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Emotionally Charged

How to Lead in the New World of Work

by Dina Denham Smith, Alicia A. Grandey ...

Narrated by Tom Beyer ...

Unabridged

9 hours 30 min

Broad changes have dramatically disrupted our workplaces and increased the emotional demands on leaders everywhere. Leaders now must support their teams' mental health and burnout (while managing their own), build trust with and motivate a remote and diverse workforce, allay employee fears of obsolescence while driving the integration of new technologies like AI, and demonstrate bottomless ... Read more

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Broad changes have dramatically disrupted our workplaces and increased the emotional demands on leaders everywhere. Leaders now must support their teams' mental health and burnout (while managing their own), build trust with and motivate a remote and diverse workforce, allay employee fears of obsolescence while driving the integration of new technologies like AI, and demonstrate bottomless
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Buffer ETFs For Dummies

by Stuart Chaussee ...

Narrated by Tom Beyer ...

Unabridged

12 hours 12 min

Demystify buffer ETFs for equity growth potential with built-in downside protectionBuffer ETFs For Dummies is your essential guide to understanding one of the fastest-growing segments in the ETF marketplace. Also known as "defined outcome ETFs," the popularity of buffer ETFs is projected to explode in the coming years. This book lets you get in on the action, with clear explanations of how ... Read more

$34.34 CAD

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Demystify buffer ETFs for equity growth potential with built-in downside protectionBuffer ETFs For Dummies is your essential guide to understanding one of the fastest-growing segments in the ETF marketplace. Also known as "defined outcome ETFs," the popularity of buffer ETFs is projected to explode in the coming years. This book lets you get in on the action, with clear explanations of how
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The Wannabe Fascists

A Guide to Understanding the Greatest Threat to Democracy

by Federico Finchelstein ...

Narrated by Tom Beyer ...

Unabridged

7 hours 46 min

Meet today's almost fascists and learn the warning signs to intercept them on the road from populism to dictatorship.With The Wannabe Fascists, historian Federico Finchelstein offers a precise explanation of why Trumpism and similar movements across the world belong to a new political breed, the last outcome of the combined histories of fascism and populism: the wannabe fascists. This new type of ... Read more

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Meet today's almost fascists and learn the warning signs to intercept them on the road from populism to dictatorship.With The Wannabe Fascists, historian Federico Finchelstein offers a precise explanation of why Trumpism and similar movements across the world belong to a new political breed, the last outcome of the combined histories of fascism and populism: the wannabe fascists. This new type of
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Climate

A Very Short Introduction (Second Edition)

by Mark Maslin ...

Narrated by Tom Beyer ...

Unabridged

4 hours

The issues around 'climate' range across all aspects of the global system, including the different components that have controlled climate on Earth throughout its history, as well as how solar energy is able to reach the Earth, how it is redistributed around the planet by the ocean-atmosphere system, and the relationship and differences between climate and the weather.This Very Short Introduction ... Read more

$19.22 CAD

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The issues around 'climate' range across all aspects of the global system, including the different components that have controlled climate on Earth throughout its history, as well as how solar energy is able to reach the Earth, how it is redistributed around the planet by the ocean-atmosphere system, and the relationship and differences between climate and the weather.This Very Short Introduction
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Man Therapy

Therapy the Way a Man Does It

by Joe Conrad ...

Narrated by Tom Beyer ...

Unabridged

5 hours 11 min

Life throws curveballs. Stress piles up. Anger flares. Work gets intense. Relationships get messy. And most guys feel like they have to "tough it out." That approach? Not exactly working.Man Therapy gives men straightforward tools for dealing with real-life challenges, without the lectures, jargon, or awkward therapy speak. Powered by the wildly popular Man Therapy® brand and including ... Read more

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Life throws curveballs. Stress piles up. Anger flares. Work gets intense. Relationships get messy. And most guys feel like they have to "tough it out." That approach? Not exactly working.Man Therapy gives men straightforward tools for dealing with real-life challenges, without the lectures, jargon, or awkward therapy speak. Powered by the wildly popular Man Therapy® brand and including
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Minute Men

Execute and Run

by Lawrence C. Connolly ...

Narrated by Tom Beyer ...

Unabridged

9 hours

U.S. Marine Daniel Hayes returns from the Middle East in a wheelchair. The only survivor of his team, he's haunted by more than his physical scars.In Africa, Dr. Christian Chase's hands are now useless. Blinded in a rebel ambush, she replays the life she couldn't save as if torturing herself with endless flashbacks could change the past.In Ukraine, kickboxer Zoya Zynchenko wakes in a cold hospital ... Read more

$28.84 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

U.S. Marine Daniel Hayes returns from the Middle East in a wheelchair. The only survivor of his team, he's haunted by more than his physical scars.In Africa, Dr. Christian Chase's hands are now useless. Blinded in a rebel ambush, she replays the life she couldn't save as if torturing herself with endless flashbacks could change the past.In Ukraine, kickboxer Zoya Zynchenko wakes in a cold hospital
... Read more
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The Approaching Storm

A Murder in Acadia

by Mark Thielman ...

Narrated by Tom Beyer ...

Series series Johnson and Nance Mysteries
Unabridged

12 hours

Set in Acadia National Park, The Approaching Storm**—the fourth book in Mark Thielman's Johnson and Nance Mysteries—is a gripping dual-timeline thriller where the past bleeds into the present. Perfect for fans of Steve Berry and Gary McAvoy.**A stolen painting in Acadia reveals a secret buried since the Civil War.When a thief steals a valuable Hudson River School painting from a museum in Acadia ... Read more

$35.72 CAD

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Set in Acadia National Park, The Approaching Storm**—the fourth book in Mark Thielman's Johnson and Nance Mysteries—is a gripping dual-timeline thriller where the past bleeds into the present. Perfect for fans of Steve Berry and Gary McAvoy.**A stolen painting in Acadia reveals a secret buried since the Civil War.When a thief steals a valuable Hudson River School painting from a museum in Acadia
... Read more
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Designing Distributed Systems

Patterns and Paradigms for Scalable, Reliable Systems Using Kubernetes, 2nd Edition

by Brendan Burns ...

Narrated by Tom Beyer ...

Unabridged

8 hours 33 min

Every distributed system strives for reliability, performance, and quality, but building such a system is hard. Establishing a set of design patterns enables software developers and system architects to use a common language to describe their systems and learn from the patterns and practices developed by others.The popularity of containers and Kubernetes paves the way for core distributed system ... Read more

$28.84 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Every distributed system strives for reliability, performance, and quality, but building such a system is hard. Establishing a set of design patterns enables software developers and system architects to use a common language to describe their systems and learn from the patterns and practices developed by others.The popularity of containers and Kubernetes paves the way for core distributed system
... Read more
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The Devil's Kitchen

A Murder in Yellowstone

by Mark Thielman ...

Narrated by Tom Beyer ...

Series series Johnson and Nance Mysteries
Unabridged

11 hours 52 min

A murder in Yellowstone reveals a historical conspiracy, drawing a park ranger into the heart of a centuries-old mystery.When a history professor is fatally shot at the base of Yellowstone Canyon, seasonal park ranger and former homicide detective Clarence Johnson finds himself roped into the murder investigation. Alongside Special Agent Alison Nance, he quickly realizes they are uncovering more ... Read more

$35.72 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

A murder in Yellowstone reveals a historical conspiracy, drawing a park ranger into the heart of a centuries-old mystery.When a history professor is fatally shot at the base of Yellowstone Canyon, seasonal park ranger and former homicide detective Clarence Johnson finds himself roped into the murder investigation. Alongside Special Agent Alison Nance, he quickly realizes they are uncovering more
... Read more
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Power and Prediction

The Disruptive Economics of Artificial Intelligence

by Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans, Avi Goldfarb ...

Narrated by Tom Beyer ...

Unabridged

10 hours 7 min

In their bestselling first book, Prediction Machines, eminent economists Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans, and Avi Goldfarb explained the simple yet game-changing economics of AI. Now, in Power and Prediction, they go deeper, examining the most basic unit of analysis: the decision. The authors explain that the two key decision-making ingredients are prediction and judgment, and we perform both together ... Read more

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In their bestselling first book, Prediction Machines, eminent economists Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans, and Avi Goldfarb explained the simple yet game-changing economics of AI. Now, in Power and Prediction, they go deeper, examining the most basic unit of analysis: the decision. The authors explain that the two key decision-making ingredients are prediction and judgment, and we perform both together
... Read more

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Nowhere Left to Go

How Climate Change Is Driving Species to the Ends of the Earth

by Benjamin von Brackel ...

Narrated by Tom Beyer ...

Unabridged

7 hours 55 min

Harrowing journeys of animals and plants—fleeing skyrocketing temperatures—reported from the frontlines of the greatest migration of species since the Ice Age.As humans accelerate global warming while laying waste to the environment, animals and plants must flee to the margins: on scattered nature reserves, between major highways, or among urban sprawl. And when even these places become too hot ... Read more

$28.84 CAD

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Harrowing journeys of animals and plants—fleeing skyrocketing temperatures—reported from the frontlines of the greatest migration of species since the Ice Age.As humans accelerate global warming while laying waste to the environment, animals and plants must flee to the margins: on scattered nature reserves, between major highways, or among urban sprawl. And when even these places become too hot
... Read more

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Be Fruitful and Multiply

How Fertility and Innovation Have Changed Humankind and the Earth

by Donald Worster ...

Narrated by Tom Beyer ...

Unabridged

12 hours 53 min

A groundbreaking history that explores how human desires have affected our relationship with the natural world, and why this is a cause for hopeDonald Worster looks back over 200,000 years of Homo sapiens to show how human nature, especially the drive for food and sex, has responded to environmental conditions throughout history. Examining how this process led from foraging to the agrarian ... Read more

$35.72 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

A groundbreaking history that explores how human desires have affected our relationship with the natural world, and why this is a cause for hopeDonald Worster looks back over 200,000 years of Homo sapiens to show how human nature, especially the drive for food and sex, has responded to environmental conditions throughout history. Examining how this process led from foraging to the agrarian
... Read more