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ID: 393125

Title: Cybersecurity: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review

Author: Alex Blau, Andrew Burt, Boris Groysberg, Harvard Business Review

Narrator: Jonathan Todd Ross

Format: Unabridged

Length: 02:56:42

Language: English

Release date: 09-17-19

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Genres: Business & Economics, Business Development

Summary:

No data is completely safe.

Cyberattacks on companies and individuals are on the rise and growing not only in number but also in ferocity. And while you may think your company has taken all the precautionary steps to prevent an attack, no individual, company, or country is safe. Cybersecurity can no longer be left exclusively to IT specialists. Improving and increasing data security practices and identifying suspicious activity is everyone's responsibility, from the boardroom to the break room.

Cybersecurity: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review brings you today's most essential thinking on cybersecurity, from outlining the challenges to exploring the solutions, and provides you with the critical information you need to prepare your company for the inevitable hack. The lessons in this book will help you get everyone in your organization on the same page when it comes to protecting your most valuable assets.

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ID: 393123

Title: Artificial Intelligence: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review

Author: Andrew McAfee, Erik Brynjolfsson, H. James Wilson, Harvard Business Review , Thomas H. Davenport

Narrator: Jonathan Todd Ross

Format: Unabridged

Length: 03:31:29

Language: English

Release date: 09-17-19

Publisher: Ascent Audio

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

Summary:

From making faster, better decisions to automating rote work to enabling robots to respond to emotions, AI and machine learning are already reshaping business and society. What should you and your company be doing today to ensure that you're poised for success and keeping up with your competitors in the age of AI?

Artificial Intelligence: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review brings you today's most essential thinking on AI and explains how to launch the right initiatives at your company to capitalize on the opportunity of the machine intelligence revolution.

Business is changing. Will you adapt or be left behind?

Get up to speed and deepen your understanding of the topics that are shaping your company's future with the Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review series. Featuring HBR's smartest thinking on fast-moving issues—blockchain, cybersecurity, AI, and more—each book provides the foundational introduction and practical case studies your organization needs to compete today and collects the best research, interviews, and analysis to get it ready for tomorrow. You can't afford to ignore how these issues will transform the landscape of business and society. The Insights You Need series will help you grasp these critical ideas—and prepare you and your company for the future.

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ID: 393124

Title: Blockchain: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review

Author: Catherine Tucker, Don Tapscott, Harvard Business Review , Marco Lansiti

Narrator: Jonathan Todd Ross

Format: Unabridged

Length: 03:23:43

Language: English

Release date: 09-17-19

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Genres: Business & Economics, Business Development

Summary:

Can blockchain solve your biggest business problem?

While the world is transfixed by bitcoin mania, your competitors are tuning out the noise and making strategic bets on blockchain. Your rivals are effortlessly tracking every last link in their supply chains. They're making bureaucratic paper trails obsolete while keeping their customers' data safer and discovering new ways to use this next foundational technology to sustain their competitive advantage. What should you be doing with blockchain now to ensure that your business is poised for success? Blockchain: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review brings you today's most essential thinking on blockchain, explains how to get the right initiatives started at your company, and prepares you to seize the opportunity of the coming blockchain wave.

Business is changing. Will you adapt or be left behind? Get up to speed and deepen your understanding of the topics that are shaping your company's future with the Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review series. Featuring HBR's smartest thinking on fast-moving issues—blockchain, cybersecurity, AI, and more—each book provides the foundational introduction and practical case studies your organization needs to compete today and collects the best research, interviews, and analysis to get it ready for tomorrow.

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ID: 393449

Title: Proof of Conspiracy

Author: Seth Abramson

Narrator: Robert Petkoff

Format: Unabridged

Length: 25:32:55

Language: English

Release date: 09-12-19

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio UK

Genres: Politics, History

Summary:

The dramatic and meticulously researched new book from former criminal defence attorney and criminal investigator Seth Abramson into the complex web of ties surrounding Donald Trump, showing how Proof of Collusion was only the beginning of the story. 

In late 2015, international dealmaker and current cooperating witness in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation George Nader convened a secret meeting aboard a massive luxury yacht in the Red Sea. Nader pitched to several Middle Eastern leaders a plan for a new pro-US, pro-Israel alliance of Arab nations that would fundamentally alter the geopolitics of the Middle East while marginalising Iran, Syria and Turkey. To succeed, the plan would need a highly placed American politician willing to drop sanctions on Russia so that Vladimir Putin would in turn agree to end his support for Iran. The gathered leaders agreed their perfect American partner was Donald Trump, who had benefited immensely from his Saudi, Emirati and Russian dealings for many years, and who had, months earlier, become the only US presidential candidate to argue for a unilateral end to Russian sanctions.

So begins New York Times bestselling author Seth Abramson’s explosive new book Proof of Conspiracy: How Trump's International Collusion Threatens American Democracy, a story of international intrigue whose massive cast of characters includes Israeli intelligence operatives, Russian oligarchs, Saudi death squads, American mercenary companies, Trump’s innermost circle and several members of the Trump family - all part of a clandestine multinational agreement that takes us from Washington, DC and Moscow to the Middle Eastern capitals of Riyadh, Abu Dhabi, Jerusalem, Cairo, Tehran and Doha. 

Proof of Conspiracy is a chilling and unforgettable depiction of the dangers the world now faces.

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ID: 393099

Title: Deep Learning

Author: John D. Kelleher

Narrator: Joel Richards

Format: Unabridged

Length: 05:50:09

Language: English

Release date: 09-10-19

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Genres: Science & Technology, Computers

Summary:

Deep learning is an artificial intelligence technology that enables computer vision, speech recognition in mobile phones, machine translation, AI games, driverless cars, and other applications. When we use consumer products from Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Apple, or Baidu, we are often interacting with a deep learning system. In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, computer scientist John Kelleher offers an accessible and concise but comprehensive introduction to the fundamental technology at the heart of the artificial intelligence revolution.

Kelleher explains some of the basic concepts in deep learning, presents a history of advances in the field, and discusses the current state of the art. He describes the most important deep learning architectures, including autoencoders, recurrent neural networks, and long short-term networks, as well as such recent developments as Generative Adversarial Networks and capsule networks. He also provides a comprehensive introduction to the two fundamental algorithms in deep learning: gradient descent and backpropagation. Finally, Kelleher considers the future of deep learning—major trends, possible developments, and significant challenges.

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ID: 373951

Title: Lost and Found

Author: Orson Scott Card

Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:05:38

Language: English

Release date: 09-10-19

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Genres: Teen, General

Summary:

Are you really a thief?

Thats the question that has haunted fourteen-year-old Ezekiel Blast all his life. But hes not a thief, he just has a talent for finding things. Not a superpowera micropower. Because what good is finding lost bicycles and hair scrunchies, especially when you return them to their owners and everyone thinks you must have stolen them in the first place? If only there were some way to use Ezekiels micropower for good, to turn a curse into a blessing. His friend Beth thinks there must be, and so does a police detective investigating the disappearance of a little girl. When tragedy strikes, its up to Ezekiel to use his talent to find what matters most.

Master storyteller Orson Scott Card delivers a touching and funny, compelling and smart novel about growing up, harnessing your potential, and finding your place in the world, no matter how old you are.

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ID: 393127

Title: HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing in a Downturn

Author: Harvard Business Review

Narrator: Rick Adamson, Susan Hanfield

Format: Unabridged

Length: 05:16:00

Language: English

Release date: 09-10-19

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Genres: Business & Economics, Management & Leadership

Summary:

If you listen to nothing else on preparing for a tough economy and coming back stronger, listen to these ten articles. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help your company persevere through economic challenges and continue to grow even as your competitors stumble.

This book will inspire you to get your company ready before a downturn strikes, learn the right lessons from previous recessions, minimize pain while cutting costs and managing risk, foster a healthy organizational culture during anxious times, and seize the opportunity to innovate and reinvent your business.

This collection of articles includes 'Seize Advantage in a Downturn,' by David Rhodes and Daniel Stelter; 'How to Survive a Recession and Thrive Afterward: A Research Roundup,' by Walter Frick; 'How to Bounce Back from Adversity,' by Joshua D. Margolis and Paul G. Stoltz; 'Rohm and Haas's Former CEO on Pulling Off a Sweet Deal in a Down Market,' by Raj Gupta; 'Leadership in a (Permanent) Crisis,' by Ronald Heifetz, Alexander, Grashow, and Marty Linsky; 'How to Be a Good Boss in a Bad Economy,' by Robert I. Sutton; 'Layoffs That Don't Break Your Company,' by Sandra J. Sucher and Shalene Gupta; and 'Getting Reorgs Right,' by Stephen Heidari-Robinson and Suzanne Heywood.

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ID: 393121

Title: Helping People Change: Coaching with Compassion for Lifelong Learning and Growth

Author: Ellen Van Oosten, Melvin Smith, Richard Boyatzis

Narrator: Barry Abrams

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:14:40

Language: English

Release date: 09-10-19

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Genres: Business & Economics, Management & Leadership

Summary:

You're trying to help—but is it working?

Helping others is a good thing. Often, as a leader, manager, doctor, teacher, or coach, it's central to your job. But even the most well-intentioned efforts to help others can be undermined by a simple truth: We almost always focus on trying to 'fix' people, correcting problems or filling the gaps between where they are and where we think they should be. Unfortunately, this doesn't work well, if at all, to inspire sustained learning or positive change.

There's a better way. In this powerful, practical book, emotional intelligence expert Richard Boyatzis and Weatherhead School of Management colleagues Melvin Smith and Ellen Van Oosten present a clear and hopeful message. The way to help someone learn and change, they say, cannot be focused primarily on fixing problems, but instead must connect to that person's positive vision of themselves or an inspiring dream or goal they've long held. This is what great coaches do—they know that people draw energy from their visions and dreams, and that same energy sustains their efforts to change, even through difficult times. In contrast, problem-centered approaches trigger physiological responses that make a person defensive and less open to new ideas.

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ID: 393110

Title: Generation Impact: How Next Gen Donors Are Revolutionizing Giving

Author: Michael Moody, Sharna Goldseker

Narrator: Jennifer Jill Araya

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:51:27

Language: English

Release date: 09-10-19

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Genres: Business & Economics, Accounting & Finance

Summary:

An insider's guide to the coming philanthropic revolution

Meet the next generation of big donors—the Gen X and Millennial philanthropists who will be the most significant donors ever and will shape our world in profound ways. Hear them describe their ambitious plans to revolutionize giving so it achieves greater impact. And learn how to help them succeed in a world that needs smart, effective donors now more than ever.

As 'next gen donors' step into their philanthropic roles, they have not only unprecedented financial resources, but also big ideas for how to wield their financial power. They want to disrupt the traditional world of charitable giving, and they want to do so now, not after they retire to a life of philanthropic leisure.

Generation Impact pulls back the curtain on these rising leaders and their 'Impact Revolution,' offering both extensive firsthand accounts and expert analysis of the hands-on, boundary-pushing, unconventional strategies next gen donors are beginning to pursue.

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ID: 393103

Title: Fake Photos

Author: Hany Farid

Narrator: Steve Menasche

Format: Unabridged

Length: 04:24:47

Language: English

Release date: 09-10-19

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Genres: Science & Technology, Computers

Summary:

Stalin, Mao, Hitler, Mussolini, and other dictators routinely doctored photographs so that the images aligned with their messages. They erased people who were there, added people who were not, and manipulated backgrounds. They knew if they changed the visual record, they could change history. Once, altering images required hours in the darkroom; today, it can be done with a keyboard and mouse. Because photographs are so easily faked, fake photos are everywhere—supermarket tabloids, fashion magazines, political ads, and social media. How can we tell if an image is real or false? In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Hany Farid offers a concise and accessible guide to techniques for detecting doctored and fake images in photographs and digital media.

Farid, an expert in photo forensics, has spent two decades developing techniques for authenticating digital images. These techniques model the entire image-creation process in order to find the digital disruption introduced by manipulation of the image. Each section of the book describes a different technique for analyzing an image, beginning with those requiring minimal technical expertise and advancing to those at intermediate and higher levels. Farid explains when each technique should be applied and offers examples of image analysis.

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