Kevin Powell has 5 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 7 narrators, with an average listener rating of 3★ across 1 ratings. The most-rated is Speed Reading and Unlimited Memory: How to Double Your Reading Speed and Improve Memory in Under Two Hours!.
Speed Reading and Unlimited Memory: How to Double Your Reading Speed and Improve Memory in Under Two Hours!
Summary
Do you wish you could read faster? For decades, many people have turned to speed reading to become faster and more efficient readers. This is a new century, and speed reading has progressed, assisted by technology and new ways of looking at how reading occurs and memory works. Speed Reading and Unlimited Memory: How to Double Your Reading Speed and Improve Memory in Under Two Hours! is a guide to helping the reader increase their reading speed and memory retention. Speed reading has many practical uses in this busy world. It can help someone advance in their career, get a college student through graduate school, or make reading a more enjoyable and meaningful experience. In this book, the reader will find out: Speed reading defined and how it has changed since its inception in the late 1950s The benefits this skill brings to daily life as well as to careers An understanding of how the mind processes information and what happens when a person reads Why what you may have heard about speed reading is most likely untrue Ways to adapt speed reading techniques based on learning styles A primer on the most often used techniques and methods How to use these proven methods to ensure a faster and more efficient reading process Tips and suggestions on memorization and memory recall Where to find additional resources about speed reading This book is not only about speed reading, but it’s also about how the reader can retain information from reading, and how the brain works when reading. This book will help unlock the potential that exists in the mind and make learning less complicated. With this book, the reader will have what he or she needs to begin the process of reading much faster.
©2018 Kevin Powell (P)2019 Kevin Powell
My Mother. Barack Obama. Donald Trump. And the Last Stand of the Angry White Man.
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Written in the tradition of works by Joan Didion, bell hooks, Toni Morrison, and Eve Ensler, this “profoundly insightful and brilliantly inciting” (Dominique Morisseau, Obie Award-winning playwright) exploration of the soul of the United States - the past, the present, and the future Kevin Powell wants for us all, through the lens and lives of three major figures: his mother, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump. Ten short years ago, Barack Obama became president of the United States, and changed the course of history. Ten short years ago, our America was hailed globally as a breathtaking example of democracy, as a rainbow coalition of everyday people marching to the same drum beat. We had finally overcome. But had we? Both the presidencies of Obama and Donald Trump have produced some of the ugliest divides in history: horrific racial murders, non-stop mass shootings, the explosion of attacks on immigrants and on the LGBTQ community, the rise of anti-Semitism and Islamophobia, a massive gap between the haves and the have-nots, and legions of women stepping forth to challenge sexual violence - and men - in all forms. In this collection of 13 powerful essays, “Kevin Powell thoughtfully weaves together the connective tissue between gender, race, sexuality, pop culture, and sports through a series of raw, incredibly personal essays” (Jemele Hill, writer and ESPN anchor). Be it politics, sports, pop culture, hip-hop music, mental health, racism, #MeToo, or his very complicated relationship with his mother, these impassioned essays are not merely a mirror of who we are, but also who and what Powell thinks we ought to be.
©2018 Kevin Powell (P)2018 Simon & Schuster
The Education of Kevin Powell
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In the spirit of Piri Thomas' Down These Mean Streets and Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, this powerful memoir by writer and activist Kevin Powell vividly recounts the horrific poverty of his youth; his struggles to overcome a legacy of anger, violence, and self-hatred; and his journey to be a man and a voice for others. Driven by his single mother's dreams for his survival and success, Kevin Powell became the first in his family to attend a university, where he became a student leader keenly aware of widespread social injustice. But the struggle to define himself and break out of poverty continued into adulthood, with traumatic periods of homelessness and despair. As a young star journalist with Vibe magazine, Powell interviewed luminaries such as Tupac Shakur, writing influential chronicles of the evolution of hip-hop from his eyewitness view. Now, with searing honesty, Powell examines his troubled relationships, his appearance on MTV's first season of The Real World, his battles with alcohol and depression, his two campaigns for Congress, and the uplifting trip to Africa that renewed his sense of personal mission. Finally, Powell embarks on a search for the father he never really knew in a redemptive passage from abandonment to self-discovery. A striking memoir by a child of post-Civil Rights America, The Education of Kevin Powell gives eloquent testimony to the power of the soul to heal.
©2015 Kevin Powell (P)2016 Audible, Inc.
The Black Male Handbook
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An NAACP Image Award nominee, The Black Male Handbook is an impassioned call to end the problems facing today's Black men. Author and activist Kevin Powell offers insights on steering away from violence and toward a more responsible manhood. A new climate is rising in the Black community. Despite a shared thirst for cutting-edge opportunities and fresh directions, today's hiphop generation is still plagued by many long-standing problems. But with guidance from these inspiring essays, the modern Black male can rise above the political, cultural, and spiritual struggles opposing him to thrive against all odds. Featured prominently on The Oprah Winfrey Show, Powell and his book offer welcome guidance to all Black men - and the women who love them. Narrators Ezra Knight, Kevin R. Free, and Avery Glymph each turn in compelling performances, capturing every facet of this important work.
©2008 Kevin Powell (P)2009 Recorded Books, LLC
Accelerated Learning and Speed Reading
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This is the ultimate guide to improving your reading, memory, and learning capabilities. With this bundle, you'll be getting Accelerated Learning: Proven Scientific Techniques to Learn Absolutely Anything and Speed Reading and Unlimited Memory - how To Double Your Reading Speed and Improve Memory in Under Two Hours! Learn faster, improve productivity, and accelerate learning. How much easier would your life be if you could blaze through emails at work, read through your newspaper in minutes, or retain every piece of information in a long textbook? Speed reading has many practical uses in this busy world. It can help someone advance in their career, get a college student through graduate school, or make reading a more enjoyable and meaningful experience. Speed reading is the most important skill you can have in this day and age, where information is so readily available, but time is not. But speed reading isn't everything. What’s the point in reading fast if you can't retain all that information? This is why this audiobook will not only teach you how to speed read but will also teach you how you can retain and recall information from your brain. Did you know that most people never tap in to even 10 percent of their potential for memory? With the help of this audiobook, you'll become an information consuming machine. What you'll learn: Speed reading defined and how it has changed since its inception in the late 1950s. The benefits this skill brings to daily life as well as to careers. An understanding of how the mind processes information and what happens when a person reads. Why what you may have heard about speed reading is most likely untrue. Ways to adapt speed reading techniques based on learning styles. A primer on the most often used techniques and methods. How to use these proven methods to ensure faster and more efficient reading. How to hack your brain into memorizing and recalling anything you desire. The specifics on how your brain learns and processes information. Once you've learned about the brain, you can learn about anything. Why you should be learning throughout your entire life. What exactly memory is and how you can expand your memory in ways you've never thought of before. Advanced learning techniques you'll find only in this book. What you can learn from Albert Einstein, Issac Newton, Richard Feynman, and some of the greatest thinkers in history.
©2018 Kevin Powell (P)2019 Kevin Powell