New Human

The only audiobook you need to start a conversation with your kids about sexual harassment, consent, #metoo, and more. Many American teens are steeped in a culture that sends unsettling messages about sex, through everything from politics to music to the normalization of porn. In today's environment, it's crucial that teens be able to ask hard questions about how to take care of themselves, make decisions that reflect their values, and stay safe.

Red is now the hunted. Red descends into the supernatural underbelly of Las Vegas to enroll in a magical academy. After leaving heartbreak in Los Angeles, she is ready to focus on her lessons. A new city comes with new problems when she befriends a teen orphan targeted by assassins. The mystery deepens behind the glitter of the Strip. Her old struggles aren't far behind when her brooding and heroic ex-boyfriend Lucas arrives with an ominous warning about werewolves. Another distraction to her studies is the sexy mogul Kristoff who arrives to do business with the alchemists. In the casino ...

Ciara: The second I met Rian O’Sullivan, my life changed. He says I’m his mate. I say he’s insane. The heat between us is undeniable, but he’s a Puca—and my family has centuries of pain tied to his kind. I should hate him. I should run. But instead, I’m burning for him. Just when I start to believe we might survive the past, it rises up to crush us. Rian’s father has his own twisted plan for revenge—and I’m the pawn. I walk away to protect us both… only to find I’m carrying Rian’s child. Now he has to choose: vengeance or love. His family or mine. Me… or everything...

The purpose of creating this audiobook is to help the listener to understand as much about influencing human behavior as possible. Like most things in life, it is possible for anyone, regardless of background, to learn and put this information into practice and become a truly influential individual. Learning and applying the skills herein will help the listener to win more friends and gain more influence over people even without having a form of authority over them.

The human body is a marvel of nature, a complex system intricately designed to maintain balance, adapt, and, most importantly, heal itself. Whether it's a small cut on your finger or a more significant injury, the body has an impressive capability to regenerate and recover. So why, then, do so many people find themselves in a constant battle with illness? The answer might lie deeper than we think—within the intricate relationship between our emotions and our physical health. Recognizing the profound interplay between our emotional states and physical health could redefine our approach to ...

This book shows how trapped we are in a mechanized, consumer-driven society. It describes how the corporation-economy creates a Machine Culture in which all of us are oilers of our spiritual impoverishment. We have been cut off from the sacred. By initiating elder-leaders, establishing epiphanal communities, fasting from the media, and mapping the topography of our inner experience we can reclaim the sacred and reconceive a different future.

Hidden beneath the surface of the internet, a new, stark reality is looming - one that cuts to the very heart of our endless debates about the impact of AI. Anthropologist Mary L. Gray and computer scientist Siddharth Suri team up to unveil how services delivered by companies like Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Uber can only function smoothly thanks to the judgment and experience of a vast, invisible human labor force. These people doing "ghost work" make the internet seem smart. An estimated 8 percent of Americans have worked at least once in this "ghost economy".

Whisper Cove is a perfectly peaceful place to start anew... whether you mean to or not. When evil comes, will their passion prove fatal? BOOK 1- RUN She's on the run. He's in the business of saving lives. When protecting her seems impossible, will love win? Dr. Josh Dalton, Whisper Cove’s lonely resident veterinarian, is returning from another late-night emergency when he stumbles upon an unconscious woman. Determined to help the beautiful stranger, Josh must first prove he can protect her from the menacing shadow that haunts her nightmares. Book 2- HIDE She’s hiding from her family. ...

It's STILL the People! Nothing gets done in any organization without the people - the human capital. How well the human capital manages the financial capital and intellectual capital determines the value of any business... so you'd better get the human capital part right. In Going Behind the Numbers, valuation expert Dave Bookbinder continues to unravel ways to better value human capital and determine how it can be quantified to truly represent what every organization's people actually bring to the table. If you think it's a simple matter of calculating salaries and benefits - the typical ...

“Do you want to see your surprise?” Melody asked, in a teasing voice. “I haven’t seen it yet?” Gregory thought that the wine was the surprise. “I’ve got something special for dessert,” his pretty wife cooed back at him. Feeling thirsty? Maybe you need a nice, thick, creamy dose of the sweetest milk you'll ever taste. Milk that came fresh from the swollen, engorged source. After all, these new mamas need relief, and there's only one way they're gonna get that release they crave. Evelyn Wren is here to deliver the creamy erotic encounters that you need. This special, limited-...

Left for dead by my coven, I clawed my way back from the brink, driven by vengeance and hunger. But nothing prepared me for Celeste—the hiker who unexpectedly saved my life. Her blood awakened something fierce, primal, and possessive inside me. Now, returning to my coven with Celeste at my side, tensions rise and alliances shatter. She's my salvation and my curse, tangled in a web of power and deceit. Can I protect her from the darkness within me, or will she become its next victim? One-click now and get swept away in this spicy wolf-shifter romance! ★★★★★ Love your heroes ...

Part 2: The saga continues… Alonzo and Giselle’s love story is enviable. Their life is filled with happiness as their strong and fierce bond appears to be all that they need. Giselle accepts that the love of her life is a man who also lives his life as a wolf. Alonzo is a man of sophistication, charm and sex appeal and Giselle is completely and whole heartedly in love with him. After they settle into life, something unforeseen begins to happen between them. Something is stopping their telepathic connection and their relationship begins to suffer. They continue to build a life despite ...

Twenty years ago, with The End of Nature, Bill McKibben offered one of the earliest warnings about global warming. Those warnings went mostly unheeded; now, he insists, we need to acknowledge that we've waited too long, and that massive change is not only unavoidable but already under way. Our old familiar globe is suddenly melting, drying, acidifying, flooding, and burning in ways that no human has ever seen.

Inspired by the abundance of unique personalities available on dating websites, a renowned neuroscientist examines the science of what makes you, you.

Jenny Baker thought that life was all mapped out for her. A junior in college, she studies physics and lives at home in the fictional college town of Long Lake, West Virginia. She and her boyfriend, Jake, have been together since they were freshmen in high school, and everyone assumes that they will get married when they graduate. On October 1, her life is shattered. Tragedy strikes and, depressed, Jenny drops out of school to take an internship at the university’s observatory, which is located in the Appalachian Mountains. There, she discovers a comet destined to end all life on Earth. ...

A set of magical talismans. Eight people destined to protect them. Four unforgettable romances forged in magic and danger. Rav has sacrificed everything to fulfill his mother’s dying request: find a legendary set of talismans, each tied to an element, that control weather worldwide. He left the world behind to protect its treasures, never knowing he couldn’t find them alone. When a seemingly unconnected romance awakens their power, he’s forced to return to the enchanted town of his youth to gather the group destined to protect them. But not everyone is happy to see him again. Not ...

Google Archipelago: The Digital Gulag and the Simulation of Freedom explores the reach, penetration, power, and impact of Big Digital or the mega-information managers, social media platforms, Artificial Intelligence developers, providers of other web applications and functionalities, and the architects and proponents of the promised Internet of Things.

Humans are awesome. Our brains are gigantic, seven times larger than they should be for the size of our bodies. The human brain uses 25 percent of all the energy the body requires each day. And it became enormous in a very short amount of time in evolution, allowing us to leave our cousins, the great apes, behind. So the human brain is special, right? Wrong, according to Suzana Herculano-Houzel. Humans have developed cognitive abilities that outstrip those of all other animals but not because we are evolutionary outliers.

In ancient Judea, to the objections of an overbearing parent, a young couple fall in love. When Maria becomes pregnant, they must elope. However, the girl's father wants his revenge and hatches a plot to return them to their home town. In this epic novel, the author takes us on a sweeping journey of love, tragedy and the human condition. Ossuary by Robert E. Kearns is a superlative re-imagining of the greatest story ever told.

What if there were parts of our minds which we never use but, if awakened, could make us so much happier, connected and alive? What if awakening those parts could bring peace to the conflicts and struggles we all go through? From the cutting edge, where therapy meets neuroscience, Steve Biddulph explores the new concept of 'supersense' - the feelings beneath our feelings - which can guide us to a more awake and free way of living every minute of our lives.