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Hurdle-isms: Wit and Wisdom from a Lifetime in Baseball

A fun and easy listen filled with insight, humor, wisdom, and wit In Hurdle-isms, renowned Major League Baseball player, hitting coach, manager, and current Special Assistant to the General Manager for the Colorado Rockies, Clint Hurdle, delivers a collection of his most inspirational stories. You'll find a ton of funny, insightful, and otherwise notable anecdotes from one of Major League Baseball's most successful personalities. In each chapter, Hurdle also describes the experience, strength, and hope he's gained through his experiences playing, coaching, and managing his way through the MLB, as well as his successes and failures in the league. You'll also discover: ● Laughter and lessons from Clint Hurdle's storied life in the major leagues, filled with quick wit and pithy humor ● Coverage of hot topics currently dominating the discussions taking place in professional baseball ● A fun and illuminating journey through a remarkable experience in the MLB straight from the person who lived it Perfect for baseball fans everywhere, Hurdle-isms is a can't-miss book for sports enthusiasts filled with fun, humor, insight, and experience.

Clint Hurdle (Author), Chris Sorensen (Narrator)

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Jewish Ethics: The Basics

Jewish Ethics: The Basics demonstrates how ancient and contemporary ideas have shaped and reshaped Jewish traditions about how to act toward others. Listeners are introduced to foundational questions, controversies, and diverse ethical conclusions developed by Jewish thinkers throughout the ages. Topics addressed include: assumptions about authority; love, compassion, justice, and humility; human rights, war, land, and power; gender and sexuality; personal and social ethics; environmental and animal Ethics; and bioethical issues. Concise and engaging, this is the ideal introduction for anyone interested in religious ethics, secular traditions, Judaism, and the field of Jewish ethics.

Geoffrey D. Claussen (Author), Chris Sorensen (Narrator)

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They Built the Earth

Alan Butler, Christopher Knight (Author), Chris Sorensen (Narrator)

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Help Your Child Build Wealth: A Parent's Guide to Teaching Children To Be Successful Investors

In Help Your Child Build Wealth: A Parent's Guide to Teaching Children To Be Successful Investors, bestselling author and investing educator Michael Sincere delivers an exciting new take on the stock market. Perfect for rookie investors with children, this book explains exactly how you can get started as a long-term investor using index funds, ETFs, and individual stocks. You'll also discover how you can teach your kids about investing in a way that gets them excited about building wealth for their futures. In the book, the author walks you through what the stock market is, how to open a brokerage account, how much cash you'll need to get started, and how you can protect yourself and manage risk through diversification. You'll also find out: ● About new and interesting ideas such as a 529 or custodial plan and their proper place in a well-managed portfolio ● What the difference is between 'active' and 'passive' investing and which path is right for you ● How you can find stocks that perform well over the long-term and how you can use compound interest and dollar-cost averaging to multiply your profits ● Learn about the best investing apps and how to use them with your children

Michael Sincere (Author), Chris Sorensen (Narrator)

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The Elements of Negotiation: 103 Tactics for Everyone to Win in Each Deal

Comprehensive guide to mastering negotiation, based on twenty-four years of research The Elements of Negotiation provides listeners with an easy-to-follow step-by-step approach to becoming exceptional negotiators in both their professional and personal lives. Grounded in twenty-four years of extensive research, studying the habits and techniques of 35,000 individual negotiators, the 103 steps provide a detailed roadmap for negotiation excellence, covering preparation, execution, and post-negotiation analysis. Backed by tested science proving the tips' efficacy, The Elements of Negotiation explores a wealth of real-world case studies and examples, with trends and predictions into the future of negotiation, and additional resources and training programs to further improve your negotiation skills. In this book, you'll learn: ● How to prepare for negotiations to achieve superior financial outcomes ● What to say—and not say—during any negotiation, big or small ● How successful negotiators achieve positive outcomes for both parties ● Why successful negotiators are usually successful in both their personal and professional lives

Keld Jensen (Author), Chris Sorensen (Narrator)

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The Thinkers: The Rise of Partisan Think Tanks and the Polarization of American Politics

Increasingly, political parties have adopted not only different policies, but different sets of facts. As E. J. Fagan argues, partisan think tanks have helped create these alternate realities in their capacity as de facto formal party organizations. Through the analyses generated by aligned think tanks, political elites on both the left and right frequently offer radically different assessments of a policy's consequences. In The Thinkers, Fagan tells the story of how partisan think tanks displaced non-partisan experts to become the closest policy advisors to the Republican and Democratic Parties. He explores their history, how they influence policymakers, and how their influence impacts the polarization of American politics. More broadly, Fagan shows that the rise of partisan think tanks tracks closely with the increase in political polarization since the 1970s. Because they are funded and staffed by strong ideologues, partisan think tanks seek to move their party's preferences to the left or right of center. When they are successful, parties take more extreme positions than if they had only drawn information from non-partisan sources, which increases polarization. A powerful account of the impact of partisan think tanks on American democracy, The Thinkers will reshape our understanding of the fundamental drivers of the US's polarized political system.

E.J. Fagan (Author), Chris Sorensen (Narrator)

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Why Ecosystems Matter: Preserving the Key to Our Survival

Every one of Earth's teeming ecosystems is an evolutionary cauldron Christopher Wills's claim has its roots in an insight from Charles Darwin: the interactions between species in an ecosystem are a powerful driver of evolution. In this book Wills describes how, by using the latest genetic techniques, we are probing ecosystems and discovering that even the most apparently barren of them are rich in variety, especially of microbes. Exploring the many ways in which ecosystems have coped with past change, and how rapidly an ecosystem can develop complexity, Wills illuminates a pathway of hope for the natural world that we have so damaged and depleted. Our new genetic knowledge can help these evolutionary cauldrons to continue brewing richness and diversity, the better to heal our living world and to enable our own survival.

Christopher Wills (Author), Chris Sorensen (Narrator)

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Learning DevSecOps: A Practical Guide to Processes and Tools

How do some organizations maintain 24-7 internet-scale operations? How can organizations integrate security while deploying new features? How do organizations increase security within their DevOps processes? This practical guide helps you answer those questions. Steve Suehring provides unique content to help practitioners and leadership successfully implement DevOps and DevSecOps. Learning DevSecOps emphasizes prerequisites that lead to success through best practices and then takes you through some of the tools and software used by successful DevSecOps-enabled organizations. You'll learn how DevOps and DevSecOps can eliminate the walls that stand between development, operations, and security so that you can tackle the needs of other teams. With this book, you will: ● Learn why DevSecOps is about culture and processes, with tools to support the processes ● Understand why DevSecOps practices are key to deploying software ● Deploy software using a DevSecOps toolchain and create scripts ● Integrate processes from other teams earlier in the software development lifecycle ● Help team members learn the processes important for successful software development

Steve Suehring (Author), Chris Sorensen (Narrator)

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A Great Disorder: National Myth and the Battle for America

Red America and Blue America are divided with wildly diverging views of why government exists and who counts as American. Their ideologies are grounded in different versions of American history, endorsing irreconcilable visions of patriotism and national identity. A Great Disorder is a bold, urgent work that helps us make sense of today's culture wars through a brilliant reconsideration of America's foundational myths and their use in contemporary politics. Richard Slotkin identifies five myths, born of different eras, that have shaped our conception of what it means to be American: the myths of the Frontier, the Founding, the Civil War (which he breaks into two opposing camps, Emancipation and the Lost Cause), and the Good War, embodied by the multiethnic platoon fighting for freedom. His argument is that while Trump and his MAGA followers have played up a frontier-inspired hostility to the federal government and rallied around Confederate symbols to champion a racially exclusive definition of American nationality, Blue America, taking its cue from the protest movements of the 1960s, envisions a limitlessly pluralistic country in which the federal government is the ultimate enforcer of rights and opportunities. American history-and the foundations of our democracy-have become a battleground. It is not clear at this time which vision will prevail.

Richard Slotkin (Author), Chris Sorensen (Narrator)

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The Erich Fromm Reader

'Fromm crossed the boundaries of traditional disciplines to expound his view on the alienation of man in an increasingly technological world.' -Newsweek Erich Fromm's basic idea was to look at the individual as a social being, and to look at society as an ensemble of many individuals who have not only mutual ideas and convictions based on a common practice of life, but also a shared psychic structure. With his concept of 'social character,' Fromm created a new interdisciplinary thinking presented in this compendium. The Erich Fromm Reader exhibits the true genius of an original thinker in seeing the connections between overlapping knowledge from many different fields. Here, interdisciplinarity is not only a lip service but the impact of Erich Fromm's unique social psychological notion.

Erich Fromm (Author), Chris Sorensen (Narrator)

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The Tale Untwisted: General George B. McClellan, the Maryland Campaign, and the Discovery of Lee's L

The discovery of Robert E. Lee's Special Orders No. 191 outside of Frederick, Maryland, on September 13, 1862, is one of the most important and hotly disputed events of the American Civil War. For more than 150 years, historians have debated if George McClellan, commander of the Union Army of the Potomac, dawdled after receiving a copy of the orders before warily advancing to challenge Lee's forces atop South Mountain. In The Tale Untwisted, authors Gene Thorp and Alexander Rossino document in exhaustive fashion how 'Little Mac' in fact moved with uncharacteristic energy to counter the Confederate threat and take advantage of Lee's divided forces, seizing the initiative and striking a blow in the process that wrecked Lee's plans and sent his army reeling back toward Virginia. This study is a beautifully woven tour de force of primary research that may well be the final word on the debate over the fate and impact of the Lost Orders on the history of the 1862 Maryland Campaign.

Alexander B. Rossino, Gene M. Thorp (Author), Chris Sorensen (Narrator)

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Suckerville

A CREATURE FEATURE WITH TEETH . . . JD Speers is having a stretch of bad luck: his wife left him, the law is on his tail, and to top it all off, bloodsucking leech people are attacking his favorite bar. Together with his buddy Rowdy and the barflies of Doc's Dockside Tavern, JD must stop the suckers before they spread their contagion up and down the Mississippi River. Contains mature themes.

Chris Sorensen (Author), Chris Sorensen (Narrator)

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Audiobooks Narrated by Chris Sorensen