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My Conversation With Caitlin Doughty, Author Of Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: Big Questions From Tiny Mortals About Death
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My Conversation With Caitlin Doughty, Author Of Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: Big Questions From Tiny Mortals About Death

Death, Gospel, Health, Medical, Memoir, Murder, Science, Spirituality, Wisdom

My Conversation With Caitlin Doughty, Author Of Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: Big Questions From Tiny Mortals About Death

Click Here To Listen Caitlin Doughty Best-selling author and mortician Caitlin Doughty answers real questions from kids about death, dead bodies, and decomposition. Every day, funeral director Caitlin Doughty receives dozens of questions about death. The best questions come from kids. What would happen to an astronaut’s body if it were pushed out of a space shuttle? Do people poop when they die? Can Grandma have a Viking funeral? In Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?, Doughty blends her mortician’s knowledge of the body and the intriguing history behind common misconceptions about corpses to offer factual, hilarious, and candid answers to thirty-five distinctive questions posed by her youngest fans. In her inimitable voice, Doughty details [...]

By DrAlvin|September 9th, 2019|Death, Gospel, Health, Medical, Memoir, Murder, Science, Spirituality, Wisdom|Comments Off

My Conversation With Christopher Leonard, Author Of Kochland: The Secret History Of Koch Industries And Corporate Power In America
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My Conversation With Christopher Leonard, Author Of Kochland: The Secret History Of Koch Industries And Corporate Power In America

Biography, Business, Careers, Leadership

My Conversation With Christopher Leonard, Author Of Kochland: The Secret History Of Koch Industries And Corporate Power In America

Click Here To Listen Christopher Leonard - Kochland Just as Steve Coll told the story of globalization through ExxonMobil and Andrew Ross Sorkin told the story of Wall Street excess through Too Big to Fail, Christopher Leonard’s Kochland uses the extraordinary account of how one of the biggest private companies in the world grew to be that big to tell the story of modern corporate America. The annual revenue of Koch Industries is bigger than that of Goldman Sachs, Facebook, and U.S. Steel combined. Koch is everywhere: from the fertilizers that make our food to the chemicals that make our pipes to the synthetics that make our carpets and diapers to the Wall Street trading [...]

By DrAlvin|September 9th, 2019|Biography, Business, Careers, Leadership|Comments Off

My Conversation With Talia Carner, Author Of The Third Daughter: A Novel
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My Conversation With Talia Carner, Author Of The Third Daughter: A Novel

Russia, Women

My Conversation With Talia Carner, Author Of The Third Daughter: A Novel

Click Here To Listen Talia Carner-The Third Daughter “In The Third Daughter, Talia Carner ably illuminates a little-known piece of history: the sex trafficking of young women from Russia to South America in the late 19th century. Thoroughly researched and vividly rendered, this is an important and unforgettable story of exploitation and empowerment that will leave you both shaken and inspired.” —Pam Jenoff, New York Times bestselling author of The Lost Girls of Paris The turn of the 20th century finds fourteen-year-old Batya in the Russian countryside, fleeing with her family endless pogroms. Desperate, her father leaps at the opportunity to marry Batya to a worldly, wealthy stranger who can guarantee his daughter an easy [...]

By DrAlvin|September 9th, 2019|Russia, Women|Comments Off

My Conversation With Laura Morgan Roberts, Author Of Race, Work, And Leadership: New Perspectives On The Black Experience
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My Conversation With Laura Morgan Roberts, Author Of Race, Work, And Leadership: New Perspectives On The Black Experience

African Americans, Business, Careers, Chamber Of Commerce, Leadership

My Conversation With Laura Morgan Roberts, Author Of Race, Work, And Leadership: New Perspectives On The Black Experience

Click Here To Listen Laura Morgan Roberts Rethinking How to Build Inclusive Organizations Race, Work, and Leadership is a rare and important compilation of essays that examines how race matters in people's experience of work and leadership. What does it mean to be black in corporate America today? How are racial dynamics in organizations changing? How do we build inclusive organizations? Inspired by and developed in conjunction with the research and programming for Harvard Business School's commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the HBS African American Student Union, this groundbreaking book shines new light on these and other timely questions and illuminates the present-day dynamics of race in the workplace. Contributions from [...]

By DrAlvin|September 9th, 2019|African Americans, Business, Careers, Chamber Of Commerce, Leadership|Comments Off

My Conversation With Pamela Paul, Author Of How To Raise A Reader
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My Conversation With Pamela Paul, Author Of How To Raise A Reader

Literature, Parenting, Women, Youth

My Conversation With Pamela Paul, Author Of How To Raise A Reader

Click Here To Listen Pamela Paul-How To Raise A Reader An indispensable guide to welcoming children—from babies to teens—to a lifelong love of reading, written by Pamela Paul and Maria Russo, editors of The New York Times Book Review. Do you remember your first visit to where the wild things are? How about curling up for hours on end to discover the secret of the Sorcerer’s Stone? Combining clear, practical advice with inspiration, wisdom, tips, and curated reading lists, How to Raise a Reader shows you how to instill the joy and time-stopping pleasure of reading. Divided into four sections, from baby through teen, and each illustrated by a different artist, this book offers something [...]

By DrAlvin|September 6th, 2019|Literature, Parenting, Women, Youth|Comments Off

My Conversation With Sean Parnell, Author Of All Out War
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My Conversation With Sean Parnell, Author Of All Out War

Fiction, Middle East, Military, Russia, War

My Conversation With Sean Parnell, Author Of All Out War

Click Here To Listen Sean Parnell All Out War “Eric Steele and author Sean Parnell are the real deal.”— Lee Child Special operative Eric Steele, introduced in Man of War, is on the hunt for a formidable Russian terrorist in this high-intensity tale of international intrigue from the author of the New York Times bestselling memoir Outlaw Platoon. Badly injured while stopping a rogue agent from obtaining weapons of mass destruction, elite warrior Eric Steele is drawn back into service before he’s ready when unknown assailants break into his home near Pittsburgh, injuring his mother and stealing his father’s pistol. An Alpha—an elite soldier under the direct command of the president of the United States—Steele [...]