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A Monetary and Fiscal History of the United States, 1961-2021
- By: Alan S. Blinder
- Narrated by: Todd McLaren
- Length: 15 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Alan Blinder, one of the world's most influential economists and one of the field's best writers, draws on his deep firsthand experience to provide an authoritative account of sixty years of monetary and fiscal policy in the United States. Spanning twelve presidents, from John F. Kennedy to Joe Biden, and eight Federal Reserve chairs, from William McChesney Martin to Jerome Powell, this is an insider's story of macroeconomic policy that hasn't been told before—one that is a pleasure to listen to, and as interesting as it is important.
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A Monetary and Fiscal History of the United States, 1961-2021
- Narrated by: Todd McLaren
- Length: 15 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 11-10-2022
- Language: English
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Fundamentals of Clinical Trials
- By: Lawrence M. Friedman, Curt D. Furberg, David L. DeMets
- Narrated by: Douglas Martin
- Length: 3 hrs and 56 mins
- Abridged
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This book is intended for the clinical researcher who is interested in designing a clinical trial and developing a protocol. It is also of value to researchers and practitioners who must critically evaluate the literature of published clinical trials and assess the merits of each trial and the implications for the care and treatment of patients. The authors use numerous examples of published clinical trials to illustrate the fundamentals.
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Fundamentals of Clinical Trials
- Narrated by: Douglas Martin
- Length: 3 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 25-02-2022
- Language: English
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Expressly Human
- Decoding The Language of Emotion
- By: Mark Changizi, Tim Barber
- Narrated by: Mark Changizi
- Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Why did once-stone-faced animals evolve to be so emotionally expressive—to be us? The answer, as evolutionary neurobiologist Mark Changizi and mathematician Tim Barber reveal, is that emotional expressions are our first and most important language—one that allows us, as social animals, to engage in highly sophisticated communications and negotiations.
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Expressly Human
- Decoding The Language of Emotion
- Narrated by: Mark Changizi
- Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 26-07-2022
- Language: English
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The 15-Minute City
- A Solution to Saving Our Time and Our Planet
- By: Carlos Moreno, Martha Thorne - afterword, Jan Gehl - foreword
- Narrated by: Andrew Joseph Perez
- Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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In The 15-Minute City: A Solution to Saving Our Time and Our Planet, Carlos Moreno delivers an exciting and insightful discussion of the deceptively simple and revolutionary idea that everyday destinations like schools, stores, and offices should only be a short walk or bike ride away from home. This book tells the story of an idea that spread from city to city, describing a new way of looking at living that addresses many of the most intractable challenges of our time.
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The 15-Minute City
- A Solution to Saving Our Time and Our Planet
- Narrated by: Andrew Joseph Perez
- Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 18-06-2024
- Language: English
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The Visibility Mindset
- How Asian American Leaders Create Opportunities and Push Past Barriers
- By: Bernice Chao, Jessalin Lam
- Narrated by: Jennifer Aquino
- Length: 5 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Find your voice, own your story, and elevate your professional life. In The Visibility Mindset: How Asian American Leaders Create Opportunities and Push Past Barriers, a team of dedicated creative professionals and educators delivers an incisive treatment addressing the importance of cultural upbringing in our lives and careers. In the book, you'll explore the varied realities and experiences of Asian Americans in the diasporic Asian community and how they have impacted the personal and professional lives of real people.
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The Visibility Mindset
- How Asian American Leaders Create Opportunities and Push Past Barriers
- Narrated by: Jennifer Aquino
- Length: 5 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 27-12-2022
- Language: English
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Nudge
- Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
- By: Richard H. Thaler, Cass R. Sunstein
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Every day, we make decisions on topics ranging from personal investments to schools for our children to the meals we eat to the causes we champion. Unfortunately, we often choose poorly. The reason, the authors explain, is that, being human, we are all susceptible to various biases that can lead us to blunder. Our mistakes can make us poor and unhealthy. We often make bad decisions about education, personal finance, health care, family, and the environment.
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Nudge
- Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 02-07-2008
- Language: English
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Idea to invention
- What You Need to Know to Cash In on Your Inspiration
- By: Patricia Nolan-Brown
- Narrated by: Karen Saltus
- Length: 6 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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You don't have to be a mechanical genius to be an inventor. Anyone can invent - a parent wrestling with a baby sling...a coach frustrated with slick-soled running shoes...an office worker determined to keep the computer cords untangled. Inventing is simply finding clever solutions to everyday challenges. Author and inventor Patricia Nolan-Brown has turned common annoyances into ingenious and money-making products.
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Idea to invention
- What You Need to Know to Cash In on Your Inspiration
- Narrated by: Karen Saltus
- Length: 6 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 28-02-2014
- Language: English
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Applied Minds
- How Engineers Think
- By: Guru Madhavan
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 5 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Through narratives and case studies spanning the brilliant history of engineering, Madhavan shows how the concepts of prototyping, efficiency, reliability, standards, optimization, and feedback are put to use in fields as diverse as transportation, retail, health care, and entertainment. Equal parts personal, practical, and profound, Applied Minds charts a path to a future where we apply strategies borrowed from engineering to create useful and inspired solutions to our most pressing challenges.
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Applied Minds
- How Engineers Think
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 5 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 20-07-2015
- Language: English
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HBR's 10 Must Reads on Strategy for Healthcare
- (featuring articles by Michael E. Porter and Thomas H. Lee, MD)
- By: Harvard Business Review, Michael E. Porter, James C. Collins, and others
- Narrated by: Linda Jones, Tim Fannon
- Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Is your healthcare organization spending too much time on strategy—with too little to show for it? If you read (or listen to) nothing else on strategy, listen to these ten articles. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones for healthcare professionals to help you catalyze your organization's strategy development and execution.
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HBR's 10 Must Reads on Strategy for Healthcare
- (featuring articles by Michael E. Porter and Thomas H. Lee, MD)
- Narrated by: Linda Jones, Tim Fannon
- Series: HBR's 10 Must Reads
- Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 29-10-2024
- Language: English
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Good Thinking
- What You Need to Know to Be Smarter, Safer, Wealthier, and Wiser
- By: Guy P. Harrison
- Narrated by: Walter Dixon
- Length: 9 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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By explaining how the human brain works and outing its most irrational processes, this book provides the thinking tools that will help you make better decisions, ask the right questions (at the right time), know what to look for when evaluating information, and understand how your own brain subconsciously clouds your judgment. Think you're too smart to be easily misled? Harrison summarizes scientific research showing how easily even intelligent and well-educated people can be fooled.
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Good Thinking
- What You Need to Know to Be Smarter, Safer, Wealthier, and Wiser
- Narrated by: Walter Dixon
- Length: 9 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 18-02-2016
- Language: English
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Contraception
- A Concise History
- By: Donna J. Drucker
- Narrated by: Christa Lewis
- Length: 4 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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The beginning of the modern contraceptive era began in 1882, when Dr. Aletta Jacobs opened the first birth control clinic in Amsterdam. The founding of this facility, and the clinical provision of contraception that it enabled, marked the moment when physicians started to take the prevention of pregnancy seriously as a medical concern. In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Donna Drucker traces the history of modern contraception, outlining the development, manufacturing, and use of contraceptive methods from the opening of Dr. Jacobs' clinic to the present.
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Contraception
- A Concise History
- Narrated by: Christa Lewis
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Length: 4 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 07-04-2020
- Language: English
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Escaping the Housing Trap
- The Strong Towns Response to the Housing Crisis
- By: Charles L. Marohn Jr., Daniel Herriges
- Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Escaping the Housing Trap is the must-have resource for everyone with a stake in the future of housing in America-and that means everyone. Listeners will find discussions of housing as an investment and how the country's neighborhoods are being transformed by the introduction of large amounts of investment; explorations of housing as shelter, including discussions of zoning policy and NIMBYism; and a comprehensive overview of the Strong Towns approach to solving the American housing crisis.
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Escaping the Housing Trap
- The Strong Towns Response to the Housing Crisis
- Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 21-05-2024
- Language: English
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Innovation for the Masses
- How to Share the Benefits of the High-Tech Economy
- By: Neil Lee
- Narrated by: Keval Shah
- Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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From San Francisco to Shanghai, many of the world's most innovative places are highly unequal, with the benefits going to a small few. Rather than simply asking how we can create more high-tech cities and nations, Innovation for the Masses focuses on places that manage to foster innovation while also delivering the benefits more widely and equally. In this book, economist Neil Lee draws on case studies of Taiwan, Sweden, Austria, and Switzerland to set out how innovation can be successfully balanced toward equity.
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Innovation for the Masses
- How to Share the Benefits of the High-Tech Economy
- Narrated by: Keval Shah
- Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 09-01-2024
- Language: English
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The Age of Overwhelm
- Strategies for the Long Haul
- By: Laura van Dernoot Lipsky
- Narrated by: Laura van Dernoot Lipsky
- Length: 4 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Whether we are overwhelmed by work or school; our families or communities; caretaking for others or ourselves; or engagement in social justice, environmental advocacy, or civil service, just a few subtle shifts can help sustain us. Laura van Dernoot Lipsky, bestselling author of Trauma Stewardship, shows us how by offering concrete strategies to help us mitigate harm, cultivate our ability to be decent and equitable, and act with integrity.
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The Age of Overwhelm
- Strategies for the Long Haul
- Narrated by: Laura van Dernoot Lipsky
- Length: 4 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 22-04-2025
- Language: English
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Metadata
- By: Jeffrey Pomerantz
- Narrated by: Steven Menasche
- Length: 5 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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When "metadata" became breaking news, appearing in stories about surveillance by the National Security Agency, many members of the public encountered this once-obscure term from information science for the first time. Should people be reassured that the NSA was "only" collecting metadata about phone calls - information about the caller, the recipient, the time, the duration, the location - and not recordings of the conversations themselves? Or does phone call metadata reveal more than it seems?
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- Narrated by: Steven Menasche
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Length: 5 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 05-11-2015
- Language: English
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How to Become Famous
- Lost Einsteins, Forgotten Superstars, and How the Beatles Came to Be
- By: Cass R. Sunstein
- Narrated by: Tom Beyer
- Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
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It's hard to imagine our world without its stars and celebrity geniuses—they become a part of our culture and history, seeming permanent and preordained. But as Cass Sunstein shows in this startling book, that is far from the case. Focusing on both famous and forgotten (or simply overlooked) artists and luminaries in music, literature, business, science, politics, and other fields, he explores why some individuals become famous and others don't, and offers a new understanding of the role of greatness, luck, and contingency in the achievement of fame.
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Strangely Anti-Christian unfortunately
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How to Become Famous
- Lost Einsteins, Forgotten Superstars, and How the Beatles Came to Be
- Narrated by: Tom Beyer
- Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 21-05-2024
- Language: English
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Lean Impact
- How to Innovate for Radically Greater Social Good
- By: Ann Mei Chang, Eric Ries - Foreword
- Narrated by: Kristina Horan
- Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
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Around the world, a new generation is looking beyond greater profits, for meaningful purpose. But, unlike business, few social interventions have achieved significant impact at scale. Inspired by the modern innovation practices popularized by best seller The Lean Startup that have fueled technology breakthroughs touching every aspect of our lives, Lean Impact turns our attention to a new goal-achieving radically greater social good.
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Lean Impact
- How to Innovate for Radically Greater Social Good
- Narrated by: Kristina Horan
- Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 30-04-2019
- Language: English
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The Market in Global International Society
- An English School Approach to International Political Economy
- By: Barry Buzan, Robert Falkner
- Narrated by: Michael Langan
- Length: 15 hrs and 20 mins
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The Market in Global International Society tracks the idea and practice of the market through both modern and premodern times, and its evolution as a primary institution in international relations over the past two centuries. It develops a new approach to understanding the relationship between the market and other social and political institutions of global international society.
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The Market in Global International Society
- An English School Approach to International Political Economy
- Narrated by: Michael Langan
- Length: 15 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 29-04-2025
- Language: English
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The Social Labs Revolution
- A New Approach to Solving Our Most Complex Challenges
- By: Zaid Hassan, Joi Ito - foreword
- Narrated by: Nas Mehdi
- Length: 4 hrs and 13 mins
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Current responses to our most pressing societal challenges—from poverty to ethnic conflict to climate change—are not working. These problems are incredibly dynamic and complex, involving an ever-shifting array of factors, actors, and circumstances. They demand a highly fluid and adaptive approach, yet we address them by devising fixed, long-term plans. Social labs, says Zaid Hassan, are a dramatically more effective response.
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The Social Labs Revolution
- A New Approach to Solving Our Most Complex Challenges
- Narrated by: Nas Mehdi
- Length: 4 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 25-03-2025
- Language: English
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The Obesity Paradox
- When Thinner Means Sicker and Heavier Means Healthier
- By: Carl J. Lavie
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
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Most of us think that longevity hinges on maintaining a normal Body Mass Index. But research conducted over the last decade hit the media in January with explosive news: Overweight and even moderately obese people with certain chronic diseases - from heart disease to cancer - often live longer and fare better than normal-weight individuals with the same ailments. In this groundbreaking audiobook, Carl Lavie, MD, reveals the science behind the obesity paradox and shows us how to achieve maximum health rather than minimum weight.
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The Obesity Paradox
- When Thinner Means Sicker and Heavier Means Healthier
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 03-04-2014
- Language: English
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