Publisher: Bu Classics Books
Experience the harrowing tension and stark reality of naval combat during the Great War through these firsthand observations of the men guarding the treacherous seas.
Examining the significant influence of attitude on both personal and professional achievement, "Mindset for Achievement: The Science Behind Success: How Beliefs and Behaviors Shape Extraordinary Results" This book explores the science of how our ideas, attitudes, and actions affect the results we encounter in life, showing how minor changes in perspective can have a profound impact. The book, which is based on the seminal research of psychologist Carol Dweck, highlights the main distinction between a fixed and development mentality. A growth mentality promotes resilience, adaptability, and a love of learning, whereas a fixed mindset restricts potential and breeds fear of failure. Readers will learn how embracing a growth mindset can change how they respond to opportunities, obstacles, and disappointments. Along with psychological insights, the book delves into the neuroscience of success, emphasizing how neuroplasticity allows the brain to develop. Readers will acquire the skills necessary to reframe their thinking and match their behaviors with their objectives by comprehending how the processes in our brains affect motivation, learning, and effort. With its wealth of real-world examples, useful tactics, and scientific research, "Mindset for Achievement" gives readers the tools they need to change their attitudes and actions in order to achieve extraordinary achievement. This book is your roadmap to realizing your greatest potential, regardless of your goals—be they professional advancement, personal growth, or conquering challenges.Show book
How much of who we are is shaped by the chemistry within us? In How Glands Affect Personality, Grace Adams introduces readers to the emerging science of the endocrine system and explores the once-revolutionary idea that the body’s internal secretions may influence growth, energy, emotion, behavior, and temperament. Beginning with a clear definition of personality, Adams explains the difference between ordinary glands and the “ductless” glands now known as the endocrine system. She examines the thyroid, pituitary, adrenal, pineal, thymus, and sex glands, describing the roles early researchers believed each played in physical development and psychological life. The book also considers how severe glandular imbalances were associated with recognizable medical conditions, while subtler variations were thought to help explain everyday differences in appearance, mood, energy, and character. Originally published in 1929 during the early development of endocrinology, How Glands Affect Personality offers modern listeners a fascinating look at how scientists and popular writers first attempted to connect hormones, physiology, and human behavior. Narrated by Jonathan Guerrero, this compact work will appeal to listeners interested in medical history, psychology, endocrinology, and the development of popular science. Publisher’s note: This audiobook is presented as a historical scientific work. Some terminology, theories, medical descriptions, and conclusions reflect the knowledge and attitudes of 1929 and should not be considered current medical guidance.Show book
“First steps of tomb found,” British archaeologist Howard Carter excitedly wrote across a page of his pocket diary on November 4, 1922. The next day’s excavation in the Valley of the Kings on the west bank of the Nile River would reveal a tantalizing entrance. He quickly sent a telegram to Lord Carnarvon, who had been sponsoring his (mostly unsuccessful) investigations of Egyptian antiquities for several years and had reluctantly backed this final season: “At last have made wonderful discovery in Valley; a magnificent tomb with seals intact.” The subsequent opening of Pharaoh Tutankhamun’s long untouched tomb and its burial chamber—and the dissemination of its treasures through photography, film, and traveling exhibitions—would captivate the world and transform a young Egyptian king whose reign was brief and little remembered into an icon of ancient mysteries. Because Tutankhamun’s tomb was largely undisturbed—there are indications it was robbed a couple of times in antiquity but then restored—it offered a rare view into ancient Egypt and its faith, culture, and funerary rites. Stories about its discovery and the gradual uncovering of its artifacts made front-page news across the globe, with reporters marveling at each opulently adorned statue and alabaster vase. On December 22, 1922, The New York Times published a first-hand account in which the author wrote: “No finer human interest story, no more thrilling drama, no greater archaeological revelations could be summoned from history or the most vivid imagination than is told by the mute objects in this tomb of King Tutankhamen.” Howard Carter was a British archaeologist and Egyptologist who discovered the intact tomb of the 18th Dynasty Pharaoh Tutankhamun in November 1922, the best-preserved pharaonic tomb ever found in the Valley of the Kings. This is his story!Show book
30 Great Myths about the Romantics is a scholarly yet accessible work of literary revisionism that seeks to reassert the humanity of late Georgian and Regency writers by dismantling long-held misconceptions. Duncan Wu systematically challenges popular caricatures, such as the image of the Romantics as solitary, drug-addled, atheistic rock stars, and replaces them with nuanced historical truths that emphasize the reality of their lives over modern fantasy.The text explores 30 specific myths, ranging from the origins of the movement in 1798 to scandalous rumors regarding the personal lives of figures like Wordsworth, Byron, and Keats. By situating these writers within their actual socio-political context, rather than through the lens of retrospective labels they never used, Wu argues that Romanticism is best understood as a diverse, localized, and creative response to a complex era.Show book
In a series of incisive and intimate encounters Sarah Ladipo Manyika introduces some of the most distinguished Black thinkers of our times, including Nobel Laureates Toni Morrison and Wole Soyinka, and civic leaders first lady Michelle Obama and Senator Cory Booker. She searches for truth with poet Claudia Rankine and historian Henry Louis Gates, Jr. She discusses race and gender with South African filmmaker Xoliswa Sithole and American actor and playwright Anna Deavere Smith. She interrogates the world around us with pioneering publisher Margaret Busby, parliamentarian Lord Michael Hastings, and civil rights activist Pastor Evan Mawarire—who dared to take on President Robert Mugabe and has lived to tell the tale. We also meet the living embodiment of the many threads, ideas, and histories in this book through the profile of her fabulous 102-year-old friend, Mrs. Willard Harris. In journeys that book-end the collection, Sarah Ladipo Manyika reflects on her own experience of being seen as 'oyinbo' in Nigeria, African in England, Arab in France, colored in Southern Africa, and Black in America, while feeling the least Black and most human among her fellow travelers, explorers all, against the sharp white relief of the South Pole. This audiobook includes original recordings of conversations and interviews with the most distinguished black thinkers of our times.Show book
Prepare to be spellbound by "The Turn of the Screw" by Henry James. This audiobook is a masterful exploration of psychological suspense and the uncanny. With James' intricate narrative, you'll be transported to a remote English country house, where a young governess cares for two enigmatic children. As you listen, you'll unravel the mysteries surrounding the estate, its eerie history, and the unsettling behavior of the children. The story is a chilling examination of the boundaries between reality and the supernatural, making it a classic in the genre of gothic horror. Through its vivid characterizations and subtle psychological nuances, it offers a haunting and thought-provoking experience.Show book
