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Title: Focus

Subtitle: Elevating the Essentials to Radically Improve Student Learning

Author: Mike Schmoker

Narrator: Christopher Prince

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-20-12

Publisher: University Press Audiobooks

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 44 votes

Genres: Business, Career Skills

Publisher's Summary:

Best-selling author Mike Schmoker describes a plan for radically improving student learning that is built on three core elements: a focused and coherent curriculum (what we teach); clear, prioritized lessons (how we teach); and purposeful reading and writing, or authentic literacy.

With this "less is more" philosophy, educators can help students learn content at a deeper level, develop greater critical thinking skills, and discover more clearly how content-area concepts affect their lives and the world around them.

Both a call to action and a blueprint for creating more effective classrooms, Focus: Elevating the Essentials for Radically Improved Student Learning will challenge your assumptions about schooling and show how educators who have embraced this approach quickly achieved spectacular results.

The book is published by ASCD.

Mike Schmoker is a former administrator, English teacher, and football coach. He has written four books and dozens of articles for educational journals, newspapers, and Time magazine.

Members Reviews:

Good sound education philosophy

There is nothing new here. It is proposing that we go back to good, old-fashioned teaching the content without all of the bells and whistles. Teach fewer topics to mastery rather than covering everything. Save your money because there aren't many suggestions as to how to do this with Common Core.

Less is More

A concise and easy to read book about implementing a few high impact strategies that can support learning for all students. This was refreshing because it feels as though educators are pulled in too many directions. The book may feel repetitious to some (the author admits this) because the few, high impact strategies are repeated often in each chapter. However, this helped reinforce Schmoker's points. Some schools and districts are poised to implement the ideas in the book. Others will need culture building and professional development.

I highly recommend this book to teachers who are looking to make ...

I purchased this book as a way to prepare for the upcoming school year. As I read the book, I was able to pull out information and ideas to implement in my classroom. I highly recommend this book to teachers who are looking to make a difference in their classrooms.

this is one of the best books I have read

As a teacher, this is one of the best books I have read. It gets to the heart of what true learning is all about.

Authentic Literacy

This book confirmed what I already believe in that authentic literacy is the critical missing link in curriculum in our schools across the country.

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Title: Speaking As a Leader

Subtitle: How to Lead Every Time You Speak...from Board Rooms to Meeting Rooms, from Town Halls to Phone Calls

Author: Judith Humphrey

Narrator: Vanessa Hart

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 56 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-27-12

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 196 votes

Genres: Business, Career Skills

Publisher's Summary:

Make every communication count - with a simple, four-step speaking model.

Whether it's among colleagues at lunch or an audience of 1000, a leader's role is to move and inspire others. It's not only the big occasions that test a leader's mettle, but the little ones as well - in a casual conversation in the elevator, in phone calls, or one of many incidental, seemingly "insignificant" interactions in everyday work life.

Written by one of the world's leading communications coaches, Speaking as a Leader shows you how to make the most of your daily communications, creating a presence on the job as a genuine and constant leader.

In this eye-opening guide, aspiring (and established) leaders can enhance their reputations and influence by following a few simple steps.

Speaking as a Leader:

With Speaking as a Leader, you'll learn to tap into your innate leadership skills at every occasion - whether small or large - and earn the sort of respect that creates devoted friends and passionate supporters.

Members Reviews:

It benefits me in strengthening my speech.

It's good for audience that hope to get his speaking and leading abilities improving. It's worth of the time to read.

A Must Read

What did you love best about Speaking As a Leader?

This book is packed full of practical and inspirational tips to help us speak as leaders. While many tips are so simple they are almost "common sense", it is the how the book is arranged, that walks you through the process of speaking as a strong leader. I have my entire executive team reading this book!

What was one of the most memorable moments of Speaking As a Leader?

Leaders speak to inspire not to inform

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

yes!!!

Sorry to say

The message is to speak clearly. The narrator is slurring. I should have read this book instead.

Great info & tips

Did not like the narrator, she enunciated so much that she sounded like a robot. It was distracting at times but the information was great.

Not just for CEOs

If you feel like a leader but your peers do not have the same perception this book helps you convey your inner leadership. Just remember it's not nearly as effective if your peers do not know it. Inspire them into believing! CEOs or management need not to be overly confident and unteachable. No such thing as too humble to better yourself. Grab this book and run with it!

The narrator's voice is good but raspy, but the messages delivered are great.

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Title: Doing The Impossible

Subtitle: The 25 Laws for Doing The Impossible

Author: Patrick Bet-David

Narrator: Patrick Bet-David

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 13 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-22-12

Publisher: Tico Publishing

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 194 votes

Genres: Business, Career Skills

Publisher's Summary:

"What does Doing the Impossible really mean? This book is for those who have a desire to achieve greatness and are ready to take the steps to turn that desire into a reality. At one point or another in this book, you will experience several different reactions - excitement, curiosity, joy, laughter, or even tears - but the ultimate goal is to encourage and challenge you to make a decision to do the impossible. That may have a totally different meaning to you than it did to Steve Jobs, Thomas Edison, or any of the other role models we will look at; but whatever Doing the Impossible means to you, the goal of this book is to help you realize that you have the capacity to do what the critics think is impossible." (Patrick Bet-David, Introduction to Doing the Impossible)

Doing the Impossible is a roadmap for those who want to do something big with their lives. The book goes over 25 steps that the listener should take to re-create themselves, identify their cause, and make history. Patrick Bet-David shares his own impossible crusade and gives key principles for anyone looking to do the same.

Members Reviews:

Author/Reader Needs to slow down

I love listening to Bet-David talk, he's extremely enthusiastic and motivating. I was hoping he would be the one reading the book, then I realized why there are readers/speakers who specialize in audible books. Not trying to hate on the man, but he needs to know when to pause, slow down, and take a breath to allow the listener to comprehend and follow him. Especially on the action points. Great advice, extremely motivating and talented man, didn't do the book justice by burning through it like that. Then again, I guess I could not be lazy and read it myself! Thanks for helping us grow!

Glad I bought this book!

Very well written and narrated! Clear and motivating instructions for going out and accomplishing your dreams!

Success and what drives it

encouraging, insightful, beneficial, value added to reader. Read fast, clearly understood. I will reread next week as it's about a 5 hour read and put into motionsome ideas expressed.

Practical Action easy to read or listen to.

This book os a summary of practical actions. A set of attainable goals to practice personal development. Packed with real knowledge and applicable tools in a simple format to follow. A teacher who can simplify the most difficult ideas to comprehend is a master in his craft. Easy read. Thank you Patrick.

Dalila Team Unstoppable

Listening while I work

Enjoyed this Audible Book by Patrick Bet-David. Very insightful with actionable steps that make you think. Will recommend to my friends.

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Title: Respect for Acting, 2nd Edition

Author: Uta Hagen, Haskel Frankel

Narrator: Angele Masters

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 58 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-31-12

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 124 votes

Genres: Business, Career Skills

Publisher's Summary:

"I have attempted to break down all the areas in which you can work and search for realities in yourself which serve the character and the play. Put your instincts and sense of truth, your understanding of human realities to use while probing and grappling with the content and the roots of the material. Be specific and real in your actions, and they will communicate your artistic statement. Bring your universal understanding of the present to the present as a real artist." &Uta Hagen

At the invitation of Herbert Berghof, the late Uta Hagen joined the faculty of the HB Studio in 1947. Since then, teaching was always a challenge for her, as well as for the many prominent actors whom shehelped to develop. For many years, she was asked to write a book. Finally she did, and here it is: an account of her own struggle with the techniques of acting and based on her teachings.

The first part, "The Actor", deals with techniques that set an actor in motion physically, verbally, and emotionally. It deals with the actor's concept of himself and with the art of acting, as well as with the ethics that have made the theater what it is today and what it could be tomorrow.

Part Two, "The Object Exercises", offers specific and detailed work for the actor, covering a broad range of his problems.

Part Three, "The Play and the Role", concerns itself with the definition of the play and identification with the character the actor will undertake. It also covers practical problems, the rehearsal, "style", and communication.

Respect for Acting is a book for people who respect (or wish they could) the theater on both sides of the footlights, for actors and audiences who favor truth in a creative process. The constructive stages of work delve into performance as well as into the issues surrounding a necessary change in the theater. It is all quite authentic, since Uta Hagen never hesitated to throw herself into a good fight for a better offering in the theater in "the time of her life."

Critic Reviews:

"This fascinating and detailed book about acting is Miss Hagen's credo, the accumulated wisdom of her years spent in intimate communion with her art. It is at once the voicing of her exacting standards for herself and those she [taught], and an explanation of the means to the end." (

Publishers Weekly)

"Hagen adds to the large corpus of titles on acting with vivid dicta drawn from experience, skill, and a sense of personal and professional worth. Her principal asset in this treatment is her truly significant imagination. Her 'object exercises' display a wealth of detail with which to stimulate the student preparing a scene for presentation." (

Library Journal)

"Uta Hagen's

Respect for Acting... is a relatively small book.

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Title: The Go-Getter: A Story That Tells You How to Be One

Author: Peter B. Kyne

Narrator: Jason McCoy

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 2 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-13-12

Publisher: ABN

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 164 votes

Genres: Business, Career Skills

Publisher's Summary:

In The Go-Getter, Bill Peck, a war veteran, persuades Cappy Ricks, the influential founder of the Rick's Logging & Lumbering Company, to let him prove himself by selling skunk wood in odd lengths - a job that everyone knows can only lead to failure. When Peck goes on to beat his quota, Rick hands Peck the ultimate opportunity and the ultimate test: the quest for an elusive blue vase.

Drawing on such classic values as honesty, determination, passion, and responsibility, Peck overcomes nearly insurmountable obstacles to find the vase and launch hia career as a successful manager.

In a time when jobs are tight and managers are too busy for mentoring, how can you maintain positive energy, take control of your career, and prepare yourself to ace the tests that come your way? By applying the timeless lessons in this compulsively listenable parable, employees at all levels can learn to rekindle the go-getter in themselves.

Members Reviews:

Amazing.

Amazing story of inspiration and courage to go beyond the norm and be a go getter!! Thanks for a great read! Speaker was a little fast for some of the old English, but overall the content made me give it 5 stars!

Moving

Only you can choose to give up. Life offers one guarantee if you quit. YOU LOSE.

I always enjoy this classic.

Thiis book is highly recommended for anyone who needs to get things done. if you are in sales, you need this information

Loved it!

So glad I read this book. A little surprised by the stories. Great book, a classic!!!

inspirational read

it was a good story had a point but I felt it could have went more in depth but I'm smart enough to get it and I did . thanks for taking the time to write the book.

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Title: What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast

Subtitle: A Short Guide to Making Over Your Morningsand Life

Author: Laura Vanderkam

Narrator: Laura Vanderkam

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 4 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-09-12

Publisher: Gildan Media, LLC

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 1358 votes

Genres: Business, Career Skills

Publisher's Summary:

Mornings are a madcap time for many of us. We wake up in a hazeoften after hitting snooze a few times. Then we rush around to get ready and out the door so we can officially start the day. Before we know it, hours have slipped by without us accomplishing anything beyond downing a cup of coffee, dashing off a few emails, and dishing with our coworkers around the water cooler. By the time the workday wraps up, were so exhausted and defeated that any motivation to accomplish something in the evening has vanished.

But according to time management expert Laura Vanderkam, mornings hold the key to taking control of our schedules. If we use them wisely, we can build habits that will allow us to lead happier, more productive lives.

Drawing on real-life anecdotes and scientific research that shows why the early hours of the day are so important, Vanderkam reveals how successful people use mornings to help them accomplish things that are often impossible to take care of later in the day. While many of us are still in bed, these folks are scoring daily victories to improve their health, careers, and personal lives without sacrificing their sanity. For instance, former PepsiCo chairman and CEO Steve Reinemund would rise at 5:00 a.m., run four miles, pray, and eat breakfast with his family before heading to work to run a Fortune 500 company.

What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast is a fun, practical guide that will inspire you to rethink your morning routine and jump-start your life before the day has even begun.

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Title: Words Can Change Your Brain

Subtitle: 12 Conversational Strategies to Build Trust, Resolve Conflicts, and Increase Intimacy

Author: Mark Robert Waldman, Andrew Newberg M.D.

Narrator: Mark Robert Waldman

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-14-12

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 160 votes

Genres: Business, Career Skills

Publisher's Summary:

Sometimes it feels as if the more we talk, the less we are heard. But in groundbreaking research, Andrew Newberg, M.D., and Mark Robert Waldman have discovered a powerful strategy called Compassionate Communication that allows two brains to work together as one.

In 12 clear steps, Compassionate Communication actually changes our brain structure as well as the brain of the person we are talking to in a way that helps establish a bond between people. In this unique state free from conflict and distrust we can communicate more effectively, listen more deeply, collaborate without effort, and succeed more quickly at any task.

Using data collected from MBA students, couples in therapy, caregivers, and brain scans, Newberg and Waldman have seen again and again that Compassionate Communication can transform a difficult conversation into a deeply satisfying one, literally in a matter of a few minutes.

Whether you are negotiating with your boss or your employees, arguing with your spouse, or coping with your kids, Compassionate Communication is a simple and unbeatable way to achieve a win-win dialogue to help you reach your goals. With its clear prescription and proven results, Words Can Change Your Brain will change how you think and speak to virtually everyone.

Members Reviews:

Stunned

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

You bet! This book has totally changed the way I communicate with others and I feel so much more connected to people. I am deliberately removing the word "no" from my vocabulary and I have chosen the word "calm" as my word. I repeat it over and over at night when I can't sleep sometimes. Just saying the word, spelling it out and repeating it over and over changes my heart beat and changes my thinking.

Have you listened to any of Mark Robert Waldmans other performances before? How does this one compare?

No

If you were to make a film of this book, what would be the tag line be?

The power of "NO."

Any additional comments?

I just want to know who will use their compassionate listening skills on me. I need to talk sometimes, too.

Mostly the same stuff I've read before

Any additional comments?

This book could be interesting at times but if you've read other books like this about the brain - it's mainly the same information. What I couldn't believe was the narration! I read reviews about how the narrator's voice was annoying, but I was surprised to find that he almost sounds like he has a speech impediment when he's saying words with the "T" sound. I found that to be annoying and disruptive to listening.

I can start TODAY!

Simple, doable, inspiring communication strategies I can begin today. I look forward to many meaningful conversations!

Just Awful

I tried hard to like this book but ultimately found no redeeming value. The advice was sometimes ok, often impractical, and occasionally ridiculous. In a nutshell relax, look into the other persons eyes, and speak slowly. That's about it. Please save yourself respect, career and friendships by not following the more outlandish advice this book offers. Better yet, don't buy it at all.

Thought provoking

Enjoyed the books concepts. Narrator was good.

Examples helpful. I'm putting the suggestions into actions.

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Title: The Laptop Millionaire

Subtitle: How Anyone Can Escape the 9 to 5 and Make Money Online

Author: Mark Anastasi

Narrator: Erik Synnestvedt

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 1 min

Language: English

Release date: 05-14-12

Publisher: Gildan Media, LLC

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 291 votes

Genres: Business, Career Skills

Publisher's Summary:

Go from ZERO to $10,000 a month in 28 days and discover financial freedom online!

Every day thousands of people are losing their jobs, their income, and their security - perhaps you are one of them. And for others, a job alone might not be enough. With the right strategies, however, you can achieve financial independence - faster than you ever thought possible. The Laptop Millionaire provides 32 easy-to-follow step-by-step strategies proven to make real money online. You'll learn how you can replace your income in 90 days or less, and forget about having a job; instead, create your own economy!

The Laptop Millionaire reveals the exact strategies author Mark Anastasi used to make millions, and includes the success stories of other millionaire internet entrepreneurs. Whether you need an extra hundred dollars a week or want to start an Internet empire, this audiobook gives you the tools and advice you need. His no-fluff, no-filler strategies provide a blueprint to online success, allowing you to discover the laptop entrepreneur lifestyle for yourself.

You'll discover:

If you apply the principles from The Laptop Millionaire, you will be well on your way to living the dream and mastering your financial destiny.

Critic Reviews:

"If you want to turn your laptop into your own cash machine so you can travel the world or just have the life you have always dreamed of, then this is the best audiobook you could ever grab to help make that happen." (Matt Bacak, author of

Secrets of the Internet Millionaire Mind)

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Title: 48 Days to the Work You Love

Author: Dan Miller

Narrator: Dan Miller

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-25-12

Publisher: B and H Publishing Group

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 414 votes

Genres: Business, Career Skills

Publisher's Summary:

In 2009, the U.S. unemployment rate approached ten percent. Today, when new work is found, it may not be traditional. Studies estimate half of the American workforce will soon consist of freelancers, consultants, independent contractors, entrepreneurs, "electronic immigrants", and so forth.

Are you ready for the new normal? Dan Miller has seen it coming for years. But his thriving vocational best seller, 48 Days to the Work You Love, is not so much about finding a new job as it is learning about who we are really called to be in relation to our vocation - whatever shape that career may take in these changing times.

According to the author, failing to make that fundamental discovery of calling is why so many people find themselves in jobs they hate. But now, thousands upon thousands are finding the work they love, thanks to practical advice from this leading career counselor.

Conversational and creative, Miller helps the reader understand one's God-given skills and abilities, personality traits, values, dreams, and passions. Doing so helps us recognize clear patterns that will point toward successful decisions along the career path. Step by step, this updated edition of 48 Days to the Work You Love reveals the process for creating a Life Plan and translating that plan into meaningful and fulfilling daily work. Let the countdown begin!

Members Reviews:

More than one way- Useful

I found this book to be very helpful, I tend to be at a job for about a year and then I get discouraged by something or someone. I start to look around for some other job, I mean there must be something better out there right? I find a job that promises better pay, better benefits, whatever.

A year later, I'm out looking again.

This book asks great questions about what you like to do, and in different ways than the typical-

"What would you do if you didn't have to go to work?"

kind of questions. So there I was, at my workstation, trying to figure out what i wanted to do with my life. and i looked back on my little scrap of paper and realized-

I am DOING work that I love.

Now, it might not be this job but Mr. Miller makes a great point in separating job, career, and vocation.

He gives great information on how to decide what you enjoy doing, and then how to find a way to

DO IT.

Whether it is to start your own business, start several "side jobs", or how to land the job at the company that you really want to work for.

Couple this book with

Quittter

by Jon Acuff

or

Entreleadership

by Dave Ramsey

Decent, Basic Information

Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?

I listened to the entire book. I thought about moving on and not finishing the book, but I wanted to give it a fair listen. It's okay material. Nothing earth shattering. TONS of lists...almost too many and there is no way to remember all of the lists he presents. I am not in the place that most of this book focuses on, but there were some universal principles that I was able to get out of it and apply. If you're looking for a new job, this book is for you.

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Title: The Innovator's DNA

Subtitle: Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators

Author: Jeff Dyer, Hal Gregersen, Clay Christensen

Narrator: Mel Foster

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-13-12

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 284 votes

Genres: Business, Career Skills

Publisher's Summary:

Are you the next Steve Jobs?

You can be as innovative and impactful - if you can change your behaviors to improve your creative impact.

In The Innovators DNA, authors Jeff Dyer, Hal Gregersen, and bestselling author Clayton M. Christensen (The Innovators Dilemma, The Innovators Solution) build on what we know about disruptive innovation to show how individuals can develop the skills necessary to move progressively from idea to impact.

By identifying behaviors of the worlds best innovators - from leaders at Amazon and Apple to those at Google, Skype, and Virgin Group - the authors outline five discovery skills that distinguish innovative entrepreneurs and executives from ordinary managers: Associating, Questioning, Observing, Networking, and Experimenting.

Once you master these competencies (the authors provide a self assessment for rating your own innovators DNA), the authors explain how you can generate ideas, collaborate with colleagues to implement them, and build innovation skills throughout your organization to sharpen its competitive edge. That innovation advantage can translate into a premium in your companys stock price - an innovation premium - that is possible only by building the code for innovation right into your organizations people, processes, and guiding philosophies.

Practical and provocative, The Innovators DNA is an essential resource for individuals and teams who want to strengthen their innovative prowess.

Members Reviews:

Starts slowly and then... it pops!

If you could sum up The Innovator's DNA in three words, what would they be?

This book analyzes some of the best thinkers of our time and shares strategies and tools to think like them. It won't make you an instant innovator or genius critical thinker but it definitely will add some tools to your toolbox. Give it a listen past the first few chapters-- it starts off a little preachy with motivational garb as if this were a self-help book but it picks up and provides some real gems!

The inner-workings of innovators minds. Nice book!

Where does The Innovator's DNA rank among all the audiobooks youve listened to so far?

It's in the top tier group of the audiobooks I have listened to.

What did you learn from The Innovator's DNA that you would use in your daily life?

It gave me a way to structure my thinking to my come up with new business ideas. It gives you ways to develop not only your own discovery skills but those of your company.

Amazing book for anyone wanting BUSINESS

Incredible! if you want to release ypur creative potential and know what you need to implement that cr3ativoty this is for you!!

Starts super but too much talkative in the last parts

It's good to learn the possible ways to be more innovative.

Too much in the last 5 chapters that are the carbon copies of the first chapters plus the word organization

Game Changer!

Simply brilliant! This book has changed my life and provides tools to help inspire innovation