Relationships Free Audio & Video

We're featuring this free audio book download of the ancient Indian Hindu text on human sexuality, love, and spirituality: The Kama Sutra. Written in about 200 CE, this work of Sanskrit literature by Indian philosopher Vatsyayana consists of prose, poetry, and aphorisms.

Nicholas Christakis speaks at TED on his studies of social networks and how things spread amongst these networks. He looks at a study of obesity and the ways in which obese people connect to other obese people over time.

Upon its release in 1992, John Gray's Men are From Mars, Women are from Venus argued that men and women have identifiable, hardwired differences that explain why it's sometimes so difficult for the sexes to communicate.

In this lecture linguistics professor and bestselling author Deborah Tannen describes many of the basic differences between in communication between men and women.

From the UCLA Relationship Institute, learn about love by taking this free 18-lecture video course on Intimate Relationships from UCLA professors Benjamin Karney and Thomas Bradbury.

Since starting his blog in 2004, Steve Pavlina's novel and energetic approach to self development has garnered a world wide following of devoted readers.

In this talk, His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama addresses the campus of the University of California-Berkeley on the topic "Peace Through Compassion". He provides advice on how we can achieve peace within the world, our communities, and ourselves.

Noah Goldstein discusses his book Yes!: 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to Be Persuasive.

While businesses are obsessed with measuring the metrics of the tangible elements of their business, hotelier and author of Peak: How Great Companies Get Their Mojo from Maslow Chip Conley makes a strong case for businesses to measure the intangibles of business such as the feelings of customers or whether the employees find their work meaningful.

Author, activist, and Omega Institute co-founder Elizabeth Lesser talks about the importance of sitting down and talking with "the other", referring to those people who you might consider your enemies or your ideological opposites.