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![]() Free Download You, Me, We: Why We All Need a Friend at Work (and How to Show Up as One!) (Audiobook) English | ASIN: B0C1TDHS1V | 2023 | 6 hours and 52 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 382 MB Author: Morag Barrett, Eric Spencer, Ruby Vesely Narrator: Morag Barrett, Eric Spencer, Ruby Vesely In today's age of Zoom calls and hybrid workplaces, how can leaders foster relationships that allow everyone to succeed? A trio of best friends and leadership consultants at SkyeTeam have the surprising answer: workplace success starts by being a friend. Meet the Ally Mindset, a model for proactive, thoughtful work relationships. As you heal adversarial relationships and strengthen weaker ties, you'll find that when you have best friends at work-colleagues who have your back-you thrive. Using personal stories, science-backed insights, and valuable lessons from clients including Google, the National Geographic Society, and Microsoft, the authors explore the five key parts of the Ally Mindset and demonstrate how to apply them to your relationships. You, Me, We provides ample evidence for how adopting the Ally Mindset increases happiness, incentivizes collaboration, and improves business outcomes. Because to have a best friend at work, you need to be a best friend at work. ![]() Free Download World War II: America at War (Revised Edition) (Audiobook) English | ISBN: 9781467677035 | 2023 | 6 hours and 29 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 360 MB Author: Maurice Isserman Narrator: Brett Barry The world had not fully recovered from the horror of World War I or the anguish of its catastrophic aftermath, the Great Depression, before an even greater war commenced. The Third Reich of Adolf Hitler threatened to dominate all of Europe, and as the physicist Albert Einstein rushed to bring to the attention of President Franklin Roosevelt, the limitless destructive power of the atom was well within the reach of Nazi Germany. This revised edition of World War II presents the complete story of America's war in Europe and the Pacific, from Pearl Harbor to the Normandy invasion to the Japanese surrender aboard the USS Missouri. ![]() Free Download Why Politics Fails (Audiobook) English | ASIN: B0BJ4X5ZVM | 2023 | 11 hours and 33 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 332 MB Author: Ben Ansell Narrator: Ben Ansell A rising star on why the political system fails to deliver things we all want-democracy, equality, solidarity, security and prosperity-and what can be done to create a just, equitable, prosperous and environmentally sane society. The dawn of the twenty-first century had the promise of a golden age. The economy was stable and growing, social peace seemed possible, and technology appeared benign. The past years have awakened us from this complacency. We have long known what needs to be done to save the world from climate disaster. Why do we continue on the path of self-destruction? The immense wealth of the United States should make poverty a historical curiosity. Why is income inequality growing and the scourge of poverty increasing? The vast majority of people around the world want to live in a society with democratic values. Why is democracy receding? Why is it so hard to get-and keep-the world we want? ![]() Free Download Who Killed Truth?: A History of Evidence (Audiobook) English | ASIN: B0C6BY479C | 2023 | 13 hours and 35 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 389 MB Author: Jill Lepore Narrator: Jill Lepore Many historians and cultural observers argue we live in a post-truth world-but if truth is dead, who killed it? And how did it die? Join celebrated historian Jill Lepore as she cracks the case by examining key moments in the history of truth, doubt, and evidence across the last century. In Who Killed Truth? acclaimed Harvard historian and New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore traces the origins of our current post-truth crisis. In a series of spellbinding stories, Lepore investigates murders, hoaxes, lies and delusions to reckon with the instability of truth and fiction in the twenty-first century. Listeners will follow Lepore through a fascinating, erudite, and antic journey through the thorny problem of how we know what we know, and why it seems sometimes as if we don't know anything at all anymore. Revisiting key moments in U.S. history-from the Scopes Monkey Trial in 1925 to the 1977 National Women's Convention to the first election predicted by computer, and more-Lepore uncovers the secrets of the past the way a detective might, hot on the trail of the killer of truth. ![]() Free Download Wannabe: Reckonings with the Pop Culture That Shapes Me (Audiobook) English | ASIN: B0B8SY165G | 2023 | 7 hours and 38 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 209 MB Author: Aisha Harris Narrator: Aisha Harris Aisha Harris has made a name for herself as someone you can turn tofor a razor-sharp take on whatever show or movie everyoneis talking about. Now, she turns her talents inward, mining the benchmarks of her nineties childhood and beyond to analyze the tropes that are shaping all of us, and our ability to shape them right back. In the opening essay, an interaction with Chance the Rapper prompts an investigation into the origin myth of her name. Elsewhere, Aisha traces the evolution of the "Black Friend" trope from its Twainian origins through to the heyday of the Spice Girls, teen comedies like Clueless, and sitcoms of the New Girl variety. And she examines the overlap of taste and identity in this era, rejecting the patriarchal ethos that you are what you like. Whatever the subject, sitting down with her book feels like hanging out with your smart, hilarious, pop culture-obsessed friend-and it's a delight. ![]() Free Download "Until You Are Dead": The Wrongful Conviction of Steven Truscott (Audiobook) English | ASIN: B0BK33T4TM | 2023 | 23 hours and 22 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 674 MB Author: Julian Sher Narrator: David Ferry "Until You Are Dead" chronicles the loss of Canada's innocence. Prior to June 11, 1959, Canadian parents could allow their children to play outdoors, unsupervised, in places children traditionally love: schoolyards, fields and nearby swimming holes. But on that hot summer day, when the body of a twelve-year-old girl turned up in a woody area near Clinton, Ontario, that innocence was shattered. The girl's name was Lynne Harper and she had been raped and murdered. The summer was barely over before a popular schoolboy named Steven Truscott, fourteen years old at the time, was tried, convicted and sentenced to hang. Truscott spent ten years in prison after the federal cabinet commuted his death sentence. He has always maintained his innocence. His trial in 1959 was the most famous and controversial in Canadian history. ![]() Free Download Tough Titties: On Living Your Best Life When You're the F-ing Worst (Audiobook) English | ASIN: B0BJ143DSV | 2023 | 8 hours and 13 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 238 MB Author: Laura Belgray Narrator: Laura Belgray From award-winning TV writer Laura Belgray, a hilarious collection of full-body-cringe, watch-through-your-fingers life lessons her own husband calls "loser Sex and the City." What does it take to grow up cool and popular, master adulthood, fast track your success, and always be your best? Laura Belgray wouldn't know. Her wildly relatable coming-of-age stories include hate-following her 6th grade bully on social media decades later; moving home post-college to measure her self-worth in hookups with Upper West Side bartenders; dating a sociopathic man-baby; proving herself in the early '90s at New York's coolest magazine (as the world's worst intern); falling for get-rich-quick schemes on the Internet; and, most of all, saying "tough titties" to the supposed-to's in life: driving a car, being on time, handing in your paperwork, learning to roast a chicken, and having kids. ![]() Free Download To Walk the Earth Again: The Politics of Resurrection in Early America (Audiobook) English | ASIN: B0C5S1T3Y6 | 2023 | 10 hours and 2 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 286 MB Author: Christopher Trigg Narrator: Mike Cooper The Protestant conviction that believers would rise again, in bodily form, after death, shaped their attitudes towards personal and religious identity, community, empire, progress, race, and the environment. In To Walk the Earth Again, Christopher Trigg explores the political dimension of Anglo-American Protestant writing about the future resurrection of the dead, examining texts written between the seventeenth and mid-nineteenth centuries. By reading histories, poetry, funeral sermons, and scientific tracts alongside works of eschatological exegesis, Trigg challenges the conventional scholarly assumption that Protestantism's rejection of purgatory prepared the way for the individualization and secularization of Western attitudes towards mortality. ![]() Free Download To Tell the Truth: My Life as a Foreign Correspondent (Audiobook) English | ASIN: B0C6BP5NYM | 2023 | 13 hours and 46 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 392 MB Author: Lewis M. Simons Narrator: Graham Rowat Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Lewis M. Simons recollects his fifty years as a foreign correspondent, one whose powerful stories contributed to transforming Asia from Vietnam War-era basket case to a global boomtown that today rivals the United States. Simons's investigative work led to the toppling of a dictator in the Philippines. He covered the Tiananmen Square massacre in China, bloody coups in Thailand, attempted genocide and societal collapse in Cambodia, and economic advance, decline, and rebirth in Japan. He was expelled from India for his exclusive reporting on Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's political misuse of the armed forces. ![]() Free Download To Name the Bigger Lie: A Memoir in Two Stories (Audiobook) English | ASIN: B0BK75BMMV | 2023 | 8 hours and 51 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 242 MB Author: Sarah Viren Narrator: Natalie Naudus Part coming-of-age story, part psychological thriller, part philosophical investigation, this unforgettable memoir traces the ramifications of a series of lies that threaten to derail the author's life-exploring the line between truth and deception, fact and fiction, and reality and conspiracy. Sarah's story begins as she's researching what she believes will be a book about her high school philosophy teacher, a charismatic instructor who taught her and her classmates to question everything-in the end, even the reality of historical atrocities. As she digs into the effects of his teachings, her life takes a turn into the fantastical when her wife, Marta, is notified that she's been investigated for sexual misconduct at the university where they both teach. |