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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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.

Part 1: Preparation (The When, Where and How)
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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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.
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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
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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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Nietzsche en quatre questions

"Nietzsche en quatre questions" by Michel Onfray (2008)
Audio/Philosophy | ISBN: n/a | French | MP3@128kbps | 02:30:43 | 134 MB

“ Michel Onfray (born January 1, 1959 in Argentan, Orne) is a contemporary French philosopher who adheres to hedonism, atheism and anarchism. He is a highly prolific author on philosophy with more than 50 written books.
Michel Onfray marche dans les pas de Nietzsche. Il aimerait sincèrement se faire appeler « Friedrich » par son bottier prussien ou son chapelier munichois. Caresser la chevelure d’une quelconque Lou Andréas-Salomé en lui récitant des poèmes allemands. Devenir complètement dingue à Venise. Jouer du piano quand rien ne va plus. Philosopher à coups de marteau et écrire Le Gai savoir pour épater la galerie. Bref, Michel Onfray aimerait bien rejoindre son idole sur les hautes cimes du panthéon philosophique mondial. On imagine bien son intérieur tapissé de posters de Nietzsche. On soupçonne sa cuisine de receler quelques mugs « Nietzsche » commémoratifs du meilleur goût. On craint aussi qu’il porte souvent, sous son sage costume bourgeois, quelques tapageurs t-shirts reproduisant la figure du grand chinois de Königsberg.
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“ 1. Autobiographie et écriture
-l’écriture comme confusion d’un corps
-la lecture comme rapport entre deux corps
-la physiologie comme méthode.

2. La casuistique de l’égoïsme
-le corps malade de Nietzsche
-la syphilis et l’algodicée
-comment guérir le corps ?
-l’usage d’un corps élargi : l’hyperesthésie nietzschéenne.

3. Comment peut-on être nietzschéen ?
-être Nietzsche, être nietzschéen
-penser à partir de Nietzsche, là où il a laissé son chantier: renverser les valeurs;
dépasser le nihilisme; en finir avec l’idéal ascétique; construire sur le corps;
déconstruire le christianisme.

4. Le détournement de Nietzsche
-les lectures parasites: le racisme; la psychanalyse; le nazisme
-les lectures de l’idéologie contemporaine.

Conclusion ”

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Start Meditating Now: How to Stop Thinking

Start Meditating Now: How to Stop Thinking by Barry Long
Publisher: Barry Long Books; abridged edition edition (30 April 2007) | ISBN: 1899324208 | Language English | Audio CD in MP3/128 kbps ~ 00:52:57 + PDF | 50 MB

"The primary reason to stop thinking is because it does the following:
You get in touch with your spiritual soul and you begin to realize that the only happiness in this world is to be alive and every other moment of happiness that u derive is ultimately related to the happiness in being alive.
You forget to realize that you cannot hang on to a single thought (whether it is conscious or unconscious) for more than thirty seconds. There?s always a pause between every line of thought which you avoid noticing because you are under the notion that you can never stop thinking as a human.
The bliss you are looking for is inside you but every time you think a thought, whether it be positive or negative, it is coming in the way of your bliss. Its enough to realize that bliss can never be thought into or achieved by doing anything in particular. It?s the moment where you get in touch with your spiritual side, your soul and realize it. Its always there inside, all you need to do is let it come to your, your consciousness."


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The Dead Sea Scrolls: The Truth Behind the Mystique

The Dead Sea Scrolls: The Truth Behind the Mystique by Professor Lawrence H Schiffman (Author, Narrator)
Publisher: Recorded Books, LLC (2007) | ASIN: B002YEK7SU | ISBN-13: 9781428156241 | Language English | Audio CD in MP3/64 kbps | 233 MB

The Dead Sea Scrolls are perhaps the most important archaeological discovery of the twentieth century. These lectures set before the public the real Dead Sea Scrolls, the most important collection of Jewish texts from the centuries before the rise of Christianity. Only through efforts to understand what the scrolls can teach us about the history of Judaism is it possible for us to learn what they have to teach us about the history of Christianity, because Christianity came into being only after these texts were composed and copied.
The popular press remains far behind scholars who, despite disagreements on many specific matters of interpretation, have reached virtual consensus on the full implications in both Judaism and Christianity for understanding the scrolls. Professor Schiffman leads the listener through the complex details of the Scrolls and their true meaning for the world.

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You Deserve It!

You Deserve It! -- Gratefully Receive Life's Abundant Gifts (Learning Strategies Corporation Paraliminal) by Paul R. Scheele, Lisa Nichols
Publisher: Learning Strategies Corporation (2007) | ISBN: 0925480800 | Language English | Audio CD in MP3 in FLAC | 121 MB

If you think - even for a moment - even in the deepest reserves of your mind - that you shouldn't have a great and excellent life, you are attracting more doubt and more lack. That's the Law of Attraction.
You can be told over and over that "You deserve the best", but unless you believe it with every cell in your body, you are generating resistance. You are lowering your energy. You are making it difficult to attract what you say you want.
Give yourself permission to stand in the greatness of who you are and all that you are destined to be - listen to You Deserve It!


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Othello

Othello - Starring Ewan McGregor and Chiwetel Ejiofor by William Shakespear
Publisher: Naxos AudioBooks; Unabridged edition (30 Jun 2008) | ISBN: 9626349298 | Language English | Audio CD in MP3/64 kbps ~ 02:38:53 | 77 MB

If anything, Othello has increased its stature as one of Shakespeare's greatest tragedies ever since it was first written, between 1603 and 1604, due to the victimisation suffered by its tragic hero, Othello, as a result of his skin colour. Othello is a "noble Moor", a North African Muslim who has converted to Christianity and is deemed one of the Venetian state's most reliable soldiers. However, his ensign Iago harbours an obscure hatred against his general, and when Othello secretly marries the beautiful daughter of the Venetian senator Brabanzio, Iago begins his subtle campaign of vilification, which will inevitably lead to the deaths of more than just Othello and Desdemona.

An extraordinary play, both for its dramatic economy and power as well as its remarkable language, from Othello's bombastic "traveller's history" to Desdemona's elegiac "willow song", the play raises uncomfortable questions about ongoing questions of not only racial identity but also sexuality, as Othello and Desdemona's sexual relationship becomes the voyeuristic site of Iago's attempt to destroy them. Particularly fascinated with the question of what it means to "see", Othello also contains one of the greatest tragic death scenes in all of Shakespeare, with Othello's final identification with "a malignant and a turbaned Turk". --Jerry Brotton --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Review
Ewan McGregor's Iago keeps the plot moving with urgent passion rather than cool and measured calculation as he whips Chiwetel Ejiofor's Othello into a jealous and murderous frenzy against his new bride (Kelly Reilly, oozing sex with a honeyed come-to-bed voice). Yet McGregor's interpretation throws no new light on Iago's true motives as Ejifor brings terrifying power to his character's disintegration. --Karen Robinson, The Sunday Times


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Percy Jackson 5: The Last Olympian

Percy Jackson 5: The Last Olympian by Rick Riordan
Publisher: Listening Library (Audio) (February 3, 2010) | ISBN: 0739352687 | Language English | Audio CD in MP3/128 kbps | 631 MB

All year the half-bloods have been preparing for battle against the Titans, knowing the odds of a victory are grim. Kronos’s army is stronger than ever, and with every god and half-blood he recruits, the evil Titan’s power only grows.
While the Olympians struggle to contain the rampaging monster Typhon, Kronos begins his advance on New York City, where Mount Olympus stands virtually unguarded. Now it’s up to Percy Jackson and an army of young demigods to stop the Lord of Time.
In this momentous final book in the New York Times best-selling series, the long-awaited prophecy surrounding Percy’s sixteenth birthday unfolds. And as the battle for Western civilization rages on the streets of Manhattan, Percy faces a terrifying suspicion that he may be fighting against his own fate.



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Percy Jackson 4: The Battle of the Labyrinth

Percy Jackson 4: The Battle of the Labyrinth by Rick Riordan
Publisher: Listening Library (Audio) (February 3, 2010) | ISBN: 0739352687 | Language English | Audio CD in MP3/192 kbps | 578 MB

Percy Jackson isn’t expecting freshman orientation to be any fun. But when a mysterious mortal acquaintance appears on campus, followed by demon cheerleaders, things quickly move from bad to worse.
In this latest installment of the blockbuster series, time is running out as war between the Olympians and the evil Titan lord Kronos draws near. Even the safe haven of Camp Half-Blood grows more vulnerable by the minute as Kronos’s army prepares to invade its once impenetrable borders. To stop the invasion, Percy and his demigod friends must set out on a quest through the Labyrinth–a sprawling underground world with stunning surprises at every turn. Full of humor and heart-pounding action, this latest audiobook promises to be their most thrilling adventure yet.


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Percy Jackson 3: The Titan's Curse

Percy Jackson 3: The Titan's Curse by Rick Riordan
Publisher: Listening Library (Audio) (February 3, 2010) | ISBN: 0739352687 | Language English | Audio CD in MP3/64 kbps | 254 MB

When Percy Jackson receives an urgent distress call from his friend Grover, he immediately prepares for battle. He knows he’ll need his powerful demigod allies, Annabeth and Thalia, at his side; his trusty bronze sword, Riptide; and . . . a ride from his mom.
The demigods race to the rescue, to find that Grover has made an important
discovery: two new powerful half-bloods whose parentage is unknown. But that’s not all that awaits them. The Titan lord, Kronos, has set up his most devious trap yet, and the young heroes have just fallen prey. Hilarious and action-packed, this third adventure in the series finds Percy faced with his most dangerous challenge so far: the chilling prophecy of the Titan’s curse.



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Percy Jackson 2: The Sea of Monsters

Percy Jackson 2: The Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan
Publisher: Listening Library (Audio) (February 3, 2010) | ISBN: 0739352687 | Language English | Audio CD in MP3/64 kbps | 228 MB

After a year spent trying to prevent a catastropic war among the Greek gods, Percy Jackson finds his seventh-grade school year unnervingly quiet. His biggest problem is dealing with his new friend, Tyson--a six-foot-three, mentally challenged homeless kid who follows Percy everywhere, making it hard for Percy to have any "normal" friends.
But things don't stay quiet for long. Percy soon discovers there is trouble at Camp Half-Blood: The magical borders which protect Half-Blood Hill have been poisoned by a mysterious enemy, and the only safe haven for demigods is on the verge of being overrun by mythological monsters. To save the camp, Percy needs the help of his best friend, Grover, who has been taken prisoner by the Cyclops Polyphemus on an island somewhere in the Sea of Monsters--the dangerous waters Greek heroes have sailed for millenia--only today, the Sea of Monsters goes by a new name...the Bermuda Triangle.
Now Percy and his friends--Grover, Annabeth, and Tyson--must retrieve the Golden Fleece from the Island of the Cyclopes by the end of the summer or Camp Half-Blood will be destroyed. But first, Percy will learn a stunning new secret about his family--one that makes him question whether being claimed as Poseidon's son is an honor or simply a cruel joke.


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Percy Jackson 1: The Lightning Thief

Percy Jackson 1: The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
Publisher: Listening Library (Audio) (February 3, 2010) | ISBN: 0739352687 | Language English | Audio CD in MP3/64 kbps | 289 MB

Twelve-year-old Percy Jackson is about to be kicked out of boarding school . . . again. No matter how hard he tries, he can't seem to stay out of trouble. But can he really be expected to stand by and watch while a bully picks on his scrawny best friend? Or not defend himself against his pre-algebra teacher when she turns into a monster and tries to kill him? Of course, no one believes Percy about the monster incident; he's not even sure he believes himself.


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Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey through His Son's Meth Addiction

Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey through His Son's Meth Addiction by David Sheff
Publisher: Blackstone Audio Inc.; Unabridged edition (February 26, 2008) | ISBN: 1433204681 | Language English | Audio CD in AAC | 355 MB

Amazon Best of the Month, February 2008: From as early as grade school, the world seemed to be on Nic Sheff's string. Bright and athletic, he excelled in any setting and appeared destined for greatness. Yet as childhood exuberance faded into teenage angst, the precocious boy found himself going down a much different path. Seduced by the illicit world of drugs and alcohol, he quickly found himself caught in the clutches of addiction. Beautiful Boy is Nic's story, but from the perspective of his father, David. Achingly honest, it chronicles the betrayal, pain, and terrifying question marks that haunt the loved ones of an addict. Many respond to addiction with a painful oath of silence, but David Sheff opens up personal wounds to reinforce that it is a disease, and must be treated as such. Most importantly, his journey provides those in similar situations with a commodity that they can never lose: hope --Dave Callanan --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
From Publishers Weekly
Sheff's memoir offers his side of the story about his son Nic's downfall into drug and alcohol abuse. Anthony Heald opts for a slightly theatrical performance, which distances the listener from what should be an extremely personal and emotional tale. While never over-the-top, Heald's reading is more grounded in the world of fiction than nonfiction. His vocal interpretations of characters are improbable and the dialogue comes off as unrealistic. A touching story gets lost in translation from word to mouth. A Houghton Mifflin hardcover (Reviews, Apr. 30, 2007). (Apr.)
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The Hobbit

The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien ~ Rob Inglis (Narrator)
Publisher: Recorded Books; Unabridged edition (July 2001) | ISBN: 0788789821 | Language English | Audio CD in MP3/192Kbps | 1 GB

"In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort."

The hobbit-hole in question belongs to one Bilbo Baggins, an upstanding member of a "little people, about half our height, and smaller than the bearded dwarves." He is, like most of his kind, well off, well fed, and best pleased when sitting by his own fire with a pipe, a glass of good beer, and a meal to look forward to. Certainly this particular hobbit is the last person one would expect to see set off on a hazardous journey; indeed, when Gandalf the Grey stops by one morning, "looking for someone to share in an adventure," Baggins fervently wishes the wizard elsewhere. No such luck, however; soon 13 fortune-seeking dwarves have arrived on the hobbit's doorstep in search of a burglar, and before he can even grab his hat or an umbrella, Bilbo Baggins is swept out his door and into a dangerous adventure.

The dwarves' goal is to return to their ancestral home in the Lonely Mountains and reclaim a stolen fortune from the dragon Smaug. Along the way, they and their reluctant companion meet giant spiders, hostile elves, ravening wolves--and, most perilous of all, a subterranean creature named Gollum from whom Bilbo wins a magical ring in a riddling contest. It is from this life-or-death game in the dark that J.R.R. Tolkien's masterwork, The Lord of the Rings, would eventually spring. Though The Hobbit is lighter in tone than the trilogy that follows, it has, like Bilbo Baggins himself, unexpected iron at its core. Don't be fooled by its fairy-tale demeanor; this is very much a story for adults, though older children will enjoy it, too. By the time Bilbo returns to his comfortable hobbit-hole, he is a different person altogether, well primed for the bigger adventures to come--and so is the reader. --Alix Wilber --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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The 250 Job Interview Questions You'll Most Likely Be Asked... And the Answers That Will Get You Hired!

The 250 Job Interview Questions You'll Most Likely Be Asked... And the Answers That Will Get You Hired! by Peter Veruki
Publisher: Listen & Live Audio; Abridged edition (August 1, 2005) | ISBN: 1593160585 | Language English | Audio CD in MP3/128 | 185 MB

Why do you want this job?
Why should I hire you?
Why do you want to leave your current job?
Do you have convincing answers ready for these important questions? Landing a good job is a competitive process and often the final decision is based on your performance at the interview. By following the advice of prominent career planning and human resources expert Peter Veruki, you'll know you have the right answers at your job interview.
Peter Veruki has been Director of Career Planning and Placement at the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University for ten years. In addition to serving on the College Placement Council Board of Governors for six years, Mr. Veruki was chairman of the CPC's professional Training and Development Committee, where he helped design and conduct interview training programs.



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Stay Mad for Life: Get Rich, Stay Rich

Stay Mad for Life: Get Rich, Stay Rich
Simon & Schuster Audio | 2007 | ASIN: B0010Z7QBA | MP3 | 347 MB

The host of CNBC's Mad Money presents the ultimate guide to lifetime investing for listeners of any age.
Whether you're a recent college grad trying to figure out how to start investing, a young parent struggling to decide where and how to put away money, or someone well into middle age and worried about whether you've saved enough money for retirement, Jim Cramer's Stay Mad for Life has the answers.

"The media's most electrifying market pundit" (USA Today), best-selling author Jim Cramer covers all the essentials: how to save, where to invest, which pitfalls to avoid. He offers valuable advice on everything from mortgages to college tuition. He explains what professional money managers do right that amateur investors do wrong. Because there is always a bull market somewhere, Cramer tells listeners where to find the bull markets of the future, and for those willing to do the homework, he chooses 20 stocks that could be long-term money-makers. For those who don't have the time or the temperament to invest in stocks, he identifies the mutual funds that are proven winners. He's investigated these mutual funds by using his own 25 years of experience managing money for himself and dozens of America's wealthiest families. Throughout, he draws on rigorous research and his own enormously successful experience to back up his advice.

Jim Cramer is America's number-one financial guru and Jim Cramer's Stay Mad for Life is the definitive money guide, full of practical, insightful, and invaluable financial advice.
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Mad Money: Watch TV, Get Rich

Mad Money: Watch TV, Get Rich
Simon & Schuster | 2006 | ISBN: 1416537902 | MP3 | 255 MB

Jim Cramer is the champion of the middle-class investor. Every night on Mad Money, he provides valuable information about stocks, steering investors away from danger zones and leading them to the investments that can turn a lackluster portfolio into a powerhouse of profit. In his new book, he shows investors how to take the advice on his TV program and put it into action.

Cramer walks investors through the key decisions they have to make: understanding their tolerance for risk and defining their goals, doing the essential homework on a stock, and knowing how to buy and sell stocks the right way -- the Cramer way. This is a true nuts-and-bolts guide to investing, from Cramer's detailed discussion of the sort of homework investors must do to his own guidelines for knowing when and how to sell stocks.

Mad Money is a hugely entertaining television program, but it also offers valuable information that can be the basis for a winning portfolio. Cramer shows how to turn the "Lightning Round" into a terrific tool for investing; it's stock-market strength training. He reveals how he can assess a stock in only seconds -- a valuable skill that every investor can acquire and put to good use. He explains what to look for in his CEO and CFO interviews, and how to use those conversations to make successful investment decisions. He reviews some of his best calls made on Mad Money, as well as some of his worst ones, to extract ten lessons from each that can profit every investor. And for the Mad Money junkies who just can't get enough, Cramer goes behind the scenes to explain everything from the reason behind his deliberate mispronunciations to his notorious chair abuse to the zany props and buttons that keep things humming.
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Suttree

Suttree
Vintage | 1992 | ISBN: 0679736328 | MP3 | 513 MB

All of McCarthy?s books present the reviewer with the same welcome difficulty. They are so good that one can hardly say how good they really are. . . . Suttree may be his magnum opus. Its protagonist, Cornelius Suttree, has forsaken his prominent family to live in a dilapidated houseboat among the inhabitants of the demimonde along the banks of the Tennessee River. His associates are mostly criminals of one sort or another, and Suttree is, to say the least, estranged from what might be called normal society. But he is so involved with life (and it with him) that when in the end he takes his leave, the reader?s heart goes with him. Suttree is probably the funniest and most unbearably sad of McCarthy?s books . . . which seem to me unsurpassed in American literature.
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The Orchard Keeper

The Orchard Keeper
Vintage | 1993 | ISBN: 0679728724 | MP3 | 156 MB

An American classic, The Orchard Keeper is the first novel by one of America's finest novelists and author of the critically acclaimed national bestseller All the Pretty Horses. Set in a small, remote community in rural Tennessee, it tells the story of a young boy and the outlaw bootlegger who, unbeknownst to either of them, has killed the boy's father.
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Outer Dark

Outer Dark
Vintage | 1993 | ISBN: 0679728732 | MP3 | 143 MB

Vintage will rerelease these previous novels from McCarthy to coincide with the paperback appearance of All The Pretty Horses : Outer Dark is a mysterious tale of an Appalachian family, while Child of God , also set in the hill country, tells of a violent ex-convict.
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Thich Nhat Hanh - Drops of Emptiness

Thich Nhat Hanh - Drops of Emptiness
Songs, Chants and Poetry from Plum Village, France
Sounds True | 1997 | 1 hours | ISBN: 1564555623 | MP3 | CBR 96 kbps | 41 Mb





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Thich Nhat Hanh - Being Peace

Thich Nhat Hanh - Being Peace
Parallax Press | 2002 | 1 hours | ISBN: 1888375280 | MP3 | CBR 32 kbps | 17 Mb

Thich Nhat Hanh delivered the words on this compact disk to an assembly of 700 gathered at Green Gulch Zen Center in Muir Beach, California, on November 3, 1985, and inspired the creation of the best selling book, Being Peace. The teachings contained here provide a crucial antidote to our busy lives, and because of Hanh's experience with the war and his willingness to face the realities of our time, these teachings are also about suffering, reconciliation, and peace.




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The Crossing

The Crossing
Books on Tape | 2002 | ISBN: 0736688048 | MP3 | 375 MB

The opening section of The Crossing, book two of the Border Trilogy, features perhaps the most perfectly realized storytelling of Cormac McCarthy's celebrated career. Like All the Pretty Horses, this volume opens with a teenager's decision to slip away from his family's ranch into Mexico. In this case, the boy is Billy Parham, and the catalyst for his trip is a wolf he and his father have trapped, but that Billy finds himself unwilling to shoot. His plan is to set the animal loose down south instead. This is a McCarthy novel, not Old Yeller, and so Billy's trek inevitably becomes more ominous than sweet. It boasts some chilling meditations on the simple ferocity McCarthy sees as necessary for all creatures who aim to continue living. But Billy is McCarthy's most loving--and therefore damageable--character, and his story has its own haunted melancholy. Billy eventually returns to his ranch. Then, finding himself and his world changed, he returns to Mexico with his younger brother, and the book begins meandering. Though full of hypnotically barren landscapes and McCarthy's trademark western-gothic imagery (like the soldier who sucks eyes from sockets), these latter stages become tedious at times, thanks partly to the female characters, who exist solely as ghosts to haunt the men. But that opening is glorious, and the whole book finally transcends its shortcomings to achieve a grim and poignant grandeur. --Glen Hirshberg--This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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All The Pretty Horses

All The Pretty Horses
Continuum | 2002 | ISBN: 0826452469 | MP3 | 274 MB

This is a novel so exuberant in its prose, so offbeat in its setting and so mordant and profound in its deliberations that one searches in vain for comparisons in American literature. None of McCarthy's previous works, not even the award-winning The Orchard Keeper (1965) or the much-admired Blood Meridian (1985), quite prepares the reader for the singular achievement of this first installment in the projected Border Trilogy. John Grady Cole is a 16-year-old boy who leaves his Texas home when his grandfather dies. With his parents already split up and his mother working in theater out of town, there is no longer reason for him to stay. He and his friend Lacey Rawlins ride their horses south into Mexico; they are joined by another boy, the mysterious Jimmy Blevins, a 14-year-old sharpshooter. Although the year is 1948, the landscape--at some moments parched and unforgiving, at others verdant and gentled by rain--seems out of time, somewhere before history or after it. These likable boys affect the cowboy's taciturnity--they roll cigarettes and say what they mean--and yet amongst themselves are given to terse, comic exchanges about life and death. In McCarthy's unblinking imagination the boys suffer truly harrowing encounters with corrupt Mexican officials, enigmatic bandits and a desert weather that roils like an angry god. Though some readers may grow impatient with the wild prairie rhythms of McCarthy's language, others will find his voice completely transporting. In what is perhaps the book's most spectacular feat, horses and men are joined in a philosophical union made manifest in the muscular pulse of the prose and the brute dignity of the characters. "What he loved in horses was what he loved in men, the blood and the heat of the blood that ran them," the narrator says of John Grady. As a bonus, Grady endures a tragic love affair with the daughter of a rich Spanish Hacendado , a romance, one hopes, to be resumed later in the trilogy.
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Cormac McCarthy - The Road

Cormac McCarthy - The Road
Recorded Books | 2006 | ISBN: 1428112782 | MP3 | 343 MB

McCarthy's latest novel, a frightening apocalyptic vision, is narrated by a nameless man, one of the few survivors of an unspecified civilization-ending catastrophe. He and his young son are trekking along a treacherous highway, starving and freezing, trying to avoid roving cannibal armies. The tale, and their lives, are saved from teetering over the edge of bleakness thanks to the man's fierce belief that they are "the good guys" who are preserving the light of humanity. In this stark, effective production, Stechschulte gives the father an appropriately harsh, weary voice that sways little from its numbed register except to urge on the weakening boy or soothe his fears after an encounter with barbarians. When they uncover some vestige of the former world, the man recalls its vanished wonder with an aching nostalgia that makes the listener's heart swell. Stechschulte portrays the son with a mournful, slightly breathy tone that emphasizes the child's whininess, making him much less sympathetic than his resourceful father. With no music or effects interrupting Stechschulte's carefully measured pace and gruff, straightforward delivery, McCarthy's darkly poetic prose comes alive in a way that will transfix listeners.
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Hot Topics 3 (with 3 CD and Instructor"s Manual)

Cheryl Pavlik, "Hot Topics 3 (with 3 CD and Instructor"s Manual)"
Heinle & Heinle Publishers | 2006 | ISBN: 1413007104 | 191+152 pages,3 Audio CD | PDF, mp3 | 60+54+166 MB

HOT TOPICS is guaranteed to engage readers, stimulate thinking, and provoke conversation while developing vocabulary and reading skills. The controversial topics explored in the text all have more than one side to them, thus encouraging debate and classroom discussion.
• Three readings per chapter explore the same hot topic from different points of view. The readings in each chapter vary by genre and increase in difficulty to support reading development.
• A focus on reading skills and reading comprehension through pre-reading questions, skimming and scanning activities, the use of context clues, vocabulary analysis, and the development of critical thinking skills helps students increase their reading fluency.
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Cormac McCarthy - Blood Meridian

Cormac McCarthy - Blood Meridian
Picador UK | 2007 | ISBN: 0330312561 | MP3 | 357 MB

"The men as they rode turned black in the sun from the blood on their clothes and their faces and then paled slowly in the rising dust until they assumed once more the color of the land through which they passed." If what we call "horror" can be seen as including any literature that has dark, horrific subject matter, then Blood Meridian is, in this reviewer's estimation, the best horror novel ever written. It's a perverse, picaresque Western about bounty hunters for Indian scalps near the Texas-Mexico border in the 1850s--a ragged caravan of indiscriminate killers led by an unforgettable human monster called "The Judge." Imagine the imagery of Sam Peckinpah and Heironymus Bosch as written by William Faulkner, and you'll have just an inkling of this novel's power. From the opening scenes about a 14-year-old Tennessee boy who joins the band of hunters to the extraordinary, mythic ending, this is an American classic about extreme violence.
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Hot Topics 2 (with 2 CD)

Cheryl Pavlik, "Hot Topics 2 (with 2 CD)"
Heinle & Heinle Publishers | 2005 | ISBN: 1413007066 | 191 pages, 2 Audio CD | PDF, mp3 | 21+124 MB

HOT TOPICS is guaranteed to engage readers, stimulate thinking, and provoke conversation while developing vocabulary and reading skills. The controversial topics explored in the text all have more than one side to them, thus encouraging debate and classroom discussion.
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Hot Topics 1 (with Audio CD)

Cheryl Pavlik, "Hot Topics 1 (with Audio CD)"
Heinle & Heinle Publishers | 2005 | ISBN: 1413007023 | 191 pages, Audio CD | PDF, mp3 | 21 + 55 MB

HOT Topics is a three-level reading discussion series written for inquisitive, mature students of English language learners. Each chapter contains several high-interest readings on a specific controversial and thought-provoking topic.

In the 30 years that I have been in English language training CELT), I have despaired of the lack of stimulating reading texts, accompanied by activities written specifically to energize and inspire the mature English learner. Why aren't many ESL reading texts sufficient? Although ESL learners may not yet have mastered English syntax, they still have interests beyond the mundane, and they certainly have ample reasoning ability. And while many reading texts are written about subjects of broad appeal, virtually all of them avoid topics that are deemed "too controversial" for the classroom setting. Unfortunately, many of those neglected topics are of great interest and relevance to adult lives. By steering course themes away from controversy, the instrucror also steers students away from motivating and stimulating topics.

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Cities of the Plain

Cities of the Plain
Picador | 2007 | ISBN:0330390163 | MP3 | 195 MB

This volume concludes McCarthy's Border Trilogy,the first two books being All the Pretty Horses, which won the National Book Award in 1992, and The Crossing, published to great acclaim in '94. Devoted McCarthy readers will know not to expect any neat or dramatic resolution in Cities of the Plain, for the author is more of a poet than a novelist, more interested in wedding language to experience in successive moments than in building and setting afloat some narrative ark. Cities, like the other books, takes place sometime shortly after WWII along the Texas-Mexico border. John Grady Cole, the young, horse-savvy wanderer from All the Pretty Horses, and Billy Parham, who traveled in search of stolen horses with his younger brother in The Crossing, are now cowhands working outside El Paso. John Grady falls in love with Magdalena, a teenage prostitute working in Juarez, Mexico; determined to marry her, he runs afoul of her pimp, Eduardo. That is basically the narrative. Along the way, McCarthy treats the reader to the most fabulous descriptions of sunrises, sunsets, the ways of horses and wild dogs, how to patch an inner tube. The cowboys engage in almost mythically worldly-wise, laconic dialogues that are models of concision and logic. Although there is less of it here than in the earlier books, McCarthy does include a few of his familiar seers, old men and blind men who speak in prophetic voices. Their words serve as earnest if cryptic instructions to the younger lads and seem to unburden the novelist of his vision of America and its love affair with free will. If a philosophy of life were to be extracted from these tales, it would seem to be that we are fated to be whatever we are, that what we think are choices are really not; that betrayals of the heart are always avenged; and that following one's heart is a guarantee of nothing. There is not much solace in McCarthy-land; there is only the triumph of prose, endlessly renewed, forever in search of a closure it will not find save in silence.
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Stephen King - Cell (2006)

Stephen King - Cell (2006)
Simon & Schuster Audio | 2006 | ISBN:0743554337 | MP4 | 83 MB

Witness Stephen King's triumphant, blood-spattered return to the genre that made him famous. Cell, the king of horror's homage to zombie films (the book is dedicated in part to George A. Romero) is his goriest, most horrific novel in years, not to mention the most intensely paced. Casting aside his love of elaborate character and town histories and penchant for delayed gratification, King yanks readers off their feet within the first few pages; dragging them into the fray and offering no chance catch their breath until the very last page.

In Cell King taps into readers fears of technological warfare and terrorism. Mobile phones deliver the apocalypse to millions of unsuspecting humans by wiping their brains of any humanity, leaving only aggressive and destructive impulses behind. Those without cell phones, like illustrator Clayton Riddell and his small band of "normies," must fight for survival, and their journey to find Clayton's estranged wife and young son rockets the book toward resolution.

Fans that have followed King from the beginning will recognize and appreciate Cell as a departure--King's writing has not been so pure of heart and free of hang-ups in years (wrapping up his phenomenal Dark Tower series and receiving a medal from the National Book Foundation doesn't hurt either). "Retirement" clearly suits King, and lucky for us, having nothing left to prove frees him up to write frenzied, juiced-up horror-thrillers like Cell.
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Excellent Course ( 4 Levels )

Excellent Course ( 4 Levels )
Longman | 2004 | PDF, MP3. WAV | 1.9 GB

Excellent! - 4-level English course, which correctly matched with the level of students. The textbook helps students to achieve real results, actively motivating them to learn the language of the relevant age and level of the child.




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French CD-ROM Courses (4 Levels)

French CDROM Courses (4 Levels)
Linkword | 2006 | MP3+PDF | English | 270 MB

Linkword language courses are an astonishingly fast, enjoyable and effective way to learn French.
Levels 1-4 courses play approximately 24 hours of recording, and are presented on 4 CD's. Printable glossaries are also provided with the courses.
The Level 1 course allows you to learn an extensive vocabulary and basic grammar. This will enable you to communicate effectively in EMERGENCIES, at the RESTAURANT, at the HOTEL, at WORK etc etc. You don't need any previous knowledge of a language to use Linkword courses.


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First Certificate Practice Tests Plus 2 w/key and Audio

Diana L. Fried-Booth, "First Certificate Practice Tests Plus 2 w/key and Audio"
Pearson Education - Longman | 2002 | ISBN: 058251813X | 208 pages | PDF,mp3 | 70 + 225 MB

The Practice Tests Plus series provides sets of complete tests and guidance at exam level and in exam format for the Cambridge ESOL exams. It includes: eight complete Practice Tests in exam format, a variety of stimulating texts, lively visual material for Paper 5 in full colour, an overview of all task formats and what they test, students' top 20 questions answered, practical tips and guidance on how to approach each task type, sample OMR answer sheets, annotated answer key, analysing correct and incorrect answers, complete audio-scripts, with answers marked.

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America's City Parks

Thomas Pressel, "America's City Parks"
Houghton Mifflin | English | ISBN: 0547022433 | Pages: 22 | PDF embedded audio | 6.4MB

This book tells about America's urban or city, parks

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Forever Peace - Joe Haldeman

Forever Peace - Joe Haldeman
Ace | 2000 | ISBN:0441005667 | MP3 | 237 MB

Julian Class is a full-time professor and part-time combat veteran who spends a third of each month virtually wired to a robotic "soldierboy." The soldierboys, along with flyboys and other advanced constructs, allow the U.S. to wage a remotely controlled war against constant uprisings in the Third World. The conflicts are largely driven by the so-called First World countries' access to nanoforges--devices that can almost instantly manufacture any product imaginable, given the proper raw materials--and the Third World countries' lack of access to these devices. But even as Julian learns that the consensual reality shared by soldierboy operators can lead to universal peace, the nanoforges create a way for humanity to utterly destroy itself, and it will be a race against time to see which will happen first. Although Forever Peace bears a title similar to Joe Haldeman's classic novel The Forever War, he says it's not a sequel. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Forever War - Joe Haldeman

Forever War - Joe Haldeman
Eos | 2000 | ISBN:0380708213 | MP3 | 237 MB

In the 1970s Joe Haldeman approached more than a dozen different publishers before he finally found one interested in The Forever War. The book went on to win both the Hugo and Nebula Awards, although a large chunk of the story had been cut out before it saw publication. Now Haldeman and Avon Books have released the definitive version of The Forever War, published for the first time as Haldeman originally intended. The book tells the timeless story of war, in this case a conflict between humanity and the alien Taurans. Humans first bumped heads with the Taurans when we began using collapsars to travel the stars. Although the collapsars provide nearly instantaneous travel across vast distances, the relativistic speeds associated with the process means that time passes slower for those aboard ship. For William Mandella, a physics student drafted as a soldier, that means more than 27 years will have passed between his first encounter with the Taurans and his homecoming, though he himself will have aged only a year. When Mandella finds that he can't adjust to Earth after being gone so long from home, he reenlists, only to find himself shuttled endlessly from battle to battle as the centuries pass
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Neal Stephenson - Anathem

Neal Stephenson - Anathem
William Morrow | 2008 | ISBN:0061474096 | MP3 | 779 MB

Set mostly in Southern California, this topnotch thriller from bestseller Koontz (The Good Guy) depicts with unabashed emotion and wit the magical powers of golden retrievers—in particular, a female named Nickie, who will stop at nothing to save innocent children and protect their guardians. Amy Redwing, the survivor of a horrifying marriage, establishes Golden Heart to rescue golden retrievers, rehabilitate the abused ones and find forever homes. A supernatural chain of events ensues after Amy and her architect boyfriend, Brian McCarthy, rescue Nickie during a violent intervention in a family dispute. Soon the pair are on a mission that leads to a transformative confrontation with a number of ugly characters—Gunther Schloss, a frustrated aspiring novelist turned killer-for-hire; Moonglow, a psycho***** in the Mommie Dearest league; and Moonglow's lover, Harrow, a self-obsessed sicko. This is the perfect book for thriller addicts who know the darkest hour is just before dawn and for canine lovers who remember dog spelled backwards is god.
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The Darkest Evening of the Year

The Darkest Evening of the Year
Bantam | 2007 | ISBN:0553804820 | MP3 | 237 MB

Set mostly in Southern California, this topnotch thriller from bestseller Koontz (The Good Guy) depicts with unabashed emotion and wit the magical powers of golden retrievers—in particular, a female named Nickie, who will stop at nothing to save innocent children and protect their guardians. Amy Redwing, the survivor of a horrifying marriage, establishes Golden Heart to rescue golden retrievers, rehabilitate the abused ones and find forever homes. A supernatural chain of events ensues after Amy and her architect boyfriend, Brian McCarthy, rescue Nickie during a violent intervention in a family dispute. Soon the pair are on a mission that leads to a transformative confrontation with a number of ugly characters—Gunther Schloss, a frustrated aspiring novelist turned killer-for-hire; Moonglow, a psycho***** in the Mommie Dearest league; and Moonglow's lover, Harrow, a self-obsessed sicko. This is the perfect book for thriller addicts who know the darkest hour is just before dawn and for canine lovers who remember dog spelled backwards is god.
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TimeSaver Grammar Activities: Pre-Intermediate

TimeSaver Grammar Activities: Pre-Intermediate
Mary Glasgow Magazines | 2002 | ISBN-10: 1900702614 | PDF | 78 Pages | 25 MB

This resource is a collection of lively material to introduce and practice grammar at pre-intermediate and intermediate level. Man of the challenging cross-curricular puzzles include problems, personality tests, quizzes, word searches, games, group and pairwork tasks. This time-saving resource for teachers can be used for self-study or homework, as well as supplementing coursework. It can be used in mixed-ability classes and covers all the main points of an intermediate English language syllabus.


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