Audio Books

Free Download Becoming Earth: How Our Planet Came to Life (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CKM3P33F | 2024 | 9 hours and 27 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 276 MB
Author: Ferris Jabr
Narrator: Joe Ochman
A vivid account of a major shift in how we understand Earth, from an exceptionally talented new voice. Earth is not simply an inanimate planet on which life evolved, but rather a planet that came to life. One of humanity's oldest beliefs is that our world is alive. Though once ridiculed by some scientists, the idea of Earth as a vast interconnected living system has gained acceptance in recent decades. We, and all living things, are more than inhabitants of Earth-we are Earth, an outgrowth of its structure and an engine of its evolution. Life and its environment have coevolved for billions of years, transforming a lump of orbiting rock into a cosmic oasis-a planet that breathes, metabolizes, and regulates its climate.

Free Download Beautiful Writers: A Journey of Big Dreams and Messy Manuscripts-with Tricks of the Trade from Bestselling Authors (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D71ZYY9L | 2024 | 13 hours and 42 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 376 MB
Author: Linda Sivertsen
Narrator: Linda Sivertsen, Leanne Woodward, Tom Perkins
Imagine you're at a dinner party with some of the most successful authors of our time. "Book Mama" and Beautiful Writers Podcast cocreator Linda Sivertsen is the host. As she shares her story of the many hilarious, outrageous, and practical things she did to launch her bestselling writing career, your favorite writers chime in with their own anecdotes, leaving you enlightened and newly inspired. The wisdom in this book will nourish anyone who appreciates the art of storytelling and dreams of living a creative life. Beautiful Writers is a love letter to reading, writing, and everyone who reads and writes. It's the book Linda wished she had when she was starting out. In it, she shares-and expands on-the best of advice and storytelling from her podcast and follow-up interviews with literary greats, including Terry McMillan, Cheryl Strayed, Tom Hanks, Van Jones, Jenny Lawson, Steven Pressfield, Elizabeth Gilbert, Anne Lamott, Mary Karr, Seth Godin, Abby Wambach, Martha Beck, Marie Forleo, Lee Child, Patricia Cornwell, Dean Koontz, Maria Shriver, Dr. Jane Goodall, Sabaa Tahir, Tomi Adeyemi, Ann Patchett, Dani Shapiro, Danielle LaPorte, Tosca Lee, Joy Harjo, and Deepak Chopra.

Free Download Be Hopeful, Be Strong, Be Brave, Be Curious: How Coaching Can Help You Get Out of Your Own Way and Create a Meaningful Life (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D6931R12 | 2024 | 7 hours and 53 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 438 MB
Author: Ruth S. Pearce
Narrator: Kristen Kallen Keck
Understand the valuable insights a professional life coach can bring to your life. In Be Hopeful, Be Strong, Be Brave, Be Curious: How Coaching Can Help You Get Out Of Your Own Way and Create A Meaningful Life, veteran coach Ruth Pearce delivers an incisive set of strategies designed to help you celebrate your wins and focus on the positives in your life. In this "portable life coach," you'll learn how to look at problems, challenges, and uncertainties in a way that can lead to deeper meaning in your professional and personal life. Perfect for anyone who is considering working with a life coach to help them understand their professional and personal goals, Be Hopeful, Be Strong, Be Brave, Be Curious is also a must-listen for those curious about the principles underlying professional and life coaching.

Free Download Christopher Phillips, Elliot Fitzpatrick (Narrator), "Battleground: 10 Conflicts that Explain the New Middle East"
English | ASIN: B0D6GSSV3F | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~11:18:00 | 311 MB
The essential guide to geopolitics in the modern Middle East
The Middle East is in crisis. The shocking events of the war in Gaza have rocked the entire region. More than a decade ago, the Arab Spring had raised hopes of a new beginning but instead ushered in a series of civil wars, coups, and even harsher autocracies. Tensions were exacerbated by the meddling of outsiders, as regional and global powers sought to further their interests. The United States, for so long the dominant actor, had stepped back, leaving a vacuum behind it to be fought over.
Christopher Phillips explores geopolitical rivalries in the region, and the major external powers vying for influence: Russia, China, the European Union, and the United States. Moving through ten key flashpoints, from Syria to Palestine, Phillips argues that the United States' overextension after the Cold War, and retreat in the 2010s, has imbalanced the region. Today, the Middle East remains blighted by conflicts of unprecedented violence and a post-American scramble for power-leaving its fate in the balance.

Free Download Bad Girls of Ancient Greece: Myths and Legends from the Baddies that Started it all (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CWJG9XQ8 | 2024 | 9 hours and 00 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 241 MB
Author: Lizzy Tiffin
Narrator: Madeleine Leslay
You've heard all about the 'brilliant men' of ancient myth, but what about the scheming and scandalous women who were so often lost in their shadow? Bad Girls of Ancient Greece contains profiles of wayward wives, mad mothers, scandalous sisters and damsels, that quite frankly, caused others A LOT of stress in the ancient world. With the ever-growing popularity of mythological retellings, Lizzy Tiffin has written THE guide to all of the baddies of ancient Greece. This book stands as a reminder that us women really have been bad - in the best way possible - from the start. So dive into the stories you thought you knew with Bad Girls of Ancient Greece as your illuminating guide.

Free Download Backfired: The Vaping Wars (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D23V91M8 | 2024 | 7 hours and 21 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 402 MB
Author: Leon Neyfakh, Prologue Projects
Narrator: Leon Neyfakh, Arielle Pardes
When two Stanford graduate students set out to create a new kind of cigarette that wouldn't kill them, they didn't foresee all the obstacles that lay ahead - or the powerful forces their invention would unleash. Nearly 10 years after the launch of the JUUL, Backfired: The Vaping Wars asks: Could e-cigarettes have been the solution to one of the world's most pressing public health problems-or was this technology doomed to introduce a whole new generation to nicotine, and end up perpetuating an intractable addiction? Backfired is the latest podcast from Prologue Projects, the award-winning team behind Slow Burn, Fiasco, and Think Twice: Michael Jackson. Backfired is a show about the business of unintended consequences-what happens when solving one problem inadvertently leads to a host of new ones? In this tale of opportunity, addiction, and good intentions gone awry, hosts Leon Neyfakh and Arielle Pardes offer a definitive account of Juul Labs' rise and fall, as well as the ubiquitous illegal vape market that sprouted up in its wake. Through dozens of original interviews, they gain access to the key players who got swept up-sometimes unwittingly-in the firestorm that reshaped the culture of nicotine.

Free Download Azure Infrastructure as Code
Author: Henry Been, Eduard Keilholz, Erwin Staal
Narrator: n/a
English | 2022 | ISBN: 9781617299421 | MP3@64 kbps | Duration: 8h 37m | 733 MB
Master ARM templates, Bicep, and other Azure Infrastructure-as-Code tools, techniques, and practices to build infrastructure on the Azure cloud.

Free Download Ayn Rand: Writing a Gospel of Success (Audiobook)
English | ISBN: 9780300280708 | 2024 | 9 hours and 13 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 264 MB
Author: Alexandra Popoff
Narrator: Laurel Lefkow
A deeply researched biography of the prominent and divisive writer Ayn Rand, whose pro-capitalist novels and nonfiction have influenced three generations of Americans. Biographer Alexandra Popoff traces the life and creative achievement of Ayn Rand (1905-1982), one of America's most provocative writers and whose best-selling novels The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged have enjoyed impressive longevity. Born into a Jewish family in Saint Petersburg, Russia, Rand (then Alisa Rosenbaum) lived through the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, Civil War, and the onset of Soviet totalitarian dictatorships--experiences that made her profoundly anticommunist. When in 1926 Rand escaped from Stalinist Russia to realize her talent in America, she was also determined to expose the Communist system.

Free Download Anne Applebaum (Author, Narrator), "Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World"
English | ASIN: B0CVCCMP2P | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~04:46:00 | 132 MB
From the Pulitzer-prize winning, New York Times bestselling author, an alarming account of how autocracies work together to undermine the democratic world, and how we should organize to defeat them
We think we know what an autocratic state looks like: There is an all-powerful leader at the top. He controls the police. The police threaten the people with violence. There are evil collaborators, and maybe some brave dissidents.
But in the 21st century, that bears little resemblance to reality. Nowadays, autocracies are underpinned not by one dictator, but by sophisticated networks composed of kleptocratic financial structures, surveillance technologies, and professional propagandists, all of which operate across multiple regimes, from China to Russia to Iran. Corrupt companies in one country do business with corrupt companies in another. The police in one country can arm and train the police in another, and propagandists share resources and themes, pounding home the same messages about the weakness of democracy and the evil of America.

Free Download Attention Pays: How to Drive Profitability, Productivity, and Accountability by Neen James, Gildan Media
English | February 12, 2021 | ISBN: B07NBQBJWS | 4 hours and 50 minutes | MP3 128 Kbps | 265 Mb
Drive profitability, productivity, and accountability.
To create extraordinary lives, we must learn to "unplug" from the constant barrage of disruptions and "plug in" to the tools, strategies, and mindsets that allow us to harness our attention to reach our highest potential - and this book tells you how.
Attention Pays spotlights on the power of attention and absolute focus. Personally: Who we pay attention to. Professionally: What we pay attention to. And Globally: How we pay attention in the world - and to the world. In an on-demand, 24/7 society, where distractions cost millions of people productivity, profitability, relationships, and peace, it's time to pay attention to what matters most.