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Learning as if People Really Mattered
By: Debora Hammond, Francisco Vazquez & Tony Mountain
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 58 minutes
Abridged: No
Our world is facing more problems than we can count, and it's often difficult to see how we'll find the solutions. Many fear our education system is not producing the creative thinkers we'll need in the times ahead. But an innovative approach to education goes beyond traditional courses and classrooms to emphasize creativity and inspiration, so... Read more
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The Excellent 11 - Abridged
By: Ron Clark
Narrated by: Ron Clark
Length: 2 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: Yes
When The Essential 55 was published, Ron Clark became a tireless promoter, traveling the country to speak to large groups of teachers and fans. And when his Oprah appearance shot the book onto the New York Times bestseller list, he kept the heat on. We can expect the same tenacious commitment to promoting his follow-up book, The Excellent 11.The... Read more
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Absolutely American - Abridged
By: David Lipsky
Narrated by: David Lipsky
Length: 7 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: Yes
"A superb description of modern military culture, and one of the most gripping accounts of university life.... Powerful.... Wonderfully told." --The New York Times Book Review
As David Lipsky follows a future generation of army officers from their proving grounds to their barracks, he reveals the range of emotions and desires that propels these... Read more
Loving and Learning Conversation
By: Claudia L’Amoreaux
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 56 minutes
Abridged: No
Claudia L'Amoreaux has made an extensive study of what it takes to cultivate meaningful conversation, and how that can impact our ability to learn. She believes that the way we teach our children actually puts constraints on their intelligence, and offers exciting solutions for a more dynamic education. Read more
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The Essential 55 - Abridged
By: Ron Clark
Narrated by: Ron Clark
Length: 2 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: Yes
When Ron Clark walked into his fifth-grade class in rural North Carolina, he was confronted with a tremendous challenge. The children had little interest in learning, and were sorely lacking in guidance. How would he transform a group of apathetic kids into disciplined, thoughtful, and curious students? He quickly realized that they needed to... Read more
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The Myth of Laziness - Abridged
By: Mel Levine
Narrated by: Mel Levine
Length: 4 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: Yes
“When we call someone lazy, we condemn a human being,” writes Mel Levine, M.D. In The Myth of Laziness, the bestselling author of A Mind at a Time shows that children dismissed as unproductive or “lazy” usually suffer from what he calls “output failure”—a neurodevelopmental dysfunction that can continue to cause difficulties into adulthood if... Read more
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Educating Esmé - Abridged
By: Esmé Raji Codell
Narrated by: Esmé Raji Codell
Length: 2 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Codell's portrait of an inner-city elementary school is funny, poignant, and inspiring. Read more
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The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
By: Patrick Lencioni
Narrated by: Charles Stransky
Length: 3 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
After her first two weeks observing the problems at DecisionTech, Kathryn Petersen, its new CEO, had more than a few moments when she wondered is she should have taken the job. But Kathryn knew there was little chance she would have turned it down. After all, retirement had made her antsy, and nothing excited her more than a challenge. What she... Read more
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A Mind At A Time - Abridged
By: Mel Levine
Narrated by: Mel Levine
Length: 5 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: Yes
"Different minds learn differently," writes Dr. Mel Levine, one of the best-known learning experts and pediatricians in America today. Some students are strong in certain areas and some are strong in others, but no one is equally capable in all. Yet most schools still cling to a one-size-fits-all education philosophy. As a result, many children... Read more
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Soul Survivor - Abridged
By: Philip Yancey
Narrated by: Philip Yancey
Length: 5 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Philip Yancey, whose explorations of faith have made him a guide for millions of readers, feels no need to defend the church. "When someone tells me yet another horror story about the church, I respond, 'Oh, it's even worse than that. Let me tell you my story.'I have spent most of my life in recovery from the church."
Yancey acknowledges... Read more
Simone Weil
By: Francine Du Plessix Gray
Narrated by: Donada Peters
Length: 7 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
In Simone Weil, du Plessix Gray vividly evokes the life of an equally complex and intriguing figure. A patriot and a mystic, an unruly activist plagued by self-doubt, a pampered intellectual with a credo of manual labor, an ascetic who craved sensuous beauty, Simone Weil died at the age of thirty-four prematurely after a long struggle with... Read more
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Journey Into Wisdom
By: Pramila Jayapal
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 57 minutes
Abridged: No
India, an ancient culture, has many gifts to share with the western world. Pramila Jayapal, is an Indian-born, Western educated woman, banker turned community activist, who returns to India to explore the complex issues of progress and development, immersing herself in the life of her native land. Read more
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Beyond Rankism: Democracy For All
By: Robert Fuller
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 56 minutes
Abridged: No
Rank has legitimate rights. When rank has been earned and signifies excellence, then it's generally accepted, and rightfully so. But the power of rank is often abused. The abuse of rank, or of power, is rankism. Treating others as invisible, as "nobodies," - insulting someone's dignity - that's rankism. Most of us have felt its sting; most... Read more
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Above and Beyond
By: Anita Roddick
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Anita Roddick, the founder of The Body Shop, dedicated herself to putting her money not only where her mouth is but where her heart is. Roddick was the driving force behind The Body Shop's activism: challenging big business and the beauty industry to act responsibly in areas including human rights, animal rights, and women's self-esteem. Read more
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Eating Wisdom
By: Andrew Weil, M.D.
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 56 minutes
Abridged: No
One of life's greatest pleasures is eating, according to Weil, who cuts through the national obsession with diet and weight like a knife through an overripe papaya. Dr. Andrew Weil believes there doesn't have to be a distinction between healthy food and pleasurable food. His sensible advice stems from a belief in a natural, balanced approach to... Read more
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The Educated Child - Abridged
By: William J. Bennett
Narrated by: William J. Bennett
Length: 6 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The Educated Child defines a good education and offers parents a plan of action for ensuring that their children achieve it.
The Educated Child defines a good education and offers parents a plan of action for ensuring that their children achieve it. Combining the goals that William Bennett enumerated as Secretary of Education, key excerpts from... Read more
Lift Every Voice - Abridged
By: Walter Turnbull & Howard Manly
Narrated by: Gregory T. Daniel
Length: 2 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Miracles can and do happen— when one does the footwork. Dr. Walter Turnbull dreamed of creating opportunities and better lives for the children of Harlem, and Lift Every Voice is the inspirational story of how he realized his dream. Dr. Turnbull shares the hard-bought wisdom he learned throughout his life— from his... Read more
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Birthing, Biology And Culture
By: Barbara Findeisen, Bruce Lipton, Ph.D. & Margot...
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 54 minutes
Abridged: No
We tend to assume that babies have little sensation or awareness before birth. Far from it! say these researchers into the world of the unborn child. "Emotions are chemistry in the blood," says Lipton, "and the chemistry of emotions passes through that placental barrier just as well as nutrients." And these experiences then create lifelong... Read more
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Power of Nonviolence, The: Compassion In Action (Part 2)
By: His Holiness The Dalai Lama, Daniel Goleman, De...
Narrated by: Jeff Wessman
Length: 58 minutes
Abridged: No
In part two of "Peacemaking: The Power of Non-Violence", Nobel Laureate His Holiness the Dalai Lama of Tibet, Daniel Goleman, Michael Meade, Deborah Prothrow-Stith, Edward James Olmos and others explore peacemaking as it applies to school and community. We look at new models of education that include emotional intelligence, conflict resolution... Read more
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Tibetan Wisdom For The West
By: Robert Thurman, Ph.D.
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 56 minutes
Abridged: No
More than 1.3 million Tibetans have lost their lives and over 6000 monasteries have been destroyed since the Chinese invasion in 1959. One of the positive legacies of this tragic story is the release of the Tibetan Buddhist spiritual wisdom, hidden for thousands of years deep in the Himalayas. Robert Thurman believes this legacy is meant for... Read more
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Spiritual Seeds For A Family Garden
By: Phil Catalfo
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 54 minutes
Abridged: No
In a heartfelt discussion, Phil Catalfo talks about how we, as parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles, can guide our children's spiritual development at a time when we are questioning our own. As we become disenchanted with the all-too-material world in which we live, Catalfo feels we must not only foster our children's spiritual growth, but... Read more
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Saving The World, Saving Ourselves
By: Thomas Berry, C.P., Ph.D.
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 55 minutes
Abridged: No
We have discovered that the universe is dynamically alive and interconnected, and the implications are profound. Berry speaks of a vision of a restorative, creative relationship with the natural world. He is a deep believer that recognizing our connection to the natural world is imperative to our healing of our global environmental crisis. Read more
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Global Capitalism: Beyond Conventional Wisdom
By: William Greider
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 54 minutes
Abridged: No
If you are curious about what global capitalism means, and concerned about how it affects human equity, justice and quality of life, you must listen to this provocative discussion with William Greider. Driven by his compassion for the people on the front lines of the factories, Greider exposes the fundamental instabilities at the heart of the... Read more
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It's All In Your Mind
By: Tulku Thondup Rinpoche
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 55 minutes
Abridged: No
Lama Thondup draws on his early childhood in Tibet traveling with his nomadic parents, followed by years of classical Buddhist education in a Tibetan monastery. He had to rely on the goodness of others when forced to leave his homeland after the Chinese invasion and relocate to India, learning a new language and new skills. Read more
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