Mark Stevens

King Icahn: The Biography of a Renegade Capitalist

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 48 mins)
• By Mark Stevens
• Narrated By Mark Stevens

In this dramatic portrait of legendary and, until now, secretive financier Carl Icahn, best-selling business writer Mark Stevens takes us behind the scenes of some of the biggest deals in U.S. corporate history. A fascinating tale with a cast of characters that includes Michael Milken, Ivan Boesky, T. Boone Pickens, Dennis Levine, and most of the other key players of the '70s and '80s takeover era, King Icahn is the first biography of the business buccaneer who changed the course of corporate America.

Sherlock: The Essential Arthur Conan Doyle Adventures

• UNABRIDGED (25 hrs and 18 mins)
• By Mark Gatiss, Steven Moffat, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• Narrated By Simon Vance, Mark Gatiss
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The hit BBC series Sherlock has introduced a whole new generation of fans to Arthur Conan Doyle's legendary detective. In this unique collection, Sherlock co-creators Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss have selected their all-time favorite Sherlock Holmes adventures, providing listeners a curated masterclass in crime fiction. Each of these 19 tales, from Sherlock's first appearance in A Study in Scarlet to the late classic The Dying Detective, is a potent mix of murder, suspense, cryptic clues, red herrings, and revenge.

Signs of Success: Remarkable Power of Business Astrology

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 31 mins)
• By Steven Mark Weiss
• Narrated By Drew Birdseye

.P. Morgan once famously remarked, "Millionaires don't have astrologers. Billionaires do." For modern business professionals, the idea that what's in the stars might have some bearing on the very cut-and-dried, numbers-dominated corporate environment may seem pretty "out there." But time and time again, the science of astrology has been shown to provide uncanny insight into timing and trends.

Your Marketing Sucks.

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 23 mins)
• By Mark Stevens
• Narrated By Michael Arkin
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This BusinessWeek best seller from esteemed marketing guru Mark Stevens is an entertaining and useful guide to improving the way businesses promote themselves. Stevens attacks conventional marketing strategies with infectious zeal, making it crystal clear that most companies might as well throw their money away.

Election Update; iPhone 7; Dana Priest

• ORIGINAL (53 mins)
• By Charlie Rose, Mark Halperin, John Heilemann, and others
• Narrated By Charlie Rose

Tonight on the program, a political update with Mark Halperin and John Heilemann, hosts of With All Due Respect.

Next, a preview of Apple's media event with Henry Blodget, editor in chief of Business Insider; Steven Levy, editor in chief of Backchannel; Nicholas Thompson, editor of NewYorker.com; and Geoffrey Fowler, personal technology columnist at the Wall Street Journal.

We conclude with a discussion about possible Russian attempts to break into electronic voting systems with Dana Priest of The Washington Post

Extreme Management: What They Teach at Harvard Business School's Advanced Management Program

• ABRIDGED (3 hrs)
• By Mark Stevens
• Narrated By Glynnis Talken, Sam Chew

The Harvard Business School has its own boot camp, and you're the prize recruit. Let leading marketing consultant Mark Stevens teach you the strategies of the business world's most rewarding training program...without the big tuition pricetag.

Your Management Sucks

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 57 mins)
• By Mark Stevens
• Narrated By Alan Sklar

Everyone manages someone or something: your own life and career, an administrative assistant, hundreds or thousands of people. How well or poorly you manage has a profound impact on your personal success. Mark Stevens makes the compelling point that, at any given time, everyone's management sucks. It can, however, be improved and rethought so you can move away from patterns and habits that you can easily fall victim to.

The Kill: How to Close Every Sale - Every Time

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 55 mins)
• By Mark Stevens
• Narrated By Mark Stevens

Do you want to join the ranks of the top salespeople in your industry? Well, the rules have changed! No more diplomatic, play it by the old rules salesmanship. It's not enough to simply seek a saleï¿¿ï¿¿ï¿¿you must mount an overwhelming offense and move in for The Kill.

Antler Dust: Allison Coil Mystery, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 20 mins)
• By Mark Stevens
• Narrated By Amy Johnson
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On the opening day of the hunting season in the Colorado Flat Tops wilderness, two men go missing. The first is a hunting guide. The second is an animal rights protester who believes his creative suicide will galvanize the animal rights movement. Hunting guide Allison Coil hears a distant rifle shot and sees just enough through the swirling snow to believe somebody knows something - and isn't coming forward. But what exactly did she see?

Buried by the Roan

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 40 mins)
• By Mark Stevens
• Narrated By Amy Johnson

The spark for Buried by the Roan, the second novel in the Allison Coil Mystery Series, is a dead hunter on the shore of Oyster Lake, deep in the Flat Tops Wilderness. Josh Keating's demise could be a case of a hunter drinking too much and stumbling late at night. Or it could be something much worse. Plenty of other strange things are going on to make hunting guide Allison Coil think the death is no accident. The future of the way of life in the rugged Colorado mountains is at stake.

Trapline: An Allison Coil Mystery

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 11 mins)
• By Mark Stevens
• Narrated By Amy Johnson
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A chewed-up corpse high in the Flat Tops Wilderness Area leaves Colorado hunting guide Allison Coil mystified. Obvious signs suggest the dead man is the victim of a mountain lion attack, but Allison's instincts tell her otherwise. Miles away in down- town Glenwood Springs, a controversial candidate for US Senate is shot during a campaign stop as news-paper reporter Duncan Bloom watches, dodging the long-range gunfire.

Rich is a Religion: : Breaking the Timeless Code to Wealth

• UNABRIDGED (3 hrs and 59 mins)
• By Mark Stevens
• Narrated By Mark Stevens

Both a revelation and a guide, Rich Is a Religion offers you a dramatically different view of how wealth is created and preserved by that enviable breed of people - famous and obscure - who truly have it. These individuals have a different way of seeing the world, in which their philosophy, principles, and belief system allows them to leverage opportunities that many others tend to miss. Stevens illuminates this previously untold approach and reveals why it works.

Splatter Capital

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 19 mins)
• By Mark Steven
• Narrated By Thomas Judd
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Splatter Capital shows how a subgenre of cinematic horror has developed a unique perspective on the cycles of capitalism. It argues that the messy brand of horror mobilized in gore or "splatter" films is extremely responsive to the internal contradictions that threaten the future sustainability of capitalist accumulation. And, while responding to the prospect of that end, splatter promotes an extant truth: capitalist accumulation is and always has been a nightmare of systematized bloodshed.

Your Company Sucks

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 40 mins)
• By Mark Stevens
• Narrated By Richard Allen
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Does your company go above and beyond to give companies a thrilling experience? Are you loved by your customers? Are your employees empowered to do whatever it takes to delight your customers? If not, then you face the risk that your customers will feel that your company is just ho hum—or, as we bluntly put it—your company sucks. But there’s an alternative.

Lake of Fire: An Allison Coil Mystery

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 59 mins)
• By Mark Stevens
• Narrated By Amy Johnson
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A giant wildfire is roaring through Colorado's Flat Tops Wilderness. The massive blaze is wiping out Allison Coil's precious hunting grounds, and the flames have set their sights on the beautiful ranch owned by her boyfriend's family. Allison and longtime friend Trudy are shocked to learn that a body has been found in the fire ravaged forest - a friend who was a reclusive environmentalist with an unorthodox idea for the battle against global warming. Along with reporter Duncan Bloom, Allison burrows into an underground group of anti-government extremists.