Category: Audio Books

Free Download Tipping Sacred Cows: Kick the Bad Work Habits that Masquerade as Virtues by Jake Breeden, Mike Murray, Gildan Media
English | July 17, 2020 | ISBN: B08D4V1DB1 | 6 hours and 36 minutes | MP3 128 Kbps | 544 Mb
Strategies for overcoming the "sacred cows" that hold people back at work
You should try your best, work well with others, and produce excellent work. Right? But these cherished nuggets of advice, in practice, have a dark side that can lead to career-limiting unintended consequences. And they’re not alone.
Based on Jake Breeden’s experience coaching thousands of leaders in 27 countries, and new research in economics, neuroscience, and psychology, Tipping Sacred Cows reveals how to overcome the dangerous behaviors that masquerade as virtues at work, and how to lead with fewer self-imposed limitations and greater results. It’s a guide for curious, courageous people at work. The book

Free Download Time to Think: Listening to Ignite the Human Mind (Audiobook)
English | March 04, 2021 | ASIN: B08TX4WHW7 | M4B@128 kbps | 8h 30m | 478 MB
Author and Narrator: Nancy Kline
Most people think they listen well, but they rarely do – not at this level. Listening this way is a radical act.
The power of effective listening is recognised as the essential tool of good management. In this book, Nancy Kline describes how we can achieve this and presents a step-by-step guide that can be used in any situation.

Free Download Tiger, Tiger: His Life, As It’s Never Been Told Before (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C7HMJGW6 | 2024 | 13 hours and 37 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 398 MB
Author: James Patterson
Narrator: Landon Woodson
The impossible life of Tiger Woods-how did he become the G.O.A.T., what drove him to fall so spectacularly, and how has he made his way back to the pinnacle of golf? In Patterson’s hands, Tiger’s story is both a revelatory biography and a binge-worthy thriller. On April 13, 1986, ten-year-old Tiger Woods watches his idol, Jack Nicklaus, win his record sixth Masters. Just over a decade later, chants of "Ti-ger, Ti-ger!" ring out as the twenty-one-year-old wins his first Green Jacket. He blazes an incredible path, winning fourteen major titles (second only to Nicklaus himself) by the time he’s thirty-three, smashing records and raising standards. Then come multiple public scandals and potentially career-ending injuries. The once-assured champion becomes an all-American underdog. "YouTube golfer" is how his two children know their father-winless since 2013-until he wins the 2019 Masters, his fifteenth major, before their eyes. But the story doesn’t end there. Tiger, Tiger is the first full-scale Woods biography of the decade. In James Patterson’s hands, this story is a hole-in-one thriller.

Free Download Thruhikers: A Guide to Life on the Trail (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D6STD7FC | 2024 | 6 hours and 33 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 367 MB
Author: Renee Miller, Tim Beissinger
Narrator: Renee Miller, Tim Beissinger
Explore the outdoors in a whole new way with this comprehensive guide to hiking, camping, and backpacking, from @thruhikers Renee and Tim. Renee Miller and Tim Beissinger, also known as @thruhikers, share their experiences exploring the outdoors-hiking, backpacking, canoeing, and camping-with millions of people. They break down every aspect of their adventures-trail routes, gear, recipes, and more-and share stories from their time out on the trail. Their first book is packed with advice, techniques, gear recommendations, and troubleshooting tips for beginner and experienced outdoorsy people alike. They take you through the entire experience: before the trail, on the trail, and after the trail. Plus, they include over 20 plant-based dehydrated recipes, like Curry Rice and Cold-Soaked Shepherd’s Pie, to bring on your adventures. Learn how to plan your trip, pack your gear, deal with animals and leave no trace, eat and drink safely, avoid and care for injuries, pass the time, navigate all types of weather, get over the post-trail blues, and more. With this guide, you’ll be prepared for anything.

Free Download Through a Glass Brightly: Using Science to See Our Species as We Really Are (Audiobook)
English | September 11, 2018 | ASIN: B07GZDP9X9 | M4B@64 kbps | 9h 3m | 249 MB
Author: David P. Barash | Narrator: Charles Constant
In Through a Glass Brightly, noted scientist David P. Barash explores the process by which science has, throughout time, cut humanity "down to size", and how humanity has responded. A good paradigm is a tough thing to lose, especially when its replacement leaves us feeling more vulnerable and less special. And yet, as science has progressed, we find ourselves – like it or not – bereft of many of our most cherished beliefs, confronting an array of paradigms lost.
Barash models his argument around a set of "old" and "new" paradigms that define humanity’s place in the universe. This new set of paradigms range from provocative revelations as to whether human beings are well designed, whether the universe has somehow been established with our species in mind (the so-called anthropic principle), whether life itself is inherently fragile, and whether Homo sapiens might someday be genetically combined with other species (and what that would mean for our self-image).

Free Download Threshold: How Smart Homes Change Us Inside and Out (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D4858PZ2 | 2024 | 9 hours and 42 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 258 MB
Author: Heather Suzanne Woods
Narrator: April Doty
Smart homes are here-domestic spaces bristling with networked technologies that appear to enhance work, entertainment, logistics, health, and security. But these technologies may also extract a cost in attention, money, and privacy. In Threshold, communication and technology expert Heather Suzanne Woods applies rhetorical theory to answer the urgent question of how swiftly proliferating smart homes alter those who inhabit them. Building on research into smart homes in the United States, Woods recounts how smart homes arose and predicts the trajectory of their future form. She pulls back the curtain on the technology, probes who is in control, and questions whether a home can be too smart. Woods suggests a dynamic cultural framework for understanding smart homes that takes into account sociotechnical variables through which smart homes shape human life. Woods’s framework reveals how smart homes both reflect social norms about technology as well as whet consumer appetites. Written for homeowners, policymakers, technology enthusiasts, and scholars, Threshold interweaves critical analysis with matter-of-fact graphics that map relationships between digital tools and social life.

Free Download Three Steps to Awakening: A Practice for Bringing Mindfulness to Life (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B00QQWZ0CY | 2014 | 5 hours and 29 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 304 MB
Author: Larry Rosenberg, Laura Zimmerman
Narrator: Subhash Mandal
The deceptively simple three-phase method presented here is a meditation practice that can be worked with for a lifetime. Larry Rosenberg looks to Zen, to Insight Meditation, and to the teachings of J. Krishnamurti to find three kinds of meditation that anyone can do and that complement each other in a wonderful way: (1) breath awareness, (2) breath as anchor, and (3) choiceless awareness. Having the three methods in one’s repertoire gives one meditation resources for any life situation. In a time of stress, for example, one might use breath awareness exclusively. Or on an extended retreat, one might find choiceless awareness more appropriate. The three-step method has been taught to Larry’s students at the Cambridge Meditation Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts, for many years. After teaching the three-step method, Larry goes on to show how to bring the awareness gained in meditation to the world off the cushion, into relationships and into all areas of daily life.

Free Download Todd Balf, Edoardo Ballerini (Narrator), "Three Kings: Race, Class, and the Barrier-Breaking Rivals Who Launched the Modern Olympic Age"
English | ASIN: B0CW3SXJ42 | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~08:37:00 | 237 MB
For fans of The Boys in the Boat, and marking the 100th anniversary of the Paris Olympics, the never-before-told story of three athletes who defied the odds to usher in a golden age of sports
Even today, it’s considered one of the most thrilling races in Olympic history. The hundred-meter sprint final at the 1924 Paris Games, featuring three of the world’s fastest swimmers-American legends Duke Kahanamoku and Johnny Weissmuller, and Japanese upstart Katsuo Takaishi-had the cultural impact of other milestone moments in Olympic history: Jesse Owens’s podiums in Berlin and John Carlos’s raised, black-gloved fist in Mexico City. Never before had an Olympic swimming final prominently featured athletes of different races, and never had it been broadcast live. Across the globe, fans held their breath.
In less than a minute, an Olympic record would be shattered, and the three men would be scrutinized like few athletes before them. For the millions worldwide for whom swimming was a complete unknown, the trio did something few could imagine: moving faster through water than many could on land. As sportsmen, they were godlike heroes, embodying the hopes of those who called them their own, in the US and abroad. They personified strength and speed, and the glamour and innovation of the Roaring Twenties. But they also represented fraught assumptions about race and human performance. It was not only "East vs. West"-as newspapers in the 1920s described the competition with Japan-it was also brown versus white. Rich versus poor. New versus old. The race was about far more than swimming.

Free Download This Victorian Life: Modern Adventures in Nineteenth-Century Culture, Cooking, Fashion, and Technology (Audiobook)
English | November 24, 2015 | ASIN: B017Y4R1WY | M4B@64 kbps | 11h 37m | 331 MB
Author: Sarah A. Chrisman | Narrator: Laural Merlington
We all know that the best way to study a foreign language is to go to a country where it’s spoken, but can the same immersion method be applied to history? How do interactions with antique objects influence perceptions of the modern world?
From Victorian beauty regimes to 19th-century bicycles, custard recipes to taxidermy experiments, oil lamps to an ice box, Sarah and Gabriel Chrisman decided to explore 19th-century culture and technologies from the inside out. Even the deepest aspects of their lives became affected, and the more immersed they became in the late Victorian era, the more aware they grew of its legacies permeating the 21st century.

Free Download This Nonviolent Stuff’ll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0DBB688WB | 2024 | 11 hours and 14 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 624 MB
Author: Charles E. Cobb Jr.
Narrator: Leon Nixon
Visiting Martin Luther King Jr., at the peak of the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott, journalist William Worthy almost sat on a loaded pistol. Just for self defense, King assured him. It was not the only weapon King kept for such a purpose; one of his advisors remembered the reverend’s Montgomery, Alabama home as an arsenal. Like King, many ostensibly nonviolent civil rights activists embraced their constitutional right to self-protection-yet this crucial dimension of the Afro-American freedom struggle has been long ignored by history. In This Nonviolent Stuff’ll Get You Killed, civil rights scholar Charles E. Cobb Jr., describes the vital role that armed self-defense played in the survival and liberation of black communities in America during the Southern Freedom Movement of the 1960s. In the Deep South, blacks often safeguarded themselves and their loved ones from white supremacist violence by bearing-and, when necessary, using-firearms.