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ID: 180069

Title: Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy

Author: Noam Chomsky

Narrator: Alan Sklar

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:08:27

Language: English

Release date: 04-04-06

Publisher: Macmillan Audio

Genres: Politics, Political Ideologies

Summary:

'It's hard to imagine any American reading this book and not seeing his country in a new, and deeply troubling, light.'The New York Times Book Review

The world's foremost critic of U.S. foreign policy exposes the hollow promises of democracy in American actions abroadand at home.

The United States has repeatedly asserted its right to intervene militarily against 'failed states' around the globe. In this much-anticipated follow-up to his international bestseller Hegemony or Survival, Noam Chomsky turns the tables, showing how the United States itself shares features with other failed statessuffering from a severe 'democratic deficit,' eschewing domestic and international law, and adopting policies that increasingly endanger its own citizens and the world. Exploring the developments in U.S. foreign and domestic policy, Chomsky reveals Washington's plans to further militarize the planet, greatly increasing the risks of nuclear war. He also assesses the dangerous consequences of the occupation of Iraq; documents Washington's self-exemption from international norms, including the Geneva conventions and the Kyoto Protocol; and examines how the U.S. electoral system is designed to eliminate genuine political alternatives, impeding any meaningful democracy.

Forceful, lucid, and meticulously documented, Failed States offers a comprehensive analysis of a global superpower that has long claimed the right to reshape other nations while its own democratic institutions are in severe crisis. Systematically dismantling the United States' pretense of being the world's arbiter of democracy, Failed States is Chomsky's most focusedand urgentcritique to date.

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ID: 191543

Title: Sweet and Low: A Family Story

Author: Rich Cohen

Narrator: Rich Cohen

Format: Abridged

Length: 07:41:00

Language: English

Release date: 04-04-06

Publisher: Macmillan Audio

Genres: History, Biography & Memoir, North America, Arts & Entertainment

Summary:

Sweet and Low is the amazing, bittersweet, hilarious story of an American family and its patriarch, a short-order cook named Ben Eisenstadt who, in the years after World War II, invented the sugar packet and Sweet'N Low, converting his Brooklyn cafeteria into a factory and amassing the great fortune that would destroy his family.

It is also the story of immigrants to the New World, sugar, saccharine, obesity, and the health and diet craze, played out across countries and generations but also within the life of a single family, as the fortune and the factory passed from generation to generation. The author, Rich Cohen, a grandson (disinherited, and thus set free, along with his mother and siblings), has sought the truth of this rancorous, colorful history, mining thousands of pages of court documents accumulated in the long and sometimes corrupt life of the factor, and conducting interviews with members of his extended family. Along the way, the forty-year family battle over the fortune moves into its titanic phase, with the money and legacy up for grabs. Sweet and Low is the story of this struggle, a strange comic farce of machinations and double dealings, and of an extraordinary family and its fight for the American dream.

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ID: 201549

Title: In the Wake of Madness: The Murderous Voyage of the Whaleship Sharon

Author: Joan Druett

Narrator: Dennis Boutsikaris

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:18:00

Language: English

Release date: 04-03-06

Publisher: HighBridge Company

Genres: Science & Technology, Technology & Engineering

Summary:

The true story of a bloody mutany that inspired a young writer named Herman Melville.

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ID: 398888

Title: Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy

Author: Bill Gates

Narrator: Jonathan Mayrose

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:27:00

Language: English

Release date: 04-01-06

Publisher: Hachette Book Group USA

Genres: Business & Economics, Business Development

Summary:

In his new book, Microsoft chairman and CEO Bill Gates discusses how technology can help run businesses better today and how it will transform the nature of business in the near future. Gates stresses the need for managers to view technology not as overhead but as a strategic asset, and offers detailed examples from Microsoft, GM, Dell, and many other successful companies. Companion Web site.

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ID: 211472

Title: Holidays on Ice: Stories

Author: David Sedaris

Narrator: Amy Sedaris, Ann Magnuson, David Sedaris

Format: Abridged

Length: 02:00:00

Language: English

Release date: 04-01-06

Publisher: Hachette Book Group USA

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Essays & Memoirs, General Comedy, Satire

Summary:

David Sedaris's beloved holiday collection is new again with six more pieces, including a never before published story. Along with such favoritesas the diaries of a Macy's elf and the annals of two very competitive families, are Sedaris's tales of tardy trick-or-treaters ('Us and Them'); the difficulties of explaining the Easter Bunny to the French ('Jesus Shaves'); what to do when you've been locked out in a snowstorm ('Let It Snow'); the puzzling Christmas traditions of other nations ('Six to Eight Black Men'); what Halloween at the medical examiner's looks like ('The Monster Mash'); and a barnyard secret Santa scheme gone awry ('Cow and Turkey').

No matter what your favorite holiday, you won't want to miss celebrating it with the author who has been called 'one of the funniest writers alive' (Economist).

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ID: 50221

Title: Selling the Invisible: A Field Guide to Modern Marketing

Author: Harry Beckwith

Narrator: Jeffrey Jones

Format: Abridged

Length: 01:36:08

Language: English

Release date: 04-01-06

Publisher: Hachette Book Group USA

Genres: Business & Economics, Sales & Retail

Summary:

SELLING THE INVISIBLE is a succinct and often entertaining look at the unique characteristics of services and their prospects, and how any service, from a home-based consultancy to a multinational brokerage, can turn more prospects into clients and keep them. SELLING THE INVISIBLE covers service marketing from start to finish. Filled with wonderful insights and written in a roll-up-your-sleeves, jargon-free, accessible style, such as:

- Greatness May Get You Nowhere - Focus Groups Don'ts - The More You Say, the Less People Hear & - Seeing the Forest Around the Falling Trees.

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ID: 340175

Title: Tipping Point

Author: Malcolm Gladwell

Narrator: Malcolm Gladwell

Format: Abridged

Length: 03:04:34

Language: English

Release date: 04-01-06

Publisher: Hachette Book Group USA

Genres: Business & Economics, Marketing & Advertising, Non-Fiction, Psychology, Social Science

Summary:

Discover Malcolm Gladwell's breakthrough debut and explore the science behind viral trends in business, marketing, and human behavior.

The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire. Just as a single sick person can start an epidemic of the flu, so too can a small but precisely targeted push cause a fashion trend, the popularity of a new product, or a drop in the crime rate. This widely acclaimed bestseller, in which Malcolm Gladwell explores and brilliantly illuminates the tipping point phenomenon, is already changing the way people throughout the world think about selling products and disseminating ideas.

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ID: 290056

Title: Waylon: An Autobiography

Author: Lenny Kaye, Waylon Jennings

Narrator: Waylon Jennings

Format: Abridged

Length: 02:59:11

Language: English

Release date: 04-01-06

Publisher: Hachette Book Group USA

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Arts & Entertainment

Summary:

Waylon Jennings relates the story of his life as a country music star. His beginnings were poor but he became Buddy Holly's protege before sinking into drug abuse and 3 failed marriages. His success came when he met his present wife, Jessi Colter.

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ID: 41059

Title: Woman's Guide to Basketball

Author: Paula Duffy

Narrator: Paula Duffy

Format: Unabridged

Length: 00:49:00

Language: English

Release date: 04-01-06

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Genres: Sports & Recreation, Basketball

Summary:

Shaq, Kobe, LeBron, their names are regularly in the headlines, now it's time to learn why they're famous. Paula Duffy, "sportstress" extraordinaire, is lending her knowledge and enthusiasm to one of the most exciting sports today with A Woman's Guide to Basketball: How to Talk His Language. In her exciting follow-up to A Woman's Guide to Football Duffy hits the court with the 24-second clock running to explain the game of basketball and invite women to join in the fun.

A firm believer that a little sports knowledge can go a long way, Duffy says "sports talk is the most easily learned and best way to break the ice in any context: at home, in business or at play. I am here to debunk the myth that men don't like to talk. Men do like to talk...sports. I enjoy teaching the ladies how to connect through sports, what men like to talk about and how to understand their language."

Women who don't know the rules of the game are often intimidated, but in under an hour, they can get a firm grasp of the game. In no time, they'll learn the basics, who the top players are and the crowd-thrilling moves such as the Alley Oop, the Pick and Roll, and how to shoot from way downtown.

From the first jump ball to the final second on the clock, women can finally bring together nascent hoop dreams and their desire to relate to the b-ball obsessed men in their lives.

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ID: 211471

Title: Barrel Fever and Other Stories

Author: David Sedaris

Narrator: Amy Sedaris, David Sedaris

Format: Unabridged

Length: 03:00:00

Language: English

Release date: 04-01-06

Publisher: Hachette Book Group USA

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Humor

Summary:

In David Sedaris' world, no one is safe and no cow is sacred. A manic cross between Mark Leyner, Fran Lebowitz, and the National Enquirer, Sedaris' collection of essays is a rollicking tour through the national Zeitgeist: a do-it-yourself suburban dad saves money by performing home surgery; a man who is loved too much flees the heavyweight champion of the world; a teenage suicide tries to incite a lynch mob at her funeral; a bitter Santa abuses the elves.

David Sedaris made his debut on NPR's Morning Edition with 'SantaLand Diaries', recounting his strange-but-true experiences as an elf at Macy's, and soon became one of the show's most popular commentators. With a perfect eye and a voice infused with as much empathy as wit, Sedaris writes stories and essays that target the soulful ridiculousness of our behavior. Barrel Fever is like a blind date with modern life, and anything can happen.

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