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    Ten Secrets for the Man in the Mirror: Startling Ideas About True Happiness, Hörbuch, Digital, 130min
    Author Patrick Morley challenges men to get beyond the surface happiness and find instead a success that really matters - a success paradoxically rooted in a life of unselfish love, suffering, and sacrifice.You already know that money and stuff won't make you happy, don't you? Are you ready for some reality?Best-selling author Patrick Morley shakes up the existing messages about how men find happiness in this paradigm-busting audiobook. Morley challenges your comfort zone with neglected biblical insights about happiness that many have been afraid to utter in this me-first generation.Ten Secrets for the Man in the Mirror offers life-changing insights about the nature of true happiness and how to attain it. It helps you discover the "blockage points" that can keep you from joy, and it guides you toward success that matters.Concise and engaging, this audiobook is perfect for the on-the-go man in search of a guiding purpose the rat race can't begin to offer. True happiness has everything to do with the kind of man you are and whose man you are.  Language: English. Narrator: Patrick Morley. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/zond/000097/bk_zond_000097_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Money For Nothing
    A brilliant narrative of early capitalism's most famous scandal, a speculative frenzy that nearly bankrupted the British state during the hot summer of 1720 - and paradoxically led to the birth of modern finance. The South Sea Company was formed to trade with Asian and Latin American countries. But it had almost no ships and did precious little trade. Instead it got into financial fraud on a massive scale, taking over the government's debt and promising to pay the state out of the money received from the shares it sold.And how they sold. In the summer of 1720 the share price rocketed and everyone was making money. Until the carousel stopped, and thousands lost their shirts. Isaac Newton, Alexander Pope and others lost heavily.Thomas Levenson's superb account of the South Sea Bubble is not just the story of a huge scam, but is also the story of the birth of modern financial capitalism: the idea that you can invest in future prosperity and that governments can borrow money to make things happen, like funding the rise of British naval and mercantile power. These dreamers and fraudsters may have bankrupted Britain, but they made the world rich.
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    The Safety Anarchist: Relying on Human Expertise and Innovation, Reducing Bureaucracy and Compliance , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 470min
    Work has never been as safe as it seems today. Safety has also never been as bureaucratized as it is today. Over the past two decades, the number of safety rules and statutes has exploded, and organizations themselves are creating ever more internal compliance requirements. Bureaucracy and compliance now seem less about managing the safety of workers, and more about managing the liability of the people they work for. At the same time, progress on safety has slowed. Many incident and injury rates have flatlined. Worse, excellent safety performance on low-consequence events tends to increase the risk of fatalities and disasters. We make workers do a lot that does nothing to improve their success locally. And paradoxically, the tightening of safety bureaucracy robs us of exactly the source of human insight, creativity and resilience that can tell us how success is actually created, and where the next accident may well come from. It is time for Safety Anarchists: people who trust people more than process, who rely on horizontally coordinating experiences and innovations, who push back against petty rules and coercive compliance, and who help recover the dignity and expertise of human work. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Sidney Dekker. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/103708/bk_acx0_103708_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Lead Inside the Box: How Smart Leaders Guide Their Teams to Exceptional Results , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 366min
    Every employee is different, but unfortunately many leaders use a one-size-fits-all approach to leading. In doing so these otherwise well-intentioned leaders are working harder than they should while not getting all they could out of their teams. Lead Inside the Box gives leaders a way to get the best out of their teams by focusing their energy where it will make the biggest difference. It teaches leaders how to: Figure out where they are currently investing their time and energy across their teams Identify the unique leadership needs of each team member Make smarter decisions about how and where to invest their time and energy to get the best results out of everyone Through simple frameworks brought to life with stories from the trenches, leaders will be able to see their own teams - and themselves - from a new perspective. Paradoxically these methods will enable leaders to improve their teams' performances exponentially while expending half the effort. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your My Library section along with the audio. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Steven Menasche. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/gdan/001702/bk_gdan_001702_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Thing about Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 400min
    Mesmerized, at times unnerved, by his 97-year-old father's nearly superhuman vitality and optimism, David Shields undertakes an investigation of the human physical condition. The result is this exhilarating book - both a personal meditation on mortality and an exploration of flesh-and-blood existence from crib to oblivion. It's an exploration that paradoxically prompts a renewed and profound appreciation of life.Shields begins with the facts of birth and childhood, expertly weaving in anecdotal information about himself and his father. As the book proceeds through adolescence, middle age, and old age, he juxtaposes biological details with bits of philosophical speculation, cultural history, and criticism, and quotations from a wide range of writers and thinkers, from Lucretius to Woody Allen, yielding a magical whole: the universal story of our bodily being, a tender and often hilarious portrait of one family.A book of extraordinary depth and resonance, The Thing about Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead will move listeners to contemplate the brevity and radiance of their own sojourn on earth and challenge them to rearrange their thinking in unexpected and crucial ways. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Don Leslie. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/001358/bk_rand_001358_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    A Place at the Table: 40 Days of Solidarity with the Poor , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 364min
    In a culture built on consumption - especially of food - it is easy to forget the poor that Jesus cared so much about. We get caught up in acquiring, buying, eating. Yet paradoxically, the more stuff we consume, the more our spirits wither and starve. A Place at the Table invites you on a journey of self-examination, discipline, and renewed focus on Jesus that will change your life forever. Author Chris Seay is giving you a challenge: eat and drink like the poor for 40 days and donate the money you save on groceries to a charity or project that serves the poor in concrete ways. But Chris doesn't expect you to go it alone. A Place at the Table includes a short chapter for each of those 40 days with Scripture, reflections, prayers, and encouragement. You'll even get tips for engaging your whole family in the process. To download free resources and connect with others on the journey, visit www.chrisseay.net. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your My Library section along with the audio. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Bob Souer. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/oasi/000997/bk_oasi_000997_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Happiness Paradox , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 438min
    New York Times number-one best-selling author Richard Eyre contends that the three things today's society desires most - control, ownership, and independence - are, paradoxically, what bring the most discouragement and unhappiness in our lives. Providing a mind-changing exploration of the inherent problems with our fixation on material possessions, control over our lives, and independence from others, Eyre responds with a unique and engaging counterpoint of how to switch to the joy-giving alternatives of serendipity, stewardship, and interdependence and thus live a more verdant and abundant life. The first half of The Happiness Paradox explores today's challenges to happiness. The second half of the book explores The Happiness Paradigm: How a New View Can Turn Your Life Right-Side Up. Eyre, author of Teaching Your Children Values, The Entitlement Trap, and The Turning, uses his engaging and highly personal style to walk us through a mental paradigm shift that can change our lives. An impactful and illuminating exploration of how what we seek impacts our well-being, The Happiness Paradox/The Happiness Paradigm is one of the most unique books ever written about our search for lasting joy. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Paul Stefano. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/138568/bk_acx0_138568_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Is Racial Equality Unconstitutional? , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 454min
    More than just a legal doctrine, color-blind constitutionalism has emerged as the defining metaphor of the post-Civil Rights era. Even for those challenging its constitutional authority, the language of color-blindness sets the terms of debate. Critics of color-blind constitutionalism are in this sense captured by the object of their critique. And yet, paradoxically, to enact a color-blind rule actually requires a heightened awareness of race. As such, color-blind constitutionalism represents a particular form of racial consciousness rather than an alternative to it.  Challenging familiar understandings of race, rights, and American law, Is Racial Equality Unconstitutional? explores how current equal-protection law renders the pursuit of racial equality constitutionally suspect. Identifying hierarchy rather than equality as an enduring constitutional norm, the audiobook demonstrates how the pursuit of racial equality, historically, has been viewed as a violation of white rights. Arguing against conservative and liberal redemption narratives, both of which imagine racial equality as the perfection of American democracy, Is Racial Equality Unconstitutional? calls instead for a break from the current constitutional order, that it may be refounded upon principles of racial democracy. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Bob Souer. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tant/012116/bk_tant_012116_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    American Legends: The Life of Jackie Gleason , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 76min
    If Lon Chaney will forever be recognized as 'The Man with 1,000 Faces', Jackie Gleason holds a legitimate claim to being 'The Man with 1,000 Personas.' Indeed, during his time hosting The Jackie Gleason Show on television, he developed numerous alter egos, including tough guy Rudy the Repairman, the energetic Joe the Bartender, and the alcoholic Rum Dum. Physically, there was no mistaking Jackie Gleason (the way one certainly could with Lon Chaney), but Gleason also possessed an uncanny ability to alternate between personas. In the years before the Rat Pack made the nightclub lifestyle chic and glamorous on a national scale, Jackie Gleason presided as perhaps the foremost nightclub figure in America, and nobody excelled at situation comedy as well as he. Paradoxically, the iconic element of Jackie Gleason's persona was that he was able to maintain so many personas simultaneously. In a sense, each of these characters bears traces of the "real" Jackie Gleason. But the fact remains that the many personas of Jackie Gleason make it difficult to figure out exactly who Jackie Gleason actually was beneath his show business facades. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: James Shelton. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/035149/bk_acx0_035149_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Hamilton Case , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 597min
    The place is Ceylon, the time the 1930s. Set amid tea plantations, decay and corruption, this sinuous, subtle, surprising novel is a masterly evocation of time and place, of colonialism and the backwash of empire. It is the story of an embittered Ceylonese lawyer, Sam Obeysekere himself a product of empire - 'obey' by name and by nature - and of a family that once had wealth and influence but starts to crack open when Sam's charismatic father dies leaving gambling debts, an ex-beauty of a wife, an unstable daughter and an inadequate son. But the writing has been on the wall for a generation, ever since another sibling died in his cot- And at the heart of the novel is the Hamilton Case, a 'White Mischief' murder scandal that shakes the upper echelons of the island's society. Sam's involvement in it makes his name but paradoxically ensures that he will never achieve his ambition. A miracle of delicacy and restraint, full of volte faces, and narrated with perfect pitch in a voice that catches both the tragedy and comedy of their situation, this is a gripping, nuanced tale of the end of an era, suffused with 'the unbearable thought that everything might have turned out differently'. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Sam Dastor. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rhuk/001001/bk_rhuk_001001_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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