Modern Etiquette for Dummies (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BVWQ8HXR | 2023 | 14 hours and 8 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 392 MB
Author: Sue Fox
Narrator: Diana Blue
Our world is constantly changing, but something that always remains true? Manners matter. Etiquette is about more than just knowing which fork to use at a fancy dinner or how to write a thank-you note. Modern Etiquette For Dummies shows you how to navigate tricky interpersonal scenarios and tough workplace dilemmas with ease. With the help of Dummies, you'll toss aside stuffy old notions of etiquette and discover how to conduct yourself in various environments. This book is full of tips on tackling today's unique challenges, including how to use the right pronouns, how to behave on social media, how to maintain professionalism in hybrid work settings (like when is it okay to turn off your camera during a Zoom meeting?), and how to put your phone down so you can focus on what matters.

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Migrants: The Story of Us All by Sam Miller
2023 | English | ASIN: B0BCLXVH1H | 13 hrs 24 mins | M4B & MP3@126 kbps | 806 to 813 MB | UBR | Retail
Narrator: Chris Nayak
Humans are, in fundamental ways, a migratory species, more so than any other land mammal. For most of our existence, we were all nomads, and some of us still are. Houses and permanent settlements are a relatively late development - dating back little more than twelve thousand years. Borders and passports are much more recent. From the Neanderthals, Alexander the Great, Christopher Columbus and Pocahontas to the African slave trade, Fu Manchu, and Barack Obama, Migrants shows us that it is only by understanding how migration and migrants have been viewed in the past, that we can re-set the terms of the modern-day debate about migration.
Migrants presents us with an alternative history of the world, in which migration is restored to the heart of the human story. And in which humans migrate for a wide range of reasons: not just because of civil war, poverty or climate change but also out of curiosity and a sense of adventure. On arrival, migrants are expected both to assimilate and encouraged to remain distinctive; to defend their heritage and adopt a new one. They are sub-human and super-human; romanticised and castigated, admired and abhorred. Migrants tells us that this is not a new narrative; this is the history of us all, part of everybody's backstory - for those who consider themselves migrants and those who do not.

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Martin Scorsese: A Journey (Audiobook)
English | October 25, 2022 | ASIN: B0B23K23ZB | M4B@128 kbps | 13h 34m | 788 MB
Author: Mary Pat Kelly | Narrators: Nancy Linari, P.J. Ochlan
In time for Scorsese's 80th birthday and the release of Killers of the Flower Moon, a new edition of the seminal oral history tracing Scorsese's journey from young filmmaker to legend, featuring a foreword by Steven Spielberg
Few filmmakers, if any, make the kind of impact that Martin Scorsese has made on American cinema. The winner of every prestigious film award, including the Oscar, Scorsese is a living legend. Bestselling author and award-winning filmmaker Mary Pat Kelly's groundbreaking biography reveals how this working-class boy from Manhattan's Little Italy became one of our most acclaimed, celebrated, and influential filmmakers.

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Malady of the Mind: Schizophrenia and the Path to Prevention (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B09MDN6QX9 | 2023 | 17 hours and 27 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 499 MB
Author: Jeffrey A. Lieberman
Narrator: Jacques Roy
Of the many myths and misconceptions that obscure our understanding of schizophrenia, the most pernicious is that there is no effective treatment or cure. Though that may have been true in the past, the current reality couldn't be more different: today's treatments have the potential to be game-changing-and often lifesaving. This powerful portrait of schizophrenia, the most malignant and mysterious mental illness, by renowned psychiatrist Jeffrey Lieberman, interweaves cultural and scientific history with dramatic patient profiles and clinical experiences to impart a revolutionary message of hope. For the first time in history, we can effectively treat schizophrenia, limiting its disabling effects-and we're on the verge of being able to prevent the disease's onset entirely.

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Lean UX: Designing Great Products with Agile Teams (Second Edition)
Author: Jeff Gothelf, Josh Seiden
Narrator: Douglas Martin
English | 2021 | ASIN: B08VLC2ZNR | MP3@64 kbps | 4h 56m | 406 MB
Lean UX has become the preferred approach to interaction design, tailor-made for today's agile teams. In the second edition of this award-winning book, leading advocates Jeff Gothelf and Josh Seiden expand on the valuable Lean UX principles, tactics, and techniques covered in the first edition to share how product teams can easily incorporate design, experimentation, iteration, and continuous learning from real users into their Agile process.

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It's OK to Be Angry About Capitalism (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BLHY5GTV | 2023 | 10 hours and 59 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 302 MB
Author: Senator Bernie Sanders
Narrator: Senator Bernie Sanders
A progressive takedown of the uber-capitalist status quo that has enriched millionaires and billionaires at the expense of the working class, and a blueprint for what transformational change would actually look like. It's OK to be angry about capitalism. Reflecting on our turbulent times, Senator Bernie Sanders takes on the billionaire class and speaks blunt truths about our country's failure to address the destructive nature of a system that is fueled by uncontrolled greed and rigidly committed to prioritizing corporate profits over the needs of ordinary Americans.

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Illiberal Europe: Eastern Europe from the Fall of the Berlin Wall to the War in Ukraine (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BW4X2422 | 2023 | 7 hours and 18 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 209 MB
Author: Leon Marc
Narrator: Mark Elstob
Eighteen years have passed since ten countries from Central & Eastern Europe joined the European Union and more than three decades since the Berlin Wall was torn down in 1989-but ignorance about what is popularly still called Eastern Europe is as widespread as ever. Slovenia still gets mixed up with Slovakia, the Slavs remain a mystery in a Europe apparently dominated by Romanic and Germanic nations and a country like the Czech Republic is labelled as Eastern European, although one needs to travel west to get from Vienna to Prague. This book is much more than a revised and updated version of the first edition. Its presentation of the political and cultural history of Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe, written in an accessible language is now complemented with recent developments in the region.

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Harder to Breathe: A Memoir of Making Maroon 5, Losing It All, and Finding Recovery (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BVNPN6LJ | 2023 | 11 hours and 6 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 258 MB
Author: Ryan Dusick
Narrator: Ryan Dusick
In the nineties, Ryan Dusick and his friends Adam Levine and Jesse Carmichael dreamed about making it big . . . and against all odds, they did. This inside story recounts Maroon 5's founding and their road to becoming Grammy-winning megastars, told through the eyes of former drummer Ryan Dusick. He takes listeners behind the scenes of the band's meteoric rise to success-and the grueling demands that came with it-as well as his personal struggles with anxiety and addiction after his departure from the band. For Maroon 5, fame came with a platinum debut record, jam sessions with Prince in his own living room, and encounters with celebrities such as Jessica Simpson, Justin Timberlake, John Mayer, and Bono. For Dusick, stardom came to an abrupt halt with the devastating loss of his ability to play drums due to chronic nerve damage. Alongside Maroon 5's story of camaraderie and pressure, Dusick interweaves his own narrative: a decade lost to liquor and antianxiety medication, his ferocious commitment to recovery, and his current perspective as a professional counselor. With a candor that will speak to anyone who has struggled with mental health, Harder to Breathe moves beyond celebrity to examine the nature of human heartbreak and resilience, and to buoy anyone currently facing similar challenges.

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Good Relations: Cracking the Code of How to Get on Better (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BNLGL2PF | 2023 | 11 hours and 6 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 319 MB
Author: Janet Reibstein
Narrator: Janet Reibstein
Psychologist and therapist, Janet Reibstein, reveals the secrets to effective communication and building long-lasting relationships. Being able to engage in relationships productively - from intimate domestic ones to relationships with friends and colleagues - is the key to thriving. It impacts our health, well-being, financial security and happiness. In fact, research suggests the ability to do well socially is more important for success than academic excellence or even a high IQ. The case for good relationships is made and settled. But how do we get there? In the fascinating audiobook, Janet Reibstein takes you through how to 'learn relationships' and explores the skills needed to communicate better, have empathy, and develop more productive and satisfying relationships at all levels. Peppered with case studies, practical tips and advice, Good Relations delves deeper into the new science and theory to discover exactly how we can interact more effectively.

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Going Downtown: The US Air Force Over Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia, 1961-75 (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BS3Z4KWQ | 2023 | 15 hours and 59 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 439 MB
Author: Thomas McKelvey Cleaver
Narrator: Christopher Ragland
This vivid narrative history tells the full story of the US Air Force's involvement in the wars in the air over Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. The involvement of the US Air Force in the Southeast Asian Wars began in 1962 with crews sent to train Vietnamese pilots, and with conflict in Laos, and finally ended in 1972 with the B-52 bombing of Hanoi, though there were Air Force pilots unofficially flying combat in Laos up to the end in 1975. The missions flown by USAF aircrews during those years in Southeast Asia differed widely, from attacking the Ho Chi Minh Trail at night with modified T-28 trainers, to missions "Downtown," the name aircrew gave Hanoi, the central target of the war.

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