The $12 Million Stuffed Shark The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art
Free Download The $12 Million Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art by Don Thompson, Adam Verner, Tantor Audio
English | 2014 | ISBN: B01NH9Y36U | Format: MP3 / 10 hours and 29 minutes | 288 Mb
Why would a smart New York investment banker pay $12 million for the decaying, stuffed carcass of a shark? By what alchemy does Jackson Pollock's drip painting "No. 5, 1948" sell for $140 million?
Intriguing and entertaining, The $12 Million Stuffed Shark is a Freakonomics approach to the economics and psychology of the contemporary art world. Why were record prices achieved at auction for works by 131 contemporary artists in 2006 alone, with astonishing new heights reached in 2007? Don Thompson explores the money, lust, and self-aggrandizement of the art world in an attempt to determine what makes a particular work valuable while others are ignored.
This book is the first to look at the economics and the marketing strategies that enable the modern art market to generate such astronomical prices. Drawing on interviews with both past and present executives of auction houses and art dealerships, artists, and the buyers who move the market, Thompson launches the listener on a journey of discovery through the peculiar world of modern art. Surprising, passionate, gossipy, and revelatory, The $12 Million Stuffed Shark reveals a great deal that even experienced auction purchasers do not know.

The 5 Disciplines of Inclusive Organizations How Diverse and Equitable Enterprises Will Transform the World [Audiobook]
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English | ASIN: B0C1CX1KCD | 2023 | MP3@64 kbps | ~09:17:00 | 264 MB
This book offers a new model for creating inclusive organizations and illuminates the vital role that diversity plays in developing solutions to the critical social, environmental, and leadership challenges we face.
While many companies are focusing on DEI efforts, what we need is to take inclusion to the next level. Our massive social, economic, and environmental challenges can only be solved only when organizations and institutions embrace complete inclusion. This book gives organizations practical steps for increasing diversity to enhance their capacity to solve global challenges.

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Ten Years Hard Labour
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English | 2023 | ISBN: B0C8TNKNQN | Format: MP3 / Bitrate: 64 Kbps / 12 hours and 13 minutes | 335 Mb
THE INSIDE STORY OF THE MILIBAND AND CORBYN YEARS, AND HOW THEY LED TO THE LABOUR LEFT'S DEMISE.
For 42 years, Chris Williamson was a Labour Party member. In 2010, he was elected to Parliament to represent his home town. However, in 2019, he was unceremoniously suspended from the party after being subjected to a smear campaign, and he later resigned in protest at the betrayal.
In this forensic memoir - free of his Labourist clutches - Williamson provides a unique ringside view. As well as lifting the lid on the amateurish politics-by-focus groups under Ed Miliband, Williamson exposes some of the major events that created and deepened Labour's 'antisemitism crisis' under Jeremy Corbyn.

Ten Caesars Roman Emperors from Augustus to Constantine
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English | 2019 | ISBN: B07JR2D9DN | Format: M4B / Bitrate: 64 Kbps / 12 hours and 52 minutes | 350 Mb
Best-selling classical historian Barry Strauss tells the story of three-and-a-half centuries of the Roman Empire through the lives of 10 of the most important emperors, from Augustus to Constantine.
Barry Strauss' Ten Caesars is the story of the Roman Empire from rise to reinvention, from Augustus, who founded the empire, to Constantine, who made it Christian and moved the capital east to Constantinople.
During these centuries, Rome gained in splendor and territory, then lost both. The empire reached from modern-day Britain to Iraq, and gradually, emperors came not from the old families of the first century but from men born in the provinces, some of whom had never even seen Rome. By the fourth century, the time of Constantine, the Roman Empire had changed so dramatically in geography, ethnicity, religion, and culture that it would have been virtually unrecognizable to Augustus.

Ted Templeman A Platinum Producer's Life in Music [Audiobook]
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English | April 14, 2020 | ASIN: B086MN1NR6 | M4B@128 kbps | 14h 23m | 1.02 GB
Authors: Ted Templeman, Greg Renoff | Narrator: Sean Runnette
Crafting smash hits with Van Halen, the Doobie Brothers, Nicolette Larson, and Van Morrison, legendary music producer Ted Templeman changed the course of rock history.
This autobiography (as told to Greg Renoff) recounts Templeman's remarkable life from child jazz phenom in Santa Cruz, California, in the 1950s to Grammy-winning music executive during the '70s and '80s. Along the way, Ted details his late-'60s stint as an unlikely star with the sunshine pop outfit Harpers Bizarre and his grind-it-out days as a Warner Bros. tape listener, including the life-altering moment that launched his career as a producer: his discovery of the Doobie Brothers.

Talk with Her A Dad's Essential Guide to Raising Healthy, Confident, and Capable Daughters
Free Download Talk with Her: A Dad's Essential Guide to Raising Healthy, Confident, and Capable Daughters by Kimberly Wolf, Keylor Leigh, Penguin Audio
English | 2022 | ISBN: B09FYL6V9F | 7 hours and 32 minutes / Format: MP3 / Bitrate: 48 Kbps | 157 Mb
A comprehensive guide to help dads support their daughters through the preteen and teen years up to adulthood
"Communication" with your daughter doesn't mean having "big" conversations all the time. Creating even the smallest moments of father-daughter connection can build bonds. In Talk with Her, you'll find information on nineteen topics defining your daughter's life-including body positivity, romantic relationships, social media, mental health, and academic achievement-along with the communication strategies you'll need to address them with care and confidence.
With cutting-edge research, expert perspectives, and talking points, Kimberly Wolf brings broad-ranging and often overwhelming topics into focus to help you make a positive, lifelong impact on your daughter one conversation at a time.

Tales from the Arabian Nights A BBC Radio 4 Drama [Audiobook]
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English | November 16, 2023 | ASIN: B0BYKBFJNX | M4B@128 kbps | 3h 53m | 216 MB
Dramatised by Colin Haydn Evans | Narrators: Derek Jacobi, Carolyn Backhouse, Mary Wimbush, Rachel Atkins, Simon Carter, Teresa Gallagher, John Baddeley, Geoffrey Banks, Philip Anthony, James Tefler, full cast
Seven of Shahrazad's stories of love, magic and mystery - plus bonus documentary
A collection of fabulous tales of genies, heroes, flying carpets and fantastic voyages, The Arabian Nights has enchanted generations of children and adults. Forged in the Islamic Golden Age, it was brought to Europe in the 18th Century, where it became an instant sensation. Included here are seven full-cast dramatisations, starring Carolyn Backhouse as Shahrazad and Derek Jacobi as the King, as well as a bonus edition of In Our Time exploring the story behind the tales.

Tailspin The People and Forces Behind America's Fifty-Year Fall - and Those Fighting to Reverse It
Free Download Tailspin: The People and Forces Behind America's Fifty-Year Fall - and Those Fighting to Reverse It by Steven Brill, Dan Woren, Random House Audio
English | 2018 | ISBN: B07B54JMM3 | MP3@64 kbps | 16 hrs 9 mins | 445 Mb
In this revelatory narrative covering the years 1967 to 2017, Steven Brill gives us a stunningly cogent picture of the broken system at the heart of our society. He shows us how, over the last half-century, America's core values - meritocracy, innovation, due process, free speech, and even democracy itself - have somehow managed to power its decline into dysfunction. They have isolated our best and brightest, whose positions at the top have never been more secure or more remote. The result has been an erosion of responsibility and accountability, an epidemic of shortsightedness, an increasingly hollow economic and political center, and millions of Americans gripped by apathy and hopelessness.
By examining the people and forces behind the rise of big-money lobbying, legal and financial engineering, the demise of private-sector unions, and a hamstrung bureaucracy, Brill answers the question on everyone's mind: How did we end up this way? Finally, he introduces us to those working quietly and effectively to repair the damages.
At once a diagnosis of our national ills, a history of their development, and a prescription for a brighter future, Tailspin is a work of riveting journalism - and a welcome antidote to political despair.

Systemic Racism 101 A Visual History of the Impact of Racism in America
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English | 2022 | ISBN: B09L57CXG6 | Format: MP3 / Bitrate: 64 Kbps / 6 hours and 38 minutes | 181 Mb
Discover how - and why - Black, Indigenous, and people of color in America experience societal, economic, and infrastructural inequality throughout history covering everything from Columbus' arrival in 1492 to the War on Drugs to the Black Lives Matter movement.
From reparations to the prison industrial complex and redlining, there are a lot of high-level concepts to systemic racism that are hard to digest. At a time where everyone is inundated with information on structural racism, it can be hard to know where to start or how to visualize the disenfranchisement of BIPOC Americans.
In Systemic Racism 101, you will find infographic spreads alongside explanatory text to help you visualize and truly understand societal, economic, and structural racism - along with what we can do to change it. Starting from the discovery of America in 1492, through the Civil Rights movement, all the way to the criminal justice reform today, this book has everything you need to know about the continued fight for equality.