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ID: 716034

Title: Side Hustle Safety Net: How Vulnerable Workers Survive Precarious Times

Author: Alexandrea J. Ravenelle

Narrator: Rachel Perry

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:20:26

Language: English

Release date: 11-21-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Business & Economics, Non-Fiction, Career Development, Law, HR & Office Administration

Summary:

The first major study of how the pandemic affected gig workers-a sociological exploration that reads like a novel.

This is the story of what the most vulnerable wage earners-gig workers, restaurant staff, early-career creatives, and minimum-wage laborers-do when the economy suddenly collapses. In Side Hustle Safety Net, Alexandrea J. Ravenelle builds on interviews with nearly two hundred gig-based and precarious workers, conducted during the height of the pandemic, to uncover the unique challenges they faced in unprecedented times.

This book looks at both the officially unemployed and the 'forgotten jobless'-a digital-era demographic that turned to side hustles-and reveals how they fared. CARES Act assistance allowed some to change careers, start businesses, perhaps transform their lives. However, gig workers and those involved in 'polyemployment' found themselves at the mercy of outdated unemployment systems, vulnerable to scams, and attempting dubious survival strategies. Ultimately, Side Hustle Safety Net argues that the rise of the gig economy, partnered with underemployment and economic instability, has increased worker precarity with disastrous consequences.

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ID: 714403

Title: Over the Seawall: Tsunamis, Cyclones, Drought, and the Delusion of Controlling Nature

Author: Stephen Robert Miller

Narrator: Jon Vertullo

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:58:22

Language: English

Release date: 11-21-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Science & Technology, Animals & Nature

Summary:

In March 2011, people in a coastal Japanese city stood atop a seawall watching the approach of the tsunami that would kill them. They believed-naively-that the huge concrete barrier would save them. Instead they perished, betrayed by the very thing built to protect them. Erratic weather, blistering drought, rising seas, and ecosystem collapse now affect every inch of the globe. Increasingly, we no longer look to stop climate change, choosing instead to adapt to it.

Never have so many undertaken such a widespread, hurried attempt to remake the world. Predictably, our hubris has led to unintended-and sometimes disastrous-consequences. Academics call it maladaptation; in simple terms, it's about solutions that backfire. Over the Seawall tells us the stories behind these unintended consequences and the fixes that can do more harm than good. From seawalls in coastal Japan, to the reengineered waters in the Ganges River Delta, to the artificial ribbon of water supporting both farms and urban centers in parched Arizona, Stephen Robert Miller traces the histories of engineering marvels that were once deemed too smart and too big to fail. In each he takes us into the land and culture, seeking out locals and experts to better understand how complicated, grandiose schemes led instead to failure, and to find answers to the technologic holes we've dug ourselves into.

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ID: 702797

Title: Pray in the Spirit: The Work of the Holy Spirit in the Ministry of Prayer

Author: Arthur Wallis

Narrator: Jim Denison

Format: Unabridged

Length: 03:15:02

Language: English

Release date: 11-21-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

Summary:

Through a pointed analysis of our spiritual and practical difficulties in prayer, Wallis show how the Holy Spirit helps us in our weaknesses. Learn how to yield yourself to Him, to allow Him to pray through you, and let the Holy Spirit lead you into 'the deep things of God.'

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ID: 710755

Title: Akasha: Spiritual Experiences of Accessing the Infinite Intelligence of Our Souls

Author: Lisa Barnett

Narrator: Leanne Woodward

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:34:41

Language: English

Release date: 11-21-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Health & Wellness, Naturopathy & New Age

Summary:

Akasha is the recording of all that exists and now it is yours to embrace. Move outside of time and space and enter the quantum field of the Akasha, where all that has happened, is happening, and will happen is energetically encoded in its domain. Join Akashic Records teacher Lisa Barnett as she shares who the Akashic Record Keepers are and how they can assist you on your soul's journey.

You are a complex and ancient being looking to evolve. Explore the infinite intelligence of your soul as Lisa Barnett, along with sacred storytellers, share their mystical experiences of the Akasha, including those of a painter who harnessed the wisdom of the Akasha through her art; an empath who healed the negative ancestral energy on her family's land; a woman who released a past life energy causing her physical pain; a woman who discovered her past life as a Mayan priestess; and a sister whose deceased brother brought her peace.

Embrace your personal Akashic wisdom and clear your old stories of separation, victimhood, and unworthiness. Learn five simple steps to access your Akashic Records and experience being guided, guarded, and protected with the Rainbow Shield and the Column of Light meditations. Use these tools and knowledge to clear trauma, release karma, and reclaim your gifts and the truth of who you are as a Divine and infinite soul.

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ID: 710570

Title: Perfect Addiction

Author: Claudia Tan

Narrator: Hannah Altagracia

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:00:56

Language: English

Release date: 11-21-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Romance, Romantica, Contemporary, Sports

Summary:

Don't miss the fan favorite novel that inspired the film!

Can one woman's vengeance on her ex led her to a new love? Or will it tear apart her future forever . . .

When MMS trainer Sienna Lane walks in on her boyfriend, Jax 'Deadbeat' Deneris in bed with her sister, her world falls apart. In less than five minutes, she's homeless, friendless, family-less. Vowing to get back at Jax, Sienna quickly charts a course of revenge that will hit him where it hurts most-in the ring.

Step one: convince Jax's rival, Kayden Williams, to train with her. Step two: beat Jax at his own game.

At first, Kayden wants nothing to do with Sienna's schemes, but when he figures out that she might be able to give him an advantage, he caves, letting her first into his home, then into his bed, and finally into his heart. But as much as she cares about Kayden, she can't let her anger go, and it threatens the shaky foundation they've built together from their damaged lives.

When he gives Sienna an ultimatum-it's either him or her revenge, she's forced to decide between getting back at Jax or throwing her newfound happiness with Kayden away.

Contains mature themes.

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ID: 702831

Title: Manipulating the Message: How Powerful Forces Shape the News

Author: Cecil Rosner

Narrator: Mike Chamberlain

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:59:09

Language: English

Release date: 11-21-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Business & Economics, Marketing & Advertising, Non-Fiction, Social Science, Language Instruction, Language Arts

Summary:

Journalists hate the term fake news, but there's a troubling reality: spin doctors routinely try to dupe them into reporting misleading and distorted stories.

Check the news on any given day and here's what you'll find: Governments routinely lie. Companies inflate claims about their products and practices. Institutions release studies with misleading data meant to deceive. Police departments, infected by systemic racism, downplay crimes against Indigenous and racialized people.

The public depends on the media to help them understand the world, but are journalists catching all the daily lies, omissions, and distortions? Shrinking newsrooms and an army of spin doctors mean journalists can get duped. Despite valiant efforts by a handful of investigative journalists, the truth is routinely left behind.

Award-winning journalist Cecil Rosner insists there is something we can do about this. We can pressure news organizations to stop blindly regurgitating the firehose of press releases and focus instead on determining what is actually true. Rosner empowers listeners by sharing his techniques for detecting misinformation and disinformation.

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ID: 714356

Title: Beyond Piggly Wiggly: Inventing the American Self-Service Store

Author: Lisa C. Tolbert

Narrator: Laural Merlington

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:08:20

Language: English

Release date: 11-21-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Business & Economics, History, World, North America, Business Development

Summary:

Patented in 1917, Piggly Wiggly was by far the most influential self-service store of the early twentieth century. Before 1940 it was the only self-service chain with a national distribution network, but it was neither the first nor the only version. Beyond Piggly Wiggly reveals the importance of Piggly Wiggly in the invention of self-service and goes beyond the history of a single firm to explore the role of small business entrepreneurs who invented the first self-service stores in a grassroots social process.

During the 1920s and 1930s a minority of enterprising grocers experimented with a wide variety of (sometimes wacky) design ideas for automating shopping. They created specialized stores designed as enclosed retail systems that went far beyond open display techniques to construct unique physical and psychological advantages for automating salesmanship. Beyond Piggly Wiggly offers the first perspective on the national scale of experimentation and connects the southern Jim Crow origins of self-service to the national history of this mass retailing method. Empirical analysis of store arrangements demonstrates how small stores that have previously been overlooked or undervalued as quaint anomalies were integral to the creation of supermarkets. Ultimately, self-service was more than a business decision; it was a fundamentally new social practice.

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ID: 707699

Title: Battle Scars: Twenty Years Later: 3d Battalion 5th Marines looks back at the Iraq War and How it Changed Their Lives

Author: Chip Reid

Narrator: Chip Reid

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:10:39

Language: English

Release date: 11-21-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: History, Biography & Memoir, Literary, Military

Summary:

The most eye-opening, and terrifying, story in Chip Reid's career as a journalist was the six weeks he spent with 3d Battalion, 5th Marines, during the invasion of Iraq in 2003, as a correspondent for NBC News. Traveling shoulder-to-shoulder with the young Marines, he had unparalleled access, witnessing them in combat, and interviewing as many as he could persuade his bosses to put on air, allowing them to tell their war stories in their own words.

It took only twenty-two days for the Marines of 3/5 to fight their way to Baghdad, but the effects on those who fought have lasted a lifetime. They lost a number of their own in battle, and others suffered life-threatening injuries. Many have had to find their own way through survivor's guilt and the nightmare of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, with all its attendant miseries.

Twenty years on, Chip sat down with the Marines of 3/5 once more. They told Chip inspiring stories of heroism in battle, of camaraderie and comrades lost, of patriotism and belief in mission, of recovery and success in both military and civilian life, and of the new appreciation for life that results from Post-Traumatic Growth. Visceral and searingly honest, this book is a tribute to the Marines for their service, and for the many sacrifices they made then, and that many still make today.

This enhanced audiobook edition includes nearly two hours of raw and uncut interviews with Marines of 3/5 recorded in preparation for writing this book.

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ID: 707718

Title: Arctic Convoys: Bletchley Park and the War for the Seas

Author: David Kenyon

Narrator: Mike Cooper

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:25:10

Language: English

Release date: 11-21-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: History, World, Military

Summary:

An incisive account of the Arctic convoys, and the essential role Bletchley Park and Special Intelligence played in Allied success

Between 1941 and 1945, more than eight hundred shiploads of supplies were delivered to the Soviet Union protected by allied naval forces. Each journey was a battle against the elements, with turbulent seas, extreme cold, and the constant dread of torpedoes. These Arctic convoys have been mythologized as defenseless vessels at the mercy of deadly U-boats-but was this really the case?

David Kenyon explores the story of the war in the Arctic, revealing that the contest was more evenly balanced that previously thought. Battles included major ship engagements, aircraft carriers, and combat between surface ships. Amid this wide range of forces, Bletchley Park's Naval Section played a decisive role in Arctic operations, with both sides relying heavily on Signals Intelligence to intercept and break each other's codes. Kenyon presents a vivid picture of the Arctic theater of war, unearthing the full-scale campaign for naval supremacy in northern waters.

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ID: 714359

Title: Prodigals: Finding Home When Weve Lost the Way

Author: Greg Ross Taylor

Narrator: Dean Gallagher

Format: Unabridged

Length: 05:17:25

Language: English

Release date: 11-21-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Biblical Studies

Summary:

The most famous story of Jesus retold

Prodigals digs deeply into each line from Jesus's famous parable about the prodigal son, inviting all listeners-those down on their luck or high on their horse-to identify as prodigals. A prodigal is anyone who accepts they have a sinful human nature and turns toward the love of home, the place where we find a deeper relationship with God.

Rather than divide the world into prodigals and nonprodigals, Taylor invites listeners to find themselves in the teaching of Jesus as either younger or elder siblings. The life-changing power of the book comes when listeners begin to identify with the characters in the story and join in the prayers and calls for transformation that conclude the chapters.

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