Fundamentals of Credit and Credit Analysis: Corporate Credit Analysis
Author: Arnold Ziegel
Narrator: Eric Robertson
English | 2020 | ASIN: B087N85PKC | MP3@64 kbps | 4h 5m | 397 MB
Arnold Ziegel formed Mountain Mentors Associates after his retirement from a corporate banking career of more than 30 years at Citibank. The lessons learned from his experience in dealing with entrepreneurs, multinational corporations, highly leveraged companies, financial institutions, and structured finance led to the development and delivery of numerous senior level credit risk training programs for major global financial institutions from 2002 through the present. This book was conceived and written as a result of the development of these courses and his experience as a corporate banker. It illustrates the fundamental issues of credit and credit analysis in a manner that tries to take away its mystery. The overriding theme of this book is that when an investor extends credit of any type, the goal is "to get your money back", and with a return that is commensurate with the risk.

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Failure Rules!: The 5 Rules of Failure for Entrepreneurs, Creatives, and Authentics (Audiobook)
English | August 30, 2022 | ASIN: B0BCBQGZ22 | M4B@128 kbps | 11h 36m | 649 MB
Author: Andrew Thorp King | Narrator: Jay Aaseng
Failure can ruin lives and families. There's no denying it. It can destroy your health and obliterate your self-esteem. But it also holds a lot of value on the road to success.
Failure Rules! walks you through five essential rules to help you pull value from any failure-as proven by Andrew Thorp King's personal stories of dramatic, cascading failures in business, relationships, art, and life. Journey through key failure lessons from a wildly diverse set of successful entrepreneurs, creatives, and authentics, including Winston Churchill, Sara Blakely, Henry Rollins, Andrew Yang, Toby Keith, Ryan Holiday, David Goggins, Glenn Beck, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Billie Jean King, Srinivas Rao, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, J.K. Rowling, and many, many more.

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Endurance: An Epic of Polar Adventure (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BW1VBJX9 | 2023 | 9 hours and 18 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 256 MB
Author: F.A. Worsley
Narrator: Michael Page
The legendary tale of Ernest Shackleton's grueling Antarctic expedition, recounted in riveting first-person detail by the captain of HMS Endurance. "You seriously mean to tell me that the ship is doomed?" asked Frank Worsley, commander of the Endurance, stuck impassably in Antarctic ice packs. "What the ice gets," replied Sir Ernest Shackleton, the expedition's unflappable leader, "the ice keeps." It did not, however, get the ship's twenty-five crew members, all of whom survived an eight-hundred-mile voyage across sea, land, and ice to South Georgia, the nearest inhabited island. Endurance tells the full story of that doomed 1914-1916 expedition and incredible rescue, as well as relating Worsley's further adventures fighting U-boats in the Great War, sailing the equally treacherous waters of the Arctic, and making one final (and successful) assault on the South Pole with Shackleton. It is a tale of unrelenting high adventure and a tribute to one of the most inspiring and courageous leaders of men in the history of exploration.

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Code Gray: Death, Life, and Uncertainty in the ER (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B09MZS6DXN | 2023 | 6 hours and 14 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 173 MB
Author: Farzon A Nahvi
Narrator: Farzon A Nahvi, Aden Hakimi
Code Gray is a narrative-driven medical memoir that places you directly in the crucible of urgent life-or-death decision-making, offering insights that can help us cope at a time when the world around us appears to be falling apart. In the tradition of books by such bestselling physician-authors as Atul Gawande, Siddhartha Mukherjee, and Danielle Ofri, this beautifully written memoir by an emergency room doctor takes place during one of his routine shifts at an urban ER. Intimately narrated as it follows the experiences of real patients, it is filled with fascinating, adrenaline-pumping scenes of rescues and deaths, and the critical, often excruciating follow-through in caring for the patients' families.

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Border Games: The Politics of Policing the U.S.-Mexico Divide (Audiobook)
English | September 20, 2022 | ASIN: B0BFXFWW23 | M4B@128 kbps | 8h 57m | 499 MB
Author: Peter Andreas | Narrator: Gary Roelofs
In this third edition of Border Games, Peter Andreas charts the rise and transformation in policing the flow of drugs and migrants across the US-Mexico border. Recent border crackdowns and wall-building campaigns, he argues, are not unprecedented. Rather, they are the outcome of an escalatory dynamic already in motion-but now played out on a far bigger stage, with higher stakes, and in new security and political contexts.
Focusing on the power of symbolic politics and policy feedback effects, Andreas traces the logic behind such buildup. Border policing is an attractive political mechanism for handling the often unintended consequences of past policy choices, signaling a commitment to territorial integrity and projecting an image of territorial authority. Yet its negative aftermath is not only frequently glossed over; it also fuels further escalation. With new chapters on the border policies of the Obama, Trump, and Biden administrations, Border Games continues to help listeners grasp how the busiest border in the world is also one of the most fortified, and why it plays such a complicated and contentious role in both domestic politics and US-Mexico relations.

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Body into Balance: An Herbal Guide to Holistic Self-Care (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BQPSC4GW | 2023 | 17 hours and 29 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 468 MB
Author: Maria Noël (Noel) Groves
Narrator: Reina Mystique
An antacid or an aspirin may soothe your pain, but it doesn't cure the cause of your symptoms. Headaches, indigestion, fatigue, allergies, anxiety, eczema, high blood pressure, and other conditions are clues to a deeper imbalance in your body, and learning to read those clues is a key step in maintaining optimal health. Herbalist Maria Noël Groves shows you how to read your body's signals and support your own wellness with herbal remedies and other natural treatments. You'll learn how each of your major body systems-respiratory, digestive, immune, nervous, memory, reproductive, circulatory, and more-optimally function, and you'll discover how to use natural remedies to nourish and repair problem areas, restore lost vitality, support your body as a whole, and prevent future problems. Groves includes in-depth instructions for making your own herbal remedies as well as expert guidance on buying and effectively using commercial preparations.

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Body Am I: The New Science of Self-Consciousness (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BVPMPKHY | 2023 | 7 hours and 23 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 201 MB
Author: Moheb Costandi
Narrator: Ray Greenley
The body is central to our sense of identity. Bodily awareness, says scientist-writer Moheb Costandi, is key to self-consciousness. In Body Am I, Costandi examines how the brain perceives the body, how that perception translates into our conscious experience of the body, and how that experience contributes to our sense of self. Along the way, he explores what can happen when the mechanisms of bodily awareness are disturbed, leading to such phenomena as phantom limbs, alien hands, and amputee fetishes. Costandi explains that the brain generates maps and models of the body that guide how we perceive and use it, and that these maps and models are repeatedly modified and reconstructed.

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Bloody Verrières: The I. SS-Panzerkorps Defence of the Verrières-Bourguebus Ridges: Volume 2: The Defeat of Operation Spring and the Battles of Tilly-La-Campagne, 23 July - 5 August 1944 (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BVWPXNT9 | 2023 | 12 hours and 45 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 364 MB
Author: Arthur W. Gullachsen
Narrator: Bruce Mann
South of the Norman city of Caen, Verrieres Ridge was seen a key stepping-stone for the British Second Army if it was to break out of the Normandy bridgehead in late July 1944. Imposing in height and containing perfect terrain for armored operations, the Germans viewed it as the lynchpin to their defenses south of the city of Caen and east of the Orne river. Following the failure of British Operation Goodwood on 18-20 July and the containment of the Canadian Operation Atlantic, further Allied attacks to seize the ridge would have to defeat arguably the strongest German armored formation in Normandy: The I. SS-Panzerkorps "Leibstandarte." The fighting of 23 July-3 August is chronicled in detail, specifically the premier Anglo-Canadian operation to capture Verrieres Ridge, Operation Spring on 25 July. Designed as an attack to seize the ridge and exploit south with armor, this battle saw the 2nd Canadian Corps attack savaged again by German armored reserves brought in specifically to defeat another Goodwood. Not satisfied with this defensive victory, German armored forces would then seek to restore an earlier defensive line further north, attacking to destroy the 2nd Canadian Infantry Division. Largely unknown, these were some of the strongest and most successful German armored operations to take place in the Normandy campaign.

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Blind Spot: The Global Rise of Unhappiness and How Leaders Missed It (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BW4VPM85 | 2023 | 6 hours and 12 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 176 MB
Author: Jon Clifton
Narrator: Fred Sanders
The rising unhappiness that leaders didn't see. That's because while leaders pay close attention to measures like GDP or unemployment, almost none of them track their citizens' well-being. The implications of this blind spot are significant and far-reaching-leaders missed the citizen unhappiness that triggered events ranging from the Arab uprisings to Brexit to the election of Donald Trump. What are they going to miss next? Grounded in Gallup's global research, Blind Spot makes the urgent case that leaders should measure and quantify wellbeing and happiness-how citizens' lives are going-and shows them how. It also discusses the five key elements of a great life where the world needs to improve in each of them to better the lives of people everywhere.

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Beyond Addiction: How Science and Kindness Help People Change (Audiobook)
English | August 06, 2014 | ASIN: B00M4KQUU8 | M4B@64 kbps | 12h 2m | 344 MB
Authors: Jeffrey Foote PhD, Carrie Wilkens PhD, Nicole Kosanke PhD, Stephanie Higgs PhD | Narrator: Randye Kaye
Beyond Addiction eschews the theatrics of interventions and tough love to show family and friends how they can use kindness, positive reinforcement, and motivational and behavioral strategies to help their loved ones change. Drawing on forty collective years of research and decades of clinical experience, the authors present the best practical advice science has to offer.
Delivered with warmth, optimism, and humor, Beyond Addiction defines a new, empowered role for friends and family and a paradigm shift for the field. Learn how to tap the transformative power of relationships for positive change, guided by exercises and examples. Practice what really works in therapy and in everyday life, and discover many different treatment options along with tips for navigating the system. And have hope: this guide is designed not only to help someone change but to help someone want to change.

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