Free Download Delta Blues: The Life and Times of the Mississippi Masters Who Revolutionized American Music (Audiobook)
English | March 16, 2021 | ASIN: B08XLKBCH9 | M4B@128 kbps | 17h 17m | 942 MB
Author: Ted Gioia | Narrator: Chris Abernathy
The definitive account of how the rough sounds of the Mississippi Delta changed the course of American popular music.
The blues grew out of the plantations and prisons, the swampy marshes and fertile cotton fields of the Mississippi Delta. With original research and keen insights, Ted Gioia - the author of a landmark study of West Coast jazz and the critically acclaimed The History of Jazz - brings to life the stirring music of the Delta, evoking the legendary figures who shaped its sound and ethos: Robert Johnson, Charley Patton, Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Howlin' Wolf, B. B. King, and others.

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Free Download Decolonizing Wellness: A QTBIPOC-Centered Guide to Escape the Diet Trap, Heal Your Self-Image, and Achieve Body Liberation by Dalia Kinsey, LaNecia Edmonds, Dreamscape Media, LLC
English | 2022 | ISBN: B09QXKZ9ZS | Format: MP3 / Bitrate: 64 Kbps / 4 hours and 2 minutes | 110 Mb
The lack of BIPOC and LGBTQ representation in the fields of health and nutrition has led to repeated racist and unscientific biases that negatively impact the very people they purport to help. Many representatives of the increasingly popular body-positivity movement actually add to the body-image concerns of queer people of color by emphasizing cisgender, heteronormative, and Eurocentric standards of beauty. Few mainstream body-positivity resources address the intersectional challenges of anti-Blackness, colorism, homophobia, transphobia, and generational trauma that are at the root of our struggles with wellness and self-care.
In Decolonizing Wellness, registered dietitian and nutritionist Dalia Kinsey will help listeners improve their health without restriction, eliminate stress around food and eating, and turn food into a source of pleasure instead of shame. A road map to body acceptance and self-care for queer people of color, this book is filled with practical eating practices, journal prompts, affirmations, and mindfulness tools. Ultimately, decolonizing nutrition is essential not only to our personal well-being, but to our community's well-being and to the possibility of greater social transformation.
This is a body-positivity and food-freedom book for marginalized folks. It's a guide to throwing out food rules in exchange for internal cues and adopting a self-love-based approach to eating.

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Free Download Thorsten Heilig, Ilhan Scheer, Tom Parks (Narrator), "Decision Intelligence: Transform Your Team and Organization with AI-Driven Decision-Making"
English | ASIN: B0CPQSMDM8 | 2023 | M4B@64 kbps | ~05:17:00 | 141 MB
In Decision Intelligence: Transform Your Team and Organization with AI-Driven Decision-Making, a team of pioneering decision and AI strategists delivers a digestible and hands-on resource for professionals at every part of the decision-making journey. The book discusses the latest technology and approaches that bridge the gap between behavioral science, data science, and technological innovation.
Discover how leaders from various industries and environments are using data and AI to make better future decisions, taking both human as well as business factors into account. This book covers:

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Free Download Death Is but a Dream: Finding Hope and Meaning at Life's End by Christopher Kerr, Carine Mardorossian, Fred Sanders
English | 2020 | ISBN: B0815WK1XT | Format: MP3 / Bitrate: 64 Kbps / 7 hours and 41 minutes | 211 Mb
The first audiobook to validate the meaningful dreams and visions that bring comfort as death nears.
Christopher Kerr is a hospice doctor. All of his patients die. Yet, he has cared for thousands of patients who, in the face of death, speak of love and grace. Beyond the physical realities of dying are unseen processes that are remarkably life-affirming. These include dreams that are unlike any regular dream. Described as "more real than real", these end-of-life experiences resurrect past relationships, meaningful events, and themes of love and forgiveness; they restore life's meaning and mark the transition from distress to comfort and acceptance.
Drawing on interviews with over 1,400 patients and more than a decade of quantified data, Dr. Kerr reveals that pre-death dreams and visions are extraordinary occurrences that humanize the dying process. He shares how his patients' stories point to death as not solely about the end of life, but as the final chapter of humanity's transcendence. Kerr's audiobook also illuminates the benefits of these phenomena for the bereaved, who find solace in seeing their loved ones pass with a sense of calm closure.

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Free Download Dear White America: Letter to a New Minority by Tim Wise, Audible Studios
English | 2016 | ISBN: B01HN44PG0 | Format: M4B / Bitrate: 32 Kbps / 3 hours and 32 minutes + PDF | 48 Mb
White Americans have long been comfortable in the assumption that they are the cultural norm. Now that notion is being challenged, as white people wrestle with what it means to be part of a fast-changing, truly multicultural nation. Facing chronic economic insecurity, a popular culture that reflects the nation's diverse cultural reality, and a future in which they will no longer constitute the majority of the population, and with a black president in the White House, whites are growing anxious.
This anxiety has helped to create the Tea Party movement, with its call to "take our country back". By means of a racialized nostalgia for a mythological past, the Right is enlisting fearful whites into its campaign for reactionary social and economic policies.
In urgent response, Tim Wise has penned his most pointed and provocative work to date. Employing the form of direct personal address, he points a finger at whites' race-based self-delusion, explaining how such an agenda will only do harm to the nation's people, including most whites. In no uncertain terms, he argues that the hope for survival of American democracy lies in the embrace of our multicultural past, present, and future.

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Free Download Dear Founder: Letters of Advice for Anyone Who Leads, Manages, or Wants to Start a Business (Audiobook)
English | September 11, 2018 | ASIN: B07F17NTBD | M4B@64 kbps | 8h 16m | 241 MB
Authors: Maynard Webb, Carlye Adler | Narrator: Chris Ciulla
Wise, practical, and profitable letters to entrepreneurs, leaders, managers, and business owners in every field - from a leading executive, investor, and business founder.
More than 600,000 new businesses are launched each year. How can a start-up find the funding it needs to survive? When, if at all, should a company go public? How does an entrepreneur build and manage a workplace - and create a lasting legacy?

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Free Download Deadly Spin: An Insurance Company Insider Speaks Out on How Corporate PR Is Killing Health Care and Deceiving Americans by Wendell Potter, Patrick Lawlor, Tantor Audio
English | 2010 | ISBN: B004CJJJKC | Format: MP3 / Bitrate: 128 Kbps / 9 hours and 17 minutes + EPUB | 506 Mb
"My name is Wendell Potter, and for 20 years I worked as a senior executive at health insurance companies. I saw how they confuse their customers and dump the sick--all so they can satisfy their Wall Street investors." --Senate testimony, June 24, 2009
Wendell Potter is the insurance industry's worst nightmare. In June 2009, Wendell Potter made national headlines with his scorching testimony before the Senate panel on health care reform. This former senior vice president of CIGNA explained how health insurers make promises they have no intention of keeping, how they flout regulations designed to protect consumers, and how they skew political debate with multibillion-dollar public relations campaigns designed to spread disinformation. Potter had walked away from a six-figure salary and two decades as an insurance executive because he could no longer abide the routine practices of an industry where the needs of sick and suffering Americans take a backseat to the bottom line. The last straw: when he visited a rural health clinic and saw hundreds of people standing in line in the rain to receive treatment in stalls built for livestock.
In Deadly Spin, Potter takes listeners behind the scenes to show how a huge chunk of our absurd health care spending actually bankrolls a propaganda campaign and lobbying effort focused on protecting one thing: profits. Whatever the fate of the current health care legislation, it makes no attempt to change that fundamental problem. Potter shows how relentless PR assaults play an insidious role in our political process anywhere that corporate profits are at stake--from climate change to defense policy. Deadly Spin tells us why--and how--we must fight back.

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Free Download Barbara H. Wixom, Cynthia M. Beath, Leslie Owens, Wendy Tremont King (Narrator), "Data Is Everybody's Business: The Fundamentals of Data Monetization (Management on the Cutting Edge)"
English | ASIN: B0CPQTS8N6 | 2023 | M4B@128 kbps | ~06:42:00 | 372 MB
A clear, engaging, evidence-based guide to monetizing data, for everyone from employee to board member.
Most organizations view data monetization-converting data into money-too narrowly: as merely selling data sets. But data monetization is a core business activity for both commercial and noncommercial organizations, and, within organizations, it's critical to have wide-ranging support for this pursuit. In Data Is Everybody's Business, the authors offer a clear and engaging way for people across the entire organization to understand data monetization and make it happen. The authors identify three viable ways to convert data into money-improving work with data, wrapping products with data, and selling information offerings-and explain when to pursue each and how to succeed.

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Free Download Dark and Magical Places: The Neuroscience of Navigation by Christopher Kemp, Neil Gardner, HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books
English | 2022 | ISBN: B09QC2M4ND | M4B@125 kbps | 8h 14m | 449 Mb
Inside our heads we carry around an infinite and endlessly unfolding map of the world. Navigation is one of the most ancient neural abilities we have - older than language. In Dark and Magical Places, Christopher Kemp embarks on a journey to discover the remarkable extent of what our minds can do.
Fueled by his own spatial shortcomings, Kemp describes the brain regions that orient us in space and the specialized neurons that do it. Place cells. Grid cells. He examines how the brain plans routes, recognizes landmarks, and makes sure we leave a room through a door instead of trying to leave through a painting. From the secrets of supernavigators like the indigenous hunters of the Bolivian rainforest to the confusing environments inhabited by people with place blindness, Kemp charts the myriad ways in which we find our way and explains the cutting-edge neuroscience behind them.
How did Neanderthals navigate? Why do even seasoned hikers stray from the trail? What spatial skills do we inherit from our parents? How can smartphones and our reliance on GPS devices impact our brains? In engaging, engrossing language, Kemp unravels the mysteries of navigating and links the brain's complex functions to the effects that diseases like Alzheimer's, types of amnesia, and traumatic brain injuries have on our perception of the world around us.

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Free Download Damsel in Distressed: My Life in the Golden Age of Hedge Funds (Audiobook)
English | April 05, 2022 | ASIN: B09PCBR641 | M4B@128 kbps | 7h 19m | 401 MB
Author: Dominique Mielle | Narrator: Kate Mulligan
The hedge fund industry is a boys' club, with hardly any female success stories to turn to. Damsel in Distressed is one of those rare, humorous, and inspiring stories.
In 1998, Dominique Mielle joined Canyon Partners-a small, little-known hedge fund. The job was trading distressed securities and high-yield bonds, known back then, respectively, as vulture investing and junk bonds.

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