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The Professor and Other Writings , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 784min

From one of America¹s most brilliant critics and cultural commentators comes a long-awaited collection of penetrating autobiographical essays and a riveting short memoir, novelistic in style and ambition, about the pathos, comedy, and devastation of early love. Stanford professor and longtime contributor to the London Review of Books, the Atlantic, the New Republic, Slate, and other publications, Terry Castle is widely admired for the wit, panache, intellectual breadth, and emotional honesty of her writings on life, literature, and art. Now, at long last, she has collected some of the more personal of her recent essays in a single volume. Several pieces here are already acknowledged classics: "Desperately Seeking Susan", the celebrated account she wrote in 2005 of her droll and somewhat bittersweet friendship with Susan Sontag; "My Heroin Christmas", a darkly humorous examination of addiction, her family and stepsiblings, and the late, great jazz saxophonist Art Pepper; and the picaresque "Travels with My Mother", a rollicking travelogue that brings together Castle's complicated relationship with her mother, lesbianism, art, and the difficult yet transcendent work of the painter Agnes Martin. At the center of the collection, however, is the title work, published here for the first time: a candid and wrenching exploration of Castle's relationship, during her graduate school years, with a female professor. At once hilarious and rueful, it is a pitch-perfect recollection of the fiascos of youth: how we come to own (or disown) our sexuality; how we understand (or don't) the emotional needs and wishes of others; how the ordeals of desire can prompt a lifelong search for self-understanding. In this account of a sentimental education, as in all the essays in The Professor and Other Writings, Terry Castle reveals herself as a truly remarkable writer: utterly distinctive, wise, frank, and fe... ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Maggi-Meg Reed. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/002092/bk_harp_002092_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Culture Clash 2: Managing the Global High Performance Team , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 330min

Flying blind in interactions with customers, colleagues, collaborators, or competitors? Frustrated by misunderstandings with other organizational silos or cultures? Learn the number-one skill: how to step into anyone’s shoes, decode their mindset, and get the job done with anyone, anywhere. What derails deals is not that we don’t bow, kiss, or shake hands correctly. What kills success is our inability to read between the lines, decode the mindset of the other side, and see the world from other perspectives. Forged in the fire of clashing cultures and living on four continents, Dr. Zweifel, the CEO, Columbia professor, and award-winning author, unpacks the toolbox he developed over three decades of helping managers in 100+ countries lead effectively - a system for success across organizational and cultural boundaries. "Culture Clash not only reminds us of our blindness, but also offers a cure." (Scott A. Snook, Professor, Harvard Business School)In this action-packed, quick, and fun listen (cross-cultural fiascos can be hilarious...some jokes are so risqué that the publisher banned them until now), learn: The 13 dos and taboos in dealing with other value systems. The most powerful troubleshooting tool on the market to prevent culture clash - which saved Dr. Zweifel’s clients millions in sunk costs, with cases. The eight dimensions to prep quickly for any meeting anywhere - even if you’ve never been there. How to lead effective global meetings and teleconferences (before, during, after), with a case of a $40 million value-add. How to adapt your website, videos, and social media so you don’t alienate new customers. The hidden differences between American, Asian, European, and other mind-sets that trip up negotiations. How to address difficult topics - for example, sex - in different cultures. “Absolutely required reading for leaders who manage across ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Shlomo Zacks. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/066244/bk_acx0_066244_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Good Deed Crew and the Aspen Adventure: Grace Notes, Book 5 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 54min

The four young members of The Grace Notes Children's Quartet, also known as The Good Deed Crew, want to make a difference in their community of Tigothee Falls, Colorado, but they have sworn to keep their good deeds a secret. Can this diverse group of bright and curious kids pull it off? Will the Good Deed Crew change the town without being caught? Author Kendra Parks, a homeschool mom with four little ones of her own, has written this educational mystery and adventure series to bring more positive messages about humility and faith to young listeners. Additionally, Mrs. Parks draws on her Christian faith, university education, and decades of experience as a musician (violinist) and teacher to make her series educational and informative about Biblical themes and classical music history. Young listeners will learn memory verses, the names of famous composers and musical pieces, and they will see cross-generational friendships. In book five, The Good Deed Crew and the Aspen Adventure, school is out, and Grace Notes is taking a road trip to Aspen! Jenny, Addy, Shaun, and Ty make the trip to play for a wedding but never dreamed of the adventure awaiting them. Will The Good Deed Crew discover a way to love another even while away from Tigothee Falls?A breath of fresh air in a world of self-focus, the Grace Notes children's series sets a new example of humility for kids today. While performing music as Grace Notes - a successful traveling children's string quartet - the four young players encounter crazy fiascos and discover the needs of families around them. Under the secret name of The Good Deed Crew and with the help of Addy and Jenny's Grammy E, the kids go out of their way to fill those needs, serving and loving those in their hometown of Tigothee Falls, set in the foothills of Colorado's Rocky Mountains.Grace Notes would be an excellent series to pair with a children's daily devotional or daily prayer time with the kids. Th ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gillian Lintz. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/224942/bk_acx0_224942_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Hoodwinked: An Economic Hit Man Reveals Why the Global Economy IMPLODED - and How to Fix It , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 438min

John Perkins has seen the signs of today's economic meltdown before. The subprime mortgage fiascos, the banking industry collapse, the rising tide of unemployment, the shuttering of small businesses across the landscape are all too familiar symptoms of a far greater disease. In his former life as an economic hit man, he was on the front lines both as an observer and a perpetrator of events, once confined only to the third world, that have now sent the United States - and in fact the entire planet - spiraling toward disaster. Here, Perkins pulls back the curtain on the real cause of the current global financial meltdown. He shows how we've been hoodwinked by the CEOs who run the corporatocracy - those few corporations that control the vast amounts of capital, land, and resources around the globe - and the politicians they manipulate. These corporate fat cats, Perkins explains, have sold us all on what he calls predatory capitalism, a misguided form of geopolitics and capitalism that encourages a widespread exploitation of the many to benefit a small number of the already very wealthy. Their arrogance, gluttony, and mismanagement have brought us to this perilous edge. The solution is not a "return to normal". But there is a way out. As Perkins makes clear, we can create a healthy economy that will encourage businesses to act responsibly, not only in the interests of their shareholders and corporate partners (and the lobbyists they have in their pockets), but in the interests of their employees, their customers, the environment, and society at large.We can create a society that fosters a just, sustainable, and safe world for us and our children. Each one of us makes these choices every day, in ways that are clearly spelled out in this book. "We hold the power", he says, "if only we recognize it."Hoodwinked is a powerful polemic that shows not only how we arrived at this precarious point in our history but also what we must d ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David Ackroyd. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/002082/bk_rand_002082_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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