Doug McDonald has narrated 8 audiobooks on Listento.it by 6 authors, with an average listener rating of 3.5★ across 2 ratings. The most-rated is The Gifts of Acceptance.
The Gifts of Acceptance
Summary
2018 Silver Medal Non-Fiction Audio Book Winner! - Independent Book Publishers Association
What would your life be like if you accepted people and things as they are?
Do you wish your parents had been more nurturing and supportive? Are you wondering if you’ll ever find your perfect soul mate and dream boss? Do you wish you had “perfect” children, relatives who never fight, and friends who always agree with you? No one gets to sail through life free of turbulence. What separates people who shake it off, bounce back, and stay positive from the bitter, never satisfied, and defeated?
Best-selling author and former compulsive controller Daniel A. Miller convincingly attests that the answer is choosing acceptance. In The Gifts of Acceptance: Embracing People and Things as They Are, Danny shares what he’s learned - through extensive research, inspiring true stories, and his own experience with hardships - about the integral relationship between accepting the facts of life and others, with their quirks, flaws, and differences, and enjoying greater satisfaction in life.
Recognizing the benefits of acceptance isn’t difficult. Yet the reality of accepting an unexpected job loss or financial setbacks, a friend’s betrayal, a child’s struggle with addiction, a serious illness, or even the annoying traits of a loved one can be extremely challenging. To make it easier, The Gifts of Acceptance offers insights, intentions, and strategies for practicing acceptance of parents, a significant other, children, siblings and extended family, coworkers, friends, and foes; of life’s adversities and the limitations of getting older; and, perhaps toughest of all, of yourself.
You will learn how practicing acceptance helps you:
Navigate life’s ups and downs more easily
Enjoy greater trust, openness, and intimacy with your loved ones and those closest to you
Lift self-imposed burdens and obligations and experience less stress, frustration, and worry
Reduce the struggle with your children
Strengthen bonds with coworkers and business associates
Discover new choices and opportunities in the most discouraging situations
Find the path to secure self-acceptance
The Gifts of Acceptance is a book with the potential to repair relationships, revitalize careers, and make the world a better place.
Find out how accepting "what is" lets you discover "what might be"!
©2018 Ebb and Flow Press (P)2018 Ebb and Flow Press
The Figure of the Migrant
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This book offers a much-needed new political theory of an old phenomenon. The last decade alone has marked the highest number of migrations in recorded history. Constrained by environmental, economic, and political instability, scores of people are on the move. But other sorts of changes - from global tourism to undocumented labor - have led to the fact that to some extent, we are all becoming migrants. The migrant has become the political figure of our time.
Rather than viewing migration as the exception to the rule of political fixity and citizenship, Thomas Nail reinterprets the history of political power from the perspective of the movement that defines the migrant in the first place. Applying his "kinopolitics" to several major historical conditions (territorial, political, juridical, and economic) and figures of migration (the nomad, the barbarian, the vagabond, and the proletariat), he provides fresh tools for the analysis of contemporary migration.
The book is published by Stanford University Press.
©2015 Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (P)2018 Redwood Audiobooks
For the Common Good
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In For the Common Good, Charles Dorn challenges the rhetoric of America’s so-called crisis in higher education by investigating two centuries of college and university history. From the community college to the elite research university - in states from California to Maine - Dorn engages a fundamental question confronted by higher education institutions ever since the nation’s founding: Do colleges and universities contribute to the common good?
Tracking changes in the prevailing social ethos between the late 18th and early 21st centuries, Dorn illustrates the ways in which civic-mindedness, practicality, commercialism, and affluence influenced higher education’s dedication to the public good. Each ethos, long a part of American history and tradition, came to predominate over the others during one of the four chronological periods examined in the audiobook, informing the character of institutional debates and telling the definitive story of its time. For the Common Good demonstrates how 200 years of political, economic, and social change prompted transformation among colleges and universities - including the establishment of entirely new kinds of institutions - and refashioned higher education in the United States over time in essential and often vibrant ways.
The book is published by Cornell University Press. The audiobook is published by University Press Audiobooks.
©2017 Cornell University (P)2019 Redwood Audiobooks
Theory of the Border
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Despite - and perhaps because of - increasing global mobility, there are more types of borders today than ever before in history. Borders of all kinds define every aspect of social life in the 21st century. From the biometric data that divides the smallest aspects of our bodies to the aerial drones that patrol the immense expanse of our domestic and international airspace, we are defined by borders. They can no longer simply be understood as the geographical divisions between nation-states. Today, their form and function has become too complex, too hybrid. What we need now is a theory of the border that can make sense of this hybridity across multiple domains of social life.
Rather than viewing borders as the result or outcome of pre-established social entities like states, Thomas Nail reinterprets social history from the perspective of the continual and constitutive movement of the borders that organize and divide society in the first place. Societies and states are the products of bordering, Nail argues, not the other way around. Applying his original movement-oriented theoretical framework "kinopolitics" to several major historical border regimes (fences, walls, cells, and checkpoints), Theory of the Border pioneers a new methodology of "critical limology", that provides fresh tools for the analysis of contemporary border politics.
The audiobook is published by University Press Audiobooks.
"An ambitious, rich and suggestive work that has much to offer political theories of migration." (LSE Review of Books)
"This book is genuinely new and profound...a model of the best that philosophy can do." (Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews)
©2016 Oxford University Press (P)2018 Redwood Audiobooks
How to Fix a Factory
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Every factory eventually runs into choppy waters and turbulence. Systems and processes that used to work suddenly struggle, and customer complaints pile up out of nowhere. It’s not for a lack of effort or desire, but something goes wrong with the old formula for running the plant. What can you do to navigate the trouble and help your manufacturing business get back on the right track? In How to Fix a Factory, Rob Tracy shows there’s always a way to fix the problem, once you know what the problem is. He draws on over 30 years of industry experience to guide you through a practical approach to create a fundamentally sound and healthy factory. Senior leaders, plant managers, production managers, and supervisors will learn how to sort through the noise and lead their teams on a journey of improvement that ensures that the factory is on solid footing. With his simple five-step system to improving your business from the ground up, Rob Tracy shows how to uncover the underlying challenges and provides actionable solutions to fix them. This audiobook will help you identify and fix issues including: Missed customer delivery expectations A disengaged and frustrated workforce Shrinking profitability Inability to increase capacity Weak results from a lean implementation Daily firefighting and chaos When you listen to How to Fix a Factory, you’ll be taking your first step toward factory improvement. By building a strong foundation with an engaged workforce, you’ll have the underpinnings needed to take the next steps towards breakthrough levels of performance and operational excellence.
©2019 Robert Tracy (P)2020 Robert Tracy
Blue-Collar Broadway
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Behind the scenes of New York City's Great White Way, virtuosos of stagecraft have built the scenery, costumes, lights, and other components of theatrical productions for more than a hundred years. Timothy R. White begins his history of the theater industry with the dispersed pre-Broadway era, when components such as costumes, lights, and scenery were built and stored nationwide. Subsequently, the majority of backstage operations and storage were consolidated in New York City during what is now known as the golden age of musical theater. Toward the latter half of the 20th century, decentralization and deindustrialization brought the emergence of nationally distributed regional theaters and performing arts centers. Featuring case studies of iconic productions such as Oklahoma! (1943) and Evita (1979), and an exploration of the craftwork of radio, television, and film production around Times Square, Blue-Collar Broadway tells a rich story of the history of craft and industry in American theater nationwide. The book is published by University of Pennsylvania Press. The audiobook is published by University Press Audiobooks. "The fascinating backstage story of the history and evolution of theater craft…" (Kenneth T. Jackson, editor of The Encyclopedia of New York City) "This is a remarkable achievement." (Marlis Schweitzer, York University) "Highly recommended." (Choice)
©2015 University of Pennsylvania Press (P)2021 Redwood Audiobooks
Mr. Jefferson's Hammer
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Often remembered as the president who died shortly after taking office, William Henry Harrison remains misunderstood by most Americans. Before becoming the ninth president of the United States in 1841, Harrison was instrumental in shaping the early years of westward expansion. Robert M. Owens now explores that era through the lens of Harrison’s career, providing a new synthesis of his role in the political development of Indiana Territory and in shaping Indian policy in the Old Northwest. Owens traces Harrison’s political career as secretary of the Northwest Territory, territorial delegate to Congress, and governor of Indiana Territory, as well as his military leadership and involvement with Indian relations. Thomas Jefferson, who was president during the first decade of the nineteenth century, found in Harrison the ideal agent to carry out his administration’s ruthless campaign to extinguish Indian land titles. More than a study of the man, Mr. Jefferson’s Hammer is a cultural biography of his fellow settlers, telling how this first generation of post-Revolutionary Americans realized their vision of progress and expansionism. It surveys the military, political, and social world of the early Ohio Valley and shows that Harrison’s attitudes and behavior reflected his Virginia background and its 18th-century notions as much as his frontier milieu. Mr. Jefferson’s Hammer offers a much needed reappraisal of Harrison’s impact on the nation’s development and key lessons for understanding American sentiments in the early republic. The book is published by University of Oklahoma Press. The audiobook is published by University Press Audiobooks. "A cogent and compeling addition to the scholarship....” (Journal of America’s Military Past)
©2007 University of Oklahoma Press (P)2019 Redwood Audiobooks
Theory of the Image
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We live in an age of the mobile image. The world today is absolutely saturated with images of all kinds circulating around the world at an incredible rate. The movement of the image has never been more extraordinary than it is today. This recent kinetic revolution of the image has enormous consequences not only for the way we think about contemporary art and aesthetics but also for art history as well. Responding to this historical moment, Theory of the Image offers a fresh new theory and history of art from the perspective of this epoch-defining mobility. The image has been understood in many ways, but it is rarely understood to be fundamentally in motion. The original and materialist approach is what defines Theory of the Image and what allows it to offer the first kinetic history of the Western art tradition. In this audiobook, Thomas Nail further develops his larger philosophy of movement into a comprehensive "kinesthetic" of the moving image from prehistory to the present. The audiobook concludes with a vivid analysis of the contemporary digital image and its hybridity, ultimately outlining new territory for research and exploration across aesthetics, art history, cultural theory, and media studies. The book is published by Oxford University Press. The audiobook is published by University Press Audiobooks.
©2019 Oxford University Press (P)2020 Redwood Audiobooks