Tag: First

Increasing Learning Engagement – A Skills-First Approach


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Released 9/2023
MP4 | Video: h264, 1280×720 | Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz, 2 Ch
Skill Level: Intermediate | Genre: eLearning | Language: English + srt | Duration: 39m | Size: 118 MB
Today’s global workforce is changing, with personal and professional development now accounting for a big piece of the complete employee experience. Helping your employees upskill and develop is a great way to keep them engaged. In this course, join instructor Karl Kapp to find out what it takes to build a strong, resilient, and flexible workforce using a skills-first learning approach.

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The Six The Untold Story of America’s First Women Astronauts [Audiobook]


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English | ASIN: B0BW2924YV | 2023 | 11 hours and 41 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 336 MB
Author: Loren Grush
Narrator: Inés del Castillo

The remarkable true story of America’s first women astronauts-six extraordinary women, each making history going to orbit aboard NASA’s Space Shuttle. When NASA sent astronauts to the moon in the 1960s and 1970s the agency excluded women from the corps, arguing that only military test pilots-a group then made up exclusively of men-had the right stuff. It was an era in which women were steered away from jobs in science and deemed unqualified for space flight. Eventually, though, NASA recognized its blunder and opened the application process to a wider array of hopefuls, regardless of race or gender.

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The First Philosophers The Presocratics and Sophists [Audiobook]


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English | ASIN: B0CHGHKXNS | 2023 | 15 hours and 21 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 448 MB
Author: Robin Waterfield
Narrator: Adrian Hobart

Aristotle said that philosophy begins with wonder, and the first Western philosophers developed theories of the world which express simultaneously their sense of wonder and their intuition that the world should be comprehensible. But their enterprise was by no means limited to this proto-scientific task. Through, for instance, Heraclitus’s enigmatic sayings, the poetry of Parmenides and Empedocles, and Zeno’s paradoxes, the Western world was introduced to metaphysics, rationalist theology, ethics, and logic, by thinkers who often seem to be mystics or shamans as much as philosophers or scientists in the modern mold. And out of the Sophists’ reflections on human beings and their place in the world arose and interest in language, and in political, moral, and social philosophy. This volume contains a translation of all the most important fragments of the Presocratics and Sophists, and of the most informative testimonia from ancient sources, supplemented by lucid commentary.

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First Gen A Memoir [Audiobook]


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English | ASIN: B0BWGF9YP3 | 2023 | 8 hours and 24 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 243 MB
Author: Alejandra Campoverdi
Narrator: Alejandra Campoverdi

An unflinching memoir about navigating social mobility as a first gen Latina-offering both a riveting personal story and an examination of the unacknowledged emotional tolls of being a trailblazer. Alejandra Campoverdi has been a child on welfare, a White House aide to President Obama, a Harvard graduate, a gang member’s girlfriend, and a candidate for U.S. Congress. She’s ridden on Air Force One and in G-rides. She’s been featured in Maxim magazine and had a double mastectomy. Living a life of contradictory extremes often comes with the territory when you’re a "First and Only." It also comes at a price. With candor and heart, Alejandra retraces her trajectory as a Mexican American woman raised by an immigrant single mother in Los Angeles.

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Buyer First Grow Your Business with Collaborative Selling [Audiobook]


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English | ASIN: B0C7HMJYTF | 2023 | 6 hours and 52 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 384 MB
Author: Carole Mahoney
Narrator: Carole Mahoney

It’s time to forget everything you think you know about selling. Winning new customers is the number one challenge 80 percent of entrepreneurs face-and a big reason half of small businesses fail within five years. In Buyer First, Carole Mahoney-who once struggled to pay bills and is now a top sales coach and influencer-says the reason so many of us are bad at selling is, well, we think selling is bad. With her approachable, honest writing style, Mahoney is like your personal sales coach, guiding you to tailor your current sales strategy in a way that’s consistent with your values and strengths, so you can align how you sell with how customers buy. Complete with worksheets and exercises like exploring your own Sales Origin story, Buyer First teaches you the tactics of a collaborative selling framework. Each point is backed up with real-life stories from Mahoney’s colleagues and students as well as her own experiences. Not only does Buyer First promise to transform your sales approach, help you change your behaviors, and get consistent results-it’ll make you feel fantastic about every transaction.

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ACDC The Savage Tale of the First Standards War


Free Download AC/DC: The Savage Tale of the First Standards War by Tom McNichol, Malcolm Hillgartner, Blackstone Audio, Inc.
English | 2008 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B00196OF78 | MP3@64 Kbps | Duration: 6:28 h | 179 Mb
Long before there was VHS versus Betamax, Windows versus Macintosh, or Blu-Ray versus HD-DVD, the first and nastiest standards war was fought over how electricity would be transmitted around the world: alternating current (AC) and direct current (DC). The savage showdown between AC and DC changed the lives of billions of people, shaped the modern technological age, and set the stage for all standards wars to follow.
AC/DC tells the little-known story of how Thomas Edison bet wrong in that war, eventually losing control over the "operating system" for his future inventions – not to mention the company he founded, which would later become General Electric. Today’s Digital Age wizards can take lessons from Edison’s fierce battle: control an invention’s technical standard and you control the market

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The First Total War Napoleon’s Europe and the Birth of Warfare as We Know It [Audiobook]


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English | ASIN: B0CCQ94CW7 | 2023 | 15 hours and 55 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 421 MB
Author: David A. Bell
Narrator: Trenton Bennett

The twentieth century is usually seen as "the century of total war." But as the historian David A. Bell argues in this landmark work, the phenomenon actually began much earlier, in the era of muskets, cannons, and sailing ships-in the age of Napoleon. In a sweeping, evocative narrative, Bell takes us from campaigns of "extermination" in the blood-soaked fields of western France to savage street fighting in ruined Spanish cities to central European battlefields where tens of thousands died in a single day. Between 1792 and 1815, Europe plunged into an abyss of destruction.

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The First Minute How to Start Conversations That Get Results [Audiobook]


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English | August 24, 2021 | ASIN: B09DF9MZNV | M4B@64 kbps | 3h 14m | 90.9 MB
Author and Narrator: Chris Fenning
Communication should be clear and concise, and we should get to the point quickly. The problem is we don’t always know how to do this. What does it mean to be concise? How can a complex topic be summarized in just a few lines?

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