Tag: Death

Exit Interview The Life and Death of My Ambitious Career [Audiobook]


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English | ASIN: B0BVKXM1M2 | 2023 | 10 hours and 48 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 310 MB
Author: Kristi Coulter
Narrator: Kristi Coulter

A candid, intensely funny memoir of ambition, gender, and a grueling decade inside Amazon.com. What would you sacrifice for your career? All your free time? Your sense of self-worth? Your sanity? In 2006, Kristi Coulter left her cozy but dull job for a promising new position at the fast-growing Amazon.com, but she never expected the soul-crushing pressure that would come with it. In no time she found the challenge and excitement she’d been craving-along with seven-day workweeks, lifeboat exercises, widespread burnout, and a culture driven largely by fear. But the chase, the visibility, and, let’s face it, the stock options proved intoxicating, and so, for twelve years, she stayed-until she no longer recognized the face in the mirror or the mission she’d signed up for. Unsparing, absurd, and wickedly funny, Exit Interview is a rare journey inside the crucible that is Amazon. It is an intimate, surprisingly relatable look at the work life of a driven woman in a world that loves the idea of female ambition but balks at the reality.

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The Good Spy The Life and Death of Robert Ames


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May 20, 2014 | English | ASIN: 080416648X | 14 hrs 47 mins | M4B & MP3@63 kbps | 444 to 448 MB
Author: Kai Bird
Narrator: René Ruiz
On April 18, 1983, a bomb exploded outside the American Embassy in Beirut, killing 63 people. The attack was a geopolitical turning point. It marked the beginning of Hezbollah as a political force, but even more important, it eliminated America’s most influential and effective intelligence officer in the Middle East – CIA operative Robert Ames. What set Ames apart from his peers was his extraordinary ability to form deep, meaningful connections with key Arab intelligence figures. Some operatives relied on threats and subterfuge, but Ames worked by building friendships and emphasizing shared values – never more notably than with Yasir Arafat’s charismatic intelligence chief and heir apparent Ali Hassan Salameh (aka "The Red Prince"). Ames’ deepening relationship with Salameh held the potential for a lasting peace. Within a few years, though, both men were killed by assassins, and America’s relations with the Arab world began heading down a path that culminated in 9/11, the War on Terror, and the current fog of mistrust.

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Race Against Death The Greatest POW Rescue of World War II [Audiobook]


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English | April 18, 2023 | ASIN: B0BRQYJXBK | M4B@64 kbps | 4h 44m | 131 MB
Author: Deborah Hopkinson | Narrator: Ramón de Ocampo
Following the bombing of Pearl Harbor, America entered World War II, and a new theater of battle opened up in the Pacific. But US troops, along with thousands of Filipino soldiers who fought alongside them, were overtaken in the Philippines by a fiercely determined Japanese navy, and many Americans and Filipino fighters were killed or captured.

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Lady Death The Memoirs of Stalin’s Sniper [Audiobook]


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English | May 19, 2018 | ASIN: B07CVMYPV3 | MP3@128 kbps | 14h 13m | 781.76 MB
Author: Lyudmila Pavlichenko, David Foreman, Martin Pelger, Alla Igorevna Begunova
Narrator: Emily Durante

In June 1941, when Hitler launched Operation Barbarossa, Lyudmila Pavlichenko left her university studies and ignored the offer of a position as a nurse to become one of Soviet Russia’s 2,000 female snipers. Less than a year later, she had 309 recorded kills, including 29 enemy sniper kills. She was withdrawn from active duty after being injured. She was also regarded as a key heroic figure for the war effort.

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Amusing Ourselves to Death Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business [Audiobook]


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English | January 16, 2007 | ASIN: B000MQ54BC | MP3@98 kbps | 4h 49m | 203.44 MB
Author: Neil Postman
Narrator: Jeff Riggenbach

In this eloquent and persuasive book, Neil Postman examines the deep and broad effects of television culture on the manner in which we conduct our public affairs, and how "entertainment values" have corrupted the very way we think.

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