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12 notas: Sobre la vida y la creatividad

Quincy Jones ha cumplido 89 años, y sin embargo, sería el primero en decirte que está lejos de terminar su carrera. ¿Cómo puede seguir adelante a una edad en la que la mayoría de la gente estaría jubilada? ¿De dónde saca la inspiración aparentemente interminable que lo mantiene persiguiendo la creatividad a un nivel tan alto? 12 notas es una guía de autodesarrollo que nos confirma que la creatividad es una llamada que puede y debe ser respondida sin importar la edad que tengas. A partir de su propia vida y de la de sus muchos colaboradores creativos, pasados y presentes, los lectores aprenderán lecciones, tanto filosóficas, como todo de herramientas para transformar el dolor en poder, así como recordatorios prácticos, como el valor de establecer metas y articular intenciones a través de afirmaciones diarias. Quincy finalmente comparte su propio proceso con los lectores para que comprendan la importancia de dejar que la honestidad, el trabajo duro y las buenas relaciones, y no el ego, impulsen tu carrera. - Quincy Jones en un productor musical, multi-instrumentista, compositor, arreglista y productor de series y televisión. Una leyenda viva de la música. A lo largo de su carrera, ha conseguido 80 nominaciones a los premios Grammy, 28 Grammys, y un premio Grammy Legend en 1992. En 2001 publicó su autobiografía, en 2008 un recopilatorio de cartas y en 2010 una guía sobre la industria de la producción musical. 12 notas es su primer libro de desarrollo personal.

Quincy Jones (Author), Jordi Boixaderas (Narrator)

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100 Women: A Life Story of Sex and Redemption

Tyler True (Author), Tyler True (Narrator)

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10 Seconds That Changed My Life

“Thursday, June 15, 2017, will be embedded in my memory forever,” says author Iain MacLeod. “I greeted the summer day eager to face the world with my usual free-spirited independence, and ended the day lying in the Intensive Care unit of a hospital in Aberdeen, Scotland, with a ventilating tube down my throat. Billions of people get out of bed every day without any problem, and that had been true my entire life despite being a wheelchair user with Cerebral Palsy since the age of three. But when I got out of bed that fateful morning, everything went horribly wrong.” In his book 10 Seconds That Changed My Life, Iain inspires with his realistic, heartfelt writing and original poems of his beloved Scotland. He captures the various stages of his hospital experience as well as his personal journey through joy and sorrow, frustration and elation, and the reality of coming home to a new normal. By writing and publishing this book, he hopes to encourage those with special needs to never give up, and to always remember that they are able, not disabled, and have unique abilities to share with the world.

Iain M. Macleod (Author), Toni Frutin (Narrator)

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1,000 Dollars & an Idea

"My work is to create companies and build them," writes Sam Wyly in this candid, engrossing memoir, which reveals how he established and expanded companies on the leading edge of advancements in technology, energy, retail, and investments over the last forty-five years. Wyly shares the process, relationships, struggles, and strategies that have made him one of the 1,000 wealthiest people in the world. From the hardships his parents faced trying to hold on to the family cotton farm during the Depression to the coaching he received on the high school football field, this self-made billionaire describes how his early years in Louisiana prepared him for what lay ahead. His sales experience with IBM and Honeywell in Dallas in the early 1960s gave him the idea to start the first "computer utility." Risking $1,000 of his savings, he founded University Computing in 1963 and took it public two years later, becoming a millionaire at the age of thirty. Part autobiography and part inspirational business guide, this audio is full of refreshing insights about what it takes to create, grow, and build successful companies.

Sam Wyly (Author), Phil Gigante (Narrator)

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(In)visibles

Si en México más del 16% de la población, cerca de 21 millones o 1 de cada 6 mexicanos cuentan con algún tipo de condición discapacitante, ¿por qué parece que son muchos menos los casos que conocemos? Porque las personas con discapacidad (pcd) en nuestro país son una fuerza invisible. Si no es cada cuatro años que se celebran los paralímpicos, si no se acerca el Día Internacional de las pcd, cuando las marcas realizan acciones; si no es que el gobierno da beneficios fiscales para impulsar la inserción laboral de este grupo, el resto del tiempo las personas con discapacidad viven entre las sombras. Este libro busca arrojar un poco de luz a apenas veinticuatro de esos millones que no vemos. Con discapacidades de nacimiento o adquiridas y de diversos tipos, y origen de varias partes del país, medallistas olímpicos, empresarios, filántropos, ejecutivos, políticos, servidores públicos, artistas, activistas, conferencistas, académicos, abogados, un médico y hasta un standupero cuentan por primera vez sus historias con resiliencia, valentía y un propósito: ser referentes para otras pcd y motivar a la población general a ser agentes de cambio, a contribuir en multiplicar esa luz y velar por la inclusión en todos los aspectos de la vida. Un libro desgarrado, inspirador y sui géneris en el que la periodista y activista Bárbara Anderson presta su pluma para dar voz a quienes no cuentan, al tiempo que el reconocido fotógrafo Enrique Covarrubias ilumina sus rostros por primera vez con una mirada entre iguales. Invisibles es una lectura que cambia radicalmente la manera en la que vemos la discapacidad, mueve conciencias e invita a la acción.

Bárbara Anderson (Author), Bern Hoffman, Bárbara Anderson, Lili Barba, Liliana Barba (Narrator)

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#butGod: The Power of Hope When Catastrophe Crashes In

Read by the author. "Sir, your sons have been in a car accident. How quickly can you get here?" The phone call no parent wants to receive would lead to a miracle only God could give. When Jeremy and Emily Freeman's teenage son Caleb was in a devastating car accident, doctors gave him a 10 percent chance of survival. Fear of losing a child was all too fresh for the Freemans-their seven-year-old son, Trey, had died just four years earlier from a genetic immunodeficiency. But God. In #butGod Jeremy shares the incredible story of Caleb's recovery, the darkness that nearly overtook their family in the waiting, and the #butGod movement that captured the prayers of Christians around the world. #butGod includes heartfelt excerpts from Emily's prayer journal and encouragement from Jeremy that goes beyond platitudes to a hard-won trust in God's goodness. This inspiring story offers - greater understanding of the beauty God can bring through suffering; - an honest glimpse of how one family grew closer together despite grief, tension, and doubt; - a powerful example of how God works through the prayers of His people. - hope for whatever struggle you are facing; Whatever sorrow you are walking through, #butGod leads you to the sweetness found in trusting God with suffering…and the deeper faith that comes from seeing His purpose in the pain. A playlist and daily devotionals are included in the audiobook companion PDF download.

Jeremy Freeman (Author), Emily Freeman, Gabe Wicks, Jeremy Freeman, John Behrens (Narrator)

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"There Are Things I Want You to Know" About Stieg Larsson and Me

There is only one person who can tell Stieg Larsson's story better than he can, and that is his lifelong companion, Eva Gabrielsson. This is her book. The keys to the "Stieg Larsson phenomenon" all lie with Stieg Larsson the man. No one knew him like Gabrielsson. Here, she tells the story of their 30-year romance; of Stieg's lifelong struggle to expose Sweden's neo-Nazis; of his struggle to keep the magazine he founded, Expo, alive; of his difficult relationships with his immediate family; and of the joy and the relief he discovered writing the Millenium trilogy. Above all, this is a love story, and we come to understand, reading "There Are Things I Want You to Know" About Stieg Larsson and Me, that if there was another secret besides Larsson's own imagination and convictions, it was his absolute love for his companion and her nurturing of their privacy and shared passions. The book is told as a series of short vignettes, with titles ranging from "Speaking of Coffee" and "Stieg's Journalistic Credo" to "Goodbyes" and "The Fourth Volume." Gabrielsson speaks with rare candor and dignity, inspired only by the truth as she knows it. "There Are Things I Want You to Know" About Stieg Larsson and Me is thus short and to the point, poignant in its account of two soulmates and the life they shared and deeply insightful into the man everyone wants to know better, and about whom so little is known. "I would have preferred to have never written this book. It speaks of Stieg, of our life together, and of my life after his death," writes Gabrielsson early in her book. It was written because she alone can tell his story.

Eva Gabrielsson, Marie-Francoise Colombani (Author), Cassandra Campbell (Narrator)

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