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Free Download The Silk Road: An Enthralling Overview of the Ancient Trade Routes That Connected China to Europe (Audiobook)
English | ISBN: 9798882372483 | 2024 | 3 hours and 17 minutes | M4B@192 kbps | 272 MB
Author: Billy Wellman, Enthralling History
Narrator: Jay Herbert
Journey on the Silk Road, and discover trade, cultures, and adventures from the ancient world! Step onto the fabled Silk Road, an epic network of ancient trade routes that spanned thousands of miles and linked the East and West for centuries. In The Silk Road, embark on a captivating voyage through time and terrain, where cultures converged, goods flowed, and history unfolded. This audiobook delves into the fascinating world of the Silk Road. Learn how spices, silk, precious gems, and ideas traversed vast deserts, towering mountain passes, and bustling bazaars. Discover the secrets of this remarkable historical crossroads where empires rose and fell and where the exchange of knowledge, art, and technology changed the course of civilizations.

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Free Download The Shortest History of Italy: 3,000 Years from the Romans to the Renaissance to a Modern Republic―A Retelling for Our Times (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D15Y4KBG | 2024 | 6 hours and 53 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 368 MB
Author: Ross King
Narrator: Liam Gerrard
A concise, star-studded retelling of Italy's past, from Caesar and Augustus to da Vinci and Michelangelo, tracing the story of a country with prodigious global influence. The calendar. The Senate. The university. The piano, the heliocentric model, and the pizzeria. It's hard to imagine a world without Italian influence-and easy to assume that inventions like these could only come from a strong, stable peninsula, sure of its place in the world. In this breakneck history, bestselling author Ross King dismantles this assumption, uncovering the story of a land rife with inner uncertainty even as its influence spread. As the Italian tale unfolds, prosperity and power fluctuate like the elevation in the Dolomites. If Rome's seven hills could talk, they might speak of the glorious time of Trajan-or bemoan the era of conquest and the Bubonic Plague that decimated Rome's population. Episodes of wealth like the First Triumvirate and the time of the Medicis are given fresh life alongside descriptions the Middle Ages, the early days of Venice, the invasion of Napoleon, and the long struggle for unification. King paints a colorful, fascinating portrait of a country that remains compelling not just to tens of millions of Italian Americans, but to the millions of Americans who visit Italy every year.

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Free Download The Shooter at Midnight: Murder, Corruption, and a Farming Town Divided (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CDDSJNVL | 2024 | 10 hours and 38 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 309 MB
Author: Sean Patrick Cooper
Narrator: Sean Patrick Cooper
The harrowing true story of a cold-blooded murder and the campaign to bring justice to a suffering Midwestern town. On a November night in 1990, Cathy Robertson is murdered in her home outside Chillicothe, Missouri. After law enforcement conduct a haphazard investigation, the sheriff's office puts the case in the hands of a Kansas City private eye with his own agenda. In a close-knit town still reeling from the aftereffects of the farming crisis, friends and neighbors abruptly fracture into opposing camps. Mark Woodworth, a Robertson family neighbor, eventually receives four life sentences for a crime that a growing group of local supporters believe he didn't commit. In a surprising, dramatic narrative that spans decades, Mark's family turns to Robert Ramsey, an attorney willing to take on a corrupt political machine suppressing the truth. But the community's way of life is irrevocably damaged by the parallel tragedies of the farming crisis and Cathy's unsolved murder, in a gripping story about the fault-lines of a fracturing America that continue to cut across the farm belt today.

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Free Download The Shifting Twenty-First Century Presidency: Assessing the Implications for America and the World (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D1SYQT3F | 2024 | 5 hours and 27 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 301 MB
Author: Tevi Troy
Narrator: Jonathan Sleep
The role and range of the American presidency has undergone significant changes in the twenty-first century, with George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Donald Trump, and Joe Biden transforming the office in distinct ways. Many but not all of these changes stem from the numerous crises of this young century: 9/11 and the resulting war on terror, Hurricane Katrina, the Great Recession, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the social unrest of 2020. While crisis brings rapid change, there are other factors at work as well. Increased polarization has led presidents of both parties to press existing rules and norms to their limits in an attempt to accomplish more during their brief tenures.

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Free Download The Shadow Work Journal: A Guide to Integrate and Transcend Your Shadows (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CTRZ73TR | 2024 | 2 hours and 23 minutes | M4B@256 kbps | 262 MB
Author: Keila Shaheen
Narrator: Keila Shaheen
Join more than a million readers around the world in this journey to self-discovery, healing, and inner transformation-new, expanded edition with added tips and exercises curated by therapists! Are you ready to transcend your shadows and journey toward deeper self-awareness and inner peace? The first step is to confront the shadows that have been holding you back for years. The Shadow Work Journal, a smash hit on TikTok, is an empowering and compassionate tool to help you face and overcome the obstacles and limiting self-beliefs that are holding you back from achieving your true potential.

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Free Download The Secrets to Happiness at Work: How to Choose and Create Purpose and Fulfillment in Your Work (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CZBX93RH | 2024 | 1 hour and 48 minutes | M4B@320 kbps | 249 MB
Author: Tracy Brower
Narrator: Marnye Young
Perfect for fans of What Color is My Parachute?, expert Tracy Brower sets a foundation by making the case for joyful work and life, pointing to research on personal, family, and child health. From stress and sleep to marriage and child development, joyful work is a critical part of a healthy life. The book goes on to provide key touchpoints on fundamental human needs and compelling neuroscience that drive our understanding of experiences at work. In addition, the book debunks myths of work and life in order to provide you with new ways of thinking about work and life-even if you hate your job. The Secrets to Happiness at Work lays down fundamentals through descriptions of how to create purpose and meaning, and how to find the right match with a company's culture. Tracy emphasizes the power of relationships at work-and the importance of colleagues and coworkers-and how to foster the very best of trust, empathy, and work with others. The Secrets to Happiness at Work explains the growth mindset and how to say yes more often, learn from failure, embrace stress, and stretch to achieve fulfillment.

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Free Download Aram Sinnreich, Jesse Gilbert, Jonathan Todd Ross (Narrator), "The Secret Life of dаta: Navigating Hype and Uncertainty in the Age of Algorithmic Surveillance"
English | ASIN: B0CSZ8M6FY | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~11:04:00 | 304 MB
How data surveillance, digital forensics, and generative AI pose new long-term threats and opportunities-and how we can use them to make better decisions in the face of technological uncertainty.
In The Secret Life of Data, Aram Sinnreich and Jesse Gilbert explore the many unpredictable, and often surprising, ways in which data surveillance, AI, and the constant presence of algorithms impact our culture and society in the age of global networks. The authors build on this basic premise: no matter what form data takes, and what purpose we think it's being used for, data will always have a secret life. How this data will be used, by other people in other times and places, has profound implications for every aspect of our lives-from our intimate relationships to our professional lives to our political systems.
With the secret uses of data in mind, Sinnreich and Gilbert interview dozens of experts to explore a broad range of scenarios and contexts-from the playful to the profound to the problematic. Unlike most books about data and society that focus on the short-term effects of our immense data usage, The Secret Life of Data focuses primarily on the long-term consequences of humanity's recent rush toward digitizing, storing, and analyzing every piece of data about ourselves and the world we live in. The authors advocate for "slow fixes" regarding our relationship to data, such as creating new laws and regulations, ethics and aesthetics, and models of production for our data-fied society.

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Free Download The Secret Advantage: Core Fundamentals to Get Anything You Want (Audiobook)
English | July 19, 2017 | ASIN: B0741BKZ4H | MP3@128 kbps | 19h 35m | 1.05 GB
Author: Earl Nightingale | Narrators: Earl Nightingale, Joe Nuckols
Powerful Earl Nightingale messages organized into four skill sets demanded by leading corporations.
C - Competency and how to be the best prepared for any top position in any company

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Free Download The Science of Weird Shit: Why Our Minds Conjure the Paranormal (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CW7JX38D | 2024 | 13 hours and 33 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 753 MB
Author: Chris French
Narrator: Michael Langan
An accessible and gratifying introduction to the world of paranormal beliefs and bizarre experiences. Ghostly encounters, alien abduction, reincarnation, talking to the dead, UFO sightings, inexplicable coincidences, out-of-body and near-death experiences. Are these legitimate phenomena? If not, then how should we go about understanding them? In this fascinating book, Chris French investigates paranormal claims to discover what lurks behind this "weird shit." French provides authoritative evidence-based explanations for a wide range of superficially mysterious phenomena, and then goes further to draw out lessons with wider applications to many other aspects of modern society where critical thinking is urgently needed.

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Free Download The Science of Rights (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CYV65PLD | 2024 | 12 hours and 24 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 332 MB
Author: Johann Gottlieb Fichte
Narrator: Jonathan Booth
The Science of Rights (originally in German: Grundlage des Naturrechts nach Principien der Wissenschaftslehre) by Johann Gottlieb Fichte, was originally written in 1796 and later translated by Adolph Ernst Kroeger into English.

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