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The Filter Bubble
- What the Internet Is Hiding from You
- By: Eli Pariser
- Narrated by: Jeff Harding
- Length: 8 hrs
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Imagine a world where you never discover new ideas. And where you can't have secrets. Google and Facebook are already feeding you what they think you want to see. Advertisers are following your every click. Your computer monitor is becoming a one-way mirror, reflecting your interests. The internet is no longer a free, independent space. It is commercially controlled and ever more personalised. The Filter Bubble reveals how this hidden web is starting to control our lives - and what we can do about it.
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Everyone needs to read this book
- By Michael H on 13-01-2021
- The Filter Bubble
- What the Internet Is Hiding from You
- By: Eli Pariser
- Narrated by: Jeff Harding
Everyone needs to read this book
Reviewed: 13-01-2021
Our wellbeing, finances and even our lives depend on the information we receive. The Filter Bubble gives the listener some excellent insights into how we are being presented with more and more filtered information and how this may impact our lives.
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Lincoln's Melancholy
- How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness
- By: Joshua Wolf Shenk
- Narrated by: Richard M. Davidson
- Length: 11 hrs and 40 mins
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Drawing on a wealth of his own research and the work of other Lincoln scholars, Shenk reveals how the sixteenth president harnessed his depression to fuel his astonishing success. Lincoln found the solace and tactics he needed to deal with the nation's worst crisis in the "coping strategies" he developed over a lifetime of persevering through depressive episodes and personal tragedies.
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A powerful book for all
- By Michael H on 15-10-2020
- Lincoln's Melancholy
- How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness
- By: Joshua Wolf Shenk
- Narrated by: Richard M. Davidson
A powerful book for all
Reviewed: 15-10-2020
We often hear about how depression destroys lives, this book shows that Lincoln may have been able to achieve such great things because he had depression, not inspite of it.
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EMDR
- The Breakthrough Therapy for Overcoming Anxiety, Stress, and Trauma
- By: Francine Shapiro, Margot Silk Forrest
- Narrated by: Jennywren Walker
- Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
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Hailed as the most important method to emerge in psychotherapy in decades, EMDR has successfully treated psychological problems and illnesses in more than one million sufferers worldwide, with a rapidity that defies belief. In a new introduction, Shapiro presents the new applications of this remarkable therapy and the latest scientific research that demonstrates its efficacy.
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Extraordinary
- By Michael H on 10-10-2020
- EMDR
- The Breakthrough Therapy for Overcoming Anxiety, Stress, and Trauma
- By: Francine Shapiro, Margot Silk Forrest
- Narrated by: Jennywren Walker
Extraordinary
Reviewed: 10-10-2020
For decades therapists have struggled to heal the wounds of trauma. EMDR offers a new approach that is throughly researched in peer reviewed journals. EMDR offers some incredibly hopefully stories of people who have used the techniques to heal significant psychological wounds in their life. This is not just a book for therapists it is a book for everyone. EMDR can be a really powerful tool but some of the short timelines of recovery may be overly optimistic.
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Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Anxiety Cure: The Ultimate Guide to Borderline Personality Cure, Treating Panic, Fear, Worries and Feel Good Again
- By: Victor Lopez
- Narrated by: Jason Lasky
- Length: 4 hrs and 23 mins
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People are beginning to want to know more and more about the subject of mental health and to give it the importance it deserves. Many public figures have revealed their struggle against bipolar disorder, suicidal thoughts, and related problems. Although many people have tried to destigmatize mental illness, it remains an obstacle for those who fight it, often alone and without any means of support.
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Well researched
- By Michael H on 04-10-2020
Well researched
Reviewed: 04-10-2020
I was skeptical about this book, but it is well researched and looks at a wide variety of healing techniques.
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When Rain Hurts: An Adoptive Mother's Journey with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
- By: Mary Evelyn Greene
- Narrated by: Mary Beth Garber
- Length: 12 hrs and 29 mins
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When Rain Hurts is the story of one mother’s quest to find a magical path of healing and forgiveness for her son, a boy so damaged by the double whammy of prenatal alcohol abuse and the stark rigors of Russian orphanage life that he was feral by the time of his adoption at age three. Bizarre behaviors, irrational thoughts, and dangerous preoccupations were the norm - no amount of love, it turns out, can untangle the effects of fetal alcohol syndrome.
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Honest, raw and will be really helpful for many
- By Michael H on 04-10-2020
Honest, raw and will be really helpful for many
Reviewed: 04-10-2020
Many parents reading this will think, finally someone gets it. The book is advertised as a book about FASD, their son Peter has far more than this. Most children with FASD will not be there severe, but the book will be a helpful guide to many none the less. When Rain Hurts honestly shows the challenges of raising a child with severe behavioral difficulties. The book shows the need for the involvement of multiple professionals and ultimately ends with their son making great progress.
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Touch
- The Science of Hand, Heart, and Mind
- By: David J. Linden
- Narrated by: Adrian Mulraney
- Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
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Why can't we tickle ourselves? Why do footballers who hug score more goals? Why does holding a hot coffee make us feel more positively about people? Touch is the sense that makes us human. It defines our experiences, shapes our sense of self and bonds us together. It is the first sense to start working in utero. If you are deprived of the sense of sight or hearing from birth, you will still be able to live a rich and fruitful life.
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Excellent research and very funny
- By Michael H on 13-09-2020
- Touch
- The Science of Hand, Heart, and Mind
- By: David J. Linden
- Narrated by: Adrian Mulraney
Excellent research and very funny
Reviewed: 13-09-2020
This book offers an extraordinary journey into how touch affects our lives. Safe touch is essential to our wellbeing but it is becoming less utilized in the modern world.
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The Age of Melancholy
- "Major Depression" and Its Social Origin
- By: Dan G. Blazer
- Narrated by: Walter Dixon
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
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Depression has become the most frequently diagnosed chronic mental illness, and is a disability encountered almost daily by mental health professionals of all trades. "Major Depression" is a medical disease, which some would argue has reached epidemic proportions in contemporary society, and it affects our bodies and brains just like any other disease. Why, this book asks, has the incidence of depression been on such an increase in the last 50 years, if our basic biology hasn't changed as rapidly?
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Interesting ideas, dry presentation
- By Michael H on 29-08-2020
- The Age of Melancholy
- "Major Depression" and Its Social Origin
- By: Dan G. Blazer
- Narrated by: Walter Dixon
Interesting ideas, dry presentation
Reviewed: 29-08-2020
This book raises some really important questions that examine the wider causes of depression. However I felt the author took what could be a fascinating topic and presented it in a cold clinical way, others may disagree.
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The Polyvagal Theory
- Neurophysiological Foundations of Emotions, Attachment, Communication, and Self-Regulation
- By: Stephen W. Porges
- Narrated by: Joe Hempel
- Length: 14 hrs and 31 mins
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This book compiles, for the first time, Stephen W. Porges's decades of research. A leading expert in developmental psychophysiology and developmental behavioral neuroscience, Porges is the mind behind the groundbreaking Polyvagal Theory, which has startling implications for the treatment of anxiety, depression, trauma, and autism. Adopted by clinicians around the world, the Polyvagal Theory has provided exciting new insights into the way our autonomic nervous system unconsciously mediates social engagement, trust, and intimacy.
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Breathtaking, but complex
- By Michael H on 22-08-2020
- The Polyvagal Theory
- Neurophysiological Foundations of Emotions, Attachment, Communication, and Self-Regulation
- By: Stephen W. Porges
- Narrated by: Joe Hempel
Breathtaking, but complex
Reviewed: 22-08-2020
I highly reccomend this book to anyone in the fields of psychology, counseling or medicine. It is a complex book, but the depth of understanding that you will gain from this is well worth the effort it takes to read it. It will revolutionize your understanding of anxiety and trauma.
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Workplace Fatalities - Failure to Predict
- A New Safety Discussion on Fatality and Serious Event Reduction
- By: Todd E. Conklin PhD
- Narrated by: Todd Conklin
- Length: 4 hrs and 43 mins
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Many organizations tell us that work has never been as safe as it is today. They will show the lowest injury figures ever and the rosiest incident counts in years. They want to be proud of these accomplishments, and perhaps they should be. But behind these results hides complexity and contradiction - a messiness that Todd Conklin takes us into with this audiobook.
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Good ideas, poorly explained
- By Michael H on 11-07-2020
- Workplace Fatalities - Failure to Predict
- A New Safety Discussion on Fatality and Serious Event Reduction
- By: Todd E. Conklin PhD
- Narrated by: Todd Conklin
Good ideas, poorly explained
Reviewed: 11-07-2020
This is a valuable book for those in health and safety, the ideas are important. I felt the examples and the way this was explained could have been stronger.
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The Out-of-Sync Child
- Recognizing and Coping with Sensory Processing Disorder
- By: Carol Kranowitz
- Narrated by: Ellen Archer
- Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins
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The Out-of-Sync Child broke new ground by identifying sensory processing disorder, a common but frequently misdiagnosed problem in which the central nervous system misinterprets messages from the senses. This newly revised edition features additional information from recent research on vision and hearing deficits, motor skill problems, nutrition and picky eaters, ADHA, autism, and other related disorders.
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Limited explanations of the courses
- By Michael H on 10-07-2020
- The Out-of-Sync Child
- Recognizing and Coping with Sensory Processing Disorder
- By: Carol Kranowitz
- Narrated by: Ellen Archer
Limited explanations of the courses
Reviewed: 10-07-2020
There are some parts of this book that will give helpful insights for many parents. However the book fails to look at other significant causes of motor issues such as the effects of trauma, soldiers with PTSD often have the exact behaviours described in this book. See the Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk for more detail. Also the suggestion that if it is true sensory processing disorder it can be "fixed" within a few weeks or months of therapy may be very unrealistic.