Free Download History of Florence and of the affairs of Italy (Audiobook)
English | ISBN: 9798868683060 | 2024 | 16 hours and 53 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 492 MB
Author: Niccolo Machiavelli
Narrator: Andrew Jackson
"History of Florence and of the Affairs of Italy" by Niccolò Machiavelli is a seminal work in the realm of historical writing and political theory. It was written by Machiavelli during the early 16th century and offers a detailed account of the history of Florence and Italy during his lifetime. Machiavelli's work delves into the intricate political dynamics of Florence and Italy, chronicling the rise and fall of various rulers, factions, and states. It provides valuable insights into the political strategies, power struggles, and machinations that characterized Renaissance Italy. Machiavelli's analysis is marked by his pragmatism and keen understanding of human nature, making this book a cornerstone of political philosophy and historical scholarship.

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Free Download History of Bourbon [TTC Audio]
English | December 17, 2019 | ASIN: B0829CYCKH | M4B@128 kbps | 3h 55m | 219 MB
Lecturer: Ken Albala
Is bourbon the quintessential American liquor? Bourbon is not just alcohol-the amber-colored drink is deeply ingrained in American culture and tangled in American history. From the early days of raw corn liquor to the myriad distilleries that have proliferated around the country today, bourbon is a symbol of the United States.
This course traces bourbon's entire history, from the 1700s, with Irish, Scottish, and French settlers setting up stills and making distilled spirits in the New World, through today's booming resurgence.

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Free Download Hijacking Bitcoin: The Hidden History of BTC (Audiobook)
English | ISBN: 9798989492459 | 2024 | 7 hours and 38 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 216 MB
Author: Roger Ver, Steve Patterson
Narrator: Steve Patterson
Bitcoin was promised to be a liberating technology, a free market alternative to state-controlled money. But that promise was broken after a small group of insiders took over the project and fundamentally changed Bitcoin's design. Few people know the true history of Bitcoin and its original design due to years of heavy censorship, social media engineering, and tight information controls online. Hijacking Bitcoin destroys the most popular narratives that surround Bitcoin and sets the historical record straight. Roger Ver's passion and pain come through as he tells the story of a beloved project corrupted in front of his eyes. Written by one of the most prominent figures in the cryptocurrency industry, this book is impossible to ignore.

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Free Download Hershey: Milton S. Hershey's Extraordinary Life of Wealth, Empire, and Utopian Dreams (Audiobook)
English | January 17, 2019 | ASIN: B07MDH7L93 | M4B@64 kbps | 13h 34m | 370 MB
Author: Michael D'Antonio | Narrator: Jonathan Yen
The name Hershey evokes many things: chocolate bars, the company town in Pennsylvania, one of America's most recognizable brands. But who was the man behind the name? In this compelling biography, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Michael D'Antonio gives us the real-life rags-to-riches story of Milton S. Hershey, a largely uneducated businessman whose idealistic sense of purpose created an immense financial empire, a town, and a legacy that lasts to this day.
Hershey, the son of a minister's daughter and an irresponsible father who deserted the family, began his career inauspiciously when the two candy shops he opened both went bankrupt. Undeterred, he started the Lancaster Caramel Company, which brought him success at last. Eventually, he sold his caramel operation and went on to perfect the production process of chocolate to create a stable, consistent bar with a long shelf life...and an American icon was born.

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Free Download Herod the Great: Jewish King in a Roman World (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CXL17F2V | 2024 | 6 hours and 00 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 164 MB
Author: Martin Goodman
Narrator: Will Tulin
A vivid account of the political triumphs and domestic tragedies of the Jewish king Herod the Great during the turmoil of the Roman revolution. Herod the Great (73-4 BCE) was a phenomenally energetic ruler who took advantage of the chaos of the Roman revolution to establish himself as a major figure in a changing Roman world and transform the landscape of Judaea. Both Jews and Christians developed myths about his cruelty and rashness: in Christian tradition he was cast as the tyrant who ordered the Massacre of the Innocents; in the Talmud, despite fond memories of his glorious Temple in Jerusalem, he was recalled as a persecutor of rabbis.

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Free Download Hello My Name Is Awesome: How to Create Brand Names That Stick (Audiobook)
English | September 12, 2019 | ASIN: B07WSN73YY | M4B@125 kbps | 3h 50m | 209.23 MB
Author: Alexandra Watkins
Narrator: Claire Buchignani
The ultimate guide to naming your product or business has been updated throughout, with twice as many resources as before, new stories (of both hits and flops), and an entirely new chapter on the power of names in the workplace.

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Free Download Earl Swift, Mark Deakins (Narrator), "Hell Put to Shame: The 1921 Murder Farm Massacre and the Horror of America's Second Slavery"
English | ASIN: B0CB7619FF | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~12:22:00 | 340 MB
"Hell Put to Shame is a powerfully unsettling portrait of both the single most savage episode in the long decades of savagery inflicted by white southerners on their Black neighbors in the 20th century-and the methodical process that followed to erase those crimes from America's collective memory."-Douglas A. Blackmon, author of Slavery by Another Name, winner of the Pulitzer Prize
From the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Chesapeake Requiem comes a gripping new work of narrative nonfiction telling the forgotten story of the mass killing of eleven Black farmhands on a Georgia plantation in the spring of 1921-a crime which exposed for the nation the existence of the "peonage system," a form of legal enslavement established after the Civil War across the American South.
On a Sunday morning in the spring of 1921, a small boy made a grim discovery as he played on a riverbank in the cotton country of rural Georgia: the bodies of two drowned men, bound together with wire and chain and weighted with a hundred-pound sack of rocks. Within days a third body turned up in another, nearby river, and in the weeks that followed, eight others. And with them, a deeper horror: all eleven had been kept in virtual slavery before their deaths. In fact, as America was shocked to learn, the dead were among thousands of Black men enslaved throughout the South, in conditions nearly as dire as those before the Civil War.

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Free Download Headstrap: Legends and Lore from the Climbing Sherpas of Darjeeling (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CY6FDSGY | 2024 | 11 hours and 18 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 294 MB
Author: Nandini Purandare, Deepa Balsavar
Narrator: Jeed Saddy
This captivating chronicle delves into the untold story of a tribe of people who have played a significant role in mountain exploration and climbing in the Himalayas. Situated in northern India, Darjeeling was developed as a colonial retreat by the British in the early 1830s and soon became famous for its tea gardens, attracting locals from around the region, Nepal, and Tibet in search of work. When Darjeeling became the jumping-off point for early Himalayan expeditions, workers from the Sherpa and Bhutia communities soon established themselves as the preferred high-altitude porters, bringing fame, entwined with tales of valor, courage, and sacrifice, to the city. These are some of their stories. Over the course of a decade, authors Nandini Purandare and Deepa Balsavar conducted a series of interviews with Sherpas from Darjeeling, as well as their family members, descendants, friends, and contemporary climbers. Headstrap weaves a vivid tapestry of this particular Sherpa community, giving them the recognition in mountaineering literature that they deserve.

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Free Download Harlan Ellison's Watching: Essays and Criticism (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CQZ51Y1F | 2024 | 20 hours and 43 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 596 MB
Author: Harlan Ellison
Narrator: Luis Moreno
An enjoyable, irascible collection" of smart and sometimes-scathing film criticism from a famously candid author (Library Journal). Everyone's a critic, especially in the digital age-but no one takes on the movies like multiple award-winning author Harlan Ellison. Renowned both for fiction (A Boy and His Dog) and pop-culture commentary (The Glass Teat), Ellison offers in this collection twenty-five years' worth of essays and film criticism. It's pure, raw, unapologetic opinion. Star Wars? "Luke Skywalker is a nerd and Darth Vader sucks runny eggs." Big Trouble in Little China? "A cheerfully blathering live-action cartoon that will give you release from the real pressures of your basically dreary lives." Despite working within the industry himself, Ellison never learned how to lie. So punches go unpulled, the impersonal becomes personal, and sometimes even the critics get critiqued, as he shares his views on Pauline Kael or Siskel and Ebert. Ultimately, it's a wild journey through the cinematic landscape, touching on everything from Fellini to the Friday the 13th franchise.

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Free Download HBR Guide to Dealing with Conflict (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CVNMQ2YV | 2024 | 4 hours and 51 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 268 MB
Author: Amy Gallo
Narrator: Liisa Ivary
While some of us enjoy a lively debate with colleagues and others prefer to suppress our feelings over disagreements, we all struggle with conflict at work. Every day we navigate an office full of competing interests, clashing personalities, limited time and resources, and fragile egos. Sure, we share the same overarching goals as our colleagues, but we don't always agree on how to achieve them. We work differently. We rub each other the wrong way. We jockey for position. How can you deal with conflict at work in a way that is both professional and productive-where it improves both your work and your relationships?

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