107 Results for : impractical
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The Girl Who Can Cook: A Novel of Revenge and Ramen Noodles , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 423min
It's been three years since chef Erin shot her boyfriend, John, five times during a domestic dispute; two years since she was found not guilty on murder charges by way of self-defense, and one year since she opened Essen, a German restaurant in San Francisco's East Bay. You can read all about it in her memoir. There's a copy on the front seat of the car parked in front of Essen. The man in the driver's seat was John's best friend, Alex. He’s taken justice into his own hands. What he doesn't know is that soon he'll be inside, using those hands to peel carrots for the girl who can cook. I don't want to trick you into buying this book with the truncated spin of words above. I want you to buy this book because I believe in it. If the cover caught your eye, and you enjoy psychological thrillers, then I urge you to sample it and judge the quality for yourself. As an independent author, I am fighting an uphill battle for both legitimacy and visibility. Rightfully so, anyone can shove a book out into the Internet’s ether. I’ve chosen to put this out myself because I had a publisher tell me that I couldn’t succeed without them or some other machine behind me, no matter how good or bad my book. Help me prove them wrong, and may my punk rock ethos never die. This is my debut novel, and I’m an unknown author. I don't have any quotes from famous friends. The New York Times won't return my calls, but I promise you, this book is worth your time and your money. It’s about all of us. It's about ramen noodles. And impractical love. And loss. And the way we each carry our past in different ways. It’s dark and comic and weird and brutal, and I hope you love it. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mike Wehner, Catherine Wehner. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/119149/bk_acx0_119149_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Intermittent Fasting for Women: Lose Weight, Balance Your Hormones, and Boost Anti-Aging With the Power of Autophagy - 16/8, One Meal a Day, 5:2 Diet and More! (Ketogenic Diet & Weight Loss Hacks) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 224min
Do you find it difficult to lose weight? Do you hate complicated weight-loss strategies that end up starving you? Do you find the latest diet fads to be impractical for your lifestyle? If you answered yes to any of the questions above, then this book about intermittent fasting is for you! This book will give everything you need to know about a weight loss method that does not involve counting every calorie of your meal, buying special weight loss shakes, or eating beyond the realms of what is considered a normal diet. If it sounds already too good to be true, you have not yet listened to the craziest thing about intermittent fasting: All you have to do is listen to this book and you can get started immediately!Inside this book, you will discover:The simplest way to lose weightIntermittent fasting benefits that have been confirmed through medical researchWhy intermittent fasting is actually healthy for youHow intermittent fasting heals your body, reverses aging, and lengthens your lifespanThe different methods to fast intermittentlyHow women can do intermittent fasting safelyThe answers to common concerns about intermittent fastingThe strategies for an easier adjustment to intermittent fastingHow you can progress to advanced methods of intermittent fastingAnd so much more!It is easy to be skeptical about a book on a topic that has been written about countless times in articles, blogs, tutorials, and video essays. But, this book is more than just a retelling of the information about this weight loss strategy. It is a comprehensive guide that will give you everything you need - from the basic information to the practical information necessary to make intermittent fasting a lifestyle.Buy now and begin listening this book and start your journey towards a healthier life through a sustainable and simple weight loss strategy! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gina Dobbs. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/193175/bk_acx0_193175_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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There Are No Men: Will Any Man Make It to a Second Date? , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 667min
Divorced 30-something Claire doesn't know who is in her dating pool, but she's doing her best to avoid shark-infested waters. Leaving her clueless and insensitive husband behind was a smart move after losing her fertility, but now she's riding the wave of flying toupees, strange men in leather thongs and drunken nights in painfully impractical shoes. Claire desperately wanted to be a mother, but now she'll settle for one middle aged man worthy of a second date. After a long drought, men are flooding her shores, and she's drowning in choices. There's Justin, the 25-year-old IT boy-genius with the GQ look and cougar fetish, and he won't take no for an answer. A woman would have to be a blind, lesbian nun not to fall for him, but he reminds Claire of her wasted youth. And then the charming but mysterious Dr. Nathan appears, but he's cheating on her with his medical mistress, a demanding cardiology practice. To further rock her boat, Claire's stable career in publishing has been tossed about by her floundering company's launch of a new line of trendy, salacious books. Cookbooks aren't selling these days, but erotica is flying off the shelves and challenging Claire's attitude about sex, work, and her tempestuous new life. When her best friend convinces her to buddy up to the aspiring writer who just moved in across the street, Claire rejects the idea. He has already caught her in more than one embarrassing and scantily clad situation. Giving in to her friend's nudging, she tries to ignore the details she discovers about him, including his hard rock night gig and his mesmerizing blue eyes, in the hopes his literary talents can pull her publishing house up from the bottom. Claire's dilemma begs the question: Are there no men or just too many? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Marci Himelson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/041590/bk_acx0_041590_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 315min
Indistractable provides a framework that will deliver the focus you need to get results. (James Clear, author of Atomic Habits)You sit down at your desk to work on an important project, but a notification on your phone interrupts your morning. Later, as you're about to get back to work, a colleague taps you on the shoulder to chat. At home, screens get in the way of quality time with your family. Another day goes by, and once again, your most important personal and professional goals are put on hold. What would be possible if you followed through on your best intentions? What could you accomplish if you could stay focused and overcome distractions? What if you had the power to become "indistractable"? International best-selling author, former Stanford lecturer, and behavioral design expert, Nir Eyal, wrote Silicon Valley's handbook for making technology habit-forming. Five years after publishing Hooked, Eyal reveals distraction's Achilles' heel in his groundbreaking new book. In Indistractable, Eyal reveals the hidden psychology driving us to distraction. He describes why solving the problem is not as simple as swearing off our devices: Abstinence is impractical and often makes us want more. Eyal lays bare the secret of finally doing what you say you will do with a four-step, research-backed model. Indistractable reveals the key to getting the best out of technology, without letting it get the best of us. Inside, Eyal overturns conventional wisdom and reveals: Why distraction at work is a symptom of a dysfunctional company culture - and how to fix it What really drives human behavior and why "time management is pain management" Why your relationships (and your sex life) depend on you becoming indistractable How to raise indistractable children in an increasingly distracting world Empowering and optimistic, Indistractable provides pra ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Nir Eyal. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/052606/bk_adbl_052606_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Meeting Leadership Solution: A 10-Step System for Professionals Who Want Outstanding Meetings Today! , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 218min
Practical solutions for our impractical rituals! (Arden Tse)Are bad meetings a waste of your time?Are you losing money because of unproductive meetings?Should your last meeting have been an email?Are you a meeting leader who wants to improve your facilitation skills?Do you want to stop the meeting madness?This audiobook will help you transform your meetings - fast.Unproductive meetings are bad for business. The Meeting Leader Solution delivers a proven 10-step system that professionals can learn quickly so they can take action to make their meetings more productive and profitable.Get real with yourself. Discover techniques to help you take responsibility for how you act during a meeting, whether you're the leader or the follower.Get real with your team. Find practical ways to deepen trust and make a lasting connection with your meeting team.Know your total meeting cost. Learn the formula for measuring the actual cost of your meetings so you don't waste a single second.Get a great facilitator. Learn ways to evaluate your current meeting facilitator so you can decide whether you should let them go or get them the help they need to lead more effective meetings.Link the meeting to your strategy. A game-changing concept that will not only help you understand your meetings, but will also help you profitably move your organization forward!Build a blockbuster agenda. Create agendas that make your next meeting as exciting as your favorite Hollywood movie!Meet in the right space. Where you meet is as important as what your meeting is about. Get practical tips for setting up a productive meeting space that makes your team feel great so they can do their best work.Get awesome meeting resources. The learning process is never complete! Get up-to-date recommendations for all the books, articles, and websites you ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gordon Sheppard. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/134596/bk_acx0_134596_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Edison Phonograph Company and The California Ramblers: The Story of a Lost Era in Jazz , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 37min
Here is the fascinating story of the Edison Phonograph Company and its "Hill and Dale" vertical recording process, illustrated by musical examples from vintage recordings of legendary jazz band, The California Ramblers (which included famed trumpeter Red Nichols and other jazz greats)! This is the behind-the-scenes story of the invention, development and commercial promotion of the phonograph by Thomas Alva Edison, the "Genius of Menlo Park." When tinfoil recording cylinders were replaced by flat disks, Edison pioneered a unique "vertical" recording process that produced a fidelity unmatched in its day. Unfortunately, manufacturing costs rendered it impractical and by the 1920's nearly all other companies were successfully using a different process. Edison's stubborn insistence on sticking with "verticals" nearly to the end eventually put the company out of business. Nevertheless, historians and critics agree that the Edison phonograph and disks provided the listener with the finest acoustic sound recordings of their time.Listen to the story of this forgotten moment in recording and Jazz history as told by audiophile Bill Mills and demonstrated by five carefully selected examples, from the Audio Archive, of Edison's unique process. These ultra-rare recordings open a window on the birth of Jazz as captured during its formative years and feature great arrangements with exciting improvised solos performed by a band of the hottest musicians of the era, The California Ramblers. Compare their performances of "Keep Smiling At Trouble," "Clementine," "The Stockholm Stomp," "Along Came Sweetness," and their sweetly suggestive version of "Tiptoe Through The Tulips" to the quality of other early Jazz recordings and you will understand why Edison championed his process to the bitter end! If you love history or Jazz or just a good audiobook, here is a must have chronicle of a genius inventor, a past generation and a lost technology, researche ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Bill Mills. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rebb/000011/bk_rebb_000011_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Habit Stacking: Achieve Health, Wealth, Mental Toughness, and Productivity Through Habit Changes , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 197min
If you’re looking to change your habits for good without resorting to unhealthy and impractical processes, pay attention....So, here’s the deal. You’ve tried all the “clean eating” plans available online...you’ve tried making new resolutions every morning...you’ve worked your butt off at the gym...but you still look at it as nothing but time spent, with nothing great coming out of it or, as a matter of fact, with things having gotten worse than before. And no matter how hard you try, you just cannot get rid of that smoking or drinking habit. Sound familiar?If it does sound, the audiobook Habit Stacking: Achieve Health, Wealth, Mental Toughness and Productivity Through Habit Changes might be your answer.This is because it is not some 1,200-calorie diet consisting of things such as sweet potatoes and white fish that will not only ruin your metabolism, but also your day. These types of plans only leave you feeling worse than before. It is a well-researched and scientifically constructed audiobook with simple-to-follow information that gives you the maximum results with the least effort possible.This guide is aimed at improving your overall mind-set, which will lead to an improvement in your overall performance. You will discover that this audiobook addresses the main problems you have with changing your bad habits. For example, the number one problem with going on a diet is that you cannot stick to healthy food for too long. In this habit-stacking guide, you will discover ways to stick to healthy diet habits and overcome those hunger cravings that are so difficult to ignore.Here are some habits you can incorporate in your daily routine to improve your health as soon as possible:Get sufficient sleep for healthy livingGet involved in something new that promotes a healthy lifestyleImprove your fitness by working on strength and flexibilityLaughter for healthy livingThis ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jason R. Gray. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/144239/bk_acx0_144239_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 740min
In April 1956, a refitted oil tanker carried 58 shipping containers from Newark to Houston. From that modest beginning, container shipping developed into a huge industry that made the boom in global trade possible. The Box tells the dramatic story of the container's creation, the decade of struggle before it was widely adopted, and the sweeping economic consequences of the sharp fall in transportation costs that containerization brought about. Published on the 50th anniversary of the first container voyage, this is the first comprehensive history of the shipping container. It recounts how the drive and imagination of an iconoclastic entrepreneur, Malcom McLean, turned containerization from an impractical idea into a massive industry that slashed the cost of transporting goods around the world and made the boom in global trade possible. But the container didn't just happen. Its adoption required huge sums of money, both from private investors and from ports that aspired to be on the leading edge of a new technology. It required years of high-stakes bargaining with two of the titans of organized labor, Harry Bridges and Teddy Gleason, as well as delicate negotiations on standards that made it possible for almost any container to travel on any truck or train or ship. Ultimately, it took McLean's success in supplying U.S. forces in Vietnam to persuade the world of the container's potential. Drawing on previously neglected sources, economist Marc Levinson shows how the container transformed economic geography, devastating traditional ports such as New York and London and fueling the growth of previously obscure ones, such as Oakland. By making shipping so cheap that industry could locate factories far from its customers, the container paved the way for Asia to become the world's workshop and brought consumers a previously unimaginable variety of low-cost products from around the globe. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Adam Lofbomm. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/015210/bk_acx0_015210_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Starry Night: A Christmas Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 321min
New York Times best seller'Tis the season for romance, second chances, and Christmas cheer with this new novel from Debbie Macomber. Carrie Slayton, a big-city society-page columnist, longs to write more serious news stories. So her editor hands her a challenge: She can cover any topic she wants, but only if she first scores the paper an interview with Finn Dalton, the notoriously reclusive author. Living in the remote Alaskan wilderness, Finn has written a mega-best-selling memoir about surviving in the wild. But he stubbornly declines to speak to anyone in the press, and no one even knows exactly where he lives. Digging deep into Finn's past, Carrie develops a theory on his whereabouts. It is the holidays, but her career is at stake, so she forsakes her family celebrations and flies out to snowy Alaska. When she finally finds Finn, she discovers a man both more charismatic and more stubborn than she even expected. And soon she is torn between pursuing the story of a lifetime and following her heart. Filled with all the comforts and joys of Christmastime, Starry Night is a delightful novel of finding happiness in the most surprising places. Praise for Starry Night: “Contemporary romance queen Macomber (Rose Harbor in Bloom) hits the sweet spot with this tender tale of impractical love.... A delicious Christmas miracle well worth waiting for.” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) “[A] holiday confection...as much a part of the season for some readers as cookies and candy canes.” (Kirkus Reviews)“A sweet contemporary Christmas romance...[that] the best-selling author’s many fans will enjoy.” (Library Journal) “Macomber can be depended on for an excellent story.... Readers will remain firmly planted in the beginnings of a beautiful love story between two of the most unlikely characters.” (RT Book Reviews)“Macomber, the prolific ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Rebecca Lowman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/003640/bk_rand_003640_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Low Sugar Diet: The 14-Day Plan to a Lean Life: Healthy Eating for Healthy Living: Ultimate Health, Book 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 95min
Are you thinking about dropping a few pounds but don’t know where to begin?Have you tried multiple different diets or methods of losing those pounds but never succeeded?Are you thinking about ways in which you can improve your overall health and well-being?Are you thinking about ways in which you can get a better handle on your current medical conditions?Are you thinking about how you can simply feel better and change your quality of life?If you can relate to any of these questions, then you are not alone. There are lots of folks out there who have asked themselves these same questions and found solid answers in the low sugar diet that this book details for you. With this dietary approach, you are not just reducing your sugar intake; you are giving your body a chance to improve its overall functioning and help repair itself.If that doesn’t sound too believable, you might be surprised. With the low sugar diet, you will be able to make the most of your efforts to embrace a healthier lifestyle. Best of all, you won’t have to make any crazy sacrifices to improve your eating habits and your overall health and well-being.To do so, you will learn about the following topics:The low sugar diet and its core philosophyHow to get started with the low sugar dietThe easiest and most sustainable ways to make the transitionWhat to look out for when making the switch over to the low sugar dietHow you can set yourself up for successGreat recipe ideas that will show you just how easy it is to get started with the low-sugar dietA 14-day sample plan that will help you get your creative juices flowingGreat strategies and recommendations on making the low-sugar diet work right for youAnd so much more...If you are tired of trying fad diets, crazy eating habits, and impractical approaches to losing weight or improving your overall health, ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Nikola Williams. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/199816/bk_acx0_199816_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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