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  • Chairman's Lounge: The inside story of how Qantas sold us out - Joe Aston

    Chairman's Lounge: The inside story of how Qantas sold us out - Joe Aston
    2024/10/29
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    Title: Chairman's Lounge: The inside story of how Qantas sold us out
    Author: Joe Aston
    Narrator: TBD
    Format: Unabridged
    Length: 9:30:00
    Language: English
    Release date: 10-29-2024
    Publisher: Simon & Schuster Australia
    Genres: Business & Economics, Biography & Memoir, Business Development

    Summary:
    From the must-read journalist on how power, money and influence work in this country, the full story of how one of the nation’s favourite brands brought itself to ground. Before Covid, both Qantas and its CEO Alan Joyce were flying high, the darlings of customers, staff and investors. After Covid hit, only money mattered – in particular, the company’s share price and extraordinary executive bonuses. Illegally redundant workers, unethical flight credits, abysmal customer service, antique aircraft: these became Qantas’ new brand. How did things go so badly wrong? Why were customers at the end of the queue? And how did an increasingly autocratic Joyce constantly get his own way, with the Qantas board and with both Liberal and Labor governments, which handed over billions in subsidies and protected lucrative flight routes from foreign competition? For the first time, The Chairman’s Lounge tells the full story of how one company banked the nation’s loyalty and then cashed in on it. In his celebrated column Rear Window for the Australian Financial Review, Joe Aston’s reporting of the ethical failings of Qantas spurred the early retirement of its CEO and the resignation of its chairman. With fresh interviews and revelations, written in Aston’s trademark swashbuckling style, The Chairman’s Lounge is the definitive account of how Qantas was brought to ground and who did it. It is a parable of our times. ‘A masterclass in investigative journalism … A scathing, unflinching takedown of greed, delusion and a shameless abuse of power, both jaw-dropping and brilliantly incisive’ Adele Ferguson
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    9 時間 30 分
  • What I Know About You - Éric Chacour

    What I Know About You - Éric Chacour
    2024/09/24
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    Title: What I Know About You
    Author: Éric Chacour
    Narrator: Nabil Traboulsi
    Format: Unabridged
    Length: 5:59:23
    Language: English
    Release date: 09-24-2024
    Publisher: ECW Press
    Genres: Fiction & Literature, Essays & Anthologies

    Summary:
    WINNER OF THE 2023 PRIX PREMIÈRE PLUME WINNER OF THE 2024 PRIX DES CINQ CONTINENTS A heartbreaking tale of a family and an impossible love, torn apart by secrets and traditions in late-twentieth-century Cairo. In a tight-knit Levantine Christian family in 1960s Cairo, Tarek’s entire life is written in advance. He’ll be a doctor like his father, marry, and have children. Under the watchful eye of the family’s strong women, he starts to do just that – until a patient’s son, Ali, enters his life and turns it upside down. The two men’s unsayable relationship sparks a series of events as dramatic as the Six-Day War and assassination of President Anwar Sadat playing out in the background. The turn of the millennium finds Tarek living as a doctor in Montreal. Someone is writing about him and to him, piecing together a past he wants only to forget. But who is the writer of this tale? And will Tarek figure it out in time? From Cairo’s grand boulevards and hidden alleys to Montreal’s grim winter, from the reign of Nasser to the early 2000s, What I Know About You tells the heartbreaking story of a family torn apart by an epic love. “This novel is a searing love story that moves between Egypt and Montréal, that shifts between hearts, highlighting the sacrifices the characters feel they have to make for the ones they love. Romantic, surprising, mesmerizing, and so devastating, What I Know About You examines the terrible costs of family secrets and toxic shame.” – Suzette Mayr, author of The Sleeping Car Porter A bestseller in its original Quebec edition, and the recipient of several awards, including the Prix Femina, What I Know About You is poised to be an international sensation.
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    5 時間 59 分
  • Monster and the Mirror: Mental Illness, Magic, and the Stories We Tell - K.J. Aiello

    Monster and the Mirror: Mental Illness, Magic, and the Stories We Tell - K.J. Aiello
    2024/09/18
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    Title: Monster and the Mirror: Mental Illness, Magic, and the Stories We Tell
    Author: K.J. Aiello
    Narrator: K.J. Aiello
    Format: Unabridged
    Length: 9:58:14
    Language: English
    Release date: 09-18-2024
    Publisher: ECW Press
    Genres: Fiction & Literature, Non-Fiction, Social Science, Literary Criticism

    Summary:
    Revelatory memoir and cultural criticism that connects popular fantasy and our perceptions of mental illness to offer an empathetic path to compassionate care Growing up, K.J. Aiello was fascinated by magical stories of dragons, wizards, and fantasy, where monsters were not what they seemed and anything was possible. These books and films were both a balm and an escape, a safe space where Aiello’s struggle with mental illness transformed from a burden into a strength that could win battles and vanquish villains. A unique blend of memoir, research, and cultural criticism, The Monster and the Mirror charts Aiello’s life as they try to understand their own mental illness using The Lord of the Rings, Game of Thrones, and other stories as both guides to heroism and agency and cautionary tales of how mental illness is easily stereotyped as bad and violent. Aiello questions who is allowed to be “mad” versus “sane,” “good” versus “evil,” and “weak” versus “strong,” and who is allowed to tell their own stories. The Monster and the Mirror explores our perceptions of mental illness in a way that is challenging and tender, empathetic and knowledgeable, and offers a path to deeper understanding and compassionate care.
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    9 時間 58 分