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Free Download The Third Perspective: Brave Expression in the Age of Intolerance (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CJD68KH6 | 2024 | 7 hours and 55 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 228 MB
Author: Africa Brooke
Narrator: Africa Brooke
In our deeply divided, binary world, honest discussion is stressful for all sides. Entrepreneur and thought leader Africa Brooke charts a path for understanding in this groundbreaking guide for finding common ground. In this manifesto, Africa teaches us how to return to critical thinking and reduce societal divides by opening our minds and being more self-questioning in difficult discussions. This book will help you figure out what you truly believe-as opposed to parroting or having knee-jerk reactions in conversation. You'll learn to share your views, hear theirs, make a point you feel must be made, and try to find common ground without self-censorship or self-sabotage. This personal guide helps listeners move away from rigid thinking, allowing them to enter any potentially difficult discussion about politics, work, personal responsibility, race, sex, gender, religion-whatever the subject-while maintaining integrity, authenticity, and openness, and successfully expressing opinions while listening to contrary points of view.

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Free Download The Things We Do to Our Friends: A Novel (Audiobook)
English | Datum: January 10, 2023 | ASIN: B09YKN5CZR | M4B@125 kbps | 11h 56m | 598.64 MB
Author: Heather Darwent
Narrator: Kristin Atherton
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER She's an outsider desperate to belong, but the cost of entry might be her deepest secret in this intoxicating debut about a clique of dangerously ambitious students, "perfect for fans of dark academia stories like The Secret History and If We Were Villains" (Cosmopolitan).

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Free Download The Tainos: Rise and Decline of the People Who Greeted Columbus (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D27VDSZ5 | 2024 | 6 hours and 53 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 384 MB
Author: Irving Rouse
Narrator: Adam Barr
Drawing on archeological and ethno-historical evidence, Irving Rouse sketches a picture of the Tainos-the first people Columbus encountered when he arrived in the Americas-as they existed during the time of Columbus, contrasting their customs with those of their neighbors. He then moves backward in time to the ancestors of the Tainos-two successive groups who settled the West Indies and who are known to archeologists as the Saladoid peoples and the Ostionoid peoples. By reconstructing the development of these groups and studying their interaction with other groups during the centuries before Columbus, Rouse shows precisely who the Tainos were.

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Free Download The Swans of Harlem: Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CDF73RK9 | 2024 | 10 hours and 12 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 294 MB
Author: Karen Valby
Narrator: Karlya Shelton-Benjamin, Sheila Rohan, Lydia Abarca Mitchell, Marcia Lynn Sells, Khadija Tariyan McKinney G., January LaVoy
The forgotten story of a pioneering group of five Black ballerinas and their fifty-year sisterhood, a legacy erased from history-until now. At the height of the Civil Rights movement, Lydia Abarca was a Black prima ballerina with a major international dance company-the Dance Theatre of Harlem, a troupe of women and men who became each other's chosen family. She was the first Black company ballerina on the cover of Dance magazine, an Essence cover star; she was cast in The Wiz and in a Bob Fosse production on Broadway. She performed in some of ballet's most iconic works with other trailblazing ballerinas, including the young women who became her closest friends-founding Dance Theatre of Harlem members Gayle McKinney-Griffith and Sheila Rohan, as well as first-generation dancers Karlya Shelton and Marcia Sells.

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Free Download The Struggle for Taiwan: A History of America, China, and the Island Caught Between (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CW3SBFQ4 | 2024 | 8 hours and 34 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 239 MB
Author: Sulmaan Wasif Khan
Narrator: Austin Yang
A concise, definitive history of the precarious relationship among the US, China, and Taiwan. As tensions over Taiwan escalate, the United States and China stand on the brink of a catastrophic war. Resolving the impasse demands we understand how it began. In 1943, the Allies declared that Japanese-held Taiwan would return to China at the conclusion of World War II. The Chinese civil war led to a change of plans. The Communist Party came to power in China and the defeated Nationalist leader, Chiang Kai-shek, fled to Taiwan, where he was afforded US protection. The specter of conflict has loomed ever since.

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Free Download The Story Edge: How Leaders Harness the Power of Stories to Win in Business (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CB1VV8YS | 2024 | 6 hours and 6 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 338 MB
Author: Kindra Hall
Narrator: Kindra Hall
A holistic approach to innovation, connection, and problem-solving that has no expiration date. Our stories allow us to explore our greatest desires and fears, connect with others on a deeper level, and gain a sense of clarity and purpose. In an era of chaotic change and high-pressure decision-making, Kindra Hall-has a message that runs counter to much of the business acumen of the day: Now more than ever, good storytelling is a critical part of successful leadership. From corporate initiatives and marketing strategies to scientific research and innovation, stories are the key ingredient to engaging audiences, building consensus, and inspiring action. If there's one thing that will remain true-despite all the transformations we experience in business, culture, and innovation-it's the importance of story. Why? Because story is the original algorithm, the true universal language. And it's one of the most important tools we, as humans, have.

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Free Download The Soviet Century (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D1LLLVCG | 2024 | 16 hours and 51 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 463 MB
Author: Moshe Lewin, Gregory Elliott
Narrator: Rich Miller
This classic Soviet Union history traces the USSR from 1917, to its fall, offering "a master class in understanding the structures and intricate workings of the Soviet system". Today, the Soviet Union remains the most extraordinary but tragic attempt to create a society beyond capitalism. Yet its history was one that for a long time proved impossible to write. In The Soviet Century, Moshe Lewin follows this history in all its complexity, guiding us through the inner workings of a system which is still barely understood. In the process, he overturns widely held beliefs about the USSR's leaders, the State-Party system, and the powerful Soviet bureaucracy. Departing from a simple linear history, The Soviet Century traces all the continuities and ruptures that led from the founding revolution of October 1917, to the final collapse of the late 1980s and early 1990s, passing through the Stalinist dictatorship, the impossible reforms of the Khrushchev years, and the glasnost and perestroika policies of Gorbachev.

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Free Download The Soul of Russia (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CHWM91MH | 2023 | 2 hours and 11 minutes | M4B@256 kbps | 239 MB
Author: Morris Berman
Narrator: Todd Belcher
In terms of literature, music, and film, it would be hard to outdo the sheer genius and creativity of Russia. These things constitute the soul of the nation, and it is this that Morris Berman explores in his latest work, The Soul of Russia. His central argument is that at the heart of this brilliance lies a particular idiosyncratic theme: the peasant-shamanic-folkloric tradition of the Russian people, which these artists, from Pushkin to Tarkovsky, drew upon for their inspiration. It was a "Dionysian" source, a nonrational one, and it endowed Russian creative work with what we would have to call vibrancy. The Soul of Russia is a feast for the mind, but also for the senses-a book that listeners will want to delve into more than once.

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Free Download The Skeptic's Guide to Investing (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D151GJCC | 2024 | 3 hours and 8 minutes | M4B@192 kbps | 259 MB
Author: Ramon P. DeGennaro, The Great Courses
Narrator: Ramon DeGennaro
Many of us think of the stock market as an arcane system and of investing as a mysterious art form. The truth, however, is that stock and bond markets are a lot like other markets (including your familiar grocery store) and that investing your hard-earned money in them can reap rewards-so long as you know the economic principles behind them. Satisfy the financial skeptic in you with The Skeptic's Guide to Investing, a six-lecture Audible Original where you'll learn how financial markets operate so you can become a wiser, savvier, safer investor. Along with a deep look at the inner workings of these powerful markets, Professor Ramon P. DeGennaro offers a wealth of insight into investment strategies, whether you're already a stockholder or thinking of investing for the first time.

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Free Download The Situation Room: The Inside Story of Presidents in Crisis (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CJFXX4Y6 | 2024 | 10 hours and 7 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 292 MB
Author: George Stephanopoulos, Lisa Dickey
Narrator: George Stephanopoulos, Peter Ganim, Elisabeth Rodgers
George Stephanopoulos, the legendary political news host and former advisor to President Clinton, recounts the history-making crises from the place where twelve presidents made their highest-pressure decisions: the White House Situation Room. No room better defines American power and its role in the world than the White House Situation Room. And yet, none is more shrouded in secrecy and mystery. Created under President Kennedy, the Sit Room has been the epicenter of crisis management for presidents for more than six decades. Time and again, the decisions made within the Sit Room complex affect the lives of every person on this planet. Detailing close calls made and disasters narrowly averted, THE SITUATION ROOM will take listeners through dramatic turning points in a dozen presidential administrations. THE SITUATION ROOM is the definitive, past-the-security-clearance look at the room where it happened, and the people-the famous and those you've never heard of-who have made history within its walls.

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