Tag: Audible

  • AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 Starman Jones

    A new deal every day from Audible. Today’s deal ends 05/04/2017 @ 11:59PM PT.

    Starman JonesStarman Jones by Robert A. Heinlein

    Over 100 5-Star Reviews!

    It was a desperate time, when one’s next meal and the comforts of home couldn’t be taken for granted. Max Jones, a practical, hard-working young man, found his escape in his beloved astronomy books. But when reality comes crashing in and his troubled home life forces him out on the road, Max finds himself adrift in a downtrodden land – until an unexpected, ultimate adventure carries him away as a stowaway aboard an intergalactic spaceship.

    But to where? And when? And how can he ever get back? With the ship’s pilot dead and his charts and tables all destroyed, Max must call upon all of his untested knowledge and skills in order to survive.

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  • AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 Suggestible You

    A new deal every day from Audible. Today’s deal ends 05/02/2017 @ 11:59PM PT.

    Suggestible You: The Curious Science of Your Brain’s Ability to Deceive, Transform, and HealSuggestible You: The Curious Science of Your Brain’s Ability to Deceive, Transform, and Heal
    by Erik Vance

    Could the secrets to personal health lie within our own brains?

    This riveting narrative explores the world of placebos, hypnosis, false memories, and neurology to reveal the groundbreaking science of our suggestible minds. Journalist Erik Vance explores the surprising ways our expectations and beliefs influence our bodily responses to pain, disease, and everyday events. Drawing on centuries of research and interviews with leading experts in the field, Vance takes us on a fascinating adventure from Harvard’s research labs to a witch doctor’s office in Catemaco, Mexico, to an alternative medicine school near Beijing (often called "China’s Hogwarts"). Vance’s firsthand dispatches will change the way you think – and feel.

    Suggestible You shows how expectations, beliefs, and self-deception can actively change our bodies and minds. Vance builds a case for our "internal pharmacy" – the very real chemical reactions our brains produce when we think we are experiencing pain or healing, actual or perceived. Supporting this idea is centuries of placebo research in a range of forms, from sugar pills to shock waves; studies of alternative medicine techniques heralded and condemned in different parts of the world (think crystals and chakras); and, most recently, major advances in brain mapping technology. Thanks to this technology, we’re learning how we might leverage our suggestibility (or lack thereof) for personalized medicine, and Vance brings us to the front lines.

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  • AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 Lady Fortescue Steps Out

    A new deal every day from Audible. Today’s deal ends 05/01/2017 @ 11:59PM PT.

    Lady Fortescue Steps Out: The Poor RelationLady Fortescue Steps Out: The Poor Relation
    by M. C. Beaton

    Over 100 5-Star Reviews!

    Life is not easy for the poor relations of England’s upper crust, but fate and clever schemes bring them together. Lady Fortescue and Colonel Sandhurst hatch a plan: What if they were to transform her decrepit Bond Street home into a posh hotel, offering their guests the pleasure of being waited upon by nobility? With the help of other down-and-out aristocrats, they do just that, and London’s newest hotel, The Poor Relation, is born.

    The establishment is an immediate hit with London’s most illustrious citizens, save the Duke of Rowcester, Lady Fortescue’s nephew. Rowcester believes that his aunt’s entry into the trade will denigrate their family name and is determined to shut the hotel down – until he meets Miss Harriett James, the lovely young woman who accepts Lady Fortescue’s offer to become The Poor Relation’s chef after the death of her parents and the loss of her fortune. Rowcester moves into The Poor Relation for the season – ostensibly to keep an eye on his aunt’s business.

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