Category: Audiobooks

The Right It: Why So Many Ideas Fail and How to Make Sure Yours Succeed by Alberto Savoia
Requirements: .MP3 reader, 176.9 MB
Overview: The law of market failure: Most new products will fail in the market, even if competently executed.

Using his experience at Google, his remarkable success as an entrepreneur and consultant, and insights from his lectures at Stanford University and Google, Alberto Savoia’s The Right It offers an unparalleled approach to beating the beast that is market failure.

Millions of people around the world are working hard to bring to life new ideas. Some of these ideas will turn out to be stunning successes that will have a major impact on our world and our culture: the next Google, the next Polio vaccine, the next Harry Potter, the next Red Cross, the next Ford Mustang. Others will be smaller, more personal but no less meaningful, successes: a little restaurant that becomes a neighborhood favorite, a biography that does not make the best-seller list but tells an important story, a local nonprofit to care for abandoned pets.

At this very same moment, another group of people is working equally hard to develop new ideas that, when launched, will fail. Some of them will fail spectacularly and publicly: like New Coke, the movie John Carter, or the Ford Edsel. Others will be smaller, more private, but no less painful failures: a home-based business that never takes off, a children’s book that neither publishers nor children have any interest in, a charity for a cause about which too few people care enough.

If you are currently working to develop a new idea, whether on your own or as part of a team, which group are you in? Most people believe they either are, or will be, in the first group – the group whose ideas will be successful. All they have to do is work hard and execute well. Unfortunately, we know that this cannot be the case.
Genre: Audiobooks > Non-Fiction

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Realizing the Power of Now: An In-Depth Retreat with Eckhart Tolle by Eckhart Tolle
Requirements: .MP3 reader, 194.5 MB
Overview: Perhaps you can recall a time when you felt more alive than at any other moment – when you had a sudden recognition of beauty, a feeling of deep contentment, and a sense of connection with life greater than you had ever thought possible. And then, this fleeting moment was gone.

What if you could recapture that remarkable opening, and make it a consistent way of living in the world? Throughout Europe and North America, a man named Eckhart Tolle has emerged as a teacher with the unique ability to draw us into the awakened state he calls “presence.” With Realizing the Power of Now: An In-Depth Retreat with Eckhart Tolle, you have an unparalleled opportunity to immerse yourself in the timeless dimension – a place within us that always is and ever will be beyond the turmoil of life, a world of calm beyond words, of joy that has no opposite.

A walk in nature. A personal crisis. A moment of laughter. These can all serve as portals that take us to the depth and wonder of the Now. But how do we access these portals so that we dwell in presence more and more often? With Tolle’s guidance, you will discover many simple ways to leave behind the chaos and suffering of the mind-made world, and enter this state of serenity and grace. Tolle will show you how to go beyond the endless stream of thoughts, and simply allow whatever is happening to occur…use sense perceptions and your “inner body” to find a peace that exists independent of conditions…see past “the little me and my story” and find your home in the “living Now.”
Genre: Audiobooks > Non-Fiction

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How to Meditate: A Practical Guide to Making Friends with Your Mind by Pema Chödrön (Chodron)
Requirements: .MP3 reader, 484.4 MB (Split Discs) (Abridged)
Overview: “When something is bothering you-a person is bugging you, a situation is irritating you, or physical pain is bothering you-you must work with your mind, and that is done through meditation. Working with our mind is the only means through which we’ll actually begin to feel happy and contented with the world that we live in.” -Pema Chodron Pema Chodron is treasured around the world for her unique ability to transmit teachings and practices that bring peace, understanding, and compassion into our lives. With How to Meditate, the American-born Tibetan Buddhist nun presents her first book exploring in-depth what she considers the essentials for a lifelong practice.More and more people are beginning to recognize a profound inner longing for authenticity, connection, and aliveness. Meditation, Pema explains, gives us a golden key to address this yearning. This step-by-step guide shows readers how to honestly meet and openly relate with the mind, embrace the fullness of our experience, and live in a wholehearted way as we discover, The basics of meditation, from getting settled and the six points of posture to working with your breath and cultivating an attitude of unconditional friendliness

The Seven Delights-how moments of difficulty can become doorways to awakening and love

Shamatha (or calm abiding), the art of stabilizing the mind to remain present with whatever arises

Thoughts and emotions as “sheer delight”-instead of obstacles-in meditation

“I think ultimately why we practice is so that we can become completely loving people, and this is what the world needs,” writes Pema Chodron. How to Meditate is a long-overdue book from this wise teacher to assist each one of us in this virtuous goal.
Genre: Audiobooks > Non-Fiction

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Beyond the North Wind: The Fall and Rise of the Mystic North by Christopher McIntosh
Requirements: .MP3 reader, 166.7 MB
Overview: “The North” is simultaneously a location, a direction, and a mystical concept. Although this concept has ancient roots in mythology, folklore, and fairy tales, it continues to resonate today within modern culture. McIntosh leads listeners, chapter by chapter, through the magical and spiritual history of the North, as well as its modern manifestations, as documented through physical records, such as runestones and megaliths, but also through mythology and lore.

This mythic conception of a unique, powerful, and mysterious Northern civilization was known to the Greeks as “Hyberborea” – the “Land Beyond the North Wind” – which they considered to be the true origin place of their god, Apollo, bringer of civilization. Through the Greeks, this concept of the mythic North would spread throughout Western civilization.

In addition, McIntosh discusses Russian Hyperboreanism, which he describes as among “the most influential of the new religions and quasi-religious movements that have sprung up in Russia since the fall of Communism” and which is currently almost unknown in the West.
Genre: Audiobooks > Non-Fiction

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What Makes a Terrorist?: Economics and the Roots of Terrorism by Alan B. Krueger
Requirements: .M4A/.M4B reader, 172.4 MB
Overview: Why we need to think more like economists to successfully combat terrorism

If we are to correctly assess the root causes of terrorism and successfully address the threat, we must think more like economists do. This is the argument of Alan Krueger’s What Makes a Terrorist, a book that explains why our tactics in the fight against terrorism must be based on more than anecdote, intuition, and speculation.

Many popular ideas about terrorists and why they seek to harm us are fueled by falsehoods, misinformation, and fearmongering. Many believe that poverty and lack of education breed terrorism, despite the wealth of evidence showing that most terrorists come from middle-class, and often college-educated, backgrounds. Krueger closely examines the factors that motivate individuals to participate in terrorism, drawing inferences from terrorists’ own backgrounds and the economic, social, religious, and political environments in the societies from which they come.

He describes which countries are the most likely breeding grounds for terrorists, and which ones are most likely to be their targets. Krueger addresses the economic and psychological consequences of terrorism and puts the threat squarely into perspective, revealing how our nation’s sizable economy is diverse and resilient enough to withstand the comparatively limited effects of most terrorist strikes. He also calls on the media to be more responsible in reporting on terrorism.

Bringing needed clarity to one of the greatest challenges of our generation, this 10th anniversary edition of What Makes a Terrorist features a new introduction by the author that discusses the lessons learned in the past decade from the rise of ISIS and events like the 2016 Pulse nightclub attack in Orlando, Florida.
Genre: Audiobooks > Non-Fiction

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