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Free Download The Great Game of Business, Expanded and Updated: The Only Sensible Way to Run a Company (Audiobook)
English | March 05, 2015 | ASIN: B00UB28XJ2 | M4B@64 kbps | 7h 7m | 206 MB
Authors: Jack Stack, Bo Burlingham | Narrators: Jack Stack, Stephen Baker
In the early 1980s, Springfield Remanufacturing Corporation (SRC) in Springfield, Missouri, was a near bankrupt division of International Harvester. That's when a green young manager, Jack Stack, took over and turned it around. He didn't know how to "manage" a company, but he did know about the principal, of athletic competition and democracy: keeping score, having fun, playing fair, providing choice, and having a voice.
With these principles he created his own style of management - open-book management. The key is to let everyone in on financial decisions. At SRC, everyone learns how to read a P&L - even those without a high school education know how much the toilet paper they use cuts into profits. SRC people have a piece of the action and a vote in company matters. Imagine having a vote on your bonus and on what businesses the company should be in. SRC restored the dignity of economic freedom to its people. Stack's "open-book management" is the key - a system which, as he describes it here, is literally a game, and one so simple anyone can use it.

Free Download The Great Divide: Unequal Societies and What We Can Do About Them by Joseph E. Stiglitz, Kevin Pariseau, Audible Studios
English | August 04, 2017 | ISBN: B00YT65X1M | 14 hours and 41 minutes | M4B 64 Kbps | 507 Mb
How has America become the most unequal advanced country in the world, and what can we do about it?
In The Great Divide, Joseph E. Stiglitz expands on the diagnosis he offered in his best-selling book The Price of Inequality and suggests ways to counter America's growing problem. With his signature blend of clarity and passion, Stiglitz argues that inequality is a choice - the cumulative result of unjust policies and misguided priorities.
Gathering his writings for popular outlets including Vanity Fair and The New York Times, Stiglitz exposes in full America's inequality: its dimensions, its causes, and its consequences for the nation and for the world. From the Reagan era to the Great Recession and its long aftermath, Stiglitz delves into the irresponsible policies - deregulation, tax cuts, and tax breaks for the 1 percent - that are leaving many Americans further and further behind and turning the American dream into an ever more unachievable myth. With formidable yet accessible economic insight, he urges us to embrace real solutions: increasing taxes on corporations and the wealthy; offering more help to the children of the poor; investing in education, science, and infrastructure; helping out homeowners instead of banks; and, most importantly, doing more to restore the economy to full employment. Stiglitz also draws lessons from Scandinavia, Singapore, and Japan, and he argues against the tide of unnecessary, destructive austerity that is sweeping across Europe.

Free Download The Gouge!: How to Be Smarter than the Situation You Are In (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D7QM7DBH | 2024 | 4 hours and 35 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 251 MB
Author: Admiral Bob Harward
Narrator: Tim Andres Pabon
You are measured by what you do for others, not by what you have accomplished for yourself. The Gouge, in military parlance, is what you really need to know in order to be smarter than the situation you are in. As a US Navy SEAL, who became a Vice Admiral, Bob Harward lived by the Gouge and used it as a guiding principle for leadership and day-to-day life. More specifically, his success in his military and corporate careers was predicated on the people who worked with him, and for him. Their ability to meet their personal and professional objectives, ensured his success.

Free Download The Gospel of J. Edgar Hoover: How the FBI Aided and Abetted the Rise of White Christian Nationalism (Audiobook)
English | February 07, 2023 | ASIN: B0BTQZCGZH | M4B@128 kbps | 12h 34m | 709 MB
Author: Lerone A. Martin | Narrator: Langston Darby
The shocking untold story of how the FBI partnered with white evangelicals to champion a vision of America as a white Christian nation.
Lerone Martin draws on thousands of newly declassified FBI documents and memos to describe how, under J. Edgar Hoover's leadership, FBI agents attended spiritual retreats and worship services, creating an FBI religious culture that fashioned G-men into soldiers and ministers of Christian America. Martin shows how prominent figures such as Billy Graham, Fulton Sheen, and countless other ministers from across the country partnered with the FBI and laundered bureau intel in their sermons while the faithful crowned Hoover the adjudicator of true evangelical faith and allegiance. These partnerships not only solidified the political norms of modern white evangelicalism, they also contributed to the political rise of white Christian nationalism, establishing religion and race as the bedrock of the modern national security state, and setting the terms for today's domestic terrorism debates.

Free Download Nina Guilbeault (Author, Narrator), "The Good Eater: A Vegan's Search for the Future of Food"
English | ASIN: B0D67XTH89 | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~06:52:00 | 188 MB
For years, there has been no doubt that widespread consumption of meat is both environmentally destructive and morally dubious. A growing chorus of scientists, health experts, and activists champion the benefits of a plant-based diet. Nevertheless, change has been slow to arrive, and the chasm between our appetites and our collective well-being seems impossibly vast. We know we must transition to a more plant-based world. But what would such a world look like, and how do we realistically get there?
One group of people has been grappling with this question for decades: vegans. Once mocked for its hempy puritanism, the vegan movement has grown into a veritable cultural juggernaut. Yet visions of what our food system should look like continue to conflict. Is the healthful vegan lifestyle appealing-or alienating? Are high-tech meat alternatives merely a repeat performance of harmful fast-food values? Is modern veganism itself misguided-a wrong answer to the right questions?
In The Good Eater, Harvard-trained sociologist (and vegan) Nina Guilbeault, PhD, vividly explores the movement's history and its present-day tensions by grappling with the most fundamental question of all: Is there a truly ethical way to eat? What emerges is a fascinating portrait of how social change happens, with profound implications for our plates-and our planet.

Free Download The Golden Gang: Bushranger Frank Gardiner and the Biggest Gold Robbery in Australian History (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D47QLPWB | 2024 | 7 hours and 36 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 221 MB
Author: Ian W. Shaw
Narrator: Steve Shanahan
The first comprehensive biography of the godfather of Australian bushranging-Frank Gardiner-leader of the Lachlan gang and mastermind of the largest gold heist in Australian history. Atop the hierarchy of Australian bushrangers sits Ned Kelly-the ultimate outlaw-and just below him, the tragic figure of Ben Hall, who joined a gang led by a man whose name today is less well known, but in his time was much more famous than any other: Frank Gardiner. Mastermind of the largest gold robbery in Australia's history, Gardiner led an extraordinary life, the full telling of which is long overdue. In a tough country and among a group of tough men, Gardiner was the toughest of them all. But while he engaged in gunfights with police to evade capture, he was always courteous and could lay claim to never killing anyone, and never stole from those who couldn't afford to be robbed.

Free Download The Golden Book of Artificial Intelligence: From Fundamentals to Advanced Applications. An Essential Guide for Students and Professionals. by Diego Rodrigues
English | June 5, 2024 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0D69XV8GV | 234 pages | EPUB | 1.11 Mb
The Golden Book of Artificial Intelligence: From Fundamentals to Advanced Applications is an essential work for students and professionals who want to master the technological revolution that is transforming the world. Written by Diego Rodrigues, one of the leading global authors in AI, this comprehensive guide offers an in-depth immersion into the concepts, techniques, and applications of Artificial Intelligence.
From the History and Evolution of AI to Future Trends, each chapter has been carefully crafted to provide a clear and detailed understanding. You will learn about the Fundamentals of AI, including the necessary mathematical and statistical foundations, and explore Supervised and Unsupervised Learning Algorithms, essential for developing robust predictive models.
This book is not just a collection of theories; it is filled with practical applications demonstrating how AI is being used to solve real-world problems in sectors such as healthcare, finance, manufacturing, and more. Discover how Artificial Neural Networks and Deep Learning are revolutionizing the way we interact with technology, from image recognition to natural language processing.

Free Download The God of the Woods: A Novel (Audiobook)
English | July 02, 2024 | ASIN: B0CLH8D891 | M4B@128 kbps | 14h 35m | 795 MB
Author: Liz Moore | Narrator: Saskia Maarleveld
When a teenager vanishes from her Adirondack summer camp, two worlds collide
Early morning, August 1975: a camp counselor discovers an empty bunk. Its occupant, Barbara Van Laar, has gone missing. Barbara isn't just any thirteen-year-old: she's the daughter of the family that owns the summer camp and employs most of the region's residents. And this isn't the first time a Van Laar child has disappeared. Barbara's older brother similarly vanished fourteen years ago, never to be found.

Free Download The Glassmaker: A Novel (Audiobook)
English | June 18, 2024 | ASIN: B0CKKF57QS | M4B@64 kbps | 13h 44m | 394 MB
Author: Tracy Chevalier | Narrator: Lisa Flanagan
From the bestselling historical novelist, a rich, transporting story that follows a family of glassmakers from the height of Renaissance-era Italy to the present day.
It is 1486 and Venice is a wealthy, opulent center for trade. Orsola Rosso is the eldest daughter in a family of glassblowers on Murano, the island revered for the craft. As a woman, she is not meant to work with glass-but she has the hands for it, the heart, and a vision. When her father dies, she teaches herself to make glass beads in secret, and her work supports the Rosso family fortunes.