Category: Audio Books

Free Download The Four-Way Path: A Guide to Purushartha and India’s Spiritual Traditions for a Life of Happiness, Success, and Purpose (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CPTF1BPV | 2024 | 4 hours and 27 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 248 MB
Author: Héctor García, Francesc Miralles, Shashi Tharoor
Narrator: Danish Farooqui
An inspiring guide to achieving happiness through purushartha (pronounced poo-roo-shar-tuh), or the four ultimate goals of human life, by the bestselling authors. In our complex modern world, it can be easy to doubt we’re living the life we’re meant to be living. But the authors of the global bestseller, about the Japanese concept that has helped millions of people discover their reason for being, are now on a mission to show how the ancient Hindu concept of purushartha provides a powerful framework for charting a path toward a life of purpose and fulfillment. Having spent a great deal of time in India, the authors were inspired to write a book honoring the culture they came to appreciate. In The Four-Way Path, they draw on practices from India’s numerous spiritual traditions to show how to foster happiness and achievement by cultivating the four components of purushartha. If you already know what your purpose in life is, then this book provides a blueprint for living in accordance with your purushartha. If you don’t yet know, then it will give you the tools to start the adventure of understanding yourself better, and to bring inspiration, beauty, peace, and purpose to your daily life.

Free Download The Forgotten Founding Father: Noah Webster’s Obsession and the Creation of an American Culture by Joshua Kendall, Arthur Morey, Penguin Audio
English | April 14, 2011 | ISBN: B004WHT972 | 12 hours and 45 minutes | MP3 64 Kbps | 350 Mb
American’s own The Professor and the Madman: a story of Noah Webster, author of American English.
Noah Webster’s name is now synonymous with the dictionary he created, but his story is not nearly so ubiquitous. Webster hobnobbed with various Founding Fathers and was a young confidant of George Washington and Ben Franklin. He started America’s first daily newspaper, predating Alexander Hamilton’s New York Post. His "blue-backed speller" for schoolchildren sold millions of copies and influenced early copyright law. But perhaps most important, Webster was an ardent supporter of a unified, definitively American culture, distinct from the British, at a time when the United States of America were anything but unified – and his dictionary of American English is a testament to that.
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Free Download The Food Book, New Edition: The Stories, Science, and History of What We Eat (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D6SPFDTJ | 2024 | 14 hours and 23 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 418 MB
Author: DK
Narrator: Charles Armstrong
Discover the origins, traditions, and use of the everyday foods served up on our plates, from salt to sushi and rice to ravioli. A true celebration of food in all its forms, The Food Book follows the human quest for sustenance through the stories of individual ingredients and examines our millenia-long relationship with nearly 200 foods-from nuts and seeds to noodles and meat-with the help of tales from all over the world. Food is the cornerstone of daily life, culture, and even religion. Staples like bread, beans, and cereal crops are part of our culinary history, and used in many ways around the world. This fascinating reference covers all food groups, including nuts and grains, fruit and vegetables, meat and fish, and herbs and spices, providing information on every aspect of their history, and their place in world cuisine. Packed with glorious stories that surprise and enthrall, this is the ultimate feast for foodies, a global smorgasbord packed with unforgettable tales and eye-opening facts.

Free Download The Five Talents That Really Matter: How Great Leaders Drive Extraordinary Performance (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CQ8R5BMG | 2024 | 10 hours and 38 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 304 MB
Author: Barry Conchie, Sarah Dalton
Narrator: Barry Conchie
A former Gallup Global Leadership Research and Development leader and the New York Times bestselling coauthor of Strengths-Based Leadership demystifies the aura and complexity surrounding high performing leaders through original research and interviews with high-performing global leaders. The leadership space is rife with myths, such as the belief that anyone can be a leader with enough effort or that a leader’s strengths can be their greatest weaknesses. According to Barry Conchie and his business partner Sarah Dalton, these statements are complete BS. The Five Talents That Really Matter dispels the fluff in leadership literature, unveiling the traits and characteristics that truly determine high-performance leadership. Through meticulous research, assessment, and testing, Conchie and Dalton have built a database that predicts the talents and behaviors of the most successful leaders. In this book they present for the first the first time a scientific model that demystifies the aura and complexity surrounding high performing leaders.

Free Download The Fallen Fruit: A Novel (Audiobook)
English | September 03, 2024 | ASIN: B0CNQ7JJ1X | M4B@64 kbps | 14h 11m | 404 MB
Author: Shawntelle Madison | Narrators: Robin Miles, Adenrele Ojo
Combining history and fantasy, a sweeping multi-generational epic in the vein of Kindred and The Time Traveler’s Wife about a woman who travels through time to end a family curse that has plagued her ancestors for generations.
On a rainy day in May 1964, history professor Cecily Bridge-Davis begins to search for the sixty-five acres of land she inherited from her father’s family. The quest leads her to uncover a dark secret: In every generation, one offspring from each Bridge family unit vanishes-and is mysteriously whisked back in time. Rules have been established that must be followed to prevent dire consequences:

Free Download The Eye of the World: Book One of The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan, Rosamund Pike, Macmillan Audio
English | November 16, 2021 | ISBN: B09JT5JR49 | 32 hours and 55 minutes | M4B 64 Kbps | 897 Mb
A 2023 Audie Award winner for Best Female Narrator!
"Rosamund Pike brings a fresh narration to the first book in the beloved Wheel of Time series. At 33 hours, this audiobook is no small undertaking, but Pike’s impressive performance leaves listeners wanting more."-AudioFile (Earphones Award winner)
"Through her smooth, dramatic performance, award-winning actor Rosamund Pike amplifies the new audiobook of book one in Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time series."-BookPage

Free Download The Extinction of Experience: Being Human in a Disembodied World (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0DDV2N9FP | 2024 | 8 hours and 42 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 476 MB
Author: Christine Rosen
Narrator: Suzie Althens
A reflective, original invitation to recover and cultivate the human experiences that have atrophied in our virtual world. We embraced the mediated life-from Facetune and Venmo to meme culture and the Metaverse-because these technologies offer novelty and convenience. But they also transform our sense of self and warp the boundaries between virtual and real. What are the costs? Who are we in a disembodied world? In The Extinction of Experience, Christine Rosen investigates the cultural and emotional shifts that accompany our embrace of technology. In warm, philosophical prose, Rosen reveals key human experiences at risk of going extinct, including face-to-face communication, sense of place, authentic emotion, and even boredom. Considering cultural trends, like TikTok challenges and mukbang, and politically unsettling phenomena, like sociometric trackers and online conspiracy culture, Rosen exposes an unprecedented shift in the human condition, one that habituates us to alienation and control. To recover our humanity and come back to the real world, we must reclaim serendipity, community, patience, and risk.

Free Download Sabrina B. Little, Patricia Shade (Narrator), "The Examined Run: Why Good People Make Better Runners"
English | ASIN: B0DDZ6L7MZ | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~09:41:00 | 266 MB
Can running make me a more moral person? Can striving to be a better person make me a better runner?
In The Examined Run, philosopher and ultramarathon runner Sabrina B. Little asks whether running can be a laboratory for developing our character. She looks at the key ideas in virtue ethics-virtue, vice, exemplarism, moral emotions, and competition-and brings them into conversation with her experience in training and racing. Little pushes against the frequent conversations about ethics and sport that focus on the negative-doping and other forms of cheating or on simplistic expressions like "no pain, no gain." She argues that these ideas don’t address the rich picture of how athletics inform a good life, and sport’s relationship to acts of justice or courage. A good athlete is not just one who avoids cheating-rather, they perform feats of perseverance and courage, and succeed by working to develop their natural capacities. Little employs her own experiences in training, coaching, and racing in world class ultramarathons to reveal how athletics and virtue are deeply interconnected.

Free Download The Evolution of Modern Medicine (Audiobook)
English | ISBN: 9781802560442 | 2024 | 6 hours and 33 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 361 MB
Author: William Osler
Narrator: James Harrington
"The Evolution of Modern Medicine" by William Osler is a seminal work tracing the historical trajectory of medical science. Osler, a renowned physician, delves into the origins of medical practices, exploring key breakthroughs and the development of modern healthcare. This comprehensive overview illuminates the evolution of medical knowledge, from ancient civilizations to contemporary times, providing valuable insights into the foundations of the medical field. Osler’s meticulous examination offers a profound understanding of the challenges and advancements that have shaped the practice of medicine throughout history.

Free Download Rebecca Ahmed, Samara Naeymi (Narrator), "The Energy of Success: Power Up Your Productivity, Transform Your Habits, and Maximize Workplace Motivation"
English | ASIN: B0DF98TK5W | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~06:32:00 | 180 MB
In The Energy of Success, award-winning energy expert Rebecca Ahmed reveals precisely how to shift your physical, emotional, and mental potential through proven, easy-to-use strategies you can start using today. When you learn to shift your own and your team’s energy (even if you are not in charge!), you will immediately increase their joy and enthusiasm, transform your workplace, and infuse positivity into your workplace . . . for everyone.
In the book, you’ll find five energetic success principles and practical steps you can take immediately to improve your life and the positive influence you can have on the people around you. You’ll also discover: