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  Lucian Freud: Eyes Wide Open , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 331min

  Phoebe Hoban, author of definitive biographies of Jean-Michel Basquiat and Alice Neel, now turns her attention to Lucian Freud, the grandson of Sigmund and one of the greatest painters England has produced. Lucian Freud: Eyes Wide Open is the first biography to assess Freud’s work and life, showing how the two converge. In Hoban’s dramatic and fast-paced narrative, we follow Freud from his birthplace in Berlin to London, where he fled with his family in the 1930s, and then to Paris, where he mixed with Picasso and Giacometti. He led a dissolute life in Soho after the war, gambling and womanizing with fierce energy. He painted his wives nude, his children nude, himself nude. He married twice, had an uncountable number of children, and kept working through it all, painting everyone from close friend and rival Francis Bacon to Kate Moss and Queen Elizabeth. He sometimes spent years on a single painting, which could require hundreds of hours of sittings. However various his subjects, his intent was always the same: To find and reveal the character hidden within by means of his intense visual imagination. Along with its startling biographical revelations, the great thrill of Lucian Freud: Eyes Wide Open is the way Hoban deconstructs the art itself - its influences, models, and technique - to show how Freud reproduced reality on the canvas while breaking down the illusion that what we see is real. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Laural Merlington. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/006065/bk_brll_006065_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Rethinking Narcissism: The Bad - and Surprising Good - About Feeling Special , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 366min

  Harvard Medical School psychologist and Huffington Post blogger Craig Malkin addresses the "narcissism epidemic" by illuminating the spectrum of narcissism, identifying ways to control the trait, and explaining how too little of it may be a bad thing. "What is narcissism?" is one of the fastest rising searches on Google, and articles on the topic routinely go viral. Yet, the word narcissist seems to mean something different every time it's uttered. People hurl the word as an insult at anyone who offends them. It's become so ubiquitous, in fact, that it's lost any clear meaning. The only certainty these days is that it's bad to be a narcissist - really bad - inspiring the same kind of roiling queasiness we feel when we hear the word sexist or racist. That's especially troubling news for millennials, the people born after 1980, who've been branded the "most narcissistic generation ever". In Rethinking Narcissism listeners will learn that there's far more to narcissism than its reductive invective would imply. The truth is that narcissists (all of us) fall on a spectrum somewhere between utter selflessness on the one side and arrogance and grandiosity on the other. A healthy middle exhibits a strong sense of self. On the far end lies sociopathy. Malkin deconstructs the healthy from the unhealthy narcissism and offers clear, step-by-step guidance on how to promote healthy narcissism in our partners, our children, and ourselves. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kiff VandenHeuvel. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/004551/bk_harp_004551_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Work without Jobs (eBook, ePUB)

  Why the future of work requires the deconstruction of jobs and the reconstruction of work. Work is traditionally understood as a "job," and workers as "jobholders." Jobs are structured by titles, hierarchies, and qualifications. In Work without Jobs, Ravin Jesuthasan and John Boudreau propose a radically new way of looking at work. They describe a new "work operating system" that deconstructs jobs into their component parts and reconstructs these components into more optimal combinations that reflect the skills and abilities of individual workers. In a new normal of rapidly accelerating automation, demands for organizational agility, efforts to increase diversity, and the emergence of alternative work arrangements, the old system based on jobs and jobholders is cumbersome and ungainly. Jesuthasan and Boudreau's new system lays out a roadmap for the future of work. Work without Jobs presents real-world cases that show how leading organizations are embracing work deconstruction and reinvention. For example, when a robot, chatbot, or artificial intelligence takes over parts of a job while a human worker continues to do other parts, what is the "job"? DHL found some answers when it deployed social robotics at its distribution centers. Meanwhile, the biotechnology company Genentech deconstructed jobs to increase flexibility, worker engagement, and retention. Other organizations achieved agility with internal talent marketplaces, worker exchanges, freelancers, crowdsourcing, and partnerships. It's time for organizations to reboot their work operating system, and Work without Jobs offers an essential guide for doing so.

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  Work without Jobs

  Why the future of work requires the deconstruction of jobs and the reconstruction of work.Work is traditionally understood as a job, and workers as jobholders. Jobs are structured by titles, hierarchies, and qualifications. In Work without Jobs, Ravin Jesuthasan and John Boudreau propose a radically new way of looking at work. They describe a new work operating system that deconstructs jobs into their component parts and reconstructs these components into more optimal combinations that reflect the skills and abilities of individual workers. In a new normal of rapidly accelerating automation, demands for organizational agility, efforts to increase diversity, and the emergence of alternative work arrangements, the old system based on jobs and jobholders is cumbersome and ungainly. Jesuthasan and Boudreau s new system lays out a roadmap for the future of work. Work without Jobs presents real-world cases that show how leading organizations are embracing work deconstruction and reinvention. For example, when a robot, chatbot, or artificial intelligence takes over parts of a job while a human worker continues to do other parts, what is the job ? DHL found some answers when it deployed social robotics at its distribution centers. Meanwhile, the biotechnology company Genentech deconstructed jobs to increase flexibility, worker engagement, and retention. Other organizations achieved agility with internal talent marketplaces, worker exchanges, freelancers, crowdsourcing, and partnerships. It s time for organizations to reboot their work operating system, and Work without Jobs offers an essential guide for doing so.

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  Total Focus: Making Better Decisions Under Pressure , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 458min

  A former Navy SEAL sniper turned media CEO and New York Times best-selling author teaches business leaders how to make the best decisions under pressure. Over his four deployments as a Navy SEAL sniper, Brandon Webb learned all about performing while experiencing heart-pounding stress. After returning to civilian life, he started his first business venture - and failed miserably. He realized that his big mistake was neglecting to apply what he already knew about focus under pressure. By drawing on the lessons of his SEAL training and early business struggles, Webb went on to build a second business, a media network called Hurricane, which today has an audience of millions and a valuation over $100 million. Now Webb deconstructs the decision-making DNA of the most effective snipers and shows you how to develop the same mental acuity in civilian life. Drawing on stories from his own experiences and those of other Special Operations warriors and great entrepreneurs, like Solomon Choi of 16 Handles, Matt Meeker of BarkBox, and Betsy Morgan of The Huffington Post and TheBlaze, he teaches you how to have total situational awareness to stay out of danger and adapt to changing circumstances, to avoid the trap of overanalysis, and to understand that pain is temporary and learning is priceless. By following in the path of a generation of legendary snipers, you'll find the clarity of mind you need to make key decisions and accomplish your mission, whatever it takes. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Johnathan McClain, Brandon Webb. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/peng/003169/bk_peng_003169_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Hillary's Choice, Hörbuch, Digital, 326min

  Here is the story of a woman and a marriage, both so famous the world over, you think you know everything there is to know. But Hillary's Choice renders America's First Lady fully human for the first time. Hundreds of candid interviews from people, with intimate knowledge of Hillary, reveal the complexities and contradictions that drive one of the most extraordinary political figures of our time. The story of the Clinton presidency has always been the story of the Clinton marriage. Delving deep into the relationship, Gail Sheehy answers the constantly asked question, "Why does she stay with him?" Sheehy strips away the layers of public masks and private denials, showing through one vivid scene after another how Hillary became captivated with Bill, and how desperately Bill depends on Hillary to bring him back again and again from the political dead. Sheehy deconstructs their embattled co-presidency. Sheehy also uncovers the lifelong imprint of Hillary's drillmaster father and the frustrated mother who taught her to bottle up her emotions and took subversive pleasure in teaching her only daughter how to fight like a man. Hillary's Choice reveals much more: the one serious threat to the Clinton marriage, when Bill fell in love with a woman unlike any of his others; Hillary's symbiotic relationship with political guru Dick Morris; the source of Hillary's crippling hostility toward the press; how Hillary escaped the snare of Ken Starr; how she capitalized on the miseries of the Monica year; and why she chose to seek her own political voice. Language: English. Narrator: Gail Sheehy. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/000038/bk_rand_000038_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Everything Is Negotiable: The 5 Tactics to Get What You Want in Life, Love, and Work , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 409min

  Surprising ways we limit ourselves and our happiness, and how to challenge the internalized wisdom and circular thinking that holds us back.As women, many of us are stuck in feedback loops about how to be successful and happy: striving to "have it all" at work and at home, letting ourselves be pressured into giving every part of our lives 100 percent until we're completely burnt-out, imagining only a strictly linear life path (college, job, marriage, kids), and accepting limitations without question. Yet the truth is, this book argues, most of the conventional wisdom about driving our life choices is total baloney. In Everything Is Negotiable, Meg Myers Morgan deconstructs preconceived notions about adulthood, parenthood, and career paths that have us limiting ourselves. Instead of following that linear plan, for example, she urges listeners to take action now for what we want - limitations be damned. With wit and verve, Morgan also tells us to forget trying to "have it all", as the cliche phrase goes - it'll never happen. And, Morgan argues, don't bother trying to give 100 percent - we simply can't give anything 100 percent attention, ever! Instead, this book teaches us to navigate life's necessary trade-offs free of the baggage of our own expectations. Chock full of strategies for where and when to give our limited energy, what to demand from our careers, and how to make better choices, Everything Is Negotiable is for women ready to seize the lives they really want. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Meg Myers Morgan. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hach/004909/bk_hach_004909_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Now What? I Got a Tax Notice from the IRS. Help!: Defining and Deconstructing the Scary and Confusing Letters That Land in Your Mailbox , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 187min

  Listening to these life-preserving tax tips with the stress-reducing facts shared in a down-to-earth style will help to reduce the intimidation, fear, and the unknown when it comes to the IRS. In Now What? I Got a Tax Notice from the IRS. Help!, Jeff defines and deconstructs the scary and confusing letters in a fashion that mixes attention to detail with humor and an intricate clarification of what is what in the world of the IRS. The idea of receiving a letter from the IRS is not a pleasant one for anyone. What makes it worse is the confusion, the fear, the assumptions, and the thoughts of all the worst-case scenarios that can make you feel like you have a tidal wave of stress. Schneider explains how:Getting notices should not be as life-threatening as you may thinkThere is life, sanity, and even money after receiving a noticeYou have choices, and you do have some controlThe IRS is not always correct. Even if you owe more than you can pay, there are other options. Using the information presented in this book as tools of navigation, floatation, and even resuscitation can help you to better understand the legitimate letters and notices as well as letters from the IRS private debt collectors and the scammers that have no relation whatsoever to the Internal Revenue Service. Now What? I Got a Tax Notice from the IRS. Help! is defining and deconstructing the scary and confusing letters that land in your mailbox. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Loren Weisman, Branding Strategist. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/129501/bk_acx0_129501_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Stop Mass Hysteria: America's Insanity from the Salem Witch Trials to the Trump Witch Hunt , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 623min

  Number one New York Times best-selling author Michael Savage calls out the mass hysteria mongers and their methods, and shows Americans that we must look to history to understand the present and avoid repeating the mistakes of the past.Since Donald Trump's historic ascendance to the presidency, American politics have reached a boiling point. Social and economic issues, even national security, have become loud, violent flashpoints for political rivals in the government, in the media and on the streets. This collective derangement has a name: mass hysteria.In his new book, Stop Mass Hysteria, number one New York Times best-selling author Michael Savage not only deconstructs the left's unhinged response to traditional American values like borders, language, and culture, but takes the listener on an unprecedented journey through mass hysteria's long history in the United States. From Christopher Columbus to the Salem Witch trials to the so-called "Red Scares" of the 1930s and 40s and much more, Dr. Savage recounts the many times collective insanity has gripped the American public - often prompted by sinister politicians with ulterior motives.Dr. Savage provides vital context for the common elements of dozens of outbreaks of mass hysteria in the past, their causes, their short and long-term effects, and the tactics of the puppet masters who duped gullible masses into fearing threats both real and imagined. By shining a light on the true nature and causes of American mass hysteria in the past, Savage provides an insightful look into who and what is causing dangerous unrest in our lives - and why.  ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Barry Baer. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hach/004676/bk_hach_004676_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Shit Cassandra Saw

  Kirby has mastered the art of short fiction A stunning collection from a writer whose talent and creativity seem boundless. NPRKirby takes joy in subverting the reader s expectations at every turn. Her characters might be naïve, even reckless, but they aren t about to be victims: They re strong, and brave, and nearly always capable of rescuing themselves. New York Times Book ReviewMargaret Atwood meets Buffy in these funny, warm, and furious stories of women at their breaking points, from Hellenic times to today.Cassandra may have seen the future, but it doesn't mean she's resigned to telling the Trojans everything she knows. In this ebullient collection, virgins escape from being sacrificed, witches refuse to be burned, whores aren't ashamed, and every woman gets a chance to be a radioactive cockroach warrior who snaps back at catcallers. Gwen E. Kirby experiments with found structures--a Yelp review, a WikiHow article--which her fierce, irreverent narrators push against, showing how creativity within an enclosed space undermines and deconstructs the constraints themselves. When these women tell the stories of their triumphs as well as their pain, they emerge as funny, angry, loud, horny, lonely, strong protagonists who refuse to be secondary characters a moment longer. From "The Best and Only Whore of Cym Hyfryd, 1886" to the "Midwestern Girl Is Tired of Appearing in Your Short Stories," Kirby is playing and laughing with the women who have come before her and they are telling her, we have always been this way. You just had to know where to look.

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