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82001. The Problem With Solutions: Why Silicon Valley Can't Hack The Future Of Food : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 A concise and feisty takedown of the all-style, no-substance tech ventures that fail to solve our food crises.Why has Silicon Valley become the model for addressing today's myriad social and ecological crises? With this book, Julie Guthman digs into the impoverished solutions for food and agriculture currently emerging from Silicon Valley, urging us to stop trying to fix our broken food system through finite capitalistic solutions and technological moonshots that do next to nothing to actualize a more just and sustainable system.The Problem with Solutions combines an analysis of the rise of tech company solution culture with findings from actual research on the sector's ill-informed attempts to address the problems of food and agriculture. As this seductive approach continues to infiltrate universities and academia, Guthman challenges us to reject apolitical and self-gratifying techno-solutions and develop the capacity and willingness to respond to the root causes of these crises. Solutions, she argues, are a product of our current condition, not an answer to it. |
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82002. What Lights You Up?: Illuminate Your Path And Take The Next Big Step In Your Career : AudiobooksNow : USD7.99 What Lights You Up? takes listeners on a journey to find their next meaningful and fulfilling job—no matter where they are right now. Whether you're an industry veteran pivoting between fields, a stay-at-home parent just rejoining the workforce, or a college student trying to find their footing, this heartfelt, actionable, and authentic book covers everything you need to know about getting results in the modern world of work and is full of insightful, real-life stories of success that inspire the listener to take action in their own life.Inspired by renowned executive coach, business advisor, and speaker Mary Olson-Menzel's highly effective MVP 360 Coaching program, this book delivers insight on topics like:? Developing and telling your own highly individualistic story to get noticed and hired? Getting results from LinkedIn, social media, and personal branding? Rocking the interview, negotiating the offer, and landing the job? Staying on a path to vibrant success in your first three months at a new job—and the rest of your lifeWhat Lights You Up? is an essential guide and roadmap for everyone and anyone seeking direction in their career journey. |
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82003. Negotiation: Harvard Business Essentials : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 Negotiation—whether brokering a deal, mediating a dispute, or writing up a contract—is both a necessary and challenging aspect of business life. This guide helps managers to sharpen their skills and become more effective deal makers in any situation. |
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82004. The Viking Code: The Art And Science Of Norwegian Success : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 Harness the power of Norwegian cultural wisdom to improve your life and change the worldIn The Viking Code: The Art and Science of Norwegian Success, economic philosopher, entrepreneur, investor, and former competitive athlete Anders Indset reveals how Norwegian performance athletes and other successful figures use ingrained cultural values to achieve outsized influence on the world stage, as well as how we all can learn from and apply this cultural wisdom to create a better world in the future. Moving far past stories of barbaric conquests and historical comparisons, this book explores concepts like Hvis du tror du er ferdig utlært, er du ikke utlært, men ferdig—a common trap where you assume you've learned everything there is to know and therefore make failure a near certainty.The author builds on classic sustainability concepts to explore the intersection of progress and capitalism, redefining growth to realize a future worth living. You'll learn to make conscious decisions to achieve the kind of realistic future you want to live in and experience a level of personal progress that is the essence of true success. Finally, you'll discover why and how the Viking Code teaches us all valuable lessons about business, politics, and education, and sheds light on why performance is both important and enjoyable. |
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82005. The Ultimate Guide To Responsible Franchising: Identifying And Investigating The Right Franchise To Maximize Your Rewards And : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 In The Ultimate Guide to Responsible Franchising, straight-shooting author Joe Mathews delivers a practical and hands-on how-to" guide for aspiring franchisees seeking to start their own businesses. In the book |
| 82006. The Info You Need To Know About Franchising Before You Start Looking For The Right Fit; Strategies For Properly And Fully Investigating A Franchise Opportunity In Your Area; And Techniques For Conducting Proper Diligence To Determine A Franchisor's Skills And Viability.perfect For Budding Entrepreneurs : AudiobooksNow and suppliers to franchise brands who want a better understanding and appreciation for how franchising works |
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82007. Hbr's 10 Must Reads 2025: The Definitive Management Ideas Of The Year From Harvard Business Review With Bonus Article Use St" : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 A year's worth of management wisdom, all in one place. We've reviewed the ideas, insights, and best practices from the past year of Harvard Business Review to keep you up to date on the most cutting-edge, influential thinking driving business today. With authors from Ginni Rometty to Robert I. Sutton and company examples from Maersk to Nvidia, this volume brings the most current and important management conversations right to your fingertips. This book will inspire you to:? Reskill your organization in the age of AI? Rid your company of the obstacles that infuriate everyone? Understand what today's rainmakers do differently? Market sustainable products effectively? Choose the right sources of demand to grow your company at the right speed? Use strategic thinking to create the life you want |
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82008. Leading Through: Activating The Soul, Heart, And Mind Of Leadership : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 Generative AI and the remote-work revolution show us every day that we're in a new era. The rules and norms have changed—and so must leadership.And yet, coercive bureaucracy, hierarchy, and control—old ways of thinking and working—are still with us, a deep-seated and powerful legacy. We are living through a profound transition from an old, industrial era to a new one that is digital, transparent, and complex. In Leading Through, the dynamic struggle between two competing paradigms of leadership is compellingly illustrated: an old paradigm that involves control and power over people versus a new one that enables and inspires power through people.With rich examples and stories, the authors show how deeply ingrained the legacy model of leadership remains and how destructive it is, causing waste and loss of human potential, stifling innovation, and ultimately resulting in what the authors call organizational darkness." They go on to articulate a new |
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82009. She-wolves: The Untold History Of Women On Wall Street : AudiobooksNow : USD12.49 In development with Mark Gordon PicturesThe propulsive story of the women who sought, and gained, a piece of the action on Wall Street.First came the secretaries from Brooklyn and Queens—the smart cookies" who learned on the job despite the obstacles. Then came the first Harvard Business School grads |
| 82010. Nails Persistence. Starting At A Time When "no Ladies" Signs Hung Across The Doors Of Wall Street's Clubs And Unapologetic Sexism And Racism Were The Norm At Top Firms : AudiobooksNow |
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82011. The Second Fifty: Answers To The 7 Big Questions Of Midlife And Beyond : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 Expert guidance for living a longer, healthier, more meaningful second half of life.Americans are now living decades longer than previous generations. These added years offer exciting possibilities but also raise crucial questions. In her groundbreaking book, Debra Whitman provides a roadmap for navigating, and celebrating, the second half of life. Drawing on compelling stories from her own family and people across the country, interviews with experts, and cutting-edge research, she shares insights on brain health, the contributions and concerns of an older workforce, caregiving, financing retirement, and more. Her findings are often surprising: Americans over fifty are a boon to—not a drain on—the economy. Dementia rates have actually been declining as more people achieve higher levels of education and adopt healthier lifestyles. And while we've long known that staying connected to others is critical to mental health, it turns out it is also linked to a stronger immune system, lower blood pressure, and a longer life.Whitman presents practical steps we can take to help create a better second fifty for ourselves. But we can't do it alone. Whitman also calls for urgently needed changes that would make it easier for every American to enjoy a vital and meaningful second half of life. |
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82012. The Why Is Everything: A Story Of Football, Rivalry, And Revolution : AudiobooksNow : USD12.49 When Kyle Shanahan became the NFL's youngest offensive coordinator in 2008, he had one prevailing rule: Tell me the why. If a colleague couldn't justify his position by providing the unassailable reasoning behind it, he was told to get the hell out of Shanahan's office. Shanahan and the members of his coaching tree—including Sean McVay, Mike McDaniel, Raheem Morris, and Matt LaFleur—came up in a sport where innovation was the exception, not the rule. There had been brilliant football minds before, from Paul Brown to Bill Walsh to Bill Belichick. But for the most part, coaches learned a particular system and stuck to it no matter what—no matter the players on their team, no matter what the opponent might do.This group of young coaches would change all that. The Why Is Everything is the story of old dogmas falling before astonishingly creative new strategies and game plans. Drawing on unmatched access across the league, longtime NFL reporter Mike Silver takes us into the key moments in this still-unfolding revolution. Less than a decade after their emergence, these men are the stars of their profession and have helped propel the NFL to new heights of viewership and drama. With The Why Is Everything, Silver reveals how it all happened, and in the process gives us a timeless account of friendship, rivalry, and the never-ending pursuit of perfection. |
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82013. Five Generations At Work: How We Win Together, For Good : AudiobooksNow : USD7.99 The definitive playbook for empowering intergenerational collaboration, innovation, and productivity at work.For the first time in history, we have up to five generations at work. In the context of a world in flux and polycrisis, our diversity is a powerful force multiplier for good, if we debunk the stereotypes and know how to unlock it.Get inspired by exclusive case studies and conversations written through the voices of five generations and four continents across global corporates, family businesses, education, and foundations, including Ahlström, The EY Foundation, The Financial Times, Hoffmann-La Roche, Imaginable Futures, LVMH, Liberty Global, MARS, Mission 44, The Oxford Character Project, St Gallen Symposium, The UNDP and Samsung, and more!? Borrow and build on inspiring work from intergenerational alliances and intrapreneurs, to next generations and future generations? Learn from case studies and solutions across diverse business contexts? Apply the mindset, skillset, and toolkits from work delivering shared value and sustainable impactFive Generations at Work is a transformative listen for all business leaders, people leaders, and CEOs. |
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82014. Sell Like A Spy: The Art Of Persuasion From The World Of Espionage : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 Tapping into the history of intelligence-gathering and his work with former agents of the CIA, FBI, and other federal departments, Jeremy Hurewitz offers field-tested spycraft strategies and government-agency tactics anyone can use to build relationships, persuade, and sell anything.Hurewitz has built his career around CIA case officers, FBI agents, and government officials—people like Steve Romano, former Chief Negotiator of the FBI; Mark Sullivan, former Director of the Secret Service; General Stanley McChrystal (Ret.), former Commander of the Joint Special Operations Command; and John Cipher, former member of the CIA's Senior Intelligence Service. Drawing on in-depth interviews about their skillsets, spy-world anecdotes, and science-backed principles of behavioral intelligence, Hurewitz has created a handbook of techniques that will strengthen your ability to connect, entice, and make deals—in business and everyday life.Though a spy's targets may be odious—terrorists, criminals, corrupt diplomats, and more—the agent's focus is on cultivating relationships and understanding motivations to gather information, free hostages, or procure money. Elicitation, Radical Empathy, and RPM (Rationalize, Project Blame, and Minimize Fault) are just a few methods in this persuasion playbook from the real world of international espionage. |
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82015. Becoming A Strategic Leader: Capitalize On The Power Of Your Personality : AudiobooksNow : USD7.99 This book shows senior leaders how to leverage their unique personalities as an essential resource to help guide their organizations. Conventional leadership coaching approaches focus primarily on personal change, exploring the qualities that define successful leaders. But to truly play transformative and visionary roles within their organizations, C-suite and other senior leaders must accurately gauge their own strengths and weaknesses, and learn to identify and address the shadow side" of their personality traits.This book offers a unique model for strategic leadership by encouraging leaders to think carefully about their personal leadership styles. The authors show listeners how to use t |
| 82016. Heir Big Five Personality Profiles To Identify Their Unique Personality Strengths : AudiobooksNow and establishing best practices for planning and leadership in the workplace." |
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82017. Leading Successful Change, Revised And Updated Edition: 8 Keys To Making Change Work : AudiobooksNow : USD5.49 When Jack Dorsey returned to Twitter as CEO in 2015, the company was in trouble. But unlike so many other social media platforms that have crumbled under tough conditions, Twitter is still alive—and thriving.How did Twitter turn itself around in one of the most turbulent and competitive industries? The change management approach of authors Gregory P. Shea and Cassie A. Solomon guided a significant area of the organization's turnaround effort.In this revised and updated edition of Leading Successful Change, Shea and Solomon share success stories from a host of companies including Twitter, Viacom, and the Conference of State Bank Supervisors, offering a tested method for leading successful change, which they have developed over a combined fifty years of helping organizations do just that.In Leading Successful Change, Shea and Solomon share: why most change efforts fail; the two key tenets for making successful change; how to create a scene that will provide a vision of the future; the 8 Levers of Change, a tried-and-true method for designing the work environment to support the changes; and how winning companies—from IKEA to Whirlpool—are successfully implementing change. |
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82018. Trailblazers, Heroes, And Crooks: Stories To Make You A Smarter Investor : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 Trailblazers, Heroes, and Crooks: Stories to Make You a Smarter Investor is a highly entertaining and insightful look into key stories from history, teaching lessons about sound principles of investing, and controlling emotions and bias when managing your investment portfolio to help you become a stronger, more intelligent investor. Written by author and finance professor Stephen R. Foerster, this book spans from before the Middle Ages to the 2020s.Some of the stories in this book include:? Cristiano Ronaldo taking two bottles of Coke off a table at a press conference, and ostensibly causing Coca-Cola's stock value to plunge $4 billion? Harry Markopolos trying to develop a strategy similar to Bernie Madoff's, realizing his strategy was bogus, and spending a decade proving his case? A salad oil swindle almost destroying American Express, prompting Warren Buffett to make one of the best stock investments everFor both experienced and novice investors, Trailblazers, Heroes, and Crooks is a fun, accessible, and informative guide that through history shows, not tells, you how to develop an investment philosophy of guiding principles, and become a better investor. |
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82019. Let It Settle: Daily Habits To Move You From Chaos To Calm : AudiobooksNow : USD7.99 In Let It Settle, veteran professional coach and mindfulness leader Michael Galyon delivers a calm space you can call upon when faced with moments of unrest and overwhelm. The book offers insights into your experiences and emotions that confirm you do not face life alone and provides you with tools and guided meditations you can use to navigate through your experiences to a centered space from which healing is possible.In the book, you'll find a series of consequential moments that commonly induce stress, worry, overwhelm, anxiety, and fear. Each section highlights a step on the path from unsettled to settled—like finding calm, coming home to yourself, and honoring connection—and walks you through the mindfulness-based tools, daily habits, and guided meditations that will help move you through life's most challenging moments and take you from chaos to calm.You'll also find:? Experiential learning techniques that rely on proven methods you can put into daily practice? A safe space you can go when the time is right for you to begin addressing the issues affecting you? A source of validation that confirms the value of your emotions and experiences |
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82020. Digital Wellbeing: Empowering Connection With Wonder And Imagination In The Age Of Ai : AudiobooksNow : USD12.49 Digital Wellbeing is a transformative guide that offers leaders, business professionals, educators, and lifelong learners a path to thrive in the digital age. Krause provides innovative strategies to enhance mindfulness, creativity, and wellbeing in a world enriched by technology. This book empowers listeners to leverage digital tools to create meaningful, positive connections and improve their overall quality of life. Discover how to integrate principles of wonder, awe, creativity, and imagination with cutting-edge technology to achieve a balanced and fulfilling digital experience.? Learn about frameworks for digital wellbeing and how to apply them effectively? Gain insights on using technology to enhance connection and a sense of belonging? Explore the impact of spatial computing, immersive imagination, virtual reality, and AI on wellbeing? Access actionable strategies for leaders, educators, and individuals to excel digitally? Learn how tech usage can be more intentional and less reactionary? And more |
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82021. Ridiculously Easy To Do Business With: A Practical Guide To Giving Customers What They Want--when And How They Want It : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 To future-proof your business, you need to do more than merely offer high-quality and great service. You need to become Ridiculously Easy to Do Business With. This practical guide offers over two dozen categories of policies and behaviors that cause friction" (frustration) for your customers and clients. If left unaddressed |
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82023. Learning Systems Thinking: Essential Non-linear Skills And Practices For Software Professionals : AudiobooksNow : USD12.49 A decade ago, developers built information-sharing software by writing a lot of custom code in a single code base, then adding layers of caching. Now we build information systems: interdependent software and services, data platforms, and event streams. Many of our software-to-systems initiatives fail, though, and when they do, we double down on traditional linear approaches. But linear thinking cannot resolve systems challenges. We need to shift to systems thinking.This book shows software developers and architects how systems thinking can guide you through the emerging complexity of modern systems. Author Diana Montalion presents a vision of technology architecture that transforms how we learn, communicate, and collaborate with others. Through practical examples and scenarios, you'll learn how to develop critical self-reflection and decision-making skills amid complexity and uncertainty—and lead impactful cultural change within your organization.You'll learn how linear thinking limits your perspective on software systems; the obstacles to changing your perspective and how to move past them; how systems and nonlinear thinking help you understand and navigate complex issues arising from internal and external factors; how to provide a modern style of leadership as software becomes information systems; and much more. |
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82024. The Mac & Cheese Millionaire: Building A Better Business By Thinking Outside The Box : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 In The Mac & Cheese Millionaire: Building a Better Business by Thinking Outside the Box, bestselling author, entrepreneur, and culinary innovator Erin Wade shares her inspiring and often hilarious journey of leaving her corporate lawyer job to open a hit mac and cheese restaurant, taking you through the challenges and victories that paved her path to success. By sharing the lessons that helped her sell millions of dollars in cheesy carbs, she delivers the tools you need to create change and surpass all your expectations.This book isn't just a personal narrative; it's a masterclass in redefining what it means to love your work. Because while her journey started out of a love of mac and cheese, Wade found that what she ultimately fell in love with—was business. What follows is the story of starting a small business, all of the ensuing trials and tribulations, and ultimately building a unique, feminist work culture that helped transform the restaurant industry.You'll also find funny and inspiring personal anecdotes that illustrate the power of tapping into your own singular brand of leadership; strategies for creating a one-of-a-kind work culture based on greater meaning, purpose, and connection; and tools to embrace a feminine leadership style that offer an enduring competitive advantage to entrepreneurs. |
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82025. Myth Of Money: Breaking Out Of The Failing Financial System : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 Uncover the contemporary inner workings of finance, crypto, tech, and financeIn The Myth of Money, renowned finance, crypto, and economics thought leader Tatiana Koffman delivers an insightful and informative take on the past, present, and future of money, and the rise of crypto as a transformative force in the financial world.Koffman has witnessed multiple financial collapses firsthand—beginning with the fall of the USSR, when her family lost everything, followed by the subprime mortgage crisis that marked the start of her new career, and then the economic fallout of COVID-19. As Bitcoin gains its footing globally, she has observed its meteoric rise and catastrophic falls with a keen understanding that these are early steps of a system poised to redefine finance.Navigating her way from traditional finance and into the realms of venture capital, crypto, and digital assets, as she writes about fintech, Koffman's journey takes us from the Soviet Union to Canada, to Bitcoin Beach in El Salvador, to Lebanon, Dubai, Africa, Necker Island, and back to the States. Along the way, she shares hard-earned lessons about the myths surrounding money, even those emerging in the new digital era. |
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82026. Book Yourself Solid For Coaches And Consultants: The Fastest, Easiest, Most Reliable System For Getting More Clients Than You : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 Book Yourself Solid for Coaches and Consultants is a game changing guide to attracting potential business opportunities and turning them into high-paying gigs, for a solid business foundation. This hyper-targeted, step-by-step advice will help you grow your coaching or consulting practice beyond what you previously thought possible. You'll become inspired to put energy behind your self-promotion practices—even if self-promotion isn't really your thing. In any service business, it's essential to connect with the clients who are a perfect fit for you. For consultants, that means making your marketing efforts more effective by understanding your unique brand, pricing your services competitively, and communicating with prospective clients about how you can help them. This book helps you through all of it, with practical tips and strategic insights to ensure that you're never short on the right kind of clients.Coauthored by Michael Port (mastermind behind the original Book Yourself Solid business techniques) and Matthew Kimberley (successful business consultant), Book Yourself Solid for Coaches and Consultants covers the issues unique to the world of coaching. By attracting clients who are in alignment with your vision, you can create a successful business that also helps you achieve your long-term goals. |
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82027. Pushback: How Smart Women Ask - And Stand Up - For What They Want, 2nd Edition : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 In Pushback: How Smart Women Ask—and Stand Up—for What They Want, top leadership consultant Selena Rezvani reveals how women can secure promotion opportunities, plum assignments, and higher pay by standing their ground and pushing back for what's rightfully theirs. This revised and expanded version features interviews from dozens of executive leaders, including Darla Price, President of Ogilvy New York, Jen Fisher, Chief Well-being Officer at Deloitte, and Jayshree Seth, Chief Science Advocate and Corporate Scientist at 3M.Rezvani also shares exclusive data highlights from hundreds of professional women across industries, sourced from over five years of online surveys, to reveal startling findings on confidence, self-advocacy, and negotiation. In this book, listeners will learn a reliable and methodical approach to navigating tough conversations; the effect of intersectionality, bias, and internalization of these experiences on workplace negotiations; and how professional women can activate internal and external networks to support their negotiations and proposals—and instill confidence in those they mentor.Pushback offers listeners looking to accelerate their career paths the unedited truth about how women have advocated their way to the top and triumphed—and how you can, too. |
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82028. Proximity: How Coming Breakthroughs In Just-in-time Transform Business, Society, And Daily Life : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 What if you could have whatever you want, produced and provided immediately and affordably no matter how customized—with minimal environmental impact? Products, services, and experiences on demand. Just-in-time anything, anywhere, anytime. This radical change is underway, as digital technologies push the production and provision of value ever closer to the moment of demand.Robert C. Wolcott and Kaihan Krippendorff provide an indispensable guide to the Proximity revolution, showing how it's transforming every industry—and our lives. Offering unparalleled foresight for leaders and innovators, they reveal how pervasive this trend will be. Proximity represents an entirely new way to serve customers, with critical implications for corporate strategy, investing, public policy, supply chain resilience, and sustainability. Incremental changes to existing business models won't suffice.Through interviews and compelling examples, Proximity shares stories of the people and companies leading the way. The book places rapidly advancing technologies in context and explores the factors accelerating the transformation. Proximity offers a playbook for business leaders, investors, and entrepreneurs to win this rapidly emerging game—and for each of us to consider the implications for our careers, families, communities, and lives. |
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82029. Irreplaceable: The Art Of Standing Out In The Age Of Artificial Intelligence : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 Pascal Bornet, an award-winning AI expert, former McKinsey executive, and Top Voice in Technology with over 1 million LinkedIn followers, unveils the ultimate guide for working, living, and leading organizations in a rapidly changing, AI-driven world.With over twenty years of pioneering research at the human-AI intersection, Bornet reveals the secrets to living in harmony with AI while cultivating uniquely human qualities. He introduces the Three Competencies of the Future that we need to develop urgently to thrive in our new world.In IRREPLACEABLE, you will discover techniques to boost your career using AI—without losing your job to automation; secrets to unlocking your uniquely human abilities—ones AI can never replicate; counterintuitive methods to raise Future-ready children; strategies to avoid falling into the AI Obesity" trap; and blueprints for leveraging AI to turn your company into an unstoppable force of innovation.Whether you're an individual looking to future-proof your career |
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82030. Trading Composure: Mastering Your Mind For Trading Success : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 Unlock consistent trading success with the power of Trading Composure!Embark on a transformative journey with Trading Composure: Mastering Your Mind for Trading Success. Supported by paradigm-shifting exercises, case studies, and personal anecdotes from successful career trader and trading psychology coach Yvan Byeajee, listeners will learn how to befriend uncertainty and build a trading psychology edge amidst the market's dynamic dance. Whether you're a newbie trader or a seasoned one, this insightful guide will reshape your trading perspective and help you deliver tangible results.Highlights of the Book:? Embracing Uncertainty: Learn what uncertainty is, how and why it manifests, and how to turn it to your advantage.? The Emotional Edge: Gain a comprehensive understanding of your mental landscape and cultivate a trading psychology that thrives amidst trading's challenges.? Discover the Winner's Traits: Uncover why some traders strike gold while others falter, and position yourself in the winning camp.? Experiential Learning: Engage with paradigm-shifting exercises, candid anecdotes, and real-life case studies that illuminate the path to trading consistency. |
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82031. The Art Of Changing Course: A 3-step Strategy To Get Unstuck And Solve Your Real Problems : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 Getting stuck in life is a guarantee. Staying stuck is a choice. In The Art of Changing Course, amputee, diabetic record-holding powerlifter, and renowned motivational speaker and author Chris Ruden provides a clear-cut process that walks listeners through digestible, actionable stages to get unstuck, allowing you to rise beyond simple awareness of the desire to change and become the person you truly want to be. Backed by numerous psychological principles, management techniques, and organizational change theories, The Art of Changing Course focuses on helping listeners make three distinct shifts: from subconscious to conscious, conscious to communicated, and finally, communicated to broadcasted.In this book, you'll learn about: moving past your go-to reactions of excuses and distractions when thinking about change; harnessing the language of how you speak to yourself to open up possibilities for change; and giving yourself intrinsic permission to become the best version of yourself.People are stuck, lost, and confused—you, the people you care about, and strangers you interact with in your day-to-day life. The Art of Changing Course will give you the tools to actually do something about it. It will help you move from overwhelm to action, transforming from hopeless, scared, and stuck into confident, actionable, and limitless. |
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82032. The Elements Of Negotiation: 103 Tactics For Everyone To Win In Each Deal : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 Comprehensive guide to mastering negotiation, based on twenty-four years of researchThe Elements of Negotiation provides listeners with an easy-to-follow step-by-step approach to becoming exceptional negotiators in both their professional and personal lives. Grounded in twenty-four years of extensive research, studying the habits and techniques of 35,000 individual negotiators, the 103 steps provide a detailed roadmap for negotiation excellence, covering preparation, execution, and post-negotiation analysis.Backed by tested science proving the tips' efficacy, The Elements of Negotiation explores a wealth of real-world case studies and examples, with trends and predictions into the future of negotiation, and additional resources and training programs to further improve your negotiation skills. In this book, you'll learn:? How to prepare for negotiations to achieve superior financial outcomes? What to say—and not say—during any negotiation, big or small? How successful negotiators achieve positive outcomes for both parties? Why successful negotiators are usually successful in both their personal and professional lives |
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82033. The Servant: A Simple Story About The True Essence Of Leadership : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 With an introduction on using the principles of The Servant in your life and career, this book redefines what it means to be a leader.In this absorbing tale, you watch the timeless principles of servant leadership unfold through the story of John Daily, a businessman whose outwardly successful life is spiraling out of control. He is failing miserably in each of his leadership roles as boss, husband, father, and coach. To get his life back on track, he reluctantly attends a week-long leadership retreat at a remote Benedictine monastery.To John's surprise, the monk leading the seminar is a former business executive and Wall Street legend. Taking John under his wing, the monk guides him to a realization that is simple yet profound: The true foundation of leadership is not power, but authority, which is built upon relationships, love, service, and sacrifice.Along with John, you will learn that the principles in this book are neither new nor complex. They don't demand special talents; they are simply based on strengthening the bonds of respect, responsibility, and caring with the people around you. The Servant's message can be applied by anyone, anywhere—at home or at work. |
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82034. Chocolate Covered Money: Secrets Of The Marketing Genius Who Built The World's Most Successful Chocolate Brands : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 The story of the man behind some of the world's biggest chocolate empires.Chocolate Covered Money is for anyone who eats chocolate, has shopped for chocolate as a gift, or has wondered what really goes on at the chocolate store in a mall near you." Chocolate is a big business |
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82036. A New Age Of Reason: Harnessing The Power Of Tech For Good : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 A New Age of Reason: Harnessing the Power of Tech for Good provides a roadmap for integrating emerging world-changing technologies, such as AI/robotics, chips/sensors, and quantum computing, to solve some of today's thorniest and most pressing problems like climate change and world hunger.The author offers inspiring examples of companies using technology to positively impact humanity. The book provides an actionable playbook to transform your organization around this mission, including how to develop a tech for good strategy, how to evolve the C-Suite to deliver on this mission and how to market it, as well as measure outcomes. The author also discusses the latest technology breakthroughs delivering positive world outcomes, such as extending a surgeon's eyes and hands" via robotics surgical systems to improve patient outcomes; computer vision tech that enables farmers to maximize crops to feed our burgeoning population; and AI/robotics that identify and fight wildfires.Bringing together a collective of major thinkers on this subject and providing guidance for a better future |
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82037. The Ethical Imperative: Leading With Conscience To Shape The Future Of Business : AudiobooksNow : USD12.49 In an era marked by increasing profiteering and inequality, The Ethical Imperative offers a compelling alternative vision—one where companies champion the collective prosperity of employees, shareholders, and communities. Andrew C. M. Cooper, a distinguished executive, leverages over twenty academic studies and fifty years of research to challenge the status quo. He exposes the critical threat of public disengagement from businesses and institutions, urging a departure from outdated, profit-only models that harm corporations, consumers, and communities alike.You'll find:? Five strategies you can employ to transform your organization into a beacon of trust and social responsibility? Techniques for navigating the age of social media and creating an authentic brand? Actionable tools to help your organization move beyond exclusively short-term profit-driven models of growthPacked with engaging stories, practical tools, and insights from a seasoned leader determined to revolutionize corporate culture, this book is an essential resource for business managers, executives, entrepreneurs, and anyone aspiring to infuse their commercial endeavors with ethical principles. |
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82038. The Shareholder Action Guide: Unleash Your Hidden Powers To Hold Corporations Accountable : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 Most individual shareholders do not realize that if they own as little as $2,000 worth of stock in a corporation they can challenge its destructive practices just like big institutional investors do. Andy Behar provides an accessible handbook that shows exactly how it's done.Corporations are the most powerful entities on the planet. Unfortunately, many have had a long record of unprecedented and unbridled environmental degradation, social transgressions, and governance secrecy. Since by law they are beholden to their shareholders, some philanthropic trusts, pension funds, and other institutional investors have used shareholder advocacy to press for changes in corporate policy. But individual investors have largely been silent, thinking themselves powerless. They're not!The Shareholder Action Guide is designed to inform, inspire, and instruct investors in how to exercise their power to effect meaningful change on critical issues including climate change, food toxicity, executive compensation, worker's rights, sustainability, and much more. Owners of as little as $2,000 worth of stock in a publicly traded corporation have the power to be heard. This book is a call to action designed to build a movement of active investors. Behar shows investors exactly how to stop abdicating their power and own what they own."" |
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82039. When Money Talks: The High Price Offree" Speech And The Selling Of Democracy" : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 We're no longer conducting elections, we're holding auctions. Longtime activist and former political candidate Derek Cressman shows how we can return free speech to the people, not the biggest bankroll.Now that the Supreme Court has equated money with speech and thrown out campaign spending limits, Americans want to know what they can do about it. Derek Cressman gives them the tools, both ideological and tactical, to fight back.Cressman points out that there's nothing inherently unconstitutional in limiting speech. We do it all the time-for example, cities control when and where demonstrations can take place, or how long people can speak at council meetings. More importantly, he argues that while you choose to patronize Fox News, MSNBC, The New York Times, or the Wall Street Journal when they exercise their free speech rights, political advertising is forced upon you. It's paid speech-not at all what the Founders had in mind when they wrote the First Amendment.Cressman looks at why attempts to limit paid political speech have failed so far, what a constitutional amendment limiting paid speech should say, and explains how citizens can use an overlooked political tool to help gain its passage. Seven times in our history we've passed constitutional amendments to overturn wrongheaded rulings by the Court-there's no reason we can't do it again. |
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82040. Change Your Questions, Change Your Life, 3rd Edition: 12 Powerful Tools For Leadership, Coaching, And Life : AudiobooksNow : USD7.99 What questions lead to our biggest breakthroughs and successes? In this new and revised third edition, Marilee Adams describes how questions shape our thinking and how personal and organizational problems can often be traced to the kinds of questions we ask.Change Your Questions, Change Your Life is a worldwide, word-of-mouth bestseller. Readers have said they personally experienced life-changing benefits by learning to ask the right questions-ones that empowered them rather than got in their way. Through a compelling story Marilee Adams shows that, in any situation, we can ask Judger" questions that impede our progress and keep us fr |
| 82041. Om Getting Results We Want. Or We Can Ask "learner" Questions That Open Us To Growth : AudiobooksNow and has added two powerful new tools that show how working with the Judger/Learner mindset can dramatically improve coaching and leadership. This entertaining |
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82042. Building The Future: Big Teaming For Audacious Innovation : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 Innovation within an organization is no longer sufficient; in a growing number of businesses, collaboration between companies and even industries is critical to success. A respected Harvard professor and a journalist team up to show how one creative startup exemplifies this new, intensely interactive form of leadership.Niccolò Machiavelli famously wrote: There is nothing more difficult to take in hand |
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82043. From Crisis To Calling: Finding Your Moral Center In The Toughest Decisions : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 We often feel leaders must be detached and aloof, but Sasha Chanoff explains how he became a better leader--and saved lives--when he chose empathy and altruism. Through his extraordinary story and the stories of other brave leaders, Sasha inspires all leaders to be guided by their deepest moral values.We may never know when or where our calling as leaders will be revealed and put to the test. The decisions we make when faced with a crisis may shape our purpose for the rest of our lives. Sasha Chanoff here expands on his own story, first recounted on The Moth podcast as An Impossible Choice." Charged with evacuating a specific number of refugees |
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82045. The Serving Leader, 2nd Edition: Five Powerful Actions To Transform Your Team, Business, And Community : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 This long awaited 2nd edition of a classic title expands and deepens the story of Mike Wilson, an unlikely servant leader.At a time of increasing concern about ethics at the top, The Serving Leader makes the case for an approach to leadership that is both more moral and more effective than the ruthless, anything-for-the-bottom-line approach that has brought disgrace-and often ruin- to many once-mighty organizations. Serving leaders" lead by serving others |
| 82046. And Why.while Ken Jennings And John Stahl-wert Use A Parable To Outline The Basics Of Servant Leadership : AudiobooksNow and a new chapter checking back in with Mike |
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82047. How Performance Management Is Killing Performanceand What To Do About It: Rethink, Redesign, Reboot : AudiobooksNow : USD7.99 Performance reviews don't work--they demotivate and drag performance. Chandler presents the answer with the Performance Management Reboot process, an employee-driven solution that powers people up.Most people associate performance management with the annual performance review, which is universally dreaded by employees and HR alike. No evidence exists that such reviews do anything to improve performance, and yet they endure. Tamra Chandler wants to replace them with something that actually works.This means more than just a little tweaking. As Chandler explains in vivid detail, the present process is completely broken and outdated. It's a cookie-cutter, fear-based, top-down approach that emphasizes negatives over positives, pits people and departments against each other, and has never motivated anyone to do anything but try to avoid it.Her alternative, the Performance Management Reboot, is designed for the way people actually work today, and is grounded in the latest scientific findings about motivation. It's a customized, transparent, employee-driven process that values collaboration over competition, and rewards people for acquiring new skills and increasing their contribution instead of hitting some arbitrary benchmarks.Chandler's illustrated guide cracks the code to building high performance and engaged employees, while optimizing performance management for today's increasingly connected, volatile, and multi-generational business world. |
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82048. Doing The Right Things Right: How The Effective Executive Spends Time : AudiobooksNow : USD7.99 Laura Stack, aka The Productivity Pro(r), offers an up-to-date guide packed with advice to help busy executives make sure they are both efficient and effectiveInspired by Peter Drucker's classic The Effective Executive, Laura Stack offers a productivity bible for the 21st century. She focuses on time management strategies today's executives can use to quickly obtain profitable, productive results by managing the intersection between two critical values: effectiveness and efficiency.Effectiveness, Stack says, is identifying and achieving the best objectives for your organization-doing the right things. Efficiency is accomplishing them with the least time, effort, and cost possible-doing things right. If you're not clear on both, you're wasting your time. As Drucker put it, There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all."Stack identifies twelve practices that will enable executives to be effective and efficient |
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82049. The Multicultural Mind: Unleashing The Hidden Force For Innovation In Your Organization : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 Organizations need innovation, and there is a source right under their noses. Research has shown that people with multiple cultural experiences have higher levels of creativity-David Thomas shows how to create a workplace in which multiculturals can thrive and everyone can benefit from their insights.In today's rapidly evolving business world continual innovation is now a must. Scholar and consultant David C. Thomas says the same forces of globalization that have created today's superheated competitive environment have also provided a potential hidden advantage: the multiculturals in your midst.Thomas cites ample research and examples showing that people who have experienced more than one culture are more creative that those with more limited experience. Multiculturals have a broader worldview. Having to integrate different cultural values forces them to develop more complex ways of thinking and makes them better able to see new patterns and connections. Their heightened empathy, the result of learning to adapt to sometimes wildly different cultures, helps them build support for their ideas and work effectively on the teams that implement them.This book makes a powerful business case for recognizing and cultivating a new dimension of diversity. Thomas looks at how different people express their multicultural identities and how to establish the organizational conditions under which multiculturals can flourish, And he shows how even the most monocultural among us can develop the characteristics of a multicultural mind. |
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82050. Mastering The New Media Landscape: Embrace The Micromedia Mindset : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 In days past people got the world's attention by winning over the gatekeepers of big media. But the Internet has changed everything- Barbara Cave Henricks and Rusty Shelton show you how to make your voice heard in this brave new world.The world of mass media, in which a few, prime national outlets controlled the messages we all see and hear, has largely vanished. The giant boulders you once had to move to get coverage-Oprah, The New York Times, CNN-have been smashed by the Internet, supplanted (but not entirely replaced) by scores of pebbles: the web sites, social media, blogs, podcasts and more that ace publicists Barbara Cave Henricks and Rusty Shelton call micromedia. They're a lot easier to move-you can even become one of them-but you have to know how.With so much competition for attention, anyone with a story to tell these days needs to think more like a media executive than a marketer-you're not selling yourself, you're making yourself valuable. Henricks and Shelton show how you can use micromedia to build a compelling direct channel to your audience that you own and control. They offer tips for making the best use of prime micromedia sites controlled by influential companies or powerful influencers like LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, YouTube, and the top blogs, podcasts, and video hubs your audience visits. And they explain how micromedia success can help you get the attention of the still powerful remnants of the mass media. |
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82051. Shakti Leadership: Embracing Feminine And Masculine Power In Business : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 The current model of leadership isn't working for the planet because business has diminished values and outlooks that are traditionally thought of as feminine. Seeking to reclaim feminine power and restore balance for both women and men, this book charts a new path based on timeless Indian wisdom.Our current one-sided notion of a leader's power is a root cause of a host of contemporary problems, including social breakdown, environmental degradation, an epidemic of depression, and corruption in business and government. Whether we are male or female, we have been trained to value leadership qualities that are traditionally thought of as masculine: hierarchical, individualistic, militaristic. Reaching into ancient spiritual and mythical teachings, the authors revive a feminine archetype of leadership: generative, cooperative, creative, empathetic. In the Indian yogic tradition, these qualities are associated with Shakti, the source of creation, sustenance and transformation that powers the cycle of life. Bhat and Sisodia seek to restore a long-lost balance, for men and women alike, of masculine and feminine energies. All leaders should learn to value and understand Shakti Leadership |
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82052. Entrepreneurs In Every Generation: How Successful Family Businesses Develop Their Next Leaders : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 Many family firms fail because the entrepreneurial spirit that drove the first generation isn't nurtured and developed in the generations that follow. Sharma and Cohen show how any family firm can create a company of founders."Companies that are owned and run by families need to develop leadership and entrepreneurial skills just like any other company |
| 82053. Cific Education : AudiobooksNow death and divorces |
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82054. Breaking The Trust Barrier: How Leaders Close The Gaps For High Performance : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 All team leaders worry and wonder about improving team performance. Using his experience leading the precision Thunderbirds aerobatic team, Venable shows that closing the gaps" is the job of leaders and followers alike.As a pilot |
| 82055. G Resistance. But If The Team Is Misaligned : AudiobooksNow team members move quickly to "close the gaps" and take on more of the load. This allows leaders to focus less on giving orders |
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82056. The 3 Gaps: Are You Making A Difference? : AudiobooksNow : USD5.49 In a world of persistent and often overwhelming chaos, this book makes one simple promise: If you close the gaps in the three areas of your life, you will achieve fulfillment, success, and inner peace.We all ask ourselves the question, Has my life made a difference?" We want our lives to have meaning. We want to live balanced |
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82058. Collaborating With The Enemy: How To Work With People You Dont Agree With Or Like Or Trust : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 International consultant Adam Kahane teaches us how to work with people whom we might not like or trust. He explains how flexibility and improvisation can lead to what he calls stretch collaboration." He outlines the five misunderstandings that keep people from effectively collaborating with "those people" and shows readers how they can successfully engage with positive results instead.As our societies have become more complex and globalized and our organizations flatter and less hierarchical |
| 82059. Rate With People We Don't Agree With Or Like Or Trust. But We've Got No Choice. We Have To Learn To Work With People We Might Actually Have Come To Think Of As "the Enemy."international Consultant Adam Kahane : AudiobooksNow everything we think we know about what makes collaboration work is wrong. The neat black-and-white thinking that underlies conventional collaboration-us/them |
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82060. Pacing For Growth: Why Intelligent Restraint Drives Long-term Success : AudiobooksNow : USD7.99 Relentless speed and unconstrained activity are not necessary for growth-you need only look to companies like Enron, Pets.com, and Groupon to see that fast" does not always mean "good." Leading growth consultant Alison Eyring provides a different view on growth |
| 82061. Trained Racehorse In The Home Stretch.so What Is The Right Pace For Steady : AudiobooksNow |
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82062. Lean Startups For Social Change: The Revolutionary Path To Big Impact : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 The Lean Startup concept has revolutionized the way businesses are developed. Now Michel Gelobter applies this powerful concept to the social sector.In business, the lean start-up movement is turning the traditional approach to innovation on its head. Rather than developing an elaborate plan, raising money to fund it, and then following it to its uncertain conclusion-a process that can take years-entrepreneurs in companies new and old are launching small inexpensive initiatives to test ideas, quickly learning from failures and successes, and using that data to further refine the ideas and test them again. Social entrepreneur Michel Gelobter says there's no reason the social sector can't do the same.Gelobter goes through the lean startup process step by step, showing exactly how nonprofits and advocacy organizations can adapt it to increase their impact. He uses dozens of real-world examples: a homelessness group that discovered the one metric they needed to improve to get more people off the streets; a technology-based literacy startup that was able to reach two million children in two years, when it took a more traditionally-oriented program fifteen; and many others. From the glimmer of an idea to make the world a better place to deep reform in the heart of the world's largest government and non-profit bureaucracies, Michel Gelobter shows how the lean start-up can drive a revolution in policy and social change. |
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82063. Fiercely You: Be Fabulous And Confident By Thinking Like A Drag Queen : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 Who are some of the most confident, fabulous people on the planet? Drag queens-and Jackie Huba wants to teach you how to channel the courage and confidence of drag in your personal and professional lives.We all want to be fabulous. But too often we let self-doubt derail us from pursuing our passions and accomplishing our biggest goals. This was the situation Jackie Huba found herself in. At the lowest point in her life she serendipitously stumbled upon the wonderful world of drag queens, and to her surprise, she found them inspiring and energizing. They were supremely confident, utterly fearless, strong, powerful, and unabashedly and completely themselves-no apologies, no compromises. So she immersed herself in the world of drag, eventually becoming a female drag queen herself aka Lady Trinity.Fiercely You is a creative, playful approach to the serious problems that women face regarding confidence and risk-taking. Drawing on her own experiences and interviews with the world's top drag queens, Huba offers five keys to the Queendom that will help readers ignore criticism and live life more fearlessly. This is not a guide to drag, it's a guide to life-but in a sense, all life is drag. As RuPaul, the most famous drag queen in the world, herself says, We're born naked |
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82064. A Leadership Kick In The Ass: How To Learn From Rough Landings, Blunders, And Missteps : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 Bill Treasurer's book starts with an immovable truth: sooner or later, everyone fails at leading, especially when new at it. When it happens, Treasurer calls it a leadership kick in the ass." But fear not |
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82066. The Ecology Of Law: Toward A Legal System In Tune With Nature And Community : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 Bestselling author Fritjof Capra partners with distinguished legal scholar Ugo Mattei to reveal that our legal system must catch up with the current scientific under-standing of the world if it is to contribute to solving the great crises of our times.At the root of many of the environmental, economic, and social crises we face today is a legal system based on an outdated and ultimately destructive worldview. In this groundbreaking book, bestselling author, physicist, and systems theorist Fritjof Capra and distinguished legal scholar Ugo Mattei show how, by incorporating concepts from modern science, the law can be updated to reflect a more accurate view of how the world works and become a progressive force.Capra and Mattei trace the fascinating parallel history of law and science to show how the two disciplines have always influenced each other-until recently. Science now sees the world as being made up of interconnected networks. But law is stuck in a mechanistic, 17th century paradigm that views the world as discrete individual parts. This has led to a disregard for the health of the whole-for example, elevating the rights of individual property owners over the good of the community. But Capra and Mattei outline the basic concepts and structures of a legal order consistent with the ecological principles that sustain life on this planet. |
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82067. Work Reimagined: Uncover Your Calling : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 The much-anticipated sequel to the bestselling Life Reimagined (over 40,000 copies sold), this new guide to finding one's calling at work applies to all ages and stages of life.The speed, scope, and turbulence of the working world has increased exponentially over the last decade-plus. Work hours are steadily increasing, and people's work lives now extend far past 65. With so much time spent on the job, it's more important than ever to find work that makes the most of your unique gifts, interests, and passions-to discover your true calling. That's exactly what bestselling authors Richard Leider and David Shapiro help you do in Work Reimagined.The authors combine a thoughtful and practical discussion about finding your calling with advice and examples showing how to apply these ideas to your life. Through a unique Calling Card exercise-available online-that features a guided exploration of 52 natural preferences" (such as Advancing Ideas |
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82068. Lead More, Control Less: 8 Advanced Leadership Skills That Overturn Convention : AudiobooksNow : USD5.49 Leading experts Marvin Weisbord and Sandra Janoff describe eight highly effective leadership skills that confound conventional views-you can be a more effective leader if you give up trying to change or control people.Leadership experts Marvin Weisbord and Sandra Janoff make a bold claim: contrary to conventional management theory, you actually gain more control when you exert less pressure on those you lead-which also means less stress for you.Working with people all over the world, Weisbord and Janoff realized that leaders trying to tell their people what to do, the traditional approach, wasn't' working. It was far more effective for leaders to nurture and guide people's ability to lead and control themselves. Over time, they developed three alternative principles which form the foundation of this book: 1) Have people build on their own experiences instead of pushing for yours; 2) Set things up so that people coordinate and control their own work rather that you doing it for them; and 3) Change the conditions under which people interact rather than try to change the people.This book describes eight essential leadership skills that put these principles into practice. It shows leaders how to let go of the unrealistic demands that they put on themselves and the far-fetched expectations that others place on them. Leaders will discover how to wear authority lightly and control less while leading more. |
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82069. Invisible Martyrs: Inside The Secret World Of Female Islamic Radicals : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 This is an extraordinary book, written by an extraordinary woman. Qazi is a master storyteller, capturing the emotion as well as the subtleties of what she wants to communicate. And as the first Islamic member of the U.S. Counterterrorism Center, there is a lot that she wants to tell readers about.-Anna Jedrziewski, Retailing InsightWhy would a girl from Denver join ISIS, a radical movement known for its mistreatment of women? Why would a teenage Iraqi girl strap on a suicide bomb and detonate it? Farhana Qazi, the first Muslim woman to work for the U.S. government's Counterterrorism Center, has been fascinated, even obsessed, by this phenomena for over a decade and has circled the globe searching for answers. What she has found are women, sometimes confused, sometimes taken advantage of, and sometimes as radical and dedicated as their male counterparts, women whose stories she tells. Here is the book that reframes the story so readers can see the female terrorists as they are- ordinary women co-opted by radical men, other extremist women, or motivated by their own experience of oppression. The untold story of the women of these movements is important to understand and recognize if the world hopes to contain the expansion of these ever present threats. |
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82070. Online Marketing For Busy Authors: A Step-by-step Guide : AudiobooksNow : USD5.49 By now most authors know they need to market their book online, but many of them have no idea where or how to start. This concise expert's guide to marketing books online-by a woman whose company has been doing it since 1995-helps authors focus their efforts on what really matters. Authors know they need to market their book online these days, but it can feel overwhelming. Now, on top of your day job, you're supposed to be building a digital empire? Ten minutes into Googling around for tips, and the To-Do List is so long, not even an army could get it all done. Feeling the pressure to do everything, some poor authors end up doing nothing... the pile just looks too big to shovel. President of one of the first firms to specialize in online book publicity, Fauzia Burke makes the job of online branding not only doable, but fun. She helps authors clarify their goals, sort through the many online options available, and decide what they must do (and what they can let go), when to do it, and how to get it done. By following her advice any author can develop a plan for conquering the Internet.Burke takes authors by their trembling hands and shows them this journey of a thousand miles can be accomplished step by step. And why is the journey worth it? Fauzia writes, Once you build your brand |
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82071. Leading With Character And Competence: Moving Beyond Title, Position, And Authority : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 Is leadership a question of character or competence? Most leadership training separates these two factors, but Clark shows that anyone at any level can be a superior leader by balancing these dimensions.Our leadership development programs teach necessary skills, yet we often train individuals who do not have the character to lead, which is a weakness because a leader with skills but no character can be dangerous. But a leader with character but no skills is useless. In this book, author, consultant, and entrepreneur Tim Clark shows how anyone can develop both character and competence.Clark lays out his model of the core" (character) and the "crust" (competence) to expla |
| 82072. In How We Can Rethink Leadership. Most Importantly : AudiobooksNow he shares a series of mini lessons taken from his research and experience. Clark's book will be a key personal growth tool for anyone anywhere ready to step up |
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82073. The Revolution Where You Live: Stories From A 12,000-mile Journey Through A New America : AudiobooksNow : USD7.99 YES! Magazine cofounder Sarah van Gelder sends dispatches from an eighteen-state journey across America, describing how people abandoned by big national institutions are developing creative community-based solutions to environmental and social problems.YES! Magazine cofounder Sarah van Gelder was worried about the current state of American society. Environmental destruction, growing poverty, urban decay, rural decline-it's a long list. Can we turn this around, she wondered? Are there answers we haven't found yet? She confided her fears to a friend, who said to her, If the universe could deploy the one small person that is you |
| 82074. D Them Both: "i'd Go Out Traveling And See For Myself."so Driving A Twelve-year-old Toyota Pickup Truck With A Tiny Camper Hand-painted By A Suquamish Artist : AudiobooksNow |
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82075. Crunch Time: How To Be Your Best When It Matters Most : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 High-pressure situations can make us panic-but if we can change our perspective, what seemed impossible can suddenly become doable. Legendary pitching coach Rick Peterson is a master at this kind of reframing. He and bestselling author and leadership expert, Judd Hoekstra make this skill available to everyone.Everybody faces high-pressure situations, and in today's fast-paced, hypercompetitive world it's arguably worse than ever. But ace pitching coach Rick Peterson and organization and leadership expert Judd Hoekstra say our ineffective response to pressure often causes us to perform far below our capabilities.Peterson has less than a minute to help a struggling athlete performing in front of millions and flip from butterflies to boldness. His breakthrough is to use reframing" to recast any situation from a perceived threat or crisis to a positive opportunity. Using dozens of stories from his long career |
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82076. The Courage Way: Leading And Living With Integrity : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 Based on the work of best-selling author Parker Palmer and his Center for Courage & Renewal, this exploration of the inner life of leadership shows how to become a better leader by orienting yourself, your life, and your work toward greater courage, wholeness, and integrity.Leadership demands courage. This book is about a way of life that names and explores this important resource and shows leaders how to access and draw upon courage in all that they do. It has its roots in the work and thought of Parker J. Palmer, who, over forty years of teaching, speaking, and writing has explored the human spirit--what he has called the inner landscape"--and its role in life and leadership. The book offers specific practices developed b |
| 82077. Y The Center For Courage & Renewal To Build Courage In Seven Key Areas: The Courage To Become Self-aware : AudiobooksNow to connect and trust in each other |
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82078. The Daily Edge: Simple Strategies To Increase Efficiency And Make An Impact Every Day : AudiobooksNow : USD4.49 Wall Street Journal bestselling author David Horsager provides a selection of incredible new tips and tricks for maintaining your business edge on a daily basis.How do you get your work done and still maintain relationships and build trust? For most busy executives, it's an either/or choice -- either spend time with your people, or be an effective and productive leader who focuses entirely on the work. But David Horsager says you can do both.The key is to do lots of little things on a daily basis that make you so effective that you have enough time to interact with your people and honor and build the relationships you have with them. In succinct, quick-read chapters Horsager offers thirty-five high impact productivity practices, each easily implemented and powerful on their own. Taken together, they form a solid wave of efficacy that will enable you to get more done, keep your energy up, and make sure that you're able to put people first-which Horsager insists must be always be one of your top priorities. |
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82079. The Power Of Purpose, 3rd Edition: Find Meaning, Live Longer, Better : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 Purpose is fundamental and gives life meaning. It gives us the will to live and to live long and well. In this new edition of his bestselling classic, legendary personal coach Richard Leider offers brand-new tools and techniques for unlocking it.Purpose is fundamental to human life. It is what makes us human. Purpose gives us the will not just to live, but to live long and well. The good news is, purpose isn't a grand concept reserved for a gifted few but something each one of us already possesses, needing only to be uncovered.This third edition of legendary personal coach Richard Leider's bestselling classic on finding your purpose has been completely revised and updated throughout. In addition to new stories and examples it includes three new chapters. The Science of Purpose" highlights what cutting-edge research has found are the positive benefits of having an increased sense of purpose; "The Three Stages of Purpose" looks at how our purpose can change throughout our lives; and "A Guide to Writing Your Purpose Statement" offers seven mind-opening questions to help you unlock your purpose" (and there's a "default purpose" you can go to if you're struggling).Leider details a graceful |
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82080. Bridging The Values Gap: How Authentic Organizations Bring Values To Life : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 Most companies put values statements on their websites and in their annual reports, but as recent scandals and financial crises have shown, the practice of values is dying in organizations. Edward Freeman and Ellen Auster argue that the problem is values are imposed from the top down and offer a process for involving employees in values creation through ruthlessly honest organization-wide conversations.Studies have consistently shown that employees are deeply cynical about corporate values statements. (Enron had a great one.) The reason, argue top scholars and consultants Edward Freeman and Ellen Auster, is that most companies' values are handed down from on high with no employee input. This practically invites disconnects between intention and reality-and the results are disengagement, lower productivity, less innovation, and even outright corruption.Freeman and Auster here offer a process, Values through Conversation, that makes values living, dynamic, and evolving, not just static words nobody really believes in. Based on scrupulous research and experience, VTC gives employees a safe space to speak honestly and freely about what's happening in the organization, what is important to them, and what values would have real meaning and impact. The book focuses on four core values areas: introspective (who we are), historical (what we've stood for), connectedness (how we lead and work together), and aspirational (why we do what we do), offering questions, exercises, and examples for developing values in each area. VTC allows companies to explore and create values authentically, not impose them from without. |
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82081. Collaboration Begins With You: Be A Silo Buster : AudiobooksNow : USD5.49 Bestselling author Ken Blanchard and his coauthors bring his signature business parable" style to a critical skill for today's workplace: collaboration.Everyone knows that collaboration creates high-performing teams and organizations. Yet it often doesn't happen |
| 82082. People Develop A Collaborative Culture By Utilizing Differences : AudiobooksNow failures can be turned into successes and breakthrough results achieved at every level." |
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82083. A Crowdfunders Strategy Guide: Build A Better Business By Building Community : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 Award-winning entrepreneur and crowdfunding expert Jamey Stegmaier shares his inspiring lessons and practical guidance for building the business of your dreams by engaging with customers and investors online.As a veteran of five successful Kickstarter campaigns and the proprietor of the Kickstarter Lessons blog, Jamey Stegmaier knows something about crowdfunding. In this book he goes beyond the nuts and bolts of how it works to the deeper level of what makes it work.This book is filled with stories and examples of over 40 crowdfunding campaigns, some that succeeded wildly-like the high-tech cooler designer whose first campaign faltered but whose second raised 13 million dollars-as well as sobering disasters, like the board game maker whose project collapsed in two months and had to return over $100,000 to his backers. Stegmaier uses these stories to illustrate lessons about things like preparation, timing, what kind of offers to make and what kind to avoid, what to spend money on and when, and more. The book includes 125 Kickstarter lessons, in one sentence each (more or less).But Stegmaier's overarching point is that you've got to see crowdfunding as more than just a cool way to raise money-it's a way to create a community that will offer you far more than just dollars. If you treat your backers as people-communicate with them, attend to their needs, ask for their opinions-your chances of you and your projects succeeding increase exponentially. |
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82084. Mobilized: An Insiders Guide To The Business And Future Of Connected Technology : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 That person slumped over her cell phone is disengaged, isolated, lost in her own little world, right? Wrong, says SC Moatti. She's highly engaged—she's having a text conversation with a friend in Europe, playing a game with another, and looking for a good place to go to dinner with a third. Mobile technology has become such an integral part of how we interact that for many people, losing a cell phone is like losing a limb. And the most successful mobile apps are precisely those that enhance and multiply the frequency and power of our real-world interactions.Moatti—a technologist and industry insider—says these kinds of mobile apps adhere to three universal principles: They must have a simple design, enable the user to personalize them, and be continually improved by their makers through relentless attention to analytics. She uses examples from a host of great mobile app creators—Facebook, Yelp, Lyft, Tinder, Aerbnb, Trulia, WhatsApp, and more—to demonstrate how it's done. Even as technology evolves and smartphones are replaced by smaller mobile devices such as watches and contact lenses, these three principles will remain evergreen. The market is full of how-to books for creating apps, but no works examine what qualities make for great mobile products. Until now. |
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82085. Co-active Leadership: Five Ways To Lead : AudiobooksNow : USD5.49 Best-selling authors Karen and Henry Kimsey-House (Co-Active Coaching, 170,000 sold) bring the wildly successful co-active model to the theory and practice of leadership.Over and over, Karen and Henry Kimsey-House's clients told them that they found traditional, top-down models of leadership to be divisive and isolating, that they would welcome a more inclusive, holistic approach. So this book begins with a new and expanded definition of leadership: Leaders are those who are responsible for their world." Co-Active means "being in action...together." In Co-Active Leadership everyone is a leader in different ways. We each play different leadership roles in different situations |
| 82086. E Dimensions Of Co-active Leadership. "co-active Leader Within" Is The Foundation-you Must Live With Full Self-authority : AudiobooksNow without egos or agendas |
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82087. Lift, 2nd Edition: The Fundamental State Of Leadership : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 Leading scholars Ryan W. Quinn and Robert E. Quinn marshal both scientific research and personal experience to show how you can achieve the fundamental state of leadership-lifting up both yourself and those around you. This second edition (first edition had sold over 10,000 copies) has been revised throughout and includes two new chapters.Just as the Wright Brothers combined science and practice to finally achieve the dream of flight, Ryan and Robert Quinn combine research and personal stories to demonstrate how we can elevate ourselves and the situations and people around us to greater heights of integrity, openness, and achievement-the psychological equivalent of aerodynamic lift, and the fundamental state of effective leadership.Lift identifies four questions that, when asked in any situation, will instantly give rise to a positive outlook, and explores the profound implications of each of these questions in-depth. The second edition includes two new chapters highlighting surprising applications of the fundamental state of leadership to situations on the job and off, as well as new stories, examples, supportive studies, and techniques for applying the lessons of Lift. Each person who learns these principles will lift themselves, lift others, and inspire others to spread that lifting as far as they can. |
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82088. The Positive Organization: Breaking Free From Conventional Cultures, Constraints, And Beliefs : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 Continuing his groundbreaking work in Positive Organizational Scholarship, Robert Quinn (bestselling author of Deep Change) offers a clear path and concrete actions for creating extraordinarily high-performing organizational cultures.Conventional beliefs and cultures all too often create work groups, departments, and even entire organizations that are full of unengaged, underperforming people. Drawing on his decades of pioneering research, Robert Quinn shows how to create organizations where people flourish and exceed expectations.Using many compelling stories and examples Quinn describes how to replace an outmoded and limiting conventional mindset with a new, more positive and affirming mental map." He explains how |
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82089. What Great Service Leaders Know And Do: Creating Breakthroughs In Service Firms : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 The service sector has grown to become 80% of the US economy, yet it's poised for a revolution in personalization, big data, and complexity. How can companies design a strategy to compete?The service sector-any company not involved in the production of products-is now 80% of the US economy, and growing part of the world economy. Written by the three leading scholars of service sector management, this book seeks to provide a roadmap for the design and delivery of winning services for leaders and managers entrusted with the task in the years to come.The authors review their own seminal work on service management, testing the durability of concepts they've helped develop over the past thirty years. Then they move on to look at how better results will be achieved in the future-what needs to be done to create great places to work, design efficient and enjoyable service experiences, use technology to improve service delivery, and engage and retain customers. Using examples of dozens of companies in a wide variety of industries, the authors present a narrative of remarkable successes, unnecessary failures, and future promise. |
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82090. Overcoming Bias: Building Authentic Relationships Across Differences : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 Bias is real and we all have it, but there is good news: even though bias is part of the human condition, we are not powerless against it. The secret is building authentic, deep relationships across differences.Everybody's biased. We all harbor unconscious assumptions that get in the way of our good intentions and keep us from working harmoniously and effectively with other people. In our increasingly diverse society this can be a real stumbling block.Tiffany Jana and Matthew Freeman-consultants who also happen to be a biracial couple-argue that ultimately the only way to really overcome bias is to focus our energy on building relationships. We need to extend our circle of trust to include people who are different from us in many ways - race, religion, sex, ethnicity, sexual orientation, education, socioeconomic class, and ability. These differences can enrich our lives and expand our perspectives.Overcoming Bias doesn't advocate setting some kind of friend quota, merely that we seek out experiences that challenge our presuppositions and expose us to people, cultures, and ideas outside of our usual comfort zone. But this also requires some work on ourselves. Through vivid stories, soul-searching reflection, and fun (yes, fun!) exercises and activities Jana and Freeman help us become aware of our own biases, stereotypes, and unacknowledged privileges. This book will provide you with everything you need to understand bias, talk about it with increased fluency, and overcome it so you can build stronger relationships. |
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82091. Humble Consulting: How To Provide Real Help Faster : AudiobooksNow : USD7.99 Nowhere else in the business world is communication more important than to consultants, moving between hundreds of communities every year. In an increasingly complex world, a new level of skill is required, but begins with a seemingly paradoxical skill for a consultant: how to ask rather than tell.This new book reveals what it takes for consultants of all types, as well as organizational leaders, to be really helpful in dealing with the complex, systemic, constantly changing organizational problems of today. They need to rapidly create a relationship of trust and openness that enables clients, subordinates, and team members to reveal what is really on their minds and to jointly develop a sense of what is the problem and what kind of adaptive response could best deal with it.Schein first introduced some of these concepts in his foundational 1969 book Process Consultation, which is still in use today. But now clients don't have the time or patience for the endless questioning that characterized much of process consultation. And clients still expect consultants to hand them answers. But Schein has come to realize that answers from outsiders are useless, because they're often working the wrong problem, don't understand the client organization's culture, or ignore the fact that constant change makes today's solutions obsolete tomorrow.To achieve a joint sense of what to do requires consultants and other helpers to develop a different kind of relationship with clients-a set of attitudes and behaviors that Schein calls humble consulting. Schein shows how helpers can display from the moment of first contact a level of caring and curiosity to move from relationships of professional distance to relationships of personalized trust and openness. And he gives many illustrations of the profound changes in mindset, behavior, and daily actions that flow from this new helpful consulting model. |
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82092. Culture Crossing: Discover The Key To Making Successful Connections In The New Global Era : AudiobooksNow : USD7.99 One of businesses greatest modern challenges is navigating the inevitable culture clashes that come with a global workplace. Michael Landers says the solution is deceptively simple: by becoming aware of your own culturally conditioned beliefs and practices, you can more easily recognize and adapt to those other cultures.In an era when people and money are flowing fast across international boundaries, physically and virtually, culture crashes have become increasingly frequent, says international business consultant Michael Landers. A culture crash is what happens when someone unwittingly offends, frustrates or mystifies a person from a different culture. This can lead to lost business, hurt feelings, damaged relationships, even international incidents, as when Bill Gates shook his South Korean host with one hand when he was supposed to use two (very disrespectful).So are culture crashes inevitable? No! All cultures fall into certain broad categories, and if you can figure out what kind of culture you're dealing with you can avoid committing a major faux pas. Landers first helps you become aware of your own culturally conditioned behaviors, perceptions and values, which seem so normal" you don't even notice them (kind of like thinking you're not the one with an accent). Then he shows you how to figure out where a culture lies along continuums like individualistic vs. collectivist |
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82093. The Genius Of Opposites: How Introverts And Extroverts Achieve Extraordinary Results Together : AudiobooksNow : USD5.49 Bestselling author Jennifer Kahnweiler (Quiet Influence and The Introverted Leader-over 20,000 copies sold each) offers a five-step process that will help introverts and extroverts understand and appreciate each other and work together to achieve more than they ever could on their own.Mick and Keith. Jobs and Woz. FDR and Eleanor. Gilbert and Sullivan. History is filled with examples of successful introvert-extrovert partnerships. But how can two people who sometimes seem to be from different planets not just work together but make extraordinary products, create great works of art, and even change history?Jennifer Kahnweiler says the key is to remember that these relationships are most successful when opposites stop emphasizing their differences and use approaches that move them towards results. She provides a five-step process that helps introverts and extroverts understand each other's cultures |
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82094. Leadership Lessons From A Ups Driver: Delivering A Culture Of We, Not Me : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 Ron Wallace rose from driver to president of UPS International. Here he reveals the UPS secret sauce--culture--that allows it to outcompete younger companies that are not unionized, not sprawling, and not Brown.The steady, long-term success of UPS is sometimes a mystery to business observers. Founded over a century ago, UPS has been moving up, not down the Fortune 500 list. Massive in size, UPS has cultivated a family environment where promotion is almost always from within, lifetime employment is the norm and even the executives are union members. In one of the most mature of mature industries, UPS is consistently seen as a strong investment on Wall Street.What is the UPS secret sauce? In this groundbreaking book, Ron Wallace credits the unique people culture" of UPS as the distinguishing factor. Ron credits this culture with giving him his start in management and helping him rise from driver to president of UPS International. Different from the typical business memoir that celebrates the leader as celebrity |
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82095. The Leadership Genius Of Julius Caesar: Modern Lessons From The Man Who Built An Empire : AudiobooksNow : USD5.49 Eternally fascinating, Julius Caesar was a leader ahead of his time whose grassroots, front lines leadership still has much to teach us 2000 years after his death.History is littered with examples of tyrants, hopelessly out of touch with the plight of the commoners, ruthlessly pursuing their own ambitions or hedonistic whims. But Caesar was a different kind of leader. Despite some bad press, in fact he never saw himself as above the average Roman citizen. Although he certainly knew he was an extraordinary human being, he also regarded himself as fundamentally one of the people, and acted like it. In his life and in his career, he created a new paradigm of leadership, and along the way, created the path to success for any leader in a complex organization.In a book that Doris Kearns Goodwin has called brilliantly crafted to draw leadership lessons from history |
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82096. The Laws Of Lifetime Growth, 2nd Edition: Always Make Your Future Bigger Than Your Past : AudiobooksNow : USD5.49 Written by Dan Sullivan, the acclaimed speaker, author, consultant, and coach to entrepreneurs, this book provides refreshingly simple laws that will instantly shift your perspective to help you fully realize your personal and professional potential.Growth is a fundamental human need. It is at the root of everything that gives us a feeling of accomplishment, satisfaction, meaning, and progress. Yet many people find their growth stalled at some point. In The Laws of Lifetime Growth, Dan Sullivan and Catherine Nomura offer ten simple laws that everyone can use to keep a fresh, innovative perspective on their lives and the world around them.These laws are the distillation of Sullivan's years of coaching successful people, paying attention to what motivates them and what unlocks their greatest abilities. Each chapter is devoted to exploring one of the ten laws in detail, including stories of people from all walks of life who exemplify the law in action, common pitfalls that people often run into trying to apply the law, and practical strategies for getting past those obstacles. This second edition includes new examples, a self-assessment to measure your progress, and access to an interactive online tool. Once you start to integrate these laws into your life, you'll never outgrow them, they'll never become obsolete, and they will continue to lead you to greater happiness and fulfillment. |
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82097. When Corporations Rule The World: 3rd Edition : AudiobooksNow : USD15.49 The twentieth-anniversary edition of the book that helped launch the anticorporate movement examines how much corporate control has grown and the new challenges for those who work for a more economically equitable society.When Corporations Rule the World has become a modern classic. Korten's warnings about the growing global power of multinational corporations seem prophetic today. The book has become a bible of the anticorporate movement.Korten illuminates how the convergence of ideological, political, and technological forces has led to an ever-greater concentration of economic and political power in a handful of corporations and financial institutions, separating their interests from the human interest and leaving the market system blind to all but its own short-term financial gains. He documents the devastating human and environmental consequences of the successful efforts of corporations to reconstruct values and institutions everywhere to serve narrow financial ends. He explains why human survival depends on a community-based, life-centered alternative beyond the outmoded strictures of communism and capitalism and suggests specific steps to achieve it.This twentieth-anniversary edition includes a new prologue and a new epilogue. The new prologue reflects on events since 1995 that relate to the expansion of corporate power, such as the growth of the global anticorporate movement, the global war on terror that began after 9/11, the financial crash of 2008, and more. The epilogue provides a look ahead at what is required for a future free of corporate domination. |
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82098. Intelligent Disobedience: Doing Right When What You're Told To Do Is Wrong : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 They say the rules are made to be broken. But which rules? When should you break them? And how do you do it? Ira Chaleff explores when following orders does more harm than good and what to do about it.Abu Ghraib prison. Enron. Abuse in the Catholic Church. NSA surveillance of blameless citizens. Needless deaths at Veterans Administration hospitals. These scandals could have been prevented if, early on, people had said no to their higher-ups. And why didn't they? Because, says Ira Chaleff, they didn't know how. It's much harder than it might seem. In this very timely new book, the author of the classic The Courageous Follower goes deeply into when and how to disobey orders and disagree with decisions in an intelligent, helpful, and ethical way.Chaleff took his inspiration, and the book's title, from a concept used in guide dog training. Guide dogs must be able to recognize a command that would put the human and themselves at risk of serious harm, learn how to effectively resist the command, and identify alternate safer options for achieving a legitimate goal. This is precisely what Chaleff helps human beings do. He delves into the psychological dynamics of obedience, drawing in particular on Stanley Milgram's seminal Yale experiments where volunteers were induced to administer shocks to innocent people. Using dozens of vivid examples involving major historical events and everyday situations, he offers advice on judging whether a situation calls for intelligent disobedience, how to most effectively express opposition, and how we can create a culture where, rather than just following orders |
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82099. Sustainable Happiness: Live Simply, Live Well, Make A Difference : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 Sarah van Gelder and the staff of Yes! Magazine marshal fascinating research, indepthessays and compelling personal stories to counter the consumerist partyline. It's things like healthy communities, strong relationships, and a thriving planetthat lead to lasting happiness, and this book shows how we can achieve them. |
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82100. Glow: How You Can Radiate Energy, Innovation, And Success : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 Bestselling author Lynda Gratton-one of the top twenty management thinkers in the world according to the Financial Times-follows up her bestseller Hot Spots, (over 16,000 sold) by taking a deep look at people who GLOW-individuals in organizations who radiate energy and attract others to them - who are able to create, find, and flourish in hot spots of innovation. |
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82101. The Resilient Investor: A Plan For Your Life, Not Just Your Money : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 Socially responsible investors try to avoid putting their assets in companies that do damage in the world. Resilient investing goes further. The authors redefine the very meaning of assets" and "investing" and show how to design a strategy to give you |
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82102. Pro-voice: How To Keep Listening When The World Wants A Fight : AudiobooksNow : USD7.99 Once vilified by pro-life and pro-choice supporters alike, Aspen Baker has now shown that pro-voice" might be the best method to move past conflict and hatred around abortion. With her nonprofit |
| 82103. Ompassionate Exchanges About Even The Most Divisive Topics. Initially Distrusted By Both Sides : AudiobooksNow such as starting a post-abortion telephone service and piloting a nationwide story-sharing tour led by women who'd had abortion experiences. They call their approach "pro-voice."This book shows how pro-voice can be adopted by anyone interested in dialogue rather than dogma. Peace |
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82105. The Sisters Are Alright: Changing The Broken Narrative Of Black Women In America : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 Everyone seems to have an opinion about American black women-they need to get married, change their hair, act like ladies |
| 82106. America.when African American Women Arrived On American Shores : AudiobooksNow or oversexed and lascivious obscure the humanity of black women and are at the root of the mythology used to justify their continued oppression. The Sisters Are Alright plumbs the devastating effects of the negative perception of black women in areas such as marriage |
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82107. Hello Stay Interviews, Goodbye Talent Loss: A Manager's Playbook : AudiobooksNow : USD4.49 The latest offering from the bestselling duo of Bev Kaye and Sharon Jordan-Evans-who have sold over 800,000 copies of their previous titles in twenty-two languages-offers a radically simple idea: you can avoid having exit" interviews when employees are leaving if you have "stay" interviews that will keep them.Since 1999 Bev Kaye and Sharon Jordan-Evans have been teaching managers how to conduct stay interviews |
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82109. The Disciplined Leader: Keeping The Focus On What Really Matters : AudiobooksNow : USD7.99 Drawing on the accumulated expertise of one of the world's top leadership development organizations, this is a comprehensive and accessible guide to effective leadership practice, written in fifty-two short, to-the-point chapters.A disciplined leader is someone who identifies and focuses in on what author John Manning calls the vital few"-that 20 percent of activities that will deliver 80 percent of the results. Manning should know. He is the President of Management Action Programs |
| 82110. Guide To Effective Leadership Practice In Short : AudiobooksNow time-tested advice here. In each of the three critical areas |
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82111. Hidden Strengths: Unleashing The Crucial Leadership Skills You Already Have : AudiobooksNow : USD5.49 Books like StrengthsFinder 2.0 have helped leaders discover their strengths-but tend to stop there. Thuy and Milo Sindell argue that focusing only on our best abilities neglects a vital development opportunity. Inside every leader are middle skills |
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82112. The Nonviolence Handbook: A Guide For Practical Action : AudiobooksNow : USD5.49 Sharing a lifetime's worth of learning and experience by noted peace scholar Michael Nagler, this work distills the practice and theory of nonviolent action into a concise, highly readable manual for thought and action. |
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82113. The Shareholder Value Myth: How Putting Shareholders First Harms Investors, Corporations, And The Public : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 In this radical debunking of pervasive myths about how corporations and investors behave, UCLA professor and legal celebrity Lynn Stout shows how-contrary to entrenched belief-shareholder primacy" is not mandated by corporate law and actually harms shareholders themselves." |
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82114. Your Leadership Story: Use Your Story To Energize, Inspire, And Motivate : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 Leaders all have stories-the events, perspectives, and behaviors that constitute who they are-but few are aware of what that story is or what is says about them. Leadership development expert Tim Tobin show how, by thinking of themselves as literally writing a story -with a plot, theme, characters, and an arc-leaders can take control of their story and become more effective, insightful, and inspiring. |
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82115. Cultural Intelligence, 2nd Edition: Living And Working Globally : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 As the world grows more connected every day, the need also grows for an updated edition of this classic guidebook to help navigate the ever-expanding cultural mazes of a truly globalized world. |
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82116. Embrace The Chaos: How India Taught Me To Stop Overthinking And Start Living : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 An accomplished Fortune 50 executive translates for a western audience the lessons he learned from the land of his birth, India. Bob Miglani was stressed out, burnt out, and stuck until he rediscovered the enduring lessons of his childhood: celebrate impermanence, serve others, and move forward no matter what. Bob's message: chaos isn't going away--embrace it! |
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82117. Chess Not Checkers: Elevate Your Leadership Game : AudiobooksNow : USD5.49 The ever-increasing complexity we face requires a new way to think and work. To effectively lead an organization, bestselling author Mark Miller says, you have to play chess, not checkers. He shows how this mentality enables you to marshal all your available resources, including every employee, to strategically address challenges and opportunities.In his latest business fable, top leadership author Mark Miller tells the story of newly appointed CEO Blake Brown, who takes over a company distressed by poor performance and low morale. Nothing Blake learned from his previous job seems to help him deal with the bigger, more complex problems he now faces. The game has changed. As his new mentor points out, Blake is playing a simple game of checkers when he should be playing chess.Miller uses this metaphor to show how leaders can encourage deep, strategic thinking throughout an organization and utilize the unique abilities of each employee (bishops move differently than knights). He explains how to apply the chess not checkers" mentality in four critical areas: leadership development |
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82118. Boards That Excel: Candid Insights And Practical Advice For Directors : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 Having served on numerous corporate and nonprofit boards, former business school dean and university president White has a surprising message-many directors don't understand their roles as stewards. Rather than seeing boards as mere vehicles for oversight and basic monitoring, he shows, in detail and with hundreds of real-world anecdotes, how boards can do better. |
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82119. Refire! Don't Retire: Make The Rest Of Your Life The Best Of Your Life : AudiobooksNow : USD5.49 Bestselling author Ken Blanchard and leading psychologist Morton Shaevitz offer advice, based on both research and personal experience, for infusing the second half of your life with passion, energy, and excitement. |
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82120. You, Unstuck: You Are The Solution To Your Greatest Problem : AudiobooksNow : USD4.49 With his trademark wit and warmth, global superstar blogger Seth Adam Smith inspires readers to take ownership of their lives and turn their backs on the idea that they are ever helpless victims of circumstance. |
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82121. The B Corp Handbook: How To Use Business As A Force For Good : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 B Corporations are a new kind of company dedicated to meeting rigorous standards of social and environmental performance, accountability, and transparency-well-known companies like Ben & Jerry's, Etsy, Method, New Belgium Brewing, and Patagonia are already on board. This is the first book to explain what B Corps are, how to become a B Corp, and what benefits B Corp certification offers. |
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82122. Make An Ethical Difference: Tools For Better Action : AudiobooksNow : USD7.99 Ethical scandals are more and more in the public spotlight, and now millions of leaders and employees are required by law to undergo ethics training. In this book, the leading authority in the country on this topic provides practical tools to help readers sharpen their ethical sense, respond more intelligently to ethical issues, avoid ethical quagmires, and make better leadership and management decisions.We are plagued today by a decline in ethical behavior. Scandals come so thick and fast that any attempt to list them is out of date in weeks if not days. But ethics isn't just a matter of headlines; it's a part of everyone's life. We're called on to make ethical decisions, large and small, all the time. This can be particularly tricky in the workplace, where our decisions can affect not just ourselves but coworkers, clients, customers, and even the entire company.Existing ethics books are of limited use. They generally feature one author's opinions on very specific situations, which may well have nothing to do with the problems we're facing. And anyway, we don't need expert advice. Mark Pastin insists every one of us is qualified to resolve even the thorniest dilemmas ourselves, and in this profoundly practical book he gives us the tools to do just that.Pastin argues that we all have an innate ethical--he calls it the ethics eye." The problem is |
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82123. Walk Out Walk On: A Learning Journey Into Communities Daring To Live The Future Now : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 Bestselling author Margaret Wheatley and long-time Berkana Institute collaborator Deborah Frieze take readers on a learning journey into seven diverse communities that have walked out of limiting beliefs and practices and walked on to something new. From Brazil to Ohio, they demonstrate how each of these communities made a conscious choice to develop a healthier, more resilient world based on the idea to create with what we have."" |
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82124. Appreciative Inquiry: A Positive Revolution In Change : AudiobooksNow : USD5.49 A truly revolutionary method of change management, Appreciative Inquiry (AI) emphasizes inquiry into strengths, rather than focusing exclusively on fixing weaknesses. Written by the originators and leaders of the AI movement, this accessible guide offers a practical introduction to the method, which has been used to significantly enhance customer satisfaction, cost competitiveness, revenues, profits, and employee engagement, as well as organizations' abilities to meet the needs of society. Full of exciting stories that illustrate its many applications and benefits, this is the most authoritative guide to Al. By using this change method to systematically tap human potential, organizations, communities, and individuals become more effective. |
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82125. Let's Stop Meeting Like This: Tools To Save Time And Get More Done : AudiobooksNow : USD5.49 Instead of being boring and time-wasting, meetings can be places where participants and leaders can get their work done productively, efficiently, and happily. It is not an impossible dream. This book shows how. |
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82126. The Living Universe: Where Are We? Who Are We? Where Are We Going? : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 The author of the classic, bestselling book, Voluntary Simplicity" (nearly 150 |
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82127. The Idea-driven Organization: Unlocking The Power In Bottom-up Ideas : AudiobooksNow : USD7.99 In their much-anticipated sequel to the bestseller Ideas Are Free (over 50,000 copies sold), Alan Robinson and Dean Schroeder explain that employee ideas are no longer a nice-to-have" but rather the very lifeblood of competitiveness |
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82128. Creative Community Organizing: A Guide For Rabble-rousers, Activists, And Quiet Lovers Of Justice : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 A revealing and practical guide to community organizing that pulls together the accumulated lessons, strategies, and secrets from Si Kahn's 44 years of experience at the forefront of many civil rights, labor rights, and other social justice battles. |
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82129. Ice Cream Social: The Struggle For The Soul Of Ben & Jerry's : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 This is the first book to tell the full inside story of the inspiring rise, tragic mistakes, devastating fall, determined recovery, and renewed social contribution and success of one of the most iconic mission-driven companies in the world: Ben & Jerry's. |
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82130. Fit At Last: Look And Feel Better Once And For All : AudiobooksNow : USD7.99 Megaselling author Ken Blanchard shares his own story of how-after countless failed attempts-he finally was able to break his cycle of weight gain at age 73, losing over 30 pounds and shedding five inches from his waistline. Ken and his trainer Tim Kearin share techniques that any person can use to get started, overcome obstacles, establish new habits, and enjoy lasting success in becoming healthy and fit in middle age or older age. |
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82131. Living In More Than One World: How Peter Druckers Wisdom Can Inspire And Transform Your Life : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 Drawing on life lessons from management legend Peter Drucker, journalist and scholar Bruce Rosenstein shows knowledge workers how personal and professional diversification is the key to navigating our flat world" of zero job security |
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82132. The Power Of Your Past: The Art Of Recalling, Reclaiming, And Recasting : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 Life coach, inspirational speaker, and leadership trainer John Schuster offers a systematic guide to leveraging the biggest, most accessible, and most under-utilized resource for self-improvement: your past. |
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82133. Getting To Resolution, 2nd Edition: Turning Conflict Into Collaboration : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 Most approaches to conflict resolution and negotiation result in just temporary settlement, compromise, or capitulation. This book offers new principles and new tools to show how to get to real, lasting resolution of any kind of personal, business, organizational, or community conflict |
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82134. Yoga Wisdom At Work: Finding Sanity Off The Mat And On The Job : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 Everyone knows that yoga helps reduce stress and increase the body's flexibility and strength. But the physical aspects barely scratch the surface of yoga's transformative powers. The poses are only one part of a larger philosophy offering profound insights for confronting the complexities of daily life. Yoga can help you remain centered, compassionate, positive, and sane every hour of the day—especially those between nine and five.This unprecedented guide shows how practicing the full range of yogic concepts—the traditional Eight Limbs of Yoga"—leads to a productive |
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82136. Engaging Emergence: Turning Upheaval Into Opportunity : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 Leading thinker and change consultant Peggy Holman provides leaders, trainers, and other agents of change grappling with disruption with a theory of emergence" and tools for fostering it in organizations." |
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82137. Whale Done Parenting: How To Make Parenting A Positive Experience For You And Your Kids : AudiobooksNow : USD5.49 Mega-selling author Ken Blanchard teams up again with his Whale Done" coauthors to apply to parenting young children the simple principles that have proven so effective in many settings |
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82138. The Empress Has No Clothes: Conquering Self-doubt To Embrace Success : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 Though celebrated as a black pioneer who became an officer and president at companies like Avon and Carson Products (now part of L'Oreal), Joyce Roché secretly felt like an impostor. Recounting her own struggle to feel she deserved her hard-won victories, she includes interviews with other business leaders to provide guidance for women, minorities, and anyone who struggles to own the right to succeed. |
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82139. The Greater Goal: Connecting Purpose And Performance : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 The bestselling coauthor of The Serving Leader (over 90,000 copies sold) provides a roadmap that all leaders can use to create and align entire organizations around an inspiring purpose that drives superior performance. |
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82140. All Together Now: Common Sense For A Fair Economy : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 As the new century unfolds, we face a host of economic and social challenges--jobs lost to off shoring |
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82143. Rooftop Revolution: How Solar Power Can Save Our Economyand Our Planetfrom Dirty Energy : AudiobooksNow : USD7.99 We're at a tipping point in our global movement from dirty, big-industry electricity-- countries like Germany have 25% of their power grid on clean, local energy, yet the U.S is still under 1%. Solar pioneer Danny Kennedy has written this rallying cry for the solar industry and policy makers--the only obstacle to solar power is our ignorance. |
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82144. I'm Sorry I Broke Your Company: When Management Consultants Are The Problem, Not The Solution : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 If management theories and systems (think: Management by Objectives" and "Process Optimization") are the religion |
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82145. The She Spot: Why Women Are The Market For Changing The World -- And How To Reach Them : AudiobooksNow : USD7.99 In this practical, provocative and inspiring guide, Lisa Witter and Lisa Chen of public relations powerhouse Fenton Communications offer social change organizations key recommendations for leveraging the untapped power of women for positive change through fundraising, advocacy and the ballot box. |
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82146. Courageous Training: Bold Actions For Business Results : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 If trainers want to truly make an impact on organizations, what they need is a new mindset, not a new technique. Drawing on examples from major companies and their own years of experience, the authors inspire trainers to have the courage to break away from the usual ways of doing things and identify what is really needed and what really works. |
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82147. Out Of Poverty: What Works When Traditional Approaches Fail : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 Paul Polak, whose organization International Development Enterprises (IDE) has directly helped over 17 million people get out of poverty permanently, exposes the top 3 things we are doing wrong in our efforts to end the root causes of poverty. He then, through the story of a Nepali farmer, goes on to detail solutions for what actually works in ending poverty |
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82148. Don't Just Do Something, Stand There!: Ten Principles For Leading Meetings That Matter : AudiobooksNow : USD7.99 Everybody hates meetings. And why shouldn't they? Most meetings are poorly led, counter-productive, and time-wasting. Based on decades of practice and research, bestselling authors Weisbord and Janoff have come to the conclusion that most people lead meetings incorrectly. They, instead, propose ten contrarian principles that actually get things done. |
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82149. Collective Visioning: How Groups Can Work Together For A Just And Sustainable Future : AudiobooksNow : USD7.99 Drawing on Linda Stout's thirty years of experience training organizers, advocates, activists, and coalition groups, Collective Visioning" provides a revolutionary guide to collaboration within and across diverse organizations." |
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82150. Corporations Are Not People: Why They Have More Rights Than You Do And What You Can Do About It : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 The Citizens United Case has become infamous as the greatest legal con job in American history--the Supreme Court decided that corporations, as virtual persons, have the same free speech rights as you or I. In this masterful essay, Jeffrey Clements shows why this single decision has enormous consequences for our human rights. He lays out the one means we have left--a constitutional amendment--to reclaim our country. |
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82151. The Change Cycle: How People Can Survive And Thrive In Organizational Change : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 The Change Cycle offers a tested, six-stage approach for successfully navigating common work-life transitions so that you not only get through them but emerge stronger and better able to face the next challenge. |
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82152. The Compromise Trap: How To Thrive At Work Without Selling Your Soul : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 Countless people face integrity stress" in their daily work - where they feel pressure to compromise their values |
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82153. Transformative Scenario Planning: Working Together To Change The Future : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 This is the first book focused on how to do and use scenario planning - which is one of the most widely used tools in the world for strategic planning, change management, innovation, problem solving, and similar purposes - for social change at the community, national, and global levels. Adam Kahane is one of the world's pioneers and leaders on this topic and he is the author of two bestselling books. |
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82154. Power And Love: A Theory And Practice Of Social Change : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 War and peace are the two main ways that people try to solve our toughest group, community, and societal conflicts. Kahane shows why neither approach works and offers a different, better way - combining love and power - to solve these conflicts. |
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82155. The Pause Principle: Step Back To Lead Forward : AudiobooksNow : USD7.99 A bestselling thought leader turns standard thinking on it's head--leadership is not all action. It's also reflection and even meditation. Cashman's breakthrough book explains how any leader can find the means to purpose, innovation, and energy by periodically turning off the Blackberry and pausing to think. |
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82156. Right Relationship: Building A Whole Earth Economy : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 In this groundbreaking guide to building an ethical economy, Peter Brown and his colleagues at the Quaker Institute for the Future show readers how a system that embodies the core Quaker principle of right relationship" can deliver a more equitable and sustainable future." |
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82157. Open Space Technology, 3rd Edition: A Users Guide : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 A revised and updated edition of an acknowledged classic of the Organizational Development literature. Over 30,000 of first and second editions sold. |
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82158. The Power Of Appreciative Inquiry, 2nd Edition: A Practical Guide To Positive Change : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 Thoroughly revised and updated new edition of the bestselling guide to implementing the popular change methodology, Appreciative Inquiry, in organizations of all sizes and sectors. 20,000 of the 1st edition sold. |
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82159. True North Groups: A Powerful Path To Personal And Leadership Development : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 Bestselling author Bill George (True North 150,000 copies sold) and longtime corporate executive Doug Baker have participated for decades in a unique small group of peers dedicated to personal growth and leadership development. In this book they provide the first practical guide - including detailed instructions, rules, and resources - for anyone to start and manage such a group on their own. |
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82160. The 8 Dimensions Of Leadership: Disc Strategies For Becoming A Better Leader : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 How can people best develop their leadership skills to match their personality, to amplify their strengths, and to compensate for their weaknesses? This is the first book to answer this question with the latest version of the DiSC model of human behavior, which is one of the most widely used, most scientifically based, and most effective approaches to assessing and improving leadership styles and skills. |
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82161. Good Company: Business Success In The Worthiness Era : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 A noted economist and human capital expert, together with a multidisciplinary team, show that we've entered a new era in which good corporate behavior is no longer optional, it's the new imperative for success-and they have the data to prove it. Their Good Company Index ranking of the Fortune 100 takes the belief in the bottom-line benefits of good behavior out of the realm of faith and into the realm of facts. |
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82162. Lift: Becoming A Positive Force In Any Situation : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 Bestselling author Robert E. Quinn (Deep Change, 90,000 copies sold) and his son, Ryan Quinn, show through personal experience and scientific research how anyone can become a positive force in any situation through a proven method to increase his or her level of influence and effectiveness. |
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82163. Infinite Possibility: Creating Customer Value On The Digital Frontier : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 World-renowned business strategist and bestselling author (The Experience Economy, 140,00 copies sold), Joe Pine teams up with Kim Korn to take the next step after The Experience Economy. They offer a revolutionary new model to help businesses understand and develop a strategy for harnessing the limitless potential of digital technology to create memorable, enriching customer experiences. |
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82164. Women Lead The Way: Your Guide To Stepping Up To Leadership And Changing The World : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 In this inspiring and practical guide for achieving better decision-making and management, Linda Tarr-Whelan shows how having women account for at least 30% of representation at decision-making tables marks the tipping point for positive organizational and societal change, and she offers readers concrete tools and resources for reaching that target. |
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82165. Wander Woman: How High-achieving Women Find Contentment And Direction : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 Master coach and former International Coach Federation President Marcia Reynolds helps high-achieving women who may feel frustrated and restless embrace their wandering" impulses and come to peace with their desire for something more." |
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82166. The Courageous Follower, 3rd Edition: Standing Up To And For Our Leaders : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 Ira Chaleff's bestseller (over 40,000 copies sold across two editions) becomes even more relevant today as failures in leadership grow astronomically requiring greater vigilance and oversight on the part of the citizenry. |
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82167. What The U.s. Can Learn From China: An Open-minded Guide To Treating Our Greatest Competitor As Our Greatest Teacher : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 DEMOS Senior Fellow and self proclaimed Tiger Mother of the U.S. economy" Ann Lee has a message for her fellow Americans: stop whining about China and start learning from them instead. She focuses on what Chinese success can teach us in several broad areas: education policy |
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82168. Be Your Own Brand, 2nd Edition: A Breakthrough Formula For Standing Out From The Crowd : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 In this extensively revised new edition of one of the pioneering and bestselling books in the growing category of personal branding books, star business speakers and consultants McNally and Speak provide an inspiring and practical guide to how people can achieve more of what they want by developing and communicating a strong, entirely authentic, personal brand. Over 50,000 copies of the 1st edition sold. |
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82169. Something To Live For: Finding Your Way In The Second Half Of Life : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 Drawing on ancient and contemporary wisdom and many moving stories, Leider and Shapiro invite readers on a journey to discover how to live authentically and wholeheartedly in the second half of life and, in doing so, find new ways to both enjoy the world and make a meaningful contribution to improving it. |
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82170. The New Rules Of Green Marketing: Strategies, Tools, And Inspiration For Sustainable Branding : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 Green business and marketing pioneer Jacquelyn Ottman helps organizations achieve competitive advantage by going beyond green"--promoting their products and services to mainstream audiences by underscoring such primary benefits as health |
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82171. Terms Of Engagement, 2nd Edition: Changing The Way We Change Organizations : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 Many new ways of changing organizations have become popular, replacing the old top-down change methods with methods that engage everyone in the organization. This is an extensively revised, updated, and expanded edition of one of the original and leading guides to the core principles that underlie all of these new change methods and make them successful. Over 25,000 of the original sold. |
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82172. Wired And Dangerous: How Your Customers Have Changed And What To Do About It : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 Bestselling authors Chip Bell and John Patterson (more than 500,000 book copies sold collectively) describe the new rules for coping with demanding customers in a wired, want-it-now world. |
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82173. The Making Of A Democratic Economy: Building Prosperity For The Many, Not Just The Few : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 Our economy is designed by the 1 percent, for the 1 percent. This book offers a compelling vision of an equitable, ecologically sustainable alternative that meets the essential needs of all people.Seventy-one percent of the American people say the economy is rigged against them, and they're right. Marjorie Kelly and Ted Howard describe the current economic system as the Extractive Economy-it enables the financial elite to extract maximum gain for themselves, heedless of any damage to people or planet. As an alternative, they offer the Democratic Economy, which is responsive to the concerns of ordinary people and balances human consumption with the regenerative capacity of the earth.Kelly and Howard lay out seven principles of a Democratic Economy: Community, Inclusion, Place (keeping wealth local), Good Work (putting labor before capital), Democratized Ownership, Ethical Finance, and Sustainability. The book pairs each principle with a portrait of a place where it is being put into practice, from Pine Ridge to Portland to Cleveland to Preston, England, and more. This is a powerful, coherent, and achievable vision of an economy that serves the many, not the few. |
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82174. Win The Heart: How To Create A Culture Of Full Engagement : AudiobooksNow : USD5.49 Employee engagement is shockingly low-but it's not an employee problem; it's a leadership problem. Bestselling author Mark Miller says it's up to leaders to create a workplace where their employees truly want to be-and he reveals four keys to doing it.According to Gallup's 2017 report, only 33% of workers are engaged at work--and the numbers have been low for years. Leaders have tried and failed to address this critical problem. Based on Mark Miller's research, this book both simplifies and operationalizes the necessary behaviors to reverse this troubling trend. The missing link is realizing that the pandemic of low engagement is not a problem with the workers, it is a problem with the leaders.In this charming fable, Blake, a young CEO, is convinced something is not quite right in his organization. Sales, profits, and customer satisfaction are barely improving, the competition is gaining on them and no one appears to care. And when he's honest with himself, he's lost his fire as well. He just can't put his finger on the problem. Blake seeks out his old friend and first mentor, Debbie Bruster. She sends Blake on a journey to discover the key to engaging leadership. By the end of his journey, Blake has discovered a powerful philosophy to guide his decisions in the future, and four drivers of engagement to implement today. |
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82175. Customer-driven Disruption: Five Strategies To Stay Ahead Of The Curve : AudiobooksNow : USD7.99 Businesses worry about new technologies, but customers are the ultimate disruptors-Suman Sarkar offers bold strategies for making sure you understand your customers and keep up with their ever-changing needs.Disruption-the brutal roiling of markets, the decline of long-established brands and products, and the rise of new upstarts-drives business failure and success. Most people think technology causes disruption, but technology merely enables it-changing customer needs cause disruptions and too many businesses get caught unaware. The irony is your customers are constantly telling you what they want-you just have to know how to listen. This book offers five proven strategies that will enable any business to stay radically close to its customers and give them what they want: (1) win with current customers before chasing after new ones; (2) personalization is not a luxury; (3) customers won't wait; (4) good enough is no longer good enough; and, in the spirit of disruption, (5) go beyond strategies one through four. |
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82176. There's No Such Thing As An It Project: A Handbook For Intentional Business Change : AudiobooksNow : USD7.99 Learn how to stop pouring vast sums of money into technology projects that don't have a lasting impact by closing the communication gap between IT and leadership. |
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82177. Bedtime Stories For Managers: Farewell To Lofty Leadership. . . Welcome Engaging Management : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 In forty-two succinct, surprising essays, legendary scholar Henry Mintzberg brings management down from the clouds and onto solid ground.Enough of heroic leadership |
| 82178. D Eggs.so Mintzberg Urges Leaders To Call Their Own Call Centers : AudiobooksNow Mintzberg writes that he captures "a lifetime of learning about managing and organizing and strategizing |
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82179. The Critical Few: Energize Your Companys Culture By Choosing What Really Matters : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 Without a deep understanding of your company's culture, any change effort you undertake will fail. Bestselling author Jon Katzenbach and his coauthors identify the four most critical cultural elements leaders need to focus on.Every organization has a unique culture, but they all have one thing in common. Whenever they have a big change to make, powerful emotional forces in their culture appear, at first, to resist it. But there are other culture forces under the surface that can be potential sources of catalytic strength. The best leaders succeed by tapping those critical few" sources. Using an unusual |
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82181. Diversity Beyond Lip Service: A Coaching Guide For Challenging Bias : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 La'Wana Harris has opened this coach's eyes to the power of coaching practices to create new paths for diversity and inclusion work-whether or not you are formally trained as a coach. Please read this book and help create workplaces with honest engagement and access for all. -Marshall Goldsmith, Thinkers 50 #1 Executive Coach and two-time #1 Leadership Thinker in the worldThe elephant in the room with diversity and inclusion work is that people with privilege must use their privilege to allow others equal access to power. This is often the reason diversity efforts can be stalled--we talk about the benefits, but we don't address the perception that in order for some to gain power, others will have to lose." Everyone believes in diversity until they have to give something up. How do we talk people through this shift?This book introduces a new coaching tool |
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82182. Master Your Motivation: Three Scientific Truths For Achieving Your Goals : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 If you want to accomplish what's important to you, discipline and willpower won't get you where you need to go. In this iconoclastic new book, Susan Fowler reveals compelling insights and actions to help you master and maintain your motivation.Susan Fowler makes the bold claim that not all motivation is created equal. Too often, workplaces, schools, and home environments set us up for suboptimal motivation-undermining our independence, relationships, and competence. In order to achieve optimal motivation, Fowler asks us to consider three simple scientific truths to help us achieve our goals and flourish:1.Autonomy: we all need to perceive we have control over what happens in our lives2.Relatedness: we all need to care about others and feel cared about without ulterior motives3.Competence: we all need to feel we can meet everyday challenges and learn and grow each dayIt's time we awakened to this truth: People don't want to be bored or disengaged. People appreciate meaningful challenges. People want to contribute, feel fulfilled, and grow and learn every day. No matter what our situation-or age-our basic nature is the desire to thrive. People long to experience the competence that comes from growing and learning every day. And now, thanks to the most groundbreaking research in the history of motivation, we know how to promote thriving. |
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82183. Compassionate Counterterrorism: The Power Of Inclusion In Fighting Fundamentalism : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 Islamist terrorism is not about religion, says Leena Al Olaimy, an Arab Muslim, Dalai Lama Fellow, and social entrepreneur. She identifies the economic, social, and political factors that are its true driving forces and offers innovative strategies to address them that have proven far more effective than military interventions alone.Sixteen years ago during Ramadan, Leena Al Olaimy was a senior at New York University volunteering at Ground Zero. Ironically, she, a practicing Muslim, was assigned to distribute food to the rescue workers. Angered by what her religion had come to represent, and at those brandishing their perverted version of it, she embarked on lifelong research into the root of extremism.While terrorism experts are unlikely to reach a consensus on the instigators, nor discover an algorithm explaining violent extremism; there is one common thread present through the narratives of terrorists. In some shape or form, they have all suffered from social, economic, or political exclusion. Most critically, this creates an inner turmoil, resulting in the delusion that martyrdom can bring glory. Yet throughout history, many marginalized peoples have not retaliated with such senseless violence, so what inner and outer enabling conditions drive individuals who have radicalized in the name of Islam? And more importantly, what solutions lie in our personal power to address them? This book examines these questions through a spiritual lens, reflecting on absolutism, moral humility, and the potential 'fundamentalist' in all of us, including the perils of justifying a noble pursuit" using immoral means; and the parallels between interpretations of scripture to justify violence |
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82184. Networking For People Who Hate Networking, Second Edition: A Field Guide For Introverts, The Overwhelmed, And The Underconnect : AudiobooksNow : USD7.99 A new edition of Devora Zack's classic bestseller (over 120,000 sold in 15 languages) on networking techniques that leverage the strengths of the mingling-averse, updated throughout, with two new chapters.An international bestseller, Devora Zack's book flipped networking on its head, challenging the narrative that most books on networking recommended, which offered little or even bad advice for the 25 percent of the population who are introverts. In contrast, Zack tells introverts that they do not need to mimic extroverted networking styles, and instead shows how introverts' natural traits can actually be highly successful networking strategies. This new edition integrates real life examples shared by readers of the first edition to enrich the narrative. It also updates the interactive survey from the first edition and includes revisions to consider digital networking and tools, such as Instagram, which didn't exist when the first edition was published, asking questions such as What is the role |
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82185. From Sabotage To Support: A New Vision For Feminist Solidarity In The Workplace : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 Women are acculturated within systems that encourage them to sabotage one another; this book shows how they can break free of this cultural programming and use whatever privilege and power they have to raise each other up.Feminists have been fighting for decades against the stereotypes that women are somehow hardwired to backstab, claiming that it is not true and seeking to create unity among women. Unfortunately, as we are learning, there is in fact a type of sabotage that falls along racial lines. Different from the stereotypical personal catfight, these divisions between white women, black women and other women of color are rooted in history and are more pervasive than we realize. It occurs when women of different identities unwittingly sabotage each other. This book teaches readers how to take an active approach to better understand ourselves, the biases we may be holding without realizing it, and lift up other women along the way. By pausing to reflect before acting, it is possible to make a different choice, interrupt our action, and take steps to improve our world rather than perpetuate injustices, knowingly and unknowingly. This new book frames sabotage as both a historical inheritance and contextualizes the current problem, providing practical solutions that women can start using in the workplace right away, regardless of their position. |
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82186. The Complete Project Manager, 2nd Edition: Integrating People, Organizational, And Technical Skills : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 This is an important book; it is a necessary book. It comprehensively addresses the rapidly expanding role of the project manager, a role that is striving to keep up with the corresponding expansion in the definition of project success.-from the Foreword by Michael O'BrochtaThis is a classic, bestselling, practical guide that addresses the soft" project management skills that are so essential to successful project |
| 82187. Vely Applying Soft Project Management Skills In The Areas Of Leadership : AudiobooksNow business analysis |
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82188. Dig Your Heels In: Navigate Corporate Bs And Build The Company You Deserve : AudiobooksNow : USD7.99 What if you could transform your company from the inside out? Biased, male-dominated corporate cultures have forced far too many women out of the companies they've aspired to work for. Dig Your Heels In is a first of its kind playbook that empowers women to disrupt the corporate achievement game and be catalysts for positive change.Dig Your Heels In is a playbook that empowers women to win at the corporate achievement game and be a catalyst for positive progress. It tackles the critical need to engage, advance and retain women in the workplace, for the financial success of the business and for the benefit of their women employees.This is the first book of its kind to truly arm women to hold their ground and play the long game, staying and advancing in corporate careers. If the reader Digs Her Heels In at the company that pays her paycheck today, she can transform the company into the one that she deserves, for herself and for future generations of women entering the workforce.Dig Your Heels In is the roadmap that shows women how increasing their breadth of experience gives them more power to identify opportunities for and effect innovative and equitable change. This book is critical for women from the entry level to the executive level. Dig Your Heels In is also a critical resource for leaders in the C-suite and those leading Human Resources, Talent Management and on the front lines of recruitment who can drive enterprise wide changes to build programs that strengthen engagement and retention. Every reader will learn the ten big bold moves to achieve the career they desire and build the company and culture they deserve. |
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82189. Outward Bound Lessons To Live A Life Of Leadership: To Serve, To Strive, And Not To Yield : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 This is the first book to describe in detail the principles of Outward Bound, told through the stories of former instructors and graduates who show how to apply them to create healthier, more effective teams, organizations, and communities.Outward Bound has helped develop millions of leaders by stressing that every team needs leaders at all levels and that the nominal team leader must learn alongside the team, never from a position of superiority. Based on the foundational ideas of educator Kurt Hahn, Outward Bound teaches that leaders lead best when they have taught self-reliance and mutual responsibility and can fade into the background. Countless companies and organizations have used Outward Bound lessons (and you do not need to climb a mountain to use them) to strengthen their teams. Noted Outward Bound leader and educator Mark Brown shares these unique lessons with readers:1. Leaders are learners.2. Leaders create a safe environment to take risks.3. Leaders develop other leaders at all levels.4. Leaders understand the journey is the destination.5. Leaders always watch for teachable moments.6. Leaders are always ready to serve a greater good.7. Leaders facilitate a Graduated Level of Responsibility for all those in their care. |
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82190. The Five Legends: A Journey To Heal Divided Hearts : AudiobooksNow : USD5.49 Drawing on 30 years of helping families, this profound fable by the Anasazi Foundation illustrates the true anguish of conflict and explains how we can end war within ourselves, within our families, and even between nations.Created in 1988 by renowned wilderness pioneers Larry D. Olsen and Ezekiel C. Sanchez (a Totonac Indian whose native name is Good Buffalo Eagle), the Anasazi Foundation invites young people, through a primitive living experience, to effect a change of heart. For over thirty years, their teachings have helped families begin anew and walk in harmony in the wilderness of the world. Inspired by their wisdom, this book tells the story of two brothers whose warring hearts threaten to destroy their lives and their community. Trapped in a canyon, the two brothers are rescued by a mysterious old man who perceives their need for peace. He offers to guide them home - inviting them to open their hearts toward a New Beginning. When they agree, he teaches them the five legends of peace. And as they walk forward, they learn that we are free to create peace in our own lives-and how to do it. This discovery saves not only the brothers but ultimately their people. This poetic narrative offers us all a hopeful way out of the canyons of war, leaving behind the warring within. |
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82191. The Unwritten Rules Of Managing Up: Project Management Techniques From The Trenches : AudiobooksNow : USD7.99 This is a must-read for bosses and subordinates alike, as it exposes our flaws but teaches us how we can work together to achieve our common goals.-Ellen Coulter, President, The Advantage Software CompanyWhat do you do when the biggest threat to your project is your boss? It's not that your boss is out to get you. In fact, bosses generally mean well. But clueless leadership from a well-intentioned boss can sometimes cause more damage than a criminal mastermind tying your project to the railroad tracks.Lucky for you, the best project managers have got managing up" down to a fine science. The reason is that project managers are often outside consultants with no formal posit |
| 82192. Ion In The Organization They're Working For : AudiobooksNow which apply to each of these difficult boss types. Your boss will be eating right from your hand in no time." |
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82193. The Law Of Small Things: Creating A Habit Of Integrity In A Culture Of Mistrust : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 We are living in a time when dishonesty and duplicity are common in our public institutions, our workplaces, and even in our personal relationships. But by recognizing and resisting the small, seemingly inconsequential ways we make moral compromises in our own lives, we can repair the tear in our social and moral fabric.Most people believe that integrity is something you just have" and as "good people |
| 82194. Doing So. The Law Of Small Things Exposes How Our Culture Encourages The Breach Of Integrity Through An Array Of "permitted Promise-breaking : AudiobooksNow |
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82195. Safe Enough To Soar: Accelerating Trust, Inclusion, & Collaboration In The Workplace : AudiobooksNow : USD4.49 Bestselling authors and renowned diversity consultants Fred Miller and Judith Katz bring their long-awaited new book that shows any manager or member of a team how to create safe environments for everyone in their company.Do you feel safe enough at work to share your ideas, thoughts, and experiences? Raise tough issues? Deal with conflicts? Do your best work? Many people feel unsafe in work interactions. They hold back, hesitate, and make themselves smaller out of fear of ridicule or retribution. The lack of safety is why new ideas and new people often have such a hard time succeeding in today's organizations, and directly contribute to why stress levels are so high. Many people have the skills they need to do their best work and the ideas to solve problems but lack the safety to apply them. This book describes what constitutes a safe environment and the actions-by both leaders and team members-necessary to create collaborative, inclusive workplaces in which people feel safe enough to be their best selves. Written in plain, everyday language, Safe Enough to Soar identifies the default mindsets and behaviors that create hostile work environments and block collaboration, engagement, partnership, and the acceptance of new ideas and new people. Expert authors Fred Miller and Judith Katz chart a simple, step-by-step process that will enable organization's individuals, work-groups, and teams to skip past the dysfunctional mire of defensiveness, micro-aggressions, cover-your-ass compromises, and judging, and launch them into the innovation-inspiring, collaboration-fostering zone of organizational bravery. When people feel safe enough to act and interact, they step up, speak up, and fully engage...and they and their organizations spread their wings and soar. |
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82196. The Big Four: The Curious Past And Perilous Future Of The Global Accounting Monopoly : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 With staffs that are collectively larger than the Russian army, the Big Four accounting firms are a keystone in global finance --but do they really provide stability and safety? Leading scholar Ian Gow and award-winning writer (and former KPMG director) Stuart Kells warn that a house of cards may be about to fall.Across the globe, the so-called Big Four accounting and audit firms - Deloitte, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Ernst & Young, and KPMG - are massively influential. Together, they earn more than $100 billion annually and employ almost one million people. In many profound ways, they have changed how we work, how we manage, how we invest and how we are governed.Stretching back centuries, their history is a fascinating story of wealth, power and luck. But today, the Big Four face an uncertain future - thanks to their push into China; their vulnerability to digital disruption and competition; and the hazards of providing traditional services in a new era of transparency. Surprisingly colorful and unquestionably authoritative, this account of the past, present and likely future of the Big Four is essential reading for anyone perplexed or fascinated by professional services, working in the industry, contemplating joining a professional services firm, or simply curious about the fate of the global economy. |
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82197. Decolonizing Wealth: Indigenous Wisdom To Heal Divides And Restore Balance : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 Decolonizing Wealth is a provocative analysis of the dysfunctional colonial dynamics at play in philanthropy and finance. Award-winning philanthropy executive Edgar Villanueva draws from the traditions from the Native way to prescribe the medicine for restoring balance and healing our divides.With great compassion-because the Native way is to bring the oppressor into the circle of healing, understanding that healing cannot occur unless everyone is part of the process- Villanueva diagnoses the fatal flaws in financial institutions, unflinchingly drilling down to the core of colonialism and White supremacy. The greed, exploitation, and domination at the core of colonization are the same dynamics at play today when money is used to separate Us from Them and to separate Haves from Have-Nots. To restore harmony and heal divides-as we desperately need to do in America and the world- we must learn how to decolonize the institutions and processes that control and move money. Although there is no quick fix for the traumatic complexity of colonization, Villanueva's Seven Steps for Healing" outline a process to follow |
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82198. Leadership And Self-deception, 3rd Edition: Getting Out Of The Box : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 This third edition of an international bestseller-over 2 million copies sold worldwide and translated into 33 languages-details how its powerful insights on motivation, conflict, and collaboration can benefit organizations as well as individuals.Since its original publication in 2000, Leadership and Self-Deception has become an international word-of-mouth phenomenon. Rather than tapering off, it sells more copies every year. The book's central insight--that the key to leadership lies not in what we do but in who we are--has proven to have powerful implications not only for organizational leadership but in readers' personal lives as well.Leadership and Self-Deception uses an entertaining story everyone can relate to about a man facing challenges at work and at home to expose the fascinating ways that we blind ourselves to our true motivations and unwittingly sabotage the effectiveness of our own efforts to achieve happiness and increase happiness. We trap ourselves in a box" of endless self-justification. Most importantly |
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82199. Dare To Serve, 2nd Edition: How To Drive Superior Results By Serving Others : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 In this updated edition of Dare to Serve, former Popeyes CEO Cheryl Bachelder shows that leading by serving is a rigorous and tough-minded approach that yields the best results. When she was named CEO of Popeyes in 2007, the stock price had slipped from $34 in 2002 to $13. The brand was stagnant, the team was discouraged, and the franchisees were just plain angry. Nine years later, restaurant sales were up 45 percent, restaurant profits had doubled, and the stock price was over $61. Servant leadership is sometimes derided as soft or ineffective, but this book confirms that challenging people to reach a daring destination, while treating them with dignity, creates the conditions for superior performance. The second edition of this bestselling book includes Bachelder's post-Popeyes observations and new examples of how you can switch your leadership from self to serve. Ever engaging and inspirational, Bachelder takes you firsthand through the transformation of Popeyes and shows how anyone, at any level can become a Dare-to-Serve leader. |
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82200. Project Management For Small Projects: 2nd Edition : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 Important New Tools for Managing Your Small Projects As Part of a Larger Program!The first edition of Project Management for Small Projects introduced project management processes, tools, and techniques that are scalable and adaptable to small projects. Project managers learned a structured, disciplined approach to managing small projects sensibly and realistically. This new edition is updated throughout to reflect the PMBOK® Guide, Fifth Edition, balancing the particular needs of small projects with the project management methodology.Project managers who are proficient at managing and leading their own projects are increasingly being called upon to work collaboratively with other project managers to lead components of a program. In addition to knowing how to manage processes and how to lead the team, project managers must now also know how to collaborate and share knowledge with other project managers. A new chapter on program management offers important insights and guidance for managing a group of related small projects in a coordinated way to obtain benefits and control not available from managing them individually. |
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82201. Understanding Government Contract Law: 2nd Edition : AudiobooksNow : USD12.99 The only government contract law textbook to outline both practice and theory in simple, clear English for beginners.An introduction to the procurement field that spares the reader from the necessity of trudging through dense and complex texts written in hard-to-follow legalese." Here you will find clear and concise explanations of the legal principles involved in government contract law |
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82202. Project Management For Small Projects, Third Edition : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 Project Management for Small Projects shows you how to tailor bureaucratic planning processes to a sleek minimum while still keeping your project running like a well-oiled machine.The Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) recommends tailoring the planning processes to fit the size of your project, but it doesn't always fully explain how. Using too much process can be as detrimental to a project as not using a process at all. For years, this book has helped managers of small projects design processes that are neither too big nor too small but just right." It provides simplified but compliant tools for immediate use in managing small projects. And since most small projects tend to |
| 82203. Be Similar In Structure Or Outcome : AudiobooksNow |
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82204. How Wealth Rules The World: Saving Our Communities And Freedoms From The Dictatorship Of Property : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 Ben Price reveals that our Constitution and legal system were intentionally designed to give more rights to the wealthy propertied class than the rest of us and exposes how this hamstrings our ability to effectively address a host of pressing social and environmental problems-and what we can do about it.Many of today's social and environmental problems-homelessness, gun violence, fracking, prison privatization, and many more-resist resolution because the rights of property" undermine the rights of people. The law attaches the power to rule to pooled wealth |
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82206. Erasing Institutional Bias: How To Create Systemic Change Fororganizational Inclusion : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 All humans have bias, and as a result, so do the institutions we build. Internationally sought after diversity consultant Tiffany Jana offers concrete ways for anyone to work against institutional bias no matter what their position is in an organization.While it is easy to identify intentionally built systems of oppression like Jim Crow or the paralysis caused by the glass ceiling for women in the workplace, confronting systems that perpetuate subtle, unconscious bias is much harder. Erasing Institutional Bias will help people tackle structural bias regardless of their positional power. Eliminating systemic bias can seem an insurmountable task from the vantage point of an ordinary individual, yet Jana and Mejias empower readers to recognize that each of us has the ability to affect systemic bias through a deliberate, coordinated effort. Institutional bias afflicts all industries -including business, education, health care, government, tech, the arts, nonprofits, and finance and banking. Among the types of institutional bias addressed are hiring bias, gender bias, racial bias, occupational bias, and customer bias. Jana and Mejias focus their attention on bias in the workplace and give readers practices and activities to create organizational trust to challenge these implicit biases. Erasing Institutional Bias will help people recognize that each of us has the power to affect systemic bias. Each of us can evaluate our own current role in perpetuating systemic bias and define our new role in breaking down systemic bias. |
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82207. The B Corp Handbook, Second Edition: How You Can Use Business As A Force For Good : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 This book shows how using business as a force for good, not just pursuing short-term profits, can be better for consumers, employees, local communities, the environment, and your company's long-term bottom line.-Tony Hsieh, New York Times bestselling author of Delivering Happiness and CEO, Zappos.com, Inc. More than 2,4570 companies from 130 industries and 50 countries are leading a global movement to redefine success in business. They're called B Corporations, and they create high-quality jobs, build stronger communities, and restore the environment, all while generating solid financial returns. Coauthor and B Corp owner Ryan Honeyman worked with over 100 B Corp CEOs and senior executives to share their tips, advice, and best-practice ideas for how to build a better business, and how to meet the rigorous standards for-and enjoy the benefits of-B Corp certification.Diversity, equity, and inclusion measures have now become a key part of achieving B Corp certification. In this second edition, new coauthor and B Corp owner Tiffany Jana contributes an introduction about DEI, and works with Honeyman to integrate new DEI frameworks, and provide advice and end-of-chapter discussion questions to get companies talking about critical DEI issues at every stage of the certification process. |
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82208. Help Them Grow Or Watch Them Go, 2nd Edition: Career Conversations Organizations Need And Employees Want : AudiobooksNow : USD5.49 The new edition of the bestselling employee development classic includes advice on engagement and retention in today's more flexible employment environment and a new chapter on creating a career development culture in your organization.Study after study confirms that career development is the single most powerful tool managers have for driving retention, engagement, productivity, and results. It's the sustainable competitive advantage that will distinguish the winners from the losers. Nevertheless, it's frequently back-burnered. When asked why, managers say the number one reason is that they just don't have time-for the meetings, the forms, the administrative hoops.But there's a better way. And it's surprisingly simple: frequent short conversations with employees about their career goals and options integrated seamlessly into the normal course of business. Beverly Kaye, coauthor of the bestselling Love 'Em or Lose 'Em, and Julie Winkle Giulioni identify three broad types of conversations that will increase employees' awareness of their strengths, weaknesses, and interests; point out where their organization and their industry are headed; and help them pull all of that together to design their own up-to-the-minute, personalized career plans. Help Them Grow or Watch Them Go is filled with practical tips, guidelines, and templates, as well as nearly a hundred suggested conversation questions. This new edition will also be released alongside an interactive Help Them Grow or Watch Them Go card deck to create organizational pathways for career development, and twenty-seven minutes of video trainings covering content, activities and practices in the book. |
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82209. Trauma Stewardship: An Everyday Guide To Caring For Self While Caring For Others : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 This beloved bestseller-over 180,000 copies sold-has helped caregivers worldwide keep themselves emotionally, psychologically, spiritually, and physically healthy in the face of the sometimes overwhelming traumas they confront every day.A longtime trauma worker, Laura van Dernoot Lipsky offers a deep and empathetic survey of the often-unrecognized toll taken on those working to make the world a better place. We may feel tired, cynical, or numb or like we can never do enough. These, and other symptoms, affect us individually and collectively, sapping the energy and effectiveness we so desperately need if we are to benefit humankind, other living things, and the planet itself.In Trauma Stewardship, we are called to meet these challenges in an intentional way. Lipsky offers a variety of simple and profound practices, drawn from modern psychology and a range of spiritual traditions, that enable us to look carefully at our reactions and motivations and discover new sources of energy and renewal. She includes interviews with successful trauma stewards from different walks of life and even uses New Yorker cartoons to illustrate her points.We can do meaningful work in a way that works for us and for those we serve |
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82210. Building A Successful Social Venture: A Guide For Social Entrepreneurs : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 This is the first book on creating and running a social enterprise to combine theoretical discussions with current cases from around the world, filling a huge gap in the literature. It serves as an eminently practical blueprint for those who wish to build, sustain, and grow social ventures.Social Ventures seek to bring the discipline and energy of private enterprise to the task of solving problems like poverty, lack of clean water, and poor environmental quality. Although several textbooks exist to introduce the concept to students--business schools and universities have scrambled to create social enterprise programs and classes to respond to student interest--most books are cursory and do not dig deeply into every step and process needed. Using famed case studies and examples from their own program at Santa Clara University, this book provides a path for any social entrepreneur to build an idea, get funding, and get going. |
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82211. Why People Dont Believe You: Building Credibility From The Inside Out : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 For some, projecting confidence and credibility is second nature. For others, it seems like a foreign language they'll never learn - until now. Rob Jolles delivers down-to-earth solutions for anyone looking to enhance the most basic need of all; to be believed. He leverages his over 30 years of experience to equip readers with empowering and practical tools for achieving business and social success.Let's face it - there are some of us who are born with a natural ability to effortlessly communicate with others and be believed. Unfortunately, not everyone possesses this natural talent, and as a result struggle with the simple act of being believed. Frequently, this inability to get others to believe becomes a significant stumbling block affecting those we interact with, and the paths we choose in life. Expert author Rob Jolles has actively mentored and coached thousands who battle with long-term unemployment, and have a particularly acute problem with presenting themselves effectively. The problem, he says, is we rely far too heavily on our words to secure the belief of others, when in reality only seven percent of the emotional impact of our message comes from the words we use. The solution he offers here is building confidence through a series of process behaviors and techniques, and learning how to cope with fear, which can significantly impact how credible others perceive our message to be. Moving past the words, and applying acting and improv skills, along with improving pitch, pace, and tone, his programs have achieved astonishing results. |
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82212. Your Happiness Was Hacked: Why Tech Is Winning The Battle To Control Your Brain--and How To Fight Back : AudiobooksNow : USD7.99 Technology is a great servant but a terrible master. This is the most important book ever written about one of the most significant aspects of our lives-the consequences of our addiction to online technology and how we can liberate ourselves and our children from it.-Dean Ornish, M.D. Founder & President, Preventive Medicine Research Institute, Clinical Professor of Medicine, UCSF, Author, The SpectrumFor all its considerable benefits, many argue that technology has been instrumental in eroding security, privacy, and community. But Vivek Wadhwa and Alex Salkever argue that the truth is far more insidious: technology is actively robbing us of our happiness by making us so reliant on it that it becomes an addiction. Tech companies have all the weapons--sophisticated tracking bots, GPS coordinates, and algorithms that determine the optimal ways to distract us to their products and apps--even secret coding that defeats government monitoring and supervision--but Vivek and Salkever now provide us with insights and techniques to fight back. They focus on four key areas: Love, Work, Self, and Society. In each case, they document how the promise of technology has mutated into addiction and despair, and they lay out strategies to take back control by understanding the addictive mechanisms at the root of technology overload. |
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82213. Be A Project Motivator: Unlock The Secrets Of Strengths-based Project Management : AudiobooksNow : USD7.99 How do project managers achieve spectacular results when they have no direct authority over their team members? Here's a foolproof process for engaging your team: one that begins with engaging yourself.Project managers are frequently given the task of driving results without having any authority to back up their directives. This book helps project managers succeed when the deck is stacked against them. The secret to running spectacular projects is engaging and inspiring every person who's part of your project, so they feel responsible for the outcome. And that engagement starts with you-- you have to feel engaged and inspired yourself before you can inspire others. Ruth Pearce, The Proje |
| 82214. Ct Motivator" Draws On Principles From Positive Psychology : AudiobooksNow |
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82215. Turning People Into Teams: Rituals And Routines That Redesign How We Work : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 Collaborative strategies work when they're designed by teams-where each person is heard, valued, and held accountable. This book is a practical guide for project team leaders and individual contributors who want their teams to play by a better set of rules.Where do teams go wrong? Having the right people with the right skills doesn't mean they'll know how to work together as a team. David and Mary Sherwin maintain it's all in the design. Through a blend of straightforward activities, conversational stories, and dialogues that help model different forms of team interaction, this book will help teams:- Create workday rituals that aid them in making better decisions and following through on their work responsibilities- Identify patterns of behavior that are getting in the way of team performance, and design and test potential ways to them- Reinforce habits that help team members bring the human element into their interactions and foster open communicationReaders of this book will be more prepared to set up and survive challenging projects alongside their coworkers with a shared sense of ownership, and an eye towards retaining the integrity of their teams in the long term. Using a process that has worked at some of the world's cutting edge companies, the authors detail the steps to take control of team design and plan for success. The key is to give every team member a voice in designing the team's rules, and in keeping it aligned with the design over the life of the team. |
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82216. Citizen Capitalism: How A Universal Fund Can Provide Influence And Income To All : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 Top Cornell law professor Lynn Stout and her coauthors Tamara Belinfanti and Sergio Gramitto offer a visionary but practical proposal to provide a guaranteed minimum income-it not only avoids creating a new government program or increasing taxes, but also gives the entire citizenry more influence in the economy.This book offers a powerful and simple plan for simultaneously accomplishing two far-reaching objectives: (1) providing a basic income for all citizens and (2) making capitalism more democratic and responsive to the will of the people. The authors detail how we can create a universal fund (similar to a mutual fund) through donations of stock and other securities by corporations and individuals. This fund would be owned by, and would provide an income supplement for, all Americans. It would be an independent entity, not a government agency. Its citizen-owners would participate in governing the fund and directing its share voting choices. This would give average citizens more influence over and a larger share of the financial benefits from the corporations that are the engines of our economy. It would make corporations part of the solution to income inequality. The result will be making capitalism work better for all while bringing hope to us, our children, and our society. |
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82217. Convinced!: How To Prove Your Competence & Win People Over : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 Competence does not speak for itself! You can't simply display it; you have to draw people's attention to it. World-renowned negotiation and deception detection expert, business professor, and mentalist Jack Nasher offers effective, proven techniques to convince others that we are talented, trustworthy, and yes, even brilliant.In 2007 world-famous violinist Joshua Bell performed incognito for 45 minutes in the Washington D.C. subway, playing a Stradivarius. Few stopped to listen; he made $32.17. Jack Nasher opens his book with this story to prove his point: demonstrating competence, even brilliance, isn't enough-you have to sell it. Nasher explores the minutiae of communication and body language to show us how to confidently convince others of our competence in a professional context. A professional mentalist, lawyer, professor, and successful businessman, Nasher is well versed in the inner workings of the human psyche. He draws on fascinating stories, the latest research, and his own experiences to offer a complete guide to putting people at ease and making them realize you really do know what you're doing. |
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82218. Community, 2nd Edition: The Structure Of Belonging : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 The expanded and revised edition of Community tackles the hysteric rise of isolation and fear in a digitally interconnected world.In the second edition of Community, author Peter Block offers practical advice and uplifting stories as a way to reject the increasing pull towards isolation and fear of the stranger in a new world of constant connection. This book explores the benefits of community and belonging to foster social change and reconciliation. As we continue to find new ways of being in constant connection with each other through technology, our workplaces are depopulated and we face growing trends of fundamentalism and nationalism, our fear of the stranger deepens. Block challenges this mindset and proves that community and the structure of belonging has the power to bring about positive social change when supported by the frameworks of compassion, equity and respect for the other. Backed by extensive research, this updated and expanded edition illuminates successful stories of community building as a form of healing. Covering stories about political gridlocks, poverty, people of faith, to institutional life, this revolutionary book offers a compelling argument of why we need community now more than ever. |
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82219. The Future Of Packaging: From Linear To Circular : AudiobooksNow : USD7.99 Tom Szaky sets out to do the impossible - eliminate all waste. This book paints a future of a circular economy" that relies on responsible reuse and recycling to propel the world towards eradicating overconsumption and waste.The Future of Packaging provides a straightforward solution to tackling the daunting issues of waste in the packaging industry by returning to a "circular economy." Beginning with a critique of the irresponsibility of the packaging industry and its contributions to wastefulness |
| 82220. From Circular Systems Of Consumption I.e. Refillable Milk/water/beer To Largely Linear Systems I.e. Milk Bags/plastic Bottles/plastic Kegs. Objects Were Circular Up Until The 1940s : AudiobooksNow which depends on extracting resources and overconsumption |
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82221. On The Brink Of Everything: Grace, Gravity, And Getting Old : AudiobooksNow : USD7.99 From beloved bestselling author Parker J. Palmer (Let Your Life Speak) comes a beautiful book of meditations and reflections on eight decades of life, the process of aging, his own spiritual journey (which has never been confined to a creed), and his vocation as a writer and thinker.On the Brink of Everything is an exploration of Parker Palmer's experience of living and aging, written in hopes of encouraging readers of every age to explore their life course. It is not a guide to" or "handbook" for "getting old"--something all of us are doing all the time. Instead it's a set of meditations in prose and poetry that turn the prism on the meaning(s) of one's life--and on the importance of staying meaningfull |
| 82222. Y Engaged With Life Until The End. From Beginning To End The Book Is Packed With Both Humor And Gravitas." : AudiobooksNow |
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82223. Humble Leadership: The Power Of Relationships, Openness, And Trust : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 Bestselling author and father of organizational culture studies, Edgar Schein and Peter Schein trail-blaze with a creative perspective on leadership that encourages vulnerability and empathy as a form of strength.The more traditional form of leadership that is based on immobile hierarchies is growing increasingly outdated and ineffective. Without the ability to actually communicate with their peers, leaders become alienated from their followers and productivity and quality are sacrificed. Authors Edgar Schein and Peter Schein recognize this reality and call for a reimagined form a leadership that coincides with emerging trends of relationship building, complex group work, and diverse workforces. Gaining a deeper understanding of the constantly evolving complexities of interpersonal, group and even intergroup relationships requires shifting our focus towards the process of group dynamics and collaboration. The humble leadership paradigm stresses the importance of studying of how things are being done through collaboration and humility. This space of collaboration is often where invention and brand-new ways of getting things done are created, rather than in the tunnel vision of new ideas of products, markets, or production methods. The future of leadership is dependent on working relationships that are trusting and open. Humble leaders don't shy away from human connection in the workplace but rather see it as an opportunity for growth and success. |
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82224. Going Horizontal: Creating A Non-hierarchical Organization, One Practice At A Time : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 For every company like Zappos that has achieved the Utopia of an egalitarian business model, there are thousands that remain stuck on the corporate ladder. Self-management consultant Samantha Slade shares that the real secret to flattening a hierarchical organization is seemingly obvious: don't do it all at once. Media is showing us that self-managing organizations, like Zappos, unleash human potential in ways we couldn't have imagined, but so often when we try to transition to a self managed organization, we get stuck. The task seems overwhelming and many organizations just give up. We find ourselves caught between the inspirational stories of these self-organizing companies and the deeply entrenched habits. It can be overwhelming to have such a sense of possibility and yet feel ill equipped in practical methods and strategy. Samantha Slade is the founder of Percolab, an international consulting firm in Quebec that has been helping organizations successfully transition to self-management for over a decade. Too many organizations try to change everything at the same time and fail, concluding that the method is out of their reach. With Seven concrete practices, Slade offers a new way: transition on thing in your organization at a time. The benefits of a self- managed organization- increased engagement, retention, and productivity- can be achieved even by transitioning only one or two areas of your organization. Even if you never become Zappos, your organization will see increased energy and thriving. |
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82225. The Sustainable State: The Future Of Government, Economy, And Society : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 The free-market, limited-government development model has been an ecological and social disaster for the developing world. Sustainable and equitable development is possible only with the active involvement of a strong central state that can guide the economy, protect the environment, and prioritize meeting its people's basic needs.For decades, the Western argument has been that the unfettered free market is the best vehicle for economic development and social progress. Instead, this sure-to-be-controversial book argues that a strong state with a willingness to manage the economy within resource constraints is central to the challenge of sustainable development. Only a state that can and will exert effective governance can place fair and reasonable limits on resource consumption (which is completely unrestrained in the free-market model), manage the expectations of its population, preserve ecological integrity, and ensure universal access to basic needs. This will mean rethinking the meaning of concepts like prosperity |
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82226. A Great Place To Work For All: Better For Business, Better For People, Better For The World : AudiobooksNow : USD7.99 From Great Place to Work, which produces the popular FORTUNE 100 Best Companies to Work For ranking, comes a new definition of what it takes to make an organization great FOR ALL--for the business, for people and for the world.For 20 years Great Place to Work has published their gold-standard list of the 100 Best Companies to Work For. But their latest research shows that what was good enough to be a great" workplace 10 or 20 years ago is not good enough now. Even at the best workplaces |
| 82227. S Climate Is Defined By Speed : AudiobooksNow showing the advantages of what the authors define as Level 5 "For All" leaders. In effect |
| 82228. S To Reach Their Full Human Potential. This Is A Call To Lead So That Organizations Bring Out The Best In Everyone." : AudiobooksNow |
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82229. Our Search For Belonging: How Our Need To Connect Is Tearing Us Apart : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 Why are we so divided today? Paradoxically, Howard Ross, author of Everyday Bias, says it's our compulsion to belong to a group--something hardwired into us-- that ends up making us deeply connected with some, yet deeply divided from others. Ross shows how we can overcome this growing tribalism.We are living in a world of almost unparalleled separation. People are no longer disagreeing, but are instead disavowing each other's rights to an opinion. What is driving this polarization, and how can we overcome it? Howard Ross says that ironically it's our profound need to belong. He delves deeply into the powerful psychological, neurological, and biological forces that drive us to want to identify so strongly with a group we're sometimes even willing to sacrifice our individual identity.Drawing on his decades of leadership in the diversity and inclusion field, Ross probes the depth and impact of this growing tribalism, the role social media plays in exacerbating it, the ways it impacts every aspect of the daily lives, and how to combat it. Readers will gain tools for exploring contentious dialogue in healthier ways and guidelines for breaking down barriers and building bridges across difference, and organizations and institutions will be able to develop approaches that can open dialogue and encourage mutual understanding. |
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82230. Talent Magnet: How To Attract And Keep The Best People : AudiobooksNow : USD5.49 Win the talent wars! The groundbreaking research that informs this new book by leadership expert and bestselling author Mark Miller will help leaders hire, retain and nurture the kind of top talent that will make their businesses thrive.There is a long-standing truth in the world of organizations: those with the most talented people have the greatest chance of winning. But based on extensive research Mark Miller conducted with Aon, one of the world's largest and most respected human resource consulting practices, he discovered that what keeps and attracts top talent is different than what attracts and keeps typical talent. In Talent Magnet, Miller uses a business fable about Blake Brown, a CEO struggling with winning the war for talent, and his 16 year old son who is trying to help a village in Africa secure clean water, to reveal what top talent really want:A Better BossA Brighter FutureA Bigger StoryThis book pulls back the curtain on what leaders can do to attract the very best talent--a strategic need virtually every leader faces |
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82231. The Shift: How Seeing People As People Changes Everything : AudiobooksNow : USD7.99 A vivid depiction and real-world example of the personal and institutional impact of the Arbinger Insititute's transformative ideas (Leadership and Self-Deception; 1.4 million copies sold) within a healthcare organization--The Plum Healthcare Group nursing homes. In general, nursing homes are scorned healthcare institutions--but it was in these transformed Plum homes that Kimberly White discovered a new way of seeing" people and underwent her own personal transformation. Both Plum and White shifted their perspective and mindset based on their adoption of The Arbinger Institute's basic principles.Without realizing it |
| 82232. Sion And Conflict : AudiobooksNow everything in her life and her world changed--and the reader's will too." |
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82233. Trust: Creating The Foundation For Entrepreneurship In Developing Countries : AudiobooksNow : USD7.99 Entrepreneurs in developing countries who assume they will have the same legal, governmental, and institutional protections as their counterparts in the West will fail. To succeed, they need to build trust within the existing structures--and this book shows how it's done.Western countries have created layers of laws, regulations and other kinds of structural protections to enable entrepreneurs to build businesses. These don't necessarily exist, or aren't consistently enforced, in developing countries. But there is a solution and that solution is trust. This book, by an eminent business scholar and developing world entrepreneur, shows how to build trust in three crucial ways:1. Change Your Mindset: Let go of your expectations and realize that you have to understand and trust the rules of the society you're operating in, not fight against or go around them.2. Work with the Pre-existing Social Fabric: You can't change customs and practices that have been in place for hundreds, even thousands of years. Work with what already exists and build on top of it (while communicating and acting transparently every step of the way).3. Partner with and work with existing governmental structures: You can only scale your venture with their help--find change agents within the government and ally with them. |
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82234. The Magic Of Tiny Business: You Dont Have To Go Big To Make A Great Living : AudiobooksNow : USD5.49 In The Magic of Tiny Business, by ECOBAGS(r) founder and pioneering green business champion, Sharon Rowe shows entrepreneurs and business owners how to build a profitable, right-scaled, sustainable business that doesn't compromise their values.This is a powerful book-tiny is mighty. Sharon Rowe's simple shift in thinking is a profound idea |
| 82235. Ay: Go Tiny.like A Tiny House : AudiobooksNow Rowe distills the step-by-step process of building a profitable |
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82236. Tell Me About Yourself: Six Steps For Accurate And Artful Self-definition : AudiobooksNow : USD4.49 For creatives, entrepreneurs, job seekers, leaders, public figures, and speakers, Holley Murchison offers a proven six-step training process designed to help them craft and deliver comprehensive, compelling, and generally kick-ass introductions.From artists to entrepreneurs, students looking for their first jobs to organizational leaders, public figures and speakers, Tell Me About Yourself helps bolster confidence and authentic communication in life's most vulnerable moments. Treading on a proven six-step process, founder and CEO of Oratory Glory, Holley Murchison, teaches you how to craft and deliver a comprehensive, compelling and generally kick-ass introduction.-Step One: Revisit your introduction scenarios-Step Two: Identify your audience-Step Three: Clarify your response time and intent-Step Four: Reframe the question-Step Five: Decide what information you want to share-Step Six: Build your storyWhen there's just one chance to make a first impression, the way we express who we are becomes the most important part of our conversations. Making a bad impression puts our potential for success on shaky ground, thereby stunting our growth and chance to make an impact in the world. Implementing the wisdom of this book and Murchison's methodology, even those of us who are shy can make a lasting first impression. |
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82237. The Long-distance Leader: Rules For Remarkable Remote Leadership : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 Leadership First, Locations Second. As more organizations adopt a remote workforce, the challenges of leading at a distance become more urgent than ever. The cofounders of the Remote Leadership Institute, Kevin Eikenberry and Wayne Turmel, show leaders how to guide their teams by recalling the foundational principles of leadership whether their teams are scattered globally or just working from home a few days a week.To make leadership happen today we must rely more on technology and far less on face-to face communication. This can make the work of leaders and team members more isolating, frustrating and stressful. This book is for motivated leaders who want to get a handle on their remote work and teams.The book is built around the authors' 3 O model: Ourselves, Others, and Outcomes. They explain how to cultivate the mindset and attitude needed to lead oneself effectively at a distance; how to engage others when you're not physically present; and what processes and tools to use to make sure dispersed teams achieve the desired outcomes. In some ways the job of a leader has changed less than we think. Leadership is leadership and people are people. But (and it is a pretty big but) how we do it needs to evolve if we want the results and outcomes our organizations demand, leaders need, and their team members deserve. |
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82238. From Mindfulness To Heartfulness: Transforming Self And Society With Compassion : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 Bridging insights from both East and West, Murphy-Shigematsu provides a fresh way of looking at mindfulness that incorporates compassion, spirituality, and a concern for the greater good. The author's approach has been celebrated both in Japan and in the US.As the mindfulness craze has spread in the West it's becoming too commercialized, intellectualized, and diluted. Mindfulness as stress-reducer and attention-enhancer keeps it on a purely cognitive level, missing the emotional, spiritual, and compassionate aspects that have traditionally been an integral part of the practice. In this book (a bestseller in Japan), Murphy-Shigematsu describes what he calls heartfulness, which returns mindfulness to its roots by adding seven additional elements:-Attention as respect and deep listening-Vulnerability as humility and courage-Authenticity as genuineness-Acceptance of things we cannot change-Gratitude for what we receive-Connectedness to ourselves, others, and the world-Responsibility for ourselves and others |
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82239. Faster Together: Accelerating Your Team's Productivity : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 Teaming up shouldn't mean slowing down. Bestselling author Laura Stack's FAST model mobilizes teams to be the most effective they can be, while keeping each other's best interests at heart.Today's workplaces require people who can team well." Collective effort results in greater results and faster outcomes than an individual effort |
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82241. Leadership From The Inside Out, 3rd Edition: Becoming A Leader For Life : AudiobooksNow : USD12.99 This classic bestseller by Kevin Cashman pioneered a holistic approach to leadership development: grow the whole person to grow the whole leader. The third edition turns leadership development inside out for a new generation of authentic, purpose-inspired leaders.This book was the first to reveal and build on a foundational insight: we lead by virtue of who we are. Cashman's trademark whole-person" approach is essential to success in today's talent-starved marketplace and provides a measurable return on investment. Framed in seven simple yet profound personal "mastery areas |
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82242. The Introverted Leader, 2nd Edition: Building On Your Quiet Strength : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 50% of the U.S. population aged 40 and older test out to be introverts, as do 40% of top executives. Jennifer Kahnweiler's The Introverted Leader was one of the first books to offer this staggeringly large audience the tools to effectively lead with this common disposition.In our outgoing, type A business culture, introverts can feel excluded, overlooked, or misunderstood, their reticence mistaken for reluctance, arrogance, or even lack of intelligence. But Jennifer Kahnweiler shows that not only can introversion be managed, it can even be a source of strength in the workplace. This second edition is thoroughly revised with two new chapters and has increased attention to diversity and unconscious bias in organizations. Diversity of styles and temperaments, in addition to more traditional aspects of diversity like race and gender, are increasingly important to companies. This book still remains a highly practical leadership guide for introverts. |
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82243. Can Finance Save The World?: Regaining Power Over Money To Serve The Common Good : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 Just as Thomas Piketty offered a sweeping critique and progressive reassessment of capitalism, former World Bank Group chief financial officer Bertrand Badré looks at the destructive role finance played in the global economic crisis of 2007-2008 and offers a bold prescription for making finance a force for good.The overwhelming view following the recent global financial crisis was that finance itself was the cause of the crisis and the disasters that followed. But former World Bank Group CFO Bertrand Badre says that ultimately finance is just a tool--the most powerful tool on earth. Used correctly it can be at the heart of the way we address many of the world's problems, ranging from climate change to the eradication of poverty to building much needed infrastructure. Badre shows how to turn our financial system from a poor master to a great servant. He describes the innovations in financial tools and approaches that are already happening around the world. He looks at the role intelligent regulation can play in channeling the power of finance in a positive direction. He details options for overcoming the risks and obstacles to international cooperation for financial stability and prosperity, in contrast to the blinkered nationalism currently on the rise. And he tells what is working and what needs to change in financing the sustainable development of the world. The result is a blueprint for regaining power over finance to promote the public good. |
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82244. Stand Up!: How To Get Involved, Speak Out, And Win In A World On Fire : AudiobooksNow : USD7.99 In a time where the fight for social justice can feel overwhelming, Gordon Whitman empowers readers to stand up with a purpose-driven mindset and effective strategy.Stand Up! is an antidote to the cynicism that keeps so many people on the sidelines. It's both an argument about how to solve the biggest problems facing our society, and a guide to engaging with others to change the world. People don't need more information about what's going wrong. They need to know that change is possible and that they have a meaningful role to play. They need to know that they can transform themselves from passive observers of politics and civic life to public leaders who can stare down bank presidents and politicians.The book provides a coherent framework, a set of principles and practices for confronting global issues like climate change as well as local ones like making our schools better and our streets safer. Stand Up! uses stories to cover everything from helping readers find their purpose, building teams with focused goals, and envisioning a world that is truly guided by self-governance. Based on nearly 20 years of community organizing, and tapping into nonpartisan PICO's network of 1000 member institutions including churches, state and municipal organizations, and professional community organizers, Gordon Whitman provides a blueprint for every concerned individual to fight for social justice. |
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82245. Get To The Point!: Sharpen Your Message And Make Your Words Matter : AudiobooksNow : USD4.49 In this indispensable guide for anyone who must communicate in speech or writing, Schwartzberg shows that most of us fail to convince because we don't have a point-a concrete contention that we can argue, defend, illustrate, and prove. He lays out, step-by-step, how to develop one.In Joel's Schwartzberg's ten-plus years as a strategic communications trainer, the biggest obstacle he's come across-one that connects directly to nervousness, stammering, rambling, and epic fail-is that most speakers and writers don't have a point. They typically have just a title, a theme, a topic, an idea, an assertion, a catchphrase, or even something much less.A point is something more. It's a contention you can propose, argue, defend, illustrate, and prove. A point offers a position of potential value. Global warming is real" is not a point. "Scientific evidence shows that global warming is a real |
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82246. Conversations Worth Having: Using Appreciative Inquiry To Fuel Productive And Meaningful Engagement : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 Conversations can be critical and destructive, or they can be affirmative and energizing. This book shows how to guarantee your conversations will help people, organizations, and communities flourish.We all know that conversations influence us. But we rarely stop to think about how much impact they have on our well-being and our ability to thrive. This book shows how Appreciative Inquiry (AI)--one of the most widely used new approaches for fostering positive change for individuals, groups, organizations, and communities--can help everyone communicate better and flourish in all areas of their lives. Stavros and Torres spell out 2 practices and 5 principles to create great conversations. Each chapter is built around real-life stories of people using AI practices and principles to transform their conversations and their organizations. |
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82247. Servant Leadership In Action: How You Can Achieve Great Relationships And Results : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 Edited by legendary business author Ken Blanchard and featuring contributions by authors like Simon Sinek, Brené Brown, Stephen M. R. Covey, and Marshall Goldsmith, this collection offers expert advice on how to implement an increasingly popular and highly effective approach to leadership.Servant leadership is the secret behind the success of some of the world's leading organizations. Succinctly put, serving leaders lead by serving their people, not by exalting themselves.Through the stories and reflections of leading businesspeople, bestselling authors, and spiritual leaders, this collection offers tools for implementing this proven but radical leadership model. The book is organized into three sections:-What is Servant Leadership? describes different aspects of servant leadership-Models of Servant Leadership focuses on people who have been identified as classic servant leaders-Putting Servant Leadership to Work features firsthand accounts of how servant leadership has been implemented in various organizations and the difference it has made in both results and human satisfaction. |
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82248. The People Equation: Why Innovation Is People, Not Products : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 This book teaches leaders how to focus on people development rather than product development. Innovation comes from people, not products or technology. Deborah Piscione's twelve-step process is a comprehensive guide to success for leaders that shows them how to harness the creative energy in their organization, thereby bringing better products to market.For too long, companies and their leadership teams focused primarily on their products or services. Leaders are deeply dialed in to the minutiae of their companies' operations. But veteran Silicon Valley consultant Deborah Perry Piscione says investments in new technologies or operations do not create innovations-people do. For innovation to happen, organizations need to be people-centric. In this breakthrough book she shows how, by following her People Equation, every organization can develop a mindset, an organizational structure, and a product development process that will maximize creativity and innovation.Using examples from her consulting work and from her research into successful business practices, Piscione shows how to create a culture where risk taking is rewarded, mavericks are encouraged, collaboration between highly competent people is nurtured, and, when experiments and new initiatives are proposed, the response is to ask how rather than question why. This requires upending the usual organizational pyramid, giving more decision-making power to frontline workers and less to the C-level executives traditionally at the top. Once this is all in place, you can take advantage of Piscione's twelve-step Improvisational Innovation process for bringing new products and services to market. This is a comprehensive guide to harnessing the creative energy in every organization. |
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82249. The Sisters Are Alright, Second Edition: Changing The Broken Narrative Of Black Women In America : AudiobooksNow : USD7.99 A slew of harmful stereotypes continues to follow Black women. The second edition of this bestseller debunks vicious misconceptions rooted in long-standing racism and shows that Black women are still alright. When African women arrived on American shores, the three-headed hydra-servile Mammy, angry Sapphire, and lascivious Jezebel-followed close behind. These stereotypes persist to this day through newspaper headlines, Sunday sermons, social media memes, cable punditry, government policies, and hit song lyrics. Emancipation may have happened more than 150 years ago, but America still won't let a sister be free from this coven of caricatures.In this bestseller, Tamara Winfrey-Harris delves into marriage, motherhood, health, sexuality, beauty, and more, taking sharp aim at pervasive stereotypes about Black women. The new edition includes an updated foreword, revitalized statistics, and a new chapter on current Black women in leadership and power who are expected to save and mother America while laboring to get other people elected-like Kamala Harris, Stacey Abrams, and other industry leaders in media and the corporate world. Harris also brings in more real-world examples from meda, covering issues like blackfishing and digital blackface (which help white women rise to fame) and media fascination with black women's sexuality (as with Cardi B or Megan Thee Stallion).Winfrey-Harris exposes anti-Black-woman propaganda and shows how real Black women are pushing back against racist, distorted cartoon versions of themselves. She counters warped prejudices with the straight-up truth about being a Black woman in America. |
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82250. Positively Energizing Leadership: Virtuous Actions And Relationships That Create High Performance : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 This practical guide, the first to show how leaders can achieve extraordinary results through the positive energy generated by virtuous interactions with employees, is written by one of the giants in the study of positive leadership.This book is about one of the most important factors that leads to spectacular performance in organizations. Kim Cameron, a true pioneer in the study of positive leadership, offers validated scientific evidence that all individuals are inherently attracted to and flourish in the presence of positive energy. Further, he shows that the positive relational energy generated by leaders' virtuous behaviors-for example, generosity, compassion, gratitude, trustworthiness, forgiveness, and kindness-is tightly linked to extraordinary organizational outcomes like greater innovation, higher profits, and increased engagement and retention.Cameron has not written a feel-good tome about the power of positive thinking, happiology |
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82251. The Sustainability Scorecard: How To Implement And Profit From Unexpected Solutions : AudiobooksNow : USD7.99 Using a rigorous, straightforward scorecard as a guide, this book shows business leaders and innovators how to create breakthrough sustainable products and processes that are good for the planet, human health, and profits.For decades, proponents of sustainability have promised effective ways to save resources and money, but they aren't moving the needle. The problem is that they haven't convinced skeptics that powerful economic incentives will work in their favor.This book makes a crystal-clear economic argument for sustainable supply chains and provides a practical scorecard for creating one that is understandable to any executive, inside or outside of operations. In the midst of green fatigue |
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82252. Shift Into A Higher Gear: Better Your Best And Live Life To The Fullest : AudiobooksNow : USD7.99 Kick fear-based living to the curb and discover exactly how to manifest the life of your dreams!Drawing on two decades of experience working with high achievers, motivational expert Delatorro McNeal teaches people how to achieve their dreams for a fuller life. He shares seven steps for excellence alongside key lessons on how to widen your experiences and perspectives and deepen your relationships, impact, and fulfillment. As a lifelong biker, McNeal uses a motorcycle metaphor to describe the differences between living life by shifting into a higher gear versus being on cruise control. He outlines how to: -Lean into changes you seek-Put your kickstand up and turn excuses into declarations-Fuel yourself with faith over fear-Navigate the flow of your emotions-Maintain your engine for a smoother long-term ride-Embrace the potholes you'll encounter along your journey-Shift through the four gears of life and business This book will help you stop procrastinating, throw out your excuses, achieve your goals at an accelerated rate, and prepare for the ride of your life. |
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82253. The Business Of Building A Better World: The Leadership Revolution That Is Changing Everything : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 Twenty-nine leading scholars and executives provide a visionary look at the future of business, propelling past damaging industrial-age values to uncover the key ingredients of humanistic, ecologically sustainable, and intergenerational prosperity.This edited collection, featuring contributions by some of the world's most prominent thinkers on the future of business, is an interdisciplinary and international collaborative project to articulate a new 21st century theory of business. This book will be our greatest aid in meeting the organizational opportunities and ecological challenges of the future.Through the exploration of robust cases and stories packed with deep insight and vital science, twenty of the world's leading thinkers explore how we can adapt our current notions of value, markets, models of cooperation and collective action, and intergenerational concern to create a world where economies and businesses can excel, all people can thrive, and nature can flourish for future generations.This book is not dispassionate but rather designed to galvanize change and unite a global community of inquiry. It expounds on the conceptual cornerstones of the new kind of business practice that will enable the ascent to better prosperity. |
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82254. Flux: 8 Superpowers For Thriving In Constant Change : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 Discover eight powerful mindset shifts that enable leaders and seekers of all ages to thrive in a time of unprecedented change and uncertainty.Being adaptable and flexible have always been hallmarks of effective leadership, but recent events have seriously stress tested this idea. How do you find calm in the midst of all this chaos?You need a new mindset, one that treats constant change and uncertainty as a feature, not a bug. Flux helps you develop eight flux superpowers" that take conventional ideas and turn them on their heads. They'll enable you to see change in new ways |
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82256. Managing Care: How Clinicians Can Lead Change And Transform Healthcare : AudiobooksNow : USD12.49 Healthcare systems worldwide are swamped with demand, short of resources, and ill-equipped to respond to global health crises like COVID-19. This book is a guide for reforming healthcare delivery.The way we organize health care matters, and the people best positioned to drive this are the doctors, nurses, and clinicians who deliver care. The book offers a framework for transforming health care that covers operational design, change management, long-term learning, and organizational environment. It describes the work of leading local operational change and identifies key decisions to be made, actions to be taken, and factors that must be considered.The challenge of modern health care is to develop better organizations capable of delivering compassionate and individualized care on a grand scale while preserving the personal relationship between clinician and patient and the quality of care in the ward, operating room, clinic, or practice. Informed by extensive research and experience with systems all over the world, Richard Bohmer shows how organizations may transform by deploying a new workforce of clinical change leaders and how clinicians can take greater control over their own working environments. |
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82257. Leading Beyond Change: A Practical Guide To Evolving Business Agility : AudiobooksNow : USD12.49 This guide shows readers how to transform a traditional organization into an evolutionary one with a framework and mindset that offer a new way of leading and approaching change.The key to surviving organizational change is sorting through the truths, half-truths, and lies-beginning with the ones you tell yourself. That way you don't end up overpromising and underdelivering, and you can weather troubling times in your organization. Truth, including inner truth, is key to surviving organizational change and achieving truly agile leadership.Using case studies from the most successful companies, Michael and Audree Sahota demonstrate how creative, collaborative, and adaptive thinking can ripple from the leader outward. If you can change your own mindset, you can change your organization. This holistic approach bridges the gap between traditional management and agile ways of working. If you can truly understand the reasons people resist new ways of working, you will no longer meet passive resistance, and an authentic transformation will result. |
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82258. The Government Leaders Field Guide To Organizational Agility: How To Navigate Complex And Turbulent Times : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 This is the first book to fully adapt the principles of agility for government leaders who want to make their organizations more effective and nimble while better serving their public mission.This practical resource will equip government leaders with evidence-based, hands-on guidance for transforming their organizations, enabling them to better serve the public and their customers. While many books on organizational agility are available for leaders in for-profit companies, this is the first one tailored to the unique limitations and requirements government leaders face.Public servants are increasingly asked to do more with less and must also find a way to accomplish their mission while balancing constant change. New laws are passed that impact their agencies, new technologies are introduced, and unexpected events occur. Government leaders at all levels are often in a position for only two to four years, rotating within and across agencies as they gain experience. They have a relatively short amount of time to learn a new role, make changes, and then begin seeking out their next opportunity. This guide will help leaders weather the storm of that constant change so they can help their agencies realize their missions to provide services and be better stewards of taxpayer or donor dollars. |
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82259. The Cactus And Snowflake At Work: How The Logical And Sensitive Can Thrive Side By Side : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 This hilarious and profound workplace guide proves the rigorously rational and the supremely sympathetic can meet in the middle and merge their strengths. Readers will discover how blending with their opposite opens the pathway to being their truest selves.We're all familiar with the introvert/extrovert divide, but there is another dichotomy that is just as significant. From the famed Myers-Briggs personality scale, Feelers put more weight on personal concerns and the people involved, and Thinkers are guided by objective principles and impersonal facts. This simple distinction lays the groundwork for the profoundly different ways that individuals make sense of and engage in both the workplace and the world.Devora Zack, herself a proud snowflake, says we can directly control only three things: what we say, what we think, and what we do. Zack makes a strong case that the best use of our energy is to focus on our own reactions and perceptions rather than trying to fix or change others. The book includes an assessment that readers can take to learn their placement on the Thinker/Feeler spectrum before exploring different modes of communication and motivation based on personality type. Zack guides her readers to channel their emotions and successfully connect with those on the other side, both inside and outside of the workplace. |
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82260. Radical Product Thinking: The New Mindset For Innovating Smarter : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 Iteration rules product development, but it isn't enough to produce dramatic results. This book champions Radical Product Thinking, a systematic methodology for building visionary, game-changing products.Iteration is highly overrated. It's driven by the belief that if we iterate long enough, we cannot fail to build products that will truly change the world; in reality, iterations are only as visionary as the underlying solutions being tested and refined. Without a clear vision and strategy to drive the ideas you test and improve, products become bloated, fragmented, directionless, and driven by irrelevant metrics.In Radial Product Thinking (RPT), product development is led by the vision for the change it's intended to create. It helps leaders reimagine the problems they face and align their team to find creative solutions using five elements: Vision, Strategy, Prioritization, Execution, and Culture. R. Dutt guides readers through these elements so they develop a clear process for achieving their desired change, incorporate it into daily activities, and turn RPT skills into muscle memory. Dutt also clarifies that readers don't have to be natural-born visionaries to produce extraordinary results. |
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82261. Living Beyond What If?: Release The Limits And Realize Your Dreams : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 Free yourself from self-limiting beliefs and fears that keep you stuck. This book lays out a blueprint for how to take control of your life and begin living your dreams.We all dream. We all imagine. And we all have our vision of the good life. But why is it that 90 percent of people admit they are not living the life they've always dreamed of or imagined? What keeps us comfortable with the status quo and unable to get beyond what if"?In this book Dr. Shirley Davis addresses these and other questions by taking the reader on a personal journey of self-discovery |
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82263. Leading With Love And Laughter: Letting Go And Getting Real At Work : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 Leadership has for too long been treated as a function and not as a relationship. Zina Sutch and Patrick Malone argue that successful leadership must be based on love (altruism and empathy) and laughter (positive emotions and joy).Recent bestselling books have completely altered the way we understand how humans work and play together. The Altruistic Brain and Born to Be Good show that humans are deeply wired for empathy and compassion. The Social Animal and Emotional Intelligence prove that our emotional selves help us make better decisions and motivate others. However, the tactics we use to train leaders bear little reflection of these advancements; we're still creating competent but emotionally distant leaders who manage human assets" and lead by setting goals |
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82264. Mastering Marketing Agility: Transform Your Marketing Teams And Evolve Your Organization : AudiobooksNow : USD7.99 The leading authority on agile marketing shows how to build marketing operations that can pivot freely and yet remain committed to priorities.As a marketer, are you tired of chasing marketing fads and algorithm rumors that seem to change every couple of months? This guide to building the perfect marketing department will help you achieve the latest and greatest without having to rebuild your operations from scratch every time the wind changes. You see, Agile has been the accepted modus operandi for software development for two decades, and marketing is poised to follow in its footsteps. As the audiences we market to become ever more digital, Agile frameworks are emerging as the best and only way to manage marketing. This book is a signpost showing the way toward the Agile future of marketing operations, explaining how every role from social media intern to chief marketing officer can work in unison, responding to the market's demanding challenges without losing focus on the big picture. |
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82265. Meetings That Get Results: A Facilitator's Guide To Building Better Meetings : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 This practical, comprehensive guide to designing and running more effective meetings will result in less time wasted, more collaborative decision-making, and measurably improved business outcomes.This valuable resource lays out a structured method for designing and leading better meetings. Its facilitative approach marks a transition from the leader as the expert with the answers" to a new world where the leader's job is to ask the right questions and manage context. To ask the right questions |
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82267. Living A Committed Life: Finding Freedom And Fulfillment In A Purpose Larger Than Yourself : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 What would life be like if you committed to something larger than yourself? Find out in the newest book from global transformation thought leader Lynne Twist.How does one person make a difference in the world? People constantly seek to discover meaning in their lives, but as humans take on the challenges facing us in this decade and beyond, we're searching for it now more than ever.Living a Committed Life demonstrates the power of dedication that goes beyond the self and teaches how to live a committed life that enables you to draw on resources and capacities from your most authentic self. In five parts, Lynne Twist shows how to make and keep commitments, engage in individual and collective action, and discover ways to connect and collaborate to make a difference.By sharing stories and perspectives from her life, Twist reveals her unique experience as a thought leader and activist in multiple causes, from ending world hunger and protecting the Amazon rainforest to empowering women's leadership. The book presents the guiding principles that have enabled her own success and that turn inspiration into action for everyone. |
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82268. Autntico, Second Edition: The Definitive Guide To Latino Career Success : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 America has an urgent need for Latino and Latina executives. This book identifies a path to uplift and amplify their representation in leadership.Dr. Robert Rodriguez and Andrés T. Tapia call it the 4 percent Shame"-the low percentage of Latino corporate executives today. Inspired by Price Cobbs's seminal work on the secrets of successful Black leaders |
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82270. Trusted Leader: 8 Pillars That Drive Results : AudiobooksNow : USD7.99 Without trust, people and businesses fail. Trusted Leader provides a framework for building trust so that you and your organizations can perform at your best.A lack of trust is your biggest expense |
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82271. Using Scenarios: Scenario Planning For Improving Organizations : AudiobooksNow : USD7.99 This is the first book to offer detailed guidance on how scenarios can be used to help organizations make their toughest decisions in a world of ever-escalating crisis and opportunity.To reap the full benefits of scenarios, you have to be able to apply them in the real world. This groundbreaking book goes beyond the theoretical to clearly explain different ways scenarios can be used in business decision-making-from strategic planning and financial modeling to crisis response. Connecting scenarios to strategy and action can have many benefits, including the abilities to react quickly, anticipate major changes in the environment, and identify major opportunities. Thomas Chermack, a top expert on scenario planning, offers seven specific ways organizations can use scenarios, and provides a wide variety of examples, along with proven processes, exercises, and workshops that have been used successfully in organizations across industries and countries for more than fifteen years. |
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82272. The Power Of Good News: Feeding Your Mind With Whats Good For Your Heart : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 The media's bias toward stories of conflict, violence, and division is bad for your health. Hal Urban shows how to find the positive and uplifting all around us.The news media thrives on bad news. In recent years, the political climate has become vitriolic and divisive, our country seems more polarized than ever, and news feels inescapable because technology has significantly increased its reach. People who like to stay informed need a lift.Most people are aware that what they eat greatly impacts their physical health: junk food is bad, vegetables are good. Hal Urban argues that we can nourish our minds by choosing how we consume news, and that when we surrender all that choice to media and external forces, we give up our growth, freedom, and mental health. Countless signs of progress and acts of kindness exist all around the world if you know where to look. And there are positive aspects in our own lives-family, friends, simple beauties, and everyday generosities-that we take for granted. This book helps readers understand that, as the late Zig Ziglar said, You are what you are because of what goes into your mind."" |
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82273. A Woman's Guide To Claiming Space: Stand Tall. Raise Your Voice. Be Heard. : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 For too long, women have been told to confine themselves-physically, socially, and emotionally. Eliza VanCort says now is the time for women to stand tall, raise their voices, and claim their space.Women fight the pressure to make themselves small in private, professional, and public spaces. VanCort, a teacher, consultant, and speaker, provides the necessary tools for women to rewrite the rules and create the stories of their choosing safely and without apology.VanCort identifies the five key behaviors of all Space-Claiming Queens": use your voice and posture to project confidence and power |
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82275. Launch Your Career: How Any Student Can Create Relationships With Professionals And Land The Jobs And Internships They Want : AudiobooksNow : USD7.99 This book shows how any college student can land the position they want by creating relationships with professionals in the industries they're interested in by using the author's proven Career Launch Method.It's tough to find an internship or job that you really want during the best of times, and these are not the best of times.Did you know only 20% of jobs and internships are posted online? This means 80% of positions are filled in what Sean O'Keefe and others calls the hidden job market. And while the success rate of applying to online job postings is less than 2%, if you develop an internal advocate at the organizations you're interested in, you are 12 times more likely to land a position.O'Keefe, in partnership with The Career Leadership Collective, is now sharing his proven, 8-step, Career Launch Method(tm) that will help ANY student explore career options and land the internships and jobs they want by creating professional relationships from scratch. This book demystifies the concept of intentional, proactive relationship-building by teaching all the practical micro-steps needed to succeed. O'Keefe teaches you how to play the student card" to turn your student status into a powerful advantage.Launch Your Career features first-person stories of students from all backgrounds and programs of study who have used the Career Launch Method(tm) to earn jobs or internships at all types of companies |
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82276. Humble Inquiry, Second Edition: The Gentle Art Of Asking Instead Of Telling : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 This worldwide bestseller offers simple guidance for building the kind of open and trusting relationships vital for tackling global systemic challenges and developing adaptive, innovative organizations-over 200,000 copies sold and translated into seventeen languages!We live, say Ed and Peter Schein, in a culture of tell." Rather than trying to genuinely relate to other people |
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82278. Do What Matters Most: Lead With A Vision, Manage With A Plan, Prioritize Your Time : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 Time management remains a huge challenge for most people. This book shares the habits and processes used by top leaders worldwide to minimize distractions and maximize accomplishments.In working with more than 724 managers and leaders from more than fifty different organizations, Steven and Robert Shallenberger were shocked to discover that although 68 percent of them feel like their number one challenge is time management, 80 percent don't have a clear process. Despite the availability of so many books, seminars, and workshops on time management, there is still a huge need.Drawing on forty years of leadership research, Steven and Robert Shallenberger offer three simple principles that the top 10 percent of leaders use to do what matters most." They found that successful executives lead with a vision |
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82279. Thriving In The Fight: A Survival Manual For Latinas On The Front Lines Of Change : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 Social justice work is more crucial than ever, but it can be physically and emotionally draining. Longtime activist Denise Collazo offers three keys to help Hispanic women keep their focus, morale, and energy high.Winner of the gold medal at the International Latino Book Awards for Best Latina-Themed Book and Best Self-Transformational Book!Doing the work of social change is hard. Waking up every day to take on the biggest challenges of our time can be overwhelming, and sometimes progress is hard to see. And Latina activists face the additional challenges of racism and sexism in a predominantly white, patriarchal society.Denise Collazo has been there. She is the first Latina, the first woman of color, and the first woman period to raise a family and stay in the work of community organizing at Faith in Action, an international progressive network of 3,000 congregations. Drawing on her own experiences and those of other Latina activists, Collazo lays out three keys to thriving in the movement for social change: leading into your vision, living into the fullest version of yourself, and loving past negatives that hold you back. She also warns about the three signs that you may be checking out, giving up, or passively standing by while problems get worse. This honest, practical, and inspirational book will help Latina activists to burn bright, not burn out. |
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82280. Who Do You Want To Be When You Grow Old?: The Path Of Purposeful Aging : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 Grow old on purpose. This book invites readers to navigate a purposeful path from adulthood to elderhood with choice, curiosity, and courage. None of us know for sure what will happen as we age. What Richard J. Leider and David A. Shapiro do know, however, is that a purposeful mindset is a fundamental component of a life well-lived. What Do You Want to Be When You Grow Old? invites readers into the experience of two lifelong friends taking on the courageous conversation of aging well with honesty and purpose. In the first half of the book, readers are introduced to a framework for looking back over their lives and examining how they've arrived at the place they have. In the second half, readers are invited to look forward to purposeful aging with courage, compassion, and curiosity.In their bestseller Repacking Your Bags, Leider and Shapiro defined the good life as living in the place you belong |
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82281. The Language Of Leadership: How To Engage And Inspire Your Team : AudiobooksNow : USD5.49 Convey the essence of leadership with every communication. Everyone seems to have an opinion about leadership. We know good leaders Eat Last, Lean In, Break the Rules, Dare to Lead, and are Radically Candid as well as extremely aware of their Tribes, Drive, and Principles. But books about these topics overlook the value of leadership impression-the instant projection you exude as a leader. How do leaders sound? What do leaders say and not say? How do leaders tell stories, send emails, run meetings, conduct video conferences, give speeches, conduct interviews, and even listen to others?Drawing on his experiences as a leadership coach, as well as his personal experience holding senior positions at Time Inc., Audible, PBS, MTV, and the ASPCA, Joel Schwartzberg offers practical tips and entertaining but eye-opening exercises that help readers convey genuine and impactful leadership in every conceivable situation. Understanding your leadership impression is vitally important: it is the first piece of evidence on which you and your ideas will be judged and your best chance to lay a foundation of confidence, competence, and commitment. |
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82282. Work Made Fun Gets Done!: Easy Ways To Boost Energy, Morale, And Results : AudiobooksNow : USD7.99 Bob Nelson, author of the multimillion-copy bestseller 1001 Ways to Reward Employees, and human performance expert Mario Tamayo offer hundreds of practical, creative tips for helping employees-and their managers-make work more fun.Every business needs happy, engaged, and motivated employees, whether it's a major corporation or one of the over thirty million small businesses in America today. Most elements in modern business work against this basic need: constant change and increasing stress from both the speed of business and its complexity, as well as the expansive application of technology to all aspects of business.Work Made Fun Gets Done gives the reader simple, practical ideas for instantly bringing fun into the workplace. Based on examples from scores of real companies like Pinterest, Asana, Bank of America, Genentech, Zappos, Honda, General Mills, Microsoft, and many more, as well as the authors' collective experience, this book provides clear behavioral examples on exactly what managers can do to immediately lighten the tone of the work environment and excite their teams. The book, written in a fun style, contains lighthearted illustrations and callout boxes to highlight fun practices. |
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82283. Dear Black Girl: Letters From Your Sisters On Stepping Into Your Power : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 Dear Black Girl is the empowering, affirming love letter our girls need in order to thrive in a world that does not always protect, nurture, or celebrate us. This collection of Black women's voices... is a must-read, not only for Black girls, but for everyone who cares about Black girls, and for Black women whose inner-Black girl could use some healing. -Tarana Burke, Founder of the 'Me Too' MovementDear #DopeBlackGirl |
| 82284. Support To Young Black Girls Aged Thirteen To Twenty-one. Her Call Went Viral : AudiobooksNow who still needs reminding sometimes that she is alright." |
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82285. Leverage Change: 8 Ways To Achieve Faster, Easier, Better Results : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 Frustrated that change efforts you're leading take too long, are too difficult, or are too often ineffective? Discover eight powerful ways to make any change work faster, easier, and better-whether done by C-suite leaders or frontline workers.In a recent Fast Company article, nine CEOs said the biggest challenges their companies face are all related to change. Change is a constant need and a constant challenge for every organization-large or small, for-profit, nonprofit, or governmental. Is there a way to make it easier?If you're trying to lift something heavy, it helps to have a lever. In this book, Jake Jacobs provides eight levers that can transform the typical change process into something far smoother and more efficient-he calls the new process Leverage Change. Jacobs offers proven advice and real-life examples that will accelerate every step of the change process, including designing your own customized change process, figuring out where the real energy for change is in your organization, striking the right balance between explicit direction and creative collaboration, making change work as part of people's regular routines, and more. Archimedes said with the right lever, he could move the world-with Jacobs' eight levers, you can change your world. |
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82286. The Art Of Caring Leadership: How Leading With Heart Uplifts Teams And Organizations : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 If your people know you care about them, they will move mountains. Employee engagement and loyalty expert Heather Younger outlines nine ways to manifest the radical power of caring support in the workplace.Here's the thing: most leaders think of themselves as caring leaders, but not all of them act in alignment with what that means for employees. Leaders may not be able to identify the level of care they are extending to their employees, but all employees intuitively know whether their bosses or managers are caring for them. Heather Younger argues that if you are looking for increased productivity, customer satisfaction, or employee engagement, you need to care for your employees first.Genuinely caring for people means that you want to see them succeed for themselves, not just for what they can do for you, your team, or your organization. This book incorporates ten sections with breakout stories and interviews that outline the necessary steps to make all employees feel included and cared for, as well as a call to action for all leaders. Younger states that leaders who have the positive power to change the lives of those they lead shouldn't just want to care for them; they should see it as imperative for the success of their employees and their organization. |
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82287. Young Money: 4 Proven Actions To Design Your Wealth While You Still Can : AudiobooksNow : USD5.49 The problem for most Americans is not lack of income. A bigger, more widespread problem is the lack of discipline needed to adhere to long-term financial goals. This book shows readers how to make the mindset shift required to successfully plan for the future.In most personal finance books you'll read, almost redundantly, that the road to wealth is made up of 80% behavior and 20% application. You'll also read that building wealth is about the long game and planning for the future. The overwhelming majority of successful financial planners know this to be true - so why are the bulk of young Americans still fixated on the get rich quick mentality? Because they haven't received adequate advice on how to identify their true motivations for building wealth - until now. In order to build wealth that lasts for generations, we must access our deepest desires, whether that is sharing with our community, security for our family, or leaving behind a legacy.This book is designed to help people under 30 envision building multigenerational wealth by committing to a mindset of discipline that goes beyond retirement planning but instead, plan for a legacy. Yarnway walks readers through the different decades of their life, from the roaring twenties" through the "thrifty fifties and beyond |
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82288. Facilitating Breakthrough: How To Remove Obstacles, Bridge Differences, And Move Forward Together : AudiobooksNow : USD7.99 Making progress on complex, problematic situations requires a new approach to working together: transformative facilitation, a structured and creative process for removing the obstacles to fluid forward movement.People today face increasing complexity and decreasing control. They need to work with more people across more divides. But the traditional ways of advancing-subsuming individual interests to the good of the whole, or providing total autonomy for all stakeholders to work out their own solution-aren't adequate to resolving these difficult situations.Drawing on his experiences working with Black people and white people in post-apartheid in South Africa, First Nations people and the government in Canada, multiple stakeholders in war-torn Columbia, and many more, Kahane describes what he calls transformative facilitation. It combines the two approaches, cycling back and forth between them. The facilitator pays careful attention to what is going on in the group and decides which approach will work best at any given moment.Adam Kahane describes precisely what the facilitator needs to watch for and how to manage the delicate balance between a focus on the collective and a focus on specific stakeholder needs. This book is for anyone who helps people collaborate in any setting. Not only does it offer a way to facilitate breakthroughs, it is a breakthrough in itself. |
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82289. The Capitalist And The Activist: Corporate Social Activism And The New Business Of Change : AudiobooksNow : USD7.99 2023 Axiom Business Books Award Silver Medalist (Business Commentary)2023 Nautilus Book Award Silver Medalist (Social Change & Social Justice)This is the first in-depth examination of the important ongoing fusion of activism, capitalism, and social change masterfully told through a compelling narrative filled with vivid stories and striking studies.Corporations and their executives are at the forefront of some of the most contentious and important social issues of our time. Through pronouncements, policies, boycotts, sponsorships, lobbying, and fundraising, corporations are actively engaged in issues like immigration reform, gun regulation, racial justice, gender equality, and religious freedom.Despite corporate social activism being everywhere these days-witness how quickly companies and progressives united to oppose North Carolina's bathroom bill" or support the Black Lives Matter movement-there has been no in-depth examination of the far-reaching consequences of this movement. What first principles should guide businesses' approaches? How should activists engage with businesses in a way that is most beneficial to their causes? What are potential pitfalls and risks associated with corporate social activism for activists |
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82290. Skills For Career Success: Maximizing Your Potential At Work : AudiobooksNow : USD12.49 This career development tool kit is for people who want to take charge of their own professional futures.This book is for employees who want to take charge of their own professional development. Many organizations have eliminated employee career development programs in favor of DIY efforts-and, even if this is not the case, there is more to be gained than lost in taking responsibility for your own career.Elaine Biech offers practical guidelines for keeping your career on track and mapping it beyond your current job; overcoming personal roadblocks and finding your passion at work; and initiating talent conversations with your manager. Over 100 skills are outlined, including networking, handling pressure, prioritizing, showing political savvy, being a team player,, and selling your ideas. For each skill, Biech offers actions you can take immediately, ongoing practices, and long-term strategies.Full of tools, tips, and resources, this book is written for the development of all employees. In addition, a short chapter offers advice to managers who want to bring out the best in their people. |
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82291. From The Ground Up: How Frontline Staff Can Save America's Healthcare : AudiobooksNow : USD7.99 Everyone in a hospital leadership role should read this book as it offers a wealth of practical advice for organizations intent on improving their clinical care delivery.-Amy C. Edmondson, professor, Harvard Business School, and author of The Fearless OrganizationHealthcare continues to be our fastest-growing sector-three times more than the rest of the economy. Yet it costs almost twice as much in the United States as it does in other countries, and its delivery systems are widely acknowledged to be fragmented, uneven in quality, and difficult to negotiate for the patients they aim to serve. Systemic changes are needed to create structures and processes that address these intrinsic flaws.Practical and inspiring, this book draws on theories and practices that promote organizational change and outlines processes for establishing labor-management partnerships that utilize the knowledge and experience of administrators and staff at all levels. Through details of past and current practices of frontline participation, readers will discover proven methods for improving healthcare in the United States by listening to and implementing the ideas of frontline staff and patients. |
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82292. The Culture Puzzle: Harnessing The Forces That Drive Your Organizations Success : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 Corporate culture is critical to any organizational change effort. This book offers a proven model for identifying and leveraging the essential elements of any culture.If you're going to make any significant change in an organization, you have to deal with the organizational culture. Because as Peter Drucker famously said, Culture eats strategy for breakfast." But there can be a big difference between the official culture as described in the company handbook and how work really gets done. This book |
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82294. Impact Networks: Create Connection, Spark Collaboration, And Catalyze Systemic Change : AudiobooksNow : USD7.99 This practical guide shows how to facilitate collaboration among diverse individuals and organizations to navigate complexity and create change in our interconnected world.We face complex problems today that resist linear solutions. They involve a variety of actors, organizations, and sectors, each focused on their own piece of the puzzle. Addressing homelessness, for example, requires coordinated action from unhoused people, healthcare workers, educators, police, local governments, businesses, residents, religious institutions, and nonprofits. This book explains how to create impact networks, the structures that enable diverse groups of people and organizations to connect, coordinate, and collaborate to do more together than is possible alone. A network approach combines the strategic rigor and agility of modern organizations with the deep connection and shared purpose of communities. Drawing on his experience working with over fifty impact networks over the past decade, David Ehrlichman describes how to cultivate a network mentality. He then goes deeply into the five Cs of creating impact networks:-clarify purpose and principles-convene the people-cultivate trust-coordinate actions-collaborate for systems change Given the increasing urgency of the issues we face, impact networks have never been more essential. |
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82295. The Hidden History Of American Healthcare: Why Sickness Bankrupts You And Makes Others Insanely Rich : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 Popular progressive radio host and New York Times bestselling author Thom Hartmann reveals how and why attempts to implement affordable universal healthcare in the United States have been thwarted and what we can do to finally make it a reality.For-profit health insurance is the largest con job ever perpetrated on the American people-one that has cost trillions of dollars and millions of lives since the 1940s |
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82296. The Hidden History Of American Oligarchy: Reclaiming Our Democracy From The Ruling Class : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 Thom Hartmann, the most popular progressive radio host in America and a New York Times bestselling author, looks at the history of the battle against oligarchy in America-and how we can win the latest round.The history of America (and of all democracies) catalogues the dynamic tension between democracy and oligarchy. Oligarchy usually has the power and the resources, and for this reason democracy has had limited success historically. The most important stabilizer" that a democracy can build into its own system is one that prevents an oligarchy from taking over-which was an original purpose of the Constitution.Thom Hartmann traces the history of the struggle betw |
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82298. Make It, Don't Fake It: Leading With Authenticity For Real Business Success : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 An award-winning CEO and communications expert shows how authentic leadership eliminates the need for the shortcuts that sabotage success. Fake it till you make it" just doesn't work-at least not long enough to build a sustainable business.Self-doubt and the intense pressure of facing the unknown are real problems for entrepreneurs and leaders. But there's a difference between feigning confidence and running a con game; Elizabeth Holmes and Billy McFarland thrived on faking it for a short while |
| 82299. How To Attain And Maintain It.through The Double Lens Of Running Her Own Pr Firm In Silicon Valley And Advising Hundreds Of Other Executives : AudiobooksNow and create a company culture designed for long-term |
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82300. Stepping Up, Second Edition: How Taking Responsibility Changes Everything : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 The perfect book for the times in which we live . . . page after page of engaging stories, profound insights, and practical tips on how you can stand up and take responsibility for making something meaningful happen.-Jim Kouzes, coauthor of the bestselling The Leadership ChallengeStepping Up argues that almost every problem, from personal difficulties and business challenges to social issues, can be solved if all of us look to ourselves to create change rather than looking to others. And with the research to prove it, John Izzo shows that by seeing ourselves as the locus rather than the victims of change, we are happier, less stressed, and more powerful.Izzo offers seven compelling principles that enable anyone to effectively bring about positive change. This book is filled with stories that illustrate the incredible power of stepping up: a middle-aged Italian shopkeeper who fought back against the Mafia, two teenagers who ignited an antibullying movement, an executive who turned a dying division into a profit center, and many more. This second edition includes a new chapter on the Stepping Up Continuum, a model that looks at six ways to know if you are stepping up or stepping back, as well as fresh stories and a self-assessment tool for helping leaders create a culture for stepping up in their organizations. |
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82301. Decolonizing Wealth, Second Edition, 2nd Edition: Indigenous Wisdom To Heal Divides And Restore Balance : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 This second edition expands the provocative analysis of the racist colonial dynamics at play in philanthropy and finance into other sectors and offers practical advice on how anyone can be a healer.Though it seems counterintuitive, the $1 trillion philanthropic industry has evolved to mirror colonial structures ultimately doing more harm than good. Edgar Villanueva has seen past the field's glamorous, altruistic façade, and into its shadows: white supremacy, savior complexes, and internalized oppression. In this critically important book, he shows how to make money a tool of love, to help us thrive rather than to hurt and divide us.The second edition has two new chapters. Medicine Beyond Money" relates inspiring examples of people using their resources to decolonize entertainment |
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82302. From Pmo To Vmo: Managing For Value Delivery : AudiobooksNow : USD7.99 By the end of this book, you will understand what is valuable, how to measure value, and how to optimize the flow of value-from idea to your customer.-Evan Leybourn, co-founder and CEO, Business Agility InstituteAgile methods have brought about dramatic changes in how organizations manage and deliver not only IT services, but their entire product and service value streams. As legacy organizations transition to newer, end-to-end agile operating models, the Project Management Office (PMO) needs to redesign its mission and operation to be more in line with these modern ways of working. That requires being more customer-focused and value-adding, and less hidebound, bureaucratic and tied to antiquated processes and mindsets. Visionary leaders are transitioning into enablers of this change, and maximizing value through the entire organization. Middle management, including program and project managers (PMs), are racing to maximize their professional relevancy in this new world.This book defines the role of the agile value management office (VMO), using case studies and a clear road map to help PMs visualize and implement a new path where middle management and the VMO are valued leaders in the age of business agility. |
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82303. Black Fatigue: How Racism Erodes The Mind, Body, And Spirit : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 This is the first book to define and explore Black fatigue, the intergenerational impact of systemic racism on the physical and psychological health of Black people-and explain why and how society needs to collectively do more to combat its pernicious effects.Living while black" is a new and viral term that catalogues the many unjust experiences and inequities that define what it means to be black. Having to constantly deal with these experiences leads to what diversity and inclusion thought leader Mary-Frances Winters calls "black fatigue |
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82304. Eat That Frog! For Students: 22 Ways To Stop Procrastinating And Excel In School : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 Adapted from Brian Tracy's international time-management bestseller, Eat That Frog!, this book will give today's stressed-out and overwhelmed students the tools for lifelong success.Students at all levels struggle with how to manage their time. In high school they often find they need this skill for the first time, as they juggle classes, extracurricular activities (which are all but mandatory if you want to go to college), jobs, internships, family responsibilities, and more. In college they have more freedom and less structure, which makes time management even more critical.Brian Tracy's Eat That Frog! has helped millions around the world get more done in less time. Now this life-changing global bestseller has been adapted to the specific needs of students. Tracy offers readers tips, tools, and techniques for structuring time, setting goals, staying on task (even when you're not interested), dealing with stress, and developing the skills to achieve far more than you ever thought possible. This is the book that parents and teachers have long been wishing Brian Tracy would write. |
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82305. Co-active Leadership, Second Edition: Five Ways To Lead : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 As leaders, how we are is as important as what we do. The second edition of this leadership classic, updated with new chapters, shows how to master the inner and outer work needed to build relationships that unleash the transformational creative potential in everyone.Top-down, one-dimensional leadership models are hopelessly outmoded in today's rapidly changing world. And they waste the leadership ability present throughout an organization, not just at the top. In the second edition of this visionary book, Karen and Henry Kimsey-House provide a model that harnesses the possibility of many rather than relying on the power of one.This new edition is updated with two additional chapters, one offering new ways to utilize the Co-Active Leadership Model and another that goes deeply into the Co-Active philosophy that drives the authors' approach. Each of the five dimension chapters is expanded to incorporate feedback, new language, case studies, and practical suggestions for practice and development.Co-active leadership is a deeply collaborative approach, but the last of its five dimensions focuses on the individual: leading from within. We must be fully present and live with integrity, openheartedness, and self-awareness if we are to make the kind of conscious, creative choices co-active leadership demands. |
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82306. 21st Century Investing: Redirecting Financial Strategies To Drive Systems Change : AudiobooksNow : USD7.99 Two experienced and visionary authors show how institutions and individuals can go beyond conventional and sustainable investing to address complex problems such as income inequality and climate change on a deep, systemic level.Our financial markets can no longer grapple adequately with the pressing challenges of our times-such as climate change, income inequality, diversity, and the health of our oceans.Sustainable investment helps investors to manage environmental, social, and governance considerations in their portfolios, but this piecemeal approach stops short of addressing the larger systemic challenges that underlie them, thereby running the risk of missing the forest for the trees. Concerned about climate change, sustainable investors might invest in a portfolio of solar power companies. System-level investors would invest in a portfolio of solar and wind power, batteries, energy efficient and sustainable forest products, regenerative agriculture, and similar resources from companies that provide a holistic vision of what an alternative world could be.William Burckart and Steve Lydenberg have pioneered this approach through their work at the Investment Integration Project. In this book they provide a guide for investors-both concerned individuals and financial professionals as well as investment advisors-explaining why this investment approach is critical today and how it can be put into practice. |
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82307. Change Your Questions, Change Your Life, 4th Edition: 12 Powerful Tools For Leadership, Coaching, And Results : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 Discover how the questions we ask ourselves and others can either expand our mindsets and open us up to exciting new possibilities or constrict our mindsets and limit our choices for successful change.When we're looking for answers, we often forget to take the time to ask the right questions. But, as Marilee Adams shows, intentionally using questions helps us make wiser choices, find solutions, and transform our personal and professional lives.Drawing on decades of research and experience as a coach and consultant, Adams uses a highly interesting and entertaining fable that illustrates how to recognize and reframe undermining questions to ones that open us to learning, connection, and success. Asking What great things could happen today?" creates very different expectations than asking "What could go wrong today?"Change Your Questions |
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82308. The Body Is Not An Apology, Second Edition: The Power Of Radical Self-love : AudiobooksNow : USD7.99 New York Times bestseller! To build a world that works for everyone |
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82310. The Corporate Whistleblower's Survival Guide: A Handbook For Committing The Truth : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 With groundbreaking resources from the Government Accountability Project (GAP), this is the ultimate guide for would-be whistleblowers, as well as corporate gatekeepers in HR and Legal who are required by law to protect them. |
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82311. Up From Nothing: The Untold Story Of How We All Succeed : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 American opportunity is not dead. Bestselling author and entrepreneur John Hope Bryant outlines the mindset and practices that will allow us to achieve the American Dream, no matter what our current circumstances are.Americans have lost faith in their country. With job security disappearing and fewer glimpses of a better future, it can feel like we are barely surviving, much less thriving, in today's problematic economy. Americans want the old" America back-- the America where opportunity comes knocking at the front door. But the real problem |
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82313. The Long-distance Teammate: Stay Engaged And Connected While Working Anywhere : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 Full of concrete, real-world examples, this guide is written with both understanding and encouragement-'Maybe you're already feeling this. Some days you feel isolated and alone,' they offer. With so many office jobs now being done at home, this couldn't have arrived at a better time.-Publishers WeeklyRemote work is growing at nearly 30 percent per year in major economies worldwide, meaning there are millions of people who once worked at a central location every day and are now finding themselves facing an entirely new way of working. This book is the best single resource for remote workers for getting work done effectively, building relationships that are both productive and satisfying, and maintaining a career trajectory when they are not in constant close contact with their employer or the organization.The Long-Distance Teammate aims to tackle three important issues: the dynamics of remote work, the understanding of virtual strengths and vulnerabilities, and the necessary steps to creating appropriate processes and communication skills. This is a practical guide for both individual workers who want to regain some control over their work and those inside organizations responsible for the ongoing development of their most important resource: people. |
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82314. Equity: How To Design Organizations Where Everyone Thrives : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 A fast and engaging read, Equity helps leaders create more inclusive organizations using human-centered design and behavior change principles.Even the most passionate advocates for diversity, equity, and inclusion have been known to treat equity as the middle child - the concept they skip over in order to get to the warm, fuzzy feelings of inclusion. But as Minal Bopaiah shows throughout this book, equity is critical if organizations really want to leverage differences for greater impact.Equity probes the unconscious biases that blind us to seeing systems, making explicit what is often unseen. This slender book introduces us to leaders who have overcome the obstacles to equity and led transformative change. Managing partners at a consulting firm who learn to retell their story of success by crediting the system that supports them. News managers at NPR who discover how they can create systemic support for diversifying sources on the air. A philanthropic foundation that collaborates with grantees to better communicate the importance of equity in healthcare to policy-makers. And creative professionals who have begun weaving inclusion, diversity, equity, and accessibility into the content they create, thereby transforming how customers and audiences view the world.Filled with humor, heart, and pragmatism, Equity is a guidebook for change, answering the question of how?" that so many leaders are asking today." |
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82315. Inside Your Customer's Imagination: 5 Secrets For Creating Breakthrough Products, Services, And Solutions : AudiobooksNow : USD7.99 Chip Bell's unique perspective, lively illustrations, and practical advice result in one terrific resource for anyone eager to tap a customer's ingenuity for creating breakthrough results. -Jeanne Bliss, founder and CEO, CustomerBliss; and cofounder, Customer Experience Professionals Association (CXPA)Every organization aspires to be customer-centric, but the current approach is shallow and transactional: organizations ask customers what they want and then try to give it to them. But often customers can't articulate precisely what they want. To really stay ahead of the competition, organizations have to have such a deep relationship with their customers that they can surprise them and create innovations that match their hopes and aspirations, not just their needs and expectations.This book lays out a strategy for getting customers fully integrated into the creation process. Bell offers five secrets for what he calls Co-creative Partnerships: Curiosity-develop a deep connection with customers that bonds, affirms, and supports; Grounding-find the juncture between the customer's needs and hopes and the organization's mission and values; Discovery-turn tryouts into bold, risk-taking learning adventures; Trust-honor candor, respect clear work agreements, and plan for the inevitable hiccups; and Passion-offer signs of admiration and actions of caring that help keep the alliance fresh and spirited. |
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82316. The Creative Mindset: Mastering The Six Skills That Empower Innovation : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 Jeff and Staney emphasize that small acts of creativity can have huge consequences and that ordinary people can do extraordinary things if they can see the opportunities in front of them.-Mitch Jacobson, Executive Director, Austin Technology Incubator, UT Blackstone LaunchPad, University of Texas at AustinNearly all of today's major innovation workshops and programs call on organizations to drive innovation. What they miss is that innovation comes from the personal creativity of individuals. And creativity doesn't require an advanced education or technical skills-all employees can be creative. Often, all they lack is a fitting mindset and the right tools.The Creative Mindset brings how-to advice, tools, and techniques from two master innovators who have taught and worked with over half of all Fortune 500 companies. Jeff and Staney DeGraff introduce six essential creative-thinking skills that can be easily mastered with limited practice and remembered as the acronym CREATE: Concentrate, Replicate, Elaborate, Associate, Translate, and Evaluate. These six skills, sequenced as steps, simplify and summarize the most important research on creative thinking and draw on over thirty years of real-world application in some of the most innovative organizations in the world. It's time to rethink the way we make innovation happen. As the spirit of chef Gusteau proclaims in the Pixar classic Ratatouille, Anyone can cook."" |
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82317. Healing Our Future: Leadership For A Changing Health System : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 This book is a practical, evidence-based guide to seven key leadership disciplines that will help anyone working in healthcare to pursue brighter futures.Andrew Garman looks at both the major changes facing healthcare organizations and the leadership competencies required to successfully meet those challenges. He offers a glimpse into our more distant future and how our health systems-and the demands of leaders-could evolve. He also explains how people become more effective leaders over time and what the research has to say about what works best in making this happen.Garman introduces the seven primary disciplines associated with effective leadership: values, health system literacy, self-development, relations, execution, boundary-spanning, and transformation. Each discipline is rooted in research on leadership effectiveness, including studies conducted with the National Center for Healthcare Leadership. He also provides additional tools and resources to help people on their leadership journey. |
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82318. The 6 Enablers Of Business Agility: How To Thrive In An Uncertain World : AudiobooksNow : USD12.49 Adopting the latest agile tools and practices won't be enough to respond to rapid market change. Leaders must first lay the groundwork by creating the right environment for these tools to work.An ever-growing pile of frameworks and tools falsely offer an easy route" to organizational agility. However |
| 82319. Ix Factors Required For Success: Leadership : AudiobooksNow this book will help leaders get realistic about the scope of the changes needed in their organization and show them how to get started." |
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82320. Leading From The Emerging Future: From Ego-system To Eco-system Economies : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 In this mind-opening new book, bestselling author Otto Scharmer (Theory U, 40,000 copies sold) and Katrin Kaufer reveal the root cause of the economic, social, ecological, political, spiritual, and institutional crises today and detail seven new practices for revolutionizing and revamping society and growth. |
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82321. The Six New Rules Of Business: Creating Real Value In A Changing World : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 The rules of business are changing dramatically. The Aspen Institute's Judy Samuelson describes the profound shifts in attitudes and mindsets that are redefining our notions of what constitutes business success.Decades of teaching and reinforcing shareholder return as the single objective function of a well-run business has resulted in corporations focused entirely on quarterly profits and rewarding short-term-oriented investors. This has been at the expense of employees, long-term vision, and stewardship of natural resources. But we are now starting to see social forces and public expectations giving shape to a new kind of business ethic, as reflected in the Business Roundtable's 2019 Statement on the Purpose of a Corporation.Judy Samuelson, vice president at the Aspen Institute, lays out six new rules that can help a business free itself from the tyranny of shareholder primacy and become an active force for solving the world's problems:1.Reputation, trust, loyalty, and other intangibles drive real business value2.Businesses serve many objectives beyond shareholder value3.Corporate responsibilities extend far outside the business gates4.Employees are allies, not expenses5.Culture is king and talent rules6.Co-create with your competitors to winThese new rules create real value and have the staying power to reverse decades of value-destroying decisions in business. |
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82322. Battling Healthcare Burnout: Learning To Love The Job You Have, While Creating The Job You Love : AudiobooksNow : USD12.49 When physicians and nurses suffer from burnout, patients suffer as well. This book pinpoints the how and why and shows what healthcare providers and their organizations can do.Burnout is among the most critical topics in healthcare as it deprives us of our most important resource-the talents and passion of those who perform the difficult work of caring for patients and their families. The purpose of this work is to provide not only a taxonomy of burnout within the landscape of healthcare but also to provide pathways for healthcare professionals to guide themselves and their organizations toward changing the culture and systems of their organization. An additional purpose is to summarize personal strategies to prevent and ameliorate burnout.Practical tools, techniques, and case studies are used to illustrate specifically how to promote positive, proactive change. The book looks at healthcare workers' roles in promoting change within themselves and their organization and addresses solutions to change the culture and the systems of work. Both are presented with a pragmatic focus, with liberal use of examples and case reviews, including those from several nationally recognized healthcare systems. |
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82323. Touching The Jaguar: Transforming Fear Into Action To Change Your Life And The World : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 This eloquent book inspires us to create a new reality of what it means to be humans on this magnificent planet.-Deepak ChopraWhen New York Times bestselling author John Perkins was a young Peace Corps volunteer, his life was saved by an Amazonian shaman who taught him to touch the jaguar"-to transform his fears into positive action. He went on to become an "economic hit man" (EHM) |
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82325. Dangerous Love: Transforming Fear And Conflict At Home, At Work, And In The World : AudiobooksNow : USD7.99 Chad Ford reminds us that humanity lies within all of us, and although conflict is everywhere in today's world, we have the tools we need to overcome obstacles and to thrive. This is a fantastic, timely book that I highly recommend.-Steve Kerr, Head Coach, Golden State WarriorsKnowing how to transform conflict is critical in both our personal and professional lives. Yet, by and large, we are terrible at it. The reason, says longtime mediator Chad Ford, is fear. When conflict comes, our instincts are to run or fight.To transform conflict, Ford says we need to turn toward the people we are in conflict with, put down our physical and emotional weapons, and really love them with the kind of love that leads us to treat others as fellow human beings, not as objects in our way. We have to open ourselves up with no guarantee that anyone on the other side will do the same. While this can feel even more dangerous than conflict itself, it allows us to see the humanity of others so clearly that their needs and desires matter to us as much as our own.Ford shows dangerous love in action through examples ranging from his work in the Middle East to a deeply moving story about reconciling with his father. He explains why we disconnect from people at the very time we need to be most connected and the predictable patterns of justification and escalation that ensue. Most importantly, he gives us a path to practice dangerous love in the conflicts that matter most to us. |
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82326. The Extraordinary Power Of Leader Humility: Thriving Organizations Great Results : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 This inspiring book belongs on the desk of every CEO and politician. With eye-opening case studies and recommended behaviors in every chapter, it's an indispensable user guide for servant leaders.-Ken Blanchard, coauthor of The New One Minute Manager and coeditor ofServant Leadership in ActionOn the most fundamental level, leaders must bring divergent groups together and forge consensus on a path forward. But what makes that possible? Leadership educator Marilyn Gist says what is most important is far too often overlooked: humility, which she defines as a deep regard for others' dignity.Gist offers a model of leader humility derived from three questions people ask of their leaders: Who are you? Where are we going? Do you see me? She explores each of these questions in depth, as well as the six key qualities of leader humility: a balanced ego, integrity, a compelling vision, ethical strategies, generous inclusion, and a developmental focus. Much of this book is based on Gist's interviews with a dozen distinguished leaders of organizations such as the Mayo Clinic, Costco, REI, Alaska Airlines, Starbucks, and others. The foreword and a guest chapter are written by Alan Mulally, the legendary leader who brought Ford back from the brink of bankruptcy after the 2008 financial collapse and who Gist sees as an exemplar of leader humility. |
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82327. The Good Country Equation: How We Can Repair The World In One Generation : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 Not only does Anholt explain the challenges facing the world with unique clarity, he also provides genuinely new, informative, practical, innovative solutions. . . . The book is a must-read for anyone who cares about humanity's shared future.-H. E. Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed (Farmaajo), President of the Federal Republic of SomaliaWhy doesn't the world work? Why, despite all the power, technology, money and knowledge that humanity has accumulated, are we are still unable to defeat global challenges like climate change, war, poverty, migration, extremism, and inequality?Simon Anholt has spent decades helping countries from Austria to Zambia to improve their international standing. Using colorful descriptions of his experiences-dining with Vladimir Putin at his country home, taking a group of Felipe Calderon's advisors on their first Mexico City subway ride, touring a beautiful new government hospital in Afghanistan that nobody would use because it was in Taliban-controlled territory-he tells how he began finding answers to that question.Ultimately, Anholt hit on the Good Country Equation, a formula for encouraging international cooperation and reinventing education for a globalized era. Anholt even offers a selfish" argument for cooperation: he shows that it generates goodwill |
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82328. From Incremental To Exponential: How Large Companies Can See The Future And Rethink Innovation : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 This timely book reminds us that innovation is agnostic about where it's created.-Satya Nadella, CEO, MicrosoftOver and over, we see big legacy businesses getting beaten to the punch by energetic little start-ups. It seems like innovation can come from only the bottom up or from outside in. But tech experts Vivek Wadwha, Ismail Amla, and Alex Salkever are here to tell you that big equals slow and stodgy" is a myth. Based on decades of experience working with the world's leading brands and start-ups |
| 82329. T Of Hypergrowth Start-ups With The Massive Benefits Of Incumbency: Boatloads Of Customer Data : AudiobooksNow they provide a playbook on how to use their insights in your own company |
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82330. The Knowledge Caf: Create An Environment For Successful Knowledge Management : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 Knowledge Café is a process for creating, exchanging, and optimizing knowledge, whether in-person or virtual. This popular and practical knowledge management tool supports a culture where projects and innovation thrive.So many project workers are overloaded with useless information and starving for the information they really need. Knowledge Management (KM) is an important and underrated ingredient in successful project management. The Knowledge Café makes KM best practices accessible to project managers everywhere.Human knowledge is the intellectual capital of organizations, and the consequences for losing it are dire. Knowledge Café is a current, cross-generational, systematic concept designed to retain and manage relevant knowledge--stopping the unchecked brain drain" that can occur when knowledge is hoarded. This method is as simple to use as a corner café and works in both virtual and real-life settings.Knowledge Café will help you combine your institutional knowledge from your experienced workers with the fresh ideas bubbling up from the front lines. If our projects (and organizations) are to succeed |
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82331. Burnout To Breakthrough: Building Resilience To Refuel, Recharge, And Reclaim What Matters : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 Eileen delivers a new perspective on the burnout crisis with humor, good sense, and unique ideas on how to manage our brains. I owe my daily well-being to her. Keep this book at your side to help you glide through your workday. -Marcia Reynolds, PsyD, author of The Discomfort ZoneIt's official. For the first time, the World Health Organization has classified burnout as a health problem. Renowned motivational speaker Eileen McDargh proposes that to tackle it, we must learn to break out of energy-draining thoughts and behaviors.Resilience, she argues, is strictly a matter of energy management-by better managing your energy, you can both build resiliency and overcome burnout. Breakthrough happens when our energy is consciously distributed to what matters most in our lives. So after a short survey that will tell you where you fit in a burnout and resiliency profile, McDargh helps pinpoint the causes of your burnout and examine the energy demands that keep you from refueling and recharging. She provides an in-depth energy analysis and gives you the keys to master the four dimensions that can give you a resilience breakthrough: head, heart, hands, and humor.McDargh guides the reader through the process of identifying energy drains and implementing strategies for handling them, whatever phase of life you are in. Her intention is to help you not only to successfully manage work and life demands but also make even larger strides in understanding how to put together a life by design and not by default. |
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82332. The Abundant Community: Awakening The Power Of Families And Neighborhoods : AudiobooksNow : USD7.99 Bestselling authors John McKnight and Peter Block offer compelling new understanding of how and why community has been lost in our neighborhoods, cities, and society and what ordinary citizens as well as leaders and professionals can do to restore it. |
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82333. How To Be A Positive Leader: Small Actions, Big Impact : AudiobooksNow : USD7.99 The field of positive leadership continues to expand. Building on the practical tools and philosophy in Kim Cameron's books (including Positive Leadership, over 30,000 copies sold), this edited volume brings the best research from fourteen scholars and translates it into plain English for organizations. |
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82334. Love Em Or Lose Em, Sixth Edition: Getting Good People To Stay : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 This sixth edition of the number one bestselling employee retention book in the world (over 800,000 copies sold) puts a new emphasis on diversity and inclusion but keeps the same appealing format: twenty-six simple strategies from A to Z.Retention and engagement are perennial concerns for every business in any economy. For two decades, this Wall Street Journal bestseller has offered twenty-six simple strategies-from A to Z-that managers can use to address their employees' real concerns and keep them engaged.The revised and updated sixth edition includes a timely focus on diversity and inclusion in every chapter. For example, chapter 6 focuses on family. Different cultures view family responsibilities differently, so the authors address how a manager might take that into consideration when a treasured employee asks for extended leave to care for a grandparent. A new section called Conversation Starters offers discussion questions and ideas for how to spark more conversation around the topics in the book.This new edition will ensure that Love 'Em or Lose 'Em will continue to help managers all over the world create a supportive workplace culture so they can fight burnout and keep the people they can least afford to lose. |
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82335. Hyper-learning: How To Adapt To The Speed Of Change : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 Ed Hess's Hyper-Learning is uniquely practical and is the essential starting point for charting new ways of thinking, living, working, leading, and being fulfilled in our new world.-Gary Roughead, Admiral, US Navy (retired) former Chief of Naval OperationsHow will you pursue a meaningful life when smart technology takes over most of the jobs that humans currently do? Darden School of Business Professor Edward Hess says the answer is hyper-learning: developing our uniquely human qualities as agile, adaptive, iterative learners without fear or ego inhibiting that learning.In the digital age, humans will succeed by doing what technology can't do well: being creative, imaginative, and innovative; engaging in higher-level critical thinking; making decisions in environments where there is a lot of uncertainty and little data; and connecting and collaborating with fellow humans. Hyper-learning is vital for optimizing every one of these tasks. Hess describes the core mindsets and behaviors that enable hyper-learning for individuals and teams and includes case studies of four business leaders who created personal hyper-learning development plans. This book is about harnessing the power of human emotions, choices, and behaviors to enable the highest levels of human cognitive, emotional, and behavioral performance. |
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82336. Practical Project Risk Management, Third Edition: The Atom Methodology : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 This new edition of an award-winning risk management classic is more actionable than ever with new chapters on facilitating risk conversations and running a risk workshop.Risk isn't just about threat; it's also about opportunity. You have to be ready to take advantage of the most unexpected good or bad events, or you'll lose out on major revenue opportunities. The Active Threat and Opportunity Management (ATOM) methodology helps companies, leaders, and project managers worldwide find the best strategy for taking advantage of unexpected events.This Project Management Institute award-winning methodology is already used by top corporations. Will your organization be the next to take advantage of these brand-new chapters on risk workshops and risk facilitation? Exploit these ingenious techniques to get everyone in your organization on the same page about how much risk can be tolerated and make sure your MBA students and project managers are prepared to tackle the ups and downs of this risky world. |
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82337. The Remote Facilitator's Pocket Guide : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 This approach to remote facilitation makes virtual meetings powerful means of collaboration using proven techniques to accommodate a diversity of cultures, locations, and personalities.Many people struggle with remote meetings: a cocktail of factors, such as technical barriers and invisible group norms, increase the uncertainty and risk of the already vulnerable task of collaborating and sharing ideas. When remote meetings go badly, they go really badly. Few things feel as lonely and intimidating as speaking to a screen with unreadable faces staring back in silence. This book will help you improve the quality of your remote meetings. With a little awareness, some planning, and some practice, you can make your remote meetings an effective, engaging, and powerful mechanism for collaboration within your organization. This little guide is chock-full of practical, down-to-earth remote facilitation techniques built to accommodate all cultures and personality types. Apply a few of them judiciously and you'll be surprised to be hearing more from your far-flung employees than you ever heard even from your in-person team. |
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82338. The Secret, 3rd Edition: What Great Leaders Know And Do : AudiobooksNow : USD5.49 In this third edition, bestselling authors Ken Blanchard and Mark Miller answer the question most leaders ask at some point in their career: What do I need to do to be a great leader?" The secret may surprise you." |
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82339. Reinventing Masculinity: The Liberating Power Of Compassion And Connection : AudiobooksNow : USD7.99 A wonderful book for thinking about how to release ourselves from crippling processes. It's time for men-and for all of us-to stand up and say, 'Give us back our full humanity, give us back our dignity.'-Paul Gilbert, PhD, author of The Compassionate MindIn a recent FiveThirtyEight poll, 60 percent of men surveyed said society puts pressure on men to behave in a way that is unhealthy or bad. Men account for 80 percent of suicide deaths in the United States and twice as many opioid overdose deaths as women. It's clear we urgently need new a model for a masculinity that works for both men and women.As an antidote to toxic masculinity |
| 82340. And Ed Frauenheim Propose A New Male Paradigm: Expanded Masculinity. It Replaces Negative Traits Like Hypercompetitiveness : AudiobooksNow a strong collaborative spirit |
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82341. Put Your Money Where Your Life Is: How To Invest Locally Using Self-directed Iras And Solo 401ks : AudiobooksNow : USD7.99 As so many Americans feel powerless to confront a financial system designed to serve the few, Shuman offers us real choices: tools that align our lives with our values. That's power. I love this highly readable, timely, surprising book.-Frances Moore Lappé, author of Daring Democracy and Diet for a Small PlanetAmericans agree on very little these days, but red state conservatives and blue state progressives can agree on one critical point: Wall Street can no longer be trusted. Yet most of us continue to invest our money in the stocks and bonds of Fortune 500 companies, transferring our capital far from where we live and work. Local investing expert Michael Shuman offers another alternative. He shows how we can use two well-established-but rarely used-investment tools to keep our money close and get a return as good as or better than what we'd get investing in distant, indifferent corporations.Shuman explains the nuts and bolts of self-directed IRAs and solo 401(k)s and how they can be combined with other recently legalized local investing tools. He details how to set these accounts up, identify and evaluate a whole range of local investment opportunities, and make sure account holders stay on the right side of the law. While the book is written for people without a lot of investment experience-Shuman explains concepts like liquidity" and "diversification" in simple terms-even if you're as experienced as Warren Buffett |
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82342. Corporate Crime And Punishment: The Crisis Of Underenforcement : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 Professor Coffee's compelling new approach to holding fraudsters to account is indispensable reading for any lawmaker serious about deterring corporate crime.-Robert Jackson, former Commissioner, Securities and Exchange CommissionIn the early 2000s, federal enforcement efforts sent white collar criminals at Enron and WorldCom to prison. But since the 2008 financial collapse, this famously hasn't happened. Corporations have been permitted to enter into deferred prosecution agreements and avoid criminal convictions, in part due to a mistaken assumption that leniency would encourage cooperation and because enforcement agencies don't have the funding or staff to pursue lengthy prosecutions, says distinguished Columbia Law Professor John C. Coffee. We are moving from a system of justice for organizational crime that mixed carrots and sticks to one that is all carrots and no sticks |
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82343. Inclusive Conversations: Fostering Equity, Empathy, And Belonging Across Differences : AudiobooksNow : USD7.99 What is impressive is not only how Winters builds a case for the urgency and need for bold, inclusive conversations but that she also gives specific strategies and competencies to turn her theory into practice.-Dr. Sheila Robinson, publisher and CEO, Diversity Woman MediaEffective dialogue across different dimensions of diversity, such as race, gender, age, religion, or sexual orientation, fosters a sense of belonging and inclusion, which in turn leads to greater productivity, performance, and innovation. Whether in the workplace, faith communities, or educational settings, our differences can tear us apart rather than bring us together if we do not know how to communicate. Recognizing our collective responsibility to earnestly address our differences and increase understanding and empathy will not only enhance organizational goals but will also lead to a healthier, kinder, and more compassionate world.Award-winning diversity, equity, and inclusion consultant Mary-Frances Winters has been leading workshops on what she calls Bold, Inclusive Conversations for years. In this book she offers specific dialogue strategies to foster greater understanding on the following topics: - Recognizing the importance of creating equity and sharing power - Dealing with the fragility" of dominant groups--their discomfort in engaging with historically subordinated groups - Addressing the exhaustion historically marginalized groups feel from constantly explaining their different lived experience - Exploring how to build trust and create psychologically safe spaces for dialogueThis guide is comprehensive for anyone who wants to break down the barriers that separate us and facilitate discussions on potentially polarizing topics." |
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82344. The Five Secrets You Must Discover Before You Die : AudiobooksNow : USD7.99 What brought you the greatest joy? What do you wish you had learned sooner? What ultimately mattered and what didn't? asks Dr. John Izzo. Based on a highly acclaimed public television series, this book takes the reader on a heartwarming and profound journey to find lasting happiness. |
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82345. Ten Years To Midnight: Four Urgent Global Crises And Their Strategic Solutions : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 Shows how humans have brought us to the brink and how humanity can find solutions. I urge people to read with humility and the daring to act.-Harpal Singh, former Chair, Save the Children, India, and former Vice Chair, Save the Children InternationalIn conversations with people all over the world, from government officials and business leaders to taxi drivers and schoolteachers, Blair Sheppard, global leader for strategy and leadership at PwC, discovered they all had surprisingly similar concerns. In this prescient and pragmatic book, he and his team sum up these concerns in what they call the ADAPT framework: Asymmetry of wealth; Disruption wrought by the unexpected and often problematic consequences of technology; Age disparities--stresses caused by very young or very old populations in developed and emerging countries; Polarization as a symptom of the breakdown in global and national consensus; and loss of Trust in the institutions that underpin and stabilize society. These concerns are in turn precipitating four crises: a crisis of prosperity, a crisis of technology, a crisis of institutional legitimacy, and a crisis of leadership.Sheppard and his team analyze the complex roots of these crises--but they also offer solutions, albeit often seemingly counterintuitive ones. For example, in an era of globalization, we need to place a much greater emphasis on developing self-sustaining local economies. And as technology permeates our lives, we need computer scientists and engineers conversant with sociology and psychology and poets who can code. The authors argue persuasively that we have only a decade to make headway on these problems. But if we tackle them now, thoughtfully, imaginatively, creatively, and energetically, in ten years we could be looking at a dawn instead of darkness. |
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82346. Saving Face: How To Preserve Dignity And Build Trust : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 Maya Hu-Chan shares a blueprint for becoming a more empathetic, self-aware, and inclusive leader. Saving Face guides us to consider different perspectives, to think first and speak last, and to respect others above all else.-Frances Hesselbein, former CEO, Girl Scouts of the USA, and Presidential Medal of Freedom recipientOrganizations now need to attract, retain, and motivate teams and employees across distance, time zones, and cultural differences. Building authentic and lasting human relations may be the most important calling for leaders in this century. According to management and global leadership specialist Maya Hu-Chan, the concept of saving face" can help any leader preserve dignity and create more empathetic cross-c |
| 82347. Ultural Relationships."face" Represents One's Self-esteem : AudiobooksNow pride |
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82348. Crossing Boundaries: A Travelers Guide To World Peace : AudiobooksNow : USD7.99 An essential strategy book for how to have transformative, sustainable, responsible travel experiences-starting at your own front door. Recognized Peacemaker and National Geographic Explorer Aziz Abu Sarah shows how, by crossing boundaries, we can heal our world from stereotypes, prejudice, and ignorance.How can we bring together a world polarized by so many seemingly intractable conflicts? Through tourism?Yes, but a different kind of tourism, one that harnesses the power of travel to create a more connected and peaceful world. Aziz Abu Sarah argues that it's through one-on-one contact that we'll begin to heal divides. And he knows this firsthand. A former Palestinian radical, he cofounded a tour agency with a Jewish American that originated the Dual Narrative Tours, which are co-led by guides from different communities, including Israel and Palestine, Ireland, Vietnam, Colombia, and many other countries.A guide for going beyond museums and monuments to more transformative, sustainable, and responsible travel experiences, this book is for both the first-timer and seasoned veteran. Starting with his own moving story of creating connections across his divided hometown of Jerusalem and expanding to stories from all over the world, Abu Sarah offers tips on how to meet people naturally and safely, design an inclusive itinerary, shop to support the local economy, deal with setbacks, and much more. He shows that if you put down your phone and strike up a conversation, you can break through the walls that separate us. You'll discover shared values, build lasting relationships, and realize that ultimately far more unites us than divides us. |
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82349. Getting Relationships Right: How To Build Resilience And Thrive In Life, Love, And Work : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 Bestselling author, psychologist, and relationship coach Melanie Joy shares the principles and tools that can make any relationship, from personal to professional, healthier and more resilient.Relationships are complicated. Yet it's an unfortunate reality that while most of us have to learn complex geometry that we'll probably never use, we don't get a single formal lesson in how to relate to others. In this one-stop guide, psychologist Melanie Joy reveals the common psychological dynamics that underlie all kinds of relationships-with a romantic partner, friends, family members, colleagues-in short, with anyone in any situation. Understanding these dynamics will help you make all your relationships healthier and more resilient.Relationships are like bodies: they get sick when their immune system is weaker than the germs that stress them. Drawing on the most relevant research as well as on her own extensive experience as a psychologist, Joy explains how to strengthen your relational immune system to resist not only interpersonal stressors but also largely invisible yet potentially devastating societal stressors like racism and sexism. With this understanding, you can cultivate relationships that consistently reflect core moral values and honor the dignity of everyone involved. Resilient relationships are not only a source of joy and fulfillment for those who are in them, they also support the thriving of the organizations and communities of which we all are a part. |
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82350. Quiet Is A Superpower: The Secret Strengths Of Introverts In The Workplace : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 A must-have book for today's quiet warriors.-Susan Cain, New York Times bestselling author of Quiet and Quiet Power and cofounder of Quiet Revolution How does a self-described extreme introvert" thrive in a world where extroverts are rewarded and social institutions are set up in their favor? Using her extraordinary personal story as a "case study of one |
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82351. Win Every Day: Proven Practices For Extraordinary Results : AudiobooksNow : USD5.49 Great ideas don't matter if you can't execute-bestselling leadership expert Mark Miller offers a proven, research-based method for creating workplaces where everyone performs at the highest level.All high performance organizations have one thing in common: execution. The men and women who work there sustain performance at seemingly otherworldly levels of precision, accuracy, and consistency. In the fifth and final book of Mark Miller's High Performance series, he uses his trademark business fable format to show how any organization can cultivate the kind of everyday habits that yield extraordinary results.Miller tells the story of Blake Brown, a CEO who learns how to help his team to consistently excel at execution from a perhaps unlikely source: his son's high school football coach. The story is fictional, but the principles and practices are very real, derived from years of research led by a team from Stanford University. Miller and his team interviewed leaders and employees from numerous world-class organizations, including the Navy SEALS, Starbucks, Apple, Southwest Airlines, the Seattle Seahawks, Mayo Clinic, Cirque du Soleil, and more. The lessons learned were then field-tested with over seventy businesses employing over 7,000 people. Miller gives you proven tools to release the untapped potential in your people, create a strong competitive advantage, and win not just on game day but every day. |
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82352. Leveraging The Impact Of 360-degree Feedback, Second Edition : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 From the Center for Creative Leadership, this essential guide is updated with new insights, tips, and tools to help organizations get the most out of 360-degree feedback.This is a hands-on guide for implementing effective 360-degree feedback systems as part of leadership development initiatives in organizations. Written for professionals who work inside organizations and external consultants working with clients, the book draws on over twenty years of research and practice by the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL). The book provides step-by-step guidelines for successful 360-degree feedback as well as best practices observed and tested with CCL's broad base of clients.The second edition is updated with advances in the field over the past ten years and features new chapters on ensuring validity, why the process can fail, and the future of leadership development. The book includes worksheets, checklists, and other tools to use or adapt with a 360-degree process in any organization.Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) is a top-ranked, global provider of programs that develop better leaders through its exclusive focus on leadership education and research. |
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82353. Untapped Agility: Seven Leadership Moves To Take Your Transformation To The Next Level : AudiobooksNow : USD7.99 This balanced guide to agility gets past the hype and frustration to help frustrated leaders transform their agile transformations.Agile transformations are supposed to make organizations modern, competitive, and relevant. But in the rush to jump on this latest bandwagon, many leaders make the mistake of adapting superficial versions of Agile techniques, only to find that their organizations are just marginally better versions of their previous selves. Jesse Fewell's book cuts through the quick fix" hype of Agile theory and uses decades of Agile coaching experience to unpack the mistakes that hold organizations back. He identifies the seven common leadership moves that can be used to unb |
| 82354. Lock Stalled Agile Transformations. Once You Understand These Moves : AudiobooksNow |
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82355. The Creativity Leap: Unleash Curiosity, Improvisation, And Intuition At Work : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 Natalie Nixon's new book provides a fresh primer on how to cultivate creativity in the workplace.-Nir Eyal, bestselling author of Hooked and IndistractableToo many people associate creativity solely with the arts, even though to be an incredible scientist, engineer, or entrepreneur requires immense creativity. And it's the key to developing breakthrough products and services. Natalie Nixon, a creativity strategist with a background in cultural anthropology, fashion, and service design, says that in the fourth industrial revolution a creativity leap is needed to bridge the gap that exists between the churn of work and the highly sought-after prize called innovation.Nixon says that since humans are hardwired to be creative, it is a competency anyone can develop. She shows that it balances wonder (awe, audacity, and curiosity) with rigor (discipline, skill-building, and attention to detail), and that inquiry, improvisation, and intuition are the key practices that increase those capacities. Drawing on interviews with fifty-six people from diverse backgrounds-farming, law, plumbing, architecture, perfumery, medicine, education, technology, and more-she offers illuminating examples of how creativity manifests in every kind of work.Combining creativity tools and techniques with real-world stories of innovative people and businesses, this book is a provocation, an inspiration, and an invitation to unleash the innate creativity that lies within each of us. It offers a more dynamic and integrative way to adapt and innovate, one that allows us the freedom to access our full human selves. |
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82356. The 5 Disciplines Of Inclusive Leaders: Unleashing The Power Of All Of Us : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 Diversity initiatives are falling short. This book shows leaders how to develop the skills needed to build sustainably inclusive organizations using a tested, research-based model developed by the global organizational consulting firm Korn Ferry.Workplaces are increasingly diverse, yet the top of the house continues to look the same. This is diversity without inclusion. And without inclusion at all levels, organizations miss out on greater innovation, talent optimization, access to diverse marketplaces, and the ability to successfully navigate disruption. More effective leadership is needed to drive this transformation.Andrés Tapia and Alina Polonskaia, senior client partners at international consulting powerhouse Korn Ferry, draw on Korn Ferry's extensive research and the actual experiences and perspectives of inclusive leaders to identify five disciplines of inclusive leadership:-Build interpersonal trust-Integrate diverse perspectives-Optimize talent-Apply an adaptive mindset-Achieve transformationThey outline the competencies behind each discipline, describe individual and organizational exemplars of inclusive leadership, and show how the five disciplines enable leaders to tackle tough diversity challenges. This book will help leaders build the skills to meet the demands of the present and leverage opportunities in uncharted territories that will take their organizations to the next level. |
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82357. The Third Harmony: Nonviolence And The New Story Of Human Nature : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 In the latest fruit of a brilliant career, Michael Nagler argues that nonviolence-not just as a tactic but as a way of being-is the only way to unite deeply divided people and enable progressive movements and leaders of all stripes to fulfil their promise and potential.That the world needs to take a substantially new direction, and quickly, is no longer controversial for any thoughtful person. A whole new way of seeing the world and our role in its destiny is called for. It's what Michael Nagler and others call the New Story. It rejects the mechanical, capitalist narrative that pits humans against each other and instead turns to a connected and collaborative vision of the future. The final missing piece of the New Story is what Nagler has termed the Third Harmony in human nature: nonviolence. Nonviolence is the only method compatible with the New Story's content and the only power strong enough to move the heart toward this deep and revolutionary change. This book focuses on how a shift to a nonviolence mind-set can be integrated into the very foundations of our understanding of humanity and community, not just on how nonviolence works as a protest tactic. |
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82358. Positive Leadership, 2nd Edition: Strategies For Extraordinary Performance : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 This is the bestselling and leading introduction to the new field of positive leadership, which helps leaders in all types of organizations reach beyond ordinary success to achieve extraordinary effectiveness, spectacular results, and positively deviant performance. |
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82359. Helping: How To Offer, Give, And Receive Help : AudiobooksNow : USD7.99 Helping others is one of the most universal things that people do every day in their work and lives. Yet often this help is not helpful or is resented or refused. In this seminal book, a preeminent author and scholar analyzes the dynamics of helping relationships and shows how to provide help that is really helpful. |
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82360. Advanced Consulting: Earning Trust At The Highest Level : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 This is the first book to address the specific needs and challenges faced by high-level consultants, who work on very complex projects and must win the confidence of the most senior leaders in organizations.Advanced consulting requires both expertise and personal qualifications that are distinct from those needed in everyday consulting. Advanced consultants work with high-level executive teams on complex issues such as strategy, organizational design, merger integration, digital disruption, culture change, and system-wide transformation. While neophyte consultants are often given a playbook to follow, advanced consultants need to invent methods that take full advantage of the opportunities that their work with clients presents.There is an art to advanced consulting as well as a science; who you are is as important as what you do. Bill Pasmore draws on his four decades of experience as a consultant and teacher of consultants to show readers how to see possibilities that are not evident, conduct analyses that support the value of more comprehensive work, build relationships that engender deeper trust, adapt to changing circumstances, and empower members of their team to take independent actions while maintaining overall control of an engagement. Illustrated with vivid real-world examples and including a self-assessment to measure your progress, this book equips you to advance to more senior positions in your firm or to build a successful independent practice. |
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82361. Synchronicity, 2nd Edition: The Inner Path Of Leadership : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 Leadership is about creating new realities. In this new edition, leaders will learn how to use the power of synchronicity to manifest new realities into their organizations and unlock wisdom and creativity. |
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82362. Blaze Your Own Trail: An Interactive Guide To Navigating Life With Confidence, Solidarity, And Compassion : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 A modern, feminist take on the classic choose-your-own-journey book, inspiring readers to embrace the fact that there is no singular right path-just your own!So many women enter their adult lives believing that they should know where they are going and how to get there. This can make life decisions feel intimidating and overwhelming. While some choices that lie ahead are fairly predictable, such as those surrounding career, partnership, and motherhood, the effects of these choices can lead to more complicated and unexpected turns that are seldom discussed.Rather than suggesting a rule book, Rebekah Bastian, vice president at Zillow and recognized thought leader, inspires you to Blaze Your Own Trail. I have the benefit of being a living example of crooked paths |
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82363. Coach The Person, Not The Problem: A Guide To Using Reflective Inquiry : AudiobooksNow : USD7.99 From a founding member of the coaching movement comes a detailed guide to mastering one of a coach's toughest skills: thoughtfully reflecting clients' words and expressions back to them so they see themselves and their world through new eyes.Coaches rely far too much on asking open-ended questions |
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82364. The Hidden History Of The War On Voting: Who Stole Your Voteand How To Get It Back : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 Hartmann's history of voter suppression in America is necessary information given current news about voter registration purges and redistricting...a particularly timely topic for an election year, and anyone who is seriously concerned about the survival of American democracy will want to read this book and apply its lessons.-BooklistIn today's America, only a slim majority of people register to vote, and a large percentage of registered voters don't bother to show up: Donald Trump was elected by only 26 percent of eligible voters. Unfortunately, this is not a bug in our system, it's a feature. Thom Hartmann unveils the strategies and tactics that conservative elites in this country have used, from the foundation of the Electoral College to the latest voter ID laws, to protect their interests by preventing the wrong people"-such as the poor |
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82365. The Hidden History Of Monopolies: How Big Business Destroyed The American Dream : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 This is the most important, dynamic book on the cancers of monopoly by giant corporations written in our generation.-from the foreword by Ralph NaderThe biggest problem facing America and the world right now is bigness." Our industrial and economic sectors-from tech |
| 82366. Onopoly-remember The British East India Company And The Boston Tea Party? If Jefferson And Madison Could See How Government And Business Collude Today : AudiobooksNow |
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82367. The 4 Stages Of Psychological Safety: Defining The Path To Inclusion And Innovation : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 This book is the first practical, hands-on guide that shows how leaders can build psychological safety in their organizations, creating an environment where employees feel included, fully engaged, and encouraged to contribute their best efforts and ideas.Fear has a profoundly negative impact on engagement, learning efficacy, productivity, and innovation, but until now there has been a lack of practical information on how to make employees feel safe about speaking up and contributing. Timothy Clark, a social scientist and an organizational consultant, provides a framework to move people through successive stages of psychological safety. The first stage is member safety-the team accepts you and grants you shared identity. Learner safety, the second stage, indicates that you feel safe to ask questions, experiment, and even make mistakes. Next is the third stage of contributor safety, where you feel comfortable participating as an active and full-fledged member of the team. Finally, the fourth stage of challenger safety allows you to take on the status quo without repercussion, reprisal, or the risk of tarnishing your personal standing and reputation. This is a blueprint for how any leader can build positive, supportive, and encouraging cultures in any setting. |
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82368. Courage Goes To Work: How To Build Backbones, Boost Performance, And Get Results : AudiobooksNow : USD7.99 Fear and doubt are the two greatest enemies of high performance in the workplace. This powerful book shows you how to instill more and more courage and confidence in every person, releasing personal potential you didn't know you had available.-Brian Tracy, author of Eat That Frog!The hardest part of a manager's job isn't staying organized, meeting deliverable dates, or staying on budget. It's dealing with people who are too comfortable doing things the way they've always been done and too afraid to do things differently-workers who are, as Bill Treasurer puts it, too comfeartable." They fail to exert themselves any more than they have to and make their businesses dangerously safe.Treasurer |
| 82369. : AudiobooksNow being honest and assertive with coworkers and bosses.Aristotle said that courage is the first virtue because it makes all other virtues possible. It's as true in business as it is in life. With more courage |
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82370. The Autonomous Revolution: Reclaiming The Future We've Sold To Machines : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 The coauthors of the seminal book The Virtual Corporation describe how the rise of artificial intelligence and virtual environments are ushering in an epic cultural transformation-and how we can thrive in this new era.We are at the dawn of the Autonomous Revolution, a turning point in human history as decisive as the Agricultural and Industrial Revolutions. More and more, AI-based machines are replacing human beings, and online environments are gathering our data and using it to manipulate us. This loss of human autonomy amounts to nothing less than a societal phase change, a fundamental paradigm shift. The same institutions will remain-schools, banks, churches, and corporations-but they will radically change form, obey new rules, and use new tools.William H. Davidow and Michael S. Malone go deeply into the enormous implications of these developments. They show why increases in productivity no longer translate into increases in the GDP and how zero cost, one-to-many communications have been turned into tools for cybercrime and propaganda. Many of the book's recommendations-such as using taxes to control irresponsible internet behavior and enabling people to put their data into what are essentially virtual personal information safety deposit boxes"-are bold and visionary |
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82371. The Power Of Disability: 10 Lessons For Surviving, Thriving, And Changing The World : AudiobooksNow : USD7.99 This book reminds us of what we have in common: the power to create a good life for ourselves and for others, no matter what the world has in store for us. -Michael J. FoxDisabled people are strong. There is no group in history with more consistent experience at making their mark despite the deck being stacked against them. Al Etmanski's mission is to push back against ableism and show disabled people as authoritative sources on creativity, resilience, love, and meaning. In this inspiring book, he lays out ten lessons we can learn from the disabled, each one illustrated with stories of real people. Some names are familiar, like Stephen Hawking, Helen Keller, Stevie Wonder, Michael J. Fox, and Temple Grandin. Others less so, like Caroline Casey, who became the first Western female mahout (elephant rider) and rode solo across India despite being legally blind; Aaron Phillip, a trans woman with cerebral palsy who is a professional model; or Liz Etmanski, the author's daughter, a spoken-word poet and artist with Down syndrome. Recognizable or not, you will have no trouble relating to their stories and experiences and applying their insights to enrich your life. |
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82372. Full-spectrum Thinking: How To Escape Boxes In A Post-categorical Future : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 Leading futurist Bob Johansen shows how a new way of thinking, enhanced by new technologies, will help leaders break free of limiting labels and see new gradients of possibility in a chaotic world.The future will get even more perplexing over the next decade, and we are not ready. The problem is that we're restricted by rigid structures that do not serve our larger goals-we think they inform us, but in fact, they tend to limit us. Simplistic stories of what's going on will be alluring but dangerous. Just in time, new technology and media tools will make it much easier to think beyond the categories, buckets, slots, and boxes that people use today to prepare for threats and imagine new opportunities.Full-spectrum thinking is the ability to seek clarity and understanding across gradients of possibility. Utilizing successful examples of spectrum-thinking, such as gender fluidity and the autism spectrum, noted futurist Bob Johansen reveals how a spectrum unifies us rather than divides us by seeing each individual as inhabiting various points on the same landscape. By recognizing technology as an integral part of creating this spectrum, Johansen demonstrates that we can apply full-spectrum thinking to achieve breakthroughs in business, leadership, innovation, politics, community relations, and many other domains. |
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82373. The Influential Product Manager: How To Lead And Launch Successful Technology Products : AudiobooksNow : USD12.99 This book is a comprehensive and practical guide to the core skills, activities, and behaviors that are required of product managers in modern technology companies.Product management is one of the fastest growing and most sought-after roles by both job-seekers and companies alike. The availability of trained and experienced product manager talent can barely keep up with the accelerating demand for new and improved technology products. Furthermore, the industry is standardizing what an effective product manager does, which makes it crucial for all product managers to learn and put into practice skills that are transferable across a wide range of organizations. After an initial introduction to the role and responsibilities of the product manager, the book maps to the product life cycle-starting with the PM's role in ideation and prioritization through requirement gathering and validation, building the product, and measuring success. People skills are also highlighted because technical and process knowledge is not enough. The final chapter focuses on interpersonal skills and the importance of leading through influence. |
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82374. Breaking The Silence Habit: A Practical Guide To Uncomfortable Conversations In The #metoo Workplace : AudiobooksNow : USD7.99 Top consultant Sarah Beaulieu offers a five-part framework that enables employees to have difficult but necessary conversations about sexual harassment and violence and develop new, better ways of working together.In the wake of the #MeToo movement, employees and leaders are struggling with how to respond to the pervasiveness of sexual harassment. Most approaches simply emphasize knowing and complying with existing laws. But people need more than lists of dos and don'ts-they need to learn how to navigate this uncertain, emotionally charged terrain. Sarah Beaulieu provides a new skills-based approach to addressing sexual harassment prevention and response in the workplace, including using underdeveloped skills like empathy, situational awareness, boundary setting, and intervention.Beaulieu outlines a five-part framework for having conversations about sexual harassment: Know the Facts; Feel Uncomfortable; Get Curious, Not Furious; See the Whole Picture; and Embrace Practical Questions. By embracing these conversations, we can break the cycle of avoidance and silence that makes our lives and workplaces feel volatile and unsafe. Grounded in storytelling, humor, and dozens of real-life scenarios, this book introduces the idea of uncomfortable conversation as the core skill required to enable everyone to bring their full talent and contributions to safe and respectful workplaces. |
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82375. The Socially Intelligent Project Manager: Soft Skills That Prevent Hard Days : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 This no-nonsense guide to social intelligence for project managers gives you a step-by-step process for building a bulletproof project team-no matter what gaps exist in personality, geography, culture, or communication style.High-performing teams don't happen by magic. You need processes that are designed in a socially intelligent way if your team is going to overcome the modern world's tough challenges with coordination. To be a star project manager, you have to communicate with people in their individual learning styles, provide accountability in ways that won't be demotivating, and run meetings and minutes that people won't tune out. Your processes must be constructed in ways that respect the complex realities of social dynamics step by step.You have to know your team before you can motivate them, and you have to motivate them before you can manage them. In this book are foolproof techniques to make sure your team connects with you, each other, and everyone they need to get the job done. After all, a team should be more than the sum of its parts-and it's up to the project manager to provide the glue that holds it all together. |
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82376. Subtle Acts Of Exclusion: How To Understand, Identify, And Stop Microaggressions : AudiobooksNow : USD7.99 The first practical handbook that helps individuals and organizations recognize and prevent microaggressions so that all employees can feel a sense of belonging.Our workplaces and society are growing more diverse, but are we supporting inclusive cultures? While overt racism, sexism, ableism, and other forms of discrimination are relatively easy to spot, we cannot neglect the subtler everyday actions that normalize exclusion. Many have heard the term microaggression, but not everyone fully understands what they are or how to recognize them and stop them from happening.In this book, Tiffany Jana and Michael Baran offer a clearer, more accessible term, subtle acts of exclusion, or SAEs, to emphasize the purpose and effects of these actions. After all, people generally aren't trying to be aggressive-usually they're trying to say something nice, learn more about a person, be funny, or build closeness. But whether in the form of exaggerated stereotypes, backhanded compliments, unfounded assumptions, or objectification, SAE are damaging to our coworkers, friends, and acquaintances. Jana and Baran give simple and clear tools to identify and address such acts, offering scripts and action plans for everybody involved: the subject, initiator, and observer. Knowing how to have these conversations in an open-minded, honest way will help us build trust and create stronger workplaces and healthier, happier people and communities. |
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82377. Leadership In Higher Education: Practices That Make A Difference : AudiobooksNow : USD7.99 The authors of the classic bestseller The Leadership Challenge bring their expertise to higher education, offering five practices that can make any college or university leader into an exemplary leader.Drawing on the same vital research that formed the foundation of their classic bestseller The Leadership Challenge-more than two million copies sold-Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner offer higher education professionals a set of leadership skills and practices that are available to everyone, not just a charismatic few.This book is meant for all leaders on campus. Not only academic faculty, but the staff and managers of residential life, career development, student records, admissions, campus safety, information technology, library, counseling and health centers, facilities, alumni relations, and development, and all other organizations on campus. Kouzes and Posner identify Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership(r) and provide case examples of real people who demonstrate each practice:-model the way-inspire a shared vision-challenge the process-enable others to act-encourage the heartAnyone in higher education who wants to transform values into actions, visions into realities, obstacles into innovations, segments into solidarity, and risks into rewards must read this book. |
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82378. Strategic Risk Management: New Tools For Competitive Advantage In An Uncertain Age : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 This book presents a new approach to risk management that enables executives to think systematically and strategically about future risks and deal proactively with threats to their competitive advantages in an ever more volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous world.Organizations typically manage risks through traditional tools such as insurance and risk mitigation; some employ enterprise risk management, which looks at risk holistically throughout the organization. But these tools tend to focus organizational attention on past actions and compliance. Executives need to tackle risk head-on as an integral part of their strategic planning process, not by looking in the rearview mirror.Strategic Risk Management (SRM) is a forward-looking approach that helps teams anticipate events or exposures that fundamentally threaten or enhance a firm's position. The authors, experts in both business strategy and risk management, define strategic risks and show how they differ from operational risks. They offer a road map that describes architectural elements of SRM (knowledge, principles, structures, and tools) to show how leaders can integrate them to effectively design and implement a future-facing SRM program. SRM gives organizations a competitive advantage over those stuck in outdated risk management practices. For the first time, it enables them to look squarely out the front windshield. |
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82379. Powerarchy: Understanding The Psychology Of Oppression For Social Transformation : AudiobooksNow : USD7.99 Harvard-educated psychologist and bestselling author Melanie Joy exposes the psychology that underlies all forms of oppression and abuse and the belief system that gives rise to this psychology-which she calls powerarchy.As a prominent vegan activist, Dr. Melanie Joy had long been puzzled that people would become aware of one or more forms of oppression only to stay mired in many others, never seeing the similarities. In this book she identifies, for the first time, the psychological dynamics underlying all oppressive systems, such as racism, sexism, speciesism, and more, which she terms powerarchy. Powerarchy is organized around the belief in a hierarchy of moral worth, which sees some individuals as more worthy of being treated with integrity than others. It reflects and reinforces power dynamics that harm dignity and create power imbalances among social groups and between individuals.Joy says we've targeted the outward manifestations of oppression while leaving its core intact, like weeding a garden without pulling out the roots. She describes the three pillars of powerarchy-psychological defense mechanisms, narratives, and privileges-and shows how to apply this new frame to work more fully toward transformation for ourselves, others, and our world. |
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82380. Building Brand Communities: How Organizations Succeed By Creating Belonging : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 An authentic brand community is more than just people buying your product or working alongside one another. This book articulates the critical roles of mutual concern, common values, and shared experiences in creating fiercely loyal customer and collaborator relationships. Smart organizations know that creating communities is the key to unlocking unprecedented outcomes. But too many mistakenly rely on superficial transactional relationships as a foundation for community, when really people want something deeper. Carrie Melissa Jones and Charles Vogl argue that in an authentic and enriching community, members have mutual concern for one another, share personal values, and join together in meaningful shared experiences, whether online or off. On the deepest level, brands must help members grow into who they want to be. Jones and Vogl present practices used by global brands like Yelp, Etsy, Twitch, Harley Davidson, Salesforce, Airbnb, Sephora, and others to connect in a meaningful way with the people critical for their success. They articulate how authentic communities can serve organizational goals in seven different areas: innovation, talent recruitment, customer retention, marketing, customer service, building transformational movements, and creating community forums. They also reveal principles to grow a new brand community to critical mass. This is the first comprehensive guide to a crucial differentiator that gives organizations access to untapped enthusiasm and engagement. |
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82381. Seeing People Through: Unleash Your Leadership Potential With The Process Communication Model : AudiobooksNow : USD7.99 NASA, Pixar Animation Studios, and BMW all use the Process Communication Model as a way of training leaders to connect effortlessly with anyone. This book simplifies the complex model to make it easy for anyone to use.Today, more than ever, leaders need a new style of leadership. They are realizing that true transformation happens through meaningful relationships, and discovering that the key to sustainable connections that create possibility and potential is through communication.In Seeing People Through, we take a deep dive into The Process Communication Model(r) (PCM), a behavioral communication model that teaches people how to assess, connect, motivate, and resolve conflict by understanding the personality types that make up a person's whole self, which is the key to leveraging personality diversity.PCM is more than a lens for understanding how people see things differently; it's a deep journey into self-awareness and self-transformation. In this book, new emerging leaders, senior leaders, and seasoned consultants alike will develop a fresh and relevant framework on leadership that is consistent with emerging trends, and they will learn how individual and collective concerns can be reconciled in leadership.NASA, Pixar Animation Studios, and BMW are just some of the companies who have all used PCM as a way to build better relationships through authenticity, trust, agility, and positive influence-and now you can, too! |
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82382. Creating Introvert-friendly Workplaces: How To Unleash Everyones Talent And Performance : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 This important book offers organizations the keys to introvert inclusion.-Susan Cain, New York Times bestselling author of Quiet InfluenceThe first guide to creating a welcoming culture that maximizes the powerful contributions introverts bring to the workplace.As the diversity, equity, and inclusion wave widens and deepens its reach, introversion is becoming a natural part of that movement. After all, about half the population identify as introverts, but many organizations are stuck in traditional extrovert-centric workplace cultures that reward people for speaking up publicly, expect them to log face time, and employ hiring and promotion practices rooted in the past. This ultimately discourages introverts from contributing and reaching their full talent potential, which could have a major impact on the bottom line.Champion for introverts" Jennifer Kahnweiler offers a road map for everyone in the workplace-including leaders |
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82383. Rebuilding Trust In The Workplace: Seven Steps To Renew Confidence, Commitment, And Energy : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 The authors of the award-winning (2007 Nautilus Book Award and 2008 Axiom Book Award) and bestselling book Trust and Betrayal in the Workplace take the next step by showing how to rebuild trust in any workplace or organization after it has been broken, which is increasingly common because of harsh cutbacks, betrayal of commitments, relationship conflicts, and many other causes. |
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82384. El Corazn Del Liderazgo: Cmo Ser Un Lder Que La Gente Quiera Seguir : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 What makes for a truly exceptional leader? Certainly, leaders need people skills, execution skills, a deep knowledge of industry trends, the ability to articulate a vision, and more-they must be competent-but that's just the tip of the iceberg. What's below the waterline? What's deep inside the best leaders that makes them different?The Spanish language edition of the bestselling title The Heart of Leadership is ready to help you answer the question-Are you the type of leader people want to follow? You can be--but first, you've got to understand what sets great leaders apart from all the rest.Certainly, leaders need people skills, execution skills, a deep knowledge of industry trends, the ability to articulate a vision, and more--they must be competent--but that's just the tip of the iceberg. What's below the waterline? What's deep inside the best leaders that makes them different?Mark Miller contends it is their leadership character. In his latest enlightening and entertaining business fable, he describes the five unique character traits exhibited by exceptional leaders and how to cultivate them.The Heart of Leadership begins with young and ambitious Blake Brown being passed over for a desperately wanted promotion, despite an outstanding individual performance. Confused and frustrated, he turns to his former mentor, Debbie Brewster. Rather than attempting to solve Blake's problem for him, she sends him on a quest to meet with five of his late father's colleagues, each of whom holds a piece of the puzzle he's trying to solve.As Blake puts the pieces together, he discovers that in the final analysis, a lack of skills isn't what holds most leaders back; skills are too easy to learn. Without demonstrated leadership character, however, a skill set will never be enough. Most often, when leaders fail to reach their full potential, it is an issue of the heart. This is Blake's ultimate revelation.This book shows us that leadership needn't be the purview of the few--it is |
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82385. The Economics Of Higher Purpose: Eight Counterintuitive Steps For Creating A Purpose-driven Organization : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 Two distinguished scholars offer eight steps to help organizations discover and embrace an authentic higher purpose-something that will dramatically improve every aspect of any enterprise, including the bottom line.Managers are taught that employees are self-interested and work resistant, so they create systems of control to combat these expectations. The result? These gloomy assumptions become self-fulfilling prophecies, workforces tend to underperform and resist control, and managers undermine their own effectiveness in a vicious cycle.But when an authentic higher purpose permeates business strategy and decision-making, the cycle is broken. Employers and employees fully engage, become proactive contributors to purpose, and exceed expectations. Long-term economic benefits follow.Robert E. Quinn and Anjan J. Thakor offer a new logic that builds on the assumptions of economics and opens a new path to clearly identifying an organization's higher purpose and integrating it with the organization's strategy. They offer a practical and counterintuitive eight-step approach to articulating higher purpose and show how to weave it into the fabric of the organization. |
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82386. The Hidden History Of Guns And The Second Amendment : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 In this precise primer on firearms practices and policies, progressive talk-show host Hartmann examines the history of routine gun usage and extreme gun violence and assesses the influence of gun ownership on contemporary political, economic, and social norms...A brief but powerful analysis of a searing national crisis. -BooklistTaking his typically in-depth, historically informed view, Thom Hartmann examines how guns have played important roles throughout American history, from early European settlement to the Revolutionary War and Manifest Destiny, through the use of Slave Patrols in the Deep South (which became the well-regulated militias" so debated in 1787) |
| 82387. John F. Kennedy And Recent School Massacres.looking At The Present : AudiobooksNow insurance) |
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82388. The Hidden History Of The Supreme Court And The Betrayal Of America : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 Hartmann delivers a full-throated indictment of the U.S. Supreme Court in this punchy polemic. -Publishers WeeklyTaking his typically in-depth, historically informed view, Thom Hartmann asks, What if the Supreme Court didn't have the power to strike down laws? According to the Constitution, it doesn't. From the founding of the republic until 1803, the Supreme Court was the final court of appeals, as it was always meant to be. So where did the concept of judicial review start? As so much of modern American history, it began with the battle between the Federalists and Anti-Federalists, and with Marbury v. Madison. Hartmann argues it is not the role of the Supreme Court to decide what the law is but rather the duty of the people themselves. He lays out the history of the Supreme Court of the United States, since Alexander Hamilton's defense to modern-day debates, with key examples of cases where the Supreme Court overstepped its constitutional powers. The ultimate remedy to the Supreme Court's abuse of power is with the people-the ultimate arbiter of the law-using the ballot box. America does not belong to the kings and queens; it belongs to the people. |
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82389. Bridging Differences For Better Mentoring: Lean Forward, Learn, Leverage : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 This first comprehensive guide to helping mentors and mentees bridge gaps between and among cultures-a growing issue in today's diverse workplace-is coauthored by the founder and CEO of the Center for Mentoring Excellence.As the workplace has become more diverse, mentoring has become more challenging. Mentors and mentees may come from very different backgrounds and have limited understanding of each other's cultures and outlooks. But mentoring remains the most powerful tool for creating meaningful relationships, furthering professional development, and increasing engagement and retention. Younger workers and emerging leaders in particular are demanding it.Lisa Z. Fain and Lois J. Zachary offer a timely, evidence-based, practical guide for helping mentors develop the level of cultural competency needed to bridge differences. Firmly rooted in Zachary's well-known four-part mentoring model, the book uses three fictional scenarios featuring three pairs of diverse mentors and mentees to illustrate how key concepts can play out in real life. It offers an array of accessible tools and strategies designed to help you increase your self-awareness and prepare you to embrace and leverage differences in your mentoring relationships. But beyond tips and techniques, Fain and Zachary emphasize that authenticity is the key-the ultimate purpose of this book is to help the mentor and mentee make a genuine connection and learn from each other. That's when the magic really happens. |
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82390. The Ethical Sellout: Maintaining Your Integrity In The Age Of Compromise : AudiobooksNow : USD7.99 In the age of identity politics, the fear of selling out is rampant-but Zheng and Hansen say there's nothing wrong with it and show how to do it without betraying your deepest values and beliefs.What happens when you're a proud person of color, but you fall in love with a white person? What if you don't believe in working for megacorporations, but one offers you a six-figure salary, and you have a family to feed? Will you sell out, and is that wrong?The truth is we're all sellouts. Our life circumstances change in ways we can't predict. Offering practical assessment scenarios and hard-hitting questions, Zheng and Hansen propose new ways of authentically thinking about marginalization, privilege, and self-interest, including five key components of ethically selling out:-Lose the purity politics-you're a human being, not a model member of a group.-Embrace your changing identities, roles, and expectations-see change as growth, not betrayal.-Maintain a sense of meaning-hang on to your personal values as you navigate life's changes.-Seek a chosen family and community-isolation only reinforces negative reactions to selling out.-Constantly question your world-don't accept the status quo! |
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82391. 7 Rules For Positive, Productive Change: Micro Shifts, Macro Results : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 Change is difficult but essential-Esther Derby offers seven guidelines for change by attraction, an approach that draws people into the process so that instead of resisting change, they embrace it.Organizational change efforts often fail because they focus on top-down methods that rely on coercion, rewards, or positional authority. Well-meaning leaders talk about driving change, as though employees are cattle or cars. At best, this results in compliance--not engagement or commitment. And at worst it simply doesn't work.Drawing from her experience working with some of today's most successful companies, Esther Derby argues for what she calls change by attraction: giving space and support for people to feel the loss that comes with change and help them see what is valuable about the future you propose. Resistance fades because people feel there is nothing to resist--there is only something they want to move toward. In this book Derby outlines her seven rules for change by attraction: Strive for Congruence; Honor the Past; Assess What Is; Pay Attention to Networks; Experiment; Guide, Don't Standardize; and Use Your Self. |
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82392. The Real-time Revolution: Transforming Your Organization To Value Customer Time : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 Time has become a precious commodity, so business leaders who can save their customers' time more effectively than competitors do will win their loyalty. This book shows how it's done.Traditionally, corporate efforts to improve have focused on making internal processes run faster. But customers value their personal time far more than a company's time. Real-time companies beat the competition by being faster and more responsive in meeting customer needs. For example, one company profiled in this book allows customers to customize their products online to the exact shape, size, color, and graphic label they wish. Through lean manufacturing, just-in-time inventory, and digital technologies, customers receive their finished products in days. The book describes how to apply this real-time message across all areas of products and services: (1) development, (2) functioning (how the product or service actually works), (3) production and delivery, and (4) usage (servicing, maintaining, repairing, and enhancing products and services). Numerous examples describe how companies and organizations of all types and sizes are transforming their products and services to real time in many different ways. |
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82393. Building Better Ideas: How Constructive Debate Inspires Courage, Collaboration, And Breakthrough Solutions : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 Why do teams settle for bad ideas or kill good ones? Popular consultant B. Kim Barnes's unique process of constructive debate shows how teams can create better ideas and outcomes by eliminating obstacles to honest discussion, creativity, and collaboration.In too many organizations, great ideas and unusual solutions can be suppressed, ignored, or attacked. Departments defend their turf, and people choose what is safe over what is better. Honest opinions often show up in the meeting after the meeting" because people fear conflict or repercussions. Bad ideas move forward and good ideas die |
| 82394. Is A Workable Path Out Of This Dysfunction. Kim Barnes's Process Of Constructive Debate Shows How To Establish Conditions That Encourage The Free Exchange : AudiobooksNow |
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82395. The Driver In The Driverless Car, 2nd Edition: How Your Technology Choices Create The Future : AudiobooksNow : USD7.99 Tech experts Vivek Wadhwa and Alex Salkever describe dozens of astonishing technological advances in this fascinating and thought-provoking book, which asks what kind of future lies ahead-Star Trek or Mad Max?Astonishing technology developments, from personalized genomics to self-driving cars to artificial intelligence, could make our lives better. On the other hand, these very same technologies could raise the specter of a frightening future-eugenics, a jobless economy, loss of privacy, and exacerbating economic inequality.Vivek Wadhwa and Alex Salkever propose that we ask three questions about any new technology: Does it have the potential to benefit everyone equally? What are the risks and the rewards? Does the technology more strongly promote autonomy or independence? They offer a host of solutions to mitigate the harm that tech can cause but ultimately leave it to the reader to make the final decision.This revised edition includes sections on accelerating changes in genomics and the use of CRISPR to modify human embryos, reexamining driverless cars in the wake of Uber deaths, and exploring how advances in AI are enabling robots to perform tasks we naively assumed would remain the province of humans |
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82396. Creating An Environment For Successful Projects, 3rd Edition: The Art And Science : AudiobooksNow : USD12.49 Now in its third edition, this project management classic has been updated with an array of field-tested tools to help upper management ensure the success of projects within organizations.For twenty years, Creating an Environment for Successful Projects has been a staple for upper managers who want to help projects succeed. This new edition includes case studies from companies that have successfully applied the approach, along with practical tools such as templates, surveys, and benchmark reports for savvy leaders who want to ensure project success throughout their organizations. The insights in this book will help management speed projects along instead of getting in their way. All too often, well-intentioned managers put roadblocks in the team's way instead of empowering them with the tools they need to succeed. This approach to project environments, grounded in decades of research and practice, will help you make your organization the most project-friendly it's ever been. |
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82397. Project Decisions, 2nd Edition: The Art And Science : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 This new edition gives project managers practical methods and tools to make the right decisions while juggling multiple objectives, risks and uncertainties, and stakeholders.This practical and pragmatic book will help you lead your company's IT professionals into alignment on supporting the real needs of your organization. Too often, IT projects are treated as entities isolated from larger corporate strategy-shiny new software replacing what is already there. In contrast, the goal of any technology project should be about changing the business to run differently and better. In this book, you will learn how to lead the culture change that can finally bring about a meaningful dialogue among business analysts and information technology professionals. Achieving this requires calling on seven critical disciplines: leadership, business design, technical architecture management, application development, organizational change management, implementation logistics, and project management.Bob Lewis is an IT consultant and popular blogger, and Dave Kaiser brings years of experience as a chief information officer. Together they provide unique insight into the real-life challenges of IT functions and decision-making. |
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82398. Why Digital Transformations Fail: The Surprising Disciplines Of How To Take Off And Stay Ahead : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 Former Procter & Gamble Vice President for IT and Shared Services, Tony Saldanha gives you the keys to a successful digital transformation: a proven five-stage model and a disciplined process for executing it.Digital transformation is more imperative than ever. Enterprises must fully transform their entire business model to digital, not just parts of the business. But 70 percent of digital transformations fail. Why? Not because of a lack of technological capability, executive awareness, or CEO support, but because of a lack of direction and discipline.Tony Saldanha says your goal should be to arrive at a state of perpetual digital transformation, where your organization doesn't just disrupt its competitors but continuously disrupts itself (think Netflix, Amazon, or Google). To get there he outlines a three-phase execution process for digital transformations based on the famous airplane takeoff checklist, which has reduced crashes to one in every 1.2 million flights-a 0.00008 percent failure rate. Using this model, Saldanha shows companies how to get Ready, prepare a solid foundation for your change effort; Accelerate, learn from your experiences and continue to refine your approach; and Sustain the pace of technological innovation over the long haul.. |
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82399. Why We Elect Narcissists And Sociopathsand How We Can Stop! : AudiobooksNow : USD7.99 Bestselling author, therapist, lawyer, and mediator Bill Eddy describes how dangerous, high-conflict personalities have gained power in governments worldwide-and what citizens can do to keep these people out of office.Democracy is under siege. The reason isn't politics. It's personalities: too many countries have come under the sway of high-conflict politicians (HCPs). Most of these HCPs have traits of narcissistic personality disorder, antisocial (i.e., sociopathic) personality disorder, or both. This is the first and only guide for identifying and thwarting HCPs. Bill Eddy says the key to understanding HCPs is their use of what he calls the Fantasy Crisis Triad:1.There's a terrible crisis!2.It's caused by this evil person or group.3.I'm the only person who can solve it and save you.Using Hitler, Stalin, Putin, Berlusconi, Chavez, Nixon, Trump and others as case studies, Eddy shows how HCPs create or exacerbate conflict to manipulate our emotions and rise to power. But he also shows how we can spot HCPs early on (he includes a checklist of forty typical behaviors), respond to them effectively, and identify and give our support to genuine leaders. |
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82400. Feedback And Other Dirty Words: Why We Fear It, How To Fix It : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 A practical and irreverent guide to taking the sting out of feedback and reclaiming it as a motivating, empowering experience for everyone involved.Feedback! Ugh. Say the word to a colleague, your spouse, or a friend, and watch the person's blood pressure rise and defenses go up. For most of us, it's a word loaded with experiences that may include bias, politics, pain, regret, and anger. However, if we take a step back and think about its true intent, we realize that feedback needn't be a bad thing. We humans want to improve, grow, and advance, and we need insights that can help us move in the right direction. If we close ourselves off from understanding how others experience us, then we close ourselves off to a life of learning and growth. The authors address how feedback got such a bad rap and how we can fix it. They provide three key Fs (focused, fair, and frequent) for positive feedback. They also include a slew of practical exercises and strategies to change how we view and experience feedback. |
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82401. How To Be An Inclusive Leader: Your Role In Creating Cultures Of Belonging Where Everyone Can Thrive : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 We know why diversity is important, but how do we drive real change at work? Diversity and inclusion expert Jennifer Brown provides a step-by-step guide for the personal and emotional journey we must undertake to create an inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive.When people are able to bring their full selves to work and feel welcomed, valued, and respected for their differences, they perform at higher levels and contribute more to their organizations than when they are divided by differences. There is greater trust, cooperation, and community in the workplace, which leads to higher performance and business results. In this brave new book, award-winning entrepreneur and internationally acclaimed diversity and inclusion expert Jennifer Brown offers the best-practice guide for becoming more inclusive in our everyday behaviors and interactions. It shares how we can all shift our perspective to support each other and to develop as allies and even accomplices for workplace inclusion. It also explores how targeting the structural barriers to inclusion at an organizational level is needed to tackle the baked-in inequities of our systems that have persisted and continue to derail inclusion. Through storytelling techniques, the author works to make diversity and inclusion inclusive of everyone. The goal is to help those who have felt irrelevant to diversity and inclusion conversations-or even alienated by them-positively contribute to creating workplaces of greater mutual understanding, compassion, and affirmation that profit from the talents of everyone. |
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82402. Faster, Fewer, Better Emails: Manage The Volume, Reduce The Stress, Love The Results : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 Business communication expert and bestselling author Dianna Booher shares practical wisdom on how to write effective emails that get results and how to organize documents to gain control and increase your productivity.The majority of business writing is email writing. Yet many of us still struggle to write effective emails that get results. And we feel overwhelmed by the volume of email we receive to the point where we feel like we are in email jail! In this book, you will learn how to:-Compose actionable emails quickly by following Booher's philosophy of Think First, Draft Fast, and Edit Last-Write brief emails so they get read and get a quick response-Organize a common-sense file storage system that helps you find documents and emails quickly to attach and send-Present a professional image when you email prospects, customers, and coworkers-Be aware of legal liabilities and security risks as you send and receive email |
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82403. In Defense Of Public Service: How 22 Million Government Workers Will Save Our Republic : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 Dr. Alexander . . . brings to this book an acute understanding of both why our cherished form of government-and those who serve us in the civil service-appears to be under such unrelenting attack and how we, as citizens, should and must respond.-from the foreword by Congressman Elijah E. CummingsWhen those we elect descend into partisan tribalism, criminal malfeasance, and emulation of foreign autocracies and oligarchies, Cedric Alexander says it is the unelected apolitical fourth branch" of government-our nation's public servants |
| 82404. Se People Do Not Constitute A Nefarious "deep State" Pursuing A Hidden Agenda. They Are The Analysts : AudiobooksNow consultants |
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82405. Hello, My Name Is Awesome, 2nd Edition: How To Create Brand Names That Stick : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 The ultimate guide to naming your product or business has been updated throughout with twice as many resources as before, new stories (of both hits and flops), and an entirely new chapter on the power of names in the workplace.Every year, 6 million companies and more than 100,000 products are launched, but too many have names that look like the results of a drunken Scrabble game-Xobni, Svbtle, and Doostang, anyone? Ace naming consultant Alexandra Watkins explains how anyone-even noncreative types-can create memorable and buzz-worthy brand names. This 50% new second edition has double the number of brainstorming tools and techniques, even more secrets and strategies to nab an available domain name, a brand-new chapter on how companies are using creative names around the office to add personality to everything from cafeterias to conference rooms, and much more! But the heart of the book remains Watkins's proven SMILE and SCRATCH Test-two acronyms for what makes or breaks a name. And you'll see dozens of examples-the good, the bad, and the so bad she gave them an award." Alexandra Watkins is not afraid to name names. " |
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82406. The Innovation Code: The Creative Power Of Constructive Conflict : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 Innovation comes from creative tension, not harmonious interaction, says Dean of Innovation" Jeff DeGraff. He identifies four basic approaches to innovation and shows how leaders can manage the inevitable conflicts between them to create brilliant |
| 82407. Unity Building Of The Sage. He Includes Exercises So Readers Can Find Where They Fit Into This Framework And Shows How To Build : AudiobooksNow you get innovation that's both a good investment and good for the world. This is a profound but highly accessible guide for achieving breakthrough solutions by utilizing the full-and seemingly contradictory-spectrum of innovative thinking." |
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82408. Raise Capital On Your Own Terms: How To Fund Your Business Without Selling Your Soul : AudiobooksNow : USD7.99 New businesses need money, but entrepreneurs are sometimes anxious about raising capital from traditional sources like venture capitalists, fearing there'll be strings attached. Jenny Kassan's book explains how to raise grassroots" capital from supporters and allies who believe in mission as much as in returns.Too many entrepreneurs |
| 82409. How Anyone Can Build Capital Without Relying On Traditional Methods.based On Over Ten Years Working With Small Businesses : AudiobooksNow and is in complete agreement with their business |
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82410. Prisoners Of Our Thoughts, 3rd Edition: Viktor Frankl's Principles For Discovering Meaning In Life And Work : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 There is a crisis of meaning in our lives, work, and society. The solution is to begin the search for deeper meaning. The authors summarize the universal and timeless wisdom of Viktor Frankl and provide new insights based on their work leading the Meaning Movement.World-renowned psychiatrist Viktor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning was named by the Library of Congress as one of the ten most influential books of the 20th century. Dr. Frankl's story of finding a reason to live in the most horrible circumstance imaginable-Nazi concentration camps-continues to inspire millions.Drawing on the entire body of Frankl's work, Alex Pattakos and Elaine Dundon elaborate seven Core Principles and demonstrate how they can be applied to everyday life and work in the 21st century. These principles include the ultimate freedom to choose our attitude no matter the situation-the idea most closely associated with Frankl-but his ageless wisdom goes well beyond this. The third edition is revised and updated throughout and includes four new chapters: looking at meaning in a holistic, integrated way; envisioning what a meaning-centered world would look like; and exploring Frankl's legacy in the 21st century. Prisoners of Our Thoughts opens up new opportunities for finding personal meaning through living an authentic life. |
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82411. The Mood Elevator: Take Charge Of Your Feelings, Become A Better You : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 Positive psychology and organizational guru Larry Senn shows readers how allowing room for your mood swings rather than suppressing them can lead you to be more successful and happy.Mood swings are a common, almost universal experience-especially in a world as full of unpredictable, uncontrollable changes and chances as ours. People know they have good and bad moods, but most have never thought of them as an emotional elevator they ride and can have influence over. Perhaps they've even tried to suppress their moods and refuse to acknowledge the ride at all.Larry Senn implores us to take our changing moods seriously and ride the mood elevator, which can help us all be more effective leaders and greatly impact our personal lives. At the top floors, we find ourselves to be grateful, wise, creative, resourceful, and hopeful. At the bottom, we can be depressed, angry, stressed, judgmental, and defensive. The Mood Elevator provides a framework and a series of simple pointers and illustrative stories that help us see that without taking the full ride, we can't access the top floor moods without remembering that we have to build up from the bottom.The Mood Elevator shows us that we create our own moods through our own thinking and, in the end, have control over the direction we head. The book provides simple steps for readers to quickly change their thinking to create better emotional states based on their environments. |
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82412. The Memo: Five Rules For Your Economic Liberation : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 America's poor, working poor, and middle class are in a waiting game they cannot win. Jobs will not come, times will not get better, and communities will not flourish until they get the memo"-that is |
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82415. Who Do We Choose To Be?: Facing Reality, Claiming Leadership, Restoring Sanity : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 On the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of her classic Leadership and the New Science, bestselling author Margaret Wheatley once again turns to the new science of living systems to help leaders persevere in a time of great turmoil.Who Do We Choose to Be? is a book that offers a path for leaders to engage wisely with the destructive dynamics of this time that manifest at every level, from individual to organizational to global. We enter the path by facing reality, wanting to see with clarity and discernment where we are and how we got here. Because of her own studies and experiences, Wheatley has chosen to use the lens of new science to understand where we are and why we ended up here.Wheatley focuses on eight dynamics common to all living systems, each given its own section. For each dynamic, an essay details what new science teaches about the dynamic. Next, short essays apply this lens to today's culture, illuminating the causes of many of our most troubling and perplexing behaviors and trends. The last section is Wheatley's personal recollections of leaders who used this dynamic in healthy and life-affirming ways.The book is a form of exploration that offers a relaxed and fruitful process of inquiry. To understand how we got here requires more than rational analysis. It requires a dwelling mind where a multiplicity of influences and factors are considered before any insight can reveal itself. Finally, the book presents a question to leaders: whom do you choose to be as a leader for this time? |
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82416. The Power Of Having Fun: How Meaningful Breaks Help You Get More Done : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 Most of us put work first and leave fun for last, as an afterthought. But speaker, trainer, consultant, and bestselling author Dave Crenshaw (The Myth of Multitasking) says we've got it backwards. By putting fun first-working meaningful, enjoyable breaks into each day, week, month, and year-we will not only be happier, we'll be more productive too!Fun is something you have to earn, right? You work hard, and then maybe once a year you get to enjoy yourself on a vacation. And after a lifetime of this, you retire and finally do what you want. Dynamic speaker and consultant Dave Crenshaw calls this the culture of WISH: you slave away and hope it will be Worth It Someday, Hopefully. And it's all wrong.Crenshaw shows that by putting fun first-carefully scheduling enjoyable, meaningful, and refreshing breaks throughout your day, week, month, and year-not only will you be happier, you'll be a lot more productive too. Fun has the power to turn your life into a WIN-what you do will feel like it's Worth It Now. Using real-world examples, thought-provoking exercises, and a healthy dose of wit, Crenshaw details a five-stage process that has helped thousands of people discover their personal oases"-specific actions and activities that they find renewing and energizing-and make them a priority. Readers will be delighted to find a book that lowers their stress |
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82417. Up Is Not The Only Way: Rethinking Career Mobility : AudiobooksNow : USD5.49 Bestselling author Beverly Kaye (Love 'Em or Lose 'Em-700,000 copies sold), joins coauthors Lynn Cowart and Lindy Williams to deliver a revolutionary and motivational guide to rethinking career mobility as a kaleidoscope, not a ladder.Over and over, managers hear employees asking, Do I have a future here?" Many managers and leaders struggle with the fact that they simply cannot deliver vertical moves or promotions for every employee who wants or even deserves that option.Up Is Not the Only Way introduces the concept of flexibility and agility and the multiple ways employees can grow |
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82419. The Influence Effect: A New Path To Power For Women Leaders : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 Everything that we've been told about women succeeding in the workplace-from leaning in to throwing out the idea of being nice girls"-misses the true key that puts women ahead: influence. Leadership experts Kathryn Heath |
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82421. Ask Outrageously!: The Secret To Getting What You Really Want : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 Are you asking for what you want or just taking what you are given? Chances are, it's the latter. Linda Swindling will teach you how to ask outrageously-and get the results you want.Not getting what you want or living with what someone decides you deserve is exhausting and dispiriting. Linda Swindling provides principles, tactics, and strategies to help you show up powerfully to negotiate for the best deals at work and in life with confidence and integrity.Asking outrageously does not mean being obnoxious or taking advantage of others. It means making a big ask-if you're going to ask anyway, why not be bold? In her former life as an attorney, Swindling found she was doing this all the time for her clients but was puzzled to realize she rarely did it for herself. She describes a straightforward, three-step process: (1) determine what you want, (2) approach those who have the authority to grant your wish, and (3) feel the fear and ask anyway. With a wealth of practical tools-checklists, suggested questions, case studies, and an online assessment so you can evaluate how well you ask now-this book helps you overcome blockages and inhibitions to reach breakthrough results and ask for more than you believe is possible. |
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82422. Capitalists, Arise!: End Economic Inequality, Grow The Middle Class, Heal The Nation : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 Peter Georgescu explains how his American Dream journey-from refugee to the CEO of Young & Rubicam-is no longer possible, and the underlying culprit is shareholder primacy. The income gap is growing larger and larger, and Georgescu argues that only a return to a true form of capitalism will begin to decrease that gap.Peter Georgescu is scared, as are some of his more farsighted fellow millionaires and billionaires-not of Al Qaeda or the vicious Islamic State or some other evolving radical group . . . We are afraid of where income inequality will lead."So begins both his 2015 op-ed piece in the New York Times |
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82424. Creating Personal Presence: Look, Talk, Think, And Act Like A Leader : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 Bestselling author (Communicate with Confidence!, over 160,000 copies sold) Dianna Booher takes the mystery out of creating the Personal Presence" that is central to everyone's success in leading |
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82425. Conflict Without Casualties, 2nd Edition: A Field Guide For Leading With Compassionate Accountability : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 When leaders learn how to manage the emotions and drama in their organizations, conflict can be made healthier. Nate Regier uses the Drama Triangle Model and the Compassion Cycle to show leaders how to exercise compassion, not passion, and turn the negative energy of conflict into a positive energy for increased productivity and growth.Conflict without Casualties fills a gap by showing leaders at any level how to leverage positive conflict. Practical |
| 82426. Is Really Just A Kind Of Energy And Can Be Used In Positive Or Negative Ways. Handled Incorrectly : AudiobooksNow managing |
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82427. Building Resilience With Appreciative Inquiry: Aleadership Journey Through Hope, Despair, And Forgiveness : AudiobooksNow : USD7.99 Since the 1980s, Appreciative Inquiry has proven to be one of the most powerful and effective methods for organizational change. Now two top consultants show how leaders can adapt its principles to become more personally and professionally resilient.Appreciative Inquiry is a venerable and widely used organizational change method that emphasizes identifying what's working and building on those strengths. It is the focus on the best of what is and using that to generate the future that makes it so powerful. In answer to numerous requests from their clients, consultants and scholars McArthur-Blair and Cockell show how to apply the lessons of AI to build resilience in leaders. Every leader has moments of despair, that dark night of the soul" where there seems to be no clear path forward. The authors' ALIVE process (Appreciate |
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82428. Reinventing Talent Management: Principles And Practices For The New World Of Work : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 This new, data-driven book teaches managers and HR executives how to identify a comprehensive and integrated set of talent practices that fit the evolving workplace and that will dramatically improve the effectiveness of all organizations.Many talent management principles and practices now being used in organizations are obsolete as a result of the fluid nature of work. Globalization, technological advances, automation, the diversification of the workforce, the push for sustainable practices, and the increasing pace of transformation have wrought dramatic changes in the world of work. And yet a recent study showed that from 1995 to 2013 there was no significant growth in the way HR spends its time.Based on extensive research by Lawler and his colleagues, this book identifies the new strategies, policies, and practices needed for talent management today.What used to be good or best practices with respect to how people are recruited, selected, trained, assigned, developed, rewarded, and evaluated no longer fit. Today's hierarchical, bureaucratic talent management needs to become agile, strategic, and performance based. This is the first book to identify a comprehensive integrated set of talent practices that fit the changing workplace and that will dramatically improve the effectiveness of organizations. |
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82429. Activating The Common Good: Reclaiming Control Of Our Collective Well-being : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 A powerful, inspiring, and achievable vision of a society based on cooperation and community instead of competition and commodification.This book counters the dominant and destructive story that we are polarized, violent, selfish, and destined to consume everything in sight. That is not who we are.The challenge, Peter Block says, is that we are suffering under an economic theology that is based on scarcity, self-interest, competition, and infinite growth. We're told we can purchase and outsource all that matters. Block calls this the business perspective narrative." It dominates not only the economy but also architecture |
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82431. Humble Leadership, Second Edition: The Power Of Relationships, Openness, And Trust : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 Discover a more agile, democratic, and effective model of leadership, from legendary business scholar Edgar Schein and Silicon Valley executive Peter Schein.Legendary organizational scholar Edgar Schein and former Silicon Valley executive Peter Schein say leadership today requires that people transcend their hierarchical roles and relate to each other as human beings-what they call humble leadership. In such relationships new ideas can flow freely, mistakes can come to light immediately, and course corrections can be made in real time rather than by committee" or by order of the lone heroic CEO.This second edition includes three new chapters. Chapter 1 zeros-in on the Schein |
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82433. The Secret Of Culture Change: How To Build Authentic Stories That Transform Your Organization : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 Find out how bold actions by visionary leaders can inspire powerful stories that drive culture change.Data indicates that most strategic efforts to change a company's culture fail. So how do companies succeed in this endeavor?A top strategy professor and two highly successful CEOs found that, in companies that had successfully changed their culture, leaders had taken dramatic actions that embodied the new cultural values. These actions inspired stories that became company legends, repeated in every department and handed on to new employees.Through compiling and analyzing 150 stories from business leaders who have achieved change, they identified 6 attributes that every successful culture change story has in common:1.The actions are authentic2.They revolve around the CEO3.They signal a clean break with the past, and a clear path to the future4.They appeal to employee heads and hearts5.They're often theatrical or dramatic6.They're told, and re-told, throughout the organizationWith extensive and inspiring examples of stories containing these attributes, the authors illustrate how readers can harness the power of stories within their company in order to change or create a winning culture to align with any strategy. |
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82434. Holding Onto Air: The Art And Science Of Building A Resilient Spirit : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 A top mental health writer, trauma researcher, and survivor illuminates the dual nature of loss-the science behind it and art of transforming it with a breakthrough book and truly holistic approach.After experiencing two rare heart attacks at the age of 33-and a third a decade later, DeMarco knows trauma intimately. Trauma breaks your relationship with time by upending your expectations, fracturing your memories and identity, and destroying your innocence.With poignant wisdom and refreshing insight DeMarco explodes traditional myths of resilience and shows what it takes to thrive through any of life's challenges. DeMarco situates meaningful challenge and loss specifically in the context of lost innocence |
| 82435. : AudiobooksNow Holding Onto Air brings the body and spirit into the solution |
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82436. Wealth Supremacy: How The Extractive Economy And The Biased Rules Of Capitalism Drive Todays Crises : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 This powerful analysis explains how the bias toward wealth that is woven into the very fabric of American capitalism is damaging people, the economy, and the planet and explores what the foundations of a new economy could be.This bold manifesto exposes seven myths underlying wealth supremacy-the bias that institutionalizes infinite extraction of wealth by and for the wealthy and is the hidden force behind economic injustice, the climate crisis, and so many other problems of our day:-The Myth of Maximizing-No amount of wealth is ever enough.-The Myth of Fiduciary Duty-Corporate managers' most sacred duty is to expand capital.-The Myth of Corporate Governance-Corporate membership must be reserved for capital alone.-The Myth of the Income Statement-Income to capital must always be increased, while income to labor must always be decreased.-The Myth of Materiality-Profit-that is, material gain-alone is real, while social and environmental damages are not.-The Myth of Takings-The first duty of government must be the protection of private property.-The Myth of the Free Market-There should be no limits on the sphere of influence of corporations and capital.Kelly argues instead for the democratization of ownership: public ownership of vital services, worker-owned businesses, and more. And she sketches the outlines of a nonextractive capitalism that would be subordinate to the public interest. This is an ambitious reimagining of the very foundations of our economy and society. |
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82437. Who Do We Choose To Be?, Second Edition: Facing Reality, Claiming Leadership, Restoring Sanity : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 In a world we cannot recognize, how do we find a way forward? In this world we do not understand, how do we know what to do? When so little is comprehensible, what is meaningful work? What is genuine contribution?Bestselling author Margaret Wheatley has summoned us to be courageous leaders who strengthen community and rely on fully engaged people since her 1992 classic book, Leadership and the New Science, and eight subsequent books. In response to how quickly society is changing and the exponential increase in leadership challenges, this second edition of her latest bestseller is 80% new material.How do we see clearly so that we can act wisely? Wheatley brings present reality into clear and troubling focus using multiple lenses of Western and Indigenous sciences, and the historic patterns of collapse in complex civilizations. With gentle but insistent guidance to face reality, she offers us the path and practices to be sane leaders who know how to evoke people's inherent generosity, creativity, and kindness.Skillfully weaving science, history, exemplars, poetry, and quotes with stories and practices, Wheatley asks us to be Warriors for the Human Spirit, leaders and citizens who stay engaged, choose service over self, stand steadfast in the midst of crises, and offer our reliable presence of compassion and insight no matter what. |
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82438. The Slow Lane: Why Quick Fixes Fail And How To Achieve Real Change : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 Avoid the speed trap! Discover how changemakers can find lasting solutions to urgent social problems through a proven 5-step process for listening thoughtfully, building broad support, and exploring unconventional options.Society celebrates leaders who promise fast, easy solutions to the world's problems-but quick fixes are just mirages that fade, leaving us with the same broken systems. The truth is, effective social change happens through slow, intentional actions. The author, a globally acclaimed social entrepreneur, offers a 5-step process for taking the slow lane to change-the lane that gets you to the right place faster:-Listening-Listen to build trust, which can change hearts and minds and allow for something new to emerge.-Holding the urgency-Accept that even in moments of crisis you can move only at the speed of trust instead of rushing into action.-Sharing the agency-Create an inclusive environment where everyone can lead.-Healing democracy-Build bridges that allow marginalized people to participate.-Maintaining curiosity-Be inspired by nontraditional sources.Using dozens of examples-prison reform in England, urban development in Venezuela, healthcare in the Navajo Nation, early childhood education in New York, and many more-The Slow Lane shows how, by following the principles taught in this book, readers can create lasting change. |
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82439. Compassionate Accountability: How Leaders Build Connection And Get Results : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 A compass for leaders lost in the paradoxical space between attention to people and attention to results-with Compassionate Accountability you don't have to choose!Sadly, compassion and accountability are too often in tension-leaders feel they have to pick one or the other. But solely prioritizing accountability can create toxic work environments that drive away good talent. On the other end of the spectrum, being too nice can compromise performance and productivity.Finding harmony between compassion and accountability is the ultimate catalyst for improved results and a thriving workplace.The solution is recognizing that compassion and accountability are not opposites. In fact, accountability is an element of compassion. Compassionate Accountability is the process of building connection while getting results. This book shows how this foundational mindset, philosophy, and way of living can lead to a thriving organizational culture. It covers such topics as these:-Why you can't practice compassion without accountability-How to turn on the three switches" of the compassion mindset-and the predictable damaging consequences when they're turned off-The key role Compassionate Accountability plays in a healthy leadership culture-Six areas to focus on to start building your culture of Compassionate Accountability-Five common barriers to compassion for leaders-and how to overcome themPlus |
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82440. The Hidden History Of American Democracy: Rediscovering Humanitys Ancient Way Of Living : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 America's most popular progressive radio host and New York Times bestselling author Thom Hartmann paves the way to saving our democracy.In this powerful, sweeping history and analysis of American democracy, Thom Hartmann shows how democracy is the one form of governance most likely to produce peace and happiness among people.With the violent exception of the Civil War, American democracy resisted the pressure to disintegrate into factionalism for nearly two centuries, and now our very system of democratic elections is at stake. So how do we save our democracy?Hartmann's newest book in the celebrated Hidden History Series offers a clear call to action and a set of solutions with road maps for individuals and communities to follow to create a safer, more just society and a more equitable and prosperous economy. |
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82441. Subtle Acts Of Exclusion, Second Edition: How To Understand, Identify, And Stop Microaggressions : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 An expanded edition of the first practical, nonjudgmental handbook for dealing with microaggressions, featuring examples, sample scripts, action plans, a new discussion and activity guide, and up-to-date suggestions for creating a culture of belonging in the workplace.Overt discrimination is relatively easy to spot. But the less obvious but more common actions that make people feel left out or stigmatized in our workplaces, commonly called microaggressions, can be hard to identify and even harder to deal with.The author use a clearer, more accurate term: subtle acts of exclusion (SAE). After all, people generally aren't trying to be aggressive-usually they're trying to say something nice, learn more about a person, or be funny. Bring accused of aggression shuts the conversation down, when you want to open it up. This book features examples, tools, sample scripts, and action plans to help readers prevent subtle acts of aggression from happening, or deal with them when they do. Updated throughout, this second edition features:-A greatly expanded chapter on intentional acts of inclusion"-actions for creating a sense of belonging.-A discussion and activity guide ideal for book clubs and training sessions-A new concluding chapter |
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82442. The Inclusive Language Field Guide: 6 Simple Principles For Avoiding Painful Mistakes And Communicating Respectfully : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 Avoid inadvertently offending or alienating anyone by following six straightforward communication guidelines developed by a no-nonsense linguistic anthropologist and business consultant.In today's fast-moving and combative culture, language can feel like a minefield. Terms around gender, disability, race, sexuality and more are constantly evolving. Words that used to be acceptable can now get you cancelled." People are afraid of making embarrassing mistakes. Or sounding outdated or out of touch. Or not being as respectful as they intended. But it's not as complicated as it might seem. Linguistic anthropologist Suzanne Wertheim offers six ea |
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82444. The Ai Dilemma: 7 Principles For Responsible Technology : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 The misuse of AI has led to wrongful arrests, denial of medical care, even genocide-this book offers 7 powerful principles that business can use now to end the harm.AI holds incredible promise to improve virtually every aspect of our lives, but we can't ignore its risks, mishaps and misuses. Juliette Powell and Art Kleiner offer seven principles for ensuring that machine learning supports human flourishing. They draw on Powell's research at Columbia University and use a wealth of real-world examples. Four principles relate to AI systems themselves. Human risk must be rigorously determined and consciously included in any design process. AI systems must be understandable and transparent to any observer, not just the engineers working on them. People must be allowed to protect and manage their personal data. The biases embedded in AI must be confronted and reduced. The final three principles pertain to the organizations that create AI systems. There must be procedures in place to hold them accountable for negative consequences. Organizations need to be loosely structured so that problems in one area can be isolated and resolved before they spread and sabotage the whole system. Finally, there must be psychological safety and creative friction, so that anyone involved in software development can bring problems to light without fear of reprisal. Powell and Kleiner explore how to implement each principle, citing current best practices, promising new developments, and sobering cautionary tales. Incorporating the perspectives of engineers, businesspeople, government officials, and social activists, this book will help us realize the unprecedented benefits and opportunities AI systems can provide. |
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82445. Why Motivating People Doesnt Workand What Does, Second Edition: More Breakthroughs For Leading, Energizing, And Engaging : AudiobooksNow : USD7.99 Leaders who want to amp up employee morale should take a look.-Publishers WeeklyWhat if the answer to motivating people is to stop trying to motivate them?The second edition of this bestseller reveals how motivation science is essential for solving the most vexing leadership issues-from hybrid work and retention to employee engagement.Leaders face a motivation dilemma. Traditional command-and-control management styles and carrot-and-stick motivation techniques have been proven ineffective.Motivation researcher and leadership consultant Susan Fowler expands on her groundbreaking Spectrum of Motivation model in this updated post-pandemic edition. New chapters tackle motivation science's role in managing remote and hybrid work; expose overused tactics, such as gamification and tokens; and tell the fascinating backstory behind the great resignation and quiet quitting.Fowler's approach to leadership is fresh, pragmatic, and inspiring. But it's also empirically sound. Her framework builds on Self-Determination Theory, equipping leaders with skills to encourage choice, deepen connection, and build competence. Leaders who mastered this method have experienced breakthroughs with higher retention, lower turnover, greater acceptance of DEIJ initiatives, and a more vital, creative, and resilient workforce.Through her experiences working with organizations and leaders around the world, Fowler reminds us that motivation is at the heart of everything people do and everything they don't do but wish they did. When managers integrate motivation science into their everyday leadership practice, an evolutionary truth emerges: people can be highly productive and flourish simultaneously. |
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82446. The Power Of Latino Leadership, Second Edition, Revised And Updated: Culture, Inclusion, And Contribution : AudiobooksNow : USD12.99 Experience the power of inclusion, community, and taking action! An updated, expanded edition.By 2045 Latinos will make up 1 in 4 Americans. They are projected to be 78% of the new entries into the labor force in the next ten years. By sheer numbers alone, Latinos will shape the 21st Century. What does it take to lead such a varied and vibrant people who hail from twenty-six countries and are a blend of different races? And what can leaders of all cultures and ethnicities learn from how Latinos lead? Juana Bordas takes us on a journey to the very heart and soul of Latino leadership. She offers 10 principles that richly illustrate the inclusive, people-centered, socially responsible, and life-affirming ways Latinos have led their community. This model is uniquely suited to this century's multicultural, global age. This new and expanded edition includes a chapter on intergenerational leadership that recognizes vast generational shifts are occurring: ten thousand Baby Boomers retire every day and Millennials and Zs are the largest generations in history. Six out of 10 Latinos are millennials. This new chapter can guide us in preparing the next generations to take the helm of leadership. This unprecedented and wide-ranging book shows that Latino leadership is indeed powerful and distinctive and has lessons that can inform leaders of every background. |
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82447. Revolutionizing Business Operations: How To Build Dynamic Processes For Enduring Competitive Advantage : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 Don't risk the dire consequences of your work processes becoming obsolete-discover a powerful model for constant, ongoing, enterprise-wide process evolution and optimization.If you have a great product, but don't have the operations in place to efficiently and effectively support it-production, manufacturing, sales, finance, human resources, etc.-you won't succeed. Product innovation is seen as flashier and so gets far more attention, but you can create an enduring competitive advantage by revolutionizing business operations.The problem is most attempts to improve business operations are reactive, sporadic, and siloed. Tony Saldanha and Filippo Passerini's Dynamic Process Transformation model provides a living model for constant, ongoing process evolution and optimization.The authors focus on maximizing three drivers of change. First, open market rules"-each business process must be run as a separate business |
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82448. Positive Provocation: 25 Questions To Elevate Your Coaching Practice : AudiobooksNow : USD7.99 Hone your skills and strengthen your practice with this series of twenty-five fresh and provocative questions for reflection that challenge the conventional wisdom in the coaching profession.Like any established profession, coaching is full of unexamined assumptions. These need to be regularly questioned and tested to keep the profession vital and valuable. Coaches need to engage in the same kind of scrutiny and self-examination that offers such powerful benefits to their clients.In Positive Provocation, coaching thought leader Robert Biswas-Diener asks a series of twenty-five provocative and sometimes playful questions that take a fresh look at some of coaching's most cherished beliefs. What if coaches had agendas? Why are ethics so boring? What's so great about interrupting? Can we trust eureka moments? What if we used less empathy?This is not an attack on the coaching profession-Biswas-Diener writes with a light, conversational, and often humorous touch. These are positive provocations, meant to stimulate your curiosity, engage you with the latest research, and invite you to see your practice with new eyes.Biswas-Diener covers philosophies of coaching, communicating with clients, common coaching concepts, coaching interventions, and a big final provocation: should coaching be informed by science? This book will give you a richer understanding of the coaching process, make you more articulate about your own beliefs, and allow you to feel more engaged with the craft. |
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82449. The Art Of Active Listening: How People At Work Feel Heard, Valued, And Understood : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 Improve communication, engagement, and culture with active listening.When employees, colleagues, and customers are not being heard, organizational culture, employee happiness, and overall organizational success will suffer. How well do you listen?Active listening is the doorway to increased belonging, loyalty, profitability, innovation, and so much more. It is the difference between thinking we understand what people want and knowing what they want. Want to build stronger relationships, avoid misunderstandings, and anticipate problems before they surface at work?All you have to do is listen.The Art of Active Listening introduces a 5-step framework that shows you how to listen successfully and act upon what you are hearing. Readers will discover how to:1.Recognize the unsaid2.Seek to understand3.Decode4.Act5.Close the loopBacked by her personal review of over 30,000 employee and customer surveys and facilitation of 100's of focus groups, Younger discovered one universal truth: We all want to be heard. We want our voices to matter. We want the work we do to matter. When we get this right - when we listen to our employees and customers and care about them not just for what they can do but for who they ARE - they can and will move mountains.Using the tools provided in this book, you can implement active listening, regardless of whether you're in-person or virtual, that benefits all team members and customers, strengthens overall engagement, improves organizational culture and creates a space for everyone to have a voice.When those at work feel heard, they will do whatever it takes to achieve outcomes that serve your relationship and your organization. |
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82450. The 5 Disciplines Of Inclusive Organizations: How Diverse And Equitable Enterprises Will Transform The World : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 A comprehensive new model for creating inclusive organizations, illuminating the vital role that inclusion plays in developing solutions to the critical social, environmental, and leadership challenges we face.Most organizational DE&I efforts are focused on changing individual behaviors. But unless you change the organizational structures-the practices, processes, and systems that surround and support individual behaviors-your change efforts will not take root. Structural inclusion makes behavioral inclusion stick.Andrés Tapia and Fayruz Kirtzman have found that five disciplines encompass the structures, mindsets, behaviors, and accountabilities required for creating inclusive organizations that will have transformational impact not only on their culture and people but also on society and the planet:1: Manage the Risk: know how to deal with the legal, reputational, and cultural risks of either doing the wrong thing, or not doing the right thing.2: Explode the Awareness: make sure leaders and employees are deeply informed about, and publicly committed to, the value of DE&I.3: Maximize the Talent Systems: ensure that leaders and managers display inclusive behaviors when they manage and optimize talent.4: Master the Logistics: integrate DE&I into operations in ways that lead to improved efficiencies.5: See the Marketplace: expand to new consumer market segments, enhance cross culturally competent customer service, and form effective partnerships with overlooked communities.The authors provide assessment tools and case studies of organizations that have implemented each discipline, highlighting what worked and what tripped them up. And they take a wider view, showing how inclusive organizations practicing the five disciplines can address what they call society's four vital tasks: diversify leadership, eradicate polarization, achieve justice, and save the planet. This is a complete guide to how to make your organization a systematic, process-oriented engineer of chang |
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82451. How To Have Antiracist Conversations: Embracing Our Full Humanity To Challenge White Supremacy : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 Utilizing Dr. Martin Luther King's Beloved Community framework, activists will be empowered to create change and equity through fierce yet compassionate dialogue against racism and systematic white supremacy.Can a person be both fierce and compassionate at once? Directly challenge racist speech or actions without seeking to humiliate the other person? Interrupt hateful or habitual forms of discrimination in new ways that foster deeper change? Dr. Roxy Manning believes it's possible-and you can learn how.In this book, Dr. Manning provides a new way to conceive of antiracist conversations, along with the practical tools and frameworks that make them possible. Her work is grounded in the idea of Beloved Community, as articulated by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., as a goal to aspire to and even experience now, in the present, when we refuse to give up on the possibility of human connection within ourselves, with potential allies, and with those whose words and actions create harm. This book fuels courage and provides tools to confront everyday forms of racism. It walks the reader through an effective, efficient model of dialogue that utilizes concepts of nonviolent communication and helps normalize talking about racism instead of treating it like a third rail |
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82452. Office Shock: Creating Better Futures For Working And Living : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 A thoughtful, practical read about the future of the flexible office.-Adam GrantOffice shock" is an abrupt |
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82454. Racial Justice At Work: Practical Solutions For Systemic Change : AudiobooksNow : USD12.49 Creating justice-centered organizations is the next frontier in DEI. This book shows how to go beyond compliance to address harm, share power, and create equity.Traditional DEI work has not succeeded at dismantling systems that perpetuate harm and exclude BIPOC groups. Proponents of DEI have put too much focus on HR solutions, such as increasing representation, and not enough emphasis on changing the deeper organizational systems that perpetuate inequities-in other words, on justice. DEIJ work diverges from traditional metrics-driven DEI work and requires a new approach to effectively dismantle power structures.This thought-provoking, solutions-oriented book offers strategic advice on how to adopt a justice mindset, anticipate and address resistance, shift power dynamics, and create a psychologically safe organizational culture. Individual chapters provide pragmatic how-to guides to implementing justice-centered practices in recruitment and hiring, data collection and analysis, learning and development, marketing and advertising, procurement, philanthropy, and more.DEIJ pioneer Mary-Frances Winters and her coauthors address some of the most significant aspects of adding a justice focus to diversity work, showing how to create a workplace culture where equity is not a checklist of performative actions but a lived reality. |
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82455. The Long-distance Team: Designing Your Team For Everyones Success : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 Design and cultivate remote work teams that actually work.From the experts who brought you The Long-Distance Leader and The Long-Distance Teammate comes the proven and practical guide for leaders to consciously design teams, define and create their desired culture, and encourage and nurture employee engagement-all from a distance.Team design and culture are often presented as separate concepts when they are in fact intertwined in the remote work setting. Using the 3C model of communication, collaboration, and cohesion, leaders will be given the tools to overcome challenges, such as proximity bias and deteriorating social connections, to create an environment where everyone can contribute and add value equally, regardless of location.The 3Cs are-Communication-While communication is a fundamental part of being human, it is also a critical foundation of successful work. Without it, teams break down.-Collaboration-Remote leaders face the misguided belief that physical presence is required to have a collaborative team. The truth is that proximity has nothing to do with successful collaboration.-Cohesion-This dimension includes decidedly nonstructural aspects, such as relationships, trust, and accountability. While difficult to measure, a team's cohesion is critical to its success.Using this framework, leaders of all levels will learn to assess, design, and develop their communication channels, methods for remote collaboration, and ability to foster cohesion to build successful long-distance teams. While a hybrid culture will be different, it can, when done right, be better than what existed before. |
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82456. Remote Works: Managing For Freedom, Flexibility, And Focus : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 The future of work is here. You can no longer survive by copying and pasting old office techniques into a digital environment; it's exhausting, unproductive, and unsuccessful. There is a better way! Are you ready to rethink everything you know about how remote works?Drawing on their years of experience working at remote companies DuckDuckGo and Automattic, plus dozens of interviews with leading experts, Ali Greene and Tamara Sanderson have written the ultimate playbook for managing remote teams.This book addresses challenges such as communicating effectively (with fewer meetings!), eliminating frustration over what tools to use, establishing team norms, and focusing on getting things done. You will learn how to work best remotely and create a workplace designed for freedom, flexibility, and focus.For decades, we've planned our lives around our work. Now it's time to intentionally design work to fit our lives. |
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82457. The Art Of Conscious Conversations: Transforming How We Talk, Listen, And Interact : AudiobooksNow : USD3.99 Ditch the negative mental habits that derail conversations and destroy projects, and discover a framework for forging authentic, enduring, and productive connections.All too often, we find our conversations stuck in cyclical patterns of unproductive behavior. We listen half-heartedly, react emotionally, and respond habitually, or what Chuck Wisner calls sleep talking."Conscious Conversations explores the way we can reframe our thoughts |
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82459. Leadership Two Words At A Time: Simple Truths For Leading Complicated People : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 For newcomers and upper management alike, leadership can be overwhelming and overcomplicated. By building core tenets of leadership around two key words for each chapter, Bill Treasurer simplifies the equation.Congratulations, new leader! You've joined the ranks during an exceptionally complicated time.Our current workplace climate is fraught with political divisions, economic disparities, and ever-shifting social dynamics. Leaders are managing remote teams across larger geographic distances and facing new roadblocks to onboarding, giving performance feedback, and nurturing healthy relationships.Leadership Two Words at a Time speaks directly to the plight of the new leader and is divided into three parts: Leading Yourself, Leading People, and Leading Work. Rather than overintellectualize the practice, Bill Treasurer breaks up the concept into essential and understandable learning nuggets-summed up by two-word headers-that provide the practical guidance and support that leaders often don't get. The result is time-tested wisdom that new leaders can grasp immediately and implement easily-and, with a little practice, master completely. Consider it a personal leadership playbook.This book gives you the basic building blocks to gain both competence and confidence, take on greater responsibility, and learn what it takes to be and stay a leader. |
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82460. Communicate With Courage: Taking Risks To Overcome The Four Hidden Challenges : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 Winner of nine awards in its first year including: the 2023 PenCraft Best Book Award for Nonfiction, 2023 Nonprofit Authors Association Silver Award, 2023 Readers' Favorite Bronze Medal Award for Business, the 2023 Dan Poynter's Global Ebook Awards Gold Award for Communications, and the 2023 PenCraft Award for Literary Excellence.Clear communication requires the courage to confront the psychological blocks that hold you back. Learn how to become a more fearless and peerless communicator.As a lifelong communication coach, Michelle Gladieux has discovered the four sneaky obstacles that can keep you from becoming an effective communicator:-Hiding-Fear of exposing your supposed weaknesses-Defining-Putting too much stock into assumptions and being quick to judge-Rationalizing-Using being realistic" to shield yourself from taking chances |
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82461. Invisible Trillions: How Financial Secrecy Is Imperiling Capitalism And Democracyand The Way To Renew Our Broken System : AudiobooksNow : USD12.49 Essential reading for anyone truly interested in saving democracy from the predations of kleptocracy and plutocracy.-Charles Davidson, The Journal of DemocracyThis book expands our understanding of the financial secrecy system dominating capitalism today and shows how we can create accountability to restore our democracy.Over the last half century, capitalism has created the means for trillions of dollars, euros, pounds, and other stores of wealth to move invisibly-beyond the control of central bankers, law enforcement agents, and international institutions. With an entire financial secrecy system now dominating capitalist operations, riches flow inexorably upward and accelerate economic inequality. And rising inequality is directly imperiling-weakening, obstructing, and degrading-democracy.This book is not a screed against capitalism-it is a call for capitalism to return to its roots, reenergizing its synergies with democracy. Raymond Baker writes, Democratic capitalism is |
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82462. A Complaint Is A Gift, 3rd Edition: How To Learn From Critical Feedback And Recover Customer Loyalty : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 The third edition of this bestseller (over 275,000 copies sold) builds on the tested formula that helps organizations recognize the value of complaints using updated examples and concepts in the age of COVID-19.The first edition of A Complaint Is a Gift introduced the revolutionary notion that customer complaints are not annoyances to be dodged, denied, or buried but are instead valuable pieces of feedback-not to mention your best bargain in market research. Complaints provide a feedback mechanism that can help organizations rapidly and inexpensively strengthen products, service style, and market focus. Most importantly, complaints that are well received create customer loyalty.This new edition condenses the tried and true eight-step formula into a tighter, more efficient three-step formula. From her work with clients, the author has updated industry-specific complaint examples and added in new concepts, such as a process that enables employees to handle complaints with increased emotional resilience-something that is sorely needed since dealing with increasingly difficult customers is a common occurrence in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.Handling complaints doesn't have to be a negative, soul-crushing experience. Janelle Barlow gives the right tools to treat each of them as a source of innovative ideas that can transform your business. |
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82463. The Human Side Of Innovation: The Power Of People In Love With People : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 PepsiCo's award-winning chief design officer reveals the secret to creating life-changing innovations: putting human needs at the center of any design process.In every industry, new technologies have lowered the barrier to entry like never before. Either you design exceptional products, brands and experiences, or somebody will beat you to it. And Mauro Porcini - PepsiCo's and 3M's first ever chief design officer - says, the key to real, world-changing innovation is to put people first. Putting people first requires what Porcini calls unicorns: people who are in love with people and who have a genuine fire in them to create meaningful solutions for actual human beings. In this book, he describes them, celebrates them, and details their superpowers so you can find them, hire them, grow them, and retain them. Some have qualities you might expect-the ability to dream and an attention to detail-but when was the last time you heard an executive ask prospective hires if they were kind or humble? Porcini uses his journey across startups and multinational corporations, through successes and failures, to create a handbook for modern innovators. This book is written by a celebrated designer, high-level corporate executive, and a decent human being. |
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82464. Leading With Joy: Practices For Uncertain Times : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 In a time of increasing disconnection and uncertainty, Leading with Joy shows how leaders can reclaim their purpose and embrace joy in service of social transformation.Leadership that connects people and centers compassion and trust instead of competition and disconnection is needed more than ever before. This book promotes a joyful and courageous approach to leadership that can sustain purposeful action and social change.Leading with Joy demonstrates how leaders can create conditions of abundance and well-being, which are necessary for long-term social transformation. It also draws on the authors' lived experiences as leaders, including their encounters with oppression and their wisdom in principled leadership.The book takes the form of a series of vignettes about the authors' experiences, with reflection questions at the end of each one. The stories are varied but resonant, touching on everything from near-death experiences to family relationships to workplace encounters and triumphs. The authors illuminate different aspects of leadership, such as humility, forgiveness, and kindness, and invite leaders to respond to the current moment. |
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82465. Dei Deconstructed: Your No-nonsense Guide To Doing The Work And Doing It Right : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 The definitive comprehensive and foundational text for critically analyzing and applying actionable DEI techniques and strategies, written by one of LinkedIn's most popular experts on DEI.The definitive comprehensive and foundational text for critically analyzing and applying actionable DEI techniques and strategies, written by one of LinkedIn's most popular experts on DEI.The importance of diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace cannot be understated. But when half-baked and under-developed strategies are implemented, they often do more harm than good, leading the very constituents they aim to support to dismiss DEI entirely.DEI Deconstructed analyzes how current methods and best pra |
| 82466. Ctices" Leave Marginalized People Feeling Frustrated And Unconvinced Of Their Leaders' Sincerity : AudiobooksNow along with a comprehensive foundation of actionable techniques |
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82467. The Dojo Coachs Pocket Guide: Maximizing Immersive Learning For Agile Teams : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 This go-to guidebook helps agile practitioners overcome upskilling challenges in their organizations through effective Dojo coaching.Agile has changed the way we work in our organizations. But by demanding constant innovation and product delivery, individuals and teams struggle to find time to improve their skills. That's where the Dojo comes in. Dojo-style coaching encourages this kind of learn-by-doing form of skill development, one where guided breakthroughs and upskilling happen while delivering on current work. In this useful pocket guide, experienced Dojo coach Jess Brock delivers practical advice based on her extensive experience in real-world Dojos. Combining proven tactics and a comprehensive tool kit, along with actionable tips needed to drive engagement in both physical and virtual Dojo spaces, this pocket guide will equip you to maximize the impact of your Dojo.Whether you are a seasoned pro or you are just starting to develop your Dojo coaching skills, this no-nonsense book will help Dojo coaches at any stage of their journey. |
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82468. Intelligence Isn't Enough: A Black Professionals Guide To Thriving In The Workplace : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 Master the balance between working on your career and working in it. Intelligence Isn't Enough helps Black professionals make strategic decisions and learn the unspoken rules for success.Recounting the despair she felt as a frustrated young Black professional, Carice Anderson knows that many Black professionals are relying on their education alone to break into the workplace. In this book, she empowers young Black professionals everywhere with the right knowledge by exposing them to advice and little-known principles of career success from her interviews with thirty successful Black leaders.Intelligence Isn't Enough is divided into six chapters that guide readers through what Anderson calls the six major corporate muscles":-IQ-Mental attitude-People matters-Cultural intelligence-Personal branding-CommunicationThis book includes personal stories |
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82469. Designing Transformative Experiences: A Toolkit For Leaders, Trainers, Teachers, And Other Experience Designers : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 Offering a new lens on leadership and living, this research-based guide shows how to design experiences that can touch hearts, provoke minds, and change lives in powerful ways.Transformative experiences are life events that change our sense of self in important ways. How do they work? What elements do they require? How can we learn to design them intentionally?By embracing the research-based approach of ELVIS (the Experiential Learning Variables and Indicators System), this book details how to recast yourself as an Experience Design Leader, one that can provide those in your organization with the opportunities needed to reflect and grow as individuals.Beginning with the ELVIS Framework, you will gain deep foundational insight into how transformative experiences work. And then with the ELVIS Toolkit, which includes seven practical design elements, you will have the key to unlocking these powerful experiences for yourself and others.Whether you are new to the idea of designing experiences for others or are a seasoned veteran, ELVIS shows you how to tap into the psychology operating behind the most powerful and important experiences of our lives-those that shape who we are. |
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82470. The Next Economy Mba: Redesigning Business For The Benefit Of All Life : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 This radical and rigorous rethinking of the traditional MBA program combines solid business principles with a commitment to environmental and social justice.Many current and aspiring entrepreneurs are looking for a solid business education that also deeply aligns with their progressive values. Based on a course field-tested with over 500 students, this book fills that gap. It covers traditional topics such as business strategy and structure, finance, marketing, recruiting, and branding from a socially just and environmentally regenerative perspective. And it also touches on topics such as strategies to reverse climate change, nonviolent communication, self-managing organizations, locally self-reliant economies, racial justice, and more. Traditional MBA programs are based on outdated principles that were developed during the Industrial Revolution-and they can be hugely expensive. Sustainable MBA programs, while laudable, are too incremental to make a sufficient impact. The Next Economy MBA is for entrepreneurs seeking to make business an active force for good. It draws on the authors' experience of working with over 300 social enterprises, from small organizations like Winona's Hemp and Heritage Farm to household names like Ben & Jerry's and Patagonia.Our current economy, what the authors call the Business as Usual Economy |
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82471. The Connected Community: Discovering The Health, Wealth, And Power Of Neighborhoods : AudiobooksNow : USD7.99 Find out how to uncover the hidden talents, assets, and abilities in your neighborhood and bring them together to create a vibrant and joyful community. It takes a village!We may be living longer, but people are more socially isolated than ever before. As a result, we are hindered both mentally and physically, and many of us are looking for something concrete we can do to address problems like poverty, racism, and climate change. What if solutions could be found on your very doorstep or just two door knocks away?Cormac Russell is a veteran practitioner of asset-based community development (ABCD), which focuses on uncovering and leveraging the hidden resources, skills, and experience in our neighborhoods. He and John McKnight, the cooriginator of ABCD, show how anyone can discover this untapped potential and connect with his or her neighbors to create healthier, safer, greener, more prosperous, and welcoming communities. They offer a wealth of illustrative examples from around the world that will inspire you to explore your own community and discover its hidden treasures.You will learn to take action on what you already deeply know-that neighborliness is not just a nice-to-have personal characteristic but essential to living a fruitful life and a powerful amplifier of community change and renewal. |
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82472. The Hidden History Of Neoliberalism: How Reaganism Gutted America And How To Restore Its Greatness : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 America's most popular progressive radio host and New York Times bestselling author Thom Hartmann reveals how and why neoliberalism became so prevalent in the United States and why it's time for us to turn our backs to it.While America is at a crossroads regarding its economic future, many of us don't fully understand how we got here. In this powerful and accessible book, Thom Hartmann demystifies neoliberalism and explains how we can use this pivotal point in time to create a more positive future.This book traces the history of neoliberalism-which applies to a set of capitalistic philosophies favoring free trade, financial austerity, and deregulation-up to the present. Hartmann explains how neoliberalism was sold as a cure for wars and the Great Depression. He outlines the impact that it has had on America, looking at different sectors, including healthcare, unemployment, and education.Hartmann highlights how America can go one of two ways: continue going down the road to neoliberal oligarchy, as supported by the GOP, or choose to return to FDR's Keynesian economics, raise taxes on the rich, reverse free trade, and create a more pluralistic society. |
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82473. Show The Value Of What You Do: Measuring And Achieving Success In Any Endeavor : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 By the winners of the Association for Talent Development's 2022 Thought Leader award!Prove your effectiveness to anyone-and achieve professional success-by adopting the same ROI methods and metrics that leading companies use.In an era of evidence-based inquiry, people need to be able to measure their success. In their new book, Patricia Phillips and Jack Phillips aim to help readers see the value of their work and then share it with others.The Show the Value process involves connecting projects with a business measure, collecting and analyzing data to track progress, and presenting the results to the right audiences. Readers will learn how to keep their work relevant, their careers on track, and their organizations healthy. The book includes extensive examples, diagnostic tools, and implementable practices that show how to measure and improve the success of any type of project. It will also help readers avoid disappointing results by designing for the desired results.Written for specialists, professionals, managers, and independent contractors who want to achieve success in their work, this book is a step-by-step guide on how to show the value of their initiatives, offering a simplified version of the ROI Methodology. |
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82474. Breakthrough Community Change: A Guide To Creating Common Agendas That Change Everything : AudiobooksNow : USD7.99 Discover a powerful methodology for bringing communities together to uncover hidden assets and transform deep-rooted challenges.Veteran community organizer Paul Born's work has contributed to lowering cancer rates in Maine, improving mental health for young people in Florida, and reducing poverty rates in Canada by 20 percent. In this much-needed new book, he shares stories of how he was able to catalyze local communities and guide them to make significant progress on seemingly intractable community problems.Born has found that the secret to success is to organize and unite around a common agenda. This is not a list of topics, like a meeting agenda, nor a strategic plan. He offers a process for bringing leaders from businesses, human service organizations, and governments together with people who have a lived experience of a specific community problem. A common agenda is a statement of shared aspirations, a map of the assets in the community, and a road map for how to work together to make those aspirations a reality.Part I of this book describes how to identify your community's readiness for change; form leadership, action, and strategy teams; create a common agenda; and establish plans for community engagement. Part II presents the approaches and skill sets needed to do the work described in part I.Remarkably, enormous systemic problems such as climate change, poverty, disease, racism, housing, and many more issues can be best addressed at the local level. Communities can develop solutions tailored to their unique circumstances and can collaborate at a magnitude that can result in a truly transformative impact. This book shows how to make change happen. |
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82475. Whos In Your Room?, Revised And Updated: The Question That Will Change Your Life : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 People may be out of your life, but they're still in your head. Learn how to control the ongoing psychological impact of all your relationships and achieve happiness, success, and fulfillment.Who's in Your Room? is a metaphor and a method for understanding how our relationships, past and present, impact our lives.Imagine that you live your entire life in one room. Inside are all the people with whom you have ever had a relationship. The room is infinitely large, and anyone you let in will be in your room for the rest of your life. Neurologists report that as far as your brain is concerned, the metaphor is real-memories and emotions continue to influence you, for better or worse, long after their external cause has disappeared. So who do you want in your room?Stewart Emery, a pioneer of the human potential movement, and Ivan Misner, known as the father of modern business networking, present a highly effective process for determining who should be in your room, where in the room they should be (close to the door or off in a corner?), and how to shape your room to reflect your values and your life's purpose. This tool has unlimited usefulness for taking control of your life. |
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82476. The New Art Of Ideas: Unlock Your Creative Potential : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 In a world with a surplus of ideas, what separates a good idea from a bad one? Learn how to cultivate a mindset that produces the kind of ideas people can't turn down.Most professionals cannot generate a solid idea. They either offer up tired or reused ones, or they generate lots of ideas but none that are worth pursuing.A great idea presents a well-formulated thought or plan of action that spurs growth, change, advancement, adaptation, or new insight. Worthwhile ideas move the needle; they change the playing field altogether.The New Art of Ideas is designed to help readers consistently produce worthwhile ideas by becoming nimble and imaginative thinkers better equipped to compete and produce in a global economy. Robin Landa identifies the Three Gs of every good idea:-Goal-Your vision for the end-Gap-The underdeveloped area that your idea fills-Gain-The overall benefits of your goalWith explanations and examples of each component, this book demystifies the process of effective ideation and hands you the key to unlock your creative potential. |
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82477. How To Be An Inclusive Leader, Second Edition: Your Role In Creating Cultures Of Belonging Where Everyone Can Thrive : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 This compelling and inspiring call to action for leaders at every level helps them find their role and voice in affecting societal and workplace change.In a world where women and communities of color were disproportionally impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, it's more important than ever for leaders to truly understand how to support inclusion in the postpandemic workplace.Drawing on years of work with many leading organizations, Jennifer Brown shows what leaders at any level can do to spark real change and navigate uncharted waters. She guides readers through anti-racism using the Inclusive Leader Continuum, a set of four developmental stages: unaware, aware, active, and advocate. Brown describes the hallmarks of each stage, the behaviors and mindsets that inform it, and what readers can do to keep progressing.This second edition includes a new introduction and addresses challenges posed by the pandemic-including remote work, flexibility, and mental health. It also gives increased attention to embedding equity, empathy, and anti-racism in the inclusive leader framework. |
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82478. Holding The Calm: The Secret To Resolving Conflict And Defusing Tension : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 Holding the Calm is a practical and immediately useful guide that meticulously lays out twenty concrete, easy-to-use tools for defusing tension, settling cases, resolving disputes, and rechanneling arguments.Conflict can be destructive. Thousands of years of history have shown that human beings have always struggled to resolve disputes calmly and nonviolently. Now our society has less respect for its institutions and authority figures than ever because most people don't know how to lead out of a conflict stalemate. But, says Hesha Abrams, it doesn't have to be this way.Holding the Calm is the ultimate guide to help mediators of all kinds develop workable, immediate conflict management skills to approach workplace issues, lawsuits, marriage disputes, and everyday arguments. It is chock full of tools and techniques designed to facilitate civilized discussions involving drastically opposing viewpoints. The book's short chapters are written in an easy, accessible format to impart rich skills, anecdotes, and lessons that will arm leaders with the best approaches to conflict.This book teaches readers how to pick the right solution for the right situation-like when to turn lemons into lemonade and when to reach for the tequila and salt.Reading group discussion guide available in book. |
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82479. Reputation Capital: How To Navigate Crises And Protect Your Greatest Asset : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 A longtime broadcast journalist, ABC News correspondent, and business communication strategist shows how you can craft an honest and authentic response to any scandal, rather than try to deny it, and ultimately bolster your brand.In twenty years as a television reporter, T. J. Winick covered many scandals, including the British Petroleum oil spill, the Pennsylvania State University football scandal, the Catholic priest molestation scandal, and the Toyota recall of 2009-2010. The biggest mistake he's seen organizations make in their crisis communication is to try to make it go away" by refusing to apologize |
| 82480. Argues For Communicating Ethically : AudiobooksNow the way you address an egregious violation of your standards can increase your reputation capital. It can remind people of what those standards are and how strongly you believe in them.Drawing on his intimate insider knowledge of how the media works |
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82481. Practical Innovation In Government: How Front-line Leaders Are Transforming Public-sector Organizations : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 This book is a comprehensive guide to an exciting new approach that managers at any level can use to transform their corners of government.Whether people want more government or less, everyone wants efficient government. But most innovation efforts try to change the very nature of government-such as dismantling bureaucracy or privatizing services-and thus they usually fail.Alan Robinson and Dean Schroeder accept government on its own terms and simply ask how some existing organizations are dramatically improving their performance. What they found is that the best innovations come not from the top down but from the bottom up.Drawing on their study of seventy government organizations and interviews with nearly 1,000 people in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Denmark, and Sweden, they found that the most innovative agencies and offices solicited and implemented ideas from frontline workers, the people who directly serve the public.These often modest, pragmatic improvements can have a huge cumulative effect. For example, the Denver Department of Excise and Licenses was able to cut its average wait time from an hour and forty minutes to just seven minutes. Robinson and Schroeder offer a comprehensive guide for systematically collecting, evaluating, and implementing game-changing frontline ideas.Reading group discussion guide available in book. |
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82482. Diversity Training That Generates Real Change: Inclusive Approaches That Benefit Individuals, Business, And Society : AudiobooksNow : USD7.99 This complete guide to effective, transformative diversity training provides an answer to the superficial, check-the-box DEI efforts that are undermining the entire field.DEI work is getting a bad reputation. But that's because it's not being done right, say veteran diversity consultants James O. Rodgers and Laura Kangas. Too many organizations are treating diversity training as a quick-hit, low-cost, check-the-box activity.Effective diversity training involves behavioral change based on adult learning theory. It is rigorous, deeply personal, experience based, and, if done well, life changing. Rodgers and Kangas offer a complete guide, from design to implementation to results. They show how to-determine what specific, tangible outcomes an organization wants before it starts-link diversity training to overall organizational strategy-help all participants forge an individual, emotional connection to the training-identify what skills a facilitator needs-the right facilitator makes all the difference-create memorable learning experiences, not simply educational programsThe authors' goal is nothing less than to spark a worldwide revolution of informed practitioners, employees, and business leaders who will demand diversity training be given the same time, resources, and attention as any other critical enterprise initiative.Reading group discussion guide available in book. |
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82483. Selling From Your Comfort Zone: The Power Of Alignment Marketing : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 You don't have to betray yourself or your values to close stellar sales. This book introduces a simple formula for a personalized approach to building connections through alignment and problem-solving.So many salespeople sell out" themselves and the products they represent because they are thrust far out of their comfort zone. Taking uncomfortable risks can produce anxiety |
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82485. Please Sit Over There: How To Manage Power, Overcome Exclusion, And Succeed As A Black Woman At Work : AudiobooksNow : USD7.99 The key to your career advancement is understanding how power works--who has it, where it hides, and how it's used. Please Sit Over There teaches Black women the career skills they need to navigate an uneven playing field and achieve long-lasting professional success.Black women continuously navigate systems that were never intended for them while using a set of rules that was never designed for them. There are so many unwritten rules of power still at play in professional organizations that repeatedly hinder Black women in their career development and overall workplace experiences.In this book, Francine Parham shares her knowledge as a former Black female global executive of two major corporations on how to move up in the workplace while maintaining a sense of sanity. The first section lays the foundation for understanding power dynamics, while the second section shows how to shift the power" as a professional Black woman. Finally |
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82486. How To Be A Diversity And Inclusion Ambassador: Everyones Role In Helping All Feel Accepted, Engaged, And Valued : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 Using a proven three-part framework, this book shows how anyone-from a CEO to frontline employee-can play a pivotal role in creating a diverse and welcoming workplace.Creating a diverse workplace needs to be an ongoing effort, not just the subject of an occasional training. What can you do to help? Celeste Warren, vice president for global diversity and inclusion at Merck, says you can become a diversity and inclusion ambassador. These people are committed to helping everyone see the importance of inclusive and equitable practices.Warren offers a straightforward three-stage model:1.Become aware of your own conscious and unconscious biases.2.Take an inventory of your surroundings: what is getting in the way of there being an inclusive environment in your organization?3.Develop a personal action plan.Depending on readers' positions, the actions they take can be as simple as consistently raising DEI-related issues in staff meetings or as far-reaching as leading an employee resource group or developing a new hiring policy. In separate chapters, Warren offers specific advice for chief diversity and inclusion officers, C-suite leaders, frontline managers, human resources practitioners, and individual contributors. Featuring tools, exercises, and examples, this book offers everyone the opportunity to help make diversity a workplace reality.Reading group discussion guide available in book. |
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82487. Healing Honestly: The Messy And Magnificent Path To Overcoming Self-blame And Self-shame : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 The Least Retraumatizing Read on Childhood Sexual Abuse. For Survivors, by a Survivor.Healing Honestly is a candid, poignant, and often funny survivor-to-survivor guide to navigating the salty waters of untrue stories and victim-blaming narratives that survivors of child sex abuse hear every day.Survivors of child sex abuse (CSA) are inundated with untrue stories of their abuse, the aftermath, and what their healing journey should look like. The truth is those stories are a bunch of hot garbage. Healing Honestly is a guide for survivors, written by a survivor, helping to break through the negative self-talk and debunk the myths that impact victims of CSA, such as: -There is a real" su |
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82489. Ending Checkbox Diversity: Rewriting The Story Of Performative Allyship In Corporate America : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 DEI isn't just a box to check.After being in corporate America for nearly a decade as a triple minority who passes for a straight white woman, Dannie Lynn Fountain knows that corporations' modern plague is the story of its DEI duality. Time and time again, she has witnessed companies pretend to care about DEI for public relations fodder and then discriminate against employees or ignore their identities. Dannie's solution to this problem? Rage against the system by refusing to accept mediocre-at-best action. This story isn't just about how messed up corporate DEI currently is; it also takes a hard look at what is necessary to get diversity right in three parts: - The context of corporate DEI- Why the change in perspective- What's not working and how to change Ending Checkbox Diversity gives readers an understanding of exactly how corporate America is failing underrepresented identities and offers a plan for what to do next, with clear examples and metrics for evaluating DEI in their own careers and aligning themselves with companies that are actually doing the work. |
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82490. The Power Of Employee Resource Groups: How People Create Authentic Change : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 This is the first authoritative book on building employee resource groups (ERGs) to empower underrepresented employees and positively impact diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts within organizations and in society at large.Employee resource groups (ERGs) have been present for decades. Originating out of affirmative action policies, they have evolved into powerful sources of employee activity and engagement that organizations have leveraged to support business goals. But ERGs can help create a more inclusive and just world at the same time that they serve company interests.The focus for this book is on both how to manage ERGs effectively and why organizations should pay close attention to these groups as a source for engagement, innovation, belonging, feedback, and direction on tough issues. Farzana Nayani provides foundational tools and frameworks for starting and supporting an ERG. She also offers guidance for how ERGs can create impact in diversity, equity and inclusion efforts and can motivate action toward a more equitable society overall.This is not just a handbook or a reference guide. It also serves as a deeper call to action around how, with more effective ERGs, we can truly progress toward the DEI goals that we are all setting out to accomplish. |
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82491. The Anatomy Of Peace, Fourth Edition: Resolving The Heart Of Conflict : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 From the authors of Leadership and Self-Deception (over 2 million copies sold) comes a new edition of this bestseller that has been thoroughly revised to more effectively address the diversity, equity, and inclusion challenges that plague our communities and hinder our organizations.What if conflicts at home, at work, and in the world stem from the same root cause? What if we systematically misunderstand that cause? And what if, as a result, we unwittingly perpetuate the very problems we think we are trying to solve?This book uses a fictional story to reveal a powerful truth: the underlying mindset that perpetuates conflict. This fourth edition includes revisions throughout, as well as new materials and resources, that increase its relevance and usefulness at a time of deeply entrenched divisions throughout society. It is a unique and vital resource for combatting racism and prejudice in their many manifestations.The Anatomy of Peace is the story of an Arab and a Jew, each of whom lost their fathers at the hands of each other's cousins. We learn how they come together, how they help their warring parents and children come together, and how we too can find our way out of the personal, professional, and social conflicts that weigh us down. |
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82492. Begin Boldly: How Women Can Reimagine Risk, Embrace Uncertainty, And Launch A Brilliant Career : AudiobooksNow : USD7.99 Learn how to take the right risks for lasting success. Begin Boldly provides a framework for making the kind of bold moves that will get your career off to its best start!Many women enter the workforce feeling like they can never make a mistake, and as a result, they don't take risks in the crucial early stages of their careers. Women, and BIPOC women especially, are disproportionally penalized for mistakes, so any risk begins to feel like a bad risk. A 2019 KPMG study found that fewer than 43 percent of women surveyed were willing to take big" risks |
| 82493. Differentiate Between Reckless And Intelligent Risks Using An Actionable Model Built Around Three Mindsets: A Curious Mindset : AudiobooksNow Arscott's approach gives women a flexible and repeatable framework to guide them through this critical career skill.Liftoff empowers women to take chances on themselves so that risk-taking becomes an enlightening and empowering antidote for self-doubt.This book will include a discussion guide." |
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82494. The Hidden History Of Big Brother In America: How The Death Of Privacy And The Rise Of Surveillance Threaten Us And Our Democr : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 America's most popular progressive radio host and New York Times bestselling author Thom Hartmann reveals how the government and corporate America misuse our personal data and shows how we can reclaim our privacy.Most Americans are worried about how companies like Facebook invade their privacy and harvest their data, but many people don't fully understand the details of how their information is being adapted and misused. In this thought-provoking and accessible book, New York Times bestselling author Thom Hartmann reveals exactly how the government and corporations are tracking our every online move and using our data to buy elections, employ social control, and score and monetize our lives.Hartmann uses extensive, vivid examples to highlight the consequences of Big Data on all aspects of our lives. Along with tracing the history of surveillance, he shows how we got to where we are today, how China-with its new Social Credit System-serves as a warning, and how we can and must avoid a similarly dystopian future.By delving into the Constitutional right to privacy, Hartmann reminds us of our civil right and shows how we can restore it. |
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82495. I Wish Id Known This: 6 Career-accelerating Secrets For Women Leaders : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 Uncover the six blind spots that derail women's career paths and learn strategies to effectively overcome them for an impactful, sustainable career.There are predictable blind spots that affect thousands of professional women during their careers, but most don't know they exist or can't see their adverse impacts.Authors and executive coaches Brenda Wensil and Kathryn Heath have spent decades coaching and working with female executives, middle managers, and professionals across industries and age groups. From those sessions and conversations, they identified the six most critical challenges that women face in their careers, along with how to confront them:Blind spot #1: Stop drifting-Set a goal and a strategy and start driving.Blind spot #2: Don't go it alone-Get a posse.Blind spot #3: Don't wing it-Practice relentlessly.Blind spot #4: Don't leave reputation to chance-Install a personal GPS.Blind spot #5: End brand ambiguity-Get famous for something.Blind spot #6: Know your story-Know your limiting beliefs.Each chapter will include stories, strategies, practical insights, and reflective questions that readers can employ to reach their professional finish line successfully no matter where they are in their journeys. |
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82496. Digital, Diverse & Divided: How To Talk To Racists, Compete With Robots, And Overcome Polarization : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 In a world of increasing polarization, Digital, Diverse & Divided shows us how to use cultural intelligence to bridge our divides and authentically connect with those around us.Our divides are destroying us: red versus blue, Black versus White, globalists versus nationalists, agnostics versus Christians. Drawing on seminal research on social identity and cultural intelligence, this book explains our impulse to divide people into us" versus "them" and reveals how we can tackle tribalism |
| 82497. Rive-cognition Cq Knowledge-metacognition Cq Strategy-behavior Cq Actionhe Shows How We Can Apply This Foundation To A Wide Range Of Intercultural Situations. This Book Includes Personal Anecdotes : AudiobooksNow and economists.Livermore examines different factors-place |
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82498. Reach: Create The Biggest Possible Audience For Your Message, Book, Or Cause : AudiobooksNow : USD7.99 Cut through the noise and create the biggest possible audience for your work. This book offers a proven method for expanding your reach online so you can make a meaningful difference for others.Anyone who makes the bold decision to put their ideas out into the world wants to reach as many people as possible. Unfortunately, too many think it's a question of numbers-the more people you can get in front of, the better. But if people try to reach everybody, they won't really connect with anybody. To make a difference, people need to target the people who will most benefit from what they have to say.Reach provides a clear and structured approach to creating a consistent online presence that will support the biggest possible impact for any message. Becky Robinson provides a framework and approach to carefully cultivate and grow a following by consistently providing valuable content online over time.This is a long-term process, and the audience may be modest-but it will be eager for whatever is provided. Ultimately, it's much better to be famous to a few than meh to the many. |
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82499. Ownership: Reinventing Companies, Capitalism, And Who Owns What : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 Winner of the William Foote Whyte and Kathleen King Whyte Book Prize from the Rutgers Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit SharingEmployee ownership creates stronger companies, helps workers build wealth, and fosters a fairer, more stable society. In this book, two leading experts show how it works-and how it can be greatly expanded.Why are wages stagnant and wealth inequality increasing? One factor has inexplicably been left out: who owns the companies that drive the economy. Ownership gives people a claim to the fruits of free enterprise. Employee ownership gives workers-the people who have a stake in the company-a fair chance to benefit from their labors.In three simple parts, Corey Rosen and John Case create a powerful argument for why employee ownership is the answer to capitalism's crisis and how to implement it:1.What's wrong with what we have-The authors explain why companies usually end up being sold off to investors and the often-horrific consequences that result for workers, communities, and the environment.2.How can we change things?-This section shows how overlooking ownership limits attempts to reform capitalism and why employee ownership is a realistic and practical way to save capitalism from its own excesses.3.Reinventing capitalism for the 21st century-This section describes how employee ownership has been done, is being done, and can be expanded and gives examples of companies of all sizes and sectors. |
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82500. From Conflict To Courage: How To Stop Avoiding And Start Leading : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 Unresolved conflict is workplace kryptonite. Learn how to develop the mindset and skills to defuse disagreements, overcome division, and turn conflict into an opportunity for growth.Unresolved conflict wastes time, inhibits productivity, hampers team performance, and negatively affects business outcomes. As a result, many leaders either mismanage conflict or avoid it altogether, putting their entire organization at risk.The only way for leaders to productively manage conflict is to expand their capacity for it. Conflict capacity is about recognizing one's own mental and emotional limits, expanding a tolerance for discomfort, and skillfully navigating the complexities of conflict.Three integral elements make up conflict capacity:-culture (workplace support for leaders initiating accountability conversations)-the inner game (tolerance for withstanding the conflict storm)-the outer game (development of the skills and abilities necessary to mediate conflict to a desired end result)This book teaches readers how to approach difficult conversations and work with high-conflict people while overcoming their internal and external barriers to give them better emotional integrity and a clearer vision for the future of their organization. |
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82501. The Revelation Conversation: Inspire Greater Employee Engagement By Connecting To Purpose : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 Discover a breakthrough way to link employees' daily job duties to the organization's purpose, and watch employee engagement, productivity, and customer satisfaction soar!Leaders and managers-especially those with customer-facing employees-want engaged, positive employees who are filled with purpose. The problem is they falsely assume that simply regurgitating the corporate mission statement at meetings and performance reviews is enough, that employees will make the connection between those high ideals and their daily tasks. But most of the time, they don't. Instead, they give lip service to purpose, and initiatives go nowhere.The solution is the Revelation Conversation. In these one-on-one meetings, executives work with employees to take those words off the wall and into their day-to-day work lives. Revelation Conversations make purpose tangible, help employees see how the sometimes mundane functions they carry out not only connect to an inspiring collective purpose but can reflect their personal goals and aspirations as well.Steve Curtin shows how leaders at all levels and in any industry can conduct energizing, motivating Revelation Conversations with their direct reports. When purpose becomes personal, the result is greater enthusiasm, creativity, and satisfaction for employees and leaders alike. |
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82502. Simple Truths Of Leadership: 52 Ways To Be A Servant Leader And Build Trust : AudiobooksNow : USD4.49 Leadership legend and bestselling author Ken Blanchard and trust expert and thought leader Randy Conley present this carefully curated collection of fifty-two essential leadership principles that are easy to implement and practice.Effective leadership comes down to implementing everyday, commonsense practices to help organizations thrive-and yet so many leaders are still missing these fundamental principles from their personal and professional lives. Renowned business experts Ken Blanchard and Randy Conley disclose the simple truths about leadership they have gathered over their long and distinguished careers to help bring common sense into common practice.Featuring two sections-servant leadership and building trust-this book is a collection of Blanchard's greatest hits. It is chock-full of profound and memorable (and in some cases counterintuitive) leadership wisdom, such as-Create autonomy through boundaries.-People who plan the battle rarely battle the plan.-A relationship with no trust is like a cell phone with no internet. All you can do is play games.-The most important part of leadership is what happens when you're not there.This book will help readers incorporate these integral practices into their leadership style, build trust through servant leadership, and make a difference in their own life and the lives of those they influence. |
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82503. Lead Without Blame: Building Resilient Learning Teams : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 A detailed framework for leaders to move past outdated workplace blame and shame strategies to cultivate resilient teams capable of facing adversity and setbacks confidently.Workplace finger-pointing stifles creativity, reduces productivity, and limits psychological safety. Although no one sets out to be judgmental, learning new habits is hard. Two experienced leadership and agilists coaches share a road-tested leadership model that continuously embraces humility and failure as part of the growth process to deliver results.By facilitating blame-free retrospective meetings, leaders chart a productive path forward. They amplify three essential motivators of purpose, autonomy, and co-intelligence within their team. Layered on with four resilience factors: inclusive collaboration, transparent power dynamics, collaborative learning, and embracing conflict. After applying these strategies, learning leaders will help their teams and themselves become more resilient and better equipped to handle any unexpected and challenging tasks that comes their way. |
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82504. Taming The Risk Hurricane: Preparing For Major Business Disruption : AudiobooksNow : USD7.99 A leading expert on risk management describes how to steer your company through a risk hurricane"-the extreme risk exposure that can lead to major disruption for your business.Risk management has become a standard part of the strategic tool kit |
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82506. Building Better Organizations: How To Fuel Growth And Lead In A Digital Era : AudiobooksNow : USD12.49 This essential playbook shows how companies can scale success by coupling digital strategies with an investment in the health of their organizations and the people within.To scale and grow, a company must get the organizational elements right. That begins with having the right strategy, the right leadership to drive it, and the right talent, culture, and organizational design to realize a company's potential. This is especially true in the AI era, where a company's most valuable assets are its people.To begin with, leaders must rethink their value creation strategies. To hone their organizational edge, leaders must prioritize their organization's health in seven vital areas: strategic direction, culture, leadership, talent, organizational design, EID (equity, inclusion, and diversity), and well-being. No matter what type or size of business, those essential conditions must be leveraged for increased value and growth. Put simply: organizational matters matter. To hone their digital edge, leaders must understand AI, as advances in technology allow leaders to build organizations that can compete and win in the future. Finally, an investor mindset will enable leaders to invest wisely in the technology (and leverage that tech) that sets their organizations apart. |
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82507. Change From The Inside Out: Making You, Your Team, And Your Organization Change-capable : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 Change initiatives fail because humans are hardwired to return to what's worked for us in the past. This book offers a straightforward process for rewiring ourselves and those we lead to be more change-capable. Erika Andersen says avoiding change is a biological imperative. Change initiatives often fail because leaders don't overcome individuals' instinctive impulse toward homeostasis - stable conditions needed for survival. Incorporating a fictional story of a jewelry business changing generational hands, Andersen lays out a five-step process for addressing both the human side of change and its practical aspects: Step 1-Clarify the change and why it's needed: Get clear on what the change is and the benefits it will bring.Step 2-Envision the future state: Build a shared picture of the post-change future.Step 3-Build the change: Bring together a change team, engage key stakeholders, and plan the change.Step 4-Lead the transition: Build a transition plan that supports the human side of the change, then engage the whole organization in making the change.Step 5-Keep the change going: Work to make your organization permanently more change-capable. With engaging opportunities to self-reflect and try out the ideas and approaches throughout, this book is a practical guide to thriving in this era of nonstop change. |
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82508. Reclaiming Your Community: You Dont Have To Move Out Of Your Neighborhood To Live In A Better One : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 Majora Carter shows how brain drain cripples low-status communities and maps out a development strategy focused on talent retention to help them break out of economic stagnation. My musical |
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82511. Leading Global Diversity, Equity, And Inclusion: A Guide For Systemic Change In Multinational Organizations : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 This book offers five proven principles so multinational companies can advance diversity, equity, and inclusion with a nuanced understanding of local contexts across countries and cultures.DEI cannot be addressed globally through a single-culture worldview. The specifics of a successful DEI change effort in the United States may be irrelevant in another country. Succeeding locally - understanding the market and acknowledging local beliefs, regulations, and customs - is essential to succeeding globally. Thus, the question is, How do companies find the right balance between anchoring their efforts in the local context while pushing for change that may disrupt some of the cultural norms?This book offers five overarching principles for transforming cultures to be inclusive globally:1.Make it local.2.Leaders change to lead change.3.And it's good business too.4.Go deep, wide, and inside out.5.Know what matters, and count it.These principles arise from Rohini Anand's own journey, as well as examples of more than thirty leaders from a variety of industries. Despite the urgency of the topic, little has been written on how to take cultural nuances into account while promoting social justice. This book makes a powerful contribution. |
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82512. The Frictionless Organization: Deliver Great Customer Experiences With Less Effort : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 Learn how frictionless organizations cut costs, grow revenue, and create loyal fans by creating products and services that work so well, their customers never have to contact them for the wrong reasons.Many organizations focus so intently on improving the way customers interact with them that they don't ask the more fundamental question of whether the interactions are needed in the first place. Every contact channel adds cost and complexity. And while customers appreciate that they can now call, chat, text, or email to check an order or resolve a problem, they appreciate not having to do anything even more.Veteran customer service experts Bill Price and David Jaffe explain how service, support, and sales can be made invisible, reducing costs and providing a better customer experience. Drawing on examples from four continents and over twenty-five countries, they provide a logical and sequential methodology that every reader can follow.Reducing contact with customers means proactively focusing on the customer perspective, which is always a good idea. This means organizations need to rethink all aspects of their business, from product and services design to quality and control. It is a whole enterprise initiative, but one with a huge upside. |
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82513. Conversations Worth Having, Second Edition: Using Appreciative Inquiry To Fuel Productive And Meaningful Engagement : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 Now in a second edition, this classic book shows how to make conversations generative and productive rather than critical and destructive so people, organizations, and communities flourish.We all know that conversations influence us, but we rarely stop to think about how much impact they have on our well-being and our ability to thrive. This book is the first to show how Appreciative Inquiry-a widely used change method that focuses on identifying what's working and building on it rather than just trying to fix what's not-can help us all communicate more effectively and flourish in all areas of our lives.By focusing on what we want to happen instead of what we want to avoid and asking questions to deepen understanding and increase possibilities, we expand creativity, improve productivity, and unleash potential at work and home. Jackie Stavros and Cheri Torres use real-life examples to illustrate these two practices and the principles that underlie them.The second edition includes a new chapter on establishing the right mindset for appreciative conversations and a free discussion guide download. This book demonstrates how the practices and principles of Appreciative Inquiry strengthen relationships and generate possibilities for a future that works for everyone. |
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82514. Understanding Organizations...finally!: Structuring In Sevens : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 The iconic Henry Mintzberg provides a crystal-clear map to the forms and forces that shape all human organizations, synthesizing his fifty years of research.We live in a world of organizations, from our birth in hospitals until our burial by funeral homes. In between, we are educated, employed, entertained, and exasperated by organizations. We had better understand how these strange beasts really work. But where can we go to find out?Welcome to Understanding Organizations . . . Finally! For half a century, Mintzberg has been observing organizations, advising them, engaging them, and escaping them. Here he offers a masterful update and revision of his 1983 classic, Structure in Fives.Believing there is one best way to structure organizations is the worst way to do so. A better place to start is by recognizing different species of organizations. Mintzberg identifies seven-personal enterprises, programmed machines, professional assemblies, project pioneers, and others. He explores these forms and the seven forces that drive them toward hybrids and across their life cycles.You will find no better guide to the care and feeding of these extraordinarily varied and vital creatures than this book. |
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82515. Dismantling Global White Privilege: Equity For A Post-western World : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 White privilege damages and distorts societies around the world, not just in the United States. This book exposes its pervasive global reach and creates a new space for discourse on worldwide racial equality.In mid-2020, during the protests in the United States after the murder of George Floyd, over one hundred other countries held solidarity protests. These demonstrations often decried racial injustice and structural discrimination in their own societies. But no books have been written for a general audience describing the insidious role of white supremacy around the world.Chandran Nair argues that white privilege is the best way to understand how oppression and dominance by Western cultures operates. Touching on history, business, environment, entertainment, media fashion, education, and more, he analyzes how it has shaped, repressed, and destroyed local cultures to seek and preserve white economic power.Nair identifies white privilege as the driving force behind globalization, being constantly upheld and reproduced by a global superstructure that perpetuates widespread white economic and military dominance. This book provides a middle ground between brief media mentions and the dense rhetoric of racial politics so readers can develop a new worldview around dismantling white privilege at the global scale. |
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82516. Cryptography : AudiobooksNow : USD7.99 We all keep secrets—from our locker codes to our passwords to our online interactions. And we choose to share those secrets only with those whom we trust. So, too, do organizations, businesses, governments, and armies. In Cryptography, Panos Louridas provides a broad and accessible introduction to cryptography, the art and science of keeping and revealing secrets. Louridas explains just how cryptography works to keep our communications confidential, tracing it back all the way to its ancient roots. Then he follows its long and winding path to where we are today and reads the signs that point to where it may go tomorrow.A few years back, interest in cryptography was restricted to specialists. Today, as we all live our lives attuned to our digital footprint and the privacy issues it entails, it becomes more and more essential to have a basic understanding of cryptography and its applications to everyday life. Starting with classical cryptography, Cryptography takes the listener all the way up to the twenty-first century cryptographic applications that underpin our lives in the digital realm. Along the way, Louridas also explains concepts such as symmetric cryptography, asymmetric cryptography, cryptographic protocols and applications, and finally, quantum and post-Quantum cryptography as well as the links between cryptography and computer security. |
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82517. The 9% Edge: The Life-changing Secrets To Create More Revenue For Your Business And More Freedom For Yourself : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 91% of small and medium sized businesses fail in the first 10 years. What is the other 9% doing to succeed? The 9% Edge is a highly practical guide to entrepreneurship and taking your business to the next level, no matter where you currently are in your build.Developed from extensive research on businesses and their founders, combined with the real-world, firsthand experience of author Candy Valentino, this book breaks down the core principles and concepts that are essential to bridging the knowledge gap between different stages of a build, and contains a wealth of tools and strategies, explained in plain English, that can be put into practice as soon as today.In this book, listeners will learn about:? Expanding your customer base, strategically reducing costs without compromise, and measuring and evaluating critical revenue drivers? Making data-driven decisions, implementing strategic financial and metric changes, and always moving forward with intention? Achieving organizational transformation through revamping a marketing strategy, optimizing operational efficiencies, and restructuring finances |
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82518. Get Up And Get On It: A Black Entrepreneur's Lessons On Creating Legacy And Wealth : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 In 1950 Gerald Frank, a determined Black man, arrived in Seattle at the age of eighteen. Fleeing the violence of Detroit and the suffocating grip of Jim Crow Laws, Gerald carried nothing but dreams and drumsticks in his heart. His unwavering belief that he could carve out a better life set the stage for an incredible journey. Today, over seventy years later, the real estate empire forged by Gerald and his wife, Theresa, continues to flourish under the guidance of the third generation of the Frank family. But theirs was not a journey paved with silver spoons.In this book, Dana Frank paints a vivid picture of the hurdles her family faced. Dana herself confronted racial barriers as her father made unconventional business choices. When her parents' marriage ended in a bitter divorce, Dana and her mother emerged as fearless business partners, facing the brink of bankruptcy left by her father. As a single mother and entrepreneur, Dana learned the power of leveraging her network, staying true to her story, and envisioning a brighter future. Get Up and Get On It is a compelling story of determination that challenges conventional paths to freedom. It is a must-listen not only for business influencers, entrepreneurs, executives, and philanthropists but also for anyone seeking inspiration and the keys to unlocking their full potential. |
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82519. I Respectfully Disagree: How To Have Difficult Conversations In A Divided World : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 Start building bridges instead of barriers! This essential guide offers a simple five-part framework that will help you have honest and enlightening conversations despite deep and fundamental disagreements.Divisions are on the rise around the world, and 2024 may well be a peak year. We're losing the ability to disagree without dehumanizing. There is a deep need for this practical and accessible guide to having challenging conversations in any situation, from the workplace to the classroom to the dinner table.It's not about saying the right words at the right time but something vastly deeper. In this book, you'll discover the five pillars of respectfully disagreeing: Challenge Your Perspective, Be the Student, Cultivate Your Curiosity, Seek the Gray, and Agree to Respect.With a wide range of examples and exercises throughout, this is a timely and user-friendly handbook to disagreeing with someone's ideology while passionately pursuing their humanity. |
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82520. Restoring Sanity: Practices To Awaken Generosity, Creativity, And Kindness In Ourselves And Our Organizations : AudiobooksNow : USD5.49 From fifty years working with leaders globally, I state with full confidence that leadership has never been more difficult.The perfect storm is here, created by the coalescence of climate and human-created catastrophes. As leaders dedicated to serving the causes and people we treasure, confronted by this unrelenting tsunami, what are we to do? I state my answer to this also with full confidence:We need to restore sanity by awakening the human spirit. We can achieve this only if we undertake the most challenging and meaningful work of our leader lives: Creating Islands of Sanity.An Island of Sanity is a gift of possibility and refuge created by people's commitment to form healthy community to do meaningful work. It requires sane leaders with unshakable faith in people's innate generosity, creativity, and kindness. It sets itself apart as an island to protect itself from the life-destroying dynamics, policies, and behaviors that oppress and deny the human spirit. No matter what is happening around us, we can discover practices that enliven our human spirits and produce meaningful contributions for this time.This enhanced audiobook features original music. |
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82521. For The Win, Revised And Updated Edition: The Power Of Gamification And Game Thinking In Business, Education, Government, And : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 For thousands of years, we've created things called games that tap the tremendous psychic power of fun. In a revised and updated edition of For the Win, authors Kevin Werbach and Dan Hunter argue that applying the lessons of gamification could change your business, the way you learn or teach, and even your life.Werbach and Hunter explain how games can be used as a valuable tool to address serious pursuits like marketing, productivity enhancement, education, innovation, customer engagement, human resources, and sustainability. They reveal how, why, and when gamification works—and what not to do.Discover the successes—and failures—of organizations that are using gamification:? How a South Korean company called Neofect is using gamification to help people recover from strokes? How a tool called SuperBetter has demonstrated significant results treating depression, concussion symptoms, and the mental health harms of the COVID-19 pandemic through game thinking? How the ride-hailing giant Uber once used gamification to influence their drivers to work longer hours than they otherwise wanted to, causing swift backlash. |
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82522. Code Work: Hacking Across The Us/mxico Techno-borderlands : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 How Mexican and Latinx hackers apply concepts from coding to their lived experiencesIn Code Work, Héctor Beltrán examines Mexican and Latinx coders' personal strategies of self-making as they navigate a transnational economy of tech work. Beltrán shows how these hackers apply concepts from the code worlds to their lived experiences, deploying batches, loose coupling, iterative processing (looping), hacking, prototyping, and full-stack development in their daily social interactions—at home, in the workplace, on the dating scene, and in their understanding of the economy, culture, and geopolitics. Merging ethnographic analysis with systems thinking, he draws on his eight years of research in México and the United States—during which he participated in and observed hackathons, hacker schools, and tech entrepreneurship conferences—to unpack the conundrums faced by workers in a tech economy that stretches from villages in rural México to Silicon Valley.Beltrán's highly original, wide-ranging analysis uniquely connects technology studies, the anthropology of capitalism, and Latinx and Latin American studies. |
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82523. Digital Customer Success: Why The Next Frontier Of Cs Is Digital And How You Can Leverage It To Drive Durable Growth : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 Automate your customer success efforts to reduce churn and increase profitsIn Digital Customer Success: The Next Frontier, a team of trailblazing customer success professionals and digital entrepreneurs delivers an insightful discussion of the next stage in customer success management. In the book, you'll discover how to design and deploy touchless and automated digital interventions that help your software users learn and grow as they use your product and unlock the value trapped within it—without ever needing to reach out to a live customer success manager.The authors provide a detailed How-To" guide to Digital customer success that explains how yo |
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82525. The Little Book Of Trading Options Like The Pros: Learn How To Become The House : AudiobooksNow : USD5.49 In The Little Book of Trading Options Like the Pros, a team of veteran options and derivatives traders delivers an expert account of how to master the zero-sum game of options trading. In the book you'll learn how to become the house |
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82526. The Ultimate Guide To Storytelling In Business: A Proven, Sevenstep Approach To Deliver Businesscritical Messages With Impact : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 A one-stop shop for everything that you need to know about storytelling in business.Storytelling is mission-critical to the advancement of our careers and our businesses. In this book, you'll learn how to create compelling presentations, write persuasive reports, and convey important messages in meetings with stories that capture the attention of your audiences.The author explains how to convey complex ideas with simplicity, win the acceptance of others, speed up decision-making, and demonstrate your contributions as a thought leader. You'll discover:? A proven methodology, based on seven steps, enabling you to build and deliver stories in a structured, reliable, and repeatable way.? The importance of creating a one-page story blueprint to road-test your story.? How the subtle use of emotional triggers will help you to control the reactions of your audience.? A rich library of industry examples, from multi-million dollar sales opportunities to strategic change initiatives, the introduction of new business models, and the launch of ground-breaking technical ideas.? A twenty-three-point checklist to ensure that you are ready for your next storytelling endeavor. |
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82527. Entrepreneur Revolution: How To Develop Your Entrepreneurial Mindset And Start A Business That Works, 3rd Edition : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 In the newly revised third edition of Entrepreneur Revolution: How to Develop Your Entrepreneurial Mindset and Start a Business That Works, serial entrepreneur Daniel Priestley delivers an inspiring and practical book that shows you how to break free from the industrial revolution mindset, quit working so hard, follow your dream, and make a fortune along the way. In the book, you'll find a masterclass in changing how you think, the way you network, and how you make a living.The author provides clear guidance on:? Why this is the greatest time in history to be an entrepreneur? How to spot the right business for you? How to transform a negative event—like a lay-off, recession, or downsizing—into an entrepreneurial opportunity? Strategies for imaginative and creative millennials ready to take charge of their careersPerfect for aspiring and experienced professionals at any stage of their careers, Entrepreneur Revolution will also earn a place on the bookshelves of founders, content creators, business students, young professionals, and veteran managers interested in beginning a new phase of their economic life. |
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82528. No B.s. Guide To Successful Marketing Automation: The Ultimate No Holds Barred Guide To Using Technology, Automation, And Arti : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 Dan Kennedy and Parthiv Shah leverage their extensive marketing expertise to teach you proven, no-nonsense strategies for achieving successful marketing automation. This exceptional addition to the No B. S. series is essential for anyone aiming to harness software and cutting-edge technology to elevate their marketing efforts. In this book, you will discover:? Effortless Marketing: Explore how software and technological advancements empower your marketing initiatives to operate autonomously.? Expand Your Reach: Utilize campaign automation to broaden your audience and, as a result, boost your revenue.? Unlock the Power of AI: Learn how the emergence of artificial intelligence can revolutionize your business, positioning it for remarkable growth. |
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82529. Practical Cloud Security: A Guide For Secure Design And Deployment 2nd Edition : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 With rapidly changing architecture and API-driven automation, cloud platforms come with unique security challenges and opportunities. In this updated second edition, you'll examine security best practices for multivendor cloud environments, whether your company plans to move legacy on-premises projects to the cloud or build a new infrastructure from the ground up.Developers, IT architects, and security professionals will learn cloud-specific techniques for securing popular cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and IBM Cloud. IBM Distinguished Engineer Chris Dotson shows you how to establish data asset management, identity and access management (IAM), vulnerability management, network security, and incident response in your cloud environment.? Learn the latest threats and challenges in the cloud security space? Manage cloud providers that store or process data or deliver administrative control? Learn how standard principles and concepts—such as least privilege and defense in depth—apply in the cloud? Use best tactics for detecting, responding, and recovering from the most common security incidents? And more |
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82530. Tidy First?: A Personal Exercise In Empirical Software Design : AudiobooksNow : USD5.49 Messy code is a nuisance. Tidying" code |
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82532. Streaming Data Mesh: A Model For Optimizing Real-time Data Services : AudiobooksNow : USD7.99 Data lakes and warehouses have become increasingly fragile, costly, and difficult to maintain as data gets bigger and moves faster. Data meshes can help your organization decentralize data, giving ownership back to the engineers who produced it. This book provides a concise yet comprehensive overview of data mesh patterns for streaming and real-time data services.Authors Hubert Dulay and Stephen Mooney examine the vast differences between streaming and batch data meshes. Data engineers, architects, data product owners, and those in DevOps and MLOps roles will learn steps for implementing a streaming data mesh, from defining a data domain to building a good data product. Through the course of the book, you'll create a complete self-service data platform and devise a data governance system that enables your mesh to work seamlessly.With this book, you will design a streaming data mesh using Kafka; learn how to identify a domain; build your first data product using self-service tools; apply data governance to the data products you create; learn the differences between synchronous and asynchronous data services; and implement self-services that support decentralized data. |
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82533. The Decision Intelligence Handbook: Practical Steps For Evidence-based Decisions In A Complex World : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 Decision intelligence (DI) has been widely named as a top technology trend for several years, and Gartner reports that more than a third of large organizations are adopting it. Some even say that DI is the next step in the evolution of AI. Many software vendors offer DI solutions today, as they help organizations implement their evidence-based or data-driven decision strategies.But until now, there has been little practical guidance for organizations to formalize decision making and integrate their decisions with data.With this book, authors L. Y. Pratt and N. E. Malcolm fill this gap. They present a step-by-step method for integrating technology into decisions that bridge from actions to desired outcomes, with a focus on systems that act in an advisory, human-in-the-loop capacity to decision makers.This handbook addresses three widespread data-driven decision-making problems:? How can decision makers use data and technology to ensure desired outcomes?? How can technology teams communicate effectively with decision makers to maximize the return on their data and technology investments?? How can organizational decision makers assess and improve their decisions over time? |
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82534. Human Machine, Updated And Expanded: Reimagining Work In The Age Of Ai : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 AI—including generative AI—is radically transforming business. Are you ready? Accenture technology leaders Paul Daugherty and Jim Wilson provide crucial insights and advice to help you meet the challenge.In this updated and expanded edition of Human + Machine—including a new chapter on gen AI—Daugherty and Wilson show that the essence of the AI paradigm shift is the transformation of all business processes within an organization, whether related to breakthrough innovation, everyday customer service, or personal productivity habits. As humans and smart machines collaborate ever more closely, work processes become more fluid and adaptive, enabling companies to change them on the fly—or completely reimagine them.Based on the authors' experience and research with fifteen hundred organizations, the book reveals how companies are using the new rules of AI to leap ahead on innovation and profitability and what you can do to achieve similar results. It describes six entirely new types of hybrid human + machine roles that every company must develop, and it includes a leader's guide" with the five crucial principles required to become an AI-fueled business." |
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82535. Hbr's 10 Must Reads On Managing Projects And Initiatives : AudiobooksNow : USD5.49 Everyone is now a project leader—learn how to manage them more effectively.If you read (or listen to) nothing else on managing projects and initiatives, listen to these ten articles. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you lead initiatives that will inspire your people, tackle your biggest challenges with agile, and prepare yourself and your organization for a world driven by projects.This book will inspire you to reap benefits from your initiatives more quickly; become a better project sponsor; kill initiatives that aren't performing; navigate the politics of innovation projects; keep AI and digital transformation on track; and prepare for the next generation of project management tools.HBR's 10 Must Reads series is the definitive collection of books for new and experienced leaders alike. Leaders looking for the inspiration that big ideas provide, both to accelerate their own growth and that of their companies, should look no further. The series focuses on the core topics that every ambitious manager needs to know: leadership, strategy, change, managing people, and managing yourself. |
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82536. Shocks, Crises, And False Alarms: How To Assess True Macroeconomic Risk : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 An essential new guide to navigating the turbulent macroeconomic landscape as you form your strategy.When turmoil hits, executives and investors face notoriously unreliable macroeconomic forecasts, whipsawing data, and contradictory opinions. Are disruptions transient and ephemeral—or permanent and structural? False alarms are costly traps, but so are true structural changes that go undetected. Leaders must also assess the doom-laden public macroeconomic discourse, which habitually presents worst-case scenarios as foregone conclusions.How can executives avoid these traps and make better strategic decisions? In this incisive, perspective-shifting book, BCG global chief economist Philipp Carlsson-Szlezak and senior economist Paul Swartz provide a fresh and accessible way to analyze and understand the macroeconomy—what they call regime analysis"—that pushes beyond conventional model-based prediction to emphasize structural context and judgment. Focusing on what it takes for macroeconomic regimes to break |
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82537. Rules To Win By: Power And Participation In Union Negotiations : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 Rules to Win By: Participation and Power in Union Negotiations is a book for anyone who wants to understand how to build the power required to effectively challenge and reverse income inequality and attacks on democracy. Drawing insights from recent hard-won unionization and contract negotiation fights, Jane McAlevey and Abby Lawlor use lessons from some of the toughest fights today—preparing a durable, all-out strike in a union-hostile environment—to provide a masterclass in participatory social change, indispensable both within and beyond the workplaces where we spend half of our waking lives.In an era of polarization, big lies, and massive legislative setbacks, changemakers in every arena need to learn the skills and lessons honed in pitched battles against experienced and ruthless union busters. Rules to Win By is a book for workers, unionists, racial justice and climate campaigners, academics, policymakers and everyone who wants a more fair and democratic society. |
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82538. Invest Like A Guru: How To Generate Higher Returns At Reduced Risk With Value Investing : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 Invest Like a Guru provides an invaluable resource for high-quality-focused value investing, with expert insight and practical tools for implementation. Written by the man behind GuruFocus.com, this book expands on the site's value strategies and research tools to provide a primer for those exploring pathways to higher returns at lower risk. The book begins with an insightful explanation of high-quality-focused value investing concepts, then quickly moves into practical, detailed guidance on analysis, valuation, key factors, and risks to avoid. Case studies demonstrate real-world application of various analysis methods, and the discussion walks you through important calculations using real examples. Author Charlie Tian draws upon his own experiences and lessons learned to provide true insight on high-quality-focused value investing as a strategy, providing both reference and expert advice in this singularly useful guide.Warren Buffett once said, I would rather buy good companies at fair prices than buy fair companies at good prices." That's how he built his fortune |
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82539. Hbr Guide To Emotional Intelligence : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 Managing the human side of workResearch by Daniel Goleman, a psychologist and coauthor of Primal Leadership, has shown that emotional intelligence is a more powerful determinant of good leadership than technical competence, IQ, or vision.Influencing those around us and supporting our own well-being requires us to be self-aware, know when and how to regulate our emotional reactions, and understand the emotional responses of those around us. No wonder emotional intelligence has become one of the crucial criteria in hiring and promotion.But luckily it's not just an innate trait: Emotional intelligence is composed of skills that all of us can learn and improve on. In this guide, you'll learn how to determine your emotional intelligence strengths and weaknesses, understand and manage your emotional reactions, deal with difficult people, make smarter decisions, bounce back from tough times, and help your team develop emotional intelligence.Arm yourself with the advice you need to succeed on the job, with the most trusted brand in business. Packed with how-to essentials from leading experts, the HBR Guides provide smart answers to your most pressing work challenges. |
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82540. Hot Talk, Cold Science, Third Edition: Global Warming's Unfinished Debate : AudiobooksNow : USD11.47 The revised and expanded third edition of Hot Talk, Cold Science forms the capstone of the distinguished astrophysicist Dr. S. Fred Singer’s lucid, yet hard scientific look at climate change. And the book is no less explosive than its predecessors—and certainly never more timely.Singer explores the inaccuracies in historical climate data and the failures of climate models, as well as the impact of solar variability, clouds, ocean currents, and sea levels on global climate—plus factors that could mitigate any human impact on world climate.Singer’s masterful analysis decisively shows that the pessimistic, and often alarming, global-warming scenarios depicted in the media have no scientific basis. In fact, he finds that many aspects of increased levels of CO2, as well as any modest warming, such as a longer growing seasons for food and a reduced need to use fossil fuels for heating, would have a highly positive impact on the human race.As alarmists clamor to impose draconian government restrictions on entire populations in order to combat “climate change,” this book reveals some contradictory facts, including:CO2 has not caused temperatures or sea levels to rise beyond historical rates.Severe storms have not increased in frequency or intensity since 1970—neither have heat waves nor droughts.Global “climate change” is not harming coral reefs.Any increases in CO2 concentrations across huge time spans haven’t preceded rising global temperatures, they’ve followed them by about 600 to 800 years—just the opposite of alarmist claims.“Carbon” taxes and other “solutions” to the global warming “crisis” would have severe consequences for economically disadvantaged groups and nations.Alarmist climate scientists have hidden their raw temperature data and deleted emails—then undermined the peer-review system to squelch debate.In sum, despite all the hot talk—and outright duplicity—there is no “climate crisis” resulting from human activ |
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82541. Rolling Stones: The Greatest Rock And Roll Band Of All Time : AudiobooksNow : USD7.47 Born in the post-WWII turbulence, The Rolling Stones were destined for greatness. This audiobook chronicles their incredible journey, from the gritty pubs of London to the grand stages of America’s top concert venues, where they cemented their status as the greatest rock ‘n’ roll band ever. With raw energy and an unbreakable spirit, the Stones redefined what it meant to be a rock band, proving that rock ‘n’ roll knows no limits.Told through interviews with band legends Brian Jones, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts, Bill Wyman, and Ian Stewart, as well as insights from their friends, family, fellow musicians, and managers, this is the ultimate story of their rise to fame. From success and excess to tragedy and triumph, this rock ‘n’ roll epic spans more than four decades of music history.As a dynamic and multifaceted company, ONE WORLD MEDIA proudly stands as a record label, an audiobook producer, a music publishing powerhouse, and a gateway to the captivating world of visual media synchronization. Our commitment to excellence shines through every facet of our operation, driven by a team of experts who collectively boast over 100 years of combined experience in the industry. |
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82542. Stolen English : AudiobooksNow : USD13.47 The problem with a self appointed bodyguard that you have feelings for is that they are right up close and personal every damn day, and when they look like Evan Roark, they’re impossible to ignore.AndreaI didn’t think I’d live another day. It’s been almost ten years since I escaped to a life I could never imagine. And to a man I can only dream about. Evan Roark has been my beacon, he’s been the man who’s shown me that men who are strong can also be safe. After almost a decade, I’m finally ready to take back my life and remember the woman inside me, the woman who wants, who needs, who loves, who feels, who craves … only he’s made it clear I can’t crave him. But I haven’t made it this far to make a new life only to fail now. I want him to be the one to help me erase my past. And if he wants to be all up in my space being bossy and overprotective, and looking so hot, then I can’t help it if I’ll try anything possible to get him to touch me.EvanNine years ago I asked my best friend, Xavier, for a favor, a way to keep Andrea safe. While I run security for him and guard his family against all threats, I can also keep her close. I keep her close, but never touch. But when she paints a target on her back by filing for divorce, I’m forced to make a choice, and it’s her I have to protect. And now she’s calling my bluff, letting me know she’s ready to finally trust another man to hold her, to touch her, to love her … It’s killing me. I want it to be me, but I can’t be both her lover and her protector. If I give in, then I won’t see the threat coming. I know what happens when I get distracted. People get hurt.But she’s making it so … damn … difficult. Set against the backdrop of Southern France in and around a tiny storybook village reminiscent of Belle’s village in Beauty and The Beast, comes a story of a woman whose life was stolen by an abusive husband, and the man who’ll help her remember the woman she is inside.This boo |
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82543. Find Me : AudiobooksNow : USD11.47 One year ago …My family is gone. My parents. My twin sister. All of them murdered by the man who has stalked me for years. He nearly killed me, too. But I got away and he’s still out there, searching for me. He won’t find me. At least, I hope not. Thanks to WITSEC, I’ve been given a new life with a new identity.The present …My uncle, my only living relative, has helped me glue myself back together and given me the tools I’ll need to survive. I’m not fixed and my grief is heavy, but I’m at a point where I can put one foot in front of the other to try to move on.I know my future will be hard and lonely. I must stay strong and focus on the good. I’m getting a second chance at life. I am safe. My new home is beautiful. The four brothers who live next door are even more so. Little do I know that Colt, Creed, Keelan, and Knox will soon become my everything. It’s as if my lonely heart screamed out for someone good to find me. Four answered back.***WARNING This is a reverse harem romance. Contains violence, graphic killing, foul language, and sexual content. Some parts may be triggering.*** |
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82544. Trains Of Keldora: An Automation Crafting Litrpg Adventure : AudiobooksNow : USD11.47 After victory over the Chained God, Julian’s work is just beginning.One month after being stranded on a fantasy world and finding his place with the town that has welcomed him, Julian is ready to upgrade his Godcore to the next tier and expand the Factory.But he might have waited too long.The Gods of the Green are on the move, and have dispatched a team of high ranked Adventurers backed by a vicious Nature Goddess. Surrounded by sabotage, hostile forces, and the never-ending demands of the Factory, Julian is in over his head. He’s going to have to innovate his way out of this mess. Good thing Julian always has a plan.If he can’t overpower his foes, he’s going to have to outproduce them. |
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82545. Annie : AudiobooksNow : USD11.47 In 1982, ten-year-old Emma Jacobs disappeared while on her way home from school. Almost four decades later the case file lands on Kate Gazzara’s desk.A cursory review of the case quickly turns into a personal nightmare for her team member, Detective Anne Robar.Haunted by vague, shadowy memories, of her own abduction more than thirty-seven years ago, Anne becomes consumed by them.Kate and Anne are determined to bring closure to Emma’s family and to confront Anne’s own demons. But with pressure mounting from her superiors to drop the case and threats surfacing from unknown quarters, Kate, Anne, and the team must navigate a labyrinth of deceit, manipulation, and Anne’s personal trauma.As they get closer to the truth, they realize that by uncovering Emma Jacobs’ fate they might also unravel the mystery of Anne’s own past—a truth that someone is willing to kill to keep buried. |
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82546. The Psychology Of Jung : AudiobooksNow : USD7.47 This pamphlet is an accessible introduction to the basic tenets of the psychological theories of Carl Gustav Jung.Alfred Adler and Carl Jung were the most prominent disciples of the founding father of psycho-analysis, Sigmund Freud. Both students eventually broke with Freud to follow their own paths. Adler’s primary focus was on the theory of the will to power, a concept developed from Nietsche. In contrast, Jung’s focused on the classification of psychological types based on the basic dichotomy of introversion and extroversion and the interpretation of dreams. |
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82547. Keeper Of The Archives : AudiobooksNow : USD11.47 After their home in Sendirian City burns to cinders, Eden Fittell leaves school and gets a job to try and support her family and keep her alcoholic father away.But the city is being stalked by crime boss Kore Luddan, who is using Izrod, the strongest in his crew of freaks, to kidnap people off the street. Most of them are never seen again, killed or driven mad by Kore’s experiments.Eden manages to get a job in the government’s Archives, taking the place of one of Kore’s victims, but Izrod continues to snatch government employees. Is Eden safe? What is Kore planning? Will this mean the end of Sendirian City? |
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82548. The World Set Free : AudiobooksNow : USD11.47 Of this book, H. G. Wells wrote:“The World Set Free was written in 1913 and published early in 1914. It is the latest of a series of three fantasias of possibility, stories which all turn on the possible developments in the future of some contemporary force or group of forces. The World Set Free was written under the immediate shadow of the Great War. Every intelligent person in the world felt that disaster was impending and knew no way of averting it, but few of us realised in the earlier half of 1914 how near the crash was to us…”The thesis of this story is that “because of the development of scientific knowledge, separate sovereign states and separate sovereign empires are no longer possible in the world. To attempt to keep on with the old system is to heap disaster upon disaster for [hu]mankind and perhaps to destroy our race altogether. The remaining interest of this book now is the sustained validity of this thesis and the discussion of the possible ending of war on the earth.”This title is part of the Voices of Today’s H. G. Wells novel collection, produced by Susan Iannucci. |
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82549. Other People's Money And How The Bankers Use It : AudiobooksNow : USD9.97 America’s biggest financial institutions controlled vast sums of money used for the domination and manipulation of American financial markets, business and industry. The money was - by and large - the funds of depositors. It was Other People’s Money.‘Other People’s Money and How Bankers Used It’ was a seminal text in the Progressive Era, aligning with broader calls for reform in American society. The book contributed to the growing push for financial regulation, and its ideas influenced the creation of laws such as the Federal Reserve Act and the Clayton Antitrust Act, which were intended to curb the power of monopolies and promote fair competition.The great disparity between the extremely wealthy class and the millions of the working people of America led to widespread discontent and suffering. Some say these very same oppressive conditions are upon us again, today. |
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82550. Siddhartha : AudiobooksNow : USD9.97 Written by Hermann Hesse in 1922, Siddhartha is a timeless tale of a man’s quest for self-discovery and enlightenment. The story follows Siddhartha from youth to old age, chronicling his profound journey to understand himself and the world around him.Throughout my life, I have returned to Siddhartha as a source of wisdom, discovering new insights at different stages of my own journey. This masterpiece has always been a source of inspiration, enriching my reflections on life as I seek answers to its enduring questions.Life is a continuous process of growth and transformation, and Siddhartha eloquently captures this. As we navigate the myriad shades and transitions of our existence, new doors open, inviting us to explore, feel, and take the next steps on our path.As a voiceover artist, it has been a great honor to narrate this enduring work. My goal in this narration was to immerse listeners in the emotional and spiritual passages of Siddhartha’s journey, guiding them through the profound themes of self-discovery, emotion, and enlightenment that continue to resonate in our contemporary world. Lea Sakran. |
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82551. Tono-bungay : AudiobooksNow : USD13.47 “Tono-Bungay. Like Mountain Air in the Veins”.Tono-Bungay is a patented medicine that promises it all: health, beauty, and strength. George Ponderevo, the narrator of this story, is persuaded by the inventor of the medicine – his Uncle Edward – to help develop the Tono-Bungay business. George devotes seven years of his life to doing so, despite believing that the whole operation is “a damned swindle”.After breaking free in a new direction, however, George’s ties with his uncle continue to shape his life, as do various social forces.This coming-of-age novel explores themes including religious skepticism, socialism, ennui, English society, sexual relationships, and metaphysics, as George searches for an ideal to which he can devote his life. Like all Wells’ novels, Tono-Bungay abounds with social critique.This novel was published in 1909 and is semi-autobiographical. |
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82552. The Players Club: Box Set Collection Books 47 : AudiobooksNow : USD17.47 PLAYING WITH HIS WAY (Book 4)She’s ready to play. But is she ready to play his way?Brent “Mac” MacMillian, owner of The Players Club, is all about dirty sex. But not with just anyone. He needs experienced partners who will submit to his rules. So, his sweet and much younger interior designer isn’t his type at all. Which doesn’t explain why he can’t seem to keep his mind (or hands) off her…Stephanie Randall is in the fantasy business. Fantasy bedroom design, that is. She’d love to explore some fantasies of her own, though—especially with a hot older man like Mac. Now, if only she could convince him she’s not exactly the innocent good girl he seems to think she is…It’s not long before Mac and Stephanie realize just how hard it is to maintain a sexy, no-strings-attached fling when real feelings get involved. But when it matters most, is Mac willing to break his rules to claim a happily ever after with Stephanie? PLAYING WITH HER (Book 5)Playing with her might make him rethink everything he thought he knew about pleasure…Brent “Mac” MacMillian never thought he’d fall in love. Until he met her.Stephanie Randall is beautiful. Smart. Successful. Beyond hot.And all his.But between running his club, the demands of her successful business, and planning a wedding, their sexy play time has been on the back burner. He has a plan to change that, though—and Stephanie’s birthday might just be the perfect time to surprise his fiancée with the hottest, most forbidden night imaginable.He knows his unconventional gift will test her limits. The only question now is if she’ll surrender to intense sensual bliss, or use her safe word for the first time ever…PLAYING WITH DESIRE (Book 6)Playing with desire is about to get Summer Hughes way more than she bargained for. Maybe even double…All she wanted was a one-night stand where she could forget reality and lose herself to a hot, sinful fantasy. Which is why she grabbed her invitation to The Player |
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82553. The Players Club: Box Set Collection Books 13 : AudiobooksNow : USD17.47 PLAYING WITH TEMPTATION (Book 1)Being a successful CEO is easy for Raina Beck. Romance? Not so much. So, all she wanted from The Players Club was a night of hot fantasy fulfillment. She got it, too. Now all she has to do is keep the sexy stranger who gave her the most thrilling night of her life in her memory and far away from her heart…One-night stands used to suit Logan Cruz just fine. Until he met Raina. Suddenly, all he wants is to make her his. Too bad she’s completely resistant to the idea. But his time in the military taught him to never surrender without a fight. And Raina? She’s worth one hell of a battle…When a stalker threatens the woman who is quickly becoming his everything, Logan knows what it’ll take to protect her. But can he tempt her to take a shot at happily ever after with him? That remains to be seen…PLAYING WITH PLEASURE (Book 2)Paige Moore needs a sexy stranger. Someone who’ll indulge her every forbidden fantasy and won’t break her heart. Again. So, her invitation to The Players Club was exactly what her friends ordered. Until her hot one-night stand and the man she’d been trying to forget for the past year turned out to be one and the same…Sawyer Burrows never wanted to hurt Paige. He did, though. And he’s lived with regrets ever since. Letting her go was the biggest mistake of his life. But now that he has a second chance, he’ll do anything to win her back…even if he has to use every skill in his sensual playbook to do it…When someone from their shared past comes back to cause chaos in their lives, can the fragile bonds Paige and Sawyer just started to rebuild survive? Or will happily ever after slip through their fingers again? PLAYING WITH SEDUCTION (Book 3)Kendall Shaw knew how to create a romantic fantasy. Her job depended on it. But fantasy and reality were two very different things. So, when she hired the sexy, younger alpha male to pose for a custom romance novel cover shoot, her interest in him was stric |
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82554. Piano By Ear: Classical Box Set 4 : AudiobooksNow : USD13.47 This Piano By Ear box set contains over thirteen hours of high quality music instruction teaching you a great mix of Chopin, Bach, Brahms, Tchaichovsky, and Grieg. These pieces are not simplified arrangements but the real versions so they will make you sound great! Most of these are rated at a late intermediate to early advanced level so they are suitable for most adult students who have been playing for around three years or more. This Box Set Includes:“Waltz in C#m Op 64 no. 2” by Chopin“Waltz Op 39 no. 15” by Brahms“Prelude 2 in Cm BWV 847” (Well Tempered Clavier) by Bach“Fugue no. 2 in Cm BWV 847” by Bach“Prelude no. 3 in C# BWV 848” by Bach“Fugue no. 3 in C# BWV 848” by Bach“June Op 37a: 6” by Tchaichovsky“Arietta Op 12-1” by Edvard Grieg“Morning Mood Op 46 no. 1” by Edvard Grieg |
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82555. The Kings Greatest Enemy: Complete Series : AudiobooksNow : USD19.97 England in the early 1320s is a restless place. Edward II’s barons are disgruntled by his preference for Hugh Despenser, and in 1321 Roger Mortimer rebels against his king. With Baron Mortimer rides Adam de Guirande, Mortimer’s most loyal man. But when Edward II strikes back, things look uncomfortably dark for Adam, who finds himself a prisoner—and abandoned by everyone but his wife.Mortimer is defeated and locked up in the Tower. Some years later, however, he is back, now with the support of the king’s wife, Queen Isabella of France, and with the king’s very young heir, the future Edward III, in tow. Yet again, where Mortimer goes, there goes Adam—and his beloved wife. |
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82556. Superhero Saga Season 3: Heroes, Hostilities, And Hard Times : AudiobooksNow : USD11.47 The government taskmasters aren’t playing nice. (Do they ever?)Name’s Jess. The superhero version is called Just Jess, but I feel like Desperate Jess is a better moniker.My to-do list grew exponentially. (Translation: In addition to my normal duties of reviewing superpowers, I have to find a cure for my sister, solve two power puzzles, and work with Mayor Shady Pants’s misfit crew of Supers.)Saving my sister may involve defying the government overlords and that’s not healthy for other people in my life.If I don’t pull off several miracles, my sister may only be the first of many casualties. |
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82557. 'twas Halloween Night : AudiobooksNow : USD1.47 Young Jorlyn’s night of trick-or-treating reveals some shocking surprises right in her own Brooklyn neighborhood in this rhyming poem destined to become a holiday classic like Clement C. Moore’s poem “The Night Before Christmas.”Author’s note: “Once I imagined the story of young Jorlyn’s adventure, I decided to describe it in rhyming verse. Why? Because rhyme is fun. Because rhyme is magical. Because everyone likes rhyme. (Or, at least, nobody doesn’t like rhyme.) Both Robert Frost and John Lennon insisted on it. Rap depends on it. Children adore it. Rhyme enchants; rhyme soothes. Rhyme, despite its constant promise of a predictable pattern, perennially surprises and delights.I wrote “’Twas Halloween Night” with a mind towards how Dickens, in his great holiday story, makes sure both to comment on society and to suggest ways in which we, as its members, might make it better. Thus, Jorlyn’s experience, like Scrooge’s, leads her to a greater understanding of her human family and her responsibility to it. Years ago, when I first began working on the poem, I had in mind the need for my own little boy to be aware of, and sensitive to, the world around him. How was I to know that years later, that need—on his part as well as all of ours—would be greater than ever?” |
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82558. A Fae Is Done: 2nd Edition : AudiobooksNow : USD11.47 A Queen betrayed. A broken-hearted King. And a kingdom in chaos …There are those who once believed that the Courts of Light and Dark could finally be united. But now a new Queen has taken the throne, and the Court of Light has descended into darkness and turmoil.Broken-hearted and devastated, King Jarvok can no longer ignore his centuries-old suspicions. While he looks towards the shadows, his second-in-command Asa is determined to focus on the light. In doing so, they both realize there are secrets among them that some will die to keep.But amidst the riots, scheming, and greed, new alliances are tentatively forming. These unlikely heroes have a role to play in the kingdom’s future, but not even they can fathom what is coming.When a prophecy foretells of a child of Light and Dark who is destined to unite the courts, no one knows if she will be a harbinger of doom or a reason to nurture hope. Especially when this child alone has the power to undo what has already been done …Birth of the Fae: A Fae Is Done is an epic fantasy adventure set in a beautifully fantastical world where the Fae rule in the shadows of humanity. In the fifth instalment of the series, political tensions are high and hidden agendas could change the Fae and humanity forever. |
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82559. Quarrys Return : AudiobooksNow : USD9.97 The hitman hero of the acclaimed Cinemax series comes out of retirement when his daughter, a true-crime writer, is abducted by the subject of one of her books. A nail-biting suspense thriller from the author of Road to Perdition.Someone snatched his daughter. Someone’s going to pay.After nearly fifty years in the killing business, the hitman known as Quarry was enjoying a comfortable retirement – until the grown daughter he only recently met mysteriously went missing. Now it’s up to the old man to show he hasn’t lost a step and, with the help of a femme fatale from his past, prove he’s as ruthless, deadly and unstoppable as any man half his age.Coming hard on the heels of the Edgar Award finalist Quarry’s Blood, which first introduced Quarry’s daughter, Quarry’s Return is a high-stakes thriller from the legendary author of Road to Perdition that will remind you why this notorious killer (star of a feature film and a Cinemax TV series) is the best there ever was. |
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82560. Tech Agnostic: How Technology Became The Worlds Most Powerful Religion, And Why It Desperately Needs A Reformation : AudiobooksNow : USD12.47 An urgently needed exploration of global technology worship, and a measured case for skepticism and agnosticism as a way of life, from the New York Times bestselling author of Good without God.Today’s technology has overtaken religion as the chief influence on twenty-first century life and community. In Tech Agnostic, Harvard and MIT’s influential humanist chaplain Greg Epstein explores what it means to be a critical thinker with respect to this new faith. Encouraging listeners to reassert their common humanity beyond the seductive sheen of “tech,” this book argues for tech agnosticism—not worship—as a way of life. Without suggesting we return to a mythical pre-tech past, Epstein shows why we must maintain a freethinking critical perspective toward innovation until it proves itself worthy of our faith or not.Epstein asks probing questions that center humanity at the heart of engineering: Who profits from an uncritical faith in technology? How can we remedy technology’s problems while retaining its benefits? Showing how unbelief has always served humanity, Epstein revisits the historical apostates, skeptics, mystics, Cassandras, heretics, and whistleblowers who embody the tech reformation we desperately need. He argues that we must learn how to collectively demand that technology serve our pursuit of human lives that are deeply worth living.In our tumultuous era of religious extremism and rampant capitalism, Tech Agnostic offers a new path forward, where we maintain enough critical distance to remember that all that glitters is not gold—nor is it God. |
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82561. What Are The Odds : AudiobooksNow : USD11.47 The debut novel from screenwriter and producer David List, What Are the Odds is an entertaining, binge-worthy, and addictive crime thriller.Ray Dawson, a former NYPD detective unfairly forced into early retirement, never thought he would get another chance to be with his second wife and love of his life, Stephanie. So when she opens the door to the possibility, he spends his savings on an extravagant romantic getaway at a resort in Costa Rica. But Ray is still as much a cop as he is a man, and when, in the hotel elevator, he has a chance encounter with Wilbur Bailey—a wily, neurotic, and environmentally conscious fugitive with a $5 million bounty on his head—things get complicated.IRS Special Agent Phil Dancourt is determined to bust Mika Salko, the corrupt CEO of Houston-based Amco Oil, and believes Wilbur Bailey, an Amco analyst with a conscience, is the one guy on the inside who could help bring Salko down. But in a bizarre twist, Bailey embezzles millions and disappears, putting Phil’s job on the line. Now, after Wilbur is sighted in Costa Rica, Phil is sent to retrieve him. But from the moment he steps off the plane and crosses paths with Ray and Wilbur, nothing goes as planned.The encounter propels the three men into a harrowing, death-defying, life-changing, and often hilarious journey, attracting unwanted attention from a heroin-addicted dishwasher, a powerful, corrupt CEO, bloodthirsty gangs and drug cartels, and pandering government watchdogs. Along the way, they come face-to-face, in unexpected ways, with life’s larger questions: friendship, love, loss, faith, and the commitment to values larger than oneself. What results is a trio of unlikely friends, and Ray can only hope that once it’s all over, Stephanie will still be there. |
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82562. Shadow Lab: A Blackstone Publishing Anthology : AudiobooksNow : USD11.47 In Shadow Lab, a brilliant roster of speculative fiction writers pulls listeners into a diverse and genre-bending collection of stories, each as irresistible as the last.From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Nicholas Sansbury Smith comes Hell Divers: The Lost Years. In the radioactive wastes of what was once known as Earth, a man and his dog fight nightmarish creatures in order to return to their home in the sky.In Clouds by Brian Francis Slattery, a happily married couple finds their relationship strained when they end up on opposite sides of a brewing conflict in the aftermath of the arrival of an alien species.In Her Eyes by Rebecca Webb tells the story of Addie, a woman who discovers a pair of eyeglasses that offer a portal into the minds of their previous owners. Soon her obsession with a reckless woman named Nima begins to change everything …These stories and more await the curious reader in Shadow Lab, a brand-new anthology from Blackstone Publishing. |
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82563. Snow Drowned : AudiobooksNow : USD11.47 There’s a saying on Fall Island: if you’re not careful, the snow will get you.Gracie Hutchinson has lived on Fall Island her whole life and knows there’s some truth to those words. Fall’s snowstorms have a spooky way of claiming people, making them disappear without a trace, or driving them mad. Now, with a hundred-year-storm approaching, most of Fall’s residents have fled to the mainland. But not Gracie. Left behind her with physician father, she braces for landfall.Gracie’s not the only one stuck on Fall for the storm. Her classmate Joseph Wescott, descendant of the legendary pioneer who founded Fall Island, has stayed, too. After a chance encounter, the two stumble across something more unsettling than the snow: a ritually mutilated corpse. By night, as the snow begins to fall, it becomes clear that whoever (or whatever) murdered the man they found has their sights set on Gracie.Seeking refuge at Wescott Manor, Gracie feels safe surrounded by dozens of locals hunkered down in the huge house. But as the storm assaults the island, Gracie discovers secrets that have been kept since Fall was settled. If she can’t uncover the hidden history and terrifying truth about Fall Island before the storm’s end, she’ll be the next to disappear into the snow. |
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82564. Frozen Lives : AudiobooksNow : USD12.47 Dr. Emily Hartford is back in Frozen Lives, the next thrilling mystery from Jennifer Graeser Dornbush.Chicago surgeon Emily Hartford has never quite shaken off the dust of her hometown in Michigan. She may be a professional success and have a princely boyfriend in the Windy City, but she can’t seem to let go of being “the coroner’s daughter” from Freeport.Once again, she finds herself pulled back to her hometown when Jeremiah—the eleven-year-old son of her best friend, Jo—goes missing on the frigid shores of Lake Michigan.To everyone’s relief, Jeremiah turns up days later, alive and unharmed. But tensions remain high, and suspicions of every sort continue to grow. Jeremiah’s account of his abduction doesn’t add up, and Emily worries about Jo’s unraveling marriage. Jeremiah’s recovery, it turns out, is not the end of their terrifying tale. It’s just the beginning …For moving among them is a devious, malevolent force. Sowing panic while seeking to fulfill his own twisted needs, this wolf in sheep’s clothing leaves a trail of rack and ruin, heedless of the damage in his wake … and the bodies he leaves behind.Emily solidifies her role as the coroner’s daughter when she puzzles out this madman’s chilling machinations. Risking everything dear to her, Emily is determined to go the icy distance and end his killing spree. |
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82565. Merlins Tour Of The Universe, Revised And Updated For The Twenty-first Century: A Travelers Guide To Blue Moons And Black Hole : AudiobooksNow : USD7.47 The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Astrophysics for People in a Hurry takes readers on an entertaining and edifying tour of the universe.In Neil deGrasse Tyson’s delightful journey through the cosmos, his fictional character Merlin responds to popular questions asked by adults and children alike. Merlin, a timeless visitor from Planet Omniscia in the Andromeda Galaxy, has observed firsthand many of the major scientific events of Earth’s history. Merlin’s friends include the most important scientific figures and explorers of all time—da Vinci, Magellan, Newton, Einstein, and Hubble. While Merlin occasionally recounts playful conversations with these luminaries, all questions are answered with authentic science, infused with wit, wisdom, and an occasional rhyme. With the help of intermittent humorous cartoons, Merlin clarifies the details of familiar phenomena like gravity, light, space, and time, and travels to distant stars and galaxies to describe what makes them tick, rotate, explode, and collapse.Merlin’s Tour of the Universe is perfect for anyone who harbors burning questions on how the cosmos works. |
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82566. The Haunting Of Hill House : AudiobooksNow : USD8.47 Now a hit Netflix miniseries directed by Mike Flanagan and starring Michiel Huisman, Carla Gugino, and Timothy HuttonPast the rusted gates and untrimmed hedges, Hill House broods and waits.Four seekers have come to the ugly, abandoned old mansion: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of the psychic phenomenon called haunting; Theodora, his lovely and lighthearted assistant; Eleanor, a lonely, homeless girl well acquainted with poltergeists; and Luke, the adventurous future heir of Hill House. At first, their stay seems destined to be merely a spooky encounter with inexplicable noises and self-closing doors, but Hill House is gathering its powers and will soon choose one of them to make its own.This classic horror novel has been hailed as a perfect work of unnerving terror. |
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82567. Code Name: Typhon : AudiobooksNow : USD17.49 Duty bound him, her art set her free. A chance encounter ignites a dangerous passion. In a world of secrets, their love is the greatest risk. TYPHON As the ruthless commander of Unit 23, I’ve dedicated my life to eliminating the world’s deadliest threats. Infiltrating crime syndicates and executing covert missions is all I’ve ever known. But when I meet Eliza Fox, my carefully constructed world begins to crumble. For the first time, I find myself longing for a life beyond the shadows. As our whirlwind romance blossoms, I’m thrust into a dangerous game of cat and mouse with my former mentor—a man I thought long dead. With everything I hold dear at stake, I must confront the ghosts of my past to secure our future. But can I truly leave behind the life I’ve always known? ELIZA I never expected to fall for a man like Typhon Marras. As an artist, my world revolved around creation and beauty. His was shrouded in secrets and danger. Yet from the moment we met, I knew my life would never be the same. Our love was instant, all-consuming, and terrifying in its intensity. But loving a spy comes at a price. When Typhon vanishes without a trace, I’m pulled into a world of international intrigue and deadly secrets. As I fight to bring him home, I discover that the man I love is so much more than I ever imagined. Can our love survive in a world where nothing is as it seems? |
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82568. To Steal The Sun: A Retelling Of East Of The Sun And West Of The Moon : AudiobooksNow : USD17.49 Gwen has discovered both the love she once lost and her courage. But her greatest challenge still lies before her. She has chosen to fight for her people and that means standing against the mountain queen and all the fears of her childhood. Charlotte is ready to risk everything to save her husband and reverse the consequences of her mistakes. But freeing Henry means getting entangled in the mountain kingdom's fight for freedom and that fight might take the one thing Charlotte isn't willing to give. Once again, the two girls must rely on each other if they hope to save the men they love and emerge unscathed from the evil that lies at the heart of the castle east of the sun and west of the moon. If you enjoy clean romance, adventure, intrigue, found families, and friendship, then try the Four Kingdoms duology now which retells one classic fairy tale across two books! |
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82569. A Mage's Apprentice: Complete Series : AudiobooksNow : USD19.99 Delphine possesses great power—too much power for the daughter of farmers. The Mage’s Guild would eagerly take her, but she wants nothing to do with its arrogant and self-centered members. That is, until her friend is abducted in front of her. Now Delphine needs her power, but to access it, she’ll have to apprentice herself to a traveling master. Amara is willing to take Delphine, but Delphine has a secret—one that will cripple her apprenticeship before it even begins. And once she leaves home, the secrets keep mounting. On the road, Delphine’s healing power wins her a new friend—a wild fox she names Ember—but it also catches the attention of the dangerous man who abducted her friend, and of Nik, the mysterious mage hunting him. Now Delphine herself is in danger, and Nik might be her only way out. But first she has to overcome her crippling secrets and convince Nik that together they can be stronger than apart. If you enjoy strong heroines, fantasy worlds, adventure, and clean romance, then try A Mage’s Apprentice, set in the same world as the completed Mage’s Influence series! This complete series set includes the following titles: Winds of Courage Storms of Allegiance Tempests of Truth |
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82570. The Paris Inheritance: An Utterly Heartbreaking And Addictive Ww2 Historical Novel : AudiobooksNow : USD17.49 A family heirloom, handmade in Paris. A wartime sacrifice that changed everything. And a secret kept for generations. Paris, 1940. Clutching a delicate silver dove-shaped brooch – the last gift from her beloved Otto, with a message of love engraved in the back – Lally flees her home in Paris. With her closest friend by her side, she dodges the Nazi gunfire echoing all around the city streets. But as they become more and more desperate during the darkest days Europe has ever known, one must make a terrible sacrifice for them both to survive… France, 2014. After her father’s death, grieving Hope starts a new life in France. All she knows of her father’s family is that they were separated in World War Two. And her only inheritance is a unique, dove-shaped brooch. Exploring an antique market one day, Hope’s breath catches in her throat at what she finds. A wartime picture of a green-eyed girl, a silver brooch pinned to her dress, shaped like a dove in flight. Hope has only ever seen one like it before. Certain it’s her family heirloom, Hope is desperate to find the woman in the portrait. But it soon becomes clear that some wartime secrets are dangerous to uncover… Will Hope’s discoveries change everything she ever believed about her father? And even if she does find the truth, will it bring her healing – or tear her apart? Fans of The Letter, The Nightingale and We Were the Lucky Ones will be utterly swept away by this heartbreaking and unforgettable tale about family secrets in World War Two and the bonds that held people together during terrible times. What readers are saying about Natalie Meg Evans: ‘Wow… Amazing… found myself reaching for the Kleenex box so many times… Gripping… had me from the very first word on page one until the very last… Broke my heart over, and over again. I de |
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82571. A Letter From Ireland: An Absolutely Heartbreaking Page-turner About Families, Secrets And Unbreakable Friendships : AudiobooksNow : USD17.49 My whole life, I've been haunted by a secret I've left behind on the coast of Ireland. I may be gone, but if you’re reading this Casey, I need to tell you everything… When Casey’s dear friend Rosie passes away, her heart breaks in two; Rosie didn’t even tell her she was sick. And when a mysterious letter arrives from beyond the grave, describing the secluded island where Rosie spent every summer, Casey questions if she really knew her friend at all. With Casey’s hectic job ruling her life, and her marriage crumbling around her, she books a ticket to this beautiful Irish island to feel close to Rosie again, and find out what secrets she has hidden there. Casey rushes to the tumbledown cottage and immediately falls in love with the glimmering shores and breathtaking coves of Scarty island. Why did Rosie keep this magical place a secret, even from her own husband? Desperate for answers, she immerses herself with the locals organising afternoon teas for tourists, and helps handsome but overworked pub owner Shay. Though Shay stays tight-lipped, Casey notices how his hazel eyes shine when she makes him laugh, and how her heart skips a beat when his rough hands brush hers. But just as Casey finds herself falling for Shay’s quiet strength, a final letter arrives that changes everything. The tear-stained pages tell the story of a forbidden romance and a tragic day at sea that destroyed Rosie’s life. It could shatter Casey’s blossoming romance and tear the small island community apart. Will Casey find the strength to confront the ghosts of the past and confess her love for Shay? Or will she decide that some secrets are meant to stay buried, and say goodbye to Scarty forever? An utterly uplifting and heart-stopping read bursting with Irish magic that will tug at your heartstrings. Perfect for fans of Susanne O’Leary, Tricia O’Malley and Mary Alice Monroe. What readers are s |
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82572. Her Silent Bones: A Gripping Crime Thriller With A Heart-stopping Twist : AudiobooksNow : USD17.49 Fifteen years ago I watched my father’s murder. Now, having never truly recovered from losing her father all those years ago, Detective Delaney Pace is devastated when her brother and sister-in-law are killed in a car crash. Packing up her life she heads back to the rugged cowboy town of Kearney, Wyoming. Her niece Kateena is just eleven years old and Delaney will do anything to keep her safe… Now there’s another killer on the loose, and he’s already taken his first victim. New to the local police force, when a body is found on a secluded mountain trail Delaney is called to the scene. Surrounded by imposing pine trees, a young woman lies still in the moonlight. Gazing into her dark, unblinking eyes Delaney’s heart pounds wildly in her chest as she recognises the victim. It’s her beloved sister-in-law: Kateena’s mother, Lila. But she died weeks before. Didn’t she? There’s evil lurking in this town and I’ll stop at nothing to hunt down the truth and deliver justice. With Kateena traumatised all over again, when Delaney links Lila’s murder back to the place where her own father was killed she realizes she must face her own dark past to catch the man responsible. But little does she know that the killer has already made their next deadly move. Back at home, Kateena should be in bed sleeping soundly, but her room is empty. Kateena is missing… Can Delaney uncover the truth behind the killings and save Kateena before it’s too late? Fans of Mary Stone, Kendra Elliot, Robert Dugoni and C.J. Box will love this heart-racing and totally gripping thriller from USA Today bestselling author Pamela Fagan Hutchins. What readers are saying about Her Silent Bones: “Wow! Great book!! I’m so excited! I have the next two books to read also! I can’t wait! This book was awesome… Had me glued to my Kindle!” NetGalley revie |
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82573. Her Hidden Grave: An Absolutely Addictive And Gripping Crime Thriller That Will Have You Hooked : AudiobooksNow : USD17.49 Someone is preying on the town’s teenagers. When Detective Delaney Pace is called to a local high school in her small hometown of Kearney, Wyoming, she is devastated to find the body of star football player Noah Pinehurst slumped in the changing room, his team shirt hanging behind his lifeless body. Days later, two of his friends vanish from Noah’s memorial. Haunted by memories of her own father’s murder, Delaney is convinced that another twisted killer is stalking Kearney looking for victims. More innocent lives are about to be taken. As one of the missing teenagers stumbles into town, covered in blood and dirt, she tells Delaney she was kidnapped and buried alive. Delaney’s heart pounds in her chest as she recognises the kidnapper’s description. It sounds like someone close to her—someone she thought was dead… She will stop at nothing to catch the killer. If Delaney’s suspicions are correct, she’s about to face a ruthless murderer: but she’s prepared to put herself in unthinkable danger to catch them. She made a vow to keep the people of Kearney safe, even if it means taking the life of someone she loves… Fans of Mary Stone, Kendra Elliot, Robert Dugoni and C.J. Box will be blown away by this fast-paced, absolutely unputdownable crime novel from USA Today bestselling author Pamela Fagan Hutchins. What readers are saying about Her Hidden Grave: “Wow!!… A rollercoaster of a book!!… Action-packed and full of twists and turns with a climactic ending that I never saw coming.” Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars “This book had everything!… Great plot twist and some crazy twists and turns!… Had me glued to my Kindle!” NetGalley reviewer, 5 stars “Awesome!… Had a little bit of everything – suspense, action-packed, murder, serial killers, and who doesn’t like that all wra |
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82574. Her Last Cry: A Gripping Crime Thriller With A Heart-stopping Twist : AudiobooksNow : USD17.49 A young woman has vanished into thin air. When much-loved Annabeth Dillon is reported missing during a snow storm in Kearney, Wyoming, Detective Delaney Pace is called in. The search leads to a remote woodland cabin, and Delaney is distraught to find Annabeth’s lifeless body on the bed, dark red ties gripping her tight, long black hair covering her face. Searching the scene, she spots a dark figure at the window and rushes to give chase, but he gets away. Could it have been the killer? Another victim is about to be taken. As a local activist, Annabeth had a lot of enemies and she was no stranger to death threats. So why was she alone in an isolated cabin? And when one of Annabeth’s colleagues is found dead in her own home, Delaney fears that the murders are linked. Were the women hiding a secret that someone killed to keep? A twisted killer is in town and they’re only just getting started. Days later, Delaney discovers that the murderer left DNA evidence on the body, and she’s shocked to her core when she learns who it belongs to. She knows the killer. As she jumps to action, another call comes in—someone close to her has gone missing. Delaney knows just how dangerous the killer is, but she’s prepared to risk everything, even her own life, to save the life of another innocent victim. Will she find them in time? If you’re a fan of Mary Stone, Kendra Elliot, Robert Dugoni and C.J. Box you won’t be able to put down this absolutely nail-biting crime thriller from USA Today bestselling author Pamela Fagan Hutchins. What readers are saying about Her Last Cry: “HOLY GUACAMOLE?? What a fantastic, twisted whiplash of a ride. Every single book in this series got better and better. Wow. I can’t wait for book 4… This is a must-read for crime thriller fans who love strong female leads! RUN.” @bitchcanwriteabook, 5 stars “I am absolutely obses |
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82575. A Very Irish Christmas: An Utterly Perfect Christmas Romantic Comedy : AudiobooksNow : USD17.49 One part American sugar, two parts Irish spice. Cassie O'Hara is about to discover the recipe for the sweetest Christmas…When New York-born Cassie O'Hara decides to use the money her sassy Irish nana Nora left in her will to book a month-long stay in a quaint country village, she's expecting a cozy cottage, steak-and-ale pie and plenty of Christmas cheer. Instead, she gets a draughty disaster covered in dust, a temperamental stray dog and two devastatingly handsome men vying for her attention…There's Charles, the dashing English aristocrat with an enormous manor house and a heart of gold. And Ryan, a curly-haired Irish handyman with a past he won't talk about and an accent that makes her weak at the knees.When Charles enlists Cassie's event-planning expertise to save his family estate, she finds herself working shoulder to shoulder with Ryan, breathing new life into Bancroft Manor. As village life weaves its spell, Cassie uncovers some intriguing secrets about Nana Nora's past. With her return ticket looming and her heart pulling her in unexpected directions, can Cassie find the love and belonging Nana Nora always wanted for her?A laugh-out-loud romantic comedy filled with Irish charm, festive flirting and enough Christmas spirit to warm even the coldest of hearts. Perfect for fans of Sophie Kinsella, Catherine Walsh and anyone who believes in the luck of the Irish…Readers love Debbie Johnson’s books!“Pure comfort reading!!... Loved it, it’s like a huge hot chocolate with whipped cream and marshmallows!! Wonderful.” Reader review, ?????“Absolutely fabulous, I couldn’t put it down. Humour, sadness, family, romance… what’s not to love?” Reader review, ?????“Definitely a five-star read… could... not... stop! Finished it in one afternoon.” Reader review, ?????“A beautiful story from an author who never disappoints.” Reader review, ?????“Deserves more than 5 stars. If I could give this a higher rating than 5, I would. Esc |
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82576. A Deadly Flame: An Utterly Unputdownable Scottish Crime Thriller : AudiobooksNow : USD17.49 She opens the door to find two police officers waiting on her doorstep. Fear flashes through her. 'Can we come in?' they ask. 'It’s about your husband…'Anna Galbraith's world shatters when she hears the devastating news: her husband’s whisky distillery has burned to the ground and a body has been found inside. But her husband wasn’t the only victim – a young firefighter perished too, leaving behind a grief-stricken fiancée only weeks away from their wedding day.As DS Malkie McCulloch delves into the Galbraith family, he soon discovers their financial struggles. Was their marriage less perfect than Anne has made out?After a shocking attack on a firefighter, another body is found, assaulted and set alight in the victim’s own home, and it’s clear a frenzied killer is on the loose. Can Malkie overcome memories of his own mother’s death in a fire to find the culprit? Or will the firestorm of his own life engulf him first?A gripping Scottish crime thriller featuring DS Malkie McCulloch, a brilliantly complex detective who will risk everything to protect the innocent, set in the shadow of the Pentland Hills. Perfect for fans of Angela Marsons, JM Dalgliesh and JD Kirk.What readers are saying about the DS Malkie McCulloch series:‘I absolutely devoured this book… What a complex, loveable character… the Scottish setting of Livingston is brought alive… the author is fast becoming one of my favourites in the genre and up with the best. Please bring us more Malkie soon!’ Reader review, ?????‘I dove into this book without having read the first in the series and finished it in one sitting! A resounding 5 stars.’ Reader review, ?????‘I could not wait to get my hands on book number two to see what DS Malkie McCulloch would get up to next. I was definitely not disappointed! Another fantastic book and it’s safe to say Doug Sinclair has earned himself a fan in me!’ Reader review, ?????‘This book had suspense, intrigue, action, murder, mystery |
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82577. The Killer Instinct: A Totally Unputdownable Crime Thriller : AudiobooksNow : USD17.49 Detective Margot Phalen knows the mind of a serial killer better than most. She learned from the worst: her father, Ed Finch.When bodies keep appearing in the tranquil Muir Woods, California, and a woman is killed in Chinatown, Margot begins to realize these are no ordinary homicides. The eerie similarities to her infamous father's crimes send chills down her spine. But Ed’s been behind bars for years now – surely he couldn’t mastermind this from his cell, could he?As evidence mounts – a bloodied image of Ed’s first target found in a victim’s home, stab wounds that match Ed’s trademark pattern – Margot uncovers a sinister obsession that hits far too close to home. She must use all her skills to outwit a killer who seems to know her history better than she does.To solve this case, she’ll need to confront the dark secrets of her past, and face her worst fear: that she may be more like her father than she ever dared imagine.The Killer Instinct is a gripping crime thriller that will keep you turning the pages. Fans of Karin Slaughter, Michael Connelly and Tana French won’t want to miss this unforgettable series.Readers are totally addicted to the Detective Margot Phalen series:“Omg! Literally couldn’t put this book down! I was hooked, I need the next one to be released yesterday!” Reader review, ?????“This fast-paced thriller is utterly addictive and should come with a warning – once you pick it up, you will not be able to put it down until the final page.” Reader review, ?????“Wow, what a page turner!” Reader review, ?????“Oh my goodness, what an incredible story. I was hooked and I did not want it to end.” Reader review, ?????“This book sucks you in hardcore… literally had me in a choke hold!! I could not put it down....” Reader review, ?????“OMG another cracker from Kate Wiley! I loved the first book in this series and begged for another. Fabulous.” Reader review, ?????“An absolute page-turner. Every chapter |
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82578. Write Fearless. Edit Smart. Get Published.: A Master Class For Fiction Writers : AudiobooksNow : USD17.49 Wherever you are in your author’s journey, this book is like teaming up with a personal writing coach who has more than a quarter century of writing, editorial and publishing experience. Thousands of writers—from first-time authors to #1 New York Times best-selling authors—have learned from Lisa Mangum’s masterful literary advice and inspiration. Now she’s collected the best of her writing and editing tips in this helpful book that covers the entire writing and querying process, from nurturing a story idea all the way to submitting a polished manuscript. In the first half of the book, Lisa guides readers through the various steps of the writing process, including starting the story in the right place, developing characters with high-stake goals, mapping character relationships for increased conflict, and introducing tension and plot twists. She also shares tips and tricks for nailing a satisfying ending as well as helping authors discover their own unique voice that can help them break through writer’s block. With her decades of experience, Lisa then takes writers on a behind-the-scenes tour of the many levels of editing, including a handy flowchart that unravels the mystery of where the commas go in a sentence. Finally, she helps writers prepare to “get published” by deconstructing what makes a query letter catch an editor’s eye and how to answer the all-important question: “What’s your book about?” Packed with Lisa’s own personal stories of encouragement and inspiration, Write Stupid. Edit Smart. Get Published. is a literary adventure that’s as fun as it is informative. |
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82579. Spooky Sights : AudiobooksNow : USD4.99 What if Shadows, Vampires, Werewolves, and Witches, celebrated Halloween with friends, cupcakes, and soup ? Perhaps it was a dream… perhaps it was all true… Even when things look scary, they don't have to scare you! |
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82580. Like A Wildfire : AudiobooksNow : USD17.49 The smooth-talking rancher lassos the hot-headed Scotsman. Like a Wildfire is a long-distance, Grumpy/Sunshine MM romance where crossing oceans leads to taking chances and discovering what the heart truly desires. Save a horse, ride a Scotsman. August: What’s better than watching my favorite team on TV? Gettin’ to see them play live in action. My family surprised me with a once-in-a-lifetime trip, so I’m gonna live it up before the snow flies and I’m frozen to the bone with no one in my bed to warm me up. Here I am in London, ready to catch the game and find a man to set my bedsheets aflame. Realizing my tickets were a scam led me to seek out the next best opportunity and boy, did I find it. This pub’s bartender is as temperamental as our bull back home, but it’s not long before the sparks between us burn hotter than a wildfire in August. This cowboy knows just how to rope this bull and tame his rage. I have eight days before I’m gone. Time’s a tickin’. I better get to work. Patrick: How did we get here? Americans overrun my pub and it’s driving me mad. In a sea of football jerseys, one man sticks out amongst the crowd; he is the life of the party and wants his way under my kilt. He’s assertive and says he can tame the likes of me? Bring it on cowboy. I’m likely the most stubborn man ye’ve met. Nevertheless, why does my heart skip a beat each time his lips are on mine? All too soon he’s in Wyoming and all we have now are brief texts and missed calls between time zones. Indecision and yearning have me at a crossroads, each path guiding me to one destination—the man at Schuster Ranch. |
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82581. Espantos : AudiobooksNow : USD4.99 Todo puede suceder en una noche de Halloween… ¡hasta conocer a un par de Espantos! ¿Y que si esos espantos solo quieren festejar entre amigos y comer pasteles y sopa? Tal vez solo fue un sueño… tal vez fue verdad… Esta es la historia, y tu decides la realidad. |
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82582. The Crash : AudiobooksNow : USD17.49 Tegan is eight months pregnant, alone, and desperately wants to put her crumbling life in the rearview mirror. So she hits the road, planning to stay with her brother until she can figure out her next move. But she doesn't realize she's heading straight into a blizzard. She never arrives at her destination. Stranded in rural Maine with a dead car and broken ankle, Tegan worries she's made a terrible mistake. Then a miracle occurs: she is rescued by a couple who offers her a room in their warm cabin until the snow clears. But something isn't right. Tegan believed she was waiting out the storm, but as time ticks by, she comes to realize she is in grave danger. This safe haven isn't what she thought it was, and staying here may have been her most deadly mistake yet. And now she must do whatever it takes to save herself, and her unborn child. A gut-wrenching story of motherhood, survival, and twisted expectations, #1 New York Times bestselling author Freida McFadden delivers a snowbound thriller that will chill you to the bone. Download or stream 'The Crash' on your favorite device instantly. |
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82583. Six Thinking Hats : AudiobooksNow : USD17.49 Used successfully by thousands of business managers, educators, and government leaders around the world, Six Thinking Hats offers a practical and uniquely positive approach to making decisions and exploring new ideas. Your success depends on how you think. The main difficulty of thinking is confusion, writes Edward de Bono, long recognized as an international authority on conceptual thinking and on the teaching of thinking as a skill. We try to do too much at once. Emotions, information, logic, hope, and creativity all crowd in on us. It is like juggling with too many balls. The solution? De Bono unscrambles the thinking process with his six thinking hats:WHITE HAT: neutral and objective, concerned with facts and figuresRED HAT: the emotional viewBLACK HAT: careful and cautiousYELLOW HAT: sunny and positiveGREEN HAT: associated with fertile growth, creativity, and new ideasBLUE HAT: cool, the color of the sky, above everything else-the organizing hat Through case studies and real-life examples, Dr. de Bono reveals the often surprising ways in which deliberate role playing can make you a better thinker. He offers a powerfully simple tool that you can use to create clearer thinking, improved communication, and greater creativity. This audio edition of his timeless book is an instructive and inspiring text for anyone who makes decisions, in business or in life. This audiobook is skillfully narrated by Mike Fraser, an Audible listener favorite. Published with permission from Edward de Bono Ltd. Information on training in the Six Thinking Hats is available at www.deBono.com. This audiobook was produced and published by Echo Point Books & Media, an independent bookseller in Brattleboro, Vermont.©1985 Edward de Bono Ltd. (P) |
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82584. Security Analysis, Seventh Edition: Principles And Techniques : AudiobooksNow : USD17.49 The classic work from the “father of value investing—fully updated for today’s generation of investors.Security Analysis is one of the most influential financial books ever written. With more than million copies sold |
| 82585. Aising His Or Her Game To Navigate The Terrain Of New Eras : AudiobooksNow and evolving market conditions. With the diverse perspectives of experienced contributors |
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82586. Sacred Woman: A Guide To Healing The Feminine Body, Mind, And Spirit : AudiobooksNow : USD17.49 The audio edition of a transformative blueprint for ancestral healing—featuring new material and gateways, from the renowned herbalist, natural health expert, and healer of women’s bodies and souls. “This book was one of the first that helped me start practices as a young woman that focused on my body and spirit as one.” (Jada Pinkett Smith) Through extraordinary meditations, affirmations, holistic healing plant-based medicine, KMT temple teachings, and the rites of passage guidance, Queen Afua teaches us how to love and rejoice in our bodies by spiritualizing the words we speak, the foods we eat, the relationships we attract, the spaces we live and work in, and the transcendent woman spirit we manifest. With love, wisdom, and passion, Queen Afua guides us to accept our mission and our mantle as Sacred Women—to heal ourselves, the generations of women in our families, our communities, and our world. Sacred Woman is wonderfully narrated by Camille Mazant, with an introduction narrated by Queen Afua herself. This audiobook was produced and published by Echo Point Books & Media, an independent bookseller in Brattleboro, Vermont. ©2000, 2021 Queen Afua/Helen O. Robinson (P) |
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82587. Reading Price Charts Bar By Bar: The Technical Analysis Of Price Action For The Serious Trader : AudiobooksNow : USD17.49 While complex strategies and systems may work for some traders, understanding price action is all you really need to succeed in this arena. Price action analysis is an effective approach to trading today's markets whether you're involved in stocks, futures, or options. It allows you to focus on the process of trading without being overwhelmed by a complicated collection of trading techniques. And while this method may appear elementary, it can significantly enhance returns as well as minimize downside risk. One way to apply price action analysis to your trading endeavors is with chart patterns. Nobody understands this better than author Al Brooks, a technical analyst for Futures magazine and an independent trader for more than 20 years. Brooks discovered ten years ago that reading price charts without indicators proved to be the most simple, reliable, and profitable way for him to trade. Mastering that discipline is what made him consistently successful in trading. Now, with Reading Price Charts Bar by Bar, Brooks shares his extensive experience on how to read price action. At the end of the day, anyone can look at a chart, whether it is a candle chart for E-mini S&P 500 futures trading or a bar chart for stock trading, and see very clear entry and exit points. But doing this in real time is much more difficult. Reading Price Charts Bar by Bar will help you become proficient in the practice of reading price action through the use of trendlines and trend channel lines, prior highs and lows, breakouts and failed breakouts, and other tools and show you how this approach can improve the overall risk-reward ratio of your trades. Written with the serious trader in mind, this reliable resource addresses the essential elements of this discipline, including the importance of understanding every bar on a price chart, why particular patterns are reliable setups for trades, and how to locate entry and exit points as markets are trading in real time. Brooks focuses on five-min |
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82588. Mastering The Trade, Third Edition: Proven Techniques For Profiting From Intraday And Swing Trading Setups : AudiobooksNow : USD17.49 The go-to guide for launching a lucrative career in trading - fully updated for today’s turbulent markets. One of today’s most successful traders, John F. Carter has made his popular guide more relevant and effective than ever. This new audio edition of Mastering the Trade includes the essential content that has made it a bestselling classic, and includes critical new information for making the best trading decisions in every situation. Combining insightful market overview with trading strategies and concepts, Carter provides: Proven set-ups, with optimal markets and non-negotiable trading rules Exact entry, exit, and stop loss levels for swing and intraday trading Seven key internals, from Skew to VIX Pre-market checklist for analyzing recent market behavior Scanning techniques for pinpointing high-probability setups Effective risk control techniques Methods for ensuring your computer runs at max speed Techniques for predicting market corrections From valuable hardware and software to market mechanics, pivot points, and position sizing, Carter delivers a suite of tools for beating out the competition on a regular basis. Mastering the Trade, Third Edition builds your expertise in knowing what’s working for you and what’s working against you, so you make a living on the frontlines of professional trading. Mastering the Trade is expertly narrated by Scott R. Pollak. All charts and graphs referenced in this audiobook are included in the supplementary PDF. Produced and published by Echo Point Books & Media, an independent bookseller in Brattleboro, Vermont. ©2019 John F. Carter (P)2020 Echo Point Books & Media, LLC |
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82589. Art Of Acting, The : AudiobooksNow : USD17.49 Stella Adler was one of the 20th Century's greatest figures. She is arguably the most important teacher of acting in American history. Over her long career, both in New York and Hollywood, she offered her vast acting knowledge to generations of actors, including Marlon Brando, Warren Beatty, and Robert De Niro. The great voice finally ended in the early 1990s. But, her decades of experience and teaching have been brilliantly captured and encapsulated by Howard Kissel, in the 22 lessons you'll hear in this audiobook. This brand-new audio edition of The Art of Acting is vibrantly narrated by Bonnie Agan. This audiobook was produced and published by Echo Point Books & Media, an independent bookseller in Brattleboro, Vermont. ©2000 Applause Books (P) |
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82590. 10-minute Toughness: The Mental Training Program For Winning Before The Game Begins : AudiobooksNow : USD17.49 Mental training is a must for high performance both on the field and off. But simply hoping for mental toughness isn't going to build any mind muscles. You need a proven routine of daily exercises to get you where you want to go. 10-Minute Toughness is your personal coach for boosting brainpower and achieving a competitive edge in whatever game you play. With quickness and ease, you'll learn how to master your own mind and psych out your opponents using personalized techniques from one of America's most successful sport psychology consultants. Like no other program available, the 10-Minute Toughness (10-MT) routine gets you ready for the competition in just ten minutes a day. 10-Minute Toughness is expertly narrated by Brian Arens, an Audible Listener favorite. It was produced and published by Echo Point Books & Media, an independent bookseller in Brattleboro, Vermont. ©2008 Jason Selk (P) |
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82591. The Sea Hides A Seahorse : AudiobooksNow : USD4.99 Hidden in the ocean of colorful fish, octopus, kelp, sea sponges, and other sea life is a most unique creature: the seahorse. Featuring different species of seahorses and seadragons across the world, The Sea Hides a Seahorse is a subtle seek-and-find story that journeys underwater to provide a glimpse into the secrets of seahorses as they swim, hide, hunt, court, mate, and more. A portion of the proceeds from the sales of The Sea Hides a Seahorse will be donated to support marine education and seahorse conservation. |
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82592. Lillian And Noah's Great Moving Adventure : AudiobooksNow : USD4.99 Lillian and her little brother Noah are moving for the first time into a bigger home. There is so much to do and so many family and friends helping her mom and dad. It's exciting and fun: discovering money and lost socks, watching a moving truck, exploring the new house and minding the cats. Lillian decides in her own way how to be helpful to the grownups on this special day! |
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82593. Shadow.self. : AudiobooksNow : USD4.99 Herein lies a raw exploration of duality, darkness, and desire. A collection of sonnets, haikus, and free verse that brings to the surface our fractured pieces and celebrates how the light and the dark blend to make us whole. An invitation to embrace the shadow and give it its rightful place as a part of the self. Internationally celebrated voice actor and author, Joe Arden, opens his mind and heart in this scintillating outpouring of original poetry. Arden’s work bleeds from the page in the same emotionally-charged fashion as his lyrical performances of the countless love stories he’s told throughout his career. The power you’ve hidden underneath glows, Who told you to bury your beautiful? Every scar tells me what your body knows. Your presence to me is immutable. |
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82594. Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others : AudiobooksNow : USD17.49 In this groundbreaking work, Sara Ahmed demonstrates how queer studies can put phenomenology to productive use. Focusing on the “orientation” aspect of “sexual orientation” and the “orient” in “orientalism,” Ahmed examines what it means for bodies to be situated in space and time. Bodies take shape as they move through the world directing themselves toward or away from objects and others. Being “orientated” means feeling at home, knowing where one stands, or having certain objects within reach. Orientations affect what is proximate to the body or what can be reached. A queer phenomenology, Ahmed contends, reveals how social relations are arranged spatially, how queerness disrupts and reorders these relations by not following the accepted paths, and how a politics of disorientation puts other objects within reach, those that might, at first glance, seem awry. Ahmed proposes that a queer phenomenology might investigate not only how the concept of orientation is informed by phenomenology but also the orientation of phenomenology itself. Thus, she reflects on the significance of the objects that appear—and those that do not—as signs of orientation in classic phenomenological texts such as Husserl’s Ideas. In developing a queer model of orientations, she combines readings of phenomenological texts—by Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, and Fanon—with insights drawn from queer studies, feminist theory, critical race theory, Marxism, and psychoanalysis. Queer Phenomenology points queer theory in bold new directions. This audiobook is expertly read by Soneela Nankani, with audio engineering by Sam Platt. It was produced and published by Echo Point Books & Media, an independent bookseller in Brattleboro, Vermont. |
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82595. A Dog Named Chuck : AudiobooksNow : USD4.99 Chuck the dog lives in a cozy farmhouse with lots of animal friends in the farmyard. He decides to take his daily nap in front of the fireplace. Just as he lies down on the rug, he hears someone calling his name. He rushes out to the farmyard, but it's just the chicken calling her chicken friends by saying 'Cluck' not 'Chuck'. The dog changes his name again and again, only to mishear other farmyard animal sounds. For every name, there is a similar rhyming sound of an animal. Will he ever get his nap? |
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82596. Destiny : AudiobooksNow : USD17.49 An enemy they never anticipated. A brutal attack that tears them apart. A chain of immutable events that will forever alter the future. Discover the destiny that was always theirs to claim. Four years after Lucas Soul is reunited with the last of his remarkable kin, the man who was once the most hunted individual in the Immortal societies is finally at peace with his life and his fate. But when a shocking confrontation robs him of the people he cares most for in this world, the Immortal who survived his seventeenth death must take up arms once more and return to the deadly life he thought he had left behind. Except, this time, he is not alone. With their friends at their side, Lucas and his Immortal circle plunge headlong into a desperate chase to uncover the identity of the unknown opponent lurking in the shadows. Old truths are overturned and fresh secrets are revealed when an army they thought was long gone rises to face them once more. But it isn’t until an unforeseen incident awakens a group of unlikely allies that Lucas and his family finally realize the true, horrific extent of the enemy’s purpose. With the stakes escalating and the threat of war darkening the world, the Immortals marked by the divine must draw upon all the remarkable powers gifted to them to bring an end to a devious plot which has its origins in the distant past. As their destiny starts to unfold before their eyes, will Lucas and his kin be able to stop their enemy and embrace the future that awaits them? |
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82597. The Sweetest Knockout : AudiobooksNow : USD17.49 For teenagers Angel, Rahsaan, and Kahmeer, the summer before their last year of high school is the time for unadulterated fun. What they don’t expect is for a party to lead to a shootout that changes the trajectory of their summer and their lives permanently. Cousins Imani and Darla, don’t expect connecting with Angel and Rahsaan to reshape their hearts and lives, but it does. They learn quickly that the only thing stronger than love is hate, and the only person they can trust is themselves.The Sweetest Knockout is told through the lens of five teenagers from seventeen to twenty-two as they navigate lust, love, life, and, unfortunately, death. It is book one of a four book standalone series. While The Sweetest Knockout ends with a cliffhanger, the rest of the books will not. |
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82598. A Singular Woman: A Historical Romance Mystery : AudiobooksNow : USD17.49 Wolf had hoped he could put his thief-taking life behind him when he unexpectedly inherited an earldom. Jeremy Wolfson Chesterton, Wolf, the new Earl of Pembroke, finds himself sucked back into another investigation against his better judgement. He knows better than to think he can keep Tabitha, the wife of his deceased cousin, away from the case. She's running his household and increasingly finding her way into his life and, to his surprise, his heart. He respects her intelligence and insights but can't help trying to protect her. As the investigation suddenly becomes far more complicated and dangerous, how can Wolf save an innocent man and keep Tabitha safe? |
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82599. A Proud Woman: A Historical Romance Mystery : AudiobooksNow : USD17.49 Step into 1897 Victorian London: Unravel Love and Intrigue with The Tabitha & Wolf Historical Mystery Series, where Mystery meets Romance with a splash of Humour. Tabitha was used to being a social pariah. Could her standing in society get any worse? Tabitha, Lady Chesterton, the Countess of Pembroke, is newly widowed at only 22 years of age. With no son to inherit the title, it falls to a dashing, distant cousin of her husband's, Jeremy Chesterton, known as Wolf. It quickly becomes apparent that Wolf had consorted with some of London's most dangerous citizens before inheriting the title. Can he leave this world behind, or will shadowy figures from his past follow him into his new aristocratic life in Mayfair? And can Tabitha avoid being caught up in Wolf's dubious activities? It seems it's well and truly time for Tabitha to leave her gilded cage behind for good! |
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82600. Lost Boy: An Extended Trigger-free Version Of Losing Neverland : AudiobooksNow : USD17.49 When Peter Pan discovers his forbidden magic, he’s faced with an ultimatum. Stay in London, or escape to a whole new world. A place where a fairy named Tinker Bell is his most loyal companion, pirates rule the seas, mermaids are friends with the fae, and lost boys live out their childish dreams. But leaving London comes with a price. Wendy Moira Angela Darling. When Peter decides to steal Wendy away one night, headed for the second star to the right, Tinker Bell’s jealousy grows. The lost boys turn on him. The mermaids and fae work against him. And an evil, dangerous shadow falls on Neverland. Jas Hook. |
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82601. Losing Neverland : AudiobooksNow : USD17.49 All is not as it seems in Neverland. As for Peter & Hook… I know the secret most don't. The real truth behind the myth. The hidden wonder you've never known disguised as the notorious legend. I know the nightmare that brings Hook to his knees. The inescapable reality Peter Pan one day couldn't fly away from. All you've ever been told is a lie. A hoax. A pixie trick. I know the truth because… I'm their ruin. I'm their demise. I'm the end of what was & the beginning of what's to come. My name is Wendy Moira Angela Darling, & I'm the reason for losing Neverland. Praise for Losing Neverland: Losing Neverland will keep you saying, 'just one more chapter,' until you finally finish! This book is insane in the best way. It’s twisted and devastatingly beautiful. Passionate, obsessive, & emotional. I'm a huge fan of retellings, a huge fan of dark romance, a huge fan of anti-heroes, & boy this one had all three! I wish that I could reread this book for the first time, it was so good! WOW! I could NOT put this book down! It was a rollercoaster ride. This book is dark, twisted, unique, and beautiful. It’s a dark romance, but it's also a beautiful second-chance romance. I ate this up so quickly I already miss it! What I would give to be able to read this for the first time again! Losing Neverland gets all the stars!!! This is your sign to go by this book right now. Growing up, Peter Pan was always one of my favorite fairytales. Let me tell you, the story gets better with age and the adult version. I absolutely could not put this book down. Like I refused to cook dinner and made the kids order pizza couldn't put it down. Wendy and Peter are so amazing and the spice between these two, holy cow! This dual POV is dark, sexy, and it hits all the right spots. I DO NOT even know where to begin with the absolute perfection Losing Neverland is! I never want to watch a single Peter Pan movie or the cartoon because I want this story to be Peter and Wendy's real story!! |
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82602. An Independent Woman: A Historical Romance Mystery : AudiobooksNow : USD17.49 Summoned to Edinburgh by the Dowager Countess of Pembroke, Tabitha and Wolf reluctantly board a train and head north to Scotland. The dowager's granddaughter, Lily, refuses to participate in the preparations for her first season unless Tabitha and Wolf investigate the disappearance of her friend, Peter. Initially skeptical of the need to investigate, Tabitha and Wolf quickly realize that the idealistic Peter may have stumbled upon dark secrets. How far would someone go to cover their tracks? Tabitha is drawn into Edinburgh's seedy underbelly as she and Wolf try to solve the case while attempting to keep the dowager in the dark about Peter's true identity. |
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82603. A Ryan Recollection: The Shorts And Novellas : AudiobooksNow : USD19.99 The complete collection of New York Ruthless Shorts and Novellas set after the end of Ryan Renewed. Featuring Jessie Ryan and her hotter than hell Irish Mafia husbands. A Ryan Reckoning A Ryan Rewind A Ryan Restraint A Ryan Revelation A Ryan Recon A Ryan Review A Ryan Halloween A Ryan Christmas A Ryan new Year Another Ryan Christmas These are short, super spicy fun reads following Jessie and the boys as they bask in their HEA. |
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82604. A Proper Governess : AudiobooksNow : USD17.49 When the past and present collide, there are always consequences… Aurelia Beswick’s life hangs by a thread. Penniless and alone, she grasps at her last hope: a position as a governess far from London. Little does she know that fate has a cruel twist in store. Her new employer is none other than Lord Ryland—a man from her past she never expected to see again. Luckily, he doesn’t seem to remember her. Determined to keep her position, Aurelia finds herself walking a precarious line, keeping her identity a secret while every interaction with Lord Ryland seems to draw them closer together. At the heart of this delicate balance is Lord Ryland’s son, a sweet boy who brings Aurelia and Lord Ryland together with their mutual love for him. But as bonds strengthen and walls crumble, Aurelia must face an impossible choice: continue her charade or risk losing everything she’s fought so hard to gain. Book two in the Hearts of Harewood series, A Proper Governess is a sweet and clean Regency romance that proves that even in the most proper of societies, the heart cannot be governed. |
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82605. Keep Me Safe: Bodyguard Bundle : AudiobooksNow : USD19.99 A collection of bodyguard romances including Dance With Me, Headhunter, Enticing Liam and Honor. |
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82606. Effective Data Storytelling: How To Drive Change With Data, Narrative And Visuals : AudiobooksNow : USD17.49 Master the art and science of data storytelling?with frameworks and techniques to help you craft compelling stories with data. The ability to effectively communicate with data is no longer a luxury in today’s economy; it is a necessity. Transforming data into visual communication is only one part of the picture. It is equally important to engage your audience with a narrative?to tell a story with the numbers. Effective Data Storytelling will teach you the essential skills necessary to communicate your insights through persuasive and memorable data stories. Narratives are more powerful than raw statistics, more enduring than pretty charts. When done correctly, data stories can influence decisions and drive change. Most other books focus only on data visualization while neglecting the powerful narrative and psychological aspects of telling stories with data. Author Brent Dykes shows you how to take the three central elements of data storytelling?data, narrative, and visuals?and combine them for maximum effectiveness. Taking a comprehensive look at all the elements of data storytelling, this unique book will enable you to: Transform your insights and data visualizations into appealing, impactful data stories Learn the fundamental elements of a data story and key audience drivers Understand the differences between how the brain processes facts and narrative Structure your findings as a data narrative, using a four-step storyboarding process Incorporate the seven essential principles of better visual storytelling into your work Avoid common data storytelling mistakes by learning from historical and modern examples Effective Data Storytelling: How to Drive Change with Data, Narrative and Visuals is a must-have resource for anyone who communicates regularly with data, including business professionals, analysts, marketers, salespeople, financial managers, and educators. This audiobook is expertly read by Joel Richards, with audio engineering by Mike Thal. It was produce |
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82607. The Christmas Coin: An Enchanting New England Holiday Romance : AudiobooksNow : USD17.49 From a beautiful new voice in contemporary romance comes a charming, heartwarming Christmas story, perfect for fans of RaeAnne Thayne, Denise Hunter, and Debbie Macomber. Professional ballet dancer Amelia Collins is blindsided when an accident results in a career-ending injury. With no other options but to start over, she leaves city life behind to remodel a country home in the quaint village of White Bridge, Connecticut. She buys a sprawling 1870s farmhouse on five acres, complete with a large barn. Running on nothing but hope, she moves in only weeks before Christmas. White Bridge’s irresistible holiday traditions—sledding under twinkle lights, a ride on the holiday express train, and cutting down a live evergreen at the town’s tree farm—put Amelia in the festive spirit. Adding to the magic, she discovers an old European coin with a story while loading some boxes into her attic. A story that might upend everything. Especially when single dad Benjamin Walsh finds out about it. And when she learns he’s in charge of her remodel, she isn’t quite sure how the holiday will go… A heartwarming holiday romance that will have you frantically flipping pages and reaching for the peppermint cookies and hot cocoa. |
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82608. The Holiday Bake-off: A Delightfully Charming Christmas Romance : AudiobooksNow : USD17.49 Delight in the most delicious Christmas story of the season with this charming holiday romance, perfect for fans of Susan Mallery, Rachel Hanna, and Debbie Macomber.Nothing can stop Lucy Carter from pursuing her dream career—not even the breakup she absolutely did not have on her calendar. And just when she’s ready to stage a one-woman pity party, her grandmother calls with news that sends everything sideways: She needs Lucy at the bakery…during the busiest season of the year.Lucy is many things—determined, resourceful, excellent at ordering pastries—but a baker? Not so much. Still, for her grandmother, she’ll whisk, fold, and sugar-dust her way through anything. Probably.Enter Will Westerly, the bakery’s annoyingly gifted, infuriatingly handsome new hire who treats recipes like sacred texts and seems personally offended by Lucy’s “creative” approach to measuring cups. He’s the last person she wants as a mentor—and the first person she notices every single time he smiles.With the annual Christmas bake-off looming and her confidence hanging by a thread of royal icing, Lucy has to figure out not just how to make a winning dessert, but what she’s really craving in life. And as flour plumes, sparks spark, and cupcakes rise, one thing becomes deliciously clear: Healing a broken heart is messy. Get ready for a magical Christmas journey that will have you tasting the sweetness of the sugar bowl and craving the warmth of peppermint cocoa. If you’re in the mood for a heartwarming romance, this is the perfect read for you! |
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82609. Baking It Merry : AudiobooksNow : USD17.49 A Small Town, Enemies to Lovers, Holiday Romance from New York Times bestselling author, Samantha Chase! Everyone in the building loved the bake shop a lot. Except for the guy on the top floor, who most certainly did not. If it were up to him, there wouldn’t be a hint of Christmas in the building. For two months out of the year, Daphne Noelle got to live her dream of owning a bakery. Her little pop-up bake shop—one that looked just like a gingerbread house—brought joy to every customer who stopped by to enjoy her sweet treats. She loved meeting people and making them smile, and being in such a festive setting every day was just the icing on the cake! For the last three years, everything had gone smoothly, but this year, there was one guy who was determined to ruin it all.One of the things Tristan appreciated most about the office complex where his architecture firm was located is how upscale and elegant it was. Unfortunately, every year for eight long weeks, a holiday shop set up in the lobby, turning it into the equivalent of a traveling circus, and the bake shop booth was the worst offender. The giant gingerbread house was an eyesore and the woman running it was too cheery for his liking. This year, he was determined to do everything he could to have her and her booth removed. When Tristan finds himself in the middle of a delicate family situation, only Daphne can help him. Now, he’ll have to beg and plead and promise to be on his best behavior while dealing with her exuberant holiday joy. But the more time he spends with her—and the more awkward situations she saves him from—he begins to realize there’s more to her than over-the-top holiday cheer. And maybe, when you’re with the right person, Christmas can mean a little bit more. |
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82610. The Hidden : AudiobooksNow : USD17.49 When Sophie Thatcher wakes up in a room she doesn’t recognize after a night she can’t remember, she assumes she had too much to drink and went home with a date. Except… the date is nowhere to be found. No one is.The space she finds herself in is completely nondescript—the walls bare, fridge empty. And just when she thought things couldn’t get bleaker or more confusing, she realizes the doors are locked from the outside. Trapped inside an unfamiliar place and faced with a clock counting down to a mysterious deadline, Sophie tries desperately to recall the hours missing from her memory and formulate a plan to escape, but each attempt proves more futile than the last. Hidden away from the world and unable to contact the people who would care that she’s missing, Sophie has two questions ringing in her mind: Who would bring her to this place? And why? When she’s joined in her personal prison by someone she never thought she’d see again, everything changes and the idea of her being a random target instantly vanishes. Whoever brought Sophie to this place has plans for her and, if she can’t figure out a way to escape before time runs out, her fate may be to remain hidden forever. Ominous, dark, and completely disturbing, this pulse-pounding thriller from the twisted mind of million-copy bestselling author Kiersten Modglin is unlike anything you’ve read before. |
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82611. Rules Of A Ruse : AudiobooksNow : USD17.49 Mr. Alden Dandridge has received astonishing news: he is set to inherit a thriving horse farm in a quaint Scottish village. However, there's a formidable catch. He must be married by Twelfth Night. Undeterred, Alden journeys to Scotland, convinced that a marriage of convenience will solve all his problems. Miss Elinor Sidney has been successfully running the horse farm for the past two years, and she has no intention of relinquishing it to Mr. Dandridge. Adding to the stakes, she learns that if Alden fails to secure a bride by Twelfth Night, the horse farm will legally belong to her. When Alden enlists her help in finding a suitable bride, Elinor agrees, though she has no true intention of aiding him. As Alden spends more time with Elinor, he comes to realize that she is the perfect solution to his predicament. He just needs to persuade her to marry him. Yet, Elinor yearns for a marriage built on love, not convenience. When someone from Elinor's past reemerges, threatening her peace, Alden knows he must risk everything- including his heart- to protect her. Love unfolds in unexpected ways in this light-hearted, clean, and wholesome holiday romance. Enjoy it as a stand-alone story or as the second book in the Regency Christmas Brides series. Other books in the Regency Christmas Brides series: A Seasonal Pursuit by Rebecca Connelly Yuletide Bride by Kasey Stockton Married by Twelfth Night by Anneka Walker |
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82612. Broken Horizons : AudiobooksNow : USD17.49 The fires of today… kindle the ashes of tomorrow… where survival is never guaranteed. In the tumultuous life of Siena Lang, each passing day morphs into an arduous battle. A wretched job, a paltry salary, and the haunting void left by the loss of her parents converge into a catastrophe that defines her existence. The belief that things couldn't possibly worsen shatter when her younger brother, Max, calls her in a panic. Then the unthinkable happens—the grid mysteriously fails, plunging the nation into a lockdown, cutting off all communication and means of travel. As disaster stirs, Ryan Parker finds himself in dire straits as he is fired once again. Grappling with unemployment, he faces an even more ominous threat—a looming debt to a relentless loan shark who is calling in all payments. Desperate to evade his pursuers, Ryan seeks refuge in the solitude of the Blue Ridge Mountains, hoping to lie low for a few days. In a twist of fate, he stumbles upon a ghost from his past that threatens the course of his future. Survival is now a race against time. Will Siena endure the challenges long enough to reach and save Max? Will Ryan outrun his pursuers long enough to help an old friend? The answer remains uncertain in a world gripped by chaos. Broken Horizons is a post-apocalyptic survival thriller featuring flawed characters faced with surviving a national disaster. A grid-down series perfect for fans of Kyla Stone, Bobby Akart, Jack Hunt, and Ryan Schow. Get it now. |
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82613. Eye Of The Beholder : AudiobooksNow : USD17.49 One girl. One boy. One bargain… Mina Look, I’m no social butterfly. I don’t care what the extroverts say—talking to people is scary. I’d rather hang out with my books than actual human beings. Books don’t call you names or dump water over your head in the cafeteria.But high school is almost over, and I’m realizing I have nothing to show for it but good grades. I need to come out of my shell if I want to get the attention of a certain football player, and I’m going to need help. My neighbor Cohen is the man for the job. Sure, his attractiveness makes me nervous, and yes, he smells obnoxiously good all the time, but it’s fine. I’ve got this. I mean, probably. I’ve probably got this. Cohen Mina’s got a thing for my buddy Jack. I’ve got a thing for getting into a good college. My plan is simple: I’ll help Mina get Jack’s attention if she’ll tutor me for the ACT. No big deal, right? But working with Mina isn’t going to be easy. Her social skills are iffy at best, and don’t get me started on her (lack of) flirting skills. It’s a good thing she makes me laugh, because we’re going to be spending a lot of time together… |
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82614. I'll Be Home For Mischief : AudiobooksNow : USD17.49 Innkeeper Holly White is decking the halls this Christmas season, but someone is on the naughty list when a body is discovered in the fifth installment in the Christmas Tree Farm mystery series from bestselling author Jacqueline Frost.It’s Christmastime in Mistletoe, Maine, and the Historical Society has launched a widespread campaign to celebrate the town’s 150th anniversary. Descendants of the founding family, the Snows, have returned for the first time, and Holly is determined to make the family’s visit magical. In an attempt to put Mistletoe on the map, Holly’s mother, a respected local baker, attempts to break a record by baking the world’s largest gingerbread man, but her plans are whisked away when Mr. Snow’s body ends up in the batter. When Mr. Moore, the local mistletoe farmer, is accused of the crime, Holly reprises her role as amateur sleuth to protect the sweet older man. Between hosting the inconsolable Mrs. Snow and other guests at the inn, receiving threatening messages telling her to stop her investigation, and preparing for her first wedding anniversary with Sheriff Evan Gray, she might need a Christmas miracle to survive. When someone breaks into Holly’s office and scratches a warning into her desk, she knows she has little time left. Can Holly uncover the killer before someone else gets burned, or is her involvement a recipe for trouble? |
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82615. Diagnosed: An Insider's Guide For Your Healthcare Journey : AudiobooksNow : USD17.49 Foreword by Tia Newcomer, CEO of CaringBridge When Cris Ross and Ed Marx were diagnosed with cancer, they thought they knew what to do next. They were, after all, executives at two of the premiere hospitals in the United States—Mayo Clinic and Cleveland Clinic. But even decades of obsessing about effective delivery of patient care could not have prepared them for the emotional and logistical complexity of navigating the healthcare system. If it was this hard for them, how hard was it for everyone else? Diagnosed is the book Cris and Ed wish they’d had when they embarked on their medical journeys, offering guidance, strategies, and more than a few checklists on how to: Process the shock and grief of a diagnosis Advocate for yourself (or your loved one) Harness the power of shared decision-making Access the best resources and technologies to support your recovery Create a personalized care plan that reflects your values and goals Celebrate your milestones, honor your losses, and embrace your new normal |
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82616. Two Times Murder : AudiobooksNow : USD17.49 Meet Black British expat Greg Abimbola—a seemingly mild-mannered Russian language teacher with terrifying secrets—in this stunning mystery set in Pittsburgh, the City of Bridges: Agatha Christie meets John le Carré. Greg Abimbola is many things. He's Black, British and fluent in Russian. He's a snappy dresser, a reasonable teacher, and an unenthusiastic sports fan. But most of all, he's exceptional at keeping secrets—like who he really is, and the things he's done. Determined to keep his head down after helping solve a murder in the school basement, Greg fears a trap when Sergeant Rachel Lev of the Pittsburgh police corners him in his apartment—because his refusal to take credit isn't modesty, it's a survival tactic. But Rachel is there for another matter entirely. She needs his help. She's lead detective on the homicide of an unidentified man fished from the Allegheny River. With clues scant—and surrounded by colleagues who'd love to see Rachel side-lined—Greg is her final roll of the dice. Greg has no choice. He knows more than he's saying about Rachel's mysterious corpse. To add to his troubles, a school trustee plunges to his demise after a heated board meeting. Both deaths come with potentially lethal consequences. If he doesn't find answers, and soon, Greg Abimbola might be the third man in autopsy. With its razor-sharp themes of identity, diversity, and culture wars, Two Times Murder is not just a pitch-perfect spy mystery, but also an incisive examination of contemporary America, written by a Black author who's lived on both sides of the pond. |
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82617. Beau : AudiobooksNow : USD17.49 Beau Austin never thought he'd be a millionaire, and he certainly never thought he'd gain his wealth from being a successful gamer. Playing for a professional eSports company set Beau up for life at a young age. As the youngest member of The Millionaire Boys Club, Beau doesn't have much to complain about—not even being newly single. When his girlfriend moved to Atlanta to further her career as a make-up artist, he didn't try to stop her. Beau is living life and having fun. When he sets his sights on the sexy Illianna, he's not prepared for her to reject him because of his age. Beau is ten years her junior, and she's not interested. Beau doesn't have an issue with applying pressure, but even he has to admit that there's a fine line between applying pressure and begging. Illianna is divorced, and her only child is away at college. She's living her best life, and that includes dating, but her dating prospects have an age limit. Illianna is flattered yet disappointed when she finds out the sexy Beau Austin is ten years younger than her. She's not interested at all, but Beau isn't willing to give up without a fight. |
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82618. The Handmaid's Tale Psychology: Seeing Off Red : AudiobooksNow : USD17.49 How do people stay true to themselves in times of crisis? Where does anyone find the strength to stand up in the face of oppression? When will the worst side of human nature wither before the best? Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novel The Handmaid’s Tale has captivated readers for four decades and continues to stir popular conversation and controversy through the hit Hulu television series. The story has grown into a cautionary tale evoking fear and concern, and yet it also inspires many.The Handmaid’s Tale Psychology: Seeing Off Red delves into the psychology of the characters and events depicted in each version of Atwood’s epic, both in print and on screen. Through 18 chapters, psychologists and therapists look deeply into the fiction, analyzing it both personally and professionally to unearth its message about real human truths. Topics include oppression, resistance, power, identity, violence, post-traumatic stress versus post-traumatic growth, good versus evil, morality versus mortality, spirituality versus religion, helplessness versus hopefulness, and more. |
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82619. The Gardener's Plot : AudiobooksNow : USD17.49 A woman helps set up a community garden in the Berkshires, only to find a body in one of the plots on opening day. After life threw Maggie Walker a few curveballs, she’s happy to be back in the small, Berkshires town where she spent so much time as a child. Marlowe holds many memories for her, and now it also offers a fresh start. Maggie has always loved gardening, so it’s only natural to sign on to help Violet Bloom set up a community garden. When opening day arrives, Violet is nowhere to be found, and the gardeners are restless. Things go from bad to worse when Maggie finds a boot buried in one of the plots… and there’s a body attached to it. Suddenly, the police are looking for a killer and they keep asking questions about Violet. Maggie doesn’t believe her friend could do this, and she’s going to dig up the dirt needed to prove it. The Gardener’s Plot takes readers to the heart of the Berkshires and introduces amateur sleuth Maggie Walker in Deborah J. Benoit’s Minotaur Books/Mystery Writers of America First Crime Novel Award-winning debut. |
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82620. Death And The Old Master : AudiobooksNow : USD17.49 Cambridge University master Sir Flyte Rascallian has little interest in the innocent-looking set of old paintings he inherits from his aunt Beatrice until he takes a closer look… and ends up dead. Something is clearly bothering Sir Flyte Rascallian, Master of Hardwick College at the University of Cambridge and renowned art expert. Are all the grimy paintings he's recently inherited from his aunt's old attic really as worthless as he claims? Curator Ambrose Nussknacker believes that one of the paintings could be a genuine Rembrandt. Why is Sir Flyte so reluctant to get it authenticated and determined to shun the accolade of discovering one of the world's great lost treasures? When Sir Flyte is found murdered in his study on campus, Detective Chief Inspection Arthur St. Just must unravel his sudden unusual behavior to get to the bottom of the death of the old master, but in doing so, St. Just becomes entangled in a web of priceless artwork, deadly intentions, and dangerous secrets. Fans of M.C. Beaton and Dorothy L. Sayers will love this entertaining mystery featuring delightfully eccentric characters. |
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82621. Grip Of Despair : AudiobooksNow : USD17.49 In the icy grip of a post-apocalyptic winter, can a retired ex-cop overcome his demons to protect an escaped psychiatric patient from a relentless pursuer? Enter the chilling world of Grip of Despair, book 2 of the After the End series. Meet Patrick Dunn, a fifty-something ex-cop, scarred by both physical and emotional wounds, who had just begun his journey to finalizing his third divorce when disaster struck. As an EMP plunges the country into darkness and winter's icy embrace tightens its hold, Pat's plans are shattered. His central desire is clear—protect Holly, a vulnerable woman he encounters on the desolate road. Holly, a victim of wrongful institutionalization since the age of 14, seizes her chance for freedom during the EMP chaos with her steadfast canine companion, Butler, by her side. However, danger lurks as Nurse Julian, intent on getting Holly back to the hospital, relentlessly pursues her, turning their treacherous journey into a high-stakes pursuit. As the elements conspire against them, Pat and Holly must summon unimaginable strength to survive. In a winter-stricken Oregon, the battle between good and evil rages on. Pat, haunted by his past and burdened by OCD, must confront his inner demons to protect those he cares about. Holly, once frail and vulnerable, finds newfound resilience in the face of adversity. Readers of post-apocalyptic fiction will be drawn to this gripping tale of human tenacity, where courage shines even in the darkest hour. Join Patrick, Holly, and Butler as they navigate a snow-covered landscape fraught with danger and discover the unyielding Grip of Despair. Grip of Despair is the riveting second book in After the End, a post-apocalyptic EMP survival series. If you like characters that jump off the page, spellbinding action, and edge-of-your-seat drama, then you’ll love bestselling author Sam J Fires’s nail-biting thriller. Perfect for fans of Ryan Schow, Grace Ham |
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82622. Grip Of Deceit : AudiobooksNow : USD17.49 From Amazon #1 Best-Selling Author… A gunshot cost him his job, his leg, and his self-worth. Can this retired ex-cop reclaim his inner strength as the world plunges into darkness? Oregon, USA. Patrick Edward Dunn has nothing left. Heading home in snowy weather after dropping off his kids, the fifty-something, three-time-divorcé is shocked when cars on the highway lose control and start crashing. And stopping to help a woman trapped in her vehicle, he only has seconds to save her as a logging truck hurtles right at them… Holly Rebecca Winters doesn’t know what’s going on. Waking up with surprising bandages on her head and no memory of the last twenty-four hours, the psych hospital patient overhears staff worried about a suspicious power outage. So with her keepers distracted, the forty-three-year-old detainee grabs the chance for a desperate escape. As Patrick’s ancient EMP-immune Chevy inches its way through the mayhem and brutal elements, he tries to help the injured. While Holly runs into rising danger, increasingly at risk of not making it off the frigid streets alive. Can these two survivors find safety, or is everyone doomed? Grip of Deceit is the riveting first book in After the End, a post-apocalyptic EMP survival series. If you like characters that jump off the page, spellbinding action, and edge-of-your-seat drama, then you’ll love bestselling author Sam J Fires’s nail-biting thriller. Perfect for fans of Ryan Schow, Grace Hamilton, Kyla Stone, and Jack Hunt. Buy Grip of Deceit to discover the hero within today! |
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82623. A Hired Blade : AudiobooksNow : USD17.49 A sellsword’s bargain. A burgeoning desire. A future balanced on the point of a blade. Sellsword Des is traveling alone in a dry and dusty southern land after a spectacular bust-up with her best friend. She’s running low on coin, so when a former client, Karina, offers her a job leading her caravan’s security through brigand country, it feels like a gift. Des has done the route before, but she isn’t sure about leading solo. She recommends Cap, a rugged old mercenary, to head up the crew. Maybe she’ll even learn a thing or two about how to lead in between the delightful distraction of Karina’s flirtations and keeping the marauders at bay. As they head off on their long trip across Rescalin, though, the wheels start to come off Des’s plan. The crew is drinking too much, even on duty, and Cap is dismissive of the dangers she identifies. Des worries she’s made the wrong call by putting Cap as the lead, and Karina is in her ear, wanting her to take over. As brigands close in, will Des back the merc she put in charge? Or will she take over—and risk the caravan’s safety resting on her blade alone? If you enjoy badass, sword-wielding women, Australian-inspired settings, sapphic fantasies, and untrustworthy mercenaries, pick up A Hired Blade today and join Des on her journey. |
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82624. Redbird : AudiobooksNow : USD4.99 Redbird is an extended epilogue of about 20,000 words for Sovereign, set six years after the book ends. It's a heartwarming (and high-heat) look into Keira and Gerard and their family life on Sovereign Mountain Ranch. |
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82625. The Lake Of Lost Girls : AudiobooksNow : USD17.49 Told in alternating timelines, The Lake of Lost Girls is a haunting novel that will thrill fans of All Good People Here and We Are All the Same in the Dark. Using suspenseful podcast clips to weave a twisty tale of a missing student and her sister who is desperate for answers, The Lake of Lost Girls is perfect for fans of I Have Some Questions for You. It’s 1998, and female students are going missing at Southern State University in North Carolina, but freshman Jessica Fadley, once a bright and responsible student, is going through her own struggles. Just as her life seems to be careening dangerously out of control, she suddenly disappears. Twenty-four years later, Jessica’s sister Lindsey is desperately searching for answers and uses the momentum of a new chart-topping true crime podcast that focuses on cold cases to guide her own investigation. Soon, interest reaches fever pitch when the bodies of the long-missing women begin turning up at a local lake, which leads Lindsey down a disturbing road of discovery. In the present, one sister searches to untangle a complicated web of lies. In the past, the other descends ever deeper into a darkness that will lead to her ultimate fate. This propulsive and chilling suspense is a sharp examination of sisterhood and the culture of true crime. Story Locale: Carolina |
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82626. Bound To Fall : AudiobooksNow : USD17.49 Celeste Delacroix’s sister is dead. This is unfortunate… sort of. But it’s also an opportunity to return to the realm of Eiren and begin anew—if noxscura will allow her. Cursed with dark magic, living virtuously has always eluded Celeste, but she’s determined to right the wrongs she wrought in the sleepy village of Briarwyke and maybe even find her ever after, happiness unrequired and, as she sees it, undeserved. But darkness accompanies Celeste as keenly as clumsiness and shame, and when she accidentally releases a new evil on Briarwyke, she must find a divine source of magic to destroy it. Sir Reeve, Holy Knight of Valcord, is one such divine source—not to mention incredibly handsome—and as luck would have it, already intent on vanquishing the evil that plagues Briarwyke. Unfortunately, he believes that evil to be a noxscura-wielding witch who has desecrated his faith’s temple: Celeste herself. Abyss-bent on fulfilling his destiny, Reeve’s virtue and beliefs have never wavered because the world is simple, after all—there are those who are good, and those who are evil, and evil must be destroyed. But what happens when a perceived evil requests assistance in defeating an even greater threat? Can Celeste and Reeve band together to save Briarwyke, or will their contempt for one another be their downfall? Bound to Fall is a standalone spinoff of Villains & Virtues, a completed trilogy that follows the exploits of Damien and Amma. This book takes place in the spring, after the events of Villains & Virtues, and does contain spoilers for the series, including character death. However, Bound to Fall focuses on a new couple, Celeste and Reeve, who we did not meet in the original trilogy, and can be read as a standalone story. |
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82627. The Heartbreaker : AudiobooksNow : USD17.49 A sizzling and swoony single dad, forbidden, billionaire romance from USA Today best-selling author Marni Mann… Captivated. Addicted. Mesmerized. All the things I felt the minute I saw Addison Lark. The last thing I’d expected was to fall in love at a strip club. But Addison was the woman of my dreams. It didn’t matter that I spent an obscene amount of money just to talk to her. The fiery redhead made me feel things I’d never felt before. But she didn’t want anything to do with me. And she left without a backward glance. Making me crave her even more. Imagine my shock when we unexpectedly met again, presenting the most unexpected problem—Addison Lark was forbidden. But did that stop me? Did that stop us? I’d made a promise to start living my life, and I wasn’t going to let that woman walk away for a second time. |
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82628. Choose Your Life Purposes: A Step-by-step Guide To Self Awareness, Empowerment, And Success : AudiobooksNow : USD17.49 Go on a Journey Towards Personal Growth and Unlock Your Life’s Purpose Unravel the myth of a singular life purpose ingrained in religious teachings and societal notions Liberate yourself from the life purpose trap.Leading life coach, regular contributor to Psychology Today, and renowned author Eric Maisel presents a contemporary philosophy that challenges the conventional wisdom surrounding how to live. Discover the transformative philosophy of Choose Your Life Purposes. Explore the step-by-step process to identify your core values, unlocking what truly matters to you. This groundbreaking book empowers you to embrace multiple life purposes, fostering personal growth and awareness. No longer confined to endless seeking, you'll learn to live life now, irrespective of circumstances. How to live your best life. Explore the art of crafting life purpose statements, mantras, and icons to reinforce your choices. Make living with purpose a daily practice, transforming your life into a purpose-filled journey. Say goodbye to fruitless searches for meaning and embark on a personal growth revolution. Inside: Learn how to develop your personal values list Create a personal roadmap for a fulfilling and purposeful existence Have a guide at your fingertips on how to live with purpose daily Learn how to handle existential crises Acquire new tools to heal depression, anxiety, and addiction If you liked From Strength to Strength, How to Ikigai, or Creating a Life That Matters, you’ll love Choose Your Life Purposes. |
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82629. When Jesus Returns: Living In Expectation Of The End Times : AudiobooksNow : USD17.49 The Best Teachings on Bible Prophecy—in One Compelling Volume As global unrest and societal shifts intensify, Bible prophecy offers us a shining beacon of clarity and hope. In a world that is descending deeper into darkness and confusion, it’s more vital than ever that we understand the times, and how God desires for us to live. That’s the focus of When Jesus Returns. Drawing on the all-time best messages from one of the most popular Bible prophecy conferences in the US, this volume features instruction and practical wisdom from today’s most respected Bible prophecy experts. These teachings will: help you gain a clear understanding of how the last days will unfold; encourage you to live boldly and faithfully amid the increase of cultural evil and decay; and inspire you to speak and live in ways that bring Jesus’ offer of salvation and hope to those in spiritual darkness. As these powerful messages stoke your trust in God’s glorious plans for the future, you will be empowered to live with boldness and readiness like never before! Contributors: Amir Tsarfati, Mark Hitchcock, Anne Graham Lotz, Jack Hibbs, Michele Bachmann, Erwin W. Lutzer, Ed Hindson, Jeff Kinley, Barry Stagner, Jan Markell |
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82630. A New Lease On Death : AudiobooksNow : USD17.49 Death is only the beginning in Olivia Blacke's A New Lease on Death, a darkly funny supernatural mystery that introduces an unlikely crime-solving duo. Ruby Young's new Boston apartment comes with all the usual perks. Windows facing the brick wall of the next-door building. Heat that barely works. A malfunctioning buzzer. Noisy neighbors. A dead body on the sidewalk outside. And of course, a ghost. Since Cordelia Graves died in her apartment a few months ago, she's kept up her residency, despite being bored out of her (non-tangible) skull and frustrated by her new roommate. When her across-the-hall neighbor, Jake Macintyre, is shot and killed in an apparent mugging gone wrong outside their building, Cordelia is convinced there’s more to it and is determined to bring his killer to justice.Unfortunately, Cordelia, being dead herself, can't solve the mystery alone. She has to enlist the help of the obnoxiously perky, living tenant of her apartment. Ruby is twenty, annoying, and has never met a houseplant she couldn't kill. But she also can do everything Cordelia can't, from interviewing suspects to researching Jake on the library computers that go up in a puff of smoke if Cordelia gets too close. As the roommates form an unlikely friendship and get closer to the truth about Jake's death, they also start to uncover other dangerous secrets. |
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82631. A Drop Of Pretty Poison : AudiobooksNow : USD17.49 They say that when a love burns too bright, it’s bound to burn out—especially when wrapped in secrets and doused in lies. After a risk is taken and a confession is made, one relationship heats up while another hangs in the balance. When everything rests on shaky ground, we find the stability we need tangled up in each other. Guards are let down and trust is repaired, but all vulnerability comes with a side of weakness. And the betrayal that hits us is one we never saw coming. Revenge is a dangerous game, especially when fueled by jealousy. We’ll do whatever it takes to protect our own, even if it means seeking help from unlikely sources. While every favor comes at a price, choices made in distress have a tendency to backfire. As our world comes crashing down around us, loyalties are put to the test. Nothing should be able to shatter the promises we made, but there’s a fine line between tenacious and toxic. Someone should’ve warned us that even a drop of pretty poison will spread until all that’s left are shattered pieces and broken memories. This is a full-length novel and book two of three. It cannot be read as a standalone, and it ends with a cliffhanger. This book contains sensitive topics that may not be suitable for all readers. If needed, you can find a list of trigger warnings on Kelsey Clayton's website. Please read safely. |
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82632. The Debutantes : AudiobooksNow : USD17.49 Jessica Goodman meets The Agathasin this taut, twisty YA thriller set in the glittering, dark world of Mardi Gras in New Orleans, where secrets—and bodies—never stay buried. For the New Orleans elite, the Les Masques Ball is sure to be the social event of the season—if they can avoid another dead Queen. When debutante Margot Landry was found dead the morning after her reign at last year’s ball, it was a tragedy, but not a shocking one. Margot was a wild child with a self-destructive streak, nothing like this year’s Queen, Lily LeBlanc. With a perfectly poised debutante on the throne, everything is going according to plan…until the ball is hijacked by a mysterious figure in a Jester costume. That night, Lily sends a text to three of the Maids on her royal court—her best friend, Vivian; her boyfriend's sister, Piper; and April, her former frenemy—asking them all to meet the next morning. But Lily never shows up. On the surface, these three debutantes don’t have anything in common except their exclusive private school and their ties to Les Masques. But soon, they realize why Lily brought them together: something dark is lurking beneath the glamorous surface of the debutante world, and it might be the reason she disappeared. And the further the girls dig, the more they begin to suspect that Margot's death may not have been an accident—and that Lily may be next. When the Jester starts threatening to expose their own secrets, this unlikely trio must team up to uncover the monsters behind the Mardi Gras masks—before they’re left with another dead debutante. |
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82633. A Student Wants To Live: Books 4-6 : AudiobooksNow : USD19.99 This 3-in-1 audiobook box set includes books four through six of A Student Wants to Live, a post-apocalyptic LitRPG series featuring Andrew First, a college student turned clan leader. Book 4: The War of the Clans While Andrew's in Africa, traitors weave webs of intrigue within the Architects Clan and a horde of zombies moves relentlessly toward the city. Book 5: Level Run After all they've been through, the Dark Sphere still won't leave the Architects Clan in peace. It's announced that there's going to be a LEVEL RUN! Book 6: Blood Emperor In the sixth installment of this post-apocalyptic LitRPG series, Andrew has to become a Level Run finalist in order to meet with the Dark Sphere—and save Anya. |
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82634. Witch, Please : AudiobooksNow : USD17.49 To end evil, one has to know where to find it first. Rose Beaufont needs to discover where the Sovereign Shadow coven is. Once she does, then she can end witchcraft for good. But to do so, she must kill the most powerful witch to ever live. Mater Inferni. The Mother of Witches won’t go down without a fight. To end her evil reign will require something Rose never expected. She’s used to fighting with force and magic, but this epic battle will require much more than that. Love. Fighting hate with hate only creates more chaos. The way to end evil is with love. But that requires a faith unlike any other. Can Rose discover the location of the Sovereign Shadows coven and end the Mother of Witches before she destroys magic for good? Grab your audiobook copy of Witch, Please… today, and get ready—this story is action-packed! |
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82635. Sticks, Stones, Roots & Bones: Hoodoo, Mojo & Conjuring With Herbs : AudiobooksNow : USD17.49 Hoodoo is an eclectic blend of African traditions, Native American herbalism, Judeo-Christian ritual, and magical healing. Tracing Hoodoo's magical roots back to West Africa, author Stephanie Rose Bird provides a fascinating history of this nature-based healing tradition and gives practical advice for applying Hoodoo magic to everyday life. Learn how sticks, stones, roots, and bones—the basic ingredients in a Hoodoo mojo bag—can be used to bless the home, find a mate, invoke wealth, offer protection, and improve your health and happiness. Sticks, Stones, Roots and Bones is the 2005 Coalition of Visionary Resources (COVR) Winner for Best General Interest Book! Masterfully read by L. Malaika Cooper; listen to more of Cooper's narration on other Stephanie Rose Bird titles, including 365 Days of Hoodoo: Daily Rootwork, Mojo and Conjuration. ©2018 Stephanie Rose Bird. Produced and published by Echo Point Books & Media, an independent bookseller in Brattleboro, Vermont. |
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82636. The Gentleman's Confession : AudiobooksNow : USD17.49 Inexperienced in courtship and love, Jemma turns to her best friend, Miles, for guidance on how to win a man’s heart—not knowing that Miles has secretly loved her for years. Brookeside, England, 1822 Jemma fielding has always considered herself an independent woman, but to honor her beloved grandmother’s dying wish, she makes a promise that she will marry and fall in love. To fulfill her promise, she turns to the Matchmaking Mamas Society for assistance and is paired with the charming Mr. Bentley. Though he is everything Jemma could hope for in a match, she is clueless about how to win his heart. Desperate to make a good impression, she seeks guidance from her dearest friend, Miles Jackson, a humble rector with a talent for understanding matters of the heart. However, Miles’s secret affection for Jemma has spanned years, and teaching her to love someone else threatens to betray his own heart. Despite his selfless nature, Miles fears he will never be more than a humble rector in her eyes. Even as he gives Jemma lessons in love, Miles grapples with the challenge of convincing her that Mr. Bentley may be a perfect gentleman but he is not the perfect match for her. Will Miles’s advice in romance jeopardize their years of friendship, or will it reveal the attraction that has quietly blossomed between them, proving that this time, the Matchmaking Mamas may have made a mistake? Miles must decide if he’s brave enough to confess his feelings to Jemma before she is whisked away forever. |
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82637. Taken To Evernor : AudiobooksNow : USD17.49 The alien gladiator is going to win… and I'm the prize. What's got four arms, huge spikes shooting out of his spine, and is utterly insane? Oh yeah, that's right. It's the freaking alien gladiator who's fighting in the games—for me—because I'm the prize he's geared to win. How I ended up here is just as much of a mystery as is how I lost my memory. I've got no idea who I am, where I'm from, or why no other species on this diverse and chaotic planet look anything like me. But as the gladiator and I spend more time together, I'm starting to realize… yeah, he might be crazy, but so am I. And we may just need to put our crazies together if we've got any shot at getting off of this rock and out of this arena alive. Welcome to the gladiator games of Evernor in Xiveri Mates Book 8! This alien romance contains brutal battles and a lot of spice—including a full shekurr—before reaching its HEA. With crazy world-building abounding, it is also best enjoyed after previous books in the series. |
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82638. The Story Of Doctor Dolittle : AudiobooksNow : USD3.99 Doctor John Dolittle loves animals. He loves to help them, heal them, and even lets them live in his home and his office. When Polynesia the Parrot teaches him the language of animals, Doctor Dolittle becomes a world-famous doctor, traveling to animals in almost every country so he can learn about what ails them and how he can help them. |
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82639. The Courage Of Birds: And The Often Surprising Ways They Survive Winter : AudiobooksNow : USD17.49 From our own backyards to the rim of the Arctic ice, countless birds have adapted to meet the challenges of the winter season. This is their remarkable story, told by award-winning birder and acclaimed writer Pete Dunne, accompanied by illustrations from renowned artist and birder David Sibley. Despite the seasonal life-sapping cold, birds have evolved strategies that meet winter’s vicissitudes head on, driven by the imperative to make it to spring and pass down their genes to the next generation. The drama of winter and the resilience and adaptability of birds witnessed in the harsher months of the calendar is both fascinating and astonishing. In The Courage of Birds, Pete Dunne—winner of the American Birding Association’s Roger Tory Peterson Award for lifetime achievement in promoting the cause of birding—chronicles the behavior of the birds of North America. He expertly explores widespread adaptations, such as feathers that protect against the cold, and unpacks the unique migration patterns and survival strategies of individual species. Dunne also addresses the impact of changing climatic conditions on avian longevity and recounts personal anecdotes that soar with a naturalist’s gimlet eye. Filled with unforgettable facts, wit, and moving observations on the natural world, Dunne’s book is for everyone; from the serious birder who tracks migration patterns, to the casual birder who logs daily reports on eBird, to the backyard observer who throws a handful of seed out for the Northern Cardinals and wonders how the birds magically appear in the garden when temperatures begin to fall. |
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82640. Pitch And Intonation Basics: Simple Ear Training For Musicians : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 Get ready to enhance your musical ear with this accessible course for beginners. Throughout the piano is used to give clear, musical examples. This course will help you refine your pitch and intonation skills. Narrated by Jacob Acre and created by Anthony Brown the course offers a comprehensive guide to: understanding pitch; mastering intonation; and recognizing intervals. This will help complete beginners and even more seasoned musicians hone their skills. The course follows the following framework: Exploration of pitch, scales and understanding higher and lower notes on the piano Understanding intonation and sharp and flat notes Recognizing intervals through describing major intervals with examples, and then testing recognition Finally, the course offers a summary review with various tips and tricksIf you're a vocalist, pianist or other musician, this simple course will ground you in basic note recognition skills and ear training by using lots of interactive piano based listening exercises throughout. Start training your ear today with this accessible music course. |
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82641. An Actor's Guide To The Southern American Accent : AudiobooksNow : USD14.99 Capture the essence of the Southern drawl with An Actor’s Guide to the Southern American Accent. This course provides you with everything you need to develop a natural-sounding Southern accent, perfect for a wide range of characters, from historical American figures to contemporary personalities. You’ll learn how to create the relaxed, flowing tones and extended vowel sounds that define this iconic American accent.Using detailed instruction and a variety of listen-and-repeat exercises, you’ll build a solid foundation in the key features of the accent used in the Southern USA, including its distinct oral posture and characteristic speech patterns. The course focuses on teaching you how to control the pitch, rhythm, and vocal quality that make Southern speech so recognizable. The expert instruction gives you ample opportunity to practice and refine your accent, helping you develop a sound that feels authentic and effortless as spoken across the heart of the southern accented states specifically: Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, Kentucky, Arkansas and Louisiana.Whether you’re preparing to take on or audition for a stage production, a film role, voiceover/narration or just seeking to expand your acting toolkit, this course will equip you with the skills to master the Southern American accent with confidence. |
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82642. Basic Slovenian Slovene: An Introductory Language Course For Slovenia : AudiobooksNow : USD14.99 This 14-session audio course is your essential guide to mastering the basics of the Slovenian (Slovene) language, with a focus on pronunciation and comprehension. Designed for beginners, the course introduces you to essential vocabulary, common phrases, and key expressions, providing a solid foundation in conversational Slovenian. The focus in the course is on learning vocabulary that you can easily put to use. Each session is crafted to help you understand spoken Slovenian naturally and pronounce words accurately, building your confidence as you progress. Slovenian is known for its distinctive sounds and unique expressions. The language is spoken by over two million people, primarily in Slovenia. Whether you are learning Slovenian for travel or connection with your heritage, this 14-session course makes learning Slovenian accessible and enjoyable. The course starts out with greetings, numbers, answers to questions and common expressions. The early content is vocabulary that you can put to daily use. Then later in the course the focus is on speaking full sentences, often building on some of the core words that you learned previously in the course. Throughout the course you'll have many opportunities to practice your pronunciation and test your listening skills. With frequent practice using these materials you will be surprised how quickly you develop the ability to communicate and be understood in the Slovenian language. |
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82643. A Guide To The West Country British Accent: An Actors Guide To The Accent Of South-west England : AudiobooksNow : USD14.99 Bring the rustic charm of England’s West Country to life on the stage or screen with A Guide to the West Country British Accent. This course is ideal for actors, voice-over artists, and performers who want to perfect the sounds of this distinctive British accent from Devon, Cornwall and Somerset. With its broad vowels and musical intonation, the West Country accent provides support for the accent and lexicon required for character development. The West Country accent is a crucial British accent employed in a variety of British roles.In this course, you’ll focus on key elements of the accent, including proper oral posture and the characteristic rhythms and lexicon that define West Country speech such as Janner" or "Proper job". Our listen-and-repeat exercises and detailed guidance and instruction will help you practice the elongated vowel sounds and clear consonant articulation |
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82644. An Actor's Guide To The Appalachian Accent: A Guide To The Accent Of West Virginia And Ohio : AudiobooksNow : USD14.99 Learn the nuances of Appalachian speech with An Actor’s Guide to the Appalachian Accent. Known for its rugged and earthy tones, the Appalachian accent is a tool for actors looking to portray characters from this interesting and historic region. This course is designed to give you a firm grasp on the essential elements of the accent, from its distinct vowel formations to the speech patterns that give it a grounded, natural quality.You’ll work on mastering oral posture and the key sounds that define the Appalachian accent, using detailed listen-and-repeat exercises that help you lock in the rhythm and tone of the accent. Our straightforward approach focuses on building your skills through detailed instruction, examples and repetition. This makes sure that you can confidently bring this accent to life in your performances. The course is ideal for actors preparing for roles in film, television, or theatre where the authenticity of the Appalachian accent is crucial.By the end of the course, you’ll have the tools you need to perform with a fully developed Appalachian accent and knowledge of the associated lexicon. This course, together with diligent practice following the provided guidance, will make you ready to enhance any character that calls for this unique and culturally important American dialect. |
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82645. An Actor's Guide To The South African Accent: An Explanation Of Pronunciation And Lexicon For South African English : AudiobooksNow : USD14.99 Develop you accent with An Actor’s Guide to the South African Accent, a course designed to help you master one of the more distinctive English accents. Known for its unique vowel shifts and clipped consonants, the South African accent can bring depth to your performance. This course focuses on teaching you the sounds and speech patterns of the accent, emphasizing the importance of oral posture, key vocabulary, and natural flow.Through a series of structured listen-and-repeat exercises and other explanations, you’ll develop a clear understanding of how to shape your voice to match the specific qualities of South African speech. By focusing on core elements—like how to form vowels correctly and control the rhythm of the accent—you’ll find that mastering this accent is easier than you think. Each lesson builds progressively, ensuring you can smoothly integrate what you've learned into your performances.Whether you’re preparing for a stage role, a film character, or simply expanding your repertoire as an actor, this course will give you the skills to sound authentic and confident with a South African accent. |
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82646. French For Culinary Arts And Gastronomy: A Focused French Language Course : AudiobooksNow : USD12.49 This French language course is designed for those with an interest in the culinary arts, focusing on the vocabulary and phrases essential for discussing food preparation, cooking techniques, and the food industry. Students will learn the terms used in professional kitchens, from ingredients and equipment to cooking methods and plating. The course also covers language related to menu design, dining experiences, and food tasting, making it ideal for chefs, restaurateurs, or food enthusiasts looking to enhance their French language skills. Whether you're a culinary professional or a passionate home cook, this course equips you with the French terminology needed to engage confidently in conversations about food and cuisine. |
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82647. French For Art And Cultural Heritage: A Language Course For Artists : AudiobooksNow : USD14.99 This targeted French language course is designed to help you expand your vocabulary and expressions essential for discussing art, art history, and the broader art industry. You will master terminology related to various artistic mediums, such as painting, sculpture, photography, and contemporary art, helping you communicate effectively in these areas. In addition, the course covers key phrases and language used to describe artistic techniques, styles, and movements, allowing you to speak with confidence when discussing both classical and modern works of art. Special attention is given to language commonly heard in galleries, museums, exhibitions, and art sales, equipping you with the ability to navigate conversations in these settings. Whether you are an artist, curator, art dealer, gallery owner, or an art enthusiast looking to deepen your knowledge, this course provides practical French language skills tailored for the art world. You will also learn how to express your opinions on the cultural significance of artworks and discuss trends in the global art market as well as having an opportunity to brush up on your French more generally. By the end of the course, you'll be able to engage in conversations about art history, contemporary pieces, and art critiques with ease. This course is ideal for anyone working in or passionate about the visual arts who wants to enhance their French language proficiency in an artistic context. |
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82648. French For Fashion And Luxury Goods : AudiobooksNow : USD12.49 This French language course centers on the specialized vocabulary and phrases relatexd to fashion, luxury goods, and the high-end retail industry across 5 learning units. Learners will explore terminology used in the design, production, and marketing of clothing, accessories, and luxury items, as well as language essential for discussing materials, craftsmanship, and fashion trends. The course also covers key expressions for engaging with clients in the luxury sector, from describing products to creating memorable shopping experiences. Whether you work in fashion design, luxury retail, or are simply passionate about French haute couture, this course provides the language skills necessary to navigate the world of fashion and luxury goods with sophistication and confidence. |
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82649. French For Diplomacy And International Relations: A Language Course For Diplomats : AudiobooksNow : USD12.49 This French language course is designed for those working in or aspiring to careers in diplomacy, foreign policy and international relations. The course focuses on essential vocabulary and phrases related to diplomatic communication, political negotiations, and international cooperation. Students will explore terminology used in discussing global issues such as trade agreements, peacekeeping, and human rights, as well as the formal language required for diplomatic correspondence and high-level meetings. The course also covers key expressions for engaging with international organizations, embassies, and foreign governments. Whether you're a diplomat, government official, or international relations professional, this course provides the French language skills necessary to navigate complex global conversations with precision and cultural sensitivity. |
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82650. Bedtime Christian Parables For Kids: Comforting New Testament Tales For Restful Sleep : AudiobooksNow : USD14.99 This is a soothing collection of audio tales designed to help children peacefully drift into sleep while learning timeless lessons from the Bible. Each story brings a beloved parable from the New Testament to life, complete with calming sound effects and gentle narration. Perfect for Christian families, these bedtime stories introduce young listeners to Jesus' teachings in a comforting and engaging way. Your children will hear stories including the Parable of the Good Samaritan, the Lost Sheep, the Prodigal Son, and more, all performed by a full cast of skilled voice actors and narrators in a way that makes the wisdom of the New Testament accessible to their young hearts and minds. The peaceful sound effects and tranquil background music helps set the tone for restful sleep while nurturing their faith. Each audio parable is thoughtfully adapted to make it both relatable and easy to understand for a young audience, ensuring that the key message of love, forgiveness, and kindness shines through. With a focus on calm narration and soft background sounds, these stories not only guide your children spiritually but also help them unwind at the end of the hectic day. |
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82651. Italian For Art And Cultural Heritage: An Italian Course For Artists : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 Better understand and communicate art-related topics in Italian with our specialized Italian audio course for art lovers, students, and professionals. This course is perfect for anyone looking to learn the Italian phrases and vocabulary used in the world of art history, painting, sculpture, and galleries. Whether you’re visiting Italy’s famous museums or studying art, you’ll gain the language skills to discuss styles, techniques, and renowned artists like Michelangelo and Botticelli. From beginner to intermediate learners, this course covers key art terms in Italian, helping you describe different artistic movements, analyze works of art, and engage in meaningful conversations about art. You’ll explore the vocabulary used in galleries, exhibitions, and art critiques. Perfect for art students, gallery owners, or anyone passionate about Italian art, this course offers a deep dive into Italian artistic terminology that will enhance your experience of art in Italy or when conversing with Italian speakers. |
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82652. Italian For Wine And Viticulture: An Italian Course For Sommeliers And Wine Lovers : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 Learn to communicate the language of Italian wine with our Italian audio course tailored for wine enthusiasts, sommeliers, and anyone interested in viticulture. This course is your gateway to mastering essential Italian wine vocabulary, from tasting notes to winemaking techniques. Learn how to describe wines, discuss regions and converse confidently about Italian wine classifications and pairing suggestions. Designed for beginners and seasoned wine lovers alike, this course introduces you to key Italian wine terms, helping you navigate wine lists, tastings, and vineyards. Whatever your reason for exploring Italy’s rich wine heritage, you’ll discover the language needed to elevate your knowledge and appreciation of Italian wines. Perfect for sommeliers and anyone keen to expand their wine expertise. Immerse yourself in the language of Italian wine today, and deepen your understanding of Italy’s most celebrated wines and winemaking traditions. |
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82653. Italian For Musicians: A Focused Italian Language Course : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 Learn the language of music with our Italian audio course designed for musicians, music students, and lovers of Italian opera and classical music. In this easy to follow course, you’ll learn essential Italian music terms including musical notation and key expressions. Whether you're learning to read music, conducting, or just want to broader your language expertise this quick and easy course will enhance your understanding of Italy’s musical traditions. You’ll gain the confidence to read music scores and follow directions. Perfect for musicians, vocalists, and music enthusiasts, this course will help you read music more effectively. A the conclusion of this simple course you will have a better understanding of the Italian words and phrases that form the language of musical notation. |
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82654. Italian For Culinary Arts And Gastronomy: An Italian Course For Chefs : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 A three session Italian audio course designed specifically for chefs and cooking enthusiasts. Whether you're a professional chef, a culinary student, or simply passionate about Italian cuisine, this course will teach you key Italian cooking vocabulary. You'll learn how to communicate in the kitchen, master a host of specific Italian phrases for chefs, and discover terms for ingredients, cooking techniques, and traditional Italian dishes. Perfect for anyone looking to enhance their culinary communication skills or work in an Italian restaurant. In this beginner-friendly course, we cover everything from basic Italian words for cooking equipment to more advanced culinary terms used by professional chefs. The focus is on practical language that you can immediately apply, helping you better understand recipes in Italian and collaborate with Italian-speaking colleagues. You’ll gain confidence using Italian in a kitchen environment, expanding your ability to work with authentic Italian recipes and dishes. Dive into Italian culinary language today and bring the flavors and techniques of Italy into your cooking! |
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82655. Basic Austrian German: A Beginner's Language Course : AudiobooksNow : USD19.99 This 10 session language course teaches German in the Austrian German with it's distinct pronunciations and word/phrase usage. The course starts with more basic everyday phrases such as introductions and answers to questions and then progresses to full sentences of increasing grammatical complexity later in the course. A lot of the vocabulary is cumulative, so words learned previously are then used in sentences later in the course. The course concludes with a complete review of the material in session 10, this serves as a way to identify any gaps in your knowledge and/or a way to refresh your knowledge of the material after you have completed the course. Throughout the focus is on words and phrases that can be easily put to use making the process of learning immediately beneficial. Also, remember that this course will build your understanding of Austrian German from first principles, so if you are already confident in German, but looking to understand the specific nuances of Austrian German, this course will likely be too slow for you, since it is paced as an introduction to the Austrian German language. Austrian German was introduced in the 18th century and is spoken in South Tyrol in Italy, in addition to Austria. This well-paced introductory course is the ideal way to get started learning Austrian German. |
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82656. Hungarian For Tourists : AudiobooksNow : USD12.49 Welcome to an audio course designed to help you use Hungarian more effectively during your travels in Hungary. This series will provide you with practical tools to navigate the language with ease. Hungary, located in central Europe, offers a range of experiences from historic sites and thermal baths to scenic landscapes and charming towns. In Budapest, the capital, you’ll find notable architecture and a lively atmosphere, while the countryside provides a more relaxed setting with picturesque views and historic villages. Hungarian, or Magyar, is a unique language that belongs to the Finno-Ugric group of the Uralic language family, making it distinct from most other European languages. In this course, you’ll focus on the pronunciation and comprehension of common Hungarian phrases. The sessions are designed to help you handle everyday interactions and basic conversations, making your travels smoother and more enjoyable. By the end of the series, you’ll have a practical grasp of essential expressions and be better prepared to communicate while exploring Hungary. |
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82657. Silent Prayer A Sheila Stone Suspense Thrillerbook Eight: Digitally Narrated Using A Synthesized Voice : AudiobooksNow : USD4.99 This recording has been digitally produced by Blake Pierce, using a synthesized version of an audiobook narrator’s voice under license. With a career-ending injury, Olympic kickboxer Sheila Stone is forced back to her small hometown, where her older sister, the local sheriff, offers her a spot on the local police force. When worshippers become victims, Sheila Stone faces her most perplexing case yet. As beliefs turn lethal, she must untangle a web of faith and lies before a fanatical killer claims another soul.“A masterpiece of thriller and mystery.”—Books and Movie Reviews, Roberto Mattos (re Once Gone)?????SILENT PRAYER (A Sheila Stone Suspense Thriller—Book 8) is the eighth book in a long-anticipated new series by #1 bestseller and USA Today bestselling author Blake Pierce, whose bestseller The Perfect Wife (a free download) has received over 20,000 five star reviews.With her Olympic dreams crumbled, Sheila, 28, struggles to find her place back home. She is surrounded by reminders of what could have been, stuck inside the shadow of her older sister: the golden child, the respected sheriff. But when her sister persuades her to join the local police force, Sheila’s life and career start anew.As she hunts serial killers, Sheila notices clues that others miss and offers a perspective that no one else has. She realizes she has a talent outside of fighting, and that she has a chance to embrace a new life in Salt Lake—a life outside the ring.This is a different kind of ring, though. Sheila quickly realizes that to survive, she will need more than just her strength—she’ll need a brilliance to match that of even the most diabolical killer….Can Sheila win this match? Or will she finally lose it all?A page-turning and harrowing suspense thriller featuring a brilliant and tortured protagonist, the SHEILA STONE series is a riveting mystery, packed with suspense, twists and turns, revelations, and driven |
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82658. Find Home An Addison Shine Fbi Suspense Thrillerbook 4: Digitally Narrated Using A Synthesized Voice : AudiobooksNow : USD4.99 This recording has been digitally produced by Kate Bold, using a synthesized version of an audiobook narrator’s voice under license. As bodies laced with rare toxins are unearthed throughout the wilderness, FBI Agent Addison Shine's expertise as a medical examiner is put to the test. Can she piece together this poisonous puzzle before the mountains claim another life?“This is an excellent book… When you start reading, be sure you don’t have to wake up early!”—Reader review for The Killing Game?????FIND HOME (An Addison Shine FBI Suspense Thriller–Book #4) is the fourth book in a new series by #1 bestselling mystery and suspense author Kate Bold, whose bestseller NOT NOW (a free download) has received over 600 five star ratings and reviews. The series begins with FIND ME (Book #1).The ADDISON SHINE mystery series delivers a gripping cat-and-mouse narrative, brimming with chilling surprises and edge-of-your-seat tension. It breathes new life into the genre by presenting an ingenious yet troubled female protagonist who captures your heart and compels you to read well past bedtime. Fans of Lisa Gardner, Melinda Leigh, and Kendra Elliot are sure to fall in love.Future books in the series will soon be available!“This book moved very fast and every page was exciting. Plenty of dialogue, you absolutely love the characters, and you were rooting for the good guy throughout the whole story… I look forward to reading the next in the series.”—Reader review for The Killing Game?????“Kate did an amazing job on this book and I was hooked from the first chapter!”—Reader review for The Killing Game?????“I really enjoyed this book. The characters were authentic, and I see the bad guys as something we hear about daily on the news... Looking forward to book 2.”—Reader review for The Killing Game?????“This was a really good book. The main |
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82659. Vanilla Vendetta A Penny Hawthorne Cozy Mysterybook 2: Digitally Narrated Using A Synthesized Voice : AudiobooksNow : USD1.49 This recording has been digitally produced by Fiona Grace, using a synthesized version of an audiobook narrator’s voice under license. “A great story of murder, romance, new beginnings, love, friendships and a wonderful cascade of mystery.”--Amazon reviewer (regarding Murder in the Manor)?????VANILLA VENDETTA: A PENNY HAWTHORNE COZY MYSTERY (BOOK #2) is the second book in a new cozy mystery series by Fiona Grace, #1 bestselling author of Murder in the Manor, which has over 10,000 five star reviews!Penelope “Penny” Hawthorne, an herbalist with a knack for creating unique teas, travels to exotic locations worldwide to source only the best and rarest herbs and roots.But when an aromatic tea blend for a Venetian masquerade ball becomes Penny's latest commission, she never expects to pour over clues in a murder case. When the host of the ball is found dead amid the revelry, Penny steeps herself into the investigation, navigating through a labyrinth of masked suspects—and brewing romance—to uncover the truth.Dive into the charm of the Penny Hawthorne series, a cozy mystery filled with clever humor and captivating quirkiness that transports you to far-flung locales. Combining comedic elements with emotional depth and surprising twists, this series promises to introduce you to a delightful new hero who's set to capture your affection and captivate you well into the night.Future books in the series are also available!Very entertaining. I highly recommend this book to the permanent library of any reader that appreciates a very well written mystery |
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82660. Within His Grasp A Drake Reed Fbi Suspense Thrillerbook 2: Digitally Narrated Using A Synthesized Voice : AudiobooksNow : USD1.49 This recording has been digitally produced by Katie Rush, using a synthesized version of an audiobook narrator’s voice under license. “Katie has delivered an interesting and gripping crime story that keeps you turning the page to see what's coming next.”—Reader review for Dark Corners?????Three years ago, FBI Agent Drake Reed’s young wife was murdered, her killer never caught. Haunted by his past, Drake now specializes in murder cases of women, hoping to find her killer….A twisted killer targets former summer campers, dragging FBI Agent Drake Reed into a chilling case that mirrors his darkest nightmare. With every victim bound by an unspoken event from their youth, Reed must race against time to decode the mystery before it drowns in the darkness of another's revenge.WITHIN HIS GRASP (A Drake Reed FBI Suspense Thriller—Book 2) is the second novel in a new series by mystery and suspense author Katie Rush. The series begins with WITHIN HIS REACH (Book 1).The Drake Reed series offers an electrifying thrill ride, starring an ingenious but tormented protagonist. This captivating mystery saga delivers relentless excitement and nail-biting tension with its rapid-fire twists, shocking turns, and a velocity that will keep you turning pages well past bedtime. Fans of Teresa Driscoll, Rachel Caine, and Kendra Elliot are sure to fall in love. Future books in the series are also available!“This book will grab your attention and keep it till the end. Katie Rush knows how to write an intriguing story. There is a twist at the end I didn't see coming. I plan on reading more by this author.”—Reader review for Dark Corners?????“I couldn't put it down I was glued to the pages until the end. Great characters. Lots of suspense. A must read.”—Reader review for Dark Corners?????“Really enjoyed reading this book, lots of twists and turns, loved the interactive battles of the |
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82661. First Mistake A Layla Caine Suspense Thrillerbook 2: Digitally Narrated Using A Synthesized Voice : AudiobooksNow : USD1.49 This recording has been digitally produced by Ava Strong, using a synthesized version of an audiobook narrator’s voice under license. “This is a chilling, suspenseful page turner that just might leave you scared at night!”—Reader review for Not Like Us?????Former actress Layla Caine is an invaluable profiler for the LAPD, with her unique ability to see through people and her deep knowledge of Hollywood. When the LA music scene is haunted by a killer targeting one-hit wonders, profiler Layla Caine must tune into her former actress instincts to catch a murderer orchestrating a deadly playlist. Can she decipher the twisted track before the final note is played?“The plot has many twists and turns, but it is the ending, which I did not see coming at all, that totally defines this book as one of the most riveting that I have read in years.”—Reader review for Not Like Us?????FIRST MISTAKE is BOOK #2 in a long-anticipated new series by #1 bestseller Ava Strong, whose bestseller NOT LIKE US (a free download) has received over 1,000 five star ratings and reviews. The series begins with FIRST KILL (Book #1).A gripping mystery series featuring the compelling and intricate protagonist Layla Caine, this crime thriller delivers relentless action, tension, and surprising narrative turns that promise to hold your attention and keep you enthralled long past bedtime. Fans of Mary Burton, Kendra Elliot, and Lisa Regan are sure to fall in love.Future books in the series are also available!“Very intriguing, kept me turning page after page… Lots of twists and turns and a very unexpected ending. Cannot wait for the next in this series!”—Reader review for Not Like Us?????“A roller coaster ride of events… Can’t put down until you finish it!”—Reader review for Not Like Us?????“Excellent read with very realistic characters that you become emotionally |
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82662. Somewhere Dark A Piper Woods Fbi Suspense Thrillerbook Seven: Digitally Narrated Using A Synthesized Voice : AudiobooksNow : USD4.99 This recording has been digitally produced by Molly Black, using a synthesized version of an audiobook narrator’s voice under license. “Molly Black has written a taut thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat… I absolutely loved this book and can’t wait to read the next book in the series!”—Reader review for Girl One: Murder?????When a killer's silent symphony of screams echoes through deserted cabins, FBI Agent Piper Woods must follow a trail as cold as the victims she seeks to avenge. In a deadly game of hide-and-seek, will Piper's tracking skills be enough to unearth this predator before silence falls on another soul?“I binge read this book. It hooked me in and didn't stop till the last few pages… I look forward to reading more!”—Reader review for Found You?????SOMEWHERE SILENT is book #8 in a long anticipated new series by critically-acclaimed and #1 bestselling mystery and suspense author Molly Black, whose books have received over 2,000 five-star reviews and ratings. The series begins with SOMEWHERE SAFE (book #1).A page-turning and harrowing crime thriller featuring a brilliant and tortured FBI agent, the Piper Woods series is a riveting mystery, packed with non-stop action, suspense, twists and turns, revelations, and driven by a breakneck pace that will keep you flipping pages late into the night. Fans of Rachel Caine, Teresa Driscoll and Robert Dugoni are sure to fall in love.Future books in the series are also available!“I loved this book! Fast-paced plot, great characters and interesting insights into investigating cold cases. I can't wait to read the next book!”—Reader review for Girl One: Murder?????“Very good book… You will feel like you are right there looking for the kidnapper! I know I will be reading more in this series!”—Reader review for Girl One: Murder?????“This is a very well writ |
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82663. The Spy Game Thriller Bundle: Target One #1 And Target Two #2 : AudiobooksNow : USD2.49 A bundle of books #1 (TARGET ONE) and #2 (TARGET TWO) in Jack Mars’s Spy Game Thriller series—a bestseller! This bundle offers books one and two in one convenient file, with over 150,000 words of reading.In TARGET ONE, Jacob Snow—elite soldier-turned-CIA agent, haunted by his tortured past—is one of the CIA’s greatest assets, and is dispatched when the stakes are highest. When an ancient Egyptian relic goes missing under mysterious circumstances, Jacob knows this is no run-of-the-mill robbery: the relic holds a secret—one that could destroy everything. Jacob seeks out a mysterious and beautiful archeologist, whose brilliance is needed on the case. Together, they must partner to decode the archeological riddles and stop the terrorists before it is too late. Yet as they race to recover the stolen artifact, they soon find themselves in the midst of a conspiracy bigger than anything they could have imagined—and time is quickly running out.In TARGET TWO, when a terrorist group sets its eyes on the greatest archeological treasure of the holiest city, Jacob, dispatched, knows he has little time to reach Jerusalem before it sparks an international war. Jacob knows, even more, that he cannot solve the case without partnering with the mysterious archeologist he hopes to not fall in love with. As they spring into action to decode the ancient riddles and stop them, they soon realize the plot goes deeper than they could have imagined. With the fate of the world in the balance, they may just be out of time.THE SPY GAME is an exhilarating new series by a #1 bestselling author that will make you fall in love with a brand-new action hero—and keep you turning pages late into the night. Perfect for fans of Dan Brown, Daniel Silva and Jack Carr.Future books in the series are also now available! |
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82664. Maple Bacon Mayhem A Molly Sweetwater Cozy Mysterybook Two: Digitally Narrated Using A Synthesized Voice : AudiobooksNow : USD1.49 This recording has been digitally produced by Sophie Love, using a synthesized version of an audiobook narrator’s voice under license. “This was an absolutely magical book. It was so hard to put down I often read far into the night instead of sleeping….My husband will be reading it also.”--Amazon reviewer (regarding Love Like This)????? MAPLE BACON MAYHEM: A MOLLY SWEETWATER COZY MYSTERY (BOOK #2) is the second book in a delightful new cozy mystery series by bestselling author Sophie Love, whose books have received over 5,000 five-star reviews! The series begins with CARAMEL CONSPIRACY (BOOK #1).In a Victorian seaside town, taffy shop owner Molly Sweetwater experiments with unique taffy flavors—until her renowned sweets put her in the vicinity of a mysterious death, and force her to clear her name and unravel a mystery.When the town's beloved maple syrup producer is found dead in his own sap barrel, Molly Sweetwater's new maple bacon taffy becomes an unexpected clue. Molly must unravel a sticky web of secrets before the Maple Syrup Festival turns bittersweet.The Molly Sweetwater series is a charming cozy mystery that whisks you away to a quaint seaside town, casts a spell with its enchanting atmosphere, and entices with flavorful surprises. Overflowing with twists and featuring a captivating mystery, each book is sure to keep you reading well into the night. Future books in the series are also available!“Loved this book! You really feel like you’re in the story. Can’t wait to read more.”--Amazon reviewer (regarding For Now And Forever)????? “Fun read! I couldn't put it down. I bought the series, can't wait to start next book!”--Amazon reviewer (regarding The Ghostly Grounds: Murder and Breakfast)?????“The book was very well written and kept me interested all the way through. The characters were very believable and the scenes were very real. It was a great read!&r |
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82665. Finding The Way : AudiobooksNow : USD9.00 Dr. Mavroudis was born in Thasos, Greece in July of 1946. He spent the first year of his life in his birthplace before immigrating to the United States with his family in 1947. In his inspiring, extraordinary memoir, Dr. Mavroudis recounts his youth in New Jersey with his parents making a living through a luncheonette-ice cream parlor and his rise to become one of the most world-renowned pediatric congenital heart surgeons. Dr. Mavroudis established the second successful neonatal cardiac transplant program in the world. He made many scientific and clinical contributions to the field by his research, multiple publications, his numerous editions of his textbook, Pediatric Cardiac Surgery, now in its 5th Edition, and educating the next generation of surgeons, including his own son. Finding the Way is the tale of resourcefulness, hard work, and where humble beginnings lead to extraordinary endings. |
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82666. In Service To Justice: Striving To Bring Forth Our Nobility : AudiobooksNow : USD12.00 Anaccount of a life framed by family, faith, and service, In Service to Justiceis a part spiritual and part adventure story. Following Bill from the hills ofeastern Kentucky, one man goes on a quest to improve justice in Kentucky,California, Latin America, and the Middle East. With each page, we are forced tolook inward and reflect on our own virtues and how we stack up compared toothers.
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82667. College Jocks And Frat House Bros: Gay, Erotic Stories From University Life : AudiobooksNow : USD9.97 College. A time to figure out who you really are. Get out of your parents’ house and experience the world on your own. A time to try new things, experiment, and have the time of your life. Sure, there are the books and the classes and all those late nights studying in your dorm room. But the true college experience is about growing, learning, and discovering yourself—and what your body can do. The young men in these stories are eager, willing, horny, and ready for anything. From at parties, community showers, dorm rooms, come back to the best four years of your life and read stories of hook-ups, new love, sexual awakening, and erotic connections. Who was it for you? The student athlete, the quiet nerd, the partying frat boy? They’re all here in COLLEGE JOCKS AND FRAT HOUSE BROS. And you’re invited to the all-night rager. Meet Josh, who has a parking lot run-in with a hot sexy stranger. Peek in on Issac, the dorm room mate who doesn’t lock the door and doesn’t mind if you watch. Bump into your R.A. just when you need a place to crash. There are frat parties to attend, community showers to cruise, and cramped dorm rooms to hunker down in. Just make sure the door is locked – unless you don’t mind being caught. Matthew Cooper delivers story after story of young love and young lust in a collection of steamy, erotic stories sure to pique your interest and get your juices flowing. So turn the lights down, slide into bed, and start enjoying yourself with COLLEGE JOCK AND FRAT HOUSE BROS. I mean, hey, it’s just bros doing bro things. |
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82668. The Queen Of Midnight: A Mfm Spicy Dark Romantasy The Shadow Fae Book 2 : AudiobooksNow : USD9.97 My name is Lily. I’m a divorced, middle-aged mom and also…the rightful ruler of the Dark Fae? I know, it sounds crazy. There’s no way I can be the Lost Princess everyone’s been looking for. But try telling that that to Krynn and Sel, the two muscular Fae warriors who are now my protectors. They're determined to keep me safe and satiate my intense new cravings for blood and sex. But will I survive to become...the Queen of Midnight? Seldarin and Krynn are Dark Fae—one a warrior and one a scholar, they have something in common—for years they have been searching for the Lost Princess. Stolen from her cradle just nine days after her birth, Princess Lilliana is the last known descendant of Lolth, the Spider Queen. Sel and Krynn have almost given up hope of finding her when, on the very day an imposter is about to take the throne, the Lost Princess herself stumbles into the Hallowed Clearing. Now Lily (who has been living a human life as a divorced, middle-aged mom,) has only days before she must ascend to the Throne of the Midnight Court. But in that time she must avoid assassination attempts and suffer through a transformation that leaves her beautiful…but deadly. For now she is subject to the Thirst—a craving for blood and sex that renders her so dangerous, she might kill anyone who is brave enough to try and satiate her needs. Krynn and Sel know their Lady is a danger…but it’s too late to care. Both are in love with her. They join to give her pleasures she’s never dreamed of, but the Court doesn’t approve of the relationship between the Princess and her guards. Will Lily live to become…the Queen of Midnight? You’ll have to read this Spicy MFM Menage Romantasy novel to find out! ***This book is the sequel to The Throne of Midnight but it can be read as a STAND ALONE novel |
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82669. The Stone Survival: Gargoyles Of Stonehaven, Book Four : AudiobooksNow : USD9.97 Only the truth will set us free… Our enemy almost trapped us. We were lucky to get away, and now it’s our turn to lay a trap for them. The truth about the graynites isn't the story we were told. And now, if we’re to survive, we must weave a story of our own. Lies and subterfuge will be our weapons, so ensuring we have the right allies is paramount. Only a select few can be trusted with the truth. The road ahead is shrouded with uncertainty. The only thing we can be sure of is the present, and I’m determined to spend that time with my mate. But how can I bask in joy when my happiness breaks another goyle’s heart? As we scramble to put the pieces of the puzzle together and form a clear picture of the true face of our enemy, time is running out. If they strike before we’re ready, then we’re all doomed. God, I hope we’re not all doomed… |
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82670. Winged Horses : AudiobooksNow : USD16.50 Are you ready for the next adventure in the Attic World? Come, let’s dive into it!Only this time it is not just Ebus and the other adults dealing with the growing evils in the Attic World;it’s their sons and daughters, too. God has called on his faithful follower, Ebus Jeramiah Write Worth, again to bring his son, Leeroy James Macaw, to the Attic World, for a group of warriors must be formed to eventually fight an epic battle on the frontlines. Come join Leeroy James Macaw as he navigates his own God-given abilities with the help from his father Ebus, his brothers, his aunts, and his uncles to form the group of warriors! |
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82671. Failing Fast?: The Ten Secrets To Succeed Faster : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 Imagine yourself standing at the finish line of your grandiose dream, after years of hard work and countless failures. That’s how the journey to super success looks like for most people who believe in the “fail fast, fail often” principle. Now, let's envision an alternate reality where you stumbled upon a treasure trove of secrets that helped change the course of your life and allowed you to achieve your big dreams faster, without mindless hard work and painful failures. That’s what the journey to super success looks like for people who follow the ten secrets to succeed faster. Failing Fast? can be your passage to that alternate reality. Within the pages of this book, author Luv Tulsidas shares the ten meticulously curated and rigorously tested secrets that have accelerated his journey as an entrepreneur, allowing him to deliver game-changing innovation for clients at a guaranteed price. |
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82672. Self Less: Lessons Learned From A Life Devoted To Servant Leadership, In Five Acts : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 With Self Less, Len Jessup shares an engaging first-person narrative detailing how his origins, beliefs, adversity, impact, and legacy shaped him into a selfless leader devoted to helping transform organizations. Beginning with childhood experiences and ancestral influences that imprinted a drive to serve others, Jessup recounts critical mentors and moments that built his confidence, reinforced core values, and motivated him toward continual growth. Through riveting stories, Jessup demonstrates how he overcame obstacles by remaining true to his purpose, listening before acting, finding possibility amid doubts, building robust teams, maintaining resilience, and staying patient but determined in the face of resistance. Rather than top-down authoritarian leadership, Jessup advocates for a more enlightened, inclusive approach he terms self less leadership"—acting with concern for others' needs and deferring personal credit. Jessup shares how this selfless mindset enabled breakthrough successes at universities he led. By transparently engaging stakeholders and promoting shared beliefs |
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82673. Ask & Deliver: Discover The Heart Of Your Business By Listening To The Voice Of Your Customers : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 Mary Ann O’Brien, Founder and CEO of award-winning marketing firm OBI, and the brains behind the revolutionary O’Brien Voice of Customer (O.VoC) survey, has been called “The Mother of Modern Marketing.” Now she’s sharing her unique, highly-successful approach to helping clients attract and retain customers in Ask and Deliver: Discover the Heart of Your Business by Listening to the Voice of Your Customers. In the book, O’Brien demonstrates how directly asking the people who buy from you what they want from your business, listening to what they say, and then designing your customer experience accordingly has the power to transform your brand and spark exponential growth. The book follows the evolution of both OBI and the O.VoC through several iterations, beginning when O’Brien first developed the survey for Gateway Computers, in hopes of pinpointing where the once-beloved company had gone wrong with its customers. O’Brien quickly learned that the insights gleaned from the survey data—customer data—were like gold, providing a roadmap to bring Gateway back from the brink by putting the customer at the center of everything they did. It explains how O’Brien refined and added to the survey as she worked with clients across different sectors, growing her business while helping them achieve their dreams. And finally, it explores what happened when O’Brien subjected her own company to her methodology, and the unexpected changes that followed. It’s a fascinating education in a new and exciting marketing methodology, as well as an exploration of how one woman guided her business through the Great Recession and the Covid crisis in order to change the way marketing is done. |
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82674. Take A Chance!: 101 Entrepreneurial Lessons For Making It Big : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 You’re An Entrepreneur. You’ve either started or are thinking of starting your own business. Or you’re all in and need to take a chance. Then this book is for you. Starting a business is brutal. 70% of businesses fail after five years and only 25% of businesses make it to 15 years or more. What if you had a crystal ball to guide you through your business cycle so you didn’t make the same mistakes as everyone else? Larry Gaynor is a serial beauty entrepreneur still running TNG Worldwide since 1985. He has dealt with the biggest companies including L’Oreal, Unilever, Amazon and Walmart. As a retailer, he had to take a chance and decide to shut down his $5 million store and become a wholesale distributor. As a distributor, he was cut-off more than ten times and threatened to sell his company or else. As a manufacturer, he had to take a chance and risk everything during the pandemic. Take A Chance! is Gaynor’s fascinating journey as an entrepreneur spanning more than 50 years. Key take-aways include Gallup-training that changed TNG’s culture; the pivot to manufacturing from being a lowly distributor; the importance of being an Amazon Top 200 Reseller; and the rise and fall of the pro beauty business. Along the way, Gaynor shares his top 101 entrepreneurial lessons for making it big. |
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82675. Who Runs The World?: Unlocking The Talent And Inventiveness Of Women Everywhere : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 Women and girls across the world are often made to feel as if the challenges, limitations, and barriers they face are personal, belonging to them alone. When, in fact, they affect us all. The issues are systemic, societal, and global – and we have the power to create change. In Who Runs the World?, author Lois Quam emphasizes the need to unlock the immense potential of women and girls globally. Quam argues that empowering women is the long-needed step for justice and the progress needed to address the growing challenges we face today. Throughout the book, she speaks to the barriers – personal and systemic – that block the humanity and talent of half the all the world’s people – women. Who Runs the World? sheds light on the path to change and the vital role women and girls play in addressing global challenges. Join the movement to unlock all the world’s talent and contribute to a more equitable and thriving world. |
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82676. Unstoppable Brain : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 We all want the power and motivation to create change in our lives. But how to get that in a stumbling dance of one step forward and two steps back? Negative emotions run rampant in many people’s lives today; a reality that feels like a shrink wrap of suffering. Popular fallback “solutions” of performance-based goals and tools focus on extrinsic rewards like fame, wealth, or winning. But overuse of those rewards doesn’t work for the long term and in fact weakens our confidence and motivation over time, leaving us vulnerable to failure and shame. It doesn’t have to be that way. Through three decades of researching and tracking such universal struggles to change our behavior, Dr. Kyra Bobinet unveils the way out, using novel neuroscience research on a compelling new brain area, the habenula. In this book, she reveals the habenula’s powerful role in killing our motivation and causing anxiety and depression and offers a foolproof way to escape its clutches. |
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82677. The Bizzics Way: Powering Your Small Business To Maximum Momentum : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 What do you remember from your high school physics class? If you think back, terms like energy, velocity, force, and momentum may come to mind. These concepts govern the natural world around us. Is it possible that they might be applied to the business world, too? This is the question Chip Higgins invites you to explore in The Bizzics Way: Powering Your Small Business to Maximum Momentum. Bizzics applies the laws of physics to business, providing a how-to guide for entrepreneurs that cuts through the corporate jargon and simplifies business best practices. Whether you’re just thinking of starting a business or already growing a small company of your own, this book can help you achieve the holy grail that every business seeks—momentum. Chip draws on his thirty-five-plus years of experience advising small business owners in the banking sector to detail the most relevant steps an entrepreneur must take to achieve lasting success. He draws on his own experience as a business and leadership coach, as well as case studies of real-world companies. From obtaining funding to hiring staff, this book covers the core components of the startup process, giving you the information that you need at every step of your entrepreneurial journey. With clarity and candor, Chip reveals how you can harness your entrepreneurial energy and share it with the world in a way that allows you—and those around you—to thrive. |
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82678. Competitive Success: Building Winning Strategies With Corporate War Games : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 Don’t walk onto the business battlefield without the weapons and plan you need to win. In dynamic, fiercely competitive markets you must have confidence in your business strategy, especially when the future of your company is at stake. Rather than make untested, unilateral decisions, war game strategies with your leadership team in a safe workshop environment. In Competitive Success: Building Winning Strategies with Corporate War Games, Arjan Singh, a top competitive intelligence (CI) expert consultant, shows you how to build winning strategies step-by-step. Through engaging, interesting anecdotes gleaned by running over 200 war games for top Fortune 500 corporations, Singh demonstrates how war gaming helps these companies maintain competitive success. After reading this book, you’ll have a tested, actionable plan that you and your team will be eager to move forward on with confidence and unity. Author Arjan Singh has advised 68 of the Top 100 companies in the Fortune Global 500 list in building winning strategies. With over twenty-six years of experience, Singh is an expert in helping companies develop data-driven strategies through war games, strategic and competitive analysis, scenario planning and building business early warning systems that deliver significant impact. He is an Adjunct Professor of Marketing and Global Consulting at Southern Methodist University (SMU) COX School of Business and lives in Scottsdale, Arizona with his wife and two children. |
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82679. Push Play: Gaming For A Better World : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 Play is in our DNA. We game to experiment and to learn. We play to create new worlds so we can change this one. Gaming pushes us to imagine what we can become. In Push Play: Gaming for a Better World, Dr. Songyee Yoon describes how gaming can help us craft a better world together. Yoon is president and Chief Strategy Officer of NCSOFT, a global video game company based in South Korea. Yoon’s work lies at the intersection of expertise and equity in emerging technologies. As a leader in the industry, Dr. Yoon shares her experience as a woman in STEM and her quest for a more diverse and equitable tech community. Through stories from her career in the gaming industry, she outlines how innovations in gaming push industries forward and create a more equitable world for all. |
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82680. The Ideal Life: 7 Steps To Harness Your Stress, Discover Your Purpose, And Achieve Your Goals : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 Convert Your Stress Into a Catalyst for Personal Growth There is a lie you’ve told yourself since you were old enough to tell yourself lies. The lie is “I’ll be happy if I can just get what I want.” The truth is far more complex and beautiful and powerful than that. The reality is that when we get what we want, our inner reward system turns off—unless it’s tied to another future goal afterwards. On top of this, modern society bombards us with false narratives that confuse us about what we actually want and what we actually need. This leaves countless people lost and without direction. This feeling manifests itself in feelings of stress, anxiety, and even depression. So what can we do about it? Since the beginning of time, philosophers have tried to figure out what makes us happy. For the first time, modern technology has allowed biologists to map the inner chemicals that actually cause those feelings, and positive psychologists have used that information to construct the pillars of a meaningful life. Our inner reward systems were designed for a purpose, and understanding that design can allow you to take control of your anxiety and convert it into meaningful action. Through his personal successes in business and health, paired with the knowledge of a master’s degree in I-O Psychology from Harvard University’s Extension School, Mark Congdon has developed a seven-step system for joyful living called the I GOT This framework. In this book Mark will teach you how you can use those steps to develop your own growth mindset and pursue the purpose of your own Ideal Life. Are you ready to harness your stress, discover your purpose, and achieve your goals? This book is your guide. |
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82681. Lean Startup, To Lean Company, To Rich Exit : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 The turning $1,000 into $1.54 billion story… In 1982, MIT professor Kenan Sahin took $1,000 from his savings and used it to undertake the most extraordinary entrepreneurial journey, culminating with a $1.54 billion rich exit just 17 years later. This is the story of Kenan’s turning his academic theories into axiomatic principles for building a Lean Startup into a Lean Company followed by a Rich Exit. Among those principles are... Suffusing the organization with a teach and learn |
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82683. Time Is Now: A Journey Into Demystifying Ai : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 How can leaders adapt to the rapid change of technology’s impact on business? How can AI be leveraged for more intelligent decision making? Can our choices be simultaneously good for business and the world? This book provides leaders with the first steps to answer these important questions. For over thirty years, technology has become more interwoven with both our professional and personal lives. In the future, the integration of tech, business, and life will become even more seamless. With the current exponential growth of artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies, business leaders must learn how to adapt their decision making to look beyond short-term profits and create insight for long-term impact and growth. In Time is Now: A Journey into Demystifying AI, Raj Verma, CEO of SingleStore, takes readers on an insightful journey to not only demystify emerging tech like AI but to demystify how today’s leader must make decisions. Through engaging storytelling and relevant examples, Verma shares the lessons from his personal and professional life to glean timeless and universal lessons. At the crux of this journey, is the power of Now, which Verma defines as a convergence of Information, Context, and Choice: Information is data, the collection of memory which shapes our identity.Context is the analysis of all information in the present.Choice is focused on the future, approached with courage and conscience.From these three pillars of Now, we write our future—for better or worse. As the speed of Real Time increases, so will the consequences of our decisions. In the explosion of AI, leaders have a responsibility to learn before they act. We must wield the tools available with the insight that our decisions will impact the world for generations to come. Doing so will require both great courage and conscience. It cannot wait. The time is Now. |
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82684. Is This Seat Taken?: Random Encounters That Change Your Life : AudiobooksNow : USD8.97 For the busy business executive, the never-ceasing demands associated with work, and life, can place a relentless push and pull on our time and attention. Our world is moving so fast, we are apt to miss much of what is happening ''right now.'' Kristin S. Kaufman, in her book Is This Seat Taken? offers another perspective. Within these pages, Kaufman offers a collection of highly personal stories that illustrate how a wealth of wisdom may come from the most unusual and unlikely sources. The resiliency and clarity found from typically unheard voices speak of universal truths that may often be lost in the shuffle, yet are no less vital to a well-aligned life. Is This Seat Taken? offers important lessons that force the typical executive, and indeed all of us, to ponder what it means to truly be present in the now, what we can learn from these incidental encounters, and how these random encounters can become a compass, pointing us on our own road to alignment, fulfillment, and success. |
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82685. Threads Of Us : AudiobooksNow : USD7.97 Sometimes the answers we are looking for are hidden in our own stories.The night before the dance performance that could determine Gracie Wilder’s career, her father unexpectedly dies, leaving behind a curious gift with ties to a myth told to her as a child. Desperate to understand her father’s unspoken words, she puts her greatest dream on the line for an opportunity to remember the childhood she tried so hard to forget.A few chance encounters with Beau Griffin, a bighearted building contractor, pull Gracie closer to her past. Griffin is no stranger to grief. Most recently, he has been held responsible for the demise of a Chicago building that harbors the cornerstones of his own history. In a moment of faith or folly, the unlikely pair follow the origin of Gracie’s childhood memories to Old Montreal. There, they discover family secrets that will challenge the narratives that have defined Gracie’s life. And Griffin will have to confront his own personal myths if he is to build room for Gracie in his future. Together, they must heal their history backward in order to move forward.Poignant and uplifting, Threads of Us explores the self-discovery that comes to us not despite our hardships but because of them and the mysterious connections that help us recreate ourselves. |
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82686. The Trouble With Drowning : AudiobooksNow : USD7.97 Corrosive comparisons and beautiful liesWhen author Eden Hart floats into Tucson’s Antigone Books in all her dazzling perfection to give a reading, Kat, a struggling writer, can’t help but compare herself. Professionally, physically, socially—Eden is Kat’s aspiration. Thankfully, Kat’s life starts to take on its own Eden-like glow when her literary future takes shape and she falls madly in love with Jacob, the effortlessly charismatic son of her literary hero. Kat’s life is finally her fantasy realized: a burgeoning career, mentoring from her idol, and a wildly fulfilling relationship. But how long can she keep this up? And when will disappointment tap Kat on the shoulder yet again?As demons from her past begin to surface, Kat’s mental health craters, and this halcyon dream slips through her fingers. Obsessed with reclaiming her idealized life, Kat develops an insidious plan to not only bring Jacob back into her world but also punish anyone who dares to replace her. |
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82687. Needles, Thermometers, Fingers, And Shame: Horrific Medical Humiliation For A Phony Doctor's Mean Old Piano Teacher : AudiobooksNow : USD4.97 Warning: Explicit Content. Nonstop Embarrassment at the Phony Free Clinic" Series. “Theclinic is free…but the price is too high!” So says every woman unfortunate enough to be treated at the “Care One Free Clinic.” In exchange for “free” medical care |
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82690. The Fight For Free Speech: Rock Icon Dee Snider Addresses A 1985 Us Senate Hearing On Music Content Labeling : AudiobooksNow : USD3.97 On September 19, 1985, a US Senate hearing was instigated by the Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC)--founded by Tipper Gore, wife of Senator and later Vice President Al Gore; and Susan Baker, wife of Treasury Secretary James Baker--who wanted to introduce a parental warning system that would label all music albums containing alleged offensive material. The system was to include letters identifying the type of objectionable content to be found in each album (O for occult themes, S for sex, D for drugs, V for violence, etc.). Dee Snider, lead singer and primary songwriter for the rock band Twisted Sister, John Denver, and Frank Zappa all testified against censorship and the proposed warning system. Such a system was never implemented, but the result of the hearing brought about what was known as the Parental Advisory: Explicit Content" label. " |
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82691. A Rare Recording Of Film Icon Susan Hayward : AudiobooksNow : USD3.97 Susan Hayward, born Edythe Marrenner (June 30, 1917 - March 14, 1975) was a fashion model and Oscar-winning American actress. By the late 1940s, Hayward achieved recognition for her dramatic abilities with the first of five Academy Award Best Actress nominations for her performance as an alcoholic in Smash-Up, the Story of a Woman (1947). Hayward's success continued through the 1950s as she received nominations for My Foolish Heart (1949), With a Song in My Heart (1952), and I'll Cry Tomorrow (1955), winning the Academy Award for her portrayal of death row inmate in I Want to Live! (1958). |
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82692. Tempted Hotwife, Excluded Cuckold, Vindicated Former Classmate: When A Friendly Neighborhood Get-together Gets Way Too Friendly : AudiobooksNow : USD4.97 Warning: Explicit Content. The Hotwife Learns |
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82695. Hearing History: Four Women Recall Life In 1890s Victorian England : AudiobooksNow : USD3.97 These audio recordings include a 1977 interview with 108 year old Florence Pannel, born in 1868, discussing living and working in Paris and Victorian England; a 1970 interview with Frances 'Effy' Jones recalling being one of the first women trained to use a typewriter, and life as a young woman in 1890s London; Berta Ruck, a romantic novelist, remembering her formative years at art school, and the culture shock she experienced after moving from her home in Wales to the hustle and bustle in the heart of Victorian London; and a 1972 interview with 83 year old Violet Turner recalling her early life in Aldershot, Hampshire, England, and working as a nanny for a well-to-do family. |
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82696. The Darwin Awards Chronicles: Books 4-6 : AudiobooksNow : USD17.47 This compilation of The Darwin Awards books IV, V and V1 commemorate those who improve our gene pool by removing themselves from it, showing us just how uncommon common sense can be! Meet the absentminded terrorist who opens a mail bomb returned to him for insufficient postage. Marvel at the thief who steals electrical wires before shutting off the current. Gape at the would-be pilot who flies his lawn chair suspended from helium balloons into air-traffic lanes. These tales of trial and awe-inspiring error illustrate the ongoing saga of survival of the fittest in all its selective glory! |
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82697. The Mysterious Affair At Styles : AudiobooksNow : USD7.49 The first book in Agatha Christie's famous detective series introduces us to the incredible Hercule Poirot. Known today as one literature's greatest detectives, this book is Poirot's very first foray onto the written page. In this twisty tale, we are introduced to Arhur Hastings, a military man on leave from World War I, who is invited to spend some time at his friend John Cavendish' estate. However, all is not well at Styles Manor. Cavendish' stepmother, Emily, has recently remarried to a much younger man, Alfred, and the entire estate is on edge with suspicion about Alfred's intentions. When the worst happens and Emily dies under suspicious and seemingly impossible circumstances, Hastings immediately reaches out to his old friend, esteemed detective Hercule Poirot, for assistance on the case.With his impeccable attention to detail, clever wit, and keen understanding of the world around him, Poirot embarks on the first of his many iconic cases. |
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82698. French For Wine And Viticulture: A French Course For Sommeliers And Wine Lovers : AudiobooksNow : USD12.49 This French language course focuses on essential vocabulary and phrases related to wine production, wine tasting, and the broader wine industry. Learners will explore the terminology used in vineyards, winemaking processes, and the business aspects of the wine trade. The course also covers language used in wine tasting, including how to describe flavors, aromas, and textures, making it ideal for professionals in the wine industry or enthusiasts looking to deepen their knowledge. Whether you are a sommelier, a wine producer, or simply passionate about French wine, this course provides practical language skills to help you navigate conversations about wine with confidence and precision. |
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82699. Sycamore : AudiobooksNow : USD10.49 People are dying in the town of Sycamore. A string of grisly murders have shaken the quaint Canadian suburb, and the most recent crime scene might provide the first solid lead -- despite an easily fatal amount of blood, the victim is nowhere to be found. Most people would steer clear of a crime scene this gory, but to Private Investigator Felix Renn a missing persons investigation comes as a pleasant surprise. After a few run-ins with Black Lands entities |
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82700. The Pirate King: The Strange Adventures Of Henry Avery And The Birth Of The Golden Age Of Piracy : AudiobooksNow : USD12.49 The incredible story of the “Robin Hood of the Seas,” who absconded with millions during the Golden Age of Piracy and who harbored an even greater secret. Henry Avery of Devon pillaged a fortune from a Mughal ship off the coast of India and then vanished into thin air—and into legend. More ballads, plays, biographies and books were written about Avery’s adventures than any other pirate. His contemporaries crowned him the pirate king" for pulling off the richest heist in pirate history and escaping with his head intact (unlike Blackbeard and his infamous Flying Gang). Avery was now the most wanted criminal on earth. To the authorities |
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82703. The Return Of Tarzan : AudiobooksNow : USD2.49 Plunge into the exhilarating adventure of The Return of Tarzan" by Edgar Rice Burroughs. After leaving the jungle for civilization |
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82704. Anna Karenina : AudiobooksNow : USD12.49 Tolstoy's classic novel reimagined in a multi-cast performance tells the classic tale of all-consuming love—and the resulting self-destruction.Our titular character, Anna Karenina, is a beautiful and vivacious woman who wants for nothing, but her life still feels empty. When she meets the handsome officer, Count Vronsky, her passionless marriage falls by the wayside as she throws herself into a tumultous love affair. Their doomed romance is set against the rich backdrop of nineteenth-century Russia, and juxtaposed by the novel's other characters who experience the highs and lows of love, family, faith, and ambition. |
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82705. Sleep: Synchronize Your Luminous Energy : AudiobooksNow : USD12.47 The energy in our bodies is connected to the universal energy flow. When we are stressed and living with chronic anxiety, our autonomic nervous system (ANS) can become unbalanced and stuck in 'fight or flight' mode. This can cause a range of long-term physical and mental health problems. The harmonic frequencies in this calming music collection are specifically designed to calm the autonomic nervous system and put you on a 'rest, relax and repair' mode. This mode allows the mind to quiet and the body to begin to heal. This is especially good for alleviating anxiety, overthinking, insomnia, and chronic pain.Thank you for listening and for your review. Your feedback may help other customers considering purchasing this collection. |
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82706. Sleep In Heavenly Pizza: Deep Dish Mysteries, Book 4 : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 The fourth book in the delectable Deep Dish Mystery series, set in a Wisconsin pizzeria. Pizza chef Delilah O’Leary and her kitty companion, Butterball, get into the holiday spirit as Geneva Bay, Wisconsin hosts the nation’s premier snow sculpting championship. The annual event transforms the charming resort town into a wonderland of snow castles, ice rinks, and cozy cups of cocoa. On the eve of the festival though, a too-good-to-be-true Chrismukkah catering gig brings some frosty tidings and heralds an unexpected visit from Delilah’s high-intensity older sister. Suddenly it seems that the holidays may not be the hap-happiest season of all. And when a missing party guest’s frozen corpse turns up inside one of the town's snowy sculptures, murder threatens to put the celebrations-and Delilah’s crew-on ice for good. |
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82707. Essences Of Tongcheng : AudiobooksNow : USD4.99 College students from Tongcheng Teachers College in Anhui Province of China share in foreign teacher’s daily life. Various topics from classrooms, of college apartments, trying city shopping or walking outdoors and invitations to indoor activities are after becoming resident in small remote city of subtropics in Tongcheng. |
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82708. Book One: Wisdom, Compassion, And Awakening: Through Mindfulness And Insight Meditation : AudiobooksNow : USD4.99 You are about to embark on a journey of discovery. The practices of meditation and mindfulness found in this book ultimately lead to the awakening of wisdom and compassion. You have already started on the path by establishing the interest and motivation to explore these tried-and-true methods for cultivating the mindfulness skills needed to bring you happiness and well-being. Anyone can directly experience the healing benefits of these practices if applied consistently in daily life. This book presents an exploration of the teachings of Buddha Shakyamuni. These teachings are summarized by three aspirations that we practice and uphold: 1) Cultivate excellent virtue in abundance, 2) Avoid wrongdoing and harmful actions, and 3) Completely tame your mind. This is the essence the teaching and the subject of our study. There are only two obstacles in attaining the happiness we seek; first, not starting on the path, and second, not continuing on the path to its destination. You are about to take an important step forward on the path to awakening! |
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82709. Naked Shameless Human And Free: A Simple Guide To Becoming A Human Being : AudiobooksNow : USD4.99 There are eight billion people on this planet and the idea, or box of NORMAL" that we try to live in is as varied as there are people. Who has the authority to tell us how to behave? It's not natural |
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82710. What I Learned From Being Bigfoot: Learning To Deal With Mental Health Challenges From A Christian Perspective : AudiobooksNow : USD4.99 Are you a Christian who finds themselves trapped between two worlds? Are you trying to serve the Lord on the one hand yet finding yourself struggling with mental health challenges on the other? Do you find yourself hiding behind an outward mask of pretending everything is great but inwardly constantly fighting to stay out of a dark place mentally? If so, this book is for you. After a humorous encounter deep in the woods of Eastern Oregon, I have learned how to deal with mental health challenges such as depression, anxiety, and low self-esteem. This book will teach you simple tools and exercises that anyone can adapt and apply to their lives. By consistently using what is taught between the covers of this book, you will find yourself being a little more of who God intended you to be: an overcomer. |
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82711. Live On Purpose: How To Find Your Inner Peace To Fulfill Your Lifes Purpose : AudiobooksNow : USD4.99 God's desire is that you live your life on purpose, to do what God purposed you to do. Believe and know that God is with you right now, and that He has the best plans for your life. You will discover the secret of attaining peace with God, even in the worst of times. My heart is moved with love and compassion for you. The Word is working in your life. Since God declares the end at the beginning, and since He made us in His image, we can also keep moving ahead in our paths toward what we were made to do, by focusing out thoughts on what He has promised in His Word. I pray that you will rise above all circumstances in your everyday life, take dominionover that which is already yours, and acknowledge the presence of Him who loves you forever-------Jesus Christ. |
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82712. Uncles Dream : AudiobooksNow : USD17.50 In Uncle's Dream |
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82714. The Prussian Officer And Other Stories : AudiobooksNow : USD17.50 In The Prussian Officer |
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82715. The Merchant Of Venice : AudiobooksNow : USD7.50 The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare is a timeless classic that explores themes of justice, mercy, love, and prejudice. Set in the vibrant city of Venice, the story follows the complex relationship between Antonio, a melancholic merchant, and Shylock, a Jewish moneylender. Antonio’s dear friend Bassanio seeks to court the wealthy and beautiful Portia but lacks the funds to do so. To help his friend, Antonio borrows money from Shylock, offering a pound of his own flesh as collateral if he cannot repay the loan. As circumstances unfold, Antonio’s ships are lost at sea, and he finds himself unable to repay the debt. Shylock, deeply wronged by the discrimination he has faced, seeks to enforce their bond and claim his pound of flesh, sparking a tense legal battle that tests the concepts of justice and revenge. Portia, disguised as a lawyer, enters the courtroom in a dramatic attempt to save Antonio, ultimately challenging Shylock’s rigid interpretation of the law. Through its intricate plot and memorable characters, the play delves into the moral and ethical dilemmas faced by each individual, offering a thought-provoking reflection on human nature and the consequences of our choices. This audiobook brings the rich language of Shakespeare to life, immersing listeners in the intensity of the courtroom drama, the romance of Bassanio and Portia, and the profound struggles of identity and morality. With its engaging narration and timeless relevance, The Merchant of Venice continues to captivate audiences with its exploration of loyalty, vengeance, and the complexity of mercy. A must-listen for lovers of classic literature, this audiobook provides a fresh and dynamic interpretation of one of Shakespeare's most iconic works. |
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82716. Uncle Vanya: Full Cast Drama : AudiobooksNow : USD15.00 Uncle Vanya" by Anton Chekhov is a poignant play that delves into the lives of its characters as they grapple with unfulfilled dreams and the harsh realities of their existence. Set in the Russian countryside |
| 82717. S : AudiobooksNow captures the essence of human frustration and the search for meaning amidst the monotony of rural life. Through its exploration of unfulfilled potential and the passage of time |
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82718. King Lear: Full Cast Drama : AudiobooksNow : USD10.00 King Lear |
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82719. Once A Week : AudiobooksNow : USD17.50 In Once a Week |
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82720. The Confessions Of Arsene Lupin : AudiobooksNow : USD17.50 In The Confessions of Arsene Lupin |
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82721. The Lost Girl : AudiobooksNow : USD17.50 In D.H. Lawrence's The Lost Girl |
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82722. Uncle Bernac A Memory Of The Empire : AudiobooksNow : USD17.50 In Uncle Bernac |
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82723. 12 Days Of Christmas: A New Rendition : AudiobooksNow : USD5.00 The Twelve Days of Christmas |
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82724. The Good Children's Book Of Christmas Stories : AudiobooksNow : USD17.50 The Good Children's Book of Christmas Stories" is a charming anthology that brings together a variety of classic holiday tales |
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82726. The Joy Of Christmas : AudiobooksNow : USD17.50 The Joy of Christmas" by Hans Kubler is a captivating collection that beautifully embodies the warmth and festive spirit of the holiday season. Published as part of Kubler's celebrated body of work |
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82728. A Dolls House: Full Cast Drama : AudiobooksNow : USD17.50 A Doll's House" by Henrik Ibsen is a powerful drama that explores the complexities of marriage |
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Throughout the play>82729. Revelation Sets The Stage For Nora's Internal Transformation And A Dramatic Confrontation That Challenges The Traditional Roles Of Wife And Mother. throughout The Play : AudiobooksNow with Ibsen cleverly using symbolism—like the iconic "dollhouse" imagery—to portray Nora's realization that her life is a performance dictated by her husband and society. In the powerful closing act |
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82731. An Enemy Of The People: Full Cast Drama : AudiobooksNow : USD17.50 An Enemy of the People" by Henrik Ibsen is a thought-provoking play that delves into the complexities of truth |
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82734. The Wild Duck: Full Cast Drama : AudiobooksNow : USD17.50 In Henrik Ibsen's The Wild Duck |
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82736. The Lady Of The Sea: Full Cast Drama : AudiobooksNow : USD17.50 The Lady of the Sea" by Henrik Ibsen is a compelling exploration of human emotions |
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82738. The Pillars Of Society: Full Cast Drama : AudiobooksNow : USD17.50 In The Pillars of Society |
| 82739. Lives Are Built And To Consider The True Cost Of Sacrificing Honesty And Authenticity For The Sake Of Societal Acceptance. In This Timeless Work : AudiobooksNow |
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82740. The Yoga Of Egyptian Book Of The Dead : AudiobooksNow : USD17.50 In the ancient tapestry of spiritual practices, the Egyptian Book of the Dead and the discipline of yoga weave together a rich, interconnected narrative of the human soul's journey. Both traditions, emerging from vastly different cultures and epochs, echo each other's profound understanding of the spiritual quest for enlightenment and transcendence. The Egyptian Book of the Dead, a collection of funerary texts, serves as a guide for the deceased through the perilous afterlife, ensuring a safe passage to the eternal realm. It encapsulates the Egyptians' intricate beliefs in the soul's immortality and the trials it must overcome to achieve eternal peace. These texts are not merely about death but rather about the triumph of life beyond death, a testament to the enduring spirit's journey toward truth and light. In parallel, yoga, originating from ancient India, offers a disciplined path to spiritual awakening through physical postures, breath control, and meditation. It is a practice that unifies the mind, body, and spirit, leading the practitioner towards a state of self-realization and ultimate liberation, or moksha. The yogic journey, much like the Egyptian spiritual voyage, is a quest for the soul's liberation from the cycles of birth and death, striving towards a harmonious union with the divine. Both the Egyptian Book of the Dead and yoga share an intrinsic belief in the soul's eternal nature and the possibility of achieving a higher state of existence. They offer systematic approaches to overcoming earthly attachments and illusions, guiding individuals toward a profound inner transformation. Whether navigating the afterlife's challenges or mastering the self through disciplined practice, these spiritual traditions reflect humanity's timeless pursuit of enlightenment and the understanding of life's deeper mysteries. |
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82741. Fyodor Dostoevsky: The Grand Inquisitor The House Of The Dead The Permanent Husband : AudiobooksNow : USD22.50 The Grand Inquisitor" is a philosophical narrative within Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel "The Brothers Karamazov |
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82742. George Eliot: Middlemarch The Mils On The Floss Silas Marner : AudiobooksNow : USD22.50 Middlemarch by George Eliot is a vivid portrayal of 19th-century English provincial life, focusing on characters like Dorothea Brooke, an idealistic young woman, and Dr. Tertius Lydgate, an ambitious physician. Their intersecting stories explore themes of marriage, ambition, and societal constraints, highlighting the complexities of human relationships. The Mill on the Floss follows siblings Tom and Maggie Tulliver as they grow up at Dorlcote Mill. Facing financial hardship and societal pressures, Maggie struggles between family loyalty and her own desires, leading to tragic consequences. The novel explores the sibling bond and the limited choices for women in a patriarchal society. Silas Marner tells the story of a reclusive weaver who finds new meaning in life after adopting an orphaned child, Eppie. Betrayed and isolated after a false accusation, Silas rediscovers faith and human connection through love. The novel touches on themes of redemption, transformation, and the contrast between rural and industrial life. |
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82743. A Tribute To Mike Pinder: Mellotron Master Of The Moody Blues : AudiobooksNow : USD10.00 I first met Mike Pinder when the interview you are about to hear was conducted in the mid-1990s. It was generally known that Mike was very spiritually evolved and able to mirror his deep realizations through his incredible music both as a solo artist and with the Moody Blues. As an interviewer, I was taken by the sincerity, depth, and breadth of his knowledge and wisdom. Pinder gave freely the benefit of his unique understanding of life through the music that so effortlessly flowed from within. There was an incredible honesty about the man which gave everything he said a moral authority and simple truth that was quite amazing. Without ever posing as one Mike was a very high spiritual teacher. What you will hear is an incredible document of not only the early history and success Mike Pinder achieved as a musician and composer but also the deeper aspects of living a true spiritual life amidst the material maelstrom. Mike was in many ways the soul of The Moody Blues, a progressive band of brothers that touched so many. Fortunately, he has left behind a huge portion of his great spirit within his indelible and enlightening music and words. This audiobook is a tribute to the triumph of true spiritual life made manifest within the context of this rare and wonderful musician composer and philosopher. Here Pinder speaks for himself from the vantage of a life well lived centered upon the deepest from within the soulful core of this wonderful being. His music and philosophy will live long. Mike's inspirational travels continue. Geoffrey Giuliano, 2024 |
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82744. Valley Of Fear Sherlock Holmes : AudiobooksNow : USD15.00 The Valley of Fear" by Arthur Conan Doyle is a Sherlock Holmes novel filled with mystery |
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82746. The Astral Plane: Inhabitants Scenery Phenomena : AudiobooksNow : USD10.00 Charles Webster Leadbeater delves into the mystical realm of the astral plane in his work, The Astral Plane: Its Scenery |
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82748. Meditations - Piano And Thunderstorms : AudiobooksNow : USD0.49 Escape the chaos of everyday life and immerse yourself in the serene embrace of nature's symphony intertwined with timeless classical masterpieces. Meditations Piano and Thunderstorms offers a unique audio experience crafted to soothe your mind, body, and soul. Elevate Your Mind with Timeless Classics Experience the exquisite melodies of renowned composers as you drift away on a journey of introspection and tranquility. From the hauntingly beautiful Piano Sonata no. 14 in C#m 'Moonlight', Op. 27 no. 2 by Beethoven to the emotionally charged Ballade no. 1 in G minor, Op. 23 by Chopin, each piece is carefully curated to evoke profound emotions and elevate your state of mind. Piano Sonata no. 14 in C#m 'Moonlight', Op. 27 no. 2 - I. Ada Piano Sonata no. 8 in C minor 'Pathetique', Op. 13 - I. Grave Nocturne in F sharp minor, Op. 48 no. 2 Ballade no. 1 in G minor, Op. 23 Ballade no. 4 op. 52 Sonata in G Minor No.3, Op 50, |
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82749. Texas Crime Stories: Volume I - Riding Herd On The Lawless : AudiobooksNow : USD7.99 Texas Crime Stories: Riding Herd On The Lawless" is an unflinching exploration of the most perplexing and chilling crimes that have scarred the vast landscape of the Lone Star State. In this gripping anthology |
| 82750. Poses The Full Scope Of Human Depravity. Riggs Brings Listeners Inside Maximum-security Prisons : AudiobooksNow revealing the stories of investigators |
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82751. From Nuclear Weapons To Global Security: 75 Years Of Research And Development At Sandia National Laboratories : AudiobooksNow : USD17.99 Sandia National Laboratories is one of the primary providers of the science, technology, and engineering capabilities needed to ensure both US and global security. Its mandate has moved far beyond its original weapons-centered mission—thedevelopment of nuclear weapons—and now encompasses complex economic,energy, environmental, and nonproliferation issues. From Nuclear Weapons toGlobal Security chronicles the history of Sandia, from its origins during WorldWar II to its current multifaceted role at the forefront of innovation. |
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82752. Two Boys' Amazing, Inspiring Journey, 2nd Edition: A Pathway To Success And Fulfillment In School, Work, And Life : AudiobooksNow : USD8.49 In this book, readers will not only learn the secrets" of serenity |
| 82753. Be In Life To Positively Influence And Motivate All Those Around Them To Live And Act Responsibly And To Strive To Be A Harmonious Team Player In Order To Achieve Spellbinding : AudiobooksNow and cooperative accomplishments in life that one could never fathom achieving by themself or alone and could never imagine possible." |
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82754. Hard-boiled Detective Short Stories : AudiobooksNow : USD2.49 Step into the gritty, smoke-filled world of classic noir with Hard-Boiled Detective Short Stories" |
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82756. Outsmarting Egomaniacs: How To Respond To Narcissists And Master Manipulators : AudiobooksNow : USD8.97 The world is full of toxic people. You don’t have to put up with them.Outsmarting Egomaniacs is the self-help book for people who want to protect themselves from getting bullied, abused, and manipulated in relationships. The scams, cons, cults, and shady situations we watch on TV are happening in real life every day, damaging far too many innocent people.Carla Litto, marriage and family therapist in Los Angeles specializing in relationship issues, specifically Narcissistic Personality Disorder and emotional abuse recovery, breaks down the manipulation tactics that predatory individuals use to confuse you and abuse you.Laugh-out-loud funny and full of insights and strategies, Outsmarting Egomaniacs will help you—•Identify the different types of manipulators in your life•Recognize the manipulation tactics they are using on you•Protect yourself—with strategies and comebacks—from getting manipulatedLearn from this witty professional’s unfiltered take on the psychology behind narcissists, con-artists, and every other specific type of egomaniac you can imagine. You’ll understand what got you stuck in relationships or relational patterns with egomaniacs, how to get unstuck, and how to recognize new egomaniacs coming from a mile away. |
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82757. Basic Shona: An Introductory Language Course : AudiobooksNow : USD19.99 This six-session introductory Shona course provides clear instruction in speaking and understanding the Shona language for complete beginners. The emphasis is on commonly used vocabulary, which becomes more advanced as the course progresses. Shona, a principal language of Zimbabwe and also spoken in parts of Africa, namely Mozambique, Zambia, and Botswana. In total, Shona connects over 10 million speakers. It's not just a means of communication; it's a gateway to understanding the rich cultural heritage and traditions of the Shona people. Learning Shona opens up opportunities for genuine interaction, allowing learners to build relationships, perhaps better understand their own heritage and explore the region's history and art with depth and respect. This audio course is for absolute beginners, laying out a solid foundation in understanding and speaking Shona. With an emphasis on practical usage, the course introduces learners to everyday vocabulary and common phrases structured to facilitate real-life conversations. An extensive range of topics are covered throughout the course starting with basic commonly used words and phrases such as introductions/greetings, numbers and colors and then progressing to a range of more sophisticated topics such as adjectives, health, directions, technology, more advanced conversational topics, business-related expressions and the environment. The audio format ensures that learning can happen anytime, anywhere, whether you're commuting, exercising, or relaxing at home. Plus you can repeat sessions as often as you need to, to attain your target level of comprehension and pronunciation. This flexibility encourages regular practice, a critical factor in language acquisition. If you're looking to learn Shona, this is an ideal way to get started with no prior experience. You will quickly learn key phrases that you can readily put to use in |
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82758. Mastering The New York Accent: Accent Training For The Stage And Screen : AudiobooksNow : USD14.99 This course is designed for actors and performers eager to master the New York accent. This course offers a rich, immersive experience that captures the essence of New York's accent. Dive into the diverse sounds of the city, from the energetic pulse of Manhattan to the distinct vibes of Brooklyn and Queens. This course provides an extensive exploration of the nuances that define the New York accent, including vowel shifts, consonant variations, and the rhythm and melody that set this accent apart. Examples of common New York phrases and expressions are included as well as historic examples. Participants will gain access to a wealth of practical exercises aimed at honing their accent skills, ensuring they can deliver performances with authenticity and confidence. Through engaging audio lessons, you'll learn to navigate the complexities of the accent, incorporating it seamlessly into your acting repertoire. Our curriculum is enriched with real-world dialogues and scenarios, offering a contextual understanding that bridges the gap between learning and practical application. This approach ensures that actors can adapt their new accent skills to various roles, from stage performances to screen acting. Ideal for actors at any stage of their career, this course emphasizes flexibility, allowing learners to progress at their own pace and repeat the sessions as much as needed. Join us to build and extent your accent repertoire, open up casting opportunities, enhance your performances, and embrace the vibrant, dynamic spirit of New York in your acting career. |
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82759. Basic Jordanian Arabic: An Introductory Language Course : AudiobooksNow : USD19.99 Learn Jordanian Arabic through this five session audio course. Jordanian Arabic, a dialect of the broader Levantine Arabic spoken in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, offers a unique window into the traditions, social customs, and daily life of Jordanians. This dialect stands out for its melodious intonation and distinct vocabulary, reflecting Jordan's historical and cultural landscape. This is valuable for those looking to travel, work, or engage in deeper cultural exchanges within Jordan or with Jordanian communities worldwide. Mastering this dialect allows for authentic conversations, a deeper appreciation of Jordanian poetry, music, and folklore, and a more nuanced understanding of the social and political life in Jordan. Furthermore, learning Jordanian Arabic serves as a bridge to other Levantine dialects, enabling learners to communicate across a wider region with ease. The course is designed with an emphasis on speaking and understanding simple words and phrases, making it accessible to beginners with no prior experience in Arabic. Through a series of carefully structured audio lessons, learners are gradually introduced to the sounds and rhythms of Jordanian Arabic, enabling them to build a solid foundation in the language. The audio format is particularly beneficial for those aiming to improve their pronunciation and listening skills. This course lays the groundwork for effective communication and fosters a greater appreciation of the linguistic diversity and cultural richness of the Arab world. |
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82760. Basic French: An Introductory Language Course : AudiobooksNow : USD19.99 This simple 5-session French course is designed for absolute beginners with no prior experience, offering a seamless journey into the French language. It's focused on swiftly enabling you to speak and comprehend key words and phrases, all while refining your French accent. By circumventing unnecessary complexities and grammar rules, this course ensures easy progress. You will grasp basic greetings, numbers, colors, and begin to acquire other vital vocabulary for constructing sentences. This course is the starting point for diving into French at your own pace, armed with easily applicable vocabulary for any French-speaking context. Embarking on this learning adventure opens up the rich tapestry of the French language, celebrated for its global significance in communication, culture, and education. Recognized as the official tongue in 29 diverse nations, French's reach spans across continents—Europe, Africa, North America, to the Pacific Islands—highlighting its unparalleled versatility and global appeal. Beyond its renown as the language of romance and classic literature, French emerges as a pivotal medium in international diplomacy, commerce, and scientific discourse, solidifying its status as one of the UN and European Union's official languages. Its prevalent role in literature, cinema, and the arts further extends its global influence, positioning French as a key to unlocking an array of historical, cultural, and intellectual riches worldwide. This course invites you to start your French journey, promising not just language skills but a gateway to understanding diverse cultures and enhancing international connections. |
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82761. Basic Hindi: A Beginner's Introduction To The Hindi Language : AudiobooksNow : USD24.99 This Hindi language course is designed for individuals with no prior knowledge of the language. The focus is on imparting the ability to understand and use common phrases and expressions essential for basic communication. The course structure is straightforward over 7 sessions, building to more complex phrases and expressions as the sessions progress, ensuring that you can quickly grasp the essentials of conversational Hindi. The curriculum is organized systematically, beginning simple greetings, numbers and colors along with other common phrases. This is followed by the introduction of further vocabulary and simple grammatical structures. The emphasis is on practical usage rather than exhaustive linguistic rules, facilitating immediate application in real-life scenarios. Learners will engage with a selection of common phrases and expressions, organized thematically. This pragmatic approach allows for the swift acquisition of conversational skills, enabling learners to achieve a level of basic communication efficiency. The course methodology relies on repetition and reinforcement, ensuring that learners can retain and utilize the language effectively. Overall, this course offers a no-frills approach to learning Hindi, prioritizing practical communication skills over theoretical knowledge. It is tailored for complete beginners seeking a direct and efficient pathway to understanding and speaking Hindi for everyday purposes. |
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82762. Mandarin Chinese For Tourists: An Introductory Language Course Using Tourist Phrases : AudiobooksNow : USD14.99 If you're travelling to China, whether to the streets of Shanghai to the tranquil landscapes of Guilin, your experience will be significantly enhanced with understanding of the local language targeted at complete beginners to the Mandarin Chinese language with no previous experience. Learning Mandarin Chinese opens doors to cultural insights, deeper connections with locals, and a more intuitive understanding of the country's customs and traditions. This audio course spans over ten sessions or over 3 hours, featuring multiple Mandarin Chinese accents. Starting with basic phrases, it serves as an essential guide for tourists aiming to navigate China's vast and varied landscapes with confidence. By focusing on practical, applicable vocabulary, learners are equipped with skills to engage in everyday greetings and pleasantries, ask for directions, discuss the weather, deal with the internet, currency and entertainment, order food and drinks, and converse in Mandarin after learning a range of key expressions and phrases. The course emphasizes listening comprehension and conversational skills, ensuring that tourists can understand and be understood throughout their Chinese adventures. Understanding Mandarin not only enriches travel experiences but also fosters meaningful interactions and a genuine appreciation for the cultural depth of China. Whether it's negotiating prices in a local market, understanding historical contexts at ancient sites, or simply making a connection with someone new, the ability to communicate in Mandarin can transform a simple visit into something more meaningful. Designed for ease of use, the audio book allows for learning at your own pace, in your own space. From the iconic Great Wall and the Forbidden City to lesser-known gems and local eateries, mastering Mandarin with this audio guide will enhance the quality of your travel experience. |
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82763. Basic Farsi: An Introductory Language Course : AudiobooksNow : USD14.99 Unlock the rich tapestry of Persian culture and history by embarking on a journey to learn Farsi, a language spoken by millions across Iran, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan. This Basic Farsi Language Course is designed for complete beginners. This course is your gateway to achieving basic pronunciation and comprehension in Farsi, empowering you to grasp simple words and phrases that can be put to daily use. Farsi, also known as Persian, is a language of beauty, poetry, and diplomacy. It holds a critical place in the realms of literature, science, and art in the Middle East and Central Asia. Learning Farsi opens doors to a rich cultural heritage. This audio-based course focuses on pronunciation and comprehension. By immersing yourself in the sounds and rhythms of Farsi, you'll develop an ear for the language, helping you to pronounce words correctly and naturally understand simple spoken Farsi. Designed for the complete beginner, the course introduces you to the fundamentals of Farsi without overwhelming you with complex grammar rules or extensive verb conjugation. Instead, we emphasize practical language use, from greeting locals to common words and phrases, making your learning experience both enjoyable and immediately applicable. Embark on this linguistic journey with Basic Farsi and discover not just a new language, but a gateway to a fascinating culture that dates back thousands of years. Whether you're looking to connect with Farsi-speaking friends or family, explore business opportunities in the Persian-speaking world, or simply enrich your skills this course is the first step towards achieving your goals. |
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82764. Basic Georgian: A Beginners Language Course : AudiobooksNow : USD19.99 Start to learn the Georgian language, a treasure of the Caucasus, with this ten-session audio course. This course guides learners from complete beginners to a confident intermediate A2 level at the conclusion of the course, offering additional cultural insights along the way. Georgian, with its unique alphabet and linguistic heritage, stands as a testament to Georgia's rich history and vibrant culture. This audio-course demystifies this beautiful language, making its complex phonetics accessible to all. Through a series of carefully structured pronunciation exercises, learners will master the sounds of Georgian, from its harmonious vowels to its robust consonants, ensuring a solid foundation for effective communication. But language learning is more than just words and grammar; it's about connecting with the culture and soul of a nation. That's why our course delves deep into the heart of Georgian culture. Each session includes cultural insights. These elements not only enrich the learning experience but also provide learners with an understanding of the context in which the language is used. Our comprehensive comprehension exercises are designed to enhance listening skills, enabling learners to grasp spoken Georgian with clarity and confidence. Whether you're a language enthusiast eager to explore the linguistic richness of the Caucasus or someone with Georgian heritage looking to reconnect with your roots, this audio course offers a pathway to achieving linguistic proficiency and cultural appreciation. Join us to unlock the secrets of the Georgian language and immerse yourself in the cultural splendor of Georgia. |
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82765. Basic Norwegian: An Introductory Language Course For Norway : AudiobooksNow : USD14.99 This 5 session simple Norwegian audio course designed for beginners focuses on developing speaking and understanding skills for core words and phrases that can be used in daily interactions. This approach is practical for learners who aim to quickly acquire a foundational level of communication in Norwegian, emphasizing pronunciation, basic vocabulary, and key phrases. The course focuses on topics such as greetings, common questions, numbers and phrases needed for everyday situations. The value of learning Norwegian extends beyond mere communication. Norway is known for its rich cultural heritage, stunning landscapes, and high quality of life. Learning Norwegian opens up opportunities to deeply engage with Norwegian culture, history, and traditions. It enhances the travel experience, allowing travelers to connect more meaningfully with locals, appreciate the nuances of the culture, and navigate the country with greater ease. For those interested in the Nordic countries, Norwegian serves as a gateway language, as it shares similarities with Swedish and Danish, enabling learners to understand some aspects of these languages as well. Traveling to Norway, with its breathtaking fjords, northern lights, and vibrant cities, becomes more enriching with a basic knowledge of the language. It allows travelers to venture beyond tourist hotspots, engage in authentic interactions, and gain insights into the Norwegian way of life. Furthermore, understanding the language fosters a sense of independence and confidence when exploring the country. Learning Norwegian, therefore, is not just about acquiring a new language skill; it's about enhancing one's experience and forming a deeper connection with Norway's culture and people. |
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82766. Basic Hawaiian: Learn Simple Words And Phrases For Hawaii : AudiobooksNow : USD14.99 This quick, fun, and engaging language course is your first step toward immersing yourself in the rich tapestry of Hawaiian culture and language. Tailored specifically for complete beginners, this course unfolds across five straightforward sessions, each designed to introduce you to the vibrant world of ‘?lelo Hawai‘i (Hawaiian language) in an accessible and enjoyable manner. The importance of the Hawaiian language extends far beyond mere communication; it is a gateway to understanding the spiritual and cultural heritage of Hawaii's indigenous people. Learning Hawaiian opens up a unique worldview, emphasizing respect for nature, community, and the interconnectedness of all things, principles that are deeply embedded in the Aloha spirit. By engaging with this course, you're starting to explore a way of life that has sustained the islands and their inhabitants for generations. This course is deliberately structured to help you pick up simple, useful words and phrases that you can easily put to use every day. Whether you're interacting with residents, or simply expressing gratitude, the language skills you develop here will enrich your experiences on the islands, allowing you to connect more deeply with the essence of Hawaii. Learning Hawaiian, even at a basic level, is an act of cultural appreciation and respect. It signifies a willingness to understand and participate in the local culture, an approach that is highly valued by the Hawaiian community. It's also a way to contribute to the revitalization of a language that, like many indigenous languages, has faced challenges over the years. As you progress through the course, you'll find that each session builds on the last, gradually expanding your vocabulary and confidence. By the end of this course, you'll have a foundational understanding of Hawaiian. |
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82767. Euroshock: How The Largest Debt Restructuring In History Helped Save Greece And Preserve The Eurozone : AudiobooksNow : USD22.49 In the fall of 2009, the world economy was beginning to recover from the global financial crisis that had shaken global markets and had led to a sharp recession. At the same time, Europe was entering a new phase of economic stress.By the spring of 2011, the European economy had exploded into a full-blown crisis with Greece at the center. The euro, a currency just over a decade old, was under severe pressure and there was growing speculation about Greece leaving the Eurozone and thereby fracturing the common currency, leading potentially to an unraveling of the euro.Against this backdrop, urgent negotiations were launched to pull Greece and Europe back from the brink of disaster. This is the inside story of those negotiations. |
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82768. The Last Word On Power: Executive Re-invention For Leaders Who Must Make The Impossible Happen : AudiobooksNow : USD11.49 How leaders can achieve something meaningful—transform a brand, a workplace, a technology, themselves—beyond holding an influential position.Do you want to do work that is worthy of your time and talent? Do you want to make your mark on your industry, company, or within your community? Are you satisfied with the fact that reengineering, quality improvements, and other changes never really make a lasting impact? Then you need to go beyond the techniques of improvement and learn the skills that it takes to be extraordinary. The power to be extraordinary is not one we are born with. Rather, it is a power that one can learn, and Tracy Goss helps executives realize this power. Here in this book for the first time, Goss makes her coursework available to the general reader.Goss's unique methodology shows how you how you can put at risk the success you've become for the power of making the impossible happen." She positions executives to take on the future that they dream about. She teaches how to behave differently so that you are free of past constraints. She shows how you can be at home in the environment in which you are constantly surrounded by threats |
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82769. Who's Got Your Back?: An Entrepreneurial Odyssey In Business Growth And Life Fulfillment : AudiobooksNow : USD7.99 It made sense for Abigail Dresden to help her father with his porta potty business when reconstructive surgery on her knee ended her career as a dancer – but CEO? They claim that she's a natural, but she has felt like a fraud all along. Witth no one to talk to, her life was spiraling out of control until she met a so-called CEO-whisperer named Saul and his larger-than-life group of CEO's that she'd never have dared to call peers. Can she pull her health, business, and relationship out of a tailspin and regain some balance in her life? Perhaps, but certainly not alone. |
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82770. Prisoner Of Hope: Captured By Grace : AudiobooksNow : USD7.47 We were all hanging out at the house, laughing, joking, and playing games when the phone rang. Mrs. Tuma, is this Mrs. Tuma? Yes |
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82771. Intoxicating Lies: One Womans Journey To Freedom From Gray Area Drinking : AudiobooksNow : USD8.49 Earned First Place for Delaware Press Association (DPA) Communications Contest 2023 Meg never hit a rock bottom. Most people think that in order to acknowledge and address a drinking problem, you must first hit rock bottom, but this heartfelt story reveals the truth that gray area drinking comes in many shades. Alcohol consumption exists on a spectrum with a vast range of dependency in the middle. Gray area drinking unconsciously haunts most people until it becomes a problem. Our society is inundated with messages that support unhealthy drinking habits, just one of the many insidious lies of alcohol. Intoxicating Lies, you will find the relatable story of one mom’s journey to freedom—not only from gray area drinking but also from the shame and guilt that crushed her sense of worth and inner knowing. This book uncovers surprising insights into the alcohol industry and our society’s obsession with the mommy wine culture. With practical advice and friendly wisdom from a mom who has seen it all, this book should be every woman’s guide to living in authentic freedom from alcohol’s intoxicating lies. |
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82772. Not Less Than Everything: One Mans Quest For Spiritual Enlightenment : AudiobooksNow : USD12.49 When it comes to spirituality and life |
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82774. Global Warming: The Great Deception : AudiobooksNow : USD9.97 WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER Global Warming: The Great Deception-The Triumph of Dollars and Politics Over Science and Why You Should Care is the definitive work on the subject of anthropogenic (man-made) global warming. Guy Mitchell, a businessman with the mind of a scientist, takes a holistic approach and combines scientific analysis with an in-depth review of the political and economic aspects of the subject. He uses proven science and scientific facts to refute every claim of the climate alarmists and proponents of the man-made global warming hypothesis. He exposes the true reasons that the UN, certain politicians, and global investment firms promote global warming fraud. His analysis is an unbiased, scientifically based, insightful, no-holds-barred approach to the subject. Mitchell employs his keen sense of business acumen to expose the real drivers behind the claims of man-made global warming: research funding, politics, and global economics. Over $1 trillion worldwide has been spent on global warming research with nothing of substance to show for it. Certain politicians in the US and Western Europe embrace the fraudulent hypothesis with no apparent understanding of the science or the socioeconomic impact that the abandonment of fossil fuels would have on the world economy or the reliability of the power grids that drive it. Why do the U.N. and certain politicians in the U.S. and Western Europe continue to promote the fraudulent global warming hypothesis? It is all about the money - money for research and to affect socio-economic change. For many politicians, it is all about the power - the power to control the lives of the electorate. Power is the ultimate narcotic. And money follows power in politics. |
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82775. Everyday Leadership: You Will Make A Difference : AudiobooksNow : USD3.04 Whether you are 8 or 80 years old, YOU can demonstrate Everyday Leadership. Maybe you are in a leadership role or maybe you put the concept of leadership on some pedestal that you admire from afar. Either way, in Everyday Leadership, Brian Unell provides stories and ideas that brings leadership down to ground level for you to use as a parent, teacher, coach, clergy member, doctor, camp counselor, nurse, patient, pilot, flight attendant, passenger, team member, associate, supervisor, manager, director, business executive, or any role where you interact with others. Brian shares concepts which allow you to become a better leader by improving your communication and approaching each situation with the appropriate mindset. By focusing on these two areas, Brian doles out real-life stories, ideas, along with just the right amount of research to allow you to obtain results for yourself and positively impact those you encounter, in any setting, from the boardroom to the playroom, the locker room to the ballroom, the classroom to the emergency room, and even the virtual meeting room. |
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82776. Dear Leader: Your Flagship Guide To Successful Leadership : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 Leadership is a skill that anyone, anywhere can learn. Leaders everywhere have the ability to serve and influence others for the greater good. It’s our duty to guide our teams, families, organizations, and nations to achieve great goals, and to be successful leaders while standing on our own character to model the competence and capacity we wish to see in those we lead. By using the tools in this book, you can sharpen your skill set, activate your core values, become innovative and inspiring, make plans for your future development, and envision possibilities beyond your imagination. Even if you start with very little, you can still achieve personal growth and professional goals if your head and your heart are in the right place. Become the architect of your own leadership success story! |
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82777. The Remarkable Rescue At Milkweed Meadow : AudiobooksNow : USD4.99 Butternut is a young rabbit who loves storytelling, is prone to adventures, yet troubled by dark fears that she refers to as her “brambles.” Despite her mother’s advice to stick to her own kind, when Butternut befriends an exuberant young robin named Piper, the two companions soon find themselves growing ever more ready to help creatures in trouble. Reminiscent of the beloved classics WATERSHIP DOWN and RABBIT HILL, but utterly unique in its vision, this tough and tender novel is illuminated by a love for the natural world as seen through a rabbit’s eyes. Audie Award winning narrator Tavia Gilbert provides a warm and joyful performance for this charming tale of courage, compassion, and community. |
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82778. The Ghost In The Third Row : AudiobooksNow : USD4.49 For sixth-grader Nina Tanleven, trying out for a part in a play is pretty scary. But nothing can compare to seeing a ghost, a woman in white, sitting in the audience! Nina senses that she has nothing to fear from this apparition, but she is intrigued. Nina learns that fifty years ago, a beautiful actress was murdered--on this very stage! According to legend, she has haunted the theater ever since....Strange things begin to happen---scripts are ripped up, sets are knocked down, a costume is torn to pieces--and everyone thinks that the ghost wants to stop the show from going on. Everyone, that is, except for Nina and her best friend, Chris, who decide to do some ghost hunting of their own. But only the Woman in White can lead them to the answer! |
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82779. A Bedtime Story And A Lullaby: Raggedy Ann And The Kittens & Wishing On A Star : AudiobooksNow : USD1.99 Are you cosy? It's time for a bedtime story. Join us as we follow Raggedy Ann as she discovers a magical surprise in the story of Raggedy Ann and the Kittens" by Johnny Gruelle. The drift off to sleep to the calming music box lullaby "Wishing on a Star" by Earth Fon Sakda. " |
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82780. A Bedtime Story And A Lullaby: Sometimes The Wind Can Be Magical & My Grandfather's Clock : AudiobooksNow : USD1.99 Hold onto your teddy as we join the Hedgerow Gang on a magical windy night in “Sometimes the Wind Can Be Magical”. Then snuggle into your duvet to the soothing instrumental lullaby “My Grandfather's Clock” by Jame Ornlamai. |
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82781. Andrew Lang's Enchanting Fairy Tales : AudiobooksNow : USD4.99 Grab your teddy and settle down to some enchanting fair tales from Andrew Lang. These fairy tales have been told to children for generations and will have your little ones dreaming of magical kingdoms. |
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82782. Storytime For Flights : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 A selection of magical stories to entertain your children whilst you are waiting at the airport and are flying to your holiday. |
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82783. A Bedtime Story And A Lullaby: The Dirty Shepherdess & Over The Rainbow : AudiobooksNow : USD1.99 Get cosy in bed and join us in a magical kingdom as we settle down for the Andrew Lang’s classic fairytale The Dirty Shepherdess” |
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82784. A Bedtime Story And A Lullaby: How The Camel Got His Hump & Merry-go-round : AudiobooksNow : USD1.99 Settle down for the day to on of Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories “How the Camel Got His Hump”, where we meet a camel that refuses to do anything he is told to do. After that, snuggle up in bed for the soothing instrumental lullaby Merry-Go-Round" by Earth Kunchai. " |
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82785. Children's Bedtime Fairy Tales : AudiobooksNow : USD3.49 Have you got yourself a nice cup of hot chocolate? Settle down for the day to a collection of classic fairy tales from your favourite authors; the Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen, Andrew Lang and Flora Annie Steel. |
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82786. Animal Stories & Lullabies For Children : AudiobooksNow : USD4.99 Get ready for bed with a selection of magical short stories from the animal world, accompanied by some gentle lullabies to allow your little ones drift off to a deep slumber. |
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82787. Princess Bedtime Stories : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 Settle down for quiet time to a collection of magical princess tales that will transport your little one on amazing adventures within magical kingdoms. These tales will captivate your child and allow them to believe they are royal princesses and princes in their own magical kingdoms, as they drift off to sleep. |
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82788. Short Stories For Kids : AudiobooksNow : USD3.49 A collection of magical short stories to entertain children and to allow you to create lasting memories whilst you and your little one settle down for quiet time. |
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82789. A Bedtime Story And A Lullaby: The Elderbush & When A Star Falls In Your Bed : AudiobooksNow : USD1.99 Do you like jumping in muddy puddles? The little boy in this tale clearly does, so turn down the lights and immerse yourself in the well loved tale of “The Elderbush” by Hans Christian Andersen, then settle down to the soothing lullaby When a Star Falls (In Your Bed)" sung by Bella Butterfly. " |
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82790. Rip Van Winkle : AudiobooksNow : USD2.99 Can you imagine sleeping for twenty years? In this story by Washington Irving, Rip Van Winkle wakes up to discover that the world is a very different place. What has he missed while he slept? |
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82791. The Man In The Moon : AudiobooksNow : USD0.99 Have you seen the man in the moon? Do you think it must get lonely up there? In this story the Man in the Moon decides to come to earth in search of porridge and some company. |
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82792. Animal Stories For Kids : AudiobooksNow : USD2.99 Do you have any pets? Settle down to a collection of magical animal stories that will leave your little one dreaming of bunnies, puppies and chickens. |
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82793. The Gospel Of Nicodemus Or Acts Of Pilate: M.r. James Translation 1924 : AudiobooksNow : USD1.49 The Book of Nicodemus |
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82794. The Elf Of The Rose And Other Tales : AudiobooksNow : USD2.49 The Elf of The Rose is a story by Hans Christian Andersen about a girl who falls in love with an elf. The elf is from the rose, and he has been watching over the girl since she was born. He is in love with her, and he wants to protect her. However, the girl is afraid of him because she doesn't understand what he is. Eventually, she comes to understand that the elf is trying to help her, and she falls in love with him too. |
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82795. The Mysterious Stranger : AudiobooksNow : USD2.49 The Mysterious Stranger is a story by Mark Twain that tells the tale of a mysterious stranger who comes to a small town and changes the lives of its residents. It is difficult to understand what exactly is happening. However, it seems as though the stranger is a force for good, and he helps the townspeople to become better people. Ultimately, the mystery of the stranger's identity remains unsolved, but his impact on the town is clear. |
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82796. The Princess And The Pea And Other Tales : AudiobooksNow : USD2.49 Embark on a whimsical journey with The Princess and The Pea and Other Tales" by Hans Christian Andersen |
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82797. The Secret Garden : AudiobooksNow : USD2.49 Unlock the magic of The Secret Garden" by Frances Hodgson Burnett |
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82798. A Little Princess : AudiobooksNow : USD2.49 Journey into the poignant world of A Little Princess" by Frances Hodgson Burnett |
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82799. Little Lord Fauntleroy : AudiobooksNow : USD2.49 Delve into the heartwarming tale of Little Lord Fauntleroy" by Frances Hodgson Burnett |
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82800. Tarzan : AudiobooksNow : USD2.49 Step into the wild and thrilling world of Tarzan" by Edgar Rice Burroughs |
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82801. The Haunted Man And The Ghost's Bargain : AudiobooksNow : USD2.49 Professor Redlaw, haunted by sorrowful memories, encounters a spectral double offering to erase his pain. Accepting the ghost’s bargain unravels hidden consequences, affecting those around him. Through spectral encounters and moral revelations, Dickens' tale explores the enduring power of memory, forgiveness, and the human spirit's resilience. |
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82802. The Battle Of Life: A Love Story : AudiobooksNow : USD2.49 Dive into the poignant and uplifting tale of The Battle of Life: A Love Story" by Charles Dickens. Set in an idyllic English village |
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82803. The Cricket On The Hearth: A Fairy Tale Of Home : AudiobooksNow : USD2.49 Step into the cozy world of The Cricket on the Hearth: A Fairy Tale of Home" by Charles Dickens. Follow the lives of John Peerybingle |
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82804. The Chimes: A Goblin Story : AudiobooksNow : USD2.49 Step into the world of The Chimes: A Goblin Story" by Charles Dickens |
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82805. The Bostonians : AudiobooksNow : USD3.99 The Bostonians" by Henry James is a thought-provoking novel that revolves around the spirited feminist |
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82806. The Aspern Papers : AudiobooksNow : USD2.49 The Aspern Papers" by Henry James is a gripping novella centered around the literary intrigue of an ambitious American editor |
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82807. What Is Art? : AudiobooksNow : USD2.49 In What Is Art?" |
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82808. The Critique Of Practical Reason : AudiobooksNow : USD1.99 In 'The Critique of Practical Reason,' Immanuel Kant embarks on a pioneering exploration of moral philosophy. Here, Kant lays down the cornerstones of ethical behavior, propelled by the famous 'categorical imperative' that guides actions by universal maxims. This work delves into the nature of free will, the concept of duty, and the moral law within, presenting a compelling argument for autonomy and rationality in ethical decision-making. A foundational text, it is essential for understanding moral agency and integrity. Read in English, unabridged. |
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82809. One Thousand Ways To Make Money : AudiobooksNow : USD3.49 One Thousand Ways to Make Money" by Page Fox is a comprehensive guidebook offering innovative and practical strategies for financial success. From traditional ventures like entrepreneurship and real estate to modern avenues such as e-commerce and freelancing |
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82810. On Benefits : AudiobooksNow : USD2.99 In 'On Benefits', Seneca delves into the art of giving and receiving, crafting a timeless discourse on the ethics of generosity. Lucid and profound, this treatise examines not just the act, but the intent behind kindness, and the bonds it forms or breaks within society. Seneca’s exploration extends to gratitude, its importance, and its challenges, making this work a philosophical gem on the nuances of benevolence and its reverberating effects on human connections and moral obligations. |
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82811. Human Nature And Conduct: An Introduction To Social Psychology : AudiobooksNow : USD3.49 Explore the depths of human behaviour with John Dewey's 'Human Nature and Conduct.' This masterful treatise delves into social psychology, dissecting the forces shaping our actions and society. Dewey's keen insights illuminate the intricate dance between individual impulses and the social fabric, drawing on philosophy and psychology. A thought-provoking exploration of ethics, habit, and the potential for human betterment, this book is a beacon for those seeking to understand the complexities of human nature and societal dynamics. Read in English, unabridged. |
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82812. How We Think : AudiobooksNow : USD2.99 How We Think" by John Dewey is a pivotal exploration into the mechanics of thought and its critical role in education. Dewey dissects the process of reflective thinking into clear stages |
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82813. Society And Solitude : AudiobooksNow : USD3.49 In Society and Solitude |
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82814. Other People's Money, And How The Bankers Use It : AudiobooksNow : USD2.49 In Other People's Money |
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82815. How To Get On In The World: A Ladder To Practical Success : AudiobooksNow : USD3.49 How to Get on in the World: A Ladder to Practical Success" by A. R. Calhoun is a comprehensive guide offering practical insights for achieving success in various aspects of life. From career advancement and financial strategies to interpersonal skills and personal development |
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82816. Studies In Self Culture And Character: A Man's Value To Society : AudiobooksNow : USD2.49 Studies in Self Culture and Character: A Man's Value to Society" delves into individual development's societal significance. Hillis explores personal growth's ripple effects |
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82817. As A Matter Of Course : AudiobooksNow : USD2.49 As a Matter of Course" by Annie Payson Call is a timeless guide to mastering life's challenges through practical wisdom. It offers insights on developing positive habits |
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82818. Acres Of Diamonds : AudiobooksNow : USD2.49 Acres of Diamonds" by Russell H. Conwell is a motivational classic that conveys the idea that opportunities for success are often right in front of us. Conwell shares a parable about a man who travels the world in search of wealth |
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82819. A Young Girl's Diary : AudiobooksNow : USD3.49 A Young Girl's Diary" by Sigmund Freud offers a compelling psychological exploration of adolescence through the intimate diary entries of a teenage girl. Freud delves into the girl's inner world |
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82820. Coastal Waves And Forest Birds: Nature's Melodies For Peaceful Meditation : AudiobooksNow : USD2.49 Dive into tranquillity with Coastal Waves and Forest Birds |
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82821. Waves And Earth Vibrations: Seaside Harmony For Inner Peace And Meditation : AudiobooksNow : USD2.49 Indulge in the serene harmony of Waves and Earth Vibrations |
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82822. Rolling Waves And Boulders: Nature's Symphony For Sleep And Meditation : AudiobooksNow : USD2.49 Rolling Waves and Boulders" offers a serene symphony for rest and meditation. Recorded in Maui |
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82823. Ocean Waves On Sandy Shores: Calming Coastal Ambiance For Yoga And Relaxation : AudiobooksNow : USD2.49 Enter the serene allure of Ocean Waves on Sandy Shores." This audio transports you to tranquil coastal bliss |
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82824. Applied Psychology: Making Your Own World : AudiobooksNow : USD2.49 Applied Psychology: Making Your Own World" by Warren Hilton delves into practical techniques for harnessing the power of the mind to achieve success and happiness. It explores methods for self-improvement |
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82825. The Emotion Of Love Between The Sexes : AudiobooksNow : USD2.49 The Emotion of Love Between the Sexes" by Sanford Bell explores the intricate dynamics of romantic love. Through insightful analysis |
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82826. Every Man His Own University : AudiobooksNow : USD2.49 Every Man His Own University" by Russell H. Conwell is a motivational masterpiece advocating self-education and personal development. Conwell encourages readers to harness their innate potential |
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82827. The Pilgrim's Progress : AudiobooksNow : USD2.49 The Pilgrim's Progress, written by John Bunyan, is a classic work of Christian allegory. Published in 1678, it narrates the journey of the protagonist, Christian, from the City of Destruction to the Celestial City. Laden with symbolism, the novel explores themes of faith, salvation, and the trials faced on the path to righteousness. As Christian encounters various characters such as Evangelist and faces challenges like the Slough of Despond, the narrative serves as an allegorical depiction of the Christian life. The enduring impact of Bunyan's masterpiece lies in its timeless reflections on the spiritual journey. Read in English, unabridged. |
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82828. Bunyan : AudiobooksNow : USD2.49 Bunyan" is a biographical work that delves into the life of John Bunyan |
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82829. Business Hints : AudiobooksNow : USD2.49 Business Hints" by A. R. Calhoun is a practical guide offering valuable insights into various aspects of business management. From effective communication and decision-making to financial strategies |
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82830. The Seeming Unreality Of The Spiritual Life : AudiobooksNow : USD2.49 The Seeming Unreality of the Spiritual Life" by Henry Churchill King delves into the challenges of embracing a spiritual existence in the modern world. King explores the apparent disconnect between the material and spiritual realms |
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82831. The Free Press : AudiobooksNow : USD2.49 The Free Press" by Hilaire Belloc critically examines the role of the press in modern society. Belloc delves into the impact of media ownership on information dissemination and the potential consequences for democracy. Through his insightful analysis |
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82832. Creating Capital : AudiobooksNow : USD2.49 Creating Capital" explores the fundamental concept of money-making as a central goal in business. Frederick L. Lipman delves into strategic approaches for generating capital |
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82833. Moral Principles And Medical Practice : AudiobooksNow : USD1.99 Moral Principles and Medical Practice" by Charles Coppens explores the ethical dimensions of medical care. Coppens delves into the intersection of morality and medical science |
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82834. 12 Easy Steps To Change Your Life: Stop Waiting For That Big Thing!"" : AudiobooksNow : USD14.99 What are you waiting for?Many people spend their lives waiting for that one big thing. They dream of thesingle moment that will change their life forever. They often look for quick solutions like buying lottery tickets or “get rich quick” schemes, hoping for an instant transformation.?It’s time to challenge this thinking. Are you ready to try something different? Are you seeking a better life for yourself and your family?You can achieve great success in life, in your career, and in your relationships by taking care of the little things—to reach that big milestone. In this book you will learn: THE SIMPLE WAY TO ACHIEVE BIG GOALS HOW SMALL STEPS CAN MAKE A DRAMATIC IMPACT IN YOUR LIFEWAYS TO LIVE WITH ABUNDANCE, NO MATTER WHO YOU ARE A MORNING ROUTINE THAT SETS YOU UP FOR SUCCESS HOW TO EASILY BECOME AN AUTHORITY IN YOUR FIELDAN EASY TECHNIQUE TO GET PEOPLE TO LIKE YOU WHY YOU NEED TO DO WHAT BRINGS YOU JOY THE MAGIC WORD THAT IS THE KEY TO SUCCESS …AND MUCH, MUCH MORE.Brian Proctor, best-selling author and coach, will help you step out of your comfort zone and embrace the life you’ve always dreamed of by providing easy-to-understand concepts that you can use right now to make your life better, richer, and more joyful. |
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82835. The Secret Garden Enhanced Edition : AudiobooksNow : USD4.97 This enhanced edition is designed for headphones only to give you a truly immersive listening experience. In this L.A. Theatre Works original commission, playwright Jeanne Sakata has created a new audio adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnett’s beloved classic. Mary Lennox is an orphaned 10-year-old who is sent to live with her uncle in his country house on the moors. Her new life is almost unbearable, but when she hears stories of the estate’s mysterious, abandoned garden she’s determined to discover its secrets. Recorded at The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood in June 2024. Directed by Jessica Kubzansky Producing Director: Susan Albert Loewenberg An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast recording, starring: Jonathan Charles as Colin Craven, British Army Officer Shannon Cochran as Mrs. Medlock, Regina Crawford, Susan Sowerby Adhir Kalyan as Archibald Craven, Servant Ramji Alma Marian as Mary Lennox Cerris Morgan-Moyer as Martha Sowerby, Rose Lennox, Lily Craven and second Crawford Child Alastair James Murden as Dickon Sowerby, Captain Lennox, and first Crawford Child Ian Ogilvy as Ben Weatherstaff, Doctor, Innskeeper, British Army Officer, Pastor Edward Crawford Lina Patel as Ayah Lakshmi Senior Producer: Anna Lyse Erikson Technical Producer: Mark Holden Recorded and edited by Neil Wogenson at The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood Designed and Mixed by: Charles Carroll Assistant Designer: Chloe Foster Foley Artist: Mark Holden Foley Engineer: Chloe Foster Senior R |
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82836. The Fever Syndrome : AudiobooksNow : USD3.47 Professor Richard Myers, now in his 70s and suffering from advanced Parkinson’s disease, is about to receive a lifetime achievement award for his work in the development of in-vitro fertilization. That calls for a family reunion, and given this high-functioning, dysfunctional family, there’s bound to be trouble ahead. As they gather, old resentments erupt as they fight over Richard’s legacy while facing another family member’s serious illness. Incudes a conversation with playwright Alexis Zegerman. This play is part of L.A. Theatre Works’ Relativity Series of science-themed plays. Lead funding for the Relativity Series is provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, bridging science and the arts in the modern world. Recorded at The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood in December 2023. Directed by Sarah Drew Producing Director: Susan Albert Loewenberg An L.A. Theatre Works full cast recording, starring: Hugo Armstrong as Professor Richard Myers Seamus Dever as Thomas Myers Sarah Drew as the voice of Karen Patrick Heusinger as Anthony Myers Kelly McCreary as Dot Myers-Cooper Monica McSwain as Lily Cooper and Young Dot Matthew Floyd Miller as Nate Cooper Desean K. Terry as Phillip Tennyson Joanne Whalley as Megan Myers. Senior Producer: Anna Lyse Erikson Prepared for audio by Mark Holden. Recorded, designed, and mixed by Charles Carroll, and edited by Neil Wogensen for The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood. Piano music and musical characters adapted and performed by |
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82837. The Secret Garden : AudiobooksNow : USD3.47 In this L.A. Theatre Works original commission, playwright Jeanne Sakata has created a new audio adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnett’s beloved classic. Mary Lennox is an orphaned 10-year-old who is sent to live with her uncle in his country house on the moors. Her new life is almost unbearable, but when she hears stories of the estate’s mysterious, abandoned garden she’s determined to discover its secrets. Recorded at The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood in June 2024. Directed by Jessica Kubzansky Producing Director: Susan Albert Loewenberg An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast recording, starring: Jonathan Charles as Colin Craven, British Army Officer Shannon Cochran as Mrs. Medlock, Regina Crawford, Susan Sowerby Adhir Kalyan as Archibald Craven, Servant Ramji Alma Marian as Mary Lennox Cerris Morgan-Moyer as Martha Sowerby, Rose Lennox, Lily Craven and second Crawford Child Alastair James Murden as Dickon Sowerby, Captain Lennox, and first Crawford Child Ian Ogilvy as Ben Weatherstaff, Doctor, Innskeeper, British Army Officer, Pastor Edward Crawford Lina Patel as Ayah Lakshmi Senior Producer: Anna Lyse Erikson Technical Producer: Mark Holden Recorded and edited by Neil Wogenson at The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood Designed and Mixed by: Charles Carroll Assistant Designer: Chloe Foster Foley Artist: Mark Holden Foley Engineer: Chloe Foster Senior Radio Producer: Ronn Lipkin Cultural Consultant: Lina Patel |
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82838. Catch And Keep: A Novel : AudiobooksNow : USD9.49 A friends-to-lovers romance that’s magically both hot and wholesome. Cozy |
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82840. No Common Sense:: Donald J. Trump And The Big Bad Government : AudiobooksNow : USD4.99 You are cordially invited to participate in my absurd but heartfelt attempt to help save this nation from corruption, stupidity, and evil beings of one sort or another. No Common Sense is a genre-bending political satire-based update of Founding Father Thomas Paine’s original Common Sense. An argument and a declaration for independence and freedom from a totalitarian king. Using my fake but funny original concept, a reality fairytale about Donald Trump and the big bad government, I try to enlighten and humor my readers about the need to stand up to a terminally corrupt and authoritarian federal government. Our unique freedoms and rights as American citizens are in danger. Like the classic Common Sense, No Common Sense is concise, around 34,000 words, and aspires to motivate Americans as the original did in 1776.A couple hundred million people either love or love to hate Donald Trump, and would be interested in this book. Whether you love or hate him, he is currently being piled on by our out-of-control federal government. He has been persecuted, harassed, and setup for the past eight years. If an ex-president of the United States and current front-runner for a second term can be targeted for prosecution, then who is safe? He has been spied on, fraudulently setup numerous times, had his property raided, family and associates, including his attorneys, harassed, and threatened. Trump is now uniquely charged with crimes no one else has ever been charged with. He is eligible for well over 700 years in prison, if convicted. Imagine what the government could do to any one of us. |
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82841. From Tension To Transformation: A Leader's Guide To Generative Change : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 How do we embrace being generative to sustain excellence in the workplace? The modern working world doesn't leave much time for reflection. Leaders in particular are encouraged to speed ahead, make quick decisions, and seek swift solutions to any problem that may arise. However, the full-speed-ahead approach can backfire. By taking time to pause and reflect, it’s possible to notice new pathways and develop innovative solutions that allow for impactful results. Executive coach Janet M. Harvey has worked with leaders and teams around the world to explore the common tensions that arise in the workplace. Her conclusion? Tension in the workplace is inevitable. It’s how you navigate it that determines whether you will sustain excellence—or flame out. In this book, Janet explores the vehicle of generative change as one way to navigate tension in the workplace. Using real-life case studies and personal anecdotes, she compiles decades of her work as a coach to introduce readers to the vehicle of generative change. Each chapter includes activities and reflection exercises, making this an actionable guide that anyone can use to explore the value of generative change for themselves. |
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82842. The Empowerment Project: Grow Your People, Grow Your Business : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 Empowered Employees Are the Key to Business Growth Many business leaders focus only on satisfying their customers as the best way to grow their business. Makes sense, right? Chad Peterman, President and CEO of Peterman Brothers, sees it differently. In his engaging new book, The Empowerment Project, Peterman delves into the concept of empowering employees by creating a supportive corporate culture, giving employees the authority to make decisions, providing training and career path planning, and showing employees that mistakes are opportunities for learning and growth. In Peterman’s view, an outgrowth of employees feeling empowered and trusted is that they will provide excellent customer service, and through satisfied customers, the business will experience nonstop growth. His results speak for themselves. In 1986, Chad’s father started Peterman Heating, Cooling & Plumbing, a one-man operation in Beech Grove, IN. Chad and his brother Tyler joined his father in 2011 and took the company to the next level, with 600 employees across 11 locations and revenues of $110 million. |
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82843. Foundational Leadership: Growth Doesn't Start At The Top : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 Have you ever wondered how to lead your teams effectively? In Foundational Leadership, Robert Griggs shares the story of his encounter with Jack Stack, author of The Great Game of Business. This first interaction changed Robert’s life and it formed the basis for an entirely different way to view leadership – one where leaders led with an open book and were willing to share the ins and outs of how a company was run.
As Robert shares, this approach, while unsettling in the early days of its implementation at Trinity Products, completely changed the way he and his team did business. Through the utilization of concepts such as profit sharing, benchmarks, scoreboards, and continuous improvement, Robert has created a company that continues to grow from year to year. |
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82844. Gather The Olives: On Food And Hope And The Holy Land : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 Gather the Olives is a dangerous book. That’s because it is about peace in a timewhen peace in the Holy Land is a faraway |
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82845. Has Brought Together A Collection Ofintimate Portraits Of The People : AudiobooksNow a traditionalShabbat dinner at an ancient home within the walls of the Old City |
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82846. When Business Is Love: The Spirit Of Hastens: At Work, At Play, And Everywhere In Your Life : AudiobooksNow : USD19.97 When Business Is Love tells the story of Jan Ryde’s mission to create the world’s finest beds and to operate his fifth-generation business, Hastens, on the basis of love. Listeners are invited on a transformative journey, tracing the evolution of Hastens from its humble beginnings to a beloved global brand. With Jon Hamm's engaging narration, the audiobook presents a compelling case for how love can be a powerful driving force in business, pushing listeners to ponder the motivational question that fuels the Hastens team: How good do you want to have it?" This audiobook is not just a business narrative; it's an inspiring story about the power of love and passion in sha |
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82849. The Lie: Unraveling The Myth: Evolution/millions Of Years : AudiobooksNow : USD7.99 Christianity is Under Massive Attack How will you and the coming generations stand firm and uphold the truth of God’s Word when the culture is forcefully demanding you believe lies? In this updated edition of The Lie: Unraveling the Myth of Evolution/Millions of Years, Ken Ham exposes how the acceptance of evolution and millions of years has eroded belief in God as Creator. This issue is crucial to understanding modern worldview dilemmas, including gender and sexuality, abortion, racism, and the mass exodus from the church. Why is the Christian church losing ground in its battle with the secular world? Thousands of church leaders are nearing a dangerous precipice—the denial of the Bible's full authority and accuracy from its very first verse. Originally published in 1987, The Lie boldly predicted this trend. This compelling book is a must-read for all Christians, providing crucial answers to common questions from unbelievers and offering advice for parents preparing their children to face a rebellious secular world. Chapters include: Crumbling FoundationsThe Evil Fruit of Evolutionary ThinkingEvangelism in a Pagan WorldWake Up, Shepherds!Creation, Flood, and Coming FireThe Lie is more than just a book; it is a call to action inviting the body of Christ to stand firm in their Christian faith, reject the lie of evolution, and uphold the truth of God’s Word from the very beginning. As Romans 1:20-23 (NKJV) warns, those who reject God's truth are without excuse and their hearts are darkened. Will you stand firm and uphold the truth of God's Word? |
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82850. The Way Of The Satisfied Woman: Reclaiming Feminine Power : AudiobooksNow : USD12.47 EXPLORE THE FULLEST POTENTIAL OF YOUR POWER AS A WOMAN Although women today have greater opportunity to make our own choices, build independent lives, and craft powerful careers, we all too often forge our path by following the trajectory laid out by men. By emulating what men identify as desirable goals and strategies, we deny our truest, most innate feminine qualities and desires. The Way of the Satisfied Woman offers an alternative path for women, and for any person who cares to focus more on the feminine than the masculine. The path of the feminine is simply different — perfect in its own right yet integral and complementary to the path of the masculine. Alanna Kaivalya shows how embodying feminine energy sets us free, relaxes us, and allows us to more completely manifest the things that are most important to us, including connection, communion, and compassion. The Way of the Satisfied Woman explores: • definitions of feminine and masculine energies that embrace gender differences and affirm the experience of the modern woman • prominent qualities of the feminine as represented by mythological archetypes and modern psychology • ways of redefining the feminine in modern language, ideas, and arenas, including intimate relationships, career, family, success, community, and legacy • the relationship between masculine and feminine and its manifestations in intimate partnerships It is time for women to take our place in the world and embrace the power, potency, and purpose of the feminine, which will profoundly impact not just our own lives, but the balance of all life around us. |
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82851. The Beginner's Guide To Karma: How To Live With Less Negativity And More Peace : AudiobooksNow : USD9.97 Twenty-six centuries ago, the Buddha fleshed out the universal law of the spiritual realm: karma, which holds that our actions, our words, and even our thoughts inevitably produce effects that return to us in some form — in this lifetime or a future one. In The Beginner’s Guide to Karma, Lama Lhanang Rinpoche and Mordy Levine encourage readers to forget what they’ve heard about karma and look at the subject afresh. Delving into Buddhist scripture and tradition, the authors give a comprehensive overview that incorporates psychology, ethics, and metaphysics. Using everyday language and real-life examples, they clear away myths, illustrate how karma works in daily life, and offer practices to build positive karma. The Beginner’s Guide to Karma neatly sums up the Buddhist worldview and makes a compelling case for a way of being that nurtures compassion, joy, and inner peace in an uncertain world. |
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82852. The Emotional Lives Of Animals: A Leading Scientist Explores Animal Joy, Sorrow, And Empathy : AudiobooksNow : USD12.47 A seminal exploration of animal emotion, sentience, and cognition, revised and expanded to incorporate a surge of new science When award-winning scientist Marc Bekoff penned the first edition of this book in 2007, he predicted that over time our understanding of animal cognition and emotion would grow “richer, more accurate, and possibly different.” Since then, not only has the field seen an explosion of new and startling research, but the popular interest in the subject has grown as well, spawning countless podcasts, articles, and bestselling books. Bekoff skillfully blends extraordinary stories of animal joy, empathy, grief, embarrassment, anger, and love with the latest scientific research confirming the existence of emotions that common sense and experience have long implied. Filled with light humor and compassion, The Emotional Lives of Animals is a clarion call for reassessing both how we view and how we treat animals. |
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82853. The One Year Chronological Bible Nlt : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 You can fit Bible reading into your already busy life by listening to the One Year Chronological Bible! In as little as 15 minutes a day, you can hear the entire Bible in one unforgettable year, expertly narrated by Todd Busteed. This Bible audio is unique in that you can listen to the Bible text in the order that the biblical events unfolded. The New Living Translation is an authoritative Bible translation, rendered faithfully into today’s English from the ancient texts by 90 leading Bible scholars. The NLT’s scholarship and clarity breathe life into even the most difficult-to-understand Bible passages—but even more powerful are stories of how people’s lives are changing as the words speak directly to their hearts. That’s why we call it “The Truth Made Clear.” |
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82854. The One Year Bible Nlt : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 You can fit Bible reading into your already busy life by listening to The One Year Bible! In as little as 20 minutes a day, you can hear the entire Bible in one unforgettable year. Listeners will enjoy a daily reading that includes a portion from the Old Testament, the New Testament, Psalms, and Proverbs—all expertly narrated. The New Living Translation is an authoritative Bible translation, rendered faithfully into today’s English from the ancient texts by 90 leading Bible scholars. The NLT’s scholarship and clarity breathe life into even the most difficult-to-understand Bible passages—but even more powerful are stories of how people’s lives are changing as the words speak directly to their hearts. That’s why we call it “The Truth Made Clear.” |
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82856. Sovereign Sister: She Who Owns Herself : AudiobooksNow : USD2.47 Embrace the Power Within and Transform the World In Sovereign Sister: She Who Owns HerSelf |
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82857. Bravery In The Saddle: The Tale Of A South Dakota Indian Reservation Native Cowboy's Rise : AudiobooksNow : USD14.99 Bravery in the Saddle" tells the riveting tale of Dawson Red Elk |
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82858. Odin's Omens: Reading Nature Through Viking Eyes : AudiobooksNow : USD4.49 Odin's Omens: Reading Nature Through Viking Eyes" invites you on a captivating journey through the mystical world of the Vikings. Discover how they interpreted nature's signs and harnessed its wisdom for guidance and insight. This rich exploration intertwines history |
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82860. Dougie Debunksley And The Alien Abduction : AudiobooksNow : USD4.99 In the suburbs of Boston, Dougie Debunksley's routine life takes a twist when Eva Starling arrives, claiming alien encounters. Together, they unravel Eva's enigmatic past, leading them into a world of quantum communication and corporate intrigue. Guided by an advanced AI named Tony, they race to uncover the truth behind a powerful device that could reshape reality. As they navigate dangers and delve into the mysteries of the universe, their journey challenges their beliefs and reveals the boundless possibilities of quantum mechanics. Dougie Debunksley and the Alien Abduction" is an adventure blurring reality and fantasy |
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82862. Soul Quest: Unlocking Your God-given Destiny : AudiobooksNow : USD3.99 Soul Quest: Unlocking Your God-Given Destiny" is a transformative guide to mindfulness and meditation |
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82863. Divine Dialogue: Christian Responses To Modern-day Skepticism : AudiobooksNow : USD3.97 Divine Dialogue: Christian Responses to Modern-Day Skepticism" navigates the clash between skepticism and faith |
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82865. Rogue And The Necromancer: Farah's Forbidden Magic, And Dreams About Dragons : AudiobooksNow : USD5.99 Step into a realm where magic reigns and dragons roam free in Rogue and the Necromancer: Farah's Forbidden Magic |
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82867. The Art Of Persuasion: Marketing Anything In The Digital Age : AudiobooksNow : USD4.97 The Art of Persuasion: Marketing ANYTHING in the Digital Age" is a must-have guide for navigating today's competitive marketplace. Blending psychology with digital strategies |
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82868. Rally Of The Damned: The Wendigo Awakens : AudiobooksNow : USD4.99 Rally of the Damned: The Wendigo Awakens" takes readers on a gripping journey set against the backdrop of the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in the Black Hills. As legends come to life |
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82869. V.u.c.a. Revolution: Young Generations In A Dynamic World : AudiobooksNow : USD3.99 Embark on a journey through today's dynamic world with V.U.C.A. Revolution: Young Generations in a Dynamic World." This enlightening exploration delves into the complexities of our V.U.C.A. (Volatility |
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82871. Savor The Journey: A Guide To Feasting On Life : AudiobooksNow : USD4.97 Savor the Journey: A Guide to Feasting on Life" invites you to embrace life as a grand feast |
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82872. Becoming The Most Powerful And Influential Leader In The World : AudiobooksNow : USD3.97 This book on leadership draws inspiration from religious teachings to emphasize the importance of influencing others through persuasion, kindness, and genuine love. The author, drawing from personal experiences since the age of 17 and learning from various mentors and organizations, aims to share practical insights rather than compete with established leadership literature. Highlighting the distinction between mere management and true leadership, the author underscores the significance of sincere influence in fostering loyalty and effectiveness. The narrative weaves through experiences in different roles, from Pizza Hut to leadership courses like Wood Badge, emphasizing a holistic approach to leadership development. Ultimately, the author credits their motivation to their faith in Jesus Christ, viewing him as the ultimate exemplar of leadership. |
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82873. The Ultimate Autism And Asperger's Guidebook: Support, Strategies, And Smiles For Families : AudiobooksNow : USD4.99 The Ultimate Autism and Asperger's Guidebook" is a beacon of hope and practical advice for individuals and families navigating the autism spectrum. From understanding the nuances of Autism and Asperger's Syndrome to accessing diagnosis and support in the UK healthcare system |
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82874. The Lactose-free League: Heroic Recipes For Sensitive Superkids : AudiobooksNow : USD4.99 Join the Lactose-Free League: A Culinary Journey for Brave Kids! In The Lactose-Free League: Heroic Recipes for Sensitive Superkids |
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82875. The Metamorphosis Of Love : AudiobooksNow : USD2.99 Embark on a profound journey through the layers of love with The Metamorphosis of Love". From ancient philosophies to modern insights |
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82876. Digital Detox: The Screen Diet : AudiobooksNow : USD4.97 Digital Detox: The Screen Diet" offers a path to reclaim your time and mind from digital chaos. Understand the psychology of digital addiction |
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82877. Queen Of Executive Suite: Fight For Female Leadership : AudiobooksNow : USD3.97 Queen of Executive Suite: Fight for Female Leadership" is a manifesto and strategic guide for women aiming to break the glass ceiling and claim leadership roles. Delve into women's history in business |
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82879. The Z Factor: Transforming Business For The Next Generation : AudiobooksNow : USD3.97 The Z Factor: Transforming Business for the Next Generation" delves into the imminent reality of Generation Z reshaping the modern workplace. This book explores Gen Z's values |
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82880. The First-time Gardener: Winter Edition : AudiobooksNow : USD3.97 Transform your winter into a flourishing garden oasis with The First-Time Gardener: Winter Edition." Learn to navigate your winter climate |
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82881. The First-time Gardener: Summer Edition : AudiobooksNow : USD3.97 The First-Time Gardener: Summer Edition" guides you to master the art of summer gardening. From understanding seasonal rhythms to selecting thriving crops and mastering watering and pest control |
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82882. The First-time Gardener: Spring Edition : AudiobooksNow : USD3.97 The First-Time Gardener: Spring Edition" is your gateway to the joys of spring gardening. From understanding your garden's canvas to designing your dream layout and preparing soil |
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82883. The First-time Gardener: Autumn Edition : AudiobooksNow : USD3.97 Transform your garden into an autumn paradise with The First-Time Gardener: Autumn Edition". Navigate the season's nuances with confidence |
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82884. Playful Minds: Transforming Education With Gamification : AudiobooksNow : USD5.99 Playful Minds: Transforming Education with Gamification" invites educators |
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82885. Touchdown Under: An American's Guide To Rugby League And The Nrl : AudiobooksNow : USD4.97 Touchdown Under: An American's Guide to Rugby League and the NRL" invites you into the electrifying world of Australian Rugby League. From unraveling the sport's origins to navigating its intricate rules |
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82886. Roaming Solo: A Girls Guide To Finding Herself While Wandering The World : AudiobooksNow : USD3.97 Embark on a journey of self-discovery and adventure with Roaming Solo: A Girl’s Guide to Finding Herself While Wandering the World". This comprehensive guide is more than just a travel book; it's a roadmap to personal growth |
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82887. From Vision To Victory: A Guide To Persistent Progress : AudiobooksNow : USD3.97 Embark on a transformative journey with From Vision to Victory: A Guide to Persistent Progress." This book navigates the complexities of personal growth and perseverance |
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82888. Lights, Camera, Autism!: Celebrating Unique Talents Through Activities : AudiobooksNow : USD3.97 Discover the Spectrum of Possibility: Empowerment Through Every Page In a world that often emphasizes conformity, Lights |
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82890. Why Women Prefer To Wipe And Men To Vacuum: Together Making Housework More Fun : AudiobooksNow : USD4.97 Embark on a joyful journey through household chores in Why Women Prefer to Wipe and Men to Vacuum: Together Making Housework More Fun." Explore the humor and camaraderie in mundane tasks |
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82891. Faith In Action: Embracing Everyday Spiritual Growth : AudiobooksNow : USD4.97 Imagine a life where every day is a stepping stone on the path of spiritual enlightenment—a life where faith is not just a belief, but a dynamic, transformative force. Faith in Action: Embracing Everyday Spiritual Growth offers a compelling voyage into deepening your relationship with the divine, inviting you to explore the sanctity within the mundane. Faith in Action: Embracing Everyday Spiritual Growth is more than just a book—it is your personal mentor guiding you towards a life where every decision, interaction, and moment is infused with purpose and spiritual significance. Take the first step towards a transformation that begins within and radiates outward—uncover a faith that moves, breathes, and acts through you. |
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82892. The Gratitude Blueprint: Cultivating Success Through The Attitude Of Gratitude : AudiobooksNow : USD4.97 Embark on a Journey to a Richer Life. The Gratitude Blueprint: Cultivating Success Through the Attitude of Gratitude" illuminates the profound power of gratitude in both personal and professional spheres. Through a blend of scientific research |
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82894. Muted Hunger: Understanding Anorexic Thoughts : AudiobooksNow : USD3.97 Immerse yourself in the poignant journey of Muted Hunger: Understanding Anorexic Thoughts |
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82895. Swim: Stories Of The Sixties : AudiobooksNow : USD4.49 It's the early Sixties. The Grateful Dead and free love are still around the corner. But the young woman in these three stories knows that sex is the coin of the realm. From Mexico to Mykonos, she is looking for a place to light, and she thinks she'll know when she is finally home. For sure she knows she doesn't want men to tell her how to live. She doesn't even want them saying her name. |
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82896. Feasting On Emotions: The Psychology Of Binge Eating : AudiobooksNow : USD3.97 Feast No More: Navigating the Labyrinth of Binge Eating" delves into the depths of Binge Eating Disorder (BED) |
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82898. The Next Chapter: Winning At Life After Divorce : AudiobooksNow : USD4.99 Imagine the aftermath of divorce as a gateway to a new beginning, not an end. The Next Chapter: Winning at Life After Divorce" is your guide to empowerment and resilience. Explore the Emotional Spectrum |
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82899. The Rookie Renovator's Guide To Flipping Success : AudiobooksNow : USD3.99 Dive into the lucrative world of house flipping with The Rookie Renovator's Guide to Flipping Success." This comprehensive manual equips beginners with essential knowledge |
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82900. Paradox Of Love: Spectres Of Ancient Emerald Stone : AudiobooksNow : USD3.97 Embark on a Mystical Quest Through Time and Consciousness In the riveting pages of Paradox of Love: Spectres of Ancient Emerald Stone |
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82902. Blood Of The Bear : AudiobooksNow : USD20.24 AD 781. Pagan Saxony groans under the Christian yoke. The invincible armies of Karolus, King of the Franks, occupy all this freedom-loving land and every Saxon must submit to baptism and pay tithes to the Church, or face death by beheading. Duke Widukind, leader of the Saxon rebels, is sheltering in the North, beyond Karolus's reach. He hopes to persuade Bjarki Bloodhand - once a famous berserker, but now a father and family man - and his fierce sister the shield-maiden Tor, to join his revolt against tyranny. But Bjarki has eloped with Widukind's sister Edith, who was betrothed to Abbio the Crow. In revenge, Abbio uses seithr to strike at Bjarki - a powerful spell to drive him insane. Can Bjarki resist the long slide into madness? And will Widukind finally liberate Saxony from the Franks? |
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82903. A Wartime Christmas At Rookery House : AudiobooksNow : USD14.74 December 1939. Hettie Brown, former Cook at Great Plumstead Hall, has been happily retired since the summer, but when she hears some shocking news, it unsettles her and makes her question her new life at Rookery House. Expectant mother, Gloria Jessop, is having doubts about her new evacuated life in the village. She's missing her children and husband, and since there's been none of the expected bombing in London, she's tempted to return and unite her family. But is that the right thing to do? The prospect of Christmas in a time of war isn't easy for anyone, with loved ones away and homes and communities left behind. Hettie and Gloria decide to take action and quickly hatch a plan. Can they support each other, celebrate Christmas, and bring the whole village together in their time of need? |
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82904. Womb To Tomb To Womb: Holy Longing : AudiobooksNow : USD4.75 Dawn Cogger’s memoir, Womb to Tomb to Womb, provides fodder for life’s journey, a journey with unimaginable positive changes. Her story demonstrates how our life journey and its teachings are unique for each of us. Her life starts with sporadic Christian teachings, and contrary messages that belief in God is not acceptable, her behaviour often unacceptable. Her love of nature brings her solace and inspiration. She shares her hunger for prayer and a relationship with God. The bold, yet gentle book of life memories starts as a child, travails through her moments of desperation, to a seasoned woman, nurse, spiritual director and writer. It will touch your heart, inviting transformation. Her memoir includes her struggle with the deaths of two young patients. She considered marriage to be a life-long commitment, and found it wasn’t. She went to therapy more than once. Dawn seeks and receives spiritual direction. She also walks the contemplative discernment process through the education of providing spiritual direction. As you witness her life, you’ll see her major losses turn into her gifts. Ageing and the virus COVID-19, at times seen as insurmountable challenges, bring about a grateful, inclusive, energized being. She shows the joys and woes of our lives have energy to foster: healing of a broken heart, a fulfilling relationship with God, and a life open to being true to our authentic selves. |
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82905. Running On Empty : AudiobooksNow : USD11.00 She's about to lose her kingdom--but she may have just found her Prince. Princess Natalie Anastasia Hofstetter is a woman without a future. Unable to inherit the throne, she arrives at a climate change conference to be shopped around as a potential bride as her father searches for a match that will benefit her family--without love getting in the way. She's looking for a way out, but can't find one. Ian Moss is rebuilding his life, starting with being hired at Kiski's Kafe. When he finds himself in the middle of a protest while making a delivery, he ends up saving a woman from being trampled. When he asks her for a date, he finds himself in the middle of a mystery--and a crisis. All he knows is that she keeps lying to him, but he can't stop falling in love with her. Except what he doesn't know might destroy any hope of their being together... She's lying to save her life--but it might cost her any chance at love. |
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82906. Axxeon Prince's Prize: A Sci-fi Romance Novel : AudiobooksNow : USD9.00 She’s a midwife to monsters. Human midwife Sasha Black was abducted from Earth and sent to an alien breeding farm to deliver hybrid babies. Suddenly, the monsters who put her on the desolate planet abandon them, and if she doesn’t get help soon, they’ll all die. They’ve run out of food and water, and her expectant mothers are delivering something unexpected. Something else. Hahn, Prince of Axxeon 9, receives a covert message from his father, the exiled King. He’s in trouble, and time is running out. Hahn must reach him soon, but a frantic transmission from a ghost planet forces him to jump far off course. He’s sworn to protect his father and keep their secret pact, but duty is challenged by the human female who needs him, and tempts him with her curvy body to forget his true purpose. When his heart overrides loyalty, Hahn must make an impossible choice. Will he sacrifice everything for his fated mate, or do the unthinkable? AXXEON PRINCE’S PRIIZE is the third book in the Mates for Axxeon 9 series. Each book is a standalone and can be read in any order. |
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82907. The King : AudiobooksNow : USD11.00 Former heiress Willow Lennox is all that stands in the way of billionaire security mogul Ronan King getting revenge against her brother.My late father’s legacy means everything to me, and now it’s teetering on the edge of collapse. Not only is our family company in dire financial straits, but Ronan King, my brother’s sworn enemy, is circling like a shark, ready to steal it out from under us.To make matters worse, someone is stalking me, and I’m afraid they might become dangerous. Despite our differences, Ronan says he wants to protect me, but how can I possibly trust him when he plans to destroy everything I hold dear? |
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82908. There's No Crying In Rock-n-roll : AudiobooksNow : USD11.00 Henley Hendrix—Queen of Rock-n-Roll—finds her world shattered and her heart betrayed, but is determined to get the band back together to reclaim her title in the world of rock. But when life continues to spin out of control, so does her behavior. Will she find her strength again amid all the chaos and pain, or will the bright lights consume her soul?This is a rock star romance series with a strong female lead, bad boys, and rock romance. This book is not recommended for those under the age of 18. It is also not recommended for those who take offense to profanity, sexual situations, drugs, or violence. This is not a standalone novel. Book One Broken should be read first. |
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82909. Personal Demons : AudiobooksNow : USD14.00 Protecting her secret and hunting demons is a matter of survival for possessed-practitioner Mira Fuentes. She's spent years learning to work with the snarky demon housed in her body, and it hasn't always gone smoothly. Nor has her recent partnership with an agent of the Paranatural Task Force. Ty Williams—uncomfortably-attractive and overly-protective—may never fully accept that his partner has a literal inner demon. But work-life-demon balance is the least of Mira's problems when a figure from her past drags her back to the hometown she's avoided for nearly a decade to investigate a string of potentially-magical disappearances. Someone or something is snatching teens from the local high school. Emotionally off-balance in a city full of old ghosts and new dangers, Mira will have to confront her past to discover what is hunting the innocent. |
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82910. Invasives : AudiobooksNow : USD14.00 Drowse is homeless, a runaway. A Radiant. Together with her family |
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82911. Desire : AudiobooksNow : USD11.00 He wants them. When I first met Kevin Markos, we were both drunk college students at Spring Break. It was a week I never expected, and a week I’d never forget. Especially since I took pictures. Unfortunately, life got in the way, careers got in the way…as did Kevin’s miles-deep closet. I thought the only way I’d ever see Kevin again was on a TV screen. But now? He’s desperate, broken, and broke. ShaeLynn Samuels is a unique woman with future plans I want to be a part of. And Kevin never left my heart or my thoughts. Now I have a chance to make both ShaeLynn’s biggest dream come true—and mine. Kevin’s coming along for the ride whether he wants to or not. This MMF contemporary political romance features older main characters, second-chance love, an Alpha Secret Service agent, power exchange, pining, frenemies to lovers, a secret workplace romance at the highest levels of our nation's government, political intrigue, and a satisfying HEA. Book 3 of the Determination Trilogy, a standalone spin-off trilogy set in the world of the Governor Trilogy, the Devastation Trilogy, and others. |
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82912. Danger At Poppyridge Cove : AudiobooksNow : USD11.00 A mysterious gift, and the secret she shouldn't have kept. When Abby and Chase celebrate their daughter's second birthday, they're surprised to find a mysterious gift on the table. Inside it lies a startling reminder. The ring Abby got when she was young, and a note from Kyle, the boy she feared. Having left the country years ago, she never expected to hear from him again, but somehow he's found her. Chase had never heard of Abby's old boyfriend, not until the gift. Curious, he digs deeper into the mysterious person, only to find there's no trace of him. Could his records really have vanished so completely? Or is there more to this mystery than Abby is letting on? Careful of where his questions are leading him, Chase struggles against the doubts forming in his mind. When Kyle suddenly shows up on their property, he's nothing like the person Abby remembered. Sleek and professional, he has a hugely successful business supplying hotels. Unsure of what to do, Abby and Chase agree to tour his warehouse. But his plans are meticulously set, and they're playing right into his hands. |
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82913. Rogue Order A Troy Stark Thrillerbook #7 : AudiobooksNow : USD7.49 “Thriller writing at its best. Thriller enthusiasts who relish the precise execution of an international thriller, but who seek the psychological depth and believability of a protagonist who simultaneously fields professional and personal life challenges, will find this a gripping story that's hard to put down.”--Midwest Book Review, Diane Donovan (regarding Any Means Necessary)“One of the best thrillers I have read this year. The plot is intelligent and will keep you hooked from the beginning. The author did a superb job creating a set of characters who are fully developed and very much enjoyable. I can hardly wait for the sequel.”--Books and Movie Reviews, Roberto Mattos (re Any Means Necessary)From #1 bestselling and USA Today bestselling author Jack Mars, author of the critically-acclaimed Luke Stone and Agent Zero series (with over 5,000 five-star reviews), comes an explosive new, action-packed thriller series that takes readers on a wild-ride across Europe, America, and the world.After elite Navy Seal Troy Stark is forced into retirement for his dubious respect for authority, his work in stopping a major terrorist threat to New York is noticed. Invited to join a secretive new international terrorist-fighting organization, Troy must hunt down all threats to the U.S. that originate from overseas—and pre-empt them by any means possible.In ROGUE ORDER (Book #7), when a group of international thieves have stolen a priceless diamond from a museum in Paris, seemingly intent on selling it in the black market, it soon becomes apparent that it is far more than a diamond they want—and that these are far more than simple thieves. With the fate of the world in the balance, Troy must hunt down the stolen diamond in a non-stop action chase across Europe and the Middle East, before it’s too late….An unputdownable action thriller with heart-pounding suspense and unforeseen twists, ROGUE ORDER is the seventh novel in an exhilar |
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82914. Target Ten The Spy Gamebook #10 : AudiobooksNow : USD7.49 “Thriller writing at its best... A gripping story that's hard to put down.”--Midwest Book Review, Diane Donovan (re Any Means Necessary)?????From #1 bestselling and USA Today bestselling author Jack Mars, author of the critically acclaimed Luke Stone and Agent Zero series (with over 5,000 five-star reviews), comes an explosive new action-packed espionage series that takes readers on a wild ride across Europe, America, and the world—perfect for fans of Dan Brown, Daniel Silva and Jack Carr.In the shadow of the fallen Byzantine Empire, CIA Agent Jacob Snow and his daring archaeologist partner Jana discover a deadly quest for the last treasure of the Romans. As they traverse the perilous terrain of a Turkish island, they face a high-stakes puzzle only they can solve—but will the cost be higher than they bargained for?An unputdownable action thriller with heart-pounding suspense and unforeseen twists, TARGET TEN is the tenth novel in an exhilarating new series by a #1 bestselling author that will make you fall in love with a brand-new action hero—and keep you turning pages late into the night. Future books in the series will soon be available.“One of the best thrillers I have read this year. The plot is intelligent and will keep you hooked from the beginning. The author did a superb job creating a set of characters who are fully developed and very much enjoyable. I can hardly wait for the sequel.”--Books and Movie Reviews, Roberto Mattos (re Any Means Necessary)????? |
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82915. Cragfall Elemental Hallbook Four: Digitally Narrated Using A Synthesized Voice : AudiobooksNow : USD4.99 This recording has been digitally produced by Morgan Rice, using a synthesized version of an audiobook narrator’s voice under license. From USA Today and #1 bestseller Morgan Rice (with over 5,000 five-star ratings) comes a long-awaited new fantasy series and the fourth novel in a spectacular new fantasy series, ideal for fans of Rebecca Yarros, Brandon Sanderson, and Sarah J. Maas. “The beginnings of something remarkable are there.” --San Francisco Book Review (re A Quest of Heroes) ????? When Seraphina Stormborn is recruited into Elemental Hall, a brutal, five-year magic academy where recruits learn to harness the powers of the five primal elements for both creation and destruction, she faces trials, monsters, and power surpassing her wildest dreams. Yet her greatest trial of all may be love: Sera finds herself romantically torn between the noble-born Orion and the mysterious, shadowy Darius…ELEMENTAL HALL propels us into an adventurous new fantasy realm filled with peril and promise, where the forces of destiny intertwine with love and magic, and where only the strong and self-sacrificing can survive. This series takes us on a gripping journey with unexpected turns and edge-of-your-seat suspense, drawing us deep into its brutal and magical universe. Catering to both young adult and mature audiences, ELEMENTAL HALL presents a clean, innovative twist on the fantasy genre, ensuring that you'll be hooked until the very last page.Future books in the series will soon be available!From USA Today and #1 bestseller Morgan Rice, author of A Quest of Heroes (over 5,000 five star ratings) comes a long-awaited new epic fantasy series. ELEMENTAL HALL: CRAGFALL is the fourth book in the ELEMENTAL HALL series, which begins with NAUTICA (BOOK 1).“Morgan Rice's imagination is limitless!”--Books and Movie Reviews (Roberto Mattos)?????“Has all the ingredients for an instant success: plots, counterplots, mystery, valia |
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82916. Oathborne: Year Three Book 3 Of The Oathborne Series: Digitally Narrated Using A Synthesized Voice : AudiobooksNow : USD2.49 This recording has been digitally produced by Morgan Rice, using a synthesized version of an audiobook narrator’s voice under license. “A spirited fantasy ….Only the beginning of what promises to be an epic young adult series.” --Midwest Book Review (re A Quest of Heroes)?????From USA Today and #1 bestseller Morgan Rice, author of A Quest of Heroes (over 5,000 five star ratings) comes book #3 in a spectacular new fantasy series, ideal for fans of Rebecca Yarros and Sarah Maas.Political tension is on the rise in Lyria with the old king’s declining health--and lack of a male heir. As Kaela returns to Stonegarden for her third academic year, students from different realms take sides as to who should rule the kingdom. This year Kaela finds her relationships with both Valerin and Erik becoming ever more complicated, so when a shocking revelation questions Kaela’s loyalties, will she be able to pick a side?The OATHBORNE series will thrust you into an exhilarating fantasy world teeming with love and danger, a place where fate is woven tightly with romance and magic. With a narrative full of thrilling unpredictability and tension that keeps you on the edge of your seat, the series will immerse you in its savage yet enchanting realm. Captivating both adult and young adult readers alike, OATHBORNE offers a fresh spin on fantasy.Future books in the series are also available!“The beginnings of something remarkable are there.” --San Francisco Book Review (re A Quest of Heroes)????? “Has all the ingredients for an instant success: plots, counterplots, mystery, valiant knights, and blossoming relationships replete with broken hearts, deception and betrayal. It will keep you entertained for hours, and will satisfy all ages. Recommended for the permanent library of all fantasy readers.” --Books and Movie Reviews, Roberto Mattos (re The Sorcerer’s Ring)?????“Action-packed &hellip |
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82917. Behind Locked Doors An Elise Close Psychological Thrillerbook Five A Thoroughly Exciting Psychological Thriller Packed With : AudiobooksNow : USD4.99 This recording has been digitally produced by Molly Black, using a synthesized version of an audiobook narrator’s voice under license. “I binge read this book. It hooked me in and didn't stop till the last few pages… I look forward to reading more!â€â€”Reader review for Found YouâââââRenowned therapist Elise Close is no stranger to the dark undercurrents flowing beneath gilded surfaces.This time, Elise's skills are summoned to the heart of Nevada's bohemian art scene, where the enigmatic Delaneys live a life painted with secrets as complex as their art.Plunged into the role of confidante for a celebrated painter whose lovers' tragic fates seem to eerily inspire his masterpieces, Elise must discern if she's dealing with a broken heart or a sinister mind.As her sister Lily's birthday blurs the lines between memory and madness, Elise's own psyche becomes an unreliable canvas. Will she untangle the twisted threads of passion and deceit?Or will her own haunted mind frame her in a picture of catastrophe?BEHIND LOCKED DOORS is the fifth book in a highly anticipated new psychological suspense series by critically-acclaimed and #1 bestselling mystery and suspense author Molly Black, whose books have received over 2,000 five-star reviews and ratings.Future books in the series are also available! “Molly Black has written a taut thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat… I absolutely loved this book and can’t wait to read the next book in the series!â€â€”Reader review for Girl One: Murderâââââ“I loved this book! Fast-paced plot, great characters and interesting insights into investigating cold cases. I can't wait to read the next book!â€â€”Reader review for Girl One: Murderâââââ“Very good book… You will feel like you are right there looking for the kidnapper! I know I will be reading more in this series!â€â€”Reader review for Girl One: Murderâ |
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82918. The Unseen Killer A Barren Pines Psychological Suspensebook #3: An Absolutely Engrossing Psychological Thriller Packed With : AudiobooksNow : USD2.49 This recording has been digitally produced by Kate Bold, using a synthesized version of an audiobook narrator’s voice under license. “This is an excellent book… When you start reading, be sure you don’t have to wake up early!”—Reader review for The Killing Game?????In the impeccable suburb of Barren Pines, uniform houses and manicured lawns conceal the imperfect truths and deadly secrets of its residents. A close circle of friends is shattered when one of their own’s body is found in the Vermont wilderness.While death is ruled an accident, one woman's doubt festers into obsession as she peers through the fog of her alcohol-induced amnesia to seek the truth. As her own reliability wanes and friendships fray, she must navigate a path of secrets and deceit. Is it murder concealed by a facade of accidental death, or is it the paranoia of an unreliable mind that has unraveled because of the suburban scandal?THE UNSEEN KILLER (BARREN PINES: BOOK 3) is the third book in a thrilling new psychological suspense series by #1 bestselling mystery and suspense author Kate Bold, whose bestseller NOT NOW (a free download) has received over 600 five star ratings and reviews.Future books in the series are also available!“This book moved very fast and every page was exciting. Plenty of dialogue, you absolutely love the characters, and you were rooting for the good guy throughout the whole story… I look forward to reading the next in the series.”—Reader review for The Killing Game?????“Kate did an amazing job on this book and I was hooked from the first chapter!”—Reader review for The Killing Game?????“I really enjoyed this book. The characters were authentic, and I see the bad guys as something we hear about daily on the news... Looking forward to book 2.”—Reader review for The Killing Game?????“This was a really good book. The main ch |
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82919. Among The Lost A Cara Ward Fbi Suspense Thrillerbook 5: Digitally Narrated Using A Synthesized Voice : AudiobooksNow : USD4.99 This recording has been digitally produced by Katie Rush, using a synthesized version of an audiobook narrator’s voice under license. When victims are marked by a signature stone left at each chilling scene, it's up to FBI Agent Cara Ward to decode the enigmatic messages and track down a murderer who's as elusive as the Great Lakes are deep.AMONG THE LOST (A Cara Ward FBI Suspense Thriller—Book 5) is the fifth novel in a new series by mystery and suspense author Katie Rush. The series begins with AMONG THE DEAD (Book 1).The Cara Ward series is a compelling and intense thrill ride starring a gifted but tormented female protagonist. This captivating mystery delivers relentless excitement, nail-biting tension, astonishing twists, and a rapid-fire tempo that ensures you'll be turning pages well past bedtime. Fans of Kendra Elliot, Lisa Regan, and Robert Dugoni are sure to fall in love. Future books in the series are also available! |
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82920. Cold Pursuit A Carly Phoenix Fbi Suspense Thrillerbook 4: Digitally Narrated Using A Synthesized Voice : AudiobooksNow : USD4.99 This recording has been digitally produced by Taylor Stark, using a synthesized version of an audiobook narrator’s voice under license. As FBI Agent Carly Phoenix delves into a new cold case, she discovers that each victim shares a fatal link—their last snapshot. Can she capture the killer before another victim is caught in the crosshairs?COLD PURSUIT (A Carly Phoenix FBI Suspense Thriller—Book 4) is the fourth novel in a new series by mystery and suspense author Taylor Stark. The series begins with COLD JUSTICE (Book 1).The Carly Phoenix series is an intense and riveting thriller featuring a complex and troubled female protagonist. Brimming with suspense, unexpected turns, and a pulse-pounding tempo, this series ensures an enthralling experience that's bound to keep you turning pages late into the night. Fans of Karin Slaughter, Teresa Driscoll, and Lisa Regan are sure to fall in love. Future books in the series are also available! |
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82921. Bound For Murder: A Fatal Footnote A Juliet Page Cozy Mysterybook 5: Digitally Narrated Using A Synthesized Voice : AudiobooksNow : USD4.99 This recording has been digitally produced by Audrey Shine, using a synthesized version of an audiobook narrator’s voice under license. In the quaint British town she now calls home, Juliet Page’s quiet life running a rare bookstore is disrupted when she sells a 17th-century book of maps and finds herself implicated in a murder most foul. Can she expose the true killer and preserve her fresh start?BOUND FOR MURDER: A FATAL FOOTNOTE (A Juliet Page Cozy Mystery—Book 5) is the fifth novel in a new series by cozy mystery author Audrey Shine. The series begins with BOUND FOR MURDER: A HARDCOVER HOMICIDE (Book 1).A charming cozy mystery series, Juliet Page will pull you right into its quaint setting, captivate you with its enchanting atmosphere, and make it impossible to stop reading. With unexpected plot twists and a perplexing mystery to unravel, this page-turner will keep you engaged late into the night, all while you fall in love with its unforgettable main character.Future books in the series are also available! |
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82922. The Perfect Crowd A Jessie Hunt Psychological Suspense Thrillerbook Thirty-five : AudiobooksNow : USD7.49 Couples are turning up dead, victims of a sick game, being hunted by a killer in a world of privilege and wealth. Jessie has seen this playbook before. But she has never encountered a killer as cunning as this, one who seemingly outsmarts her every step of the way. She knows she is locked in a deadly race against time to outsmart him—before he strikes again…“A masterpiece of thriller and mystery.”—Books and Movie Reviews, Roberto Mattos (re Once Gone)?????THE PERFECT CROWD is book #35 in a new psychological suspense series by bestselling author Blake Pierce, which begins with The Perfect Wife, a #1 bestseller (and free download) with over 5,000 five-star ratings and 1,000 five-star reviews. A fast-paced psychological suspense thriller with unforgettable characters and heart-pounding suspense, the JESSIE HUNT series is a riveting new series that will leave you turning pages late into the night.Future books in the series are also available.“An edge of your seat thriller in a new series that keeps you turning pages! ...So many twists, turns and red herrings… I can't wait to see what happens next.”—Reader review (Her Last Wish)?????“A strong, complex story about two FBI agents trying to stop a serial killer. If you want an author to capture your attention and have you guessing, yet trying to put the pieces together, Pierce is your author!”—Reader review (Her Last Wish)?????“A typical Blake Pierce twisting, turning, roller coaster ride suspense thriller. Will have you turning the pages to the last sentence of the last chapter!!!”—Reader review (City of Prey)?????“Right from the start we have an unusual protagonist that I haven't seen done in this genre before. The action is nonstop… A very atmospheric novel that will keep you turning pages well into the wee hours.”—Reader review (City of Prey)?????“ |
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82923. Please I Can To The Toilet Go? : AudiobooksNow : USD10.00 Ever wondered what it’s like to be a supply teacher? This is the book for you! Artist and illustrator Guy Newmountain, a time-served teacher at the chalk-face for 25 years and a familiar sight to thousands of pupils across the spectrum from nursery to sixth form, tells a succession of school-related anecdotes with a healthy dose of self-deprecating humour. Some are hysterically funny and a few sad; others heart-stopping and deadly serious… Guy even bares his soul regarding personal heartbreak and professional mistakes that others can learn from. An evocative snapshot of real life, every word, even the title – spoken by a tiny infant – is true. A powerful insight into how varied an experience supply teaching can be, the book covers both pros and cons of the vocation, as the author relates a host of unpredictable situations encountered – good and bad – offering a tantalising, honest and refreshing window onto a largely hidden world… |
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82924. A Village Betrayed : AudiobooksNow : USD10.00 A poignant story of the impact of war on a defenceless French village during the Second World War. Four courageous villagers join the Maquis, the Resistance in Vichy occupied France, to protect their families. They are swept into a treacherous conflict where one false word or brave action can result in the torture and death of people they know and love. One old man and a young girl survive the savage destruction that wipes out the whole community. This novel uses the recorded history of the devastation of many rural villages in the Aveyron, Lot and Tarn departments of the Midi-Pyrenees. Oradour-sur-Glane in the Haute-Vienne Department is a famous memorial to the brutality of the Second World War. |
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82925. Making Witches: Newfoundland Traditions Of Spells And Counterspells : AudiobooksNow : USD14.97 There is a little-known tradition of witch lore in Newfoundland culture. Those believed to have the power to influence the fortunes of others are not mythological characters but neighbours, relations, or even friends. Drawing from her own interviews and a wealth of material from the Memorial University Folklore and Language Archive, Barbara Rieti explores the range and depth of Newfoundland witch tradition, looking at why certain people acquired reputations as witches, and why others considered themselves bewitched. The tales that emerge - despite their seemingly fantastic elements of spells and black heart books, hags, and healing charms - concern everyday affairs and reveal the intense social interdependence central to outport life. Frequently featuring women, they provide fascinating new perspectives on female coping strategies in a volatile economy. By addressing the perennial human issues at the heart of witchcraft - construction of enmity and intertwined fate - these narrative accounts also illuminate older witch beliefs revealed in witchcraft trial documents. Making Witches shows that in storytelling communities with a rich legacy of witch lore, witch tradition has endured well into the twentieth century. |
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82926. The American Adam: Innocence, Tragedy, And Tradition In The Nineteenth Century : AudiobooksNow : USD1.99 Intellectual history is viewed in this book as a series of “great conversations”—dramatic dialogues in which a culture’s spokesmen wrestle with the leading questions of their times. In nineteenth-century America the great argument centered about De Crevecoeur’s “new man,” the American, an innocent Adam in a bright new world dissociating himself from the historic past. Mr. Lewis reveals this vital preoccupation as a pervasive, transforming ingredient of the American mind, illuminating history and theology as well as art, shaping the consciousness of lesser thinkers as fully as it shaped the giants of the age. He traces the Adamic theme in the writings of Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, Henry James, and others, and in an Epilogue he exposes their continuing spirit in the works of F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Ralph Ellison, J. D. Salinger, and Saul Bellow. |
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82927. Invitation To Law And Society, Second Edition: An Introduction To The Study Of Real Law : AudiobooksNow : USD4.99 Law and society is a rapidly growing field that turns the conventional view of law as mythical abstraction on its head. Kitty Calavita brilliantly brings to life the ways in which law is found not only in statutes and courtrooms but in our institutions and interactions, while inviting readers into conversations that introduce the field’s dominant themes and most lively disagreements. Deftly interweaving scholarship with familiar examples, Calavita shows how scholars in the discipline are collectively engaged in a subversive expose of law’s public mythology. While surveying prominent issues and distinctive approaches to both law as it is written and actual legal practices, as well as the law’s potential as a tool for social change, this volume provides a view of law that is more real but just as compelling as its mythic counterpart.With this second edition of Invitation to Law and Society, Calavita brings up to date what is arguably the leading introduction to this exciting, evolving field of inquiry and adds a new chapter on the growing law and cultural studies movement. |
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82928. The King's Fear : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 Myobu waited all his life to find true love. Then, just as he makes a connection, he's murdered. Reeling from the fatal climax of his love story with Prince Kitsune, the magical Yokai must take advantage of a second chance at life, reconciling his past and present while keeping the prince from following a path of darkness. Kitsune, lost in grief and guilt, finds a renewed purpose and the potential for hope when he discovers the legendary Sword of Inari. But when voices within the blade begin speaking to him, he's tempted down a path of deceit and destruction. With an army under his command, Kitsune must defend the world against the whims of his deranged father. King Oni's aggression is mounting, and he will stop at nothing to maintain his power over the region. In a tale of good versus evil, life and death, Kitsune and Myobu must come together to face unspeakable horrors. They are tasked with destroying an evil that threatens the brass machine--and their world. |
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82929. Fan Powered Futures: Shaping The Future Of Spotify And Times Square Through Fan Innovation : AudiobooksNow : USD3.94 In “Fan-Powered Futures: Shaping the Future of Spotify and Times Square through Fan Innovation,” Nick Holmsten embarks on a captivating journey from the heart of Sweden to Spotify’s vaunted playlists and the electrifying Times Square stage. This inspiring journey highlights seismic industry shifts and the potential of superfans to spark further evolution. “Fan-Powered Futures” isn’t just for fans—it's a must-read for anyone looking to establish a brand and cultivate a community of fans for effective marketing today. Whether you're a devoted Swiftie or a passionate member of the BTS Army, you'll uncover how data-driven innovation empowers fans as the ultimate gatekeepers of today's hits and tomorrow's hopefuls. This book serves as a roadmap to the future, offering readers a front-row seat to the streaming revolution and the fan-led transformation of pop culture. Experience intimate stories with some of the entertainment industry's biggest names, providing a unique perspective on the power of fan engagement. |
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82930. Redefining Racism: How Racism Became Power Prejudice"" : AudiobooksNow : USD7.49 Have you heard that racism requires more than just prejudice, but also “power”? Have you been told the dictionary definition of racism isn’t correct? Where did this all come from? And why is it being taught at your school or workplace? The rabbit hole goes deeper than you might have imagined. Joseph (Jake) Klein’s Redefining Racism tells the story of the group of radical white “anti-racist” corporate and high-school educators who in the late 1960s and early 70s, taking inspiration from the anti-integrationist Marxist-Leninist Stokely Carmichael, funded by an organization seeking to pay off rioters to stop, and using manipulative techniques developed in part by U.S. intelligence’s director of the “psychological warfare center for the Far East,” created and spread the “Power + Prejudice” redefinition. And the late famed crack-addicted serial bank robber “Zombie Bandit” played a role too. In tracing the history of this redefinition, Redefining Racism also tells the story of the origins of “Racism Awareness Training,” today frequently called “diversity training,” in the tradition of Robin DiAngelo and White Fragility that have taken American corporations, schools, and universities by storm. Redefining Racism is the definitive rebuttal for why racism is not best defined as “Power + Prejudice” and a damning origin story for much of the modern so-called “anti-racist” movement, reminding us why the best way to be an anti-racist is to look at the content of one’s character and not the color of their skin. “For anyone genuinely committed to realizing an American future where race, racism, and ‘anti-racism,’ cease to be the tools used to divide us, this is an indispensable text. With Rede |
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82931. Sanders' Starfish: Psychological, Gripping, And Inspiring Page Turner With A Twist : AudiobooksNow : USD9.97 Dr. John Sanders is about to begin his career as a clinical psychologist. Full of optimism, he believes he can make a difference and is eager to provide hope to a group the world has deemed hopeless. Yet in John's quest to offer those in his care a second chance, he embarks on his own journey of self-discovery. In his search, clear answers become scrambled confusion while the unimaginable truth is trapped in a complex web.
Review Excerpt: Sander’s Starfish is a powerful story regarding the worth of a soul and doing what is right in the face of any challenge... As tension builds |
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82934. Paul's Journal : AudiobooksNow : USD7.47 A fresh and inspiring account of history’s most important Church builder – from his perspective. Far from the untouchable images of heaven-gazing saints, the apostle Paul ruthlessly focused on his earthly duty to build God’s Church. Before his dramatic conversion he had violently tried to stamp out a heretical sect of Jews – the first Christians. But Paul’s encounter with Christ turned his boundless energy to building the young and fragile Church into an established and enduring body. For many modern Christians, Paul’s eagerness to act for the Lord, willingness to face danger, and seemingly inexhaustible zeal make him the very model of Godly purpose. But Paul was not perfected on the Road to Damascus. He was human, with a life that spanned decades of personal and spiritual development. Taking the Bible as literal Truth, Paul’s Journal offers readers the opportunity to walk with this pivotal messenger of Christ, from the Acts to the letters and beyond. Presented as a first-hand account, it places Paul’s familiar voice within enriching historical and cultural contexts that will engage and edify any Christian. Shining a new light on his life from persecutor to martyr, this may be the second-best narrative of Paul ever written. |
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82935. Create The Vitality You Crave: Epigenetics 101 To Unlock Your Healing Power : AudiobooksNow : USD4.98 Are you ready to create maximum vitality, achieve hormonal harmony, and feel youthful again through bio-individualized Functional Medicine? Introducing Create The Vitality You Crave: Epigenetics 101 to Unlock Your Healing Power. In this book, you'll discover key steps to: Overcome Fatigue: Learn revolutionary health strategies that have helped countless women sleep better, boost their energy, and feel great. Explore Root Cause Medicine for Women: Say goodbye to temporary fixes. Address the root causes of your health issues and embrace holistic well-being. Create Habit Consistency: Master sustainable lifestyle changes using the simple principles of See, Say, Feel, and Do, along with other habit-hacking tips. Unlock the Power of Your DNA: Your genes aren’t your destiny. By tapping into your body’s ability to repair and thrive, you can use scientific and spiritual methods to optimize your DNA and enhance your health. Experience Menopause Symptom Relief: Achieve hormonal balance before, during, and after menopause, so you can feel revitalized and youthful again. Biohack Like a Woman: Join a community of like-minded women on a journey to optimal health and longevity. Discover how to extend your health span, ensuring it matches your lifespan. Health is a personal journey, filled with unique challenges and discoveries. Don’t miss out on this essential guidebook to transform your health and life. Grab your copy of *Create The Vitality You Crave* today and start your path toward a new you—one filled with energy, a balanced mood, a sharp mind, great sleep, and improved sexual desire. |
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82936. Road To Success: A Few Things You Need To Know : AudiobooksNow : USD3.49 The book is for everyone because it explores the use of human energy for positive outcomes. We need energy to survive and succeed in the world. Understanding when, where, and how energy can be used will help individuals to get on the road to success. The book addresses the critical areas where managing energy use is essential for our success. It includes human energy, personal growth, managing emotions, trust and truthfulness, individual responsibility, the hierarchy of learning, dreaming, and total intelligence to show how human energy can be used for positive and negative outcomes. If you learn to reduce the energy used for negative consequences, you can use the saved energy for positive outcomes to build the road to success. |
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82937. It Was Always You : AudiobooksNow : USD7.99 Ready to be a part of the greatest love story ever lived? Meet Charlie. Charlie is a hopeless romantic who has always dreamed of being a part of his own great love story. But when love story after love story in Charlie's life ends in heartbreak, will Charlie ever meet the one? Will his soulmate walk through the door on a beautiful spring afternoon while birds sing a song of romance or has Charlie been right next to her all along? Get to know Charlie through his lessons in life and love, and follow the breadcrumbs to a love story that will last. |
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82938. Neurological Intelligence Volume 3: A Guide For Empowered Loving Relationships : AudiobooksNow : USD7.50 Neurological Intelligence, Volume 3: A Guide for Empowered Loving Relationships navigates the complexities of committed love relationships and explores how unresolved neurological wounds can create unique challenges the lead to reactivity and conflict. |
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82939. Drama-free Health: Secrets To Sustaining Long-term Wellness : AudiobooksNow : USD7.47 Are you tired of health “solutions” that are anything but? Diet fads and workout trends are exactly what they sound like–fleeting, impersonal, and ultimately frustrating. What “everyone else is doing” doesn’t work because it’s not tailored to each woman’s unique needs. Fads aren’t answers–they just create more drama where you’ve already got plenty. In Drama-Free Health, Jaime Duggan cuts through the noise to deliver a fresh perspective on personal well-being that’s as individual as you are. Her empowering guide shares insights gained over a decade of experience as a personal trainer, health and wellness coach, and nutrition and behavior change specialist. She demonstrates why optimal health isn’t about conforming to a one-size-fits-all approach, but is instead about celebrating your body and embracing health as a joyful, lifelong journey. Drama-Free Health will teach you how to: Embrace daily habits that enhance your physical, mental, and spiritual well-beingMove beyond punishing and unnecessary health regimensUnderstand that achieving your ideal body is not just about physical appearanceTrust yourself so you can trust the process of transformationCreate a personalized roadmap for your healthiest and happiest selfWhether you’re struggling with everyday habits or seeking to overhaul the way you approach your health, Drama-Free Health has the practical knowledge, essential tools, and transformative insights to help you simplify your path to wellness. Get ready to live a life filled with self-empowerment, vibrant energy, and a sense of freedom. It’s time to cut through the drama of achieving true health and start walking the path to becoming a version of yourself that you love. |
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82940. Digital Threads: The Small Business And Entrepreneur Digital First Marketing Playbook : AudiobooksNow : USD9.97 Digital Threads: The Small Business and Entrepreneur Playbook for Digital-First Marketing is your ultimate guide to mastering the digital marketing landscape. Whether you're an entrepreneur building your brand from the ground up or a small business owner eager to scale, this audiobook is packed with actionable insights to transform your marketing approach in today’s digital-first world. In Digital Threads, renowned Fractional CMO, keynote speaker, university educator, and bestselling author Neal Schaffer distills over a decade of experience into a clear, practical playbook. From SEO and social media strategies to leveraging AI tools and repurposing content, this audiobook offers a comprehensive roadmap to building and growing your brand on a realistic budget. What you’ll learn in this audiobook: Big Brand Strategies: Apply proven strategies from top brands—scaled for small businesses and entrepreneurs.Actionable Frameworks: Follow Neal’s step-by-step approach to building a strong online presence, boosting visibility, and engaging your audience.Repurposing Content: Maximize content by tailoring it across platforms, creating a lasting digital footprint.AI Integration: Use AI tools to streamline marketing, improve efficiency, and stay ahead.Proven Results: Real-world examples provide tools for measurable success and sustained growth.With endorsements from industry leaders like Michael Stelzner, Brian Solis, and Ann Handley, Digital Threads is more than just a marketing book—it’s a game-changing playbook designed to empower small businesses and entrepreneurs to thrive in the digital age. If you’re serious about mastering digital marketing and growing your business, Digital Threads is the audiobook for you. Listen today and start weaving your path to success. |
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82941. No More Secrets: From Hurt Never Told To Transformational Truth : AudiobooksNow : USD9.49 Considering my suicide, I stared out a window in Maryland and saw that rain blurred colors in a parking lot. The shame of being sexually abused caused recurring nightmares, and a life that became a complex facade of covers, military titles and secrets never told. In this book, published poet and author Adam Volant shares his own testimony of brokenness and success, rising from childhood abuse to flag officer in the military’s most specialized cyber operations. Centered on a poem written in the depth of his darkness, this honest portrayal illuminates a hurt that many harbor inside. After years of attempting to cover, reconcile, and cope with years of abuse, frail lies tied to alcohol and drugs pointed to his death. Reading No More Secrets will help unravel how horrible things can be used to draw us nearer to a more important truth. |
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82942. First On Scene: A Howling Sirens Novel : AudiobooksNow : USD8.99 In a small town shattered by violent animal attacks, four first responders must confront their pasts and embrace their destinies as they become humanity's last line of defense against a supernatural threat. In the quiet, quintessential small town of Hudson, Massachusetts, a dedicated group of first responders—Kitty, Zuri, Angell, and Eric—commit themselves to the safety of their community. Kitty, a Southern transplant and new medic, is eager to prove her worth and find her place, not knowing that the woman of her dreams, Zuri, is more than just an EMT. Eric, who struggles in his role as a paramedic, learns to lean on his partner, Angell, a skilled medic with a mysterious, bewitched past. When a series of violent animal attacks shatters the town's tranquility, it unearths hidden secrets and thrusts these healers onto a warrior's path. As they rush from one medical emergency to another, each pulse-pounding call brings them closer to each other and their destiny. The perils of the paranormal threaten to destroy everything they hold dear, forcing them to confront their pasts to save their future. In this adrenaline-fueled world of EMS, the lives of Kitty, Zuri, Angell, and Eric intertwine in ways they never expected. Their call to duty transcends the ordinary as they become humanity's last line of defense against a supernatural threat. Every siren heralds a potential showdown, challenging them to redefine what it means to be 'of service.' Follow these warriors on a gripping journey where every heartbeat could signal a supernatural confrontation. |
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82943. The Lady Or The Tiger: Josie Harjo Book Two : AudiobooksNow : USD9.49 Necropsy knife in hand, Dr. Josie Harjo is back and ready to cut up dead bodies. Senior rotations have begun and Josie is joined by a cadre of veterinary students. When they fumble their way through their first case and strong personalities collide, Josie grudgingly accepts that it’s going to be a rough week. She’s soon worn thin as she tries to balance the never-ending parade of dead animals, teaching, and helping a struggling student. When a valuable item goes missing under Josie’s watch, it’s the last straw. Political infighting rages in the lab, and her coworkers start pointing fingers at each other. The diagnostic lab, once a place she enjoyed, becomes a den of turmoil. With her energy pulled in multiple directions, Josie is faced with an impossible choice. Does she focus on supporting the students or drop everything to ensure innocent people aren’t blamed for a crime they may not have committed? |
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82944. Gone Mia Deadly Deception : AudiobooksNow : USD5.49 Gone Mia Deadly Deception -A Psychological-Thriller Love can blind us to mortal danger… Small town introvert Mia Agostini has long wondered if the one" will ever find her. Then |
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82946. The Dream Haunters: A Metaphysical Mystery Of Magick : AudiobooksNow : USD6.99 Hannah Skye, a young woman in search of meaning, receives a cryptic letter from her missing and eccentric Aunt Jewelia. Her experience of a recurring powerful pumpkin patch dream unfolds into a spiritual journey to a mysterious island of eternal autumn, Maple Hollow, where she discovers the mystical Skye Manor and her magickal family legacy. Haunted by shapeshifters bent on trapping people in their nightmares, Hannah, with the help of wise villagers and feline companions (including a talking cat dream guide), must solve the riddle, unlock her powers, and dive into the dream dimension to save her aunt by Halloween night, when the veil between the worlds is thinnest. Escape into this metaphysical mystery of magick, where spells, music, and dreams converge in a vortex of secret societies and spiritual inheritance. Travel beyond time and space into a world of unexpected portals, ancient traditions, and dreamscapes. |
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82947. If Lost: Poems By Clint Bowman : AudiobooksNow : USD7.99 Inspired by the mountains, forests, animals, and people of Appalachia, If Lost is Clint Bowman's exhilarating debut about how these elements collide and struggle to co-exist in an ever-changing landscape. Bowman's poems are a guide through this beautiful, brutal, and often misunderstood world where threats to the region come from all sides. Invasive species strangle the trees around corrupt churches and failing convenience stores, while truckers cry in parking lots and deer contemplate death along the highway. In If Lost, Bowman demonstrates how everyone and everything is lost in some way, but that it's possible to find a way out.
Praise for If Lost “You can feel the thickness in the air, the smells, and the overgrown nature of it all. A poetry deeply connected to the place from which it comes.” —Keith Zarriello, musician and lead singer of The Shivers
“In this astounding collection, truckers cry, milkweed and honeysuckle overtake, poinsettias wilt in winter frost, and bear hunters haunt the stories of our conscience...” —Garrett Ashley, author of Periphylla, and Other Deep Ocean Attractions
“If Lost offers us a starkly honest and rarely seen western North Carolina, with all its diverse species in bitter harmony… We cannot know what the future holds for this delicate region and its people, but these poems will keep you warm and light your way.” —Leah Hampton, author of F*ckface and Other Stories
“…Bowman encompasses the complexity and beauty of what it means to be from the American South, capturing the quiet, sometimes bleak magic that encompasses his world.” —Th |
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82948. Why Brand Protection Matters: How To Avoid Costly Mistakes And Increase The Value Of Your Business : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 Unveil the Secrets to Safeguarding Your Business's Future When time is of the essence, ignorance is not bliss—it's a liability. Enter L.A. Perkins, an acclaimed brand protection strategist and top-rated intellectual property attorney ready to arm you with the knowledge that could save your business from costly mistakes and legal nightmares. In Why Brand Protection Matters, Perkins distills over 27 years of legal practice and courtroom experience into a must-have resource for business owners, C-Suite executives, and entrepreneurs alike. With clarity and charisma, she unveils the critical steps necessary to shield your company's most valuable assets and secure exclusive trademark rights in the United States. From the beginning stages of entrepreneurship to the seasoned realm of business ownership, Why Brand Protection Matters illuminates the common pitfalls that can spell disaster for any unprepared business. Inside, you'll learn about: They types of IP protection availableIdentifying your brand assetsNavigating the intricate web of brand protectionMitigating litigation risksApplying for U.S. federal trademark registrationThrough vivid anecdotes and real-world examples, Perkins demonstrates not only her seasoned legal experience but also her passion for business success. With her guidance, you'll gain a profound understanding of the importance of timely action and the transformative power of a legally fortified brand. Don't let uncertainty dictate your destiny; it's time to empower yourself with the knowledge to protect your brand assets and make your business's future bright. |
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82949. Resonate : AudiobooksNow : USD7.49 1000 years After Earth, music = propulsion, captains = rock stars, and one guitarist’s songs may be the key to humanity’s survival…. Although the New World Federation’s music-powered engines allow them to traverse and mine the maze-like nebula known as Caerdroia, the colony space stations are dying, with no actual new world in sight. But Jude Aberdeen is more than just a Federation guitarist; he’s a believer. Like his grandfather before him, Jude sees visions of a Green Place when he resonates with his music, a New Earth somewhere out beyond Caerdroia’s coils. To survive an expedition no one but his offbeat drummer and fugitive bassist believes in, he’ll need to win the Federation’s legendary Battle of the Bands and secure this year’s grand prize: a ship up to the challenge of the nebula’s dangers. And he’ll need to do it without losing himself to the fame and fortune, sponsors and competitors that turn out to be their own kind of dangerous, and soon. Because the colonies aren’t the only thing that’s dying. __________________ Accompanied by original rock music composed by the author, Resonate is an immersive science fantasy adventure that blends the world-building and stakes of Brandon Sanderson's Skyward with the color and ensemble of a Final Fantasy game. |
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82950. The Courage To Be Curious: Transforming Leadership From Within : AudiobooksNow : USD4.49 Unlock Your True Potential Have you ever felt a subtle but persistent sense that, despite your achievements, you’re not quite where you want to be? Many leaders experience this undercurrent of restlessness—a feeling that something is missing, even in the face of success. But what if these feelings are signals, urging you to explore a deeper, more authentic version of yourself and unlock even greater opportunities? In The Courage to be Curious, Liz Schehl invites you on a transformative journey to rediscover your authentic self and unlock your full potential as a leader. This book is about more than just professional success—it’s about embracing your true self and finding fulfillment in every aspect of your life. In this book, you’ll learn strategies to: Embrace Your Authentic SelfDefine Your Core ValuesCultivate a Growth MindsetCraft Your Personal BrandFoster Authentic RelationshipsLead with Empathy and InnovationBy reflecting on these principles and embracing your authentic self, you can navigate each day with intention and integrity, shaping a life that is not only successful but truly yours. Whether you are at the start of your career or leading a major organization, this book will inspire you to break the mold and transform your leadership from within. About the Author: Liz Schehl is a dynamic leader and entrepreneur who transitioned from a successful career in finance to become a sought-after coach and consultant. Her journey from corporate success to entrepreneurial fulfillment is a testament to the transformative power of embracing one’s true self. Join Liz on this journey and discover how the courage to be curious can lead to profound success and fulfillment. |
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82951. Conjure Volume 1: Dark Poetry : AudiobooksNow : USD1.99 Conjure Volume 1 explores the allure of love tainted by darkness—relationships that straddle the line between pleasure and pain. Passion and enmity collide in this dark poetry collection, blurring the line between devotion and despair. |
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82952. Create Something: Crafting An Entrepreneurial Journey : AudiobooksNow : USD4.98 In Create Something, first-generation El Salvadorian American Lilly Benitez shares the story of how she created something out of nothing. From a road trip in the 90s through Dallas to Central America to the establishment of her passion project, the Blade Craft Barber Academy, in 2015, this dual narrative delivers a rare glimpse into the trials and triumphs of a first-generation entrepreneur. A blueprint for dreamers, Lilly's tales from El Salvador punctuate each chapter, drawing powerful parallels between her past adventures and her entrepreneurial journey. She leverages insights from her unique upbringing to champion an unconventional path to success. More than just a memoir, this motivational guidebook offers tools and insights to conquer challenges and turn aspirations into tangible realities. |
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82953. The Kings Have Won: The Battle For The Wealth Of Our Nation : AudiobooksNow : USD5.99 Is America ruled by the ‘shadowy government’ which famed journalist Ferdinand Lundberg described in 1934? Is the nation ruled by what President Carter called “an Oligarchy instead of a Democracy”? In The Kings Have Won, a series of fun and compelling short stories covering 200 years of American history, Adrien Gold recounts the many battles for the wealth of our nation. From the burning of Washington DC, and JFK.’s Presidential Order 11110, to J.P. Morgan’s Jekyll Island Meeting and the 1929 Crash; from President Andrew Jackson’s proud proclamation, “I killed the Bank,” all the way up to the Financial Crisis of 2008, Gold manages to both inform and entertain in this masterful work of historical fiction that will forever alter your conception of American history. |
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82954. Snodgrass: Thrilling Story Of Courage, Combat, And Crime : AudiobooksNow : USD5.99 Amidst the tension of a true historical military escalation between the USA and Libya in 1986, a Navy fighter pilot navigates his haunted past and uncertain future, discovering that true battles lie within, while a determined detective in Denver unravels a web of deceit, murder, and stolen diamonds that threatens to destroy them both. Eight years after I ran away from home in a daring bid for freedom, I soared over the Mediterranean Sea in an F18, engaged in combat against the Sudan, Yemen, and Soviet Union militaries. At fifteen, I confronted a daunting choice: endure the torment of my abusive stepfather or brave the uncertainties of the world alone. Opting for independence, I set out into the unforgiving terrain of the Rockies, ill-prepared for the challenges that awaited me. With winter looming and no opportunities in sight, I resorted to desperate measures to survive, turning to a life of crime. Welcome to the gritty reality of my true story—a tale where resilience clashes with harsh realities and survival becomes the sole imperative.
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82955. The Whispering Woods : AudiobooksNow : USD4.49 Thirteen-year-old Noah thought a winter break trip to his aunt and uncle’s house would mean snowball fights and hot cocoa, but a harmless sledding trip to the local state park unearths a chilling secret. For sixty years, a nearby reservoir has held a dark truth beneath its icy surface. Now, angry spirits stir, their vengeful trickery spilling into the small Pennsylvania town. Noah and friends find themselves tangled in a web of ghostly whispers and a community desperate to bury the past. Can the kids unravel the secrets the town is hiding and stop the ghosts? Don't miss this chilling story perfect for ages 9-12. Follow this unforgettable adventure of three unlikely sleuths, filled with small town winter adventures and chilling snowstorms. No graphic violence or language. A wonderful addition to a family favorite series. Aimed for older elementary children |
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82956. Remember To Forget: An Inspiring True Story Of Triumph Over Trauma : AudiobooksNow : USD7.49 Remember to Forget, a gripping and thought-provoking memoir that inspires as it teaches with all the skillful pacing of a psychological suspense novel. The author asks then suggests: What weapons do we have to defend ourselves against deeply hidden assaults from the past? Without the fragments of memory linked together into a full picture of our personal history, we may remain helpless victims. Sex permeates Vernetta’s traumatic young life while living with her single mother and older sister. The chaos of life with Mother and her alcohol-fueled anger emerges in Vernetta’s adult years as a suicidal-depression that propels her into therapy where conflicted personality fragments introduce themselves. Within months, dissociated-forgotten memories of sexual trauma are manifested by severe, incapacitating physical experiences. Throughout her life, Vernetta manages to continue the relationship with her mother. Then after Mother’s death, Vernetta is motivated to search for answers to lingering-mystifying questions, her final pathway to wellness. Why did Mother deliberately burn down her family home at age fifteen? she asks herself. What is the truth of why baby brother Buddy was suddenly gone? And the last relentless question, Why was Mother so angry? Although the search plunges Vernetta into Mother’s murky past, the difficult answers bring restorative healing. |
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82957. Be The Weight Behind The Spear : AudiobooksNow : USD5.99 Amid unprecedented political and generational divides, one consensus emerges: equipping future leaders with essential skills is paramount. From business executives to parents, there's a shared commitment to preparing the next generation for success in an evolving world. In Be the Weight Behind the Spear, Dr. (Colonel) McConkey draws on his extensive experience in emergency rooms and military service to highlight the pivotal role of leaders across all sectors in shaping America's future. He emphasizes that our business leaders, teachers, families, coaches, mentors, and volunteers are not only essential for enhancing productivity and inclusivity in business but also crucial for national security. By engaging and empowering the next generation of professionals, McConkey argues, we secure long-term growth and prosperity. This book catalyzes a national dialogue, urging all Americans to actively support future leaders. McConkey's insights resonate as a call to action, stressing that each individual's contribution—whether in leadership, education, or community—significantly impacts our collective success and security. Be the Weight Behind the Spear inspires unity and empowerment, challenging readers to play an active role in fortifying America's resilience and leadership on the global stage. As we navigate complex challenges, McConkey's work serves as a guiding beacon towards a future where every American's involvement is integral to our shared prosperity and security. |
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82958. Kit & Basie: A Cozy Immortal Mm Romance : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 Immortality is a dangerous affair when it isn’t done right. Basie Yeats knows he’s doing immortality all wrong, spending endless days in the same place, but he doesn’t see a reason to leave the home he loves in Long Lily, Pennsylvania. Once the impossible death of his mother leaves him the only immortal person he knows, Basie decides that the only thing he wants to do is get out of Long Lily and start doing immortality the right way—alone. Kit Elliot has wandered the world looking for the right place to call home, so when a church-turned-cottage suddenly goes up for sale in a quaint Pennsylvania town, it feels like it was meant to be. It takes only a few days at Wellhead Cottage for Kit to decide that the man who sold it to him is frustrating, awkward, and terribly handsome. He offers to help Basie find a new home away from Long Lily—but as days turn to months, Kit finds himself wishing he could make Basie stay. Trigger Warnings: Graphic: Panic attacksModerate: Suicide (euthanasia), death of parent, griefMinor: Pregnancy (healthy) |
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82959. A Small Hotel : AudiobooksNow : USD6.80 An American Family. A World War. A First Love. A Small Hotel. It’s the summer of 1941. Europe is at war, but New York's Thousand Islands are at the height of the tourist season. Kennet Fiskare, son of a hotel proprietor, is having the summer of a lifetime, having fallen deeply in love with a Swedish-Brazilian guest named Astrid Virtanen. But the affair is cut short and the young lovers permanently parted, first by Astrid’s family obligations, then by America’s entry into the war. The rigors of military life help dull his heartache, but when Kennet’s battalion reaches France, he is thrown into the crucible of front line combat. As his unit crosses Europe, from the Battle of the Bulge in Belgium to Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria, Kennet falls into a different kind of love: the intense camaraderie between soldiers. It's a bond fierce yet fragile, vital yet expendable, here today and gone tomorrow. Sustained by his friendships, Kennet both witnesses and commits the unthinkable atrocities of warfare, altering his view of the world and himself. To the point where a second chance with Astrid in peacetime might be the most terrifying and consequential battle he’s ever fought. With her signature blend of soul-stirring prose and emotional complexity, Laqueur takes listeners on a journey through events that shape an American family’s weakest moments and finest hours. A Small Hotel illuminates the experience of ordinary people thrown into extraordinary circumstances, and their once-in-a-generation camaraderie, courage and resiliency. It’s a novel for the world, a heartbreaking, uplifting story of family, love and human endurance. |
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82960. Pockets Of Grace: Lessons From Darkness, Lessons From Light : AudiobooksNow : USD5.99 Gessner’s world was turned upside down when her beloved, yet complicated, father was diagnosed with terminal lung cancer during her heartbreaking divorce. Struggling with despair, she received an unexpected visit from a mysterious, benevolent guest with the important message: You are not alone! That moment changed the course of her life and her career. At the threshold of death, she found connection, meaning, and depth which led her to work with dying and bereaved people, so they wouldn’t feel alone, either. This book is a result of what she experienced working as an end-of-life professional for nearly 20 years. Gessner shows us we aren’t left on our own on this earth; rather, the divine is woven into all we do, in ways we don’t often imagine. With the pandemic subsiding, many express not wanting to go back to the way things were. From hospital beds, to the beaches of Cape Cod, and the hills of Santa Fe, and with guidance and inspiration from patients, poets, saints, even birds, Heidi leads the reader to a new way forward. This book is for anyone wrestling with spirituality and/or grief as Gessner addresses issues about what it means to be human, to grieve, and to grow. |
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82961. Neurological Intelligence Volume 1: A Guide To Your Human Operating System : AudiobooksNow : USD7.50 It's not what happens to you, it's what happens within you! Do you feel sad, lost, stuck, or confused? Are you angry, resentful, reactive, or regretful about yourself and others? Neurological Intelligence: A Guide to Your Human Operating System is your road map to a happier and more Peaceful Life. |
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82962. Neurological Intelligence Volume 2: Strategies And Tools To Heal And Grow : AudiobooksNow : USD7.50 In Neurological Intelligence, Volume 2: Strategies and Tools to Heal and Grow, you will begin to heal the unresolved issues from the past, learn to manage your reactive patters in the present, and grow into the next higher version of yourself. |
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82963. Be The Warrior Queen: Practical Christian Strategies For Women To Achieve Victory In A Chaotic World : AudiobooksNow : USD10.49 Warrior Queens Rise Up! It's time for God's daughters to take back territory the enemy has stolen. For ages, women have been the glue that holds families and organizations together. And yet, society seems determined to wreak havoc on women's identities, making it difficult for God's daughters to fulfill their God-given destinies. BE THE WARRIOR QUEEN is a guidebook full of practical Christian strategies that line up with God's Word. These strategies can be implemented easily to restore peace to your life and strengthen your walk with God, all while enabling you to press ahead into your destiny as a daughter of Almighty God. It's time to take a stand for our families, our communities, and our nation. No matter what your struggle is, this guidebook will give you the tools you need to step into your role as a warrior queen for God's Kingdom. |
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82964. Love Stories : AudiobooksNow : USD3.49 In these twelve SFF stories, will emotion bring out the best in people… or showcase their worst impulses?
Ann won’t rest until she sets the past to rights. But when time travel becomes a complicated conversation with multiple versions of herself, will she end up criminally insane?
Alien priestess Ariane’s identity is rooted in her religion. Will her naive empathy leave her exposed to a determined human prisoner’s deception?
Alan Idle is trapped inside his wheelchair-bound programmer’s laptop. When a hurricane threatens to cut off the electricity that powers him, will her fierce fight to keep him safe reveal a deeper truth?
Exploring grief, affection, and the ties that bind us all together, this thought-provoking and diverse set of a dozen fantastical stories takes readers on a riveting trip around the galaxy. Whether it’s venturing into the criminal underworld with a wizard or delving into tough questions about how society treats the differently abled, Villyard’s elegant prose infuses each otherworldly scenario and cleverly evokes critical contemplations on expectations, reality, and humanity's future.
Love Stories is an eclectic collection of speculative fiction tales. If you like relatable characters, complex themes, and mind-bending twists, then you’ll adore Katherine Villyard’s contrast of the mythical and the mundane.
Buy Love Stories today to question what makes a person a person! |
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82965. Selfish: A Cardiologist's Guide To Healing A Broken Heart : AudiobooksNow : USD6.49 SELFISH: A Cardiologist's Guide to Healing a Broken Heart" delves into the shared experiences of patients under the care of Dr. Columbus Batiste as they navigate loss |
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82968. Keeper Of The Dead : AudiobooksNow : USD7.47 The undead still carry memories of the past: a phone, a wallet of family photos, an ID. After a ravaging plague has turned humanity into a race of flesh-eating monsters, remembering these victims as people falls on one man—a grieving, hopeless survivor who feels called to collect these artifacts. Years of living in solitude grind away until Viktor discovers the ID of a woman whose photo doesn't match the corpse that carried it. Imagining that she may still be alive, he conjures a plan to track her down by traveling thousands of miles to foster the only thing more dangerous than the dead: HOPE. On this mission he’ll face hordes of the infected, the horrific beast that sparked the outbreak, and an old foe from the past from whom he barely escaped with his own life. |
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82969. Magic Of The Realm : AudiobooksNow : USD4.99 *A twelve-time award winning debut novel, including Winner of the 2024 American Fiction Awards in the Young Adult Fiction category, as well as a Finalist in the General Fantasy category* Magic itself will fight to win, and stop the evil from this fateful sin Secrets, stolen memories, a tragic past, and a dangerous future surround James and Rhiannon after they are unexpectedly pulled into a world where magic is real, and alive. Separated eight years ago after the death of their mother, James and Rhiannon must reunite and return home to a magical realm to get back what was taken from them—their magic and memories. While traveling with their aunt and uncle, they discover the truth about their past, where they come from, and how they are destined to stop a demonic being from stealing powers, destroying the realm, and weakening magic itself in the process. Travel to a magical realm hidden within our own world and discover how magic will stop at nothing to survive. Author Notes: This book was previously titled Return to Kiluemar (Magic of the Realm Book 1). The content in this book is the same, only the cover, title, a few errors, and formatting have been changed. This is a young adult, coming of age, low, epic fantasy series with touches of urban-style fantasy and magical realism. The series contains some mature content and language, as well as darker elements as the series progresses. This one is definitely lower young adult and is part of a series, so it ends in a cliffhanger. For content warning, please see author's website. |
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82970. Strawberry Fields : AudiobooksNow : USD4.49 Ambitious young reporters Josie and Laurent arrive in Prague in 1968 to cover a revolution unfolding behind the Iron Curtain. It’s the story of a lifetime. A dream come true. A dream that’s about to become a nightmare. Soviet tanks thunder into the city, changing everything. Josie receives a cryptic message from a shrouded stranger on a mist-covered bridge, and soon she and Laurent are propelled onto a collision course with nefarious villains and unstoppable forces, as they rush to uncover a shadowy conspiracy before the city falls. Strawberry Fields drops you into an adventure you can’t put down, complete with secrets, spies, and — at the heart of it all — the power of rock and roll. A prequel to Back in the USSR in the Sing & Shout series of historical thrillers. Vivid setting |
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82971. Death In The Baja: A San Amaro Mystery : AudiobooksNow : USD7.49 Julia Garcia isn't just breaking barriers as the first woman sergeant in the San Amaro State Police; she's shattering them. Despite being the most educated officer on the force, her career aspirations seem out of reach amidst the monotony of solving petty robberies and domestic disputes. Adding insult to injury, her male superiors dismiss her, perpetuating a culture where female officers are an afterthought. But when an American resident disappears while hiking in the Baja desert with friends, Julia's unique blend of skills and fluency in English thrusts her into the heart of a gripping, high-profile case. As the search intensifies, Julia's instincts scream that something far more sinister lurks beneath the surface. Determined to unravel the truth, she must navigate a labyrinth of deceit and danger, drawing upon her intellect and training to decipher fact from fiction. In a Mexican male-dominated world where skepticism meets every stride she takes, Julia faces her toughest challenge yet. Will she have the courage to trust her instincts, defy the odds, and uncover the chilling reality lurking in the shadows? Ross’s characters are well-rounded and engaging. Readers will enjoy—and learn from—this page-turning thriller and will undoubtedly look forward to Ross’s future San Amaro mysteries. Sarah Poulette, The US Review of Books …captivating, fast-paced, suspense-filled, and enlightening. This book would appeal to lovers of crime, suspense, detective, and mystery stories. I loved the storyline and impressive character development…a riveting story! Jennifer Ibiam, Readers’ Favorite |
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82972. Witch And Mercenary Light Novel Vol. 1 : AudiobooksNow : USD12.49 A Dangerous Duo. A Deadly Path Home. Nothing in this world is more dangerous than a witch. The epitome of fear and terror, they can summon floods on a whim, conjure balls of fire out of the air, or even destroy entire countries overnight. Incur their wrath, and no one is safe. At least, that's what everyone thinks, and it's the very reason they all want Siasha dead. After yet another violent battle for her life, she teams up with Zig, a mercenary, and they depart for unknown lands to find somewhere she can live in peace. But is the pair any match for the lost magic and vicious monstrosities that lie ahead? |
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82973. The Haunted Bookstore - Gateway To A Parallel Universe Light Novel Vol. 2 : AudiobooksNow : USD12.49 Healing Broken Bonds For as long as Kaori can remember, she has run the spirit realm's only bookstore alongside Shinonome, the spirit who is her adoptive father. But Kaori begins to fear that her bond with Shinonome has frayed. He's keeping secrets from her, and they have something to do with his mysterious friend, the story-seller Tamaki. Worse, Kaori finds herself questioning the purpose of the bookstore itself--what if the stories she and her father bring to the spirit realm are doing more harm than good? |
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82974. Classroom Of The Elite: Year 2 Light Novel Vol. 3 : AudiobooksNow : USD12.49 THIS ISLAND'S NO PARADISE The special exam on an uninhabited island has begun! For two weeks, students will do their best to visit checkpoints and complete challenges to gain points with their groups. Well, except for Ayanokouji, who has opted to tackle this exam on his own... or has he? Nanase, a first-year student from Class D, breaks off from her own group and asks to tag along with him, but there doesn't seem to be anything in it for her. Just what is this under-classman's goal? |
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82975. The Miracle Of Me And My Life Of Miracles : AudiobooksNow : USD4.99 The Miracle of Me and My Life of Miracles by Curtis Wayne McCalister is a testament to the extraordinary experiences witnessed throughout a lifetime. From nostalgic recollections of growing up in the 1960s to profound encounters with the divine, Curtis shares the awe-inspiring moments that have shaped his perspective. His encounters include witnessing a majestic temple in the sky and encountering departed loved ones, all of which have reinforced his belief in the continuity of life beyond death. Inspired by these revelations, Curtis feels compelled to convey a message of hope and reassurance, emphasizing that death is merely a transition to a higher existence. Through this book, he aims to offer comfort and guidance to those who have lost loved ones, assuring them that their departed are eternally young and vibrant on the other side. |
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82976. The Wrath Of Rivers : AudiobooksNow : USD4.99 The northern waters hold dark secrets, ones Wax needs to uncover if he's going to get one step closer to the Wound and its throne. Before such lofty ideas can be set in motion, though, Wax and his guardians have to find a ride upriver, a task made harder thanks to cowardly captains and murderous fiends. Sly eyes and quick feet grab an unexpected opportunity to travel, but Wax soon finds their chosen vessel might have more danger than the rivers themselves. After surviving the Dark Below, Maena and Svarde are on the wrong wagon, heading straight to the Pits and gladiator justice. Whether they live or die will be up to more than their skills with a blade and an axe, as the enemies they'll face might very well be their own friends. Across the isles, meanwhile, the fiends grow stronger. Cities burn and desperation feeds a growing turmoil. Time is running out, for Wax and his quest, or Svarde and his promised slaughter. Even if they succeed, will there be anything left to save? The Wrath of Rivers continues the fantasy saga started with The Price of Peace, an action adventure tale brimming with vibrant characters, lush locales, and a story you've never seen before. Dive into the Seven Isles, and find yourself lost in a world as fun as it is ferocious. |
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82977. Dreams Takeoff: How One Father's Love And Support Nurtured His Son's Endeavor To Fly : AudiobooksNow : USD7.49 Are you grieving the loss of a loved one? Perhaps right now, you’re alone, feeling lost, not knowing your life’s purpose? This book shares with you an everlasting bond between a father and son. A little boy’s dream becomes a reality due to his father’s unfailing love and support. A father’s love nurtures his son’s drive to succeed. The son never wanted to leave his dad’s side, so he followed his dad everywhere: into the hospital, to the airport, the nursing homes, you name it. Jason Hallenborg discusses core values observed as his father saved lives and built lifelong connections with his patients. In his book, you will learn through real life examples, how these values are essential in setting and achieving goals. In addition, Dreams Takeoff answers why the love between a father and son is so powerful. You will learn: A father's love and demeanor have a significant impact on those he loves and serves.Life examples are powerful teachers.Anything is possible with the right perspective, curiosity, and determination.Writing a journal is a therapeutic outlet for reflecting on a loved one’s influence.We all have a lot to be grateful for every day, despite our desires and struggles.When his dad’s motive to create a better life for himself and his family became greater than reality, the doctor developed resilience.With his father's resiliency and determination close at hand, Jason Hallenborg tells you the inspirational story of how this bond transcended all life's challenges. If you're feeling lost or alone, grieving the loss of a loved one, let this story warm your heart and help you back up on your feet. |
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82978. Buy A Boyfriend : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 It wasn’t my expectation to fall into bed with the woman who won me at the bachelor auction. I was only doing my grandma a favor, not looking for more than a shared dinner with the winner. Then again, I wasn’t expecting someone as hot as Isla to be my date. She makes it clear that she’s down for a night in the sheets but bolts, leaving me holding my junk—literally. Which I figure, in the end, is all fine and good because love burned me before, and I have no plans to repeat that soul-crushing heartbreak. I took a much-needed vacation from the handyman business I own with my brothers, Rent A Husband, only to return to find out they’d hired Isla, making me her boss. And now I have to see her every day, and it’s getting harder to pretend I’m not still drawn to her. But I burned that bridge the night she was briefly in my bed, and any lust she had for me has turned to hatred. Which is for the best because she has a new boyfriend, which is all the motivation I need to stay away from her. Until it’s not. |
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82979. The Start Of All Things Good: A Complete Guide To Building Your Business : AudiobooksNow : USD7.75 The Start of All Things Good: A Complete Guide to Building Your Business" is an essential guide for anyone looking to navigate the complex world of entrepreneurship and transform their innovative ideas into successful business ventures. Authored by Danielle Billetz-Reppert |
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82981. Cristina Of Aspen Aisle : AudiobooksNow One day, Will Millhouse, an ordinary, lonesome bachelor, encounters a young girl who claims to be his daughter from the future. Should he believe her? Cristina of Aspen Aisle is a mystery, a frontier adventure, and a love story that reminds us of the echoing beauty and joy all around us, if we are willing to see with new eyes.
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82983. Threads Of Fate: A Journey Of Love, Betrayal, And Transformation As Four Lives Intertwine On The Edge Of Destiny : AudiobooksNow : USD2.89 Rachel's life unravels after the devastating betrayal of her husband, Edward. Faced with the collapse of her seemingly perfect world, she embarks on a journey of self-discovery and transformation. As she navigates the emotional turmoil of love, loss, and renewal, she’s supported by her loyal yet conflicted friend, Samantha, and Daniel, a powerful figure silently making sacrifices in the shadows. But as their lives intertwine, the lines between loyalty, love, and ambition blur, forcing each of them to confront their deepest desires and fears. In this emotionally charged tale of intertwined destinies, Rachel must decide if she can reclaim her future while untangling the threads that bind them all together. Threads of Fate" is a moving exploration of the fragile balance between independence and love |
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82984. Rainy Day Nap: Gentle White Noise For Restful Sleep: For A Quality Baby Sleep Rountine : AudiobooksNow : USD1.97 Help your baby relax with the soothing sounds of Rainy Day Nap: Gentle White Noise for Restful Sleep. This audiobook features the gentle, calming sound of rainfall, perfect for creating a serene environment for restful sleep. The consistent white noise of a rainy day helps to calm your baby, easing them into relaxation and promoting longer, deeper naps. Imagine your baby drifting off to sleep, comforted by the soft patter of raindrops. The gentle rhythm of rain blocks out background noises and creates a tranquil atmosphere, ensuring your little one enjoys a peaceful and undisturbed nap. Create the perfect nap time for your baby. Download Rainy Day Nap: Gentle White Noise for Restful Sleep and let the soothing rain sounds guide your baby to deep, restful slumber. |
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82985. Whispers Of The Sea: Soothing Ocean White Noise: For A Quality Baby Sleep Rountine : AudiobooksNow : USD1.97 Drift into peaceful slumber with Whispers of the Sea: Soothing Ocean White Noise. This audiobook features calming ocean white noise, bringing the gentle whispers of the sea into your sleep environment. The rhythmic sound of waves creates a serene atmosphere, perfect for soothing babies and adults alike into a deep, relaxing sleep. Imagine the tranquility of sleeping by the shore, the soft sound of waves lulling you and your baby into a restful state. This calming ocean white noise drowns out unwanted background sounds, making it easier for both of you to unwind and enjoy uninterrupted sleep. Invite the peaceful whispers of the sea into your nighttime routine. Download Whispers of the Sea: Soothing Ocean White Noise and let the ocean’s gentle rhythm carry you to a restful sleep. |
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82986. Unbreakable Confidence: Your Guide To Peak Performance: Boost Your Unbreakable Confidence! Dive Into Audio Lessons For Ultimat : AudiobooksNow : USD2.54 Unlock Peak Performance: Achieve Unbreakable Confidence ?? Simplified Audio Guide ?? Are you eager to elevate your career and strengthen your self-assurance with unwavering confidence? In search of a complete resource containing all the essentials to unlock peak performance? Look no further! This guide serves as your ultimate companion for expanding your understanding, applying practical skills, and engaging in hands-on exercises that set you up for success. Key features of this enriched guide: - Profound insights on achieving unbreakable confidence - Detailed explanations on unlocking peak performance - Fruitful strategies for self-improvement and overcoming challenges Our guide stands out with its comprehensive coverage, which is crucial for your personal and professional triumph. Concepts are not just briefly mentioned; they are thoroughly explored with precision. Please note that this guide is not affiliated with any official entity and is purely an independent resource for your benefit. Designed with a clear structure and easy-to-understand language, our guide ensures smooth transitions between topics. Say goodbye to dense jargon and welcome clear, precise, and technically accurate content. So, why wait? Click the BUY NOW button, secure your guide, and embark on your journey to achieving unbreakable confidence and peak performance success! |
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82987. Wicca Insights: The Wiccan Path: Embracing Nature, Magic, And Spiritual Enlightenment : AudiobooksNow : USD7.99 “Wicca Insights: The Wiccan Path: Embracing Nature, Magic, and Spiritual Enlightenment, an inclusive book |
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82989. A Sweet Surprise For The Cowboy : AudiobooksNow : USD2.99 “Why is there a cow on that pretty woman’s porch?” Kash has lived his entire life at a breakneck speed. When he finds out he has a daughter, that comes to a screeching halt. He is the only adult this little girl has, so he has to figure out how to be a grownup—right now. He’s going to need some help. Can he find someone willing to babysit on his brother’s remote ranch-turned-goat-rescue? This is the weirdest job offer ever. Bella is willing. She’s a college student who needs the income. But the second she meets Kash and Polly, it becomes about more than the money. In fact, she has to keep reminding herself that Kash can’t be trusted. He’s left a trail of broken hearts all over town, and the more time Bella spends with him, the more she worries about hers. If she can’t keep herself from falling, will she have to abandon Polly? Kash needs to convince her that he really has changed—for good. This small-town single dad romance is Book 2 in the Bridge Brothers' series, but it can also be read as a standalone. Binge the completed series: Book 1: A Sweet Day for the Cowboy Book 2: A Sweet Surprise for the Cowboy Book 3: A Sweet Gift for the Cowboy Book 4: A Sweet Pact for the Cowboy Book 5: A Sweet Chat for the Cowboy Book 6: A Sweet Deal for the Cowboy |
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82990. Fulfilled: Unlocking Passion, Purpose, And Joy In Your Life: 101 Letters Of Encouragement : AudiobooksNow : USD9.97 Fulfilled: Unlocking Passion, Purpose, and Joy in Your Life is an invitation to journey into the heart of what makes life truly meaningful. As a masterful storyteller and internationally acclaimed photographer drawing from decades of traveling the world with his camera, Steven Alan Vote offers a uniquely transformative and integrated approach to living a life of wonder, creativity, courage, joy, steadfast purpose, and contentment. Through 101 Letters of Encouragement, Fulfilled serves as a roadmap for navigating the landscapes of life. This collection of insights and reflections is designed to encourage you to find the beauty, lessons, wisdom, and meaning in every moment and live a richer, more satisfying, and more purpose-driven life. Are you ready to unlock the fullness of your life? Let this book guide you and reshape ordinary days into the extraordinary, advocating for a life not just lived but deeply cherished and brimming with passion, profound purpose, and true joy. |
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82991. Unicorns, Dragons, Wizards, Kings And Princesses: A Collection Of 25 Short Moral Stories For Helping Children And Toddlers To : AudiobooksNow : USD4.46 Do your children love hearing stories every night, but you’re running out of ideas? Do your children love stories about kings, princesses, and unicorns? If you answered yes to these questions, then you will want to keep reading. Storytime before bed is often a kid’s favorite time. Not only do they get to enjoy a story that works their imagination, but it often means that they get some good one-on-one time with their parents. This can help to bring families closer together, which leaves the child feeling safe and secure. This means that they can relax more easily so that they can fall asleep. The great news is that these stories teach your children lessons, as well. Your children will learn things like the importance of friendships, the importance of loving yourself, how you can do anything you set your mind to, and lessons such as acceptance, bravery, following your dreams, the importance of family and responsibility. In this audiobook, your child will discover: A prince who learns that cheating doesn’t solve anythingA princess who bravely helps lead knights on a rescue missionA young knight who rescues a princess from a dragonA unicorn who learns that school isn’t all that scaryA little girl who learns how to properly take care of a unicornA wizard who proves that even the most basic spells can win the hearts of manyA newly crowned king who is worried about failingA princess who learns that looks aren’t the most important thingA unicorn who learns the family is very importantAnd much more...With the 25 stories within the audiobook at just the perfect length to keep their attention, you will have stories that your kids will enjoy for years to come. Don’t wait any longer. You will be happy you did! |
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82992. Trump's Triumph: Uncover The Untold Story: Discover Trump's Triumph" Secrets! Dive Into Captivating Audio Tales For The Ultim" : AudiobooksNow : USD2.54 Discover Trump's Triumph: Unearth the Untold Story Are you eager to advance in your career and elevate your understanding by delving into the astonishing political rise of Trump? Searching for an all-encompassing guide that offers every essential detail to uncover this incredible story? Look no further! This guide is your ultimate companion to enhance your comprehension, refine your analytical skills, and engage in thought-provoking discussions. Consider yourself equipped for success. Updated insights into Trump's remarkable journey. Key features of this enriched guide: - Profound insights into understanding Trump's political ascent - Detailed exploration of his unexpected path to power - Effective strategies for interpreting political phenomena Our guide sets itself apart with thorough coverage that is crucial for mastering this subject. Concepts are not just skimmed—all are examined in-depth with precision. Please note that this guide is not affiliated with any political entity and is solely an independent resource for your benefit. Crafted with a structured approach and straightforward language, our guide ensures seamless transitions between topics. Bid farewell to complex jargon and embrace clear, precise, and technically accurate content. So why wait? Click the BUY NOW button, secure your guide, and start your journey into understanding Trump's Triumph and the untold stories of his rise! |
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82993. The Mysterious Affair At Styles : AudiobooksNow : USD0.99 Step into the world of detective fiction with The Mysterious Affair at Styles, Agatha Christie’s first novel, introducing the legendary Hercule Poirot. This audiobook transports listeners to a quiet English country estate, Styles Court, where a shocking murder sets off a chain of thrilling events. Emily Inglethorp, the wealthy matriarch of the estate, is found dead in her bedroom, and suspicion quickly falls upon her new, much younger husband. However, as Poirot begins to investigate, it becomes clear that nothing is as it seems. Armed with his sharp intellect, meticulous methods, and the help of his friend Captain Hastings, Poirot unravels a complex web of secrets, lies, and family intrigue. With Christie’s trademark red herrings and intricate plotting, The Mysterious Affair at Styles keeps listeners on the edge of their seats. As Poirot navigates the clues, from poison to mysterious quarrels, each step brings him closer to the shocking truth behind the murder. Set during World War I, the novel not only delivers a compelling mystery but also offers a glimpse into the social dynamics of the time. This audiobook, narrated with precision and clarity, breathes life into the characters and the eerie atmosphere of Styles Court. For fans of classic detective tales, this is a must-listen, marking the debut of one of literature’s most beloved sleuths. Start Listening to The Mysterious Affair at Styles today and follow Hercule Poirot as he solves his very first case, where every twist and turn brings him closer to unveiling a brilliant and surprising solution! |
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82994. Poirot Investigates : AudiobooksNow : USD0.99 Dive into the world of mystery and deduction with Agatha Christie’s Poirot Investigates, an engaging audiobook that showcases the brilliant mind of the iconic detective Hercule Poirot. This collection features a series of short stories, each filled with intrigue, clever plotting, and the signature twists that Christie is known for. In Poirot Investigates, listeners join Poirot as he tackles a variety of baffling cases, from thefts to murders, each more puzzling than the last. With the help of his loyal friend Captain Hastings, Poirot employs his extraordinary intellect and meticulous attention to detail to uncover the truth hidden beneath layers of deception. Whether it’s solving the mystery of a stolen necklace or unraveling a complex murder case, Poirot's unique approach to crime-solving shines through in each story. This audiobook not only highlights Poirot's exceptional skills but also introduces a cast of fascinating characters, each with their own motives and secrets. As the stories unfold, listeners will find themselves drawn into the suspense and excitement of Poirot's investigations, eager to piece together the clues before he reveals the solutions. Narrated with elegance and flair, Poirot Investigates captures the essence of Agatha Christie’s storytelling, making it an excellent choice for both longtime fans and those new to her work. With its blend of mystery, charm, and humor, this audiobook is perfect for anyone who enjoys a good detective story. Start Listening to Poirot Investigates today and join Hercule Poirot on his quest for justice, where every case offers a new puzzle waiting to be solved! |
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82995. The Tale Of Timmy Tiptoes : AudiobooksNow : USD2.07 In The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes, Beatrix Potter tells the delightful story of Timmy Tiptoes, a chubby little squirrel, and his wife, Goody Tiptoes. As the couple busily stores nuts for the winter, Timmy finds himself caught in a hilarious misunderstanding with other woodland creatures, leading to an unexpected adventure. Set in the peaceful woods and filled with charming animal characters, this story reflects Beatrix Potter’s timeless themes of nature, kindness, and the beauty of the countryside. Narrated by Tiffany Magnuson, this audiobook brings Potter’s classic tale to life, enchanting both young and old listeners with its heartwarming narrative. |
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82996. Justified Means : AudiobooksNow : USD9.99 How could she not be terrified? When Erika Polowski is abducted from her bed and held captive without explanation, she has one goal. Get away before they kill her. Keith Auger’s job as an agent is to keep Erika safe—even if it means keeping her locked in an abandoned cabin in the middle of nowhere. At gunpoint.. What should be a routine “involuntary extraction” goes south when someone finds out where they’re hiding. Add to that a coworker with a chip on her shoulder and too many unexplained “accidents,” and it all adds up to one unlikely, terrifying explanation.. There’s a mole in The Agency.. He’s promised to protect her, but can Erika trust a man whose job it is to hold people against their wills? Does his deep faith make it any better or just a whole lot creepier? And just who wants Erika dead anyway?. The Agency Files: They’ll do whatever it takes to keep their clients safe. Period. Grab this first book in the series today.. |
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82997. Oregon Loves New York: A Story Of American Unity After 9/11 : AudiobooksNow : USD7.99 A nation in mourning. A city recovering. A unique moment in history when people came together to rebuild hope. When an unimaginable crisis emerged, politically polarized Oregon found a common mission. Three weeks after the September 11th terrorist attacks, airplanes were empty and the New York economy was tanking. So one thousand Freedom Fliers committed to taking sixty-two flights to NYC and infusing local businesses with revenue to show their unwavering support. Arriving en masse to the grief-filled streets, Oregonians from diverse backgrounds and social statuses came to make a difference in their fellow Americans' lives. But beyond the much-needed economic boost, these unsung heroes discovered themselves providing something even more essential... their open hearts. Sally Ruth Bourrie, freelance writer for the Chicago Tribune and The Boston Globe, witnessed firsthand this remarkable phenomenon sparked by the 2001 Flight for Freedom. In a comprehensive and poignant account, she brings this extraordinary and largely unknown story vividly to life. In Oregon Loves New York, you'll discover: - How everyday people can make a huge difference by being present for others in times of need -Ways a divided community can put aside politics, ideologies, and disagreements to achieve amazing things together - Almost 700 pages of tales of courage and humanity, including 200 full-color photographs, 100 personal interviews, 20 years of research, and archival news pieces now lost to history - Heart-touching examples of the healing power of person-to-person contact and how we as a nation can honor each other - Insight into a little-known event with a huge impact, positive messages of hope, and much, much more! |
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82998. The Prime Minister : AudiobooksNow : USD7.50 The Prime Minister is a novel by Anthony Trollope, published in 1876, and is the fifth installment in the Palliser" series. The story revolves around Plantagenet Palliser |
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83000. Cracking The Code: The Genius Behind The Quant Trading Boom: Elevate Your Strategy: Audio Insights From 'cracking The Code' F" : AudiobooksNow : USD3.41 Cracking the Code: The Genius Behind the Quant Trading Boom ?? Simplified Audio Guide ?? Are you aiming to advance your career and deepen your understanding of quantitative trading strategies? Looking for a comprehensive guide that encompasses all you need to master profitable quantitative strategies? Your search ends here! This guide is your essential companion for enhancing your knowledge, applying your skills, and engaging in practical exercises. It equips you for success. Updated for the latest insights and trends in Quant Trading. Key features of this enriched guide: - Profound insights about the latest developments in Quant Trading - Detailed explanation of quantitative trading strategies - Fruitful strategies for preparing and tackling trading challenges Our guide distinguishes itself through comprehensive coverage, critical for success in the quant trading arena. Concepts aren't merely skimmed; they are explored with precision. Please note that this guide is not affiliated with any official trading entity and is purely an independent resource for your benefit. Designed with a clear structure and easy-to-understand language, our Quant Trading Guide ensures smooth transitions between topics. Say goodbye to dense jargon and welcome clear, precise, and technically accurate content. So, why wait? Click the BUY NOW button, secure your guide, and begin your journey to mastering quantitative trading strategies! With this comprehensive guide, you're on the path to deciphering the secrets behind profitable quantitative strategies. |
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