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  • Scrum Fieldbook: A Master Class on Accelerating Performance, Getting Results, and Defining the Future Audiobook by J.J. Sutherland

    Scrum Fieldbook: A Master Class on Accelerating Performance, Getting Results, and Defining the Future Audiobook by J.J. Sutherland
    Oct 1 2019
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    ID: 367191
    Title: Scrum Fieldbook: A Master Class on Accelerating Performance, Getting Results, and Defining the Future
    Author: J.J. Sutherland
    Narrator: J.J. Sutherland
    Format: Unabridged
    Length: 06:30:50
    Language: English
    Release date: 10-01-2019
    Publisher: Random House (Audio)
    Genres: Business & Economics, Career Development, Management & Leadership

    Summary:
    Based on years of work in the field with scores of companies, including Bosch, 3M, Schlumberger, and Rio Tinto, The Scrum Fieldbook delivers a hands-on, practical approach to rapidly delivering value for companies and organizations. Scrum is the secret weapon behind some of today’s most successful companies. Businesses like Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Apple use Scrum to drive incredibly fast innovation, laser focus on customers, and continuous improvement, and to decrease decision times in order to reshape the world. Scrum is the most utilized Agile framework. In recent years, its use has exploded across the corporate world, far beyond its software and technology roots. J. J. Sutherland and the team at Scrum Inc. have dramatically improved performance at global banks, utility providers, medical device manufacturers, mining giants, and firms on the cutting edge of genetic science. Scrum has helped companies large and small thrive in the age of disruption. In Sutherland’s first book, the national bestseller Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time, coauthored with his father, Jeff, the co-creator of Scrum, he laid out the Scrum framework used by almost all of today’s leading technology companies. In The Scrum Fieldbook, he draws on his firm’s extensive experience in the field to take leaders, managers, and employees deeper into the specific challenges and new opportunities organizations face in an Agile transformation. He shows how the Scrum framework can be successfully applied to any project in any industry, from automobile manufacturers in the U.S. and Europe to nonprofits in Africa, from home renovation contractors in Minnesota to gas exploration companies in South America, from fighter plane builders in Sweden to U.S. Navy Special Forces teams in regions of the world we can’t mention.

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    6 h et 31 min
  • After the Fire, a Still Small Voice Audiobook by Evie Wyld

    After the Fire, a Still Small Voice Audiobook by Evie Wyld
    Sep 24 2019
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    ID: 391272
    Title: After the Fire, a Still Small Voice
    Author: Evie Wyld
    Narrator: David Tredinnick
    Format: Unabridged
    Length: 09:36:37
    Language: English
    Release date: 09-24-2019
    Publisher: Random House (Audio)
    Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction

    Summary:
    Set in the haunting landscape of eastern Australia, this is a stunningly accomplished debut novel about the inescapable past: the ineffable ties of family, the wars fought by fathers and sons, and what goes unsaid. After the departure of the woman he loves, Frank drives out to a shack by the ocean that he had last visited as a teenager. There, among the sugarcane and sand dunes, he struggles to rebuild his life. Forty years earlier, Leon is growing up in Sydney, turning out treacle tarts at his parents’ bakery and flirting with one of the local girls. But when he’s drafted to serve in Vietnam, he finds himself suddenly confronting the same experiences that haunt his war-veteran father. As these two stories weave around each other–each narrated in a voice as tender as it is fierce–we learn what binds Frank and Leon together, and what may end up keeping them apart.

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    9 h et 37 min
  • Big Potential: How Transforming the Pursuit of Success Raises Our Achievement, Happiness, and Well-Being Audiobook by Shawn Achor

    Big Potential: How Transforming the Pursuit of Success Raises Our Achievement, Happiness, and Well-Being Audiobook by Shawn Achor
    Jan 30 2018
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    ID: 322788
    Title: Big Potential: How Transforming the Pursuit of Success Raises Our Achievement, Happiness, and Well-Being
    Author: Shawn Achor
    Narrator: Shawn Achor
    Format: Unabridged
    Length: 06:36:00
    Language: English
    Release date: 01-30-2018
    Publisher: Random House (Audio)
    Genres: Business & Economics, Self Development, Career Development, Management & Leadership, Health & Wellness

    Summary:
    “With cutting-edge research, penetrating insights, and practical examples, Shawn Achor describes a new conception of ‘success,’ and in doing so, reveals exciting new strategies we can use to meet our highest potential.”—Gretchen Rubin, bestselling author of The Happiness Project “A vibrant book on how to bring out the best in others—and how they can bring out the best in us.”—Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Again and host of the podcast WorkLife In a world that thrives on competition and individual achievement, we’re measuring and pursuing potential incorrectly. Pursuing success in isolation—pushing others away as we push ourselves too hard—not only limits our potential but makes us more stressed and disconnected than ever. Harvard-trained researcher Shawn Achor reveals a better approach. With exciting new research combining neuroscience and psychology with Big Data, Achor shows that our potential is not limited by what we alone can achieve. Instead, it is determined by how we complement, contribute to, and benefit from the abilities and achievements of people around us. When we—as individuals, leaders, and parents—chase only individual achievement, we leave vast sources of potential untapped. But once we put “others” back into the equation, and work to make others better, we ignite a Virtuous Cycle of cascading successes that amplify our own. The dramatic shifts in how we approach work today demand an equally dramatic shift in our approach to success. In Big Potential, Achor draws on cutting-edge original research as well as his work with nearly half of the Fortune 100 and with places like NASA, the NFL and the NBA, and offers a new path to thriving in the modern world.

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    6 h et 36 min
  • Monk of Mokha Audiobook by Dave Eggers

    Monk of Mokha Audiobook by Dave Eggers
    Jan 30 2018
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    ID: 323124
    Title: Monk of Mokha
    Author: Dave Eggers
    Narrator: Dion Graham
    Format: Unabridged
    Length: 08:18:00
    Language: English
    Release date: 01-30-2018
    Publisher: Random House (Audio)
    Genres: Biography & Memoir, Middle East, History & Culture

    Summary:
    From the bestselling author of The Circle and What Is the What, the true story of a young Yemeni-American man, raised in San Francisco, who dreams of resurrecting the ancient art of Yemeni coffee but finds himself trapped in Sana'a by civil war. Mokhtar Alkhanshali grew up in San Francisco, one of seven siblings brought up by Yemeni immigrants in a tiny apartment. At age twenty-four, unable to pay for college, he works as a doorman, until a statue of an Arab raising a cup of coffee awakens something in him. He sets out to learn the rich history of coffee in Yemen and the complex art of tasting and identifying varietals. He travels to Yemen and visits countless farms, collecting samples, eager to bring improved cultivation methods to the countryside. And he is on the verge of success when civil war engulfs Yemen in 2015. The US Embassy closes, Saudi bombs began to rain down on the country, and Mokhtar is trapped in Yemen. Desperate to escape, he embarks on a passage that has him negotiating with dueling political factions and twice kidnapped at gunpoint. With no other options, he hires a skiff to take him, and his coffee samples, across the Red Sea. A heart-pounding true story that weaves together the history of coffee, the ongoing Yemeni civil war, and the courageous journey of a young man--a Muslim and a US citizen--following the most American of dreams.

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    8 h et 18 min
  • Need to Know: A Novel Audiobook by Karen Cleveland

    Need to Know: A Novel Audiobook by Karen Cleveland
    Jan 23 2018
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    ID: 320974
    Title: Need to Know: A Novel
    Author: Karen Cleveland
    Narrator: Mia Barron
    Format: Unabridged
    Length: 09:40:00
    Language: English
    Release date: 01-23-2018
    Publisher: Random House (Audio)
    Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense, Espionage

    Summary:
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • FINALIST FOR THE ITW THRILLER AWARD • Perfect husband. Perfect father. Perfect liar? “Terrific.”—John Grisham “Superb.”—Lee Child “Breathtaking, heart-pounding.”—Louise Penny “A fast-paced, relentlessly gripping read.”—Chris Pavone Vivian Miller. High-powered CIA analyst, happily married to a man she adores, mother of four beautiful children. Until the moment she makes a shocking discovery that makes her question everything she believes. She thought she knew her husband inside and out. But now she wonders if it was all a lie. How far will she go to learn the truth? And does she really . . . . . . NEED TO KNOW? Film rights sold to Universal Pictures for Charlize Theron • Rights sold in more than 20 markets “Shaping up to be one of the year’s biggest new thrillers.”—Entertainment Weekly “So timely . . . Think of the perfect mix of Homeland and The Americans. . . . Need to Know needs to be read by all who relish spy novels. As entertaining as it is informative and as irresistible as it is impossible to put down.”—Providence Journal “Pulse-pounding.”—O: The Oprah Magazine “Accomplished . . . a nonstop thriller tapping into a hot mix of contemporary digital counterintelligence, old-school spying and ageless family drama.”—Shelf Awareness “An early contender for next year’s Gone Girl.”—GQ (UK) “The Russia page-turner that should be on everyone’s list.”—New York Post

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    9 h et 40 min
  • Munich: A novel Audiobook by Robert Harris

    Munich: A novel Audiobook by Robert Harris
    Jan 16 2018
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    ID: 320854
    Title: Munich: A novel
    Author: Robert Harris
    Narrator: David Rintoul
    Format: Unabridged
    Length: 09:39:00
    Language: English
    Release date: 01-16-2018
    Publisher: Random House (Audio)
    Genres: Fiction & Literature, Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense, Political Thriller, War & Military

    Summary:
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the bestselling author of V2 and Fatherland—a WWII-era spy thriller set against the backdrop of the fateful Munich Conference of September 1938. Now a Netflix film starring Jeremy Irons. With this electrifying novel about treason and conscience, loyalty and betrayal, 'Harris has brought history to life with exceptional skill' (The Washington Post). Hugh Legat is a rising star of the British diplomatic service, serving at 10 Downing Street as a private secretary to the Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain. Paul von Hartmann is on the staff of the German Foreign Office--and secretly a member of the anti-Hitler resistance. The two men were friends at Oxford in the 1920s, but have not been in contact since. Now, when Hugh flies with Chamberlain from London to Munich, and Hartmann travels on Hitler's train overnight from Berlin, their paths are set on a disastrous collision course. And once again, Robert Harris gives us actual events of historical importance--here are Hitler, Chamberlain, Mussolini, Daladier--at the heart of an electrifying, unputdownable novel.

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    9 h et 39 min
  • How Democracies Die Audiobook by Daniel Ziblatt

    How Democracies Die Audiobook by Daniel Ziblatt
    Jan 16 2018
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    ID: 322789
    Title: How Democracies Die
    Author: Daniel Ziblatt, Steven Levitsky
    Narrator: Fred Sanders
    Format: Unabridged
    Length: 08:25:00
    Language: English
    Release date: 01-16-2018
    Publisher: Random House (Audio)
    Genres: Politics, Political Ideologies

    Summary:
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Comprehensive, enlightening, and terrifyingly timely.”—The New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice) WINNER OF THE GOLDSMITH BOOK PRIZE • SHORTLISTED FOR THE LIONEL GELBER PRIZE • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post • Time • Foreign Affairs • WBUR • Paste Donald Trump’s presidency has raised a question that many of us never thought we’d be asking: Is our democracy in danger? Harvard professors Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt have spent more than twenty years studying the breakdown of democracies in Europe and Latin America, and they believe the answer is yes. Democracy no longer ends with a bang—in a revolution or military coup—but with a whimper: the slow, steady weakening of critical institutions, such as the judiciary and the press, and the gradual erosion of long-standing political norms. The good news is that there are several exit ramps on the road to authoritarianism. The bad news is that, by electing Trump, we have already passed the first one. Drawing on decades of research and a wide range of historical and global examples, from 1930s Europe to contemporary Hungary, Turkey, and Venezuela, to the American South during Jim Crow, Levitsky and Ziblatt show how democracies die. Now the question is, can our democracy be saved? Praise for How Democracies Die “What we desperately need is a sober, dispassionate look at the current state of affairs. Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, two of the most respected scholars in the field of democracy studies, offer just that.”—The Washington Post “Where Levitsky and Ziblatt make their mark is in weaving together political science and historical analysis of both domestic and international democratic crises; in doing so, they expand the conversation beyond Trump and before him, to other countries and to the deep structure of American democracy and politics.”—Ezra Klein, Vox “If you only read one book for the rest of the year, read How Democracies Die. . . .This is not a book for just Democrats or Republicans. It is a book for all Americans. It is nonpartisan. It is fact based. It is deeply rooted in history. . . . The best commentary on our politics, no contest.”—Michael Morrell, former Acting Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (via Twitter) “A smart and deeply informed book about the ways in which democracy is being undermined in dozens of countries around the world, and in ways that are perfectly legal.”—Fareed Zakaria, CNN

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    8 h et 25 min
  • Kiss Before Dying Audiobook by Pamela Colloff

    Kiss Before Dying Audiobook by Pamela Colloff
    Jan 9 2018
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    ID: 320985
    Title: Kiss Before Dying
    Author: Pamela Colloff
    Narrator: Karissa Vacker, Staci Snell
    Format: Unabridged
    Length: 00:48:00
    Language: English
    Release date: 01-09-2018
    Publisher: Random House (Audio)
    Genres: History, Non-Fiction, North America, Social Science, True Crime

    Summary:
    In partnership with Texas Monthly, Pamela Colloff's 'A Kiss Before Dying' is now available as an audio download, where the length and timeliness of a podcast meets the high-quality production of a full-length audio program. Few stories feel as classic as a well-told ghost story, the kind that makes your hair stand on end or sends chills down your spine even years after its alleged happening. Almost as classic are those stories that take place in high school, starring the jocks, the cheerleaders, and the outsiders; nostalgic for a time that almost certainly never was and yet remains a stalwart of American storytelling. Pamela Colloff's 'A Kiss Before Dying' is both kinds of story and what's more, it's all true. Betty Williams was an outsider at a time when conformity was king: Texas in the 1960s. Mack Herring was the quintessential football player, handsome and well-liked by the sweater set-wearing girls Betty scoffed at. When their unlikely relationship came to an end and Betty's life began to spiral, she asked for death and Mack was more than happy to oblige. The resulting trial of Betty Williams's murder would shock no one familiar with the resolutions of today's rape cases. In 'A Kiss Before Dying,' Pamela Colloff weaves together a story that's part true crime, part high school classic, that feels at once contemporary as it does of another time.

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    48 min