Category: Audio Books

Free Download The Scandal of Cal: Land Grabs, White Supremacy, and Miseducation at UC Berkeley (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CN7H34KL | 2023 | 8 hours and 43 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 252 MB
Author: Tony Platt
Narrator: Jonathan Yen
The University of California, Berkeley-widely known as "Cal"-is admired worldwide as a bastion of innovation and a hub for progressive thought. Far less known are the university’s roots in plunder, warfare, and the promotion of white supremacy. As Tony Platt shows in The Scandal of Cal, these original sins sit at the center of UC Berkeley’s history. Platt looks unflinchingly at the university’s desecration of graves and large-scale hoarding of Indigenous remains. He tracks its role in developing the racist pseudoscience of eugenics in the early twentieth century. He sheds light on the school’s complicity with the military-industrial complex and its incubation of unprecedented violence through the Manhattan Project. And he underscores its deliberate and continued evasions about its own wrongdoings, which echo in the institution’s decision-making up to the present day. This book, above all, illuminates Cal’s culpability in some of the cruelest chapters of US history and sounds a clarion call for the university to undertake a thorough and earnest reckoning with its past.

Free Download The Savage Storm: The Battle for Italy 1943 (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CMJTSF96 | 2023 | 18 hours and 24 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 1 GB
Author: James Holland
Narrator: Al Murray
Acclaimed WWII historian James Holland both narrates and reframes the controversial first months of the Italian Campaign and sets a new standard in the chronicling of war. Following victory in Sicily, while the central command planned the spring 1944 invasion of France, Allied troops crossed into Southern Italy in September 1943, expecting to drive Axis forces north and liberate Rome by Christmas. Italy quickly surrendered but German divisions fiercely resisted, and the hoped-for quick victory descended into one of the most challenging and protracted battles of the entire war. James Holland’s The Savage Storm, chronicling the dramatic opening months of the Italian Campaign in unflinching and insightful detail, is unlike any campaign history yet written. Holland has always narrated war at ground level but here goes further by chronicling events almost entirely through the contemporary eyes of those who were there on all sides and at all levels-Allied, Axis, civilians alike.

Free Download The Roman Emperor Aurelian: Restorer of the World: New Revised Edition (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CN7NJ7V5 | 2023 | 12 hours and 15 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 318 MB
Author: John F. White
Narrator: Keval Shah
Aurelian saved the Roman Empire from foreign invasion and collapse, earning him the title Restorer of the World from a grateful Senate. This is his story as restorer of the world. The ancient Sibylline prophecies had foretold that the Roman Empire would last for 1000 years. As the time for the expected dissolution approached in the middle of the third century AD, the empire was lapsing into chaos, with seemingly interminable civil wars over the imperial succession. The western empire had seceded under a rebel emperor and the eastern empire was controlled by another usurper. Barbarians took advantage of the anarchy to kill and plunder all over the provinces.

Free Download The Rest Is History: From Ancient Rome to Ronald Reagan-History’s Most Curious Questions, Answered (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C5YD52WP | 2023 | 11 hours and 38 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 338 MB
Author: Tom Holland, Dominic Sandbrook
Narrator: Tom Holland, Dominic Sandbrook
This entertaining companion to the massively popular history podcast tackles everything from Alexander the Great to Agatha Christie, the Wars of the Roses to Watergate-with a unique blend of wit, wisdom, and good old-fashioned banter. The Rest Is History podcast brilliantly distills major moments in human history, covering everything from the Trojan War to a historical ranking of the greatest dogs. Now, this official tie-in book brings the chart-topping podcast’s charms, offering listeners a fresh, wide-ranging tour of humanity’s essential, and essentially weird, moments. Featuring an introduction from podcast hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook, this book cleverly demonstrates that the past-from modern to ancient and every time in between-is both closer to us than we might realize and bafflingly strange, all at once. So run your Egyptian milk bath, strap up your best Spartan sandals, and prepare for a journey down the highways and byways of the human past.

Free Download The Religion of Sports: Navigating the Trials of Life Through the Games We Love (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BX77889T | 2023 | 7 hours and 49 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 225 MB
Author: Gotham Chopra, Joe Levin
Narrator: Chris Andrew Ciulla
From the acclaimed director who has gone behind the scenes with many of the greatest athletes in the world, a memoir-meets-manifesto featuring never-before-heard stories about Tom Brady, Simone Biles, Kobe Bryant, Serena Williams, and many more. Sports is religion. No, really. From pilgrimages and cathedrals, gods and fallen angels, holy wars and holy ghosts, sports has every aspect of an organized faith. In fact, it might be even better: all it takes to believe is to stand and cheer. Nobody knows this better than the preeminent sports documentarian Gotham Chopra, who just so happens to be the son of world-renowned spiritualist Deepak Chopra. While his father taught him to find faith through prayer, Gotham felt pulled towards the Boston Garden and Larry Bird instead. Tracing his unique path from being a diehard fan to witnessing miracles alongside the gods of sport, Gotham makes a compelling case for sports as a modern-day faith.

Free Download The ROI of LOL: How Laughter Breaks Down Walls, Drives Compelling Storytelling, and Creates a Healthy Workplace (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BZWHGW28 | 2023 | 5 hours and 42 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 316 MB
Author: Steve Cody, Clayton Fletcher
Narrator: Steve Cody, Clayton Fletcher, Linda Rutherford, Rick N. Jones
Laughter is a powerful remedy to what ails today’s teams and organizations. There are a host of neuroscientific explanations for why laughter makes us feel so great. Laughter triggers "feel good" chemicals in the brain which activate opiate receptors throughout your body and mind. Creating a workplace culture in which laughter is not only allowed but expected is an important step in building the trust, openness, authenticity, storytelling, and teamwork (TOAST) that are essential to any healthy collaborative environment. It also has a role in fostering diversity, equity, and inclusion-as explained in a special afterword from Malcolm Frierson, PhD, Loyola Marymount University on the role of comedy in DEI training. What all this means for your business is that by harnessing the prodigious power of your own unique individual sense of humor (and empowering your employees to do the same), you can increase morale, collaboration, communication, and productivity. You can find new and unexpected ways to connect with your external stakeholders. And you can have fun doing it.

Free Download The Purest Bond: Understanding the Human-Canine Connection (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BX78K4R8 | 2023 | 6 hours and 33 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 368 MB
Author: Jen Golbeck, Stacey Colino
Narrator: Jen Golbeck
A feel-good, comprehensive exploration of the profound bond between humans and dogs from Jen Golbeck, the "internet’s dog mom" behind the massive social media platform The Golden Ratio, and Stacey Colino, an award-winning science writer. Dogs have been considered people’s best friend for thousands of years, but never has the relationship between humans and their canine companions been as vitally important as it is today. With all of the seismic shifts in today’s world, rates of anxiety and depression have been skyrocketing, and people have been turning to their dogs for solace and stability. Amidst these dire realities, something wonderful has taken shape. In the United States alone, dog adoptions doubled during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Free Download The Princes in the Tower: Solving History’s Greatest Cold Case (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CKM1JWCB | 2023 | 16 hours and 43 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 479 MB
Author: Philippa Langley
Narrator: Philippa Langley
Philippa Langley took the world by storm when, against all the odds and a seven-year investigation, she discovered the grave of King Richard III (1452-1485) in a Leicester car park. A king finally laid to rest, the rediscovery and reburial of Richard III was watched by an estimated global audience of over 366 million. Now, Langley reveals the findings of a remarkable new research initiative: ‘The Missing Princes Project’. In the summer of 1483, Edward V (aged 12) and his brother Richard Duke of York (aged 9), disappeared from the Tower of London. For over 500 years, history has judged that they were murdered on the orders of their uncle Richard III.

Free Download The Power of the Dao: Seven Essential Habits for Living in Flow, Fulfilment and Resilience (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CKJ4MYCM | 2023 | 6 hours and 24 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 316 MB
Author: Max Landsberg
Narrator: Robert Shiels
Being in flow is when you are "in the zone," "on your game," or even "on fire." It is both a mental state and a physical one. You have a feeling of complete focus, full involvement, and deep enjoyment in whatever you are doing. You feel the activity takes no energy from you-indeed you feel that it is giving you energy. You barely notice the passage of time. You feel calm but almost ecstatic. Most of us have glimpsed being in this state. But what if you could be in your zone not just for a moment of flow, nor merely for a day, but always and forever? This book shows you how to achieve that state, based on the enduring ancient Chinese wisdom of Daoist principles and practice. Millions of people have lived a better, happier, and more productive life by following all or some of these Daoist principles. This book provides the seven core principles of Daoism to help you live your life in productive yet relaxed flow for extended periods-or all the time.

Free Download The Power of Self-Discipline: 5-Minute Exercises to Build Self-Control, Good Habits, and Keep Going When You Want to Give Up (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B098BJGPL4 | 2021 | 4 hours and 14 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 232 MB
Author: Peter Hollins
Narrator: Russell Newton
Stop self-defeating behaviors, and act with intention. You’ll thank yourself later. What you receive in life is dictated by your self-discipline. The more you have, the more you get. Will you settle for less than you desire? How to make willpower automatic, second nature, and habitual. The Power of Self-Discipline is not a textbook on self-discipline, nor is it a gentle and drawn-out discussion. It is a toolbox to keep you in motion and in action toward your goals. It pulls no punches as it provides direct techniques to ensure that your actions match your intentions – a difficult task. Self-discipline is not about grinding it out from morning until night.