Free Download The Fabulist: The Lying, Hustling, Grifting, Stealing, and Very American Legend of George Santos (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C2ZQFSWB | 2023 | 8 hours and 13 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 236 MB
Author: Mark Chiusano
Narrator: André Santana
From the dogged Long Island reporter who has been on his trail since 2019, the bizarre, compelling, and frankly hysterical story of America's most outrageous grifter-US Representative George Santos. America has grown used to larger-than-life politicians: Teflon Don, AOC, MTG, Dark Brandon, and all the rest have injected DC politics with an unmistakable edge of celebrity flair and tabloid intrigue. Yet in 2022, a new player on the national scene outshone them all. George Anthony Devolder Santos, and his revolving door of pseudonyms, shed glaring new light on how far we'd all let our politics slide as his claimed resume was shred to bits in the wake of a longshot run to office from New York's 3rd Congressional District. From Wall Street gigs to an amateur volleyball career, from embellished claims of Jewish heritage to a fabricated 9/11 story involving his mother's death, Santos's legend continued to grow as his web of lies evaporated in real time.

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Free Download The Explorers Club: A Visual Journey Through the Past, Present, and Future of Exploration (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C5K2XBZ8 | 2023 | 7 hours and 10 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 399 MB
Author: The Explorers Club, Jeff Wilser
Narrator: Emily Woo Zeller
Discover the extraordinary history and thrilling frontiers of exploration with this guide from The Explorers Club, the esteemed home of the world's most prominent explorers. The discovery of the North and South Poles. The summiting of Everest. The moon landing. The (largely unknown) birth of climate change science. These are just some of the stories from The Explorers Club, the organization that, since its inception in 1904, has pushed the envelope of human curiosity. This guided tour of The Club's most riveting journeys is full of fascinating anecdotes about The Club's distinguished members, including Teddy Roosevelt, Neil Armstrong, and Jane Goodall. From the darkest depths of the ocean to the highest points on Earth and to outer space and beyond, this book shares not just the inspirational history of modern exploration, but also reveals how it has evolved and continues to be relevant-even urgent-today.

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Free Download The Essentials of Risk Management (Third Edition) (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CHSZCS21 | 2023 | 21 hours and 14 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 607 MB
Author: Michel Crouhy, Dan Galai, Robert Mark
Narrator: Michael Butler Murray
The "bible" of risk management-fully updated for an investing landscape dramatically altered by social and technological upheavals. When it was first published, The Essentials of Risk Management became an instant classic in risk management. Now, the authors provide a comprehensively updated and revised edition to help you succeed in a world rocked by unprecedented changes. Combining academic research with real-world applications, this bestselling guide provides the expert insights that has made it so popular for so many years, covering the most effective ways to measure and transfer credit risk, increase risk-management transparency, and implement an organization-wide enterprise risk management approach. In addition, it covers a wide range of new issues, including: fallout from the COVID pandemic; new emerging risks associated with digital finance; the effect of climate change on risk management; and game-changing new technologies like machine learning, artificial intelligence, and distributed ledger technology. The definitive resource for quantifying risk versus return, The Essentials of Risk Management delivers everything you need to safeguard your investments in today's economy.

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Free Download The Entrepreneurial Brain: How to Ride the Waves of Entrepreneurship and Live to Tell About It (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BZWJ5Y3J | 2023 | 7 hours and 1 minute | M4B@128 kbps | 389 MB
Author: Jeff Hays
Narrator: Mark Smeby
Finally, a user's guide for people with entrepreneurial brains and those they work and live with. When your biggest superpower is also your most critical weakness, it helps to have a manual on how to control it. Entrepreneurs are creative, bold thinkers and risk-takers capable of great accomplishments. At the same time, for every success story, there is a counter story of an epic collapse caused by a lack of a moral compass, values, or proper guidance. Jeff Hays knows the highs and the lows having ridden that rollercoaster many times in his life and career and provides a much-needed user's manual for entrepreneurs everywhere and the people in their work and personal lives.

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Free Download The End of Eden: Wild Nature in the Age of Climate Breakdown (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C3MT2P89 | 2023 | 10 hours and 18 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 299 MB
Author: Adam Welz
Narrator: Jason Keller
A revelatory exploration of climate change from the perspective of wild species and natural ecosystems-an homage to the miraculous, vibrant entity that is life on Earth. The stories we usually tell ourselves about climate change tend to focus on the damage inflicted on human societies by big storms, severe droughts, and rising sea levels. But the most powerful impacts are being and will be felt by the natural world and its myriad species, which are already in the midst of the sixth great extinction. Rising temperatures are fracturing ecosystems that took millions of years to evolve, disrupting the life forms they sustain-and in many cases driving them towards extinction. The natural Eden that humanity inherited is quickly slipping away.

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Free Download The Emotionally Abusive Relationship (2nd Edition): How to Stop Being Abused and How to Stop Abusing (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CKWHJSWB | 2023 | 10 hours and 21 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 296 MB
Author: Beverly Engel
Narrator: Tanya Eby
In the second edition of The Emotionally Abusive Relationship: How to Stop Being Abused and How to Stop Abusing, internationally recognized therapist Beverly Engel walks listeners through a proven program designed to help then get to the core of their unhealthy behavior patterns. This book was written specifically for two types of couples-those who mutually abuse each other and those with abusive partners who are willing to honestly look at themselves to and make the necessary changes to stop abusing. Engel focuses on both the abused person and the abuser, offering non-judgmental advice to both groups. She offers effective strategies, techniques, and information to end abusive behaviors. The Emotionally Abusive Relationship is essential for those involved in unhealthy relationships or who have loved ones trapped in an emotionally abusive situation.

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Free Download The Edge of Reality: Two Scientists Evaluate What We Know of the UFO Phenomenon, 2023 Edition (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CK9H1ZSJ | 2023 | 11 hours and 52 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 336 MB
Author: J. Allen Hynek, Jacques Vallee
Narrator: Jonathan Yen
From the outset, Hynek and Vallee make their position clear: UFOs represent an unknown but real phenomenon. The far-reaching implications take us to the edge of what we consider the known and real in our physical environment. Perhaps UFOs signal the existence of a domain of nature as yet totally unexplored. These two eminent scientists studied the UFO phenomenon for decades and collaborated on this landmark report. The authors sample UFO reports, including those allegedly involving humanoids, and describe the patterns that have been perceived in the behavior of the phenomenon.

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Free Download The Dissident: Alexey Navalny: Profile of a Political Prisoner (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C1TF6686 | 2023 | 11 hours and 1 minute | M4B@64 kbps | 318 MB
Author: David Herszenhorn
Narrator: David de Vries
A news-driven biography of Vladimir Putin's nemesis Alexey Navalny-lawyer, blogger, anti-corruption crusader, protest organizer, political opposition leader, mayoral and presidential candidate, campaign strategist, provocateur, poisoning victim, dissident, and now, prisoner of conscience and anti-war crusader. THE DISSIDENT is the story of how one fearless man, offended by the dishonesty and criminality of the Russian political system, mounted a relentless opposition movement and became President Vladimir Putin's most formidable rival-so despised that the Russian leader makes a point of never uttering Navalny's name. There's an old saying that Russia without corruption isn't Russia. Alexey Navalny refuses to accept this proposition. His stubborn insistence that Russians can defy the stereotype and create an entirely different country made him such a threat to Putin that the Kremlin wanted him exiled-or dead-and now seems intent on keeping him locked in a prison colony for decades.

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Free Download The Dish: The Lives and Labor Behind One Plate of Food (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BHJDT53N | 2023 | 7 hours and 3 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 391 MB
Author: Andrew Friedman
Narrator: Michael Lomonaco
Acclaimed "chef writer" Andrew Friedman introduces listeners to all the people and processes that come together in a single restaurant dish, creating an entertaining, vivid snapshot of the contemporary restaurant community, modern farming industry, and food-supply chain. On a typical evening, in a contemporary American restaurant, a table orders their dinner from a server. It's an exchange that happens dozens, or hundreds, of times a night-the core transaction that keeps the place churning. In this book, acclaimed chef writer Andrew Friedman slows down time to focus on a single dish at Chicago's Wherewithall restaurant, following its production and provenances via real-time kitchen and in-the-field reportage, from the moment the order is placed to when the finished dish is delivered to the table.

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Free Download The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BVRZLG2J | 2023 | 11 hours and 8 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 321 MB
Author: Sarah Ogilvie
Narrator: Sarah Ogilvie, Joan Walker
A history and celebration of the many far-flung volunteers who helped define the English language, word by word. The Oxford English Dictionary is one of mankind's greatest achievements, and yet, curiously, its creators are almost never considered. Who were the people behind this unprecedented book? As Sarah Ogilvie reveals, they include three murderers, a collector of pornography, the daughter of Karl Marx, a president of Yale, a radical suffragette, a vicar who was later found dead in the cupboard of his chapel, an inventor of the first American subway, a female anti-slavery activist in Philadelphia . . . and thousands of others. Of deep transgenerational and broad appeal, a thrilling literary detective story that, for the first time, unravels the mystery of the endlessly fascinating contributors the world over who, for over seventy years, helped to codify the way we read and write and speak. It was the greatest crowdsourcing endeavor in human history, the Wikipedia of its time. The Dictionary People is a celebration of words, language, and people, whose eccentricities and obsessions, triumphs, and failures enriched the English language.

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