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American Dreamer: My Life in Fashion and Business

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 27 mins)
• By Tommy Hilfiger, Peter Knobler
• Narrated By Kevin Free
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American Dreamer brims with anecdotes that cover Tommy's years as a club kid and scrappy entrepreneur in 1970s New York as well as unique insights into the exclusive A-list personalities with whom he's collaborated and interacted, from Mick Jagger and David Bowie to Ralph Lauren and Calvin Klein. But this is more than just a fashion icon's memoir - it's a road map for building a brand, both professionally and personally.

The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 35 mins)
• By Andrew Carnegie
• Narrated By Antony Ferguson
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Andrew Carnegie was an immigrant, a poor boy who worked in a cotton mill, a man who amassed a great fortune as a steel baron and then became one of the most generous and influential philanthropists the world has ever known. His famous dictum, that he who dies rich dies disgraced, has inspired philanthropists and philanthropic enterprises for generations. During his own lifetime, he put his ideas into action by creating a family of organizations that continue to work toward improving the human condition.

Rejection Proof: How I Beat Fear and Became Invincible Through 100 Days of Rejection

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 31 mins)
• By Jia Jiang
• Narrated By Mike Chamberlain
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Jia Jiang came to the United States with the dream of being the next Bill Gates. Despite early success in the corporate world, his first attempt to pursue his entrepreneurial dream ended in rejection. Jia was crushed and spiraled into a period of deep self-doubt. But he realized that his fear of rejection was a bigger obstacle than any single rejection would ever be, and he needed to find a way to cope with being told no without letting it destroy him.

Your Deceptive Mind: A Scientific Guide to Critical Thinking Skills

• ORIGINAL (12 hrs and 39 mins)
• By The Great Courses
• Narrated By Professor Steven Novella

No skill is more important in today's world than being able to think about, understand, and act on information in an effective and responsible way. What's more, at no point in human history have we had access to so much information, with such relative ease, as we do in the 21st century. But because misinformation out there has increased as well, critical thinking is more important than ever. These 24 rewarding lectures equip you with the knowledge and techniques you need to become a savvier, sharper critical thinker in your professional and personal life.

Quench Your Own Thirst: Business Lessons Learned over a Beer or Two

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 31 mins)
• By Jim Koch
• Narrated By Jim Koch
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Founder of The Boston Beer Company, brewer of Samuel Adams Boston Lager, and a key catalyst of the American craft beer revolution, Jim Koch offers his unique perspective when it comes to business, beer, and turning your passion into a successful company or career.

Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.

• UNABRIDGED (35 hrs and 3 mins)
• By Ron Chernow
• Narrated By Grover Gardner
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Titan is the first full-length biography based on unrestricted access to Rockefeller’s exceptionally rich trove of papers. A landmark publication full of startling revelations, the book indelibly alters our image of this most enigmatic capitalist. Born the son of a flamboyant, bigamous snake-oil salesman and a pious, straitlaced mother, Rockefeller rose from rustic origins to become the world’s richest man by creating America’s most powerful and feared monopoly, Standard Oil. Branded "the Octopus" by legions of muckrakers, the trust refined and marketed nearly 90 percent of the oil produced in America.

How Chuck Feeney Made and Gave Away a Fortune: The Billionaire Who Wasn't

• UNABRIDGED (15 hrs and 59 mins)
• By Conor O'Clery
• Narrated By Erik Synnestvedt
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In 1988 Forbes magazine hailed Chuck Feeney as the 23rd richest American alive. No one knew until then that he was extremely wealthy. Or was he? Born during the Depression in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Feeney had made a fortune as co-founder of Duty Free Shoppers, the world's largest duty-free retail chain. How he did it is one of the great untold retail stories of modern times. The greater untold story is that Feeney had in fact given away his fortune, in its totality, to endow Atlantic Philanthropies - one of the most generous and secretive philanthropic funds in the world.

Am I Being Too Subtle?: The Adventures of a Business Maverick

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 57 mins)
• By Sam Zell
• Narrated By Sam Zell
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Self-made billionaire Sam Zell consistently sees what others don't. From finding a market for overpriced Playboy magazines among his junior high classmates, to buying real estate on the cheap after a market crash, to investing in often unglamorous industries with long-term value, Zell acts boldly on supply and demand trends to grab the first-mover advantage. And he can find opportunity virtually anywhere - from an arcane piece of legislation to a desert meeting in Abu Dhabi.

When I Stop Talking, You'll Know I'm Dead: Useful Stories from a Persuasive Man

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 37 mins)
• By Jerry Weintraub, Rich Cohen, George Clooney (foreword)
• Narrated By Jerry Weintraub
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Here is the story of Jerry Weintraub: the self-made, Brooklyn-born, Bronx-raised impresario, Hollywood producer, legendary deal maker, and friend of politicians and stars. No matter where nature has placed him - the club rooms of Brooklyn, the Mafia dives of New York's Lower East Side, the wilds of Alaska, or the hills of Hollywood - he has found a way to put on a show and sell tickets at the door.

When the Air Hits Your Brain: Tales from Neurosurgery

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 42 mins)
• By Frank T Vertosick Jr. MD
• Narrated By Kirby Heyborne
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With poignant insight and humor, Frank Vertosick, Jr., MD, describes some of the greatest challenges of his career, including a six-week-old infant with a tumor in her brain, a young man struck down in his prime by paraplegia, and a minister with a .22-caliber bullet lodged in his skull. Told through intimate portraits of Vertosick's patients and unsparing-yet-fascinatingly detailed descriptions of surgical procedures, When the Air Hits Your Brain illuminates both the mysteries of the mind and the realities of the operating room.

Einstein: His Life and Universe

• UNABRIDGED (21 hrs and 30 mins)
• By Walter Isaacson
• Narrated By Edward Herrmann
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Why we think it’s a great listen: You thought he was a stodgy scientist with funny hair, but Isaacson and Hermann reveal an eloquent, intense, and selfless human being who not only shaped science with his theories, but politics and world events in the 20th century as well. Based on the newly released personal letters of Albert Einstein, Walter Isaacson explores how an imaginative, impertinent patent clerk became the mind reader of the creator of the cosmos.

American Turnaround: Reinventing AT&T and GM and the Way We Do Business in the USA

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 20 mins)
• By Edward Whitacre, Leslie Cauley
• Narrated By Edward Whitacre
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Ed Whitacre is credited with taking over the corporate reins at General Motors (GM) when the automotive manufacturer was on the brink of bankruptcy during 2009 and turned the company around in magnificent fashion. In this business memoir, the native Texan explores his unique management style, business acumen and patriotism. It was President Obama who reached out to Ed Whitacre to come out of retirement and take over GM in 2009.

The Year of Living Danishly: Uncovering the Secrets of the World's Happiest Country

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 45 mins)
• By Helen Russell
• Narrated By Lucy Price-Lewis
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When she was suddenly given the opportunity of a new life in rural Jutland, journalist and archetypal Londoner Helen Russell discovered a startling statistic: the happiest place on earth isn't Disneyland but Denmark, a land often thought of by foreigners as consisting entirely of long, dark winters, cured herring, Lego and pastries. What is the secret to their success? Are happy Danes born or made?

Work Rules!: Insights from Inside Google That Will Transform How You Live and Lead

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 26 mins)
• By Laszlo Bock
• Narrated By Laszlo Bock

"We spend more time working than doing anything else in life. It's not right that the experience of work should be so demotivating and dehumanizing." So says Laszlo Bock, head of People Operations at the company that transformed how the world interacts with knowledge. This insight is the heart of Work Rules!, a compelling and surprisingly playful manifesto with the potential to change how we work and live.

Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and The War Years

• UNABRIDGED (44 hrs and 17 mins)
• By Carl Sandburg
• Narrated By Arthur Morey

Originally published in six volumes, which sold more than one million copies, Carl Sandburg’s Abraham Lincoln was praised as the most noteworthy historical biography of Sandburg’s generation. He later distilled this monumental work into one volume that critics and readers alike consider his greatest work of nonfiction, as well as the most distinguished, authoritative biography of Lincoln ever published.

Growing up in an Illinois prairie town, Sandburg listened to stories of old-timers who had known Lincoln. By the time this single-volume edition was competed, he had spent a lifetime studying, researching, and writing about our 16th president.

Raise the Bar: An Action-Based Method for Maximum Customer Reactions

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 14 mins)
• By Jon Taffer
• Narrated By Luke Daniels
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If there’s anyone who can prevent a bar or restaurant from going belly-up, it’s Jon Taffer. Widely considered the greatest authority in the food and beverage, hotel, and hospitality industries, he runs the biggest trade show in the business and has turned around nearly 1,000 bars and at least that many restaurants.

The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 15 mins)
• By Peter F. Drucker
• Narrated By Jim Collins, Tim Andres Pabon
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For decades, Peter F. Drucker was widely regarded as "the dean of this country's business and management philosophers" (Wall Street Journal). In this concise and brilliant work, he looks to the most influential position in management - the executive. The measure of the executive, Drucker reminds us, is the ability to "get the right things done". This usually involves doing what other people have overlooked as well as avoiding what is unproductive.

Sleep Smarter: 21 Essential Strategies to Sleep Your Way to a Better Body, Better Health, and Bigger Success

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 36 mins)
• By Shawn Stevenson, Sara Gottfried MD - foreword
• Narrated By Sara Gottfried, Shawn Stevenson
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When it comes to health, there is one criminally overlooked element: sleep. Good sleep helps you shed fat for good, stave off disease, stay productive, and improve virtually every function of your mind and body. That's what Shawn Stevenson learned when a degenerative bone disease crushed his dream of becoming a professional athlete. Like many of us, he gave up on his health and his body...until he decided there must be a better way.