Category: E-Books

Free Download Exchange-Traded Funds for Dummies, 3rd Edition by Russell Wild MBA, Chris Sorensen, Tantor Audio
English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B09PWMK1YQ | MP3@64 kbps | 17h 11m | 487 Mb
Want to expand your portfolio beyond stocks and mutual funds? Then take a look at exchange-traded funds (ETFs)! A cross between an index fund and a stock, they’re transparent, easy to trade, and tax-efficient. They’re also enticing because they consist of a bundle of assets, so diversifying your portfolio is easy. You might have even seen them offered in your 401(k) or 529 college plan.
Exchange-Traded Funds for Dummies is your primer on ETFs. It gives you an insider perspective on the investment process, starting with an overview of ETFs and how they differ from stocks and mutual funds. The book also helps you measure risk and add on to your portfolio, and offers advice on how to avoid the mistakes even professionals sometimes make. Throughout, you’ll also find plenty of tips, tricks, and even sample portfolios to set you up on the right path for investment success.

Free Download Essays in Humanism by Albert Einstein, David Rockefeller Jr., Audible Studios
English | 2013 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B00AIXAVPI | M4B@64 Kbps | Duration: 5:13 h | 142 Mb
An inspiring collection of the great thinker’s views on a rapidly changing world.
Nuclear proliferation, Zionism, and the global economy are just a few of the insightful and surprisingly prescient topics scientist Albert Einstein discusses in this volume of collected essays from between 1931 and 1950. Written with a clear voice and a thoughtful perspective on the effects of science, economics, and politics in daily life, Einstein’s writings provide an intriguing view inside the mind of a genius addressing the philosophical challenges presented during the turbulence of the Great Depression, the Second World War, and the dawn of the Cold War.

Free Download Epidemiology for Dummies (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CG6VS6QB | 2023 | 17 hours and 47 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 510 MB
Author: Amal K. Mitra
Narrator: Keval Shah
Become a disease detective with this easy-to-understand resource. Epidemiology For Dummies is packed with key concepts, practical applications, and real-life examples in the study of disease transmission and control. It’s a must-have for students in all public-health-related fields, and for curious learners, too. This Dummies guide will help you conquer even the trickiest epidemiological concepts. In this introduction to the fascinating, complex science, you’ll learn-in terms anyone can understand-all the basic principles of epidemiology, plus how those concepts translate to public health outcomes and policy decisions. Anyone who wants or needs to understand the fundamentals of epidemiology and the science behind public health will love Epidemiology For Dummies.

Free Download Don’t Just Sit There, Do Nothing: Healing, Chilling, and Living with the Tao Te Ching by Jessie Asya Kanzer, Laura Day – foreword, Tantor Audio
English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B09TCRXNPJ | MP3@64 kbps | 7h 36m | 208 Mb
Here are 47 inspirational pieces that are smart, hip, accessible, and rich with insight. Jessie Asya Kanzer’s bite-sized stories of struggle, triumph, and contemplation provide a quick burst of mindfulness. Each chapter begins with a verse from the Tao, followed by sharp observations and anecdotes from her own life that give the teachings of Lao Tzu applicability to contemporary life. And each chapter concludes with a "Do Your Tao" section that offers an actionable step, leaving the listener with a sense of grounding and fluidity.
Chapters include: "Success Sucks (Sometimes)", "F-k This, I’m Water", "I Love You, I Not Love You", "The Tao of Babushka", and "Mystics Wear Leggings".

Free Download Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CHG267MJ | 2023 | 11 hours and 52 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 338 MB
Author: Ben Goldfarb
Narrator: Malcolm Hillgartner
Some 40 million miles of roadways encircle the earth, yet we tend to regard them only as infrastructure for human convenience. While roads are so ubiquitous they’re practically invisible to us, wild animals experience them as entirely alien forces of death and disruption. In Crossings, environmental journalist Ben Goldfarb travels throughout the United States and around the world to investigate how roads have transformed our planet. A million animals are killed by cars each day in the US alone, but as the new science of road ecology shows, the harms of highways extend far beyond roadkill.

Free Download Colossus: Hoover Dam and the Making of the American Century by Michael Hiltzik, Norman Dietz, Tantor Audio
English | 2010 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B003OXTOTS | MP3@96 kbps | 18 hrs 5 mins | 782 Mb
As breathtaking today as when it was completed, Hoover Dam ranks among America’s greatest achievements. The story of its conception, design, and construction is the story of the United States at a unique moment in history: when facing both a global economic crisis and the implacable elements of nature, we prevailed.
The United States after Hoover Dam was a different country from the one that began to build it, going from the glorification of individual effort to the value of shared enterprise and communal support. The dam became the physical embodiment of this change. A remote regional construction project was transformed from a Republican afterthought into a New Deal symbol of national pride. Hoover Dam went on to shape not only the American West but the American century.

Free Download Challenging Destiny: A Biography of Chhatrapati Shivaji by Medha Deshmukh Bhaskaran, Avinash Kumar Singh, Audible Studios
English | 2018 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B07C5BGRZC | M4B@64 Kbps | Duration:11:18 h | 308 Mb
When destiny stood between him and his destination.

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Free Download Breakfast in Burgundy: A Hungry Irishman in the Belly of France by Raymond Blake, John Keating, Audible Studios
English | 2014 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B00QKWLK7O | M4B@64 Kbps | Duration: 9:20 h | 254 Mb
Laced with compelling writing about French food and its ways, Breakfast in Burgundy is part travel memoir, part foodie detective story, and part love song to Raymond’s adopted home. This audiobook tells the story of the Blake’s decision to buy a house in Burgundy. Raymond describes the moments of despair such as the water leak that cost a fortune and the fantastic times too. Blake has admitted to being fascinated by flavor and how it is created." Breakfast in Burgundy contains tales from the kitchen, and the answer to the question that begins each day ("What’s for dinner?") is given ample coverage. The hunt for the best jambon persill is portrayed in detail. The same diligence is applied to the search for the best Comt cheese; for there’s Comt and there’s Comtonce nibbled, never forgotten. Yet to be perfected by Blake is Chicken Gaston Grard, said to have been first cooked in Dijon in 1930 for the celebrated gourmet Curnonsky by the mayor’s wife. A neighboring winemaker’s wife prepared it for Blake, as he watched over her shoulder. Breakfast in Burgundy documents these results and more. Included are tips on how best to prepare, cook, and serve the various goodies, as well as the story behind the wines (some of the most sought after in the world) that complement the foods, telling of people and places, who made the wine and where it is from – without recourse to tedious technical detail or dry-as-tinder tasting notes.

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Free Download Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative by Melissa Febos, HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books
English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B09TV8ZVB6 | 3 hours and 35 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 116 Mb
In this bold and exhilarating mix of memoir and master class, Melissa Febos tackles the emotional, psychological, and physical work of writing intimately while offering an utterly fresh examination of the storyteller’s life and the questions which run through it.
How might we go about capturing on the page the relationships that have formed us? How do we write about our bodies, their desires and traumas? What does it mean for an author’s way of writing, or living, to be dismissed as "navel-gazing" – or else hailed as "so brave, so raw"? And to whom, in the end, do our most intimate stories belong?

Free Download Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B097HRBF2Y | 2023 | 15 hours and 42 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 452 MB
Author: Michael Harriot
Narrator: Michael Harriot
From acclaimed columnist and political commentator Michael Harriot, a searingly smart and bitingly hilarious retelling of American history that corrects the record and showcases the perspectives and experiences of Black Americans. America’s backstory is a whitewashed mythology implanted in our collective memory. It is the story of the pilgrims on the Mayflower building a new nation. It is George Washington’s cherry tree and Abraham Lincoln’s log cabin. It is the fantastic tale of slaves that spontaneously teleported themselves here with nothing but strong backs and negro spirituals. It is a sugarcoated legend based on an almost true story. It should come as no surprise that the dominant narrative of American history is blighted with errors and oversights-after all, history books were written by white men with their perspectives at the forefront. It could even be said that the devaluation and erasure of the Black experience is as American as apple pie. In Black AF History, Michael Harriot presents a more accurate version of American history.