Instaread has 37 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 11 narrators, with an average listener rating of 3.7★ across 91 ratings. The most-rated is Ina May's Guide to Childbirth.
Ina May's Guide to Childbirth
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Drawing upon her 40-plus years of experience, Ina May Gaskin, the nation's leading midwife, shows the benefits and joys of physiological childbirth by showing women how to trust the ancient wisdom of their bodies for a healthy and fulfilling birthing experience. Based upon the midwifery model of care that recognizes that spontaneous labor in healthy women cannot be improved upon, Ina May's Guide to Childbirth gives expectant mothers comprehensive information on everything from the all-important mind-body connection to how to give birth without technological intervention-as well as how to know when such intervention is necessary. Filled with inspiring birth stories and practical advice, this invaluable resource includes: Reducing the pain of labor without drugs and the amazing role that touch and free movement play. What really happens during labor. Orgasmic birth-testimonies from those who experienced it. And much more...
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The Intelligent Investor: The Definitive Book on Value Investing, by Benjamin Graham and Jason Zweig
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The Intelligent Investor: The Definitive Book on Value Investing by Benjamin Graham, with commentary by Jason Zweig, is a thorough guide to the principles of portfolio creation, cost management, stock and bond picking, and stock ownership for the defensive, long-term investor.... Please note: These are key takeaways and an analysis of the book, not the original book. Inside this Instaread of The Intelligent Investor: Overview of the book Important people Key takeaways Analysis of key takeaways About the author: With Instaread, you can get the key takeaways and analysis of a book in 15 minutes. We read every chapter, identify the key takeaways, and analyze them for your convenience.
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Summary of High Output Management by Andrew S. Grove | Includes Analysis
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Summary of High Output Management by Andrew S. Grove| Includes Analysis Preview: First published in 1983, High Output Management by Andrew Grove is a management guide based on Grove's 15 years of managerial experience and knowledge as a cofounder, president, and chief executive of Intel. As Grove emphasizes in a new introduction to the book, globalization and the information revolution have dramatically changed the workforce, making people ever more replaceable and the market ever more competitive. Companies must adapt to these changes or face their own irrelevance and extinction. The same holds true for workers and managers. Managers, especially middle managers, are often overlooked in business books and forgotten in organizations, yet they are immensely important not only to businesses but to society more broadly. In order to survive and to thrive in their careers, managers must constantly enhance their value by learning and adapting to a changing, often unpredictable business environment.... Please note: This is key takeaways and analysis of the book, and not the original book. Inside this Instaread Summary of High Output Management: Overview of the book Important people Key takeaways Analysis of key takeaways About the Author With Instaread, you can get the key takeaways, summary, and analysis of a book in 15 minutes. We read every chapter, identify the key takeaways, and analyze them for your convenience.
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The Secret: Rhonda Byrne: Key Takeaways, Analysis & Review
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The Secret by Rhonda Byrne is a book in the New Thought tradition that theorizes thought is the most powerful force in the universe.... Please note: This is key takeaways and analysis of the book, not the original book. Inside this Instaread of The Secret: Overview of the book Important people Key takeaways Analysis of key takeaways
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Man's Search for Meaning, by Viktor E. Frankl: Key Takeaways, Analysis & Review
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Please note: This is key takeaways and analysis of the book and not the original book. Preview: Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl is a memoir of Frankl's imprisonment in concentration camps during World War II and a brief description of the principles of logotherapy, a school of psychotherapy that he founded. Frankl and his family were imprisoned in concentration camps during the war. Frankl was held in several camps before he was liberated from the last in 1945. During his time in the camps, Frankl witnessed the extreme cruelty of camp guards and the prisoners who were given special status by them, also known as Capos. He also witnessed the cruelty of the prisoners to each other as they underwent the three stages of reaction to their imprisonment. These stages are denial, acceptance, and adjustment after their release. Frankl discovered that although the prisoners seemed completely powerless, they had the freedom to choose their reactions to their circumstances. Those prisoners who were most resilient were those who had something to live for.... Inside this Instaread of Man's Search for Meaning: Overview of the book Important people Key takeaways Analysis of key takeaways
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Summary of The Phoenix Project: by Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, and George Spafford | Includes Analysis
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Summary of The Phoenix Project by Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, and George Spafford | Includes Analysis Preview: The Phoenix Project is a business allegory about how a fictional company becomes profitable after a crisis-driven change in its information technology management style. Bill Palmer is promoted to vice president of IT at Parts Unlimited, an automotive parts manufacturer and retailer, at a time when it is struggling financially and trying to launch a new, innovative project. Each day of Palmer's career as VP of IT is characterized by urgent unplanned work for which the department does not have enough resources. While working on projects for other department heads, who have varying levels of appreciation for IT and its challenges, Palmer meets a potential Parts Unlimited board member, Erik Reid, who urges Palmer to think of his IT department more like a production factory... Please Note: This is key takeaways and analysis of the book and not the original book. Inside this Instaread summary of The Phoenix Project Overview of the book Important people Key takeaways Analysis of key takeaways About the Author With Instaread, you can get the key takeaways, summary and analysis of a book in 15 minutes. We read every chapter, identify the key takeaways and analyze them for your convenience.
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Summary of Tribe: By Sebastian Junger | Includes Analysis
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Summary of Tribe by Sebastian Junger | Includes Analysis Tribe by Sebastian Junger is a scientific and journalistic consideration of the correlation between societies with egalitarian tribal structures and low rates of mental illness, particularly post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in soldiers returning home. The sense of tribal belonging was documented in the 18th century among settlers in North America, who often joined Native American tribes even after those tribes held them as prisoners or waged war against the settlers. Those tribes were particularly egalitarian in nature, and despite lacking what were then modern amenities, members seldom worked as hard as the settlers in towns. The tribes also had low rates of depression and suicide. Crisis in a community, whether that crisis is war or a natural disaster, tends to inspire people to return to a more collaborative, tribal mentality by sharing their resources regardless of social divisions, and by working to help each other. During these crises, mental health markers also tend…. Please Note: This is key takeaways and analysis of the book and not the original book. Inside this Instaread summary of Tribe: Overview of the book Important people Key takeaways Analysis of key takeaways
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Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less, by Greg McKeown
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Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less is a self-help book by Greg McKeown. The book outlines a minimalist approach to tasks and obligations by focusing on truly important goals and learning to turn down opportunities that do not directly contribute to meeting those goals. The modern fixation on multitasking and having it all has paradoxically resulted in accomplished, motivated people doing many relatively unimportant things poorly while neglecting their true goals because they are afraid of refusing any request.... Please note: These are key takeaways and an analysis of the book, not the original book. Inside this Instaread of Essentialism: Overview of the book Important people Key takeaways Analysis of key takeaways About the author: With Instaread, you can get the key takeaways and analysis of a book in 15 minutes. We read every chapter, identify the key takeaways, and analyze them for your convenience.
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Summary of Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi | Includes Analysis
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Please note: This is summary and analysis of the book and not the original book. Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi is a novel in stories about the Atlantic slave trade and its aftermath. The novel begins with the stories of two African half-sisters of the Fante and Asante tribes: Effia and Esi. Effia is born in the late 18th century in Fanteland on Africa's Gold Coast, on the night of a devastating fire near her father's compound. Her adoptive mother, Baaba, immediately resents her, because Effia is the daughter of her father Cobbe's house girl. In 1775, when Effia is young, British soldiers from the Cape Coast Castle come to the village. Effia wants to marry Abeeku Badu, who is in line to be chief. But to prevent Effia from marrying him, Baaba tells Effia that she must hide the blood from her first period. She knows that as long as people think Effia is premenstrual, she won't be permitted to marry a Fante man, per tribal customs. Inside this Instaread summary of Homegoing: Summary of the book Important people Character analysis Analysis of the themes and author's style With Instaread, you can get the key takeaways, summary and analysis of a book in 15 minutes. We read every chapter, identify the key takeaways and analyze them for your convenience.
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Summary of The Autoimmune Solution,by Amy Myers | Includes Analysis
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Summary of The Autoimmune Solution by Amy Myers | Includes Analysis Preview: The Autoimmune Solution is a self-help book for people who are or know someone who is struggling with an autoimmune disorder. It offers listeners the tools they need to overcome their illnesses by treating such disorders at their root causes, namely inflammation and overexertion of the immune system, through a plan called the Myers Way.... Please note: This is key takeaways and analysis of the book, and not the original book. Inside this Instaread Summary of The Autoimmune Solution: Overview of the book Important people Key takeaways Analysis of key takeaways About the Author With Instaread, you can get the key takeaways, summary, and analysis of a book in 15 minutes. We read every chapter, identify the key takeaways, and analyze them for your convenience.
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Summary of The Ideal Team Player: by Patrick Lencioni | Includes Analysis
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Patrick Lencioni's The Ideal Team Player: How to Recognize and Cultivate The Three Essential Virtues posits that in order to succeed - especially in a work environment - one must be a team player. Business leaders must be able to identify and hire team players to secure the best possible advantage over their competitors and leverage all the benefits of teamwork. Ideal team players share three core virtues: They are hungry, humble, and smart. To illustrate the ideal team player model in practice, Lencioni offers the hypothetical example of Valley Builders, a construction firm in Napa. Using this extended hypothetical as referent, Lencioni illustrates the components of the ideal team and explains how to apply them. Valley Builders was founded some 30 years ago by Bob Shanley. On the advice of his doctor, Shanley is retiring, but at a critical juncture: The firm has just inked deals on its two biggest jobs to date.... Please note: This is key takeaways and analysis of the book and not the original book. Inside this Instaread Summary of The Ideal Team Player: Overview of the book Important people Key takeaways Analysis of key takeaways
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Summary of Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss and Tahl Raz
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Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss and Tahl Raz is a guide to using hostage negotiation techniques in business and personal negotiations. Modern negotiation strategies taught in business school usually center on classic texts that describe negotiation without factoring in emotions or irrational behavior. In reality, all negotiations involve emotional factors and illogical reactions. And in hostage scenarios, "splitting the difference" by accepting the release of half the hostages in exchange of partial fulfillment of demands is never a desired outcome. Hostage takers who feel heard are more likely to trust negotiators to be honest about what they want. Active listening involves mirroring the other person's speech, speaking in a way that sounds assertive but calming, and not saying anything at all for several seconds between utterances. This slows the conversation down and conveys the impression that the negotiator wishes to understand. Please note: This is key takeaways and analysis of the book and not the original book.
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The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement by Eliyahu M. Goldratt and Jeff Cox: Key Takeaways, Analysis & Review
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The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement by Eliyahu Goldratt and Jeff Cox describes a process by which an unprofitable manufacturing operation can be made profitable. It conveys proven factory turnaround principles through a fictional story.... Please note: This is key takeaways and analysis of the book, not the original book. Inside this Instaread of The Goal: Overview of the book Important people Key takeaways Analysis of key takeaways
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The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins: Key Takeaways, Analysis, & Review
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In The God Delusion, philosopher Richard Dawkins evaluates popular arguments for the existence of God. The idea that God is not an object that can be accessed and reviewed using human reason is rejected. Instead, evidence that proves with at least 51 percent certainty is presented to prove that God does, in fact, not exist, casting reasonable doubt on the efficacy and usefulness of belief in God. Genuine curiosity as disciplined by a sound scientific method is far more useful than religions. Religion is all too often based on superstition. An in-depth investigation of the intellectual bankruptcies of polytheism and monotheism, the secular beliefs of the Founding Fathers, and the Galton and Stannard prayer experiments underscore this idea. In contrast, the argument for natural selection shows it can account for the whole of human life, rather than the idea that there is one divine creator - a statement that in itself leads to more questions, such as the origins of that single creator.... Please note: this is key takeaways and analysis of the book and not the original book. Inside this Instaread of The God Delusion: Overview of the book Important people Key takeaways Analysis of key takeaways About the author: With Instaread, you can get the key takeaways and analysis of a book in 15 minutes. We read every chapter, identify the key takeaways, and analyze them for your convenience.
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Summary of The Lean Startup, by Eric Ries | Includes Analysis
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Summary of The Lean Startup by Eric Ries | Includes Analysis Preview: The Lean Startup offers a set of tools and methodologies for entrepreneurs both in startups and established corporations to better achieve success. Since the vast majority of startups fail, understanding how to build a better company saves society's most precious commodities: ideas, time, and the skills of its people. The lean startup movement sets out to prevent future failures.... PLEASE NOTE: These are key takeaways and an analysis of the book, and NOT the original book. Inside this Instaread Summary of The Lean Startup: Overview of the book Important people Key takeaways Analysis of key takeaways About the Author With Instaread, you can get the key takeaways, summary, and analysis of a book in 15 minutes. We read every chapter, identify the key takeaways, and analyze them for your convenience.
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Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson | Key Takeaways, Analysis & Review
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Please note: These are key takeaways and an analysis of the book, and not the original book. Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson | Key Takeaways, Analysis & Review Preview: A group of old school friends meet to catch up. They end up discussing the unexpected, unforeseen changes to their lives, and one friend offers to tell a story about adapting to change. The story he tells involves four characters, two mice named Sniff and Scurry, and two "Littlepeople" named Hem and Haw. All of them are in a maze, looking for cheese, which they need to survive. For the "Littlepeople", cheese also has a larger, metaphysical connotation in the sense that it also makes them happy - their Cheese is thus spelled with a capital C.... Inside this Instaread of Who Moved My Cheese?: Overview of the book Important people Key takeaways Analysis of key takeaways About the author: With Instaread, you can get the key takeaways and analysis of a book in 15 minutes. We read every chapter, identify the key takeaways, and analyze them for your convenience.
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Summary of Salt Sugar Fat by Michael Moss
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Salt Sugar Fat by Michael Moss is a compelling nonfiction investigation into how corporate food manufacturers have come to rely on salt, sugar, and fat as the mainstays of processed and prepackaged food. The food industry in the United States has become intensely dependent on these three potentially harmful ingredients to achieve its massive profits. This reliance has contributed to myriad public health problems, such as rising incidence of diabetes and obesity. Food executives have sought to manipulate consumption and drive up revenue at the expense of their consumers' health. The market for processed foods is an extremely competitive one; the average grocery store carries tens of thousands of products, of which only a small percentage will remain on the shelf and produce modest sales by industry standards. To maintain an advantage against rival companies, food manufacturers must continually churn out products that consumers crave. Please note: This is key takeaways and analysis of the book and not the original book.
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Summary of The Allergy Solution by Leo Galland and Jonathan Galland | Includes Analysis
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Summary of The Allergy Solution by Leo Galland and Jonathan Galland | Includes Analysis Preview: The Allergy Solution by Leo Galland and Jonathan Galland is a self-help book for people who want to understand the root causes of allergies, how they manifest biologically, and how to heal them naturally without resorting to potentially harmful drugs. In his four decades as an internist, Leo Galland has healed a range of common allergic diseases, such as hay fever and eczema, as well as an increasing number of hidden allergies, which can result in weight gain, mood swings, poor digestion, and muscle aches. In conventional allergy treatment, sufferers first try to figure out what it is that they are allergic to and then take appropriate medication to dispel the related physical symptoms. Galland, however, believes that allergic responses are the result of immune system imbalance. Therefore, to properly address symptoms, it's imperative to get to the root cause of why the immune system is malfunctioning in the first place. PLEASE NOTE: This is key takeaways and analysis of the book and not the original book. Inside this Instaread summary of The Allergy Solution: Overview of the Book Important People Key Takeaways Analysis of Key Takeaways About the Author With Instaread, you can get the key takeaways, summary and analysis of a book in 15 minutes. We read every chapter, identify the key takeaways and analyze them for your convenience.
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Summary, Analysis & Review of Ken Blanchard's & Spencer Johnson's The New One Minute Manager by Instaread
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Please note: This is a summary, analysis and review of the book and not the original book. Inside this summary, analysis and review of Ken Blanchard's and Spencer Johnson's The New One Minute Manager by Instaread: Overview of the book Important people Key takeaways
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The Glass Castle, a Memoir by Jeannette Walls: Summary & Analysis
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Please note: this is a summary and analysis of The Glass Castle and not the original book. Preview: Jeannette Walls chronicles all the heartbreak, deprivation, humor, and love of her childhood in The Glass Castle, a memoir of growing up dirt-poor on a cross-country odyssey with her charismatic, but alcoholic, father and her codependent mother. Jeannette began thinking of her childhood after spotting her mother, Rose Mary, rummaging through trash in New York City. Her parents were basically living on the street, but offers of help were always rejected. Jeannette went home to her husband's apartment on Park Avenue. She arranged to have lunch with her mom, who advised her to stop feeling guilty, accept her parents as they were, and stop hiding the truth about them. Taking this advice, Jeannette started writing her story. Her first memory went back to a trailer park in Arizona. At the age of three, she spent six weeks in a hospital after her pink tutu caught fire while she was boiling hot dogs with no supervision.... Inside this Instaread summary and analysis of The Glass Castle: Summary of book Introduction to the important people in the book Analysis of the themes and author's style
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