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    The Checklist Manifesto
    The modern world has given us stupendous know-how. Yet avoidable failures continue to plague us in health care, government, the law, the financial industry - in almost every realm of organized activity. And the reason is simple: the volume and complexity of knowledge today has exceeded our ability as individuals to properly deliver it to people - consistently, correctly, safely. We train longer, specialize more, use ever advancing technologies, and still we fail. Atul Gawande makes a compelling argument that we can do better, using the simplest of methods: the lowly checklist. He explains how checklists have made possible some of the most difficult things people do - from flying airplanes to building skyscrapers. He takes us from Austria, where an emergency checklist saved a patient who had spent half an hour underwater, to Michigan, where a cleanliness checklist in intensive care units virtually eliminated a type of deadly hospital infection, and to the flight deck of a crashingplane. Along the way, he reveals what checklists can do, what they cant, and how they could bring about striking improvements in fields well beyond medicine, from disaster recovery to investment banking, to professions and businesses of all kinds.
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    Reasons to Kill: Why Americans Choose War , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 413min
    From the American Revolution to the end of World War II, the United States spent 19 years at war against other nations. But since1950, the total is 22 years and counting. On four occasions, U.S. presidents elected as "peace candidates" have gone on to lead the nation into ferocious armed conflicts. Repeatedly, wars deemed necessary when they began have been seen in retrospect as avoidable, and ill-advised. Americans profess to be a peace-loving people and one wary of "foreign entanglements". Yet we have been drawn into wars in distant lands from Vietnam to Afghanistan. We cherish our middle-class comforts and our children. Yet we send our troops to Fallujah and Mogadishu. How is it that ordinary Americans with the most to lose are so easily convinced to follow hawkish leaders - of both parties-into war? In Reasons to Kill noted scholar Richard E. Rubenstein explores both the rhetoric that sells war to the public and the underlying cultural and social factors that make it so effective. With unmatched historical perspective and insightful commentary, Rubenstein offers citizens new ways to think for themselves about crucial issues of war and peace. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kyle McCarley. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/009710/bk_adbl_009710_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Get Hired as a Scrum Master When No One Seems to Want to Hire You: Advice, Tips, Shortcuts, and Best Practices That Work , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 187min
    The Agile community has always needed a tell-all audiobook on early starts in Scrum that reflects not only on the insights and theories of thought leaders from the Cohn signature series but on updated experience collected from the Agile trenches. What happens in the wild varies widely, and with digital landscape changing at an exponential rate, so do the demands of the Agile marketplace.This audiobook will help you save months if not years of figuring out the avoidable hardships of the early Scrum career. The author busts myths and cuts to the chase with reliable advice and shortcuts necessary to bypass some of the early growing pains of the servant leader to make you competitive in a market saturated with Scrum Masters and Scrum Master impostors.In addition to practical knowledge, Adison offers an unfiltered scoop on all essential skills, organizations, certifications, disciplines, and potential pitfalls that future, beginner, and intermediate Scrum Masters and servant leaders need to know. The author does not shy away from controversial Agile topics and talks at liberty about the things most in the Agile Industrial Complex would prefer you did not know. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Melissa Dundis. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/176634/bk_acx0_176634_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    A Century of Anarchy: Neutral Moresnet through the Revisionist Lens , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 38min
    Could a community without a central government avoid descending into chaos and rampant criminality? Could its economy grow and thrive without the intervening regulatory hand of the state? Could disputes between citizens be settled if there existed no state monopoly on legal judgments? Apparently, the answers to these questions are yes, yes, and yes. Indeed, if the strange and little-known case of the condominium of Neutral Moresnet - a tiny wedge of disputed territory in northwestern Europe - acts as our guide, we must conclude that statelessness is not only possible but beneficial to progress, carrying profound advantages over coercive bureaucracies. The remarkable enterprise that was Moresnet was an unintended consequence of the Napoleonic Wars (1803 - 1815). Created as a triangle of neutral territory between Prussia and the Netherlands by the Congress of Vienna, Moresnet encapsulates the archetype of market anarchy. Hidden in its history, we find privately produced, commodity-backed money; competing avenues for the administration of justice; negligible - and, it seems, entirely avoidable - taxes and fees; few, if any, regulations; a defense force without a standing military; open borders (however unintentionally); and an irrepressibly entrepreneurial spirit. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Timothy McKean. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/041847/bk_acx0_041847_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    In This Moment: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 527min
    Best-selling author Karma Brown is back with a morally infused and emotionally riveting exploration of one woman's guilt over an unexpected - yet avoidable - tragedy. Meg Pepper has a fulfilling career and a happy family. Most days she's able to keep it all together and glide through life. But then, in one unalterable moment, everything changes. After school pickup one day, she stops her car to wave a teenage boy across the street...just as another car comes hurtling down the road and slams into him. Meg can't help but blame herself for her role in this horrific disaster. Full of remorse, she throws herself into helping the boy's family as he rehabs from his injuries. But the more Meg tries to absolve herself, the more she alienates her own family - and the more she finds herself being drawn to the boy's father. Soon Meg's picture-perfect life is unravelling before her eyes. As the painful secrets she's been burying bubble dangerously close to the surface, she will have to decide: Can she forgive herself, or will she risk losing everything she holds dear to her heart? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jorjeana Marie. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/027197/bk_adbl_027197_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    New Track, New Life: Understanding and Retraining the Off-Track Thoroughbred , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 290min
    There are so many misconceptions about how Thoroughbreds are handled and trained at the track. This misinformation causes countless avoidable problems. The goal of this audiobook is to provide information to aid anyone who has or is interested in having a retired racehorse. Anyone with a working knowledge of horses and the desire to learn can handle a horse off the track and be successful when they have the information they need to understand this wonderful breed. All of the author's proceeds from this book benefit the 501(c)(3) charity, Thoroughbred Placement Resources, Inc., which helps retired Thoroughbred racehorses find new lives when their race careers end."A copy of the current financial statement of Thoroughbred Placement Resources, Inc. is available by writing 13130 Molly Berry Road, Upper Marlboro, MD 20772 or by calling (410) 802-8425. Documents and information submitted under the Maryland Solicitations Act are also available, for the cost of postage and copies, from the Maryland Secretary of State, State House, Annapolis MD 21401, (410) 974-5534."  PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.  ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Richard Peterson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/127303/bk_acx0_127303_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Five Reasons You Get Sick: How to STAY Healthy , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 60min
    There are at least five reasons you get sick and all of them can be eliminated or modified. If you want to be healthy you have to do certain things or disease will eventually result. Your health is your most valuable asset. Unhealthy food and drink always damages you but you may not realize it for years. Diseases that once belonged to the elderly are now present in the young and middle age. The US spends more money per capita on illnesses than any other industrialized country on Earth. The US is on the bottom when it comes to health. The reasons are many and are avoidable. We invite our health problems by what we eat, drink and put on our bodies. Many foods we were taught are healthy are really harmful to our health. Our approach to disease is wrong. Prevention is the best cure. Toxins and GMOs are some of the great destroyers of health and you should avoid as many as possible. We will be looking at these problems and their solutions: Genetics GMOs Cellular Memories The Gut Connection Pollution The Standard American Diet Quality Natural Foods You Need for Health Why hesitate? Your health needs immediate and constant attention. It is your most important asset. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Cathy Beard. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/048821/bk_acx0_048821_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Clearing the Air: Art of the Bowel Movement , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 143min
    In Clearing the Air: Art of the Bowel Movement, physician T. Lee Baumann provides a detailed description of the anatomy, physiology, and proper care of one of the body's most valuable resources: the terminal bowel. Few people, including many physicians, understand the sequential, complex, and consequential nature of the underappreciated organs involved: the sigmoid colon, rectum, and anus. Despite the rectum's superior sagacity and judgment, the anal sphincter commands undue control over the final decision-making algorithm. As such, the overbearing anus may exercise its unrestrained power to the veritable detriment of its host. The unpleasant consequences of an anal-retentive sphincter include simple constipation (the majority of its victims), diverticular disease (50 percent of people over the age of 60), and even material obstruction in the more severe cases. All of these unpleasant effects are avoidable for the normal bowel. In Art of the Bowel Movement, Dr. Baumann offers simple medical recommendations and practices for preventing and avoiding the penalties of yielding to the impulsive and demanding anus. Knowledge of the physiology of our intestines, the use of supplemental dietary fiber, and respecting the vital supplications of the obeisant rectum will go far in addressing and ameliorating these bodily concerns. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: T. Lee Baumann, MD. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/145755/bk_acx0_145755_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Wisdom of Failure: How to Learn the Tough Leadership Lessons Without Paying the Price , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 516min
    The Wisdom of Failure is the "how-not-to" leadership book. There is a paradox in leadership: We can only succeed by knowing failure. Every accomplished leader knows there are minefields of failures that need to be navigated in order to succeed. Wouldn’t it be great to have the insights to help prevent you from making avoidable mistakes? Unfortunately, in business, talking about mistakes can be taboo, and, at a certain level, learning from failure is not an option. Weinzimmer and McConoughey speak frankly about the things that are difficult to talk about - the unvarnished truths necessary to become a successful leader. Based on a groundbreaking 7-year study of what almost 1,000 managers across 21 industries really think about lessons from failures Includes exclusive interview material from CEOs at a wide range of organizations, including major firms such as Caterpillar, Priceline.com, and Allstate; startups; and entrepreneurial small businesses Drills down into failure to uncover the strategies that aspiring leaders need in order to avoid the most damning leadership mistakes: unbalanced orchestration, drama management, and reckless vanity Learning from the mistakes of others is a necessary part of the journey of effective leadership, and this book offers an indispensable guide to learning these powerful lessons - without paying the price of failure ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Fred Sanders. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/006833/bk_adbl_006833_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Floating World: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 811min
    A dazzling debut about family, home, and grief, The Floating World takes listeners into the heart of Hurricane Katrina with the story of the Boisdores, whose roots stretch back nearly to the foundation of New Orleans. Though the storm is fast approaching the Louisiana coast, Cora, the family's fragile elder daughter, refuses to leave the city, forcing her parents, Joe Boisdore, an artist descended from a freed slave who became one of the city's preeminent furniture makers, and his white "uptown" wife, Dr. Tess Eshleman, to evacuate without her, setting off a chain of events that leaves their marriage in shambles and Cora catatonic - the victim or perpetrator of some violence mysterious even to herself. This mystery is at the center of C. Morgan Babst's haunting, lyrical novel. Cora's sister, Del, returns to New Orleans from the life she has tried to build in New York City to find her hometown in ruins and her family deeply alienated from one another. As Del attempts to figure out what happened to her sister, she must also reckon with the racial history of the city, and the trauma of destruction that was not, in fact, some random act of God, but an avoidable tragedy visited upon New Orleans's most helpless and forgotten citizens. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Christa Lewis. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/high/001398/bk_high_001398_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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