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Anticipate Failure

The Entrepreneur's Guide to Navigating Uncertainty, Avoiding Disaster, and Building a Successful Business

by Lak Ananth ...

Narrated by Mike Lenz ...

Unabridged

5 hours 54 min

Quibi was going to put short, premium-quality videos in the hands of millions of content-hungry mobile consumers around the globe. The Apple Newton combined cool with indispensable in a way that was expected to spark a new mobile device market that was much bigger than the personal computing market. The $2,500 Tata Nano automobile was touted as a major gamechanger for India and the millions of ... Read more

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Quibi was going to put short, premium-quality videos in the hands of millions of content-hungry mobile consumers around the globe. The Apple Newton combined cool with indispensable in a way that was expected to spark a new mobile device market that was much bigger than the personal computing market. The $2,500 Tata Nano automobile was touted as a major gamechanger for India and the millions of
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Climate Hope

Stories of Action in an Age of Global Crisis

by David Geselbracht ...

Narrated by Mike Lenz ...

Unabridged

7 hours 33 min

Climate change is a problem so enormous and complex—with threats so frightening in their implications—that many of us fend off confusion and hopelessness by simply turning away. Meanwhile, with delayed action, missed targets, and increasingly dire reports at the international level, a notion that the crisis is intractable continues to spread. And the proposed solutions can be just as daunting. ... Read more

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Climate change is a problem so enormous and complex—with threats so frightening in their implications—that many of us fend off confusion and hopelessness by simply turning away. Meanwhile, with delayed action, missed targets, and increasingly dire reports at the international level, a notion that the crisis is intractable continues to spread. And the proposed solutions can be just as daunting.
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The Humanure Handbook

Shit in a Nutshell

by Joseph Jenkins ...

Narrated by Mike Lenz ...

Unabridged

8 hours 48 min

An updated edition of an underground classicThis is the 4th edition of a self-published book that no respectable publisher would touch with a ten-foot shovel. The 1st edition was published in 1994 with a print run of 600 copies, which the author expected to watch decompose in his garage for the rest of his life. Now, 24 years later, the book has sold over 90,000 print copies in the U.S. alone, ... Read more

$35.99 CAD

An updated edition of an underground classicThis is the 4th edition of a self-published book that no respectable publisher would touch with a ten-foot shovel. The 1st edition was published in 1994 with a print run of 600 copies, which the author expected to watch decompose in his garage for the rest of his life. Now, 24 years later, the book has sold over 90,000 print copies in the U.S. alone,
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Patchwork

by Tom Comitta ...

Narrated by Mike Lenz ...

Unabridged

4 hours 10 min

Tom Comitta returns with a novella that is at once a picaresque quest for a stolen snuffbox and a marvel of literary découpage, equal parts love story, old-fashioned thriller, and absurdist romp.To whom does a story belong? Who is its author? What is an author? Does it matter? These questions and more populate the subversive and audacious Patchwork, a comical tragedy that highlights the connective ... Read more

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Tom Comitta returns with a novella that is at once a picaresque quest for a stolen snuffbox and a marvel of literary découpage, equal parts love story, old-fashioned thriller, and absurdist romp.To whom does a story belong? Who is its author? What is an author? Does it matter? These questions and more populate the subversive and audacious Patchwork, a comical tragedy that highlights the connective
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Cracking the Leadership Code

Three Secrets to Building Strong Leaders

by Alain Hunkins ...

Narrated by Mike Lenz ...

Unabridged

7 hours 27 min

Become the effective, proactive leader you aspire to be with this practical tool kit for leading people and organizationsYes, you can learn the skills to effectively lead people, organizations, and employees. With the right motivation and knowledge, you can be a leader who knows what it takes to succeed. Throughout his extensive experience in training leaders, author Alain Hunkins discovered that ... Read more

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Become the effective, proactive leader you aspire to be with this practical tool kit for leading people and organizationsYes, you can learn the skills to effectively lead people, organizations, and employees. With the right motivation and knowledge, you can be a leader who knows what it takes to succeed. Throughout his extensive experience in training leaders, author Alain Hunkins discovered that
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Love and Math

The Heart of Hidden Reality

by Edward Frenkel ...

Narrated by Mike Lenz ...

Unabridged

10 hours 7 min

**A "powerful, passionate, and inspiring" (New York Times) journey through the beauty and power of mathematicsNew York Times Bestseller**What if you had to take an art class in which you were only taught how to paint a fence? What if you were never shown the paintings of van Gogh and Picasso, weren't even told they existed? Alas, this is how math is taught, and so for most of us it becomes the ... Read more

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**A "powerful, passionate, and inspiring" (New York Times) journey through the beauty and power of mathematicsNew York Times Bestseller**What if you had to take an art class in which you were only taught how to paint a fence? What if you were never shown the paintings of van Gogh and Picasso, weren't even told they existed? Alas, this is how math is taught, and so for most of us it becomes the
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Visible Learning: The Sequel

A Synthesis of Over 2,100 Meta-Analyses Relating to Achievement

by John Hattie ...

Narrated by Mike Lenz ...

Unabridged

20 hours 44 min

When the original Visible Learning® was published in 2008, it instantly became a publishing sensation. It sold out in days and was described by the TES as revealing "teaching’s Holy Grail". John Hattie returns to this ground-breaking work. The research underlying this book is now informed by more than 2,100 meta-analyses, drawn from more than 130,000 studies, and has involved more than 400 million ... Read more

$35.99 CAD

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When the original Visible Learning® was published in 2008, it instantly became a publishing sensation. It sold out in days and was described by the TES as revealing "teaching’s Holy Grail". John Hattie returns to this ground-breaking work. The research underlying this book is now informed by more than 2,100 meta-analyses, drawn from more than 130,000 studies, and has involved more than 400 million
... Read more

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Instrument of Peace

Meditations on the Prayer of Saint Francis

by Alan Paton ...

Narrated by Mike Lenz ...

Unabridged

2 hours 51 min

Lord, Make Me an Instrument of Thy Peace.Thus begins the beloved prayer of the Italian friar Saint Francis of Assisi, which well expresses his sentiments as a preacher of peace, love, and unity. Author and anti-apartheid activist Alan Paton drew upon the Prayer of Saint Francis to write Instrument of Peace (originally titled Instrument of Thy Peace) while his wife Dorrie lay dying of emphysema. ... Read more

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Lord, Make Me an Instrument of Thy Peace.Thus begins the beloved prayer of the Italian friar Saint Francis of Assisi, which well expresses his sentiments as a preacher of peace, love, and unity. Author and anti-apartheid activist Alan Paton drew upon the Prayer of Saint Francis to write Instrument of Peace (originally titled Instrument of Thy Peace) while his wife Dorrie lay dying of emphysema.
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The Resurrection of the Roman Catholic Church

A guide to the Traditional Catholic community

by Griff Ruby ...

Narrated by Mike Lenz ...

Unabridged

19 hours 47 min

For nearly twenty centuries, the Roman Catholic Church withstood all the currents of change and history and maintained a closely guarded orthodoxy which has always served as the basis and center of all Christianity. Yet, it is as if all of that has been just arbitrarily swept away in the few years since Vatican II. Given what the Church has always taught about itself being indefectible, how could ... Read more

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For nearly twenty centuries, the Roman Catholic Church withstood all the currents of change and history and maintained a closely guarded orthodoxy which has always served as the basis and center of all Christianity. Yet, it is as if all of that has been just arbitrarily swept away in the few years since Vatican II. Given what the Church has always taught about itself being indefectible, how could
... Read more

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Competition and Antitrust Law

A Very Short Introduction

by Ariel Ezrachi ...

Narrated by Mike Lenz ...

Unabridged

4 hours 14 min

Competition is responsible for much of the prosperity around us. Competitive markets deliver lower prices, better quality, abundance of choice, and increased innovation. But while competition benefits the consumers, it can prove challenging to producers and sellers, who need to constantly improve to stay in business. As a result, sellers may sometimes look for ways to dampen the competitive ... Read more

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Competition is responsible for much of the prosperity around us. Competitive markets deliver lower prices, better quality, abundance of choice, and increased innovation. But while competition benefits the consumers, it can prove challenging to producers and sellers, who need to constantly improve to stay in business. As a result, sellers may sometimes look for ways to dampen the competitive
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Why Christianity Makes Sense

A Book About Jesus, the Mysteries of the World, and the Longings in Your Heart

by Gavin Ortlund ...

Narrated by Mike Lenz ...

Unabridged

5 hours 46 min

The Christian faith makes a lot of sense--of the world around us and the ache we feel inside.If you've ever felt a longing deep in your heart for something you cannot name, this is your chance to explore it. It's an opportunity to ask hard questions, like why is there something and not nothing? What's the point of life if everything came into existence by accident? And if Jesus rose from the dead, ... Read more

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The Christian faith makes a lot of sense--of the world around us and the ache we feel inside.If you've ever felt a longing deep in your heart for something you cannot name, this is your chance to explore it. It's an opportunity to ask hard questions, like why is there something and not nothing? What's the point of life if everything came into existence by accident? And if Jesus rose from the dead,
... Read more

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What It Means to Be Protestant

The Case for an Always-Reforming Church

by Gavin Ortlund ...

Narrated by Mike Lenz ...

Unabridged

7 hours 43 min

A Powerful Defense of The Protestant Tradition.There's a movement among evangelicals of exploring the more sacramental, liturgical, and historically-conscious church traditions, including Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy. This hunger for historical rootedness is welcome—but unfortunately, many assume that this need can only be met outside of Protestant contexts.In What it Means to Be ... Read more

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A Powerful Defense of The Protestant Tradition.There's a movement among evangelicals of exploring the more sacramental, liturgical, and historically-conscious church traditions, including Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy. This hunger for historical rootedness is welcome—but unfortunately, many assume that this need can only be met outside of Protestant contexts.In What it Means to Be
... Read more

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