Paul Mantell has narrated 6 audiobooks on Listento.it by 8 authors, with an average listener rating of 4.7★ across 19 ratings. The most-rated is Consciousness Explained.
Consciousness Explained
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The national bestseller chosen by The New York Times Book Review as one of the ten best books of 1991 is now available as an audiobook. The author of Brainstorms, Daniel C. Dennett replaces our traditional vision of consciousness with a new model based on a wealth of fact and theory from the latest scientific research. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio.
©1991 Daniel C. Dennett (P)2013 Audible Inc.
Atheism for Dummies
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The easy way to understand atheism and secular philosophy. For people seeking a non-religious philosophy of life, as well as believers with atheist friends, Atheism For Dummies offers an intelligent exploration of the historical and moral case for atheism. Often wildly misunderstood, atheism is a secular approach to life based on the understanding that reality is an arrangement of physical matter, with no consideration of unverifiable spiritual forces. Atheism For Dummies offers a brief history of atheist philosophy and its evolution, explores it as a historical and cultural movement, covers important historical writings on the subject, and discusses the nature of ethics and morality in the absence of religion. A simple, yet intelligent exploration of an often misunderstood philosophy. Explores the differences between explicit and implicit atheism. A comprehensive, readable, and thoroughly unbiased resource. As the number of atheists worldwide continues to grow, this book offers a broad understanding of the subject for those exploring atheism as an approach to living.
©2013 John Wiley & Sons Canada, Ltd. (P)2014 Audible Inc.
Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child
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One of the country's leading researchers updates his revolutionary approach to solving - and preventing - children's sleep problems. Here Dr. Marc Weissbluth, a distinguished pediatrician and father of four, offers his groundbreaking program to ensure the best sleep for your child. In Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child, he explains with authority and reassurance his step-by-step regime for instituting beneficial habits within the framework of your child's natural sleep cycles. This valuable sourcebook contains brand new research that: Pinpoints the way daytime sleep differs from night sleep and why both are important to your child Helps you cope with and stop the crybaby syndrome, nightmares, bedwetting, and more Analyzes ways to get your baby to fall asleep according to his internal clock - naturally Reveals the common mistakes parents make to get their children to sleep - including the inclination to rock and feed Explores the different sleep cycle needs for different temperaments - from quiet babies to hyperactive toddlers Emphasizes the significance of a nap schedule Rest is vital to your child's health growth and development. Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child outlines proven strategies that ensure good, healthy sleep for every age - including teenagers with their unique sleep problems.
©1987, 1999, 2003 Marc Weissbluth, MD. Foreword ©2003 Cindy Crawford; New introduction ©2005 Marc Weissbluth. (P)2013 Audible, Inc.
The Working Memory Advantage
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A bigger asset than IQ! Working memory - your ability to work with information - influences nearly everything you do. What if you could find a way to better handle a crazy schedule or expertly manage risks? What if you could gain an advantage in climbing the career ladder or in sports? What if there were a way to improve your outlook on life, to face each day with more optimism and confidence? Tracy and Ross Alloway, leading experts, show how working memory is the key to all that and more. They present important recent breakthroughs in this field, including research on how Facebook can help with working memory, how working memory can improve your kids’ grades, how it changes as you age, and how working memory is linked with ADHD, autism, dyslexia, and Alzheimer’s. But here’s the best news: You can improve your working memory! This book will give you three tests to find out how good your working memory is - and more than 50 targeted exercises so you can sharpen it. The Working Memory Advantage offers unprecedented insight into one of the most important cognitive breakthroughs in recent years - a vital new approach to making your brain stronger, smarter, and faster.PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio.
©2013 Tracy Alloway and Ross Alloway (P)2013 Audible, Inc.
The Broken Branch
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Congress is the first branch of government in the American system, write Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein, but now it is a broken branch, damaged by partisan bickering and internal rancor. The Broken Branch offers both a brilliant diagnosis of the cause of Congressional decline and a much-needed blueprint for change, from two experts who understand politics and revere our institutions, but believe that Congress has become deeply dysfunctional. Mann and Ornstein, two of the nations most renowned and judicious scholars of government and politics, bring to light the historical roots of Congress's current maladies, examining 40 years of uninterrupted Democratic control of the House and the stunning midterm election victory of 1994 that propelled Republicans into the majority in both House and Senate. The byproduct of that long and grueling but ultimately successful Republican campaign, the authors reveal, was a weakened institution bitterly divided between the parties. They highlight the dramatic shift in Congress from a highly decentralized, committee-based institution into a much more regimented one in which party increasingly trumps committee. The resultant changes in the policy process - the demise of regular order, the decline of deliberation, and the weakening of our system of checks and balances - have all compromised the role of Congress in the American Constitutional system. Strong majority leadership in Congress, the authors conclude, led not to a vigorous exertion of congressional authority but to a general passivity in the face of executive power. A vivid portrait of an institution that has fallen far from the aspirations of our Founding Fathers, The Broken Branch highlights the costs of a malfunctioning Congress to national policymaking, and outlines what must be done to repair the damage.
©2006, 2008 Oxford University Press, Inc. (P)2013 Audible, Inc.
Change Up
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In the third book in the New York Times best-selling middle grade series inspired by the life of iconic New York Yankee Derek Jeter, Derek's father keeps his promise to coach his son's youth baseball team. Derek is sure this will be the best season yet! He has it all planned: His dad will have him start at shortstop, and the team will cruise to a championship. But sometimes life doesn't go according to plan. Change Up focuses on a key life lesson of Derek Jeter's Turn 2 Foundation - deal with growing pains - in the series companion to Hit & Miss and The Contract, about which The Wall Street Journal said, "the play by play action is exciting and the lessons many".
©2016 Derek Jeter (P)2016 Simon & Schuster