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  Improv to Improve Healthcare - A...

  Candy Campbell

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  Healthcare organizations cry out for a tool to decrease untoward events and bridge the communication gap between professional clinician teams and clients. Discover how to guide your team to creatively problem-solve, build emotional and social intelligence, increase workplace safety and employee retention, and guarantee client satisfaction with the results-don’t-lie Improv to Improve Healthcare system.

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  Radio Treason - The Trials of...

  Rebecca West, Katie Roiphe

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  The gripping courtroom drama of a Brooklyn-born Englishman who became the voice of Nazi Germany, by "one of the most brilliant and erudite journalists of the century" (The New York Times). 
   
   
   
  In 1945, the New Yorker commissioned star reporter Rebecca West to cover the London trial of William Joyce, who stood accused by the British government of aiding the Third Reich. Joyce was alleged to have hosted a radio program, Germany Calling, devoted to Nazi propaganda and calls for a British surrender. 
   
   
   
  The legal case against Joyce (known as "Lord Haw-Haw" for his supposedly posh accent) proved to be tenuous and full of uncertainties. Yet each new piece of evidence added to West's timeless portrait of a social reject who turned to the far right, who rose through the ranks without ever being liked, and who sought validation through a set of shared hatreds—of elites, of communists, and especially of Jews. 
   
   
   
  As a work of psychological suspense, Rebecca West's Radio Treason anticipates Truman Capote, Janet Malcolm, and Joan Didion at their best. As a study in political extremism, as Katie Roiphe writes in her foreword, "It is as if Lord Haw-Haw has been transported from her time into ours."

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  Life on the Frontlines: Summary...

  Alexander Pike

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  This content is an independent and unofficial summary created for informational and educational purposes only. It is not affiliated with, authorized, approved, licensed, or endorsed by the original author or publisher. All rights to the original work belong to its respective copyright holders. This summary is not intended to substitute the original book, but to offer a concise overview and interpretation of its main ideas. 
   
  Life on the Frontlines plunges listeners into the heart of conflict, where chaos meets courage and survival becomes a daily act of defiance. Through vivid storytelling and raw, firsthand perspectives, this audiobook captures the brutal realities and quiet heroics of those who live—and fight—where the world is most fragile. 
  More than a chronicle of war, it’s a portrait of humanity under pressure: the brotherhood forged in battle, the moments of grace amid devastation, and the resilience that rises when everything else falls away. Each chapter is a powerful testament to endurance, duty, and the unspoken cost of holding the line. 
  Intense, intimate, and unforgettable, Life on the Frontlines is perfect for listeners drawn to stories of sacrifice, strength, and the unyielding will to persevere.

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  The ANC Billionaires - Big...

  Pieter Du Toit

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  'We were talking about the rise of Japan, about Ronald Reagan's Star Wars … globalisation, technology. And they were still banging on about the Freedom Charter.' – Anglo American's Michael Spicer on the ANC in the mid-1980s.
  In 1985, a group of white South African business leaders, led by Gavin Relly, the executive chairperson of Anglo American, travelled to a game lodge in Zambia to meet with the exiled ANC leadership under Oliver Tambo and Thabo Mbeki. This visit set in motion a coordinated and well-resourced plan by big business to influence and direct political change in South Africa.
  In The ANC Billionaires, top-selling author Pieter du Toit draws on first-hand accounts by major roleplayers about the contentious relationship between capital and the ANC before, during and after the country's transition to democracy, and shows how the liberation organisation was completely unprepared to navigate the intersection between business and politics.
  He also ties the rise of the new elite – including Cyril Ramaphosa, Patrice Motsepe and Saki Macozoma – to the ANC, a party of government and patronage.

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  The Power of Cute

  Simon May

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  This audiobook narrated by acclaimed British actor Anthony Head explores cuteness and its immense hold on us, from emojis and fluffy puppies to its more uncanny, subversive expressions
  
  Cuteness has taken the planet by storm. Global sensations Hello Kitty and Pokémon, the works of artists Takashi Murakami and Jeff Koons, Heidi the cross-eyed opossum and E.T.—all reflect its gathering power. But what does "cute" mean, as a sensibility and style? Why is it so pervasive? Is it all infantile fluff, or is there something more uncanny and even menacing going on—in a lighthearted way? In The Power of Cute, Simon May provides nuanced and surprising answers.
  
  We usually see the cute as merely diminutive, harmless, and helpless. May challenges this prevailing perspective, investigating everything from Mickey Mouse to Kim Jong-il to argue that cuteness is not restricted to such sweet qualities but also beguiles us by transforming or distorting them into something of playfully indeterminate power, gender, age, morality, and even species. May grapples with cuteness's dark and unpindownable side—unnerving, artful, knowing, apprehensive—elements that have fascinated since ancient times through mythical figures, especially hybrids like the hermaphrodite and the sphinx. He argues that cuteness is an addictive antidote to today's pressured expectations of knowing our purpose, being in charge, and appearing predictable, transparent, and sincere. Instead, it frivolously expresses the uncertainty that these norms deny: the ineliminable uncertainty of who we are; of how much we can control and know; of who, in our relations with others, really has power; indeed, of the very value and purpose of power.
  The Power of Cute delves into a phenomenon that speaks with strange force to our age.

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  The Story of Space - From Spirit...

  Ylia Callan

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.  The Story of Space – From Spirit Realms to Spacetime and Beyond takes listeners on an extraordinary journey through humanity’s evolving relationship with the cosmos. From the earliest myths of sacred skies and heavenly realms, to the philosophical concept of the aether, to the scientific revolutions of relativity and quantum theory, this audiobook traces the ever-shifting ways we have understood the nature of space itself. 
   
  Blending history, philosophy, science, and culture, this sweeping narrative reveals how each era has projected its deepest ideas, fears, and aspirations onto the vast expanse above us. Explore how space has been imagined not only by scientists and philosophers, but also by poets, artists, and dreamers - across cultures, languages, and spiritual traditions. 
   
  From the timeless myths of creation to Einstein’s curved spacetime, from the quantum void to the imaginative frontiers of science fiction, The Story of Space uncovers the many dimensions - physical, cultural, psychological, and spiritual - of this endless mystery. 
   
  If you’ve ever looked up at the night sky and wondered what it truly means, this audiobook offers a guide to the evolving tapestry of ideas that have shaped our vision of the universe.

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