Free Download Castles of Steel: Britain, Germany, and the Winning of the Great War at Sea (Audiobook)
English | April 27, 2012 | ASIN: B007Y7ONKK | M4B@64 kbps | 40h 23m | 1.07 GB
Author: Robert K. Massie | Narrator: Richard Matthews
In a work of extraordinary narrative power, filled with brilliant personalities and vivid scenes of dramatic action, Robert K. Massie, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Peter the Great, Nicholas and Alexandra, and Dreadnought, elevates to its proper historical importance the role of sea power in the winning of the Great War.
The predominant image of this first world war is of mud and trenches, barbed wire, machine guns, poison gas, and slaughter. A generation of European manhood was massacred, and a wound was inflicted on European civilization that required the remainder of the twentieth century to heal.

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Free Download Caravaggio: Painter of Miracles (Audiobook)
English | February 11, 2020 | ASIN: B084BZB43C | M4B@128 kbps | 4h 46m | 260 MB
Author: Francine Prose | Narrator: Ann Richardson
Francine Prose's life of Caravaggio evokes the genius of this great artist through a brilliant reading of his paintings. Caravaggio defied the aesthetic conventions of his time; his use of ordinary people, realistically portrayed - street boys, prostitutes, the poor, the aged - was a profound and revolutionary innovation that left its mark on generations of artists. His insistence on painting from nature, on rendering the emotional truth of experience, whether religious or secular, makes him an artist who speaks across the centuries to our own time.
Born in 1571 near Milan, Michelangelo Merisi (da Caravaggio) moved to Rome when he was 21 years old. He became a brilliant and successful artist, protected by the influential Cardinal del Monte and other patrons. But he was also a man of the streets who couldn't seem to free himself from its brawls and vendettas. In 1606 he fled Rome, apparently after killing another man in a dispute. He spent his last years in exile, in Naples, Malta, and Sicily, at once celebrated for his art and tormented by his enemies. Through it all, he produced masterpieces of astonishing complexity and power. Eventually he received a pardon from the Pope, only to die, in mysterious circumstances, on the way back to Rome in 1610.

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Free Download Anka Muhlstein, Adriana Hunter - translator, Christine Rendel (Narrator), "Camille Pissarro: The Audacity of Impressionism"
English | ASIN: B0CLM6Q4Z2 | 2023 | m4B@64 kbps | ~09:41:00 | 181 MB
From the acclaimed biographer and author of Balzac's Omelette, an engaging new work on the life of "the father of Impressionism" and the role his Jewish background played in his artistic creativity.
The celebrated painter Camille Pissarro (1830-1903) occupied a central place in the artistic scene of his time: a founding member of the new school of French painting, he was a close friend of Monet, a longtime associate in Degas's and Mary Cassatt's experimental work, a support to Cezanne and Gauguin, and a comfort to Van Gogh, and was backed by the great Parisian art dealer Paul Durand-Ruel throughout his career. Nevertheless, he felt a persistent sense of being set apart, different, and hard to classify. Settled in France from the age of twenty-five but born in the Caribbean, he was not French and what is more he was Jewish. Although a resolute atheist who never interjected political or religious messages in his art, he was fully aware of the consequences of his lineage.

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Free Download Jean Pfaelzer, Ewan Chung (Narrator), "California, a Slave State"
English | ASIN: B0CL5DLHGK | 2023 | MP3@64 kbps | ~16:27:00 | 467 MB
California owes its origins and sunny prosperity to slavery. Spanish invaders captured Indigenous people to build the chain of Catholic missions. Russian otter hunters shipped Alaska Natives-the first slaves transported into California-and launched a Pacific slave triangle to China. Plantation slaves were marched across the plains for the Gold Rush. San Quentin Prison incubated California's carceral state. Kidnapped Chinese girls were sold in caged brothels in early San Francisco. Indian boarding schools supplied new farms and hotels with unfree child workers.
By looking west to California, Jean Pfaelzer upends our understanding of slavery as a North-South struggle and reveals how the enslaved in California fought, fled, and resisted human bondage. In unyielding research and vivid interviews, Pfaelzer exposes how California gorged on slavery, an appetite that persists today in a global trade in human beings lured by promises of jobs but who instead are imprisoned in sweatshops and remote marijuana grows or sold as nannies and sex workers.

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Free Download Gavin Esler (Author, Narrator), "Britain Is Better Than This: Why a Great Country Is Failing Us All"
English | ASIN (UK): B0CKRSF2DZ | 2023 | M4B@128 kbps | ~11:38:00 | 659 MB
An urgent and timely exploration of a British political system in peril - and what we must do to save it.
For centuries, British identity has been shaped by ideas of exceptionalism, grandeur and competence. Yet British democracy is failing. Governments supported by a minority of voters are elected with enormous majorities under a deeply unrepresentative first-past-the-post system. The result has been failed leaders delivering wounding blows to the country's economy, prosperity and international image.

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Free Download Bridging the Tragedy: Silver Linings in the Mysterious Ohio River Valley (Audiobook)
English | August 22, 2023 | ASIN: B0CGBVW2XF | M4B@128 kbps | 12h 59m | 708 MB
Authors: Bill Kousoulas PhD, Jacqueline Kousoulas | Narrator: Michael Hacker
Trauma manifests in myriad ways....
On December 15, 1967, trauma erupted in West Virginia as the small river town of Point Pleasant had just experienced the deadliest bridge collapse in US history. Early that evening, lives in the Ohio River Valley were forever altered as the Silver Bridge connecting Point Pleasant to Kanauga, Ohio collapsed into the icy river below. One hundred and fifty American Red Cross volunteers worked feverishly overnight to rescue people and debris from the frigid waters, while friends provided comfort to the weary and hopeful with missing friends and family members. Concerned others supplied food and fire to nourish and warm the workers. "Efforts to dredge the waters of the Ohio River were hampered by the murkiness of the winter's waters, as well as the deep, persistent cold of the December air." (Bolte, 2010)

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Free Download Breaking the Cycle: Free Yourself from Sex Addiction, Porn Obsession, and Shame by George Collins MA, Sean Pratt, Andrew Adleman
English | 2015 | ISBN: B017MR418K | M4B@64 kbps | 6 hrs 22 mins | 175 Mb
Anyone who has struggled with sex addiction knows that living with constant sexual compulsions can be extremely difficult. But summoning the courage to find help for this condition can be even more of a challenge. If addictions to pornography, strip clubs, massage parlors, prostitutes, phone sex, or chat rooms have made you feel trapped, this book can help you find a way to break free. Written by a former sex addict who specializes in counseling people who suffer from sexually compulsive behavior, Breaking the Cycle presents a step-by-step plan to enjoying a life of productivity and purpose.
You can free yourself from the powerful, compulsive urges that may have damaged your career, finances, or relationships with friends and family. The exercises in this book will show you how to regain control of your life and build meaningful intimate connections with others.
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Free Download Breaking Through: My Life in Science (Audiobook)
English | October 10, 2023 | ASIN: B0BVWM62V1 | M4B@128 kbps | 11h 3m | 617 MB
Author: Katalin Karikó | Narrator: Eva Magyar
A powerful memoir from Katalin Karikó, winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, whose decades-long research led to the COVID-19 vaccines
"Katalin Karikó's story is an inspiration."-Bill Gates

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Free Download Julian Barling, Mike Cooper (Narrator), "Brave New Workplace: Designing Productive, Healthy, and Safe Organizations"
English | ASIN: B0BX219HVK | 2023 | M4B@64 kbps | ~10:24:00 | 300 MB
After a period of tremendous upheaval, it is necessary for organizations to transform alongside their employees and welcome new ways of working. While it is impossible to predict which changes will be successful, it is crucial for leaders to now ask: what should work look like to achieve productive, healthy, and safe organizations?
In Brave New Workplace, Julian Barling argues that we should focus on creating environments in which employees can flourish, rather than relying on the resiliency of workers to withstand difficult working conditions. Synthesizing centuries of research from scholars such as Abraham Maslow, Fred Herzberg, and Richard Hackman, among others, Barling identifies seven elements that are key to building an exceptional workplace: high quality leadership, autonomy, belonging, fairness, growth, meaning, and safety. Throughout the book, chapters touch on pressing issues affecting today's organizations such as working through crises, like the COVID-19 pandemic, and the impact of gender differences on people's experiences in the workplace. Barling illustrates that small changes make a big difference in the long term-perhaps especially during the most trying times-and that effective, evidenced-based interventions are needed to achieve productive, healthy, and safe, work.

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Free Download Henry King, Vala Afshar, Jonathan Todd Ross (Narrator), "Boundless: A New Mindset for Unlimited Business Success"
English | ISBN: 1663733686, 9781663733689 | 2023 | M4B@64 kbps | ~07:38:00 | 211 MB
In Boundless, two leaders in transformation and customer success deliver an inspiring and exciting new approach to succeeding in an increasingly decentralized and digital-first world. In the book, you'll learn how to demolish organizational silos once and for all, allowing resources to flow across networks, ecosystems, and communities. The authors explain the seven principles underlying their unique and effective "Boundless" paradigm: connection, integration, decentralization, mobility, continuity, autonomy, and shared success.
Walking you through the blueprint for transformative, resilient business success, Boundless also offers: strategies for mapping the Boundless principles to key technological advances, including digital platforms, blockchain, AI, robotics, cloud computing, and more; ways to achieve the operational, organizational, and technological shifts necessary to succeed in an entirely transformed world; and tools for combating the natural tendency of employees to accumulate and protect resources within company silos.

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