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Your Perfect Right, Tenth Edition
- Assertiveness and Equality in Your Life and Relationships
- By: Robert Alberti PhD, Michael Emmons PhD
- Narrated by: Mike Lenz
- Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 3
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 2
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2
Assertiveness is a key social skill, as well as a tool for making your relationships more equal. Learning to respond more effectively to others can help you reduce stress and increase your sense of self-worth. In this fully updated and revised 10th edition, you'll learn practical advice on dealing with difficult people, handling criticism, and expressing your feelings. You'll also discover how to use humor in conflict resolution, ways to clarify others' intentions, and how to distinguish between encouraging and discouraging communication habits.
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3 out of 5 stars
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a few worthwhile points but overall, lacking
- By Another passing stranger on 27-05-20
- Your Perfect Right, Tenth Edition
- Assertiveness and Equality in Your Life and Relationships
- By: Robert Alberti PhD, Michael Emmons PhD
- Narrated by: Mike Lenz
a few worthwhile points but overall, lacking
Reviewed: 27-05-20
Perhaps it's in the conversion to an audiobook where this falls flat. At times it feels like an endless list of scenarios, rather than useful information and tools for assertiveness. Personally, I felt the first few chapters were more practical and the others were padding which only served to identify every conceivable application of assertiveness.
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Happy
- Why More or Less Everything Is Absolutely Fine
- By: Derren Brown
- Narrated by: Derren Brown
- Length: 14 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,818
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 2,452
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,432
In Happy Derren Brown explores changing concepts of happiness - from the surprisingly modern wisdom of the Stoics and Epicureans in classical times right up until today, when the self-help industry has attempted to claim happiness as its own. He shows how many of self-help’s suggested routes to happiness and success – such as positive thinking, self-belief and setting goals – can be disastrous to follow and, indeed, actually cause anxiety. Happy aims to reclaim happiness and to enable us to appreciate the good things in life, in all their transient glory.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Death defying
- By Tony Robinson OBE on 16-03-19
- Happy
- Why More or Less Everything Is Absolutely Fine
- By: Derren Brown
- Narrated by: Derren Brown
Psychology meets Philosophy meets Derren
Reviewed: 02-03-20
This will easily go down as one my favourite listens of the year (despite it having only really started).
Derren Brown makes philosophy digestible and relevant to the everyday. This book is a trove of intriguing ideas which help you to examine your own life and experiences.
It goes beyond 'how to be more happy' and becomes a book about life, death, relationships and everything in between.
I highly recommend this to anyone with a unexplored interest in psychology. It is a fascinating listen.
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The Complete Guide to Property Investment
- How to Survive and Thrive in the New World of Buy-to-Let
- By: Rob Dix
- Narrated by: Rob Dix
- Length: 6 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1,755
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,502
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,482
Over the last 20 years, more than a million Brits have made life-changing profits from buy-to-let. But as prices keep rising and the tax landscape changes, investors need to get smarter in order to succeed. It’s far from “game over”, but the game is changing…for the better. The unwary and underprepared will be squeezed from the market - leaving educated, strategic investors to have their best decade yet. The Complete Guide to Property Investment gives you the insight, information, and action plan you need to navigate this new property landscape and come out on top.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Perspective of a property investor
- By ChilliDali on 07-06-19
- The Complete Guide to Property Investment
- How to Survive and Thrive in the New World of Buy-to-Let
- By: Rob Dix
- Narrated by: Rob Dix
Even better on the second listen
Reviewed: 14-05-19
There's so much valuable information in here that I immediately went through it twice.
Very well explained and covers every stage of the planning, researching, buying and selling process.
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Mythos
- By: Stephen Fry
- Narrated by: Stephen Fry
- Length: 15 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 26,848
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 23,753
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 23,644
The Greek myths are amongst the greatest stories ever told, passed down through millennia and inspiring writers and artists as varied as Shakespeare, Michelangelo, James Joyce and Walt Disney. They are embedded deeply in the traditions, tales and cultural DNA of the West. You'll fall in love with Zeus, marvel at the birth of Athena, wince at Cronus and Gaia's revenge on Ouranos, weep with King Midas and hunt with the beautiful and ferocious Artemis.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I need more!
- By Lily on 08-11-17
- Mythos
- By: Stephen Fry
- Narrated by: Stephen Fry
Brilliant
Reviewed: 11-01-19
Loved it. Served as a surprisingly good companion book to 'Astrophysics for people in a hurry'. Odd, I know, but the combination works so well. I'm looking forward to getting 'Heroes' next.
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Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
- By: Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Narrated by: Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Length: 3 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3,330
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 2,897
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,874
What is the nature of space and time? How do we fit within the universe? How does the universe fit within us? There's no better guide through these mind-expanding questions than acclaimed astrophysicist and best-selling author Neil deGrasse Tyson. But today, few of us have time to contemplate the cosmos. So Tyson brings the universe down to Earth succinctly and clearly, with sparkling wit, in digestible chapters consumable anytime and anywhere in your busy day.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating, if a little short
- By ian on 23-06-17
- Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
- By: Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Narrated by: Neil deGrasse Tyson
interesting but difficult at times
Reviewed: 05-12-18
With no prior reading on the subject, I was interested in an astrophysics audio book that explains complicated concepts with the simplicity required for a 3rd grade kid to understand it. By about Chapter 2, it becomes clear, this isn't it. Some concepts require a little prior knowledge and as a result, I got lost in some sections. Though, it's not long to find even footing again, and there's still plenty of fantastic learning to be had here. Glad I gave it a go.
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