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    Study Guide: How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 118min
    SuperSummary, a modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, offers high-quality instructional study guides for challenging works of literature. This audio study guide for How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the book’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as the dire consequences of racism, historical knowledge in contemporary social transformation, and rethinking racist power. Featured content also includes commentary on major characters, 25 important quotes, essay questions, and discussion topics.How to Be an Antiracist was published in 2019 by Ibram X. Kendi, historian of African American history and founder of the Antiracist Research and Policy Center. This number one New York Times best seller posits that antiracist strategies must not be limited to changing the hearts and minds of racists but focused on transforming racist policies. While much antiracist work focuses on upending racist ideas, Kendi’s insistence on creating antiracist policies calls for the simultaneous transformation of racist structures and ideas.This audio study guide presents the same expert content - written by experienced teachers, professors, and literary scholars - in an easy-to-access audio format. SuperSummary study guides demonstrate an authoritative voice, present expert analysis, offer big picture ideas, and help listeners understand a work’s underlying meanings and conclusions. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Danny Swopes. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/237800/bk_acx0_237800_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Summary of Daniel H. Pink's 'Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us' , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 21min
    This is a summary version of Daniel H Pink's Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us. The summary provides much food for thought in presenting concepts that can change how we see work. It illustrates new and more effective ways of managing workers that result in a happier and more productive environment. By adopting the principles of autonomy, mastery, and purpose, we can see positive transformation in the workplace. A Book Summary With the busyness of our lives, it is difficult to make the time for getting through an entire book. So this summary will present only the key points and ideas presented in Drive. It takes out the extras and leaves the core information that will grant you the same advantages of getting through the whole book, but with less time involvement. Book Synopsis Drive asserts that using a system of rewards and punishments to bring control and motivation into the workplace is old-fashioned and not the most successful way to govern employees. Pink posits that using autonomy, mastery, and purpose will bring about the desired results in improved enjoyment in the workplace, and productivity within today's business environment. Ant Hive Media reads every chapter, extracts the understanding, and leaves you with a new perspective and time to spare. We do the work so you can understand the book in minutes, not hours. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Scott Clem. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/056121/bk_acx0_056121_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Wolf in CIO's Clothing: A Machiavellian Strategy for Successful IT Leadership , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 259min
    Machiavellians are few in number in IT. The massive pressure on CIOs continues to increase as the opportunities to use technology in business become more prevalent and more competitive. As CIOs often find themselves at the center of business conflict, they must not only familiarize themselves with Machiavellian tactics as a defensive weapon, but also learn to use them as an offensive weapon in extreme situations so that they can increase IT's contribution to their enterprises. As Italian political philosopher Niccolo Machiavelli implied, you're either predator or prey, and the animal you most resemble determines your position on the food chain. In The Wolf in CIO's Clothing Gartner analyst and author Tina Nunno expands on Machiavelli's metaphor, examining seven animal types and the leadership attributes of each. Nunno posits the wolf - a social animal with strong predatory instincts - as the ideal example of how a leader can adapt and thrive. Technology may be black and white, but successful leadership demands an ability to exist in the grey. Drawing on her experience with hundreds of CIOs, Nunno charts a viable way to master the Machiavellian principles of power, manipulation, love, and war. Through compelling case studies, her approach demonstrates how CIOs and IT leaders can adjust their leadership styles in extreme situations for their own success and that of their teams. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your My Library section along with the audio. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Karen Saltus. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/gdan/001521/bk_gdan_001521_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Zombie Spaceship Wasteland: A Book by Patton Oswalt , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 211min
    Prepare yourself for a journey through the world of Patton Oswalt, one of the most creative, insightful, and hysterical voices on the entertain­ment scene today. Widely known for his roles in the films Big Fan and Ratatouille, as well as the television hit The King of Queens, Patton Oswalt—a staple of Comedy Central—has been amusing audiences for decades. Now, with Zombie Spaceship Wasteland, he offers a fascinating look into his most unusual, and lovable, mindscape. Oswalt combines memoir with uproarious humor, from snow forts to Dungeons & Dragons to gifts from Grandma that had to be explained. He remem­bers his teen summers spent working in a movie Cineplex and his early years doing stand-up. Readers are also treated to several graphic elements, includ­ing a vampire tale for the rest of us and some greeting cards with a special touch. Then there’s the book’s centerpiece, which posits that before all young creative minds have anything to write about, they will home in on one of three story lines: zom­bies, spaceships, or wastelands. Oswalt chose wastelands, and ever since he has been mining our society’s wasteland for perversion and excess, pop culture and fatty foods, indie rock and single-malt scotch. Zombie Spaceship Wasteland is an inventive account of the evolution of Patton Oswalt’s wildly insightful worldview, sure to indulge his legion of fans and lure many new admirers to his very entertaining “wasteland.” ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Patton Oswalt. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/sans/005284/bk_sans_005284_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    US Energy Diplomacy in the Caspian Sea Basin
    This book provides the first comprehensive analysis of US policy from the perspective of an analyst and scholar from the region. This volume discusses the US energy diplomacy in the Caspian Sea region since 2001. It compares the foreign policy of the Bush, Obama, and Trump administrations, following the changing role of energy in the behavior of the US toward states in the energy hubs of Central Asia and the Caspian Sea. The chapters employ historical analysis, regional analysis, interviews, and case studies to trace the evolution of US interests in the area and posits likely trends for future policy. Topics discussed include:China's massive Belt and Road Initiativethe energy and foreign policies of the Caspian littoral states in comparison with those of China, India, the European Union, and Turkeythe escalation of differences among key OPEC members during the Trump erathe impact of the oil price war on the US shale industrythe spread of COVID-19 and its impact on the oil marketRussian and U.S. competition in the EU energy marketthe US-China trade war and the role of energy in the first phase of the US-China trade dealthe energy policy of the incoming US President, Joe BidenShedding light on the complex geopolitics of the US-Caspian Sea Energy diplomacy, this volume will be of interest to researchers of foreign policy, diplomacy, international relations, and energy policy as well as policymakers and analysts working in related areas.
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    Master Dark Psychology: Guide to Mind Control and Persuasion. How to Manage Your Emotions and Influence People , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 240min
    Dark psychology is the human condition as it relates to people's psychological existence to prey on others driven by immoral and/or deviant drives that lack meaning and general theories of instinctual drives and the theory of social sciences.All technology has the potential to harm human beings and other living creatures. While many are holding back or sublimating this urge, some are acting on these urges. Dark psychology understands certain beliefs, feelings, emotions, and mechanisms of subjective thinking that contribute to predatory to human nature's contemporary understanding.Dark psychology believes that violent, deviant, and abusive conduct is purposive, and 99 percent of the time has some moral, goal-oriented motivation. It is the remaining one percent, parts of dark psychology from Adlerian theory and teleology.Dark psychology encompasses everything that makes us connected to our dark side as we are. This common cancer is present in all cultures, faiths, and humanity. There is a dimension concealed within us from the moment we are born to the time of death that some have called evil, and others have described as criminal, deviant, or psychopathic.There are people who have the same acts in dark psychology posits and do so for money, power, retribution, sex, or any other known purpose. Without a goal, they commit horrible acts. Their aims, simplified, do not justify their means. There are people who, for the sake of doing so, violate and injure others.This potential lies within us all. The field being investigated is a potential for harming others without reason, justification, or intent. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jeremy Prost. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/188270/bk_acx0_188270_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Where They Stand , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 539min
    The author of the acclaimed biography of President James Polk, A Country of Vast Designs, offers a fresh, playful, and challenging way of playing “Rating the Presidents,” by pitching historians’ views and subsequent experts’ polls against the judgment and votes of the presidents’ own contemporaries.Merry posits that presidents rise and fall based on performance, as judged by the electorate. Thus, he explores the presidency by comparing the judgments of historians with how the voters saw things. Was the president reelected? If so, did his party hold office in the next election?Where They Stand examines the chief executives Merry calls “Men of Destiny,’’ those who set the country toward new directions. There are six of them, including the three nearly always at the top of all academic polls—Lincoln, Washington, and FDR. He describes the “Split-Decision Presidents’’ (including Wilson and Nixon)—successful in their first terms and reelected; less successful in their second terms and succeeded by the opposition party. He describes the “Near Greats’’ (Jefferson, Jackson, Polk, TR, Truman), the “War Presidents’’ (Madison, McKinley, Lyndon Johnson), the flat-out failures (Buchanan, Pierce), and those whose standing has fluctuated (Grant, Cleveland, Eisenhower).This voyage through our history provides a probing and provocative analysis of how presidential politics works and how the country sets its course. Where They Stand invites readers to pitch their opinions against the voters of old, the historians, the pollsters—and against the author himself. In this year of raucous presidential politics, Where They Stand will provide a context for the unfolding campaign drama. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Peter Ganim. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/005832/bk_adbl_005832_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    To the Best of Our Knowledge: Challenge Climate Change, Hörbuch, Digital, 52min
    In this hour, Stewart Brand, founder of the Whole Earth Catalogue, says it's time to get pragmatic about managing climate change. He tells Anne Strainchamps why he no longer opposes nuclear power and they discuss other aspects of his new philosophy. His new book is Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto.Next, many in the environmental movement disagree with Brand. Paxus Calta is one. He's been an anti-nuclear activist for over 30 years. He gives his reasons for his position. Calta is Chair of the board of the Nuclear Information and Resource Service, an umbrella organization of some 300 grass-roots organizations.Then, James Lovelock created the Gaia Theory. His latest book is The Vanishing Face of Gaia: A Final Warning. Lovelock tells Steve Paulson that our planet is a self-regulating system that will carry on without people and that it is too late to reverse global warming. Humanity will just have to live with the consequences, if it can. After that, novelist Margaret Atwood talks about her latest book, The Year of the Flood, with Steve Paulson. The book posits a new religion formed after most life on Earth has been obliterated.And finally, Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno are The Yes Men. They pose as the World Trade Organization or major corporate entities to pull off pranks as political action. A collection of these actions comprise the documentary film The Yes Men Fix the World. Jim Fleming talks with Andy Bichlbaum and we hear excerpts from the film. [Broadcast Date: September 22, 2010] Language: English. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/rt/tbon/100922/rt_tbon_100922_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    It's Not You, It's Everything (eBook, ePUB)
    If we can agree on anything, it's that we are not okay. Our culture is reeling from the ravages of a global pandemic, a precipitous rise in depression and anxiety, suffocating debt, white supremacy, hypercapitalism, and a virulent political animus--to name a few.But what if it's not us? What if it's . . . well, everything? What if trying to conform to a sick culture is actually making us sick?It's Not You, It's Everything is a timely and incisive inquiry into the anxious pursuit of happiness at all costs. Psychotherapist and former pastor Eric Minton claims that the pernicious melding of capitalism and Christianity means a world of competition, perfection, and scarcity disguised as self-help and self-care. Rather than shaming, silencing, or medicating away our disappointment at not having obtained the happiness we were promised, however, Minton posits a radical alternative. In an impertinent, droll, yet pastoral voice, Minton suggests that our "not-okayness" will require rethinking everything we thought we knew about God, depression, the economy, culture, education, technology, and happiness.Our angst--and that of our children and teenagers--is telling us the truth about the kind of world we've created. By naming all the ways we're not okay, we move away from fear and shame and toward love, and trust, and trustworthiness. We'll need nothing less than hip-hop, Mr. Rogers, liberation theology, and Jesus to get us there. But on the other side of our pain is a radical "okayness" that might just set us free.
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    Planning and the Multi-local Urban Experience (eBook, ePUB)
    The starting point of this book is the observation that there is a discrepancy between the lived reality of human beings and the fabricated, planned, and governed 'reality' of the state apparatus at both the local and national level. The book posits multi-locality as an emerging spatial configuration. The author draws from various theoretical sources, such as Deleuze and Guattari's concepts of state or royal science, the Nietzschean critique of idealism, Hägerstrnad's time-geography, Hintikka's theory of modalities, Lefebvre's urban society, Castel's network society, Foucault's concept of heterotopia, and Bhaskar's and Sartre's theories of presence and absence. He also discusses the implications of Faludi's post-territorialist critique of planning and governance, and of the failure to operationalise the concept quantitively, basing his arguments in the lived experiences of multi-locals as well. The novelty of the book is how it analyses multi-locality from such a wide theoretical perspective: what is the nature and meaning of the different multiple and coexistent places for people, and how is this spatial transformation related to their mobility, everyday practices, and work. How does the presence and absence of places form their identity and their citizenship? He also addresses the inconsistency between multi-locality and traditional statistics and the planning and governance practices based on the assumption of unilocality and discusses the implications of this incongruity. The book will be of interest to scholars in urban studies and planning theory, as well as practitioners developing more adequate practices replacing outdated ones.
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