Category: E-Books

Free Download How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of "Intangibles" in Business by Douglas W. Hubbard, David Drummond
English | September 20, 2011 | ISBN: 1452654204 | Format: M4B / Bitrate: 64 Kbps / 12 hours and 40 minutes + PDF | 352 Mb
Anything can be measured. This bold assertion is the key to solving many problems in business and life in general. The myth that certain things can’t be measured is a significant drain on our nation’s economy, public welfare, the environment, and even national security. In fact, the chances are good that some part of your life or your professional responsibilities is greatly harmed by a lack of measurement-by you, your firm, or even your government. Building up from simple concepts to illustrate the hands-on yet intuitively easy application of advanced statistical techniques, How to Measure Anything reveals the power of measurement in our understanding of business and the world at large. This insightful and engaging book shows you how to measure those things in your business that until now you may have considered "immeasurable," including technology ROI, organizational flexibility, customer satisfaction, and technology risk. Offering examples that will get you to attempt measurements-even when it seems impossible-this book provides you with the substantive steps for measuring anything, especially uncertainty and risk. Don’t wait-listen to this book and find out: -The three reasons why things may seem immeasurable but are not -Inspirational examples of where seemingly impossible measurements were resolved with surprisingly simple methods -How computing the value of information will show that you probably have been measuring all the wrong things -How not to measure risk -Methods for measuring "soft" things like happiness, satisfaction, quality, and more -How to fine-tune human judges to be powerful, calibrated measurement instruments -How you can use the Internet as an instrument of measurement A complete resource with case studies, How to Measure Anything illustrates how author Douglas Hubbard-creator of Applied Information Economics-has used his approach across various industries. You’ll learn how any problem, no matter how difficult, ill-defined, or uncertain, can lend itself to measurement using proven methods. Straightforward and easy-to-follow, this is the resource you’ll refer to again and again-beyond measure.

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Free Download Hedge Funds for Dummies by Ann C. Logue, Pam Ward, Tantor Audio
English | 2020 | ISBN: B07Y8T48LY | M4B@64 kbps | ~14:10:00 | 393 Mb
Authored by Ann Logue, a financial writer and hedge fund specialist, this handy, friendly guide covers all the bases for investors of all levels. Whether you’re just building your first portfolio or you’ve been investing for years, you’ll find everything you need to know inside this audiobook.
If you’re investing for the future, you definitely want to minimize your risk and maximize your returns. A balanced portfolio with hedge funds is one of the best ways to achieve that sort of balance. This audiobook walks you step by step through the process of evaluating and choosing funds, incorporating them into your portfolio in the right amounts, and making sure they give you the returns you expect and deserve.

Free Download Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America’s Empire by Jonathan M. Katz, Adam Barr, Macmillan Audio
English | 2022 | ISBN: B094L6P968 | B094L6P968 | M4B@128 kbps | 804 Mb
A groundbreaking journey tracing America’s forgotten path to global power – and how its legacies shape our world today – told through the extraordinary life of a complicated Marine.
Smedley Butler was the most celebrated warfighter of his time. Best-selling books were written about him. Hollywood adored him. Wherever the flag went, "The Fighting Quaker" went – serving in nearly every major overseas conflict from the Spanish War of 1898 until the eve of World War II. From his first days as a 16-year-old recruit at the newly seized Guantánamo Bay, he blazed a path for empire: helping annex the Philippines and the land for the Panama Canal, leading troops in China (twice), and helping invade and occupy Nicaragua, Puerto Rico, Haiti, Mexico, and more. Yet in retirement, Butler turned into a warrior against war, imperialism, and big business, declaring: "I was a racketeer for capitalism."

Free Download From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death (Audiobook)
English | October 03, 2017 | ASIN: B0753M5DPP | M4B@64 kbps | 5h 37m | 199 MB
Author and Narrator: Caitlin Doughty
The best-selling author of Smoke Gets in Your Eyes expands our sense of what it means to treat the dead with "dignity".

Free Download Fear: An Alternative History of the World (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C9F38CVX | 2023 | 11 hours and 45 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 641 MB
Author: Robert Peckham
Narrator: Callum Coates

Free Download Faith and the Founding Fathers by Adam Jortner, The Great Courses, Audible Originals
English | 2019 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0829CYLCC | Format: M4B / Bitrate: 32 Kbps / 5 hours and 51 minutes | 158 Mb
What did the Founding Fathers think about religion? And why did a group of practicing Protestants create a republic with widespread religious liberty? The 12 lectures included in this fascinating course provide multi-layered insights into the vision, philosophies, politics, and deep-seated faith of these brilliant leaders – in their own time, in their own words.
Listeners will examine the unorthodox religious journeys of men like George Washington, Ben Franklin, Thomas Paine, and John Jay, as well as the profound and passionate faiths of John Adams, Patrick Henry, and Benjamin Rush. They’ll also explore the ways in which the Founders thought about mixing religion with political power, from establishing national fast days to disestablishing state churches.

Free Download Energy Rising: The Neuroscience of Leading with Emotional Power
Author: Julia DiGangi
Narrator: Vanessa Daniels
English | 2023 | ASIN: B0CCYXFGRF | MP3@64 kbps | Duration: 5h 48m | 345 MB

Free Download Change Proof: Leveraging the Power of Uncertainty to Build Long-Term Resilience by Adam Markel, Mike Chamberlain, McGraw Hill-Ascent Audio
English | 2022 | ISBN: B09XY1NDGH | 8 hours and 47 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 241 Mb
In his #1 bestselling guide to resilience, Pivot, business and personal development expert Adam Markel showed how building resilience can supercharge your life and career. Now, in Change Proof, he shows how you can move beyond managing change to actively embracing it-and actually using times of uncertainty, crisis, and chaos to create opportunities and stimulate positive growth.
Broken down into four parts, Change Proof explores the dynamics of change and provides a model of how to create the mindset that embraces it fully. Using case studies, current research, and his years of experience as an expert in the integration of business and personal development, Markel uses real-life scenarios to illuminate the lessons in engaging chapters that include The Myth of Balance, The Resilience Bank Account, Recovery vs. Burnout, Even Michael Jordan Paused, Get Out of Your Head, A Little Failure Goes a Long Way, Calm Is Contagious, and What Change-Proof Culture Can Do for You.

Free Download Case White: The Invasion of Poland 1939 by Robert Forczyk, Simon Vance, Tantor Audio
English | 2019 | ISBN: B07Z9MP196 | MP3@64 kbps | ~15:31:00 | 439 Mb
The German invasion of Poland on 1 September, 1939, designated as Fall Weiss (Case White), was the event that sparked the outbreak of World War II in Europe. The campaign has widely been described as a textbook example of Blitzkrieg, but it was actually a fairly conventional campaign as the Wehrmacht was still learning how to use its new Panzers and dive-bombers.
The Polish military is often misrepresented as hopelessly obsolete and outclassed by the Wehrmacht, yet in fact it was well-equipped with modern weapons and armor. Indeed, the Polish possessed more tanks than the British and had cracked the German Enigma machine cipher. Though the combined assault from Germany and the Soviet Union defeated Poland, it could not crush the Polish fighting spirit and thousands of soldiers and airmen escaped to fight on other fronts. The result of Case White was a brutal occupation, as Polish Slavs found themselves marginalized and later eliminated, paving the way for Hitler’s vision of Lebensraum (living space) and his later betrayal and invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941.

Free Download Body Horror: Capitalism, Fear, Misogyny, Jokes by Anne Elizabeth Moore, OrangeSky Audio
English | 2023 | ISBN: B0BWPKQCST | Format: MP3 / Bitrate: 64 Kbps / 8 hours and 24 minutes | 231 Mb
Whether for entertainment, under the guise of medicine, or to propel consumerism, heinous acts are perpetrated daily on women’s bodies. In Body Horror: Capitalism, Fear, Misogyny, Jokes, award-winning journalist Anne Elizabeth Moore catalogs the global toll of capitalism on our physical autonomy. Weaving together unflinching research and surprising humor, these essays range from investigative-probing the Cambodian garment industry, the history of menstrual products, or the gender biases of patent law-to uncomfortably intimate. Informed by her own navigation of several autoimmune diagnoses, Moore examines what it takes to seek care and community in the increasingly complicated, problematic, and disinterested US healthcare system.
A Lambda Literary Award finalist and a Chicago Review of Books Nonfiction Award shortlist title, Body Horror is "sharp, shocking, and darkly funny. . . . Brainy and historically informed, this collection is less a rallying cry or a bitter diatribe than a series of irreverent and ruthlessly accurate jabs at a culture that is slowly devouring us" (Publishers Weekly, starred review). Featuring an updated introduction and new essays, this new edition of Body Horror is a fascinating, insightful portrait of the gore that encapsulates contemporary American politics.