Mark Ashby has narrated 27 audiobooks on Listento.it by 22 authors, with an average listener rating of 4.5★ across 53 ratings. The most-rated is The Gothic Line.
The Innocent
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They call Jack Marconi “Keeper”. As the warden of the maximum security Green Haven Prison, his specialty is keeping things locked down. But when an infamous cop killer busts out on his watch, Keeper must leave the world of iron bars behind and join the ranks of the hunted. There’s no doubt that Eduardo Vasquez had friends on the inside. Now some of the same people who helped Vasquez escape are trying to set up Marconi to take the fall. To clear his name, he’ll have to go on the lam himself. Armed with a .45, he’ll take on crooked cops, corrections officers, and anyone else who gets in his way. The desperate search for the fleeing convict will lead Marconi into the heart of a vast conspiracy - and to a small upstate New York town where Keeper’s fate will be decided once and for all.
©2012 Vincent Zandri (P)2012 Brilliance Audio, Inc.
Outthink the Competition
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A Fast Company blogger and former McKinsey consultant profiles the next-generation business strategists: the "Outthinkers". "Outthinkers" are entrepreneurs and corporate leaders with a new playbook. They see opportunities others ignore, challenge dogma others accept as truth, rally resources others cannot influence, and unleash new strategies that disrupt their markets. Outthink the Competition proves that business competition is undergoing a fundamental paradigm shift and that during such revolutions, outthinkers beat traditionalists. Outthink the Competition presents stories of breakthrough companies like Apple, Google, Vistaprint, and Rosetta Stone whose stunning performances defy traditional explanation and will inspire listeners to outthink the competition. Core concepts in the audiobook include: Discover the eight dimensions of disruption Learn to play by the outthinker playbook Develop the five habits of the outthinker Implement the outthinker process It's time to buck tradition in order to stay ahead. Outthink the competition and uncover opportunities hiding in plain sight. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
©2012 Kaihan Krippendorff (P)2012 Audible, Inc.
Godchild
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Jack "Keeper" Marconi is desperate to move on - from his former job as a prison warden, from his wife’s horrific death in a car accident, and, most of all, from the torturous suspicion that the hit-and-run driver was actually aiming for them. But when, three years later, Keeper catches a glimpse of the ominous black Buick that broadsided their car, he knows what he must do: find that driver. Even as his life is hurtled off axis, a PI case comes his way. A beautiful woman - an author on an assignment gone wrong - has been locked up in a notorious Mexican prison. Keeper has no intention of accepting the near-suicide mission to break her out. But when he discovers that her case could somehow be connected to the hit-and-run driver, there’s no stopping him. It’s time for justice. Time for truth. Time for revenge.
©2012 Vincent Zandri (P)2012 Brilliance Audio, Inc.
The Tragedy of Great Power Politics
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A decade after the cold war ended, policy makers and academics foresaw a new era of peace and prosperity, an era in which democracy and open trade would herald the "end of history." The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, sadly shattered these idyllic illusions, and John Mearsheimer's masterful new book explains why these harmonious visions remain utopian. To Mearsheimer, great power politics are tragic because the anarchy of the international system requires states to seek dominance at one another's expense, dooming even peaceful nations to a relentless power struggle. Mearsheimer illuminates his theory of offensive realism through a sweeping survey of modern great power struggles and reflects on the bleak prospects for peace in Europe and northeast Asia, arguing that the United States's security competition with a rising China will intensify regardless of "engagement" policies.
©2001 John J. Mearsheimer (P)2013 Audible, Inc.
Brainfluence
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Practical techniques for applying neuroscience and behavior research to attract new customers. Brainfluence explains how to practically apply neuroscience and behavior technology and behavior research to better market to consumers by understanding their decision patterns. This application, called neuromarketing, studies the way the brain responds to various cognitive and sensory marketing stimuli. Analysts use this to measure a consumer's preference, what a customer reacts to, and why consumers make certain decisions. With quick and easy takeaways offered in 60 short chapters, this book contains key strategies for targeting consumers through in-person sales, online and print ads, and other marketing mediums. This scientific approach to marketing has helped many well-known brands and companies determine how to best market their products to different demographics and consumer groups. Discover ways for brands and products to form emotional bonds with customers Find ideas for small businesses and non-profits Roger Dooley is the creator and publisher of Neuromarketing, the most popular blog on using brain and behavior research in marketing, advertising, and sales. Brainfluence delivers the latest insights and research, and will give you an edge in your marketing, advertising, and sales efforts. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
©2012 Roger Dooley (P)2012 Audible, Inc.
Summer of '68
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The extraordinary story of the 1968 baseball season - when the game was played to perfection even as the country was being pulled apart at the seams. From the beginning, ’68 was a season rocked by national tragedy and sweeping change. Opening Day was postponed and later played in the shadow of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s funeral. That summer, as the pennant races were heating up, the assassination of Robert Kennedy was later followed by rioting at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. But even as tensions boiled over and violence spilled into the streets, something remarkable was happening in major league ballparks across the country. Pitchers were dominating like never before, and with records falling and shut-outs mounting, many began hailing ’68 as “The Year of the Pitcher". In Summer of ’68, Tim Wendel takes us on a wild ride through a season that saw such legends as Bob Gibson, Denny McLain, Don Drysdale, and Luis Tiant set new standards for excellence on the mound, each chasing perfection against the backdrop of one of the most divisive and turbulent years in American history. For some players, baseball would become an insular retreat from the turmoil encircling them that season, but for a select few, including Gibson and the defending champion St. Louis Cardinals, the conflicts of ’68 would spur their performances to incredible heights and set the stage for their own run at history. Meanwhile in Detroit - which had burned just the summer before during one of the worst riots in American history - ’68 instead found the city rallying together behind a colorful Tigers team led by McLain, Mickey Lolich, Willie Horton, and Al Kaline. The Tigers would finish atop the American League, setting themselves on a highly anticipated collision course with Gibson’s Cardinals. And with both teams’ seasons culminating in a thrilling World Series for the ages - one team playing to establish a dynasty, the other fighting to help pull a city from the ashes - what ultimately lay at stake was something even larger: baseball’s place in a rapidly changing America that would never be the same. In vivid, novelistic detail, Summer of ’68 tells the story of this unforgettable season - the last before rule changes and expansion would alter baseball forever - when the country was captivated by the national pastime at the moment it needed the game most.
©2012 Tim Wendel (P)2013 Audible, Inc.
The American Experiment
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James MacGregor Burns’s stunning trilogy of American history, spanning the birth of the Constitution to the final days of the Cold War. In these three volumes, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winner James MacGregor Burns chronicles with depth and narrative panache the most significant cultural, economic, and political events of American history. In The Vineyard of Liberty, he combines the color and texture of early American life with meticulous scholarship. Focusing on the tensions leading up to the Civil War, Burns brilliantly shows how Americans became divided over the meaning of Liberty. In The Workshop of Democracy, Burns explores more than a half-century of dramatic growth and transformation of the American landscape, through the addition of dozens of new states, the shattering tragedy of the First World War, the explosion of industry, and, in the end, the emergence of the United States as a new global power. And in The Crosswinds of Freedom, Burns offers an articulate and incisive examination of the US during its rise to become the world’s sole superpower - through the Great Depression, the Second World War, the Cold War, and the rapid pace of technological change that gave rise to the “American Century.”
©1982 The Vineyard of Liberty copyright 1982 by James MacGregor Burns, The Workshop of Democracy copyright 1985 by James MacGregor Burns, The Crosswinds of Freedom copyright 1989 by James MacGregor Burns (P)2014 Audible, Inc.