Category: Audio Books

Free Download Queer as Folklore: The Hidden Queer History of Myths and Monsters (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D9WJ3MX7 | 2024 | 11 hours and 41 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 334 MB
Author: Sacha Coward
Narrator: Will Watt
Join any Pride march and you are likely to see a glorious display of papier-mâché unicorn heads trailing sequins, drag queens wearing mermaid tails and more fairy wings than you can shake a trident at. But these are not just accessories: they are queer symbols with historic roots. Queer as Folklore is an exhilarating journey across centuries and continents which reveals the unsung heroes and villains of storytelling, magic and fantasy. Featuring images from archives, galleries and museums around the world, each chapter investigates the queer history of different mythic and folkloric characters, both old and new.

Free Download Quantum Drama: From the Bohr-Einstein Debate to the Riddle of Entanglement (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0DDV1GDKD | 2024 | 13 hours and 58 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 776 MB
Author: Jim Baggott, John L. Heilbron
Narrator: Tom Beyer
In 1927, Niels Bohr and Albert Einstein began a debate about the interpretation and meaning of the new quantum theory. This would become one of the most famous debates in the history of science. What (if any) limits should we place on our expectations for what science can tell us about physical reality? Our protagonists slowly disappeared from the vanguard of physics, as its center of gravity shifted from a war-ravaged Continental Europe to post-war America. What Einstein and Bohr had considered to be matters of the utmost importance were now set aside.

Free Download Put Your Mindset to Work: The One Asset You Really Need to Win and Keep the Job You Love by Paul Costanzo, James Reed, Paul G. Stoltz
English | August 01, 2011 | ISBN: B005FDC4OW | 7 hours and 9 minutes | MP3 128 Kbps | 393 Mb
What does it take to get and keep the job you want? Ninety-six percent of employers argue that it’s not just about having the right skills for the position – it’s all about the right mindset. As two leading experts on the subject, Reed and Stoltz know what employers really want from the people they hire and keep. According to their extensive and globally acclaimed research, there is a specific set of mental traits that will make you exponentially more desirable to potential employers, and more likely to succeed and enjoy your job once you’re hired. This "3G Mindset" is
Global: the openness and big-picture perspective to compete on a global scale in any job
Good: a positive force with an unwavering moral compass

Free Download Pursuit of Perfect: How to Stop Chasing and Start Living a Richer, Happier Life by Tal Ben-Shahar, Eric Conger, HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books
English | April 03, 2009 | ISBN: B0025UMMB8 | 6 hours and 59 minutes | MP3 128 Kbps | 575 Mb
Do you want your life to be perfect? We’re all laboring under our own and society’s expectations to be perfect in every way – to look younger, to make more money, to be happy all the time. But according to Tal Ben-Shahar, the "New York Times" bestselling author of "Happier", the pursuit of perfect may actually be the number-one internal obstacle to finding happiness. Or do you want to be happy? Applying cutting-edge research in the field of positive psychology – the scientific principles taught in his wildly popular course at Harvard University – Ben-Shahar takes us off the impossible pursuit of perfection and directs us to the way to happiness, richness, and true fulfillment. He shows us the freedom derived from not trying to do it all right all the time and the real lessons that failure and painful emotions can teach us. You don’t have to be perfect to be perfectly happy! In "The Pursuit of Perfect", Tal Ben-Shahar offers an optimal way of thinking about failure and success – and the very way we live. He provides exercises for self reflection, meditations, and ‘Time-Ins’ to help you rediscover what you really want out of life.

Free Download Puppy Kindergarten: The New Science of Raising a Great Dog (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CGS38TNG | 2024 | 5 hours and 42 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 318 MB
Author: Brian Hare, Vanessa Woods
Narrator: Isabella Rossellini, Daniel Henning
The New York Times bestselling authors take us into their "Puppy Kindergarten" at Duke University, a center to study how puppies develop, to show us what goes in to raising a great dog. What does it take to raise a great dog? This was the question that husband-and-wife team Brian Hare and Vanessa Woods hoped to answer when they enrolled one hundred and one puppies in the Duke Puppy Kindergarten. With the help of a retired service dog named Congo, Brian, Vanessa, and their team set out to understand the secrets of the puppy mind: What factors might predict whether a puppy will grow up to change someone’s life? Never has cuteness been so cutting edge. Applying the same games that psychologists use when exploring the development of young children, Hare and Woods uncover what happens in a puppy’s mind during their final stage of rapid brain development.

Free Download Punishing Putin: Inside the Global Economic War to Bring Down Russia (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CXZML19L | 2024 | 12 hours and 40 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 365 MB
Author: Stephanie Baker
Narrator: Jennifer Jill Araya
An in-depth, authoritative, and timely look at the unprecedented economic war the US and its European allies are waging against Russia after Putin’s invasion of Ukraine-written by a veteran journalist with unparalleled access to Western and Russian sources. Undeterred by eight years of timid US sanctions, Vladimir Putin ordered his full-scale assault on Ukraine on February 24, 2022. In the hours that followed across the world, Western leaders weaponized economic tools to counter an unprecedented land grab by a nuclear-armed power. What followed was an undeniably world-changing financial experiment that risked throwing the world into a devastating recession. The end goal was simple: to sap the strength of Putin’s war machine and damage the Russian economy-once the eleventh largest on the planet. Here, Russian expert and veteran journalist Stephanie Baker explains in fascinating detail how this furious shadow-war unfolded: its causes, how it is being executed, and its ability to affect Russia and the course of history.

Free Download Haim Shapira, Qarie Marshall (Narrator), "Probably the Best Book on Statistics Ever Written: How to Beat the Odds and Make Better Decisions"
English | ASIN: B0D7WF4RRM | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~09:57:00 | 273 MB
Taking an amusing and digestible look at the usually dry world of probability and statistics, this is the ultimate guide to how you can incorporate them into everyday life, from one of the world’s most sought-after experts in game theory.
This book reveals how statistics and probability are fundamental to our everyday lives-from advertisements to public opinion polls, weather forecasts to government policies, scientific research to stock market information. Haim Shapira then presents a myriad of anecdotes, riddles, case studies and practical exercises in his trademark witty voice to guide the reader through the importance of statistics and probability in everyday life. Some examples include:

Free Download Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power by Steve Coll, Malcolm Hillgartner, Penguin Audio
English | May 01, 2015 | ISBN: B007Z96FBM | 24 hours and 16 minutes | MP3 64 Kbps | 735 Mb
Private Empire pulls back the curtain, tracking the corporation’s recent history and its central role on the world stage, beginning with the Exxon Valdez accident in 1989 and leading to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010. The action spans the globe, moving from Moscow, to impoverished African capitals, Indonesia, and elsewhere in heart-stopping scenes that feature kidnapping cases, civil wars, and high-stakes struggles at the Kremlin.
At home, Coll goes inside ExxonMobil’s K Street office and corporation headquarters in Irving, Texas, where top executives in the "God Pod" (as employees call it) oversee an extraordinary corporate culture of discipline and secrecy.
The narrative is driven by larger-than-life characters, including corporate legend Lee "Iron Ass" Raymond, ExxonMobil’s chief executive until 2005. A close friend of Dick Cheney’s, Raymond was both the most successful and effective oil executive of his era and an unabashed skeptic about climate change and government regulation. This position proved difficult to maintain in the face of new science and political change, and Raymond’s successor, current ExxonMobil chief executive Rex Tillerson, broke with Raymond’s programs in an effort to reset ExxonMobil’s public image. The larger cast includes countless world leaders, plutocrats, dictators, guerrillas, and corporate scientists who are part of ExxonMobil’s colossal story.

Free Download Presidential Leadership in Political Time: Reprise and Reappraisal, Third Edition, Revised and Expanded by Stephen Skowronek, Robertson Dean, Tantor Audio
English | March 24, 2020 | ISBN: B085HC981S | 9 hours and 11 minutes | M4B 64 Kbps | 265 Mb
Presidential Leadership in Political Time has greatly expanded our understanding of and debates over the politics of leadership. It clarifies the typical political problems that presidents confront in political time, as well as the likely effects of their working through them, and considers contemporary innovations in our political system that bear on the leadership patterns from the more distant past.
Drawing out parallels in the politics of leadership between Andrew Jackson and Franklin Roosevelt and between James Polk and John Kennedy, it develops a new and revealing perspective on the presidential leadership of Clinton, Bush, and Obama.
In this edition, Skowronek devotes a new chapter to Obama’s presidency and its prospects for becoming transformational – like the presidencies of Jefferson, Jackson, Lincoln, FDR, and Reagan, all of whom succeeded to varying degrees in reconstructing the playing field of national politics.

Free Download Prehistory: The Making of the Human Mind (Audiobook)
English | February 27, 2009 | ASIN: B001UFGDGY | M4B@64 kbps | 9h 1m | 246 MB
Author: Colin Renfrew | Narrator: Robert Ian MacKenzie
In Prehistory, the award-winning archaeologist and renowned scholar Colin Renfrew covers human existence before the advent of written records-which is to say, the overwhelming majority of our time here on earth. But Renfrew also opens up to discussion, and even debate, the term "prehistory" itself, giving an incisive, concise, and lively survey of the past, and how scholars and scientists labor to bring it to light.
Renfrew begins by looking at prehistory as a discipline, particularly how developments of the past century and a half-advances in archaeology and geology; Darwin’s ideas of evolution; discoveries of artifacts and fossil evidence of our human ancestors; and even more enlightened museum and collection curatorship-have fueled continuous growth in our knowledge of prehistory. He details how breakthroughs such as radiocarbon dating and DNA analysis have helped us to define humankind’s past-how things have changed-much more clearly than was possible just a half century ago. Answers for why things have changed, however, continue to elude us, so Renfrew discusses some of the issues and challenges past and present that confront the study of prehistory and its investigators.