One of NPR's most popular programs, Car Talk lets listeners (2.3 million of them) call in with their car woes while the hosts dish out their wit and know-how. At the end of each hour, 2 of 2 things are guaranteed to happen: you'll learn something about your motor vehicle and you'll have a belly laugh. Get the latest issue or subscribe!
Each week, listeners call in with their car woes and brothers in grime Tom and Ray Magliozzi dish out their wit and know-how. Get the latest issue or subscribe, and hear an interview with Tom and Ray.
Love, Service, Devotion, and the Ultimate Surrender: Ram Dass on the Bhagavad Gita
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By Ram Dass
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The Bhagavad Gita is a gem so precious in India's spiritual treasury that many regard it not as a volume of sacred verse, but as a living manifestation of the Divine. In the summer of 1974, inside a balmy Boulder, Colorado, warehouse that served as a main hall of a fledgling Naropa Institute, some say a minor miracle occured: the reawakening of the Gita's living presence, as it unfolded in a series of wisdom teachings led by Ram Dass.
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
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By Stephen R. Covey
Narrated By Stephen R. Covey
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Stephen R. Covey's book, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, has been a top seller for the simple reason that it ignores trends and pop psychology for proven principles of fairness, integrity, honesty, and human dignity. Celebrating its 15th year of helping people solve personal and professional problems, this special anniversary edition includes a new forward and afterword written by Covey that explore whether the 7 Habits are still relevant.
You can go after the job you want...and get it! You can take the job you have...and improve it! You can take any situation you're in...and make it work for you!
Jim says:
"The Reference Manual of Human Relations"
What Every BODY Is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent’s Guide to Speed-Reading People
UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 24 mins)
By Joe Navarro, Marvin Karlins
Narrated By Paul Costanzo
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Listen to this book and send your nonverbal intelligence soaring. Joe Navarro, a former FBI counterintelligence officer and a recognized expert on nonverbal behavior, explains how to "speed-read" people: decode sentiments and behaviors, avoid hidden pitfalls, and look for deceptive behaviors. You'll also learn how your body language can influence what your boss, family, friends, and strangers think of you.
Anthony Robbins has already unlocked the personal power inside millions of people worldwide. Now, in this revolutionary new audio production based on his enormously popular Date with Destiny seminars, Robbins unleashes the sleeping giant that lies within all of us, teaching us to harness our untapped abilities, talents and skills.
Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
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By David Allen
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From core principles to proven tricks, Getting Things Done has the potential to transform the way you work - and the way you experience work. At any level of implementation, David Allen's entertaining and thought-provoking advice shows you how to pick up the pace without wearing yourself down.
Bringing Up Bebe: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting
UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 7 mins)
By Pamela Druckerman
Narrated By Abby Craden
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The secret behind France's astonishingly well-behaved children is here. When American journalist Pamela Druckerman has a baby in Paris, she doesn't aspire to become a "French parent". French parenting isn't a known thing, like French fashion or French cheese. Even French parents themselves insist they aren't doing anything special. But French children are far better behaved and more in command of themselves than American kids....
Talent Is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else
UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 30 mins)
By Geoff Colvin
Narrated By David Drummond
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One of the most popular Fortune articles in many years was a cover story called "What It Takes to Be Great." Geoff Colvin offered new evidence that top performers in any field - from Tiger Woods and Winston Churchill to Warren Buffett and Jack Welch - are not determined by their inborn talents. Greatness doesn't come from DNA but from practice and perseverance honed over decades.
Just Listen: Discover the Secret to Getting Through to Absolutely Anyone
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By Mark Goulston
Narrated By Walter Dixon
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You’ve got a business colleague who’s hostile...a client who’s furious...a staffer who’s deeply cynical—how do you get people to do what you want in tough situations like these? In Just Listen, veteran psychiatrist and business coach Mark Goulston reveals the secret to how to get through to anyone, even when productive communication seems impossible.“Here's the challenge,” Mark says.
Think and Grow Rich is the number-one inspirational and motivational classic for individuals who are interested in furthering their lives and reaching their goals by learning from important figures in history. The text read in this audiobook is the original 1937 edition written by Napoleon Hill and inspired by Andrew Carnegie - and while it has often been reproduced, no updated version has ever been able to compete with the original.
The Five Love Languages: The Secret to Love That Lasts
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By Gary Chapman
Narrated By Gary Chapman
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Dr. Gary Chapman identifies five basic languages of love and then guides couples towards a better understanding of their unique languages of love. Learn to speak and understand your mate's love language, and in no time you will be able to effectively love and truly feel loved in return. Skillful communication is within your grasp!
Meditations to Change Your Brain: Rewire Your Neural Pathways to Transform Your Life
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By Rick Hanson, Rick Mendius
Narrated By Rick Hanson, Rick Mendius
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The structure of your brain changes constantly, in a dynamic, unfolding process that you yourself can direct to create the life you want. This is the exciting premise of Meditations to Change Your Brain, a breakthrough program from psychologist Rick Hanso, Ph.D. and neurologist Rick Mendius, M.D.
No Excuses!: The Power of Self-Discipline for Success in Your Life
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By Brian Tracy
Narrated By Brian Tracy
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Most people think success comes from good luck or enormous talent, but many successful people achieve their accomplishments in a simpler way: through self-discipline. Brian Tracy knows this firsthand. He didn’t graduate from high school, and after working for a few years as a laborer, he realized he had limited skills and a limited future. But through the power of self-discipline, he changed his life.
Erich says:
"New to Brian Tracy - Recommend Highly"
Public Speaking Survival Kit: Expert Training to Dazzle Your Audience
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By Brian Tracy
Narrated By Brian Tracy, Dianna Booher
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Effective public speaking starts here. Learn how to create and deliver a dazzling speech for any occasion. In this self-paced audio series, two of the world’s top communicators share the powerful techniques they have developed in their experience speaking to millions of people. In addition to the basics of public speaking, you’ll learn how to think on your feet, play off your audience, and banish anxiety and stress.
The Grounding Guide from The e-Wakening Academy: What is Grounding? How to get Grounded and why we need it now more than ever
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By Kimberley Jones
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The Grounding Guide offers in-depth answers to the most common questions from healers, Lightworkers, Sensitives, Intuitives and Awakening Souls. It provides insights into the best ways to ground your energy, helping you understand how Grounding benefits every area of your life from your health to your sex life. The Grounding Guide sheds light on how being ungrounded may be behind most of our everyday struggles with low mood, poor energy levels, inadequate sleep and heightened sensitivity.
Car Talk is a radio talk show broadcast weekly throughout the United States and elsewhere. Its subjects are automobiles and repair, and it often takes humorous turns. The hosts of Car Talk are brothers Tom and Ray Magliozzi.
Each week on Marketplace Money, host Kai Ryssdal looks at the week's major national and international stories that will impact the average listener's wallet. During the hour-long program, Ryssdal and Economics Editor Chris Farrell help listeners map out the course to financial well-being, offering advice on topics such as how to pay for college and whether to buy or lease a car. It's informative. It's engaging. It's "the money show for the rest of us."
Unstoppable in Stilettos: A Girl's Guide to Living Tall in a Small World
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By Lauren Ruotolo
Narrated By Leah Frederick
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How does a girl who was originally predicted to live a wheelchair-bound existence become adventurous, self-assured, successful - and unflappable? Standing 4 feet 2 inches tall in flats, Lauren Ruotolo has spent her 34-ish years seeing the world from a unique angle: upward facing. Lauren was born with McCune-Albright syndrome, a mysterious and rare genetic disease. Some people with the condition tend to go the wheelchair route, but that was never a road Lauren wanted to travel.
Maximize Your Potential Through the Power of Your Subconscious Mind for an Enriched Life
UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 10 mins)
By Joseph Murphy
Narrated By Sean Pratt
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Dr. Joseph Murphy’s classic book The Power of Your Subconscious Mind was first published in 1963 and became an immediate best seller. It was acclaimed as one of the best self-help guides ever written. Following the success of this work, Dr. Murphy lectured to thousands of people around the world and millions tuned in to his daily radio program. In his lectures, he pointed out how real people have radically improved their lives by applying specific aspects of his concepts.
In Bed with Susie Bright 512: Film for Your Vagina? Why Not?
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By Susie Bright
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Vaginal film? Extra, extra, hear all about it! Lights, camera, action! "Oh no", says Susie - it's not that kind of film. There is a new birth control device called VCF (vaginal contraceptive film) that's all the rage. Why? It's easy to use and not messy. Susie talks about VCF and how it works, and compares it to the standard, established birth control methods.
Write It Forward: From Writer to Successful Author
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By Bob Mayer
Narrated By Martin Gollery
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Write It Forward is a one-of-a-kind book focusing on you, the author. In Write It Forward, Bob Mayer applies the time-tested strategies of the Green Berets to the world of being a successful author. He has taught thousands of writers over the years, but this new and innovative program probes deeper than words on the page. It is designed to teach writers how to think, plan and become the future best-sellers of the new age of publishing.
People Will Talk: The Surprising Science of Reputation
UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 43 mins)
By Paul Whitfield
Narrated By Brian Sutherland
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Why does a fish only bite another fish if no one else is watching? Why do people overshare online? Why do some people meet trivial insults with extreme violence? Why do so many gods have multiple eyes? Science writer John Whitfield shows how reputation helps answer all of these questions, and more. Listen to People Will Talk and discover how to polish your own reputation, understand what you hear about others, and make the most of both.
Unstuff Your Life: Kick the Clutter Habit and Completely Organize Your Life for Good
UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 21 mins)
By Andrew J. Mellen
Narrated By Andrew J. Mellen
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Arguably the most organized man in America, Andrew J. Mellen has created unique, lasting techniques for streamlined living, bringing order out of chaos for a client list that includes attorneys, filmmakers, and even psychologists. With Unstuff Your Life! he puts his powerful program in the hands of his widest audience yet.
Liespotting: Proven Techniques to Detect Deception
UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 13 mins)
By Pamela Meyer
Narrated By Karen Saltus
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People - friends, family members, work colleagues, salespeople - lie to us all the time. Daily, hourly, constantly. None of us is immune, and all of us are victims. According to studies by several different researchers, most of us encounter nearly 200 lies a day. Now there’s something we can do about it. Liespotting links three disciplines - facial recognition training, interrogation training, and a comprehensive survey of research in the field - into a specialized body of information developed specifically to help business leaders detect deception....
Do you wish you could access all of the wisdom and wonders of the universe? Have you ever felt that you’re connected to something bigger than just things on Earth? You can absorb all of the wonder of the universe and beyond just by using this hypnosis program from Erick Brown.