Audiobooks narrated by Tim Lundeen

Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations Audiobook

Dirt, soil, call it what you want, it's everywhere we go. It is the root of our existence, supporting our feet, our farms, our cities. This fascinating yet disquieting audiobook finds, however, that we are running out of dirt, and it's no laughing matter. An engaging natural and cultural history of soil that sweeps from ancient civilizations to modern times, Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations explores the compelling idea that we are, and have long been, using up Earth's soil. Once bare of protective vegetation and exposed to wind and rain, cultivated soils erode bit by bit, slowly enough to be ignored in a single lifetime but fast enough over centuries to limit the lifespan of civilizations. A rich mix of history, archaeology and geology, Dirt traces the role of soil use and abuse in the history of Mesopotamia, Ancient Greece, the Roman Empire, China, European colonialism, Central America, and the American push westward. We see how soil has shaped us and we have shaped soil as society after society has risen, prospered, and plowed through a natural endowment of fertile dirt. David R. Montgomery sees in the recent rise of organic and no-till farming the hope for a new agricultural revolution that might help us avoid the fate of previous civilizations. Produced and published by Echo Point Books & Media, an independent bookseller in Brattleboro, Vermont. ©2012 David R. Montgomery (P)

David R. Montgomery (Author), Tim Lundeen (Narrator)

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Life in the Negative World: Confronting Challenges in an Anti-Christian Culture

Learning how to live in today's new social and cultural environment will require examination, trial and error, and adaptation over time. But there are ways to live with integrity and follow Christ today, even in a negative world. From a peak in church attendance in the mid-20th century, Christianity has been on a trajectory of decline in the United States. Once positive toward Christianity and Christian moral teachings, cultural shifts toward the mid-90s led many to adopt a more neutral tone toward the Christian faith, seeing it as one option among many in a pluralistic public square. Today, however, Christianity is viewed negatively, and being known as a Christian often means a lower social status in elite society. Christian morality is openly repudiated and viewed as a threat to the new moral order. In Life in the Negative World, author Aaron M. Renn looks at the lessons from Christian cultural engagement over the past 70 years and suggests specific strategies for churches, institutions, and individuals to live faithfully in the 'negative' world-a culture opposed to Christian values and teachings. And since there is no one-size-fits-all solution, living as a follower of Christ in the new, negative world and being missionally engaged will require a diversity of strategies.

Aaron M. Renn (Author), Tim Lundeen (Narrator)

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Weed Man: The Remarkable Journey of Jimmy Divine

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration estimates that Americans in the early 1970s were smoking upwards of 35,000 pounds of marijuana per day. By the time the decade drew to a close, Time magazine reported that reefer had become "the most widely accepted illegal indulgence since drinking during Prohibition." You can thank Jimmy Moree for helping to feed America's insatiable pot habit. Nicknamed "Jimmy Divine" for his teetotaling ways, he would become one of the most successful marijuana traffickers of the 1970s, smuggling high-grade South American weed across the tempestuous seas into North American ports of call. He was born and grew up poor in the Bahamas. That life was forever changed on a morning jog when Jimmy literally stumbled onto several million dollars' worth of prime Colombian grass. He disposed of the weed with a little help from a law-enforcement friend and was surprised to earn over three hundred thousand dollars for his trouble. It was the first deal of many. The money was easy, and the perks fantastic. Jimmy went on to make, and give away, a fortune. And now award-winning journalist John McCaslin is telling Jimmy's story. Several of the characters are identified by their actual names or by nicknames. Identities of others have been changed to protect the guilty. Rest assured, you're in for a white-knuckle ride on the open seas where adventure, enterprise, and entire fortunes go up in smoke. "McCaslin brings his exceptional reportorial talent to bear in a fascinating exposé of the drug trade." -G. GORDON LIDDY "Told in a breezy, witty style, McCaslin's book captures moments in relatively recent Caribbean history when it was . . . possible to make a fortune by the ability to steer a boat stealthily through dangerous seas." -MARK BOWDEN Endorsements 'I'm delighted to see that John McCaslin has climbed out of his political trench in Washington long enough to set sail on this astonishing journey through the precarious Caribbean reefs, and beyond. Somehow, in typical McCaslin fashion, he manages to bring his readers back to the nation's capital in a chapter that will certainly have official tongues wagging in Washington.' -- Katie Couric, anchor and managing editor of the CBS Evening News and former co-host of NBC's Today 'This story is so compelling . . . John McCaslin has put it all together in a way that simply made me want to just keep on reading. Wow.' --Wolf Blitzer, anchor and host of the CNN newscast The Situation Room 'For years everybody in Washington has turned to John McCaslin's Inside The Beltway column for the inside skinny on what is going on in our nation's capital. Now, in Weed Man: The Remarkable Journey of Jimmy Divine, McCaslin brings his exceptional reportorial talent to bear in a fascinating expose of the drug trade.' --G. Gordon Liddy, Watergate figure and nationally-syndicated radio host

John Mccaslin (Author), Tim Lundeen (Narrator)

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Physician Well-Being During Sustained Crisis

Fatigue, isolation, worry, anxiety, depression, moral distress. These are the symptoms of physician burnout. The practice of medicine has never been easy. Years of demanding education. Long hours. Weekend call duty. Stress-laden procedures. Burgeoning regulatory requirements. Even a worldwide healthcare crisis. How is a physician to cope? This indispensable anthology of essential essays offers practical solutions. 'Physician Well-Being During Sustained Crisis' features over twenty authors—including active physician executives, counselors, and healthcare chaplains—addressing three core concepts related to the well-being of physicians. Section 1 explores the impact of severe and unremitting crisis-related stress on physicians and provides practical strategies and resources to ameliorate stress. Section 2 discusses the influence of organizational culture in sustaining professional wellness with initiatives designed to promote community and collegiality. Section 3 delves into the unique role of spiritual support in defusing burnout and contributing to resilience. Discover support for clinicians who deal daily with long hours, stressful situations, and lack of opportunity for self-care. Learn from seasoned healthcare professionals working at the front lines as they tell their stories and offer counsel based on real-life experience. Ted Hamilton, MD, MBA, is chief mission integration officer for AdventHealth, Dianne McCallister, MD, MBA, a board-certified internist and former chief medical officer, is co-founder of the Coalition for Physician Well-Being. DeAnna Santana-Cebollero, PhD, is the director of physician well-being and engagement for AdventHealth.

Deanna Santana-Cebollero Ph.D., Dianne Dianne Mccallister M.D., Ted Hamilton M.D. (Author), Kelley Robbins, Tim Lundeen (Narrator)

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What Would Steve Jobs Do?: How the Steve Jobs Way Can Inspire Anyone to Think Differently and Win

What Would Steve Jobs Do? presents the six-part business model Jobs applied to make Apple the most valuable publicly traded manufacturing corporation in the world and the global model for business excellence. While the results of this model can be profound, each step is something you can easily focus on with clarity and purpose: Customer-Understand your customers so well that you know what they want more than they do. Vision-Don't stop thinking at 'new product'; synthesize your ideas, products, and technologies around a specific game-changing customer issue. Culture-Create an environment filled with people who consider 'can't' a bad word. Product-Approach your product as something that can change the world-not just something to beat the competition or get a job done. Message-Deliver a message so compelling that it becomes an extension of the product itself. Personal Brand-Make people think constancy, promise, and trust when they think of you. Transform your organization, recast your future, and do your part to redefine our world using the wisdom and foresight of the greatest business sage in generations.

Peter Sander (Author), TBD, Tim Lundeen (Narrator)

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Making History Together

Have you ever wondered how AdventHealth creates world-class partnerships with companies like Disney, Nike, GE, IBM, Philips, Johnson & Johnson, and Bayer? Now you can discover the secrets for yourself. In his new monograph entitled Making History Together: How to Create Innovative Strategic Alliances to Fuel the Growth of Your Company, Keith Lowe takes you through the steps of how AdventHealth creates and cultivates outstanding strategic alliance relationships and how you can, too. In this valuable new monograph you will: • Learn the 7 questions AdventHealth uses to select (or reject) new partnerships. • Discover the historic event that launched AdventHealth into the world of strategic alliances. • Find out AdventHealth unique definition of a Strategic Alliance and why that definition is so important in creating successful relationships. • Understand the key component AdventHealth looks for in a strategic alliance relationship. • Uncover the Three Cs of Trust essential to a positive collaborative mindset between partners. • Discover how you can help bring important strategic alliances to Florida Hospital in the future.

Keith Lowe (Author), Tim Lundeen (Narrator)

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Building Bridges

Doctors are unhappy. Disenchanted with the practice of medicine, and dissatisfied with personal and professional life, many entertain the notion of alternative careers. Declining reimbursement, increasing workload, diminishing autonomy, and encroaching bureaucracy have robbed medical practice of joy and reduced it to wearisome drudgery. This disturbing trend emerges at a time when physician leadership in hospitals has never been more crucial. Physician engagement is essential to providing quality care, ensuring patient safety, providing an outstanding experience for patients and families, and building healthy communities. Since doctors and hospitals are inevitably and inextricably bound together in the care of our patients, it is imperative that hospitals help doctors find purpose, meaning, and fulfillment in life while working alongside the hospital to create a healing experience for the suffering and ill who seek our help. This publication: • Digs beneath the surface of traditional physician satisfaction concepts to uncover the secrets contributing to deeper physician loyalty • Describes three indispensable elements that provide a solid foundation for physician-hospital relationships • Provides a four-step approach to optimizing first impressions when introducing new doctors to the hospital • Demystifies the concept of wholeness as it applies to patients and physicians • Provides a simple tool to assess a hospital's approach to the well-being of staff physicians • Delineates a five-step approach to stimulate thinking about the growing cultural and religious diversity characterizing current-day medical staffs • Illuminates the peak level of human fulfillment as described by Maslow and its practical application to physicians • Provides a rich resource of readily transferable templates, tools, and initiatives designed to jump-start efforts to strengthen engagement with doctors • Provides a provocative glimpse at promising future directions in physician engagement

Ted Hamilton (Author), Tim Lundeen (Narrator)

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The Patient Experience

Doctors, nurses, and other caregivers provide the most intimate of services the health and healing of our bodies, minds, and spirits. When one human being cares for another, it should call forth our best of efforts and bring with it remarkable job satisfaction. Yet we find that medical professionals today are stressed, overburdened and often discouraged, with job-satisfaction rates at an all-time low. How can this be and how is it impacting the patients? By tapping into new research and powerful stories from patients and caregivers, Perez weaves a compelling portrait of both the purpose and promise of modern medical care. Perez keeps his focus on the balance between consistently superior clinical performance and reliably purposeful interactions that bring meaning and healing to patient and caregiver alike. The Patient Experience teaches: • The 3 acts of The Patient Experience • What is the one driving principle behind raising patient satisfaction? • How to create moments of heartfelt, intentional hope communicated by word or deed • The most important question to ask

Orlando Jay Perez (Author), Tim Lundeen (Narrator)

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Hope-Filled Healthcare for Mental Illness

Do today's mentally ill patients receive all the help and support they need? “Not usually,” says veteran Chaplain Robert W. Engstrom, now retired, who specialized in hope-filled spiritually-based care to the mentally ill for more than two decades, most of them at AdventHealth in Orlando, Florida. “Even in our supposedly sophisticated era,” Chaplain Engstrom says, “many people with mental illness are stigmatized, ostracized, marginalized, or worse.” This monograph is Chaplain Engstrom’s clarion call for respectful, compassionate interdisciplinary whole-person care for those suffering from mental illness. All caregivers who have contact with the mentally ill, whether in a clinical or non-clinical setting, and whether they are trained psychiatric professionals or not, will find this book to be an indispensable look into the world of people with mental illness and how to help them. “There is always hope,” Chaplain Engstrom would say, and then he might talk about Ralph, a suicidal pastor who recovered thanks to his wife’s loving intervention and a compassionate team of caregivers. Or he might describe Sandy, a young woman whose first psychotic break occurred just weeks before her planned wedding to her childhood sweetheart. She began hearing voices that told her to do irrational things, like throwing herself into a river in her wedding gown. A nurse named Norma gained Sandy’s trust, listened to her story, and helped her believe that someone understood and cared. You will find it moving, inspirational, compelling, convincing, practical, and motivational. The resources and patient questionnaires included will help you take whole-person care for the mentally ill to the next level. The insights and multiple true-life illustrations will help you walk with a mentally ill person from out of the dark depths of their own personal hell to see again what the poet, Dante, called “the shining world” when he wrote, “and so we came forth, and once again beheld the stars.”

Robert W Engstrom (Author), Tim Lundeen (Narrator)

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Hope-Filled Healthcare for Mental Illness

Robert W Engstrom (Author), Tim Lundeen (Narrator)

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Gospel Conversations: How to Care Like Christ

How does a person learn to counsel others with the truth of God’s Word? Bob Kellemen believes that the best way to learn counseling is by doing it—by giving and receiving biblical counseling in the context of real, raw Christian community. Gospel Conversations explores the four compass-points of biblical counseling: - Sustaining: “It’s Normal to Hurt.” - Healing: “It’s Possible to Hope.” - Reconciling: “It’s Horrible to Sin, but Wonderful to Be Forgiven.” - Guiding: “It’s Supernatural to Mature.” These four compass points combine to equip readers to develop twenty-two ministry relational competencies—the “how to” of caring like Christ. This book serves as a practical training manual that can be used for lab and small group interaction. Gospel Conversations is the second volume in The Equipping Biblical Counselors Series, a comprehensive relational training curriculum for the local church that provides a model for equipping God’s people to change lives with Christ’s changeless truth. This two-volume series weaves together comprehensive biblical insight with compassionate Christian engagement. Accompanying figures, worksheets, and appendixes are included in the audiobook companion PDF download.

Robert W. Kellemen (Author), Tim Lundeen (Narrator)

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This Is Your Brain on Joy: A Revolutionary Program for Balancing Mood, Restoring Brain Health, and N

What does your brain have to do with experiencing joy? A lot more than most of us realize. In this breakthrough book, Dr. Earl Henslin reveals how the study of brain imaging turned his practice of psychotherapy upside down-with remarkably positive results. He shares answers to puzzling questions, such as - Why isn't my faith in God enough to erase my blue moods? - Why haven't I been able to conquer my anger? Pray away my fear and worry? - Why can't I find freedom from secret obsessions and addictions? Using the Brain System Checklist, Dr. Henslin explains what happens to the 5 Mood Centers in the brain when any of those areas are out of balance. This is great news, especially for those tortured by the fear that something is fundamentally wrong with them when the problem actually lies between their ears. Read this practical, easy-to-understand, and often entertaining book, and you'll know exactly how to nourish your mind, balance your brain, and help others do the same. After all, the capacity for joy is a terrible thing to waste. Accompanying charts, images, and additional resources are included in the audiobook companion PDF download. 'This Is Your Brain on Joy is a thoughtful, practical, life-changing book that will help you take advantage of the latest neuroscience research-combined with biblical insights-to bring more joy and love into your life.' -from the Foreword by Daniel G. Amen, MD Author and speaker for the PBS special Change your Brain, Change your Life.

Earl Henslin (Author), Tim Lundeen (Narrator)

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Audiobooks Narrated by Tim Lundeen