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ID: 804477

Title: Ghostly Tales: Spine-Chilling Stories of the Victorian Age

Author: Amelia B. Edwards, Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, F. Marion Crawford, M.R. James, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrator: Kristina Fuller Yuen

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:17:00

Language: English

Release date: 08-12-24

Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Paranormal

Summary:

A classic collection of haunting stories by Charles Dickens, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Louis Stevenson, and more.

A vengeful phantom lurks in a country graveyard.

A whaling crew becomes trapped on a haunted ship.

A human skull is kept locked in a cupboardbut sometimes at night, it screams...

This collection of tales transports the listener to a time when staircases creaked in old manor houses, and a candle could be blown out by a gust of windor by a passing ghost. Penned by some of the greatest Victorian novelists and masters of the ghost story genre, each comes to life in this vivid rendition.

Ghostly Tales: Spine-Chilling Stories of the Victorian Age is skillfully narrated by Kristina Fuller Yuen.

Produced and published by Echo Point Books & Media, an independent bookseller in Brattleboro, Vermont.

©2017 Chronicle Books (P)

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ID: 805077

Title: Tales of Japan: Traditional Stories of Monsters and Magic

Author: Chronicle Books

Narrator: Brian Nishii

Format: Unabridged

Length: 04:30:00

Language: English

Release date: 08-12-24

Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction, Fairy Tales & Folklore

Summary:

A goblin with no body and a monster with no face. A resourceful samurai and a faithful daughter. A spirit of the moon and a dragon king.

This collection of 15 traditional Japanese folktales transports listeners to a time of adventure and enchantment. Drawn from the works of folklorists Lafcadio Hearn and Yei Theodora Ozaki, these tales are by turns terrifying, exhilarating, and poetic.

- Striking illustrations by contemporary Japanese artist Kotaro Chiba are included in the supplemental PDF.

- Special gift edition features an embossed, textured case with metallic gold ink, and a satin ribbon page marker.

- Part of the popular Tales series, featuring Nordic Tales, Celtic Tales, Tales of India, and Tales of East Africa.

Fans of ghostly tales and japanese notebooks will love this book.

This book is ideal for:

- Fans of fairytales, folklore, ghost stories, Greek mythology, Roman mythology, Chinese mythology, and Celtic mythology.

- Anyone interested in Japan's history books and culture studies.

- People of Japanese heritage.

- Collectors of illustrated classics.

Produced and published by Echo Point Books & Media, an independent bookseller in Brattleboro, Vermont.

©2019 Chronicle Books (P)

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ID: 805057

Title: What's Your Decision?: How to Make Choices with Confidence and Clarity: How to Make Choices with Confidence and Clarity: An Ignatian Approach to Decision Making

Author: J. Michael Sparough, Jim Manney, Tim Hipskind

Narrator: Douglas James

Format: Unabridged

Length: 05:01:44

Language: English

Release date: 08-12-24

Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC

Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Self Development, Health & Wellness, Counseling & Inspirational

Summary:

Do I go to graduate school? Whom should I marry? Should I change careers? What do I do with my life now that I'm retired? All of us have important decisions to make decisions that radically alter our lives. Yet, without a sound process in place for making key decisions, we are likely to question whether or not our final decision was a good decision. More to the point, we will never feel fully confident that our decision was what God truly desired for us.

What's Your Decision? presents a time-tested, trustworthy approach to decision making based on the insights of Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Jesuits and the author of The Spiritual Exercises, one of history's most influential spiritual texts.

Throughout this fast-moving and highly practical audiobook, the authors present an Ignatian toolkit for making sound choices, providing answers to many common questions like:

- What's important and what's not when it comes to making choices?

- Do I trust my gut?

- What do I really want?

Ultimately, What's Your Decision? helps us understand that a God decision always precedes a good decision. When we invite God, who cares deeply about what we do into the decision-making process, we find the freedom to make the best choice.

©2010 J. Michael Sparough, Tim Hipskind, and Loyola Press. Produced and published by Echo Point Books & Media, an independent bookseller in Brattleboro, Vermont.

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ID: 805061

Title: Woman's Way through the Twelve Steps

Author: Stephanie Covington

Narrator: Sarah Zimmerman

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:23:08

Language: English

Release date: 08-12-24

Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC

Genres: Health & Wellness, Disorders & Diseases

Summary:

This guide to the Twelve Steps from Dr. Stephanie S. Covington, a pioneer in the field of women's issues, addiction, and recovery, preserves the spirit of the program with a focus on healing language with womens needs in mind.

A Womans Way Through the Twelve Steps is expertly written by Covington, a nationally recognized clinician, author, organizational consultant, and lecturer. Women's recovery can differ from men's, and each person's recovery is in many ways unique. That's why A Women's Way Through the Twelve Steps is designed to help a woman find her own path - and find it in terms especially suited to the way women experience not just addiction and recovery but also relationships, self, sexuality, and everyday life. Unlike many rewritten Twelve Step interpretations for women, this guide works with the original Step language, preserving its spirit and focusing attention on its healing message.

This compilation of a diverse group of real women's voices and wisdom illuminates how women understand the Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous and offers inspiring stories of how they have traveled through the Steps and discovered what works for them. The book can be used alone or as a companion to The Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions of Alcoholics Anonymous.

By drawing attention to how recovery raises special issues for women, from questions about sexuality and relationships to essential topics such as powerlessness, spirituality, and trauma, this book empowers women to take ownership of their recovery and to grow and flourish in sobriety.

Narrated by Sarah Zimmerman. Produced and published by Echo Point Books & Media, an independent bookseller in Brattleboro, Vermont.

©1994, 2024 Stephanie S. Covington (P)

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ID: 804469

Title: Chromophobia

Author: David Batchelor

Narrator: Peter Coates

Format: Unabridged

Length: 03:55:00

Language: English

Release date: 08-12-24

Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC

Genres: Non-Fiction, Philosophy

Summary:

The central argument of Chromophobia is that a chromophobic impulsea fear of corruption or contamination through colorlurks within much Western cultural and intellectual thought. This is apparent in the many and varied attempts to purge color, either by making it the property of some foreign bodythe oriental, the feminine, the infantile, the vulgar, or the pathologicalor by relegating it to the realm of the superficial, the supplementary, the inessential, or the cosmetic. Chromophobia has been a cultural phenomenon since ancient Greek times; this book is concerned with forms of resistance to it. Writers have tended to look no further than the end of the 19th century.

David Batchelor seeks to go beyond the limits of earlier studies, analyzing the motivations behind chromophobia and considering the work of writers and artists who have been prepared to look at color as a positive value. Exploring a wide range of imagery including Melville's Great White Whale, Huxley's Reflections on Mescaline, and Le Corbusier's Journey to the East, Batchelor also discusses the use of color in Pop, Minimal, and more recent art.

This brand-new audio edition is expressively narrated by Peter Coates. All charts referenced in the text can be found in the supplemental PDF.

Cover design credits: David Batchelor

Neo-Neo-Concreto 09

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concrete and acrylic

38 x 36 x 5cm

photo: Lucy Dawkins

Courtesy the artist and Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh

©2000 David Batchelor. Produced and published by Echo Point Books & Media, an independent bookseller in Brattleboro, Vermont.

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ID: 805058

Title: Why We Do What We Do: Understanding Self-Motivation

Author: Edward L. Deci, Richard Flaste

Narrator: Douglas James

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:33:36

Language: English

Release date: 08-12-24

Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC

Genres: Non-Fiction, Self Development, Health & Wellness, Psychology

Summary:

What motivates us as students, employees, and individuals?

If you reward your children for doing their homework, they will usually respond by getting it done. But is this the most effective method of motivation? No, says psychologist Edward L. Deci, who challenges traditional thinking and shows that this method actually works against performance. The best way to motivate people - at school, at work, or at home - is to support their sense of autonomy. Explaining the reasons why a task is important and then allowing as much personal freedom as possible in carrying out the task will stimulate interest and commitment, and it is a much more effective approach than the standard system of reward and punishment. We are all inherently interested in the world, argues Deci, so why not nurture that interest in each other? Instead of asking, How can I motivate people? we should be asking, How can I create the conditions within which people will motivate themselves?

An insightful and provocative meditation on how people can become more genuinely engaged and successful in pursuing their goals. (Publisher's Weekly)

©1995 Edward L. Deci and Richard Flaste. Produced and published by Echo Point Books & Media, an independent bookseller in Brattleboro, Vermont.

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ID: 805064

Title: Visible Learning for Teachers: Maximizing Impact on Learning

Author: John Hattie

Narrator: Brian Arens

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:04:39

Language: English

Release date: 08-12-24

Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC

Genres: Non-Fiction, Education

Summary:

In November 2008, John Hatties ground-breaking book Visible Learning synthesised the results of more than fifteen years research involving millions of students and represented the biggest ever collection of evidence-based research into what actually works in schools to improve learning.

Visible Learning for Teachers takes the next step and brings those ground breaking concepts to a completely new audience. Written for students, pre-service and in-service teachers, it explains how to apply the principles of Visible Learning to any classroom anywhere in the world. The author offers concise and user-friendly summaries of the most successful interventions and offers practical step-by-step guidance to the successful implementation of visible learning and visible teaching in the classroom.

This book:

- links the biggest ever research project on teaching strategies to practical classroom implementation

- champions both teacher and student perspectives and contains step by step guidance including lesson preparation, interpreting learning and feedback during the lesson and post lesson follow up

- offers checklists, exercises, case studies and best practice scenarios to assist in raising achievement

- includes whole school checklists and advice for school leaders on facilitating visible learning in their institution

- now includes additional meta-analyses bringing the total cited within the research to over 900

- comprehensively covers numerous areas of learning activity including pupil motivation, curriculum, meta-cognitive strategies, behaviour, teaching strategies, and classroom management.

Visible Learning for Teachers is a must read for any student or teacher who wants an evidence based answer to the question; how do we maximise achievement in our schools?

Produced and published by Echo Point Books & Media, an independent bookseller in Brattleboro, Vermont.

©2012 John Hattie (P)

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ID: 804473

Title: Complexity: A Guided Tour

Author: Melanie Mitchell

Narrator: Kathleen Godwin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:24:42

Language: English

Release date: 08-12-24

Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC

Genres: Non-Fiction, Science & Technology, History, Philosophy

Summary:

What enables individually simple insects like ants to act with such precision and purpose as a group? How do trillions of neurons produce something as extraordinarily complex as consciousness? In this remarkably clear and companionable audiobook, leading complex systems scientist Melanie Mitchell provides an intimate tour of the sciences of complexity, a broad set of efforts that seek to explain how large-scale complex, organized, and adaptive behavior can emerge from simple interactions among myriad individuals. Based on her work at the Santa Fe Institute and drawing on its interdisciplinary strategies, Mitchell brings clarity to the workings of complexity across a broad range of biological, technological, and social phenomena, seeking out the general principles or laws that apply to all of them.

Skillfully narrated, Complexity: A Guided Tour - winner of the 2010 Phi Beta Kappa Book Award in Science - offers a wide-ranging overview of the ideas underlying complex systems science, the current research at the forefront of this field, and the prospects for its contribution to solving some of the most important scientific questions of our time.

©2011 Melanie Mitchell. Produced and published by Echo Point Books & Media, an independent bookseller in Brattleboro, Vermont.

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ID: 805076

Title: Starting Your Career as a Contractor: How to Build and Run a Construction Business

Author: Claudiu Fatu

Narrator: Brian Arens

Format: Unabridged

Length: 04:54:00

Language: English

Release date: 08-12-24

Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC

Genres: Business & Economics, Science & Technology, Business Development, Technology & Engineering

Summary:

This incisive, practical audio guide provides a thorough breakdown of the ins and outs everyone needs to know when turning contracting skills into a business. From summoning the motivation to start your own business to the intricacies of being your own boss, Claudiu Fatu artfully turns his personal experiences and those of other successful contractors into advice on every aspect of building a business. The chapters focus on:

- Developing a business structure, including bank accounts, tax registration, insurance, and branding

- Handling legal and accounting hurdles

- Managing employees and dealing with clients

- Using marketing systems to find and book work

- Estimating and bidding on jobs

- Writing contracts

- Creating invoices and a billing system

- Controlling costs, keeping records, and understanding profit margin

- Planning retirement and other benefits for the self-employed

By teaching contractors to anticipate problems that can arise when dealing with clients, and to build a business plan that can support a contractors talents in the best way possible, Starting Your Career as a Contractor is the ultimate key to getting the job done right!

©2015 Claudiu Fatu. Produced and published by Echo Point Books & Media, an independent bookseller in Brattleboro, Vermont.

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ID: 804470

Title: Collapse of Complex Societies

Author: Joseph A. Tainter

Narrator: Brian Arens

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:26:00

Language: English

Release date: 08-12-24

Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC

Genres: Non-Fiction, Social Science

Summary:

Political disintegration is a persistent feature of world history. The Collapse of Complex Societies, though written by an archaeologist, will therefore strike a chord throughout the social sciences. Any explanation of societal collapse carries lessons not just for the study of ancient societies, but for the members of all such societies in both the present and future. Dr. Tainter describes nearly two dozen cases of collapse and reviews more than 2,000 years of explanations. He then develops a new and far-reaching theory that accounts for collapse among diverse kinds of societies, evaluating his model and clarifying the processes of disintegration by detailed studies of the Roman, Mayan, and Chacoan collapses.

©1988 Cambridge University Press. Produced and published by Echo Point Books & Media, an independent bookseller in Brattleboro, Vermont.

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