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Free Download Backable: The Surprising Truth Behind What Makes People Take a Chance on You (Audiobook)
English | February 23, 2021 | ASIN: B08V5M1LNH | M4B@64 kbps | 5h 59m | 176 MB
Authors: Suneel Gupta, Carlye Adler | Narrators: Suneel Gupta, Carlye Adler, Landon Woodson, Natalie Naudus
A groundbreaking book that boldly claims the key to success in business is not talent, connections, or ideas, but the ability to persuade people to take a chance on potential.
No one ever makes it alone. But how come some people can get investors to believe in their ideas while others - sometimes with even better ideas - fall flat? What is it about certain people that make us want to take a bet on them? What is it that makes them backable? As it turns out, it's not what you think. Backability is not driven by having the best experience, the finest pedigree, or the most innovative ideas. In fact, many highly successful people are backed long before they are qualified. We tend to view these people as lucky. But the decision to back them is neither an accident nor a mistake and rarely the result of good luck.

Free Download Atomic Tunes: The Cold War in American and British Popular Music (Audiobook)
English | June 22, 2021 | ASIN: B096498W7Y | M4B@48 kbps | 12h 46m | 273 MB
Authors: Tim Smolko, Joanna Smolko | Narrator: Tanya Eby
What is the soundtrack for a nuclear arms race?
During the Cold War, over 500 songs were written about nuclear weapons, fear of the Soviet Union, civil defense, bomb shelters, uranium mining, the space race, espionage, the Berlin Wall, and glasnost. This music uncovers aspects of the world-changing events that documentaries and history books cannot. In Atomic Tunes, Tim and Joanna Smolko explore everything from the serious to the comical, the morbid to the crude, showing the widespread concern among musicians who were trying to cope with the effect of communism on American society and the consequences of a potential nuclear conflict of global proportions.

Free Download As a Man Thinketh and The Science of Getting Rich (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B081NS1BX1 | 2019 | 3 hours and 00 minutes | M4B@192 kbps | 248 MB
Author: James Allen, Wallace Wattles
Narrator: Stephen Paul Aulridge Jr.
Discover two of the most influential self-help books of the 20th century. Inside this two-in-one bundle, you'll discover two classic books which have stood the test of time. Both of these books had a huge impact at their time of publication and continue to resonate with the hearts of millions this very day. With profound advice designed to change the way we look at the world, this bundle contains: As a Man Thinketh - a practical, comprehensive, and insightful book which shows us how we can take charge and live more fulfilling and enlightened lives. It has been described as "a book that will help you to help yourself". The Science of Getting Rich - a powerful guide for wealth attraction which teaches us how to overcome our mental barriers and live more prosperous lives. A balance of actionable advice and artful writing, it's easy to see why these books swept the world and achieved such critical acclaim. Now you can uncover their lessons and begin your journey to a better, more fulfilling life!

Free Download Arctic Traverse: A Thousand-Mile Summer of Trekking the Brooks Range (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CY6RB5NC | 2024 | 11 hours and 6 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 314 MB
Author: Michael Engelhard
Narrator: Patrick Lawlor
A lyrical memoir that interweaves wilderness, homeland, cultural connections, historical figures, humor, and gritty experiences across northern Alaska. From the award-winning author comes an intimate exploration of Alaska's northernmost mountain range with observations on Indigenous cultures, conservation, and intense cross-country travel, all shaped by respect for the land. Follow author Michael Engelhard through tussock-studded tundra for a remarkable tale of bear encounters and white-knuckled river moments, as well as poetic reflections on a vast, untamed landscape.

Free Download An Unholy Traffic: Slave Trading in the Civil War South (Audiobook)
English | ISBN: 9781696615723 | 2024 | 11 hours and 30 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 326 MB
Author: Robert K. D. Colby
Narrator: James R Cheatham
The Confederate States of America was born in defense of slavery. Between Fort Sumter to Appomattox, Confederates bought and sold thousands African American men, women, and children. These transactions in humanity made the internal slave trade a cornerstone of Confederate society, a bulwark of the Rebel economy, and a central part of the experience of the Civil War for all inhabiting the American South. As An Unholy Traffic shows, slave trading helped Southerners survive and fight the Civil War, as well as to build the future for which they fought.

Free Download Martyn Whittock, Byron Wagner (Narrator), "American Vikings: How the Norse Sailed into the Lands and Imaginations of America"
English | ASIN: B0CVL9PRNM | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~07:00:00 | 193 MB
A vivid and illuminating new history-separate fact from fiction, myth from legend-exploring the early Vikings settlements in North America.
Vikings are an enduring subject of fascination. The combination of adventure, mythology, violence, and exploration continues to grip our attention. As a result, for more than a millennium the Vikings have traveled far and wide, not least across the turbulent seas of our minds and imaginations.
The geographical reach of the Norse was extraordinary. For centuries medieval sagas, first recorded in Iceland, claimed that Vikings reached North America around the year 1000. This book explores that claim, separating fact from fiction and myth from mischief, to assess the enduring legacy of this claim in America. The search for "American Vikings" connects a vast range of different areas; from the latest archaeological evidence for their actual settlement in North America to the myth-making of nineteenth-century Scandinavian pioneers in the Midwest; and from ancient adventurers to the political ideologies in the twenty-first century. It is a journey from the high seas of a millennium ago to the swirling waters and dark undercurrents of the online world of today.

Free Download All the Lonely People: Conversations on Loneliness (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CL81HKJ9 | 2024 | 6 hours and 3 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 336 MB
Author: Dr Sam Carr
Narrator: Dr Sam Carr
An intimate portrait of loneliness, All the Lonely People sees psychologist Dr Sam Carr collect hours of conversations with people young and old, including single parents, carers, teenagers and the bereaved - all shared over countless cups of tea. In stories of love and loss, of trauma and hope, told from care homes, living rooms, classrooms and kitchens, Carr discovers that while each of their stories is utterly unique, they are all born out of the same desire for human connection. As Carr interweaves these touching and powerful tales with his own personal narrative, he opens a window onto the inner lives of regular people - the forgotten, misplaced or misjudged - who all feel isolated in some way. Sparking a profound conversation about a universal emotion, which may simply be an inevitable part of life in an increasingly disjointed world, he questions what we can do to build stronger human relationships, and to be a part of something bigger than ourselves.

Free Download Alien Clay (Audiobook)
English | 28 March 2024 | ASIN: B0CFYNP1JM (UK) | M4B@128 kbps | 13h 55m | 758 MB
Author: Adrian Tchaikovsky | Narrator: Ben Allen
Alien Clay is a thrilling far-future adventure by acclaimed Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning author Adrian Tchaikovsky.
They travelled into the unknown and left themselves behind . . .

Free Download Fareed Zakaria (Author, Narrator), "Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present"
English | ASIN: B0CPMCS1YW | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~12:40:00 | 360 MB
The internationally bestselling author explores the revolutions-past and present-that define the chaotic, polarized, and unstable age in which we live.
Populist rage, ideological fracture, economic and technological shocks, geopolitical dangers, and an international system studded with catastrophic risk-the early decades of the 21st century may be one of the most revolutionary periods in modern history. But they are not the first. Humans have lived, and thrived, through more than one great realignment. What makes an age a revolutionary one? And how do they end?
In this major new work, Fareed Zakaria masterfully investigates eras that have shattered and shaped humanity. Four such periods hold profound lessons for today. First, in 17th-century Netherlands a series of transformations made that tiny land the richest in the world-and created modern politics as we know it today. The "Glorious Revolution" in Britain showed that major political change could happen peacefully. Next, the French Revolution, a dramatic decade and a half that devoured its ideological children and left a bloody legacy that haunts us to this day. Finally, the mother of all revolutions, the Industrial Revolution, which catapulted Britain and the US to global dominance and created the modern world. Against these paradigm-shifting historical eras, Zakaria describes our current situation, unpacking the four revolutions we are living through now; in globalization, technology, identity, and geopolitics.

Free Download Age of Cage: Four Decades of Hollywood Through One Singular Career (Audiobook)
English | March 29, 2022 | ASIN: B09HL8NTMQ | M4B@128 kbps | 8h 18m | 441 MB
Author: Keith Phipps | Narrator: Keith Sellon-Wright
Icon. Celebrity. Artist. Madman. Genius.
Nicolas Cage is many things, but love him, or laugh at him, there's no denying two things: You've seen one of his many films, and you certainly know his name. But who is he, really, and why has his career endured for over 40 years, with more than a hundred films, and birthed a million memes?