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ID: 211866

Title: Forces for Good: The Six Practices of High-Impact Non-Profits

Author: Heather McLeod Grant, Leslie R. Crutchfield

Narrator: Erik Synnestvedt

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:34:00

Language: English

Release date: 04-17-08

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Genres: Business & Economics, HR & Office Administration

Summary:

What makes great nonprofits great? Not large budgets. Not snazzy marketing. Not perfect management. The answer is not what you might think.

Great nonprofits spend as much time working with institutions outside their four walls as they do managing their internal operations. They use the power of leverage to become greater forces for good. This landmark book reveals the six powerful practices of 12 high-impact nonprofits and tells their compelling stories.

Leslie Crutchfield and Heather McLeod Grant spent four years surveying thousands of nonprofit leaders, conducting hundreds of interviews, and studying in-depth a dozen high-impact organizations to uncover their secrets to success. Their quest took them from the well-known (Habitat for Humanity) to the less well-known (YouthBuild USA) and to the unexpected (the Exploratorium). What the authors discovered surprised them.

How did seeing a pile of McDonald's trash lead Environmental Defense's president to join forces with business instead of treating it as the enemy? Why did a school bus driver prompt Self-Help Credit Union to move from serving low-income groups in North Carolina to launching a national advocacy campaign against predatory lenders? And how did Teach For America turn the teachers it places in underserved public schools into a national vanguard for education reform?

At a time when the social sector has grown to more than $1 trillion, understanding what leads to impact is essential. Whether you're a nonprofit leader, philanthropist, business executive, board member, volunteer, or simply interested in changing the world, this book will inspire you to be a stronger force for good.

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ID: 124454

Title: Turning to One Another: Simple Conversations to Restore Hope to the Future

Author: Margaret J. Wheatley

Narrator: Margaret J. Wheatley

Format: Unabridged

Length: 02:49:00

Language: English

Release date: 04-17-08

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Genres: Self Development, Health & Wellness, Parenting

Summary:

'I believe we can change the world if we start talking to one another again.'

With this simple declaration, Margaret Wheatley proposes that citizens band together with their colleagues and friends to create the solutions for social change, both locally and globally, that are so badly needed. Such change will not come from governments or corporations but from the ageless process of thinking together in conversation. Turning to One Another encourages this process.

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ID: 249362

Title: Whiskey Creek

Author: Gary McCarthy

Narrator: Gene Engene

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:00:00

Language: English

Release date: 04-15-08

Publisher: Books in Motion

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Western

Summary:

Wedding bells are in the future for Darby Buckingham, the West's hardest hitting, toughest fighting, fastest thinking, hero. But when his fiancee, Dolly Beavers, fails to show for their announced wedding, he realizes something is wrong and strikes out for Reno convinced she must be a victim of foul play.

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ID: 210110

Title: Paris Letter

Author: Jon Robin Baitz

Narrator: John Glover, Josh Radnor, Neil Patrick Harris

Format: Unabridged

Length: 01:45:00

Language: English

Release date: 04-15-08

Publisher: LA Theatre Works

Genres: Audio Theatre, Drama

Summary:

The latest work from one of Americas most important young playwrights and creator of the current hit TV series, Brothers and Sisters. Financial powerhouse Sandy Sonnenberg finds his personal and professional life threatened by unraveling secrets from his past. A tragic game of financial and moral betrayal plays out over four decades, with an exacting price - family, friends, love and marriage. Starring members of the original Off-Broadway production.

An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance starring Neil Patrick Harris alongside John Glover, Josh Radnor, Ron Rifkin and Patricia Wettig.

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ID: 248010

Title: Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies

Author: Charlene Li, Josh Bernoff

Narrator: Josh Bernoff

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:50:04

Language: English

Release date: 04-11-08

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Genres: Business & Economics, Marketing & Advertising, Self Development, Health & Wellness

Summary:

Corporate executives struggle to harness the power of social technologies. Twitter, Facebook, blogs, YouTube are where customers discuss products and companies, write their own news, and find their own deals but how do you integrate these activities into your broader marketing efforts? It's an unstoppable groundswell that affects every industry -- yet it's still utterly foreign to most companies running things now.

When consumers you've never met are rating your company's products in public forums with which you have no experience or influence, your company is vulnerable. In Groundswell, Josh Bernoff and Charlene Li explain how to turn this threat into an opportunity.

In this updated and expanded edition of Groundswell, featuring an all new introduction and chapters on Twitter and social media integration, you'll learn to:

Evaluate new social technologies as they emerge

Determine how different groups of consumers are participating in social technology arenas

Apply a four-step process for formulating your future strategy

Build social technologies into your business

Groundswell is required listening for executives seeking to protect and strengthen their company's public image.

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ID: 200757

Title: See You on the Radio

Author: Charles Osgood

Narrator: Charles Osgood

Format: Unabridged

Length: 03:47:00

Language: English

Release date: 04-08-08

Publisher: HighBridge Company

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Essays & Anthologies

Summary:

Witty, wise, rueful commentaries from one of broadcasting's funniest, most stylish writers and newsmen.

'Charles Osgood is one of the best writers in America today, any form or medium,' says Dan Rather, and Jim Lehrer concurs, 'He is a special mind and voice in a business where his kind is rare-and cherished.' No one writes quite the way he does-the offbeat stories that make listeners stop and pay attention; the commentaries in which he shares his sense of wonder, dismay, or amusement; the well-spun tales of irony that often burst forth into wordplay or even poetry.

See You on the Radio gathers together over one hundred essays on everything from potholes, perfumes, felons and 'freeloaders' ('Credit card customers paying on time! Taking bread from the tables of the moneylenders!'); to psychopaths and politicians (more alike than you think); to earthquakes, animal heirs, and the advancement of science. In all, it is further evidence of why, in the words of Walter Cronkite, Charles Osgood 'is one of the greatest talents in broadcasting today.'

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ID: 200756

Title: Resurrectionist

Author: Jack O'Connell

Narrator: Holter Graham

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:17:00

Language: English

Release date: 04-08-08

Publisher: HighBridge Company

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense, General

Summary:

Gritty noir fiction, mind-bending fantasy, and medical thriller combine in a new novel by an author dubbed the 'cyberpunk Dashiell Hammett.'

Sweeney is a druggist by trade; Danny, his son, is in a persistent coma, the victim of an accident. Hoping for a miracle, they have come to the Peck Clinic, a fortresslike haven in a post-industrial city overrun by gangs. Doctors there claim to have resurrected two patients who were similarly lost in the void.

Gradually, Sweeney realizes that the cure for his son's condition may lie in 'Limbo,' a fantasy comicbook world into which Danny had been drawn at the time of his accident. Plunged into the intrigue that surrounds the clinic, Sweeney searches for answers and instead finds sinister back alleys, brutal dead ends, and terrifying rabbit holes of mystery.

Full of puzzles and surprises, The Resurrectionist is a surreal, gothic meditation on identity, the nature of consciousness, the power of stories, love, mad scientists, circus freaks, and ultimately forgiveness-both giving and receiving.

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ID: 221286

Title: Point Man: How a Man Can Lead His Family

Author: Raymond Todd, Steve Farrar

Narrator: Raymond Todd

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:19:00

Language: English

Release date: 04-01-08

Publisher: Christianaudio.com

Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

Summary:

The bestselling classic Point Man encourages and equips Christian men to lead their families successfully through hazards and ambushes like divorce, promiscuity, suicide, and drug addiction. Men will find practical insight on topics such as a father's influence, maintaining purity, and husband-and-wife teamwork. In this war, renowned men's author Steve Farrar emphasizes that Jesus Christ is looking for men who will not die, but live for their families.

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ID: 209958

Title: Secret Order

Author: Bob Clyman

Narrator: Angela Goethals, George Segal, Richard Schiff, Will McCormack

Format: Unabridged

Length: 02:05:00

Language: English

Release date: 04-01-08

Publisher: LA Theatre Works

Genres: Audio Theatre, Drama

Summary:

In the high-stakes world of cancer research, Dr. William Shumway has just made a stunning breakthrough. But is it really the long-sought cure for cancer? Despite the young scientists reservations, a senior mentor pressures him to trumpet his findings to the world. Part medical drama, part suspense-filled thriller, Secret Order turns its microscope on bioethics, money and power.

Includes an interview with Dr. Harvey Herschman, Director for Basic Research at the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center.

An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Angela Goethals, Will McCormack, Richard Schiff and George Segal.

Secret Order is part of L.A. Theatre Works Relativity Series featuring science-themed plays. Major funding for the Relativity Series is provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to enhance public understanding of science and technology in the modern world.

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ID: 248122

Title: Big Think Strategy: How to Leverage Bold Ideas and Leave Small Thinking Behind

Author: Bernd H. Schmitt

Narrator: Sean Pratt

Format: Unabridged

Length: 04:33:29

Language: English

Release date: 04-01-08

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Genres: Business & Economics, Business Development

Summary:

How did Apple rebound from a decade-long slump? By creating a product, the iPod, that transformed not just the company, but the entire music industry. How did Whole Foods turn itself into a supermarket empire? By challenging the sacred cows of the food business. And how did Dove differentiate its line of beauty products? By creating the concept of 'real beauty'.

In Big Think Strategy, Bernd Schmitt shows you how to 'think big' by sourcing and implementing bold ideas that change markets.

We all know that businesses need creative and innovative strategies to compete. But as Schmitt points out, conventional corporate wisdom, which eschews risk taking and rewards small thinking, discourages the kind of bold ideas needed to change markets. Big Think Strategy is the antidote to such corporate inertia. Through business case studies and commentaries on cultural phenomena, Schmitt uncovers the essence of bold leadership and the sources of revolutionary change.

Schmitt carefully breaks down his approach to create simple tools that can be adapted and applied within any company. He gives step-by-step instructions for sourcing innovative ideas, evaluating them, turning them into strategy, and executing them, as well as how to establish organizational structures that will sustain long-term 'big thinking' within your company.

Schmitt's irreverent narrative style makes for lively, entertaining listening, as he draws on his diverse personal passions, steak, classical music, and good haircuts, to make his points. In Big Think Strategy, you will learn how to look outside the box for the bold, new ideas that will drive your firm's success.

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