Audiobooks narrated by Douglas James

Streetlights and Shadows: Searching for the Keys to Adaptive Decision Making

An expert explains how the conventional wisdom about decision-making can get us into trouble - and why experience can't be replaced by rules, procedures, or analytical methods. In making decisions, when should we go with our gut and when should we try to analyze every option? When should we use our intuition and when should we rely on logic and statistics? Most of us would probably agree that for important decisions, we should follow certain guidelines - gather as much information as possible, compare the options, pin down the goals before getting started. But in practice, we make some of our best decisions by adapting to circumstances rather than blindly following procedures. In Streetlights and Shadows, Gary Klein debunks the conventional wisdom about how to make decisions. He takes 10 commonly accepted claims about decision-making and shows that they are better suited for the laboratory than for life. The standard advice works well when everything is clear, but the tough decisions involve shadowy conditions of complexity and ambiguity. Gathering masses of information, for example, works if the information is accurate and complete - but that doesn't often happen in the real world. (Think about the careful risk calculations that led to the downfall of the Wall Street investment houses.) Klein offers more realistic ideas about how to make decisions in real-life settings. He provides many examples - ranging from airline pilots and weather forecasters to sports announcers and Captain Jack Aubrey in Patrick O'Brian's Master and Commander novels - to make his point. All these decision makers saw things that others didn't. They used their expertise to pick up cues and to discern patterns and trends. We can make better decisions, Klein tells us, if we are prepared for complexity and ambiguity and if we will stop expecting the data to tell us everything. ©2009 Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Produced and published by Echo Point Books & Media, an independent bookseller in Brattleboro, Vermont.

Gary A. Klein (Author), Douglas James (Narrator)

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Creating a Lean Culture: Tools to Sustain Lean Conversions

The audio edition of this Shingo Prize-winning bestseller provides critical insights and approaches to make any lean transformation an ongoing success. It tells you how to implement a sustainable, successful transformation by developing a culture that has your stakeholders throughout the organizational chart involved and invested in the outcome. It teaches you how to successfully navigate the politics in cross-functional process improvement projects, and to engage executives in ways that are personally meaningful to them. If you are a leader at any level in an organization undergoing or considering a lean transformation, this is where you should start and finish...and start again. New in the third edition: - Contains new chapter on engaging executives in lean initiatives - Includes 21 new case studies - Presents new examples from the healthcare and process industries - Includes additional gemba worksheets for learning and teaching lean - Provides expanded coverage of lean applications in complex cross functional value stream process improvement projects Produced and published by Echo Point Books & Media, an independent bookseller in Brattleboro, Vermont. ©2015 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC (P)

David Mann (Author), Douglas James (Narrator)

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What's Your Decision?: How to Make Choices with Confidence and Clarity: How to Make Choices with Con

Do I go to graduate school? Whom should I marry? Should I change careers? What do I do with my life now that I'm retired? All of us have important decisions to make decisions that radically alter our lives. Yet, without a sound process in place for making key decisions, we are likely to question whether or not our final decision was a good decision. More to the point, we will never feel fully confident that our decision was what God truly desired for us. What's Your Decision? presents a time-tested, trustworthy approach to decision making based on the insights of Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Jesuits and the author of The Spiritual Exercises, one of history's most influential spiritual texts. Throughout this fast-moving and highly practical audiobook, the authors present an Ignatian toolkit for making sound choices, providing answers to many common questions like: - What's important and what's not when it comes to making choices? - Do I trust my gut? - What do I really want? Ultimately, What's Your Decision? helps us understand that a God decision always precedes a good decision. When we invite God, who cares deeply about what we do into the decision-making process, we find the freedom to make the best choice. ©2010 J. Michael Sparough, Tim Hipskind, and Loyola Press. Produced and published by Echo Point Books & Media, an independent bookseller in Brattleboro, Vermont.

J. Michael Sparough, Jim Manney, Tim Hipskind (Author), Douglas James (Narrator)

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A Simple, Life-Changing Prayer: Discovering the Power of St. Ignatius Loyola's Examen

For most people, most of the time prayer is hard. It is especially difficult—not to mention unsatisfying—when people experience it as formal, dry, and repetitious. But what might happen if you discovered a simple prayer that changed all that? What if you discovered a prayer that changed you? In A Simple, Life-Changing Prayer, Jim Manney introduces Christians to a 500-year-old form of prayer that dramatically altered his perception of prayer and the way he prayed. The prayer is The Examen, which St. Ignatius Loyola developed for the purpose of nurturing a reflective habit of mind that is constantly attuned to God’s presence. What makes the prayer so powerful is its capacity to dispel any notion that God is somewhere “up there” detached from our day-to-day tasks and concerns. Instead, The Examen leads us into a relationship with a god who desires to be personally caught up in the lives of those whom he created. By following five simple yet powerful steps for praying The Examen, we can encounter the god who, as scripture tells us, “is not far from each one of us”—the god whose presence in our lives can make all the difference in the world. Produced and published by Echo Point Books & Media, an independent bookseller in Brattleboro, Vermont. ©2011 Loyola Press.

Jim Manney (Author), Douglas James (Narrator)

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The Complete Book of Grant Writing: Learn to Write Grants Like a Professional

Learn how to write grants that win funding fast! The Complete Book of Grant Writing is the ultimate grant book that shows you how to write a grant proposal if you're seeking funding through government grants, foundation grants, and specialty grants. Grant proposal writing is an intricate process where any bits of misinformation or formatting errors can mean the difference between securing funding or not. Professional grant writer Nancy Burke Smith and philanthropy consultant and grant maker E. Gabriel Works unveil the secrets behind how to find and successfully apply for grants. Topics include: - The five core components of every grant, including the statement of need, the evaluation plan, and budgets - What makes a grant compelling to funders - What to do when you are funded—and actions you can take if you are denied funding - How to become a professional grant writer - The grant writing timetable, from responding to requests for proposals to receiving funding - Grant writing in different fields of nonprofit practice, including educational, governmental, environmental, and faith-based organizations Packed with 20 samples to show you exactly how to get started, including full grant proposals, letters of inquiry, support letters, concept papers, and more! Produced and published by Echo Point Books & Media, an independent bookseller in Brattleboro, Vermont. ©2012 Nancy Burke Smith and E. Gabriel Works (P)

E. Gabriel Works, Nancy Burke Smith (Author), Douglas James (Narrator)

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Learning by Doing: A Handbook for Professional Learning Communities at WorkTM (An Actionable Guide t

Discover how to close the knowing-doing gap and transform your school or district into a high-performing professional learning community (PLC). The powerful audiobook edition of this comprehensive action guide from experts Richard DuFour, Rebecca DuFour, Robert Eaker, Thomas W. Many, and Mike Mattos updates and expands on new and significant PLC topics. Explore fresh strategies, tools, and tips for hiring and retaining new staff, creating team-developed common formative assessment, implementing systematic interventions, and more. Learn how to establish professional learning communities in schools and: - Build a shared knowledge of critical vocabulary and the concepts underlying the PLC process - Equip yourself with the knowledge and tools necessary to model effective reciprocal accountability and collective teacher efficacy - Make honest assessments of your school and teaching methods by examining conventional practices from a fresh, critical perspective - Take immediate and specific steps to close the knowing-doing gap - Move beyond creating an action plan for school improvement, and start doing ©2006, 2010, 2016 Solution Tree Press. Produced and published by Echo Point Books & Media, an independent bookseller in Brattleboro, Vermont.

Mike Mattos, Rebecca Dufour, Richard Dufour, Robert Eaker, Thomas W. Many (Author), Douglas James (Narrator)

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Internal Family Systems Skills Training Manual: Trauma-Informed Treatment for Anxiety, Depression, P

Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS) provides a revolutionary treatment plan for PTSD, anxiety, depression, substance abuse, eating disorders, and more. Using a non-pathologizing, accelerated approach—rooted in neuroscience—IFS applies inner resources and self-compassion for healing emotional wounding at its core. This new audio manual offers straight-forward explanations and illustrates a wide variety of applications. Easy to listen to and highly practical. - Step-by-step techniques - Annotated case examples - Unique meditations - Downloadable exercises, worksheets IFS is Evidence-Based Thirty years ago, IFS creator Richard Schwartz, PhD, listened to his clients describing the behaviors and fears of their most extreme parts. He found that the inner world of all his clients was characterized by parts who have a positive intent for the client but had taken on extreme roles in an effort to be safe. He also discovered that these extreme parts would become less disruptive and more cooperative once their concerns were addressed and they felt safer. IFS views psychic multiplicity as the norm: we all have parts. In addition, every part has a good intention for the client, and every part has value. When clients listen to all their parts, they can heal their wounded parts. Today, IFS, which has established a legacy of efficiency and effectiveness in treating many mental health issues, is being heralded by Dr. Bessel van der Kolk as a treatment that all clinicians should know. Produced and published by Echo Point Books & Media, an independent bookseller in Brattleboro, Vermont. ©2017 Frank G. Anderson, Martha Sweezy, Richard C. Schwartz (P)

Frank G. Anderson, Richard C. Schwartz (Author), Douglas James (Narrator)

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New Techniques of Grief Therapy: Bereavement and Beyond

New Techniques of Grief Therapy: Bereavement and Beyond expands on the mission of the previous two Techniques books, featuring innovative approaches to address the needs of those whose lives have been shadowed by loss—whether through bereavement, serious illness, the rupture of a relationship, or other complex or intangible losses, such as of an identity-defining career. The book starts with several framing chapters by prominent theorists that provide a big- picture orientation to grief work and follows with a generous toolkit of creative therapeutic techniques described in concrete detail and anchored in illustrative case studies to convey their use in actual practice. New Techniques of Grief Therapy is an indispensable resource for professionals working in hospice, hospital, palliative care, and elder care settings; clinicians in broader health-care and mental health-care practices; executive coaches; and students in the field of grief therapy.rupture of a relationship, or other complex or intangible losses, such as of an identity-defining career. Masterfully read by Douglas James.rupture of a relationship, or other complex or intangible losses, such as of an identity-defining career. ©2022 Robert A. Neimeyer (P)2023 Echo Point Books & Media, LLC. Produced and published by Echo Point Books & Media, an independent bookseller in Brattleboro, Vermont.

Robert A. Neimeyer (Author), Douglas James (Narrator)

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Plagues and Peoples

The history of disease is the history of humankind: an interpretation of the world as seen through the extraordinary impact—political, demographic, ecological, and psychological—of disease on cultures. “A book of the first importance, a truly revolutionary work.” —The New Yorker From the conquest of Mexico by smallpox as much as by the Spanish, to the bubonic plague in China, to the typhoid epidemic in Europe, William H. McNeill’s Plagues and Peoples is “a brilliantly conceptualized and challenging achievement” (Kirkus Reviews). Upon its original publication, Plagues and Peoples was an immediate critical and popular success, offering a radically new interpretation of world history. With the identification of AIDS in the early 1980s, another chapter was added to this chronicle of events, which William McNeill explores in his introduction to this edition. McNeill’s highly acclaimed work is a brilliant and challenging account of the effects of disease on human history. His sophisticated analysis and detailed grasp of the subject make this book fascinating reading. Thought-provoking, well-researched, and compulsively readable, Plagues and Peoples is essential reading—that rare book that is as fascinating as it is scholarly, as intriguing as it is enlightening. This title is masterfully narrated by Douglas James. Produced and published by Echo Point Books & Media, an independent bookseller in Brattleboro, Vermont.

William H. Mcneill (Author), Douglas James (Narrator)

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Head, Heart, and Hands: An Introduction to Saint Bonaventure

St. Bonaventure’s theology and philosophy no longer needs to feel esoteric or obscure. In this introductory book on Bonaventure of Bagnoregio, Bruce Epperly helps make this medieval Franciscan philosopher’s work accessible for non-theologians and laypeople. Weaving Bonaventure’s unique contributions to theology with personal stories and spiritual exercises, Epperly shows how Bonaventure’s theology can become “incarnational” in our own lives. As Epperly writes, “This is where the spiritual journey begins: flesh and blood, peace and anxiety, dazzled by beauty and concerned about the latest news headline. God is in this place—your home and mine—and the journey into God is the quest to know it!”

Bruce G. Epperly (Author), Douglas James (Narrator)

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Stalking the Wild Asparagus

Fifty years ago, an unknown writer named Euell Gibbons (1911–1975) presented a book on gathering wild foods to the New York publisher David McKay Co. Together, they settled on the title, Stalking the Wild Asparagus. No one expected that this iconic title would become part of the American language, nor did they anticipate the revival of interest in natural food and in environmental preservation in which this book played a major role. Euell Gibbons became an unlikely celebrity and made many television appearances. Stalking the Wild Asparagus has sold the better part of half a million copies since the original publication, and has been continuously in print since 1962. Euell Gibbons was one of the few people in this country to devote a considerable part of his life to the adventure of living off the land. He sought out wild plants all over North America, and turned ordinary fruits and vegetable into delicious dishes. His book includes recipes for vegetable and casserole dishes, breads, cakes, muffins, and twenty different pies. It also includes jellies, jams, teas, wines, and how to sweeten them with wild honey or homemade maple syrup. This brand-new audio edition is wonderfully narrated by Douglas James. Produced and published by Echo Point Books & Media, an independent bookseller in Brattleboro, Vermont. ©1962 Euell Gibbons §

Euell Gibbons (Author), Douglas James (Narrator)

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God's Love Song: The Vision of Francis and Clare

The “Canticle of the Creatures” is the great love song of St. Francis of Assisi. It is a beautiful aria, a poem, and a hymn of thanksgiving that praises God and reveals St. Francis’s profound relationship with God and all of God’s creatures. It is a swan song in the tradition of the troubadours before him that puts lyrics to a life of love. This book attempts to break open the personal implications of the “Canticle of the Creatures” for Franciscans today. Like St. Francis, we are all immersed in creating our own canticles, whether or not we ever sing or compose them in words. Every life well lived is a love song, and we hope that the pages of this book makes that real, especially for anyone who chooses to follow St. Francis and St. Clare.

Murray Bodo, Murray Bodo O.F.M., Susan Saint Sing, Susan Saint Sing Ph.D (Author), Douglas James, Jennifer James (Narrator)

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Audiobooks Narrated by Douglas James