Audiobooks narrated by Mitch Crawford

All About Adolescence: Understanding Development in Today's World

"All About Adolescence provides a comprehensive and current introduction to all key aspects of adolescent development. Building on the success of The Nature of Adolescence, this book addresses the unprecedented changes affecting young people's lives, including the social media explosion, artificial intelligence (AI) emergence, pandemic impacts, and growing climate emergency awareness. It covers critical contemporary topics including advances in neuroscience and brain development research, evolving discourses around racial and gender identity, mental health and well-being concerns, and the lasting effects of Covid-19 on adolescent development. What sets this book apart is the authentic voice of young people themselves. Interviews with individuals aged 14–18 from diverse backgrounds are woven throughout all eleven chapters, providing vivid, real-world insights into what it means to be an adolescent in today's world. The book emphasizes a positive perspective on adolescence while developing the innovative STAGE theoretical framework, examining how young people actively construct their own developmental pathways through this crucial life transition. From brain development and identity formation to peer relationships and resilience strategies, each chapter combines cutting-edge research with genuine adolescent perspectives. This authoritative work is essential for anyone studying human development at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, as well as professionals including teachers, social workers, health workers, counselors, and youth workers seeking to understand and support young people navigating this complex and formative period."

John Coleman (Author), Mitch Crawford (Narrator)

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Andy & Me: Crisis & Transformation on the Lean Journey: Second Edition

"Second Edition of a Shingo Prize Winner Based on the author's personal experience with Toyota’s master teachers and with companies in the midst of great change, Andy & Me: Crisis & Transformation on the Lean Journey, now in its second edition, is a business novel set in a failing New Jersey auto plant focusing on the tribulations of Tom Pappas, the plant manager. The situations, characters, and plant politics will ring true with many listeners. This highly popular work follows Tom's relationship with Andy Saito, a reclusive retired Toyota guru whom Tom persuades to help save his plant through the teaching of the legendary Toyota Production System (TPS). On this journey, the listener learns that TPS is more than just a collection of tools; it entails a new way of thinking and behaving. Though Tom finds success—both in his plant and in his personal life—he learns from Andy that successful improvement is endless and eternal. This edition includes study questions after each chapter to support your learning and help you tell some of your own stories."

Pascal Dennis (Author), Mitch Crawford (Narrator)

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Treating Emotional Dysregulation in Kids & Adolescents: Ready-To-Use Interventions for Anxiety, Worry, Reactivity, and Depression

"Practical, ready-to-use interventions to help kids and teens ease anxiety, improve mood, and stay in control. That's what you'll find in Treating Emotional Dysregulation in Kids & Adolescents. Written for front-line professionals in schools, communities, and therapy offices, this one-of-a-kind resource offers structured, ready-made frameworks that target the three most common mental health struggles in young people: anxiety, depression, and emotional dysregulation and reactivity. With clear directions, jargon-free handouts and exercises, scripts, and more, this unique guide has everything you need to provide evidence-based interventions that feel 'doable' for kids so they can understand their emotional experiences, identify patterns, and learn skills to feel better. The psychoeducation, skill-building, and lifestyle changes included in this book can be implemented right away to help kids: identify and interrupt anxious thoughts, regulate their 'anxiety alarms,' and overcome avoidance; get unstuck from depressed moods, engage in daily tasks, and improve motivation and self-esteem; tolerate frustration, ride big waves of emotions, and think before acting; manage the stress of school, extracurriculars, friends, social media, and family; and pursue more comprehensive treatment if needed. You don't have to be an expert to guide kids toward more resilience, self-control, and empowerment. You just need to be equipped, confident, and willing to show up."

Jeffrey Olrick PhD (Author), Mitch Crawford (Narrator)

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The Devil's Cup: A History of the World According to Coffee

"In this captivating book, Stewart Lee Allen treks three-quarters of the way around the world on a caffeinated quest to answer these profound questions: Did the advent of coffee give birth to an enlightened western civilization? Is coffee, indeed, the substance that drives history? From the cliffhanging villages of Southern Yemen, where coffee beans were first cultivated eight hundred years ago, to a cavernous coffeehouse in Calcutta, the drinking spot for two of India's three Nobel Prize winners . . . from Parisian salons and cafés where the French Revolution was born, to the roadside diners and chain restaurants of the good ol’ USA, where something resembling brown water passes for coffee, Allen wittily proves that the world was wired long before the Internet. And those who deny the power of coffee (namely tea-drinkers) do so at their own peril."

Stewart Lee Allen (Author), Mitch Crawford (Narrator)

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Capitalizing on College: How Higher Education Went from Mission Driven to Margin Obsessed

"In Capitalizing on College Joshua Brown illustrates how tuition-driven colleges and universities have been forced to innovate and adopt market-driven financial strategies. These institutions have longstanding commitments to offering access and opportunity to marginalized students, but the promise of improved educational outcomes stemming from federal policy changes aimed at increasing market competition never materialized. Instead competition for tuition dollars meant these colleges had to adopt new strategies to find more students to offset losses. Capitalizing on College reveals how three of the strategies these schools adopted were initially successful but ultimately fell short in raising enough revenue to support operating a residential campus. Only a fourth accelerated strategy of going to scale raised the necessary funds—but at the cost of undercutting their mission by leading them to view students as dollars. Capitalizing on College reveals the untold story of the missing middle. It shows how the unanticipated consequences of federal policy changes have ultimately distorted the values of mission-driven schools. Capitalizing on College offers a timely and fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the changes shaking higher education and what the future holds for colleges and universities in this new financial climate."

Joshua Travis Brown (Author), Mitch Crawford (Narrator)

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Lead Like the Boss: The Bruce Springsteen Framework to Elevating Your Leadership

"In Lead Like the Boss: The Bruce Springsteen Framework to Elevating Your Leadership, veteran strategist, marketer, and management consultant, Andy Freed, delivers a compelling and actionable message about leadership and communication for everyone expected to inspire others to perform at their best. Freed ditches the sterile, tired formulaic approach you'll find in most 'leadership guides' and focuses squarely on the crux of leadership: clearly communicating with others in a way that captures their attention and persuades them to buy in. Following the arc of Bruce 'The Boss' Springsteen's legendary stage performances, the author demonstrates how to communicate your ideas to your followers and colleagues in ways that are authentic, intentional, and effective. You'll learn how to mold your communication style to match specific kinds of situations, encounters, and audiences. Lead Like the Boss shows you how to prepare for specific presentations and match the content and style of your message with the feelings you're trying to bring out in your audience; use consistent core messages to maintain alignment to company goals and vision; and focus on the things your people and your company are doing right—and thanking them appropriately—to inspire loyalty and reward exceptional performance."

Andy Freed (Author), Mitch Crawford (Narrator)

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Airstream Country: A Geologic Journey Across the American West

"A herd of bison standing in the snow. Layered bluffs of multicolored sandstone. A silver Airstream trailer on a mountain highway. These are familiar sights for Neil Mathison and his wife, Susan. Newly retired, their son in college, they embark upon a great American road trip 'uncoupled from the tyranny of calendars or a specific journey.' Airstream Country recounts their travels across the western United States as they move from Montana to Malibu and Seattle to Silverton, winding their way through millions of years of geological history with their Airstream in tow. Along the way they encounter upheavals and depositions, ancient seas and young mountains, and stone towers and striated canyons, which are all illuminated by Mathison's knowledgeable commentary. Even after thousands of miles and eons of geology, their adventures are never finished, for, as Mathison writes, 'We learn by travel where we ought to travel more.'"

Neil Mathison (Author), Mitch Crawford (Narrator)

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Understanding the Artificial Intelligence Revolution: Between Catastrophe and Utopia

"After many years during which it languished in relative obscurity, in remote classrooms of computer science departments and in small prototype projects for tech companies, artificial intelligence (AI) is now a searingly hot topic across the media. Yet much of the public discussion is so feverish that an understanding of the basic scientific and engineering elements of the field is easily lost, often resulting in exaggerated claims, as well as dangerously neglected threats. This concise and sober book presents a brief history of AI, explaining in clear language the central engineering innovations that have produced the current revolution. It distinguishes between imagined dangers and the very real problems that AI is creating. Spread across seven short and accessible chapters, this book explains the developments behind deep learning and the applications of deep neural networks (DNNs). It addresses both the imagined and actual risks posed by the AI revolution, before outlining the elements of a rational public policy on AI, covering topics like tech monopolies, disinformation, bias, hate speech, intellectual property rights, and inequality. Understanding the Artificial Intelligence Revolution: Between Catastrophe and Utopia is the ideal book for anyone seeking a clear and informed introduction to AI."

Shalom Lappin (Author), Mitch Crawford (Narrator)

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Hone: How Purposeful Leaders Defy Drift

"Have a problem with your organization's strategy in an era of accelerating, exponential change? Modern business orthodoxy has an easy answer: transform it. Hone: How Purposeful Leaders Defy Drift argues this thinking is itself in need of an overhaul. Rather than devote time to expensive, long, and often unsuccessful transformations, leaders should instead focus on holistically designing and honing the management systems that are the nervous systems of their businesses. The third in a trilogy of business strategy books written by renowned strategists and two-time Thinkers50–nominated authors Steven Goldbach and Geoff Tuff, this book explains why and how to optimally hone your organization's execution of its strategy, with highlights including: - The importance of recognizing and taking action to defy the drift that often afflicts organizations undergoing massive transformation - Guidelines on how to design and continually reshape effective management systems to influence organizational and individual behaviors - Reframing the job of CEOs to be Chief System Designers for their organizations - Reflections on how honing principles within organizations can be used on broader societal challenges"

Geoff Tuff, Steven Goldbach (Author), Mitch Crawford (Narrator)

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Collaboration: What Makes It Work, 3rd Edition

"This third edition of Collaboration: What Makes It Work is an example of the enduring importance of collaboration. Reaction to the first edition, published in 1992, showed that researchers and practitioners alike found it a useful tool. They appreciated its emphasis on providing a practical reference for decision-making that built upon credible, research-based information. The twenty-first century has brought with it rapid changes and increasingly complex challenges. This third edition in large part responds to the complexity witnessed daily in the authors' work with community, nonprofit, and government organizations. It offers new research and insights paired with practitioner wisdom, adding a 'how-to' perspective to help listeners put the success factors to work. Nearly twenty-five years after the first edition was published, it is not just the 'how' of collaboration that has changed—who we are collaborating with has changed as well. Today, nearly every collaboration involves some degree of working across difference. Bringing together diverse people, organizations, or sectors in a way that will foster collaborative success requires a unique set of skills. This third edition will ground you in the factors that support successful collaboration and assist you in incorporating those factors into your work."

Kirsten M. Johnson, Paul W. Mattessich PhD (Author), Mitch Crawford (Narrator)

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Against the Wind: Reflections on a Self-Determined Life

"The 'Mountain King' looks back on eight decades, summit controversies, and his lasting legacy of climbing for the experience and the journey Reinhold Messner is one of history's greatest mountaineers, a man who pushed the frontier of what is possible for a whole generation of climbers and beyond. In his new memoir, Against the Wind, Messner looks back on a life of accomplishments and recounts some of the most important episodes after turning eighty in 2024. He also addresses darker times and infamous controversies–including being discredited as a young mountaineer, his divorce and remarriage, Guinness stripping him of his world records in 2023, the recent revisions to measurements of 8000-meter summits, and the discovery of his brother Gunther's remains on Nanga Parbat. This new memoir is classic Messner–no apologies, no regrets, and no backing down."

Reinhold Messner (Author), Mitch Crawford (Narrator)

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Flirting with Mermaids: The Unpredictable Life of a Sailboat Delivery Skipper

"Over the course of twenty years of delivering sailboats to far-flung quaysides, John Kretschmer has had innumerable adventures, both humorous and terrifying. In Flirting with Mermaids, he recounts the most memorable of them. He crosses the Western Caribbean with a crew of eccentric Swedes researching ancient Mayan mariners, lands in Aden at the outbreak of civil war, and endures a North Atlantic crossing during which he discovers the existence of Force 13 winds. Approaching Japan at the end of a particularly trying delivery, he finds himself sailing in 'a high impact debris zone,' but his resolve is unshaken. 'If a piece of rocketship jetsam fell out of the sky and sank [me] after encounters with Hurricane Floyd, General Noriega, a tsunami, an erupting volcano, and Typhoon Roy, then it was meant to be.'"

John Kretschmer (Author), Mitch Crawford (Narrator)

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