Audiobooks narrated by Jennifer Smith

The Circular Business Revolution: A practical framework for sustainable business models

The triple crisis of climate change, pollution, and biodiversity loss is demanding action from companies—resources are limited, supply chains are vulnerable, and consumers are demanding change. Business leaders face the challenge of shifting from a linear 'take-make-waste' approach to one that is circular, regenerative, resilient, and profitable to ensure long term success. Whether you're just starting to explore circularity, or you are already actively advancing a circular business agenda, this book caters to your unique journey. It introduces a set of circular business model patterns as a pathway to transformation and creating value in a circular economy. It offers over 100 real-world case studies of circular business model innovation to highlight emerging trends, new opportunities, and the pathway to sustainable change. Our goal is to empower you to actively craft your own circular transformation pathway, step by step, ensuring a hands-on and personalized journey toward implementing circular business models. We have developed four guiding worksheets that will help you crystallize your insights, refine your strategy, and solidify your path toward a successful circular transformation. These tools serve as companions, ensuring that the journey from inspiration to implementation is tailored to your specific needs.

Julia Binder, Manuel Braun (Author), Jennifer Smith (Narrator)

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The Financial Times Guide to High Impact Negotiation: A comprehensive guide for executing valuable d

Strategy, tactics and templates to prepare for high-impact negotiations that result in successful long-lasting deals. The Financial Times Guide to High Impact Negotiation provides a comprehensive and strategic roadmap to the whole negotiation process from preparation to execution. Follow the practical steps to complete negotiation successfully, build relationships, and finalize your deal.

Dr. Kasia Jagodzinska (Author), Jennifer Smith (Narrator)

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Online Harms and Cybertrauma: Legal and Harmful Issues with Children and Young People

This vital, sensitive guide explains the serious issues children face online and how they are impacted by them on a developmental, neurological, social, mental health, and well-being level. Covering technologies used by children aged two through to adulthood, it offers parents and professionals clear, evidence-based information about online harms and their effects and what they can do to support their child. Catherine Knibbs, specialist advisor in the field, explains the issues involved when using online platforms and devices in family, social and educational settings. Examined in as non-traumatizing a way as possible, the book covers key topics, including cyberbullying; cyberstalking; pornography; online grooming; sexting; live streaming; vigilantism; suicide and self-harm; trolling and e-harassment; bantz, doxing, and social media hacking; dares, trends, and life-threatening activities; information and misinformation; and psychological games. Online Harms and Cybertrauma will equip professionals and parents with the knowledge to support their work and direct conversations about the online harms that young people face. It is essential for those training and working with children in psychological, educational, and social work contexts, as well as parents, policy makers, and those involved in development of online technologies.

Catherine Knibbs (Author), Jennifer Smith (Narrator)

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Abortion: a personal story, a political choice

From the author of I Hate Men, a personal and political reflection on abortion rights. Discussion about abortion and associated rights are often limited to either 'anti-abortion' or 'pro-choice,' the latter of which focuses on the importance of having the right to choose, rather than on what that right means for real people. In this timely essay, Pauline Harmange provides an intimate, detailed account of her abortion. Reminiscent of Annie Ernaux's Happening, Abortion is nuanced, complex, honest, and precise. Harmange gives voice to the emotions, reflections, and contradictions that someone could experience when they choose to terminate a pregnancy. At a time in which women's reproductive rights are being called into question around the world, Abortion is a clarion call, a powerful personal testimony, and a resolutely political vision: to restore power to our experiences, all our experiences, by sharing them, and to transform society for the better.

Pauline Harmange (Author), Jennifer Smith (Narrator)

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Letters to My Weird Sisters: On Autism and Feminism

An autistic feminist author looks at women's history, in search of her 'weird sisters.' It seemed to me that many of the moments when my autism had caused problems, or at least marked me out as different, were those moments when I had come up against some unspoken law about how a girl or a woman should be, and failed to meet it. An autism diagnosis in midlife enabled Joanne Limburg to finally make sense of why her emotional expression, social discomfort and presentation had always marked her as an outsider. Eager to discover other women who had been misunderstood in their time, she writes a series of wide-ranging letters to four 'weird sisters' from history, addressing topics including autistic parenting, social isolation, feminism, the movement for disability rights and the appalling punishments that have been meted out over centuries to those deemed to fall short of the norm. This heartfelt, deeply compassionate and wholly original work humanizes women who have so often been dismissed for their differences, and will be celebrated by 'weird sisters' everywhere.

Joanne Limburg (Author), Jennifer Smith (Narrator)

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All is Mary and Bright

Mary Hatcher traveled to London to procure a trousseau for her upcoming marriage. When she attends the Frost Fair and meets a different man that ignites her interest, she tamps down the unwelcome feelings. But when her host’s son arrives at dinner and she learns he is the man she met at the Frost Fair, she has a new challenge: She must spend the Christmas Season in the same house as him without falling in love. Andrew Bright, the earl of Sanders, can never live up to his father’s legacy, so why bother trying? When he runs into a charming woman at the Frost Fair and later learns she is his mother’s guest, he is overjoyed. At least until he learns of her engagement. But friendship with her is better than nothing, until she threatens to push him into doing what he has long avoided - stepping into his father’s shoes. This is the second book in the clean regency romance Belles of Christmas: Frost Fair series. This forbidden-love romance is a stand-alone novel and the books can be read in any order.

Kasey Stockton (Author), Jennifer Smith (Narrator)

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Cynthia Smart's Midwife Crisis: a heartwarming, feel-good romance

Midlife crisis? What midlife crisis? At forty-four, Cynthia Smart is exactly where she wants to be. Almost. In a couple of years, she'll be the CEO of the company she's spent most of her adult life working in. For now, though, she's still busy shimmying up the greasy pole of corporate business. She's single, carefree, and independent, and nothing can stop her getting what she wants and deserves. Until she discovers she's pregnant. Determined to have her cake and eat it, she's convinced that having a baby will make little difference to her life, and that she will be one of those women who can hold down an incredibly demanding job and also be a perfect mother. But as her pregnancy progresses and her life slowly falls apart, she has the sneaking suspicion that Max Oakland, the new guy on the block, is out to steal her dream job. That she's terribly attracted to him doesn't help, nor does the fact that he's devilishly handsome, appears to be a really nice fella, and is good in a crisis. When she gradually comes to realise that something has got to give, what she doesn't want it to be is her heart. Perfect for fans of Mandy Baggott, Heidi Swain, and Holly Martin.

Liz Davies (Author), Jennifer Smith (Narrator)

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The Unveiled Wife: Embracing Intimacy With God and Your Husband

As a young bride, Jennifer Smith couldn't wait to build her life with the man she adored. She dreamed of closeness, of being fully known and loved by her husband. But the first years of marriage were nothing like she'd imagined. Instead, they were marked by disappointment and pain, as Jennifer and her husband struggled to become physically intimate. Trapped by fear and insecurity, and feeling totally alone, Jennifer cried out to God: What am I doing wrong? Why is this happening to us? It was as if a veil had descended between her and her husband, and between her and God-one that kept her from experiencing the fullness of love.How did Jennifer and her husband survive the painful times? What did they do when they were tempted to call it quits? How did God miraculously step in during the darkest hour to rescue and redeem them, tearing down the veil once and for all? The Unveiled Wife is a real-life love story; one couple's refreshingly raw, transparent journey touching the deep places in a marriage that only God can reach. If you are feeling disappointment or even despair about your marriage, the heart-cry of this book is: You are not alone. Discover through Jennifer's story how God can bring you through it all to a place of transformation. ***Please contact Member Services for additional documents***

Jennifer Smith (Author), Jennifer Smith (Narrator)

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Audiobooks Narrated by Jennifer Smith