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Inside Outsourcing

How Remote Work, Offshoring and Global Employment Is Changing the World

by Derek Gallimore ...

OUTSOURCING IS THE BAD BOY OF BUSINESS, blamed for poor quality, unethical salaries, inhumane conditions, and even the ruination of industrialized economies. Yet, Apple, Google, JP Morgan, and almost every Fortune 500 company outsources, and the industry is growing at breakneck speed.Hiring an offshore team can save a company 70% on its staffing costs and offer previously unimaginable access to a ... Read more

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OUTSOURCING IS THE BAD BOY OF BUSINESS, blamed for poor quality, unethical salaries, inhumane conditions, and even the ruination of industrialized economies. Yet, Apple, Google, JP Morgan, and almost every Fortune 500 company outsources, and the industry is growing at breakneck speed.Hiring an offshore team can save a company 70% on its staffing costs and offer previously unimaginable access to a
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Inside Outsourcing

How Remote Work, Offshoring and Global Employment Is Changing the World

by Derek Gallimore ...

Narrated by Derek Gallimore ...

Unabridged

16 hours 54 min

OUTSOURCING IS THE BAD BOY OF BUSINESS, blamed for poor quality, unethical salaries, inhumane conditions, and even the ruination of industrialized economies. Yet, Apple, Google, JP Morgan, and almost every Fortune 500 company outsources, and the industry is growing at breakneck speed.Hiring an offshore team can save a company 70% on its staffing costs and offer previously unimaginable access to a ... Read more

$11.95 USD

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OUTSOURCING IS THE BAD BOY OF BUSINESS, blamed for poor quality, unethical salaries, inhumane conditions, and even the ruination of industrialized economies. Yet, Apple, Google, JP Morgan, and almost every Fortune 500 company outsources, and the industry is growing at breakneck speed.Hiring an offshore team can save a company 70% on its staffing costs and offer previously unimaginable access to a
... Read more

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The Anthropocene Reviewed

Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

by John Green ...

Narrated by John Green ...

Unabridged

10 hours 42 min

**“Masterful. The Anthropocene Reviewed is a beautiful, timely book about the human condition—and a timeless reminder to pay attention to your attention.” —Adam Grant, #1 bestselling author of Think Again and host of the podcast Re:ThinkingThe instant #1 bestseller from John Green, author of The Fault in Our Stars and Turtles All the Way Down, is now available with two brand-new essays!** ... Read more

$20.00 USD

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**“Masterful. The Anthropocene Reviewed is a beautiful, timely book about the human condition—and a timeless reminder to pay attention to your attention.” —Adam Grant, #1 bestselling author of Think Again and host of the podcast Re:ThinkingThe instant #1 bestseller from John Green, author of The Fault in Our Stars and Turtles All the Way Down, is now available with two brand-new essays!**
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Work Therapy: Or The Man Who Mistook His Job for His Life

by Naomi Shragai ...

Narrated by Naomi Shragai ...

Unabridged

8 hours 44 min

**Brought to you by Penguin.Previously published as The Man Who Mistook His Job for His Life, 2021.**'Is 2023 the year you want to change your working life? Perhaps you want to stop catastrophising about small mistakes, instil a better job/life balance or find new mechanisms to cope with a nightmare boss. Solutions to these problems, as well as an array of other office issues, are what Naomi ... Read more

$19.11 USD

**Brought to you by Penguin.Previously published as The Man Who Mistook His Job for His Life, 2021.**'Is 2023 the year you want to change your working life? Perhaps you want to stop catastrophising about small mistakes, instil a better job/life balance or find new mechanisms to cope with a nightmare boss. Solutions to these problems, as well as an array of other office issues, are what Naomi
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Development

A Very Short Introduction

by Ian Goldin ...

Narrated by Walter Dixon ...

Unabridged

4 hours 42 min

What do we mean by development? How can citizens, governments, and the international community foster development?The process by which nations escape poverty and achieve economic and social progress has been the subject of extensive examination for hundreds of years. The notion of development itself has evolved from an original preoccupation with incomes and economic growth to a much broader ... Read more

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What do we mean by development? How can citizens, governments, and the international community foster development?The process by which nations escape poverty and achieve economic and social progress has been the subject of extensive examination for hundreds of years. The notion of development itself has evolved from an original preoccupation with incomes and economic growth to a much broader
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Drawing the Line

What to Do with the Work of Immoral Artists from Museums to the Movies

by Erich Hatala Matthes ...

Narrated by Adam Verner ...

Unabridged

4 hours 45 min

Recent years have proven rife with revelations about the misdeeds, objectional views, and, in some instances, crimes of popular artists. Given more access than ever thanks to social media and the internet in general, the public has turned an alert and critical eye upon the once-hidden lives of previously cherished entertainers. But what should we members of the public do, think, and feel in ... Read more

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Recent years have proven rife with revelations about the misdeeds, objectional views, and, in some instances, crimes of popular artists. Given more access than ever thanks to social media and the internet in general, the public has turned an alert and critical eye upon the once-hidden lives of previously cherished entertainers. But what should we members of the public do, think, and feel in
... Read more

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A World Without Work

Technology, Automation, and How We Should Respond

by Daniel Susskind ...

Narrated by Daniel Susskind ...

Unabridged

9 hours 56 min

"An Oxford economics professor, Susskind has a patient delivery that benefits from his authoritative voice and scholarly view of this speculative subject...an important and eye-opening audiobook." -- AudioFile Magazine**This program is read by the author.From an Oxford economist, a visionary account of how technology will transform the world of work, and what we should do about it.**From ... Read more

$26.99 USD

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"An Oxford economics professor, Susskind has a patient delivery that benefits from his authoritative voice and scholarly view of this speculative subject...an important and eye-opening audiobook." -- AudioFile Magazine**This program is read by the author.From an Oxford economist, a visionary account of how technology will transform the world of work, and what we should do about it.**From
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User Friendly

How the Hidden Rules of Design Are Changing the Way We Live, Work, and Play

by Cliff Kuang, Robert Fabricant ...

Narrated by Jean Ann Douglass ...

Unabridged

11 hours 18 min

**This program includes material read by the authors.In User Friendly, Cliff Kuang and Robert Fabricant reveal the untold story of a paradigm that quietly rules our modern lives: the assumption that machines should anticipate what we need.**Spanning over a century of sweeping changes, from women’s rights to the Great Depression to World War II to the rise of the digital era, this audiobook unpacks ... Read more

$26.99 USD

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**This program includes material read by the authors.In User Friendly, Cliff Kuang and Robert Fabricant reveal the untold story of a paradigm that quietly rules our modern lives: the assumption that machines should anticipate what we need.**Spanning over a century of sweeping changes, from women’s rights to the Great Depression to World War II to the rise of the digital era, this audiobook unpacks
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World Development Report

Mind, Society, and Behavior

by International Bank for Reconstruction and Development/The World Bank ...

Narrated by Derek Perkins, Helen Clapp, Lisa Hamm-Greenawalt, Michael Pearl, Jaime Andrade ...

Unabridged

12 hours 30 min

This report argues that development policies based on new insights into how people actually think and make decisions will help governments and civil society more readily tackle such challenges as increasing productivity, breaking the cycle of poverty from one generation to the next, and acting on climate change.Drawing from a wealth of research that suggests ways of diagnosing and solving the ... Read more

$19.95 USD

This report argues that development policies based on new insights into how people actually think and make decisions will help governments and civil society more readily tackle such challenges as increasing productivity, breaking the cycle of poverty from one generation to the next, and acting on climate change.Drawing from a wealth of research that suggests ways of diagnosing and solving the
... Read more
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After Work

A History of the Home and the Fight for Free Time

by Helen Hester, Nick Srnicek ...

Narrated by Marisa Calin ...

Unabridged

6 hours 17 min

A vital and timely proposal for a feminist post-work politicsWould you let a robot clean your house?When we think about work, we still tend to think about workplaces—if we think about reducing work, we think about reducing working hours and spending more time at home. But the home has never been free from work, and with the continued gendered division of labor, women still do the bulk of domestic ... Read more

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A vital and timely proposal for a feminist post-work politicsWould you let a robot clean your house?When we think about work, we still tend to think about workplaces—if we think about reducing work, we think about reducing working hours and spending more time at home. But the home has never been free from work, and with the continued gendered division of labor, women still do the bulk of domestic
... Read more

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The Age of Sustainable Development

by Jeffrey D. Sachs ...

Narrated by Bob Souer ...

Unabridged

14 hours 55 min

Jeffrey D. Sachs has shown himself to be one of the world's most perceptive and original analysts of global development in his groundbreaking books, including The End of Poverty and Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet. Now, in this major new work he presents a compelling and practical framework for how global citizens can address the seemingly intractable worldwide problems of persistent ... Read more

$16.99 USD

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Jeffrey D. Sachs has shown himself to be one of the world's most perceptive and original analysts of global development in his groundbreaking books, including The End of Poverty and Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet. Now, in this major new work he presents a compelling and practical framework for how global citizens can address the seemingly intractable worldwide problems of persistent
... Read more

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Future Histories

What Ada Lovelace, Tom Paine, and the Paris Commune Can Teach Us About Digital Technology

by Lizzie O'Shea ...

Narrated by Cat Gould ...

Unabridged

11 hours 48 min

When we talk about technology we always talk about tomorrow and the future—which makes it hard to figure out how to even get there. In Future Histories, public interest lawyer and digital specialist Lizzie O'Shea argues that we need to stop looking forward and start looking backwards. Weaving together histories of computing and progressive social movements with modern theories of the mind, society ... Read more

$19.99 USD

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When we talk about technology we always talk about tomorrow and the future—which makes it hard to figure out how to even get there. In Future Histories, public interest lawyer and digital specialist Lizzie O'Shea argues that we need to stop looking forward and start looking backwards. Weaving together histories of computing and progressive social movements with modern theories of the mind, society
... Read more

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