Free Download Spreading Joy: How Joyalukkas Became the World's Favourite Jeweller (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CXR2YPJ6 | 2024 | 7 hours and 32 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 210 MB
Author: Joy Alukkas, Thomas Scaria, Nidhi Jain
Narrator: P. Mathai Abraham
Thrissur, on the coast of Kerala, is known as India's 'gold town'. It was here that Puthussery Alukka Joseph Varghese moved into jewellery retail from his umbrella business in the late 1950s. One of his fifteen children, Joy Alukkas, seemed to have inherited his father's entrepreneurial spirit. In 1986, the quest for his personal El Dorado took Joy to the modern 'city of gold': Dubai. Getting to know the lay of the land, including aspects of procurement, staffing, sales and other regulations, exacerbated by the language barrier, was a challenge that could dampen any entrepreneur's spirit, but Joy persisted and opened the first 'Alukkas' jewellery store in Abu Dhabi, followed soon after by another in Dubai. Just as business was taking off, the Gulf War broke out in 1990, disrupting every aspect of life and forcing Joy to return to India.

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Free Download Splinters of Infinity: Cosmic Rays and the Clash of Two Nobel Prize-Winning Scientists over the Secrets of Creation (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CWBY8MHD | 2024 | 8 hours and 51 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 243 MB
Author: Mark Wolverton
Narrator: Steve Marvel
Set in a revolutionary era of physics and science when a series of rapid-fire discoveries was upending our understanding of the universe, Splinters of Infinity by Mark Wolverton tells a little-known story: the tale of two of America's foremost physicists, Robert Millikan (1868-1953) and Arthur Compton (1892-1962), who found themselves locked in an intense, often deeply personal, conflict about cosmic rays. Confirmed in 1912, cosmic rays-enigmatic forms of penetrating radiation-seemed to raise all new questions about the origins of the universe, but they also offered the potential to explain everything-or reveal the existence of God.

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Free Download Speak-ology: How to Speak with Confidence, Fluency & Eloquence - Fluent Speaking Skills & Smart Language for Highly Effective Communication: +349 Expert Speaking Templates, Phrases & Idioms for Professional Communication in English (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CX3T4RLV | 2024 | 2 hours and 12 minutes | M4B@256 kbps | 243 MB
Author: Marc Roche
Narrator: James Walmsley
Speak-ology: How to Speak with Confidence, Fluency & Eloquence- Fluent Speaking Skills & Smart Language for Highly Effective Communication +349 Expert Speaking Templates, Phrases & Idioms for Professional Communication in English. What will I learn? Discover the Power of Words. Master Clear Thinking and Language for Impactful Communication. Learn to Structure Your Thoughts for Effective Speaking. Learn to speak fluently with strategic exercises. Learn how to be more articulate in every conversation. Explore how to be eloquent and transmit unmatched confidence. Use our detailed English pronunciation chart for flawless speech. Speak with Full Confidence: Learn how highly effective people speak and mimic their techniques. Achieve Clarity and Respect in Professional Conversations. Learn How to Create Powerful Descriptions for Impactful Communication. Make your messages memorable. Improve your communication for effective workplace conversations. Learn How to Answer Difficult Questions like an expert. How to Transform Serious Mistakes into Career Victories. Includes 349 Expert Speaking Templates, Phrases, and Idioms for Professional Communication in English.

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Free Download Song of the Huntress (Audiobook)
English | March 19, 2024 | ASIN: B0CBL43K1B | M4B@128 kbps | 18h 47m | 1.02 GB
Author: Lucy Holland | Narrator: Kristin Atherton
The acclaimed author of Sistersong transforms the story of Herla and the Wild Hunt into a rich, feminist fantasy in this stunning tale of two great warriors, a war-torn land, and an ancient magic that is slowly awakening.
Britain, 60AD. Hoping to save her lover, her land, and her people from the Romans, Herla makes a desperate pact with the king of the Otherworld. But years pass unheeded in his realm, and she escapes to find everyone she loved long dead. Cursed to wield his blade, she becomes Lord of the Hunt. And for centuries, she rides, leading her immortal warriors and reaping wanderers' souls. Until the night she meets a woman on a bloody battlefield-a Saxon queen with ice-blue eyes.

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Free Download Solidarity: The Past, Present, and Future of a World-Changing Idea (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CKM4CX5B | 2024 | 14 hours and 12 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 408 MB
Author: Leah Hunt-Hendrix, Astra Taylor
Narrator: Veronica Giguere
A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK From renowned organizers and activists Leah Hunt-Hendrix and Astra Taylor, comes the first in-depth examination of Solidarity-not just as a rallying cry, but as potent political movement with potential to effect lasting change. Solidarity is often invoked, but it is rarely analyzed and poorly understood. Here, two leading activists and thinkers survey the past, present, and future of the concept across borders of nation, identity, and class to ask: how can we build solidarity in an era of staggering inequality, polarization, violence, and ecological catastrophe? Offering a lively and lucid history of the idea-from Ancient Rome through the first European and American socialists and labor organizers, to twenty-first century social movements like Occupy Wall Street and Black Lives Matter-Hunt-Hendrix and Taylor trace the philosophical debates and political struggles that have shaped the modern world. Looking forward, they argue that a clear understanding of how solidarity is built and sustained, and an awareness of how it has been suppressed, is essential to warding off the many crises of our present: right-wing backlash, irreversible climate damage, widespread alienation, loneliness, and despair. Hunt-Hendrix and Taylor insist that solidarity is both a principle and a practice, one that must be cultivated and institutionalized, so that care for the common good becomes the central aim of politics and social life.

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Free Download Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C6YKLRKP | 2024 | 9 hours and 57 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 286 MB
Author: Jason De León
Narrator: Jason De León
An intense, intimate and first-of-its-kind look at the world of human smuggling in Latin America, by a MacArthur "genius" grant winner and anthropologist with unprecedented access. Political instability, poverty, climate change, and the insatiable appetite for cheap labor all fuel clandestine movement across borders. As those borders harden, the demand for smugglers who aid migrants across them increases every year. Yet the real lives and work of smugglers-or coyotes, or guides, as they are often known by the migrants who hire their services-are only ever reported on from a distance, using tired tropes and stereotypes, often depicted as boogie men and violent warlords.

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Free Download Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CB96H3M4 | 2024 | 6 hours and 17 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 173 MB
Author: Cal Newport
Narrator: Cal Newport
Do Fewer Things. Work at a Natural Pace. Obsess over Quality. From the New York Times bestselling author, a groundbreaking philosophy for pursuing meaningful accomplishment while avoiding overload. Our current definition of "productivity" is broken. It pushes us to treat busyness as a proxy for useful effort, leading to impossibly lengthy task lists and ceaseless meetings. We're overwhelmed by all we have to do and on the edge of burnout, left to decide between giving into soul-sapping hustle culture or rejecting ambition altogether. But are these really our only choices? Long before the arrival of pinging inboxes and clogged schedules, history's most creative and impactful philosophers, scientists, artists, and writers mastered the art of producing valuable work with staying power. In this timely and provocative book, Cal Newport harnesses the wisdom of these traditional knowledge workers to radically transform our modern jobs.

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Free Download Shakespeare's Sisters: How Women Wrote the Renaissance (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CBCYL7GD | 2024 | 11 hours and 57 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 346 MB
Author: Ramie Targoff
Narrator: Hannah Curtis
This remarkable work about women writers in the English Renaissance explodes our notion of the Shakespearean period by drawing us into the lives of four women who were committed to their craft long before anyone ever imagined the possibility of "a room of one's own." In an innovative and engaging narrative of everyday life in Shakespeare's England, Ramie Targoff carries us from the sumptuous coronation of Queen Elizabeth in the mid-sixteenth century into the private lives of four women writers working at a time when women were legally the property of men. Some listeners may have heard of Mary Sidney, accomplished poet and sister of the famous Sir Philip Sidney, but few will have heard of Aemilia Lanyer, the first woman in the seventeenth century to publish a book of original poetry, which offered a feminist take on the crucifixion, or Elizabeth Cary, who published the first original play by a woman, about the plight of the Jewish princess Mariam. Then there was Anne Clifford, a lifelong diarist who fought for decades against a patriarchy that tried to rob her of her land in one of England's most infamous inheritance battles. These women had husbands and children to care for and little support for their art, yet against all odds they defined themselves as writers, finding rooms of their own where doors had been shut for centuries. Targoff flings those doors open, revealing the treasures left by these extraordinary women; in the process, she helps us see the Renaissance in a fresh light, creating a richer understanding of history and offering a much-needed female perspective on life in Shakespeare's day.

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Free Download Jane Marie (Author, Narrator), "Selling the Dream: The Billion-Dollar Industry Bankrupting Americans"
English | ASIN: B0CDJ3NXCZ | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~06:14:00 | 172 MB
Peabody and Emmy Award-winning journalist Jane Marie expands on her popular podcast The Dream to expose the scourge of multilevel marketing schemes and how they have profited off the evisceration of the American working class.
We've all heard of Amway, Mary Kay, Tupperware, and LuLaRoe, but few know the nefarious way they and countless other multilevel marketing (MLM) companies prey on desperate Americans struggling to make ends meet.
When factories close, stalwart industries shutter, and blue-collar opportunities evaporate, MLMs are there, ready to pounce on the crumbling American Dream. MLMs thrive in rural areas and on military bases, targeting women with promises of being their own boss and millions of dollars in easy income-even at the risk of their entire life savings. But the vast majority-99.7%-of those who join an MLM make no money or lose money, and wind up stuck with inventory they can't sell to recoup their losses.

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Free Download Self-Care for Autistic People: 100+ Ways to Recharge, De-Stress, and Unmask! (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CSGR8PHH | 2024 | 5 hours and 20 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 299 MB
Author: Dr. Megan Anna Neff
Narrator: Anna Caputo
Ditch the stigma, stop masking, and put yourself first with these 100+ exercises that reinforce the idea that neurodiversity is a strength and teaches you how to relax, destress, find your community, practice self-love, and more. When you're autistic, it can be tough to prioritize wellness. Self-Care for Autistic People can help you engage in some neurodivergent self-care-without pretending to be neurotypical. You'll find more than 100 activities that help you accept yourself, destigmatize autism, find your community, and take care of your physical and mental health. You'll find solutions for managing the challenging aspects of autism, as well as ideas to bring out the many positive aspects. With expert advice from therapist Megan A. Neff, this book will help you make the most of your life and your diagnosis.

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