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  Daddy's Wicked Parties: The Most Shocking True Story of Child Abuse Ever Told : Skylark Child Abuse True Stories, Volume 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 142min

  The second of Kate Skylark's co-created true child-abuse stories. Steve Gilbert is a charming, clever man. Lucy is his 10-year-old daughter. Lucy loves him to bits, just as all little girls love their daddies, and she is delighted to hear he has organized a special party for her. After all, little girls love parties. But Steve Gilbert is also a sociopathic, manipulative sexual predator. Brainwashed into accepting her father’s twisted view of the world, Lucy trusts him implicitly. Daddy will keep her safe; he will keep her happy. Daddy would never betray his little girl, would he? But as time goes on, Steve Gilbert’s evil manipulations escalate, and following a shocking string of events, Lucy’s innocent young life turns from simple happy childhood to an abusive nightmare. Only one person can save her now. Lucy Gilbert and Kate Skylark are friends and confidants. They created this book together to help raise money to help children in danger.Warning: This book is based upon a true account of child abuse and, as such, contains passages that some listeners may find disturbing. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mackenzie Leigh Barmen. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/136679/bk_acx0_136679_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Mаnірulаtіоn Tесhnіԛuеѕ: Dаrk Psychology Influencing Pеорlе wіth Persuasion, NLP and Mind Cоntrоl , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 199min

  Manipulation is a massive concept that is apparent in almost every area of our social life. It is a puzzling motivating action aimed at interfering with another person's decision-making process, usually without his consent. These interference is achieved implicitly through the use of morally questionable techniques such as coercion, diversion, and misdirection. The trickery factor synonymous with deceit causes the practice to occur in almost infinite variations and in many different ways, ranging from a powerful weapon in the pursuit of indecent advertising to altruistic psychotherapy and even education steps. Nonetheless, social scientists have found out that without utilizing a certain degree of coercion, a successful improvement in human decision-making and actions cannot be accomplished. Manipulation is not exactly bribery, not manipulation, and not just deception-like. The enigmatic trend is located between these motivational behavior somewhere in the gray area, and this gray position poses critical difficulties in characterizing coercion and calculating its effect. The expert manipulator adopts tactics in a fashion that obscures his acts' moral and legal judgement. His sophisticated and illusive influencing methods challenge the wisdom of the open society's leading proponents. The problem exists in almost every aspect that can be considered, from politics to ads, employment, and even the most intimate relationships. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jeremy Prost. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/196978/bk_acx0_196978_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Rocky Mountain Sunrise: The Rocky Mountain Series, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 504min

  Joe Rhodes had it all: a sweet, beautiful fiancé, a successful construction business, and a three story home that he and his brothers had restored to its full Victorian splendor. Then the housing market collapsed, sending his business to the brink of bankruptcy, and he had to sell the house to save the business. At least he still has Mari. Mari Baker is just a month away from marrying the man she calls her dazzling Joe, when she repeatedly notices a tall, mysterious stranger watching her. Could he be a stalker? Suddenly she finds herself alone with the man, and nothing will ever be the same again. Joe isn't sure what to believe about the guy in the trench coat. Mari certainly isn't making any sense about it all. How can she expect him to believe such a ridiculous story? Before, he would have said he trusted her implicitly, but now he isn't sure. It's just too far-fetched. Maybe he has lost it all. Mari knows she sounds crazy, but Joe just has to believe her. She can't do this alone. Author's note: No graphic sex and minimal use of mild language makes this a clean romance. Romantic sparks and sexual tension makes this a real romance. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jodi Bowersox. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/074982/bk_acx0_074982_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Life is But a Dream: Wise Techniques for an Inspirational Journey , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 375min

  To live a joyful and fulfilling life, we must be in touch with our dreams and our desires. Rather than focusing on attaining more possessions, here is a guide for tapping into a deeper peace and true happiness. Follow this step-by-step life changing process for reclaiming what matters to you most.You can have a great and rich life, without compromising on the quality of how you want to live! With much less effort than perhaps you realize, you can actually have more - more time, more money, more love, more joy and freedom. Most important, you can have ease in your life. Through simple and straight-forward techniques, you will learn to live a more fulfilling life, without any extra effort. As Marcia Wieder explains, dreams are essential for our ultimate happiness. "In a dream, it doesn't matter if you know how to make it happen or if you even believe it's possible. It is the process of dreaming that will help you expand beyond being realistic." Do you want to live the life you have always dreamed of? This audiobook will show you how. It will help you learn to trust yourself implicitly. You will know in your heart and soul that anything is possible. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Marcia Wieder. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/gdan/000257/bk_gdan_000257_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Super Black: American Pop Culture and Black Superheroes , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 320min

  Winner, American Book Award, Before Columbus Foundation, 2012 Super Black places the appearance of black superheroes alongside broad and sweeping cultural trends in American politics and pop culture, which reveals how black superheroes are not disposable pop products, but rather a fascinating racial phenomenon through which futuristic expressions and fantastic visions of black racial identity and symbolic political meaning are presented. Adilifu Nama sees the value - and finds new avenues for exploring racial identity - in black superheroes who are often dismissed as sidekicks, imitators of established white heroes, or are accused of having no role outside of blaxploitation film contexts. Nama examines seminal black comic book superheroes such as Black Panther, Black Lightning, Storm, Luke Cage, Blade, the Falcon, Nubia, and others, some of whom also appear on the small and large screens, as well as how the imaginary black superhero has come to life in the image of President Barack Obama. Super Black explores how black superheroes are a powerful source of racial meaning, narrative, and imagination in American society that express a myriad of racial assumptions, political perspectives, and fantastic (re)imaginings of black identity. The book also demonstrates how these figures overtly represent or implicitly signify social discourse and accepted wisdom concerning notions of racial reciprocity, equality, forgiveness, and ultimately, racial justice. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Cary Hite. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/053256/bk_adbl_053256_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Dewey and the Aesthetic Unconscious (eBook, ePUB)

  John Dewey was the most celebrated and publicly engaged American philosopher in the twentieth century. His naturalistic theory of "experience" generated new approaches to education and democracy and re-grounded philosophy's search for truth in the needs of life as it is shared and lived. However, interpretations of Dewey after the linguistic turn have either obscured or rejected the considerable role that he gives to the non-discursive dimension of experience. In Dewey and the Aesthetic Unconscious: The Vital Depths of Experience, Bethany Henning argues that much classical American philosophy implicitly recognizes an unconscious dimension of mind that is distinct from Freud's theory. Although the unconscious that emerges within American thought has never been treated systematically, it found its fullest expression in Dewey's work, particularly in his theory of aesthetic experience. This dimension of mind illuminates the continuity between nature and culture, and it provides us with an account of why artwork is often successful at communicating meanings from the ecological and intimate dimensions of life, where discourse often fails. If the relationship between the human and the organic world has emerged as the definitive question of twenty-first century life, then the aesthetic unconscious stands as a resource for our ecological and intimate well-being.

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  Hard Case: John Harding Series, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 642min

  Hard Case begins in a back alley warehouse in East Oakland, CA, where Harding fights for money, and to keep his skills honed, coupled with the fact he likes it. Harding does odd jobs with the only guy he trusts implicitly, his handler and manager, Tommy Sands. They bodyguard, escort tourists around the Bay Area, and do bail bond, skip trace work for a lawyer named Tess Connagher. Two events throw Harding's seamy life in the shadows out into the light. Strobert is ordered to enlist Tess Connagher's law firm to act as an intermediary with Harding in order to protect an outspoken Afghani woman whose family Harding protected long ago. The woman's father requested him, and the state department realizes they'll be off the hook if anything happens to Samira Karim while under Harding's care. Secondly, Harding fights a particularly brutal fight with a Russian mob backed fighter named Van Rankin who hates Harding. They'd had words. The YouTube video of Harding's subsequent beat-down of Rankin goes viral along with many of his prior fights. When Rankin's Russian mobster backer, Alexi Fiialkov pushes for a rematch on the UFC circuit, CIA Agent Strobert sees infinite possibilities since the United Arab Emirates has part ownership in the UFC. Some matches would be taking place in Dubai, where the CIA knows targets of opportunity show up from time to time. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kevin Pierce. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/014813/bk_acx0_014813_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Scottish Fairy Book, Volume One , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 188min

  There are, roughly speaking, two distinct types of Scottish Fairy Tales. There are what may be called "Celtic Stories," which were handed down for centuries by word of mouth by professional story-tellers, who went about from clachan to clachan in the "Highlands and Islands," earning a night's shelter by giving a night's entertainment, and which have now been collected and classified for us by Campbell of Isla and others. These stories, which are also common to the North of Ireland, are wild and fantastic, and very often somewhat monotonous, and their themes are strangely alike. They almost always tell of some hero or heroine who sets out on some dangerous quest, and who is met by giants, generally three in number, who appear one after the other; with whom they hold quaint dialogues, and whom eventually they slay. Most of them are fairly long, and although they have a peculiar fascination of their own, they are quite distinct from the ordinary Fairy Tale. These latter, in Scotland, have also a character of their own, for there is no country where the existence of Spirits and Goblins has been so implicitly believed in up to a comparatively recent date. Volume 1 of traditional Scottish fairy/folk tales, as collected and edited by Elizabeth W Grierson and originally published in 1910. Read by Steven Cree (Brave, John Carter, 300 Rise Of An Empire, Maleficent) ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Steven Cree. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/lbrk/000025/bk_lbrk_000025_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  A Mountain Christmas Romance: Wyoming Mountain Tales, Book 4 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 403min

  Stripped of the family so important to his Viking heritage, Matthias Bjork is now on the hunt for his sister. Despite combing the entire Wyoming Territory, he hasn’t found any substantial leads regarding his sister’s whereabouts, but he has discovered a most unusual woman. This woodland nymph who’s come to work for his good friend in the quiet town of Mountain Bluff is like no one he’s ever met. Opal Boyd has finally found the haven she’s longed for all her life, in a most unlikely place - working for a German couple in this remote Wyoming mountain town. She learned long ago that most men couldn’t be trusted, but when a mountain man stops in the boarding house where she works, he seems to have the respect and affection of the two people she’s learned to trust implicitly. And the more she comes to know Matthias, she struggles not to trust him the same way the others do. When he shares the magical experience of his family’s traditional Viking Yule celebration, she can’t help but fall a little more in love with him each one of the 12 days of Christmas. But when Matthias’ search for his sister takes an unexpected twist, Opal is forced to make a choice that will alter the course of her life - no matter which answer she chooses. When Matthias’ decisions land Opal in danger, what must he sacrifice to rescue her? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Paul Curtis. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/105834/bk_acx0_105834_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Logic of Compressed Modernity

  Most theories of modernity are based, explicitly or implicitly, on the development of Western societies since the late medieval period, but these theories are of limited value for understanding the development of societies in Asia and other parts of the world, where the process of modernization took place under different circumstances and often in a rapid and highly compressed fashion - not over centuries but in decades. Asian societies have been propelled into modernity too, but theirs is a compressed modernity, which displays very different traits.In this important book, Chang Kyung-Sup provides a systematic account of this compressed modernity and uses it to analyse the extreme social changes, complexities and imbalances found in South Korea and other East Asian societies. While these changes enabled South Korea to modernize very quickly and achieve high levels of economic growth, they also created a society that is haunted by various developmental and civilizational costs, such as endemic generational conflicts, overloaded family responsibilities and exceptionally high suicide rates. As with other societies that have experienced compressed modernity, the South Korean "miracle" is replete with extreme and contradictory social traits.This pioneering work of the nature and consequences of compressed modernity will be of great interest to students and scholars of sociology, politics and development studies, as well as anyone interested in South Korea, Asia and postcolonial societies.

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