English | ASIN: B09DLCHVD6 | 2021 | 8 hours and 54 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 245 MB
An investigation into the evolution of the seven-day week and how our attachment to its rhythms influences how we live. We take the seven-day week for granted, rarely asking what anchors it or what it does to us. Yet weeks are not dictated by the natural order. They are, in fact, an artificial construction of the modern world. With meticulous archival research that draws on a wide array of sources - including newspapers, restaurant menus, theater schedules, marriage records, school curricula, folklore, housekeeping guides, courtroom testimony, and diaries - David Henkin reveals how our current devotion to weekly rhythms emerged in the United States during the first half of the 19th century. Reconstructing how weekly patterns have insinuated themselves into the social practices and mental habits of Americans, Henkin argues that the week is more than just a regimen of rest days or breaks from work: It's a dominant organizational principle of modern society. Ultimately, the seven-day week shapes our understanding and experience of time.

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English | 2022 | MP3 | M4B | ASIN: B09RQ29SLN | Duration: 6:48 h | 175 MB
Mark Galeotti / Narrated by Mark Galeotti

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English | ASIN: B085QNFYR4 | 2020 | 40 hours and 39 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 1.1 GB
It was Adam Smith (1723-1790) who first established economics as a separate branch of knowledge, and many would say his work has never been surpassed. The Wealth of Nations, which appeared in 1776, is the definitive text for all who believe that economic decisions are best left to markets, not governments. At the heart of Smith's doctrine is an optimistic view of the effects of self-interest. Though each individual seeks only personal gain, the collective result is increased prosperity, which benefits society as a whole.

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English | ASIN: B09Q7FYTTK | 2022 | 6 hours and 55 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 191 MB
For decades, a secret army of tax attorneys, accountants, and wealth managers has been developing into the shadowy Wealth Defense Industry. These "agents of inequality" are paid millions to hide trillions for the richest 0.01 percent. In this book, inequality expert Chuck Collins, who himself inherited a fortune, interviews the leading players and gives a unique insider account of how this industry is doing everything it can to create and entrench hereditary dynasties of wealth and power. He exposes the inner workings of these "agents of inequality", showing how they deploy anonymous shell companies, family offices, offshore accounts, opaque trusts, and sham transactions to ensure the world's richest pay next to no tax. He ends by outlining a robust set of policies that democratic nations can implement to shut down the Wealth Defence Industry for good. This shocking expose of the insidious machinery of inequality is essential listening for anyone wanting the inside story of our age of plutocratic plunder and stashed cash.

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English | ASIN: B09PX2YZ3J | 2022 | 10 hours and 34 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 291 MB
In The Way of the Wall Street Warrior, 25-year veteran investment banker and finance professional, Dave Liu, delivers a humorous and irreverent insider's guide to thriving on Wall Street or Main Street. Liu offers hilarious and insightful advice on everything from landing an interview to self-promotion to getting paid. In this book, you'll discover: how to get that job you always wanted; why career longevity and "success" comes from doing the least amount of work for the most pay; how mastering cognitive biases and understanding human nature can help you win the rat race; how to make people think you're the smartest person in the room without actually being the smartest person in the room; how to make sure you do everything in your power to get paid well (or at least not get screwed too badly); and how to turn any weakness or liability into an asset to further your career.

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English | ASIN: B09PQ5SPPW | 2022 | 5 hours and 46 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 158 MB
In The Warren Buffett Portfolio, Hagstrom introduces the next wave of investment strategy, called focus investing, a comprehensive investment strategy used with spectacular results by Buffett. Focus investing directs investors to select a concentrated group of businesses by examining their management and financial positions as compared to their stock prices. A strategy that has historically outperformed the market, focus investing is based on the principle that a shareholder's return from owning a stock is ultimately determined by the economics of the underlying business.

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English | ASIN: B09HL8SBL2 | 2022 | 12 hours and 42 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 349 MB
China has concentration camps now. Why do Westerners claim our sins are unique? It is now in vogue to celebrate non-Western cultures and disparage Western ones. Some of this is a much-needed reckoning, but much of it fatally undermines the very things that created the greatest, most humane civilization in the world. In The War on the West, Douglas Murray shows how many well-meaning people have been fooled by hypocritical and inconsistent anti-West rhetoric. After all, if we must discard the ideas of Kant, Hume, and Mill for their opinions on race, shouldn't we discard Marx, whose work is peppered with racial slurs and anti-Semitism?

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English | ASIN: B09ZMV5LWD | 2022 | 12 hours and 49 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 352 MB
In the early eighteenth century, the British and Spanish Empires were fighting for economic supremacy in the Americas. Tensions between the two powers were high, and wars blossomed like violent flowers for nearly a hundred years, from the War of Spanish Succession, culminating in the War of Jenkins' Ear. This war would lay the ground work for the French and Indian War and, eventually, the War of the American Revolution. The War of Jenkins' Ear was a world war in the truest sense, engaging the major European powers on battlefields ranging from Europe to the Americas to the Asian subcontinent. Yet the conflict that would eventually become known as the War of Jenkins' Ear is barely known to us today. Yet it would cost fifty-thousand lives, millions in treasure, and over six hundred ships. In this definitive work of history, The War of Jenkins' Ear explores the war that established the future of two entire continents.

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English | 2019 | MP3 | M4B | ASIN: B07NSFZ1SF | Duration: 14:32 h | 399 MB
Peter S. Carmichael / Narrated by Walter Dixon

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English | ASIN: B08NM1ZNGS | 2022 | 9 hours and 59 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 274 MB
The gripping story of one of history's most important and yet little-known wars, the campaign culminating in the Battle of Actium in 31 BC, whose outcome determined the future of the Roman Empire. Following Caesar's assassination and Mark Antony's defeat of the conspirators who killed Caesar, two powerful men remained in Rome - Antony and Caesar's chosen heir, young Octavian, the future Augustus. When Antony fell in love with the most powerful woman in the world, Egypt's ruler Cleopatra, and thwarted Octavian's ambition to rule the empire, another civil war broke out. In 31 BC, one of the largest naval battles in the ancient world took place - more than 600 ships, almost 200,000 men, and one woman - the Battle of Actium.

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