounds as if his shirt had just been starched and his lab coat carefully pressed before beginning. With nary a word out of place, Prebble steps onto the stage, playing the good Dr. Sacks for this one-time-only performance. Simultaneous release with the Knopf hardcover (Reviews, Aug. 27).
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Poems And Songs Of Middle Earth

Poems And Songs Of Middle Earth by J.R.R. Tolkien (Author & Reader)
Publisher: Caedmon Records 1967 | ISBN: 9996973840 ASIN: B000KJBLQS | Language English & Elvish | Audio CD in MP3/320 kbps | 101 MB

Composed:
The Adventures Of Tom Bombadil
A1 The Adventures Of Tom Bombadil 4:00
A2 The Mewlips 1:21
A3 The Hoard 3:25
A4 Perry-The-Winkle 4:26
A5 The Man In The Moon Came Down Too Soon 5:16
B1 A Elbereth Gilthoniel 0:14
Narrator [Elvish] - J.R.R. Tolkien
The Road Goes Ever On
B2 The Road Goes Ever On 1:00
B3 Upon The Hearth The Fire Is Red 1:35
B4 In The Willow-Meads Of Tasarinan 2:35
B5 In Western Lands 2:15
B6 Namárië 1:25
B7 I Sit Beside The Fire / Refrain: A Elbereth Gilthoniel 3:38
B8 Errantry 3:43


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Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Suskind & John Woods, Sean Barratt (Reader)
Publisher: Penguin; Unabridged edition (30 Nov 2006) | ISBN: 0141806885 | Language English | Audio CD in MP3/48 kbps | 183 MB

Survivor, genius, perfumer, killer: this is Jean-Baptiste Grenouille. He is abandoned on the filthy streets of Paris as a child, but grows up to discover he has an extraordinary gift: a sense of smell more powerful than any other human’s. Soon, he is creating the most sublime fragrances in all the city. Yet there is one odour he cannot capture. It is exquisite, magical: the scent of a young virgin. And to get it he must kill. And kill. And kill… MP3 CD Format - (compatible with most modern CD players)
About the Author
Patrick Süskind was born near Munich, in 1949. He studied medieval and modern history at the University of Munich. His first play, The Double Bass, was written in 1980 and became an international success. His first novel, Perfume became an internationally acclaimed bestseller. He is also the author of The Pigeon and Mr. Summer's Story, and a coauthor of the enormously successful German television series Kir Royal. Patrick Süskind lives and writes in Munich.


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Cosmology: The History and Nature of Our Universe

Cosmology: The History and Nature of Our Universe by Mark Whittle
Course No. 1830 (36 lectures, 30 minutes/lecture) University of Virginia Ph.D., University of Cambridge
Publisher: The Teaching Company 2009 | ISBN: n/a | Language English | Audio CD in MP3/64 kbps | 531 MB

Evidence for the birth of the universe is raining down on you. It's called the cosmic microwave background, and it's had quite a journey. Born in the stupendous annihilation of matter and antimatter seconds after the big bang, trapped in the hot plasma of the expanding universe for 380,000 years, and then suddenly released when the universe cooled to the point that atoms could form, this echo of creation has been on an uninterrupted voyage through space for 13.7 billion years—until it reached you. The cosmic microwave background is just one of the many clues about the history and nature of our universe that make the science of cosmology a wondrous, fascinating, and philosophically profound field of study.

Cosmology: The History and Nature of Our Universe introduces you to the biggest story of all in 36 half-hour lectures that cover the origin, evolution, composition, and probable fate of our universe. This detailed and accessible course, presented by award-winning Professor Mark Whittle of the University of Virginia, incorporates more than 1,700 stunning illustrations.

The Perfect Time to Learn Cosmology

An expert on the dynamics of supermassive black holes at the cores of galaxies, Professor Whittle is an astronomer with a gift for making his subject vivid, understandable, and awe inspiring. For example, in explaining the vastness of the universe, he asks you to imagine yourself as a stupendous giant making billion-light-year strides through the cosmos, hour after hour. Even at this ultra-warp-drive pace, you would always find yourself in the middle of a uniform mist of galaxies with no end in sight.

Professor Whittle notes that we are the first generation ever to know in detail just how the universe came to be. Right now is the perfect time to learn cosmology, since researchers have just completed the work on more than a decade of breathtaking discoveries. The picture they have assembled is truly stunning in its richness and coherence and includes such findings as these:

* The universe began 13.7 billion years ago in a hot big bang.
* The geometry of the universe's space is "flat," supporting the theory of a cosmic origin in a rapid, inflationary burst of unimaginable speed.
* Ripples frozen in space at the instant of inflation formed the seeds from which galaxies and all later structure grew.
* The universe will expand forever at an accelerating rate.

Take an Intimate Look at the Universe

Einstein famously said, "The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible." As Cosmology shows, the universe is comprehensible at a remarkably deep level in simple, intuitive terms. As the course unfolds, you are introduced to the major clues that have gone into deciphering the mystery of the cosmos. Some of these clues involve concepts at the cutting edge of astrophysics, such as dark matter, dark energy, and cosmic inflation. Professor Whittle introduces these and many other ideas with inventive analogies and then builds on his explanations.

For instance, one of the most extraordinary aspects of the cosmic microwave background is that it tells us the universe was ringing with sound during its first 380,000 years. It took a satellite measuring minute fluctuations in the microwave background to disclose this property of the early universe. But the story does not end there because scientists can say a great deal about this primordial sound and what it means:

* Was it loud? Variations in the microwave background indicate that the sound was the approximate decibel level of front-row seats at a rock concert. (Professor Whittle picks Pink Floyd as a suitably deafening example.)
* What's the pitch? The primordial sound was 50 octaves lower than the range of human hearing. Just as larger organ pipes make deeper notes, so the universe's "pipes" are cosmic in size and make extremely low notes.
* Was it musical? As you hear in Professor Whittle's different re-creations of the primordial sound, it had a harmonic complexity with a quality somewhere between a musical note and noise.
* What does it tell us? The primordial sound included pressure waves destined to grow into the largest structures in the universe.

At Home in the Cosmos

There is also much to see in Cosmology. In addition to showing magnificent telescopic images, Professor Whittle illustrates his lectures with hundreds of informative diagrams, together with computer animations from NASA and other sources that give a three-dimensional perspective on the universe. You take a tour of our local supercluster, watch galaxies collide, and see "rivers" of galaxies flowing toward pockets of invisible dark matter, among other compelling simulations. Such a comprehensive, in-depth presentation is only available with this course and not in any classroom, book, or documentary.

Professor Whittle enriches his lectures with a number of simple equations, such as Hubble's Law. But you don't need to follow the math in detail, since he always restates what's going on in plain English. Indeed, Professor Whittle suggests that we may be hardwired to understand the universe at an intuitive level, since we evolved on a planet embedded in an astrophysical setting and subject to the same laws of physics that apply throughout all of space and time. We are truly at home in the cosmos.

Prepare to Be Surprised

Nonetheless, prepare to be surprised by some of the startling ideas you encounter in Cosmology:

* Matter and energy are only the positive side of reality. There is an equal and opposite negative side that resides in gravitational fields. Together they sum to zero, implying that the universe came from nothing.
* The annihilation of virtually all matter by antimatter just after the big bang means that every proton and electron in your body has survived a game of Russian roulette with a billion bullets and one blank.
* Dark energy has the crucial property of making the universe fall outward, rather than inward, which is why the expansion of the universe is accelerating.
* Our universe may be only one of many, in what has come to be called the multiverse. If each of these universes has different laws of physics, we should not be surprised that at least one—ours—happens to have the parameters that are conducive to life.

Looking back on the wealth of recent discoveries about the universe that are covered in this course, Professor Whittle can hardly contain his excitement. "I wouldn't be surprised if 500 years from now, these two decades will be seen as a period of breakthrough, not unlike the periods of discovery we associate with names like Copernicus, Newton, Darwin, or Einstein. ... One might say that right now is when cosmology has finally come of age."

Course Lecture Titles
1. The Journey Ahead
2. Denizens of the Universe
3. Overall Cosmic Properties
4. The Stuff of the Universe
5. The Sweep of Cosmic History
6. Measuring Distances
7. Expansion and Age
8. Distances, Appearances, and Horizons
9. Dark Matter and Dark Energy—96%!
10. Cosmic Geometry—Triangles in the Sky
11. Cosmic Expansion—Keeping Track of Energy
12. Cosmic Acceleration—Falling Outward
13. The Cosmic Microwave Background
14. Conditions during the First Million Years
15. Primordial Sound—Big Bang Acoustics
16. Using Sound as Cosmic Diagnostic
17. Primordial Roughness—Seeding Structure
18. The Dark Age—From Sound to the First Stars
19. Infant Galaxies
20. From Child to Maturity—Galaxy Evolution
21. Giant Black Holes—Construction and Carnage
22. The Galaxy Web—A Relic of Primordial Sound
23. Atom Factories—Stellar Interiors
24. Understanding Element Abundances
25. Light Elements—Made in the Big Bang
26. Putting It Together—The Concordance Model
27. Physics at Ultrahigh Temperatures
28. Back to a Microsecond—The Particle Cascade
29. Back to the GUT—Matter and Forces Emerge
30. Puzzling Problems Remain
31. Inflation Provides the Solution
32. The Quantum Origin of All Structure
33. Inflation's Stunning Creativity
34. Fine Tuning and Anthropic Arguments
35. What's Next for Cosmology?
36. A Comprehensible Universe?


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Art of Critical Decision Making

Art of Critical Decision Making by Michael A. Roberto
Course No. 5932 (24 lectures, 30 minutes/lecture) D.B.A., Harvard Business School Bryant University
Publisher: The Teaching Company 2009 | ISBN: n/a | Language English | Audio CD in MP3/96 kbps | 537 MB

The ability to make wise, educated decisions is essential to living a successful and fulfilled life.

* When is the right time for your company to change its business model?
* Is moving across the country for a new job the best option for you and your family?
* At what point do you roll out a new product or service currently being tested?
* Should you sell your house now, or wait until the housing market improves?

Whether simple or complex, private or public, decisions are an essential part of your life. Not only do decisions affect your own life for good or ill, they can also affect the lives of your friends, your family, and your community.

But making a good decision and avoiding a horrible one is not a chance act. It's a skill—one that can be learned, honed, and perfected. Mastering the art of critical decision making is the key to improving your life at home, at work, or in your community. When you understand the necessary components of a smart decision, you can examine mistakes you might have made in the past and sidestep potential mistakes in the future. And when you know the underlying psychological, social, and emotional components that influence decision making—whether they are your own decisions or the decisions of others—you can make sounder choices that produce better results.

Now you can learn to approach the critical decisions in your life with a more seasoned, educated eye with The Art of Critical Decision Making, a fascinating 24-lecture course that explores how individuals, groups, and organizations make effective decisions and offers you tips and techniques to enhance the effectiveness of your own decision making. Taught by award-winning Professor Michael A. Roberto of Bryant University—a scholar of leadership, managerial decision making, and business strategy—this dynamic course is an engaging and practical guide to one of the most fundamental activities in your life.

Three Levels of Decision Making

The heart of this accessible course is a thorough examination of decision making at three key levels.

The individual level: Studying how individuals make decisions reveals a wealth of insights into how—and why—they make particular choices. Most individuals do not examine every possible alternative but instead draw on experience and rules of thumb. Most of us, it turns out, are susceptible to what psychologists call cognitive biases: decision traps that can cause us to make certain systematic mistakes when making choices. You also learn how intuition, surprisingly, is more than just a gut instinct and represents instead a powerful pattern recognition capability.

The group level: Because you don't always make choices on your own, it's important to understand decision making at the level of group or team. Here, you try to answer the question of whether groups are "smarter" and more capable of making critical decisions than individuals. The lectures show you problems that typically arise in group decision-making scenarios, including groupthink (the notorious tendency for groups to be pressured into conforming to a particular view) and a lack of synergy between team members. You also learn how groups can overcome these and other problems to make better decisions.

The organizational level: Studying decision making on the organizational level requires you to grasp how the structure, systems, and culture of a particular organization shape the behavior of its individual teams and members. Professor Roberto shows you how history's wrong decisions usually cannot be attributed to one wrong decision or poor leader. He also demonstrates how some organizations have encouraged and reliably performed vigilant decision making in the face of risky scenarios.

The Key to Effective Decision Making

The Art of Critical Decision Making reveals that bad decisions are usually made because of a poorly thought-out decision-making process. If decision makers put more emphasis on how to make a decision, ensure that they remove personal biases, collect information beforehand, glean the diverse perspectives of others, and perform a number of other constructive activities, they can vastly improve the strength and success of the process.

Professor Roberto employs the case method used by America's most prestigious business schools, including Harvard University. Designed to expose students to a breadth and depth of real-world examples and scenarios, the case method allows you to compare and contrast various situations as a way to recognize patterns. In doing so, you refine your ability to distinguish between smart and poor decision making.

Among the many compelling case studies you engage in throughout the course are these:

* IDEO's appropriate use of expertise: You study the decision-making practices of this California-based design consultancy. One of the key lessons you learn is that IDEO uses experts and their knowledge in an appropriate manner—recognizing that sometimes expertise as defined by past successes is not always ideal in a quickly changing environment.
* Improving patient care in hospitals: Professor Roberto's independent study of hospital staff demonstrated how experienced nurses can positively influence patient care through intuition. By relying on an understanding of warning signs and using the Socratic method of asking questions, veteran nurses were able to prevent patients from experiencing life-threatening problems and reduced the rates for heart attacks and mortality.
* General Motors' financial woes: In 1972, General Motors was the nation's most profitable company, but in late 2008 the carmaker's profitability sank drastically. According to Professor Roberto, the management team's assumptions during the 1970s—including the persistence of energy sources and the internal promotion of managers—were proved false in the near and long term and only perpetuated outdated ways of thinking in the company.

Compelling historical and contemporary examples provide a captivating window through which to see the process of decision making at work. In taking key principles that great scholars and leaders have studied from history, business, and the modern world, Professor Roberto helps you understand exactly how the successful and unsuccessful decisions involved in these and other events are relevant to your own life.

Learn to Make Smarter Decisions

Whether you're the head of a Fortune 500 company, a government agency, or an everyday household, you constantly make decisions important to you and those immediately around you. The Art of Critical Decision Making offers you a toolbox of practical knowledge and skills that you can apply to various decisions—whether large or small—in your everyday life and work.

Professor Roberto's lively lectures are packed with useful anecdotes, tools, and advice designed to improve your own ability to make informed decisions. Among the many insights you gain from these lectures are that

* a large part of making a good decision is not just solving a problem but accurately defining it;
* framing a decision in terms of what may be lost usually causes us to take greater risks than if a problem is framed in terms of potential gains; and
* hidden problems, not visible ones, are the true enemies of effective critical decision making.

Become a Better Critical Thinker

While a thorough exploration of decision making can be a complex endeavor, it takes a professor as knowledgeable and comprehensible as Professor Roberto to expose just how easy to grasp this science is. Warm, engaging, and vibrant, Professor Roberto possesses a passion for his field that is undeniably contagious.

You quickly discover why this former professor at Harvard Business School and former visiting associate professor at New York University's Stern School of Business has won numerous coveted teaching awards. These include Bryant University's Outstanding M.B.A. Teaching Award and, on two occasions, Harvard University's Allyn A. Young Prize for Teaching Economics.

Professor Roberto has also consulted at and taught in the leadership development programs of a number of America's most prestigious firms, including Apple, Morgan Stanley, Coca-Cola, and Walmart. This breadth of real-world experience shines through in each one of these 24 captivating lectures, as concepts and theories that might seem complex and confusing are instead made practical and accessible to everyone.

As you explore the intriguing process of making a good decision, you strengthen your grip on individual theories of decision making and the situations—both well known and relatively obscure—that illustrate them.

Most important, by the end of The Art of Critical Decision Making, you'll become a better critical thinker. You'll possess a stronger ability to learn from your mistakes, be able to approach and weigh individual choices more effectively, and make smarter decisions.

Course Lecture Titles
1. Making High-Stakes Decisions
2. Cognitive Biases
3. Avoiding Decision-Making Traps
4. Framing—Risk or Opportunity?
5. Intuition—Recognizing Patterns
6. Reasoning by Analogy
7. Making Sense of Ambiguous Situations
8. The Wisdom of Crowds?
9. Groupthink—Thinking or Conforming?
10. Deciding How to Decide
11. Stimulating Conflict and Debate
12. Keeping Conflict Constructive
13. Creativity and Brainstorming
14. The Curious Inability to Decide
15. Procedural Justice
16. Achieving Closure through Small Wins
17. Normal Accident Theory
18. Normalizing Deviance
19. Allison's Model—Three Lenses
20. Practical Drift
21. Ambiguous Threats and the Recovery Window
22. Connecting the Dots
23. Seeking Out Problems
24. Asking the Right Questions


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The Accidental Billionaires

The Accidental Billionaires
Publisher: Random House Audio | ISBN: 0739383582 | edition 2009 | MP3 | 150 mb

Eduardo Saverin and Mark Zuckerberg were Harvard undergraduates and best friends, outsiders at a school filled with polished prep-school grads and long-time legacies. They shared both academic brilliance in math and a geeky awkwardness with women.
Eduardo figured their ticket to social acceptance, and sexual success, was getting invited to join one of the university's Final Clubs, a constellation of elite societies that had groomed generations of the most powerful men in the world and ranked on top of the inflexible hierarchy at Harvard.




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