Category: Audio Books

Free Download The Art of the Interesting: What We Miss in Our Pursuit of the Good Life and How to Cultivate It (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CS3VP2C8 | 2024 | 8 hours and 34 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 246 MB
Author: Lorraine Besser
Narrator: Lauren Ezzo
Philosopher and popular Middlebury professor Dr. Lorraine Besser reveals the missing third piece in our search for the Good Life-what she calls The Interesting-and teaches us how to cultivate it in our lives. Do you know anyone who’s truly living The Good Life? Traditionally, philosophers and psychologists have thought of the Good Life in terms of happiness or meaning, or some combination of both. But, if it’s really that simple, if all you need is more happiness or meaning to get to the Good Life, why aren’t more of us achieving that truly "good" life? You’ve hit all the traditional markers, jumped on the happiness train, committed to a gratitude practice, sought purpose in your work, and yet The Good Life you’re seeking, is still out of reach.

Free Download The Art of Woo: Using Strategic Persuasion to Sell Your Ideas by G. Richard Shell, Mario Moussa, Alan Sklar
English | November 12, 2007 | ISBN: B000Z7FI3M | 10 hours and 19 minutes | MP3 128 Kbps | 567 Mb
Your projects, programs, and career turn on the difference between "no" and "yes". Yet selling ideas, especially the kinds of ideas that make organizations work, is a skill shrouded in mystery. Part emotional intelligence, part politics, part rhetoric, and part psychology, selling ideas is not like tricking someone out of his money. It’s about helping others to see things your way: engaging their minds and imaginations.
Charles Lindbergh, for example, needed woo to assemble backers for his famous flight. Nelson Mandela also used it to lead a revolution in South Africa. In any context, woo is two parts art and one part science.
In The Art of Woo, Professors G. Richard Shell and Mario Moussa offer a self-assessment to determine which persuasion role fits you best and how to make the most of your natural strengths. They also share vivid stories from their experiences advising thousands of leaders and stories about famous people like John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, Andy Grove, and Bono.

Free Download The Art of Making Sh!t Up: Using the Principles of Improv to Become an Unstoppable Powerhouse by Norm Laviolette, Gildan Media
English | November 19, 2019 | ISBN: B0812BW1FR | 5 hours and 33 minutes | MP3 128 Kbps | 305 Mb
The Art of Making Sh!t Up combines the lessons learned from a personal journey with the teachings derived from years of honing valuable skills through performing and presenting to thousands of people to demonstrate how working together has helped others found and grow several multimillion-dollar companies.
By focusing on topics that serve as pain points and detailing the tools and techniques of improv, this audiobook helps people and organizations utilize new skill sets to be more productive, more accepting, and more "all in" to create a stronger teammate and team.
Remove the fear of failure

Free Download The Art of Language Invention: From Horse-Lords to Dark Elves, the Words Behind World-Building (Audiobook)
English | September 29, 2015 | ASIN: B015HVGVOU | M4B@64 kbps | 9h 23m | 279 MB
Author and Narrator: David J. Peterson
An insider’s tour through the construction of invented languages from the best-selling author and creator of languages for the HBO series Game of Thrones and the Syfy series Defiance.
From master language creator David J. Peterson comes a creative guide to language construction for sci-fi and fantasy fans, writers, game creators, and language lovers. Peterson offers a captivating overview of language creation, covering its history from Tolkien’s creations and Klingon to today’s thriving global community of conlangers. He provides the essential tools necessary for inventing and evolving new languages, using examples from a variety of languages including his own creations, punctuated with references to everything from Star Wars to Michael Jackson. Along the way, behind-the-scenes stories lift the curtain on how he built languages like Dothraki for HBO’s Game of Thrones and Shiväisith for Marvel’s Thor: The Dark World, and an included phrasebook will start fans speaking Peterson’s constructed languages.

Free Download Asheesh Kapur Siddique, Keval Shah (Narrator), "The Archive of Empire: Knowledge, Conquest, and the Making of the Early Modern British World"
English | ASIN: B0D9YT68S2 | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~09:50:00 | 270 MB
How modern data-driven government originated in the creation and use of administrative archives in the British Empire
Over the span of two hundred years, Great Britain established, governed, lost, and reconstructed an empire that embraced three continents and two oceanic worlds. The British ruled this empire by correlating incoming information about the conduct of subjects and aliens in imperial spaces with norms of good governance developed in London. Officials derived these norms by studying the histories of government contained in the official records of both the state and corporations and located in repositories known as archives.

Free Download That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0DBM8J99F | 2024 | 9 hours and 56 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 284 MB
Author: Amanda Jones
Narrator: Amanda Jones
Part memoir, part manifesto, the inspiring story of a Louisiana librarian advocating for inclusivity on the front lines of our vicious culture wars. One of the things small town librarian Amanda Jones values most about books is how they can affirm a young person’s sense of self. So in 2022, when she caught wind of a local public hearing that would discuss "book content," she knew what was at stake. Schools and libraries nationwide have been bombarded by demands for books with LGTBQ+ references, discussions of racism, and more to be purged from the shelves. Amanda would be damned if her community were to ban stories representing minority groups. She spoke out that night at the meeting. Days later, she woke up to a nightmare that is still ongoing.

Free Download Temples, Tombs, and Hieroglyphs: A Popular History of Ancient Egypt (Audiobook)
English | December 05, 2007 | ASIN: B0010Z7QCO | M4B@64 kbps | 12h 45m | 350 MB
Author: Barbara Mertz | Narrator: Lorna Raver
In this updated version of the classic of popular Egyptology, Barbara Mertz combines a doctorate in Egyptology at the famed Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago with a life-long enthusiasm for ancient Egypt. Her love of the subject is contagious and makes her the perfect guide to ancient Egypt for the student, the layman, and those who plan to visit – or have visited – the Nile Valley.
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Free Download Tell Me Everything: A Novel (Audiobook)
English | September 10, 2024 | ASIN: B0CRZFH8DP | M4B@128 kbps | 10h 59m | 598 MB
Author: Elizabeth Strout | Narrator: Kimberly Farr
From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Elizabeth Strout comes a "generous, compassionate novel" (San Francisco Chronicle) about new friendships, old loves, and the very human desire to leave a mark on the world.
"A rich tapestry, intricately wrought yet effortlessly realized, both suspenseful and meditative."-The Boston Globe

Free Download Talk to Strangers: How Everyday, Random Encounters Can Expand Your Business, Career, Income, and Life by David Topus, Tantor Audio
English | July 10, 2020 | ISBN: B08C6HQCMC | 4 hours and 39 minutes | MP3 128 Kbps | 383 Mb
Connect to the world around you and realize the enormous potential in talking to strangers.
Every day, random encounters really can change lives, when you make them happen the right way and leverage the connection at the other end. Talk to Strangers explains how to stand out and tap the potential of others by taking notice of who is standing alongside you on the bank line, the latte pickup point, or the ticket counter at the airport. David Topus’ life-changing message is that we should "always connect", which means going beyond online relationships and engaging in the random, real-life interactions that have unlimited potential to supercharge businesses, accelerate careers, and enrich your life.
In Talk to Strangers, you will discover

Free Download Tales of the Elders of Ireland (Audiobook)
English | July 01, 2024 | ASIN: B0D8JZS65Z | M4B@128 kbps | 9h 17m | 515 MB
Author: Uncredited | Narrator: Gerry O’Brien
Tales of the Elders of Ireland (Acallam na Senórach) represents the largest literary text surviving from 12th-century Ireland, the most comprehensive early collection of Fenian stories and poetry.
Three parallel worlds interact: the contemporary Christian world of Saint Patrick with his scribes, clerics, occasional angels, and souls rescued from Hell; the earlier pagan world of the ancient, giant Fenians and an array of Irish kings; and the timeless Otherworld, peopled by ever-young shape-shifting fairies. The Tales dwell in detail on the inhabitants of the Irish Otherworld and provide an extensive account of their music and magic, their internecine wars and their malice toward, and infatuation with, humankind-themes that still feature in the story-telling of present-day Ireland.