Audio Books

Free Download Jon Peirce, Dean Gallagher (Narrator), "Work Less: New Strategies for a Changing Workplace"
English | ASIN: B0CZ1QL5W6 | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~09:12:00 | 253 MB
You can't have a healthy economy with an unhealthy work force. Work Less proposes ways to reduce work hours and keep workers happier, healthier, and more productive.
Recent years have revealed just how stressed out many workers are. While the trend to longer hours has been developing for several decades, the trend's effects have been aggravated during the pandemic by the growing use of Zoom and other new technologies for meetings with clients, customers, and coworkers.
Exhausted and fed up, today's workers are starting to insist on shorter hours and greater flexibility as to where they do their work. There is growing consensus that the forty-hour week, the norm since the 1940s, has outlived its usefulness. And there is an urgent need for new work schedules that adequately reflect the far greater intensity of work today, as well as the greater family demands on a labor force made up of almost fifty percent women, who bear the brunt of domestic duties.

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Free Download Work Different: 10 Truths for Winning in the People Age (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CV83X7J3 | 2024 | 9 hours and 12 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 512 MB
Author: Kate Bravery, Ilya Bonic, Kai Anderson
Narrator: Melanie Carey
An insightful and practical new guide to how sustainable people management works in today's global economy, with guidance on how to transform the way your organization recruits, hires, upskills, and retains its people. In Work Different: 10 Truths for Winning in the People Age, a team of business experts and workforce advisors give an incisive take on the staffing challenges facing leaders in the modern global economy. The audiobook reveals how executives and decision makers can adapt their people agenda for shifts in labor models and employee sentiment. You'll look ahead to what's next and learn how to weave sustainability and resilience into your business priorities and make real progress on profits, people, and the planet. An indispensable resource for executives, managers, board members, human resources professionals, and other business leaders, Work Different: 10 Truths for Winning in the People Age is the no-nonsense, hands-on people management blueprint that you've been waiting for.

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Free Download Win the Day: 7 Daily Habits to Help You Stress Less & Accomplish More (Audiobook)
English | December 29, 2020 | ASIN: B08B6DJXPZ | M4B@128 kbps | 7h 46m | 434 MB
Author and Narrator: Mark Batterson
The New York Times best-selling author of Chase the Lion reveals seven powerful habits that can help you tackle God-sized goals by turning yesterday's regrets and tomorrow's anxieties into fuel for a better today.
"This book will change the trajectory of your life." (John Maxwell, number one New York Times best-selling author, entrepreneur, and leadership expert)

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Free Download Wicked Problems: How to Engineer a Better World (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CY3GZS36 | 2024 | 11 hours and 24 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 341 MB
Author: Guru Madhavan
Narrator: Walter Dixon
Our world is filled with pernicious problems. How, for example, did novice pilots learn to fly without taking to the air and risking their lives? How should cities process mountains of waste without polluting the environment? Challenges that tangle personal, public, and planetary aspects-often occurring in health care, infrastructure, business, and policy-are known as wicked problems, and they are not going away anytime soon. In linked chapters focusing on key facets of systems engineering, engineer Guru Madhavan illuminates how wicked problems have emerged throughout history and how best to address them in the future.

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Free Download Whirlwind: The American Revolution and the War That Won It (Audiobook)
English | Datum: August 16, 2022 | ASIN: B0B7SNLF8Q | M4B@125 kbps | 18h 22m | 982.86 MB
Author: John Ferling
Narrator: Bo Foxworth
Amid a great collection of scholarship and narrative history on the Revolutionary War and the American struggle for independence, there is a gaping hole; one that John Ferling's latest book, Whirlwind, will fill. Books chronicling the Revolution have largely ranged from multivolume tomes that appeal to scholars and the most serious general readers to microhistories that necessarily gloss over swaths of Independence-era history with only cursory treatment.

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Free Download Will Cady (Author, Narrator), "Which Way Is North: A Creative Compass for Makers, Marketers, and Mystics"
English | ASIN: B0CZ7HTCB6 | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~07:08:00 | 196 MB
Where does creativity come from? The answer is unique for each of us-our True North-and this book will help you find yours.
As artificial intelligence gains an increasing foothold in our work and our lives, the need to find and maintain our uniquely human creativity is growing more urgent. This guide will ensure that you stay on course as you navigate through the complexity of modern times. It will help you open new pathways to creativity and equip you with tools for your personal and professional journey to becoming a conscious participant in creation.
Through a combination of essays, meditations, and memoir, Which Way Is North offers an illuminating journey into the interior of the human heart and mind, revealing how your inner experience informs who you can be and what you express out in the world.

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Free Download We the Dead: Preserving Data at the End of the World (Audiobook)
English | June 28, 2022 | ASIN: B0B4TVNZ11 | M4B@128 kbps | 9h 13m | 516 MB
Author: Brian Michael Murphy | Narrator: Roger Wayne
Locked away in refrigerated vaults, sanitized by gas chambers, and secured within bombproof caverns deep under mountains are America's most prized materials: the ever-expanding collection of records that now accompany each of us from birth to death. This data complex backs up and protects our most vital information against decay and destruction, and yet it binds us to corporate and government institutions whose power is also preserved in its bunkers, infrastructures, and sterilized spaces.
We the Dead traces the emergence of the data complex in the early 20th century and guides listeners through its expansion in a series of moments when Americans thought they were living just before the end of the world. Depression-era eugenicists feared racial contamination and the downfall of the White American family, while contemporary technologists seek ever denser and more durable materials for storing data, from micro-etched metal discs to cryptocurrency keys encoded in synthetic DNA.

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Free Download Emma Bridges, Lucy Rayner (Narrator), "Warriors' Wives: Ancient Greek Myth and Modern Experience"
English | ASIN: B0CYV42YJT | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~09:18:00 | 256 MB
Epic poetry and tragic drama provide us with some of the richest ancient Greek depictions of women who are married to soldiers. In tales of the Trojan War, as told by Homer, Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, we encounter these mythical warriors' wives: Penelope, isolated but resourceful as she awaits the return of Odysseus after his lengthy absence; the war widow Andromache, enslaved and displaced from her homeland after the fall of Troy; the unfaithful and murderous Clytemnestra; and Tecmessa, a war captive who witnesses her partner's breakdown and suicide in the aftermath of battle. Warriors' Wives compares the experiences of these mythical characters with those of contemporary military spouses.
Emma Bridges traces aspects of the lives of warriors' wives-mythical and real, ancient and modern-from the moment of farewell, through periods of separation and reunion, to the often-traumatic aftermath of war, to consider the emotional, psychological, and social impacts of life as a military spouse. By unearthing a wealth of contemporary evidence for the lives of the often silenced and unacknowledged partners of those who serve in the military, and by examining this alongside the ancient stories of warriors' wives, Warriors' Wives sheds fresh light on the experience of being married to the military.
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Free Download Victor!: The Final Battle of Ulysses S. Grant (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CYR5HZ45 | 2024 | 16 hours and 17 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 448 MB
Author: Dr. Craig von Buseck
Narrator: Craig von Buseck
As a Presidential candidate, he spoke for every American. But there is one story of Grant's heroism that is rarely told. Perhaps the most dramatic season in Grant's life came in his final two years. After leaving the White House, he lost all his money. Then, a few months later he received the devastating news that he was dying of throat cancer. Dr. Craig von Buseck uncovers the inspiring and intimate side of this historical legend while providing an in-depth look at the last two years of Grant's life. Victor! offers a unique narrative approach to hear the voice of a dying General Grant as he writes his memoirs and takes listeners back in time to key turning points in the War Between the States.

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English | Datum: April 18, 2023 | ASIN: B0C1HNM4SD | M4A@66 kbps | 08h 30m | 240.80 MB
Author: Katie Brown
Narrator: Sarah Zimmerman
As a teenager in the 1990s, Katie Brown was one of climbing's first "comp kids"-a young natural who, along with her peers, redefined the image of a strong and successful climber. After climbing for less than two years, Brown won her first junior national title. The next year she became the Junior World Champion at age fourteen in Laval, France. In 1996 she won both the Rock Master-a prestigious international contest in Arco, Italy-and the esteemed X-Games. From 1996 on, Brown won every US Adult National that she entered, as well as a World Cup Title in France in 1999.
Yet even as she reigned on the podium, Brown felt her life begin to unravel. A quiet child, she struggled with a home life that was very different behind closed doors than it seemed on television. A fundamentalist version of Christianity was at the center of the household, and Brown fought to live according to rules that were strict, ever-changing, and irrational. Isolated and feeling hopeless, Brown latched onto food as something she could control. She quit competitive climbing and bounced in and out of the industry, eventually disappearing in her late twenties.

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