HBR Guide to Managing Up and Across (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BLPBWV8S | 2022 | 4 hours and 44 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 127 MB
Author: Harvard Business Review
Narrator: Jonathan Yen
To achieve your goals and get ahead, you need to rally people behind you and your ideas. But how do you do that when you lack formal authority? Or when you have a boss who gets in your way? Or when you're juggling others' needs at the expense of your own? By managing up, down, and across the organization. Your success depends on it, whether you're a young professional or an experienced leader. The HBR Guide to Managing Up and Across will help you: advance your agenda-and your career-with smarter networking; build relationships that bring targets and deadlines within reach; persuade decision makers to champion your initiatives; collaborate more effectively with colleagues; deal with new, challenging, or incompetent bosses; and navigate office politics.

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HBR Guide to Managing Stress at Work: HBR Guide Series, 2022 Edition (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BMFC3MFV | 2022 | 4 hours and 27 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 121 MB
Author: Harvard Business Review
Narrator: Jonathan Yen
Are you suffering from work-related stress? Feeling overwhelmed, exhausted, and short-tempered at work-and at home? Then you may have too much stress in your life. Stress is a serious problem that impacts not only your mental and physical health, but also your loved ones and your organization. So what can you do to address it? The HBR Guide to Managing Stress at Work will help you find a sustainable solution. It will help you reach the goal of getting on an even keel-and staying there.

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HBR Guide to Getting the Mentoring You Need: HBR Guide Series (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BN4SYCKN | 2022 | 3 hours and 42 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 192 MB
Author: Harvard Business Review
Narrator: Jonathan Yen
Find the right person to help supercharge your career. Whether you're eyeing a specific leadership role, hoping to advance your skills, or simply looking to broaden your professional network, you need to find someone who can help. Wait for a senior manager to come looking for you-and you'll probably be waiting forever. Instead, you need to find the mentoring that will help you achieve your goals. Managed correctly, mentoring is a powerful and efficient tool for moving up. The HBR Guide to Getting the Mentoring You Need will help you get it right.

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Great Short Books: A Year of Reading-Briefly (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B09V3GKMW9 | 2022 | 11 hours and 5 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 318 MB
Author: Kenneth C. Davis
Narrator: Kenneth C. Davis, Adenrele Ojo, Leon Nixon
A delightful, entertaining guide to some of the best short novels of all time from a best-selling historian, author, and lifelong reader. Fall back into the joys of literature with an extraordinary book for book lovers: a compulsively enjoyable, deeply engaging list of great short novels. A journey into short fiction designed with our contemporary attention spans in mind, Great Short Books suggests 58 excellent short novels, all easily consumable in a week or less-a "baker's dozen" approach to a fun, fascinating year of books. From hard-boiled fiction to magical realism, the 18th century to the present day, Great Short Books spans genres, cultures, countries, and time to present an enchanting and diverse selection of acclaimed and canonical novels.

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Great Novels: The World's Most Remarkable Fiction Explored and Explained (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BG98XHRC | 2022 | 10 hours and 49 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 276 MB
Author: DK
Narrator: Walles Hamonde
Discover everything you ever wanted to know about the world's greatest novels. From medieval romances and tales of chivalry through the realist novels of the 19th century to experimental modernist works and today's explorations of the self, Great Novels explores the finest novels from around the world and through time. Tilt at windmills with Don Quixote, experience heartbreak with Tolstoy, discover the society in which Jane Austen lived, and delve into the complex rites of passage experienced by characters in modern novels. Find out what inspired writers to create their masterpieces, what their aims were, and how they set about writing them. Organized chronologically and covering the whole range of literary styles, Great Novels takes you into the pages of the world's seminal novels, ranging from the entertaining adventures of Cervantes' errant knight through classics such as Great Expectations and Madame Bovary, to modern novels such as To the Lighthouse, The Outsider, Beloved, and Wolf Hall. Essential for everyone who loves books, Great Novels provides a fascinating overview of how the genre has developed through the ages and celebrates the perennial, life-affirming pleasures of reading.

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Global Crisis: War, Climate Change, & Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BN2L3Z6J | 2022 | 18 hours and 13 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 521 MB
Author: Geoffrey Parker
Narrator: Peter Noble
The acclaimed historian demonstrates a link between climate change and social unrest across the globe during the mid-seventeenth century. Revolutions, droughts, famines, invasions, wars, regicides, government collapses-the calamities of the mid-seventeenth century were unprecedented in both frequency and severity. The effects of what historians call the "General Crisis" extended from England to Japan and from the Russian Empire to sub-Saharan Africa and the Americas. In this meticulously researched volume, historian Geoffrey Parker presents the firsthand testimony of men and women who experienced the many political, economic, and social crises that occurred between 1618 to the late 1680s. He also incorporates the scientific evidence of climate change during this period into the narrative, offering a strikingly new understanding of the General Crisis. Changes in weather patterns, especially longer winters and cooler and wetter summers, disrupted growing seasons and destroyed harvests. This in turn brought hunger, malnutrition, and disease; and as material conditions worsened, wars, rebellions, and revolutions rocked the world.

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Ghost of the Hardy Boys: The Writer Behind the World's Most Famous Boy Detectives (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BM575CRY | 2022 | 8 hours and 20 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 232 MB
Author: Leslie McFarlane
Narrator: Keith Sellon-Wright
In 1926, twenty-three-year-old cub newspaper reporter Leslie McFarlane responded to an ad: "Experienced Fiction Writer Wanted." The ad was signed by Edward Stratemeyer, whose syndicate effectively invented mass-market children's book publishing in America. McFarlane, who had a few published adventure stories to his name, was hired and his first job was to write Dave Fearless Under the Ocean as Roy Rockwood-for a flat fee of $100, no royalties. His pay increased to $125 when Stratemeyer proposed a new series of detective stories for kids involving two high school aged brothers who would solve mysteries.

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Getting to Diversity: What Works and What Doesn't (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BM56GHZT | 2022 | 7 hours and 37 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 214 MB
Author: Frank Dobbin, Alexandra Kalev
Narrator: Linda Jones
Every year America becomes more diverse, but change in the makeup of the management ranks has stalled. The problem has become an urgent matter of national debate. How do we fix it? Arguing that it's time to focus on changing systems rather than individuals, two of the world's leading experts on workplace diversity show us a better way in the first comprehensive, data-driven analysis of what succeeds and what fails. The surprising results will change how America works.

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G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B09S3ZZSYM | 2022 | 36 hours and 36 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 936 MB
Author: Beverly Gage
Narrator: Gabra Zackman
A major new biography of J Edgar Hoover that draws from never-before-seen sources to create a groundbreaking portrait of a colossus who dominated half a century of American history and planted the seeds for much of today's conservative political landscape. We remember him as a bulldog-squat frame, bulging wide-set eyes, fearsome jowls-but in 1924, when he became director of the FBI, he had been the trim, dazzling wunderkind of the administrative state, buzzing with energy and big ideas for reform. He transformed a failing law-enforcement backwater, riddled with scandal, into a modern machine. He believed in the power of the federal government to do great things for the nation and its citizens. He also believed that certain people-many of them communists or racial minorities or both-did not deserve to be included in that American project. Hoover rose to power and then stayed there, decade after decade, using the tools of state to create a personal fiefdom unrivaled in U.S. history.

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Freedom's Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BLQNMQPN | 2022 | 16 hours and 5 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 428 MB
Author: Jefferson Cowie
Narrator: André Chapoy
A prize-winning historian chronicles a sinister idea of freedom: white Americans' freedom to oppress others and their fight against the government that got in their way. American freedom is typically associated with the fight of the oppressed for a better world. But for centuries, whenever the federal government intervened on behalf of nonwhite people, many white Americans fought back in the name of freedom-their freedom to dominate others. In Freedom's Dominion, historian Jefferson Cowie traces this complex saga by focusing on a quintessentially American place: Barbour County, Alabama, the ancestral home of political firebrand George Wallace. In a land shaped by settler colonialism and chattel slavery, white people weaponized freedom to seize Native lands, champion secession, overthrow Reconstruction, question the New Deal, and fight against the civil rights movement. A riveting history of the long-running clash between white people and federal authority, this book radically shifts our understanding of what freedom means in America.

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