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    Nightmare in Berlin , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 506min
    Available for the first time in English, here is an unforgettable novel about the desolation of postwar Germany after Hitler. The war is over, yet Dr. Doll, a loner and "moderate pessimist", lives in constant fear. By night, he is still haunted by nightmarish images of the bombsite in which he is trapped - he, and the rest of Germany. More than anything, he wishes to vanquish the demon of collective guilt, but he is unable to right any wrongs, especially in his position as mayor of a small town in northeast Germany that has been occupied by the Red Army. Dr. Doll flees this place for Berlin, where he finds escape in a morphine addiction: each dose is a "small death." He tries to make his way in the chaos of a city torn apart by war, accompanied by his young wife, who shares his addiction. Fighting to save two lives, he tentatively begins to believe in a better future. Nightmare in Berlin captures the demoralized and desperate atmosphere of postwar Germany in a way that has never been matched or surpassed. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/010468/bk_blak_010468_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Thriving Beyond Sustainability: Pathways to a Resilient Society , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 423min
    Every 15 seconds on our Earth Island, a child dies from waterborne disease. Three times an hour, another species becomes extinct. Each day, we consume 85 million barrels of oil and pump 23 million tons of carbon dioxide into an already warming atmosphere. But against this bleak backdrop, beacons of hope shine from thousands of large and small initiatives taking place everywhere, from isolated villages to major urban centers. Thriving Beyond Sustainability draws a collective map of individuals, organizations, and communities from around the world that are committed to building an alternative future - one that strives to restore ecological health, reinvent outmoded institutions, and rejuvenate our environmental, social, and economic systems. The projects and initiatives profiled are meeting the challenges of the day with optimism, hope, and results, leading the way in relocalization, green commerce, ecological design, environmental conservation, and social transformation. Overflowing with inspiration, the stories and ideas in this audiobook will inspire the most chronic pessimist to see the glass as half full - to move beyond a perception of surviving with scarcity to one of flourishing with abundance. The comprehensive resource section provides the tools for everyone to become a catalyst for change. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dave Adams. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bigh/000364/bk_bigh_000364_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Yellow Note: The Secret Author Series, Book One , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 506min
    A pessimist at heart, Conor Hudson feels utterly ordinary in a school filled with obscenely wealthy and freakishly gorgeous students. Her only desire is to blend into the background at Westmore Academy, a school for the intellectually-gifted nestled in the historic district of Savannah, Georgia.A mysterious note found in her locker one rainy day sparks a journey of self-discovery she never imagined possible. Conor discovers the beauty of self-love, lifelong friendships, and unconventional family bonds with the help of a mysterious note-writer and her two best friends, the fiercely loyal Shay Tucker, and the kind, yet perplexing, Noah Grayson.It doesn’t take long for Conor to question her view of life, allowing new friends (and even a boyfriend or two) to break down her protective walls. As her circle of friends grows, so does her ability to see herself as others do - anything but ordinary. When Conor finally discovers the identity of her mysterious pen-pal, she couldn’t be more surprised. When she learns the deeper reason behind the love letters, she is reconnected with two people she thought she had lost forever.After the final piece of the puzzle falls into place, her view of life is changed forever - crazy, beautiful, wonderful life. And it all began with a little yellow note. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Shannon Dean. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/208746/bk_acx0_208746_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Emergency In the Pyrenees: Julia Probyn, Book 5 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 738min
    In Julia Probyn’s fifth adventure, Julia moves to a remote French mountain village near the Spanish border, while her husband, a British Intelligence agent, is on a secret assignment. As always, adventure comes Julia’s way. A sabotage plot is underway, with France’s gas reserved being targeted. Julia is six months pregnant as the plot unfolds, and her early labour creates additional suspense. The book is richest in its secondary characters: a Scottish lord & his family living in a nearby town with their optimist and pessimist twins, Bonnecourt, a mountain guide & hunter and the main suspect in the sabotage, and Julia’s cousin, Colin Munro. Fans of Julia Probyn’s will delight in the thrilling intrigue of Julia’s adventure in the Pyrenees. Ann Bridge (1889-1974), or Lady Mary Dolling (Sanders) O'Malley was born in Hertfordshire. Bridge's novels concern her experiences of the British Foreign Office community in Peking in China, where she lived for two years with her diplomat husband. Her novels combine courtship plots with vividly-realized settings and demure social satire. Bridge went on to write novels around a serious investigation of modern historical developments. In the 1970s Bridge began to write thrillers centred on a female amateur detective, Julia Probyn, as well writing travel books and family memoirs. Her books were praised for their faithful representation of foreign countries which was down to personal experience and thorough research. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Elizabeth Jasicki. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/009385/bk_adbl_009385_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Pandemic , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 401min
    Even under the most normal circumstances, high school can be a painful and confusing time. Unfortunately, Lilianna’s circumstances are anything but normal. Only a few people know what caused her sudden change from model student to the withdrawn pessimist she has become, but her situation isn’t about to get any better. When people begin coming down with a quick-spreading illness that doctors are unable to treat, Lil’s worst fears are realized. With her parents called away on business before the contagious outbreak - her father in Delaware covering the early stages of the disease and her mother in Hong Kong and unable to get a flight back to New Jersey - Lil’s town is hit by what soon becomes a widespread illness and fatal disaster. Now, she’s more alone than she’s been since the incident” at her school months ago. With friends and neighbors dying all around her, Lil does everything she can just to survive. But as the disease rages on, so does an unexpected tension as Lil is torn between an old ex and a new romantic interest. Just when it all seems too much, the cause of her original trauma shows up at her door. In this thrilling debut from author Yvonne Ventresca, Lil must find a way to survive not only the outbreak and its real-life consequences, but also her own personal demons. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Monika Smith. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/017809/bk_adbl_017809_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    How the World Really Works
    'There is no author whose books I look forward to more than Vaclav Smil' Bill Gates__________We have never had so much information at our fingertips and yet most of us don't know how the world really works. This book explains seven of the most fundamental realities governing our survival and prosperity. From energy and food production, through our material world and its globalization, to risks, our environment and its future, How the World Really Works offers a much-needed reality check - because before we can tackle problems effectively, we must understand the facts.In this ambitious and thought-provoking book we see, for example, that globalization isn't inevitable - the perils of allowing 70 per cent of the world's rubber gloves to be made in just one factory became glaringly obvious in 2020 - and that our societies have been steadily increasing their dependence on fossil fuels, making their complete and rapid elimination unlikely. For example, each greenhouse-grown supermarket-bought tomato requires the equivalent of five tablespoons of diesel oil for its production; and we still lack any commercially viable ways of making steel, ammonia, cement or plastics on the scale required globally without fossil fuels.Vaclav Smil is neither a pessimist nor an optimist, he is a scientist; he is the world-leading expert on energy and an astonishing polymath. This is his magnum opus and a continuation of his quest to make facts matter. Drawing on the latest science, including his own fascinating research, and tackling sources of misinformation head on - from Yuval Noah Harari to Noam Chomsky - ultimately Smil answers the most profound question of our age: are we irrevocably doomed or is a brighter utopia ahead? Compelling, data-rich and revisionist, this wonderfully broad, interdisciplinary masterpiece finds faults with both extremes. Looking at the world through this quantitative lens reveals hidden truths that change the way we see our past, present and uncertain future.__________'Very informative and eye-opening in many ways' Ha-Joon Chang, author of 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism'If you are anxious about the future, and infuriated that we aren't doing enough about it, please read this book' Paul Collier, author of The Future of Capitalism
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    How the World Really Works (eBook, ePUB)
    'There is no author whose books I look forward to more than Vaclav Smil' Bill Gates__________We have never had so much information at our fingertips and yet most of us don't know how the world really works. This book explains seven of the most fundamental realities governing our survival and prosperity. From energy and food production, through our material world and its globalization, to risks, our environment and its future, How the World Really Works offers a much-needed reality check - because before we can tackle problems effectively, we must understand the facts.In this ambitious and thought-provoking book we see, for example, that globalization isn't inevitable - the perils of allowing 70 per cent of the world's rubber gloves to be made in just one factory became glaringly obvious in 2020 - and that our societies have been steadily increasing their dependence on fossil fuels, making their complete and rapid elimination unlikely. For example, each greenhouse-grown supermarket-bought tomato requires the equivalent of five tablespoons of diesel oil for its production; and we still lack any commercially viable ways of making steel, ammonia, cement or plastics on the scale required globally without fossil fuels.Vaclav Smil is neither a pessimist nor an optimist, he is a scientist; he is the world-leading expert on energy and an astonishing polymath. This is his magnum opus and a continuation of his quest to make facts matter. Drawing on the latest science, including his own fascinating research, and tackling sources of misinformation head on - from Yuval Noah Harari to Noam Chomsky - ultimately Smil answers the most profound question of our age: are we irrevocably doomed or is a brighter utopia ahead? Compelling, data-rich and revisionist, this wonderfully broad, interdisciplinary masterpiece finds faults with both extremes. Looking at the world through this quantitative lens reveals hidden truths that change the way we see our past, present and uncertain future.__________'Very informative and eye-opening in many ways' Ha-Joon Chang, author of 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism'If you are anxious about the future, and infuriated that we aren't doing enough about it, please read this book' Paul Collier, author of The Future of Capitalism
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    Losing the News: The Future of the News that Feeds Democracy  , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 520min
    In Losing the News, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Alex S. Jones offers a probing look at the epochal changes sweeping the media, changes which are eroding the core news that has been the essential food supply of our democracy. At a time of dazzling technological innovation, Jones believes that what stands to be lost is the fact-based reporting that serves as a watchdog over government, holds the powerful accountable, and gives citizens what they need. In a tumultuous new media era, with cutthroat competition and panic over profits, the commitment of the traditional news media to serious news is fading. Indeed, as digital technology shatters the old economic model, the news media is making a painful passage that is taking a toll on journalistic values and standards. Journalistic objectivity and ethics are under assault, as is the bastion of the First Amendment. Jones characterizes himself not as a pessimist about news, but a realist. The breathtaking possibilities that the web offers are undeniable, but at what cost? Pundits and talk show hosts have persuaded Americans that the crisis in news is bias and partisanship. Not so, says Jones. The real crisis is the erosion of the iron core of news, something that hurts Republicans and Democrats alike. Losing the News depicts an unsettling situation in which the American birthright of fact-based, reported news is in danger. But it is also a call to arms to fight to keep the core of news intact. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kurt Elftmann. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/011575/bk_adbl_011575_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Magie der Gewohnheit: In drei Schritten Ziele setzen und erreichen für Kreative, Hörbuch, Digital, 741min
    Sein willst du als kreativer Mensch vieles: erfolgreich, glücklich, frei, reich und mehr. Aber kennst du das? Du weißt eigentlich gar nicht, was das alles konkret für dich bedeutet. Du weißt nicht wirklich, was du willst, du schiebst deine Träume auf oder du hältst an deinen guten Vorsätzen nicht auf Dauer fest. Die fehlende Klarheit und schlechte Gewohnheiten bzw. schlechte Systeme sind die häufigsten Gründe, warum wir im Leben nicht das erreichen, was wir wollen und unglücklich sind. Glaube mir: Ich kenne diese Hürden selbst nur zu gut.Über mehrere Jahre litt ich an einer starken Depression, kannte meinen Sinn im Leben nicht und fing immer wieder verschiedene Dinge an, ohne jemals etwas richtig zu Ende zu bringen. Ich wollte unbedingt etwas aus mir machen, mein kreatives Potential verwirklichen, aber irgendwie funktionierte das nicht und ich war total unzufrieden und wollte eigentlich schon gar nicht mehr leben. Und dennoch habe ich es geschafft, mein Leben um 180 Grad zu drehen. Ich entwickelte mich von einer unfokussierten Design-Studentin zu einer erfolgreichen freiberuflichen Künstlerin, vom Sportmuffel zum täglich trainierenden Sportenthusiast; vom Pessimist zum übenden Optimist; vom jammernden Opfer zum umsetzenden Macher; vom zweifelnden Angsthase zu jemandem, der sich trotz Zweifeln und Ängsten dem Leben stellt und vom unsicheren und depressiven Suizidkandidaten zum Lebensgenießer. Und das kannst du auch schaffen - ohne gewaltig große Schritte, sondern mit Hilfe von effektiven Routinen und Gewohnheiten.In meinem Hörbuch Magie der Gewohnheit habe ich schließlich all meine Erfahrungen und mein Wissen zusammengetragen und ein System aus drei einfachen Schritten entwickelt, damit auch du deinen persönlichen Erfolg erreichst - von einer Kreativen für Kreative. deutsch. Sandra Süsser. https://samples.audible.de/bk/edel/024406/bk_edel_024406_sample.mp3.
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    ZEN: Buddhism: 50 Spiritual Teachings from Buddist to Enlightenment and True Happiness , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 47min
    For Buddha, the path to a true happiness starts from the understanding of suffering's root causes. Those people who are considering Buddha a pessimist due to his concern with the suffering have missed the right point. As a matter of fact, Buddha is a very skillful doctor and he can immediately break the bad news of suffering, but still prescribes proactive treatment course. In this representation, the medicine is Buddha's teachings of companies and wisdom known as the Dharma, as well as the nurses that show and encourage us to take our medicine are the Sangha or Buddhist community. However, the illness can only be treated if the patient is willing to follow the advices and the course of treatment laid by the doctor (Buddha) - the Eightfold Path as the core that involves the control of mind. This book contains proven steps and strategies on how to know the spiritual teachings from the Buddhist to enlightenment and true happiness. Listen, learn, and be enlightened by the spiritual teachings from the Buddhist in order to experience and acquire your true happiness! Are you ready to achieve that zen and have a greater peace of mind? Here is a preview of what's inside the book: Who is Buddha? The eightfold path to happiness Pieces of Buddhist wisdom towards the path of life's transformation Spiritual Buddhist teachings for clarity and enlightenment of the mind Buddhist spiritual teachings for living a happy life Life-changing spiritual teachings from Buddha for true happiness And much, much more! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Risa Pappas. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/062246/bk_acx0_062246_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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