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    Death without Tenure: A Karen Pelletier Mystery , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 450min
    Professor Karen Pelletier is about to realize her dream. After six years in the English department at New England's exclusive Enfield College, she is up for tenure. Then Professor Joseph Lone Wolf, her rival for the one tenured spot in the department, whose ethnicity gives him minority-preference status, is found dead from an overdose of Peyote buttons. Karen, first on the list of suspects, is harassed by a homicide cop with a grudge against his colleague, the love of Karen's life, Lieutenant Charlie Piotrowski.On campus, political passions rage. Two of Karen's favorite students, Khalida Ahmed, a hijab-wearing Muslim, and Hank Brody, a coal-miner's son on full scholarship, are caught up in the furor.Without the presence of her beloved Charlie, now serving a tour of duty in Iraq with the National Guard, will Karen be able to survive the investigation, protect her students, and find a permanent niche in the world of academia? And what if the killer feels the need to strike again?Joanne Dobson teaches English at Fordham University. Her first Professor Karen Pelletier academic mystery was an Agatha Award nominee. She and her husband live in the New York City area and have three grown children. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Christine Williams. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/003622/bk_blak_003622_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    To the Best of Our Knowledge: Maria Schneider - Jazz and Poetry, Hörbuch, Digital, 52min
    In this hour, MK Asante is only 31, but he's a tenured professor and an award-winning poet and filmmaker. His memoir Buck recounts his tough childhood in Philadelphia and the sad story of his beloved older brother, and also how the rhythms of hip hop evoke the sensibility of his generation. Next, is there a science of rap? Pioneering neuroscientist Charles Limb has put freestyle rappers inside brain-scanning machines, and he's seen an explosion of neural activity. He describes his fascination with the neuroscience of creativity.Then, want a shot of inspiration? You'll find it at a great high school theater production. Michael Sokolove tells the story of Lou Volpe, a legendary drama coach in Levittown, PA - and how he's changed the lives of many students.After that, Stephen Sondheim is the reigning genius of musical theater, with credits ranging from West Side Story and Gypsy to Sweeney Todd and Sunday in the Park with George. Sondheim gives Steve Paulson a few pointers on how to write both music and lyrics. And finally, how do you set poetry to music? Grammy Award-winning jazz composer Maria Schneider did it with Ted Kooser's poems, sung by Dawn Upshaw. She tells Anne Strainchamps how she finds beauty in her art. [Broadcast Date: September 25, 2013] Language: English. Narrator: Jim Fleming. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/rt/tbon/130925/rt_tbon_130925_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Let's Go for a Ride (eBook, ePUB)
    Let's Go for a Ride is the story of William (Bill) Livezey's thirty-year career in the Maine Warden Service. Heralded as "one of the best covert investigators in the country" by Maine Warden Service Lieutenant Dan Scott, Bill is the agency's longest-tenured undercover operative, having spent twenty years in the Special Investigations Unit."Let's go for a ride" is the universal bad-guy code for breaking the law. Among Maine's most sinister wildlife offenders, its utterance is prone to incite alcohol-fueled night hunting, high-speed car chases on winding country roads, drug dealing, arson, and attempted murder. The worst of the worst were Bill Livezey's bread and butter.His success at putting the truly bad guys out of business was driven by his upbringing as one of them. Born and raised in Pennsylvania, Bill's father was a successful businessman whose blind ambition sent him down the dark path of drug trafficking. It wasn't long before young Bill was tagging along and doing drugs with his dad. The aftermath of witnessing his father perish in a fiery standoff with police sent Bill spiraling out of control. He lashed out at law enforcement by dealing drugs, and he numbed the pain and confusion by doing them. Deep down, Bill knew his life was broken. When a high school football teammate invited him to attend a Fellowship of Christian Athletes meeting, he discovered his faith and a new path.
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    Ball Gowns to Yoga Pants: Entrepreneurial Secrets for Creating Your Dream Business and Brand , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 146min
    No, this isn’t a Cinderella story...or a fitness guide. Dr. Shellie’s Ball Gowns to Yoga Pants helps you start building your authentic brand and successful company!Dr. Shellie Hipsky’s daughter noted that her mom no longer wore power suits daily for work. As a successful motivational media company’s CEO and the nonprofit leader of The Global Sisterhood, Dr. Shellie helps inspire and empower the women of the world. Her daughter Alyssa stated she was always wearing either, “ball gowns for charity events or running around in yoga pants with her kids, making deals on the phone".This practical book takes you, step by step, from vision to startup and beyond as Dr. Shellie describes her rise from tenured professor to becoming an award-winning “best business woman” and “entrepreneur of the year”, whose company has grown massively in impact and revenue.If you have ever dreamed of leaving your nine-to-five or you want to get back into the workforce as a powerful mom and entrepreneur, then listen as Dr. Shellie gives you her proven secrets to success, as well as the stories of other entrepreneurs who started out with a powerful vision and drive.You will be living your perfect brand in no time. This is not a fairy tale. It is your real life. No matter what you choose to wear, get on the path to business success with Dr. Shellie! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dr. Shellie Hipsky. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/213062/bk_acx0_213062_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Redesigning Leadership , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 122min
    When designer and computer scientist John Maeda was tapped to be president of the celebrated Rhode Island School of Design in 2008, he had to learn how to be a leader quickly. He had to transform himself from a tenured professor - with a love of argument for argument’s sake and the freedom to experiment - into the head of a hierarchical organization. The professor is free to speak his mind against “the man.” The college president is “the man.” Maeda has had to teach himself, through trial and error, about leadership. In Redesigning Leadership, he shares his learning process. Maeda, writing as an artist and designer, a technologist, and a professor, discusses intuition and risk-taking, “transparency,” and all the things that a conversation can do that an email can’t. In his transition from MIT to RISD he finds that the most effective way to pull people together is not social networking but free food. Leading a team? The best way for a leader to leverage the collective power of a team is to reveal his or her own humanity. Asked if he has stopped designing, Maeda replied (via Twitter), “I’m designing how to talk about/with/for our #RISD community.” Maeda’s creative nature makes him a different sort of leader - one who prizes experimentation, honest critique, and learning as you go. With Redesigning Leadership, he uses his experience to reveal a new model of leadership for the next generation of leaders. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Nick Podehl, Kate Rudd. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/003554/bk_brll_003554_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Still in Love: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 397min
    This hilarious, sometimes harrowing, and ultimately heartening novel is the companion to the critically acclaimed, national bestseller Perfect Agreement "Beautifully and economically written, and very funny." (Linda Wertheimer, NPR)This is your chance to enroll in English 10 at highly rated Hellman College - if you can find a place to sit in the fantastically overcrowded classroom. Mark Sternum, whom listeners first met in Downing’s beloved novel Perfect Agreement, is a veteran teacher. Twenty years older, separated for six months from his longtime lover, and desperate to duck the overtures of double-dealing deans above him and disgruntled adjunct faculty below him, Mark has one ambition every day he is on campus - to close the classroom door and leave the world behind. His escape, however, is complicated by his contentious, complicated wrestling match of a relationship with the Professor, the tenured faculty member with whom Mark has co-taught this creative-writing workshop for ten years. The spectacle of their rigorous, academic relationship is a chance for students - all of us - to learn what an amazing arena the classroom can be. Replete with engaging writing exercises, harsh criticism, and contrarian advice, Still in Love is the story of one semester in a college classroom. And it is an urgent reminder that we desperately need classrooms, that those singular, sealed-off-from-the-world sanctuaries are where we learn to love our lives. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: George Newbern. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/011450/bk_brll_011450_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Fail U.: The False Promise of Higher Education , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 501min
    The cost of a college degree has increased by 1,125% since 1978 - four times the rate of inflation. Total student debt is $1.3 trillion. Many private universities charge tuitions ranging from $60-70,000 per year. Nearly 2/3 of all college students must borrow to study, and the average student graduates with more than $30,000 in debt. 53% of college graduates under 25 years old are unemployed or underemployed (working part-time or in low-paying jobs that do not require college degrees). Professors - remember them? They rarely teach undergraduates at many major universities. Seventy-six percent of all university classes are taught by part-time, untenured faculty. In Fail U., Charles J. Sykes asks, "Is it worth it?" With chapters exploring the staggering costs of a college education, the sharp decline in tenured faculty and teaching loads, the explosion of administrator jobs, the grandiose building plans (gyms, food courts, student recreation centers), and the hysteria surrounding the "epidemic" of campus rapes, "triggers", "micro-aggressions", and other forms of alleged trauma, Fail U. concludes by offering a different vision of higher education - one that is affordable, more productive, and better-suited to meet the needs of a diverse range of students. Provocative, persuasive, clear-eyed, and even amusing, Fail U. strips the academic emperor of its clothes to reveal the American university system as it really is - and how it must change. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Michael Butler Murray. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/027647/bk_adbl_027647_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Direct Selling 101: Achieve Financial Success Through Network Marketing , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 515min
    Neil and Dana Phillips were both working in education when they started doing a little direct selling on the side, almost 30 years ago. Their business quickly grew, and soon their income tax bill was more than Neil had earned as a tenured university professor! Now, this inspiring husband-and-wife team shares their award-winning expertise to help you claim the personal prosperity you deserve in Direct Selling 101. More success-minded Americans than ever before are growing their fortunes as independent agents for such respected direct selling organizations as Princess House, Tupperware, and Mary Kay. As Neil and Dana introduce you to the exciting world of direct selling, you'll find out why over 12 million Americans are now involved in this $30 billion industry. You'll learn the essentials of starting and building a direct selling business, from recruiting new customers and sales team members to planning parties and closing the sale. You'll also explore some of the common misconceptions about direct selling, and find out how to choose a direct selling company that fits your needs and interests. And you'll benefit from Neil and Dana's industry-leading insights into a variety of elements important to any entrepreneur, including: Staying focused Managing your time Motivating others Setting goals Kick-starting your creativity and much more! Whether you're new to the field or expanding your current efforts, Direct Selling 101 will tell you why this business has doubled in size in the last 10 years, and how you can turn that explosive growth into your own financial security! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Neil Phillips, Dana Phillips. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/gdan/000013/bk_gdan_000013_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    High Price: A Neuroscientist's Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know About Drugs and Society , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 708min
    A pioneering neuroscientist shares his story of growing up in one of Miami's toughest neighborhoods and how it led him to his groundbreaking work in drug addiction. As a youth, Carl Hart didn't realize the value of school; he studied just enough to stay on the basketball team. At the same time, he was immersed in street life. Today he is a cutting-edge neuroscientist - Columbia University's first tenured African American professor in the sciences - whose landmark, controversial research is redefining our understanding of addiction. In this provocative and eye-opening memoir, he recalls his journey of self-discovery and weaves his past and present. Hart goes beyond the hype of the antidrug movement as he examines the relationship among drugs, pleasure, choice, and motivation, both in the brain and in society. His findings shed new light on common ideas about race, poverty, and drugs, and explain why current policies are failing. Though Hart escaped neighborhoods that were dominated by entrenched poverty and the knot of problems associated with it, he has not turned his back on his roots. Determined to make a difference, he tirelessly applies his scientific research to help save real lives. But balancing his former street life with his achievements today has not been easy - a struggle he reflects on publicly for the first time. A powerful story of hope and change, of a scientist who has dedicated his life to helping others, High Price will alter the way we think about poverty, race, and addiction - and how we can effect change. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: J.D. Jackson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/003714/bk_harp_003714_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Crack the C-Suite Code: How Successful Leaders Make It to the Top , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 208min
    In Crack the C-Suite Code, Frangos reveals the hidden dynamics for reaching C-suite. She offers expert guidance based on her experience as a consultant at Spencer Stuart and former head of global executive talent at Cisco, a company with 70,000 employees. Her deep research on the topic includes candid interviews with CEOs, hundreds of aspiring C-suite candidates, and the leading experts in the field.  Frangos identifies four core paths you can follow to reach the C-suite: the tenured executive, the free agent, the leapfrog leader, and the founder. To actively improve your chances for success, she presents:  Insider knowledge from current CEOs and well-known executives  Guiding questions that clarify the risks and rewards associated with each path  Accelerators and derailers that either enhance or detract from your chances to succeed  Advice on how to leverage your experience, leadership brand, and mind-set to help you land on the C-suite short list  Insight on how the evolving role of the CEO affects your strategy to reach the top  A career playbook for anyone who aspires to the top spot, Crack the C-Suite Code features advice from successful C-level leaders, including Accompany's Amy Chang, Goldman Sachs' Edith Cooper, Nest's Yoki Matsuoka, Cisco's Chuck Robbins, and Corning's Wendell Weeks. These and other top leaders from a broad range of companies, including Microsoft, Google, and General Electric, tell the stories of their success and help aspiring executives crack the C-suite code. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Randye Kaye. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/gdan/002991/bk_gdan_002991_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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