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Free Download The Angel: The Egyptian Spy Who Saved Israel by Uri Bar-Joseph, Neil Shah, Tantor Audio
English | 2017 | ISBN: B071D1QPKV | Format: MP3 / Bitrate: 128 Kbps / 11 hours and 33 minutes + EPUB | 281 Mb
As the son-in-law of Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser and a close advisor to his successor, Anwar Sadat, Ashraf Marwan had access to the deepest secrets of the country’s government. But he himself had a secret: he was a spy for the Mossad, Israel’s intelligence service. Under the codename "The Angel", Marwan turned Egypt into an open book for the Israeli intelligence services and, by alerting the Mossad in advance of the joint Egyptian-Syrian attack on Yom Kippur, saved Israel from a devastating defeat.
Drawing on meticulous research and interviews, Uri Bar-Joseph pieces together Marwan’s story. In the process, he sheds new light on this volatile time in modern Egyptian and Middle Eastern history, culminating in 2011’s Arab Spring. The Angel chronicles the discord within the Israeli government that brought down Prime Minister Golda Meir – but the story doesn’t end there.
Marwan eluded Egypt’s ruthless secret services for many years until somebody talked. Five years later, his body was found in the garden of his London apartment building. Police suspected he had been thrown from his fifth-floor balcony, and thanks to explosive new evidence, Bar-Joseph can finally reveal who, how, and why.

Free Download The Alchemy of Finance by George Soros, Grover Gardner, Wiley Audio
English | 2001 | ISBN: B00005JXX2 | Format: MP3 / Bitrate: 128 Kbps / 2 hours and 49 minutes | 155 Mb
George Soros is unquestionably the most powerful and profitable investor in the world today. Dubbed by BusinessWeek as "The Man Who Moves the Markets," Soros has made a billion dollars going up against the British pound. Now, in The Alchemy of Finance, he shares the investment strategies he uses to read the mind of the market.

Free Download The Age of Insurrection: The Radical Right’s Assault on American Democracy by David Neiwert, Adam Barr, Tantor Audio
English | 2023 | ISBN: B0CNBFKZXH | Format: M4B / Bitrate: 128 Kbps / 16 hours and 15 minutes | 910 Mb
From a smattering of ominous right-wing compounds in the Pacific Northwest in the 1970s, to the shocking January 6, 2021 insurrection at the US Capitol, America has seen the culmination of a long-building war on democracy being waged by a fundamentally violent and antidemocratic far-right movement that unironically calls itself the "Patriot" movement.
So how did we get here? Award-winning journalist David Neiwert-who has been following the rise of these extremist groups since the late 1970s, when he was a young reporter in Idaho-explores how the movement was built over decades, how it was set aflame by Donald Trump and his cohorts, and how it will continue to attack American democracy for the foreseeable future. Neiwert especially studies how the Pacific Northwest has long been a breeding ground of extremist violence, from the time when neo-nazis migrated to the area from southern California in the 1970s, through the great battles in Portland and Seattle and neighboring towns over the last decade.
Laying out how these groups organize their terroristic violence and attacks on democratic institutions at every level-including local, state, and federal targets-Neiwert details what their strategies and plans look like for the foreseeable future.

Free Download Carol M. Swain (Author, Narrator), Mike Towle, Freddy Richardson (Narrator), "The Adversity of Diversity: How the Supreme Court’s Decision to Remove Race from College Admissions Criteria Will Doom Diversity Programs"
English | ASIN: B0CK2S1LTZ | 2023 | MP3@64 kbps | ~04:22:00 | 124 MB
When the US Supreme Court announced its landmark 6-3 decision to take race out of the equation for college and university admissions, it did more than just bring Affirmative Action in higher education to a screeching halt. It also fired a warning shot across the bow of businesses and governmental agencies across America: the days for workplace diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs that violate the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment have an expiration date. In The Adversity of Diversity, award-winning political scientist Carol M. Swain and collaborator Mike Towle offer an insightful look at DEI’s inception and evolution into a billion-dollar industry. Swain and Towle explain why DEI’s days are numbered, and how we as a people can move beyond divisiveness toward the unity promised by our nation’s motto, e Pluribus unum, "out of many, one."

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Free Download The AI Revolution in Medicine: GPT-4 and Beyond
Author: Peter Lee, Carey Goldberg, Isaac Kohane
Narrator: J. Hunter Ackerman
English | 2023 | ASIN: B0CB1SGRFH | MP3@64 kbps | Duration: 7h 24m | 612 MB
AI is about to transform medicine. Here’s what you need to know right now.

Free Download Andrés T. Tapia, Fayruz Kirtzman, Rene Ruiz (Narrator), "The 5 Disciplines of Inclusive Organizations: How Diverse and Equitable Enterprises Will Transform the World"
English | ASIN: B0C1CX1KCD | 2023 | MP3@64 kbps | ~09:17:00 | 264 MB
This book offers a new model for creating inclusive organizations and illuminates the vital role that diversity plays in developing solutions to the critical social, environmental, and leadership challenges we face.
While many companies are focusing on DEI efforts, what we need is to take inclusion to the next level. Our massive social, economic, and environmental challenges can only be solved only when organizations and institutions embrace complete inclusion. This book gives organizations practical steps for increasing diversity to enhance their capacity to solve global challenges.

Free Download The 3-Minute Rule: Say Less to Get More from Any Pitch or Presentation by Brant Pinvidic, Penguin Audio
English | 2019 | ISBN: B07YM414K6 | 5 hrs and 15 mins | M4B@127 kbps | 291 Mb
Want to deliver a pitch or presentation that grabs your audience’s ever-shrinking attention span? Ditch the colorful slides and catchy language. And follow one simple rule: Convey only what needs to be said, clearly and concisely, in three minutes or less.
That’s The 3-Minute Rule.
Hollywood producer and pitch master Brant Pinvidic has sold more than 300 TV shows and movies, run a TV network, and helmed one of the largest production companies in the world with smash hits like The Biggest Loser and Bar Rescue. In his nearly 20 years of experience, he’s developed a simple, straightforward system that’s helped hundreds – from Fortune 100 CEOs to PTA presidents – use top-level Hollywood storytelling techniques to simplify their messages and say less to get more.

Free Download The $12 Million Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art by Don Thompson, Adam Verner, Tantor Audio
English | 2014 | ISBN: B01NH9Y36U | Format: MP3 / 10 hours and 29 minutes | 288 Mb
Why would a smart New York investment banker pay $12 million for the decaying, stuffed carcass of a shark? By what alchemy does Jackson Pollock’s drip painting "No. 5, 1948" sell for $140 million?
Intriguing and entertaining, The $12 Million Stuffed Shark is a Freakonomics approach to the economics and psychology of the contemporary art world. Why were record prices achieved at auction for works by 131 contemporary artists in 2006 alone, with astonishing new heights reached in 2007? Don Thompson explores the money, lust, and self-aggrandizement of the art world in an attempt to determine what makes a particular work valuable while others are ignored.
This book is the first to look at the economics and the marketing strategies that enable the modern art market to generate such astronomical prices. Drawing on interviews with both past and present executives of auction houses and art dealerships, artists, and the buyers who move the market, Thompson launches the listener on a journey of discovery through the peculiar world of modern art. Surprising, passionate, gossipy, and revelatory, The $12 Million Stuffed Shark reveals a great deal that even experienced auction purchasers do not know.

Free Download Ten Years Hard Labour by Chris Williamson, Lola Books
English | 2023 | ISBN: B0C8TNKNQN | Format: MP3 / Bitrate: 64 Kbps / 12 hours and 13 minutes | 335 Mb
THE INSIDE STORY OF THE MILIBAND AND CORBYN YEARS, AND HOW THEY LED TO THE LABOUR LEFT’S DEMISE.
For 42 years, Chris Williamson was a Labour Party member. In 2010, he was elected to Parliament to represent his home town. However, in 2019, he was unceremoniously suspended from the party after being subjected to a smear campaign, and he later resigned in protest at the betrayal.
In this forensic memoir – free of his Labourist clutches – Williamson provides a unique ringside view. As well as lifting the lid on the amateurish politics-by-focus groups under Ed Miliband, Williamson exposes some of the major events that created and deepened Labour’s ‘antisemitism crisis’ under Jeremy Corbyn.

Free Download Ten Caesars: Roman Emperors from Augustus to Constantine by Barry Strauss, Arthur Morey, Simon & Schuster Audio
English | 2019 | ISBN: B07JR2D9DN | Format: M4B / Bitrate: 64 Kbps / 12 hours and 52 minutes | 350 Mb
Best-selling classical historian Barry Strauss tells the story of three-and-a-half centuries of the Roman Empire through the lives of 10 of the most important emperors, from Augustus to Constantine.
Barry Strauss’ Ten Caesars is the story of the Roman Empire from rise to reinvention, from Augustus, who founded the empire, to Constantine, who made it Christian and moved the capital east to Constantinople.
During these centuries, Rome gained in splendor and territory, then lost both. The empire reached from modern-day Britain to Iraq, and gradually, emperors came not from the old families of the first century but from men born in the provinces, some of whom had never even seen Rome. By the fourth century, the time of Constantine, the Roman Empire had changed so dramatically in geography, ethnicity, religion, and culture that it would have been virtually unrecognizable to Augustus.