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Free Download Hope: Entertainer of the Century (Audiobook)
English | November 04, 2014 | ASIN: B00OTU449K | M4B@64 kbps | 17h 47m | 529 MB
Author: Richard Zoglin | Narrator: Malcolm Hillgartner
Born in 1903, and until his death in 2003, Bob Hope was the only entertainer to achieve top-rated success in every major mass-entertainment medium, from vaudeville to television and everything in between. He virtually invented modern stand-up comedy. His tours to entertain US troops and patriotic radio broadcasts, along with his all-American, brash-but-cowardly movie character, helped to ease the nation’s jitters during the stressful days of World War II. He helped redefine the very notion of what it means to be a star: a savvy businessman, pioneer of the brand extension (churning out books, writing a newspaper column, hosting a golf tournament), and public-spirited entertainer whose Christmas military tours and tireless work for charity set the standard for public service in Hollywood. But he became a polarizing figure during the Vietnam War, and the audiobook sheds new light on his close relationship with President Richard Nixon during those embattled years.

Free Download Jacob Heilbrunn, Kent Klineman (Narrator), "America Last: The Right’s Century-Long Romance with Foreign Dictators"
English | ASIN: B0CTBCG3R6 | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~08:23:00 | 238 MB
In America Last, Jacob Heilbrunn, a highly respected observer of the American Right, demonstrates that the infatuation of American conservatives with foreign dictators is not a new phenomenon.
It dates to WWI, when some conservatives, enthralled with Kaiser Wilhelm II, openly rooted for him to defeat the forces of democracy. In the 1920s and 1930s, this affinity became even more pronounced as Hitler and Mussolini attracted a variety of American admirers. Throughout the Cold War, the Right evinced a fondness for autocrats such as Francisco Franco and Augusto Pinochet, while some conservatives wrote apologias for the Third Reich and for apartheid South Africa. The habit of mind is not really about foreign policy, however. As Heilbrunn argues, the Right is drawn to what it perceives as the impressive strength of foreign dictators, precisely because it sees them as models of how to fight against liberalism and progressivism domestically.

Free Download Technoethics A 21st Century Leadership Competency
Released 2/2024
MP4 | Video: h264, 1280×720 | Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz, 2 Ch
Skill Level: Intermediate | Genre: eLearning | Language: English + srt | Duration: 1h 36m | Size: 254 MB
New technologies are rapidly changing the way organizations function and the capabilities of products and services that can be provided. This rapid pace of change creates not just incredible new opportunities, but also unprecedented challenges for organizations, their staff, their customers, and society as a whole. A wide range of ethical considerations must now be anticipated and addressed. These ethical issues as they relate to technology form a developing domain of leadership responsibility known as technoethics. In this course, award-winning technology leader Jonathan Reichental introduces you to the essential 21st century competency of technoethics. Learn about organizational ethics, then begin building your understanding of technoethics. Explore the key focus areas of technoethics, including digitalization, responsible AI, privacy ethics, and more. Plus, go over practical tools and techniques that you will use as you explore technoethics.

Free Download A Courtly History: Romance in the 19th Century (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CS6T88XT | 2024 | 2 hours and 46 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 152 MB
Author: Stephanie Insley Hershinow, The Great Courses
Narrator: Stephanie Insley Hershinow
The rituals and pageantry of courtship in the 19th century can seem foreign to us today. Some of us may look back and see a more romantic age, while others will see a minefield of strict rules and stuffy protocol. Either way you look at it, it was worlds away from what dating is in the 21st century. From coming-out parties and neighborhood balls to the rules of letter writing and marriage proposals, there were a lot of etiquette rules to observe if you wanted to find love-and, even more important, to secure your future through marriage. Novels like Pride and Prejudice and period dramas like Bridgerton may give us glimpses into the nature of 19th-century romance, but what about the fuller historical and social context? In the six lessons of A Courtly History: Romance in the 19th Century, Professor Stephanie Insley Hershinow gives you a detailed look at the complex and ever-evolving rules of romance in 19th-century Britain.

Free Download Peter Morton, "Slavery and Rebellion in Second-Century BC Sicily: From Bellum Servile to Sicilia Capta "
English | ISBN: 139951573X | 2023 | 248 pages | PDF | 12 MB
This is the first book-length study in English dedicated to an exploration of the events traditionally known as the two Sicilian Slave Wars. The second-century BC revolts are commonly included among the largest slave uprisings in world history and are considered key milestones in the timeline of Roman slavery. This book offers a re-examination of the so-called Slave Wars from the perspectives of the rebels and argues that these occurrences should be understood not as slave revolts but as rebellions ignited by the socio-economic and political difficulties caused by the Roman-backed status quo on Sicily.

Free Download Jon Stewart, "Encounters With Nineteenth-Century Continental Philosophy: Discussions and Debates "
English | ISBN: 9004689443 | 2023 | 305 pages | PDF | 3 MB

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Free Download Dr. Josef A. Passley, "Single Parenting in the 21st Century and Beyond: A Single Mother’s Guide To Rearing Sons Without Fathers"
English | ISBN: 1425103588 | 2006 | 156 pages | PDF | 3 MB
The successful treatment of boys with behavior problems from the youngest ages to the teenage years is an enormous challenge to everyone involved in the care of these children. Aggression in youth is a major public health problem in this country and a bur

Free Download Chloe Wigston Smith, "Women, Work, and Clothes in the Eighteenth-Century Novel"
English | ISBN: 1107035007 | 2013 | 269 pages | PDF | 8 MB
This groundbreaking study examines the vexed and unstable relations between the eighteenth-century novel and the material world. Rather than exploring dress’s transformative potential, it charts the novel’s vibrant engagement with ordinary clothes in its bid to establish new ways of articulating identity and market itself as a durable genre. In a world in which print culture and textile manufacturing traded technologies, and paper was made of rags, the novel, by contrast, resisted the rhetorical and aesthetic links between dress and expression, style and sentiment. Chloe Wigston Smith shows how fiction exploited women’s work with clothing – through stealing, sex work, service, stitching, and the stage – in order to revise and reshape material culture within its pages. Her book explores a diverse group of authors, including Jane Barker, Jonathan Swift, Daniel Defoe, Eliza Haywood, Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding, Charlotte Lennox, John Cleland, Frances Burney and Mary Robinson.

Free Download Money in the Twenty-First Century: Cheap, Mobile, and Digital by Prof. Richard Holden
English | January 30th, 2024 | ISBN: 0520395263 | 232 pages | True EPUB | 1.57 MB
An economist examines three modern forces that have redefined what "money" means, who controls it, and what the future of finance might look like.

Free Download Vishwamitra Sharma, "Famous Indians of the 20th Century: Insights on Over 100 Famous Indians – From the Early Years to Achievements in Their Chosen Fields"
English | 2011 | ISBN: 8192079686 | EPUB | pages: 228 | 3.6 mb
For people of all age-groups, reading about the lives and times of great Indians is always inspiring and uplifting. For those looking for success and purpose in their lives can greatly benefit from this masterly work! This book presents insights on more than 100 famous Indians of the 20th century. The names range from eminent National Leaders, Great Scientists and Social Workers to Artists, Philosophers, Entrepreneures and personalities from the world of entertainment. Discover here- *How Mahatama Gandhi won freedom for India *Why Dr Swaminathan is called the father of the Green Revolution *What made Dhirubhai Ambani a great visionary industrialist *Why Rabindranath Tagore was lovingly called Gurudev *Why Satyajit Ray was honoured with a special Oscar for lifetime achievements by American Academy of Motion pictures…and much much more! Some of the other lives covered include: *Dr Zakir Hussain *JRD Tata *MS Obero *Ramnath Goenka *J C Bose *Homi Bhabha *Vinoba Bhave *Baba Amte *Mother Teresa *Harivansh Rai Bachchan *R K Narayan *Raja Ravi Varma *Amrita Shergil *Osho *J. Krishnamurti *Sri Aurobindo *Madhubala *Sam Manekshaw *Salim Ali and *V. Kurien from their early years to achievements in their specific fields, the book covers all the relevant details of their lives. As such it makes an excellent reading for students, teachers, parents and all professional