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Free Download Losing and Finding My Virginity: The Full Story (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CW8BS7W7 | 2024 | 27 hours and 10 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 782 MB
Author: Richard Branson
Narrator: Richard Branson
This is the story of my entire life so far... It's been a rollercoaster ride and I have no intention of getting off any time soon. Available exclusively in audio, Losing and Finding My Virginity is both of Sir Richard Branson's multi-million-copy bestselling autobiographies in one combined edition, fully revised and updated, and read for you by the author in full for the first time. From living on a houseboat to a paradise island home, growing a small business into the global Virgin brand, turning a childhood dream of flying to space into a reality, and building a better world through business, this is an account of almost six decades of entrepreneurship, overcoming the odds and reaching for the stars. With lessons in life and in business, Losing and Finding My Virginity is a must-listen memoir and an inspiring guide from the ultimate entrepreneur.

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Free Download Charles River Editors, Jim Walsh (Narrator), "Little Turtle's War and Tecumseh's War: The History and Legacy of the Fighting between the United States and Native Americans for the Northwest Territory"
English | ISBN: 9798882417917 | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~02:58:00 | 82 MB
The new United States was faced with a fundamental problem: to expand, it had to settle lands to the west of the Appalachian Mountains, ceded to it by the British. However, the mountains were occupied by Native American groups who had no desire to make way for white settlers. The treaty had created a vast frontier for the fledgling nation, and any American settlers pushing west along it were bound to encounter hostile natives.
For the most part, the conflicts that followed consisted mostly of the Native Americans suffering defeat in the face of a better-equipped adversary, interspersed with binding treaties, which, on the side of the federal government, proved not very binding at all. Occasionally, however, there arose a Native American leader of such ability that such defeats were temporarily reversed, and Little Turtle, the war chief of the Miami tribe, was one such man. Under his leadership, a confederation of Miami and other tribes inflicted the worst defeat ever suffered by an American army in the newly independent nation. Almost a quarter of the Army's total strength was lost in a single battle, but while later Native American leaders such as Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse have become legends, Little Turtle is not as well-remembered. This is particularly odd, given that he actually defeated the American military and helped shape the development of the nascent United States and its military.
From the American Revolution up through the Battle of Tippecanoe, Native Americans in the Old Northwest (today's Midwestern states) had been putting up stout resistance to that region's settlement by white land speculators and settlers. Things came to a head when Tecumseh and his brother, the Prophet Tenskwatawa, spearheaded a movement in the region that greatly influenced the area's Native Americans.

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Free Download Life, Earth, and Politics: Ideas for the Next 400 Years (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D1CV2L2K | 2024 | 8 hours and 24 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 242 MB
Author: Sherman Lewis
Narrator: Mike DelGaudio
Science, not speculative philosophy, is the only guide, however imperfect, to the nature of existence. Science culture uses and supports science. The social brain experiences free will and needs religious faith. Empathy is a choice based on intuition. We need a better scientific understanding of dogma and chauvinism, and this book explores these issues. It also describes the Crisis of the Anthropocene is a wakeup that needs to overcome ignorance and naïve optimism, and reach our deepest emotions. Topics include climate change, biodiversity, pollutants, population, and political causes behind the collapse. This book also presents data from Internationalcomparisons that demonstrates that the US is neither advanced nor a democracy and has failed to deal with guns, reproductive rights, taxation, social welfare, fiscal discipline, and other issues. Even with these already significant problems Americans must face, there is even more: Trumpism and Putinism are existential threats to American freedom and democracy. This book presents a framework for others to act in the time of these issues.

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Free Download Liberated Love: Release Codependent Patterns and Create the Love You Desire (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C3P536ND | 2024 | 9 hours and 38 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 278 MB
Author: Mark Groves, Kylie McBeath
Narrator: Mark Groves, Kylie McBeath
This program is read by the authors and features audio-exclusive conversations between them at the end of each chapter. Liberated Love is the ultimate guide to building and maintaining sustainable relationships that feel safe, real, and involved. We all desire great love. Yet, there seems to be a lot in the way when it comes to cultivating a relationship we crave. Why is that? It's time for a new template-one rooted in choice, truth, safety, and respect. To get us there, Mark Groves and Kylie McBeath, champions of positive philosophy, provide us a roadmap, one they walked themselves, to step out of protection mode and into connection mode.

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Free Download Lessons from the Climate Anxiety Counseling Booth: How to Live with Care and Purpose in an Endangered World (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CFCML7C7 | 2024 | 5 hours and 53 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 329 MB
Author: Kate Schapira
Narrator: Helen Laser
Climate anxiety is real-and this practical, accessible guide helps address it on personal, relational, and structural levels, from the founder of the Climate Anxiety Counseling Booth. Summer after summer is the hottest on record. People's homes are flooding, burning, blowing away. We live with the loss, pain, and grief of what's happened, and anxiety for what might happen next, as the systems in which we live are increasingly strained. Lessons from the Climate Anxiety Counseling Booth addresses our collective concerns with empathy, grace, and practical strategies to help us all envision a viable future.

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Free Download Lenin Lives? (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CXG2MMH9 | 2024 | 7 hours and 13 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 392 MB
Author: Christopher Read
Narrator: Mike Cooper
Lenin's work and influence have often been written off as no longer relevant, and many today consider this to be so. Lenin has, they claim, had his day, even though he is still revered in China, the world's most populous country. However, Lenin, like his mentor Marx, has had a tendency to rise from apparent decline and oblivion to renewed force and influence. This study examines the key elements of Lenin's life and career, the consolidation of his ideas into the doctrines of "Leninism," the influence of Leninism in promoting revolutionary movements around the globe, and the currently disputed issue of whether his ideas still have any relevance today.

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Free Download Ram Charan, Stephen Drotter, James Noel, Kent Jonasen, Lee Goettl (Narrator), "Leadership Pipeline: Developing Leaders in the Digital Age, 3rd Edition"
English | ASIN: B0CYHWF7QW | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~07:40:00 | 211 MB
In the newly revised third edition of The Leadership Pipeline, a team of veteran leadership practitioners delivers a practical and essential framework for identifying future leaders, assessing their competence, planning their development, nurturing their talents, and analyzing the results of your efforts. The work to be done, the required skills, time application, and the necessary work values for each leadership layer are clearly defined for the digital age. The book explains how to integrate your organization's leadership development process with a succession plan that provides your company with a ready supply of capable leaders.
You'll discover the tools and techniques you need to knit together your succession and leadership development programs and constantly renew your leadership pipeline. You'll also: explore anecdotes and stories drawn from the authors' extensive experience with top companies that illustrate the principles discussed in the book; find ways to eliminate bias and tunnel vision when identifying leadership candidates; and learn to objectively consider the efficacy of individual leadership candidates.
A powerful resource for managers, executives, board members, and other business leaders at firms of all sizes, The Leadership Pipeline is an effective and insightful blueprint to future-proofing your company.

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Free Download Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition (Audiobook)
English | September 29, 2011 | ASIN: B005QPOFYG | M4B@64 kbps | 17h 49m | 485 MB
Author: Daniel Okrent | Narrator: Richard Poe
A brilliant, authoritative, and fascinating history of America's most puzzling era, the years 1920 to 1933, when the U.S. Constitution was amended to restrict one of America's favorite pastimes: drinking alcoholic beverages.
From its start, America has been awash in drink. The sailing vessel that brought John Winthrop to the shores of the New World in 1630 carried more beer than water. By the 1820s, liquor flowed so plentifully it was cheaper than tea. That Americans would ever agree to relinquish their booze was as improbable as it was astonishing.

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Free Download Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CYCQ27QS | 2024 | 10 hours and 53 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 302 MB
Author: Ross Perlin
Narrator: Ross Perlin
Half of all 7,000-plus human languages may disappear over the next century, and when they're gone, it will be forever. Ross Perlin, a linguist and codirector of the Manhattan-based non-profit Endangered Language Alliance, is racing against time to map little-known languages across the most linguistically diverse city in history: contemporary New York. Perlin recounts the unique history of immigration that shaped the city, and follows six remarkable yet ordinary speakers of endangered languages deep into their communities to learn how they are maintaining and reviving their languages. Seke is spoken by 700 people from five ancestral villages in Nepal, a hundred of whom have lived in a single Brooklyn apartment building.

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Free Download Lake of Souls: The Collected Short Fiction (Audiobook)
English | April 02, 2024 | ASIN: B0CBL74DN1 | M4B@128 kbps | 15h 15m | 831 MB
Author: Ann Leckie | Narrator: Adjoa Andoh
Hugo, Nebula, and Arthur C. Clarke award-winner Ann Leckie is a modern master of the SFF genre, forever changing its landscape with her groundbreaking ideas and powerful voice. Now, available for the first time comes the complete collection of Leckie's short fiction, including a brand new novelette, "Lake of Souls."
Journey across the stars of the Imperial Radch universe.

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