Audiobooks narrated by Mel Foster

30 Old Testament Passages with Deeper Meaning: The Surprising Significance of Seemingly Ordinary Ver

"Feed your curiosity of the Bible by exploring the deeper meaning behind familiar Old Testament passages. Below the surface of every seemingly ordinary Bible verse lies a deeper meaning just waiting to be discovered. And these hidden insights aren't just reserved for scholars, academics, or pastors. Anyone who knows where to look can uncover the surprisingly significant messages that the biblical authors intended for us to hear. In 30 Old Testament Passages with Deeper Meaning, Michael Williams seeks to lead believers to a deeper comprehension and appreciation of biblical truth. In each easy-to-read chapter, Williams focuses on one Old Testament verse or passage, and: - Examines its cultural, historical, linguistic, and/or theological context. - Explains how it is enhanced by the added context and perspective. - Provides questions to facilitate further reflection, study, and discussion. Helping to bridge the gap between the academy and the church, this broadly accessible and edifying book will help everyday Christians get more out of their Bible. Plus, the insightful questions at the end of each chapter make this an ideal small group, Bible study, or expository preaching resource. Tables, reflection prompts, and a select bibliography are included in the audiobook companion PDF download."

Michael Williams (Author), Mel Foster (Narrator)

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Leading an Emotionally Intelligent Life: Expanding Your EI to Make Courageous Decisions and Transfor

"Expand your EI to make courageous decisions and transform your life based on Patrick Kilcarr’s EQ-I 2.0 tool and his 'Master Trainer' status. Our emotional intelligence (EI) is an intensely personal inner landscape. It is an intricate interplay of self-regard, empathy, resilience, and other key competencies essential to leading a fulfilled and balanced personal and professional life. While it is unique for each one of us, taking into account our formative experience growing up and the myriad of others experiences we encountered up to this moment in time, there are specific emotions and behaviors that suggest we either are, or are not, socially and emotionally balanced. Our personal history is inescapable; what is not is our ability to direct the life we want from this point forward. Yet the measure of emotional intelligence largely has been the province of educators, CEOs, entrepreneurs, and human resources professionals. They are keenly interested in how the concept plays out in educational and professional settings, and their assessments aim at maximizing organization integration and performance. The problem is clear. If emotional intelligence is rooted in the individual, how can we use its assessment as a map for self-understanding and as leverage to immediate and future growth? A strong hunger exists among ordinary people to harness the extraordinary power of emotional intelligence as a pathway to personal transformation. Guides to accomplish this vital task in personal growth are few. While there is a great deal written “about” emotional intelligence, a gap exists demonstrating what it looks and feels like to achieve and maintain emotional intelligence, especially if our formative years were paved with drama, trauma and disappointment. This book brings to the reader how an emotionally intelligent life can be achieved if there is a desire for it."

Patrick Kilcarr, Phd (Author), Mel Foster (Narrator)

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The Rational Passover Haggadah

"Dennis Prager, author of The Rational Bible—which, upon its first publication, was the number one bestselling non-fiction book in America—turns his attention to the Haggadah, the book used for the most widely celebrated Jewish ritual, the Passover Seder. As with Prager’s multi-volume commentary on the Torah, the explanations included with this Haggadah are equally valuable for religious and non-religious Jews, as well as for non-Jews. It provides enough thought-provoking ideas and insights to last the reader a lifetime."

Dennis Prager (Author), Mel Foster (Narrator)

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Don't Count On It!: Reflections of Investment Illusions, Capitalism, 'mutual' Funds, Indexing, Entre

"In his Foreword, former Federal Reserve vice-chairman Alan S. Blinder writes, “America’s vaunted financial system let us down big-time during the raucous decade of the 2000s.” In Don’t Count on It!, John C. Bogle—a man Dr. Blinder refers to as “the conscience of Wall Street”—identifies modern capitalism’s flaws, explains how we arrived at this economic crossroads, and examines how we can begin to repair the damage before it’s too late. Don’t Count on It! presents an anthology of Bogle’s latest thinking, focused on how numbers deceive us into seeing things as other than they really are. He also presents a cogent analysis of the chinks in the armor of a financial system that has failed to live up to the responsibility owed to its individual and institutional investors. Read and learn from the wise counsel of Vanguard’s founder about how we deceive ourselves into accepting illusory and evanescent numbers rather than focusing on fundamental and intrinsic reality. Bogle argues that we confuse the market of real investing with the market of expectations,disregarding the beauty of simplicity in favor of the wizardry that creates complex “products” that serve Wall Street at the expense of its clients. Specifically, Bogle discusses: • The unconscionably high costs of financial intermediation • The disgraceful failure of money managers and agents to abide by what should have been traditional fiduciary standards • The unfortunate consequences of the dominance of short-term speculation over long-term investment The subjects of Bogle’s anthology go well beyond the investment markets, as indicated by the seven sections of Don’t Count on It!—Investment Illusions, The Failure of Capitalism, What’s Wrong with “Mutual” Funds, What’s Right with Indexing, Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Idealism and the New Generation, and Heroes and Mentors. His book encourages readers to better understand our complex financial system, to examine it, to debate it, to challenge it, and to fulfill our duty to ask simple questions and demand answers that are understandable, intelligent, and, above all, wise."

John C. Bogle (Author), Mel Foster (Narrator)

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People Buy You: The Real Secret to what Matters Most in Business

"Far too many of todays books on sales and selling deal with the mechanics of selling and pay little or no attention to the emotional-side of selling; however, when all things are equal (and in todays competitive world they almost always are) people buy you--the salesperson. Designed to connect sellers to buyers, People Buy You makes it easier to uncover the needs of the buyer by teaching the five most important steps for making an emotional connection and getting people to buy you. Centered on the foundational fact that when all else is stripped away, selling is simply one person solving another persons problem, and when salespeople solve problems, they close deals. No matter the product, service, or industry buying and selling is a personal, emotional experience and the salespeople who win most often are the ones who tap into those emotions to uncover and solve real problems. Offering a simple, actionable formula for creating instant connections with prospects and customers, People Buy You will enable readers to sell at a whole new level. A level that facilitates stronger, long-term relationships with customers and prospects that increase sales, improve retention, and increase profits."

Jeb Blount (Author), Mel Foster (Narrator)

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Social Innovation, Inc.: 5 Strategies for Driving Business Growth through Social Change

"Social Innovation, Inc. explodes the concept of social responsibility and empowers companies to take back control of the social agenda. These days, its ok not to be purely altruistic. Consumers purchase hybrid cars not to show solidarity for the environment, but primarily to protect their wallets. Donors can use websites like kiva.org to make micro-loans to poor entrepreneurs--and get their money back with interest. Even Wal-Mart, the worlds largest retailer, didnt see a dime of return on hundreds of millions it has spent on philanthropyuntil it implemented its $4 prescription drug program in 2006. Since its inception, the program has generated more than $2 billion in savings for Wal-Mart customers, particularly the uninsured and Medicare recipients. The business impact has been tremendous: the $4 drug program skyrocketed sales at Wal-Mart and Sams Club pharmacies and attracted scores of new customers who, but for the $4 program, would not have walked into a Wal-Mart. What made Wal-Marts program extraordinary is that it was designed as a business strategy. The initiative had a much greater impact on health care than any grant Wal-Mart could make, and more important, it was sustainable. To compete in this new economy, companies must find innovative ways to create economic value through positive social change. Social innovation is about making social change work for the business, not the other way around. Social innovations differ from traditional corporate philanthropy and social responsibility initiatives in four fundamental ways. Social innovations: 1) are primarily designed to produce business value; 2) leverage the machinery of the business to solve social problems; 3) are scalable and sustainable; and 4) often address market failures. "

Jason Saul (Author), Mel Foster (Narrator)

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The Retail Doctor's Guide to Growing Your Business: A Step-by-Step Approach to Quickly Diagnose, Tre

"Imagine that you're the owner of one of the millions of independent businesses struggling in an ailing economy. You?re looking at cutting costs and coping with lower sales; you don?t know where to turn. Time to call-in Bob Phibbs, the Retail Doctor. The Retail Doctor?s Guide to Growing Your Business is a must read for any business owner. Readers will receive the action steps they need to make change happen, offering practical and simple tactics to differentiate their companies from those of competitors. Known for his concrete advice and accessible style, Phibbs provides insights that can be immediately applied by the reader; from how to properly read your financials so you can judge your successes and failures, to insights into why things might not be going quite as planned. While others are out looking for the silver bullet to cure their business problems, readers of The Retail Doctor?s Guide to Growing Your Business will be guided through a series of easily managed small steps that will produce enormous returns."

Bob Phibbs (Author), Mel Foster (Narrator)

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Between Hope and Fear: A History of Vaccines and Human Immunity

"If you have a child in school, you may have heard stories of long-dormant diseases suddenly reappearing―cases of measles, mumps, rubella, and whooping cough cropping up everywhere from elementary schools to Ivy League universities because a select group of parents refuses to vaccinate their children. Between Hope and Fear tells the remarkable story of vaccine-preventable infectious diseases and their social and political implications. While detailing the history of vaccine invention, Michael Kinch reveals the ominous reality that our victories against vaccine-preventable diseases are not permanent―and could easily be undone. In the tradition of John Barry’s The Great Influenza and Siddhartha Mukherjee’s The Emperor of All Maladies, Between Hope and Fear relates the remarkable intersection of science, technology, and disease that has helped eradicate many of the deadliest plagues known to man."

Michael Kinch (Author), Mel Foster (Narrator)

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The Poison Tree: A True Story of Family Terror

"Edgar Award Finalist: The shocking account of a Wyoming father who terrorized his family for years—until his children plotted a deadly solution. One cold November night, in Cheyenne, Wyoming, fifteen-year-old Richard Jahnke Jr., ROTC leader and former Boy Scout, waited for his parents to return from celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the night they met. When his father got out of the car, the boy blasted him through the heart with a twelve-gauge pump-action shotgun. Richard's seventeen-year-old sister, Deborah, was sitting on the living room couch with a high-powered rifle—just in case her brother missed. Hours later the Jahnke kids were behind bars. Days later they made headlines. So did the truth about the house of horrors on Cowpoke Road. Was it cold-blooded murder? Or self-defense? Richard Jahnke Sr., special agent for the IRS, gun collector, and avid reader of Soldier of Fortune, had been subjecting his wife, Maria, and both children to harrowing abuse—physical, psychological, and sexual—for years. Deborah and her brother conspired to finally put a stop to it themselves. But their fate was in the hands of a prejudiced and inept judicial system, and only public outcry could save them. Written with the full and revealing cooperation of the Jahnkes, this finalist for the Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime is 'the ultimate family nightmare, played out in the heartland of America. . . . From the night of the murder through both trials, convictions and both youngsters' eventual release . . . it's gripping reading' (Chicago Tribune)."

Alan Prendergast (Author), Mel Foster (Narrator)

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'Our Crowd': The Great Jewish Families of New York

"The New York Times–bestselling history of the rise of the most powerful and privileged Jewish families in America They immigrated to America from Germany in the nineteenth century with names like Loeb, Sachs, Seligman, Lehman, Guggenheim, and Goldman. From tenements on the Lower East Side to Park Avenue mansions, this handful of Jewish families turned small businesses into imposing enterprises and amassed spectacular fortunes. But despite possessing breathtaking wealth that rivaled the Astors and Rockefellers, they were barred by the gentile establishment from the lofty realm of 'the 400,' a register of New York's most elite, because of their religion and humble backgrounds. In response, they created their own elite '100,' a privileged society as opulent and exclusive as the one that had refused them entry. 'Our Crowd' is the fascinating story of this rarefied society. Based on letters, documents, diary entries, and intimate personal remembrances of family lore by members of these most illustrious clans, it is an engrossing portrait of upper-class Jewish life over two centuries; a riveting story of the bankers, brokers, financiers, philanthropists, and business tycoons who started with nothing and turned their family names into American institutions."

Stephen Birmingham (Author), Mel Foster (Narrator)

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The Grandees: America's Sephardic Elite

"The New World's earliest Jewish immigrants and their unique, little-known history: A New York Times bestseller from the author of Life at the Dakota. In 1654, twenty-three Jewish families arrived in New Amsterdam (now New York) aboard a French privateer. They were the Sephardim, members of a proud orthodox sect that had served as royal advisors and honored professionals under Moorish rule in Spain and Portugal but were then exiled from their homeland by intolerant monarchs. A small, closed, and intensely private community, the Sephardim soon established themselves as businessmen and financiers, earning great wealth. They became powerful forces in society, with some, like banker Haym Salomon, even providing financial support to George Washington's army during the American Revolution. Yet despite its major role in the birth and growth of America, this extraordinary group has remained virtually impenetrable and unknowable to outsiders. From author of 'Our Crowd' Stephen Birmingham, The Grandees delves into the lives of the Sephardim and their historic accomplishments, illuminating the insulated world of these early Americans. Birmingham reveals how these families, with descendants including poet Emma Lazarus, Barnard College founder Annie Nathan Meyer, and Supreme Court Justice Benjamin N. Cardozo, influenced—and continue to influence—American society."

Stephen Birmingham (Author), Mel Foster (Narrator)

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'The Rest of Us': The Rise of America's Eastern European Jews

"The New York Times–bestselling history of the Jewish immigrants from Russia and Poland who altered the American landscape from New York to Hollywood. The wave of Eastern European Jewish immigrants who swept into New York in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by way of Ellis Island were not welcomed by the Jews who had arrived decades before. These refugees from czarist Russia and the Polish shtetls who came to America to escape pogroms and persecution were considered barbaric, uneducated, and too steeped in the traditions of the 'old country' to be accepted by the more refined and already well-established German-Jewish community. But the new arrivals were tough, passionate, and determined, and in no time they were moving up from the ghetto tenements of New York's Lower East Side to make their marks and their fortunes across the country in a variety of fields, from media and popular music to fashion, motion pictures, and even organized crime. Among the unforgettable personages author Stephen Birmingham profiles are radio pioneer David Sarnoff, makeup mogul Helena Rubinstein, Hollywood tycoons Samuel Goldwyn and Harry Cohn, Broadway composer Irving Berlin, and mobster Meyer Lansky. From the author of 'Our Crowd', comes this treasure trove of fascinating tales and unforgettable 'rags-to-riches' success stories that celebrates the indomitable spirit of a unique community."

Stephen Birmingham (Author), Mel Foster (Narrator)

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Audiobooks Narrated by Mel Foster