English | ASIN: B09G46QXLD | 2021 | 12 hours and 10 minutes |MP3|M4B | 334 MB In Down South, writer Bruce Ansley goes on a journey back to his beloved South Island. From Curio Bay to Golden Bay, in Down South, writer Bruce Ansley sets off on a vast expedition across the South Island, Te Waipounamu, visiting the places and people who hold clues to the south's famous character. Not so very long ago, the South Island had most of New Zealand's people and just about all of the money. Gold miners found fortunes in the hills and rivers, sheep barons straddled mountains, valleys and plains. Wealthy southerners ruled the government. Where now lies the South Island's golden fleece? And what is its future? English | ASIN: B00CLFWRDK | 2013 | 7 hours and 30 minutes |MP3|M4B | 206 MB Filled with colorful characters and history, Double Entry takes us from the ancient origins of accounting in Mesopotamia to the frontiers of modern finance. At the heart of the story is double-entry bookkeeping: the first system that allowed merchants to actually measure the worth of their businesses. Luca Pacioli - monk, mathematician, alchemist, and friend of Leonardo da Vinci - incorporated Arabic mathematics to formulate a system that could work across all trades and nations. English | ASIN: B07K1GQ5H6 | 2019 | 6 hours and 56 minutes |MP3|M4B | 156 MB At the age of 23, Brian Wood was thrust into the front line in Iraq, in the infamous Battle of Danny Boy. Ambushed, he led a charge across open ground with insurgents firing at just five soldiers. On his return, he was awarded the Military Cross. But Brian's story had only just begun. Struggling to reintegrate into family life, he suffered from PTSD. Then, five years later, a letter arrived: it summoned him to testify at the Al-Sweady Inquiry into allegations of war crimes by British soldiers during the Iraq invasion of 2003. English | ASIN: B09L2RRH4H | 2021 | 5 hours and 29 minutes |MP3|M4B | 151 MB Dorothy L Sayers was a woman of contrasts. Possessing a fierce intellect, she translated Dante - and also created one of the most popular fictional detectives ever, in Lord Peter Wimsey. With no new biographies on Sayers having been published for some time, Colin Duriez reassesses her, her life, her writings, her studies and her faith. Drawing on previously unpublished material, particularly her collected letters, he brings to life a fascinating woman. English | 2021 | ASIN: B09MGGPBLN | 2 hours and 48 minutes |MP3|M4B | 77 MB Sales is an art and it is a passion. English | ASIN: B09BBMKW4J | 2021 | 12 hours and 25 minutes |MP3|M4B | 677 MB While at Guantánamo, he wrote a series of manuscripts he sent as letters to his attorneys, which he then transformed into this vital chronicle, in collaboration with award-winning writer Antonio Aiello. With unexpected warmth and empathy, Mansoor unwinds a narrative of fighting for hope and survival in unimaginable circumstances, illuminating the limitlessness of the human spirit. And through his own story, he also tells Guantánamo's story, offering an unprecedented window into one of the most secretive places on earth and the people - detainees and guards alike - who lived there with him. Twenty years after 9/11, Guantánamo remains open, and at a moment of due reckoning, Mansoor Adayfi helps us understand what actually happened there - both the horror and the beauty - a stunning record of an experience we cannot afford to forget.
English | ASIN: B079R8FYGV | 2018 | 9 hours and 55 minutes |MP3|M4B | 272 MB Emotional and intimacy issues which contaminate relationships are solved in this book, along with a proven strategy for enhancing all aspects of personal connection. These insightful answers can transform an adult or teen from feeling frustrated, insecure, and isolated into a happy, radiant, and confident person. Transform yourself from being a caterpillar on the fringe of a leaf to a dynamic social butterfly. Achieve a full array of social skills by doing this one thing in your life... and completely change your life forever!
English | ASIN: B09HN9DW1W | 2021 | 7 hours and 21 minutes |MP3|M4B | 203 MB A practical how-to guide to creating a culture of diversity and inclusion at your workplace. Companies from around the world are doing their best to achieve greater levels of diversity in senior leadership positions. However, their efforts are frequently unsuccessful, meeting widespread cultural resistance and pushback. Only a few firms create lasting change in the makeup of their boards and executive leadership. So, what sets these successful firms apart from their less successful counterparts? Diversity Intelligence provides listeners with a road map to achieving impactful change in the areas of diversity and inclusion. English | ASIN: B095L17H5S | 2021 | 14 hours and 37 minutes |MP3|M4B | 798 MB Not too long ago, lethal infections were feared in the Western world. Since that time, many countries have undergone a transformation from disease cesspools to much safer, healthier habitats. Starting in the mid-1800s, there was a steady drop in deaths from all infectious diseases, decreasing to relatively minor levels by the early 1900s. The history of that transformation involves famine, poverty, filth, lost cures, eugenicist doctrine, individual freedoms versus state might, protests and arrests over vaccine refusal, and much more. |