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The Substance of Consciousness: A Comprehensive Defense of Contemporary Substance Dualism
In The Substance of Consciousness, two distinguished philosophers deliver a unique and powerful defense of contemporary substance dualism, which makes the claim that the human person is an embodied fundamental, immaterial, and unifying substance. The authors present the most comprehensive, up-to-date work on substance dualism in the field, as well as a detailed history of how property and substance dualism have been presented and evaluated over the last 150 years. Listeners will also find: - A thorough examination of the recent shift away from standard physicalism and the renaissance of substance dualism - Comprehensive explorations of the likely future of substance dualism in the twenty-first century - Practical discussion of new and rigorous critiques of significant physicality alternatives - Extensive treatments of philosophy of mind debates about the roles played by staunch/faint-hearted naturalism and theism in establishing or presuming methodology, epistemic priorities, and prior metaphysical commitments The Substance of Consciousness will earn a place in the libraries of consciousness researchers, philosophical theologians, and religious studies scholars.
Brandon Rickabaugh, J.P. Moreland (Author), Stephen R. Thorne (Narrator)
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Creepy Analytics: Avoid Crossing the Line and Establish Ethical HR Analytics for Smarter Workforce D
The potential of HR analytics is a major discussion among scholars, practitioners, thought leaders, and technology vendors, with companies like Amazon, Apple, Google, and Meta digging deeply into HR research and analytics practices that extend beyond simple metrics, scorecards, and reporting. Additionally, ethical questions have begun to arise about the potential abuses of HR analytics with respect to technological advancements and the 'datafication' of personal characteristics, preferences, and behaviors that have little relevance to job performance. As a former chief human resources officer, head of Global HR Research and Analytics at a Fortune 100, and thought leader on this subject, Salvatore Falletta has witnessed first-hand the emergence of 'creepy analytics' as a hot-button issue. In this one-of-a-kind guide, Falletta delivers a proven step-by-step process for establishing HR analytics capabilities that serve employees and organizations alike. You'll learn how to rethink and redefine HR analytics, determine stakeholder requirements, gather and transform data, communicate intelligence results, and establish an ethical ecosystem to ensure HR analytics remains a force for good.
Salvatore V. Falletta (Author), Stephen R. Thorne (Narrator)
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Customer Communities: Engage and Retain Customers to Build the Future of Your Business
Make community building your ultimate business growth strategy In Customer Communities, Nick Mehta and Robin Van Lieshout deliver an actionable playbook on how to cultivate meaningful communities that fuel quantifiable business growth. In the book, you'll learn how to capitalize on this new growth strategy to scale your company and develop excitement around your products and your firm. The authors outline the ten foundational Laws of Community, explaining why community development does not need to be expensive and how to integrate community in the heart of your customer journey. You'll also find: - Strategies for creating a cross functional customer engagement team - Techniques for building community in places that aren't the web or on social media - Ways to bring your organization's culture and values into your community with a human-first alignment An essential roadmap to community development for customer success, marketing, support and product teams, and other entrepreneurs, founders, and executive business leaders. Customer Communities will earn a place on the bookshelves of anyone with a stake in organizational growth and resilience.
Nick Mehta, Robin Van Lieshout (Author), Stephen R. Thorne (Narrator)
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The Most Interesting American: Personal Encounters, Quotations, and First-Hand Impressions of Theodo
Theodore Roosevelt largely is known today by stereotypes and his many accomplishments-but the full and fascinating essence of the man is fading. In this book, TR charges back! Historian Rick Marschall has collected almost five hundred quotations, descriptions, impressions, and memories of the 'Most Interesting American' derived from vintage newspapers, magazines, scrapbooks, diaries, letters, and so much more. In chapters devoted to his personality as a family man, a conservationist, an intellectual, patriot, activist, and as an American TR comes alive as never before seen. In more than a century since his death, the personal attributes that endeared Theodore to his America have become obscured. In this book of firsthand, eyewitness accounts TR comes roaring back to us in all of his astonishing ways!
Rick Marschall (Author), Stephen R. Thorne (Narrator)
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Strong Supply Chains Through Resilient Operations: Five Principles for Leaders to Win in a Volatile
In Strong Supply Chains Through Resilient Operations: Five Principles for Leaders to Win in a Volatile World, a team of dedicated, veteran operations strategists delivers a practical and hands-on discussion of how to future-proof your company's supply chains through a relentless focus on resilience. In the book, you'll discover how to shift your firm's emphasis from 'low-cost' to 'low volatility' as you protect your company against the supply and demand shocks associated pandemics, wars, labor disputes, and trade conflicts. You'll also learn about: real-world examples of companies realizing long-term competitive advantage by implementing the shifts advocated by the authors; why seeking to build mutually beneficial, long-term relationships with dependable suppliers is preferable to always choosing the cheapest option; and how a renewed focus on diversity and new ways of working can create resilient operations teams that pass on value to your customers. An effective and essential discussion of one of the most prominent challenges facing contemporary companies around the world, Strong Supply Chains Through Resilient Operations is an essential book for managers, executives, business leaders, entrepreneurs, operations and supply chain professionals, and anyone else with a stake in the smooth operation of their firm.
Marc Lakner, Michael F. Strohmer, Sherri He, Suketu Gandhi, Tiffany Hickerson (Author), Stephen R. Thorne (Narrator)
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The Forgotten Art of Being Ordinary: A Human Manifesto in the Age of the Meta
We're addicted to our devices. Our kids are too. None of us seem to be better for it. We all know this, but what can we do practically to become less isolated, polarized, and disconnected? This book answers that question with a bold idea: In an age of personal brands and artificial intelligence, perhaps it's time to relearn the forgotten art of being ordinary. In his follow-up to Get Weird, writer and media producer, CJ Casciotta, outlines nine practical solutions and illuminates a better way to live in a culture addicted to media technology, a lifeboat for anyone who feels like they're drowning in a sea of digital noise. This is a book for those who are tired of feeling like technology owns them, their children, their politics, and their livelihood, a hopeful and realistic game plan for navigating the twenty-first century mindfully without losing their souls. The future of our society will depend on the choices we make right now when it comes to our communication methods. It's a crisis as urgent as climate change, yet far fewer people are talking about it. The Forgotten Art of Being Ordinary will give you the language you've been looking for to start changing the conversation.
Cj Casciotta (Author), Stephen R. Thorne (Narrator)
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Awesome Arizona: 200 Amazing Facts about the Grand Canyon State
Which state has the most national monuments? Where in America can you find one of the Seven Natural Wonders of the World? Where is the largest contiguous forest of ponderosa pine? In Awesome Arizona, Roger Naylor, 'the Dean of Arizona Travel Writers,' has amassed 200 amazing facts and fascinating commentary about his beloved state. This is the fast-paced, funny encyclopedia that lovers of Arizona have been craving. Awesome Arizona captures the essence of the sixth-largest state, from its rowdy past to its epic landscape bulging with mountains, slashed by canyons, and blown apart by volcanoes. Learn about trees that once shaded dinosaurs, the West's most legendary gunfight, the world's largest antique, the best-preserved meteor crater on earth, where the post office still delivers mail by mule, the longest poker game in history, how Arizona saved the unicorn, and so much more.
Roger Naylor (Author), Stephen R. Thorne (Narrator)
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Secrets of Strong Couples: Personal Stories and Couples Communication Skills for Long-Lasting Relati
Keep Your Marriage Strong Get partnership and marriage help tested by real couples. The relationship experts behind the bestselling The Five Core Conversations for Couples put together another essential couples book for relationships. Secrets of Better Relationships shows you how real couples have made it through to the other side of real crises-together. Learn how to overcome couples communication hardships, marriage fights, and more. Walk alongside committed partners as you learn how to fix your marriage or relationship, no matter what life throws at you. Whether you're dealing with infertility, job loss, infidelity, grief, or other relationship strife, these personal stories provide all the relationship and marriage advice you need to thrive! With this essential couples gift, you'll find: - Practical advice from authors experienced in couples, marriage counseling, and divorce law - Examples of how to persevere through life's most difficult trials without losing each other - Real couples communication help from partners who are not afraid to share their difficult stories.
David Bulitt, Julie Bulitt (Author), Stephen R. Thorne (Narrator)
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Why Not Better and Cheaper?: Healthcare and Innovation
An engaging account of innovation in healthcare and why the results fall short for patients and society. The evolution of the cell phones we carry in our pockets demonstrates that quality can increase while prices fall. Why doesn't healthcare also get better and cheaper? In Why Not Better and Cheaper?, James B. Rebitzer and Robert S. Rebitzer offer an answer to this question. Bringing together research on incentives, social norms, and market competition, they argue that the healthcare system generates the wrong kinds of innovation. It is too easy to profit from low-value innovations and too hard to profit from innovations that reduce the costs of care. The result is a healthcare system that is profusely innovative yet remarkably ineffective in discovering ways to deliver increased value at lower cost. Why Not Better and Cheaper? sheds new light on the trajectory of innovation in healthcare, and how to point innovation in a better direction.
James B. Rebitzer, Robert S. Rebitzer (Author), Stephen R. Thorne (Narrator)
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Never Say Whatever: How Small Decisions Make a Big Difference
Calling in late to a Zoom meeting with kids playing in the background. Avoiding optional meetings. Dodging low-profile assignments. Giving HR lunch-and-learns a hard pass. There are countless ways we've become the apathetic version of our corporate selves-dismissing what seems unimportant with a big shrug emoji. Whatever. Who cares? In Never Say Whatever, veteran author and radio host Dr. Richard Moran reveals why you should care: The W-word is a career killer. In fact, he likens it to the similarly NSFW F-bomb. It can be a whole sentence, an attitude, an 'OK,' or nothing at all. It's a word that comes in handy and can be habit forming, but the consequences of using it as your fallback response can have drastically negative results over time. The numerous daily decisions we make, both at work and in life, are small chances to make big impact. Understanding this-and banishing that 'meh' attitude-is key to success. Written with unflinching honesty, humor, and interviews with corporate decision makers, Never Say Whatever offers a blueprint to help everyone understand why and how the choices we make, even the minor ones, are in fact pivotal to professional development and career trajectory.
Richard A. Moran (Author), Stephen R. Thorne (Narrator)
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Leadership by the Number: Using the Enneagram to Strengthen Educational Leadership
In Leadership by the Number: Using the Enneagram to Strengthen Educational Leadership, distinguished academic and leadership coach Dr. Jon Singletary walks you through how to use the ancient wisdom of the Enneagram of Personality with modern contemplative practices to transform how you lead your department, school, college, or university. You'll learn to effectively balance the conflicting demands of your role with greater patience, skill, and peace-of-mind by changing how you think, act, and feel every day. In the book, the author provides: - Explanations of the benefits of self-aware leadership, including the identification of competing forces and understanding stakeholders' strengths and weaknesses - Insights into the critical role of self-awareness in educational leadership - Concrete strategies for strengthening university, college, unit, and departmental leadership A can't-miss resource for higher education administrators and other school leaders, Leadership by the Number also belongs in the hands of students of education and leaders-in-training who wish to maximize the impact they can have on the institutions they'll one day lead.
Jon E. Singletary (Author), Stephen R. Thorne (Narrator)
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Under a Wild Sky: John James Audubon and the Making of The Birds of America
In this Pulitzer Prize-finalist biography, the author of Mad at the World examines the little-known life of the man behind the well-known bird survey. John James Audubon is renowned for his masterpiece of natural history and art, The Birds of America, the first nearly comprehensive survey of the continent's birdlife. And yet few people understand, and many assume incorrectly, what sort of man he was. How did the illegitimate son of a French sea captain living in Haiti, who lied both about his parentage and his training, rise to become one of the greatest natural historians ever and the greatest name in ornithology? In Under a Wild Sky this Pulitzer Prize finalist, William Souder reveals that Audubon did not only compose the most famous depictions of birds the world has ever seen, but he also composed a brilliant mythology of self. In this dazzling work of biography, Souder charts the life of a driven man who, despite all odds, became the historical figure we know today. 'A meticulous biography and a fascinating portrait of a young nation.' -San Francisco Chronicle 'As richly endowed and densely packed as the forests of Audubon's day.' -Minneapolis Star-Tribune
William Souder (Author), Stephen R. Thorne (Narrator)
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