Free Download Restaurant Success by the Numbers, Second Edition: A Money-Guy's Guide to Opening the Next New Hot Spot by Roger Fields, Jonathan Yen, Tantor Audio
English | September 26, 2017 | ISBN: B075LSP7X9 | 14 hours and 46 minutes | MP3 128 Kbps | 809 Mb
A one-stop start-up guide from an accountant-turned-restaurateur.
Ninety percent of all restaurants fail, and those that succeed happened upon that mysterious X factor, right? Wrong! A man of many hats - money-guy, restaurant owner, and restaurant consultant - Roger Fields shows how a restaurant can survive its first year and keep diners coming back for years. Featuring real-life start-up stories (including many of the author's own), this comprehensive how-to walks listeners through the logistics of opening a restaurant: concept, location, menu, ambiance, staff, and, most important, profit.
Updated to address current trends such as food trucks and to tackle online opportunities (and pitfalls!) including Groupon, Yelp, and Twitter, Restaurant Success by the Numbers remains a critical resource for navigating the food industry. Opening a restaurant isn't easy, but this realistic dreamer's guide helps set the table for lasting success.

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Free Download Religions of the Axial Age: An Approach to the World's Religions by Mark W. Muesse, The Great Courses
English | July 08, 2013 | ISBN: B00DTO4CUS | 12 hours and 30 minutes | MP3 128 Kbps | 515 Mb
These 24 extraordinary lectures offer you the rare opportunity to relate your own spiritual questions to a variety of ancient quests for meaning and transcendence. Professor Muesse looks at the historical conditions in which the world religions arose and explores how they answered shared metaphysical and human dilemmas.
The Axial Age - a pivotal era between 800 and 200 B.C.E. - saw the rise of many of the world's religions in Iran, South Asia, and China. On this stirring journey, you'll learn about the rise of Zoroastrianism in Persia (now Iran); Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism on the Indian subcontinent; and Confucianism and Daoism in China. You'll also see how these religions compare, contrast, and contribute to contemporary Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
Through sacred texts, modern scholarship, and thoughts arising from his own personal experiences, Professor Muesse reveals what it meant to be a conscious, morally responsible individual in the Axial Age. You'll enjoy a ringside seat as each founding sage wrestles with moral accountability, the nature of self and ultimate reality, good versus evil, suffering and transcendence - all topics that still puzzle us today.

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Free Download Relationality: How Moving from Transactional to Transformational Relationships Can Reshape Our Lonely World (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CSZCNKVP | 2024 | 8 hours and 57 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 246 MB
Author: David Jay
Narrator: David Jay
How moving from transactional to transformational relationships and organizations can save our democracy, nurture our connections, and make us happier and healthier. Powerful institutions, from schools to tech and social media companies, create breeding grounds for isolation by failing to invest in relational work. This obstacle stands in the way of our fight for racial equity, economic justice, and climate resilience. In Relationality, leading asexuality and relationship activist David Jay brings clarity to the crisis with a fresh perspective that expands upon the fundamental idea that all entities in the universe are connected.

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Free Download Red Land, Black Land: Daily Life in Ancient Egypt (Audiobook)
English | March 04, 2008 | ASIN: B0015KC9X0 | M4B@64 kbps | 14h 56m | 414 MB
Author: Barbara Mertz | Narrator: Lorna Raver
A fascinating, erudite, and witty glimpse of the human side of ancient Egypt-this acclaimed classic work is now revised and updated for a new generation
Displaying the unparalleled descriptive power, unerring eye for fascinating detail, keen insight, and trenchant wit that have made the novels she writes (as Elizabeth Peters and Barbara Michaels) perennial New York Times bestsellers, internationally renowned Egyptologist Barbara Mertz brings a long-buried civilization to vivid life. In Red Land, Black Land, she transports us back thousands of years and immerses us in the sights, aromas, and sounds of day-to-day living in the legendary desert realm that was ancient Egypt.

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Free Download Reconnected: How 7 Screen-Free Weeks with Monks and Amish Farmers Helped Me Recover the Lost Art of Being Human (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D63HRZVC | 2024 | 6 hours and 45 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 374 MB
Author: Carlos Whittaker
Narrator: Carlos Whittaker
Change your relationship with technology. Change your life. Share. Post. Reply...Most of us have gotten so used to notifications and alerts, pings and rings, that even if we don't want to be on our phones so much, we don't know what to do about it. The constant flow of information affects our brains, relationships, and emotional well-being. We feel stuck, overwhelmed, overstimulated, and we want a way out. Like many of us, podcaster and author Carlos Whittaker had lived for years in an always-on, always-connected world-and he felt more disconnected than ever from God, his community, and even himself.

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Free Download Reclaim the Moment: Seven Strategies to Build a Better Now (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0DDQLVPPX | 2024 | 7 hours and 58 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 229 MB
Author: Greg Bennick
Narrator: Greg Bennick
In Reclaim the Moment, internationally recognized speaker and author Greg Bennick delivers a practical and inspiring take on improving focus and enhancing peak performance for individuals and teams. The approach is fun and energetic, offering fresh ideas for generating authentic motivation. In the book, you'll find advice on how to revitalize and energize both yourself and your team using the author's unique combination of seven time-tested, and thoroughly researched, principles. From the alluring idea to "Keep Your Eyes on the Knife" as a reminder about the importance of focus, to a call to "Leap Into the Dark" as a guide to explore creative leadership and explore new ideas, to an invitation on "Start a Reverberation Effect" as a means of amplifying your vision, the book offers solid approaches for peak performance. You'll discover how to strengthen teams, lead with direction, and to escape pessimism and self-doubt as you and the people around you learn to Build a Better Now.

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Free Download Real Estate Investing Made Simple: Your Guide to Building and Growing Wealth (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0DDZTZQN1 | 2024 | 7 hours and 24 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 394 MB
Author: by Eric Anderson, Noelle Frieson Friedman
Narrator: Danny Hughes
Eric Anderson and Noelle Frieson Friedman, founders of the Center for Real Estate Education, one of the largest real estate schools on the East Coast, walk listeners through everything they need to know to make money in real estate investing-just as they've done by training over 15,000 students, changing the lives of countless prospective and current real estate investors and agents looking to build their dream career. Real Estate Investing Made Simple takes listeners through personality assessments, explains how to approach a property investment and leverage your portfolio, and so much more.

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Free Download Real AIDS Epidemic: How the Tragic HIV Mistake Threatens Us All by Rebecca V. Culshaw, Neenyah Ostrom - foreword, Anna Crowe
English | March 28, 2023 | ISBN: B0BWNYPJ9Z | 4 hours and 42 minutes | M4B 128 Kbps | 256 Mb
Four decades after And the Band Played On created an image of the AIDS epidemic that has survived in the public consciousness to this very day, mathematician Rebecca Culshaw is sounding the alarm that everything that iconic book told us about AIDS is demonstrably wrong. And that mistaken understanding of AIDS and its cause has the potential to affect all of us, not just certain so-called risk groups. In The Real AIDS Epidemic, Rebecca Culshaw describes her slow uncovering of these reasons over her years researching HIV for her work constructing mathematical models of its interaction with the immune system. It is rare that a researcher, having studied HIV, ever expresses any doubt in the paradigm, and an even rarer event still when she abandons the field altogether. Culshaw's book, updated from its original edition, which was titled Science Sold Out, is one of the great insider-turned-whistleblower stories of our time.
The Real AIDS Epidemic focuses on the politics of the changing definition of AIDS and the flaws in all HIV testing. In a much broader sense, it explains how the current government-based structure of scientific research has corrupted science as the search for truth. It offers not only scientific reasons for HIV/AIDS being untenable, but also sociological explanations as to how the theory was accepted by the media and the world so quickly. In particular, this book offers a scathing criticism of the outrageous discriminatory measures that have been leveled at HIV-positives from the inception. She also warns that the toxic drugs being foisted on the Black and gay communities constitute one of the worst medical violations of human rights since the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment.
The compelling case she makes that the AIDS establishment has led us into a biomedical disaster through incompetence, fraud, and deceit will have many listeners throwing their hands up and feeling helpless and hopeless. But she does something no other book that is critical about HIV and AIDS has done. She suggests a series of strategic actions the scientific community, Congress, the media, and the public can take to undo the damage that the powerful AIDS establishment has done since the epidemic began in 1981.

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Free Download Max Boot, Graham Winton (Narrator), "Reagan: His Life and Legend"
English | ASIN: B0D6TPH1XX | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~32:07:00 | 882 MB
In this "monumental and impressive" biography, Max Boot, the distinguished political columnist, illuminates the untold story of Ronald Reagan, revealing the man behind the mythology. Drawing on interviews with over one hundred of the fortieth president's aides, friends, and family members, as well as thousands of newly available documents, Boot provides "the best biography of Ronald Reagan to date" (Robert Mann).
The story begins not in star-studded Hollywood but in the cradle of the Midwest, smalltown Illinois, where Reagan was born in 1911 to Nelle Clyde Wilson, a devoted Disciples of Christ believer, and Jack Reagan, a struggling, alcoholic salesman. Boot vividly creates a portrait of a handsome young man, indeed a much-vaunted lifeguard, whose early successes mirrored those of Horatio Alger.

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Free Download Raising Securely Attached Kids: Using Connection-Focused Parenting to Create Confidence, Empathy, and Resilience (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D384KZSH | 2024 | 8 hours and 5 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 233 MB
Author: Eli Harwood
Narrator: Eli Harwood, KJ Althoff, Te Anna Brown, Angela Caldwell, Candice Czubernat, Michelle Dempsey-Multack, Jon Fogel, Salisha Old Bull, Hector Velazquez, Maggie Viers, Abby Wong-Heffter
Learn how to create a lifetime of connection, trust, and open communication with your children through connection-focused parenting. Though there have been countless studies on how attachment styles affect our romantic relationships, Raising Securely Attached Kids is the first book to reframe the subject for caregivers and children, and brings transformative change to your relationships of all stripes. Therapist and wildly popular attachment research expert Eli Harwood (@attachmentnerd) illuminates the science that explores our innate human need to bond with other humans, and helps us harness it as the only parenting approach proven to have a lasting impact. Her loyal following-fast approaching the millions-connects to Eli's accessible approach that helps everyone form secure and close relationships with their kids, which helps them develop resilience, confidence, and form close relationships in the future. Hopeful and inspiring, this essential evidence-based guide shows parents, educators, and anyone with children in their lives that they are not alone in the questions and concerns they may have about raising confident, capable, and caring kids.

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