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Advanced Beauty Therapy
- By: Centre of Excellence
- Narrator: Jane Branch
- Length: 5 hours 30 minutes
- Publisher: Author's Republic
- Publish date: January 01, 2021
- Language: English
Discover advanced beauty therapy techniques, improve your human anatomy and physiology knowledge, gain a deeper understanding of the role of a beauty therapist, and learn about the business and career side of this role.
Take the Advanced Beauty Therapy audiobook and you’ll deepen your understanding of important legal, ethical, and health factors that Beauty Therapists need to be aware of. You’ll delve deeper into the business side of the role, as we explore the importance of client relationships, time management, and sales techniques. You’ll also further your knowledge of human anatomy and physiology – looking at the structure of the skin, cells and tissues, hair and nails, and the process of ageing.
From there, we’ll take an in-depth look into various treatments that you can add to your service offering. You will learn about treatments using electrotherapy, epilation, manual massage, nail artistry, self-tanning, eyelash extensions, and eyebrow enhancing.
In addition to exploring the skills you can acquire, the audiobook also looks at the different avenues you can take in your career – employment opportunities, self-employment, and further education.
This audiobook is for anyone who is working or training within the beauty therapy industry and wishes to gain advanced professional knowledge regarding the role. With this information, you can go on to undertake further study and gain practical experience in order to work for yourself, set up your own salon or to add additional services to your current offering.
Anatomy and Physiology Audio Course
- By: Centre of Excellence
- Narrator: Brian Greyson
- Length: 4 hours 21 minutes
- Publisher: Author's Republic
- Publish date: January 01, 2020
- Language: English
With so many incredible modern day advancements making our lives easier, there is something we frequently take for granted, something that is not new or technologically perfected, something simple yet complex and which we use every day without thought, our bodies.
The Anatomy and Physiology Audio Course takes you on a journey through the incredible mass of cells that is your body. From head to toe and everything in-between, you’ll discover the structures, functions, and pathologies of the various systems and organs of the body and how they work independently and as a coherent whole.
An incredibly comprehensive study of the human body, the Anatomy and Physiology Audio Course can be used by those going into higher education in the fields of medicine and biology. Similarly, practitioners of complementary and alternative therapies, treatments, and medicines will be able to improve their techniques by increasing their knowledge through studying this course.
If you have ever wondered how this tool that you use every day of your life actually functions, this course has the answers. With an overview of each system of the body, in-depth breakdowns of the structures and functions of their component parts, and pathologies of each, you will understand how the body works and the problems that can occur within it.
Arabic for Beginners
- By: Centre of Excellence
- Narrator: Aliya Bishara
- Length: 2 hours 40 minutes
- Publisher: Author's Republic
- Publish date: January 01, 2020
- Language: English
Learn basic Arabic skills that will enable you to go through daily life, navigate a variety of situations, and have meaningful conversations with speakers of Arabic.
Learn the alphabet and the sounds of Arabic. You’ll gain a comprehensive understanding of the basics, including word and sentence formation, and how to use and form pronouns, verb patterns and tenses, adjectives, and plurals.
You’ll learn how to ask questions, make (and decline) requests politely, use common greetings, start a conversation, and introduce yourself. You’ll also learn essentials such as using numbers, telling the time, and setting dates.
This audiobook:
Provides simple explanations, useful examples and effective activities
Aids you in becoming capable of having a basic conversation in Arabic
Sets the foundation for advanced study
Arabic for Beginners has been created for those who have had little or no interaction with the language. You’ll be introduced to the language from the ground up and work your way to being able to understand Arabic and feel comfortable having a simple conversation with native Arabic speakers, using structurally correct sentences.
If you’ve had some experience with Arabic but lack confidence, this audiobook will solidify your knowledge and lay the foundations from which you can build upon with advanced study – further enriching your vocabulary with more Arabic words and phrases and learning advanced grammatical rules.
Beauty Therapy
- By: Centre of Excellence
- Narrator: Jane Branch
- Length: 5 hours 51 minutes
- Publisher: Author's Republic
- Publish date: January 01, 2021
- Language: English
Is working in beauty therapy your dream career? Offering feel-good services, beautifying someone before a big event – making them picture-perfect or helping clients unwind with an indulgent treat. You may want to create your own business, work as a mobile beauty therapist – working hours that suit you – or become a make-up artist to the stars!
The Beauty Therapy audiobook provides practical guidance, knowledge and advice for those who are intent on taking their first steps in a rewarding career in the beauty industry.
You’ll discover what it means to be a professional working within the industry – the responsibilities, career routes, and education opportunities.
Although not glamorous, it’s important to have an up to date knowledge of health and safety. The audiobook covers this essential information in manageable blocks, covering everything from hazards and first aid to important legislations and essential insurances.
Working within beauty therapy, you’ll be selling a service – an experience. First, and indeed last, impressions count. We’ll discuss the importance of professionalism, personal appearance, hospitality, customer service, and good communication skills. You’ll also learn how to sell your services and use promotional activities to increase revenue.
Another key area for most roles within beauty therapy is an understanding of science and anatomy. We’ll cover vital information about the skin, hair, nails, muscles of the head and body, and lymphatic system.
With the foundations set, the audiobook information on each of the following specialisms within beauty therapy: facial treatments, wax depilation, nail services, make-up artistry, eyebrows and eyelashes, and full body massage. Within each discipline, you’ll be guided through how the service is provided, any materials, tools or equipment used, how to prepare the client, and any contraindications to consider before commencing treatment.
Beginners’ French for Kids
- By: Centre of Excellence
- Narrator: Katia Filipovic
- Length: 3 hours 7 minutes
- Publisher: Author's Republic
- Publish date: January 01, 2021
- Language: English
Introducing French to children aged 6 and up, this audiobook will help little learners to develop a broad range of vocabulary across a range of topics, understand essential grammar and instil confidence to try out their newfound French language skills.
The Beginner’s French for Kids audiobook also has an inter-cultural element within each track, allowing children to learn things about France and the French-speaking world.
The audiobook begins by explaining how to introduce yourself, address people, and count up to ten in French.
You’ll learn the words to describe relationships within your family, the names of animals, how to describe what people and animals look like, express your opinions (including your likes and dislikes), talk about school subjects, and name colours. The audiobook explains how to talk about your home and the area in which you live, along with what you want to do in the future, including what job you may like to have.
You’ll discover useful language when out and about in a French-speaking country. You’ll learn the names for mealtimes, how to talk about food and eating out in cafes and restaurants), the names for shops (e.g. bakery, butchers) and the items sold within them, names of different modes of transport and locations (e.g. train station, museum), and how to ask for directions.
We’ll look at the language used to describe what you like to do in your free-time, where you might go and what you might see whilst on holiday, and the weather.
Along with providing a solid foundation in the language, you’ll also explore the fascinating similarities and differences in the cultures of various French-speaking countries.
Candle Making Business
- By: Centre of Excellence
- Narrator: Jane Branch
- Length: 5 hours 36 minutes
- Publisher: Author's Republic
- Publish date: January 01, 2020
- Language: English
Candle making can be a fun and exciting hobby. Making beautiful candles is definitely lots of fun. Plus, this hobby gives you a chance to also make lovely ornamental candles that can be used for decorating your own home; they can also make great presents too.
If you are passionate and really enjoy making candles, you could certainly consider pursuing this exciting hobby as a full-time career by setting up your own candle making business. If you’re dedicated to making your new business a success then this detailed candle making audiobook will guide you on the various steps and materials involved in candle making.
You will learn about the basics of candle making, different kinds of wax and various types of wicks. You will learn all about the safety precautions you need to take while making candles, and will also be educated about ways to make your workplace safe.
You will learn about how to roll the candles, pour them, make your own wax sheets, make different candle shapes, experimenting with colours and information on containers and additives. Students will be guided how to safely dip the candles and will also discuss the candle burning process. You will learn about lots of other candles, such as birthday candles, hand moulded candles, beaded candles, scented candles, Danish tapers, beeswax candles, multi-wick candles, twisted tapers, themed and floating candles.
Find out how you can set up your own business with information on where to find the necessary supplies and equipment. You will learn about the different marketing techniques required for promoting your business and creating a successful business.
Digital Photography
- By: Centre of Excellence
- Narrator: Brian Greyson
- Length: 2 hours 54 minutes
- Publisher: Author's Republic
- Publish date: January 01, 2020
- Language: English
Learn everything you need to know about digital photography and how to take the perfect picture!
In the days before the digital revolution photography was still a popular pastime, but many people where put off by the necessity of buying film and then either processing and developing the film yourself or taking it to a Photolab, then receiving a set of 30 prints that had stickers on them explaining that the picture was out of focus or had red streaks on it because the film had been exposed to light or left in a drawer for 3 years before being developed.
Many photographers still use film (some even refusing to go digital) but the explosion of digital camera technology over the last 10 years has seen an increase in the popularity of photography. Social Media sites have also contributed to this rise, after all why write something when you can just take a picture on your smart phone.
The area of photography that seems to have the biggest boost is the use of SLR cameras, now known as Digital SLR (or DSLR) cameras. In the past many amateurs and snappers preferred point and shoot cameras because of their simplicity and ease of use. The SLR camera was for professionals and enthusiastic hobbyists. Now it’s almost impossible to walk down the street in any city in the world without seeing at least one person carrying a DSLR camera.
First Aid
- By: Centre of Excellence
- Narrator: Brian Greyson
- Length: 1 hours 54 minutes
- Publisher: Author's Republic
- Publish date: January 01, 2021
- Language: English
First aid training will equip you with the awareness and practical capabilities of how to react if the worst happens. It’s the knowledge of how to help someone that collapses, cuts themselves, gets hurt in an emergency situation or finds themselves in a medical emergency.
Everyone in the world would benefit from studying First Aid. The information provided in this audiobook could literally become a matter of life and death and though we may not always need to use the knowledge, and hopefully we won’t, it’s a great education to have.
The First Aid audiobook is suitable for just about everyone. We all hope that we would never have need for first aid knowledge but at some point in life we generally do, whether it is tending to a small graze or cut and knowing how to properly clean and bandage the wound, to recognising the symptoms of a heart attack, how to aid the sufferer, and potentially saving a life. These are skills everyone should have.
More specifically the audiobook would benefit those who are around other people as part of their profession, for example, care and social workers.
Foot Health Practitioner
- By: Centre of Excellence
- Narrator: Jane Branch
- Length: 3 hours 31 minutes
- Publisher: Author's Republic
- Publish date: January 01, 2021
- Language: English
Get to know feet – inside and out, both healthy and not. Take the Foot Health Practitioner audiobook and you’ll learn the anatomy, physiology, systems, and dermatology of the feet. You’ll learn how to recognise nail problems, foot infections, corns and calluses, and high-risk foot conditions and how these can be prevented and treated. You’ll also become familiar with podiatry equipment, including their handling and sterilisation.
The Foot Health Practitioner audiobook provides great insight into the health, conditions and treatments of the feet. It will help you take better care of your feet as well as recognise some of the signs and symptoms of the various conditions that can affect them.
If you work with feet in the holistic health (reflexology and massage in particular) or beauty industries, this audiobook will help you to provide information to your clients regarding their foot health. You will be better placed to advise them of whether they need to seek further treatment from a podiatrist/chiropodist – proving them with additional confidence in you as a professional and improving your reputation.
If you are looking to take up training in podiatry/chiropody, this audiobook will give you a great start in the field and may help towards your application.
French for Beginners
- By: Centre of Excellence
- Narrator: Katia Filipovic
- Length: 2 hours 20 minutes
- Publisher: Author's Republic
- Publish date: January 01, 2020
- Language: English
Who hasn’t dreamt of speaking French? It’s a romantic language that opens the door to fantastic trips to France – Paris, Nice, Bordeaux, Marseille, and more – while being able to converse and express oneself in the native tongue.
The French for Beginners audiobook will help you to learn the key words, phrases and idioms used in daily French in order to engage in basic, day-to-day conversations.
You’ll start the audiobook by learning how various sounds in French are pronounced and you’ll become familiar with the specificities of the French alphabet.
We’ll introduce you to basic formal and informal greetings and introductions and the use of singular and plural pronouns and verbs, before moving on to numbers.
You’ll learn how to correctly pronounce numbers, and ask for and tell the time and the prices of items, along with how to make an appointment and requests, book a reservation and set an appointment.
The audiobook will guide you through expressing your likes and dislikes and the descriptive adjectives and verbs commonly used in daily life. We’ll explore how to talk about and describe the daily activities you engage in within the home, work, travel, sports, and transportation.
We’ll explore the use of past and future tenses, such as when talking about past events, days of the week, months, seasons, plans and holiday seasons.
The audiobook concludes with a look at common expressions used by the French media, be it in the written press, on the radio or TV.
There are many reasons for learning French. For some, it is the appeal of the sound and musicality of the language, for others, it is the need to grasp idiomatic sentences to travel to France for business, tourism or family reasons.
Whatever your reason, the French for Beginners audiobook will provide you with the tools you need to gain a basic, conversational level of French and a solid foundation from which to build, should you wish to take your studies further.
German for Beginners Audiobook
- By: Centre of Excellence
- Narrator: Lukas Weis
- Length: 5 hours 41 minutes
- Publisher: Author's Republic
- Publish date: January 01, 2020
- Language: English
Welcome to the wonderful world of German, one of the most widely spoken native languages, with over 90 million people speaking German worldwide. As a language riddled with quirky traits and poetic descriptions, learning German is a fascinating experience for language-lovers.
This course has been designed to make learning simple, fun, and focused on helping you to speak conversational German as quickly as possible, along with providing you with a framework to express almost anything you want.
Throughout the course, you will have access to theoretical and practical topics that are ideal for beginners. After finishing this course, you will be able to have basic, everyday conversations about the topics that are important to you in a language that will, hopefully, become your lifetime companion.
Designed for those who can’t speak a word of the language, the German for Beginners Diploma Course is the ideal choice if you want to start speaking as soon as possible without letting complicated grammar rules get in the way. The course is focused on, but not limited to, providing you with guidance on quickly being capable of having everyday conversations with friends and strangers in an informal environment.
If you already have some knowledge of German, this course will help to strengthen your understanding of the foundations of the language.
After completing the course, you will have a level of comprehension that you can build upon by enrolling on an advanced course, engaging German speakers in conversation, visiting Germany, watching German movies and shows with subtitles or listening to German songs and looking up the lyrics.
Greek for Beginners
- By: Centre of Excellence
- Narrator: Ce Cilia
- Length: 2 hours 45 minutes
- Publisher: Author's Republic
- Publish date: January 01, 2020
- Language: English
Greek heritage is so rich and complex. Spanning centuries, it has been the cornerstone of Western culture – from philosophy and history to theatre and politics.
The Greek for Beginners audiobook is designed to help you learn Greek in a fun and efficient way so that you can communicate effectively in everyday circumstances. You’ll learn to introduce yourself, form questions and give answers, address people formally and informally, discuss your family, hobbies, and interests, share personal information, such as your address and phone number, and know how to book a hotel and follow directions.
The Greek for Beginners audiobook guides you through introducing yourself, navigating basic conversations, asking icebreaker questions, and talking about your hobbies and how you spend your leisure time. You’ll learn the numbers 1-100 and how to use them to provide your age, phone number and the time. We’ll cover how to talk about your family, the rooms and contents of your home, and countries, continents, languages and nationalities of the world.
You’ll be guided through language that will be useful when visiting Greece, such as using public services and asking for directions, ordering food and expressing your preferences, booking a room at a hotel and using transportation.
The Greek for Beginners audiobook will help you reach a near A1 level of proficiency – a level of comprehension that will enable you to have basic conversations and travel around Greece using the native language. Completing the audiobook will give you a good grounding from which to build with further practice, education and exposure to the language.
Gut Brain Connection
- By: Centre of Excellence
- Narrator: Brian Greyson
- Length: 4 hours 58 minutes
- Publisher: Author's Republic
- Publish date: January 01, 2020
- Language: English
Ho’oponopono – The Art of Forgiveness
- By: Centre of Excellence
- Narrator: Jane Branch
- Length: 3 hours 11 minutes
- Publisher: Author's Republic
- Publish date: January 01, 2019
- Language: English
Intermediate Arabic
- By: Centre of Excellence
- Narrator: Hiba Allam
- Length: 1 hours 46 minutes
- Publisher: Author's Republic
- Publish date: January 01, 2022
- Language: English
Learn more about the different grammar rules and skills that will take your Arabic skills up a level – taking you further along your language learning journey and enabling you to engage in more than just basic conversation.
Diving straight in, we’ll look at the two different types of nouns – rational and irrational – and the difference between them, and two types of verbs – transitive and intransitive – along with the sound and defective verbs.
We’ll explore the adjective clause, how to express ownership, the different subordinating conjunctions that are used in Arabic to tie sentences and phrases together, and the different coordinating conjunctions and how to apply them in a sentence.
You’ll learn about the use of active and passive language – delving deeper into the active participle and the proagent and its relationship to passive voice. The course also introduces two groups of annullers – the incomplete verb of “Kana” and its sisters, and the particle of “Inna” and its sisters – and their effects on nominal sentence deflection.
Finally, we’ll explore vocative and exclamation styles, and discuss the diptotes and the basic cases of Arabic declension.
By studying this audiobook, you will:
Develop an intermediate level of Arabic language proficiency
Improve your comprehension and communication skills
Advance your understanding of different grammatical rules
Be able to engage in more complex conversations
Intermediate Spanish
- By: Centre of Excellence
- Narrator: Ariana Carolina Seine
- Length: 2 hours 52 minutes
- Publisher: Author's Republic
- Publish date: January 01, 2021
- Language: English
Take the next step in your Spanish language learning journey.
The Intermediate Spanish audiobook teaches vocabulary, grammatical structures and useful expressions that will enable you to hold a conversation in Spanish about a variety of topics in past, present, future, and hypothetical contexts.
You will expand your vocabulary and knowledge of verbs to be able to describe your environment and compare objects and people in terms of superiority, inferiority and equality. You’ll also learn how to talk about illnesses, symptoms, and the parts of the body using specific verbs, expressions, and vocabulary.
You’ll discover how to talk about activities and hobbies and express whether you enjoy them or not. We’ll explore vocabulary that relates to the seasons, weather, days of the week and months of the year, and learn how to talk about daily routines and their frequency. You’ll also learn how to talk about future predictions, plans and intentions, and past experiences that have ended or are ongoing.
The audiobook explains the language used to express your agreement or disagreement with ideas and opinions, and how to ask for others’ opinions. We’ll also look at how to make a polite request, express a wish, give advice, and make present or future hypotheses based on real conditions.
Ideal for those who have gained a beginner level of proficiency, this audiobook will help you to progress your Spanish language development upto an intermediate level and prepare you to move onto advanced study, should you wish to.
You’ll learn the structures and tenses required for an intermediate level of proficiency in Spanish. You’ll be able to speak in Spanish with native speakers using present, past and future tenses. You’ll also be able to offer advice to others, express your opinion and refer to hypothetical situations.
Intermediate Welsh
- By: Centre of Excellence
- Length: 4 hours 26 minutes
- Publisher: Author's Republic
- Publish date: January 01, 2021
- Language: English
Designed for those who understand the basics of Italian and its main grammar rules, this audiobook is your next step to enhance and improve your knowledge of Italian – raising you to an intermediate level and preparing you to move onto an advanced level, should you wish to.
You’ll advance your understanding of the syntactic and grammatical rules of the Italian language, so that you may use them to express yourself more accurately, understand more complex concepts, and improve your comprehension and communication skills.
Both enjoyable and practical, the audiobook uses thematic topics and references everyday situations to help facilitate comprehension of vocabulary and grammar structures.
You’ll deepen your Italian grammar use through the study and incorporation of additional moods and tenses. Moreover, you’ll expand your vocabulary and improve your communication skills, learn how to make phone calls and write text messages. Last, but not least, you’ll practice having conversations, learn how to express doubts, hypotheses and opinions, and also how to politely express disapproval.
By studying this audiobook, you will:
Develop an intermediate level of Italian language proficiency
Advance your understanding of syntactic and grammatical rules
Improve your comprehension and communication skills
Learn more about moods and tenses
Be more able to express yourself and hold deeper conversations
Japanese for Beginners
- By: Centre of Excellence
- Narrator: Silvia Maine
- Length: 4 hours 26 minutes
- Publisher: Author's Republic
- Publish date: January 01, 2020
- Language: English
The Japanese for Beginners Audiobook will guide you in attaining a basic, conversational level of Japanese. You’ll study sentence structure, grammar rules, and vocabulary in order to understand and be comfortable using the language.
You’ll learn the fundamentals of Japanese, including basic grammar, writing and pronunciation. You’ll become comfortable with greetings and introductions, expressing your likes and dislikes and the things you have and want, describing the locations of items and people, using numbers, making plans, and using language that will aid you when travelling.
You’ll learn to construct basic sentences in past, present, and future tenses and how to conjugate verbs and adjectives to fit these forms. The audiobook covers expressing continuous and completed actions, making requests and giving directions, describing abilities and talents, asking for and giving permission, expressing options, making comparisons, and giving advice.
The Japanese for Beginners Audiobook is perfect for you if you are completely new to the language, or have had very little experience with it, and wish to give yourself a solid foundation to build upon.
It will help you get to a conversational level of comprehension that will help when travelling, working or studying in Japan. It also acts as a good entry point to the language, should you wish to carry on to further study.
Of course, you can also take the audiobook if you are simply interested in Japanese history and culture and wish to become further engrossed in it.
Jungian Archetypes Audio Course
- By: Centre of Excellence
- Narrator: Brian Greyson
- Length: 2 hours 37 minutes
- Publisher: Author's Republic
- Publish date: January 01, 2020
- Language: English
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Carl Jung, the renowned 20th-century Swiss psychiatrist, believed our minds have a predetermined structure that shapes how and what we’ll experience in life. According to him, identical psychic structures, which are typical to all humans, exist in parts of our psyche, and these heritable structures influence the way we experience everything in our lives.
Jung called these structures ‘archetypes’, which can be described as cognitive categories or natural inclinations that we all are born with, and their job is to make us think, feel, perceive and act in a specific way. This course explores this concept and its place within psychology, psychoanalysis, and fictional writing.
The Jungian Archetypes Audio Course jumps straight into the subject – explaining what the Jungian archetypes are, Carl Jung’s concept of the psyche and its three main components, and what the 12 main archetypes are and what they are used for.
We’ll take a look into Carl Jung’s life – his childhood, education, personal life and association with Sigmund Freud. We will also consider his important ideas and concepts, as well as his legacy and influence.
The course examines the book ‘Instinct and the Unconscious’, which exhibits Jung’s understanding of instincts as unconscious processes, distinguishing instincts from phobias and reflex actions, the origin of instincts and how they differ from intuition, personal unconscious, the collective unconscious, and archetypes and archetypes as metaphysical ideas.
We’ll discuss psychophysical patterns and the electromagnetic spectrum idea, archetypal events, archetypal motifs and the shadow, anima/animus, and the self.
We take a deeper look at the 12 main archetypes introduced at the start of the course and examine each in greater detail – giving a comprehensive understanding of each. These archetypes are Hero, Magician, Outlaw, Innocent, Sage, Explorer, Artist, Ruler, Caregiver, Lover, Jester and Everyman. We then look at how archetypes were used by not
Latin for Beginners
- By: Centre of Excellence
- Narrator: Tom Adams
- Length: 2 hours 35 minutes
- Publisher: Author's Republic
- Publish date: January 01, 2021
- Language: English
For thousands of years, Latin has been the language of the Roman people, of science, of history and of culture. The Latin for Beginners audiobook will guide your learning of this fascinating and beautiful language.
You’ll be provided with some specific vocabulary about family members, pets, types of buildings, days of the week, months of the year and numbers, as well as other words and phrases that become useful when building sentences. It will also teach you four of the main tenses (the present, the imperfect, the future and the perfect) as well as noun cases and adjectival agreement.
By the end of this audiobook, you will be able to understand simple Latin sentences that you hear, produce simple Latin sentences and be able to identify some unfamiliar words using your knowledge of grammar.
The audiobook assumes no knowledge of Latin or linguistics and will take you through everything you need to begin exploring this wonderful language.
So, whether you have never studied Latin before, are picking up the language again and wish to recap the basics or have some knowledge and want to solidify your understanding of the foundations, this audiobook will be of benefit to you.
Mandarin Chinese for Beginners
- By: Centre of Excellence
- Narrator: Zhao Chang
- Length: 2 hours 28 minutes
- Publisher: Author's Republic
- Publish date: January 01, 2020
- Language: English
After English, Mandarin Chinese is the most spoken language in the world, with an estimated one billion speakers. Learning the language opens up many exciting new opportunities for business, travel and cultural enrichment – the Mandarin Chinese for Beginners Audiobook is here to get you started.
You will learn key vocabulary, explore concepts and grammatical structures, practice what you have learned, and discover useful phrases or dialogue based on real-life scenarios.
The Mandarin Chinese for Beginners Audiobook teaches the fundamental concepts of pronunciation, as well as the basic grammar and vocabulary needed to participate in simple daily conversations. It introduces concepts that are unique to the Chinese language, which will then provide a framework you can use to express almost anything you want.
The audiobook also contains relatable dialogues based on real-life scenarios that will equip you with many useful phrases to help you feel comfortable in social and professional interactions. Furthermore, the audiobook has been designed to cover the needs of tourists, whether it is to ask for directions or to order food in a restaurant.
Designed for those who have had little to no interaction with Mandarin Chinese, this audiobook will take you from absolute beginner to using a variety of sentence structures to talk about yourself, as well as to ask and answer questions.
The wide range of examples, relatable expressions and real-life dialogues included in the audiobook will boost your confidence in having basic conversations on topics such as exchanging personal information, discussing daily arrangements and food, asking about prices, chatting about your hobbies, the weather, and more.
The content in this audiobook is based on the first level in the Hànyǔ Shuǐpíng Kǎoshì (Chinese Proficiency Test), usually referred to as HSK, which assesses the ability of a non-native speaker to use Chinese in their daily, academic and professional life.
Mastering Flow States
- By: Centre of Excellence
- Narrator: Brian Greyson
- Length: 2 hours 46 minutes
- Publisher: Author's Republic
- Publish date: January 01, 2021
- Language: English
Have you ever felt completely ‘in the zone’ – immersed so fully in a task that everything else fell away, your whole being connected to the activity with energised focus and enjoyment as your skills were used to their utmost? This is the Flow state. Mastering Flow States teaches you everything you need to know about Flow and how to activate it.
Are you ready to change how you view life and work?
To gain the correct perspective on Flow state, you’ll first be introduced to the field of positive psychology – an approach to psychology that focuses on positive human development and happiness, rather than solely on treating mental illness. We then set the foundations for the audiobook by running through the history of Flow.
From these foundations, we break the Flow state down into its eight fundamental elements and explain why each is important. We look at the various methods used to measure Flow, explore the conditions and challenges of staying in Flow, and the autotelic personality – personality traits that make some better able to achieve Flow.
Mastering Flow States shows you how Flow is manifested through the various physical senses of the body. We look at how Flow can be achieved through a variety of mental activities, which you can use yourself, and the various applications this state can be applied to.
So, how is it that some people attain Flow with more ease than others? We look at how autotelic personalities and autotelic jobs induce Flow, as well as how free time is wasted by ‘indulging’ in activities that don’t stimulate our minds and lack the conditions needed to induce Flow. We’ll also explore the various outcomes of Flow, including positive experiences, performance and learning, and discovering meaning in our lives.
Of course, we all inevitably face challenges, adversities, and stresses – all of which can oppose what is necessary to achieve Flow. We look at ways in which Flow can be achieved even when we come up against such difficulties.
Medicinal Cannabis & CBD Oil
- By: Centre of Excellence
- Narrator: Brian Greyson
- Length: 5 hours 49 minutes
- Publisher: Author's Republic
- Publish date: January 01, 2019
- Language: English
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Meditation Teacher Audio Course
- By: Centre of Excellence
- Narrator: Jane Branch
- Length: 2 hours 28 minutes
- Publisher: Author's Republic
- Publish date: January 01, 2020
- Language: English
Take the Meditation Teacher Audio Course and learn advanced techniques, approaches to teaching, and how to create and market your own business.
Although meditation has been around for 5,000 years, it’s only recently that its popularity has begun to soar in the Western world. With people being more able to talk openly about mental health issues and needing headspace away from the ever-increasing busyness of modern life, the value of taking time out to bring peace to your mind is higher than ever. The Meditation Teacher Audio Course guides you through servicing this need through creating your own meditation business and teaching practice.
The Meditation Teacher Audio Course is an advanced level audio course that has been developed for those who know the basics of meditation and experienced meditators who want to teach.
With materials covering the various meditation types, advanced techniques, approaches to teaching various aspects of meditation, and guidance on how to create a business and attract students, the Meditation Teacher Audio Course is your next step in meditation.
NLP Practitioner
- By: Centre of Excellence
- Narrator: Brian Greyson
- Length: 6 hours 26 minutes
- Publisher: Author's Republic
- Publish date: January 01, 2021
- Language: English
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Would you like to change your mind? Not on a decision you’ve made, per se, but in the way you think – your mindset. Learning and applying the skills and techniques of NLP can help you to. You can change your outlook on life through the use of words, and retrain the way you perceive things. You can even set up guideposts to a more successful, purposeful future that you direct and control. The NLP Practitioner audiobook provides the knowledge you need to gain control over your mind and your life.
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- By: Centre of Excellence
- Narrator: Brian Greyson
- Length: 3 hours 32 minutes
- Publisher: Author's Republic
- Publish date: January 01, 2021
- Language: English
The Personal Training audiobook will provide you with an understanding of how to help clients achieve their fitness goals and supply a solid foundational knowledge on how to operate as a self-employed personal trainer.
Learn how to conduct an initial client consultation, help set goals and test fitness, along with gaining an understanding of the legal aspects of the role and what you can and can’t do.
You’ll gain knowledge of the major bone and muscle groups of the body, and the ways in which they move – improving your understanding of the primal movements that you’ll aim to replicate as a personal trainer.
With this knowledge in place, you’ll discover the common upper and lower body exercises that you’ll be teaching to clients, how they can do them in a simple, safe, and efficient manner, and the muscle groups that each target.
You’ll learn how to design simple and advanced programs that provide the best exercises for your clients to help them progress safely towards their goals. The course shares the common mistakes trainers make when programming, how to avoid these pitfalls, and how to train people with specific requirements, such as the elderly, children and teenagers, pre- and post-natal women, and those with injuries. You’ll also be introduced to common training modalities so that you have a baseline knowledge of a wider range of training types and possibly find an area in which you may wish to specialise in.
As a personal trainer, you will be asked for nutritional advice. In the course, you’ll learn the basics of the three macronutrients, pre- and post-workout meals, and how to provide valuable advice dependent on a client’s goals.
In most cases, personal trainers are sole traders – even when wearing the uniform of a large health club. The Personal Training audiobook will advise you on the tasks you will need to undertake in order to create a successful business and how to gain, convert, and keep more clients.
Relaxation Therapy
- By: Centre of Excellence
- Narrator: Jane Branch
- Length: 3 hours 25 minutes
- Publisher: Author's Republic
- Publish date: January 01, 2020
- Language: English
In a world of stress and anxiety, the role of a relaxation therapist is an important one and the Relaxation Therapy audiobook is here to provide you with the knowledge and techniques you need to provide clients with much-needed guidance, respite and healing.
The audiobook opens with an exploration into how relaxation therapy works, its background and history, benefits and uses. We’ll also take a look at the role of the body systems involved in relaxation and how relaxation therapy works with them, along with the psychological theories employed.
We look at the antithesis of relaxation – stress. The audiobook covers the different kinds of stress, foods that contribute to stress, the connection between hormones and stress, the difference between the stress response and relaxation response, and how to manage stress. This is followed by a discussion on relaxation, which includes the foods that can aid relaxation and how exercise and sleep can help.
We’ll move onto the benefits of relaxation therapy, the techniques applied, and the different classifications used. We’ll explore the process of relaxation therapy and how classification is used, treatments are chosen, and a relaxation therapy session structured, along with gaining insight into the factors that lead a person to seek relaxation therapy.
You’ll learn how to apply various relaxation therapy techniques, and how to choose the most appropriate technique for a client’s health concerns. We’ll look at how to set up and lead techniques in the following: meditation, deep breathing, guided imagery, pranayama and Qigong.
You’ll be guided through how a client should be treated. We outline what to consider when writing a code of conduct, health and safety policies, a code of ethics, and therapist responsibilities and how to treat clients with chronic and mental health conditions.
The audiobook concludes with a look at case studies in which relaxation therapy was used to treat various ailments.
Soap Making Business
- By: Centre of Excellence
- Narrator: Jane Branch
- Length: 3 hours 12 minutes
- Publisher: Author's Republic
- Publish date: January 01, 2020
- Language: English
The Soap Making Business audiobook is specifically designed to help develop both your creative talents and your business skills. The aim of the audiobook is to lay a foundation in these two primary functions, necessary for succeeding in a craft-centred enterprise.
The first five tracks concentrate on how to make soap products – looking at the different soap-making processes, the various design techniques used and what additives are generally included in soap. The next five focus on the business aspect of your company, where you’ll learn how to set up your business, create a brand and market and sell your products.
If you want to run a creative business in an industry that has been around for hundreds of years but is still growing, then soap making may be for you and with this audiobook in hand, you’ll have all the tools you need to make it a success. Not only does the Soap Making audiobook teach you how to make the best possible soap creations but also how to set up and run a viable business.
With no previous experience required in either soap making or running a business, this audiobook could well be your first step into a new career.
Spanish for Beginners Audiobook
- By: Centre of Excellence
- Narrator: Angelina Cantor
- Length: 2 hours 44 minutes
- Publisher: Author's Republic
- Publish date: January 01, 2020
- Language: English
A language of passion, romance, community, family, and living life to its fullest, Spanish is one of the most widely-used languages in the world. The Spanish for Beginners Audiobook provides a simple and fun way to learn to read, write and speak Spanish, using theoretical and practical topics that are ideal for beginners.
The audiobook provides simple explanations, useful examples and activities divided into 10 exciting modules, each of which is accompanied by an audio version of the module to ensure accurate comprehension and 20 assessment questions per module to test understanding.
The Spanish for Beginners Audiobook starts by introducing you to Spanish greetings – both formal and informal. You’ll learn how to use the verbs ‘ser’, ‘estar’ and ‘tener’ to construct sentences and become familiar with all of the ways to say goodbye in Spanish.
We’ll go through the alphabet – a basic but necessary subject to grasp in order to understand texts and build written and oral sentences. You’ll also learn how to write numbers and tell the time in Spanish.
You’ll learn how to order food and drinks in Spanish and discover vocabulary and useful examples that you can use while on holiday or business trips.
The audiobook explains how to give (and ask for) personal information such as your name, address, age, nationality, and other details that will help you to interact with native speakers.
As you progress through the audiobook, you’ll enrich your vocabulary and grammar and be able to speak with confidence about your occupation or profession and be able to address and talk about various family members by their relationship to you or others. You’ll learn how to describe people by their traits, such as their personality, physical appearance and clothing, and extend your vocabulary further by learning how to describe colours.
The audiobook concludes by explaining how to use formal and informal forms of assessment.
Tarot
- By: Centre of Excellence
- Narrator: Jane Branch
- Length: 5 hours 1 minutes
- Publisher: Author's Republic
- Publish date: January 01, 2021
- Language: English
This comprehensive and exciting Tarot audiobook will teach you everything you need to know to be able to interpret Tarot Cards and to be able to give detailed readings.
The content of this audiobook is divided into two sections. This is to enable you to begin reading the cards immediately. While you are working through the first section, do the exercises that appear by referring to the second section for brief interpretations of each card when you need to.
Once you have completed the first section, study the detailed interpretations of each card.
The best way to learn tarot is to practice giving as many readings as you can to as many people as possible. You might want to do readings only for yourself initially. When you feel confident enough, find a friend who is willing to let you practice on them. Don’t worry if you need to look up the meanings of the cards for some time to come. With experience, you will find that you begin to remember their meanings. However, the real skill is in how you put the information together and describe it to the person you are reading for. The more you practice, the better you will become at this.
Known as an ‘occult science’, those studying tarot should have an open mind and a willingness to delve deeper into the meaning of that which may have previously seemed mundane. Students of, or those with an interest in, Astrology, Palmistry, Tarot, and Psychic Development will gain enjoyment the Tarot audiobook.
Vegan Nutritionist Audio Course
- By: Centre of Excellence
- Narrator: Jane Branch
- Length: 3 hours 29 minutes
- Publisher: Author's Republic
- Publish date: January 01, 2020
- Language: English
The Vegan Nutritionist Audio Course takes you from absolute novice to being capable of running your own nutritionist business. It covers both the theoretical and practical aspects of transitioning into and following a balanced vegan diet, as well as how to run a business helping others to do the same.
The course begins by considering what veganism is, answering the questions, ‘What do vegans avoid?’ and ‘Where did veganism all begin?’, as you take a fascinating look into veganism around the world and throughout history. You’ll also learn about the health and environmental benefits of veganism, along with the moral benefits of this lifestyle choice.
As with any diet, balance is important in veganism. We outline the common mistakes made when following a vegan diet, what you can do to meet your protein, calcium, iron and other nutritional needs, and how to create effective meal plans.
Going from another type of diet into the vegan diet is known as ‘transitioning’. The Vegan Nutritionist Audio Course discusses different transitioning methods, how to monitor health during the transition, and the difficulties that can be faced during this period.
You’ll learn how to create your own consultations for your nutritionist practice and why they are important. You’ll discover the varying nutritional needs of different client types, with a particular focus on pregnant women, infants and children, and athletes and bodybuilders. From there you’ll explore approaches to ongoing care and how you can use group therapy to reach a wider client base.
Running your own business, no matter which industry you work in, requires knowledge of the day-to-day tasks and processes you must consider in order to be successful. The Vegan Nutritionist Audio Course takes you through the considerations you must make when it comes to premises, insurance, accounting, professional conduct, branding and marketing.
Welsh for Beginners
- By: Centre of Excellence
- Length: 4 hours 32 minutes
- Publisher: Author's Republic
- Publish date: January 01, 2021
- Language: English
Welsh is one of the oldest continuously used languages in Europe and has been spoken in the British Isles for thousands of years, predating English by several centuries. It is a language famed for its poeticism and idiomatic expression, and the Welsh for Beginners audiobook has been specifically designed to allow you to access and appreciate all the nuances and mystery of this ancient Celtic tongue.
Throughout 10 tracks, this audiobook provides a beginner’s overview of the fundamentals of the Welsh language, combining practical vocabulary with grammatical explanations to ensure you are able to start actively using the language from the very first track.
By studying this audiobook, you will learn how to fulfil basic tasks in Welsh, such as telling the time, ordering food in a restaurant and counting. You’ll be able to describe yourself and others in terms of appearance and personality, as well as talk about what you enjoy doing for a hobby and where you work. You’ll learn how to talk about your holiday plans and past travel experiences, as well as describe the environment around you.
You’ll also gain a firm understanding of some of the grammatical nuances of the Welsh language – most notably, the soft mutation.
The Welsh for Beginners audiobook is for anyone who is starting their Welsh language journey or wishing to strengthen the foundations of their current knowledge.
It gives you the tools you need to hold your first conversations with Welsh speakers and provides a firm understanding of the grammatical nuances of this ancient Celtic language, allowing you to express yourself freely and with confidence.
Upon successful completion of the audiobook, you will be ready to continue to expand your knowledge by going on to intermediate-level study and finding examples of modern, real-life Welsh listen to.
Zoology Audio Course
- By: Centre of Excellence
- Narrator: Brian Greyson
- Length: 2 hours 55 minutes
- Publisher: Author's Republic
- Publish date: January 01, 2020
- Language: English
Zoology is a vast subject, encompassing all aspects of scientific knowledge about animals, such as embryonic development, evolution, behaviour, ecological distribution, and classification. The course provides an introduction to the natural world and its animal inhabitants.
The study of animals and their habitats is so vast that it is broken down into five main branches. The course begins by looking at what zoology is, defining its five branches, and introducing you to animals from a zoology perspective. We’ll review the history of zoology – learning about some of its famous practitioners, understanding the history of the animal kingdom and how evolution and adaptation work.
We’ll dive into animal characteristics and how they are used in classification, and explore behavioural types, instincts and social behaviours. We’ll also look into genetics and the breeding of animals; learning how and why it is done, and its advantages and disadvantages.
We’ll take a deep dive into the various aspects of animal environments. This includes an exploration of organisms, ecosystems and their elements; food chains; nature cycles like the water, nitrogen and carbon cycles; and biodiversity. We also look into the various diseases that affect animals, how these diseases are diagnosed, and how they are treated.
We’ll look at the practical side of animal care – learning how animals are handled, trained, and reared. We’ll discuss animal shelters, how animal health care facilities function, how health issues are detected in animals, the common health issues that occur in animals and the process of animal rehabilitation.
The course concludes with a selection of case studies that showcase various aspects of zoology.
This course will be of interest to animal lovers who want greater insight into the animal kingdom, whether you own animals or are just interested in how they live and are cared for, and if you own or are setting up an animal care business.