Category: Audio Books

Free Download The Gilligan Tapes: Ireland’s Most Notorious Crime Boss In His Own Words (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CLSD7P2L | 2023 | 8 hours and 34 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 245 MB
Author: Jason O’Toole
Narrator: Aiden Kelly, Frank Grimes
John Gilligan is no altar boy, by his own admission. One of Ireland’s most infamous criminals and drug lords, and widely believed in the court of public opinion to have ordered the cold-blooded murder of crime reporter Veronica Guerin, he remains a defiant figure. In this remarkable book-the first of its kind-journalist Jason O’Toole distills hours of sensational face-to-face, no-holds-barred interviews with the feared criminal into a fast-paced and jaw-dropping account of the Irish gangland scene. And Gilligan doesn’t mince his words. ‘I didn’t believe in God, but I know I’m going to hell.’

Free Download The Gift of Aging: Growing Older with Purpose, Planning and Positivity (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CJCVS3QS | 2023 | 9 hours and 28 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 272 MB
Author: Marcy Cottrell Houle, Elizabeth Eckstrom
Narrator: Chelsea Stephens
This new book blends frontline science with inspirational stories and insights from wise elders for aging with health, joy, and purpose. The book explains how our bodies and brains age, defining what can be expected with aging and what is unusual. It demonstrates ways we can significantly increase our chances for a positive aging experience into our eighties, nineties, and hundreds. It offers key strategies for meeting the challenges of aging, informs us of issues of inclusion and equity, and advises on handling legal and financial affairs. The Gift of Aging illustrates how we can make the third act of our lives meaningful and fulfilling, ensuring we as elders can make a difference in our world.

Free Download The Genius of Israel: The Surprising Resilience of a Divided Nation in a Turbulent World (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B08WHY7YZ9 | 2023 | 9 hours and 38 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 282 MB
Author: Dan Senor, Saul Singer
Narrator: Dan Senor
How has a small nation of 9 million people, forced to fight for its existence and security since its founding and riven by ethnic, religious, and economic divides, proven resistant to so many of the societal ills plaguing other wealthy democracies? Why do Israelis have among the world’s highest life expectancies and lowest rates of "deaths of despair" from suicide and substance abuse? Why is Israel’s population young and growing while all other wealthy democracies are aging and shrinking? How can it be that Israel, according to a United Nations ranking, is the fourth happiest nation in the world? Why do Israelis tend to look to the future with hope, optimism, and purpose while the rest of the West struggles with an epidemic of loneliness, teen depression, and social decline? Dan Senor and Saul Singer, the writers behind the international bestseller Start-Up Nation, have long been students of the global innovation race. But as they spent time with Israel’s entrepreneurs and political leaders, soldiers and students, scientists and activists, ultra-Orthodox Jews, Tel Aviv techies, and Israeli Arabs, they realized that they had missed what really sets Israel apart.

Free Download The Geek Way: The Radical Mindset That Drives Extraordinary Results (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C1DQW5FC | 2023 | 10 hours and 6 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 291 MB
Author: Andrew McAfee
Narrator: Andrew McAfee, Sean Patrick Hopkins
In this "handbook for disruptors" (Eric Schmidt), The Geek Way reveals a new way to get big things done. It will change the way you think about work, teams, projects, and culture, and give you the insight and tools you need to harness our human superpowers of learning and cooperation. What is "being geeky?" It’s being a perennially curious person, one who’s not afraid to tackle hard problems and embrace unconventional solutions. McAfee shows how the geeks have created a new culture based around four norms: science, ownership, speed, and openness. The geek way seems odd at first. It’s not deferential to experts, fond of planning and process, afraid of mistakes, or obsessed with "winning." But it explains everything from why Montessori babies turn out to be creative tinkerers to how newcomers are disrupting industry after industry (and still just getting started).

Free Download The Gangs of New York: An Informal History of the New York Underground (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CKWMZP61 | 2023 | 12 hours and 24 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 342 MB
Author: Herbert Asbury
Narrator: Peter Lerman
This is the 1927 book that years later inspired the movie of the same name. It is a book about criminal violence, corrupt politics and police, and illicit sex. The City of New York, from the late colonial period up to the early twentieth century, was a bustling hub of commerce, industry, and immigration. For many the city was the gateway to a new life in America, and for many others it was a place to steal a buck from their fellow New Yorkers and visitors to the city with thievery, fraud, and vice-in neighborhoods such as the Five Points, the Bowery, Hells Kitchen, and the Water Front.

Free Download The Game Writing Guide: Get Your Dream Job and Keep It (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C74QN89V | 2023 | 10 hours and 52 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 309 MB
Author: Anna Megill
Narrator: Andrea Emmes
This comprehensive guide walks listeners through the entire process of getting and keeping a writing job in the games industry. It outlines exactly what a beginner needs to know about education requirements, finding opportunities, applying for roles, and acing studio interviews. Professional writers will learn how to navigate studio hierarchies, transfer roles and companies, work overseas, and keep developing their careers. Written by an experienced games writer with nearly two decades of industry knowledge, this book contains a wealth of interviews and perspectives with industry leaders, hiring managers, and developers from marginalized communities, all offering their tips and insights. Included are examples of materials such as job posts, writing samples, and portfolios, as well as chapter-end challenges for listeners to directly apply the skills they have learned. This book will be of great interest to all beginner and aspiring games writers and narrative designers, as well as more experienced writers looking to hone their skills.

Free Download The Fund: Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates, and the Unraveling of a Wall Street Legend (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BVKXFRJZ | 2023 | 12 hours and 54 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 374 MB
Author: Rob Copeland
Narrator: Rob Copeland, Will Damron
The unauthorized, unvarnished story of famed Wall Street hedge-fund manager Ray Dalio. Ray Dalio does not want you to listen to this audiobook. Late last year, when the billionaire founder of Bridgewater Associates, the largest hedge fund on the planet, announced that he was stepping down from the company he started out of his apartment nearly 50 years ago, the news made headlines around the world. Dalio cultivated an aura of international admiration and fame thanks to his company’s eye-popping success, coupled with a mystique he encouraged with frequent media appearances, celebrity hobnobbing, and his bestselling book, Principles. In The Fund, award-winning New York Times journalist Rob Copeland punctures this carefully constructed narrative of the benevolent business titan, exposing his much-promoted "principles" as one of the great feats of hubris in modern memory-in practice, they encouraged a toxic culture of paranoia and backstabbing.

Free Download The Fourth Turning: What the Cycles of History Tell Us About America’s Next Rendezvous with Destiny, Unabridged 2023 Edition (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CLWYL4VH | 2023 | 19 hours and 27 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 565 MB
Author: William Strauss, Neil Howe
Narrator: Tom Parks
Now available as an unabridged recording for the first time. NATIONAL BESTSELLER Discover the game-changing theory of the cycles of history and what past generations can teach us about living through times of upheaval-with deep insights into the roles that Boomers, Generation X, and Millennials have to play. First comes a High, a period of confident expansion. Next comes an Awakening, a time of spiritual exploration and rebellion. Then comes an Unraveling, in which individualism triumphs over crumbling institutions. Last comes a Crisis-the Fourth Turning-when society passes through a great and perilous gate in history. William Strauss and Neil Howe will change the way you see the world-and your place in it.

Free Download The Four Realms of Existence: A New Theory of Being Human (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C5NQT7V8 | 2023 | 10 hours and 10 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 291 MB
Author: Joseph E. LeDoux
Narrator: Graham Rowat
One of the world’s leading experts on mind and brain takes us on an expedition that reveals a new view of what makes us who we are. Humans have long thought of their bodies and minds as separate spheres of existence. The body is physical-the source of aches and pains. But the mind is mental; it perceives, remembers, believes, feels, and imagines. Although modern science has largely eliminated this mind-body dualism, people still tend to imagine their minds as separate from their physical being. Even in research, the notion of the "self" as somehow distinct from the rest of the organism persists. Joseph LeDoux argues that we have hit an epistemological wall-that ideas like the self are increasingly barriers to discovery and understanding. He offers a new framework of who we are, theorizing four realms of existence-bodily, neural, cognitive, and conscious. The biological realm makes life possible.

Free Download The Forgotten Art of Being Ordinary: A Human Manifesto in the Age of the Metaverse (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CP2PVJ8G | 2023 | 5 hours and 7 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 258 MB
Author: CJ Casciotta
Narrator: Stephen R. Thorne
We’re addicted to our devices. Our kids are too. None of us seem to be better for it. We all know this, but what can we do practically to become less isolated, polarized, and disconnected? This book answers that question with a bold idea: In an age of personal brands and artificial intelligence, perhaps it’s time to relearn the forgotten art of being ordinary. Writer and media producer, CJ Casciotta, outlines nine practical solutions and illuminates a better way to live in a culture addicted to media technology, a lifeboat for anyone who feels like they’re drowning in a sea of digital noise.