Free Download The Game Writing Guide: Get Your Dream Job and Keep It (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C74QN89V | 2023 | 10 hours and 52 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 309 MB
Author: Anna Megill
Narrator: Andrea Emmes
This comprehensive guide walks listeners through the entire process of getting and keeping a writing job in the games industry. It outlines exactly what a beginner needs to know about education requirements, finding opportunities, applying for roles, and acing studio interviews. Professional writers will learn how to navigate studio hierarchies, transfer roles and companies, work overseas, and keep developing their careers. Written by an experienced games writer with nearly two decades of industry knowledge, this book contains a wealth of interviews and perspectives with industry leaders, hiring managers, and developers from marginalized communities, all offering their tips and insights. Included are examples of materials such as job posts, writing samples, and portfolios, as well as chapter-end challenges for listeners to directly apply the skills they have learned. This book will be of great interest to all beginner and aspiring games writers and narrative designers, as well as more experienced writers looking to hone their skills.

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Free Download The Fund: Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates, and the Unraveling of a Wall Street Legend (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BVKXFRJZ | 2023 | 12 hours and 54 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 374 MB
Author: Rob Copeland
Narrator: Rob Copeland, Will Damron
The unauthorized, unvarnished story of famed Wall Street hedge-fund manager Ray Dalio. Ray Dalio does not want you to listen to this audiobook. Late last year, when the billionaire founder of Bridgewater Associates, the largest hedge fund on the planet, announced that he was stepping down from the company he started out of his apartment nearly 50 years ago, the news made headlines around the world. Dalio cultivated an aura of international admiration and fame thanks to his company's eye-popping success, coupled with a mystique he encouraged with frequent media appearances, celebrity hobnobbing, and his bestselling book, Principles. In The Fund, award-winning New York Times journalist Rob Copeland punctures this carefully constructed narrative of the benevolent business titan, exposing his much-promoted "principles" as one of the great feats of hubris in modern memory-in practice, they encouraged a toxic culture of paranoia and backstabbing.

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Free Download The Fourth Turning: What the Cycles of History Tell Us About America's Next Rendezvous with Destiny, Unabridged 2023 Edition (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CLWYL4VH | 2023 | 19 hours and 27 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 565 MB
Author: William Strauss, Neil Howe
Narrator: Tom Parks
Now available as an unabridged recording for the first time. NATIONAL BESTSELLER Discover the game-changing theory of the cycles of history and what past generations can teach us about living through times of upheaval-with deep insights into the roles that Boomers, Generation X, and Millennials have to play. First comes a High, a period of confident expansion. Next comes an Awakening, a time of spiritual exploration and rebellion. Then comes an Unraveling, in which individualism triumphs over crumbling institutions. Last comes a Crisis-the Fourth Turning-when society passes through a great and perilous gate in history. William Strauss and Neil Howe will change the way you see the world-and your place in it.

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Free Download The Four Realms of Existence: A New Theory of Being Human (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C5NQT7V8 | 2023 | 10 hours and 10 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 291 MB
Author: Joseph E. LeDoux
Narrator: Graham Rowat
One of the world's leading experts on mind and brain takes us on an expedition that reveals a new view of what makes us who we are. Humans have long thought of their bodies and minds as separate spheres of existence. The body is physical-the source of aches and pains. But the mind is mental; it perceives, remembers, believes, feels, and imagines. Although modern science has largely eliminated this mind-body dualism, people still tend to imagine their minds as separate from their physical being. Even in research, the notion of the "self" as somehow distinct from the rest of the organism persists. Joseph LeDoux argues that we have hit an epistemological wall-that ideas like the self are increasingly barriers to discovery and understanding. He offers a new framework of who we are, theorizing four realms of existence-bodily, neural, cognitive, and conscious. The biological realm makes life possible.

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Free Download The Forgotten Art of Being Ordinary: A Human Manifesto in the Age of the Metaverse (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CP2PVJ8G | 2023 | 5 hours and 7 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 258 MB
Author: CJ Casciotta
Narrator: Stephen R. Thorne
We're addicted to our devices. Our kids are too. None of us seem to be better for it. We all know this, but what can we do practically to become less isolated, polarized, and disconnected? This book answers that question with a bold idea: In an age of personal brands and artificial intelligence, perhaps it's time to relearn the forgotten art of being ordinary. Writer and media producer, CJ Casciotta, outlines nine practical solutions and illuminates a better way to live in a culture addicted to media technology, a lifeboat for anyone who feels like they're drowning in a sea of digital noise.

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Free Download The Forgers: The Forgotten Story of the Holocaust's Most Audacious Rescue Operation (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BWFXBGBP | 2023 | 10 hours and 28 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 301 MB
Author: Roger Moorhouse
Narrator: Roger Moorhouse
The secret history of one of the largest-and least-known-rescue operations of World War II. Between 1940 and 1943, a group of Polish diplomats in Switzerland engaged in a wholly remarkable-and until now, completely unknown-humanitarian operation. In concert with Jewish activists, they masterminded a systematic program of forging passports and identity documents for Latin American countries, which were then smuggled into German-occupied Europe to save the lives of thousands of Jews facing extermination in the Holocaust. With the international community failing to act, the operation was one of the largest actions to aid Jews of the entire war. The Forgers tells this extraordinary story for the first time. We follow the desperate bids of Jews to obtain these lifesaving documents as the Nazi death machine draws ever closer. And we witness the quiet heroism of a group of ordinary men who decided to do something rather than nothing and saved thousands of lives.

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Free Download The Final Year of Anne Boleyn (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CN7ZX6NJ | 2023 | 10 hours and 10 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 278 MB
Author: Natalie Grueninger
Narrator: Polly Lee
There are few women in English history more famous or controversial than Queen Anne Boleyn. In this vivid and engaging account of the triumphant and harrowing final year of Queen Anne Boleyn's life, the author reveals a very human portrait of a brilliant, passionate, and complex woman. The last year of Anne's life contained both joy and heartbreak. This telling period bore witness to one of the longest and most politically significant progresses of Henry VIII's reign, improved relations between the royal couple, and Anne's longed-for pregnancy. With the dawning of the new year, the pendulum swung.

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Free Download The Final Witness: A Kennedy Secret Service Agent Breaks His Silence After Sixty Years (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CBN7Z7L2 | 2023 | 6 hours and 44 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 367 MB
Author: Paul Landis
Narrator: Lane Hakel
Dallas, Texas. November 22, 1963. Shots ring out at Dealey Plaza. The president is struck in the head by a rifle bullet. Confusion reigns. Special Agent Paul Landis is in the follow-up car directly behind JFK's and is at the president's limo as soon as it stops at Parkland Memorial Hospital. He is inside Trauma Room #1, where the president is pronounced dead. He is on Air Force One with the president's casket on the flight back to Washington, DC, an eyewitness to Lyndon Johnson taking the oath of office. What he saw is indelibly imprinted upon his psyche. He writes and files his report. And yet, Agent Landis is never called to testify to the Warren Commission. The one person who could have supplied key answers is never asked questions. By mid-1964, the nightmares from Dallas remain, and he resigns. It isn't until the fiftieth anniversary that he begins to talk about it and reads his first books on the assassination. Landis learns about the raging conspiracy theories-and realizes where they all go wrong.

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Free Download The Fatal Alliance: A Century of War on Film (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B09YBC3Z61 | 2023 | 19 hours and 52 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 574 MB
Author: David Thomson
Narrator: David Thomson
From one of the greatest living writers on film, a magisterial look at a century of battle depicted on screen, and a meditation on the twisted relationship between war and the movies. In The Fatal Alliance the acclaimed film critic David Thomson offers us one of his most provocative books yet-a rich, arresting, and troubling study of that most beloved genre: the war movie. It is not a standard history or survey of war films, although Thomson turns his typically piercing eye to many favorites-from All Quiet on the Western Front to The Bridge on the River Kwai to Saving Private Ryan. But The Fatal Alliance does much more, exploring how war and cinema in the twentieth century became inextricably linked.

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Free Download The Farmer's Wife: My Life in Days (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BZT6GYR9 | 2023 | 8 hours and 50 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 226 MB
Author: Helen Rebanks
Narrator: Helen Rebanks
An honest portrait of rural life and an authentic exploration of both the hard work and reward of keeping a home and raising a family. Helen Rebanks's beautifully written memoir takes place across a single day on her working farm in the Lake District of England. Weaving past and present, through a journey of self-discovery, the book takes us from the farmhouse table of her grandmother and into the home she now shares with her husband, four kids, and an abundance of animals. Helen shares, with rare truthfulness, her life in days, sometimes a wonder and a joy but others a grind to be survived.

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