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Nine Lies About Work

A Freethinking Leader’s Guide to the Real World

by Marcus Buckingham, Ashley Goodall ...

Forget what you know about the world of workYou crave feedback. Your organization's culture is the key to its success. Strategic planning is essential. Your competencies should be measured and your weaknesses shored up. Leadership is a thing.These may sound like basic truths of our work lives today. But actually, they're lies. As strengths guru and bestselling author Marcus Buckingham and Cisco ... Read more

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Forget what you know about the world of workYou crave feedback. Your organization's culture is the key to its success. Strategic planning is essential. Your competencies should be measured and your weaknesses shored up. Leadership is a thing.These may sound like basic truths of our work lives today. But actually, they're lies. As strengths guru and bestselling author Marcus Buckingham and Cisco
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The Problem with Change

And the Essential Nature of Human Performance

by Ashley Goodall ...

If you’ve had enough of the constant turbulence that defines corporate life today, you’re not alone. Learn why change is bad for people and for business, and discover how to create the stability that we all need to thrive.For decades, “disruption” and “change” have been seen as essential to business growth and success. In this provocative and incisive book, leadership expert Ashley Goodall argues ... Read more

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If you’ve had enough of the constant turbulence that defines corporate life today, you’re not alone. Learn why change is bad for people and for business, and discover how to create the stability that we all need to thrive.For decades, “disruption” and “change” have been seen as essential to business growth and success. In this provocative and incisive book, leadership expert Ashley Goodall argues
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Nine Lies about Work

A Freethinking Leader's Guide to the Real World

by Marcus Buckingham, Ashley Goodall ...

Narrated by Marcus Buckingham, Ashley Goodall ...

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8 hours 53 min

Your organization's culture is the key to its success. Strategic planning is essential. People's competencies should be measured and their weaknesses shored up. People crave feedback.These may sound like basic truths of our work lives today. But actually, they're lies. As Marcus Buckingham and Ashley Goodall show in this provocative, inspiring book, there are some big lies—distortions, faulty ... Read more

$35.99 CAD

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Your organization's culture is the key to its success. Strategic planning is essential. People's competencies should be measured and their weaknesses shored up. People crave feedback.These may sound like basic truths of our work lives today. But actually, they're lies. As Marcus Buckingham and Ashley Goodall show in this provocative, inspiring book, there are some big lies—distortions, faulty
... Read more

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The Problem with Change

And the Essential Nature of Human Performance

by Ashley Goodall ...

Narrated by Ashley Goodall ...

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7 hours 58 min

Revolutionize the way you see disruption and change with a groundbreaking alternative to corporate instability from a lauded HR expert.For decades, “disruption” and “change” have been seen as essential to business growth and success. In this provocative and incisive book, Ashley Goodall argues that what has become a sacred dogma is both wrong and harmful.Whether it’s a merger or re-org or a new ... Read more

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Revolutionize the way you see disruption and change with a groundbreaking alternative to corporate instability from a lauded HR expert.For decades, “disruption” and “change” have been seen as essential to business growth and success. In this provocative and incisive book, Ashley Goodall argues that what has become a sacred dogma is both wrong and harmful.Whether it’s a merger or re-org or a new
... Read more

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The Shadow System

Mass Incarceration and the American Family

by Sylvia A. Harvey ...

Narrated by Janina Edwards ...

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8 hours 43 min

From an award-winning journalist, a searing exposé of the effects of the mass incarceration crisis on families -- including the 2.7 million American children who have a parent locked up.In The Shadow System, award-winning journalist Sylvia A. Harvey follows the fears, challenges, and small victories of three families struggling to live within the confines of a brutal system. In Florida, a young ... Read more

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From an award-winning journalist, a searing exposé of the effects of the mass incarceration crisis on families -- including the 2.7 million American children who have a parent locked up.In The Shadow System, award-winning journalist Sylvia A. Harvey follows the fears, challenges, and small victories of three families struggling to live within the confines of a brutal system. In Florida, a young
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The Complications

On Going Insane in America

by Emmett Rensin ...

Narrated by James Gloucester ...

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12 hours 56 min

An unflinching, rare account of living with severe mental illness that is also a bold commentary on how we misunderstand this often debilitating disease.The Complications is an intimate portrait of what it’s like to live with schizoaffective disorder of the bipolar type as well as a biting, revelatory critique of America’s mental health culture. Emmett Rensin has written and edited articles for ... Read more

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An unflinching, rare account of living with severe mental illness that is also a bold commentary on how we misunderstand this often debilitating disease.The Complications is an intimate portrait of what it’s like to live with schizoaffective disorder of the bipolar type as well as a biting, revelatory critique of America’s mental health culture. Emmett Rensin has written and edited articles for
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You're Not the Problem

The Impact of Narcissism and Emotional Abuse and How to Heal

by Helen Villiers, Katie McKenna ...

Narrated by Helen Villiers, Katie McKenna ...

Unabridged

7 hours 49 min

Two popular psychotherapists explore narcissism in family of origin, unpacking the fallout from being raised by narcissistic parents, and offering strategies for how to heal.Many emotionally abusive behaviors from parent to child have become socially acceptable because of the way we repeat things our parents said and did, things passed down from generation to generation that persist today. You're ... Read more

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Two popular psychotherapists explore narcissism in family of origin, unpacking the fallout from being raised by narcissistic parents, and offering strategies for how to heal.Many emotionally abusive behaviors from parent to child have become socially acceptable because of the way we repeat things our parents said and did, things passed down from generation to generation that persist today. You're
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The Death of Truth

How Social Media and the Internet Gave Snake Oil Salesmen and Demagogues the Weapons They Needed to Destroy Trust and Polarize the World--And What We Can Do

by Steven Brill ...

Narrated by Dan Woren ...

Unabridged

10 hours 32 min

**How did we become a world where facts—shared truths—have lost their power to hold us together as a community, as a country, globally? How have we allowed the proliferation of alternative facts, hoaxes, even conspiracy theories, to destroy our trust in institutions, leaders, and legitimate experts? Best-selling journalist Steven Brill documents the forces and people, from Silicon Valley to ... Read more

$29.99 CAD

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**How did we become a world where facts—shared truths—have lost their power to hold us together as a community, as a country, globally? How have we allowed the proliferation of alternative facts, hoaxes, even conspiracy theories, to destroy our trust in institutions, leaders, and legitimate experts? Best-selling journalist Steven Brill documents the forces and people, from Silicon Valley to
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Fantasy Island

Colonialism, Exploitation, and the Betrayal of Puerto Rico

by Ed Morales ...

Narrated by Sean Duffy ...

Unabridged

10 hours 57 min

An overarching history of Puerto Rico’s years as a colony of the United States."Urgent, fascinating, and impassioned." —Daniel Immerwahr, author of How to Hide an EmpireSince its acquisition by the US in 1898, Puerto Rico has served as a testing ground for the most aggressive and exploitative US economic, political, and social policies. The devastation that ensued finally grew impossible to ignore ... Read more

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An overarching history of Puerto Rico’s years as a colony of the United States."Urgent, fascinating, and impassioned." —Daniel Immerwahr, author of How to Hide an EmpireSince its acquisition by the US in 1898, Puerto Rico has served as a testing ground for the most aggressive and exploitative US economic, political, and social policies. The devastation that ensued finally grew impossible to ignore
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The Third Perspective

Brave Expression in the Age of Intolerance

by Africa Brooke ...

Narrated by Africa Brooke ...

Unabridged

7 hours 55 min

**In our deeply divided, binary world, honest discussion is stressful for all sides, but Africa Brooke says there is another way: the Third Perspective."With Africa's graceful guidance, we can all learn to own our voice, speak our minds, and to become an authentic version of ourselves." ―Nicole LePera, international bestselling author of How to Do the Work: Recognize Your Patterns, Heal From Your ... Read more

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**In our deeply divided, binary world, honest discussion is stressful for all sides, but Africa Brooke says there is another way: the Third Perspective."With Africa's graceful guidance, we can all learn to own our voice, speak our minds, and to become an authentic version of ourselves." ―Nicole LePera, international bestselling author of How to Do the Work: Recognize Your Patterns, Heal From Your
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At the Edge of Empire

A Family's Reckoning with China

by Edward Wong ...

Narrated by Edward Wong, Will Dao ...

Unabridged

16 hours 49 min

**Winner of the Baifang Schell Book Prize • 2025 Orwell Prize FinalistOne of The Washington Post’s 50 Notable Nonfiction Books of 2024“A sprawling, complex morality tale, sweeping us along.” —The Wall Street Journal“In telling this personal story about family memory, exile and return, the book also takes in the breadth of [China’s] evolution during the 20th century.” —The Washington Post“This book ... Read more

$34.99 CAD

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**Winner of the Baifang Schell Book Prize • 2025 Orwell Prize FinalistOne of The Washington Post’s 50 Notable Nonfiction Books of 2024“A sprawling, complex morality tale, sweeping us along.” —The Wall Street Journal“In telling this personal story about family memory, exile and return, the book also takes in the breadth of [China’s] evolution during the 20th century.” —The Washington Post“This book
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Uptime

A Practical Guide to Personal Productivity and Wellbeing

by Laura Mae Martin ...

Narrated by Eleanor Caudill ...

Unabridged

5 hours 42 min

Google’s Executive Productivity Advisor offers insights on how to make the “new way of work” work for you, providing actionable steps to optimize your productivity, accomplish more, prevent burnout, and cultivate a harmonious work-life balance.Every day, tens of thousands of Google employees, from executives to interns, rely on Laura Mae Martin’s tips and best practices for how to make the most of ... Read more

$28.99 CAD

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Google’s Executive Productivity Advisor offers insights on how to make the “new way of work” work for you, providing actionable steps to optimize your productivity, accomplish more, prevent burnout, and cultivate a harmonious work-life balance.Every day, tens of thousands of Google employees, from executives to interns, rely on Laura Mae Martin’s tips and best practices for how to make the most of
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