Marilyn Johnson has 3 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 2 narrators, with an average listener rating of 3.5★ across 4 ratings. The most-rated is Eight Perspectives on Prosperity Economics.
Eight Perspectives on Prosperity Economics
Summary
Can prosperity economics be the answer you need? Typical financial advice - what you listen to and hear in the mainstream financial media - will get you typical results. But what if you want better-than-typical results? If your goal is wealth and prosperity, not just safety and security, then you want the financial advice wealthy and prosperous people follow. The mission of the Prosperity Economics Movement is to share exactly this - making it available not just to the wealthy, but anyone who truly seeks wealth. The concepts and principles are not for everyone at every point in life, but deciding if they're right for you starts with knowing what they are. Eight Perspectives on Prosperity Economics puts in your hands the thought leadership and nuts-and-bolts advice of a select group of Prosperity Economics advisors. From the first book of its kind, you will gain the insights of these experts on a wide array of financial topics, challenging much of the conventional wisdom around money. And as a result, you may just find yourself changing your financial path from "avoiding poverty" to "achieving prosperity." Learn more at ProsperityPeaks.com.
©2017 Kim D. H. Butler, Will Duffy, Brian Engel, Anthony J. Faso, John Householder, Marilyn Johnson, Jim Kindred, Steve Minnich, Gina Wells (P)2017 Prosperity Economics Movement
This Book Is Overdue!
Summary
Buried in information? Cross-eyed over technology? From the bottom of a pile of paper and discs, books, e-books, and scattered thumb drives comes a cry of hope: Make way for the librarians! They want to help. They're not selling a thing. And librarians know best how to beat a path through the googolplex sources of information available to us, writes Marilyn Johnson, whose previous book, The Dead Beat, breathed merry life into the obituary-writing profession. This Book Is Overdue! is a romp through the ranks of information professionals and a revelation for readers burned out on the cliches and stereotyping of librarians. Blunt and obscenely funny bloggers spill their stories in these pages, as do a tattooed, hard-partying children's librarian; a fresh-scrubbed Catholic couple who teach missionaries to use computers; a blue-haired radical who uses her smartphone to help guide street protestors; a plethora of voluptuous avatars and cybrarians; the quiet, law-abiding librarians gagged by the FBI; and a boxing archivist. These are just a few of the visionaries Johnson captures here - pragmatic idealists who fuse the tools of the digital age with their love for the written word and the enduring values of free speech, open access, and scout-badge-quality assistance to anyone in need. Those who predicted the death of libraries forgot to consider that in the automated maze of contemporary life, none of us - neither the experts nor the hopelessly baffled - can get along without human help. And not just any help; we need librarians who won't charge us by the question or roll their eyes, no matter what we ask. Who are they? What do they know? And how quickly can they save us from being buried by the digital age?
©2010 Marilyn Johnson (P)2010 Tantor
Lives in Ruins
Summary
Pompeii, Machu Picchu, the Valley of the Kings, the Parthenon - the names of these legendary archaeological sites conjure up romance and mystery. The news is full of archaeology: treasures found and treasures lost. Archaeological research tantalizes us with possibilities (are modern humans really part Neanderthal?). Where are the archaeologists behind these stories? What kind of work do they actually do, and why does it matter? Marilyn Johnson's Lives in Ruins is an absorbing and entertaining look at the lives of contemporary archaeologists as they sweat under the sun for clues to the puzzle of our past. Johnson digs and drinks alongside archaeologists, and chases them through the Mediterranean, the Caribbean, and even Machu Picchu. Her subjects share stories about slaves and Ice Age hunters, ordinary soldiers of the American Revolution, Chinese woman warriors, sunken fleets, and mummies. What drives these archaeologists is not the money (meager), the jobs (scarce), or the working conditions (dangerous) but their passion for the stories that would otherwise be buried and lost.
©2014 Marilyn Johnson (P)2014 Tantor