Audio Books

Free Download Leading with the Heart: Coach K's Successful Strategies for Sport, Business and Life, 2024 Edition (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CWPB8WCF | 2024 | 7 hours and 40 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 210 MB
Author: Mike Krzyzewski, Donald T. Phillips
Narrator: Richard M. Davidson
In this informative and inspirational book, Coach K explains how he motivates peak performances from his players, relying on lessons he learned as a captain in the US Army and applied over four decades as the head of Duke basketball. Throughout his career, Coach K's ethos centered around fostering an environment and culture that focused on openness, hard work and cooperation to ensure excellence on and off the court. Through his innate understanding of teamwork and mutual respect, this rediscovered bestseller will teach everyone, everywhere, how to get the best performance out of themselves and their team.

Free Download Last Ape Standing: The Seven Million-Year Story of How and Why We Survived (Audiobook)
English | January 17, 2014 | ASIN: B00HX2VIH2 | M4B@197 kbps | 9h 52m | 847.8 MB
Author: Chip Walter
Narrator: Bernard Clark, Teresa DeBerry

Free Download Kingdom on Fire: Kareem, Wooden, Walton, and the Turbulent Days of the UCLA Basketball Dynasty (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CL19DRL4 | 2024 | 12 hours and 43 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 367 MB
Author: Scott Howard-Cooper
Narrator: Feodor Chin
A bold narrative history of the iconic UCLA Bruins championship teams led by legendary coach John Wooden-an incredible true story about the messy, never-easy pursuit of perfection set against the turmoil of American culture in the 1960s and 70s. Few basketball dynasties have reigned supreme like the UCLA Bruins did over college basketball from 1965-1975 (seven consecutive titles, three perfect records, an eighty-eight-game winning streak that remains unmatched). At the center of this legendary franchise were the now-iconic players Kareem Abdul Jabbar and Bill Walton, naturally reserved personalities who became outspoken giants when it came to race and the Vietnam War. These generational talents were led byJohn Wooden, a conservative counterweight to his star players whose leadership skills would transcend the game after his retirement.

Free Download David Toomey, Jacques Roy (Narrator), "Kingdom of Play: What Ball-Bouncing Octopuses, Belly-Flopping Monkeys, and Mud-Sliding Elephants Reveal About Life Itself"
English | ASIN: B0C87S59FR | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~06:59:00 | 192 MB
For fans of Inside of a Dog and The Soul of an Octopus, a fascinating, charming, and revelatory look at the science behind why animals play that shows how life-at its most fundamental level-isplayful.
In Kingdom of Play, critically acclaimed science writer David Toomey takes us on a fast-paced and entertaining tour of playful animals and the scientists who study them. From octopuses on Australia's Great Barrier Reef to meerkats in the Kalahari Desert to brown bears on Alaska's Aleutian Islands, we follow adventurous researchers as they design and conduct experiments seeking answers to new, intriguing questions: When did play first appear in animals? How does play develop the brain, and how did it evolve? Are the songs and aerial acrobatics of birds the beginning of avian culture? Is fairness in dog play the foundation of canine ethics? And does play direct and possibly accelerate evolution?
Monkeys belly-flop, dolphins tail-walk, elephants mud-slide, crows dive-bomb, and octopuses bounce balls. These activities are various, but all are play, and as Toomey explains, animal play can be seen as a distinct behavior-one that is ongoing and open-ended, purposeless and provisional-rather like natural selection. Through a close examination of both natural selection and play, Toomey argues that life itself is fundamentally playful.

Free Download John James Audubon: The Making of an American (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BF46S53V | 2024 | 21 hours and 8 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 612 MB
Author: Richard Rhodes
Narrator: Grover Gardner
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Richard Rhodes comes the first major biography of John James Audubon in forty years and the first to illuminate fully the private and family life of the master illustrator of the natural world. Rhodes shows us young Audubon arriving in New York from France in 1803, his illegitimacy a painful secret, speaking no English but already drawing and observing birds. We see him falling in love, marrying the wellborn English girl next door, crossing the Appalachians to frontier Kentucky to start a new life, fashioning himself into an American just as his adopted country was finding its identity. Here is Audubon exploring the wilderness of birds-pelicans wading the shallows of interior rivers, songbirds flocking, passenger pigeons darkening the skies-and teaching himself to revivify them in glorious life-size images. Now he finds his calling: to take his hundreds of watercolor drawings to England to be engraved in a great multivolume work called The Birds of America. Within weeks of his arrival there in 1826, he achieves remarkable celebrity as "the American Woodsman."

Free Download James: A Novel (Audiobook)
English | March 19, 2024 | ASIN: B0CBCYFW9S | M4B@128 kbps | 7h 49m | 426 MB
Author: Percival Everett | Narrator: Dominic Hoffman
A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view From the "literary icon" (Oprah Daily) and Pulitzer Prize Finalist whose novel Erasure is the basis for Cord Jefferson's critically acclaimed film American Fiction
"If you liked Demon Copperhead, by Barbara Kingsolver, read James, by Percival Everett"-The Washington Post

Free Download It's Hard for Me to Live with Me: A Memoir (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CL1CYNB9 | 2024 | 6 hours and 9 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 345 MB
Author: Rex Chapman, Seth Davis
Narrator: Rex Chapman
A powerful memoir from the University of Kentucky basketball legend, NBA veteran, and social media influencer about his recovery from addiction. He is considered by many the greatest basketball player ever produced by the hoops-crazy state of Kentucky. In two years at the University of Kentucky, he scored over 1,000 points, led the Wildcats to a Sweet Sixteen appearance and was nicknamed "King Rex." The first player ever drafted by the Charlotte Hornets, he spent twelve seasons in the NBA, dazzling in dunk contests and sinking one of the most memorable buzzer-beaters in league history. But by the end of his career, Rex Chapman was harboring a destructive secret. Years before America's opioid crisis would become national news, Chapman developed a dependency on Vicodin and Oxycontin, ultimately ingesting fifty painkillers a day. In addition, he developed a severe gambling addiction, once nearly losing $400,000 at a Las Vegas blackjack table.

Free Download It Starts Today: Mindset, Exercise, Nutrition, Sleep and Balance to transform your life (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CNF62PHJ | 2024 | 4 hours and 26 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 121 MB
Author: Jono Castano
Narrator: Rob Harding
Personal trainer to the stars Jono Castano's celebrity clients range from Rebel Wilson and Sir Richard Branson to sportspeople such as superstar cricketer Michael Clarke. The motivator for thousands of powerful fitness transformations, he was also the in house trainer at Men's Health Magazine and is Founder of Acero Gym. In It Starts Today, Jono draws upon his own powerful experiences as a non English-speaking new migrant, professional sportsman and celebrity trainer to cut through the noise and share the key skills which will help make your own fitness transformation both sensible and sustainable. Detailing the five key pillars to great health and his own success-Mindset, Exercise, Nutrition, Sleep and Balance-It Starts Today provides evidence based advice and achievable plans to help motivate you for change and overhaul your life, both inside and out. Sharing personal stories of his clients' incredible transformations with his trademark affability, his recollections of youth and reinventing himself after his dream of becoming a professional soccer player ended, his numerous tips and tricks for achieving the success we are all seeking in life will be invaluable for your own transformation.

Free Download Is Everyone Happier than Me?: An Honest Guide to the Questions That Keep You Up at Night (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CB1XV2FB | 2024 | 4 hours and 59 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 276 MB
Author: Sarah Bragg
Narrator: Sarah Bragg
The point where you feel like your life is unraveling can actually be a place of unimaginable growth-an awakening-if you're willing to ask yourself a few simple questions. In an age where everyone else's successes are flaunted in front of you on social media, it can be a struggle to feel true happiness and contentment exactly where you are. Throw in difficult circumstances-loss, heartbreak, change, midlife-and it's easy to understand why you feel lonely, lost, unsure of yourself, stuck, and, if you're honest with yourself, flat-out unhappy. Is Everyone Happier Than Me? provides practical and relatable answers to the questions you've probably already been asking about your life, and poses a few more, to help you figure out what's standing in the way of your happiness, peace, and connection. It's time to let go of the ideal of a perfect life and allow yourself to be a work in progress. And there's no better time to find happiness than right here in the middle.

Free Download Kevin Ervin Kelley (Author, Narrator), "Irreplaceable: How to Create Extraordinary Places That Bring People Together"
English | ASIN: B0CWPPZW17 | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~07:39:00 | 211 MB
Do we still need physical places like grocery stores, restaurants, and office buildings? Or will the "Replacement Economy" led by the tech titans and retail giants wipe out these venues in their rapid ascent to unicorn status?
What about museums, universities, and performing arts venues? Considering the power of technology today, can't we replace these relics with faster, cheaper, and more efficient online tools, apps, and AI?
Through engaging storytelling, human behavior insights, and proven design techniques, Kevin Kelley-an attention architect and cofounder of Shook Kelley, a strategic design firm that pioneered the field of "convening"-unfolds why physical places are essential to civil society, business, and community.