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Free Download The Jews: Story of a People by Howard Fast, Nelson Runger, Recorded Books
English | 2011 | ISBN: B005DIZA90 | 12 hours and 18 minutes / Format: M4B / Bitrate: 48 Kbps | 171 Mb
"There is no human being on the face of this earth exempt from the Jewish influence. For as long as there has been history, the Jew has wandered through it, shaping it at times, riding the current silently at other times, but always leaving his mark. History without the Jew? It is inconceivable."-Howard Fast. His popular history brings the history of the Jewish people into focus, from Genesis to contemporary times.

Free Download The Japanese Mind: Understanding Contemporary Japanese Culture (Audiobook)
English | September 24, 2019 | ASIN: B07XS1G8D8 | M4B@128 kbps | 8h 48m | 482 MB
Editors: Roger J. Davies, Osamu Ikeno | Narrator: Eric Jason Martin
In The Japanese Mind, Roger Davies offers Westerners an invaluable key to the unique aspects of Japanese culture.
Listeners of this book will gain a clear understanding of what makes the Japanese, and their society, tick. Among the topics explored: aimai (ambiguity), amae (dependence upon others’ benevolence), amakudari (the nation’s descent from heaven), chinmoku (silence in communication), gambari (perseverance), giri (social obligation), haragei (literally, "belly art"; implicit, unspoken communication), kenkyo (the appearance of modesty), sempai-kohai (seniority), wabi-sabi (simplicity and elegance), and zoto (gift giving), as well as discussions of child-rearing, personal space, and the roles of women in Japanese society.

Free Download The Information Trade: How Big Tech Conquers Countries, Challenges Our Rights, and Transforms Our World by Alexis Wichowski, Tia Rider, HarperAudio
English | 2020 | ISBN: B07WHLDVKF | Format: MP3 / 8 hours and 57 minutes + EPUB | 186 Mb
In this timely, provocative, and ultimately hopeful audiobook, a widely respected government and tech expert reveals how Facebook, Google, Amazon, Tesla, and other tech giants are disrupting the way the world works, and outlines the growing risk they pose to our future if we do not act to contain them.
Today’s major technology companies – Google, Facebook, Amazon, Tesla, and others – wield more power than national governments. Because of their rising influence, Alexis Wichowski, a former press official for the State Department during the Obama administration, has re-branded these major tech companies "net states".
In this comprehensive, engaging, and prescriptive audiobook, she considers their growing and unavoidable influence in our lives, showing in eye-opening detail how these net states are conquering countries, disrupting reality, and jeopardizing our future – and what we can do to regulate and reform the industry before it does irreparable harm to the way we think, how we act, and how we’re governed. Combining original reporting and insights drawn from more than 100 interviews with technology and government insiders, including Microsoft president Brad Smith, Google CEO Eric Schmidt, the former Federal Trade Commission chair under President Obama, the co-founder of the Center for Humane Technology , and the managing director of Jigsaw – Google’s Department of Counterterrorism against extremis and cyber-attacks – The Information Trade explores what happens when we cede our power to them, willingly trading our personal freedom and individual autonomy for an easy, plugged-in existence.

Free Download The Influential Mind: What the Brain Reveals About Our Power to Change Others by Tali Sharot, Xe Sands, Macmillan Audio
English | 2017 | ISBN: B0752VTD6T | MP3@64 kbps | ~05:24:00 | 148 Mb
A cutting-edge, research-based inquiry into how we influence those around us and how understanding the brain can help us change minds for the better.
In The Influential Mind, neuroscientist Tali Sharot takes us on a thrilling exploration of the nature of influence. We all have a duty to affect others – from the classroom to the boardroom to social media. But how skilled are we at this role, and can we become better? It turns out that many of our instincts – from relying on facts and figures to shape opinions, to insisting others are wrong or attempting to exert control – are ineffective because they are incompatible with how people’s minds operate. Sharot shows us how to avoid these pitfalls and how an attempt to change beliefs and actions is successful when it is well matched with the core elements that govern the human brain.
Sharot reveals the critical role of emotion in influence, the weakness of data, and the power of curiosity. Relying on the latest research in neuroscience, behavioral economics, and psychology, the audiobook provides fascinating insight into the complex power of influence, good and bad.

Free Download The Infidel and the Professor: David Hume, Adam Smith, and the Friendship That Shaped Modern Thought by Dennis C. Rasmussen, Keith Sellon-Wright, Tantor Audio
English | 2018 | ISBN: B07CVKC8DD | MP3@64 kbps | 10 hrs 7 mins | 278 Mb
This is the story of the greatest of all philosophical friendships – and how it influenced modern thought.
David Hume is widely regarded as the most important philosopher ever to write in English, but during his lifetime, he was attacked as "the Great Infidel" for his skeptical religious views and deemed unfit to teach the young. In contrast, Adam Smith was a revered professor of moral philosophy and is now often hailed as the founding father of capitalism. Remarkably, the two were best friends for most of their adult lives, sharing what Dennis Rasmussen calls the greatest of all philosophical friendships.
The Infidel and the Professor is the first audiobook to tell the fascinating story of the friendship of these towering Enlightenment thinkers – and how it influenced their world-changing ideas. The audiobook follows Hume and Smith’s relationship from their first meeting in 1749, until Hume’s death in 1776. It describes how they commented on each other’s writings, supported each other’s careers and literary ambitions, and advised each other on personal matters, most notably after Hume’s quarrel with Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Members of a vibrant intellectual scene in Enlightenment Scotland, Hume and Smith made many of the same friends (and enemies), joined the same clubs, and were interested in many of the same subjects well beyond philosophy and economics – from psychology and history to politics and Britain’s conflict with the American colonies.

Free Download The Idiot Brain: A Neuroscientist Explains What Your Head Is Really up To (Audiobook)
English | 22 March 2016 | ASIN: B01D0O70JG | M4B@64 kbps | 10h 11m | 278 MB
Author: Dean Burnett | Narrator: Matt Addis
Why do you lose arguments with people who know MUCH LESS than you?
Why can you recognize that woman, from that thing…but can’t remember her name?

Free Download The Hunted
Author: Gabriel Bergmoser | Narrator: Toby Truslove
May 25, 2020 | English | ASIN: B082YHYTYM | 7 hrs 57 mins | M4B & MP3 @126 kbps
434.3 to 439.2 MB | Unabridged | Retail
Series: The Hunted Series, Book 1

Free Download Timothy Venning, Liam Gerrard (Narrator), "The Hundred Years War: An Alternative History of Britain"
English | ASIN: B0CPMBQH33 | 2023 | M4B@64 kbps | ~10:27:00 | 295 MB
Continuing his exploration of the alternative paths that British history might so easily have taken, Timothy Venning turns his attention to the Hundred Years War between England and France. Could the English have won in the long term, or, conversely, have been decisively defeated sooner?
Among the many scenarios discussed are what would have happened if the Black Prince had not died prematurely of the Black Death, leaving the ten-year-old Richard to inherit Edward III’s crown. What would have been the consequences if France’s Scottish allies had been victorious at Neville’s Cross in 1346, while most English forces were occupied in France? What if Henry V had recovered from the dysentery that killed him at 35, giving time for his son Henry VI to inherit the combined crowns of France and England as a mature (and half-French) man rather than an infant controlled by others? And what if Joan of Arc had not emerged to galvanize French resistance at Orleans?

Free Download Timothy Venning, Liam Gerrard (Narrator), "The Hundred Years War: An Alternative History of Britain"
English | ASIN: B0CPMBQH33 | 2023 | M4B@64 kbps | ~10:27:00 | 295 MB
Continuing his exploration of the alternative paths that British history might so easily have taken, Timothy Venning turns his attention to the Hundred Years War between England and France. Could the English have won in the long term, or, conversely, have been decisively defeated sooner?
Among the many scenarios discussed are what would have happened if the Black Prince had not died prematurely of the Black Death, leaving the ten-year-old Richard to inherit Edward III’s crown. What would have been the consequences if France’s Scottish allies had been victorious at Neville’s Cross in 1346, while most English forces were occupied in France? What if Henry V had recovered from the dysentery that killed him at 35, giving time for his son Henry VI to inherit the combined crowns of France and England as a mature (and half-French) man rather than an infant controlled by others? And what if Joan of Arc had not emerged to galvanize French resistance at Orleans?

Free Download The Human Element: Overcoming the Resistance That Awaits New Ideas by Loran Nordgren, David Schonthal, Peter Lerman
English | 2021 | ISBN: B09JHTW6VM | 7 hours and 13 minutes | MP3@64 kbps + EPUB | 200 Mb
The Human Element is for anyone who wants to introduce a new idea or innovation into the world. Most marketers, innovators, executives, and activists operate on a deep assumption. It is the belief that the best way to convince people to embrace a new idea is to heighten the appeal of the idea itself. We instinctively believe that if we add enough value, people will eventually say "yes." This reflex leads us down a path of adding features and benefits to our ideas or increasing the sizzle of our messaging-all in the hope of getting others on board. We call this instinct the "Fuel-based mindset." The Fuel-based mindset explains so much of what we do, from adding countless trivial features to software, to bolting a sixth blade onto a shaving razor.
By focusing on Fuel, innovators neglect the other half of the equation-the psychological Frictions that oppose change. Frictions create drag on innovation. And though they are rarely considered, overcoming these Frictions is essential for bringing new ideas into the world. The Human Element highlights the four Frictions that operate against innovation.
Perfect for business leaders, product managers, educators, and anyone else who seeks to bring new and exciting ideas to life, The Human Element is an indispensable resource to help people overcome the powerful forces of human nature that instinctively resist change.