Category: Audio Books

Free Download Striking Back: The End of Peace in Cyberspace-and How to Restore It (Audiobook)
English | November 15, 2022 | ASIN: B0B5M1Z634 | M4B@64 kbps | 10h 31m | 271 MB
Author: Lucas Kello | Narrator: Matthew Brenher
Faced with relentless technological aggression in the twenty-first century, how can Western nations fight back to protect national security and preserve international stability?
Before the cyber age, foreign interference in Western democratic politics played out in a comparatively narrow arena-limited to the realm of print and broadcast. The explosive expansion of cyberspace has radically altered this situation. The hacking activities of Russian military agents in the 2016 US presidential election and other major incidents demonstrate the magnitude of the contemporary problem and the sophistication of foreign adversaries’ offensive strategy. This is a struggle that the West is losing.

Free Download Stress-Less Leadership by Dr. Nadine Greiner, Susan Hanfield, Gildan Media, LLC
English | August 20, 2020 | ISBN: B07WF9LVRY | 7 hours and 49 minutes | MP3 128 Kbps | 429 Mb
Take control of your life!
Say "goodbye" to stress-induced headaches, wasted time, wasted energy, and unhappiness. Stress is not a necessary evil. It is not a badge of honor. It is not a way of life. In fact, it’s probably leading you to your death, and making people around you miserable. Take control of the pressures at work and at home with actionable strategies and real-world solutions and unlock your potential with Stress-Less Leadership.
Combining her firsthand experience, countless case studies, and deep-dive research, executive coach and CEO Nadine Greiner, PhD, will give you the tools you need to conquer the stress that’s holding you back. You’ll learn how to melt away your worry by finding the root cause; escape your vicious cycle with soothing habits and self-care routines; get out of your own way and kick stress out the door; be an effective and appreciated leader; build strong and effective teams at work; accelerate your career; maintain the stress level that best fits your lifestyle; and build happier, healthier relationships in your business and personal life.

Free Download Straight to Yes: Asking with Confidence and Getting What You Want by Haider Imam, Steven Kynman, Gildan Media
English | July 17, 2021 | ISBN: B08D574MQK | 5 hours and 35 minutes | MP3 128 Kbps | 307 Mb
Just having the best idea, product, service, presentation or proposal is no longer enough in these dizzyingly competitive times. Getting a commitment to action from your investors, leaders, customers or colleagues is vital. This book helps you become a master of gaining commitment to action by learning how to ask.
You’ve finally plucked up the courage to ask for something: the afternoon off; a pay rise. Then comes that crucial moment where you wait with baited breath for the response. It’s tense, but it doesn’t have to be. You just need to master the art of "the ask".
Taking a direct, light-hearted, wholly practical approach, Haider Imam zooms straight in on that moment of truth providing a set of proven tools and techniques for getting to "yes", every time. He instills listeners with the confidence to ask bigger, more often, and even ask for the impossible – and to get it. Based on sound psychological principles, Straight to Yes! offers lots of winning ways to make requests that get you to "yes". Wholly practical in style and content, the book features accessible, straightforward techniques listeners can put into action immediately.

Free Download Storm Clouds over the Pacific, 1931-1941: War in the Far East, Book 1 (Audiobook)
English | August 24, 2021 | ASIN: B09BSZKDPY | M4B@64 kbps | 9h 4m | 244 MB
Author: Peter Harmsen | Narrator: Walter Dixon
War in the Far East is a trilogy of books offering the most complete narrative yet written about the Pacific Theater of World War II, and the first truly international treatment of the epic conflict. Historian Peter Harmsen weaves together a complex and revealing narrative, including facets of the war that are often overlooked in historic narratives. He explores the war in subarctic conditions on the Aleutians; details the mass starvations in China, Indochina, and India; and offers a range of perspectives on the war experience, from the Oval Office to the blistering sands of Peleliu.
Storm Clouds over the Pacific begins the story long before Pearl Harbor, showing how the war can only be understood if ancient hatreds and long-standing geopolitics are taken into account. Harmsen demonstrates how Japan and China’s ancient enmity led to increased tensions in the 1930s, which, in turn, exploded into conflict in 1937.

Free Download Gabrielle Dolan, Brigid Lohrey (Narrator), "Stories for Work: The Essential Guide to Business Storytelling"
English | ASIN: B0D7QZDV19 | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~05:37:00 | 154 MB
Learn the science and master the art of telling a great story.
Stories for Work walks you through the science of storytelling, revealing the secrets behind great storytellers and showing you how to master the art of storytelling in business. Stories hold a unique place in our psyche, and the right story at the right time can be a game-changer in business; whether tragedy, triumph, tension, or transition, a good story can captivate the listener and help you achieve your goals. In this book, author Gabrielle Dolan draws from a decade of training business leaders in storytelling to show you what works, why it works, when it works best, and what never works. You’ll learn how to create your own stories and develop an instinct for sharing when the time is right. In-depth case studies feature real-world people in real-world businesses, showing how storytelling has changed the way they work, motivate, and lead-providing clear examples of the power of this enormously effective skill.
Storytelling gives you an edge. Whether you’re after a promotion, a difficult client, a big sale, or leading through transition, a great story can help you smooth the road and seal the deal. This book is your personal coach for masterful storytelling, with expert guidance and lessons learned from real-world business leaders.

Free Download Annalee Newitz, Alexandra Cohler (Narrator), "Stories Are Weapons: Psychological Warfare and the American Mind"
English | ASIN: B0D54LZJWG | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~07:02:00 | 193 MB
In Stories Are Weapons, Annalee Newitz traces the way disinformation, propaganda, and violent threats have evolved from military weapons deployed against foreign adversaries into tools in domestic culture wars. Newitz delves into America’s deep-rooted history with psychological operations, beginning with Benjamin Franklin’s Revolutionary War-era fake newspaper and nineteenth-century wars on Indigenous nations, and reaching its apotheosis with the Cold War and twenty-first-century influence campaigns online. America’s secret weapon has long been coercive storytelling. And there’s a reason for that: operatives who shaped modern psychological warfare drew on their experiences as science fiction writers and in the advertising industry.
Now, through a weapons-transfer program long unacknowledged, psyops have found their way into the hands of culture warriors, transforming democratic debates into toxic wars over American identity. Newitz zeroes in on conflicts over race and intelligence, school board fights over LGBT students, and campaigns against feminist viewpoints, revealing how, in each case, specific groups of Americans are singled out and treated as enemies of the state. Crucially, Newitz delivers a powerful counternarrative, speaking with the researchers and activists who are outlining a pathway to achieving psychological disarmament and cultural peace.
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Free Download Stop Being Reasonable: How We Really Change Our Minds (Audiobook)
English | October 22, 2019 | ASIN: B07YNWNBH3 | M4B@128 kbps | 5h 30m | 301 MB
Author: Eleanor Gordon-Smith | Narrator: Brittany Wilkerson
A thought-provoking exploration of how people really change their minds, and how persuasion is possible.
In Stop Being Reasonable, Eleanor Gordon-Smith weaves a narrative that illustrates the limits of human reason.

Free Download Paul Mladjenovic, Tom Parks (Narrator), "Stock Investing For Dummies, 7th Edition"
English | ASIN: B0D5S6W5RQ | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~15:03:00 | 414 MB
Stock Investing For Dummies is full of practical and realistic stock market guidance. Today’s market is full of surprises, and this book will help you understand all aspects of the investing process, so you can thrive as an investor, come what may. With straightforward direction from a renowned best-selling author and national financial authority, this book discusses the many different ways you can invest in stocks, so you can create a portfolio that works for you. You’ll also find updates on the latest trends and growth opportunities, plus insights into what it means to invest wisely in the current financial environment. Be confident in your investment decisions, thanks to this sound Dummies advice.
– Build a strategic stock portfolio that meets your needs
– Discover the basics of investing, including how to invest in difficult markets

Free Download Stayin’ Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class (Audiobook)
English | December 18, 2018 | ASIN: B07L1D89HG | M4B@128 kbps | 17h 48m | 993 MB
Author: Jefferson Cowie | Narrator: Tom Perkins
A wide-ranging cultural and political history that will forever redefine a misunderstood decade, Stayin’ Alive is prize-winning historian Jefferson Cowie’s remarkable account of how working-class America hit the rocks in the political and economic upheavals of the 1970s.
In this edgy and incisive book – part political intrigue, part labor history, with large doses of American music, film, and television lore – Cowie, with "an ear for the power and poetry of vernacular speech" (Cleveland Plain Dealer), reveals America’s fascinating path from rising incomes and optimism of the New Deal to the widening economic inequalities and dampened expectations of the present.

Free Download State of Emergency: The Way We Were: Britain, 1970-1974 (Audiobook)
English | January 07, 2013 | ASIN: B00AXVWLAI | M4B@64 kbps | 32h 8m | 885 MB
Author: Dominic Sandbrook | Narrator: David Thorpe
In the early 1970s, Britain seemed to be tottering on the brink of the abyss. Under Edward Heath, the optimism of the Sixties had become a distant memory. Now the headlines were dominated by strikes and blackouts, unemployment and inflation. As the world looked on in horrified fascination, Britain seemed to be tearing itself apart. And yet, amid the gloom, glittered a creativity and cultural dynamism that would influence our lives long after the nightmarish Seventies had been forgotten. Dominic Sandbrook has recreated the gaudy, schizophrenic atmosphere of the early Seventies: the world of Enoch Powell and Tony Benn, David Bowie and Brian Clough, Germaine Greer and Mary Whitehouse.
An age when the unions were on the march and the socialist revolution seemed at hand, but also when feminism, permissiveness, pornography and environmentalism were transforming the lives of millions. It was an age of miners’ strikes, tower blocks and IRA atrocities, but it also gave us celebrity footballers and high-street curry houses, organic foods and package holidays, gay rights and glam rock. For those who remember the days when you could buy a new colour television but power cuts stopped you from watching it, this book could hardly be more vivid. It is the perfect guide to a luridly colourful Seventies landscape that shaped our present from the financial boardroom to the suburban bedroom.