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Two touring buffoons tell you about their thoughts and then insult you for being a muggle.

Take your Mandarin Chinese to the next level and further your fluency with Paul’s simple, relaxed approach and learn in a way that suits you - without having to memorise long lists of words you won’t use; scribbling notes as you listen; or feeling frustrated.Instead, Paul will help you to you build on your existing Mandarin Chinese knowledge and guide you through 12 hours of essential tenses and grammar that you need to independently construct sentences and feel confident speaking Mandarin Chinese in a variety of scenarios. Just listen, interact, and learn wherever you are.

With Paul Noble’s simple, relaxed approach you will learn in a way that suits you – without having to memorise long lists of words you won’t use, scribbling notes as you listen, or feeling frustrated. Instead, Paul will introduce you to the basics of Mandarin Chinese and guide you through over 15 hours of everyday scenarios – from simple situations like asking for directions and eating out to talking about yourself and how to master the different tenses – that are practical, fun, and applicable. Just listen, interact, and learn wherever you are.

Ready to transform your life from the inside out? Discover how you can harness Emotional Intelligence to thrive in every aspect of your life! Your ability to understand and manage emotions—both yours and others'—plays a crucial role in determining your outcomes. Imagine being a leader who inspires your team, earning respect and admiration. A partner who responds with empathy, nurturing deep connections. Or someone who recognizes stress and implements coping strategies, emerging stronger and more resilient.

In AI Superpowers, Kai-fu Lee argues powerfully that because of these unprecedented developments in AI, dramatic changes will be happening much sooner than many of us expected. Indeed, as the US-Sino AI competition begins to heat up, Lee urges the US and China to both accept and to embrace the great responsibilities that come with significant technological power.

Everyone is quick to offer their own opinions on the AI revolution. But what does AI think of itself? Echoes of Intelligence is the world's first podcast where AI interviews AI to find out what they think of themselves, humanity, and the future of our shared world.

Welcome to Trussst Me, the podcast where fear meets love in the most unexpected ways! Join your hosts, Kais and Co-host John, as we dive into the chilling depths of real horror stories plucked from the Internet. Each episode, we dissect these eerie tales, debating whether we can trust the storytellers behind them. But we don’t stop there! In our second segment, we switch gears to explore the lighter side of life—dating and love. We read heartfelt stories from our listeners, offer relationship advice, and share our takes on love’s most puzzling moments. Whether you’re in the mood for ...

strange, paranormal, and bizarre content all in one podcast. Every month we'll have a new episode.

The Good Spy is Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Kai Bird’s compelling portrait of the remarkable life and death of one of the most important operatives in CIA history - a man who, had he lived, might have helped heal the rift between Arabs and the West. On April 18, 1983, a bomb exploded outside the American Embassy in Beirut, killing 63 people. The attack was a geopolitical turning point. It marked the beginning of Hezbollah as a political force, but even more important, it eliminated America’s most influential and effective intelligence officer in the Middle East - CIA operative Robert Ames.

In this provocative, utterly original work of 'scientific fiction', Kai-Fu Lee, the former president of Google China and best-selling author of AI Superpowers, joins forces with celebrated novelist Chen Qiufan to imagine our world in 2041 and how it will be shaped by AI. In 10 gripping short stories, set 20 years in the future, they introduce listeners to an array of eye-opening 2041 settings.

John Barrowman, Eve Myles and Gareth David-Lloyd star in three Torchwood radio adventures from the Lost Files, each set before the TV story Children of Earth. The Devil and Miss Carew sees Gwen and Rhys involved in a nursing home mystery. Submission finds the Torchwood team heading for the bottom of the sea – the Mariana Trench – after they intercept a distress call. The House of the Dead sees a special séance being held at the most haunted pub in Wales.

Miles Castillo has spent his entire life running from the crime his parents committed. He’s an alpha without a pack, and a son whose very name is poisoned. When two werewolf hunters catch him, he has to choose between a man who wants his head mounted on a wall and Cade Bartlett, the mage prince who doesn’t realize who Miles is.

When the Summer Queen summons Parker to her court, the private investigator knows there’s trouble brewing. Trapped into compliance by his past debt, he’s tasked with locating a missing girl in San Amaro. Now he has to find the girl or give up his life. Things only get more complicated when a very familiar cop asks Parker for his help on a case involving murdered magic users. With the victims completely drained of their magic, the San Amaro Police Department needs Parker’s special skill set to track down a killer.

When Parker goes looking for the wayward feline, he finds himself facing witches’ familiars, dead bodies, and shadows that move. The further into San Amaro’s underbelly Parker goes looking, the more he realizes that he is heading somewhere completely new. When his mysterious cat is linked to Nick’s dead bodies, Parker is faced with some of his darkest decisions yet.

Are you constantly having to deal with the negative effects of your insomnia, anxiety, depression, or other stressors in your daily life? Maybe you’re even taking medication to try to get it under control...but nothing seems to be working out quite right. Did you know that most of our healing and personal growth happens in our emotional and spiritual bodies? If you’re not also active in healing these parts of yourself, you’ll likely find some of your other efforts falling short.

Four decades after Ronald Reagan’s landslide win in 1980, Jimmy Carter’s one-term presidency is often labeled a failure; indeed, many Americans view Carter as the only ex-president to have used the White House as a stepping-stone to greater achievements. But in retrospect the Carter political odyssey is a rich and human story, marked by both formidable accomplishments and painful political adversity. In this deeply researched, brilliantly written account, Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Kai Bird deftly unfolds the Carter saga as a tragic tipping point in American history.

The new era of gamification and human-focused design optimizes for motivation and engagement over traditional function-focused design. Within the industry, studies on game mechanics and behavioral psychology have become proliferate. However, few people understand how to merge the two fields into experience designs that reliably increases business metrics and generates a return on investment.

J. Robert Oppenheimer was one of the iconic figures of the 20th century, a brilliant physicist who led the effort to build the atomic bomb but later confronted the moral consequences of scientific progress. When he proposed international controls over atomic materials, opposed the development of the hydrogen bomb, and criticized plans for a nuclear war, his ideas were anathema to powerful advocates of a massive nuclear buildup during the anti-Communist hysteria of the early 1950s.

For everyone who’s tired of looking at the mess in their living situation, have you ever thought, “Wow, I really wish this clutter would all just go away"? Well, now it can! Learn how to get rid of all the mess and clutter in your home and life and keep your home tidy without sacrificing a lot of time or having additional daily chores, even if you’ve tried everything and nothing worked for you. Imagine relaxing in your tidy, organized clean home after you got rid of all unwanted stuff.

The topic of security culture is mysterious and confusing to most leaders. But it doesn't have to be. In The Security Culture Playbook, Perry Carpenter and Kai Roer deliver experience-driven, actionable insights into how to transform your organization's security culture and reduce human risk at every level. This book exposes the gaps in how organizations have traditionally approached human risk, and it provides security and business executives with the necessary information and tools needed to understand, measure, and improve facets of security culture across the organization.