When does the Jewish Sabbath begin? Who are Vishnu and Shiva? What are Buddhism’s Four Noble Truths? What are the Five Pillars of Islam? These questions are more than an academic exercise.
Religious belief has been innate to humans everywhere and in every age, from the time of the Neanderthals to the 21st century. It’s also one of the strongest motivators of human behavior and has a profound impact on all aspects of our culture—our spiritual beliefs, our rituals, our politics, and the very foundations of our democracy.

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New TTC audio – Cultural Literacy For Religion – verything the Well-Educated Person Should Know TacTools

We all have a story we want to share with others. Maybe it’s a funny or dramatic moment in your everyday life. Perhaps it’s an unforgettable trip overseas or a heartwarming family reunion. Or possibly even the life of a close relative or public figure that has inspired you in some unique way. Regardless of the story or experience, there’s no better way to write, record, and share it than through the power of creative nonfiction.

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New TTC audio – Writing Creative Non-Fiction TacTools

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Andrew Taylor – A plum in your mouth | Size : 453.21 MB
128 kbps
By putting our differences and snobberies under a microscope, this book explains many facts about us as a nation, exploring the development of language and our behaviour.
Did you know that the court of Richard II spoke in broad Yorkshire? Why don’t we speak like we did 40 years ago? Why is one perceived to be richer, taller – and more attractive – if one speaks the Queen’s English? A Plum in Your Mouth takes an astonishing look at accents and the volumes they speak.

Whether you’re a Cockney Sparrow or a Scouser, this is a book you cannot afford to miss.

Do you ever suffer from an ‘‘ell of an ‘eadache’? Do you live in a ‘nice hice’? Do you think of the word ‘probably’ as two syllables? Wherever you come from, however you sound, whether you like it or not, you have an accent. You cannot afford to ignore it for a second more.

Outrageously funny but astonishingly informative, Sunday Times columnist Andrew Taylor leads you through the history of British accents and how they developed, answering such age-old questions as why grandparents will always disapprove of the way we speak and debunking such myths as that Glaswegian developed because of badly fitting false teeth.

From Liverpool to London, from Glasgow to Galway, from the West End to the East End, our accent say more about us than our football shirts or a business cards. It’s time to discover what it’s saying!

Andrew Taylor – A plum in your mouth TacTools

Here is the entire list of Audiobooks from LearnSmart (formerly PrepLogic) Lecture Series. They are meant to be used for exam preparation and they are tightly summarized and condensed while covering all exam topics.
They are all MP3 and should be readable on any platform.

“Expand your knowledge with every Lecture Series Audio
Lecture Series Audiobooks are like having a personal professor in your car. Get the entire collection including over 70 technologies and over 160+ hours of audio. You get complete, informative coverage for your certification exam in lecture format. Plus, resources, diagrams and screen shots of technologies you need to know to pass the exam. Put them on your iPod, iPhone, Android Phone or other MP3 device for convenient, on-the-go lectures. Study on the subway, on a business trip or while walking your dog. Integrate Lecture Series with our practice exam to continue and accelerate your certification training. Get them all now.”

Note: Not all exams have a lecture series. I can assure you this is the entire set. You can compare with the list on the website with the link above.

Enjoy!!

Cisco
CCIP Lecture Series
Quality of Service (QoS) (642-642)
CCNA Lecture Series
CCNA (640-802)
CCNP Lecture Series
CCNP ROUTE (642-902)
CCVP Lecture Series
Cisco Voice Over IP (CVOICE) (642-436)
Quality of Service (QoS) (642-642)
CIW
CIW Associate Lecture Series
CIW v5 Foundations (1D0-510)
CIW Professional Lecture Series
CIW v5 Foundations (1D0-510)
CIW v5 Site Designer (1D0-520)
CIW v5 E-Commerce Designer (1D0-525)
CompTIA
A+ Lecture Series
A+ Essentials (220-701)
A+ Practical Application (220-702)
Network+ Lecture Series
Network+ (N10-004)
Security+ Lecture Series
Security+ (SY0-201)
EC-Council
CEH Lecture Series
Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) (312-50)
ISC2®
CISSP Lecture Series
CISSP®
SSCP Lecture Series
Systems Security Practitioner (SSCP)
LPI
LPIC-1, Linux Junior Level Lecture Series
LPIC-1 Exam 101 (Exam 101)
LPIC-1 Exam 102 (Exam 102)
Microsoft Certifications
MCDST Lecture Series
(70-271) Windows XP User Support
(70-272) Windows XP Desktop Applications
MCITP Lecture Series
(70-431) SQL Server 2005
(70-620) Windows Vista Configuration
(70-622) Windows Vista Enterprise Support
(70-623) Windows Vista Consumer Support
(70-624) Windows Vista and Office 2007 Deployment
(70-640) Server 2008 Active Directory, Configuration
(70-642) Server 2008 Network Infrastructure
(70-647) Server 2008 Enterprise Administrator
(70-680) Windows 7 Configuration
MCITP Consumer Support Technician Lecture Series
(70-620) Windows Vista Configuration
(70-623) Windows Vista Consumer Support
MCITP Database Administrator Lecture Series
(70-431) SQL Server 2005
MCITP Enterprise Administrator Lecture Series
(70-620) Windows Vista Configuration
(70-624) Windows Vista and Office 2007 Deployment
(70-640) Server 2008 Active Directory, Configuration
(70-642) Server 2008 Network Infrastructure
(70-647) Server 2008 Enterprise Administrator
(70-680) Windows 7 Configuration
MCITP Enterprise Desktop Support Technician 7 Lecture Series
(70-680) Windows 7 Configuration
MCITP Enterprise Support Technician Lecture Series
(70-620) Windows Vista Configuration
(70-622) Windows Vista Enterprise Support
MCITP Server Administrator Lecture Series
(70-640) Server 2008 Active Directory, Configuration
(70-642) Server 2008 Network Infrastructure
MCSA 2003 Lecture Series
(70-270) Windows XP Pro
(70-290) Server 2003 Network Environment
(70-291) Server 2003 Network Infrastructure
(70-299) Server 2003 Network Security Admin
(70-620) Windows Vista Configuration
(70-680) Windows 7 Configuration
MCSE 2003 Lecture Series
(70-270) Windows XP Pro
(70-290) Server 2003 Network Environment
(70-291) Server 2003 Network Infrastructure
(70-293) Server 2003 Planning Network Infrastructure
(70-294) Server 2003 Active Directory Infrastructure
(70-297) Server 2003 Designing Network Infrastructure
(70-298) Server 2003 Designing Network Security
(70-299) Server 2003 Network Security Admin
MCTS Lecture Series
(70-431) SQL Server 2005
(70-526) .NET 2.0 Windows Applications
(70-528) .NET 2.0 Web Applications
(70-529) .NET 2.0 Applications
(70-536) .NET 2.0 Development
(70-620) Windows Vista Configuration
(70-624) Windows Vista and Office 2007 Deployment
(70-630) SharePoint Server 2007
(70-631) Windows Sharepoint Services 3.0
(70-640) Server 2008 Active Directory, Configuration
(70-642) Server 2008 Network Infrastructure
(70-680) Windows 7 Configuration
Oracle
Oracle 10g OCP Lecture Series
Oracle 10g OCP Upgrade (1Z0-040)
Oracle 10g DBA II (1Z0-043)

More Info_http://www.learnsmartsystems.com/products/audio/view-audio-training.aspx

LearnSmart PrepLogic AudioBook Lecture Series – Entire List TacTools

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The Nature Academy – Blender – 13 Weeks Training Course (Dec 2011) [Videos+Templates]|Size:6.99 GB

The Nature Academy is a 13-Week training course carefully guides you through the process of creating realistic nature scenes with Blender. The tutorials start out easy and then increase with complexity as the course progresses. This ensures that you keep learning but you aren’t left behind.

Why Blender Guru?
I started Blender Guru in April 2009 as a way to raise my profile as a freelancing artist. I had heard that creating tutorials was a good way to get noticed, so I registered the domain name blenderguru.com and started writing. However it wasn’t until I attended the Blender conference in 2009, that my goal changed. People who I had never met were coming up to me, shaking my hand, and asking me when the next tutorial would be released. I was flabbergasted! So from that point on I decided to make educational products my primary focus.

My first training product was an eBook called ‘The Wow Factor‘, and my most recent product is The Nature Academy.

Weeks:
1. Grass
2. Rocks
3. Trees
4. Plants
5. Lakes
6. Flowers
7. Ocean
8. Mountains
9. Forests
10. Aerial Flowers
11. Deserts
12. Animated Grass
13. Waterfalls

Release Date
December 2011

The Nature Academy – Blender – 13 Weeks Training Course (Dec 2011) [Videos+Templates] TacTools

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John Taylor Gatto – The Underground History of American Education (2000) [41 Radiorips (MP3)]|Size:660.56 MB

 The Underground History of American Education: A Schoolteacher’s Intimate Investigation Into the Problem of Modern Schooling is a critique of the U.S. education system by John Taylor Gatto.

Gatto, a former teacher, left the classroom the same year in which he was named New York State Teacher of the Year. He announced his decision in a letter titled “I Quit, I Think”.

Using anecdotes gathered from thirty years of teaching, Gatto presents his view of modern compulsion schooling, describing a “conflict between systems which offer physical safety and certainty at the cost of suppressing free will, and those which offer liberty at the price of constant risk”. Gatto argues that educational strategies promoted by government and industry leaders for over a century included the creation of a system that keeps real power in the hands of very few people.

What has happened in our schools was foreseen long ago by Jefferson. We have been recolonized silently in a second American Revolution. Time to take our script from this country’s revolutionary start, time to renew traditional hostility toward hierarchy and tutelage. We became a unique nation from the bottom up, that is the only way to rebuild a worthy concept of education.

The book was read from 2006-2007 for the Unwelcome Guests radio show.
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“… Underground History isn’t a history proper, but a collection of materials toward a history, embedded in a personal essay analyzing why mass compulsion schooling is unreformable. The history I have unearthed is important to our understanding; it’s a good start, I believe, but much remains undone.”

  “… what I’m trying to describe [is] that what has happened to our schools was inherent in the original design for a planned economy and a planned society laid down so proudly at the end of the nineteenth century.”

Russ Kick offers this in summary:

  “In other words, the captains of industry and government explicitly wanted an educational system that would maintain social order by teaching us just enough to get by but not enough so that we could think for ourselves, question the sociopolitical order, or communicate articulately.”

John Taylor Gatto – The Underground History of American Education (2000) [41 Radiorips (MP3)] TacTools

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The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg | Size 722.65 MB
The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg
Self-help: MP3/192Kbps 10h30m

A young woman walks into a laboratory. Over the past two years, she has transformed almost every aspect of her life. She has quit smoking, run a marathon, and been promoted at work. The patterns inside her brain, neurologists discover, have fundamentally changed.

Marketers at Procter & Gamble study videos of people making their beds. They are desperately trying to figure out how to sell a new product called Febreze, on track to be one of the biggest flops in company history. Suddenly, one of them detects a nearly imperceptible pattern—and with a slight shift in advertising, Febreze goes on to earn a billion dollars a year.

An untested CEO takes over one of the largest companies in America. His first order of business is attacking a single pattern among his employees—how they approach worker safety—and soon the firm, Alcoa, becomes the top performer in the Dow Jones.

What do all these people have in common? They achieved success by focusing on the patterns that shape every aspect of our lives.

They succeeded by transforming habits.

In The Power of Habit, award-winning New York Times business reporter Charles Duhigg takes us to the thrilling edge of scientific discoveries that explain why habits exist and how they can be changed. With penetrating intelligence and an ability to distill vast amounts of information into engrossing narratives, Duhigg brings to life a whole new understanding of human nature and its potential for transformation.

Along the way we learn why some people and companies struggle to change, despite years of trying, while others seem to remake themselves overnight. We visit laboratories where neuroscientists explore how habits work and where, exactly, they reside in our brains. We discover how the right habits were crucial to the success of Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps, Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz, and civil-rights hero Martin Luther King, Jr. We go inside Procter & Gamble, Target superstores, Rick Warren’s Saddleback Church, NFL locker rooms, and the nation’s largest hospitals and see how implementing so-called keystone habits can earn billions and mean the difference between failure and success, life and death.

At its core, The Power of Habit contains an exhilarating argument: The key to exercising regularly, losing weight, raising exceptional children, becoming more productive, building revolutionary companies and social movements, and achieving success is understanding how habits work.

Habits aren’t destiny. As Charles Duhigg shows, by harnessing this new science, we can transform our businesses, our communities, and our lives.

The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg TacTools

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Mooji (Anthony Paul Moo-Young aka Tony Moo) Satsang audios (25 mp3) | Size 1.51 GB
2010_04_28b_London_Office_The Joy of Satsang
2010_04_29_London_Home_A Deeper Seeing
2010_05_25_We Are the Ever Perfect
2010_06_10_The One Who is Always Here
2010_07_17_You Are the Untouched Essence
2010_12_02_Tiru_Home_Eternally_Home
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2011_06_11_Portugal_MS_We_Are_Here_to_Hatch
2011_06_19_Portugal_MS_The_Living_Movie
2011_07_10_Portugal_MS_The_Song_Of_The_Angels
2011_07_11_Portugal_MS_The_Mirror_Path
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2011_11_18_Portugal_MS_The Self is the Easiest
2011_11_19_Portugal_MS_Buddha-I_or_Not
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Anthony Paul Moo-Young, known as Mooji, was born on 29 January 1954 in Port Antonio, Jamaica. In 1969, he moved to the UK and he is presently living in Brixton, London. Anthony worked in London’s ‘West end’ as a street portrait artist for many years, then as a painter and a stained glass artist, and later as a teacher at Brixton College. For a long time, he was well known as Tony Moo, but is now affectionately known as Mooji* by the many seekers and friends who visit him.

Mooji is a direct disciple of Sri Harilal Poonja, the renowned advaita master, or Papaji, as his followers call him. In 1987, a chance meeting with a Christian mystic was to be a life-changing encounter for Mooji. It brought him, through prayer, into the direct experience of the Divine within. Within a short period, he experienced a radical shift in consciousness so profound that outwardly, he seemed, to many who knew him, to be an entirely different person. As his spiritual consciousness awakened, a deep inner transformation began which unfolded in the form of many miraculous experiences and mystical insights. He felt a strong wind of change blowing through his life which brought with it a deep urge to surrender completely to divine will. Shortly after, he stopped teaching, left his home and began a life of quiet simplicity and surrender to the will of God as it manifested spontaneously within him. A great peace entered his being, and has remained ever since.

For the following six years, Mooji drifted in a state of spontaneous meditation oblivious to the outer world he formally knew. During these years, he lived almost penniless but was constantly absorbed in inner joy, contentment and natural meditation. Grace came in the form of his sister Julianne, who welcomed Mooji into her home with loving kindness, and afforded him the time and space he much needed to flower spiritually, without the usual pressures and demands of external life. Mooji refers to this period of his life as his “wilderness years” and speaks touchingly of a deep feeling of being “seated on the Lap of God”. In many respects, these were far from easy times for Mooji, yet there is no trace of regret or remorse in his tone as he recounts these years. On the contrary, he speaks of this phase of his life as being richly blessed and abundant in grace, trust and loving devotion.

In late 1993, Mooji travelled to India. He had a desire to visit Dakshineswar in Calcutta where Sri Ramakrishna, the great Bengali Saint, had lived and taught. The words and life of Ramakrishna were a source of inspiration and encouragement to Mooji in the early years of his spiritual development. He loved the Saint deeply but as fate would determine, he would not go to Calcutta. While in Rishikesh, a holy place at the foothills of the Himalayas, he was to have another propitious encounter; this time with three devotees of the great advaita Master Sri Harilal Poonja, known to his many devotees as Papaji. Their persistent invitation to Mooji to travel with them to meet the Master made a deep impression on him. Still he delayed the prospect of meeting Papaji for two whole weeks, choosing first to visit Varanasi, the holy city.

In late November 1993, Mooji travelled to Indira Nagar in Lucknow to meet Papaji. It was to be an auspicious and profoundly significant experience on his spiritual journey. He felt it to be his good fortune; he had met a living Buddha, a fully enlightened master. He gradually came to recognise that Papaji was his Guru. Mooji stayed with Papaji for several months. During one particular satsang meeting, Papaji told him: “If you desire to be one with truth, ‘you’ must completely disappear.” On hearing this, great anger arose within his mind, full of judgement and resistance towards Papaji. He decided to leave the master’s presence for good, but later that day a huge dark cloud of anger and rebelliousness suddenly lifted, leaving his mind in a state of such peace, emptiness and a love towards the master, so intense, that he knew he could not leave. Through ‘Papaji’s’ grace, his mind was pushed back into the emptiness of source.

In 1994, with his Master’s blessings he travelled down to Sri Ramanasramam in Tiruvannamalai. This is the ashram at the foot of Arunachala, the ‘Hill of Fire’, where Sri Ramana Maharshi*, the Sage of Arunachala and Papaji’s Guru, had lived and taught. Mooji felt very happy and at home in Tiruvannamalai. He stayed there for almost three months before returning to sit at Papaji’s feet once again.

A week after returning to Lucknow, Mooji received news from London that his eldest son had died suddenly of pneumonia. He returned to England. The bliss of earlier years gave way to a profound emptiness and inner silence, imparted by the Grace and Presence of Papaji.

Mooji visited Papaji again in 1997. It was to be his last meeting with his Beloved Master, who had by now become ill and frail in his movements, but whose inner light and presence remained undiminished. A month after returning to London, Mooji received news that the Master had passed away. Of this Mooji declares: “That Principle that manifests as the Master is ever HERE NOW. The True Master never dies, it is the mister that dies. The true Master, that Sat Guru* within, alone is the Real”.

Since 1999, Mooji has been sharing satsang in the form of spontaneous encounters, retreats, satsang intensives and one-to-one meetings with the many seekers who visit him, from all parts of the world, in search of the direct experience of truth. Few amongst the modern teachers of the advaita tradition expound the ‘knowledge of Self’, and the method of self-enquiry, with such dazzling clarity, love and authority. There is an energy that radiates from Mooji’s presence, a kind of impersonal intimacy, full of love, joy and a curious mix of playfulness and authority. His style is direct, clear, compassionate and often humorous. Once caught in the grip of his questions, there seems to be no place to hide. So unsparing is his scrutiny and uncompromising stance, that the ‘I’ concept is inescapably exposed as a mental construction, when viewed from the formless awareness we are.

Over the last 8 years Mooji has been travelling to Spain, Italy, Germany, Sweden, North America, Argentina, Brasil, India, where he conducts Satsang meetings, Intensives and Retreats. He is ever open to meeting sincere seekers of truth, whatever their background.

Mooji (Anthony Paul Moo-Young aka Tony Moo) Satsang audios (25 mp3) TacTools

IntelliQuest The Worlds 100 Greatest Books
English | Mp3 | 320kbps | 48000hz | 2 channel | 3.28Gb

IntelliQuest The Worlds 100 Greatest Books TacTools

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Harry Beckwith – What Clients Love: A Field Guide to Growing Your Business | Size:94.53 MB
Circa 3 1/2 hourse playtime. 4 mp3 files. 64kbps. Sound quality is good. It starts with annoying background music but that is only in the intro so don`t worry. No music in the rest of the audio.
The audio book is read by the author. This is an advantage compared to other audio books where a professional but bored speaker makes it a lot harder to keep your focus and take in the information.

From amazon:
Harry Beckwith is the author of Selling the Invisible and The Invisible Touch, both marketing classics. Now he applies his unparalleled clarity, insight, humor, and expertise to a new age of mass communication and mass confusion. What Clients Love will help you stand out from the crowd-and sell anything to anyone. From making a pitch to building a brand, from designing a logo to closing a sale, this is a field guide to take with you to the front lines of today’s business battles. Filled with real tales of success and failure, it shows you how to: * Fly a Jefferson Airplane. Everyone knows there’s a Jefferson Monument, but a Jefferson Airplane? A brilliant, attention-grabbing name often includes the unexpected and the absurd. * Strike with a Velvet Sledgehammer. It’s not a hard sell. It’s not exactly soft. Selling well means finding the fine line between modesty and bragging, and driving the message home. * Speak to the Frenchman on the Street. A French mathematician believed that no theory was complete until you could explain it to the first person you meet on the street. Marketers, ecoutez! * Dress Julia Roberts. Why one scene from Pretty Woman can enlighten you more than a full year of study at a top business school. What Clients Love will help you get focused, stay focused, and follow the essential rules to success-by doing the little things right and the big things even better.

Harry Beckwith – What Clients Love: A Field Guide to Growing Your Business TacTools