John Armstrong has 4 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 4 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4.5★ across 30 ratings. The most-rated is What Money Can't Buy.
What Money Can't Buy
Summary
Should we pay children to read books or to get good grades? Should we allow corporations to pay for the right to pollute the atmosphere? Is it ethical to pay people to test risky new drugs or to donate their organs? What about hiring mercenaries to fight our wars? Auctioning admission to elite universities? Selling citizenship to immigrants willing to pay? In What Money Can’t Buy, Michael J. Sandel takes on one of the biggest ethical questions of our time: Is there something wrong with a world in which everything is for sale? If so, how can we prevent market values from reaching into spheres of life where they don’t belong? What are the moral limits of markets? In recent decades, market values have crowded out nonmarket norms in almost every aspect of life—medicine, education, government, law, art, sports, even family life and personal relations. Without quite realizing it, Sandel argues, we have drifted from having a market economy to being a market society. Is this where we want to be? In his New York Times best seller Justice, Sandel showed himself to be a master at illuminating, with clarity and verve, the hard moral questions we confront in our everyday lives. Now, in What Money Can’t Buy, he provokes an essential discussion that we, in our marketdriven age, need to have: What is the proper role of markets in a democratic society—and how can we protect the moral and civic goods that markets don’t honor and that money can’t buy?
©2012 Michael J. Sandel (P)2012 Macmillan Audio
How to Worry Less about Money
Summary
Break free of your destructive relationship with money, and learn how money can make you happy. Our relationship with money is one that lasts a lifetime. It can be as important as family life, as competitive as work, and as exciting and secretive as love. Yet books about money tend to take one of two routes: a) how to get more, or b) how to deal with less. This book turns these questions upside down, and looks not at money itself, but at the way we view it. How does money drive us? How does it frighten us? And how can it help us make sense of who we are? Money is too important a part of life for us not to worry about, but by approaching it differently, we can change the way we perceive its worth. With surprising and enlightening new insights, How to Worry Less about Money will help you realise what material wealth really means.
©2012 The School of Life (P)2012 Macmillan Digital Audio
Disney Animals Storybook Collection
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Three storybook collections in a single volume! Disney Animals Storybook Collection Tag along with Pua and Heihei as they search for the perfect gift, join Cinderella as she looks for Lucifer in the forest, find the best cub-house with Simba and Nala, and more! This delightful collection of 18 stories features new and old animal friends and stories full of heart, friendship, and adventure. 5-Minute Puppy Dog Pals Stories Join Bingo and Rolly on gift-getting missions, space-based missions, next-doggy-door neighbor missions, and so much more! This collection is a bark-tastic addition for bedtime, story time, or anytime. 5-Minute Palace Pets Stories Meet Pumpkin, Berry, Treasure, Teacup, Bayou, and Blossom. These adorable Palace Pets each have their own unique adoption story to share, as well as exciting adventures with their princesses that are sure to make listeners purr with delight.
©2019 Disney Press (P)2019 Disney
Red Light Therapy
Summary
What is red light therapy? Red light therapy involves having low-power red light wavelengths emitted directly through the skin, although this process cannot be felt and isn’t painful because it doesn’t produce any heat. Red light can be absorbed into the skin to a depth of about eight to 10 millimeters, at which point it has positive effects on cellular energy and multiple nervous system and metabolic processes. Red light therapy has shown promise for treating symptoms of joint pain or osteoarthritis due to aging, those caused by cancer treatments like chemotherapy or radiation, hair loss, wounds or incisions, acne, wrinkles and skin discoloration, chronic muscular pain, neurological damage, and tissue damage (often at the root of tears, sprains or pulls). As you’ll learn, even seeing the color red is physically stimulating, primes our senses and gets our blood pumping, so imagine what red light penetrating right into your body can do. Although there is still controversy over this treatment and more research needed, according to the company Light Therapy Options LLC, there are virtually “no known adverse side effects” of red light therapy treatments, rather a growing list of many anti-aging benefits. 25 benefits of red light therapy for you and your family The benefits of red light therapy overall 100 percent natural Drug free Chemical free Non-invasive (no needles or knives) Non-ablative (does not damage the skin) Painless (does not itch, burn or sting) Requires zero downtime Safe for all skin types Safe for all ages No adverse short or long term side effects Easily self-administered in your own home FDA approved The benefits for your skin Red light therapy creates a healthy glow about your face Smooths overall skin tone Builds collagen, reducing wrinkles, including crow’s feet, under eye wrinkles, forehead wrinkles and laugh lines Speeds the healing of blemishes, like acne and rosacea Repairs sun damage Reduces redness, flushing, and broken capillaries Fades scars and stretch marks Brings more moisture to your skin Prevents hair loss and stimulates regrowth Treats a growing list of skin conditions Use these benefits for your: Acne Bites Bruises Burns (minor) Collagen production Cuts and scrapes Dry skin First aid Hair loss Psoriasis Red marks from acne Stretch marks Rosacea Flushing Scars Sun damage Wound care Wrinkles Uneven skintone The benefits for wounds, injuries and pain speeds the healing of wounds and injuries to the body speeds wound healing in even non-healing wounds improves or restores range of motion reduces inflammation and pain. Use these red and near infrared light therapy benefits for your: Arthritis Back pain Bone breaks Carpal tunnel syndrome Fibromyalgia Foot pain (plantar fasciitis) Knee pain Lower back pain Neck pain Non healing wounds Post surgical procedures Sciatica Shoulder pain Sprains Surgical Wounds Torn Ligaments, etc. Tendonitis
©2019 John Armstrong (P)2020 John Armstrong