Free Download Guardrails: Guiding Human Decisions in the Age of AI (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CR4DP8RY | 2024 | 7 hours and 39 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 210 MB
Author: Urs Gasser, Viktor Mayer-Schönberger
Narrator: Anand Jagatia
How society can shape individual actions in times of uncertainty. When we make decisions, our thinking is informed by societal norms, "guardrails" guiding our decisions, like the laws and rules that govern us. But what are good guardrails in today's world of overwhelming information flows and increasingly powerful technologies, such as artificial intelligence? Based on the latest insights from the cognitive sciences, economics, and public policy, Guardrails offers a novel approach to shaping decisions by embracing human agency in its social context. In this visionary book, Urs Gasser and Viktor Mayer-Schönberger show how the quick embrace of technological solutions can lead to results we don't always want and explain how society itself can provide guardrails more suited to the digital age, ones that empower individual choice while accounting for the social good, encourage flexibility in the face of changing circumstances, and ultimately help us to make better decisions as we tackle the most daunting problems of our times, such as global injustice and climate change. Whether we change jobs, buy a house, or quit smoking, thousands of decisions large and small shape our daily lives. Decisions drive our economies, seal the fate of democracies, create war or peace, and affect the well-being of our planet. Guardrails challenges the notion that technology should step in where our own decision making fails, laying out a surprisingly human-centered set of principles that can create new spaces for better decisions and a more equitable and prosperous society.

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Free Download Ritchie Devon Watson, Joshua Saxon (Narrator), "Grand Emporium, Mercantile Monster: The Antebellum South's Love-Hate Affair With New York City"
English | ASIN: B0CWLWD5QT | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~08:44:00 | 249 MB
Focusing on the crucial period of 1820 to 1860, Grand Emporium, Mercantile Monster examines the strong economic bonds between the antebellum plantation South and the burgeoning city of New York that resulted from the highly lucrative trade in cotton. In this richly detailed work of literary and cultural history, Ritchie Devon Watson Jr. charts how the partnership brought fantastic wealth to both the South and Gotham during the first half of the nineteenth century. That mutually beneficial alliance also cemented New York's reputation as the northern metropolis most supportive of and hospitable to southerners.
Both parties initially found the commercial and cultural entente advantageous, but their collaboration grew increasingly fraught by the 1840s as rising abolitionist sentiment in the North decried the system of chattel slavery that made possible the mass production of cotton. In an effort to stem the swelling tide of abolitionism, conservative southerners demanded absolute political fealty to their peculiar institution from the city that had profited most from the cotton trade. By 1861, reactionary circles in the South viewed New York's failure to extend such unalloyed validation as the betrayal of an erstwhile ally that in the words of one polemicist deemed Gotham worthy of being "blotted from the list of cities."
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Free Download Good With Money: Reprogram Your Spending Habits and Take Control of Your Money (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CQ3CFVJ1 | 2024 | 8 hours and 39 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 242 MB
Author: Emma Edwards
Narrator: Emma Edwards
A game-changing, practical guide to the psychology behind your spending habits, revealing how to manage your money without missing out on the things you love. Have you ever avoided looking at your banking app after a big night out? Placed an online order during a late-night doom scroll? Or felt helpless when your new budget simply failed to stick, despite your best intentions? If this sounds familiar, this is the book for you. In the age of smartphones and social media, we're surrounded by an endless stream of stuff to buy. From social conditioning around what makes us happy to fast fashion, algorithmic advertising and 'where did you get that' culture, there are a fair few traps that keep us from being 'Good With Money'.

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Free Download Bill Novelli, Mike Lenz (Narrator), "Good Business: The Talk, Fight, Win Way to Change the World"
English | ASIN: B0CWVWJX8V | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~13:07:00 | 372 MB
From his humble beginnings selling soap in a sales training program to his rapid rise in the fast-paced New York advertising scene, Bill Novelli was well on his way to becoming a leader in the hypercompetitive business world. But it wasn't long before he became disillusioned with the drive for profits at any cost. He knew that his marketing skills made those companies successful, but what good did that success do for the world? That question sent him on a career path that involved taking the marketing and communication tactics long used by big businesses and applying them to social change. He found that this strategy was not only good for the world but also good for business.
In Good Business, Novelli begins with his early career success in Mad Men-era marketing, which left him feeling unfulfilled. He describes the process of changing career trajectory: how he helped reposition the Peace Corps; built Porter Novelli, a global PR agency for social impact; fought the Tobacco Wars; and became CEO of AARP, the largest nonprofit in America. Drawing practical lessons and principles from play-by-play stories of his experiences in large and small organizations, Novelli deploys his characteristic wit to stress the importance of building and maintaining connections with people-and engaging them in the cause.
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Free Download Giovanni's Ring: My Life Inside the Real Sopranos (Audiobook)
English | June 07, 2022 | ASIN: B09YKRYQ2T | M4B@128 kbps | 7h 5m | 386 MB
Author: Giovanni Rocco, Douglas Schofield | Narrator: Joe Barrett
Giovanni's Ring is the story of "Giovanni Rocco," a New Jersey police officer, known undercover as "Giovanni Gatto," who was the mysterious agent at the epicenter of Operation Charlie Horse, a federal undercover operation that ultimately brought down ten members and associates of New Jersey's DeCavalcante Mafia family, the criminal organization known as "the real Sopranos."
Giovanni spent nearly three years working his way into the DeCavalcante hierarchy. That lethal assignment brought the undercover operation to an end in March 2015, and the resulting string of high-profile arrests eviscerated the criminal organization.

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Free Download Ghost Town Living: Mining for Purpose and Chasing Dreams at the Edge of Death Valley (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CB9DFLS6 | 2024 | 7 hours and 44 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 226 MB
Author: Brent Underwood
Narrator: Brent Underwood
A long-abandoned silver mine for sale sounded like an adventure too great to pass up, but it turned into much more-a calling, a community of millions, and hard-earned lessons about chasing impractical dreams. The siren song of Cerro Gordo, a desolate ghost town perched high above Death Valley, has seduced thousands since the 1800s, but few fell harder for it than Brent Underwood, who moved there in March of 2020, only to be immediately snowed in and trapped for weeks. It had once been the largest silver mine in California. Over $500 million worth of ore was pulled from the miles of tunnels below the town. Butch Cassidy, Mark Twain, and other infamous characters of the American West were rumored to have stayed there. Newspapers reported a murder a week. But that was over 150 years ago. Underwood bet his life savings-and his life-on this majestic, hardscrabble town that had broken its fair share of ambitious men and women.

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Free Download Get It Together: Troubling Tales from the Liberal Fringe (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BT1385MG | 2024 | 11 hours and 32 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 317 MB
Author: Jesse Watters
Narrator: Larry Wayne
Can the political be way too personal? What if most radical activists are trying to change their lives by changing the whole country? When Jesse Watters set out to interview a few dozen radical activists to find out where their wild ideas came from, he discovered two things that shocked him: First, he liked these people. Second, their political positions were not primarily from books, teachers, or other activists. They originated in personal drama. Most of these people didn't need legislation. They needed a therapist. In Get It Together, the number one New York Times bestselling author and Fox News primetime host takes on Wokeism in a way no one else has. Through a series of (sometimes very) personal interviews with some of the most radical activists in the country, Watters discovers that these activists may be overlooking the most important change they need to make-within themselves.

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Free Download Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship, Unabridged (Audiobook)
English | ISBN: 9780736695794 | 2007 | 13 hours and 36 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 396 MB
Author: Jon Meacham
Narrator: Grover Gardner
Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill were the greatest leaders of "the Greatest Generation". In Franklin and Winston, Jon Meacham explores the fascinating relationship between the two men who piloted the free world to victory in World War II. It was a crucial friendship and a unique one: a president and a prime minister spending enormous amounts of time together and exchanging nearly 2,000 messages. Amid cocktails, cigarettes, and cigars, they met, often secretly, in places as far-flung as Washington, Hyde Park, Casablanca, and Teheran, talking to each other of war, politics, the burden of command, their health, their wives, and their children. Born in the 19th century and molders of the 20th and 21st, Roosevelt and Churchill had much in common.

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Free Download Simon Court (Author, Narrator), "Founder's Legacy: 50 Game-Changing Leadership Lessons for Building a Great Business"
English | ISBN: 9781639090433, 1472912373 | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~07:37:00 | 216 MB
Become the leader your business needs.
Nine out of ten startups ultimately fail. Perhaps they run out of cash, lack product-market fit, or have an ineffectual marketing strategy. But these things don't just happen. They result from founder leaders not having the right people around them and not making the best decisions. In other words, many growing companies fail due to poor leadership-and these failures are preventable.
Great leadership capitalizes on the business's potential. In Founder's Legacy, you will learn how to address the breadth of challenges that founders and leaders face in a way that is consistent with your strengths, values, and purpose so you can successfully grow your business.

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Free Download For Richer for Poorer: A Love Affair with Poker (Audiobook)
English | September 14, 2023 | ASIN: B0CCW1P8M1 | M4B@128 kbps | 10h 2m | 548 MB
Author and Narrator: Victoria Coren Mitchell
Victoria Coren Mitchell's gripping poker memoir now available for the first time in audio.
In September 2006, Victoria Coren Mitchell won a million dollars on the European Poker Tour. For Richer, for Poorer tells the story of that victory, but also of a 20-year obsession with the game. It is a journey which has taken Victoria from a secret culture of illegal cash games to the high-stakes glamour of Las Vegas and Monte Carlo, and brought with it friendship, laughter, and money, but also loneliness, heartbreak and defeat. With disarming honesty, Victoria lays all of this bare. For Richer, for Poorer also tells the story of the poker revolution. How did this cult card game, populated by a small community of colourful and eccentric players, move from the back streets to the mainstream in a few short years? It is a fascinating story from a trusted insider.

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