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Next Life Might Be Kinder By Howard Norman chats with Dr. Alvin

Howard Norman Click Here To Listen Sam Lattimore meets Elizabeth Church in 1970s Halifax, in an art gallery. The sparks are immediate, leading quickly to a marriage that is dear, erotically charged, and brief.  In Howard Norman’s spellbinding and moving novel, the gleam of the marriage and the circumstances of Elizabeth’s murder are revealed in heart-stopping increments. Sam’s life afterward is complicated. For one thing, in a moment of desperate confusion, he sells his life story to a Norwegian filmmaker named Istvakson, known for the stylized violence of his films, whose artistic drive sets in motion an increasingly intense cat-and-mouse game between the two men. For another, Sam has begun “seeing” Elizabeth—not only seeing but [...]

By |August 5th, 2014|Fiction|Comments Off on Next Life Might Be Kinder By Howard Norman chats with Dr. Alvin

In Perfect Time By Sarah Sundin chats with Dr. Alvin

Sarah Sundin Click Here To Listen Two hearts are about to learn the rhythm of love Bold, sophisticated, and coy, Army Air Force flight nurse Lt. Kay Jobson collects hearts wherever she flies, leaving men pining in airfields all across Europe. So how can ruggedly handsome C-47 pilot Lt. Roger Cooper be all but immune to her considerable charms? In fact, he seems to do everything he can to avoid her. Still, as they cross the skies between Italy and southern France, evacuating the wounded and delivering paratroopers and supplies, every beat of their hearts draws them closer. Can they overcome the fears and misunderstandings of the past in order to take hold of the [...]

By |August 4th, 2014|Fiction, Gospel|Comments Off on In Perfect Time By Sarah Sundin chats with Dr. Alvin

The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business By Erin Meyer chats with Dr. Alvin

Erin Meyer Click Here To Listen Whether you work in a home office or abroad, business success in our ever more globalized and virtual world requires the skills to navigate through cultural differences and decode cultures foreign to your own. Renowned expert Erin Meyer is your guide through this subtle, sometimes treacherous terrain where people from starkly different backgrounds are expected to work harmoniously together. When you have Americans who precede anything negative with three nice comments; French, Dutch, Israelis, and Germans who get straight to the point (“your presentation was simply awful”); Latin Americans and Asians who are steeped in hierarchy; Scandinavians who think the best boss is just one of the crowd—the result [...]

By |August 4th, 2014|Business, Leadership|Comments Off on The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business By Erin Meyer chats with Dr. Alvin

The Power of Positive Confrontation: The Skills You Need To Handle Conflicts At Work, At Home, Online, And In Life By Barbara Pachter chats with Dr. Alvin

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By |August 4th, 2014|Business, Leadership, Self-Help|Comments Off on The Power of Positive Confrontation: The Skills You Need To Handle Conflicts At Work, At Home, Online, And In Life By Barbara Pachter chats with Dr. Alvin

Please Stop Helping Us: How Liberals Make It Harder For Blacks To Succeed By Jason Riley chats with Dr. Alvin

Jason Riley Click Here To Listen Why is it that so many efforts by liberals to lift the black underclass not only fail, but often harm the intended beneficiaries? In Please Stop Helping Us, Jason L. Riley examines how well-intentioned welfare programs are in fact holding black Americans back. Minimum-wage laws may lift earnings for people who are already employed, but they price a disproportionate number of blacks out of the labor force. Affirmative action in higher education is intended to address past discrimination, but the result is fewer black college graduates than would otherwise exist. And so it goes with everything from soft-on-crime laws, which make black neighborhoods more dangerous, to policies that limit [...]

By |August 1st, 2014|African Americans, Politics|Comments Off on Please Stop Helping Us: How Liberals Make It Harder For Blacks To Succeed By Jason Riley chats with Dr. Alvin

The Good Girl By Mary Kubica chats with Dr. Alvin

Mary Kubica Click Here To Listen Born to a prominent Chicago judge and his stifled socialite wife, Mia Dennett moves against the grain as a young inner-city art teacher. One night, Mia enters a bar to meet her on-again, off-again boyfriend. But when he doesn't show, she unwisely leaves with an enigmatic stranger. With his smooth moves and modest wit, at first Colin Thatcher seems like a safe one-night stand. But following Colin home will turn out to be the worst mistake of Mia's life. Colin's job was to abduct Mia as part of a wild extortion plot and deliver her to his employers. But the plan takes an unexpected turn when Colin suddenly decides [...]

By |August 1st, 2014|Fiction, Mystery|Comments Off on The Good Girl By Mary Kubica chats with Dr. Alvin

Spirit Recovery Medicine Bag: A Transformational Guide For Living Happy, Joyous, And Free By Lee McCormick chats with Dr. Alvin

Lee McCormick Click Here To Listen Feeling limited by circumstances, substances, or behaviors often leads to the simple, yet profound question, Is this all there is?  This question is an opportunity to rediscover one's truth and live life more fully and authentically. Spirit Recovery Medicine Bag offers readers a path to finding their personal answer to this question in an engaging two-part format.

By |August 1st, 2014|Gospel, Self-Help, Spirituality|Comments Off on Spirit Recovery Medicine Bag: A Transformational Guide For Living Happy, Joyous, And Free By Lee McCormick chats with Dr. Alvin

Collective Genius: The Art & Practice Of Leading Innovation By Greg Brandeau chats with Dr. Alvin

Greg Brandeau Click Here To Listen You might think the key to innovation is attracting exceptional creative talent. Or making the right investments. Or breaking down organizational silos. All of these things may help—but there’s only one way to ensure sustained innovation: you need to lead it—and with a special kind of leadership. Collective Genius shows you how. Preeminent leadership scholar Linda Hill, along with former Pixar tech wizard Greg Brandeau, MIT researcher Emily Truelove, and Being the Boss coauthor Kent Lineback, found among leaders a widely shared, and mistaken, assumption: that a “good” leader in all other respects would also be an effective leader of innovation. The truth is, leading innovation takes a distinctive [...]

By |July 31st, 2014|Uncategorized|Comments Off on Collective Genius: The Art & Practice Of Leading Innovation By Greg Brandeau chats with Dr. Alvin

The Last Empire: The Final Days Of The Soviet Union By Serhii Plokhy chats with Dr. Alvin

Serhii Plokhy Click Here To Listen On Christmas Day, 1991, President George H. W. Bush addressed the nation to declare an American victory in the Cold War: earlier that day Mikhail Gorbachev had resigned as the first and last Soviet president. The enshrining of that narrative, one in which the end of the Cold War was linked to the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the triumph of democratic values over communism, took center stage in American public discourse immediately after Bush’s speech and has persisted for decades—with disastrous consequences for American standing in the world. As prize-winning historian Serhii Plokhy reveals in The Last Empire, the collapse of the Soviet Union was anything but [...]

By |July 31st, 2014|History, Politics|Comments Off on The Last Empire: The Final Days Of The Soviet Union By Serhii Plokhy chats with Dr. Alvin