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  Dizzy Worms: An African Tale, Book 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 439min

  Charity Mupanga, the resilient and maternal proprietor of Harrods International Bar (and Nightspot) faces her toughest challenge in Dizzy Worms, the final novel in Michael Holman’s acclaimed trilogy set in the African slum of Kireba. Faced with a Health and Safety closure, Charity has a week to appeal and the chances of success seem negligible: Elections are imminent, and Kireba is due to become a showcase of President Josiah Nduka's "slum rehabilitation program", backed by gullible foreign donors. But before taking on Nduka and the council, she has a promise to keep - to provide a supply of her famous sweet doughballs to a small army of street children, as voracious as they are malodorous.... ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jerome Pride. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/boli/001845/bk_boli_001845_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Kooks , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 356min

  Trent Noble's life is going nowhere fast. His once promising acting career has given way to a downward spiral of lowlife telemarketing jobs. On the brink of a promotion to head telemarketer, his conscience overloads, and one morning he passes the exit to his job and keeps on going. That's when he finds himself in Dadaville, an eccentric postmodern utopia not marked on any map. In Dadaville, the characters are as kookie as they are decent, and their culture of controlled creative chaos is balanced by a negligible crime rate. Trent feels right at home, but there is trouble in paradise, and the girl of his dreams is right in the middle of it. Can Trent save his girl and his town from the stranglehold of the sinister World Corp, whose logo is a globe pierced by a screw? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jamie Cohen. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/001499/bk_blak_001499_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Sleep Secrets: How to Fall Asleep Fast and Beat Insomnia (Great Sleep, Book 1) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 201min

  Our physical and mental health starts from the bed, the place to regenerate our energies. The reality is that, sometimes, we sleep poorly and badly. This audiobook will guide you through the five steps that will lead you to improve your sleep and, consequently, the quality of your life.First of all, you will understand what sleep is, what it is for, what is your personal way of sleeping, and how this changes over time and according to particular circumstances. You will find out what to avoid and what to do to improve the habits and behavior you adopt before going to bed, during the night, as soon as you wake up, and during the day.You will learn to understand which bed you sleep on and distinguish differences and qualities and to maintain them over time. Finally, you'll discover the importance of the environment in which you sleep and those details - space, light, noise, temperature - that are by no means negligible. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Streetpoet. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/188041/bk_acx0_188041_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Charcoal production in the hinterland of Lubumbashi/DRC

  Charcoal is the main source of energy for over 90% of the population. Its production generates little income and negligible taxes. Its production remains unsustainable. To remedy this, it is necessary to identify the factors associated with its sustainability. A survey was conducted among 40 charcoal producers in Kasenga. The major socio-demographic factors negatively influence deforestation. Indeed, all the charcoal burners had a low level of education, making it difficult to learn new carbonization technologies. The study showed, on the one hand, enormous ease of access to the resource and, on the other hand, a strong mismatch between the ecological value of the resource and the economic value of the product. Indeed, the grinding stones used are small (40 bags of 65Kg per month for a unit price not exceeding 5$). In addition, the technology used affects the low yield (less than 18%) as well as the income. It is important to develop strategies ranging from controlled felling to reforestation through improved carbonization techniques in order to make the activity profitable.

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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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  Non-Newtonian Losses Through Diaphragm Valves

  The prediction of head losses in a pipe system is very important because head losses affect the performance of fluid machinery such as pumps. In a pipe system, two kinds of losses are observed: major losses and minor losses. In Newtonian and non-Newtonian flow, major losses are those that are due to friction in straight pipes and minor losses are those that are due to pipe fittings. Minor losses must be accurately predicted in a pipe system because they are not negligible and can sometimes outweigh major losses. There is presently little data for the prediction of non-Newtonian head losses in pipe fittings in the literature and little consensus amongst researchers. In the case of diaphragm valves, usually, only one loss coefficient value is given in turbulent flow or in laminar flow with no reference to a specific size of the valve, assuming geometrical similarity that would lead to dynamic similarity. However, no one has done a systematic study of various sizes of diaphragm valves from the same manufacturer to establish if this is true. This could be the main reason for discrepancies found in the literature This work addresses this issue.

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  The Breakthrough Company: How Everyday Companies Become Extraordinary Performers , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 352min

  The vast majority of small businesses stay small - and not by choice. Only the most savvy and persistent (a tiny one tenth of one percent) break through to annual sales above $250 million. In The Breakthrough Company, Keith McFarland pinpoints how everyday companies become extraordinary, showing that luck is a negligible factor. Rather, breakthrough success turns out to be associated with a clearly identifiable set of strategies and skills that anyone in any business can emulate, from small startup to industry leader. Encouraged by experts such as business legend Peter Drucker and Good to Great author Jim Collins that identify the drivers that enable a company to push past the entrepreneurial phase, McFarland spent five years building and analyzing the world's largest growth-company performance database and interviewing more than 1,500 growth-company executives on four continents. His goal was simple: to identify the secrets of breakthrough. The Breakthrough Company is the result. Winnowing a study pool of more than 7,000 companies down to nine that have made the transition to major-player status, McFarland highlights real-world tools and myth-busting insights that can be used by anyone wanting his or her business to join this exclusive circle. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Keith R. McFarland. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/001346/bk_rand_001346_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Market Gardener: A Successful Grower's Handbook for Small-Scale Organic Farming , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 423min

  Growing on just one and a half acres, owners Jean-Martin and Maude-Helène feed more than 200 families through their thriving CSA and seasonal market stands and supply their signature mesclun salad mix to dozens of local establishments. The secret of their success is the low-tech, high-yield production methods they've developed by focusing on growing better rather than growing bigger, making their operation more lucrative and viable in the process. The Market Gardener is a compendium of proven horticultural techniques and innovative growing methods. This complete guide is packed with practical information on: Setting-up a micro-farm by designing biologically intensive cropping systems, all with negligible capital outlay Farming without a tractor and minimizing fossil fuel inputs through the use of the best hand tools, appropriate machinery, and minimum tillage practices Growing mixed vegetables systematically with attention to weed and pest management, crop yields, harvest periods, and pricing approaches Inspired by the French intensive tradition of maraichage and by iconic American vegetable grower Eliot Coleman, author and farmer Jean-Martin shows by example how to start a market garden and make it both very productive and profitable. Making a living wage farming without big capital outlay or acreages may be closer than you think. Jean-Martin Fortier is a passionate advocate of strong local food systems and founder of Les Jardins de la Grelinette, an internationally recognized model for successful bio-intensive micro-farming. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Diego Footer. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/071609/bk_acx0_071609_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Bad Food Bible: How and Why to Eat Sinfully , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 429min

  Physician and popular New York Times Upshot contributor Aaron Carroll mines the latest evidence to show that many "bad" ingredients actually aren't unhealthy, and in some cases are essential to our well-being. Advice about food can be confusing. There's usually only one thing experts can agree on: some ingredients - often the most enjoyable ones - are bad for you, full stop. But as Aaron Carroll explains, these oversimplifications are both wrong and dangerous: if we stop consuming some of our most demonized ingredients altogether, it may actually hurt us. In The Bad Food Bible, Carroll examines the scientific evidence, showing among other things that you can: Eat red meat several times a week: The health effects are negligible for most people, and actually positive if you're 65 or older. Have a drink or two a day: As long as it's in moderation, it will protect you against cardiovascular disease without much risk. Enjoy a gluten-loaded bagel from time to time: It has less fat and sugar, fewer calories, and more fiber than a gluten-free one. Eat more salt: If your blood pressure is normal, you should be more worried about getting too little sodium than having too much. Full of counterintuitive lessons about food we hate to love, The Bad Food Bible is for anyone who wants to forge eating habits that are sensible, sustainable, and occasionally indulgent. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jeff Cummings, Kate Rudd. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/009599/bk_brll_009599_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  By Order of the President: FDR and the Internment of Japanese Americans , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 707min

  On February 19, 1942, following the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor and Japanese Army successes in the Pacific, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed a fateful order. In the name of security, Executive Order 9066 allowed for the summary removal of Japanese aliens and American citizens of Japanese descent from their West Coast homes and their incarceration under guard in camps. Amid the numerous histories and memoirs devoted to this shameful event, FDR's contributions have been seen as negligible. Now, using Roosevelt's own writings, his advisors' letters and diaries, and internal government documents, Greg Robinson reveals the president's central role in making and implementing the internment and examines not only what the president did but why. Robinson traces FDR's outlook back to his formative years, and to the early twentieth century's racialist view of ethnic Japanese in America as immutably "foreign" and threatening. These prejudicial sentiments, along with his constitutional philosophy and leadership style, contributed to Roosevelt's approval of the unprecedented mistreatment of American citizens. His hands-on participation and interventions were critical in determining the nature, duration, and consequences of the administration's internment policy. By Order of the President attempts to explain how a great humanitarian leader and his advisors, who were fighting a war to preserve democracy, could have implemented such a profoundly unjust and undemocratic policy toward their own people. It reminds us of the power of a president's beliefs to influence and determine public policy and of the need for citizen vigilance to protect the rights of all against potential abuses. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: R.C. Bray. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/011153/bk_adbl_011153_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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