Audiobooks narrated by David Skulski

[English] - The Bad Bear Tavern Audiobook

"This is the story of Marco, a journalist who has lost his way after his wife was raped and then her suicide. Desperation and the desire for change take him to environments far from his world. He finds himself, almost unwittingly, frequenting the slums of his city and a low-class dive, The Bad Bear Tavern, where he meets a neglected humanity living on the edge of legality, made up largely of non-EU citizens. Among them, one person stands out: Igor, a cultured Hungarian who has experienced terrible events in the Middle East, where he fought as a contractor and as a volunteer alongside the Kurds against ISIS. Marco is fascinated by his personality, but he will discover something that will unsettle him and worsen his existential crisis.This is the story of Marco, a journalist who has lost his way after his wife was raped and then her suicide. Desperation and the desire for change take him to environments far from his world. He finds himself, almost unwittingly, frequenting the slums of his city and a low-class dive, The Bad Bear Tavern, where he meets a neglected humanity living on the edge of legality, made up largely of non-EU citizens. Among them, one person stands out: Igor, a cultured Hungarian who has experienced terrible events in the Middle East, where he fought as a contractor and as a volunteer alongside the Kurds against ISIS. Marco is fascinated by his personality, but he will discover something that will unsettle him and worsen his existential crisis. PUBLISHER: TEKTIME"

Leo Augliera (Author), David Skulski (Narrator)

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[Spanish] - ¡Megan Ha Cogido El Covid-19!

"En “¡Megan ha cogido el Covid-19!”, Megan y su escuela reciben una advertencia sobre la nueva variante de Covid 19, Omicron, que también está infectando a los niños, y se les informa de que la semana siguiente comenzará un programa de vacunación. Jane, la mejor amiga de Megan, tiene miedo a las agujas y ha oído rumores sobre una campaña patrocinada por el Estado para inyectar a todo el mundo un bicho rastreador. Megan no se cree la teoría de la conspiración. Cuando Jane empieza a sentirse mal, su madre la diagnostica erróneamente y reina la confusión. Finalmente, Wacinhinsha arroja luz sobre la pandemia de Covid-19.La serie de la psíquica Megan consta de veintitrés novelas sobre la creciente conciencia de una niña de que es capaz de hacer cosas que nadie de su familia puede hacer. Megan tiene doce años en el primer volumen. Tiene dos problemas aparentemente insuperables. Su madre tiene miedo de las habilidades latentes de su hija y no sólo no la ayuda, sino que la desanima activamente; y no puede encontrar un profesor que la ayude a desarrollar sus poderes sobrenaturales y psíquicos, ya que ella no sólo quiere saber qué es posible hacer y cómo hacerlo, sino a qué fin debe destinar sus habilidades especiales. Megan es una buena chica, por lo que parecería obvio que tendería a usar sus poderes para el bien, pero no siempre es fácil hacer lo correcto aunque se sepa lo que es. Estas historias sobre Megan gustarán a cualquiera que tenga interés en los poderes psíquicos, lo sobrenatural y lo paranormal y tenga entre diez y cien años. En “¡Megan ha cogido el Covid-19!”, Megan y su escuela reciben una advertencia sobre la nueva variante de Covid 19, Omicron, que también está infectando a los niños, y se les informa de que la semana siguiente comenzará un programa de vacunación. Jane, la mejor amiga de Megan, tiene miedo a las agujas y ha oído rumores sobre una campaña patrocinada por el Estado para inyectar a todo el mundo un bicho rastreador. Megan no se cree la teoría de la conspiración. Cuando Jane empieza a sentirse mal, su madre la diagnostica erróneamente y reina la confusión. Finalmente, Wacinhinsha arroja luz sobre la pandemia de Covid-19. PUBLISHER: TEKTIME"

Owen Jones (Author), David Skulski (Narrator)

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[Spanish] - Estrés

"En general, “Estrés, un asesino sigiloso moderno” es un recurso introductorio esencial para cualquier persona que busque comprender y manejar mejor el estrés en sus vidas. Está escrito en un lenguaje fácil de entender, lo que lo hace accesible a lectores de todos los orígenes y niveles de conocimiento. El libro es una lectura obligada para cualquier persona interesada en mejorar su salud física y mental, y lograr una mayor sensación de bienestar.Estrés – Un asesino sigiloso moderno es una guía introductoria para el entendimiento y manejo del estrés en el mundo acelerado de hoy. El libro adopta un enfoque holístico para el manejo del estrés, analizando las causas, los síntomas y los efectos de este, así como estrategias practicas para reducir el estrés y mejorar el bienestar general. A través de este libro, el lector aprenderá sobre diferentes tipos de estrés, como el estrés agudo, el estrés crónico y el estrés traumático; y como cada uno afecta al cuerpo y la mente de manera diferente. El autor también profundiza en los cambios fisiológicos que ocurren en el cuerpo cuando está bajo estrés y como estos cambios pueden conducir a problemas de salud graves, como cardiopatías, diabetes y problemas de salud mental como depresión y ansiedad. El libro también ofrece una variedad de técnicas prácticas para reducir el estrés, como la atención plena y la meditación, el ejercicio y la gestión del tiempo, y cómo incorporar estas técnicas en la vida diaria. También cubre cómo establecer límites personales e identificar y evitar factores estresantes que están fuera de nuestro control. Uno de los aspectos más completos es que también cubre algunos conceptos erróneos comunes sobre el estrés y su manejo y cómo distinguir el estrés bueno del estrés malo y equilibrar el estrés bueno con un nivel manejable de estrés malo. En general, “Estrés, un asesino sigiloso moderno” es un recurso introductorio esencial para cualquier persona que busque comprender y manejar mejor el estrés en sus vidas. Está escrito en un lenguaje fácil de entender, lo que lo hace accesible a lectores de todos los orígenes y niveles de conocimiento. El libro es una lectura obligada para cualquier persona interesada en mejorar su salud física y mental, y lograr una mayor sensación de bienestar. Espero que encuentre la información de ayuda, útil y provechosa. PUBLISHER: TEKTIME"

Owen Jones (Author), David Skulski (Narrator)

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Harperism: How Stephen Harper and His Think Tank Colleagues Have Transformed Canada

"Margaret (Maggie) Thatcher, the Iron Lady, and her neo-conservative philosophy transformed British political life forever. Actor turned politician Ronald Reagan, selling "trickle down" economics, did the same to political life in the United States. In Harperism, Donald Gutstein details how Stephen Harper accomplished a similar dramatic shift to the right and a introduced a new kind of politics in Canada. It's key tenets include: Canada's economic prosperity is strengthened when labour is weak-especially when unions disappear Public policy making is improved by cutting government scientific research and data collection Converting First Nations reserves to private property improves the conditions of life for aboriginal peoples Inequality of incomes and wealth is a good thing-and Canada needs more of it These and other central ideas that make-up Harperism flow from the neo-liberal economic theories of Austrian economist Friedrich von Hayek and his disciples in the U.S.A and inspired Reaganism and Thatcherism. "This was a great compliment to Party of One (Michael Harris)" - "This is an important book!" In Canada, Stephen Harper has managed to take neo-liberalism much further in several key areas. As Donald Gutstein details, Harper has accomplished this using a successful strategy of incremental change coupled with denial of the underlying neo-liberal analysis that explains these hard-to-understand measures. Harperism's success is no accident. Donald Gutstein documents the connections between the think tanks, politicians, journalists, academics and researchers who nurture and promote each other's neo-liberal ideas. They are funded by ultra-rich U.S. donors, Canadian billionaires like Peter Munk, and many large corporations-all of whom gain from the ideas and policies developed and pushed by Harperites. This book sheds new light on the last decade of Canadian politics, and it documents the challenges that Harperism-with or without Stephen Harper-will continue to present to the many Canadians who do not share this pro-market world view."

Donald Gutstein (Author), David Skulski (Narrator)

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How will capitalism end?: Essays on a Failing System

"AftAfter years of ill health, capitalism is now in a critical condition. Growth has given way to stagnation; inequality is leading to instability; and confidence in the money economy has all but evaporated. In How Will Capitalism End?, the acclaimed analyst of contemporary politics and economics Wolfgang Streeck argues that the world is about to change. The marriage between democracy and capitalism, ill-suited partners brought together in the shadow of World War Two, is coming to an end. The regulatory institutions that once restrained the financial sector's excesses have collapsed and, after the final victory of capitalism at the end of the Cold War, there is no political agency capable of rolling back the liberalization of the markets. Ours has become a world defined by declining growth, oligarchic rule, a shrinking public sphere, institutional corruption and international anarchy, and no cure to these ills is at hand. er years of ill health, capitalism is now in a critical condition. Growth has given way to stagnation; inequality is leading to instability; and confidence in the money economy has all but evaporated. In How Will Capitalism End?, the acclaimed analyst of contemporary politics and economics Wolfgang Streeck argues that the world is about to change. The marriage between democracy and capitalism, ill-suited partners brought together in the shadow of World War Two, is coming to an end. The regulatory institutions that once restrained the financial sector's excesses have collapsed and, after the final victory of capitalism at the end of the Cold War, there is no political agency capable of rolling back the liberalization of the markets. Ours has become a world defined by declining growth, oligarchic rule, a shrinking public sphere, institutional corruption and international anarchy, and no cure to these ills is at hand."

Wolfgang Streeck (Author), David Skulski (Narrator)

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The Zelmenyaners: A Family Saga

"This is the first complete English-language translation of "The Zelmenyaners" a classic of Yiddish literature, one of the great comic novels of the twentieth century. The Zelmenyaners describes the travails of a Jewish family in Minsk that is torn asunder by the new Soviet reality. Four generations are depicted in riveting and often uproarious detail as they face the profound changes brought on by the demands of the Soviet regime and its collectivist, radical secularism. The resultant intergenerational showdowns-including disputes over the introduction of electricity, radio, or electric trolley-are rendered with humor, pathos, and a finely controlled satiric pen. Moyshe Kulbak, a contemporary of the Soviet Jewish writer Isaac Babel, picks up where Sholem Aleichem left off a generation before, exploring in this book the transformation of Jewish life. Moyshe Kulbak (1896-1937) was a leading Yiddish modernist poet, novelist, and dramatist. Arrested in 1937 during the wave of Stalinist repression that hit the Minsk Yiddish writers and cultural activists with particular vehemence, and given a perfunctory show trial, Kulbak was shot at the age of 41. Hillel Halkin, an acclaimed translator of Hebrew and Yiddish fiction, is the author, most recently, of Across the Sabbath River: In Search of a Lost Tribe of Israel and Yehuda Halevi. Sasha Senderovich is assistant professor of Russian studies and Jewish studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder."

Moyshe Kulback (Author), David Skulski (Narrator)

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Kill the Messengers: Stephen Harper's Assault on your Right to Know

"Information, the lifeblood of democracy, is under attack in Canada. Instead of the transparency Stephen Harper promised, the nation's business is done in secret, and an army of lobbyists and public-relations flackies now set the agenda and decide what we get to know. When we are denied information, when we no longer feel free to discuss political events or issues, when we are discouraged from even thinking about politics, voting loses its appeal. In such a climate, exercising ones democratic rights seems superfluous.Stephen Harper and his government, while delegitimizing the media's role in our political system, also undertook a war on the nations information systems: Statistics Canada was effectively killed, hundreds of scientists and statisticians were fired, our Library and Archives Canada were gutted and freedom of information rules turned into a joke. Facts, it would seem, are no longer relevant. In Kill the Messengers: Stephen Harper's Assault on Your Right to Know, Mark Bourrie reveals how events conspired to silence Canadian media and elect an anti-intellectual government determined to govern in secret Using multiple examples and case studies, Bourrie illustrates how the collection of facts that embarrass the government's position or undermine it's ideologically based decsion-making have been suppressed through budget cuts. And, perhaps more importantly, Bourrie shows how to take back your right to be informed and heard. Kill the Messengers is more than just a collection of complaints bemoaning the current state of Canadian media, it is a call to arms for all of us to become informed citizens and active participants in the democratic process. This is a book all Canadians are entitled access to hear-and now, they'll get the chance."

Mark Bourrie (Author), David Skulski (Narrator)

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Uncle Wally's Old Brown Shoe

"Uncle Wally's Old Brown Shoe, inspired by the familiar nursery rhyme The House That Jack Built, follows the course of one very unusual shoe as it travels through a fascinating, imaginative world to encounter an assortment of quirky characters. The imaginative text and cumulative story are sure to enthrall young readers, as will the detailed illustrations. Children and adults will delight in finding the whimsical objects and hidden meanings in the layered colorful artwork, reminiscent of Wallace Edwards's first book, Alphabeasts."

Wallace Edwards (Author), David Skulski (Narrator)

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That Is How It Is: Stories

"That Is How It Is – another impressive translation by Harvey Fink – offers more than fifty short pieces by Moishe Nadir, almost entirely about America – “a land where people do not go for strolls, where no one drinks wine.” He wrote for the New York Yiddish press, in daily newspapers and popular humour magazines. Nadir’s stories will enter your consciousness with a gentle knock, seduce you with their eloquence and wry observations, and challenge you with a minefield of sardonic humor. “Nadir’s best stories acknowledge that a freer life might be practically preferable, but theologically barren; that there can be no ecstasy in a nation where ecstasies can be mass-produced; and that only kitsch can comfort when the communal is usurped by capitalism, and by democratic enfranchisement…” (Joshua Cohen, June 25, 2009, Tablet Magazine)"

Harvey Fink (Author), David Skulski (Narrator)

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The Art of Social Enterprise: Business as if People Mattered

"The current business-for-profit model rewards short-term thinking, narrow self-interest, and a social-and-environmental-costs-be-damned attitude. Non-profits, while more focused on the greater good, tend to be inherently resource-challenged and rely on increasingly scarce grants and donations to sustain their existence. Social enterprise is an exciting, blended model driven by the desire to create positive change through entrepreneurial activities. The Art of Social Enterprise is a practical guide which supplies everything you need to know about the mechanics of social entrepreneurship including: Startup – envisioning and manifesting intention Strategic planning – balancing social and monetary value Maintaining an even keel despite the inevitable challenges associated with being an entrepreneur. This valuable resource also provides an unparalleled legal perspective to help you take advantage of established legal organizational forms, recent statutory creations, contract hybrids, certification programs and more. Aimed at emerging as well as established social entrepreneurs, for-profit leaders who want to introduce an element of social responsibility into their companies, and non-profit organizations who want to increase their stability by generating income, The Art of Social Enterprise is the definitive guide to doing well while doing good."

Alan Bromberger (Author), David Skulski (Narrator)

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Think Like a Commoner: A Short Introduction to the Life of the Commons

"In our age of predatory markets and make-believe democracy, our troubled political institutions have lost sight of real people and practical realities. But if you look to the edges, ordinary people are reinventing governance and provisioning on their own terms. The commons is arising as a serious, practical alternative to the corrupt Market/State. The beauty of commons is that we can build them ourselves, right now. But the bigger challenge is, Can we learn to see the commons and, more importantly, to think like a commoner?"

David Bollier (Author), David Skulski (Narrator)

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Can Hens Give Milk?

"Tova lives with her family on a small farm in the famous town of Chelm, a mythical village populated, according to Jewish folklore, by fools. Tova's farm has hens and even a rooster, but no cow. Her mother, Rivka, wishes they could afford to buy a cow, so they could have fresh milk and butter every day. One night Tova's father has a dream about how to get milk without actually owning a cow. He asks Tova to help him find a way to get milk from their hens, and the results are hilarious. Finally, to the family's joy and the hens' relief, the problem is solved by none other than the wise Rabbi of Chelm himself, and a little extra help from Tova."

Joan Betty Stuchner (Author), David Skulski (Narrator)

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Audiobooks Narrated by David Skulski