Category: Audio Books

Free Download Margalit Fox, Saskia Maarleveld (Narrator), "The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum: The Rise and Fall of an American Organized-Crime Boss"
English | ASIN: B0CMJVFGBV | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~06:18:00 | 173 MB
America’s first great organized-crime lord was a lady-a nice Jewish mother named Mrs. Mandelbaum.
"A tour de force . . . With a pickpocket’s finesse, Margalit Fox lures us into the criminal underworld of Gilded Age New York."-Liza Mundy, author of The Sisterhood
In 1850, an impoverished twenty-five-year-old named Fredericka Mandelbaum came to New York in steerage and worked as a peddler on the streets of Lower Manhattan. By the 1870s she was a fixture of high society and an admired philanthropist. How was she able to ascend from tenement poverty to vast wealth?

Free Download The System: Who Owns the Internet, and How It Owns Us by James Ball
English | 2020 | ISBN: 1526607247 | 7 hours and 18 minutes | MP3 64 Kbps | 172 Mb
The internet is a network of physical cables and connections, a web of wires enmeshing the world, linking huge data centres to one another and eventually to us. All are owned by someone, financed by someone, regulated by someone.
We refer to the internet as abstract from reality. By doing so, we obscure where the real power lies.
In this powerful and necessary book, James Ball sets out on a global journey into the inner workings of the system. From the computer scientists to the cable guys, the billionaire investors to the ad men, the intelligence agencies to the regulators, these are the real-life figures powering the internet and pulling the strings of our society.

Free Download The Superluminal Universe: Redefining Consciousness, Time and Space (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D5DN9279 | 2024 | 5 hours and 16 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 145 MB
Author: Régis Dutheil, Brigitte Dutheil, Matt Raymond
Narrator: Ray Greenley
The Superluminal Universe reveals, for the first time in English, the incredible insights of French quantum physicist Professor Regis Dutheil. Thanks to the development of particle accelerators, physicists are now able to propel particles (tachyons) at a speed close to that of light (300,000 km per second). At these extreme speeds, the laws that govern our universe no longer apply. Professor Dutheil’s work has shown that the theory of relativity is not incompatible with that of tachyons, provided that we allow for the possibility of a double reality: that alongside our sub-luminous universe, which follows the law of time, is a superluminal universe.

Free Download Samuel Noah Kramer, Nigel Patterson (Narrator), "The Sumerians: Their History, Culture, and Character"
English | ASIN: B0DBWPDNTW | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~12:51:00 | 353 MB
The Sumerians, the pragmatic and gifted people who preceded the Semites in the land first known as Sumer and later as Babylonia, created what was probably the first high civilization in the history of man, spanning the fifth to the second millenniums BC. This book is an unparalleled compendium of what is known about them.
Professor Kramer communicates his enthusiasm for his subject as he outlines the history of the Sumerian civilization and describes their cities, religion, literature, education, scientific achievements, social structure, and psychology. Finally, he considers the legacy of Sumer to the ancient and modern world.
"An uncontested authority on the civilization of Sumer, Professor Kramer writes with grace and urbanity." -Library Journal

Free Download The Success Guidebook: How to Visualize, Actualize, and Amplify You (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D75KTTVW | 2024 | 7 hours and 44 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 221 MB
Author: Elizabeth Hamilton-Guarino
Narrator: Elizabeth Hamilton-Guarino
Author Elizabeth Hamilton-Guarino, master life coach and founder of The Best Ever You Network, has long espoused that we must redefine success for our authentic selves-a one-size fits-all-concept is not only outdated but unworkable. True success is reflected in the smiles that brighten our faces and the peace that settles in our hearts. It’s the gratitude we seek in all things and the intention and actions being our very best in each moment. In The Success Guidebook, listeners will find inspiration, motivation, and a pathway to live their best, most fulfilling life.

Free Download The Strategy of Conflict by Thomas C. Schelling, Brian Holsopple, Audible Studios
English | May 01, 2018 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B07BLJS6SN | 9 hours and 22 minutes | MP3 64 kbps | 252 Mb
A series of closely interrelated essays on game theory, this book deals with an area in which progress has been least satisfactory – the situations where there is a common interest as well as conflict between adversaries: negotiations, war and threats of war, criminal deterrence, extortion, tacit bargaining. It proposes enlightening similarities between, for instance, maneuvering in limited war and in a traffic jam; deterring the Russians and one’s own children; the modern strategy of terror and the ancient institution of hostages.

Free Download Harbir Singh, Michael Useem, Lyle Blaker (Narrator), "The Strategic Leader’s Roadmap, Revised and Updated Edition: 6 Steps for Integrating Leadership and Strategy"
English | ASIN: B0D8839KX2 | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~02:48:00 | 77 MB
In The Strategic Leader’s Roadmap, Updated and Revised Edition: 6 Steps for Integrating Leadership and Strategy, Wharton management professors Harbir Singh and Michael Useem offer a six-point checklist for today’s leaders to follow. They explain how leading strategically will help managers strengthen their capacity to develop strategy and to lead its execution.
Drawing on one-on-one interviews with CEOs, in-depth research, and their experience teaching today’s executives and tomorrow’s leaders, Singh and Useem take listeners into the offices-and mindsets-of some of today’s foremost strategic leaders.
In this fully updated and revised edition, Singh and Useem explore: How Indra Nooyi rose to become CEO of PepsiCo and led its successful strategic redirection; How Jack Ma consistently pivoted and outflanked competition to position Alibaba to become a global behemoth; How John Chambers, executive chairman of Cisco Systems, changed his and other company leaders’ leadership to stay ahead of disruption; How Lawrence Culp Jr., the CEO of General Electric, has increased efficiency by up to 900% by undertaking a thorough examination of process and strategy. The Strategic Leader’s Roadmap will enable leaders at all levels to master the abilities necessary to keep their companies ahead of the competition.

Free Download The Story of Stuff by Annie Leonard, Simon & Schuster Audio
English | March 09, 2010 | ISBN: B003BLGD42 | 12 hours and 2 minutes | MP3 64 Kbps | 310 Mb
How Our Obsession with Stuff is Trashing the Planet, Our Communities, and Our Health – and a Vision for Change
We have a problem with Stuff. With just 5 percent of the world’s population, were consuming 30 percent of the world’s resources and creating 30 percent of the worlds waste. If everyone consumed at U.S. rates, we would need three to five planets!
This alarming fact drove Annie Leonard to create the Internet film sensation The Story of Stuff, which has been viewed over 10 million times by people around the world. In her sweeping, groundbreaking book of the same name, Leonard tracks the life of the Stuff we use every day where our cotton T-shirts, laptop computers, and aluminum cans come from, how they are produced, distributed, and consumed, and where they go when we throw them out. Like Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, The Story of Stuffis a landmark book that will change the way people think and the way they live.

Free Download The Story of Civilization The Making of the Modern World by Phillip Campbell, Kevin Gallagher, TAN Books
English | August 07, 2018 | ISBN: B07G5HG246 | 9 hours and 38 minutes | M4B 64 Kbps | 270 Mb
Children should not just read about history, they should live it. In The Story of Civilization, author Phillip Campbell’s historical expertise and story-telling ability make history come alive like never before.
The Story of Civilization emphasizes presenting world history as a thrilling and compelling narrative. Within each chapter, children will encounter short stories that place them directly in the shoes of historical figures, both famous and ordinary, as they live through legendary battles and invasions, philosophical debates, the discovery of new inventions and sciences, and the exploration of the world.
Volume III: The Making of the Modern World continues the journey where Volume II left off amidst the Renaissance, quickly diving into the history-altering events of the Reformation. This fracturing of the Church dramatically altered the course of modern Europe and the world at large. This volume brings us through present-day Europe, showing us the effects of two world wars and how the Church responded to these changing times.

Free Download The Story Collector (Audiobook)
English | July 18, 2024 | ASIN: B0D1KTV4JX | M4B@64 kbps | 9h 27m | 289 MB
Author: Evie Woods | Narrator: Heather O’Sullivan
An evocative and charming novel full of secrets and mystery, from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Lost Bookshop
In a quiet village in Ireland, a mysterious local myth is about to change everything…