Free Download Philip Freeman, Jonathan Johns (Narrator), "Julian: Rome's Last Pagan Emperor (Ancient Lives)"
English | ASIN: B0D1LQLB5B | 2024 | M4B@128 kbps | ~04:11:00 | 232 MB
"When we think of ancient Rome, it's impossible not to think of Christianity, one of its most notable exports-but what if it hadn't been? This is the question provoked by classicist Philip Freeman in Julian, an appealing new entry in Yale's Ancient Lives series, which tells the story of the old faith's last imperial torchbearer."-Anna Heyward, New York Times Book Review
Flavius Claudius Julianus, or Julian the Apostate, ruled Rome as sole emperor for just a year and a half, from 361 to 363, but during that time he turned the world upside down. Although a nephew of Constantine the Great, the first Christian emperor of Rome, Julian fought to return Rome to the old gods who had led his ancestors to build their vast empire.
As emperor, Julian set about reforming the administration, conquering new territories, and reviving ancient religions. He was scorned in his time for repudiating Christianity and demonized as an apostate for willfully rejecting Christ. Through the centuries, Julian has been viewed by many as a tragic figure who sought to save Rome from its enemies and the corrupting influence of Christianity. Christian writers and historians have seen Julian much differently: as a traitor to God and violent oppressor of Christians. Had Julian not been killed by a random Persian spear, he might well have changed all of history.

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Free Download Joyful Recollections of Trauma (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CGCHFGMJ | 2024 | 6 hours and 38 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 182 MB
Author: Paul Scheer
Narrator: Paul Scheer
From award-winning actor and comedian Paul Scheer, a candid and hilarious memoir-in-essays on coming to terms with childhood trauma and finding the joy in embracing your authentic self, featuring content exclusive to the audio edition, including excerpts from live shows and audio clips from home movies. Paul Scheer has entertained countless fans and podcast listeners with stories about the odd, wild, and absurd details of his life. Yet these tales have pointed to deeper, more difficult truths that the actor and comedian has kept to himself. Now, he is finally ready to share those truths for the first time-but, of course, with a healthy dose of humor. Blending the confident, affable voice that has won him a dedicated following with a refreshing level of candor, Joyful Recollections of Trauma chronicles Paul's often shocking, admittedly tumultuous childhood and how the experiences of his youth have reverberated throughout his life.

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Free Download Job Crafting: Management on the Cutting Edge (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CX3H1XT2 | 2024 | 4 hours and 52 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 134 MB
Author: Benjamin Laker, Lebene Soga, Yemisi Bolade-Ogunfodun, Adeyinka Adewale
Narrator: Brian Conover
A practical and timely guide that shows employees how to craft the jobs they want and managers how to shape their organizations in ways that are conducive to such job crafting. Job Crafting is a rigorous, modern take on job redesign that empowers workers to transform the jobs they have into the ones they want. Through the process of job crafting, a worker proactively alters their job to emphasize tasks that better align with their skills or that allow opportunities to learn new skills, with the help of executives who are willing to transform their organizations into supportive work environments. Offering practical guidance grounded in empirical evidence, British researcher Benjamin Laker and coauthors Lebene Soga, Yemisi Bolade-Ogunfodun, and Adeyinka Adewale describe the steps necessary for businesses and organizations to facilitate that support.

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Free Download Edward G. Longacre, David Colacci (Narrator), "J.E.B. Stuart: The Soldier and the Man"
English | ASIN: B0CZ23KYV4 | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~16:41:00 | 459 MB
J. E. B. Stuart: The Soldier and the Man is the first thoroughly scrutinized study of the life and service of the Civil War's most famous cavalryman. James Ewell Brown Stuart led the Army of Northern Virginia's cavalry to the all-but-complete satisfaction of his superiors. Being human, Stuart occasionally underperformed. He underestimated his opponents, took unnecessary risks with his command, failed to properly discipline and motivate his troopers, and was prone to errors both strategic and tactical. Because of his outsized wartime reputation, most of Stuart's errors have passed virtually unnoticed or, when addressed, have been excused or explained away.
Edward Longacre's study probes not only Stuart's military career, but elements of his character that invite investigation. Even his fiercest partisans admitted that he was vain and inordinately sensitive to criticism, with a streak of immaturity-at times the hard-edged veteran, at other times a devotee of the pageantry of war. Motivated by appeals to vanity, he curried the patronage of powerful men and responded to the attentions of attractive women even though he was a married man. Personal flaws aside, Stuart was popular with his officers and men, beloved by his staff, and considered the beau ideal of Confederate soldiery. The distinction endures today. This book is an attempt to determine its validity.

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Free Download Is Your Work Worth It?: How to Think About Meaningful Work (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CJCXDGYP | 2024 | 9 hours and 32 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 276 MB
Author: Christopher Wong Michaelson, Jennifer Tosti-Kharas
Narrator: Christopher Wong Michaelson, Jennifer Tosti-Kharas, Andrew Sellon
What is work that's worth doing in a life worth living? A revealing exploration of the questions we ask and the stories we tell about our work. According to recent studies, barely a third of American workers feel "engaged" at work, and for many people around the world, happiness is lowest when earning power is highest. After a global pandemic that changed why, how, and what people do for a living, many workers find themselves wondering what makes their daily routine worthwhile. In Is Your Work Worth It?, two professors-a philosopher and organizational psychologist-investigate the purpose of work and its value in our lives. This essential book combines inspiring and harrowing stories of real people with recent scholarship, ancient wisdom, arts, and literature to help us clarify what worthy work looks like, what tradeoffs are acceptable to pursue it, and what our work can contribute to society.

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Free Download Interpretable AI
Author: Ajay Thampi
Narrator: n/a
English | 2022 | ISBN: 9781617297649 | MP3@64 kbps | Duration: 8h 38m | 712 MB
AI doesn't have to be a black box. These practical techniques help shine a light on your model's mysterious inner workings. Make your AI more transparent, and you'll improve trust in your results, combat data leakage and bias, and ensure compliance with legal requirements.

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Free Download Inspire Greatness: How to Motivate Employees with a Simple, Repeatable, Scalable Process (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CZ27V3T1 | 2024 | 5 hours and 50 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 324 MB
Author: Matt Tenney
Narrator: Matt Tenney
Quickly and sustainably improve employee motivation, engagement, and performance with this simple, four-step process from a top leadership expert. Leadership tends to be thought of as an art, not a science. Imagine the benefits of having an algorithm-a repeatable process based on decades of research on what motivates employees-that any leader could follow to consistently inspire greatness in others. From sought-after speaker and consultant Matt Tenney, Inspire Greatness outlines a simple, scalable, four-step process that enables leaders to routinely bring out the best in team members and improve performance by: Taking responsibility for employee engagement and acting from the wisdom that their primary job is to inspire greatness in their team members. Identifying what team members need to thrive and do great work.

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Free Download Inside Deep Learning: Math, Algorithms, Models
Author: Edward Raff
Narrator: n/a
English | 2022 | ISBN: 9781617298639 | MP3@64 kbps | Duration: 15h 35m | 1.23 GB
Journey through the theory and practice of modern deep learning, and apply innovative techniques to solve everyday data problems.

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Free Download Infinite Life: A Revolutionary Story of Eggs, Evolution and Life on Earth (Audiobook)
English | ISBN: 9781004160631 | 2024 | 5 hours and 51 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 321 MB
Author: Jules Howard
Narrator: Jules Howard
Every animal on the planet owes its existence to one crucial piece of evolutionary engineering: the egg. It's time to tell a new story of life on Earth. If you think of an egg, what do you see in your mind's eye? A chicken egg, hard-boiled? A slimy mass of frogspawn? Perhaps you see a human egg cell, prepared on a microscope slide in a laboratory? Or the majestic marble-blue eggs of the blackbird? Every egg there has ever been, is an emblem of survival. Yet the evolution of the animal egg is the dramatic subDescription missing in many accounts of how life on Earth came to be. Quite simply, without this universal biological phenomenon, animals as we know them, including us, could not have evolved and flourished.

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Free Download Inclusion Revolution: The Essential Guide to Dismantling Racial Inequity in the Workplace
Author: Daisy Auger-Domínguez
Narrator: Angela Juarez
English | 2024 | ASIN: B0CXTMNW8P | MP3@64 kbps | Duration: 11h 58m | 824 MB
In Inclusion Revolution, workplace strategist and C-suite executive Daisy Auger-Dominguez delivers a timely, inspirational, and practical exploration of why mainstream efforts at diversity improvement tend to fail and what you can do today to successfully create a diverse and representative leadership team at your company.

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