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No One Makes You Shop at Wal-Mart

The Surprising Deceptions of Individual Choice

by Tom Slee ...

We live in a culture of choice. But, in an age of corporate dominance, our freedom to choose has taken on new meaning. Upset with your local big box store? Object to unfair hiring practices at your neighbourhood fast food restaurant? Want to protest the opening of that new multinational coffeeshop? Vote with your feet!What if it’s not that simple? In No One Makes You Shop at Wal-Mart, Tom Slee ... Read more

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We live in a culture of choice. But, in an age of corporate dominance, our freedom to choose has taken on new meaning. Upset with your local big box store? Object to unfair hiring practices at your neighbourhood fast food restaurant? Want to protest the opening of that new multinational coffeeshop? Vote with your feet!What if it’s not that simple? In No One Makes You Shop at Wal-Mart, Tom Slee
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What's Yours Is Mine

Against the Sharing Economy

by Tom Slee ...

the tech revolution is not a complete triumph: here, from a tech insider, is an informed critique of the sharing economyammunition for growing number of critics of "disruptive" technologywithout store sales, this book has garnered serious attention (and sold more than 2,000 copies)Slee's data has been cited extensively in many places, among them the NY TimesPushing hard for radio media interviews ... Read more

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the tech revolution is not a complete triumph: here, from a tech insider, is an informed critique of the sharing economyammunition for growing number of critics of "disruptive" technologywithout store sales, this book has garnered serious attention (and sold more than 2,000 copies)Slee's data has been cited extensively in many places, among them the NY TimesPushing hard for radio media interviews
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What's Yours is Mine

Against the Sharing Economy, 2nd Edition

by Tom Slee ...

Narrated by Nathalie Toriel ...

Unabridged

7 hours 32 min

The news is full of their names, supposedly the vanguard of a rethinking of capitalism. Lyft, Airbnb, Taskrabbit, Uber, and many more companies have a mandate of disruption and upending the “old order”—and they’ve succeeded in effecting the “biggest change in the American workforce in over a century,” according to former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich. But this new wave of technology companies is ... Read more

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The news is full of their names, supposedly the vanguard of a rethinking of capitalism. Lyft, Airbnb, Taskrabbit, Uber, and many more companies have a mandate of disruption and upending the “old order”—and they’ve succeeded in effecting the “biggest change in the American workforce in over a century,” according to former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich. But this new wave of technology companies is
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The Rights of Nature

A Legal Revolution That Could Save the World

by David R. Boyd ...

Winner of the Green Prize for Sustainable LiteratureA growing body of law around the world supports the idea that humans are not the only species with rights; and if nature has rights, then humans have responsibilities.“Expertly written case studies in which legalese is accessibly distilled … empowering reminders that the seemingly inevitable slide toward planetary destruction can be halted.” — ... Read more

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Winner of the Green Prize for Sustainable LiteratureA growing body of law around the world supports the idea that humans are not the only species with rights; and if nature has rights, then humans have responsibilities.“Expertly written case studies in which legalese is accessibly distilled … empowering reminders that the seemingly inevitable slide toward planetary destruction can be halted.” —
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The Effective Citizen

How to Make Politicians Work for You

by Graham Steele ...

One of Canada's most compelling political writers reveals how government really works—and how ordinary citizens can make it work for them.A lawyer, analyst, and former Nova Scotia cabinet minister, Graham Steele shared a candid chronicle of his experiences in Canadian government with his acclaimed memoir What I Learned About Politics. Now he presents an insiders' guide to modern Canadians politics ... Read more

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One of Canada's most compelling political writers reveals how government really works—and how ordinary citizens can make it work for them.A lawyer, analyst, and former Nova Scotia cabinet minister, Graham Steele shared a candid chronicle of his experiences in Canadian government with his acclaimed memoir What I Learned About Politics. Now he presents an insiders' guide to modern Canadians politics
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The Power of Different

The Link Between Disorder and Genius

by Gail Saltz, M.D. ...

Unlock the Hidden Potential in Brain Differences: How Unique Wiring Fuels Creativity, Talent, and SuccessIn The Power of Different, psychiatrist and bestselling author Gail Saltz delves into the fascinating connection between brain differences often labeled as "disabilities" and the potential for remarkable talents and abilities. Drawing on the latest scientific research and profiling both famous ... Read more

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Unlock the Hidden Potential in Brain Differences: How Unique Wiring Fuels Creativity, Talent, and SuccessIn The Power of Different, psychiatrist and bestselling author Gail Saltz delves into the fascinating connection between brain differences often labeled as "disabilities" and the potential for remarkable talents and abilities. Drawing on the latest scientific research and profiling both famous
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Bold Scientists

Dispatches from the Battle for Honest Science

by Michael Riordon ...

As governments and corporations scramble to pull the plug on research that proves that they are poisoning our planet and rush to muzzle the scientists who dare to share their disturbing data, it seems the powerful have declared a war on science.Michael Riordon asks deep questions of bold scientists who defy the status quo including: an Indigenous biologist who integrates traditional knowledge and ... Read more

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As governments and corporations scramble to pull the plug on research that proves that they are poisoning our planet and rush to muzzle the scientists who dare to share their disturbing data, it seems the powerful have declared a war on science.Michael Riordon asks deep questions of bold scientists who defy the status quo including: an Indigenous biologist who integrates traditional knowledge and
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The Hangman

by Louise Penny ...

Narrated by Robert Bathurst ...

Unabridged

1 hour 22 min

On a cold November morning, a jogger runs through the woods in the peaceful Quebec village of Three Pines. On his run, he finds a dead man hanging from a tree. The dead man was a guest at the local Inn and Spa. He might have been looking for peace and quiet, but something else found him. Something horrible. Did the man take his own life? Or was he murdered? Chief Inspector Armand Gamache is called ... Read more

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On a cold November morning, a jogger runs through the woods in the peaceful Quebec village of Three Pines. On his run, he finds a dead man hanging from a tree. The dead man was a guest at the local Inn and Spa. He might have been looking for peace and quiet, but something else found him. Something horrible. Did the man take his own life? Or was he murdered? Chief Inspector Armand Gamache is called
... Read more
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The Goldfinch

A Novel (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)

by Donna Tartt ...

Narrated by David Pittu ...

Unabridged

32 hours 26 min

A young New Yorker grieving his mother's death is pulled into a gritty underworld of art and wealth in this “extraordinary” and beloved novel that "connects with the heart as well as the mind" (Stephen King, New York Times Book Review), named a New York Times Best Book of the 21st Century.Theo Decker, a 13-year-old New Yorker, miraculously survives an accident that kills his mother. Abandoned by ... Read more

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A young New Yorker grieving his mother's death is pulled into a gritty underworld of art and wealth in this “extraordinary” and beloved novel that "connects with the heart as well as the mind" (Stephen King, New York Times Book Review), named a New York Times Best Book of the 21st Century.Theo Decker, a 13-year-old New Yorker, miraculously survives an accident that kills his mother. Abandoned by
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The Nature of the Beast

A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel

by Louise Penny ...

Narrated by Robert Bathurst ...

Series Audiobook 11 - Chief Inspector Gamache Novel
Unabridged

12 hours 40 min

Hardly a day goes by when nine year old Laurent Lepage doesn't cry wolf. From alien invasions, to walking trees, to winged beasts in the woods, to dinosaurs spotted in the village of Three Pines, his tales are so extraordinary no one can possibly believe him. Including Armand and Reine-Marie Gamache, who now live in the little Quebec village.But when the boy disappears, the villagers are faced ... Read more

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Hardly a day goes by when nine year old Laurent Lepage doesn't cry wolf. From alien invasions, to walking trees, to winged beasts in the woods, to dinosaurs spotted in the village of Three Pines, his tales are so extraordinary no one can possibly believe him. Including Armand and Reine-Marie Gamache, who now live in the little Quebec village.But when the boy disappears, the villagers are faced
... Read more

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The Long Way Home

A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel

by Louise Penny ...

Narrated by Ralph Cosham ...

Series Audiobook 10 - Chief Inspector Gamache Novel
Unabridged

12 hours 4 min

Happily retired in the village of Three Pines, Armand Gamache, former Chief Inspector of Homicide with the Sûreté du Québec, has found a peace he'd only imagined possible. On warm summer mornings he sits on a bench holding a small book, The Balm in Gilead, in his large hands. "There is a balm in Gilead," his neighbor Clara Morrow reads from the dust jacket, "to make the wounded whole."While ... Read more

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Happily retired in the village of Three Pines, Armand Gamache, former Chief Inspector of Homicide with the Sûreté du Québec, has found a peace he'd only imagined possible. On warm summer mornings he sits on a bench holding a small book, The Balm in Gilead, in his large hands. "There is a balm in Gilead," his neighbor Clara Morrow reads from the dust jacket, "to make the wounded whole."While
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Winter of the World

Book Two of the Century Trilogy

by Ken Follett ...

Narrated by John Lee ...

Series Audiobook 2 - The Century Trilogy
Unabridged

31 hours 43 min

Picking up where Fall of Giants, the first novel in the extraordinary Century Trilogy, left off, Winter of the World follows its five interrelated families—American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh—through a time of enormous social, political, and economic turmoil, beginning with the rise of the Third Reich, through the great dramas of World War II, and into the beginning of the long Cold War ... Read more

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Picking up where Fall of Giants, the first novel in the extraordinary Century Trilogy, left off, Winter of the World follows its five interrelated families—American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh—through a time of enormous social, political, and economic turmoil, beginning with the rise of the Third Reich, through the great dramas of World War II, and into the beginning of the long Cold War
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