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Happy as a Rat in a Trash Can , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 83min
On a scale of one to 10, with one being not happy at all and 10 being very, very happy, how happy would you say you are right now, before listening to this book? Now remember that number. Inside Happy As a Rat In a Trash Can Don challenges the listener to raise that number just as a student would be challenged to raise up school grades. Don says this book is about you! It is about you becoming A little more faithful A little more grateful A little more understanding A little more forgiving A little more thoughtful A little more caring And a lot more loving Why? Because these are the things that beget happiness. In early 2008 Don's Mom went to be with the Lord. She was a person just like your Mom, very loving and invariably, always in your corner. Her Christian values were instilled in him and are presented to the listeners throughout this book. He'll explain why faith is necessary and how the law of sowing and reaping is creating the world you live in. This book's objective is to raise your level of happiness even if you are already a happy person. Don't be surprised if those around you start to wonder what got into you! This book can be your little secret happiness project. You'll learn how and why we all need to pay more attention to others and why that will result in a better future for yourself. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tom Taverna. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/066379/bk_acx0_066379_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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When God Says NO: Revealing the YES When Adversity and Loss Are Present , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 291min
Does your life feel that sometimes it’s too long; too hard; and not fair? It did for Judith Briles. Her personal journey has been littered with NOES. Two of her children have died; she survived a life-threatening illness - paralyzed several months; survived a divorce that the tabloids would have relished; overcame cancer; and lost everything she had built when a partner embezzled over a million dollars leaving her without any assets but family, friends...and herself. For Judith, too many times it was a sink or swim scenario...but first, she had to learn how to tread water! Resilience became her middle name.Broke and broken, she had to start over...one step, one breath, one heartbeat at a time more than once. Within When God Says NO, she reminds YOU that you are not alone when bad times surface. They will...they do.Despite the numerous setbacks in her life, or rather, because of them, Judith Briles found the tools to help her overcome any obstacle. Get ready to embrace the joy of living, even when tragedy is in your midst. When God Says NO will change how you think; how you act; and maybe your life.No one holds a monopoly on good times. Invariably, everyone comes to a point where life is miserable. When Judith finished When God Says NO, she said, “Pain is inevitable...misery is not. This is my life.”When God Says NO: Revealing the Yes When Adversity and Loss Are Present ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dr. Judith Briles. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/154226/bk_acx0_154226_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Interpreting American History: The Age of Andrew Jackson , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 258min
The inaugural volume in a new historiography series Historians possess the power to shape the view of history for those who come after them. Their efforts to illuminate significant events of the past often result in new interpretations, which frequently conflict with ideas proposed by earlier historians. Invariably, this divergence of thoughts creates a dissonance between historians about the causes and meanings of prior events. The Kent State University Press' new Interpreting American History Series aims to help listeners learn how truth emerges from the clash of interpretations present in the study of history. In the series' first volume, Interpreting American History: The Age of Andrew Jackson, experts on Jacksonian America address the changing views of historians over the past century on a watershed era in U.S. history. A two-term president of the United States, Jackson was a powerful leader who widened constitutional boundaries on the presidency, shaping policy himself instead of deferring to the wishes of Congress. The essayists in this volume review the most important issues of the period - including the Corrupt Bargain, Nullification Crisis, Indian Removal Act, and Jacksonian democracy, economics, and reform - and discuss their interpretation over the last hundred years by such historians as Frederick Jackson Turner, Richard Hofstadter, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., Sean Wilentz, Robert V. Remini, Daniel Feller, and David Walker Howe. An insightful compilation of essays, Interpreting American History: The Age of Andrew Jackson will acquaint listeners with the 19th century world of Andrew Jackson and the ways in which historians have interpreted his life and times. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Todd Barsness. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/022109/bk_acx0_022109_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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America at the Ballot Box: Elections and Political History , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 758min
Elections are, and always have been, the lifeblood of American democracy. Often raucous and sharply contentious, sometimes featuring grand debates about the nation's future, and invariably full of dramatic moments, elections offer insight into the character and historical evolution of American politics. America at the Ballot Box uses the history of presidential elections to illuminate American political democracy and its development from the early Republic to the late 20th century. Some of the contributions in America at the Ballot Box focus on elections that resulted in dramatic political change, including Jefferson's defeat of Adams in 1800, the 1860 election of Lincoln, and Reagan's 1980 landslide victory. Others concentrate on contests whose importance lies more in the way they illuminate the broad, underlying processes of political change, such as the corruption controversy of Cleveland's acrimonious election in 1884 or the advent of television advertising during the 1952 campaign, when Eisenhower defeated Stevenson. Another set of essays takes a thematic approach, exploring the impact of foreign relations, Anglophobia, and political communications over long periods of electoral time. Uniting all of the chapters is the common conviction that elections provide a unique vantage point from which to view the American political system. Ranging from landmark contests to less influential victories and defeats, the essays by leading political historians seek to rehabilitate the historical significance of presidential elections and integrate them into the broader evolution of American government, policies, and politics. The book is published by University of Pennsylvania Press. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Rich Fuga. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/093494/bk_acx0_093494_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Ethical Capitalist: How to Make Business Work Better for Society , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 216min
Random House presents the audiobook edition of The Ethical Capitalist, written and read by Julian Richer. A Financial Times Book of the Month Capitalism has lost its way. Every week brings fresh news stories about businesses exploiting their staff, avoiding their taxes and ripping off their customers. Every week, public anger at the system grows. Now, one of Britain's foremost entrepreneurs intervenes to make the case for putting business back firmly in the service of society and setting out on a new path to a kinder, fairer form of capitalism. Drawing on four decades of hands-on management experience, the founder of Richer Sounds argues that ethically run businesses are invariably more efficient, more motivated and more innovative than those that care only about the bottom line. He uncovers the simple tools that the best leaders use to make their businesses fair, revealing how others can follow suit. And he also delves into the big questions that modern capitalism has to answer if it is to survive and to thrive. When should - and shouldn't - the state intervene in the workings of commercial enterprises? What does business as a whole owe back to the wider community? Is the relationship between leaders of big corporations and politicians too cosy, and if so, what is to be done about it? At heart, The Ethical Capitalist is a plea for a new sense of moral purpose in business. If that takes hold, Julian Richer believes, we might just save capitalism from itself. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Julian Richer. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rhuk/003724/bk_rhuk_003724_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Civil Liberties and the Bill of Rights, Hörbuch, Digital, 1083min
The civil liberties and constitutional rights possessed by our nation's citizens - not only in theory, but in the courtroom, where the state can be forced to honor those liberties - are a uniquely American invention. And when we were taught history and learned about the Constitution and its Bill of Rights, we were always made aware of that uniqueness, of the extraordinary experiment that gave to every citizen of this new nation a gift possessed by no others. Now you can learn exactly what that gift was - in a series of 36 lectures based on Supreme Court opinions from dozens of the Court's most important landmark decisions, presented by an award-winning teacher who is also an internationally recognized expert in constitutional law. You'll learn just what liberties and rights the Founders wanted the new government to protect, as well as how we get from what Professor Finn calls the Constitution's "wonderfully elastic and vague" language to the finely tuned specifics of the Supreme Court's opinions about speech, abortion, and religion, and so much more. And you'll grasp the hard truth that no matter how unwavering the Constitution's language on any subject may appear, things are almost invariably more complicated than it would seem at first reading. The result is a legacy of questions that multiplies with each passing decade, and explains why generations of jurists and legal scholars, not to mention legislators, presidents, and citizens, have argued so long and hard about the meaning of what often appears to be unambiguous phrasing. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio. Language: English. Narrator: John E. Finn. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tcco/000056/bk_tcco_000056_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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A Brief History of Doom: Two Hundred Years of Financial Crises (Haney Foundation Series) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 442min
Financial crises happen time and again in post-industrial economies - and they are extraordinarily damaging. Building on insights gleaned from many years of work in the banking industry and drawing on a vast trove of data, Richard Vague argues that such crises follow a pattern that makes them both predictable and avoidable. A Brief History of Doom examines a series of major crises over the past 200 years in the United States, Great Britain, Germany, France, Japan, and China - including the Great Depression and the economic meltdown of 2008. Vague demonstrates that the over-accumulation of private debt does a better job than any other variable of explaining and predicting financial crises. In a series of clear and gripping chapters, he shows that in each case the rapid growth of loans produced widespread overcapacity, which then led to the spread of bad loans and bank failures. This cycle, according to Vague, is the essence of financial crises and the script they invariably follow. The story of financial crisis is fundamentally the story of private debt and runaway lending. Convinced that we have it within our power to break the cycle, Vague provides the tools to enable politicians, bankers, and private citizens to recognize and respond to the danger signs before it begins again. The book is published by University of Pennsylvania Press. The audiobook is published by University Press Audiobooks. "Must-reading for anyone who wants to understand the financial crises of the past - and anticipate the catastrophes of the future." (Rich Miller, Bloomberg News) "There couldn't be a better time to read his book." (Rana Foroohar, Financial Times) "This is a must read for anyone who wants to see the next crisis coming." (Moritz Schularick, University of Bonn) ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kevin Meyer. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/161955/bk_acx0_161955_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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A Slap in the Face: Why Insults Hurt - And Why They Shouldn't , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 353min
Insults are part of the fabric of daily life. But why do we insult each other? Why do insults cause us such pain? Can we do anything to prevent or lessen this pain? Most importantly, how can we overcome our inclination to insult others?In A Slap in the Face, William Irvine undertakes a wide-ranging investigation of insults, their history, the role they play in social relationships, and the science behind them. He examines not just memorable zingers, such as Elizabeth Bowen's description of Aldous Huxley as "The stupid person's idea of a clever person", but subtle insults as well, such as when someone insults us by reporting the insulting things others have said about us: "I never read bad reviews about myself," wrote entertainer Oscar Levant, "because my best friends invariably tell me about them." Irvine also considers the role insults play in our society: They can be used to cement relations, as when a woman playfully teases her husband, or to enforce a social hierarchy, as when a boss publicly berates an employee.He goes on to investigate the many ways society has tried to deal with insults - by adopting codes of politeness, for example, and outlawing hate speech - but concludes that the best way to deal with insults is to immunize ourselves against them: We need to transform ourselves in the manner recommended by Stoic philosophers. We should, more precisely, become insult pacifists, trying hard not to insult others and laughing off their attempts to insult us.A rousing follow-up to A Guide to the Good Life, A Slap in the Face will interest anyone who's ever delivered an insult or felt the sting of one-in other words, everyone. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Johnny Heller. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tant/012061/bk_tant_012061_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Bletchley Girls: War, Secrecy, Love and Loss: The Women of Bletchley Park Tell Their Story , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 738min
Historian and broadcaster Tessa Dunlop tells the story of the women of Bletchley Park through exclusive and unprecedented access to the women themselves. The Bletchley Girls weaves together the lives of 15 women who were all selected to work in Britain's most secret organisation - Bletchley Park. It is their story, told in their voices; Tessa met and talked to 15 veterans, often visiting them several times. Firm friendships were made as their epic journey unfolded on paper. The scale of female involvement in Britain during the Second World War wasn't matched in any other country. From eight million working women, just over 7,000 were handpicked to work at Bletchley Park and its outstations. There had always been girls at the park, but soon they outnumbered the men three to one. A refugee from Belgium, a Scottish debutante, a Jewish 14-year-old and a factory worker from Northamptonshire - the Bletchley Girls confound stereotypes. But they all have one common bond: the war and their highly confidential part in it. In the middle of the night, hunched over meaningless pieces of paper, tending mind-blowing machines, sitting listening for hours on end, theirs was invariably confusing, monotonous and meticulous work, about which they could not breathe a word. By meeting and talking to these fascinating female secret keepers who are still alive today, Tessa Dunlop captures their extraordinary journeys into an adult world of war, secrecy, love and loss. Through the voices of the women themselves, this is a portrait of life at Bletchley Park beyond the celebrated code breakers; it's the story of the girls behind Britain's ability to consistently outsmart the enemy and an insight into the women they have become. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Anna Bentinck. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hodd/000897/bk_hodd_000897_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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My Best Race: My Best Race: 50 Runners and the Finish Line They'll Never Forget , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 411min
50 runners, from the world's elite to passionate amateurs, share the races they'll never forget. Every runner that enters a race has a unique reason for competing: racing for the challenge, for the achievement, for the health benefits, or for more personal reasons. But whether they are twenty-mile-a-day elite marathoners or twenty-mile-a-week recreational runners, each of them can invariably point to a singular performance as "the best race I ever ran." My Best Race is a collection of those singular performances. In this inspirational collection, 50 runners, from Olympians and World Champions, to courageous disabled athletes and middle-of-the-packers, share their personal accounts of what they consider the best race they ever ran...and why. Contributors include: Jeff Galloway: A top marathoner sacrifices his place on the Olympic marathon team by pacing his friend to the third and final qualifying spot at the Olympic Trials. Trisha Meili: The woman once known only as "The Central Park Jogger" crosses the finish line in the race she founded to benefit disabled athletes, fourteen years after being left for dead from a brutal attack that gripped the nation. Ed Eyestone: The unheralded runner comes out of nowhere to beat a previously undefeated state champion in a high school cross-country race, giving him the confidence to eventually become a four-time NCAA champion and two-time Olympian. Kathrine Switzer: The woman they tried to physically remove from the male-only Boston Marathon in 1967 had no one but herself to blame forty-three years later as she struggled through the 2,500th anniversary of the original marathon in Greece. Through interviews with the author, 50 runners recount their inspiring races and personal achievements with excitement, laughter, and sometimes tears. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jeffrey Kafer. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/012961/bk_adbl_012961_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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