Audiobooks narrated by Suzie Althens

At Every Depth: Our Growing Knowledge of the Changing Oceans

The world's oceans are changing at a drastic pace. In response, the people who know the ocean most intimately are taking action for the sake of our shared future. Community scientists track species in California tidepools. Researchers dive into the waters around Sydney to replant kelp forests. Scientists and First Nations communities collaborate to restore clam gardens in the Pacific Northwest. In At Every Depth, the oceanographer Tessa Hill and the science journalist Eric Simons profile these and other efforts to understand and protect marine environments, taking listeners to habitats from shallow tidepools to the deep sea. They delve into the many human connections to the ocean-how people live with and make their living from the waters-journeying to places as far-flung as coral reefs, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, and the Arctic and Antarctic poles. At Every Depth shares the stories of people from all walks of life, including scientists, coastal community members, Indigenous people, shellfish farmers, and fisheries workers. It brings together varied viewpoints, showing how scientists' research and local and Indigenous knowledge can complement each other to inform a more sustainable future. This book offers a narrative perspective on the changing oceans, letting us see how our relationships to the oceans are changing too.

Eric Simons, Tessa Hill (Author), Suzie Althens (Narrator)

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Testing Education: A Teacher's Memoir

Since the 2002 implementation of No Child Left Behind, the American public education system has been fundamentally changed. Excessive testing, standardized curriculums, destructive demands on children, corporate-style evaluations, and top-down mandates have become the norm. In response, record numbers of demoralized educators have quit, and millions of students have been left educationally impoverished. This troubling transformation has been exhaustively critiqued by scholars and commentators. Yet one crucial voice has been missing. In Testing Education, Kathy Greeley recounts the impact of education reform from a teacher's point of view. Based on a teaching career ranging nearly forty years, Greeley details how schools went from learning communities infused with excitement, intellectual stimulation, and joy to sterile spaces of stress, intimidation, and fear. In this ultimately hopeful memoir, Greeley asks us to learn from the past to reimagine the future of public education.

Kathy Greeley (Author), Suzie Althens (Narrator)

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Forgiveness after Trauma: A Path to Find Healing and Empowerment

Susannah Griffith wishes she had spent less time thinking about forgiveness. But as a Christian minister, a biblical scholar, and a survivor of abuse, she has learned a lot about it. In Forgiveness after Trauma, Griffith explores what the Bible says-and doesn't say-about the biblical call to forgive. She helps listeners understand this command in ways that are healing and restorative, framing it within broader concerns around lament, anger, accountability, release and rebirth, and reconciliation. The result is what Griffith calls 'trauma-informed forgiveness,' which takes seriously God's forgiveness of sinners while centering survivors of abuse and aiding their healing. This view also empowers those who have been harmed in other ways by abuses of power and justice in religious institutions. Listeners will resonate with Griffith's astute biblical analysis and personal reflection, which point to God's love-a love that never includes abuse and strives for justice for the vulnerable.

Susannah Griffith (Author), Suzie Althens (Narrator)

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Wear It Well: Reclaim Your Closet and Rediscover the Joy of Getting Dressed

Personal stylist Allison Bornstein has mastered the art of helping people look good and feel good. In Wear It Well, she shares her philosophy and outlines systems that will bring your style into alignment and create a wardrobe that delights your spirit. Wear It Well will inspire you to identify, articulate, and develop your personal style, and dress with ease. UNIQUE BLEND OF WELLNESS, SELF-CARE, AND FASHION: The only 'Joy of Dressing' book there is: no other book merges fashion, wellness, and self-care. This book will help take away the stress and anxiety around dressing. A PROVEN PROGRAM: The AB Closet Editing System and Three Word Method are simple ways to organize your closet and your mind. A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO BODY POSITIVITY: Wear It Well discusses how to combat and banish the voices of shame that permeate fashion culture and our own heads when we buy clothing. PROMOTES SUSTAINABLE FASHION: Bornstein's program is based on shopping our closets rather than going out to buy an all-new wardrobe. She demonstrates how to choose ten versatile pieces to mix and match within our wardrobe. She also encourages listeners to donate 'never going to wear' clothes and to dress intentionally.

Allison Bornstein (Author), Suzie Althens (Narrator)

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Remaking the World: Decolonization and the Cold War

Remaking the World examines the connections between the Cold War and decolonization, which helped define the post-World War II global order. Drawing on new scholarship, this comprehensive study provides a chronological overview from World War I to the Soviet collapse and highlights key developments in the international system as decolonization unfolded in tandem with the Cold War. Through six carefully selected case studies-India, Egypt, the Congo, Vietnam, Angola, and Iran-historian Jessica M. Chapman addresses the shifting of Soviet, American, Chinese, and Cuban policies, the centrality of modernization, the role of the United Nations, the often-outsized influence of regional actors like Israel and South Africa, and seminal post-Vietnam War shifts in the international system. Each of the case studies analyzes at least one geopolitical turning point, demonstrating that the Cold War and decolonization were mutually constitutive processes in which local, national, and regional developments altered the superpower competition. Chapman describes a picture of the complexities of international relations and the ways in which local communist and democratic movements differed from their Soviet and American counterparts, including their visions for independence and success.

Jessica M. Chapman (Author), Suzie Althens (Narrator)

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Chasing the Intact Mind: How the Severely Autistic and Intellectually Disabled Were Excluded from th

The concept of the intact mind, first described in a 2006 memoir, refers to the idea that inside every autistic child is an intelligent, typical child waiting to be liberated by the right diet, the right treatment intervention, the right combination of supports and accommodations. The sentiment itself is not new. Though the idea gives hope to parents devastated by a child's diagnosis, Amy Lutz argues that it has also contributed to widespread dismantling of services badly needed by severely disabled children and their families. In Chasing the Intact Mind, Lutz traces the history of the intact mind concept, explaining how it influences current policy and practice affecting those with autism. Lutz provides a historical analysis of the intact mind narrative and describes how the concept-originally unique to autism-has come to inform current debates at the heart of intellectual and developmental disability practice and policy in the United States. Lutz argues that focusing on the intact mind and marginalizing those with severe disability reproduces historic patterns of discrimination that yoked human worth to intelligence, and that it is only by making space for the impaired mind that we will be able to resolve these ongoing clashes-as well as even larger questions of personhood, dependency, and care.

Amy S.F. Lutz (Author), Suzie Althens (Narrator)

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AI at the Edge: Solving Real-World Problems with Embedded Machine Learning

Edge AI is transforming the way computers interact with the real world, allowing IoT devices to make decisions using the 99% of sensor data that was previously discarded due to cost, bandwidth, or power limitations. With techniques like embedded machine learning, developers can capture human intuition and deploy it to any target-from ultra-low power microcontrollers to embedded Linux devices. This practical guide gives engineering professionals, including product managers and technology leaders, an end-to-end framework for solving real-world industrial, commercial, and scientific problems with edge AI. You'll explore every stage of the process, from data collection to model optimization to tuning and testing, as you learn how to design and support edge AI and embedded ML products. Edge AI is destined to become a standard tool for systems engineers. This high-level road map helps you get started. In this book, you'll develop your expertise in AI and ML for edge devices; understand which projects are best solved with edge AI; explore key design patterns for edge AI apps; learn an iterative workflow for developing AI systems; build a team with the skills to solve real-world problems; and follow a responsible AI process to create effective products.

Daniel Situnayake, Jenny Plunkett (Author), Suzie Althens (Narrator)

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Second-Chance Horses: True Stories of the Horses We Rescue and the Horses Who Rescue Us

From miniature donkeys to enormous draft horses, from regal Arabian stallions to sassy Shetland ponies, horses and other equines bring us delight and comfort whenever we encounter them. Even more so, perhaps, when humans and horses are brought together through a rescue. Whether someone has started a rescue ranch on purpose or circumstances align to match up the right horse with the right person, stories of second chances warm our hearts and restore our hope. This emotional and inspiring collection of true stories introduces you to a pony who helps a little girl get over her fear of riding, a donkey who discovers his purpose protecting vulnerable lambs, blind horses who teach their human about courage, and even a pony who somehow figures out how to drive a golf cart. By turns humorous and heartwarming, these delightful tales are the perfect companion for those times you long to slow down, take a load off, and enjoy the ride.

Callie Smith Grant (Author), Suzie Althens (Narrator)

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Settling the Boom: The Sites and Subjects of Bakken Oil

Examines how settler colonial and sexist infrastructures and narratives order a resource boom Over the past decade, new oil plays have unsettled U.S. energy landscapes and imaginaries. Settling the Boom studies how the disruptive forces of an oil boom in the northern Great Plains are contained through the extension of settler temporalities, reassertions of heteropatriarchy, and the tethering of life to the volatility of oil and its cruel optimisms. This collection reveals the results of sustained research in Williston, North Dakota, the epicenter of the 'Bakken Boom.' While the boom brought a rapid influx of capital and workers, the book questions simple timelines of before and after. Instead, Settling the Boom demonstrates how the unsettling forces of an oil play resolve through normative narratives and material and affective infrastructures that support settler colonialism's violent extension and its gendered orders of time and space. Considering a wide range of evidence, from urban and regional policy, interviews with city officials, media, photography, and film, these essays analyze the ongoing material, aesthetic, and narrative ways of life and land in the Bakken.

Bruce Braun, Mary E. Thomas (Author), Suzie Althens (Narrator)

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X-Teams, Updated Edition, with a New Preface: How to Build Teams that Lead, Innovate, and Succeed

A classic work on teams and collaboration-now updated with a new preface-shows how an externally focused team model is the key to fueling innovation and your organization's success. 'Good' teams build camaraderie, confidence in their abilities, and a solid process for working together. But these internal dynamics-while positive in themselves-can create a wall between the team and the outside world. And that wall can prevent the team from adapting to change and delivering value to the organization. In this updated edition, Deborah Ancona and Henrik Bresman describe an externally focused team model-the X-team-that is even more relevant today than when it was first introduced. X-teams, with their distinctively flexible membership and leadership structure, continuously reach outward to fuel the innovation process. With new examples and research from organizations such as Microsoft, Takeda, and the Museum of Modern Art, Ancona and Bresman show you how to build X-teams that: keep pace with shifts in markets, technologies, cultures, and your competition; innovate by moving quickly from generating ideas to executing and diffusing them throughout your organization; and employ 'distributed leadership' to unlock crucial information, expertise, and new ways of working together-wherever these qualities reside within or outside your company.

Deborah Ancona, Henrik Bresman (Author), Suzie Althens (Narrator)

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Empaths On Their Soul Path: A Guide in Your Awakening

Empaths are Clairsentients/Sensitives, absorbing energy and emotions of others until having the tools to do otherwise. Using specific tools, the negativity of others becomes peripheral like background noise. It's a game changer! You can jumpstart your empath journey in awakening, with such things in this book as: Empath Toolbox (create calm within and gateway to receiving valuable information), raising your energetic frequency vibration (stopping outside negativity from residing in you), boundaries to set you free, recognizing your empath gifts, exploring the soul path (life purpose, soul healing, reincarnation, intention, and manifestation), how to connect with divinity and spirit guides, new ways to bring more love into your life (including dealing with the empath-narcissist magnet), forgiveness (it's importance, how to do it), communication skills for empaths, unlocking your intuition, and much more. The follow-up sections to the chapters are packed with exercises, affirmations, and resources to further your awareness and growth. She shares what has worked for the empaths she has coached and offers realistic, grounded processes that inspire and amaze all those that use them. Empaths are beacons of light; all are drawn to light that resonates forth. Being born empaths, we are laying a new foundation for humanity.

Corri Milner Cpc, Corri Milner, CPC (Author), Suzie Althens (Narrator)

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Justice for Bonnie

When police told Karen Foster that her eighteen-year-old daughter, Bonnie Craig, had died in a hiking accident, she knew the pieces of the investigation just didn't add up. Bonnie would have never ditched her classes at the University of Alaska to go hiking. And she didn't drive-so how would she have reached McHugh Creek, miles outside of Anchorage, in the first place? Armed with little more than her own conviction, Karen set out to find the truth behind her daughter's death. After a long series of false leads and dead ends, it seemed the case would forever go unsolved. Then, after twelve years of public campaigning, private despair, and increasingly tense dealings with the detectives working the case, Karen received an e-mail that would change everything: the system, at long last, had produced a match for the unknown DNA in the case-from a man in a jail all the way across the country. Here is the chilling tale of a mother's unflagging fight to track down the monster who stole her daughter's life-and the battle to ensure that he, and others like him, would no longer be able to evade justice.

I.J. Schecter, Karen Foster (Author), Suzie Althens (Narrator)

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Audiobooks Narrated by Suzie Althens