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Free Download The Excellence Dividend: Meeting the Tech Tide with Work That Wows and Jobs That Last by Tom Peters, Random House Audio
English | 2018 | ISBN: B079J4QJGS | Format: M4B / Bitrate: 48 Kbps / 11 hours and 36 minutes + EPUB | 243 Mb
Brilliantly simple, actionable guidelines for success that any business leader can immediately implement.
"Tom Peters’ new book is a bundle of beautiful dynamite. While I’ve been a CEO for 30 years, I still learned much worth knowing from The Excellence Dividend. You will too."
-John C. Bogle, founder, Vanguard

Free Download The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappe, Paul Boehmer, Tantor Audio
English | 2017 | ISBN: B077KDH396 | Format: Opus / Bitrate: 32 Kbps / 12 hours and 40 minutes | 168 Mb
Renowned Israeli historian Ilan Pappe’s groundbreaking book revisits the formation of the State of Israel. Between 1947 and 1949, over 400 Palestinian villages were deliberately destroyed, civilians were massacred, and around a million men, women, and children were expelled from their homes at gunpoint.
Denied for almost six decades, had it happened today it could only have been called "ethnic cleansing." Decisively debunking the myth that the Palestinian population left of their own accord in the course of this war, Ilan Pappe offers impressive archival evidence to demonstrate that, from its very inception, a central plank in Israel’s founding ideology was the forcible removal of the indigenous population. This is an indispensable book for anyone interested in the current crisis in the Middle East.

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Free Download The End of Wall Street by Roger Lowenstein, Erik Synnestvedt, Penguin Audio
English | 2010 | ISBN: B003FOOGDA | Format: MP3 / Bitrate: 128 Kbps / 11 hours and 33 minutes + EPUB | 628 Mb
The roots of the mortgage bubble and the story of the Wall Street collapse – and the government’s unprecedented response – from our most trusted business journalist.
The End of Wall Street is a blow-by-blow account of America’s biggest financial collapse since the Great Depression. Drawing on 180 interviews, including sit-downs with top government officials and Wall Street CEOs, Lowenstein tells, with grace, wit, and razor-sharp understanding, the full story of the end of Wall Street as we knew it.
Displaying the qualities that made When Genius Failed a timeless classic of Wall Street, his sixth sense for narrative drama, and his unmatched ability to tell complicated financial stories in ways that resonate with ordinary readers and listeners, Roger Lowenstein weaves a financial, economic, and sociological thriller that indicts America for succumbing to the siren song of easy debt and speculative mortgages.

Free Download Shaun Rein, Bill Roberts (Narrator), "The End of Cheap China: Economic and Cultural Trends that Will Disrupt the World"
English | ASIN: B08C5N7ZW2 | 2020 | MP3@64 kbps | ~07:21:00 | 208 MB
An exposé on how the rise of China will affect the American way of life, The End of Cheap China is a fun, riveting, must-listen audiobook not only for people doing business in China but for anyone interested in understanding the forces that are changing the world.
Many Americans know China for manufacturing cheap products, thanks largely to the country’s vast supply of low-cost workers. But China is changing, and the glut of cheap labor that has made everyday low prices possible is drying up as the Chinese people seek not to make iPhones, but to buy them. Shaun Rein, Founder of the China Market Research Group, puts China’s continuing transformation from producer to large-scale consumer – a process that is further along than most economists think – under the microscope, examining eight megatrends that are catalyzing change in China and posing threats to Americans’ consumption-driven way of life.

Free Download The Emperor of Scent: A True Story of Perfume and Obsession by Chandler Burr, Jamie Renell, Tantor Audio
English | 2022 | ISBN: B09WZ96PY5 | 12 hours and 8 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 333 Mb
"A brilliant, feisty scientist at the center of a nasty, back-stabbing, utterly absorbing, cliff-hanging scramble for the Nobel Prize. The Emperor of Scent is a quirky, wonderful book." -John Berendt, author of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
The Emperor of Scent tells of the scientific maverick Luca Turin, a connoisseur and something of an aesthete who wrote a bestselling perfume guide and bandied about an outrageous new theory on the human sense of smell. Drawing on cutting-edge work in biology, chemistry, and physics, Turin used his obsession with perfume and his eerie gift for smell to turn the cloistered worlds of the smell business and science upside down, leading to a solution to the last great mystery of the senses: how the nose works.

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Free Download The Elements of Voice First Style: A Practical Guide to Voice User Interface Design
Author: Ahmed Bouzid, Weiye Ma
Narrator: Tim Lounibos
English | 2023 | ASIN: B0CNBKJWGJ | MP3@64 kbps | Duration: 5h 27m | 352 MB
If you’re a new or experienced designer of conversational voice first experiences, this handy reference provides actionable answers to key aspects of eyes-busy, hands-busy, voice-only user interfaces. Designed as a companion to books about conversational voice design, this guide includes important details regarding eyes-free, hands-free, voice-only interfaces delivered by Amazon Echo, Google Nest, and a variety of in-car experiences.

Free Download The Einstein of Money: The Life and Timeless Financial Wisdom of Benjamin Graham by Joe Carlen, Walter Dixon, Gildan Media, LLC
English | 2012 | ISBN: B009J0ER3S | 10 hours and 23 minutes / Format: MP3 / Bitrate: 64 Kbps | 285 Mb
"Even in 2012, Ben Graham is still a hero to me" – Warren Buffett (from the author’s interview with Buffett for The Einstein of Money)
Warren Buffett has repeatedly acknowledged Benjamin Graham, a man he personally studied and worked under, as the primary influence on his investment approach. Indeed, there is a direct line between the record-shattering investing performance of Buffett (and other value investors) and Graham’s life. In six books and dozens of papers, Graham-widely known as the "Dean of Wall Street"-left an extensive account of an investing system that, as Buffett can attest to, actually works!
In The Einstein of Money, author and business consultant Joe Carlen educates the listener on Graham’s most essential wealth-creation concepts (as selected by Buffett himself), while telling the colorful story of Graham’s amazing business career and his multifaceted personal life. As the author shows, Graham was a brilliant innovator in many areas-from devising a new currency to writing a Broadway play. His complex personality combined impeccable professional ethics with a checkered, even wild, romantic life.

Free Download The Duel: Diefenbaker, Pearson and the Making of Modern Canada (Audiobook)
English | October 10, 2023 | ASIN: B0BZJZL2TX | M4B@64 kbps | 17h 43m | 511 MB
Author: John Ibbitson | Narrator: Robin Wilcock
One of Canada’s foremost authors and journalists, offers a gripping account of the contest between John Diefenbaker and Lester Pearson, two prime ministers who fought each other relentlessly, but who between them created today’s Canada.
John Diefenbaker has been unfairly treated by history. Although he wrestled with personal demons, his governments launched major reforms in public health care, law reform and immigration. On his watch, First Nations on reserve obtained the right to vote and the federal government began to open up the North. He established Canada as a leader in the struggle against apartheid in South Africa, and took the first steps in making Canada a leader in the fight against nuclear proliferation. And Diefenbaker’s Bill of Rights laid the groundwork for the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. He set in motion many of the achievements credited to his successor, Lester B. Pearson.

Free Download The Dream of Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern Philosophy (Audiobook)
English | November 01, 2016 | ASIN: B01MF5IFYG | M4B@64 kbps | 10h 5m | 264 MB
Author and Narrator: Anthony Gottlieb
The author of the classic The Dream of Reason vividly explains the rise of modern thought.
Western philosophy is now two-and-a-half millennia old, but much of it came in just two staccato bursts, each lasting only about 150 years. In his landmark survey of Western philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissance, The Dream of Reason, Anthony Gottlieb documented the first burst, which came in the Athens of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. Now, in The Dream of Enlightenment, Gottlieb expertly navigates a second great explosion of thought, taking us to northern Europe in the wake of its wars of religion and the rise of Galilean science. In a relatively short period – from the early 1640s to the eve of the French Revolution – Descartes, Hobbes, Spinoza, Locke, Leibniz, and Hume all made their mark. The Dream of Enlightenment tells their story, and that of the birth of modern philosophy.

Free Download Mariana Luzzi, Ariel Wilkis, Kate Udall (Narrator), "The Dollar: How the US Dollar Became a Popular Currency in Argentina"
English | ASIN: B0CQ3RKMG1 | 2023 | M4B@64 kbps | ~11:28:00 | 339 MB
Originally published in Argentina in 2019 and now finally available in English, Luzzi and Wilkis’s acclaimed book traces the history of the economic, social, and political relevance of the dollar in Argentina and its popularization over the years.
How did the dollar come to play such a leading role in Argentina’s national existence? How and why did this global currency become a local currency on the other end of the Western hemisphere? Through the reconstruction of the social and cultural history of the US dollar in Argentina, Luzzi and Wilkis provide original insight into this sidebar of the dollar’s history, showing how it became a "local" currency even outside its country of origin.