Audiobooks narrated by Emmanuel Chumaceiro

Stephen J. Pyne (Author), Emmanuel Chumaceiro, TBD (Narrator)

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Tommy Orange (Author), Alma Cuervo, Calvin Joyal, Charley Flyte, Christian Young, Curtis Michael Holland, Emmanuel Chumaceiro, Macleod Andrews, Phil Ava, Shaun Taylor-Corbett, TBD (Narrator)

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They Flew: A History of the Impossible

Accounts of seemingly impossible phenomena abounded in the early modern era-tales of levitation, bilocation, and witchcraft-even as skepticism, atheism, and empirical science were starting to supplant religious belief in the paranormal. In this book, Carlos Eire explores how a culture increasingly devoted to scientific thinking grappled with events deemed impossible by its leading intellectuals. Eire observes how levitating saints and flying witches were as essential a component of early modern life as the religious turmoil of the age, and as much a part of history as Newton's scientific discoveries. Relying on an array of firsthand accounts, and focusing on exceptionally impossible cases involving levitation, bilocation, witchcraft, and demonic possession, Eire challenges established assumptions about the redrawing of boundaries between the natural and supernatural that marked the transition to modernity. Using as his case studies stories about St. Teresa of Avila, St. Joseph of Cupertino, the Venerable Maria de Ágreda, and three disgraced nuns, Eire challenges listeners to imagine a world animated by a different understanding of reality and of the supernatural's relationship with the natural world. The questions he explores have resonance and lessons for our time.

Carlos M. N. Eire (Author), Emmanuel Chumaceiro (Narrator)

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BETTER HUMANS, BETTER PERFORMANCE: DRIVING LEADERSHIP, TEAMWORK, AND CULTURE WITH INTENTIONALITY

Virtue is more than a word: it's a way for us all to live, a way to flourish as human beings. And when applied to organizational life, virtue serves to enhance engagement, strengthen relationships, and foster success in business. Picking up where the acclaimed Exception to the Rule left off, Better Humans, Better Performance connects the classical Greek virtues-Trust, Compassion, Courage, Justice, Temperance, Wisdom, and Hope-with authoritative science that can help you achieve the highest performance. The authors draw on these virtues with a purpose-driven approach to every aspect of organizational success, including: cultivating excellence in leadership; the keys to performance-based teamwork; why engaged organizational culture is so vital; character education for families; integrity as a growth market; the science of resiliency; and coaching and deliberate practice for high performance. Performance is a direct byproduct of getting better at 'who we are.' With its practical focus on helping you make this a reality by using the seven virtues, Better Humans, Better Performance unlocks a key component of attaining the highest performance in your organization.

Alan Kolp, Jamie Stoller, Peter Rea (Author), Emmanuel Chumaceiro (Narrator)

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AI and the Future of the Public Sector: The Creation of Public Sector 4.0

In AI and the Future of the Public Sector: The Creation of Public Sector 4.0, renowned executive and consultant Tony Boobier delivers a comprehensive reference of the most relevant and central issues regarding the adoption and implementation of AI in the public sector. In the book, you'll find out why data and analytics are the solution to significant and ongoing problems in the public service relating to its ability to effectively provide services in an environment of reduced funding. You'll also discover the likely impact of future technological developments, like 5G and quantum computing, as well as explore the future of healthcare and the effective digitalization of the healthcare industry. The book also offers: discussions of policing 4.0 and how data and analytics will transform public safety; explorations of the future of education and how AI can dramatically enhance educational standards while reducing costs; and treatments of the internationalization of public services and its impact on agencies and departments everywhere. A can't-miss resource for public sector employees at the managerial and professional levels, AI and the Future of the Public Sector is an insightful and timely blueprint to the effective use of artificial intelligence that belongs in the bookshelves of policy makers, academics, and public servants around the world.

Tony Boobier (Author), Emmanuel Chumaceiro (Narrator)

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The Digital Mindset: What It Really Takes to Thrive in the Age of Data, Algorithms, and AI

The pressure to 'be digital' has never been greater. The digital revolution is here. It's changing how work gets done, how industries are structured, and how people from all walks of life work, behave and relate to each other. To thrive in a world driven by data and powered by algorithms, we must learn to see, think, and act in new ways. We need to develop a digital mindset. But what does that mean? Some fear it means that in the near future we will all need to become technologists who master the intricacies of coding, algorithms, AI, machine learning, robotics, and who knows what's next. This book introduces three approaches-Collaboration, Computation, Change-that you need for a digital mindset, and the perspectives and actions within each approach that will enable you to develop digital skills you need. With the digital mindset, you can ask the right questions, make smart decisions and appreciate new possibilities for a digital future. Leaders who adopt these approaches will be able to develop their organization's talent to prepare their company for successful and continued digital transformation. The surprising and welcome secret is that developing a digital mindset isn't as hard as we think. Most people can become digitally savvy if they follow the '30% rule,' or the minimum threshold that gives us just enough digital literacy to understand and take advantage of the digital fabric woven into our world.

Paul Leonardi, Tsedal Neeley (Author), Emmanuel Chumaceiro (Narrator)

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The Ultimate Guide to the Rider Waite Tarot

Discover everything you ever wanted to know about the world's most popular tarot deck. The Ultimate Guide to the Rider Waite Tarot details the ten most important symbols on each and every card in the deck. In addition to an explanation of the symbols, each card is given a brief interpretation by topic: primary meaning; prognosis or tendency; spiritual meaning; love and relationship meaning; daily meaning; and success and happiness meaning. Writing in a convenient format designed for quick reference, European tarot authorities Johannes Fiebig and Evelin Bürger also provide tips, hints, facts, and lore to improve your reading right away. In this book, you will find the top ten most important: ways of using a single card; tips and rules for interpretation; facts about the tarot; interpretations for each suit; and spread layout techniques.

Evelin Bürger, Johannes Fiebig (Author), Emmanuel Chumaceiro (Narrator)

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The Resilient Founder: Lessons in Endurance from Startup Entrepreneurs

In The Resilient Founder, Mahendra Ramsinghani gathers insights from over a hundred founders to deliver an intuitive and insightful guide to understanding our psychology and navigating the psychological pressures of startup leadership. Venture backed companies are expected to grow at high velocity, raise large amounts of capital, and build teams effectively to achieve unicorn, no decacorn status. Yet the journey is long, filled with uncertainties, extremities, and black swan events. It can wear out the best and the brightest. The role of a founder can be lonely, frustrating, and filled with high-highs and low-lows-all of this leading to anxiety, depression, and even suicide. The Resilient Founder addresses the fundamentals of understanding our own inner workings and explores practical ways of overcoming our inner hurdles. Filled with simple, yet concrete strategies, lessons and insights, founders and business leaders can work with stress, anxiety, and other mental challenges presented by the life of an entrepreneur. In this book, listeners will learn to: understand the basics of founder psychology, and how our inner workings can help or hurt us; the importance of building a healthy ego, leading to resilience; and draw on the lessons of established startup leaders on how to wrestle with their own mental and emotional challenges.

Mahendra Ramsinghani (Author), Emmanuel Chumaceiro (Narrator)

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The Automation Advantage: Embrace the Future of Productivity and Improve Speed, Quality, and Custome

Many companies were already implementing limited levels of automation when the pandemic hit. But the need to rapidly change business processes and how organizations work resulted in the compression of a decade's worth of digital transformation into a matter of months. Technology suddenly became the essential element for rapid organizational change and the creation of 360-degree value benefiting all stakeholders. Businesses are faced with the imperative to embrace that change or risk being left behind. In The Automation Advantage, global enterprise technology and automation veterans Bhaskar Ghosh, Rajendra Prasad, and Gayathri Pallail give business leaders and managers the action plan they need to execute a strategic agenda that enables them to quickly and confidently scale their automation and AI initiatives. The Automation Advantage goes beyond optimizing process to using AI to transform almost any business activity in any industry to make it faster, more streamlined, cost efficient, and customer-focused-vastly improving overall productivity and performance. Featuring case studies of successful automation solutions, this indispensable road map includes guiding principles for technology, governance, culture, and leadership change.

Bhaskar Ghosh PhD, Bhaskar Ghosh Phd, Bhaskar Ghosh, Ph.D., Bhaskar Ghosh, Phd, Gayathri Pallail, Rajendra Prasad (Author), Emmanuel Chumaceiro (Narrator)

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Gorillas Can Dance: Lessons from Microsoft and Other Corporations on Partnering with Startups

Achieve exceptional results with your organization's next partnership for corporate innovation In Gorillas Can Dance, distinguished international business strategy professor and expert Dr. Shameen Prashantham delivers a proven roadmap for large corporations collaborating with startups. Drawing on over a decade of international research, Dr. Prashantham explains the 'why,' 'how,' and 'where' of corporate-startup partnering. In this book, you'll learn: - How to focus on the three pillars of synergy, interface, and exemplar to achieve outstanding results in your partnership - Why the very thing that attracts large corporations to startups-their significant differences-also makes it difficult to work together - Where in the world to find your ideal startup partnerships and how to use them as a force for good Perfect for C-suite executives, managers, business unit heads, and corporate innovation managers, Gorillas Can Dance is a must-have resource for business leaders seeking strategic guidance on partnering and collaborating with startups.

Shameen Prashantham (Author), Emmanuel Chumaceiro (Narrator)

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Remarkable: Proven Insights to Accelerate Your Career

Fastrack your career by becoming a more valuable and effective employee through the Remarkable power of insightfulness. Remarkable is a rare book that exclusively focuses on providing a comprehensive understanding of unique, pragmatic and infallible insights that can be put to use on day one to advance your career. More important, Remarkable teaches the art of insightfulness-how to apply higher levels of creative and analytical thinking, using specific methodologies and techniques which result in superior analyses and decision making, a highly cherished skill in the business world. A skill that will make you exceptionally more valuable to your managers and company, thereby propelling your career. Anyone anywhere can become Remarkable and realize greater business prosperity. Remarkable covers all the important dimensions affecting success and career progression. For example, writing a great resume, interviewing well for a job, performing well on the job, developing into a better manager, managing conflicts, influencing outcomes around you, becoming a more successful negotiator and most importantly, refining your ability to analyze business challenges and opportunities.

David Kronfeld (Author), Emmanuel Chumaceiro (Narrator)

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International Migration: A Very Short Introduction, 2nd Edition

In recent years, global migration has transformed in terms of its numbers and reach, its political significance, and its impact. The rising rates of international migration have been matched by growing public and media interest around the world. Today, the political and media attention on migration and greater public interest and concern feed into an international debate that is all too often poorly informed and one-sided. This Very Short Introduction looks at the phenomenon of international human migration-both legal and illegal-and offers an objective stance on the topic, and its benefits and challenges. Khalid Koser reveals the opportunities migration presents that must be taken advantage of in the current economic climate, and debunks common myths to demonstrate that society, as we now know it, cannot function without migrants. Using interviews with migrants from around the world, Koser presents the human side of issues such as asylum, human trafficking, migrant smuggling, and the international labour force, inviting listeners to come to their own conclusions on the international migration situation today.

Khalid Koser (Author), Emmanuel Chumaceiro (Narrator)

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Audiobooks Narrated by Emmanuel Chumaceiro