Tag: Times

Free Download Crisis Leadership – Leading In Tough Times
Published 9/2023
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Language: English | Size: 646.80 MB | Duration: 0h 33m
Leadership through crisis using inspirational management techniques

Free Download A Persuasive Business Case For Times Of Rapid Change
Published 9/2023
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Language: English | Size: 983.83 MB | Duration: 2h 1m
Analysing an opportunity for change and presenting it to decision makers to maximise the chance of sign-off

Free Download David Pietrusza, "Rothstein: The Life, Times, and Murder of the Criminal Genius Who Fixed the 1919 World Series"
English | 2011 | pages: 528 | ISBN: 0465029388 | EPUB | 2,6 mb
History remembers Arnold Rothstein as the man who fixed the 1919 World Series, an underworld genius. The real-life model for The Great Gatsby’s Meyer Wolfsheim and Nathan Detroit from Guys and Dolls, Rothstein was much more – and less – than a fixer of baseball games. He was everything that made 1920s Manhattan roar. Featuring Jazz Age Broadway with its thugs, speakeasies, showgirls, political movers and shakers, and stars of the Golden Age of Sports, this is a biography of the man who dominated an age. Arnold Rothstein was a loan shark, pool shark, bookmaker, thief, fence of stolen property, political fixer, Wall Street swindler, labor racketeer, rumrunner, and mastermind of the modern drug trade. Among his monikers were "The Big Bankroll," "The Brain," and "The Man Uptown." This vivid account of Rothstein’s life is also the story of con artists, crooked cops, politicians, gang lords, newsmen, speakeasy owners, gamblers and the like. Finally unraveling the mystery of Rothstein’s November 1928 murder in a Times Square hotel room, David Pietrusza has cemented The Big Bankroll’s place among the most influential and fascinating legendary American criminals. 16 pages of black-and-white photographs are featured.

Free Download George Packer, "Interesting Times: Writings from a Turbulent Decade"
English | 2009 | pages: 409 | ISBN: 0374175721, 0374532524 | EPUB | 0,5 mb
Throughout his career as a journalist, George Packer has always been attuned to the voices and stories of individuals caught up in the big ideas and events of contemporary history. Interesting Times unites brilliant investigative pieces such as €œBetrayed,€ about Iraqi interpreters, with personal essays and detailed narratives of travels through war zones and failed states. Spanning a decade that includes the September 11 attacks and the election of Barack Obama, Packer brings insight and passion to his accounts of the war on terror,Iraq, political writers, and the 2008 election. Across these varied subjects a few keythemes recur: the temptations and dangers of idealism; the moral complexities of war and politics; the American capacity for self-blinding and self-renewal. Whether exploring American policies in the wake of September 11, tracking a used T-shirt from New York to Uganda, or describing the ambivalent response in Appalach

Free Download Jerry Pinto, "Helen: The Life and Times of A Bollywood H-Bomb"
English | 2016 | pages: 264 | ISBN: 0143031244 | EPUB | 2,2 mb
It is now over two decades since the Hindi-film heroine drove the vamp into extinction, and even longer since the silver screen was ignited by the true Bollywood version of a cabaret. Yet, Helen – nicknamed ‘H-Bomb’ at the height of her career – continues to rule the popular imagination. Improbably, for a dancer and a vamp she has become an icon.

Free Download The Times: How the Newspaper of Record Survived Scandal, Scorn, and the Transformation of Journalism (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BRBW587D | 2023 | 18 hours and 53 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 552 MB
Author: Adam Nagourney
Narrator: Robert Petkoff

Free Download Masters of Sex: The Life and Times of Williams Masters and Virginia Johnson, the Couple Who Taught America How to Love by Thomas Maier, Dorie Barton, Phoenix Books
English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B09WX2MCY5 | 12 hours and 19 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 338 Mb
Beginning in the 1950s, William Masters and Virginia Johnson convinced hundreds of people to shed their clothes and copulate-in the name of science. For more than 40 years, the pair served as the nation’s top experts on love, sex, and intimacy. In this eye-opening work, critically acclaimed biographer Thomas Maier presents an unprecedented look at the research team of Masters and Johnson, their pioneering studies of intimacy, and their lasting impact on the love lives of men and women.
Masters of Sex offers a titillating portrait of the team’s real-life story of love, work, and fame against the backdrop of an American sexual revolution they inspired.

Free Download Victorious in Defeat: The Life and Times of Chiang Kai-shek, China, 1887-1975 (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C9W38NRR | 2023 | 25 hours and 42 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 732 MB
Author: Alexander V. Pantsov
Narrator: Rick Adamson
An extensively researched, comprehensive biography of Chinese Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek, one of the twentieth century’s most powerful and controversial figures. Chiang Kai-shek (1887-1975) led the Republic of China for almost fifty years, starting in 1926. He was the architect of a new republican China, a hero of the Second World War, and a faithful ally of the United States. Simultaneously a Christian and a Confucian, Chiang dreamed of universal equality yet was a perfidious and cunning dictator responsible for the deaths of over 1.5 million innocent people.

Free Download Masquerade: The Life and Times of Deborah Sampson, Continental Soldier (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BF45C27P | 2023 | 13 hours and 57 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 386 MB
Author: Alfred F. Young
Narrator: Kate Mulligan
The remarkable story of the woman who fought in the American Revolution as Robert Shurtliff-and got away with it. Serving for seventeen months during the period between the British surrender at Yorktown and the signing of the final treaty, a time when peace was far from secure, Deborah Sampson accomplished her deception by becoming an outstanding soldier. Alfred Young shows us why she did it and exactly how she carried it off. He meticulously reconstructs her early life as an indentured servant; her young adulthood as a weaver, teacher, and religious rebel; and her military career in the light infantry-consisting of dangerous patrols and small-party encounters, duty that demanded constant vigilance-followed by service as an orderly to a general at West Point.

Free Download Cosmic Scholar: The Life and Times of Harry Smith (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CDY2HWSF | 2023 | 13 hours and 20 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 379 MB
Author: John Szwed
Narrator: Paul Woodson
He was an anthropologist, filmmaker, painter, folklorist, mystic, and walking encyclopedia. He taught Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe about the occult, swapped drugs with Timothy Leary, sat at the piano with Thelonious Monk, lived with (and tortured) Allen Ginsberg, and argued film with Susan Sontag. He was always broke, always intoxicated, compulsively irascible, and unimpeachably authentic. Harry Smith was, in the words of Robert Frank, "the only person I met in my life that transcended everything." In Cosmic Scholar, John Szwed patches together, for the first time, the life of one of the twentieth century’s most overlooked cultural figures.