Audio Books

English | ASIN: B09SM69N2R | 2022 | 13 hours and 3 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 712 MB
When investigative journalist Dan McCrum first came across Wirecard, the hot new tech company that looked poised to challenge Silicon Valley, it all looked a little too good to be true: offices were sprouting up all over the world, they were reporting runaway growth and the CEO even wore a black turtleneck in tribute to Steve Jobs (or perhaps Elizabeth Holmes). In the space of a few short years, the company had come from nowhere to overtake industry giants like Commerzbank and Deutsche Bank on the stock market. As McCrum began to dig deeper, he encountered a story stranger and more compelling than he could have imagined: a world of short sellers and whistleblowers, pornographers and private militias, hackers and spies. Before long, he realised that he wasn't the only one in pursuit.
Shadowy figures were following him through the streets of London, high-flying lawyers were sending ominous letters to his boss and he even received a criminal complaint from financial regulators. Now the race was on to prove his suspicions and clear his name. Based on inside sources and a years-long paper trail, this is the riveting inside story of the Wirecard fraud, a multi-billion-dollar house of cards that turned Germany's biggest new tech darling into an international investigation. Uncovering fake bank accounts, fake offices, fake journalists, a fake kidnapping and possibly even a fake death, McCrum offers a searing exposé that will finally reveal the truth.

Read More: Money Men A Hot Startup, a Billion Dollar Fraud, a Fight for the Truth [Audiobook]

English | ASIN: B0B72C16S6 | 2022 | 8 hours and 27 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 232 MB
The future will be increasingly distributed. As the publicity surrounding Bitcoin and blockchain has shown, distributed technology and business models are gaining popularity. Yet the disruptive potential of this technology is often obscured by hype and misconception. This detailed guide distills the complex, fast-moving ideas behind blockchain into an easily digestible reference manual, showing what's really going on under the hood. Finance and technology pros will learn how a blockchain works as they explore the evolution and current state of the technology, including the functions of cryptocurrencies and smart contracts. This book is for anyone evaluating whether to invest time in the cryptocurrency and blockchain industry. Go beyond buzzwords and see what the technology really has to offer.
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Read More: Mastering Blockchain Unlocking the Power of Cryptocurrencies, Smart Contracts, and Decentralized Applications [Audiobook]

English | 2021 | MP3 | M4B | ASIN: B09NWDYLPH | Duration: 10:59 h | 599 MB
Jason E. Pierce / Narrated by Gary Roelofs
The West, especially the intermountain states, ranks among the whitest places in America, but this fact obscures the more complicated history of racial diversity in the region. In Making the White Man's West, author Jason E. Pierce argues that since the time of the Louisiana Purchase, the American West has been a racially contested space.

Read More: Making the White Man's West Whiteness and the Creation of the American West (Audiobook)

English | ASIN: B0B6WRDCLR | 2022 | 3 hours and 40 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 104 MB
In this concise volume, Brent Strawn addresses ten common "lies" or mistruths about the Old Testament, from perceptions of God's personality (the "angry Old Testament God") to the relevance of the Old Testament for Christians. Discover why stories and laws written thousands of years ago, centuries before Christ, are enriching and indispensable for modern Christians. Written by a leading scholar in Old Testament and designed for easy listening and group discussion, this book will expand your thinking about the Bible's First (and largest) Testament.
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Read More: Lies My Preacher Told Me An Honest Look at the Old Testament [Audiobook]

English | ASIN: B08DG9QM65 | 2020 | 9 hours and 25 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 258 MB
Be a more effective leader with strategic thinking. Leading with Strategic Thinking reveals what effective leaders do differently. Eschewing the one-size-fits-all leadership model, this helpful guide outlines four general leadership types and demonstrates how each type achieves success - whether through personal vision, structured process, collaboration, or empowering others. The authors identify the actions and skills that distinguish strategic leadership, drawn from interviews and focus groups with over 300 leaders from around the world. Examples and case studies illustrate these concepts in action, and the provided reference materials steer listeners toward more advanced information on this important topic.
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Read More: Leading with Strategic Thinking Four Ways Effective Leaders Gain Insight, Drive Change, and Get Results [Audiobook]

English | ASIN: B0B75WCMCL | 2022 | 10 hours and 47 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 296 MB
The history of women in medieval Wales before the English conquest of 1282 is one largely shrouded in mystery. This misfortune touches even the most well-known royal woman of the time, Joan of England (d. 1237), the wife of Llywelyn the Great of Gwynedd, illegitimate daughter of King John and half-sister to Henry III. With evidence of her hand in thwarting a full scale English invasion of Wales to a notorious scandal that ended with the public execution of her supposed lover by her husband and her own imprisonment, Joan's is a known, but little-told or understood story defined by family turmoil, divided loyalties and political intrigue.
From the time her hand was promised in marriage as the result of the first Welsh-English alliance in 1201 to the end of her life, Joan's place in the political wranglings between England and the Welsh kingdom of Gwynedd was a fundamental one. This first-ever account of Siwan, as she was known to the Welsh, interweaves the details of her life and relationships with a gendered re-assessment of Anglo-Welsh politics by highlighting her involvement in affairs, discussing events in which she may well have been involved but have gone unrecorded and her overall deployment of royal female agency.

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English | 2013 | MP3 | M4B | ASIN: B00DTVV3K8 | Duration: 14:48 h | 407 MB
Thurston Clarke / Narrated by Malcolm Hillgartner
A revelatory, minute-by-minute account of JFK's final days that asks what might have been.

Read More: JFK's Last Hundred Days The Transformation of a Man and the Emergence of a Great President (Audiobook)

English | ASIN: B09M2SJVTH | 2022 | 18 hours and 4 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 496 MB
A revelatory biography of the visionary designer who defined the rules of startup culture and shaped America's idea of the future. During his lifetime, Buckminster Fuller was hailed as one of the greatest geniuses of the twentieth century. As the architectural designer and futurist best known for the geodesic dome, he enthralled a vast popular audience, inspired devotion from both the counterculture and the establishment, and was praised as a modern Leonardo da Vinci. To his admirers, he exemplified what one man could accomplish by approaching urgent design problems using a radically unconventional set of strategies, which he based on a mystical conception of the universe's geometry. His views on sustainability, as embodied in the image of Spaceship Earth, convinced him that it was possible to provide for all humanity through the efficient use of planetary resources. From Epcot Center to the molecule named in his honor as the buckyball, Fuller's legacy endures to this day, and his belief in the transformative potential of technology profoundly influenced the founders of Silicon Valley.
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English | 2014 | MP3 | M4B | ASIN: B00P9NDM9E | Duration: 14:01 h | 382 MB
Harry N. MacLean / Narrated by Dave Clark
In Broad Daylight tells the story of the killing of Ken Rex McElroy on the main street of Skidmore, Missouri, in July 1981. McElroy, an illiterate hog farmer, had terrorized all of northwest Missouri for over 20 years, until the town, and even law enforcement, was terrified of him. McElroy was shot as he sat in his truck in front of the tavern. Over 45 men witnessed the shooting. Despite two eyewitness accounts and three grand jury investigations, no one has been prosecuted for the crime. In Broad Daylight won an Edgar Award for Best True Crime. It was also made into a movie starring Brian Denehey, Cloris Leachman and Chris Cooper. It was re-released as an e-book on Amazon July 2012 on the 31st anniversary of the killing. St. Martin's Press published the last print edition in 2006. In "The Story Behind 'In Broad Daylight,'" MacLean tells how he researched and wrote the book. He tells of guns being drawn on him, being bitten by a dog, and a confrontation with the killer on the killer's ranch.

Read More: In Broad Daylight A murder in Skidmore, Missouri (Audiobook)

English | ASIN: B09T77F573 | 2022 | 5 hours and 16 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 145 MB
A behind-the-scenes political memoir written by a prominent White House physician. I would talk to the president before the chief of staff even saw the president in the morning. I walked into work, and I was already in the Oval Office talking to President Trump. It was rarely medical, to be honest with you; it was whatever was going on in the news. I'd be the first person he'd see in the morning. The president was completing tasks two to three hours before anybody else showed up in the West Wing to work. He'd get up at five o'clock in the morning and would be watching TV, tweeting, making phone calls, and doing all types of other tasks.
President Trump would poke his head into my office or I'd walk out, and we would say, "Good morning. Did you see this or that?" He was always asking me about things on TV and what was going on, from Iran to Stormy Daniels. He'd say, "Walk with me." So I'd walk him to the Oval Office, and we'd talk about everything. I'd walk out through the outer Oval Office and the chief of staff, national security advisor, and even the CIA briefer would be standing there, waiting to get in and talk to him. I'd walk out, they'd walk in, and his day would start. I was the first person he saw every morning and the last person he saw every evening when he went to bed.

Read More: Holding the Line A Lifetime of Defending Democracy and American Values [Audiobook]