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ID: 359208

Title: To the River: Losing My Brother

Author: Don Gillmor

Narrator: Michael Riley

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5:18:00

Language: English

Release date: 12-31-18

Publisher: Random House Canada

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Non-Fiction, Health & Wellness, Psychology, Death & Bereavement

Summary:

WINNER OF THE GOVERNOR GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARD FOR NON-FICTION

An eloquent and haunting exploration of suicide in which one of Canada's most gifted writers attempts to understand why his brother took his own life. Which leads him to another powerful question: Why are boomers killing themselves at a far greater rate than the Silent Generation before them or the generations that have followed?

In the spring of 2006, Don Gillmor travelled to Whitehorse to reconstruct the last days of his brother, David, whose truck and cowboy hat were found at the edge of the Yukon River just outside of town the previous December. David's family, his second wife, and his friends had different theories about his disappearance. Some thought David had run away; some thought he'd met with foul play; but most believed that David, a talented musician who at the age of 48 was about to give up the night life for a day job, had intentionally walked into the water. Just as Don was about to paddle the river looking for traces, David's body was found, six months after he'd gone into the river. And Don's canoe trip turned into an act of remembrance and mourning.

     At least David could now be laid to rest. But there was no rest for his survivors. As his brother writes, 'When people die of suicide, one of the things they leave behind is suicide itself. It becomes a country. At first I was a visitor, but eventually I became a citizen.' In this tender, probing, surprising work, Don Gillmor brings back news from that country for all of us who wonder why people kill themselves. And why, for the first time, it's not the teenaged or the elderly who have the highest suicide rate, but the middle aged. Especially men.

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ID: 364938

Title: Gods and Robots: Myths, Machines, and Ancient Dreams of Technology

Author: Adrienne Mayor

Narrator: Adrienne Mayor

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9:23:00

Language: English

Release date: 11-27-18

Publisher: Princeton University Press

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

Summary:

This audiobook narrated by Adrienne Mayor reveals the story of how the ancients imagined robots and other forms of artificial life

The first robot to walk the earth was a bronze giant called Talos. This wondrous machine was created not by MIT Robotics Lab, but by Hephaestus, the Greek god of invention. More than 2,500 years ago, long before medieval automata, and centuries before technology made self-moving devices possible, Greek mythology was exploring ideas about creating artificial lifeand grappling with still-unresolved ethical concerns about biotechne, life through craft. In this compelling book, Adrienne Mayor tells the fascinating story of how ancient Greek, Roman, Indian, and Chinese myths envisioned artificial life, automata, self-moving devices, and human enhancementsand how these visions relate to and reflect the ancient invention of real animated machines.

As early as Homer, Greeks were imagining robotic servants, animated statues, and even ancient versions of Artificial Intelligence, while in Indian legend, Buddhas precious relics were defended by robot warriors copied from Greco-Roman designs for real automata. Mythic automata appear in tales about Jason and the Argonauts, Medea, Daedalus, Prometheus, and Pandora, and many of these machines are described as being built with the same materials and methods that human artisans used to make tools and statues. And, indeed, many sophisticated animated devices were actually built in antiquity, reaching a climax with the creation of a host of automata in the ancient city of learning, Alexandria, the original Silicon Valley.

A groundbreaking account of the earliest expressions of the timeless impulse to create artificial life, Gods and Robots reveals how some of todays most advanced innovations in robotics and AI were foreshadowed in ancient mythand how science has always been driven by imagination. This is mythology for the age of AI.

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ID: 363286

Title: Mind Hack Your Golf: Improve Your Game

Author: Dr Margaret Potter

Narrator: Xana Chambers

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2:29:43

Language: English

Release date: 11-27-18

Publisher: Authors Republic

Genres: Kids, Non-Fiction

Summary:

How would you like to take charge of your mind and play your golf on your own terms?

While most mental skills books for golf adopt a narrow focus on teaching skills that target performance, this book uses a holistic approach and provides tools to organize your thinking. You will learn to direct your mind with focused purpose to help you achieve your goals.

Mind Hack Your Golf explores the 5P's of a great golf mind:

1. Preparation - focuses on building self-awareness as one of the essential key ingredients that will help you to develop the golf champion mindset.

2. Practice - introduces you to mindfulness practices, concentration techniques, self-talk and imagery that helps to build your mental skills tool kit

3. Performance - highlights the stages of skill development and the importance of managing your emotions so you can consistently perform without fail.

4. Pursuit - explores the benefits of positive emotional states and identifies core values that build character while promoting enjoyment and success.

5. Progress - promotes an action-learning approach that encourages you to keep things simple while focusing on specific aspects of practice

The tips, tricks, and strategies in this book will provide a solid platform for you to create your own mind mastery. All you have to do is implement the tactics in this book to take your golf game to the next level.

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ID: 357106

Title: Design Your Next Chapter: How to realize your dreams and reinvent your life

Author: Debbie Travis

Narrator: Debbie Travis

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5:14:00

Language: English

Release date: 11-20-18

Publisher: Random House Canada

Genres: Self Development, Health & Wellness

Summary:

If you feel stuck with no idea what you should do next, lifestyle celebrity and TV pioneer Debbie Travis's new book is for you. Drawing on the tough (sometimes hilarious) lessons Debbie learned in her own leap into a new way of living, and a multitude of stories, tips and ideas to jumpstart your dreams, she's created an inspiring roadmap for change.

A few years ago, Debbie Travis realized that she was no longer challenged by her wildly successful TV career and she was so busy she was missing out on the people and things that made her happy. She dared to dream about a whole new direction in life--a plan to turn a 13th-century farmhouse in Tuscany into a unique hotel and retreat for people who need a change as much as she did. And now, after a crazy amount of work, she is not only living that dream but sharing it with others.

     Her new book draws directly on her own experiences (when she started, Debbie could barely make a bed, let alone run a hotel in a foreign county) and the uplifting stories of personal u-turns shared by women who have come to her retreats. Debbie's 'commandments' will inspire women (and men) who have lost track of who they are or what they want to be; who are going through the motions of a career that doesn't satisfy them anymore; who are wondering what to do with themselves now that their kids are gone or their marriage is over. On every page, Debbie shares the tools that helped her transform her life, and her example, her wit and her common sense advice will help motivate anyone who finds themselves standing at a crossroads wondering 'What's next for me?'

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ID: 359207

Title: In Praise of Blood: The Crimes of the Rwandan Patriotic Front

Author: Judi Rever

Narrator: Justine Eyre

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9:37:00

Language: English

Release date: 11-20-18

Publisher: Random House Canada

Genres: Politics, Political Advocacy

Summary:

A FINALIST FOR THE HILARY WESTON WRITERS' TRUST PRIZE: A stunning work of investigative reporting by a Canadian journalist who has risked her own life to bring us a deeply disturbing history of the Rwandan genocide that takes the true measure of Rwandan head of state Paul Kagame.

Through unparalleled interviews with RPF defectors, former soldiers and atrocity survivors, supported by documents leaked from a UN court, Judi Rever brings us the complete history of the Rwandan genocide. Considered by the international community to be the saviours who ended the Hutu slaughter of innocent Tutsis, Kagame and his rebel forces were also killing, in quiet and in the dark, as ruthlessly as the Hutu genocidaire were killing in daylight. The reason why the larger world community hasn't recognized this truth? Kagame and his top commanders effectively covered their tracks and, post-genocide, rallied world guilt and played the heroes in order to attract funds to rebuild Rwanda and to maintain and extend the Tutsi sphere of influence in the region.

     Judi Rever, who has followed the story since 1997, has marshalled irrefutable evidence to show that Kagame's own troops shot down the presidential plane on April 6, 1994--the act that put the match to the genocidal flame. And she proves, without a shadow of doubt, that as Kagame and his forces slowly advanced on the capital of Kigali, they were ethnically cleansing the country of Hutu men, women and children in order that returning Tutsi settlers, displaced since the early '60s, would have homes and land. This book is heartbreaking, chilling and necessary.

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ID: 364940

Title: Making Up Your Own Mind: Thinking Effectively through Creative Puzzle-Solving

Author: Edward B. Burger

Narrator: Edward B. Burger

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3:08:00

Language: English

Release date: 11-20-18

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Genres: Non-Fiction, Science & Technology, Mathematics, Education

Summary:

This audiobook narrated by Edward Burger reveals how you can become better at solving real-world problems by learning creative puzzle-solving skills

We solve countless problemsbig and smallevery day. With so much practice, why do we often have trouble making simple decisionsmuch less arriving at optimal solutions to important questions? Are we doomed to this muddleor is there a practical way to learn to think more effectively and creatively? In this enlightening, entertaining, and inspiring book, Edward Burger shows how we can become far better at solving real-world problems by learning creative puzzle-solving skills using simple, effective thinking techniques.

Making Up Your Own Mind teaches these techniquesincluding how to ask good questions, fail and try again, and change your mindand then helps you practice them with fun verbal and visual puzzles. The goal is not to quickly solve each challenge but to come up with as many different ways of thinking about it as possible. As you see the puzzles in ever-greater depth, your mind will change, helping you become a more imaginative and creative thinker in daily life. And learning how to be a better thinker pays off in incalculable ways for anyoneincluding students, businesspeople, professionals, athletes, artists, leaders, and lifelong learners.

A book about changing your mind and creating an even better version of yourself through mental play, Making Up Your Own Mind will delight and reward anyone who wants to learn how to find better solutions to lifes innumerable puzzles.

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ID: 364939

Title: Dark Commerce: How a New Illicit Economy Is Threatening Our Future

Author: Louise I. Shelley

Narrator: Kate Harper

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:26:00

Language: English

Release date: 11-13-18

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Genres: Global Politics

Summary:

This audiobook narrated by Kate Harper takes a comprehensive look at the world of illicit trade

Though mankind has traded tangible goods for millennia, recent technology has changed the fundamentals of trade, in both legitimate and illegal economies. In the past three decades, the most advanced forms of illicit trade have broken with all historical precedents and, as Dark Commerce shows, now operate as if on steroids, tied to computers and social media. In this new world of illicit commerce, which benefits states and diverse participants, trade is impersonal and anonymized, and vast profits are made in short periods with limited accountability to sellers, intermediaries, and purchasers.

Louise Shelley examines how new technology, communications, and globalization fuel the exponential growth of dangerous forms of illegal tradethe markets for narcotics and child pornography online, the escalation of sex trafficking through web advertisements, and the sale of endangered species for which revenues total in the hundreds of millions of dollars. The illicit economy exacerbates many of the worlds destabilizing phenomena: the perpetuation of conflicts, the proliferation of arms and weapons of mass destruction, and environmental degradation and extinction. Shelley explores illicit trade in tangible goodsdrugs, human beings, arms, wildlife and timber, fish, antiquities, and ubiquitous counterfeitsand contrasts this with the damaging trade in cyberspace, where intangible commodities cost consumers and organizations billions as they lose identities, bank accounts, access to computer data, and intellectual property.

Demonstrating that illicit trade is a business the global community cannot afford to ignore and must work together to address, Dark Commerce considers diverse ways of responding to this increasing challenge.

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ID: 364937

Title: Ibn Khaldun: An Intellectual Biography

Author: Robert Irwin

Narrator: John Telfer

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9:34:00

Language: English

Release date: 11-13-18

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Biography & Memoir, Islam, History & Culture

Summary:

This audiobook narrated by John Telfer gives the definitive account of the life and thought of the medieval Arab genius who wrote the Muqaddima

Ibn Khaldun (1332–1406) is generally regarded as the greatest intellectual ever to have appeared in the Arab world--a genius who ranks as one of the world's great minds. Yet the author of the Muqaddima, the most important study of history ever produced in the Islamic world, is not as well known as he should be, and his ideas are widely misunderstood. In this groundbreaking intellectual biography, Robert Irwin provides an engaging and authoritative account of Ibn Khaldun's extraordinary life, times, writings, and ideas.

Irwin tells how Ibn Khaldun, who lived in a world decimated by the Black Death, held a long series of posts in the tumultuous Islamic courts of North Africa and Muslim Spain, becoming a major political player as well as a teacher and writer. Closely examining the Muqaddima, a startlingly original analysis of the laws of history, and drawing on many other contemporary sources, Irwin shows how Ibn Khaldun's life and thought fit into historical and intellectual context, including medieval Islamic theology, philosophy, politics, literature, economics, law, and tribal life. Because Ibn Khaldun's ideas often seem to anticipate by centuries developments in many fields, he has often been depicted as more of a modern man than a medieval one, and Irwin's account of such misreadings provides new insights about the history of Orientalism.

In contrast, Irwin presents an Ibn Khaldun who was a creature of his time—a devout Sufi mystic who was obsessed with the occult and futurology and who lived in an often-strange world quite different from our own.

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ID: 332074

Title: Let Her Fly: A Fathers Journey and the Fight for Equality

Author: Louise Carpenter, Ziauddin Yousafzai

Narrator: Adnan Kapadia, Ziauddin Yousafzai

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5:30:28

Language: English

Release date: 11-08-18

Publisher: Penguin Books LTD

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Non-Fiction, Law & Politics, Social Science, Political Advocacy

Summary:

Random House presents the audiobook edition of Let Her Fly by Ziauddin Yousafzai, read by Adnan Kapadia and with an introduction read by the author.

Whenever anybody has asked me how Malala became who she is, I have often used the phrase. Ask me not what I did but what I did not do. I did not clip her wings

For over twenty years, Ziauddin Yousafzai has been fighting for equality first for Malala, his daughter and then for all girls throughout the world living in patriarchal societies. Taught as a young boy in Pakistan to believe that he was inherently better than his sisters, Ziauddin rebelled against inequality at a young age. And when he had a daughter himself he vowed that Malala would have an education, something usually only given to boys, and he founded a school that Malala could attend.

Then in 2012, Malala was shot for standing up to the Taliban by continuing to go to her father's school, and Ziauddin almost lost the very person for whom his fight for equality began.

Let Her Fly is Ziauddins journey from a stammering boy growing up in a tiny village high in the mountains of Pakistan, through to being an activist for equality and the father of the youngest ever recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, and now one of the most influential and inspiring young women on the planet.

Told through intimate portraits of each of Ziauddins closest relationships as a son to a traditional father; as a father to Malala and her brothers, educated and growing up in the West; as a husband to a wife finally learning to read and write; as a brother to five sisters still living in the patriarchy Let Her Fly looks at what it means to love, to have courage and fight for what is inherently right. Personal in its detail and universal in its themes, this landmark book shows why we must all keep fighting for the rights of girls and women everywhere.

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ID: 356246

Title: Medicine River

Author: Thomas King

Narrator: Wesley French

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7:05:00

Language: English

Release date: 11-06-18

Publisher: Penguin Canada

Genres: Romance, Fiction & Literature, General, Multicultural & Interracial

Summary:

When Will returns to Medicine River, he thinks he is simply attending his mother’s funeral. He doesn’t count on Harlen Bigbear and his unique brand of community planning. Harlen tries to sell Will on the idea of returning to Medicine River to open shop as the town’s only Native photographer. Somehow, that’s exactly what happens.

Through Will’s gentle and humorous narrative, we come to know Medicine River, a small Albertan town bordering a Blackfoot reserve. And we meet its people: the basketball team; Louise Heavyman and her daughter, South Wing; Martha Oldcrow, the marriage doctor; Joe Bigbear, Harlen’s world-travelling, storytelling brother; Bertha Morley, who has a short fling with a Calgary dating service; and David Plume, who went to Wounded Knee. At the centre of it all is Harlen, advising and pestering, annoying and entertaining, gossiping and benevolently interfering in the lives of his friends and neighbours.

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