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The CPS Pipeline

State Sanctioned Kidnapping

by Maureen Steele, Ann Vandersteel, Christopher Burns ...

Bracing, urgent, and unapologetically direct, CPS Pipeline is a wake-up call to every American who believes families should be sacred, not state-controlled.Every year, thousands of American families are torn apart by Child Protective Services. Behind the language of “safety” and “welfare” lies a dangerous pipeline – a system that profits from the removal of children, often without due process, and ... Read more

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Bracing, urgent, and unapologetically direct, CPS Pipeline is a wake-up call to every American who believes families should be sacred, not state-controlled.Every year, thousands of American families are torn apart by Child Protective Services. Behind the language of “safety” and “welfare” lies a dangerous pipeline – a system that profits from the removal of children, often without due process, and
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The CPS Pipeline

State Sanctioned Kidnapping

by Maureen Steele, Ann Vandersteel, Christopher Burns ...

Unabridged

1 hour 56 min

Bracing, urgent, and unapologetically direct, CPS Pipeline is a wake-up call to every American who believes families should be sacred, not state-controlled.Every year, thousands of American families are torn apart by Child Protective Services. Behind the language of “safety” and “welfare” lies a dangerous pipeline – a system that profits from the removal of children, often without due process, and ... Read more

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Bracing, urgent, and unapologetically direct, CPS Pipeline is a wake-up call to every American who believes families should be sacred, not state-controlled.Every year, thousands of American families are torn apart by Child Protective Services. Behind the language of “safety” and “welfare” lies a dangerous pipeline – a system that profits from the removal of children, often without due process, and
... Read more

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Winning on Purpose

The Unbeatable Strategy of Loving Customers

by Fred Reichheld, Darci Darnell, Maureen Burns ...

Great leaders embrace a higher purpose to win. The Net Promoter System shines as their guiding star.Few management ideas have spread so far and wide as the Net Promoter System (NPS). Since its conception almost two decades ago by customer loyalty guru Fred Reichheld, thousands of companies around the world have adopted it—from industrial titans such as Mercedes-Benz and Cummins to tech giants like ... Read more

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Great leaders embrace a higher purpose to win. The Net Promoter System shines as their guiding star.Few management ideas have spread so far and wide as the Net Promoter System (NPS). Since its conception almost two decades ago by customer loyalty guru Fred Reichheld, thousands of companies around the world have adopted it—from industrial titans such as Mercedes-Benz and Cummins to tech giants like
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On My Mind . . . Or What's Left Of It

by Maureen Burns ...

This is a witty and inspiring collection of columns by Maureen Burns. Some are knee slapping funny, some bring a tear to your eye. She knocks it out of the park and you will easily relate to her writings. She deals with marriage, children, aging, our state of life in this rapidly changing world, etc. The back even has terrific book ideas for people to read and superb recipes to try and enjoy. This ... Read more

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This is a witty and inspiring collection of columns by Maureen Burns. Some are knee slapping funny, some bring a tear to your eye. She knocks it out of the park and you will easily relate to her writings. She deals with marriage, children, aging, our state of life in this rapidly changing world, etc. The back even has terrific book ideas for people to read and superb recipes to try and enjoy. This
... Read more
Theorizing Visual Studies

Writing Through the Discipline

Edited by James Elkins, Kristi McGuire, Maureen Burns, Alicia Chester, Joel Kuennen ...

This forward-thinking collection brings together over sixty essays that invoke images to summon, interpret, and argue with visual studies and its neighboring fields such as art history, media studies, visual anthropology, critical theory, cultural studies, and aesthetics. The product of a multi-year collaboration between graduate students from around the world, spearheaded by James Elkins, this ... Read more

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This forward-thinking collection brings together over sixty essays that invoke images to summon, interpret, and argue with visual studies and its neighboring fields such as art history, media studies, visual anthropology, critical theory, cultural studies, and aesthetics. The product of a multi-year collaboration between graduate students from around the world, spearheaded by James Elkins, this
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Winning on Purpose

The Unbeatable Strategy of Loving Customers

by Fred Reichheld ...

Narrated by Walter Dixon ...

Unabridged

8 hours 37 min

Can your company win by embracing a higher purpose? Yes—and this book tells you how.Few management ideas have spread so far and so wide as the Net Promoter System (NPS). Created by author and loyalty guru Fred Reichheld, companies across the spectrum have adopted it—from industrial giants such as Mercedes-Benz and Cummins Engine to Silicon Valley sweethearts such as Apple and Google to digital ... Read more

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Can your company win by embracing a higher purpose? Yes—and this book tells you how.Few management ideas have spread so far and so wide as the Net Promoter System (NPS). Created by author and loyalty guru Fred Reichheld, companies across the spectrum have adopted it—from industrial giants such as Mercedes-Benz and Cummins Engine to Silicon Valley sweethearts such as Apple and Google to digital
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Measure What Matters

How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs

by John Doerr ...

Narrated by John Doerr, Various, William Davidow, Brett Kopf, Jini Kim, Mike Lee, Atticus Tysen, Patti Stonesifer, Susan Wojcicki0, Cristos Goodrow1, Julia Collins2, Alex Garden3, Joseph Suzuki4 ...

Unabridged

7 hours 56 min

Legendary venture capitalist John Doerr reveals how the goal-setting system of Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) has helped tech giants from Intel to Google achieve explosive growth--and how it can help any organization thrive.In the fall of 1999, John Doerr met with the founders of a start-up whom he'd just given $12.5 million, the biggest investment of his career. Larry Page and Sergey Brin had ... Read more

$17.50 USD

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Legendary venture capitalist John Doerr reveals how the goal-setting system of Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) has helped tech giants from Intel to Google achieve explosive growth--and how it can help any organization thrive.In the fall of 1999, John Doerr met with the founders of a start-up whom he'd just given $12.5 million, the biggest investment of his career. Larry Page and Sergey Brin had
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Multipliers, Revised and Updated

How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter

by Liz Wiseman ...

Narrated by Liz Wiseman, John Meagher ...

Unabridged

11 hours 24 min

A revised and updated edition of the acclaimed Wall Street Journal bestseller that explores why some leaders drain capability and intelligence from their teams while others amplify it to produce better results.We’ve all had experience with two dramatically different types of leaders. The first type drains intelligence, energy, and capability from the people around them and always needs to be the ... Read more

$28.99 USD

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A revised and updated edition of the acclaimed Wall Street Journal bestseller that explores why some leaders drain capability and intelligence from their teams while others amplify it to produce better results.We’ve all had experience with two dramatically different types of leaders. The first type drains intelligence, energy, and capability from the people around them and always needs to be the
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The Way We're Working Isn't Working

The Four Forgotten Needs That Energize Great Performance

by Tony Schwartz, Jean Gomes ...

Narrated by Tony Schwartz ...

Abridged

6 hours 16 min

This book was previously titled, Be Excellent at Anything.The Way We're Working Isn't Working is one of those rare books with the power to profoundly transform the way we work and live.Demand is exceeding our capacity. The ethic of "more, bigger, faster" exacts a series of silent but pernicious costs at work, undermining our energy, focus, creativity, and passion. Nearly 75 percent of employees ... Read more

$19.99 USD

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This book was previously titled, Be Excellent at Anything.The Way We're Working Isn't Working is one of those rare books with the power to profoundly transform the way we work and live.Demand is exceeding our capacity. The ethic of "more, bigger, faster" exacts a series of silent but pernicious costs at work, undermining our energy, focus, creativity, and passion. Nearly 75 percent of employees
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Good Strategy Bad Strategy

The Difference and Why It Matters

by Richard Rumelt ...

Narrated by Sean Runnette ...

Unabridged

11 hours 49 min

Good Strategy/Bad Strategy clarifies the muddled thinking underlying too many strategies and provides a clear way to create and implement a powerful action-oriented strategy for the real world.Developing and implementing a strategy is the central task of a leader. A good strategy is a specific and coherent response to—and approach for—overcoming the obstacles to progress. A good strategy works by ... Read more

$22.50 USD

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Good Strategy/Bad Strategy clarifies the muddled thinking underlying too many strategies and provides a clear way to create and implement a powerful action-oriented strategy for the real world.Developing and implementing a strategy is the central task of a leader. A good strategy is a specific and coherent response to—and approach for—overcoming the obstacles to progress. A good strategy works by
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Spare

by Prince Harry, The Duke of Sussex ...

Narrated by Prince Harry, The Duke of Sussex ...

Unabridged

15 hours 39 min

**#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Discover the global phenomenon that tells an unforgettable story of love, loss, courage, and healing.“Compellingly artful . . . [a] blockbuster memoir.”—The New Yorker (Best Books of the Year)**It was one of the most searing images of the twentieth century: two young boys, two princes, walking behind their mother’s coffin as the world watched in sorrow—and horror. ... Read more

$36.00 USD

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**#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Discover the global phenomenon that tells an unforgettable story of love, loss, courage, and healing.“Compellingly artful . . . [a] blockbuster memoir.”—The New Yorker (Best Books of the Year)**It was one of the most searing images of the twentieth century: two young boys, two princes, walking behind their mother’s coffin as the world watched in sorrow—and horror.
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The Hard Thing About Hard Things

Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers

by Ben Horowitz ...

Narrated by Kevin Kenerly ...

Unabridged

7 hours 57 min

Ben Horowitz, cofounder of Andreessen Horowitz and one of Silicon Valley's most respected and experienced entrepreneurs, offers essential advice on building and running a startup—practical wisdom for managing the toughest problems business school doesn’t cover, based on his popular ben’s blog.While many people talk about how great it is to start a business, very few are honest about how difficult ... Read more

$25.99 USD

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Ben Horowitz, cofounder of Andreessen Horowitz and one of Silicon Valley's most respected and experienced entrepreneurs, offers essential advice on building and running a startup—practical wisdom for managing the toughest problems business school doesn’t cover, based on his popular ben’s blog.While many people talk about how great it is to start a business, very few are honest about how difficult
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