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ID: 481893

Title: Twilight and Philosophy: Vampires, Vegetarians, and the Pursuit of Immortality

Author: J. Jeremy Wisnewski, Rebecca Housel, William Irwin

Narrator: Rebecca Housel

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:01:49

Language: English

Release date: 07-20-20

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Non-Fiction, Philosophy

Summary:

Stephenie Meyer's wildly popular Twilight is a young adult vampireromance series,in whichteenaged Bella falls for a vampire, Edward, and is drawn into his and his family's morally gray universe.Bella, Edward, and their family and friends have faced countless dangers and philosophical dilemmas in the four novelsof the series, and this is the first book to parse them. Twilight and Philosophy will answer these and many other questions: What dothe struggles ofEdward and his family of 'vegetarian' vampires to control their biological urge for human blood say about free will? Are vampires morally absolved if they kill only animals and not people? Why does Plato think that Bella should choose Jacob, a werewolf and rival for her affections? Should Edward use his natural ability to read minds? From a feminist perspective, can Edward be a romantic hero or is he just a stalker?

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ID: 481889

Title: Leading Out Loud: Inspiring Change Through Authentic Communications

Author: Terry Pearce

Narrator: Pete Larkin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 05:53:49

Language: English

Release date: 07-20-20

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Business & Economics, Management & Leadership

Summary:

Much has changed in the business world since the original publication of Leading Out Loud, Terry Pearces classic on authentic leadership communication. Now more than ever, the development of a leaders message is as crucial to success as the delivery of that message. In this new and revised edition, Pearce explains that the events of recent years, including the September 11 tragedy and numerous corporate scandals, have caused a loss of confidence and increased the importance of authenticity in leadership and building loyalty to organizations. The revised edition still shows leaders in business, politics, and non-profit how to communicate their values and vision to inspire commitment, providing action steps and techniques and analyzing speeches by well-known leaders to give readers concrete methods for improving their communication. But Pearce also focuses more on everyday, spontaneous communication, and how to develop a message that works in any situation. He explores the internal work necessary to create an honest and compelling vision, and demonstrates how readers can find their authentic voices and articulate their messages with confidence.

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ID: 481966

Title: Your Creative Brain: Seven Steps to Maximize Imagination, Productivity, and Innovation in Your Life

Author: Shelley Carson

Narrator: Jo Anna Perrin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:24:22

Language: English

Release date: 07-20-20

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Non-Fiction, Psychology

Summary:

Can sitting in front of a light box increase your creativity? [YES] How about listening to Bach's Italian Concerto in F major? [NO]. These are crucial questions to the survival of humans. We need to find ways to unlock our creativity, both as individuals and as a species, if we are to adapt to the challenges and dangers, as well as the opportunities, of the accelerated-change climate of the 21st century.Creativity is notonly for artists, musicians, and mad scientists. This original and useful book presents a program to understand and increase your creativity in seven specific states of mind or 'brainsets.' 1. The Connect Brainset: This is a defocused state of attention that allows you to see the connections between objects or concepts and to generate multiple solutions to a given problem rather than focusing on a single solution. 2. The Reason Brainset: This is a state of purposeful planning in which you consciously manipulate information in your working memory to solve a problem. 3. The Envision Brainset: This is a state in which you see possibilities and patterns. You speculate using 'what if' as a launching pad and respond with the full force of your imagination. 4. The Absorb Brainset: This is a state in which you open your mind to new experiences and ideas. You uncritically view your world and take in knowledge. Everything fascinates you and attracts your attention. 5. The Transform Brainset: This is a state in which you are able to transform negative energy into works of art and great performances. You are also motivated to express (in creative form) the pain, the anxieties, and the hopes that we all share as part of the human experience. 6.The Evaluate Brainset: This is the state in which you consciously judge the value of ideas, concepts, products, behaviors, or individuals. This is the 'critical eye' of mental activity. 7. The Stream Brainset: The state is associated with the actual production of creative material, such as jazz improvisation, narrative writing (as in novels or short stories), sculpting or painting, and the step-by-step revelation of scientific discovery. Readers will learn which parts of the brain are 'hot' during each of these seven brainsets, and find quizzes, exercises, and self-teststo help them use each brainset to their advantage.

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ID: 487253

Title: Vital Voices: The Power of Women Leading Change Around the World

Author: Alyse Nelson, Hillary Rodham Clinton

Narrator: Kristin Kalbli

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:40:12

Language: English

Release date: 07-20-20

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Business & Economics, Management & Leadership

Summary:

The world is waking up to a new reality, a rising consciousness of women's contribution to our shared progress. In the past, those who have cared about improving the lives of girls and women have spoken a language of fairness. While that language and that sentiment are still relevant today, there is something even more compelling to be said about women: women are the most consistently under-utilized resource in just about every country in the world, and are vehicles of transformational change. The Economist estimates that women have contributed more to global GDP growth over the past decade than new technology or emerging heavyweights India and China. The UN has found that women reinvest up to 90 percent of their income in their families and communities. Where we see an increase in women's university enrollment rates, an increase in women's earnings, improved maternal health and a reduction in violence against women, we see more prosperous communities, better educated, healthier families and the preservation of equal human rights. There can be no question - women's progress is global progress, and now is the opportune moment to put forward a concrete approach for women's proven transformational style of leadership. Vital Voices presents the unique model of women's leadership that Vital Voices Global Partnership has identified in 14 years of engaging and supporting a network of thousands of women leaders in 127 countries around the world. Two years ago, Vital Voices began actively incorporating the leadership model in the curricula of international trainings and programs with emerging and established women in our global network of leaders, and the response has been overwhelming, leading to new regional chapters, businesswomen's networks, mentoring clubs, and events around the world. The Vital Voices Leadership Model defines six characteristic practices of a leader who has sustainable, transformative impact: finding your voice, leading with purpose, crossing lines that divide, going against the grain, paying it forward, and understanding that leadership is not a destination. Four detailed profiles of real women leaders will anchor chapters on each practice, based on interviews with figures such as Aung San Suu Kyi, the Burmese pro-democracy leader and Nobel Peace Prize recipient, as well as many lesser-known stories of inspiring women generating real change in their local communities. Throughout the book, internationally recognizable, established women leaders (a potential list includes Michele Bachelet, former president of Chile, and Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, president of Liberia) will serve as contributors. This theory of women's leadership will mobilize a surge of women to realize the tenets of leadership, thereby contributing to a transformative shift in global dynamic - social, economic, political - that accelerates peace and prosperity in our world. Women are agents of progress, and their leadership is not qualified by title, salary or social standing. The women featured in Vital Voices are leaders of a new order who are changing the world, and the Vital Voices Leadership Model will enhance the anyone's potential to lead the way to transformational change.

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ID: 481898

Title: Millionaire Teacher: The Nine Rules of Wealth You Should Have Learned in School

Author: Andrew Hallam

Narrator: Peter Drew

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:24:34

Language: English

Release date: 07-20-20

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Business & Economics, Personal Finance

Summary:

Most people wouldnt expect a school teacher to amass a million dollar investment account. But Andrew Hallam did it, long before the typical retirement age. And he wants to show you how. With lively humor and the simple clarity youd expect from a gifted educator, he demonstrates in Millionaire Teacher how average people can build wealth in the stock market by shunning the investment products peddled by most financial advisors and avoiding the get-rich-quicker products concocted by an ever widening, self-serving industry. Using low cost index funds, coupled with a philosophy in line with Warren Buffetts, he guides readers to understand how the stock and bond markets really work, arming readers with a psychological advantage when markets fall. Readers will learn that young investors should hope for stock market crashes if they want to grow rich. Millionaire Teacher shows how you can spend just 60 minutes a year on your investments, never open a financial paper, and avoid investment news, while leaving most professional investors in the dust.

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ID: 465297

Title: Cannabis - Philosophy for Everyone: What Were We Just Talking About?

Author: Dale Jacquette, Fritz Allhoff, Rick Cusick

Narrator: Erik Davies

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:22:54

Language: English

Release date: 07-20-20

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Non-Fiction, Philosophy

Summary:

A hazy student phase? A harmless way to relax? An effective form of pain relief? Or a dangerous and addictive narcotic? The debate on the status and legality of cannabis continues to rage on. Here, personal anecdotes, combined with academic and scientific reports, wrestle with some of the fascinating issues associated with cannabis use. In these pages, philosophers, psychologists and medical experts (some of whom may even enjoy the occasional spliff) try to understand: What exactly does it mean to get high? Is it immoral to smoke marijuana for pleasure? Is cannabis the start of the slippery road to other more dangerous drugs? Is altering our consciousness a basic human need? What is the morality or immorality of cannabis prohibition laws? Cannabis- Philosophy for Everyoneoffers frank, professionally informed, and often humorous discussions on the gourmandise and ethical, social, and political dimensions of this psychoactive and outlawed drug.

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ID: 481969

Title: Madoff with the Money

Author: Jerry Oppenheimer

Narrator: Oliver Wyman

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:42:00

Language: English

Release date: 07-20-20

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Business & Economics, History, Americas, Accounting & Finance

Summary:

Madoff with the Money is a deeply disturbing narrative portrait of Bernie Madoff based on dozens of exclusive, news-making interviews -- beginning with his roots and the values, or lack thereof, he was taught in the Madoff home in working class Laurelton, Queens, in the '40s and '50s, to his high-life on Wall Street and in the super-rich enclaves of Palm Beach, London and the French Riviera and everywhere else he stalked, pulling off his shocking $50 billion Ponzi scheme. Through bestselling author Jerry Oppenheimers in depth reporting there will be new revelations to this startling case. Also profiled will be the dozens, if not hundreds of trusting -- and sometimes avaricious victims -- ranging from non-profit Jewish charities, to the likes of seemingly sophisticated celebrities such as Larry King and Zsa Zsa Gabor, to the brilliant French investment manager who slit his wrists after entrusting and losing $1.4 billion to one of history's all-time charlatans -- a manipulative Svengali who the author compares to psychopaths like Charles Manson and Jim Jones.

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ID: 481980

Title: Porn - Philosophy for Everyone: How to Think With Kink

Author: Dave Monroe, Fritz Allhoff, Gram Ponante

Narrator: Bruce Thomas

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:35:20

Language: English

Release date: 07-20-20

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Non-Fiction, Philosophy

Summary:

Love it or loathe it, pornography is as old as human civilization itself. Ancient humans were drawing porn on their cave walls long before it flourished under the Greeks and Romans. With the age of the internet, it has now reached epic proportions. This anthology takes the ever-controversial discussion of pornography out of solely academic circles; it expands the questions about porn that academics might tackle and opens the conversation to those who know it bestthe creators and users of porn. Together, they address issues such as: Is a porn actors life worse-off by virtue of his or her profession? Why are men more willing to accept the authenticity of porn-gasms? What is the voyeuristic appeal of watching celebrity sex tapes? And, what is wrong with pornography? Entertaining and scholarly, Porn- Philosophy for Everyoneoffers a titillating, tantalizing glimpse into the world of porn.

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ID: 481944

Title: Your Successful Preschooler: Ten Skills Children Need to Become Confident and Socially Engaged

Author: Ann E. Densmore, Margaret L. Bauman

Narrator: Cris Dukehart

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:03:00

Language: English

Release date: 07-20-20

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Health & Wellness, Parenting

Summary:

The latest research shows that children can be taught-at very early ages-the tools they need to become successful and connected to others. This new book offers parents and teachers the information they need to teach children the most effective ways to engage peers and make social interactions easier and more meaningful.

Your Successful Preschooler:

- Shows how facilitated play can become an opportunity to improve your child's emotional connections with peers

- Teaches parents and educators how to foster growth in vocabulary and language during play, key ingredients to academic success

- Presents dozens of anecdotes with dialogues parents can use to teach children how to better relate to their peers

Using the methods outlined in the book, parents and teachers can support activities that lead to a lifetime of social success and likeability that are crucial for every child's emotional stability.

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ID: 481890

Title: Teaching How to Learn in a What-to-Learn Culture

Author: Kathleen R. Hopkins

Narrator: Jo Anna Perrin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 05:57:18

Language: English

Release date: 07-20-20

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Non-Fiction, Education

Summary:

Although there are ample resources on how to teach reading, math, science, or other types of academic content,there is comparatively little guidance for teachers on how students learn and why. Can intelligence be developed? Do teacher expectations shape student learning? How can teachers help students work through challenging learning situations on their own? This book is ifor any teacher who has students who struggle and who wants learning to stick. The book reveals, for example, that intelligence is largely the ability to recognize and make connections--and that this ability is fluid and modifiable. Drawing from theory and research in learning, this book offers clear, practical guidance along with inspirational ideas to show how teachers can enable students to gain both the cognitive competence and confidence needed to succeed academically. It includes practices in the following areas: --Developing perseverance and diligence in work habits --Cultivating reasoning skills for problem solving --Improving verbal and written expression --Strengthening auditory and visual processing skills --Building attention and focusing skills --Developing reading, writing, and mathematical fluency The book applies to any and all learners, including special needs students, and is richly illustrated with stories, activities, and examples from across the curricula.

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