Showing results by publisher "Ascent Audio" in Politics & Social Sciences
-
-
Ethical Wisdom
- What Makes Us Good
- By: Mark Matousek
- Narrated by: Mark Matousek
- Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall0
-
Performance0
-
Story0
How do we make the judgment call between self-interest and caring for others? Drawing on the latest scientific research and interviews with social scientists, spiritual leaders, ex-cons, altruists, and philosophers, Matousek examines morality from a scientific, sociological, and anthropological standpoint. Each chapter features a series of questions, readings, interviews, parables, and anecdotes that zoom in on a particular niche of moral inquiry, making this audiobook both utilitarian and fun.
-
Ethical Wisdom
- What Makes Us Good
- Narrated by: Mark Matousek
- Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 20-05-2011
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to Wish List failed.
Please try again laterRemove from Wish List failed.
Please try again laterFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
$23.30 or free with 30-day trial
-
-
-
Twitter for Good
- Change the World One Tweet at a Time
- By: Claire Diaz-Ortiz
- Narrated by: Karen Saltus
- Length: 5 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall0
-
Performance0
-
Story0
As recent events in Japan, the Middle East, and Haiti have shown, Twitter offers a unique platform to connect individuals and influence change in ways that were unthinkable only a short time ago. Twitter for Good is a groundbreaking book that contains the most effective tactics for tapping into the power of Twitter as a real-time information network.
-
Twitter for Good
- Change the World One Tweet at a Time
- Narrated by: Karen Saltus
- Length: 5 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 04-01-2012
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to Wish List failed.
Please try again laterRemove from Wish List failed.
Please try again laterFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
$22.74 or free with 30-day trial
-
-
-
Feeding the Mind
- By: Lewis Carroll
- Narrated by: Nicola Barber
- Length: 13 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall0
-
Performance0
-
Story0
A manuscript of a brief lecture Lewis Carroll once gave, Feeding the Mind discusses the importance of not only feeding one's body, but one's mind, as well. He wittily puts forth connections between the diet of the body and mind, and gives helpful tips on how to best digest knowledge in the brain. Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) was an English author, best known for his works Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. He is prized for his ability to deal with word play, logic, and fantasy.
-
Feeding the Mind
- Narrated by: Nicola Barber
- Length: 13 mins
- Release date: 16-05-2013
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to Wish List failed.
Please try again laterRemove from Wish List failed.
Please try again laterFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
$6.00 or free with 30-day trial
-
-
-
Abraham Lincoln: A Life 1843-1849
- A Win in Congress and a Battle Against Slavery
- By: Michael Burlingame
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 6 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall0
-
Performance0
-
Story0
This chapter begins with Lincoln's fight for a seat in congress against two other Whig candidates. This part of his life is notably marked by domestic disturbances, many of which shaped people's idea of Lincoln, the man. Taking a pro-tariff stance in his campaign, he is elected to congress in 1846. We learn of his affinity to poetry, which he avidly read and wrote, and see the development of the 'old Abe' archetype.
-
Abraham Lincoln: A Life 1843-1849
- A Win in Congress and a Battle Against Slavery
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 6 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 16-07-2009
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to Wish List failed.
Please try again laterRemove from Wish List failed.
Please try again laterFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
$23.46 or free with 30-day trial
-
-
-
Abraham Lincoln: A Life 1849-1855
- A Mid-Life Crisis and a Re-Entry to Politics
- By: Michael Burlingame
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall0
-
Performance0
-
Story0
This point in Lincoln's life is marked by a sudden return to the practice of law. Highly moral and judicious, he often took little or no money for cases, and would not represent a client if he didn't believe in his case. Lincoln tried to settle many cases out of court. He developed a persona of being affable and open, especially to juries, giving him a noted advantage. He also served on the circuit courts, where lawyers had to prepare cases quickly and where lodging was often quite difficult to find.
-
Abraham Lincoln: A Life 1849-1855
- A Mid-Life Crisis and a Re-Entry to Politics
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 16-07-2009
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to Wish List failed.
Please try again laterRemove from Wish List failed.
Please try again laterFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
$23.46 or free with 30-day trial
-
-
-
The Body Economic
- Why Austerity Kills
- By: David Stuckler, Sanjay Basu
- Narrated by: Tim Andres Pabon
- Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall0
-
Performance0
-
Story0
In The Body Economic, Stuckler and Basu mine data from around the globe and throughout history to show how government policy becomes a matter of life and death during financial crises. In a series of historical case studies stretching from 1930s America, to Russia and Indonesia in the 1990s, to present-day Greece, Britain, Spain, and the U.S., Stuckler and Basu reveal that governmental mismanagement of financial strife has resulted in a grim array of human tragedies.
-
The Body Economic
- Why Austerity Kills
- Narrated by: Tim Andres Pabon
- Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 06-05-2013
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to Wish List failed.
Please try again laterRemove from Wish List failed.
Please try again laterFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
$23.72 or free with 30-day trial
-
-
-
How to License Your Million Dollar Idea
- Everything You Need to Know to Turn a Simple Idea Into a Million Dollar Payday, 2nd Edition
- By: Harvey Reese
- Narrated by: Barrett Whitener
- Length: 6 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall0
-
Performance0
-
Story0
Author Harvey Reese, a successful new-product developer, consultant, and licensing agent, reveals his proven step-by-step process for formulating an idea that manufacturers are willing to pay for. He gives you the nuts and bolts information on patents, negotiating the deal, and the licensing process. Filled with examples of successful, well-known licensing ventures, How to License your Million Dollar Idea has all the information and motivation you need to grow your idea into a fortune.
-
How to License Your Million Dollar Idea
- Everything You Need to Know to Turn a Simple Idea Into a Million Dollar Payday, 2nd Edition
- Narrated by: Barrett Whitener
- Length: 6 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 29-11-2006
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to Wish List failed.
Please try again laterRemove from Wish List failed.
Please try again laterFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
$23.64 or free with 30-day trial
-
-
-
OBD: Obsessive Branding Disorder
- The Illusion of Business and the Business of Illusion
- By: Lucas Conley
- Narrated by: Walter Dixon
- Length: 5 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall0
-
Performance0
-
Story0
In this trenchant analysis of a business stratagem gone wrong, Lucas Conley offers us a long overdue investigation into our culture of obsession. From sensory specialists to word-of-mouth marketers and executives keen to leave their mark, we are introduced to the unforgettable cast of characters responsible for getting our attention from often insidious, emotionally charged angles.
-
OBD: Obsessive Branding Disorder
- The Illusion of Business and the Business of Illusion
- Narrated by: Walter Dixon
- Length: 5 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 09-12-2008
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to Wish List failed.
Please try again laterRemove from Wish List failed.
Please try again laterFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
$22.74 or free with 30-day trial
-
-
-
The Immigrant Exodus
- Why America Is Losing the Global Race to Capture Entrepreneurial Talent
- By: Vivek Wadhwa
- Narrated by: Tim Andres Pabon
- Length: 2 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall0
-
Performance0
-
Story0
Many of the United States' most innovative entrepreneurs have been immigrants, from Andrew Carnegie, Alexander Graham Bell, and Charles Pfizer to Sergey Brin, Vinod Khosla, and Elon Musk. Nearly half of Fortune 500 companies and one-quarter of all new small businesses were founded by immigrants, generating trillions of dollars annually, employing millions of workers, and helping establish the United States as the most entrepreneurial, technologically advanced society on earth.
-
The Immigrant Exodus
- Why America Is Losing the Global Race to Capture Entrepreneurial Talent
- Narrated by: Tim Andres Pabon
- Length: 2 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 06-09-2013
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to Wish List failed.
Please try again laterRemove from Wish List failed.
Please try again laterFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
$14.91 or free with 30-day trial
-
-
-
Inside Obama's Brain
- By: Sasha Abramsky
- Narrated by: Erik Synnestvedt
- Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall0
-
Performance0
-
Story0
From the moment he burst onto the national political scene, Barack Obama has fascinated people more than any politician in decades. Many biographers have already retold his story, but no previous book truly explains how his mind works, what passions drive him, or what makes him such an effective leader.
-
Inside Obama's Brain
- Narrated by: Erik Synnestvedt
- Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 10-12-2009
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to Wish List failed.
Please try again laterRemove from Wish List failed.
Please try again laterFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
$24.52 or free with 30-day trial
-
-
-
Monster
- A Tough Love Letter On Taming the Machines that Rule our Jobs, Lives, and Future
- By: Paul Roehrig, Ben Pring
- Narrated by: Perry Daniels
- Length: 4 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall0
-
Performance0
-
Story0
Monster explains how we can responsibly engage with technology, and avoid its darker tendencies, while accepting its necessary gifts. For managers, leaders, and employees at companies of all sizes and in all industries, Monster will help you understand and take control of technology's powerful role in your life and your organization.
-
Monster
- A Tough Love Letter On Taming the Machines that Rule our Jobs, Lives, and Future
- Narrated by: Perry Daniels
- Length: 4 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 13-07-2021
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to Wish List failed.
Please try again laterRemove from Wish List failed.
Please try again laterFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
$18.30 or free with 30-day trial
-
-
-
A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues
- What You Can Do Right Now to Help the Black Community
- By: Steven Rogers
- Narrated by: Terrence Kidd
- Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall0
-
Performance0
-
Story0
In straightforward language, A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues encourages every White person to share his/her wealth with the Black community - plain and simple. Those who listen to the book will: understand the root causes of racial disparities in America; discover how you can personally contribute to reducing the inequality between Black and White people in the United States today; and get concrete recommendations on how to redirect your spending to Black-owned institutions to help decrease the racial wealth gap.
-
A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues
- What You Can Do Right Now to Help the Black Community
- Narrated by: Terrence Kidd
- Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 21-09-2021
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to Wish List failed.
Please try again laterRemove from Wish List failed.
Please try again laterFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
$23.46 or free with 30-day trial
-
-
-
Punching the Clock
- Adapting to the New Future of Work
- By: Joe Ungemah
- Narrated by: Paul Brion
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall0
-
Performance0
-
Story0
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, trends already underway toward the future of work and the gig economy rapidly and unexpectedly accelerated. Physical isolation, travel restrictions, and social distancing challenged organizations to rethink how work gets done and by whom, with ramifications that will stretch beyond the pandemic. Punching the Clock explores how well workers are likely to both navigate and adapt to this new future of work, using the best of psychological science as a guide.
-
Punching the Clock
- Adapting to the New Future of Work
- Narrated by: Paul Brion
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 27-04-2021
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to Wish List failed.
Please try again laterRemove from Wish List failed.
Please try again laterFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
$24.89 or free with 30-day trial
-
-
-
Extended Reality in Practice
- 100+ Amazing Ways Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality Are Changing Business and Society
- By: Bernard Marr
- Narrated by: Dennis Kleinman
- Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall0
-
Performance0
-
Story0
Extended reality (XR for short) - which encompasses virtual reality, augmented reality, and mixed reality - is one of the biggest business trends of today. It refers to the use of technology to create more immersive digital experiences that are promising to transform many businesses and industries. In this book, best-selling author, strategic business advisor, and respected futurist Bernard Marr explains the role of XR in providing innovative businesses solutions for companies of varying sizes and across different industries.
-
Extended Reality in Practice
- 100+ Amazing Ways Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality Are Changing Business and Society
- Narrated by: Dennis Kleinman
- Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 13-07-2021
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to Wish List failed.
Please try again laterRemove from Wish List failed.
Please try again laterFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
$22.87 or free with 30-day trial
-
-
-
The Inglorious Years
- The Collapse of the Industrial Order and the Rise of Digital Society
- By: Daniel Cohen, Jane Marie Todd - translator
- Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
- Length: 4 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall0
-
Performance0
-
Story0
In the revolutionary excitement of the 1960s, young people around the world called for a radical shift away from the old industrial order, imagining a future of technological liberation and unfettered prosperity. Industrial society did collapse, and a digital economy has risen to take its place, yet many are left feeling marginalized and deprived of the possibility of a better life. The Inglorious Years explores the many ways we have been let down by the rising tide of technology, showing how our new interconnectivity is not fulfilling its promise.
-
The Inglorious Years
- The Collapse of the Industrial Order and the Rise of Digital Society
- Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
- Length: 4 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 18-05-2021
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to Wish List failed.
Please try again laterRemove from Wish List failed.
Please try again laterFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
$19.46 or free with 30-day trial
-
-
-
Exposed
- How Revealing Your Data and Eliminating Privacy Increases Trust and Liberates Humanity
- By: Ben Malisow
- Narrated by: Mike Carnes
- Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall0
-
Performance0
-
Story0
It's only a matter of time - the modern notion of privacy is quickly evaporating because of technological advancement and social engagement. Whether we like it or not, all our actions and communications are going to be revealed for everyone to see. Exposed: How Revealing Your Data and Eliminating Privacy Increases Trust and Liberates Humanity takes a controversial and insightful look at the concept of privacy and persuasively argues that preparing for a post-private future is better than exacerbating the painful transition by attempting to delay the inevitable.
-
Exposed
- How Revealing Your Data and Eliminating Privacy Increases Trust and Liberates Humanity
- Narrated by: Mike Carnes
- Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 09-03-2021
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to Wish List failed.
Please try again laterRemove from Wish List failed.
Please try again laterFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
$23.97 or free with 30-day trial
-
-
-
The Future Starts Now
- Expert Insights into the Future of Business, Technology and Society
- By: Theo Priestley, Bronwyn Williams
- Narrated by: Graham Rowat, Teri Schnaubelt
- Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall0
-
Performance0
-
Story0
The future is an uncertain, uncomfortable prospect for employees, employers, and society at large. A flurry of unprecedented events have proven that, despite what some politicians and economists may tell us, the future is not set in stone. In light of this uncertainty, The Future Starts Now looks toward the various innovations and technologies that may shape our future. Authors Theo Priestley and Bronwyn Williams have brought together the world's leading futurists to articulate and clarify the current trajectories in technology, economics, politics, and business.
-
The Future Starts Now
- Expert Insights into the Future of Business, Technology and Society
- Narrated by: Graham Rowat, Teri Schnaubelt
- Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 15-04-2021
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to Wish List failed.
Please try again laterRemove from Wish List failed.
Please try again laterFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
$22.69 or free with 30-day trial
-
-
-
Authentic Diversity
- How to Change the Workplace for Good
- By: Michelle Silverthorn
- Narrated by: Janina Edwards
- Length: 5 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall0
-
Performance0
-
Story0
Culture change expert and diversity speaker Michelle Silverthorn explains how to transform diversity and inclusion from mere lip service into the very heart of leadership. Following the journey of a Black woman in the workplace, leaders learn the old rules of diversity that keep failing her and millions like her again and again, and the new rules they must put in place to make success a reality for everyone.
-
Authentic Diversity
- How to Change the Workplace for Good
- Narrated by: Janina Edwards
- Length: 5 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 26-01-2021
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to Wish List failed.
Please try again laterRemove from Wish List failed.
Please try again laterFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
$22.74 or free with 30-day trial
-
-
-
Debacle
- Obama's War on Jobs and Growth and What We Can Do Now to Regain Our Future
- By: Grover Glenn Norquist, John R. Lott
- Narrated by: Brian Holsopple
- Length: 5 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall0
-
Performance0
-
Story0
A provocative 2012 critique of the Obama administration's economic policies and an examination of America's difficult economic future.
-
Debacle
- Obama's War on Jobs and Growth and What We Can Do Now to Regain Our Future
- Narrated by: Brian Holsopple
- Length: 5 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 09-07-2020
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to Wish List failed.
Please try again laterRemove from Wish List failed.
Please try again laterFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
$22.80 or free with 30-day trial
-
-
-
Brave New World Economy
- Global Finance Threatens Our Future
- By: Wilhelm Hankel, Robert Isaak
- Narrated by: Dennis Holland
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall0
-
Performance0
-
Story0
The global finance system can be regulated to prevent massive credit fraud, tame capitalism, confront the sovereign debt crisis, and move towards investing in the real economy and full employment. "Obamanomics" and American reinvention can lead to a sustained economic recovery but only together with major domestic, European, and global monetary reforms in cooperation with emerging nations.
-
Brave New World Economy
- Global Finance Threatens Our Future
- Narrated by: Dennis Holland
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 09-07-2020
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to Wish List failed.
Please try again laterRemove from Wish List failed.
Please try again laterFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
$25.45 or free with 30-day trial
-