Audiobooks narrated by Tim Lundeen

Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations Audiobook

"Dirt, soil, call it what you want, it's everywhere we go. It is the root of our existence, supporting our feet, our farms, our cities. This fascinating yet disquieting audiobook finds, however, that we are running out of dirt, and it's no laughing matter. An engaging natural and cultural history of soil that sweeps from ancient civilizations to modern times, Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations explores the compelling idea that we are, and have long been, using up Earth's soil. Once bare of protective vegetation and exposed to wind and rain, cultivated soils erode bit by bit, slowly enough to be ignored in a single lifetime but fast enough over centuries to limit the lifespan of civilizations. A rich mix of history, archaeology and geology, Dirt traces the role of soil use and abuse in the history of Mesopotamia, Ancient Greece, the Roman Empire, China, European colonialism, Central America, and the American push westward. We see how soil has shaped us and we have shaped soil as society after society has risen, prospered, and plowed through a natural endowment of fertile dirt. David R. Montgomery sees in the recent rise of organic and no-till farming the hope for a new agricultural revolution that might help us avoid the fate of previous civilizations. Produced and published by Echo Point Books & Media, an independent bookseller in Brattleboro, Vermont. ©2012 David R. Montgomery (P)"

David R. Montgomery (Author), Tim Lundeen (Narrator)

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Life in the Negative World: Confronting Challenges in an Anti-Christian Culture

"Learning how to live in today's new social and cultural environment will require examination, trial and error, and adaptation over time. But there are ways to live with integrity and follow Christ today, even in a negative world. From a peak in church attendance in the mid-20th century, Christianity has been on a trajectory of decline in the United States. Once positive toward Christianity and Christian moral teachings, cultural shifts toward the mid-90s led many to adopt a more neutral tone toward the Christian faith, seeing it as one option among many in a pluralistic public square. Today, however, Christianity is viewed negatively, and being known as a Christian often means a lower social status in elite society. Christian morality is openly repudiated and viewed as a threat to the new moral order. In Life in the Negative World, author Aaron M. Renn looks at the lessons from Christian cultural engagement over the past 70 years and suggests specific strategies for churches, institutions, and individuals to live faithfully in the 'negative' world-a culture opposed to Christian values and teachings. And since there is no one-size-fits-all solution, living as a follower of Christ in the new, negative world and being missionally engaged will require a diversity of strategies."

Aaron M. Renn (Author), Tim Lundeen (Narrator)

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Weed Man: The Remarkable Journey of Jimmy Divine

"The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration estimates that Americans in the early 1970s were smoking upwards of 35,000 pounds of marijuana per day. By the time the decade drew to a close, Time magazine reported that reefer had become "the most widely accepted illegal indulgence since drinking during Prohibition." You can thank Jimmy Moree for helping to feed America's insatiable pot habit. Nicknamed "Jimmy Divine" for his teetotaling ways, he would become one of the most successful marijuana traffickers of the 1970s, smuggling high-grade South American weed across the tempestuous seas into North American ports of call. He was born and grew up poor in the Bahamas. That life was forever changed on a morning jog when Jimmy literally stumbled onto several million dollars' worth of prime Colombian grass. He disposed of the weed with a little help from a law-enforcement friend and was surprised to earn over three hundred thousand dollars for his trouble. It was the first deal of many. The money was easy, and the perks fantastic. Jimmy went on to make, and give away, a fortune. And now award-winning journalist John McCaslin is telling Jimmy's story. Several of the characters are identified by their actual names or by nicknames. Identities of others have been changed to protect the guilty. Rest assured, you're in for a white-knuckle ride on the open seas where adventure, enterprise, and entire fortunes go up in smoke. "McCaslin brings his exceptional reportorial talent to bear in a fascinating exposé of the drug trade." -G. GORDON LIDDY "Told in a breezy, witty style, McCaslin's book captures moments in relatively recent Caribbean history when it was . . . possible to make a fortune by the ability to steer a boat stealthily through dangerous seas." -MARK BOWDEN Endorsements 'I'm delighted to see that John McCaslin has climbed out of his political trench in Washington long enough to set sail on this astonishing journey through the precarious Caribbean reefs, and beyond. Somehow, in typical McCaslin fashion, he manages to bring his readers back to the nation's capital in a chapter that will certainly have official tongues wagging in Washington.' -- Katie Couric, anchor and managing editor of the CBS Evening News and former co-host of NBC's Today 'This story is so compelling . . . John McCaslin has put it all together in a way that simply made me want to just keep on reading. Wow.' --Wolf Blitzer, anchor and host of the CNN newscast The Situation Room 'For years everybody in Washington has turned to John McCaslin's Inside The Beltway column for the inside skinny on what is going on in our nation's capital. Now, in Weed Man: The Remarkable Journey of Jimmy Divine, McCaslin brings his exceptional reportorial talent to bear in a fascinating expose of the drug trade.' --G. Gordon Liddy, Watergate figure and nationally-syndicated radio host"

John Mccaslin (Author), Tim Lundeen (Narrator)

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Physician Well-Being During Sustained Crisis: Defusing Burnout, Building Resilience, Restoring Hope

"Fatigue, isolation, worry, anxiety, depression, moral distress. These are the symptoms of physician burnout. The practice of medicine has never been easy. Years of demanding education. Long hours. Weekend call duty. Stress-laden procedures. Burgeoning regulatory requirements. Even a worldwide healthcare crisis. How is a physician to cope? This indispensable anthology of essential essays offers practical solutions. 'Physician Well-Being During Sustained Crisis' features over twenty authors—including active physician executives, counselors, and healthcare chaplains—addressing three core concepts related to the well-being of physicians. Section 1 explores the impact of severe and unremitting crisis-related stress on physicians and provides practical strategies and resources to ameliorate stress. Section 2 discusses the influence of organizational culture in sustaining professional wellness with initiatives designed to promote community and collegiality. Section 3 delves into the unique role of spiritual support in defusing burnout and contributing to resilience. Discover support for clinicians who deal daily with long hours, stressful situations, and lack of opportunity for self-care. Learn from seasoned healthcare professionals working at the front lines as they tell their stories and offer counsel based on real-life experience. Ted Hamilton, MD, MBA, is chief mission integration officer for AdventHealth, Dianne McCallister, MD, MBA, a board-certified internist and former chief medical officer, is co-founder of the Coalition for Physician Well-Being. DeAnna Santana-Cebollero, PhD, is the director of physician well-being and engagement for AdventHealth."

Deanna Santana-Cebollero Ph.D., Dianne Dianne Mccallister M.D., Ted Hamilton M.D. (Author), Kelley Robbins, Tim Lundeen (Narrator)

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What Would Steve Jobs Do?: How the Steve Jobs Way Can Inspire Anyone to Think Differently and Win

"What Would Steve Jobs Do? presents the six-part business model Jobs applied to make Apple the most valuable publicly traded manufacturing corporation in the world and the global model for business excellence. While the results of this model can be profound, each step is something you can easily focus on with clarity and purpose: Customer—Understand your customers so well that you know what they want more than they do. Vision—Don't stop thinking at 'new product'; synthesize your ideas, products, and technologies around a specific game-changing customer issue. Culture—Create an environment filled with people who consider 'can't' a bad word. Product—Approach your product as something that can change the world—not just something to beat the competition or get a job done. Message—Deliver a message so compelling that it becomes an extension of the product itself. Personal Brand—Make people think constancy, promise, and trust when they think of you. Transform your organization, recast your future, and do your part to redefine our world using the wisdom and foresight of the greatest business sage in generations."

Peter Sander (Author), Tim Lundeen (Narrator)

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Gospel Conversations: How to Care Like Christ

"How does a person learn to counsel others with the truth of God's Word? Bob Kellemen believes that the best way to learn counseling is by doing it-by giving and receiving biblical counseling in the context of real, raw Christian community. Gospel Conversations explores the four compass-points of biblical counseling: - Sustaining: "It's Normal to Hurt." - Healing: "It's Possible to Hope." - Reconciling: "It's Horrible to Sin, but Wonderful to Be Forgiven." - Guiding: "It's Supernatural to Mature." These four compass points combine to equip readers to develop twenty-two ministry relational competencies-the "how to" of caring like Christ. This book serves as a practical training manual that can be used for lab and small group interaction. Gospel Conversations is the second volume in The Equipping Biblical Counselors Series, a comprehensive relational training curriculum for the local church that provides a model for equipping God's people to change lives with Christ's changeless truth. This two-volume series weaves together comprehensive biblical insight with compassionate Christian engagement. Accompanying figures, worksheets, and appendixes are included in the audiobook companion PDF download."

Robert W. Kellemen (Author), Tim Lundeen (Narrator)

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This Is Your Brain on Joy: A Revolutionary Program for Balancing Mood, Restoring Brain Health, and N

"What does your brain have to do with experiencing joy? A lot more than most of us realize. In this breakthrough book, Dr. Earl Henslin reveals how the study of brain imaging turned his practice of psychotherapy upside down-with remarkably positive results. He shares answers to puzzling questions, such as - Why isn't my faith in God enough to erase my blue moods? - Why haven't I been able to conquer my anger? Pray away my fear and worry? - Why can't I find freedom from secret obsessions and addictions? Using the Brain System Checklist, Dr. Henslin explains what happens to the 5 Mood Centers in the brain when any of those areas are out of balance. This is great news, especially for those tortured by the fear that something is fundamentally wrong with them when the problem actually lies between their ears. Read this practical, easy-to-understand, and often entertaining book, and you'll know exactly how to nourish your mind, balance your brain, and help others do the same. After all, the capacity for joy is a terrible thing to waste. Accompanying charts, images, and additional resources are included in the audiobook companion PDF download. 'This Is Your Brain on Joy is a thoughtful, practical, life-changing book that will help you take advantage of the latest neuroscience research-combined with biblical insights-to bring more joy and love into your life.' -from the Foreword by Daniel G. Amen, MD Author and speaker for the PBS special Change your Brain, Change your Life."

Earl Henslin (Author), Tim Lundeen (Narrator)

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Beyond Keto

"New York Times best-selling author Don Colbert, MD, has created a new dietary lifestyle, the Beyond Keto lifestyle. Beyond Keto blends the best of both worlds, the Ketogenic and Mediterranean diets, and combines them with cutting-edge research on gut health. The key is eliminating foods that cause inflammation. If you've tried a conventional Ketogenic or Mediterranean diet and still feel bloated, sluggish, or your weight loss has plateaued, Beyond Keto gives you the guidelines to go deeper in a low carb/anti-inflammatory lifestyle that empowers your body. In Beyond Keto, Dr. Colbert teaches you how to: • Balance Your Hormones and Heal Your Gut • Eliminate Inflammation and Related Diseases • Boost Your Energy and Increase Longevity • Shift Your Body Into Fat-Burning Mode Give your body what it needs to conquer disease and lose weight for good. Start living the Beyond Keto lifestyle today."

Don Colbert (Author), Tim Lundeen (Narrator)

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Physician Well-Being During Sustained Crisis: Defusing Burnout, Building Resilience, Restoring Hope

Deanna Santana-Cebollero, Dianne Mccallister, Ted Hamilton (Author), Kelley Robbins, Tim Lundeen (Narrator)

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Eat Plants Feel Whole: Harness the Healing Power of Plants and Transform Your Health

"YOU WANT TO BE HEALTHY. You want energy and vitality. You want to live your best life. We all do. Perhaps you’ve heard about the benefits of a whole-food, plant-based (beyond vegan) lifestyle. You’re interested, but don’t know where to begin. In Eat Plants Feel Whole, Dr. George Guthrie shows you the way. For over thirty years, Dr. Guthrie has been helping his patients achieve better health through an evidence-based, whole-food, plant-based lifestyle. Now, in Eat Plants Feel Whole, he shares not only his years of experience, but the scientific evidence for this powerful lifestyle. Eat Plants Feel Whole includes an 18-day QuickStart Plan, fifty plant-based recipes, a starter menu, shopping list, and lifestyle tips. In short, everything you need to initiate your health transformation. In these pages you will: • Find the 4 hidden culprits robbing you of energy, clarity, and vitality. • Learn how to harness the power of plants today to transform your health tomorrow. • Understand the scientific evidence for preventing and even reversing chronic disease. • Discover the simple 18-day plan to increase your energy and feel whole! As you embrace this new lifestyle, you’ll discover energy and vitality you have never experienced before. With a foreword by T. Colin Campbell, PhD, Professor Emeritus of Nutritional Biochemistry at Cornell University and co-author of The China Study"

Cde, George E. Guthrie, Md, Mph, T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. (Author), Tim Lundeen (Narrator)

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Eat Plants Feel Whole

Cde, George E. Guthrie, Md, Mph, T. Colin Campbell Ph.D. (Author), Tim Lundeen (Narrator)

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Transformative Healthcare: A Physician-Led Prescription to Save Thousands of Lives and Millions of D

"What if every patient received the kind of focused personal attention Dr. Kuhlman used with three U.S. Presidents? Kuhlman and Peach show how this level of care can be achieved now. In Transformative Healthcare, Jeffrey Kuhlman, MD, and Daniel J. Peach unveil a step-by-step game plan to save millions of dollars and thousands of lives. How do they know it works? They’ve implemented it in several hospitals and seen dramatic results. Dr. Kuhlman has spent his career emphasizing the merits of the patient-doctor relationship. Each one is unique. That’s been his approach to care, whether it's with U.S. Presidents or with the person who shows up in an emergency room on a Saturday evening. Daniel Peach is an expert on human performance and change principles, as evidenced in his work in the ever-changing world of security and in hospital administration. Together, and through a series of trials and errors, Kuhlman and Peach have come up with logical solutions to the healthcare dilemma, one event at a time. The answers are not some distant concepts in the ether. They're right in front us. It just takes a method to make them actionable. Kuhlman and Peach have the method. They eagerly and clearly share it in this book. The genesis of these transformative methods goes back to their experiences with chest-pain patients in emergency departments. By developing a quick five-phase HEART Score rather than defaulting to tests (expensive and oftentimes unnecessary), they saved $32 million annually in just chest-pain events … in one hospital. Outpatient care doubled and admission rates dropped by half. Since then, similar methods have been implemented for patients undergoing Coronary Artery Bypass Graft surgery, resulting in improved mortality and fewer readmissions. They've also developed a sepsis algorithm, which has resulted in 1,200 more patients every year living post-implementation."

Daniel J. Peach, Jeffrey Kuhlman (Author), Tim Lundeen (Narrator)

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Audiobooks Narrated by Tim Lundeen