Category: Audio Books

Free Download The Countryside: Ten Rural Walks Through Britain and Its Hidden History of Empire (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CXZ9R4CZ | 2024 | 14 hours and 15 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 409 MB
Author: Corinne Fowler
Narrator: Corinne Fowler
Ten walks through idyllic scenery reveal the countryside’s forgotten links to transatlantic slavery and colonialism-a work of accessible history that will transform our understanding of British landscapes and heritage. The green fields, rugged highlands, and rolling hills of England, Scotland, and Wales are commonly associated with adventure, romance, and seclusion as well as literary figures like Jane Austen and William Wordsworth. But in reality, many of these rural places-with their country houses, lakes, and shorelines-were profoundly changed by British colonial activity. Even hamlets and villages were affected by distant colonial events. Taking ten country walks, author Corinne Fowler explores the unique colonial dimensions of British agriculture, copper-mining, landownership, wool-making, coastal trade, and factory work in cotton mills. One route shows the links between English country houses and Indian colonization.

Free Download The Cost of Free Money: How Unfettered Capital Threatens Our Economic Future by Paola Subacchi, Henrietta Meire, Gildan Media
English | September 29, 2020 | ISBN: B08HVW93CY | 11 hours and 36 minutes | MP3 128 kbps | 637 Mb
A penetrating account of how unchecked capital mobility is damaging international cooperation, polarizing the economic landscape, and ultimately reshaping the global order
When it comes to the afflictions of the global economy, almost everyone – and especially Donald Trump – is quick to point the finger of blame at the state of international trade. But what about unconstrained capital flows? Unfettered capital has resulted in a string of financial and economic crises that have left our political systems strained and dialogue corroded. The once perceived benefits of openness have been cast to the wayside, and the cracks in the global order can no longer be ignored.
Paola Subacchi argues that international cooperation and interdependence have become crippled. Regional restrictions will soon strengthen and a multipolar order will take shape, leading to a distinctly transformed economic landscape in which China challenges the dominance of the US dollar. Combining history, analysis, and prediction, this book provides penetrating insight into the challenges facing the international economic order.

Free Download The Corporation and the Twentieth Century: The History of American Business Enterprise (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D6GWY44N | 2024 | 31 hours and 27 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 896 MB
Author: Richard N. Langlois
Narrator: Stephen Bowlby
The twentieth century was the managerial century in the United States. An organizational transformation, from entrepreneurial to managerial capitalism, brought forth what became a dominant narrative: that administrative coordination by trained professional managers is essential to the efficient running of organizations both public and private. And yet if managerialism was the apotheosis of administrative efficiency, why did both its practice and the accompanying narrative lie in ruins by the end of the century?

Free Download The Complete Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft by H. P. Lovecraft, Andrew Leman, Sean Branney
English | April 25, 2019 | ISBN: B07PX3S5LD | 51 hours and 40 minutes | MP3 64 Kbps | 1.38 Gb
For the first time ever, the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society has produced an audio recording of all of Lovecraft’s stories. These are not dramatizations like our Dark Adventure Radio Theatre – rather, this is an audiobook of the original stories, in all-new, never-before-heard recordings made by the HPLHS’ own Andrew Leman and Sean Branney exclusively for this collection. Working from texts prepared by Lovecraft scholar S.T. Joshi, this collection spans his entire career from his earliest surviving works of childhood to stories completed shortly before his death. All tales include original music by HPLHS composer Troy Sterling Nies. This audio bonanza features 74 stories adding up to more than fifty (50!) hours of Lovecraftian listening fun, professionally performed and recorded for your enjoyment.

Free Download The Color of Everything: A Journey to Quiet the Chaos Within (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CMPMTL6H | 2024 | 11 hours and 19 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 331 MB
Author: Cory Richards
Narrator: Cory Richards
Then, in the midst of a wildly successful career in adventure photography, a catastrophic avalanche changed everything, forcing Richards to confront the trauma of his past, evaluate his own mental health, and learn to rewrite his story. The Color of Everything is a thrilling tale of risk and adventure, written by a man who has done it all: He’s stood at the top of the world, climbed imposing mountain faces alone in the dark, and become the only American to summit an 8,000-meter peak in winter. But it is also the story of a tumultuous life-a stirring, lyrical memoir that captures the profound musings of an unquiet mind grappling with the meaning of success, the cost of fame and addiction, and whether it is possible to outrun your demons. With exquisite prose and disarming candor, Richards excavates the roots of his trauma and shares what it took for him to climb out of it.

Free Download Paul J. Maurer, Ed Skoudis, Rick Adamson (Narrator), "The Code of Honor: Embracing Ethics in Cybersecurity"
English | ASIN: B0DB3HN176 | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~05:42:00 | 157 MB
While some professions-including medicine, law, and engineering-have wholeheartedly embraced wide-ranging codes of ethics and conduct, the field of cybersecurity continues to lack an overarching ethical standard. This vacuum constitutes a significant threat to the safety of consumers and businesses around the world, slows commerce, and delays innovation.
The Code of Honor: Embracing Ethics in Cybersecurity delivers a first of its kind comprehensive discussion of the ethical challenges that face contemporary information security workers, managers, and executives. Authors Ed Skoudis, president of the SANS Technology Institute College and founder of the Counter Hack team, and Dr. Paul Maurer, president of Montreat College, explain how timeless ethical wisdom gives birth to the Cybersecurity Code which is currently being adopted by security practitioners and leaders around the world.
This practical book tells numerous engaging stories that highlight ethically complex situations many cybersecurity and tech professionals commonly encounter. It also contains compelling real-world case studies-called Critical Applications-at the end of each chapter that help the listener determine how to apply the hands-on skills described in the book.

Free Download The Climb to Investment Excellence: A Practitioner’s Guide to Building Exceptional Portfolios and Teams (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0DB8K1N5W | 2024 | 7 hours and 12 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 384 MB
Author: Ana Marshall
Narrator: Kate Coventry
A go-to resource for institutional investors and asset allocators seeking practical advice from a proven leader in the field. In The Climb to Investment Excellence: A Practitioner’s Guide to Building Exceptional Portfolios and Teams, celebrated institutional investor and asset allocator Ana Marshall draws on her thirty-six years’ experience in finance and investment to deliver a comprehensive and practical blueprint for a resilient and high-performing institutional portfolio, as well as a reliable roadmap for the management of its stakeholders. You’ll discover ready-to-deploy strategies and advice that’s informed by evidence and tried and tested in the real world, helping you to build and manage your team, construct a portfolio, set your goals, select the right managers, and more.

Free Download The Clash of the Cultures: Investment vs. Speculation (Audiobook)
English | September 10, 2019 | ASIN: B07X2Z828Q | M4B@64 kbps | 13h 11m | 381 MB
Author: John C. Bogle | Narrator: Al Kessel
Over the course of his 60-year career in the mutual fund industry, Vanguard Group founder John C. Bogle has witnessed a massive shift in the culture of the financial sector. The prudent, value-adding culture of long-term investment has been crowded out by an aggressive, value-destroying culture of short-term speculation. Mr. Bogle has not been merely an eyewitness to these changes, but one of the financial sector’s most active participants. In The Clash of the Cultures, he urges a return to the common-sense principles of long-term investing.
Provocative and refreshingly candid, this audiobook discusses Mr. Bogle’s views on the changing culture in the mutual fund industry, how speculation has invaded our national retirement system, the failure of our institutional money managers to effectively participate in corporate governance, and the need for a federal standard of fiduciary duty.

Free Download The Clarity Principle: How Great Leaders Make the Most Important Decision in Business (And What Happens When They Don’t) by Chatham Sullivan, Raymond Scully, Gildan Media
English | July 09, 2020 | ISBN: B08BZXXM3R | 5 hours and 46 minutes | MP3 128 Kbps | 475 Mb
Turf wars, low morale, bad politics, and misguided strategies: These are issues that claim much of a leader’s time. But this parade of dysfunctions and messy "people" problems actually points to an organization confused about its core business, torn between competing ideas about what it is and wants to be – an organization facing an identity crisis.
Strategy and leadership expert Chatham Sullivan argues that when the purpose of a business becomes confused, it is the leaders’ responsibility to restore clarity, especially in the face of tough strategic choices that have political, personal, and cultural consequences for the organization. Sullivan shows leaders how to take the decisive stand that clarifies their organization’s core purpose.
Featuring compelling stories of leaders who have succumbed to and successfully resolved their organization’s identity crises, The Clarity Principle bridges the gap between leadership and strategy and demonstrates the tremendous gains to be achieved by leaders willing to make tough choices.

Free Download The Circadian Diabetes Code: Discover the Right Time to Eat, Sleep, and Exercise to Prevent and Reverse Prediabetes and Diabetes (Audiobook)
English | November 09, 2021 | ASIN: B093QJQFVY | M4B@64 kbps | 9h 50m | 293 MB
Author: Satchin Panda | Narrator: Vikas Adam
Avoid, manage, and even reverse diabetes and prediabetes just by changing when – not what – you eat with this authoritative guide from the author of The Circadian Code.
Today, one in 10 Americans is diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, and one in three already has prediabetes. Prescription medications used to treat this chronic disease have unwanted side effects and at best, only manage the symptoms. What’s more, the restrictive dieting protocols used to manage diabetes are difficult to maintain over time.