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NashvilleBusiness.Net: 100 Most Leading Persons In Banking, Legal & Professional Services 2018 Brian Moyer

Click Here To Listen Nashville Business 100 Leading Persons In Professional Services Brian Moyer Brian Moyer is President and CEO of the Nashville Technology Council (NTC), the largest technology trade association in Tennessee. Prior to that, he served as Executive VP and CIO for GAFFEY Healthcare and HealthTechS3. Brian has founded and has grown multiple technology companies over the past 25 years, won awards for the fastest growing company in Middle Tennessee, and is named on several patents. He is active in the Middle Tennessee community. He served as President of the HIMSS Tennessee Chapter and received national recognition from HIMSS as chapter leader of the year. He sits on multiple community boards including the [...]

By |April 27th, 2018|Biography, Technology|Comments Off on NashvilleBusiness.Net: 100 Most Leading Persons In Banking, Legal & Professional Services 2018 Brian Moyer
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Benn Steil, Author Of The Marshall Plan: Dawn of the Cold War Chats On DrAlvin.Com

Click Here To Listen Benn Steil-The Marshall Plan The award-winning author of The Battle of Bretton Woods reveals the gripping history behind the Marshall Plan—told with verve, insight, and resonance for today. In the wake of World War II, with Britain’s empire collapsing and Stalin's on the rise, US officials under new secretary of state George C. Marshall set out to reconstruct western Europe as a bulwark against communist authoritarianism. Their massive, costly, and ambitious undertaking would confront Europeans and Americans alike with a vision at odds with their history and self-conceptions. In the process, they would drive the creation of NATO, the European Union, and a Western identity that continues to shape world events. [...]

By |April 27th, 2018|Government, History, Military, War|Comments Off on Benn Steil, Author Of The Marshall Plan: Dawn of the Cold War Chats On DrAlvin.Com
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NashvilleBusiness.Net: 100 Most Leading Persons In Banking, Legal & Professional Services 2018 Ralph Mullenax

Click Here To Listen Nashville Business 100 Leading Persons In Professional Services Ralph Mullenax Ralph Mullenax is motivated by vision and storytelling. He believes that people make decisions and take action less by what they know and more by what moves them. As a leader, Ralph brings his teams to share a common vision that inspires and guides them toward achievement. Every organization has a story to tell and whether trying to sell a product or service, improve employee performance, or increase giving to a good cause, being able to emotionally connect an audience to that story makes all the difference. Currently, as a Financial Center Manager with CapStar Bank, Ralph works with individuals and [...]

By |April 27th, 2018|Banking, Biography, Finances, Nashville Business, Nashville Leading|Comments Off on NashvilleBusiness.Net: 100 Most Leading Persons In Banking, Legal & Professional Services 2018 Ralph Mullenax
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Steve Brusatte, Author Of The Rise And Fall Of The Dinosaurs: A New History Of A Lost World

Click Here To Listen Steve Brusatte A sweeping and revelatory new history of the age of dinosaurs, from one of our finest young scientists. "THE ULTIMATE DINOSAUR BIOGRAPHY." — Scientific American The dinosaurs. Sixty-six million years ago, the Earth’s most fearsome creatures vanished. Today they remain one of our planet’s great mysteries. Now The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs reveals their extraordinary, 200-million-year-long story as never before. In this captivating narrative (enlivened with more than seventy original illustrations and photographs), Steve Brusatte, a young American paleontologist who has emerged as one of the foremost stars of the field—naming fifteen new species and leading groundbreaking scientific studies and fieldwork—masterfully tells the complete, surprising, and new [...]

By |April 26th, 2018|Science|Comments Off on Steve Brusatte, Author Of The Rise And Fall Of The Dinosaurs: A New History Of A Lost World
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Naomi Schaefer Riley, Author Of Be the Parent, Please: Stop Banning Seesaws and Start Banning Snapchat: Strategies For Solving The Real Parenting Problems (Virtues: Strategies For Solving The Real Parenting Problems)

Click Here To Listen Naomi Riley Toddlers on tablets. Pre-teens on Tumblr. Thanks to a variety of factors—from tech companies hungry for new audiences, to school administrations bent on making education digital, to a culture that promotes everyone as the star of their own reality shows—technology is irrevocably a part of childhood, and parents are struggling to keep up. What should be allowed? What should be denied? And, given the ubiquity of technology and its inherent usefulness, what do sensible boundaries even look like? A noted columnist and mother of three, Naomi Schaefer Riley fully understands the seductive nature of screens. For example, an after­noon of finger painting equals enormous cleanup of both house and [...]

By |April 25th, 2018|Parenting|Comments Off on Naomi Schaefer Riley, Author Of Be the Parent, Please: Stop Banning Seesaws and Start Banning Snapchat: Strategies For Solving The Real Parenting Problems (Virtues: Strategies For Solving The Real Parenting Problems)
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Anya Kamenetz, Author Of The Art of Screen Time: How Your Family Can Balance Digital Media and Real Life

Click Here To Listen Anya Kamenetz Finally, an evidence-based, don't-panic guide to what to do about kids and screens. Today's babies often make their debut on social media with the very first sonogram. They begin interacting with screens at around four months old. But is this good news or bad news? A wonderful opportunity to connect around the world? Or the first step in creating a generation of addled screen zombies? Many have been quick to declare this the dawn of a neurological and emotional crisis, but solid science on the subject is surprisingly hard to come by. In The Art of Screen Time, Anya Kamenetz--an expert on education and technology, as well as a [...]

By |April 25th, 2018|Parenting|Comments Off on Anya Kamenetz, Author Of The Art of Screen Time: How Your Family Can Balance Digital Media and Real Life
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Ellery Adams, Author Of Murder in the Locked Library (A Book Retreat Mystery) Chats On DrAlvin.Com

Click Here To Listen Ellery Adams Welcome to Storyton Hall, Virginia, where book lovers travel from near and far to enjoy the singular comforts of the Agatha Christie Tea Room, where they can discuss the merits of their favorite authors no matter how deadly the topic . . . With her twins, Fitzgerald and Hemingway, back in school, Jane Steward can finally focus on her work again—managing Storyton Hall, and breaking ground on the resort’s latest attraction: a luxurious, relaxing spa named in honor of Walt Whitman. But when the earth is dug up to start laying the spa’s foundation, something else comes to the surface—a collection of unusual bones and the ragged remnants of [...]

By |April 25th, 2018|Cooking / Food, Fiction, Mystery|Comments Off on Ellery Adams, Author Of Murder in the Locked Library (A Book Retreat Mystery) Chats On DrAlvin.Com
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Brantley Hargrove, Author Of The Man Who Caught The Storm: The Life Of Legendary Tornado Chaser Tim Samaras

Click Here To Listen Brantley Hargrove “An instant classic of Americana—a story of tragedy, invention, lore, science, and a most original kind of genius.” —Hampton Sides “Masterful. This is what man versus nature is all about.” —Skip Hollandsworth The Man Who Caught the Storm is the saga of the greatest tornado chaser who ever lived: a tale of obsession and daring, and an extraordinary account of humanity’s high-stakes race to understand nature’s fiercest phenomenon. At the turn of the twenty-first century, the tornado was one of the last true mysteries of the modern world. It was a monster that ravaged the American heartland a thousand times each year, yet science’s every effort to divine its [...]

By |April 25th, 2018|Biography, Uncategorized, Weather|Comments Off on Brantley Hargrove, Author Of The Man Who Caught The Storm: The Life Of Legendary Tornado Chaser Tim Samaras
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Leslie Carroll, Author Of American Princess: The Love Story Of Meghan Markle And Prince Harry Chats On DrAlvin.Com

Click Here To Listen Leslie Carroll A behind-the-scenes look into the life of Meghan Markle and her romance with Prince Harry—a dishy, delightful must-read filled with exclusive insights for anyone obsessed with the Royal Family. Leslie Carroll’s books on royalty are “an irresistible combination of People Magazine and the History Channel.”—Chicago Tribune When Prince Harry of Wales took his American girlfriend, Meghan Markle, to have tea with his grandmother the queen, avid royal watchers had a hunch that a royal wedding was not far off. That prediction came true on November 27, 2017, when the gorgeous, glamorous twosome announced their engagement to the world. As they prepare to tie the knot in a stunning ceremony [...]

By |April 25th, 2018|Biography, Romance|Comments Off on Leslie Carroll, Author Of American Princess: The Love Story Of Meghan Markle And Prince Harry Chats On DrAlvin.Com
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