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  Lurching Toward Happiness in America , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 144min

  The promise of America has long been conceived as the promise of happiness. Being American is all about the opportunity to pursue one's own bliss. But what is the good life, and are we getting closer to its attainment? In the cacophony of competing conceptions of the good, technological interventions that claim to help us achieve it and rancorous debate over government's role in securing it for us, every step toward happiness seems to come with at least one step back. In Lurching Toward Happiness in America, acclaimed sociologist Claude Fischer explores the data, the myths, and history to understand how far America has come in delivering on its promise. Are Americans getting lonelier? Is the gender revolution over? Does income shape the way Americans see their life prospects? In the end, Fischer paints a broad picture of what Americans say they want. And, as he considers how close they are to achieving that goal, he also suggests what might finally get them there. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Sean Pratt. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/gdan/001564/bk_gdan_001564_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Noise: A Human History - The Complete Series: The Complete Series, Hörbuch, Digital, 430min

  This 30-part Radio 4 series explores how our interactions with sound have shaped us over 100,000 years. These specially extended episodes, recorded on location around the world and in collaboration with curators of the British Library Sound Archive, take us from prehistory to the present, encompassing the shamanistic music of our cave-dwelling ancestors, the massacre of noisy cats in pre-revolutionary Paris, the nerve-destroying din of trench warfare, right through to the cacophony of the modern metropolis. This is sound as life and death, pleasure and pain, power and revolution. Written and presented by Professor David Hendy from the University of Sussex. Produced by Matt Thompson for Rockethouse Productions. Theme tune composed by Joe Acheson from Hidden Orchestra. Readings Director Cherry Cookson. Assistant Producer - Cathy FitzGerald Includes a specially-composed 15-minute companion piece by electronic musician Matthew Herbert in which he retells the story of the whole series using only the sounds themselves. Language: English. Narrator: David Hendy. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bbcw/007014/bk_bbcw_007014_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Johannesburg: Holiday FM Travel Guide , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 20min

  This is the Official Holiday FM Travel Guide to Johannesburg, including information from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office’s Know Before You Go campaign.Jo'burg: The beating heart of Southern Africa. Pulsating, vibrant, and stirring with a wealth of modern spoils, a gilded history and gushing veins of indigenous culture. Economic powerhouse of the continent, Johannesburg burst from its gold rush settlement status, having been built on the richest known gold reef in the world, to one of the largest urban spaces in the womb of mankind. Downtown Jo'burg is a cacophony of traders, artists, and merchants encircled by big city delights and roaring wild landscapes on a blazing horizon that mesmerises travellers from across the world. This audiobook is designed to be listened to before you go, on the plane or whilst you are walking around town. It features eight tracks you can listen to when you’re out and about, including: 1. Johannesburg - An Introduction2. Before You Go3. History4. Johannesburg by Area5. The Sights6. Food and Drink7. Nightlife8. Shopping ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: James Beckingham. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/crte/000047/bk_crte_000047_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Decade of Do: Insights Shaping the Future of Marketing and Communications , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 331min

  Welcome to the decade of do - a new era for marketing and communications. Since the start of the advertising industry in the 19th century, it has been about telling. Now, thanks to the social media and digital revolution, everyone has a voice.The result is a cacophony of noise where it feels like everyone is talking louder and faster. Companies, governments, and the people who lead them are under intense scrutiny in a world of forced transparency where everyone has their own story to tell. It’s become increasingly difficult to separate fact from fiction.We also face existential threats as the climate and environmental crisis takes hold. Democracy and its institutions are being undermined. Intolerance and inequality are still rife. This is why actions speak louder than words in the decade of do. It’s a time when people, brands, and organizations are taking on the world’s problems and trying to solve them. This book looks at why this is happening, the pioneers who are driving it forward, and what this means for the rest of us. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Richard Brett. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/228553/bk_acx0_228553_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Reality and the Arts: A Philosophical Guide , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 222min

  Art is the creative manifestation of essences. In order to understand the relation between art and reality, we need a philosophical guide. The best way to comprehend how the creative act of imagining enables the mind to seek reality is to employ the kind of dialectical thinking that Plato used in his dialogues. Beginning with the shadows on the wall of the cave in which each person dwells, that process gradually enables us to grasp the essences that are manifested in individual works of art. Without a philosophical guide, we are likely to encounter only a blur of images in the visual arts, a cacophony of sounds in music, a whirl of activity in the theater, and chaos in the building of cities. It is too much to expect a set of final answers to any serious question about what is true, good, or beautiful. If we abandon the quest for reality, we settle for too little. Plato's dialectical approach offers a path between Scylla and Charybdis. © Agora Publications ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ray Childs. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/zaot/000412/bk_zaot_000412_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Between One Faith and Another: Engaging Conversations on the World's Great Religions , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 354min

  How do we make sense of the world's different religions? In today's globalized society, religion is deeply intertwined with every issue we see on the news. But talking about multiple religions can be contentious. Are different faiths compatible somehow? And how can we know whether one religion is more true than another? In this creative thought experiment, Peter Kreeft invites us to encounter dialogues on the world's great faiths. His characters Thomas Keptic and Bea Lever are students in Professor Fesser's course on world religions, and the three explore the content and distinctive claims of each. Together they probe the plausibility of major religions, from Hinduism and Buddhism to Christianity and Islam. Along the way they explore how religions might relate to each other and to what extent exclusivism or inclusivism might make sense. Ultimately, Kreeft gives us helpful tools for thinking fairly and critically about competing religious beliefs. If the religions are different kinds of music, do they together make harmony or cacophony? Decide for yourself. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jim Denison. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hove/002205/bk_hove_002205_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Ten Arrows of Iron (eBook, ePUB)

  An outcast mage caught between two warring empires must either save the world or destroy everything she loves in the second novel of "an unforgettable epic fantasy" trilogy (Publishers Weekly).Sal the Cacophony -- outlaw, outcast, outnumbered -- destroys all that she loves. Her lover lost and cities burned in her wake, all she has left is her magical gun and her all-consuming quest for revenge against those who stole her power and took the sky from her.When the roguish agent of a mysterious patron offers her the chance to participate in a heist to steal an incredible power from the famed airship fleet, the Ten Arrows, she finds a new purpose. But a plot to save the world by bringing down empires swiftly escalates into a conspiracy of magic and vengeance that threatens to burn everything to ash, including herself.For more from Sam Sykes, check out:The Grave of Empires:Seven Blades in BlackTen Arrows of IronBring Down Heaven:The City Stained RedThe Mortal TallyGod's Last BreathThe Affinity for Steel Trilogy:Tome of the UndergatesBlack HaloThe Skybound Sea

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  Not Quite Paradise: An American Sojourn in Sri Lanka , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 783min

  A chronicle of life on the resplendent island. Adele Barker and her son, Noah, settled into the central highlands of Sri Lanka for an 18-month sojourn, immersing themselves in the customs, cultures, and landscapes of the island: its elephants, birds, and monkeys; its hot curries and sweet mangoes; the cacophony of its markets; the resonant evening chants from its temples. They hear stories of the island's colorful past and its 25-year civil war between the Sinhalese majority and the Tamil Tigers. When, having returned home to Tucson, Barker awakes on December 26, 2004, to see televised images of the island's southern shore disappearing into the ocean, she decides she must go back. Traveling from the southernmost coasts to the farthest outposts of the Tamil north, she witnesses the ravages of the tsunami that killed 48,000 Sri Lankans in the space of 20 minutes, and reports from the ground on the triumphs and failures of relief efforts. Combining the immediacy of memoir and the vividness of travelogue with the insight of the best reportage, Not Quite Paradise chronicles life in a place few have ever visited. The book is published by Beacon Press. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Adele Barker. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/redw/000130/bk_redw_000130_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  You’re Not a Girl in a Movie, Hörbuch, Digital, 34min

  In poem after poem, there is raw emotion, straightforward storytelling, and unapologetic truth.” (NPR) There exists, within [Alyan’s] poems, the cacophony that pervades our most intimate of relationships, a glistering sheen covering even the most banal interactions. Her poems feel as familiar as the prayers we make up in our own minds...they’re a quiet triumph, sacred and profane, and, most of all, grounded in humanity. (Nylon) You’re Not a Girl in a Movie is a new collection of powerful poems by Hala Alyan, winner of the Arab American Book Award in Poetry and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. In these nine extraordinary poems, Alyan wrestles with the intimate themes that have driven her acclaimed body of work to date: the aching loss of homeland, the image and worth of women, and the violence of love. In Beirut, Brooklyn, and roads in the American West, she unravels the effects of decades of war and displacement on love and human worth and identity. She speaks to mothers and grandmothers, past lovers and friends, and through her shimmering, wrenching glimpses of internal and political chaos, pleads for home. Language: English. Narrator: Hala Alyan. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/or/orig/001494/or_orig_001494_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Blockchain Babel: The Crypto Craze and The Challenge to Business , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 404min

  Blockchain is the technology behind bitcoin and other crypto-currencies. According to Santander, it could save financial institutions $15-20bn a year from 2022 onward. Most experts see an unprecedented potential, but many banks, payment processors and credit card companies fret that bitcoin entrepreneurs could cast a pall over their core business. Whatever the position of blockchain, many voices are shouting from different angles, creating a cacophony of confusion including tech-evangelists, anarcho-libertarians, and industry experts. But while everybody in IT and banking seems to have an opinion on the blockchain, there is little systematic research, no strategic analysis. Blockchain Babel is the ultimate guide to the most disruptive technology to have entered the finance industry in recent years.Blockchain Babel looks at blockchain alongside innovation diffusion, competitive dynamics, and management strategy. Shortlisted as one of the three best business book proposals by McKinsey and the Financial Times for the Bracken Bower Prize in 2016, this is a must-listen for business leaders and aspiring leaders wanting to grasp blockchain and put it into context and understand the practical implications it may have. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tidor Nieddu. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/150645/bk_acx0_150645_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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