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Title: Achieving Your Award in Education and Training: The Comprehensive Course Companion (Special Edition)

Author: Nabeel Zaidi

Narrator: Gabrielle Byrne

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-23-15

Publisher: Education and Training Consultants Ltd.

Genres: Nonfiction, Social Sciences

Publisher's Summary:

This audiobook provides all the up-to-date information and guidance you need to pass the course, communicated in a user-friendly and practical manner.

The Award in Education and Training is the entry qualification for teaching in a range of learning contexts across the further education and skills sector. It comprises three units, which are fully covered by this textbook. These are as follows:

Understanding Roles, Responsibilities and Relationships in Education and Training

Understanding and Using Inclusive Teaching and Learning Approaches in Education and Training

Understanding Assessment in Education and Training

This audio textbook also includes detailed guidance on how to structure effective responses for assessments across the assessment criteria of all three units. Such guidance is normally sold as a separate textbook. However, it is included in this special edition, which should result in a considerable cost saving to you.

This audiobook is written for all awarding organisations and focuses on each of the learning outcomes and assessment criteria of these three units, provides examples of current practice in the sector, and adopts a user-friendly approach to explaining concepts and principles. It is therefore essential listening for anyone hoping to pass the Award in Education and Training and gain a fuller appreciation of the subject and practice in the sector.

The author provides a range of professional perspectives when examining topics, which should prove useful for the course and also in preparing to enter the sector. He draws on his extensive experience as a lecturer, senior manager, and educational consultant and on his work with external bodies, such as the Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) as a reviewer and awarding organisations as an Examiner, standards verifier, and centre quality reviewer. This ensures currency and relevance of the audiobook content.

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Título: La Feliz Ignorancia [Happy Ignorance]

Autor: Miguel de Unamuno

Narrador: RUMI Productions LLC

Formato: Unabridged

Duración: 19 mins

Idioma: Español

Fecha de publicación: 09-09-15

Editor: RUMI Productions LLC

Calificaciones: 5 de 5 de 1 votos

Categorías: Nonfiction, Social Sciences

Resumen del editor:

Es increible como un ensayo corto, escrito hace tanto por Unamuno pueda ser tan actual. En La Feliz Ignorancia Miguel de Unamuno escribe con perspicaz escarnio de escritores, de famosos y aspirantes a famosos, que se desenvolvian en la total ignorancia en su tiempo, y aun peor, que se enorgullecian de ello. Unamuno nos habla de sus producciones basadas en lo que era comercialmente exitoso en el momento (equivalentes actuales a los libros de vampiros y ninos magos), con total indiferencia a lo que hace una obra realmente buena, con temor de ejercitar la mente para producir algo de verdadera calidad. Una situacion muy cercana a nuestra actual produccion televisiva, y artistica en general. El rating, las encuestas de opinion y el exito economico guian las decisiones de quienes dictan lo que se debe consumir. Unamuno, un siglo antes ya alzaba su voz contraria. Que poco han cambiado las cosas en este tiempo! www.rumiaudio.com (Este comentario carece de tildes debido a restricciones de Amazon)

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Title: Love, Again

Subtitle: The Wisdom of Unexpected Romance

Author: Eve Pell

Narrator: Eve Pell

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-08-15

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 7 votes

Genres: Nonfiction, Social Sciences

Publisher's Summary:

In Love, Again, Eve Pell beautifully and thoughtfully concludes that life experience adds dimensions to the art of connection - and that we all stand to learn something from unexpected romance. How do old people meet new loves? Eve Pell was 68 when she convinced a friend to set her up with Sam Hirabayashi. Ten years her senior, Sam, a fellow runner, was handsome and sweet. Soon Eve and Sam were plunged into a giddy romance that began with a movie date. "It was crazy," Pell writes. "It was wonderful."

Pell wrote about their romance in a New York Times Modern Love column and received a wave of responses from people who recognized their own stories in hers. This thing, this late-in-life love: It's growing, it's everywhere, and it's transformative. In staggering numbers, old people are meeting and falling in love - in senior living facilities, in retirement homes, in bars, in grocery stores, on cruise ships, on the Internet - brazenly, quietly, unexpectedly. People once written off as too old for intimacy are having romances, beginning intense affairs once thought to be for the young.

Part memoir, part journey to a new frontier, Love, Again is illuminating and heartwarming. Speaking with poets and artists, a retired nurse and a retired coach, environmentalists, philanthropists, and teachers - couples whose partners' ages range from 61 to 96 - Pell reports on their relationships, from saying hello to knowing they'd found the one, from blending routines and traditions to overcoming judgments and challenges. These widows, widowers, divorcés, and never-marrieds open up about old love versus young, the thrill of sex, and the looming shadow of mortality. At the core of this book is wisdom: what we all can learn from the experience, regardless of age.

Critic Reviews:

"I remarried at 75 and have followed one hundred marriages from age 50 on. Eve Pell knows what she is talking about. Her book is touching, eye-opening, inspiring, and wise. In addition, it is beautifully written." (George E. Vaillant, MD, author of Triumphs of Experience: The Men of the Harvard Grant Study)

A heartwarming, eye-opening, life-affirming journey to the final frontier of romance, this is a beautiful book about the possibility of late-in-life love and the life-changing lessons we all can learn from those who have been lucky enough to find it. (Katie Couric)

Eve Pells career as an investigative reporter served her in discovering such couples and learning their stories, which, along with her own love story, she imparts with fluency and zest. Love, Again is a joy to read, full of humor and heart and sweet collective wisdom, a book for all ages. (Susan Trott, author of the Holy Man Trilogy)

Members Reviews:

For any man and woman, post 60 and now single, this is a must read, unless you prefer poor quality of life in the years ahead.

Eve Pell is not a stranger to me.

I read her "Modern Love" column in the NY Times a few years ago, where she spoke of her meeting a man, so unlike any of the men she had ever experienced in her life, married to or otherwise.

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Title: It Runs in the Family

Subtitle: On Being Raised by Radicals and Growing into Rebellious Motherhood

Author: Frida Berrigan

Narrator: Erin Bennett

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 7 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-28-15

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Nonfiction, Social Sciences

Publisher's Summary:

Parenting is hard. So is being a peacemaker in a violent world. It Runs in the Family is a book about how parents can create lasting and meaningful bulwarks between their kids and the violence endemic in our culture. It posits discipline without spanks or slaps or threats of violence while considering how to raise thoughtful, compassionate, fearless young people committed to social and political change - without scaring, hectoring, or scarring them with all the wrongs in the world.

Frida Berrigan is a mother and stepmother, wife, and daughter. Her parents, Phil Berrigan and Elizabeth McAlister, were a former priest and nun who became nationwide icons for their prophetic witness against war and nuclear weapons, which sometimes resulted in long jail sentences. Berrigan grew up in the community they helped found, Jonah House in Baltimore, and becoming a parent herself has forced her to come to terms with her own upbringing in new ways. Expanding on the stories in her popular column for the website Waging Nonviolence, Berrigan has crafted a welcome antidote to the various parenting fads currently on offer from French moms and tiger moms and mean moms. She offers a unique perspective on parenting that derives from hard work, deep reflection, and lots of trial and error.

Members Reviews:

An honest account of aware parenting

This brief book, essentially a selection of short essays about Berrigan's upbringing as the daughter of the Catholic peace activists Phillip Berrigan and Elizabeth McAlister and her own experiences as a mother attempting to raise conscientious children in a violent world, is both moving and identifiable. The author is frank about the challenges of being a member of a sort of royal family of the counterculture and on growing up with parents who were often off at protests or locked in jail, and on finding her own identity and values while honoring those of her parents.

Berrigan's own challenges and choices as a mother will be familiar to any modern parent who does not reject society and popular culture but who also wants to make wise choices: How much television should the kids watch, if any? How do we instill awareness of the sufferings of the world when bombarded with constant messaging pushing materialism? The author's honesty about her own confusion on some of these subjects is quite refreshing.

helpful suggestions, good humor, no finger wagging.

Great stories, important topics, lots of constructive ideas and helpful suggestions, good humor, no finger wagging.

Inspiration

I'm 76, so at times I thought this book wasn't for me, but ultimately it was a powerful reminder, beautifully written, and a hopeful example of what is possible. If you are the ultimate consumer, or fearful of germs, you will be educated. The Berrigan brothers were an inspiration to my generation, may Frida be an inspiration to hers.

Interesting. Her parents were dedicated to their cause. ...

Interesting. Her parents were dedicated to their cause. Cannot see how the children could not e

ffective by the family's lifestyle.

Great book!

I know Friday personally and this book was so interesting and so relatable! I loved it!

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Title: Food Confidential

Subtitle: The Corporate Takeover of Food Security and the Family Farm - and What to Do About It

Author: Nicole Faires

Narrator: Erin Bennett

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 13 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-26-15

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Nonfiction, Social Sciences

Publisher's Summary:

Fight the power and protect your family from the corporate interests that control our food chain. When author and homesteader Nicole Faires decided to retrofit an old school bus and tour America's small farms with her husband and two small children, she expected to learn a lot, be inspired, and have some fun. But what she found disturbed her. Mismanaged small farms; clueless urbanites setting up shop to "get back to the land"; a mindless devotion to organic farming; and, ultimately, the discovery of just how dependent we are on corporations for our food. She began to understand how dangerous and fragile our food system really is. Climate change. Farmers retiring or going out of business. Corporations controlling our food distribution system while being protected from the consequences when they endanger our health. Skyrocketing food prices. Outsourced food production. With this admittedly bleak assessment of the current state of affairs, Nicole and her family decided to abandon the bus trip and instead start a farm. "I couldn't tell people the solutions to our food crisis while I was traipsing around America taking photos. I had to live it," Nicole says. And so the seeds for Food Confidential were sown.

Our basic right to healthy food is at risk. What can we do? Written in an astute, engaging style, armed with examples from her own homesteading lifestyle, small farmer Nicole Faires' Food Confidential gives you the tools to fight the intangible battles as well as the practical ones.

Members Reviews:

Do you care what you throw in your children's tummies?

I gave this important book five stars because Faires tells it like it is; what has happened to our food, what currently is going on with food production, and the state of things to come. "Food Tyrants, " while not a fluffy summer read, is quite read-able and engaging. The author has done her research but still manages to make a serious issue quite compelling. Fans of Monsanto may not get a kick out of it, but everyone who cares about health and nutrition certainly will. It's a must read, especially for parents. Oh... Plan on growing your own food when you've finished the book.

Corporate takeover of our food

This book was a most informative read. I learned a lot I did not know about the monopolistic corporations that now control food production globally. At the very least, our food should be labeled if it contains GMO crops. This book is worth a read for anyone that is concerned, or does not know, how our food is now being produced Not a wonder that many countries have forbidden GMO containing foods. If you think our FDA is working in our best interest, you better take a closer look.

Five Stars

Great Book!

Perfect guide to food and DIY farming

Interesting book that covers wide range of topics related to current food related issues post-modern society has landed itself into. These complex issues are result of number of factors like industrialization, globalization etc. The author does not simplify these issues by suggesting simple âback to natureâ kind of solution. Though the book lacks rigors of scientific references, it is backed by sincere first hand experiential knowledge of author herself. The side notes on her experience with living in a mobile house to survey many farms in US and Canada is interesting.

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Title: Intangiball

Subtitle: The Subtle Things That Win Baseball Games

Author: Lonnie Wheeler

Narrator: Eric Michael Summerer

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-11-15

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 5 votes

Genres: Nonfiction, Social Sciences

Publisher's Summary:

Intangiball tracks the progress of the Cincinnati Reds through five years of culture change, beginning with the trades of decorated veterans Adam Dunn and Ken Griffey, Jr. It also draws liberally from such character-conscious clubs as the Atlanta Braves, St. Louis Cardinals, San Francisco Giants, New York Yankees, and Tampa Bay Rays. Author, sportswriter, and eternal fan of the game Lonnie Wheeler systematically identifies the performance-enhancing qualities (PEQs) that together comprise the "communicable competitiveness" that he calls "teamship."

Critic Reviews:

"A good book for baseball fans who already know, or think they know, about the specific players named." (

Kirkus)

Members Reviews:

Defining the Undefinable

Full disclosure: I once co-authored a baseball book with Lonnie Wheeler. But Iâd never have gotten out of it alive without his good humor, grace, lively intelligence, and writerly skill. So I knew who did the real work. Nearly a dozen books later, heâs written âIntangiball: The Subtle Things That Win Baseball Games,â and heâs still using his own aforementioned intangibles.

The book began in Wheelerâs mind in 2008, by the time Joey Votto and Brandon Phillips had arrived in Cincinnati, and he began seeing articles about how the game was evolving toward the difficult-to-define qualities that helped build a team. The message in Cincinnati was that the team needed a culture change, and while it needed the superstar qualities of Votto and Phillips, it also needed their indefinable essences, which might have been even more important than their physical talents.

âThe dayâor the seasonâas it wereâhad been won by the respectful, enthusiastic observance of the so-called little things,â Wheeler wrote. And so began his investigation. He even coined a word for it: âTEAMSHIP.â Early on, he describes the great human moment in baseball history when the Crosley Field organist mocked Dodger great Jackie Robinson by playing, âBye, Bye, Blackbird,â and the fansâand Reds themselvesâjoined in. Then Dodger shortstop Pee Wee Reese walked across the diamond and put his arm around his teammate. It was, says Wheeler, a classic demonstration of letter No. 5 in TEAMSHIPââSâ for âSupport.â

Wheelerâs many scenes and examples range from Robinson and his general manager, Branch Rickey, through the entire modern game. Heâs an expert observer of the Reds, of course, but he also studies the thinking of Joe Maddon, Tampa Bayâs manager; the great St. Louis teams of Gibson, McCarver, Flood, and Cepeda; the dominant Braves of the 1990s; and the Oakland ones of the early 1970s. There are players such as Derek Jeter (whose intangibles prompted a new word: "Jeterate") and Joey Votto (âthe Mountielike manhood of Joey Votto,â he writes), and there are scouts, executives, and managersâall of whom are trying to define the undefinable.

Itâs something of an insiderâs book, separating the casual fan from the real students, and its breadth will make the reader an insider, too. Itâs a smart book, brimming with insight, a roster of baseballâs Whoâs Who, and Wheelerâs down-to-earth knowledge is first-rate and interesting.

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Título: 38 de junio

Subtitular: Rebeca no sabe lo que sucederá en esta extraña fecha

Autor: Ramón Araiza Quiroz

Narrador: Irma Bello

Formato: Unabridged

Duración: 7 hrs and 11 mins

Idioma: Español

Fecha de publicación: 07-31-15

Editor: Audible Studios

Categorías: Nonfiction, Social Sciences

Resumen del editor:

Rebeca, una chica arrogante que lo tiene todo, vivirá días inexistentes en el calendario de los humanos. En estos días aprenderá mucho de sí misma y de su compañero Olaf, un anciano sabio, que compró en una subasta de artículos valiosos y antigüedades. A bordo de una bicicleta de dos plazas, juntos viajarán a lugares, tiempos y dimensiones muy especiales, como una bodega abandonada, donde ella es humillada; una escuela, donde se transforma en niña; el cielo, donde visita a su padre; y un hospital, donde se convierte en madre.

Se verá en tres escenarios al mismo tiempo: llena de vida, agonizando y muerta; así como en una conferencia, que ella imparte, donde siente la presencia de Lucifer y de Dios. Al final del trayecto, Rebeca comprenderá cuál es "el sentido de la vida" para poder transmitirlo a otras personas. Después se reencontrará con Frederick, un hombre que cambiará el destino de la nueva Rebeca.

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Title: Prophets, Gurus, and Pundits

Subtitle: Rhetorical Styles and Public Engagement

Author: Anna M. Young

Narrator: Clay Teunis

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs

Language: English

Release date: 07-07-15

Publisher: University Press Audiobooks

Genres: Nonfiction, Social Sciences

Publisher's Summary:

In Prophets, Gurus, and Pundits, author Anna M. Young proposes that the difficulty of bridging the gap between intellectuals and the public is not a failure of ideas; rather, it is an issue of rhetorical strategy. By laying a rhetorical foundation and presenting analytical case studies of contemporary "public intellectuals," Young creates a training manual for intellectuals who seek to connect with a public audience and effect change writ large.

Young begins by defining key aspects of rhetorical style before moving on to discuss the specific ways in which intellectuals may present ideas to a general audience in order to tackle large-scale social problems. Next, she defines the ways in which five crucial turning points in our nation - the rise of religious fundamentalism, a growing lack of trust in our institutions, the continued destruction of the environment, the ubiquity of media and information in our daily lives, and the decline of evidence-based reasoning, have set the stage for opportunities in the current public-intellectual dialogue.

Via case studies of such well-known personalities as Deepak Chopra and Professor Cornel West, Young goes on to reveal the types of public intellectuals who achieve success

Members Reviews:

A Stylish Argument

A smart, easy-to-read argument for getting people in the academy back out in the public's eye, spreading our knowledge and expertise. Recommended reading for any socially minded academic or even non-intellectuals.

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Title: The Public Schools Aren't Broken

Subtitle: Destroying Children & America is What They Were Designed to Do

Author: Greg Perry

Narrator: Greg Perry

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 58 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-02-15

Publisher: MakeRight Publishing, Inc.

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Nonfiction, Social Sciences

Publisher's Summary:

Objectively, one could argue that the government schools are fine. Yes, they are fine...as long as you don't consider:

So...if you ignore the schools' complete inability to educate children, they are doing fine indeed.

This book exposes the lies you've been told from cradle to grave about the worst educational system on the planet.

You also learn the only reasonable option available to all parents who love their children.

Yes, the answer is here. For any and all parents, single or married. And the answer to protect your children is simple and virtually free.

Get ready...if you like the government schools, you're going to hate this book!

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Title: The Language of Things

Author: Deyan Sudjic

Narrator: Dan Morgan

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 51 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-28-15

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 5 votes

Genres: Nonfiction, Social Sciences

Publisher's Summary:

In The Language of Things, Deyan Sudjic, director of the Design Museum, decodes the things around us: their hidden meanings, our relationships with them, how they shape our lives and why we desire them.

Design is everywhere. It seduces, pleases and inspires us. It makes us part with our money. It defines who we think we are. An iPhone, an anglepoise lamp, a Picasso, a banknote, an Armani suit, a William Morris textile, a Lucky Strike packet, a spacecraft - every object tells a story. And understanding their stories offers us a whole new way of seeing the world.

Director of the Design Museum, Deyan Sudjic was born in London of Yugoslav parents. He is a former architecture critic for the Observer and a visiting professor at the Royal College of Art. Sudjic was director of the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2002 and is author of The Edifice Complex, the much-praised 100-Miles City, the best-selling Architecture Pack, The Language of Things and monographs on John Pawson, Ron Arad and Richard Rogers.

Critic Reviews:

"Articulate and wonderfully knowledgeable...for anyone who takes an interest in the world around us" (Time Out)

"A nightmare vision of a world drowning in objects...witty, well observed and wide-ranging." (Guardian)

Members Reviews:

One of my top 5!

Brilliant!

This book is full of insight to design and the cultural, social impact it has on us all.

The in-depth knowledge and storytelling reminds me of John Bergers, Ways of Seeing.

Highly recommend this book to everyone.

Narration was also great.