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Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
This account describes when NBC exploded every conventional notion of what a broadcast network could accomplish with the greatest prime-time line-up in television history; the actors, writers, directors, producers, and network executives tell of the happening and then of watching it fall apart.
1463) The Introvert Entrepreneur Deluxe: Amplify Your Strengths and Create Success on Your Own Terms
Author
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this deluxe edition, listen to author Beth Buelow's interviews with entrepreneurs in a range of fields, offering even more insight into how introverts can grow their businesses while staying true to themselves.
A practical guide to help introverts harness their natural gifts and entrepreneurial spirit
Think you have to be loud and brash to be successful in business? Think again. The strengths and traits of the typical introvert...
A practical guide to help introverts harness their natural gifts and entrepreneurial spirit
Think you have to be loud and brash to be successful in business? Think again. The strengths and traits of the typical introvert...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Getting to Yes offers a concise, step-by-step, proven strategy for coming to mutually acceptable agreements in every sort of conflict—whether it involves parents and children, neighbors, bosses and employees, customers or corporations, tenants or diplomats. Based on the work of the Harvard Negotiation Project, a group that deals continually with all levels of negotiation and conflict resolution from domestic to business to international,...
Author
Publisher
Dreamscape Media
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
A biography of the little-known antihero, Samuel Zemurray (1877-1961), the disgraced mogul of the much hated United Fruit Company who aided the creation of Israel, funded many of Tulane University's buildings, and had a hand in the rise of Che Guevara and Fidel Castro.
1466) The Podcast Reader
Series
Publisher
Dialogues Media Foundation
Edition
issue 12
Language
English
Description
Welcome to The Podcast Reader, a new publication for the intellectually curious and those open to new ideas, featuring selected transcripts of the world’s best longform podcasts. From the overwhelming volume of podcast content, we’ve chosen the highlights for you. Longform podcasts are an important new media, but the excellent content they create is underappreciated. It’s easy to be distracted when listening to them. Interesting details can
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Series
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Formats
Description
WASHINGTON POST “COLOR OF MONEY” BOOK CLUB PICK
Stop Living Paycheck to Paycheck and Get Your Financial Life Together (#GYFLT)!
If you’re a cash-strapped 20- or 30-something, it’s easy to get freaked out by finances. But you’re not doomed to spend your life drowning in debt or mystified by money. It’s time to stop scraping by and take control of your money and your life with...
Stop Living Paycheck to Paycheck and Get Your Financial Life Together (#GYFLT)!
If you’re a cash-strapped 20- or 30-something, it’s easy to get freaked out by finances. But you’re not doomed to spend your life drowning in debt or mystified by money. It’s time to stop scraping by and take control of your money and your life with...
Author
Publisher
HarperAudio
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
A guide based on the tenets of the award-winning financial platform, "You Need a Budget," argues that a well-planned budget does not involve deprivation and counsels readers on how to prioritize financial goals, reduce stress through strategic cash flow allocations and meet the challenges of unplanned expenses.
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
The #1 New York Times bestseller that has all America talking: as seen/heard on CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS, Morning Joe, CBS This Morning, The Bill Simmons Podcast, Rich Roll, and more.
“The most important business—and parenting—book of the year.” —Forbes
“Urgent and important. . . an essential read for bosses, parents, coaches, and anyone who cares...
“The most important business—and parenting—book of the year.” —Forbes
“Urgent and important. . . an essential read for bosses, parents, coaches, and anyone who cares...
1470) Joy ride
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The hilarious and unapologetically explicit story of identity and self-discovery centers on four unlikely friends who embark on a once-in-a-lifetime international adventure. When Audrey's business trip to Asia goes sideways, she enlists the aid of Lolo, her irreverent, childhood best friend who also happens to be a hot mess; Kat, her college friend turned Chinese soap star; and Deadeye, Lolo's eccentric cousin. Their no-holds-barred, epic experience...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
407 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Describes how the inception of the iPhone has transformed society and skyrocketed Apple to the most valuable company in the world, detailing how the most current technological advances have become inseparable to everyday life.
1472) The accidental billionaires: the founding of Facebook : a tale of sex, money, genius, and betrayal
Author
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
Presents an account of Eduardo Saverin and Mark Zuckerberg's creation of Facebook, the social networking site, as a way to meet women during their time as Harvard undergraduates, and covers how the two men's different ideas about the business caused a rift between them.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, 90 min.)
Language
English
Description
"Information is the ultimate weapon," this program proclaims. Based in New York City, Guerrilla News Network (GNN) is an independent news organization with a mission to expose young people to important global news and information free from corporate filters, through programming on the Web and on TV. GNN's news videos are 5 to 10 minute documentaries combining high-impact images, commentary by media experts, scholars, and political leaders with music...
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
New York Times bestselling author and neuroscientist Daniel J. Levitin shifts his keen insights from your brain on music to your brain in a sea of details.
The information age is drowning us with an unprecedented deluge of data. At the same time, we’re expected to make more—and faster—decisions about our lives than ever before. No wonder, then, that the average American reports frequently losing car keys or...
The information age is drowning us with an unprecedented deluge of data. At the same time, we’re expected to make more—and faster—decisions about our lives than ever before. No wonder, then, that the average American reports frequently losing car keys or...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Formats
Description
An NPR Best Book of 2017
Heiress to the nearly forty-billion-dollar L’Oréal fortune, Liliane Bettencourt was the world’s richest woman and the fourteenth wealthiest person. But her gilded life took a dark yet fascinating turn in the past decade. At ninety-four, she was embroiled in what has been called the Bettencourt Affair, a scandal that dominated the headlines in France. Why? It’s a tangled web of hidden secrets,...
Heiress to the nearly forty-billion-dollar L’Oréal fortune, Liliane Bettencourt was the world’s richest woman and the fourteenth wealthiest person. But her gilded life took a dark yet fascinating turn in the past decade. At ninety-four, she was embroiled in what has been called the Bettencourt Affair, a scandal that dominated the headlines in France. Why? It’s a tangled web of hidden secrets,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2021
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
"In The Family Firm, Brown professor of economics and mom of two Emily Oster offers a classic business school framework for data-driven parents to think more deliberately about the key issues of the elementary years: school, health, extracurricular activities, and more. Unlike the hourly challenges of infant parenting, the big questions in this age come up less frequently. But we live with the consequences of our decisions for much longer. What's...
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
The companion volume to the twelve-hour PBS series from the acclaimed filmmaker behind The Civil War, Baseball, and The War.
America’s national parks spring from an idea as radical as the Declaration of Independence: that the nation’s most magnificent and sacred places should be preserved, not for royalty or the rich, but for everyone. In this evocative and lavishly illustrated narrative, Ken Burns and Dayton...
America’s national parks spring from an idea as radical as the Declaration of Independence: that the nation’s most magnificent and sacred places should be preserved, not for royalty or the rich, but for everyone. In this evocative and lavishly illustrated narrative, Ken Burns and Dayton...
1478) Real cowboys
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Real cowboys are gentle, patient, and creative as they move hundreds of cattle, make camp, and dream under the stars.
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Recent discoveries in the field of positive psychology have shown that happiness fuels success, not the other way around. Achor isolates seven practical, actionable principles that show how to capitalize on the Happiness Advantage to improve performance and maximize potential.
1480) Yasmin the astronaut
Author
Series
Publisher
Picture Window Books, an imprint of Capstone
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
25 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Yasmin is not sure she is cut out to be an astronaut, but a class trip to the space museum, and a tour of the mission control exhibit gives her another idea about how she could still be involved in the space program.
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