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![]() English | ASIN: B098823BWG | 2022 | 8 hours and 17 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 227 MB Reggie Fils-Aimé, retired President and Chief Operating Officer of Nintendo of America Inc., shares leadership lessons and inspiring stories from his unlikely rise to the top. Although he's best known as Nintendo's iconic President of the Americas—immortalized for opening Nintendo's 2004 E3 presentation with, "My name is Reggie, I'm about kicking ass, I'm about taking names, and we're about making games"—Reggie Fils-Aimé's story is the ultimate game plan for anyone looking to beat the odds and achieve success. Learn from Reggie how to leverage disruptive thinking to pinpoint the life choices that will make you truly happy, conquer negative perceptions from those who underestimate or outright dismiss you, and master the grit, perseverance, and resilience it takes to dominate in the business world and to reach your professional dreams. ![]() English | ASIN: B09W7PN3NG | 2022 | 11 hours and 39 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 321 MB Getting to grips with the overlapping geopolitical, economic, and political crises faced by Western democratic societies in the 2020s. The twenty-first century has brought a powerful tide of geopolitical, economic, and democratic shocks. Their fallout has led central banks to create over $25 trillion of new money, brought about a new age of geopolitical competition, destabilized the Middle East, ruptured the European Union, and exposed old political fault lines in the United States. ![]() English | ASIN: B09TN6W1JH | 2022 | 11 hours and 53 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 326 MB Disinformation: The Nature of Facts and Lies in the Post-Truth Era cannot cure all the ills of a post-truth world, but by demonstrating how the emergence of digital technology into everyday life has knitted together a number of seemingly loosely related forces-historical, psychological, economic, and cultural-to create the post-truth culture, Disinformation will help you better understand how we got to where we now are, see how we can move beyond a culture in which facts are too easily dismissed, and develop a few highly practical skills for separating truth from lies. ![]() English | ASIN: B0B3JT6SLR | 2022 | 23 hours and 19 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 640 MB Historian William Sheehan and astronomer and planetary scientist Jim Bell combine their talents to tell a unique story of what we've learned by studying Mars through evolving technologies. What the eye sees as a mysterious red dot wandering through the sky becomes a blurry mirage of apparent seas, continents, and canals as viewed through Earth-based telescopes. Beginning with the Mariner and Viking missions of the 1960s and 1970s, space-based instruments and monitoring systems have flooded scientists with data on Mars's meteorology and geology, and have even sought evidence of possible existence of life-forms on or beneath the surface. This knowledge has transformed our perception of the Red Planet and has provided clues for better understanding our own blue world. ![]() English | ASIN: B09ZCVYK8P | 2022 | 9 hours and 18 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 256 MB A guide to align your daily life with your divine Soul Mission, bringing a sense of purpose and fullness, ease and joy into every day. Shares practices to bring you back in touch with the energy of your inner child, reconnect your soul with its mission, explore your soul contracts. Details ways of connecting with your Soul Mission and offers guidance for aligning through each method. Includes a fun exercise to establish a 12-month Soul Mission Manifestation Plan and set things in motion. ![]() English | ASIN: B09VY9XL1T | 2022 | 2 hours and 52 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 102 MB Disconnected is a little book about reclaiming our humanity in our increasingly digitized, monetized world. Our focus on community and real connection has been sent off-course, and we're becoming more aware of how the algorithm manipulates us and how our data has made us a product to be sold. So, where do we go from here, and how can we get back on track? Disconnected examines these topics and offers tangible tips and advice for those of us who might feel a little lost and are looking to find our real-life selves again. ![]() English | ASIN: B09K4KBX46 | 2022 | MP3 | M4B | ~08:42:00 | 246 MB Kathryn Judge, Megan Tusing (Narrator), "Direct: The Rise of the Middleman Economy and the Power of Going to the Source" ![]() English | ASIN: B09W8XJT6M | 2022 | 18 hours and 15 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 502 MB For more than twenty-five years, paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould wrote a column called "The View of Life" for Natural History magazine. More than thirty entries from that column comprise this collection, which covers topics from dinosaurs to baseball and nearly everything in between related to natural history and evolution. ![]() English | ASIN: B099GTN7NX | 2022 | 11 hours and 42 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 321 MB In the digital age, unequal access to technology and the revenue it creates is one of the most pressing issues facing the United States. There is an economic gulf between those who have struck gold in the tech industry and those left behind by the digital revolution; a geographic divide between those in the coastal tech industry and those in the heartland whose jobs have been automated; and existing inequalities in technological access - students without computers, rural workers with spotty Wi-Fi, and plenty of workers without the luxury to work from home. ![]() English | ASIN: B0B3Q2T19X | 2022 | MP3 | M4B | ~12:55:00 | 366 MB Eric Butow, Kendra Losee (Author), Kelly Noble Mirabella (Author), Kent Klineman (Narrator), "Digital Etiquette for Dummies" |