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    Temerity & Gall (eBook, ePUB)
    [Metcalf's] talent is generous, hectoring, huge, and remarkable.Washington Post For more than five decades, John Metcalf has worked tirelessly as editor, anthologist, writer, critic, and teacher to help shape our understanding of Canadian literature and imagine its potential. A long-time editor of the Best Canadian Stories anthology; fiction editor at some of the preeminent literary presses in the country for more than forty years; and past editor of Canadian Notes and Queries, Canada's longest-running independent journal of literary criticism, Metcalf has worked tirelessly to support generations of our best writers. In Temerity & Gall, Metcalf looks back on a lifetime spent in letters; surveys, with no punches pulled, the current state of CanLit; and offers a passionate defense of the promise and potential of Canadian writing.
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    Chief Customer Officer 2.0: How to Build Your Customer-Driven Growth Engine , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 432min
    A customer experience roadmap to transform your business and culture. Chief Customer Officer 2.0 will give you a proven framework that has launched and advanced the customer experience transformation in businesses in every vertical around the world. And it will take years off your learning curve. Written by Jeanne Bliss, worldwide authority on customer experience, and preeminent thought leader on the role of the Customer Leadership Executive (such as Chief Customer Officer, Vice President of Customer Experience, etc.), this book follows the five-competency model she uses to coach the C-Suite and Chief Customer Officers. 1. Manage and Honor Customers as Assets 2. Align Around Experience 3. Build a Customer Listening Path 4. Proactive Experience Reliability and Innovation 5. One Company Accountability, Leadership & Decision Making Chief Customer Officer 2.0 will get you into action quickly with a united leadership team, and will shift your business intent to earning the right to growth by improving customers' lives. Jeanne Bliss fearlessly shares her tools and leadership 'recipe cards' for leading and enabling your business transformation. And she provides practical guidance on how to embed the five competencies into how your company develops products, goes to market, enables and rewards people, and conducts annual planning. Including over 40 accounts of actions by Customer Leadership Executives around the world, this is the book you have been waiting for that tells it like it is and gives you the framework to build your customer-driven growth engine. Jeanne Bliss pioneered the Customer Leadership Executive position, holding the role for 20 years at Lands' End, Allstate, Coldwell Banker, Mazda, and Microsoft Corporations. Since 2002 she has led CustomerBliss, a preeminent customer experience transformation company wh ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Christine Marshall. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/028255/bk_adbl_028255_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Best of Chatting Up a Storm, Hörbuch, Digital, 292min
    Russell Banks, Garrison Keillor, and Dave Isay are among those heard on Chatting Up a Storm, Vol. 1, a distillation of the best broadcast interviews by journalist Claudia Cragg, with thinkers, authors, and change-makers from the United States and around the world. This volume features 12 interviews, personally chosen by Claudia Cragg and radio producer Joe Bevilacqua, including: Audrey Niffenegger, author of Her Fearful Symmetry The New Yorker's Peter Hessler on Country Driving Kate Mosse, author of Labyrinth Lionel Shriver, author of So Much for That Chang-Rae Lee, author of The Surrendered David Vann, author of Legend of a Suicide and Caribou Island Treehouse founder Ryan Carson on "a four-day work week” Nancy Altman, coauthor of Social Security Works Jane Fonda's adopted daughter, Mary Williams, on race, politics, and gender and her book Lost Daughter Garrison Keillor on his new novel, Pontoon Lost Memory of Skin author Russell Banks on sex offenders, homelessness, and digital desensitivity StoryCorps' Dave Isay on "A Voice for the Voiceless through Listening Booths” For some years, Claudia Cragg, who is primarily an Asia specialist, was based in Tokyo, Hong Kong, and then Singapore, reporting both in hard news and in feature stories for print and radio on all dimensions of business in the region for Asia magazine. Before that, she was an established feature writer for Asia's preeminent English language newspaper, the South China Morning Post, but started out in journalism in London in the mid-'70s on Which?, the preeminent magazine of the UK's Consumers' Association. She is a former editor of Tokyo Journal, that city's leading English-language magazine and of B International magazine in Hong Language: English. Narrator: Claudia Cragg. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/007709/bk_blak_007709_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    A Force for Nature: The Story of the National Resources Defense Council and Its Fight to Save Our Planet , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 906min
    The world's preeminent environmental organization began with a layer of soot on the windowsill of a Greenwich Village apartment. Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) founder John H. Adams, a pioneer of environmental action, was working as a lawyer for the U.S. Attorney's office when he and fellow lawyers teamed up to form a grassroots environmental advocacy group. Since 1970, NRDC has grown into an international powerhouse with 1.2 million members and a staff of scientists and lawyers whose mission is to safeguard the planet. This inspiring memoir tells the story of the NRDC and the environmental movement it sparked. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kevin Pariseau. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/004466/bk_adbl_004466_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Art of War , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 83min
    Sun Tzu on The Art of War The oldest military treatise in the world Translated by Lionel Giles. Narrated by Denis Daly. Although the historicity of Sun Tzu is today in dispute, his short treatise on the art of war has remained a preeminent classic of military philosophy and practice. In this small audiobook, the author describes in trenchant detail the approach and methods required for success in any combative endeavor. The principles he enunciates have been widely applied not only by leaders in the military but also in business, politics, sports, and education. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Denis Daly. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/mike/001730/bk_mike_001730_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Now and Forever: Somewhere a Band Is Playing & Leviathan '99 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 286min
    A journalist bearing terrible news leaps from a still-moving train into a small town of wonderful, impossible secrets.... The doomed crew of a starship follows their blind, mad captain on a quest into deepest space to joust with destiny, eternity, and God himself.... Now and Forever is a bold new work from an incomparable artist whose stories have reshaped America's literary landscape. Two bewitching novellas - each distinctly different yet uniquely Bradbury - demonstrate the breathtaking range of his undimmed talent and the irrepressible vitality of the mind, spirit, and heart of America's preeminent storyteller. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Paul Hecht. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/005357/bk_harp_005357_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Ages of Man, Hörbuch, Digital, 78min
    This remarkable collection contains some of William Shakespeare's most famous speeches, soliloquies, and sonnets, as performed by Sir John Gielgud, the preeminent Shakespearean actor of the 20th century. Debuting on Broadway in 1958, Ages of Man became a worldwide sensation, selling out theaters all over North America, France, and even behind the Iron Curtain. Its selections are divided into Youth, Manhood, and Age, including scenes from such masterpieces as Hamlet, Macbeth, Julius Caesar, and King Lear. This exquisite, Grammy-winning recital is a perfect introduction to Shakespeare for the uninitiated and a thrilling treat for aficionados. Language: English. Narrator: John Gielgud. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/000356/bk_harp_000356_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Man Who Made Wall Street: Anthony J. Drexel and the Rise of Modern Finance , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 497min
    The second son of an Austrian emigre, Anthony Drexel (1826-1893) soon established himself as the preeminent financial mind in the Philadelphia currency brokerage his father began in 1838. Shunning publicity, self-promotion, and high-profile public accolades (he declined President Ulysses S. Grant's invitation to become secretary of the Treasury), Drexel initiated a partnership with J. P. Morgan and his father, Junius, that became the most powerful financial combination of its age. Dan Rottenberg has succeeded in writing the first biography of this exceptionally influential and elusive man. The book is published by University of Pennsylvania Press. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: J.M. Ross. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/032648/bk_acx0_032648_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Ripper Hunter , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 407min
    Who was Inspector Frederick Abberline, the lead detective in the Jack the Ripper case? Why did he and his fellow policemen fail to catch the most notorious serial killer of Victorian England? What was he like as a man, as a professional policeman, one of the best detectives of his generation? And how did he investigate the sequence of squalid, bloody murders that repelled - and fascinated - contemporaries and has been the subject of keen controversy ever since? Here at last in M. J. Trow’s compelling biography of this preeminent Victorian policeman are the answers to these intriguing questions. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Terry Wale. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/isis/001895/bk_isis_001895_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Essential Drucker: In One Volume the Best of Sixty Years of Peter Drucker's Essential Writings on Management , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 656min
    Father of modern management, social commentator, and preeminent business philosopher Peter F. Drucker analyzed economics and society for more than 60 years. Now, for listeners everywhere who are concerned with the ways that management practices and principles affect the performance of organizations, individuals, and society, there is The Essential Drucker - an invaluable compilation of essential materials from the works of a management legend. Containing 26 core selections, The Essential Drucker covers the basic principles and concerns of management and its problems, challenges, and opportunities, giving managers, executives, and professionals the tools to perform the tasks that the economy and society of tomorrow will demand of them. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Timothy Andrés Pabon. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/004834/bk_harp_004834_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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