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The Mission of a Lifetime
- Lessons from the Men Who Went to the Moon
- Auteur(s): Basil Hero
- Narrateur(s): Dan Woren
- Durée: 6 h et 39 min
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Only 24 human beings have traveled to the moon. Theirs were the most daring voyages in mankind's history, and their view of Earth from the moon changed them and the way we see our home planet. Now in their emeritus years, the 12 remaining lunar explorers for the first time reveal the true source of courage, leadership, and the quiet patriotism that it took to accomplish their missions. Their voyages to the moon led them to the most incredible discovery of all: our home planet and its precious place in the universe.
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The Mission of a Lifetime
- Lessons from the Men Who Went to the Moon
- Narrateur(s): Dan Woren
- Durée: 6 h et 39 min
- Date de publication: 2019-04-02
- Langue: Anglais
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Former award-winning investigative reporter Basil Hero chronicles the lives and lessons of the 12 remaining Apollo astronauts....
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George Romney
- An American Life
- Auteur(s): Patrick Foster, Mitt Romney - foreword
- Narrateur(s): Robertson Dean
- Durée: 6 h et 51 min
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George W. Romney was a remarkable person. As chairman of American Motors Corporation from 1954 to 1962, he saved that company from sure destruction and led it to its greatest success. He later became the most popular governor in Michigan history, a Republican stalwart beloved in a Democratic state. He ran for the presidency in 1967 and served as Secretary of HUD in the first Nixon administration before leaving over concerns about the president.
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George Romney
- An American Life
- Narrateur(s): Robertson Dean
- Durée: 6 h et 51 min
- Date de publication: 2017-09-15
- Langue: Anglais
- George W. Romney was a remarkable person. As chairman of American Motors Corporation from 1954 to 1962, he saved that company from sure destruction and led it to its greatest success....
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The Chick and the Dead
- Life and Death Behind Mortuary Doors
- Auteur(s): Carla Valentine
- Narrateur(s): Beverley A. Crick
- Durée: 8 h et 21 min
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Using the most common postmortem process as the backbone of the narrative, The Chick and the Dead takes the listener through the process of an autopsy while also describing the history and changing cultures of our relationship with the dead. The book is full of vivid insight into what happens to our bodies in the end. Each chapter considers an aspect of an autopsy alongside an aspect of Carla's own life and work and touches on some of the more controversial aspects of our feelings toward death.
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Story was too all over the place
- Écrit par Kristina Berube le 2020-08-09
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The Chick and the Dead
- Life and Death Behind Mortuary Doors
- Narrateur(s): Beverley A. Crick
- Durée: 8 h et 21 min
- Date de publication: 2017-08-08
- Langue: Anglais
- When it comes to death, Carla Valentine truly is an expert, and in this book she shares that expertise....
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Bill Gates: The Life, Lessons & Rules for Success
- Auteur(s): Influential Individuals
- Narrateur(s): David Margittai
- Durée: 1 h et 16 min
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Bill Gates is the most influential and recognizable name in the technology industry to date. He's a business magnate, avid investor, big philanthropist, and author of multiple books. He has made it into the top 0.1 percent and it would be an understatement to say Bill Gates is a success story. Some of his greatest moments arose on this journey to success and through studying his journey; it can help us better walk our own path. This book will take you through his successes, failures and teachable moments providing the key principles we can incorporate into our own lives for results.
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Bill Gates: The Life, Lessons & Rules for Success
- Narrateur(s): David Margittai
- Durée: 1 h et 16 min
- Date de publication: 2018-08-01
- Langue: Anglais
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Bill Gates is the most influential and recognizable name in the technology industry to date. He's a business magnate, avid investor, big philanthropist, and author of multiple books. He has made it into the top 0.1 percent and it would be an understatement to say he's a success story....
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Breath
- A Lifetime in the Rhythm of an Iron Lung: A Memoir
- Auteur(s): Martha Mason
- Narrateur(s): Catherine Byers
- Durée: 11 h et 6 min
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Some might wonder how Martha could have clung to hope at all. In 1948, on the day of the funeral of her adored older brother, Gaston, a quick victim of the great polio epidemic, Martha was struck with the same dreaded disease. After a year in polio hospitals, she was sent back to her home in the village of Lattimore in the cotton-growing hills of western North Carolina. She was completely paralyzed, with only her head protruding from an 800-pound yellow metal cylinder that breathed for her.
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Breath
- A Lifetime in the Rhythm of an Iron Lung: A Memoir
- Narrateur(s): Catherine Byers
- Durée: 11 h et 6 min
- Date de publication: 2013-02-28
- Langue: Anglais
- Some might wonder how Martha could have clung to hope at all....
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Pursuing Giraffe
- A 1950s Adventure (Life Writing)
- Auteur(s): Anne Innis Dagg
- Narrateur(s): Ryanne Chisholm
- Durée: 10 h et 59 min
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In the 1950s, Anne Innis Dagg was a young zoologist with a lifelong love of the giraffe and a dream to study them in Africa. Based on extensive journals and letters home, Pursuing Giraffe vividly chronicles the realization of that dream and the year that she spent studying and documenting giraffe behaviour.
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Pursuing Giraffe
- A 1950s Adventure (Life Writing)
- Narrateur(s): Ryanne Chisholm
- Durée: 10 h et 59 min
- Date de publication: 2021-09-23
- Langue: Anglais
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In the 1950s, Anne Innis Dagg was a young zoologist with a lifelong love of the giraffe and a dream to study them in Africa. Pursuing Giraffe vividly chronicles the realization of that dream and the year that she spent studying and documenting giraffe behaviour....
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Recipe for Life
- Auteur(s): Mary Berry
- Narrateur(s): Patricia Hodge
- Durée: 10 h et 6 min
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The unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Mary Berry's autobiography, Recipe for Life, read by the actress Patricia Hodge. From Queen of Tarts to the nation's heart, Mary Berry shares her Recipe for Life. "In the words of my father, my birth caused no end of trouble..." From the moment she came into the world - two weeks early, throwing her parents' lives into disarray - Mary has gracefully but firmly done things her own way.
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Recipe for Life
- Narrateur(s): Patricia Hodge
- Durée: 10 h et 6 min
- Date de publication: 2013-09-12
- Langue: Anglais
- The unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Mary Berry's autobiography, Recipe for Life, read by the actress Patricia Hodge....
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Self Made
- Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J. Walker
- Auteur(s): A'Lelia Bundles
- Narrateur(s): A'Lelia Bundles
- Durée: 16 h et 23 min
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The daughter of slaves, Madam C.J. Walker was orphaned at seven, married at 14, and widowed at 20. She spent the better part of the next two decades laboring as a washerwoman for $1.50 a week. Then - with the discovery of a revolutionary hair care formula for Black women - everything changed. By her death in 1919, Walker managed to overcome astonishing odds: Building a storied beauty empire from the ground up that would be run by four generations of Walker women until its sale in 1985.
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Self Made
- Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J. Walker
- Narrateur(s): A'Lelia Bundles
- Durée: 16 h et 23 min
- Date de publication: 2020-03-10
- Langue: Anglais
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The daughter of slaves, Madam C.J. Walker was orphaned at seven, married at 14, and widowed at 20. She spent the better part of the next two decades laboring as a washerwoman for $1.50 a week....
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Second Suns
- Two Doctors and Their Amazing Quest to Restore Sight and Save Lives
- Auteur(s): David Oliver Relin
- Narrateur(s): Rob Shapiro
- Durée: 15 h et 21 min
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In this transporting book, David Oliver Relin shines a light on the work of Geoffrey Tabin and Sanduk Ruit, gifted ophthalmologists who have dedicated their lives to restoring sight to some of the world’s most isolated, impoverished people through the Himalayan Cataract Project, an organization they founded in 1995. Tabin was the high-achieving bad boy of Harvard Medical School, an accomplished mountain climber and adrenaline junkie as brilliant as he was unconventional.
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Second Suns
- Two Doctors and Their Amazing Quest to Restore Sight and Save Lives
- Narrateur(s): Rob Shapiro
- Durée: 15 h et 21 min
- Date de publication: 2013-06-18
- Langue: Anglais
- From the co-author of Three Cups of Tea comes the inspiring story of two very different doctors - one from the United States, the other from Nepal - united in a common mission: to rid the world of preventable blindness....
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You Say to Brick
- The Life of Louis Kahn
- Auteur(s): Wendy Lesser
- Narrateur(s): Will Damron
- Durée: 15 h et 8 min
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Born to a Jewish family in Estonia in 1901 and brought to America in 1906, the architect Louis Kahn grew up in poverty in Philadelphia; by the time of his death in 1974, he was widely recognized as one of the greatest architects of his era. Yet this enormous reputation was based on only a handful of masterpieces, all built during the last 15 years of his life.
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Excellent biography
- Écrit par Utilisateur anonyme le 2018-04-01
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You Say to Brick
- The Life of Louis Kahn
- Narrateur(s): Will Damron
- Durée: 15 h et 8 min
- Date de publication: 2017-06-27
- Langue: Anglais
- Born to a Jewish family in Estonia in 1901 and brought to America in 1906, the architect Louis Kahn grew up in poverty in Philadelphia....
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Answering the Call
- The Doctor Who Made Africa His Life: The Remarkable Story of Albert Schweitzer
- Auteur(s): Ken Gire
- Narrateur(s): Jim Sanders
- Durée: 4 h et 6 min
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As a young man, Albert Schweitzer seemed destined for greatness. His immense talent and fortitude propelled him to a place as one of Europe's most renowned philosophers, theologians, and musicians in the early 20th century. Yet Schweitzer shocked his contemporaries by forsaking worldly success and embarking on an epic journey into the wilds of French Equatorial Africa, vowing to serve as a lifelong physician to "the least of these" in a mysterious land rife with famine, sickness, and superstition.
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Answering the Call
- The Doctor Who Made Africa His Life: The Remarkable Story of Albert Schweitzer
- Narrateur(s): Jim Sanders
- Durée: 4 h et 6 min
- Date de publication: 2019-10-04
- Langue: Anglais
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Ken Gire's pause-resisting, novelesque narrative sheds new light on Schweitzer's faith-in-action ethic and his commitment to honor God by celebrating the sacredness of all life....
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The Opposite of Certainty
- Fear, Faith, and Life in Between
- Auteur(s): Janine Urbaniak Reid, Anne Lamott
- Narrateur(s): Ginny Welsch
- Durée: 7 h et 30 min
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All Janine Urbaniak Reid ever wanted was for everyone she loved to be okay so she might relax and maybe be happy. Her life strategy was simple: do everything right. This included trying to be the perfect mother to her three kids so they would never experience the kind of pain she pretended not to feel growing up. What she didn’t expect was the chaos of an out-of-control life that begins when her young son’s hand begins to shake.
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The Opposite of Certainty
- Fear, Faith, and Life in Between
- Narrateur(s): Ginny Welsch
- Durée: 7 h et 30 min
- Date de publication: 2020-05-12
- Langue: Anglais
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All Janine Urbaniak Reid ever wanted was for everyone she loved to be okay so she might relax and maybe be happy. Her life strategy was simple: do everything right. This included trying to be the perfect mother to her three kids....
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Following Jesus, the Servant King
- A Biblical Theology of Covenantal Discipleship
- Auteur(s): Jonathan Lunde
- Narrateur(s): Tom Casaletto
- Durée: 13 h et 34 min
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Throughout the Old Testament and into the New, God not only demands righteousness from his people but also showers on grace that enables them to act. Jesus, of course, provides the ultimate fulfillment of these twin aspects of God’s relationship to humanity. In biblical terms, Jesus is the King who demands righteous obedience from his followers, and Jesus is the Servant who provides the grace that enables this obedience.
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Following Jesus, the Servant King
- A Biblical Theology of Covenantal Discipleship
- Narrateur(s): Tom Casaletto
- Série: Biblical Theology for Life
- Durée: 13 h et 34 min
- Date de publication: 2010-11-07
- Langue: Anglais
- This book presents a biblical theology of discipleship that gives the “big picture” of God’s relationship with humanity.
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Morgue
- A Life in Death
- Auteur(s): Vincent Di Maio, Ron Franscell
- Narrateur(s): Tony Ward
- Durée: 10 h et 37 min
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Vincent Di Maio, MD, son of a famous New York City medical examiner, is one of the lions of forensic science. In this clear, gritty, and enthralling narrative, Di Maio himself guides us into the inner sanctum, through the cases that have made him famous, from the exhumation of assassin Lee Harvey Oswald and the racially charged shooting of Florida teen Trayvon Martin to the unmasking of a serial baby killer and the mysterious death of troubled genius Vincent van Gogh.
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Loved it. Most of it was captivating...
- Écrit par GILLESR le 2019-03-04
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Insanely Great
- The Life and Times of Macintosh, the Computer that Changed Everything
- Auteur(s): Steven Levy
- Narrateur(s): Steven Levy
- Durée: 8 h et 40 min
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The creation of the Mac, in 1984, catapulted America into the digital millennium, captured a fanatic cult audience, and transformed the computer industry into an unprecedented mix of technology, economics, and show business. Veteran technology writer and Newsweek senior editor Steven Levy zooms in on the great machine and the fortunes of the unique company responsible for its evolution. Loaded with anecdote and insight, and peppered with sharp commentary, Insanely Great is the definitive book on the most important computer ever made. It is a must-have for anyone curious about how we got to the interactive age.
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Insanely Great
- The Life and Times of Macintosh, the Computer that Changed Everything
- Narrateur(s): Steven Levy
- Durée: 8 h et 40 min
- Date de publication: 2012-10-23
- Langue: Anglais
- The creation of the Mac, in 1984, catapulted America into the digital millennium, captured a fanatic cult audience, and transformed the computer industry into an unprecedented mix of technology, economics, and show business....
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Moore's Law
- The Life of Gordon Moore, Silicon Valley's Quiet Revolutionary
- Auteur(s): Arnold Thackray, David Brock, Rachel Jones
- Narrateur(s): Don Hagen
- Durée: 24 h et 27 min
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Our world today - from the phone in your pocket to the car that you drive, the allure of social media to the strategy of the Pentagon - has been shaped irrevocably by the technology of silicon transistors. Year after year, for half a century, these tiny switches have enabled ever-more startling capabilities. Their incredible proliferation has altered the course of human history as dramatically as any political or social revolution. At the heart of it all has been one quiet Californian: Gordon Moore.
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Moore's Law
- The Life of Gordon Moore, Silicon Valley's Quiet Revolutionary
- Narrateur(s): Don Hagen
- Durée: 24 h et 27 min
- Date de publication: 2015-05-06
- Langue: Anglais
- In Moore's Law, Arnold Thackray, David C. Brock, and Rachel Jones give the authoritative account of Gordon Moore's life and his role in the development....
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A Surgeon and a Maverick
- The Life and Pioneering Work of Magdi Yacoub
- Auteur(s): Simon Pearson, Fiona Gorman, Dame Mary Archer - foreword
- Narrateur(s): Charles Johnston
- Durée: 11 h et 8 min
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Veteran journalists Simon Pearson and Fiona Gorman follow the remarkable life of heart surgeon Magdi Yacoub from his formative years in Egypt, through spectacular success at Cairo University, to his long and distinguished career in Britain. Although at times he clashed with the medical establishment in London, Yacoub pioneered great advances in heart surgery. He was knighted in 1992, and in 2014, he was awarded the highest honor in the gift of the Queen, the Order of Merit.
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A Surgeon and a Maverick
- The Life and Pioneering Work of Magdi Yacoub
- Narrateur(s): Charles Johnston
- Durée: 11 h et 8 min
- Date de publication: 2023-10-03
- Langue: Anglais
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Veteran journalists Simon Pearson and Fiona Gorman follow the remarkable life of heart surgeon Magdi Yacoub from his formative years in Egypt, through spectacular success at Cairo University, to his long and distinguished career in Britain....
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Where I Come From
- Life Lessons from a Latino Chef
- Auteur(s): Aarón Sánchez
- Narrateur(s): Aarón Sánchez
- Durée: 9 h et 9 min
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Before Chef Aaron Sanchez rose to fame on shows like MasterChef and Chopped, he was a restless Mexican-American son, raised by a fiercely determined and talented woman who was a successful chef and restaurateur in her own right. In this memoir, Sanchez delves into his formative years with remarkable candor, injecting his story with adrenaline and revealing how he fell in love with cooking and started a career in the fast-paced culinary world.
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Where I Come From
- Life Lessons from a Latino Chef
- Narrateur(s): Aarón Sánchez
- Durée: 9 h et 9 min
- Date de publication: 2019-12-03
- Langue: Anglais
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America’s most prominent Latino chef shares the story behind his food, his family, and his professional journey....
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
- A Life in War, Law, and Ideas
- Auteur(s): Stephen Budiansky
- Narrateur(s): Robertson Dean
- Durée: 16 h et 38 min
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Holmes twice escaped death as a young Union officer in the Civil War when musket balls barely missed his heart and spinal cord. He lived ever after with unwavering moral courage, scorn for dogma, and an insatiable intellectual curiosity. Named to the Supreme Court by Theodore Roosevelt at age 61, he served for nearly three decades, writing a series of famous, eloquent, and often dissenting opinions that would prove prophetic in securing freedom of speech, protecting the rights of criminal defendants, and ending the Court's reactionary resistance to social and economic reforms.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
- A Life in War, Law, and Ideas
- Narrateur(s): Robertson Dean
- Durée: 16 h et 38 min
- Date de publication: 2019-05-28
- Langue: Anglais
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Oliver Wendell Holmes twice escaped death as a young Union officer in the Civil War when musket balls missed his heart and spinal cord by a fraction of an inch. He lived ever after with unwavering moral courage, unremitting scorn for dogma, and an insatiable intellectual curiosity....
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Beyond the Wisdom of Walt
- Life Lessons From the Most Magical Place on Earth
- Auteur(s): Jeffrey Barnes
- Narrateur(s): Al Kessel
- Durée: 7 h et 43 min
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Walt Disney never stopped dreaming about the future. And neither should you! Learn how you can use Walt Disney's final dream of EPCOT -- the Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow -- to see your own dreams come true. In Beyond the Wisdom of Walt, Jeffrey A. Barnes challenges you to transform your life by applying the lessons that Walt Disney, Disneyland, Walt Disney World, and EPCOT teach us.
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Beyond the Wisdom of Walt
- Life Lessons From the Most Magical Place on Earth
- Narrateur(s): Al Kessel
- Durée: 7 h et 43 min
- Date de publication: 2017-09-29
- Langue: Anglais
- Walt Disney never stopped dreaming about the future. And neither should you! Learn how you can use Walt Disney's final dream of EPCOT to see your own dreams come true....
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