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Title: How Long Is Groundhog Day?

Author: Dan Lewis

Narrator: Mark Schectman

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-18-16

Publisher: Now I Know

Genres: Nonfiction, Social Sciences

Publisher's Summary:

Today, the United States celebrates the fake holiday known as Groundhog Day. The tradition, which dates back to the 18th or 19th century, is pseudoscience, but probably the harmless variety. People gather around in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, waiting for a groundhog named Punxsutawney Phil to emerge. (And yes, there are other Groundhog Day groundhogs, too, but Phil's the OG, assuming the "G" stands for "groundhog".) As this non-scientific form of marmot meteorology goes, if it's sunny out, Phil sees his shadow and we're in for six more weeks of winter. If it's cloudy, we're in for an early spring.

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Title: Missed Information

Subtitle: Better Information for Building a Wealthier, More Sustainable Future

Author: David Sarokin, Jay Schulkin

Narrator: Steven Menasche

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 55 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-17-16

Publisher: Gildan Media, LLC

Ratings: 2 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Nonfiction, Social Sciences

Publisher's Summary:

Information is power. It drives commerce, protects nations, and forms the backbone of systems that range from health care to high finance. Yet despite the avalanche of data available in today's information age, neither institutions nor individuals get the information they truly need to make well-informed decisions. Faulty information and sub-optimal decision-making create an imbalance of power that is exaggerated as governments and corporations amass enormous databases on each of us. Who has more power: the government, in possession of uncounted terabytes of data (some of it obtained by cybersnooping), or the ordinary citizen, trying to get in touch with a government agency? In Missed Information, David Sarokin and Jay Schulkin explore information - not information technology, but information itself - as a central part of our lives and institutions. They show that providing better information and better access to it improves the quality of our decisions and makes for a more vibrant participatory society.

Sarokin and Schulkin argue that freely flowing information helps systems run more efficiently and that incomplete information does just the opposite. It's easier to comparison shop for microwave ovens than for doctors or hospitals because of information gaps that hinder the entire health care system. Better information about such social ills as child labor and pollution can help consumers support more sustainable products. The authors examine the opacity of corporate annual reports, the impenetrability of government secrets, and emerging techniques of "information foraging." The information imbalance of power can be reconfigured, they argue, with greater and more meaningful transparency from government and corporations.

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Title: The Gentleman's Library

Author: Bill Cotter

Narrator: James Conlan

Format: Unabridged

Length: 31 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-16-16

Publisher: The Believer, McSweeney's

Genres: Nonfiction, Social Sciences

Publisher's Summary:

Notes toward the creation of a collection of the most important works of literature of all time, including tales of crippling self-doubt and possible eternal damnation.

©2012 Bill Cotter (P)2016 Audible, Inc.

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Title: Is Zero Odd or Even? How India Drove around the Problem

Author: Dan Lewis

Narrator: Mark Schectman

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-01-16

Publisher: Now I Know

Genres: Nonfiction, Social Sciences

Publisher's Summary:

Is zero odd or even? Find out how India drove around the problem on this episode of Now I Know. Zero is an even number. Lets get that out of the way. But if that gave you pause, youre not alone it can be a little hard to internalize. Thats why Wikipedia has a surprisingly long entry discussing the subject and why, according to a study from the 1990s (as explained by the BBC), people are 10% slower at deciding whether zero is odd or even than other numbers.

©2016 Dan Lewis (P)2016 Audible, Inc.

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Title: Mentoring and Educational Outcomes of Black Graduate Students

Author: Nicole Sullivan

Narrator: Eddie Leonard Jr.

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 8 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-27-16

Publisher: Nicole Sullivan

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Nonfiction, Social Sciences

Publisher's Summary:

The purpose of this research is to examine the ways in which mentoring affects black graduate students' completion of programs of study. Performance is measured by completion of their graduate program, length of time taken to complete the program, grade point average, and overall attitude about their graduate school experience. On average, over half of all black graduate students leave their programs of study before completion compared to 25 percent attrition (non-completion of program of study) of white students.

A review of the literature suggests that any form of mentoring improves completion rates among black graduate students. Existing research further suggests that when paired with like mentors, such as same race or gender, black graduate students complete their programs at even higher rates. The existing research is, however, limited due to the age of the research and factors such as attrition by discipline. Updated research is needed to determine why, despite being admitted to graduate programs of study at the highest rates in United States history, black students are leaving without graduate degrees more than any other race.

Vincent Tinto's theory of social adjustment states that students who are not socially adjusted are less likely to persist (complete their program of study). Because black students are attending predominantly white institutions at the highest rates since Reconstruction, this research will examine ways in which black graduate students become socially adjusted and how it affects their persistence. The anticipated results of the study are that black graduate students who had mentors completed their programs more often than those who did not have mentors. Additionally, those who had mentors of the same race, gender, or socio-economic backgrounds may report even higher percentages of completion. In contrast, those who did not have mentors may report lower percentages of completion.

Members Reviews:

Excellently written and narrated

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

Important research with impeccable timing. Perfect companion for programs geared toward retention efforts. College professors must not teach a humanities class without this. Will look for more from this author.

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Title: Addictions Guide: Exploring Addictions

Author: Jeffrey Jeschke

Narrator: Wayne Lee

Format: Unabridged

Length: 38 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-19-16

Publisher: Jeffrey Dale Jeschke

Ratings: 1 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Nonfiction, Social Sciences

Publisher's Summary:

This is a guide to some of the most common and rare addictions in relation to human behavior.

Members Reviews:

So awful, I may play it at parties as comedy

The worst book you will ever listen to. Made me want to drink and never stop.

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Title: Power or Depression?: The Cultural Roots of Abuse

Subtitle: Scholarly Articles, Volume 12

Author: Peter Fritz Walter

Narrator: Peter Fritz Walter

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 28 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-29-15

Publisher: Sirius-C Media Galaxy LLC

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Nonfiction, Social Sciences

Publisher's Summary:

Power or Depression?: The Cultural Roots of Abuse points out the historical roots of abuse and patriarchal society's systematic breeding of depression as something like a cultural disease.

However, the author does not stay with the analysis but shows practical ways to get free from the cultural trap so as to find a way of personal liberation and creative realization. The approach of this book to healing the abuse pattern is mainly focused upon establishing a strong identity, building soul values, and realizing a high level of personal autonomy. This involves working on the integration of emotions and the dissolution of patterns of codependence and emotional abuse in our lives and relationships.

And beyond current cutting-edge psychiatry that has recognized the devastating effects of codependence and emotional abuse in individual relationships, this essay shows these same effects to happen in the relation individual-organism, individual-group, individual-ideology, and individual-sect. Fusion is even more dangerous when people seek to dissolve themselves within organizations because what happens then is that they will indeed be eaten up by the organism and become wheels in a murderous system.

One essential element in this process of identifying and healing an abuse pattern in your life is to stay as much as possible untouched by the current media propaganda that focuses on labeling certain people as abusers and certain people as victims, thereby occulting the real causes of abuse in our culture. In truth it's the system itself that perpetuates abuse, as forensic psychiatry precludes any reform with the argument that the abused of today will inevitably be the abusers of tomorrow.

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Title: The Safety of the Kingdom

Subtitle: Government Responses to Subversive Threats

Author: J. Michael Martinez

Narrator: Joel Richards

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-13-15

Publisher: Audible Studios

Genres: Nonfiction, Social Sciences

Publisher's Summary:

The horrendous events of September 11, 2001, heightened awareness of terrorism unlike all but a handful of major catastrophes in American history. Like the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, and President Kennedys assassination on November 22, 1963, 9/11 is a date forever enshrined in our national memory. But 9/11 once again raised the question: What should government do to eliminate or reduce the likelihood of a future attack? How should national leadership balance its responsibility to protect the civil liberties of US citizens with its sworn duty to protect their lives? In The Safety of the Kingdom, J. Michael Martinez takes up the question of how the United States government has responded to terrorist attacks and, in the absence of an attack, the fear of foreign and subversive elements that may harm the nation. In some cases the government overreaction led to a series of abuses that amplified the severity of the original threat. Rather than selecting every instance of government reaction to threats, Martinez examines representative cases, from the alien and sedition acts in the 18th century to the post-9/11 war on terror". Edward Snowdens disclosure of classified information related to the NSAs surveillance program brought to the fore an important debate about government scrutiny of its citizens. As J. Michael Martinez makes clear in this book, it is a debate that has been ongoing for centuries.

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Title: Lurching Toward Happiness in America

Author: Claude S. Fischer

Narrator: Sean Pratt

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 24 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-17-15

Publisher: Gildan Media, LLC

Genres: Nonfiction, Social Sciences

Publisher's Summary:

The promise of America has long been conceived as the promise of happiness. Being American is all about the opportunity to pursue one's own bliss. But what is the good life, and are we getting closer to its attainment? In the cacophony of competing conceptions of the good, technological interventions that claim to help us achieve it and rancorous debate over government's role in securing it for us, every step toward happiness seems to come with at least one step back.

In Lurching Toward Happiness in America, acclaimed sociologist Claude Fischer explores the data, the myths, and history to understand how far America has come in delivering on its promise. Are Americans getting lonelier? Is the gender revolution over? Does income shape the way Americans see their life prospects? In the end, Fischer paints a broad picture of what Americans say they want. And, as he considers how close they are to achieving that goal, he also suggests what might finally get them there.

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Title: Herbascam

Author: Trevor Clinger

Narrator: Trevor Clinger

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-15-15

Publisher: Trevor Clinger

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Nonfiction, Social Sciences

Publisher's Summary:

"Ask me how I can help you live a healthier lifestyle." I don't see anyone having to go into Wal-Mart or GNC and ask employees how to lose weight or which type of fan will save the most electricity and last the longest. I tackle an opinionated view of the company Herbalife with personal-experience views and why I believe it should be classified as a pyramid scheme. I respect the company, and all comments made have not been approved by Herbalife and are not necessarily true until the company has been found guilty of my view in a court of law.

I am certified by the National Federation of Professional Trainers and have recertified successfully for over three years. My certification number is 45582. I have a passion for health and make it a discipline to work out and learn new fitness trends every day. This article tackles some of the myths and scrutiny that Herbalife has been under by the media and other analysts.

Members Reviews:

... opinion but i see it as just another store like whole foods ect

read it and honestly your opinion is your opinion but i see it as just another store like whole foods ect.... i been doin herbalife 4 years off n on n i just feel 10 times more active n feel more clean i guess word i can say n i spend most my food take out money on it, n its pricy but rather have it over 30 dollar pizza

Ridiculous Rant

The author wrote a heated rant about Herbalife. He used few, if any, citations. Didnât get anything useful from this.