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Free Download Truth to Power: A History of the U.S. National Intelligence Council (Audiobook)
English | June 28, 2019 | ASIN: B07T8ZH1HD | M4B@128 kbps | 8h 47m | 489 MB
Editors: Robert Hutchings, Gregory F. Treverton | Narrator: David Marantz
This historic mission of this remarkable but little-known organization, the US National Intelligence Council (NIC), now 40 years old, is strategic intelligence assessment in service of senior American foreign policymakers. Its signature inside products, National Intelligence Estimates, are now accompanied by the NIC's every-four-years Global Trends. Unclassified, Global Trends has become a noted NIC brand, its release awaited by officials, academics, and private sector managers around the world.
Truth to Power tracks the NIC's role in providing strategic analysis on every major foreign policy issue confronting the United States during this consequential period. Chapters provide insider insights on the Balkan wars of the 1990s, the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the invasion and occupation of Iraq in 2003, the nuclear weapons programs in Iran and North Korea, upheaval in the Middle East including the rise and fall of the Islamic State, the rise of China, and Russia's turn toward aggression under Vladimir Putin. The book also assesses the NIC's newly expanded role in direct support to meetings of the National Security Council as well as its longstanding role in producing longer-range strategic intelligence.

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Free Download Trotsky in New York, 1917: A Radical on the Eve of Revolution (Audiobook)
English | September 23, 2016 | ASIN: B01LWMS2PR | M4B@64 kbps | 11h 32m | 329 MB
Author: Kenneth D. Ackerman | Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki
Lev Davidovich Trotsky burst onto the world stage in November 1917 as coleader of a Marxist Revolution seizing power in Russia. It made him one of the most recognized personalities of the 20th century, a global icon of radical change. Yet just months earlier, this same Lev Trotsky was a nobody, a refugee expelled from Europe, writing obscure pamphlets and speeches, barely noticed outside a small circle of fellow travelers. Where had he come from to topple Russia and change the world? Where else? New York City.
Between January and March 1917, Trotsky found refuge in the United States. America had kept itself out of the European Great War, leaving New York the freest city on earth. During his time there - just over 10 weeks - Trotsky immersed himself in the local scene. He settled his family in the Bronx, edited a radical left wing tabloid in Greenwich Village, sampled the lifestyle, and plunged headlong into local politics. His clashes with leading New York socialists over the question of US entry into World War I would reshape the American left for the next 50 years.

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Free Download Bob Tapscott, Jonathan Todd Ross (Narrator), "Trivergence: Accelerating Innovation with AI, Blockchain, and the Internet of Things"
English | ASIN: B0CYQXBLWC | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~10:12:00 | 289 MB
In Trivergence, Bob Tapscott, writer, speaker, complex system designer, and former CIO, introduces an exciting new concept in explaining how the intersection of artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain, and the Internet of Things (IoT) will transform business and society. He explains the synergies between these technologies and the disruptive potential that they will offer, as well as the challenges and risks to making it happen. He offers an insightful guide through the difficult decisions that businesses and society must make to thrive in a new era where decisions will be difficult, and uncertainties abound.
You'll discover how and why AI's power is now exploding, its growth driven by smarter approaches to neural networks trained on a new hardware architecture that can derive its intelligence from ever more massive datasets. You'll also find discussions of the multiplicative and exponential power of trivergence on the core technologies discussed in the book; explorations of IoT's tendency to bring the physical world to life as it harnesses the capabilities of AI and the blockchain; and how trivergence morphs Big Data into something new Tapscott calls "Infinite Data", where thinking machines consider trillions of data points to generate their own content, value, and perspectives without programmed code or human intervention.
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Free Download Tripped: Nazi Germany, the CIA, and the Dawn of the Psychedelic Age (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CBNHPD5N | 2024 | 6 hours and 13 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 171 MB
Author: Norman Ohler
Narrator: Joel Richards
The author of the New York Times bestseller returns with a provocative new history of drugs and postwar America, examining the untold story of how Nazi experiments into psychedelics covertly influenced CIA research and secretly shaped the War on Drugs. Berlin 1945. Following the fall of the Third Reich, drug use-long kept under control by the Nazis' strict anti-drug laws-is rampant throughout the city. Split into four sectors, Berlin's drug policies are being enforced under the individual jurisdictions of each allied power-the Soviet Union, Britain, France, and the US. In the American zone, Arthur J. Giuliani of the nascent Federal Bureau of Narcotics is tasked with learning about the Nazis' anti-drug laws and bringing home anything that might prove "useful" to the United States. Five years later, Harvard professor Dr. Henry Beecher began work with the US government to uncover the research behind the Nazis psychedelics program.

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Free Download Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth, and Art (Audiobook)
English | May 31, 2022 | ASIN: B0B25WRXZP | M4B@64 kbps | 14h 31m | 398 MB
Author: Lewis Hyde | Narrator: Michael Butler Murray
In Trickster Makes This World, Lewis Hyde brings to life the playful and disruptive side of human imagination as it is embodied in trickster mythology. He first visits the old stories-Hermes in Greece, Eshu in West Africa, Krishna in India, Coyote in North America, among others-and then holds them up against the lives and work of more recent creators: Picasso, Duchamp, Ginsberg, John Cage, and Frederick Douglass. Twelve years after its first publication, Trickster Makes This World-authoritative in its scholarship, loose-limbed in its style-has taken its place among the great works of modern cultural criticism.
This new edition includes an introduction by Michael Chabon.

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Free Download Trauma Stewardship: An Everyday Guide to Caring for Self While Caring for Others (Audiobook)
English | Datum: October 26, 2017 | ASIN: B076QT1QWH | MP3@64 kbps | 8h 37m | 218.39 MB
Author: Laura van Dernoot Lipsky, Connie Burk
Narrator: Laura van Dernoot Lipsky
A longtime trauma worker, Laura van Dernoot Lipsky offers a deep and empathetic survey of the often-unrecognized toll on those working to make the world a better place. We may feel tired, cynical, numb, or like we can never do enough. These, and other symptoms, affect us individually and collectively, sapping the energy and effectiveness we so desperately need if we are to benefit humankind, other animals, and the planet itself. Through Trauma Stewardship, we are called to meet these challenges in an intentional way - not by becoming overwhelmed but by developing a quality of mindful presence. Joining the wisdom of ancient cultural traditions with modern psychological research, Lipsky offers a variety of simple and profound practices that will allow us to remake ourselves - and ultimately the world.

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Free Download Raj Verma, Chris Tester (Narrator), "Time is Now: A Journey Into Demystifying AI"
English | ISBN: 9798887502649 | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~04:14:00 | 117 MB
How can leaders adapt to the rapid change of technology's impact on business? How can AI be leveraged for more intelligent decision making? Can our choices be simultaneously good for business and the world? This book provides leaders with the first steps to answer these important questions.
For over thirty years, technology has become more interwoven with both our professional and personal lives. In the future, the integration of tech, business, and life will become even more seamless. With the current exponential growth of artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies, business leaders must learn how to adapt their decision making to look beyond short-term profits and create insight for long-term impact and growth.
In Time is Now: A Journey into Demystifying AI, Raj Verma, CEO of SingleStore, takes readers on an insightful journey to not only demystify emerging tech like AI but to demystify how today's leader must make decisions. Through engaging storytelling and relevant examples, Verma shares the lessons from his personal and professional life to glean timeless and universal lessons.

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Free Download Think Big: Take Small Steps and Build the Career You Want (Audiobook)
English | March 25, 2021 | ASIN: B08PL23FX4 | M4B@64 kbps | 7h 35m | 210 MB
Author and Narrator: Grace Lordan
What are you doing today to make your dream future come true?
We all have big ambitions for the future, but those dreams only become reality if we do something towards them regularly. To achieve audacious goals, we need to take action and make small changes every day. We need to think big and act small.

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Free Download Eyal Halfon, Ran Barkai, Jennifer M. Dixon (Narrator), "They Were Here Before Us: Stories from Our First Million Years"
English | ASIN: B0CYCN3FVD | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~06:34:00 | 181 MB
This is not a book about archaeological sites. We shall come across flint tools, bones, skulls, surprising structures, and layers of earth that we can date to different periods-but they are not the heart of the matter. This book is about us, human beings, and about our place in the world. About what we have done, where we came from, which other humans used to be here, why they are no longer with us, and how and why our lives have changed. It's also about where we went wrong. What did early humans do because they had no choice and what is the price we are paying for this now?
Taking as the focus ten sites in Israel, the land corridor through which the human species passed on its journey from Africa to Europe, the story ranges far and wide from France, Spain, Turkey, and Georgia to Morocco and South Africa, North America, Columbia, and Peru. The authors follow the footsteps of our ancestors, describing the tools they used, the animals they hunted and the monuments they built.
This provocative and panoramic book shows listeners what they can learn from their ancestors, and how the unwavering ability of prehistoric people to survive and thrive can continue into the present.

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Free Download The World Class Wealth Mindset: Four Pillars to Building Personal Freedom (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CPJQJ2K2 | 2024 | 5 hours and 38 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 314 MB
Author: Arash Vossoughi, Mykie Stiller
Narrator: Arash Vossoughi
Have you wanted to build a life of financial freedom, but struggle to see results? From entrepreneurs to corporate executives, professionals and freelancers, virtually everyone can benefit from improving their wealth mindset. In The World Class Wealth Mindset: Four Pillars to Building Personal Freedom, Elite Coach and Mindset Mentor Arash Vossoughi identifies the four pillars that support the world-class mindset of wealth. When you refine your self image, raise your standards, develop a positive mental attitude, and cultivate the habits of discipline, wealth and financial freedom must follow.

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