Red Valkyries: Feminist Lessons from Five Revolutionary Women (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BN4RBL5F | 2022 | 5 hours and 55 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 171 MB
Author: Kristen Ghodsee
Narrator: Esther Wane
The lives of five socialist women and their legacy for modern-day feminists. Red Valkyries explores the history of socialist feminism in Eastern Europe. Through the revolutionary careers of five prominent socialist women active in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries-the aristocratic Bolshevik Alexandra Kollontai; the radical pedagogue Nadezhda Krupskaya; the polyamorous firebrand Inessa Armand; the deadly sniper Lyudmila Pavlichenko; and the partisan, scientist, and global women's activist Elena Lagadinova-Kristen Ghodsee tells the story of the personal challenges faced by earlier generations of radicals. None of these women was a perfect leftist. Their lives were filled with inner conflicts, contradictions, and sometimes outrageous privilege. But they managed to fight for their own political projects with perseverance and dedication.

Raw Deal: Hidden Corruption, Corporate Greed, and the Fight for the Future of Meat (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0B3SM4B1P | 2022 | 12 hours and 3 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 346 MB
Author: Chloe Sorvino
Narrator: Allyson Ryan
A shocking and unpauseable exposé of the United States meat industry, the devastating failures of the country's food system, and the growing disappointment of alternative meat producers claiming to revolutionize the future of food. Well before COVID-19 swept across the United States and the chairman of Tyson Foods infamously declared that the food supply chain was dangerously vulnerable, America's meat industry was reaching a breaking point. Years of consolidation, price-fixing, and power grabs by elite industry insiders have harmed consumers and caused environmental destruction. Americans have no idea where their meat comes from. And while that's hurting us, it's also making others rich. Now, financial journalist Chloe Sorvino presents an expansive view of the meat industry and its future as its fundamental weaknesses are laid bare for all to see. With unprecedented access and in-depth research, Raw Deal investigates corporate greed, how climate change will upend our food production, and the limitations of local movements challenging the status quo.

Purple Crayons: The Art of Drawing a Life (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B09TWXNBTR | 2022 | 4 hours and 43 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 136 MB
Author: Ross Ellenhorn
Narrator: Kaleo Griffith
In 1955, Crockett Johnson introduced one of the world's most beloved and enduring young adventurers, Harold and his purple crayon. Today, we need Harold and his penchant for creative solutions more than ever. In Purple Crayons, Ross Ellenhorn looks to Johnson's classic for insights and answers that can help us understand our current condition and point the way toward solutions for healing. Purple Crayons tells a story about America then and now, about living one's life as art; about the powers that block us from doing so, about the pull and perils of conformity; about serious play and too much seriousness, about what it means to feel alive inside and what deadens our existence. It's also about 1955 in America, all that lay before and-presciently-all that lay ahead, as each of us struggles to draw meaningful and resilient existences on the blank pages-the future yet unlived-of our lives.

Psychology of Financial Planning: The Practitioner's Guide to Money and Behavior (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BMJ9F5XC | 2022 | 9 hours and 2 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 249 MB
Author: Brad Klontz, Charles R. Chaffin, Ted Klontz
Narrator: Jamie Renell
In Psychology of Financial Planning: The Practitioner's Guide to Money and Behavior, distinguished authors Drs. Brad Klontz, CFP, Charles Chaffin, and Ted Klontz deliver a comprehensive overview of the psychological factors that impact the financial planning client. Designed for both professional and academic audiences, Psychology of Financial Planning is written for those with thirty years in practice as well as those just beginning their journey. With a focus on how psychology can be applied to real-world financial planning scenarios, Psychology of Financial Planning provides a much-needed toolbox for practicing financial planners who know that understanding their client's psychology is critical to their ability to be effective.

Principles for Navigating Big Debt Crises (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B09ZFCQ2T1 | 2022 | 16 hours and 52 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 782 MB
Author: Ray Dalio
Narrator: Stephen Graybill
Ray Dalio, the legendary investor and #1 New York Times bestselling author-whose books have sold more than five million copies worldwide-shares his unique template for how debt crises work and principles for dealing with them well. Whether you're an investor, a policy maker, or are simply interested in debt, this unconventional perspective from one of the few people who navigated the crisis successfully, Principles for Navigating Big Debt Crises will help you understand the economy and markets in revealing new ways.

Princess Margaret: The Royal House of Windsor (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BMDMM63M | 2022 | 8 hours and 39 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 248 MB
Author: Helen Cathcart
Narrator: Lorna Bennett
A compelling biography of Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon. Loyal sister and friend to Queen Elizabeth II, Princess Margaret grew up in the public gaze and was one of the most-discussed women in the world. But what was early life like for the younger sibling of the future monarch? And what role did she carve for herself within the Royal Family? Royal biographer Helen Cathcart offers a fascinating personal study of the first four decades of the Princess's life, from her birth at Glamis Castle and phenomenal childhood popularity in the nostalgic era of "the two little princesses," through watching her parents crowned in Westminster Abbey and dancing among the crowds after her sister's Coronation. The author casts crucial new light on "the Townsend affair," a crisis once compared with that of the Duke of Windsor, and the culminating love story of the Princess and the young photographer, Antony Armstrong-Jones. Against the changing scenes of royal palaces, Thames-side hideaways and Caribbean islands, and with deep family insight, Princess Margaret is the definitive inner story of the Queen's beloved sister, charismatic and unconventional, yet always her steadfast self.

Postcards from Absurdistan: Prague at the End of History (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BN2HZZ98 | 2022 | 27 hours and 59 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 751 MB
Author: Derek Sayer
Narrator: Daniel Henning
Postcards from Absurdistan is a cultural and political history of Prague from 1938, when the Nazis destroyed Czechoslovakia's artistically vibrant liberal democracy, to 1989, when the country's socialist regime collapsed after more than four decades of communist dictatorship. Derek Sayer shows that Prague's twentieth century, far from being a story of inexorable progress toward some "end of history," whether fascist, communist, or democratic, was a tragicomedy of recurring nightmares played out in a land Czech dissidents dubbed Absurdistan. Situated in the eye of the storms that shaped the modern world, Prague holds up an unsettling mirror to the absurdities and dangers of our own times.

Poetry RX: How Fifty Inspiring Poems Can Heal and Bring Joy to Your Life (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B095J4YKCV | 2021 | 9 hours and 11 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 242 MB
Author: Norman E. Rosenthal
Narrator: Marguerite Gavin, Sean Pratt
Poetry to heal, inspire, and enjoy. Poetry Rx presents 50 great poems as seen through the eyes of a renowned psychiatrist and New York Times best seller. In this book, you will find insights into love, sorrow, ecstasy, and everything in between: love in the moment or for a lifetime; love that is fulfilling or addictive; when to break up; and how to survive when someone breaks up with you. Separate sections deal with responses to the natural world and the varieties of human experience (such as hope, reconciliation, leaving home, faith, self-actualization, trauma, anger, and the thrill of discovery). Other sections involve finding your way in the world and the search for meaning, as well as the final stages of life.

Playing Under the Piano: From Downton to Darkest Peru (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BH9FB1QC | 2022 | 10 hours and 14 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 262 MB
Author: Hugh Bonneville
Narrator: Hugh Bonneville
A moving, laugh-out-loud memoir from one of today's best-loved British actors, whose credits include Downton Abbey, Notting Hill, and Paddington. From getting his big break as Third Shepherd in the school nativity play, to mistaking a Hollywood star for an estate agent, Hugh Bonneville creates a brilliantly vivid picture of a career on stage and screen. What is it like working with Judi Dench and Julia Roberts, or playing Robert De Niro's right leg, or not being Gary Oldman, twice? A wickedly funny storyteller, Bonneville also writes with poignancy about his father's dementia and of his mother, whose life in the secret service emerged only after her death. Whether telling stories of working with divas, Dames, or a bear with a penchant for marmalade, this is a richly entertaining account of his life as an actor.

Picking Presidents: How to Make the Most Consequential Decision in the World (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BN2MSJ29 | 2022 | 7 hours and 33 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 215 MB
Author: Gautam Mukunda
Narrator: Graham Rowat
Celebrated leadership expert and political scientist Gautam Mukunda provides a comprehensive, objective, and non-partisan method for answering the most important question in the world: is someone up to the job of president of the United States?In Picking Presidents, Gautam Mukunda sets his sights on presidential candidates, proposing a tested method to assess whether they will succeed or fail if they win the White House. Combining political science, psychology, organizational behavior, and economics, Picking Presidents will enable every American to cast an informed vote.