Free Download Fair Shake: Women and the Fight to Build a Just Economy (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CNDC45HH | 2024 | 9 hours and 5 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 261 MB
Author: Naomi Cahn, June Carbone, Nancy Levit
Narrator: Janina Edwards
A stirring, comprehensive look at the state of women in the workforce-why women's progress has stalled, how our economy fosters unproductive competition, and how we can fix the system that holds women back. In an era of supposed great equality, women are still falling behind in the workplace. Even with more women in the workforce than in decades past, wage gaps continue to increase. It is the most educated women who have fallen the furthest behind. Blue-collar women hold the most insecure and badly paid jobs in our economy. And even as we celebrate high-profile representation-women on the board of Fortune 500 companies and our first female vice president-women have limited recourse when they experience harassment and discrimination. Fair Shake: Women and the Fight to Build a Just Economy explains that the system that governs our economy-a winner-take-all economy-is the root cause of these myriad problems.

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Free Download Michael J. Gerhardt, Danny Campbell (Narrator), "FDR's Mentors: Navigating the Path to Greatness"
English | ASIN: B0CYTL7RJH | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~13:53:00 | 382 MB
A unique and illuminating exploration of the key relationships that shaped Franklin Delano Roosevelt into one of America's most definitive leaders and impacted his influence on the world stage, from the acclaimed author of Lincoln's Mentors
Franklin Delano Roosevelt wasn't a born leader. He became one. As a boy he was in poor health, insecure, and an average student at best. Growing into manhood, the lessons he learned came not from books, but from influencers of his lifetime, beginning with Endicott Peabody, the most renowned US headmaster of the twentieth century. He instilled in Roosevelt a confidence and strength that empowered the young student and propelled him to greatness as one of the most revered presidents of the United States.
For Roosevelt, Peabody was only one of a small number of people who helped him develop the skills and temperament that enabled him to overcome the devastating effects of polio, to lead the nation through two crises, and to secure America's leadership in the world. In FDR's Mentors, Michael Gerhardt tells the extraordinary stories of the men and women who had a vital impact on Roosevelt's life, career, and pragmatic personality: his distant cousin Teddy; his wife Eleanor; President Woodrow Wilson; journalist Lewis Howe; Winston Churchill; and New York Democratic Party leader Al Smith.

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Free Download Harvard Business Review, Megan Tusing (Narrator), "Experience, Opportunity, and Developing Your Career"
English | ASIN: B0CZC9KM7X | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~03:39:00 | 100 MB
Build the career you want-on your terms.
"Where do you see yourself in five years?" This question can make even the most ambitious of us feel a little nauseous. Starting out in the working world is hard enough, but thinking long-term about our careers-and whether we even want a capital-C "Career"-can be daunting. Luckily, there are steps we can take to build careers that fit our individual interests, needs, and skills.
Experience, Opportunity, and Developing Your Career is filled with practical advice from HBR experts who can help you answer questions like: Should I choose to follow my passion, my purpose, or my values? How will I know if a job is really right for me? What's the best way to use my network? And how can I make big decisions about my career?

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Free Download Everything Is Predictable: How Bayesian Statistics Explain Our World (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CNDBLJZD | 2024 | 8 hours and 7 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 236 MB
Author: Tom Chivers
Narrator: Tom Chivers
A captivating and user-friendly tour of Bayes's theorem and its global impact on modern life from the acclaimed science writer and author. At its simplest, Bayes's theorem describes the probability of an event, based on prior knowledge of conditions that might be related to the event. But in Everything Is Predictable, Tom Chivers lays out how it affects every aspect of our lives. He explains why highly accurate screening tests can lead to false positives and how a failure to account for it in court has put innocent people in jail. A cornerstone of rational thought, many argue that Bayes's theorem is a description of almost everything. But who was the man who lent his name to this theorem? How did an 18th-century Presbyterian minister and amateur mathematician uncover a theorem that would affect fields as diverse as medicine, law, and artificial intelligence? Fusing biography, razor-sharp science writing, and intellectual history, Everything Is Predictable is an entertaining tour of Bayes's theorem and its impact on modern life, showing how a single compelling idea can have far reaching consequences.

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Free Download Enemies at the Gate: The City Walls of Ancient Rome (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D1ZG5FSZ | 2024 | 16 hours and 42 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 482 MB
Author: Patricia Southern
Narrator: Rupert Bush
The legend of the foundation of Rome by Romulus in 753BC accords very well with the earliest defensive walls on the Palatine Hill, made of clay and timber and showing evidence of animal sacrifices. To trace the continual efforts to fortify Rome is to trace the rise and fall of the Roman Empire - through the taking of the city by the Gauls in 390/387, the wars with the Italian states, the threat of Hannibal, the establishment of the Republic, attacks by the northern tribes and eventual division and collapse. By the 6th century AD, General Belisarius was desperately shoring up the walls with marble slabs from altars and gravestones.

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Free Download Empires of the Indus: The Story of a River (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CZYK5D2F | 2024 | 12 hours and 58 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 721 MB
Author: Alice Albinia
Narrator: Alice Albinia
The Indus rises in Tibet to flow west across India before turning south through Pakistan to the Arabian Sea. For millennia, it has been worshipped as a god. For centuries, it has been a route of imperial conquest. Following the mighty river upstream, this highly acclaimed, award-winning travelogue takes the listener on a voyage through 2000 miles of spectacular landscapes and fiercely contested territory, and back through 5000 years of rich and eventful history.

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Free Download Drive: Scraping by in Uber's America, One Ride at a Time (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CFYSM1YH | 2024 | 4 hours and 42 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 264 MB
Author: Jonathan Rigsby
Narrator: Ryan Self
One father, three years, and thousands of rides. Poverty, By America meets Maid in this dad's darkly humorous yet humanizing story of working long hours and late nights behind the wheel as a rideshare driver. Jonathan Rigsby spends his days as a crime intelligence analyst and his nights as an Uber driver. Reeling from his divorce and struggling to pay rent while caring for his autistic son, Rigsby became a rideshare driver, joining the millions of people with a side hustle just to make ends meet.

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Free Download Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming, 2024 Edition (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CYVDXC5W | 2024 | 15 hours and 11 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 438 MB
Author: Paul Hawken
Narrator: Aven Shore
The 100 most substantive solutions to reverse global warming, based on meticulous research by leading scientists and policymakers around the world. In the face of widespread fear and apathy, an international coalition of researchers, professionals, and scientists have come together to offer a set of realistic and bold solutions to climate change. One hundred techniques and practices are described here-some are well known; some you may have never heard of. They range from clean energy to educating girls in lower-income countries to land use practices that pull carbon out of the air.

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Free Download Down with the System: A Memoir (of Sorts) (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CLQ4LBZ8 | 2024 | 9 hours and 57 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 290 MB
Author: Serj Tankian
Narrator: Serj Tankian
An exhilarating, thoughtful, and beautifully written memoir by musician, songwriter, and lead singer-lyricist of Grammy award-winning metal band, System Of A Down, Serj Tankian. Serj Tankian will be the first to admit that his band, System Of A Down, was "unlikely a chart-topper as had ever existed in modern music history: a band of Armenian-Americans playing a practically unclassifiable clash of wildly aggressive metal riffs, unconventional tempo-twisting rhythms, and Armenian folk melodies, with me alternately growling, screaming, and crooning lyrics that could pivot from avant-garde silliness to raging socio-political rants in the space of a single line."

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Free Download Dogland: Passion, Glory, and Lots of Slobber at the Westminster Dog Show (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CSGN7KBX | 2024 | 7 hours and 9 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 401 MB
Author: Tommy Tomlinson
Narrator: Jonathan Davis
From Pulitzer Prize finalist Tommy Tomlinson comes an inside account of the Westminster Dog Show that follows one dog on his quest to become a champion-and explores the bond between dogs and their people. Tommy Tomlinson was watching a dog show on television a few years ago when he had a sudden thought: Are those dogs happy? How about pet dogs-are they happy? Those questions sparked a quest to venture inside the dog-show world, in search of a deeper understanding of the relationship between dogs and humans that has endured for thousands of years. Dogland shares his surprising, entertaining, and moving adventures. Engaging, charming, and insightful, Dogland is an irresistibly appealing listen that invites us on a rollicking backstage tour through the rituals, tricks, and wonders of the dog-show world-and reveals what matters most for the happiness of dogs and dog lovers everywhere.

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