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Books narrated by Daniel Shanks

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  • Ethics for Apocalyptic Times

    Theapoetics, Autotheory, and Mennonite Literature

    by Daniel Shank Cruz ...
    Ethics for Apocalyptic Times is about the role literature can play in helping readers cope with our present-day crises, including the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change, and the shift toward fascism in global politics. Using the lens of Mennonite literature and their own personal experience as a culturally Mennonite, queer, Latinx person, Daniel Shank Cruz investigates the age-old question of what ... Read more

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    Blood Red Sky

    by Sara Cullen ...
    Narrated by Daniel Shanks ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 34 min

    The high school is on fire.Aaron Smith, the local bad boy, is arrested at the scene. He’s locked up by the end of the night, guilty until proven innocent. Only two people know the truth about what happened; Aaron and his little sister. Aaron will do anything to save his sister, including going to prison without a trial. But then the pandemic comes to Scotland, and trials are cancelled. Aaron finds ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Machine Penalty

    The Consequences of Seeing Artificial Intelligence as Less Than Human

    by Daniel B. Shank ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    This book makes the argument that comparing AI to humans leads us to diminish similar outcomes from AI across situations. This may be taking a human’s advice for a restaurant recommendation over an AI’s or believing that AI can’t be as biased as people can when denying loans to others. This machine penalty is caused both by comparing humans and AI in terms of appearance, identity, behavior, mind, ... Read more

    $134.09 USD

  • Postnational Musical Identities

    Cultural Production, Distribution, and Consumption in a Globalized Scenario

    by Arved Ashby, Chris Dennis, Vanessa Knights, Denilson Lopes, Steven Loza, Cristina Magaldi, Daniel Party, Greg Schelonka, Barry Shank, Helena Simonett ...
    Postnational Musical Identities gathers interdisciplinary essays that explore how music audiences and markets are imagined in a globalized scenario, how music reflects and reflects upon new understandings of citizenship beyond the nation-state, and how music works as a site of resistance against globalization."Hybridity," "postnationalism," "transnationalism," "globalization," "diaspora," and ... Read more

    $47.79 USD

  • Experiencing Mahler

    A Listener's Companion

    by Arved Ashby ...
    Series series Listener's Companion
    Experiencing Mahler surveys the symphonies and major song sets of Gustav Mahler, presenting them not just as artworks but as vivid and deeply felt journeys. Mahler took the symphony, perhaps the most tradition-bound genre in Western music, and opened it to the widest span of human experience. He introduced themes of love, nature, the chasmic depth of midnight, making peace with death, facing ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

  • The Contract Scorecard

    Successful Outsourcing by Design

    by Sara Cullen ...
    Adoption and use of a contract scorecard demonstrates a maturing ability to manage commercial outsourcing arrangements. The process of designing the scorecard helps you nail down the key outcomes and avoid lack of focus, inconsistent objectives, hidden costs, indifferent service and deteriorating relationships with your contract partners. Sara Cullen's The Contract Scorecard will help you design ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Queering Mennonite Literature

    Archives, Activism, and the Search for Community

    by Daniel Shank Cruz ...
    Though the terms “queer” and “Mennonite” rarely come into theoretical or cultural contact, over the last several decades writers and scholars in the United States and Canada have built a body of queer Mennonite literature that shifts these identities into conversation. In this volume, Daniel Shank Cruz brings this growing genre into a critical focus, bridging the gaps between queer theory, ... Read more

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  • Absolute Music, Mechanical Reproduction

    by Arved Ashby ...
    Recordings are now the primary way we hear classical music, especially the more abstract styles of "absolute" instrumental music. In this original, provocative book, Arved Ashby argues that recording technology has transformed our understanding of art music. Contesting the laments of nostalgic critics, Ashby sees recordings as socially progressive and instruments of a musical vernacular, but also ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

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    Creating a Foundation for Business Execution

    by Peter Weill, David Robertson, Jeanne W. Ross ...
    Does it seem you’ve formulated a rock-solid strategy, yet your firm still can’t get ahead? If so, construct a solid foundation for business execution-an IT infrastructure and digitized business processes to automate your company’s core capabilities. In Enterprise Architecture as Strategy: Creating a Foundation for Business Execution, authors Jeanne W. Ross, Peter Weill, and David C. Robertson show ... Read more

    $32.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Musicking

    The Meanings of Performing and Listening

    by Christopher Small ...
    Extending the inquiry of his early groundbreaking books, Christopher Small strikes at the heart of traditional studies of Western music by asserting that music is not a thing, but rather an activity. In this new book, Small outlines a theory of what he terms "musicking," a verb that encompasses all musical activity from composing to performing to listening to a Walkman to singing in the shower ... Read more

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  • Perfect Phrases for Setting Performance Goals

    by Douglas Max, Robert Bacal ...
    Series series Perfect Phrases Series
    Set the bar for outstanding performanceA follow-up to the top-selling Perfect Phrases for Performance Reviews, this book provides managers with phrases and goals that describe expected future performance from their direct reports. A timesaving job aid for any performance review or plan, the book:Makes it easy for managers to set high performance goals for executives, management, or non-managers ... Read more

    $9.39 USD

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  • Internal Controls Policies and Procedures

    by Rose Hightower ...
    Drawing on her many years as a consultant to numerous companies big and small, author Rose Hightower infuses Internal Controls Policies and Procedures with her wealth of experience and knowledge. Instead of reinventing the wheel, your company can use this useful how-to manual to quickly and effectively put a successful program of internal controls in place. Complete with flowcharts and checklists, ... Read more

    $84.00 USD