Kellie Fitzgerald has narrated 4 audiobooks on Listento.it by 5 authors. The most-rated is Toxic Truth.
Women Want More
Summary
Haven't women gotten everything they want? Economic power? Social influence? Business clout? Yes, but it turns out that these fantastic gains have come at a heavy price, as consumer goods experts Michael J. Silverstein and Kate Sayre discovered in an unprecedented study of 12,000 women in 40 countries. That relentless upward climb has left women feeling stressed out, time starved, and overburdened. As a result they look to products and services that will help them claw back time, juggle multiple roles, and capture a few moments of enjoyment. Women want more - much more, in every category of goods and services. And no matter what their age or economic situation or where they live in the world, women will spend trillions of dollars over the next decade on the brands that truly deliver: Home-cleaning products that enable women to do in an hour what used to take a day Financial-services products that recognize that women control half the United States' wealth Food products that help keep the whole family happy and healthy Health-care services designed for working women's hectic schedules In the coming years, women's influence will be so enormous that it will not only help bring us out of the economic downturn but also create one of the most dramatic market opportunities of our lifetime - bigger than the rise of China and India; more sustainable than any bailout package. Through quantitative data, profiles of individual women, and stories of winning companies, Women Want More provides business leaders with the understanding and practices they need to capture their share of the rising "female economy".
©2009 The Boston Consulting Group (P)2009 HarperCollins Publishers
Toward a Cognitive Theory of Narrative Acts
Summary
Toward a Cognitive Theory of Narrative Acts brings together in one volume cutting-edge research that turns to recent findings in cognitive and neurobiological sciences, psychology, linguistics, philosophy, and evolutionary biology, among other disciplines, to explore and understand more deeply various cultural phenomena, including art, music, literature, and film. The essays fulfilling this task for the general listener as well as the specialist are written by renowned authors H. Porter Abbott, Patrick Colm Hogan, Suzanne Keen, Herbert Lindenberger, Lisa Zunshine, Katja Mellman, Lalita Pandit Hogan, Klarina Priborkin, Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach, Ellen Spolsky, and Richard Walsh. Among the works analyzed are plays by Samuel Beckett, novels by Maxine Hong Kingston, music compositions by Igor Stravinsky, art by Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin, and films by Michael Haneke. Each of the essays shows in a systematic, clear, and precise way how music, art, literature, and film work in and of themselves and also how they are interconnected. Finally, while each of the essays is unique in style and methodological approach, together they show the way toward a unified knowledge of artistic creativity.
©2010 The University of Texas Press (P)2012 Redwood Audiobooks
Loyalty and Sacrifice
Summary
A departure from what we have known and adhered to for the past 200 years. Loyalty and Sacrifice are inseparable. In the case of war, heroes, and employees, Sacrifice is well recognized and celebrated. In the case of customers, the question is: Are customers capable of Sacrifice? We have crossed the threshold of AI nudging human behavior. Only if basic definitions are precise, can advanced algorithms be useful for worthwhile human development. Loyalty and Sacrifice are inseparable. This book proposes a holistic and uniform definition of loyalty and embraces its hidden facets to redefine customer loyalty. The most significant concepts in the book are embodied in four pillars. One - Defines Loyalty Two - Crafts a new definition of customer loyalty Three - Proposes a new concept of L&S principles Four - A new principle of the Latency Factors to explain blind-spots This book proposes a holistic and uniform definition of loyalty and embraces its hidden facets to redefine customer loyalty. It provides a new framework with four axioms of loyalty and four L&S Principles supported by over 30 true accounts. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
©2019 Raghu Kalé (P)2019 Raghu Kalé
Toxic Truth
Summary
They didn't start out as environmental warriors. Clair Patterson was a geochemist focused on determining the age of the Earth. Herbert Needleman was a pediatrician treating inner-city children. But in the chemistry lab and the hospital ward, they met a common enemy: lead. It was literally everywhere - in gasoline and paint, of course, but also in water pipes and food cans, toothpaste tubes and toys, ceramics and cosmetics, jewelry and batteries. Though few people worried about it at the time, lead was also toxic. In Toxic Truth, journalist Lydia Denworth tells the little-known stories of these two men who were among the first to question the wisdom of filling the world with such a harmful metal. Denworth follows them from the ice and snow of Antarctica to the schoolyards of Philadelphia and Boston as they uncovered the enormity of the problem and demonstrated the irreparable harm lead was doing to children. In heated conferences and courtrooms, the halls of Congress and at the Environmental Protection Agency, the scientist and doctor were forced to defend their careers and reputations in the face of incredible industry opposition. It took courage, passion, and determination to prevail against entrenched corporate interests and politicized government bureaucracies. But Patterson, Needleman, and their allies did finally get the lead out - since it was removed from gasoline, paint, and food cans in the 1970s, the level of lead in Americans' bodies has dropped 90 percent. Their success offers a lesson in the dangers of putting economic priorities over public health, and a reminder of the way science - and individuals - can change the world. The fundamental questions raised by this battle - what constitutes disease, how to measure scientific independence, and how to quantify acceptable risk - echo in every environmental issue of today: from the plastic used to make water bottles to greenhouse gas emissions. And the most basic question - how much do we need to know about what we put in our environment - is perhaps more relevant today than it has ever been.
©2009 Lydia Denworth (P)2018 Random House Audio