D. Ross
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There's Always This Year
- On Basketball and Ascension
- By: Hanif Abdurraqib
- Narrated by: Hanif Abdurraqib
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
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Growing up in Columbus, Ohio, in the 1990s, Hanif Abdurraqib witnessed a golden era of basketball, one in which legends like LeBron James were forged and countless others weren’t. His lifelong love of the game leads Abdurraqib into a lyrical, historical, and emotionally rich exploration of what it means to make it, who we think deserves success, the tension between excellence and expectation, and the very notion of role models, all of which he expertly weaves together with intimate, personal storytelling.
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Love and Basketball
- By Mónica on 08-23-24
- There's Always This Year
- On Basketball and Ascension
- By: Hanif Abdurraqib
- Narrated by: Hanif Abdurraqib
A national treasure
Reviewed: 09-17-24
Hanif deserves every good thing that comes his way and more. Grateful to spend time with his mind + experience
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The Book of Delights
- Essays
- By: Ross Gay
- Narrated by: Ross Gay
- Length: 5 hrs and 1 min
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Ross Gay’s The Book of Delights is a genre-defying collection of essays that record the small joys that occurred in one year, from birthday to birthday, and that we often overlook in our busy lives. His is a meditation on delight that takes a clear-eyed view of the complexities, even the terrors, in his life, including living in America as a Black man; the ecological and psychic violence of our consumer culture; the loss of those he loves.
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A True Delight!
- By Danielle C. Miller on 02-25-19
- The Book of Delights
- Essays
- By: Ross Gay
- Narrated by: Ross Gay
Will carry in my soul
Reviewed: 06-25-24
I graduated from IU just a few years ago, so I knew of Ross Gay, though I never took his classes — too busy trying to cram two degrees into four years — but I regret that. When the world is full of more loss and sorrow than I can often bear, I turn to these delights. There is a particularly nostalgia, delight, here for me — reflecting on Darn Good Soup (lost to Covid-19) and the curious Protestantism of the dogwoods. Kin, kind, I love you, Book of Delights.
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Cracking the Code to a Successful Interview
- 15 Insider Secrets from a Top-Level Recruiter
- By: Evan Pellett
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 2 hrs and 16 mins
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Cracking the Code to a Successful Interview is a groundbreaking new scientific, proactive, cutting-edge, hands-on, proven approach to job interviews by an award-winning, highly decorated recruiter. This REAPRICH eight-step interview method will give you a proactive way to take control of your interview. You will learn the secret, never-before-published "questions behind the questions". These are the questions that every manager unconsciously needs answered in order to hire you.
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No secret code
- By Derek on 02-08-19
- Cracking the Code to a Successful Interview
- 15 Insider Secrets from a Top-Level Recruiter
- By: Evan Pellett
- Narrated by: George Newbern
A little judgmental at times
Reviewed: 06-24-24
Didn’t appreciate the fat-phobic rhetoric about how “taking care of your body” is indicated through your physical body size — that being overweight is a red flag for hiring managers. The rest of the content is worthwhile and useful for effective interview prep.
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Next Job, Best Job
- A Headhunter's 11 Strategies to Get Hired Now
- By: Rob Barnett
- Narrated by: Rob Barnett
- Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
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Rob Barnett is an innovator, a two-time entrepreneur, and a senior executive with five decades inside legendary media companies. As an advisor to thousands of job seekers and company heads, he is uniquely positioned to disrupt the job search industry. His inclusive platform is a life-saving escape hatch during the darkest hours of unemployment and an expert guide to the work you deserve.
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Helpful, Empathetic, Realistic
- By D. Ross on 06-24-24
- Next Job, Best Job
- A Headhunter's 11 Strategies to Get Hired Now
- By: Rob Barnett
- Narrated by: Rob Barnett
Helpful, Empathetic, Realistic
Reviewed: 06-24-24
Thank you, Rob, for a deeply felt and sincerely helpful guide to the job search. Your passion and knowledge on the subject is clear.
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Grandma Gatewood's Walk
- The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail
- By: Ben Montgomery
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 7 hrs and 54 mins
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Emma Gatewood told her family she was going on a walk and left her small Ohio hometown with a change of clothes and less than $200. The next anybody heard from her, this genteel, farm-reared, 67-year-old great-grandmother had walked 800 miles along the 2,050-mile Appalachian Trail. And in September 1955, atop Maine's Mount Katahdin, she sang the first verse of "America, the Beautiful" and proclaimed, "I said I'll do it, and I've done it."
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Inspiring story about a strong amazing woman
- By David Shear on 12-22-14
- Grandma Gatewood's Walk
- The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail
- By: Ben Montgomery
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
Folk Hero for Everyone
Reviewed: 06-20-24
I devoured this beautiful tale of grit, escape, humor and love. Grandma Gatewood is the hero I didn’t know I needed. One step at a time will take you far.
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How to Do Nothing
- Resisting the Attention Economy
- By: Jenny Odell
- Narrated by: Rebecca Gibel
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
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Nothing is harder to do these days than nothing. But in a world where our value is determined by our 24/7 data productivity...doing nothing may be our most important form of resistance. So argues artist and critic Jenny Odell in this field guide to doing nothing (at least as capitalism defines it). Our attention is the most precious - and overdrawn - resource we have. Once we can start paying a new kind of attention, we can undertake bolder forms of political action, reimagine humankind's role in the environment, and find more meaningful understandings of happiness and progress.
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great book, voiceover is brutal
- By Anonymous User on 08-24-19
- How to Do Nothing
- Resisting the Attention Economy
- By: Jenny Odell
- Narrated by: Rebecca Gibel
Much needed reminder to log off —
Reviewed: 06-17-24
But not tune out — the social and political struggles of our time. Find your people and seek real connection.
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Cultures of Growth
- How the New Science of Mindset Can Transform Individuals, Teams, and Organizations
- By: Mary C. Murphy PhD, Carol Dweck - foreword
- Narrated by: Mary C. Murphy, Carol Dweck - foreword
- Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
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Carol Dweck’s multi-million-copy bestseller Mindset transformed our view of individual potential, coining the terms “fixed” and “growth” mindset: in a “fixed” mindset, talent and intelligence are viewed as predetermined traits, while in a “growth” mindset, talent and intelligence can be nurtured. In Cultures of Growth, Dweck’s protégé, Mary Murphy, a social psychologist at both Stanford and Indiana University, shows that mindset transcends individuals.
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Good insight about culture
- By Mustafa Hamalawi on 09-14-24
- Cultures of Growth
- How the New Science of Mindset Can Transform Individuals, Teams, and Organizations
- By: Mary C. Murphy PhD, Carol Dweck - foreword
- Narrated by: Mary C. Murphy, Carol Dweck - foreword
Brilliant, timely, necessary
Reviewed: 06-14-24
I’m tempted to recommend this as a required reading for the Methods Seminar of the competitive humanities Master’s program I just graduated from. I wish I had this book when I started, I might have spent less of my working memory worrying I wasn’t good enough to be there. Recommending to every leader, educator, imposter-syndrome-haver I know. Thank you.
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