Tag: Life

Free Download The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts: The True Story of The Bondwoman’s Narrative (Audiobook)
English | October 17, 2023 | ASIN: B0BQ5HWWR5 | M4B@128 kbps | 12h 59m | 707 MB
Author: Gregg Hecimovich | Narrators: Ron Butler, Janina Edwards
Named a Most Anticipated Title by: Associated Press, Los Angeles Times, and the Washington Post!
A groundbreaking study of the first Black female novelist and her life as an enslaved woman, from the biographer who solved the mystery of her identity, with a forward by Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Free Download The Last Viking: The Life of Roald Amundsen by Stephen R. Bown, Stephen Hoye, Audible Studios
English | 2014 | ISBN: B00J35XK82 | Format: M4B / Bitrate: 64 Kbps / 12 hours and 9 minutes | 331 Mb
The Last Viking unravels the life of the man who stands head and shoulders above all those who raced to map the last corners of the world. In 1900, the four great geographical mysteries – the Northwest Passage, the Northeast Passage, the South Pole, and the North Pole – remained blank spots on the globe. Within twenty years Roald Amundsen would claim all four prizes. Renowned for his determination and technical skills, both feared and beloved by his men, Amundsen is a legend of the heroic age of exploration, which shortly thereafter would be tamed by technology, commerce, and publicity. Fted in his lifetime as an international celebrity, pursued by women and creditors, he died in the Arctic on a rescue mission for an inept rival explorer.Stephen R. Bown has unearthed archival material to give Amundsen’s life the grim immediacy of Apsley Cherry-Garrard’s The Worst Journey in the World, the exciting detail of The Endurance, and the suspense of a Jon Krakauer tale. The Last Viking is both a thrilling literary biography and a cracking good story.

Free Download The Feeling of Life Itself: Why Consciousness Is Widespread but Can’t Be Computed (Audiobook)
English | August 25, 2020 | ASIN: B08FXSNC2P | M4B@128 kbps | 7h 34m | 352 MB
Author: Christof Koch | Narrator: Patrick Lawlor
A thought-provoking argument that consciousness-more widespread than previously assumed-is the feeling of being alive, not a type of computation or a clever hack
In The Feeling of Life Itself, Christof Koch offers a straightforward definition of consciousness as any subjective experience, from the most mundane to the most exalted-the feeling of being alive. Psychologists study which cognitive operations underpin a given conscious perception. Neuroscientists track the neural correlates of consciousness in the brain, the organ of the mind. But why the brain and not, say, the liver? How can the brain-three pounds of highly excitable matter, a piece of furniture in the universe, subject to the same laws of physics as any other piece-give rise to subjective experience? Koch argues that what is needed to answer these questions is a quantitative theory that starts with experience and proceeds to the brain. In The Feeling of Life Itself, Koch outlines such a theory, based on integrated information.

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 Burger King: A Whopper of a Story on Life and Leadership (Audiobook)
English | April 14, 2020 | ASIN: B086BR1XVB | M4B@128 kbps | 11h 5m | 610 MB
Author: Jim McLamore | Narrator: BJ Harrison
The Life and Legacy of an American Original
Co-founder and first CEO of Burger King, Jim McLamore, recounts the entrepreneurial journey of an international fast food chain and offers a message to today’s budding entrepreneur.

Free Download Ted Templeman: A Platinum Producer’s Life in Music (Audiobook)
English | April 14, 2020 | ASIN: B086MN1NR6 | M4B@128 kbps | 14h 23m | 1.02 GB
Authors: Ted Templeman, Greg Renoff | Narrator: Sean Runnette
Crafting smash hits with Van Halen, the Doobie Brothers, Nicolette Larson, and Van Morrison, legendary music producer Ted Templeman changed the course of rock history.
This autobiography (as told to Greg Renoff) recounts Templeman’s remarkable life from child jazz phenom in Santa Cruz, California, in the 1950s to Grammy-winning music executive during the ’70s and ’80s. Along the way, Ted details his late-’60s stint as an unlikely star with the sunshine pop outfit Harpers Bizarre and his grind-it-out days as a Warner Bros. tape listener, including the life-altering moment that launched his career as a producer: his discovery of the Doobie Brothers.

Free Download Sonic Warrior: My Life as a Rock N Roll Reprobate: Tales of Sex, Drugs, and Vomiting at Inopportune Moments (Audiobook)
English | April 14, 2020 | ASIN: B084KJ5X5H | M4B@128 kbps | 7h 1m | 388 MB
Author and Narrator: Lou Brutus
Sonic Warrior is a collection of insane-but-true stories from the career of rock radio legend Lou Brutus. Each chapter is a separate tale that careens around his 40-plus years of covering concerts, interviewing music’s biggest stars, and influencing generations of radio listeners. Starting with the first show he attended and continuing to the present day, stops along the way include Live Aid in Philadelphia, the Arctic, Live Earth in London, and the New Jersey Turnpike.
Whether having his life energy drained through the palm of his hand by Keith Richards of The Rolling Stones, watching cocaine get snorted off a stripper’s ass in Pantera’s dressing room, or drooling in his own lap after smoking some kind of mutant mind warp demon weed with Snoop Dogg, Brutus gives a hilariously unvarnished look at the realities of the music industry from his fly-on-the-wall, "I’m just the guy here to interview the band" vantage point. The book also features a foreword by his friend Corey Taylor, Grammy Award-winning singer for Slipknot and Stone Sour.

Free Download Somewhere Out There: My Animated Life (Audiobook)
English | July 19, 2022 | ASIN: B0B3NFZQFS | M4B@128 kbps | 11h 25m | 637 MB
Author and Narrator: Don Bluth
Don Bluth never felt like a Donald. So people have always called him Don. A matinee of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs awakened something within him. Despite growing up in rural Texas and Utah, he practiced and worked hard to become a Hollywood animator. And after working alongside his idol Walt Disney, and on films including Sleeping Beauty, The Sword in the Stone, Robin Hood, Winne the Pooh, The Rescuers, and Pete’s Dragon, he realized that the company had changed into something he didn’t necessarily believe in. So he made the industry-shocking decision to start his own animation studio.
It was from that studio-Don’s studio-that came such award-winning, generation-defining films as The Secret of NIMH, An American Tail, The Land Before Time, All Dogs Go to Heaven, Anastasia, and the video game Dragon’s Lair.

Free Download Shallow Graves: My Life as a Forensic Scientist on Britain’s Biggest Cases (Audiobook)
English | 01 September 2022 | ASIN: B0B7XTTDWM | M4B@128 kbps | 10h 29m | 556 MB
Author: Ray Fysh | Narrator: Michael Chance
The murder of Sarah Payne, Adam the Thames Torso, the London bombings, the Night Stalker and the poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko… The solving of all these cases can be linked to one man: Ray Fysh, a Charlton Athletic fan from Woolwich, a natural raconteur and also one of the finest forensic detectives the country has ever seen.
Ray began work for the Met Police in the 1970s when forensic investigation was seen as little more than a geeky side show, only in existence to confirm or eliminate evidence. But by the mid 90s Ray and his team had made huge progress in their field, contributing to the UK becoming a world-leading innovator in forensic techniques, with Ray himself being named as Special Adviser to the Forensic Science Service. As the SA, Ray worked alongside Senior Investigating Officers from day one of a case, directing his team to identify forensic opportunities and harvest case-cracking clues.

Free Download Ravensbruck: Life and Death in Hitler’s Concentration Camp for Women by Sarah Helm, Christa Lewis, Tantor Audio
English | 2017 | ISBN: B07119VQ5Q | MP3@64 kbps | 32 hrs 39 mins + EPUB | 893 Mb
On a sunny morning in May 1939, a phalanx of 867 women – housewives, doctors, opera singers, politicians, prostitutes – was marched through the woods 50 miles north of Berlin, driven on past a shining lake, then herded in through giant gates. Whipping and kicking them were scores of German women guards. Their destination was Ravensbrück, a concentration camp designed specifically for women by Heinrich Himmler, prime architect of the Holocaust. By the end of the war 130,000 women from more than 20 different European countries had been imprisoned there; among the prominent names were Geneviève de Gaulle, General de Gaulle’s niece, and Gemma La Guardia Gluck, sister of the wartime mayor of New York. Only a small number of these women were Jewish; Ravensbrück was largely a place for the Nazis to eliminate other inferior beings – social outcasts, Gypsies, political enemies, foreign resisters, the sick, the disabled, and the "mad". Over six years the prisoners endured beatings, torture, slave labor, starvation, and random execution. In the final months of the war, Ravensbrück became an extermination camp. Estimates of the final death toll by April 1945 have ranged from 30,000 to 90,000.