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The Genius in All of Us: New Insights into Genetics, Talent, and IQ , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 314min
With irresistibly persuasive vigor, David Shenk debunks the long-standing notion of genetic giftedness, and presents dazzling new scientific research showing how greatness is in the reach of every individual.DNA does not make us who we are. Forget everything you think you know about genes, talent, and intelligence, he writes. In recent years, a mountain of scientific evidence has emerged suggesting a completely new paradigm: not talent scarcity, but latent talent abundance.Integrating cutting-edge research from a wide swath of disciplines, cognitive science, genetics, biology, child development, Shenk offers a highly optimistic new view of human potential. The problem isn't our inadequate genetic assets, but our inability, so far, to tap into what we already have. IQ testing and widespread acceptance of innate abilities have created an unnecessarily pessimistic view of humanity and fostered much misdirected public policy, especially in education.The truth is much more exciting. Genes are not a blueprint that bless some with greatness and doom most of us to mediocrity or worse. Rather our individual destinies are a product of the complex interplay between genes and outside stimuli-a dynamic that we, as people and as parents, can influence.This is a revolutionary and optimistic message. We are not prisoners of our DNA. We all have the potential for greatness.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: Mark Deakins. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/002195/bk_rand_002195_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Hidden Tower : The Portal Wars Saga, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 575min
Otto Shenk is the youngest son of a minor baron. He's also a wizard.Abused by his family and considered less than human by his kingdom, Otto does his best to survive. But everything changes when Otto stumbles across a tower hidden deep in a dark part of the forest near his home.A tower that was once the home of an Arcane Lord, the immortal wizards that long ago ruled the world. Otto’s life will be changed forever. And so will the world. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Joe Hempel. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/218682/bk_acx0_218682_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Immortal Game: A History of Chess , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 485min
A surprising, charming, and ever-fascinating history of the seemingly simple game that has had a profound effect on societies the world over. Why has one game, alone among the thousands of games invented and played throughout human history, not only survived but thrived within every culture it has touched? What is it about its 32 figurative pieces, moving about its 64 black and white squares according to very simple rules, that has captivated people for nearly 1,500 years? Why has it driven some of its greatest players into paranoia and madness, and yet is hailed as a remarkably powerful educational tool? Nearly everyone has played chess at some point in their lives. Its rules and pieces have served as a metaphor for society including military strategy, mathematics, artificial intelligence, literature, and the arts. It has been condemned as the devil’s game by popes, rabbis, and imams, and lauded as a guide to proper living by different popes, rabbis, and imams. In his wide-ranging and ever fascinating examination of chess, David Shenk gleefully unearths the hidden history of a game that seems so simple yet contains infinity. From its invention somewhere in India around 500 A.D., to its enthusiastic adoption by the Persians and its spread by Islamic warriors, to its remarkable use as a moral guide in the Middle Ages and its political utility in the Enlightenment, to its crucial importance in the birth of cognitive science and its key role in the new aesthetic of modernism in 20th century art, to its 21st century importance to the development of artificial intelligence and use as a teaching tool in inner-city America, chess has been a remarkably omnipresent factor in the development of civilization. Indeed as Shenk shows, some neuroscientists believe that playing chess may actually alter the structure of the brain, that it may for individuals be what it has been for civilization: a virus that makes us smarter. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John H. Mayer. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bkot/000780/bk_bkot_000780_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Encountering the Supernatural: Discover God's amazing presence and power for your life (The Time Is Now! Series) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 252min
Wherever you are in your spiritual journey, Encountering the Supernatural will place you on a path to a greater revelation of God's supernatural power in everyday life. The authors draw from the scriptures and their own personal experiences to teach us how to be awakened to the supernatural life that is intended for everyone, including you. Through these stories and teachings, you will encounter Jesus and learn to experience his supernatural presence and power working in and through you as part of your daily walk of faith. Encountering the Supernatural is part of The Time Is Now! Series. The time is now to discover God’s amazing presence and power for your life!Use this book for personal study, daily devotions, mentoring as well as small group study. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Larry Kreider, Kevin Kazemi, Merle Shenk. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/180081/bk_acx0_180081_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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To the Best of Our Knowledge: Creative Parts, Hörbuch, Digital, 52min
In this hour, we explore the fine art of creative collaboration. We start with the music of John Lennon and Paul McCartney. Joshua Wolf Shenk has written a detailed analysis of the working relationship between the prolific and influential songwriting duo. He tells Jim Fleming they did complete each other, but not in the way you might think. Next, Lan Samantha Chang was a student at the Iowa Writer's Workshop, and now teaches there. Her new novel follows the lives of students and one particular professor in a creative writing program in the Midwest. It's called All Is Forgotten, Nothing Is Lost. Steve Paulson asked her to start by reading some of it.Then, Elizabeth Bishop's poetry while she was a college student. Biele was so impressed with Bishop's poetry that she edited a book called Elizabeth Bishop and The New Yorker: The Complete Correspondence. Joelle Biele told Anne Strainchamps what happened to Bishop's poems when they were submitted to The New Yorker.And finally, Ben Folds is a singer/songwriter from North Carolina who recently joined forces with Nick Hornby, the critically-acclaimed novelist from England. Folds and Hornby collaborated on an album called Lonely Avenue. As you might guess, Hornby wrote the lyrics and Folds wrote the music. To the Best of Our Knowledge producer Doug Gordon talked to Folds about working with Hornby to create Lonely Avenue. [Broadcast Date: April 1, 2011] Language: English. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/rt/tbon/110401/rt_tbon_110401_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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To the Best of Our Knowledge: Creative Pairs, Hörbuch, Digital, 52min
In this hour, Joshua Wolf Shenk has written a detailed analysis of the working relationship between the prolific and influential songwriting duo of John Lennon and Paul McCartney. He tells Jim Fleming they did complete each other, but not in the way you might think.Next, Lan Samantha Chang was a student at the Iowa Writer's Workshop, and now teaches there. Her new novel follows the lives of students and one particular professor in a creative writing program in the Midwest. It's called All Is Forgotten, Nothing Is Lost. Steve Paulson asked her to start by reading some of it. Then, Joelle Biele discovered Elizabeth Bishop's poetry while she was a college student. Biele was so impressed with Bishop's poetry that she edited a book called Elizabeth Bishop and The New Yorker: The Complete Correspondence. Joelle Biele told Anne Strainchamps what happened to Bishop's poems when they were submitted to The New Yorker.Finally, Ben Folds is a singer/songwriter from North Carolina who recently joined forces with Nick Hornby, the critically-acclaimed novelist from England. Folds and Hornby collaborated on an album called Lonely Avenue. As you might guess, Hornby wrote the lyrics and Folds wrote the music. To the Best of Our Knowledge producer Doug Gordon talked to Folds about working with Hornby to create Lonely Avenue. [Broadcast Date: April 13, 2012] Language: English. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/rt/tbon/120413/rt_tbon_120413_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Lincoln Raw: A Biographical Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 824min
A rare journey into the heart and mind of Abraham Lincoln because events don't make history...people do. Beyond the legend, Abraham is inescapably human, reliving the gauntlet of tragedy and abuse that should have consumed him, exposing his private reasons for standing firm on the brink of war. Seven-year-old Abraham Lincoln's boyhood dies when his father drags their family from the relative comfort of Kentucky into an unforgiving Indiana wilderness. While suffering rebuke for teaching himself to read and write, Abraham endures rumors of illegitimate birth, escapes death a half dozen times, labors to repay his father's debts, and grieves the deaths of his infant brother, angel mother, precious sister, and beloved sweetheart. By his early 30s, he casts off his parents' religion, becomes estranged from his closest friend, and loses faith in his own character when he breaks an engagement to marry a woman he doesn't love. He spirals into life-threatening depression. In the prime of life, unable to keep a pledge made to his dying mother to become someone special, he wrestles with self-doubt, abandons politics, and resigns himself to a life of mediocrity. But when his longtime rival opens the door for slavery's expansion across half the globe, Lincoln faces the greatest challenge of his life - his beloved country is being ripped apart. Grounded in historical record, the story is enriched by insights gleaned from the works of prominent Lincoln biographers: Harold Holzer, Michael Burlingame, Douglas Wilson, Allen Guelzo, and Joshua Shenk, to credit a few. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ken Teutsch. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/038215/bk_acx0_038215_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Chess Opening Names: The Fascinating & Entertaining History Behind the First Few Moves , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 233min
The people, places, and stories behind the chess openings and their names: When we play chess, the first few moves define the game. You probably know the names already: the Sicilian Defense, the Ruy Lopez, the French Defense, the Caro-Kann, the Benoni, the London System, the Scandinavian Defense and so on. But most chess players don't know WHY the openings are called what they are. In this entertaining audiobook, best-selling author Nathan Rose lays out the origins of over 50 standard chess openings and their names. The tales are often deeply connected to the lives of the leading chess grandmasters, the historical events taking place at the time, and the critical chess world championship contests. All these stories are collected together in this, the first audiobook dedicated to uncovering them. The names of the chess openings tell the history of chess: You will meet larger-than-life characters such as Bobby Fischer, Aron Nimzowitsch, Alexander Alekhine, Frank Marshall, Siegbert Tarrasch, Wilhelm Steinitz, and Paul Morphy. Some of these men won their fame in the chess world championship, while some gained wider renown for reasons other than their ability to play chess. You will be agog at Paul Morphy's stunning conquest of Europe and subsequent disappearance, the outrageous antics of Aron Nimzowitsch upon losing a game, and the eccentric names Alexander Alekhine gave his cats. You will also travel through the places and events that defined chess in the early years. As David Shenk showed in The Immortal Game, the history of chess has often mirrored the history of society. There's the 1972 world chess championship that pitted the Soviet Union's Boris Spassky against America's irascible Bobby Fischer in the Match of the Century; the 1939 chess olympiad in Argentina which coincided with the outbreak of World War II; and the unveiling of the "Mechanical Turk" chess-playing contraption in 18th-century Vienna. Impress your fr ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Nathan Rose. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/115433/bk_acx0_115433_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Immortal Game: A History of Chess, Hörbuch, Digital, 370min
Why has one game, alone among the thousands of games invented and played throughout human history, not only survived but thrived within every culture it has touched? What is it about its 32 figurative pieces, moving about its 64 black and white squares according to very simple rules, that has captivated people for nearly 1,500 years? Why has it driven some of its greatest players into paranoia and madness, and yet is hailed as a remarkably powerful intellectual tool? Nearly everyone has played chess at some point in their lives. Its rules and pieces have served as a metaphor for society, influencing military strategy, mathematics, artificial intelligence, and literature and the arts. It has been condemned as the devil's game by popes, rabbis, and imams, and lauded as a guide to proper living by other popes, rabbis, and imams. Marcel Duchamp was so absorbed in the game that he ignored his wife on their honeymoon. Caliph Muhammad al-Amin lost his throne (and his head) trying to checkmate a courtier. Ben Franklin used the game as a cover for secret diplomacy. In his wide-ranging and ever-fascinating examination of chess, David Shenk gleefully unearths the hidden history of a game that seems so simple yet contains infinity. From its invention somewhere in India around 500 A.D., to its enthusiastic adoption by the Persians and its spread by Islamic warriors, to its remarkable use as a moral guide in the Middle Ages and its political utility in the Enlightenment, to its crucial importance in the birth of cognitive science and its key role in the aesthetic of modernism in 20th century art, to its 21st century importance in the development of artificial intelligence and use as a teaching tool in inner-city America, chess has been a remarkably omnipresent factor in the development of civilization. Language: English. Narrator: Rick Adamson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/000902/bk_rand_000902_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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