Free Download How to Be a Renaissance Woman: The Untold History of Beauty & Female Creativity (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D7QY1W32 | 2024 | 8 hours and 27 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 469 MB
Author: Jill Burke
Narrator: Hannah Curtis
Beauty, make-up, art, power: How to Be a Renaissance Woman presents an alternative history of this period as told by the women behind the paintings, providing a window into their often overlooked or silenced lives. Can the pressures women feel to look good be traced back to the sixteenth century? As the Renaissance visual world became populated by female nudes from the likes of Michelangelo and Titian, a vibrant literary scene of beauty tips emerged, fueling debates about cosmetics and adornment. Telling the stories of courtesans, artists, actresses, and writers rebelling against the strictures of their time, when burgeoning colonialism gave rise to increasingly sinister evaluations of bodies and skin color, this book puts beauty culture into the frame. How to Be a Renaissance Woman will take listeners from bustling Italian market squares, the places where the poorest women and immigrant communities influenced cosmetic products and practices, to the highest echelons of Renaissance society, where beauty could be a powerful weapon in securing strategic marriages and family alliances. It will investigate how skin-whitening practices shifted with the emerging sub-Saharan African slave trade, how fads for fattening and thinning diets came and went, and how hairstyles and fashion could be a tool for dissent and rebellion-then as now.

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Free Download How to Be Good at Performance Appraisals: Simple, Effective, Done Right by Dick Grote, Mike Lenz, Gildan Media
English | October 20, 2020 | ISBN: B08KTTMCM9 | 5 hours and 8 minutes | MP3 128 Kbps | 282 Mb
One of a manager's toughest - and most important - responsibilities is to evaluate an employee's performance, providing honest feedback and clarifying what they've done well and where they need to improve.
In How to Be Good at Performance Appraisals, Dick Grote provides a hands-on guide to succeeding at every step of the performance appraisal process - no matter what performance management system your organization uses. Through step-by-step instructions, examples, do-and-don't lists, sample dialogues, and suggested scripts, he shows you how to handle every appraisal activity, from setting goals and defining job responsibilities to evaluating performance quality and discussing the performance evaluation face-to-face.
Based on decades of experience guiding managers through their biggest challenges, Grote helps answer the questions he hears most often: How do I set goals effectively? How many goals should someone set? How do I evaluate a person's behaviors? Which counts more, behaviors or results? How do I determine the right performance appraisal rating? How do I explain my rating to a skeptical employee? How do I tell someone she's not meeting my expectations? And how do I deliver bad news? Grote also explains how to tackle other thorny performance management tasks, including determining compensation and terminating poor performers.

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Free Download How to Analyze People 101: Speed-Reading Other Peple Through Simple Behavior. Quick Ways You Can Read Others Using Body Language Training, Personality Types, and the Principles of Human Psychology (Audiobook)
English | October 16, 2019 | ASIN: B07Z5DV4NZ | M4B@128 kbps | 3h 4m | 141 MB
Author: Brandon D. Evans | Narrator: Jordan Blom
Uncover the secret of human communication and master the art of speed reading people using body language analysis, personality traits, and proven psychological techniques!
If you've always wanted to learn how to read people and decipher what they're thinking about you, but are always confused by the signals people put out, then keep reading...

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Free Download How the World Ran Out of Everything: Inside the Global Supply Chain (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CJ5WNQFF | 2024 | 12 hours and 18 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 338 MB
Author: Peter S. Goodman
Narrator: Michael David Axtell
Part Michael Lewis, part The Way Things Work: From the New York Times's Global Economics Correspondent, an extraordinary journey revealing the worldwide supply chain-exposing both the fascinating pathways of manufacturing and transportation that bring products to your doorstep, and the ruthless business logic that has left local communities at the mercy of a complex and fragile network for their basic necessities. How does the wealthiest country on earth run out of protective gear in the middle of a public health catastrophe? How do its parents find themselves unable to locate crucially needed infant formula?

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Free Download How Tyrants Fall: And How Nations Survive (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CXQ4D5L4 | 2024 | 8 hours and 23 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 458 MB
Author: Marcel Dirsus
Narrator: Richard Burnip
Strongmen are rising. Democracies are faltering. How does tyranny end? Tyrants project invincibility, but all of them fall. This is because they face critical weaknesses that can form a fatal trap. Whether it's their inner circle turning against them or resentment of elites in the military, the masses alienated by cronyism or revolutionaries Descriptionting in exile, tyrants always have more enemies than friends. And when they fall tyrants don't quietly retire - they face exile, prison or death. What happens in the aftermath can change the fate of a nation.

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Free Download How To Not Work Forever: Start Investing and Build a Life You Love (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D7QPLS2P | 2024 | 6 hours and 27 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 318 MB
Author: Natasha Etschmann, Ana Kresina
Narrator: Natasha Etschmann, Ana Kresina
If you want to live your dream life tomorrow, you need to make the right investing choices today. If money wasn't an issue, how would your life be different? The truth is that relying solely on your day job won't guarantee a life free from financial stress. The average nine-to-five might pay your bills, but there's a gap you need to fill if you want to get to a financially free lifestyle you love. The key is to start investing: start small, and start now. The good news? It's not as hard as you think! With How to Not Work Forever, you'll discover how to make your money go further and grow faster-by investing in shares and ETFs. How to Not Work Forever breaks down the info and tools you need to keep up with inflation and grow your wealth.

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Free Download How Science Shapes Science Fiction [TTC Audio]
English | August 14, 2020 | ASIN: B08F6YW6MP | M4B@64 kbps | 11h 53m | 335 MB
Lecturer: Charles L. Adler
Science fiction can often seem to be pure imaginative fantasy with only the trappings of science. But many authors are more fluent in real science than many readers and viewers may realize. With the success our smaller Audible Original course on this subject, we thought it was time to extend the topic and present a more expansive look at the fascinating intersection of fiction and reality, which is what we have set out to do with How Science Shapes Science Fiction.
Professor Charles L. Adler of St. Mary's College of Maryland was the perfect choice for this subject, as he is both a longtime science-fiction fan and a real-world scientist. Professor Adler's talent for using literature to shine a light on science - both the accurate and not-so-accurate versions employed by creators, spanning two centuries - makes this course a great survey for fans of both science fact and science fiction.

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Free Download How Prime Ministers Decide (Audiobook)
English | June 27, 2024 | ASIN: B0D84D43CF | M4B@64 kbps | 24h 49m | 676 MB
Author: Neerja Chowdhury | Narrator: Benaifer J. Mirza
India's prime ministers have taken decisions that changed the course of the country's history. This book by Neerja Chowdhury, an award-winning journalist and political commentator, goes beyond the news headlines to provide an eye-opening account of how some of the most important political decisions in independent India were taken.
The author analyses the operating styles of the country's prime ministers through the prism of six decisions of historic significance. These are as follows: the strategy that Indira Gandhi devised to return to power in 1980, after her humiliating defeat post the Emergency in 1977; the errors of judgment that led Rajiv Gandhi to undo the Supreme Court's judgment in the Shah Bano case; V. P. Singh's implementation of the Mandal Commission Report to save his government, which forever changed the face of contemporary politics; P. V. Narasimha Rao's masterful indecision that resulted in the demolition of the Babri Masjid; the rapidly changing political scenarios that turned the avowed pacifist Atal Bihari Vajpayee into a nuclear hawk who greenlighted the testing of nuclear devices; and the mild and professorial Manmohan Singh, widely regarded as one of the country's weakest prime ministers, who defied interest groups and foes within the political establishment to seal a historic nuclear deal with the United States-and upgraded the bilateral relationship to a new level.

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Free Download David Novak, Lari Bishop, Chris Abernathy (Narrator), "How Leaders Learn: Master the Habits of the World's Most Successful People"
English | ASIN: B0D5JD95T6 | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~07:08:00 | 196 MB
The differentiating mindset and habits that help you turn insight into action.
When you put learning at the center of everything you do, you grow your career, your leadership, your relationships, and your joy and fulfillment in life. But even for people who are naturally curious and interested in solving problems, being an effective learner who can turn their learning into action takes insight and practice.
With infectious enthusiasm and optimism, David Novak shows you how to master active learning. A trailer-park kid who lived in twenty-three states before entering high school, Novak rapidly ascended the ranks at PepsiCo to become cofounder and CEO of one of the largest corporations in the world, the global restaurant icon Yum! Brands (KFC, Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, and the Habit Burger Grill). And he credits active learning with getting him there.

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Free Download How Economics Works: DK How Stuff Works (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CL12HBY2 | 2024 | 7 hours and 57 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 232 MB
Author: DK
Narrator: Elliot Fitzpatrick
Discover everything you need to know about economics with this unique guide. With clear, jargon-free language, How Economics Works is a comprehensive and user-friendly guide to all aspects of economics. Covering everything from economic theories to economies in action, the book presents the groundbreaking ideas of key economists-from Adam Smith and John Maynard Keynes to Joseph Schumpter and Milton Friedman. Beginning with foundational economic ideas, such as scarcity, marginalism, and the free market, entries then explore the role of choice, markets, trade, and finance, and how whole economies work and are influenced by decisions made by governments and central banks, such as raising taxes or interest rates. With its unique approach and clear, authoritative text, How Economics Works is the perfect introduction to the subject.

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