Audio Books

Free Download Rory Muir, Mike Cooper (Narrator), "Gentlemen of Uncertain Fortune: How Younger Sons Made Their Way in Jane Austen's England"
English | ASIN: B0CRM8BFSL | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~11:52:00 | 326 MB
A history of younger sons in Regency England and how these "spares" supported themselves: "Illuminates the hard facts with vignettes of actual lives lived." -The Spectator
In Regency England the eldest son usually inherited almost everything-while his younger brothers, left with little inheritance, had to make a crucial decision: What should they do to make an independent living?
Historian Rory Muir weaves together the stories of many obscure and well-known young men of good family but small fortune, shedding light on an overlooked aspect of Regency society. This is the first scholarly yet accessible exploration of the lifestyle and prospects of these younger sons.

Free Download Russell Walker, Asa Siegel (Narrator), "From Big Data to Big Profits: Success with Data and Analytics"
English | ASIN: B0CR1MXL1S | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~13:01:00 | 369 MB
In From Big Data to Big Profits, Russell Walker investigates the use of Big Data to stimulate innovations in operational effectiveness and business growth. Walker examines the nature of Big Data and how businesses can use it to create new monetization opportunities. Using case studies of Apple, Netflix, Google, LinkedIn, Zillow, Amazon, and other leaders in the use of Big Data, Walker explores how digital platforms such as mobile apps and social networks are changing the nature of customer interactions and the way Big Data is created and used by companies. Such changes, as Walker points out, will require careful consideration of legal and unspoken business practices as they affect consumer privacy. Companies looking to develop a Big Data strategy will find great value in the SIGMA framework, which he has developed to assess companies for Big Data readiness and provide direction on the steps necessary to get the most from Big Data.
Rigorous and meticulous, From Big Data to Big Profits is a valuable resource for students, researchers, and professionals with an interest in Big Data, digital platforms, and analytics.

Free Download Michelle D. Reines (Author, Narrator), "From Bad To Badass: Forging the Unstoppable Leader"
English | ISBN: 9798989575305 | 2024 | M4B@64 kbps | ~04:53:00 | 142 MB
In today's reality, fast-paced business maneuvers sometimes find us placed in leadership positions when we're not quite ready. What if the roadmap to forging unstoppable leadership skills is easier than you think? What if navigating this roadmap could actually be fun, simple, impactful, and sustainable?
By following the lessons in From Bad to Badass: Forging the Unstoppable Leader, those who have been thrust into management-whether by design or accident-can learn to lead with greater competence and confidence, resulting in more podium finishes for them and their teams. Whether you're running a two-person office, a corporation, or a virtual global team, you'll walk away with new ideas and a new attitude to transform your leadership game.
In this unfiltered autobiography, leadership coach Michelle Reines reveals the most impactful lessons she has learned during her meteoric rise into management that left her dangerously close to being trampled by the "bull." Reines shares how getting the people-parts of leadership right helps leaders-whether seasoned or emerging-rise above challenges-make a lasting impact and leave a legacy of unstoppable leadership that develops and inspires a future generation of leaders.

Free Download Philip K. Howard, Bill Thatcher (Narrator), "Everyday Freedom: Designing the Framework for a Flourishing Society"
English | ASIN: B0CS3WY3LL | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~02:06:00 | 58 MB
Something basic is missing in our culture. Americans know it. Nothing much works as it should. Simple daily choices seem impossible, or fraught with peril. In the workplace, we walk on eggshells. Big projects get stalled in years of review. Endemic social problems such as homelessness become, well, more endemic.
Everyday Freedom offers a radical reinterpretation of the corrosion of American culture. The assault on authority after the 1960s, aimed at enhancing freedom, instead created a plague of powerlessness. The teacher in the classroom, the principal in a school, the nurse in the hospital, the official in Washington, the parent on a field trip . . . all have their hands tied. Things don't work, and Americans have lost the freedom to be themselves.
Everyday Freedom offers a radical vision for change: Re-empower Americans in their everyday choices. The massive legal structures erected since the 1960s were based on flawed notions that human judgment could be replaced by elaborate dictates. These failed structures must be replaced with simpler frameworks activated by human responsibility and accountability. Nothing will work sensibly until Americans are free to draw on their skills, intuitions, and values when confronting daily challenges. This is the only cure to alienation. This is also the only way to deliver good government.

Free Download Cool Food: Erasing Your Carbon Footprint One Bite at a Time (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CD88LT47 | 2024 | 6 hours and 10 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 348 MB
Author: Robert Downey Jr., Thomas Kostigen
Narrator: Thomas Kostigen, Robert Downey Jr, Deepti Gupta
In Cool Food, celebrated actor and philanthropist Robert Downey Jr. and New York Times bestselling author Thomas Kostigen team up to discover how we can erase our carbon footprints-one bite at a time. What we eat matters-to us, and to the planet. Cool food is a game-changing new food category and way of thinking that can help fix the climate. This engaging and persuasive book will show you how to make simple choices, starting today-in the supermarket, in your kitchen, and in the world-to reduce your environmental impact. Hundreds of cool foods exist, but until now have gone largely uncelebrated for their climate-positive powers.

Free Download Comedy Book: How Comedy Conquered Culture-and the Magic That Makes It Work (Audiobook)
English | November 07, 2023 | ASIN: B0CL1JZ86B | M4B@128 kbps | 9h 21m | 511 MB
Author and Narrator: Jesse David Fox
"Comedy Book changes the way we talk about an art form that is more diverse and exciting than ever before." (Seth Meyers)
"A sharp, loving, well written exploration and analysis of the art form that makes us smile, helps us relate, and is perpetually mysterious." (Jenny Slate)

Free Download József Debreczeni, Paul Olchváry - translator, Jonathan Freedland, Laurence Dobiesz (Narrator), "Cold Crematorium: Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz"
English | ASIN: B0C3P4XZM3 | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~08:24:00 | 239 MB
"Cold Crematorium is an indispensable work of literature, and a historical document of unsurpassed importance. It should be required reading." -Jonathan Safran Foer, author of Everything Is Illuminated
The first English language edition of a lost memoir by a Holocaust survivor, offering a shocking and deeply moving perspective on life within the camps-with a foreword by Jonathan Freedland.
József Debreczeni, a prolific Hungarian-language journalist and poet, arrived in Auschwitz in 1944; had he been selected to go "left," his life expectancy would have been approximately forty-five minutes. One of the "lucky" ones, he was sent to the "right," which led to twelve horrifying months of incarceration and slave labor in a series of camps, ending in the "Cold Crematorium"-the so-called hospital of the forced labor camp Dörnhau, where prisoners too weak to work awaited execution. But as Soviet and Allied troops closed in on the camps, local Nazi commanders-anxious about the possible consequences of outright murder-decided to leave the remaining prisoners to die in droves rather than sending them directly to the gas chambers.

Free Download Colin Mayer, Bob Souer (Narrator), "Capitalism and Crises: How to Fix Them"
English | ASIN: B0CR1WW42F | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~09:42:00 | 275 MB
The world is encountering multiple crises-climate, droughts, floods, energy, food, and pandemics, to name a few. We have a problem, this is the solution.
Capitalism and Crises is about how capitalism can fix them-how it can solve not cause them. The reason why it has caused them is that we have misconceived the nature of our capitalist system. We have failed to understand the key institution at the heart of it-business-and as a result we have allowed it to cause as well as solve problems. This book describes why this has happened and what needs to change to address it.
Drawing on history, philosophy, psychology, and biology as well economics, law, and finance, Mayer describes what has gone wrong, what needs to change, and how to fix it. He sets out the big challenges that capitalism must address and how it should set about doing that, and discusses how financial institutions should be at the heart of this, and how the public sector can work with the private on a common purpose of solving problems and creating shared prosperity. Capitalism and Crises provides an inspiring and motivational roadmap of how we as practitioners, policymakers, consumers, employees, communities, students, and citizens of the world can together tackle the challenges of the twenty-first century-to flourish and survive.

Free Download Breaking Free from Broke: The Ultimate Guide to More Money and Less Stress (Audiobook)
English | January 12, 2024 | ASIN: B0CS3XFH5L | M4B@64 kbps | 6h 43m | 191 MB
Author and Narrator: George Kamel
America has become the land of the free and the home of the broke.
Household debt is at an all-time high, and every day people-just like you-are feeling more cynical and hopeless about their financial futures. It's time to stop believing countless lies from a system designed to take your money-lies like student loans are the golden ticket to a good-paying job, car payments are just part of life, and that you need to have a credit card.

Free Download Dr. Jen Gunter (Author, Narrator), "Blood: The Science, Medicine, and Mythology of Menstruation"
English | ASIN: B0CR4G3TF8 | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~17:44:00 | 502 MB
Most women can expect to have hundreds of periods in a lifetime. And yet few are given the tools to understand the science of their own cycle, how it changes over their lifetime, and how it connects to their overall health.
Despite its significance, most education about menstruation focuses either on increasing the chances of pregnancy or preventing it. And while both are crucial, women deserve to know more about their bodies than just what happens in service to reproduction. Instead, the patriarchy has weaponized menstruation through outdated cultural norms, medical dismissal, inadequate menstrual accommodations, and useless products. To distinguish medicine from mythology, people need information. To advocate for ourselves, we need to know how our bodies work. Consequently, many people suffer in silence, thinking their bodies are uniquely broken, or they turn to disreputable sources.
In this practical, inclusive guide to menstruation, Dr. Jen Gunter delivers empowerment through knowledge. She explains what's typical, what's concerning, and when to seek care, while also examining the historical and social myths which keep women uninformed and disenfranchised. Written with no-nonsense expertise and frank, fearless wit, Blood gives women the tools to take back control of their bodies and kick menstrual shame to the curb. Period.