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  Her Endearing Young Charms: A Lady of Many Charms, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 483min

  A Regency romance with magic.Miss Merribelle Hales spent years imbuing a silver locket with man-attracting charms. On the way to her first London season, her locket is stolen - along with a kiss - by a highwayman. Her only clue to his identity: a pair of intense eyes. This vexes her. Without her best charm, how will she ever be able to compete on the marriage mart? It would be so much easier if she didn't have to compete at all.Lord Alexander Rochester, has worries aplenty. His ailing father's estates are woefully in debt, so he must seek a wealthy wife. His courtship of Miss Hales goes terribly awry with a simple kiss that leads to his slapped face and an accusation of theft.  It's a case of mistaken identity. Alexander knows and fears the real culprit. He faces the loss of his father, his estate, and Miss Hales - whom he's loved since childhood - at the hands of the Handkiss Highwayman.For fans of Mary Robinette Kowal, Amanda Quick (Jayne Ann Krentz), and Georgette Heyer. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Heidi Wessman Kneale. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/136097/bk_acx0_136097_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Dubliners (Collins Classics)

  HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.'One by one they were all becoming shades. Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.'Revealing the truths and realities about Irish society in the early 20th century, Joyce's Dubliners challenged the prevailing image of Dublin at the time. A group portrait made up of 15 short stories about the inhabitants of Joyce's native city, he offers a subtle critique of his own town, imbuing the text with an underlying tone of tragedy. Through his various characters he displays the complicated relationships, hardships and mundane details of everyday life and the desire for escape - a yearning that so closely mirrored his own experiences.

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  Sunday Mornings in Plains Collection , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 626min

  2008 Audie Award Finalist for Original WorkFor almost three decades, President Carter has taught the adult Bible study at his church in Plains, Georgia where several hundred visitors join him each Sunday to understand the wisdom of the Bible and apply it to their lives. The Sunday Mornings in Plains Collection presents recordings from these classes and includes:Leading a Worthy LifeDescribing basic tenets of Christian living that still resonate today, President Carter speaks to the theme of reconciliation - with God and with each other and shares insights into the practical application of faith in daily life that will challenge and inspire all of us.Measuring Our SuccessThese classes open with President Carter's comments on the eve and outset of the Iraq war, imbuing them with significant and lasting historical interest, and offering a dramatic and moving demonstration of the struggle to reconcile spiritual ideals with the challenges and conflicts of contemporary life.Bringing Peace to a Changing WorldIncluding President Carter's reflections on his personal experience waging peace in the Middle East and elsewhere, with practical, inspiring examples of how each of us can put these Christian ideals prophesized by Isaiah into practice in our lives and communities. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jimmy Carter. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/sans/008813/bk_sans_008813_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Greenwashing Sport (eBook, PDF)

  Professional sports promote their green credentials and yet remain complicit in our global environmental crisis Sports are responsible for significant carbon footprints through stadium construction and energy use, player and spectator travel, and media coverage. The impact of sports on climate change is further compounded by sponsorship deals with the gas and petroleum industries-imbuing those extractive corporations with a positive image by embedding them within the everyday pleasure of sport. Toby Miller argues that such activities amount to "greenwashing". Scrutinizing motor racing, association football, and the Olympics, Miller weighs up their environmental policies, their rhetoric of conservation and sustainability, and their green credentials. The book concludes with the role of green citizenship and organic fan activism in promoting pro-environmental sports. This is a must-read for students and researchers in media, communications, sociology, cultural studies, and environmental studies.

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  Revolution and Disenchantment

  The Arab Revolutions that began in 2011 reignited interest in the question of theory and practice, imbuing it with a burning political urgency. In Revolution and Disenchantment Fadi A. Bardawil redescribes for our present how an earlier generation of revolutionaries, the 1960s Arab New Left, addressed this question. Bardawil excavates the long-lost archive of the Marxist organization Socialist Lebanon and its main theorist, Waddah Charara, who articulated answers in their political practice to fundamental issues confronting revolutionaries worldwide: intellectuals as vectors of revolutionary theory; political organizations as mediators of theory and praxis; and nonemancipatory attachments as impediments to revolutionary practice. Drawing on historical and ethnographic methods and moving beyond familiar reception narratives of Marxist thought in the postcolony, Bardawil engages in "fieldwork in theory" that analyzes how theory seduces intellectuals, cultivates sensibilities, and authorizes political practice. Throughout, Bardawil underscores the resonances and tensions between Arab intellectual traditions and Western critical theory and postcolonial theory, deftly placing intellectuals from those traditions into a much-needed conversation.

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  Search: How the Data Explosion Makes Us Smarter , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 361min

  Search is as old as language. There has always been a need for one to find something in the jumble of human creation. The first web was nothing more than passing verbal histories down the generations so others could find and remember how not to get eaten; the first search used the power of written language to build simple indexes in printed books, leading to the Dewey Decimal system and reverse indices in more modern times. Then digital happened. Besides having profound societal impacts, it also made the act of searching almost impossibly complex for both engines and searchers. Information isn't just words; it is pictures, videos, thoughts tagged with geocode data, routes, physical world data, and, increasingly, the machines themselves reporting their condition and listening to others. Search: How the Data Explosion Makes Us Smarter holds up a mirror to our time to see if search can keep up. Author Stefan Weitz, a Director in Search for Bing (Microsoft), explores the idea of access to help readers understand how we are inventing new ways to access data through devices in more places and with more capabilities. We are at the cusp of imbuing our generation with superpowers, but only if we fundamentally rethink what search is, how people can use it, and what we should demand of it. 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: Dana Hickox. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/gdan/001452/bk_gdan_001452_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Being and Nothingness (eBook, ePUB)

  Revisit one of the most important pillars in modern philosophy with this new English translation—the first in more than 60 years—of Jean-Paul Sartre's seminal treatise on existentialism. "This is a philosophy to be reckoned with, both for its own intrinsic power and as a profound symptom of our time" (The New York Times). In 1943, Jean-Paul Sartre published his masterpiece, Being and Nothingness, and laid the foundation of his legacy as one of the greatest twentieth century philosophers. A brilliant and radical account of the human condition, Being and Nothingness explores what gives our lives significance. In a new and more accessible translation, this foundational text argues that we alone create our values and our existence is characterized by freedom and the inescapability of choice. Far from being an internal, passive container for our thoughts and experiences, human consciousness is constantly projecting itself into the outside world and imbuing it with meaning. Now with a new foreword by Harvard professor of philosophy Richard Moran, this clear-eyed translation guarantees that the groundbreaking ideas that Sartre introduced in this resonant work will continue to inspire for generations to come.

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  Killing Commendatore: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1707min

  A Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Financial Times, Library Journal, LitHub, and Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the YearThe epic new novel from the internationally acclaimed and best-selling author of 1Q84 In Killing Commendatore, a 30-something portrait painter in Tokyo is abandoned by his wife and finds himself holed up in the mountain home of a famous artist, Tomohiko Amada. When he discovers a previously unseen painting in the attic, he unintentionally opens a circle of mysterious circumstances. To close it, he must complete a journey that involves a mysterious ringing bell, a two-foot-high physical manifestation of an Idea, a dapper businessman who lives across the valley, a precocious 13-year-old girl, a Nazi assassination attempt during World War II in Vienna, a pit in the woods behind the artist’s home, and an underworld haunted by Double Metaphors. A tour de force of love and loneliness, war and art - as well as a loving homage to The Great Gatsby - Killing Commendatore is a stunning work of imagination from one of our greatest writers.“A spellbinding parable of art, history, and human loneliness.” (O, The Oprah Magazine)“Expansive and intricate...touches on many of the themes familiar in Mr. Murakami’s novels: the mystery of romantic love, the weight of history, the transcendence of art, the search for elusive things just outside our grasp.” (The New York Times)“Eccentric and intriguing, Killing Commendatore is the product of a singular imagination.... Murakami is a wiz at melding the mundane with the surreal.... He has a way of imbuing the supernatural with uncommon urgency. His placid narrative voice belies the utter strangeness of his plot.... The worldview of Murakami’s novels is consistent, and it’s invigorating. In this book and many that came before it, he urges us to embrac ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kirby Heyborne. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/006245/bk_rand_006245_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Kingdom of Matthias: A Story of Sex and Salvation in 19th-Century America  , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 426min

  In the autumn of 1834, New York City was awash with rumors of a strange religious cult operating nearby, centered around a mysterious, self-styled prophet named Matthias. It was said that Matthias the Prophet was stealing money from one of his followers; then came reports of lascivious sexual relations, based on odd teachings of matched spirits, apostolic priesthoods, and the inferiority of women. At its climax, the rumors transformed into legal charges, as the Prophet was arrested for the murder of a once highly regarded Christian gentleman who had fallen under his sway. By the time the story played out, it became one of the nation's first penny-press sensations, casting a peculiar but revealing light on the sexual and spiritual tensions of the day. In The Kingdom of Matthias, the distinguished historians Paul Johnson and Sean Wilentz brilliantly recapture this forgotten story, imbuing their richly researched account with the dramatic force of a novel. In this book, the strange tale of Matthias the Prophet provides a fascinating window into the turbulent movements of the religious revival known as the Second Great Awakening - movements which swept up great numbers of evangelical Americans and gave rise to new sects like the Mormons. Into this teeming environment walked a down-and-out carpenter named Robert Matthews, who announced himself as Matthias, prophet of the God of the Jews. His hypnotic spell drew in a cast of unforgettable characters - the meekly devout businessman Elijah Pierson, who once tried to raise his late wife from the dead; the young attractive Christian couple, Benjamin Folger and his wife, Ann (who seduced the woman-hating Prophet); and the shrewd ex-slave Isabella Van Wagenen, regarded by some as "the most wicked of the wicked". None was more colorful than the Prophet himself, a bearded, thundering tyrant who gathered his followers into an absolutist household, using their money to buy an elaborate, eccentri ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Noah Michael Levine. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/011599/bk_adbl_011599_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Emotional Intelligence: A Practical Guide to Master Your Emotions, Anger Management, Improve Your Social Skills, Raise Your EQ , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 249min

  Do you want to know yourself more deeply and understand what is really emotional intelligence? Read on...An understanding of emotional intelligence can drastically improve your life. An awareness of the skill spectrum that emotional intelligence represents is the first step in imbuing your life with the benefits that come with emotional intelligence.A working definition of emotional intelligence can also be developed by thinking of it in terms of the abilities of self-awareness, self-regulation, empathy, and motivation. The benefits of honing emotional intelligence skills are many. These skills are essential for men and women working on teams, for those in leadership roles, in conversation, and for interaction in a social group.It almost goes without saying that emotional intelligence is important in relationships, especially considering the fact that EI is a component of normal human communication and social interaction. The truth is that, nowadays, while normal people are still finding their own goal, people with high emotional intelligence are able to find great job and become leaders in their environment. This fact is due to the capability of these individuals to understand yourself and others through the mastery of emotions, anger management, and improving their social skills.EI skills can be improved with practice, making emotional intelligence a skill-set that you do not have to be stuck with. We are all born with some emotional intelligence traits, and we can improve these by training. Learning about emotional intelligence is the first step to being more emotionally intelligent. As you practice skills, like self-awareness, self-regulation, and empathy, you will find that behaving with emotional sensitivity becomes as natural as breathing.This book helps you understand all facets and components of emotional intelligence from the frameworks to practical exercises to test your EQ.In this audiobook, you will l ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Steve Keller. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/192093/bk_acx0_192093_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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