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Business and Populism
- The Odd Couple?
- By: Magnus Feldmann - editor, Glenn Morgan - editor
- Narrated by: Sam Devereaux
- Length: 16 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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The rise of populist movements in various parts of the world is widely perceived as a significant challenge to policymaking, mainstream political parties, and even to liberal democracy. Yet we know very little about the impact of populism on business, beyond the fact that the anti-elite challenge of populism frequently targets business with policies to restrict globalization, outsourcing, and labor migration while at the same time embracing capitalism, low taxes, and deregulated markets.
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Business and Populism
- The Odd Couple?
- Narrated by: Sam Devereaux
- Length: 16 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 13-06-2023
- Language: English
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NOT Accountable
- Rethinking the Constitutionality of Public Employee Unions
- By: Philip K. Howard, Mitch Daniels - foreword
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 4 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Elected officials answer to public employees. Basic tools of good government have been eliminated. There's no accountability, detailed union entitlements make government largely unmanageable and unaffordable, and public policies are driven by what is good for public employees, not what is good for the public. Public unions keep it that way by brute political force—harnessing the huge cohort of public employees into a political force dedicated to preventing the reform of government. The solution, Howard argues, is not political but constitutional.
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NOT Accountable
- Rethinking the Constitutionality of Public Employee Unions
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 4 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 21-02-2023
- Language: English
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Data Driven
- Truckers, Technology, and the New Workplace Surveillance
- By: Karen Levy
- Narrated by: Randye Kaye
- Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Long-haul truckers are the backbone of the American economy, transporting goods under grueling conditions and immense economic pressure. Truckers have long valued the independence of their work, sharing a strong occupational identity rooted in a tradition of autonomy. Yet these workers increasingly find themselves under many watchful eyes. Data Driven examines how digital surveillance is upending life and work on the open road, and raises crucial questions about the role of data collection in broader systems of social control.
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Data Driven
- Truckers, Technology, and the New Workplace Surveillance
- Narrated by: Randye Kaye
- Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 06-12-2022
- Language: English
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Capitalism
- The Story behind the Word
- By: Michael Sonenscher
- Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
- Length: 3 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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What exactly is capitalism? How has the meaning of capitalism changed over time? And what's at stake in our understanding or misunderstanding of it? In Capitalism, Michael Sonenscher examines the history behind the concept and pieces together the range of subjects bound up with the word. Sonenscher shows that many of our received ideas fail to pick up the work that the idea of capitalism is doing for us, without us even realizing it.
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Capitalism
- The Story behind the Word
- Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
- Length: 3 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 08-11-2022
- Language: English
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The China Dream
- How the Aspirations of Government, Business, and People are Driving the Greatest Transformation in History
- By: Jonathan Krane
- Narrated by: Rick Adamson
- Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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China GDP has grown from $300 per capita to more than $10,000 in the past thirty years and lifted more people into the middle class than in any other country at any other point in human history. It is important for investors, US companies and anyone interested in the global economy to understand China. Author Jonathan A. Krane provides an inside look at China's transformation into a global superpower and explains why the relationship between the US and China is the most critical economic relationship in the world today.
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The China Dream
- How the Aspirations of Government, Business, and People are Driving the Greatest Transformation in History
- Narrated by: Rick Adamson
- Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 14-06-2022
- Language: English
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Hacking Artificial Intelligence
- A Leader's Guide from Deepfakes to Breaking Deep Learning
- By: Davey Gibian
- Narrated by: Tom Parks
- Length: 5 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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The ability to hack AI and the technology industry's lack of effort to secure it is thought by experts to be the biggest unaddressed technology issue of our time. Hacking Artificial Intelligence sheds light on these hacking risks, explaining them to those who can make a difference. This book is the first-ever layman's guide to the new world of hacking AI and introduces the field to thousands of people who should be aware of these risks. From a security perspective, AI is today where the internet was thirty years ago. It is wide open and can be exploited.
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Hacking Artificial Intelligence
- A Leader's Guide from Deepfakes to Breaking Deep Learning
- Narrated by: Tom Parks
- Length: 5 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 05-05-2022
- Language: English
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What You Don't Know
- AI's Unseen Influence on Your Life and How to Take Back Control
- By: Cortnie Abercrombie
- Narrated by: Megan Tusing
- Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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You are probably not aware, because of their hidden nature, but artificial intelligence systems are all around you affecting some of the biggest areas of your life - jobs, loans, kids, mental health, relationships, freedoms, and even healthcare decisions that can determine if you live or die.
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What You Don't Know
- AI's Unseen Influence on Your Life and How to Take Back Control
- Narrated by: Megan Tusing
- Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 05-05-2022
- Language: English
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Andy & Me and the Hospital
- Further Adventures on the Lean Journey
- By: Pascal Dennis
- Narrated by: Steven Menasche
- Length: 6 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Using a compelling novel format, the audiobook demonstrates how to apply lean thinking in a healthcare setting. It illustrates the situations, characters, and plant politics you will most likely face as you progress through your lean healthcare journey. As the story unfolds, you will discover the way of thinking and behavioral changes required to implement proven Toyota Production System (TPS) methods, tools, and thinking in healthcare.
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Andy & Me and the Hospital
- Further Adventures on the Lean Journey
- Narrated by: Steven Menasche
- Length: 6 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 19-06-2017
- Language: English
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Happy as a Dane
- 10 Secrets of the Happiest People in the World
- By: Malene Rydahl
- Narrated by: Hillary Huber
- Length: 4 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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This international best seller shows why the Danes are happy and how we can be, too. For decades Denmark has ranked at the top of the world's happiness surveys. How is it that these 5.6 million Danes are so content when they live in a country that is dark and cold nine months of the year and where income taxes are at almost 60 percent? At a time when talk across the Western world is focused on unemployment woes, government overreach, and anti-taxation lobbies, our Danish counterparts seem to breathe a healthier and fresher air.
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Happy as a Dane
- 10 Secrets of the Happiest People in the World
- Narrated by: Hillary Huber
- Length: 4 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 13-01-2017
- Language: English
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Saving America
- Seven Proven Steps to Making Government Deliver Great Results
- By: Mark Aesch
- Narrated by: Dana Hickox
- Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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National polling indicates that for the first time in American history, people believe their children will not be as well off as they are. The primary reason for this? The lack of performance by government. The public sector receives trillions of American taxpayer dollars every year, and yet because of its seeming inability to run effectively, government is not delivering the level of service the people are paying for.
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Saving America
- Seven Proven Steps to Making Government Deliver Great Results
- Narrated by: Dana Hickox
- Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 08-06-2016
- Language: English
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Unconventional Leadership
- What Henry Ford and Detroit Taught Me about Reinvention and Diversity
- By: Nancy M. Schlichting
- Narrated by: Karen Saltus
- Length: 5 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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What does it take to lead the successful turnaround of four consecutive organizations? What does it take to run a $5 billion business in Detroit as the city struggles to emerge from municipal bankruptcy and its worst ongoing crisis ever? What does it take to be a female CEO who has come up against discrimination and personal attack? It takes Unconventional Leadership, a style of leadership based on confronting reality and leading headlong through adversity.
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Unconventional Leadership
- What Henry Ford and Detroit Taught Me about Reinvention and Diversity
- Narrated by: Karen Saltus
- Length: 5 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 15-01-2016
- Language: English
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Sustainability
- The MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series
- By: Kent E. Portnoy
- Narrated by: Don Hagen
- Length: 4 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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In this accessible guide to the meanings of sustainability, Kent Portney describes the evolution of the idea and examines its application in a variety of contemporary contexts - from economic growth and consumption to government policy and urban planning.
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Sustainability
- The MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series
- Narrated by: Don Hagen
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Length: 4 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 23-10-2015
- Language: English
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All You Can Pay
- How Companies Use Our Data to Empty Our Wallets
- By: Anna Bernasek, D. T. Mongan
- Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
- Length: 7 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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While millions of consumers carry on unaware, powerful companies are racing to gain more knowledge and data than anyone, including any government, has ever had. The goal is to understand consumer behavior and desires, from mundane matters to our most private and intimate affairs. This massive trove of data represents an immense prize for these companies. In economic terms it is one of the most valuable assets on the planet.
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All You Can Pay
- How Companies Use Our Data to Empty Our Wallets
- Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
- Length: 7 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 18-05-2015
- Language: English
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Rebalancing Society
- Radical Renewal Beyond Left, Right, and Center
- By: Henry Mintzberg
- Narrated by: Dana Hickox
- Length: 2 hrs and 13 mins
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Enough of the imbalance that is causing the degradation of our environment, the demise of our democracies, and the denigration of ourselves. Enough of the pendulum politics of left and right and paralysis in the political center. We require an unprecedented form of radical renewal. In this book Henry Mintzberg offers a new understanding of the root of our current crisis and a strategy for restoring the balance so vital to the survival of our progeny and our planet.
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Rebalancing Society
- Radical Renewal Beyond Left, Right, and Center
- Narrated by: Dana Hickox
- Length: 2 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 17-02-2015
- Language: English
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Change the Story, Change the Future
- A Living Economy for a Living Earth
- By: David C. Korten
- Narrated by: Dana Hickox
- Length: 3 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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We humans live by stories, says David Korten, and the stories that now govern our society set us on a path to certain self-destruction. In this profound new audiobook, Korten shares the results of his search for a story that reflects the fullness of human knowledge and understanding and provides a guide to action adequate to the needs of our time.
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Change the Story, Change the Future
- A Living Economy for a Living Earth
- Narrated by: Dana Hickox
- Length: 3 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 02-02-2015
- Language: English
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Building a Better Teacher
- How Teaching Works (and How to Teach It to Everyone)
- By: Elizabeth Green
- Narrated by: Karen Saltus
- Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
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We’ve all had great teachers who opened new worlds, maybe even changed our lives. What made them so great? Everyone agrees that a great teacher can have an enormous impact. Yet we still don't know what, precisely, makes a teacher great. Is it a matter of natural-born charisma? Or does exceptional teaching require something more? Building a Better Teacher introduces a new generation of educators exploring the intricate science underlying their art.
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Building a Better Teacher
- How Teaching Works (and How to Teach It to Everyone)
- Narrated by: Karen Saltus
- Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 30-07-2014
- Language: English
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Falling in Love with America Again
- By: Jim DeMint
- Narrated by: Tim Andres Pabon
- Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
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Through this heartfelt, fascinating, and inspiring look inside the America of both yesterday and today, and the everyday citizens who are working tirelessly and selflessly to insure its future fulfills the promise of its beginnings, Jim DeMint is beckoning us to join him on one of the most meaningful and momentous journeys we have ever undertaken together: Falling in Love with America Again.
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Falling in Love with America Again
- Narrated by: Tim Andres Pabon
- Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 14-05-2014
- Language: English
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The Upside of Down
- Why the Rise of the Rest is Good for the West
- By: Charles Kenny
- Narrated by: Tim Andres Pabon
- Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
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America is in decline, and the rise of the East suggests a bleak future for the world’s only superpower - so goes the conventional wisdom. But what if the traditional measures of national status are no longer as important as they once were? What if America’s well-being was assessed according to entirely different factors? In The Upside of Down, Charles Kenny argues that America’s so-called decline is only relative to the newfound success of other countries.
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The Upside of Down
- Why the Rise of the Rest is Good for the West
- Narrated by: Tim Andres Pabon
- Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 05-02-2014
- Language: English
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Abraham Lincoln: A Life 1809-1837
- Lincoln's Frontier Background Shapes the Future President
- By: Michael Burlingame
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
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In Chapter 1, we are introduced to Lincoln's lineage and the history of his grandparents, his parents and the various locations in which they settled. But this chapter is mainly devoted to Lincoln's father Thomas, recounting many of his ventures, personality traits and the intricacies of his relationship with his son. We also learn of his son's childhood experiences, mainly those in his first seven years, which helped shape Lincoln into the man he becomes.
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Abraham Lincoln: A Life 1809-1837
- Lincoln's Frontier Background Shapes the Future President
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 16-07-2009
- Language: English
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Encore
- Finding Work That Matters In the Second Half of Life
- By: Marc Freedman
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 4 hrs and 58 mins
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Encore tells the stories of encore career pioneers who are not content, or affluent enough, to spend their next 30 years on a golf course. These men and women are moving beyond midlife careers yet refusing to phase out or fade away. As they search for a calling in the second half of life and focus on what matters most, these individuals stand to transform the nature of work in America.
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Encore
- Finding Work That Matters In the Second Half of Life
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 4 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 07-07-2008
- Language: English
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