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    Return from the Stars
    An astronaut returns to Earth after a ten-year mission and finds a society that he barely recognizes.Stanis aw Lem's Return from the Stars recounts the experiences of Hal Bregg, an astronaut who returns from an exploratory mission that lasted ten years although because of time dilation, 127 years have passed on Earth. Bregg finds a society that he hardly recognizes, in which danger has been eradicated. Children are betrizated to remove all aggression and violence a process that also removes all impulse to take risks and explore. The people of Earth view Bregg and his crew as resuscitated Neanderthals, and pressure them to undergo betrization. Bregg has serious difficulty in navigating the new social mores.While Lem's depiction of a risk-free society is bleak, he does not portray Bregg and his fellow astronauts as heroes. Indeed, faced with no opposition to his aggression, Bregg behaves abominably. He is faced with a choice: leave Earth again and hope to return to a different society in several hundred years, or stay on Earth and learn to be content. With Return from the Stars, Lem shows the shifting boundaries between utopia and dystopia.
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    The Lights Between Tunnels , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 431min
    Jennifer Beckett, a wealthy alumna of Harrington High School, returns to her alma mater to introduce a new scholarship competition worth $500,000. Each phase of the competition includes clues, riddles, and various tasks. Included in the Beckett Scholarship Competition are a comedy podcast about death, time dilation, Billy Joel, Harry Potter, and the Lascaux cave paintings. Alex, Peyton, and Cameron, three best friends with complex backgrounds, decide to enter, assuming it will be a fun, safe experience. They don't realize the extreme measures some people would take to win the scholarship until their lives are at risk. Alex, whose gender stays in question until the end of the story, is disturbed by American society. The competition is another example of the unjust world we have created. Peyton uses a quirky sense of humor to hide the truth about her painful past. Cameron tries to forget about his disturbing, bourgeois family while harboring a secret love for his best friend. They all have their issues. The marginalization of teenage stress, anxiety, and family problems continues to take its toll on each of them. Their conversations offer the joy and laughter needed to tolerate life's troubles. And every minute of every day, Alex's primary struggle is tolerating life. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Steve Millikin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/124646/bk_acx0_124646_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Eliza Williams: Pathway to the Stars, Part 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 340min
    Experience the early life of the future scientific and political hero, Eliza Williams, and the beginning of a new era!Vesha Celeste continues on with her training and journey as Yesha Alevtina shows and teaches her about Eliza Williams, through complete experiential immersion. With the added advantages of time-dilation, neural linking, and nano-technology giving her tactile-reference, she sees Eliza's life as if she were Eliza, herself.Vesha witnesses the critical aspects that lead to Eliza's personal transformation and the formation of Pathway LLC. Eliza's work to create the first biopods for physiological and neurological optimizations will be one of her main vehicles to drive all of her advances and designs, solar-system-wide. There is a lot for Vesha to learn, and she will become phenomenal, as this story progresses. Each ability she experiences in others, her optimized mind will be capable of learning and expounding upon.This is a more-detailed prequel to a giant space opera, from the Further than Before series, awaiting humanity in their quest to save the Universe one very-important step at a time. Enjoy Vesha's beginning journey as we are introduced to Eliza Williams, a critical leader-in-the-making, in the second of a multi-story science fiction and fantasy series of books, called Pathway to the Stars! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Allison Taylor. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/176843/bk_acx0_176843_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Inflammation Simplified: Understanding the Basics of the Inflammation Syndrome , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 102min
    When some wound swells up, reddens, and hurts, it may be a sign of inflammation. But generally speaking, inflammation is the response of your body's immune system to an irritant. The offending irritant could be a germ as well as a foreign object like a splinter in your finger. This means that an inflammation does not only start when, for example, a wound has been infected by bacteria, isn't healing properly, or is oozing pus. It starts when your body is already battling the harmful irritant. Many different factors can cause inflammation. The most common include: Pathogens like viruses, fungi, or bacteria External injuries like damage or scrapes through foreign objects. Effects of radiation or chemicals. When a part of your body is inflamed, many different immune cells may be involved. These cells release inflammatory mediators, such as histamine and bradykinin. They cause dilation of the small blood vessels in the tissues, allowing more blood to reach the injured tissues. This explains why inflamed areas turn red and feel hot. Just as the title implies, Inflammation Simplified explains briefly, and in simple words, the basics of inflammation in the human body. Highlights include: The inflammation-disease connection The anti-inflammatory diet plan Steps to fight the inflammation syndrome The anti-inflammatory supplement plan Your honest reviews, criticisms, and recommendations are welcome. Wishing you good health! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ken Harrington. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/187003/bk_acx0_187003_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Understanding Nonverbal Communication, Hörbuch, Digital, 368min
    Vocal tone and pitch. Posture. Eye contact and blinking. Gestures. Gait. Body type and clothing choices. How much of our communication is nonverbal? In Understanding Nonverbal Communication, you'll discover that nonverbal communication is less intentional and harder to control than the words you choose to speak. Because you are less aware of it than you are of your words, it provides better clues to what you are feeling and thinking. You can deliberately decide what to say, but from the deeper subcortical regions of your brain come your involuntary nonverbal expressions, including sweat, pupil dilation, facial movements, or blushing cheeks - any of which can speak more about your intentions or emotions than your actual words might. In 12 revealing lectures, you'll explore the history, evolution, and context of both the outright obvious and the sublimely subtle nuances of personal expression. The science of nonverbal communication has revealed intriguing insights into everything from how aspects of your reactions are biologically hardwired to how you are subconsciously influenced to vote by political speakers. You'll come to realize that the "invisible" world of nonverbal communication was always visible to you. You will explore the role of nonverbal communication as it relates to understanding other people's worldviews and interaction styles. With careful observation, you can capitalize on this science to further appreciate human expression, smooth social interactions, and strengthen relationships - helping to make the world a better and more accepting place. Language: English. Narrator: Mark G. Frank. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tcco/000441/bk_tcco_000441_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Navigating the Stars: Sentinels of the Galaxy, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 652min
    “The answer is no, Lyra”, my mother utters her favorite - I swear - phrase. No means I have to travel with them to another planet - again. No means leaving all my friends 50 years in the past. Thanks, Einstein. Seventeen-year-old Lyra Daniels can’t truly blame Einstein or her parents for their impending move across the Milky Way Galaxy. It’s all due to the invention of the Q-net, which made traveling the vast distances in space possible - with one big caveat: the time dilation. But that never stopped Lyra's ancestors from exploring the Milky Way, searching for resources and exoplanets to colonize. What they didn’t expect to find is life-sized terracotta warriors buried on 21 different exoplanets...Make that 22.  As the Galaxy’s leading experts on the warriors, Lyra's parents are thrilled by the new discovery, sending them - and her - 50 years into the future. Her social life in ruins, she fills her lonely days by illegally worming into the Q-net. The only person close to her age is the annoyingly irresistible security officer who threatens to throw her into the brig. After the planet they just left goes silent - meaning no communications from them at all - security has bigger problems to deal with than Lyra, especially when vital data files go missing. But that's just the beginning, because they’re not as alone as they thought on their new planet...and suddenly time isn't the only thing working against them.  ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gabra Zackman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/139805/bk_acx0_139805_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Dictionary of Body Language
    From former FBI agent and bestselling author Joe Navarro, a field guide companion to his classic What Every BODY is Saying, revealing the more than 400 essential body language indicators.A decade after his huge international bestseller What Every BODY is Saying, which has sold more than half a million copies in the U.S. and been published in dozens of foreign territories, retired FBI agent Joe Navarro offers its follow-up. The Dictionary of Body Language is a companion "field guide" to What Every BODY is Saying, expanding the original work with hundreds of additional behaviours, and presenting them all in an easy-to-reference format.Moving from the head down to the feet, Navarro explains the hidden meanings behind the many conscious and subconscious things we do with our bodies. We learn how to tell a person's true feelings from movement and dilation in their pupils; what to watch for in the lips of a person who may be afraid, or lying; the many different varieties of arm-crossing, and what each one means; how the position of our thumbs when we stand akimbo reflects our mental state; and many other fascinating insights. The applications for readers are numerous, from the business environment to romantic relationships.After reading The Dictionary of Body Language, you'll have a new ability to read other people's true intentions, and to adjust your own body presentation so that you can convey the right messages.
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    The Second Star , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1052min
    The Parada had been lost for almost 200 years before they recovered the ship, drifting in stygian interstellar darkness, and brought her home again.But that was not the miracle. The miracle was that the crew was still alive. That was also the problem. Six crew members went out on the Parada, Earth’s first starship. All contact was lost, and the ship vanished for almost two centuries. When the Parada’s successor found the drifting ship and somehow managed to bring it home, the six crew members were not only still alive but barely older, due to the time dilation effects of near-FTL travel. Their return was a miracle - but it could not be revealed to the waiting world. The problem was, six individuals went out to the stars. More than seventy fractured personalities came back. Psychologist Stella Froud and Jesuit Father Philip Carter were recruited as part of the team assembled to investigate the mystery, and to try and help the Parada’s crew understand their condition and possibly reverse it. What they discovered was a deepening mystery, and very soon they found themselves forced to take sides in a conflict that nobody could have possibly predicted. Their world would never be the same again. "Like its cast of returned starfarers, this rich and continually surprising novel is many things at once: a religiously-inflected first contact novel; an engaging psychological mystery; a glimpse of the future through the eyes of the past; and a moving tale about the difficulties of homecoming. I highly recommend it." (Matt Ruff, author of Set This House in Order and Lovecraft Country) ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jennifer Fournier. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/201884/bk_acx0_201884_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Quantum Entanglement
    An exploration of quantum entanglement and the ways in which it contradicts our everyday assumptions about the ultimate nature of reality.Quantum physics is notable for its brazen defiance of common sense. (Think of Schrödinger's Cat, famously both dead and alive.) An especially rigorous form of quantum contradiction occurs in experiments with entangled particles. Our common assumption is that objects have properties whether or not anyone is observing them, and the measurement of one can't affect the other. Quantum entanglement called by Einstein spooky action at a distance rejects this assumption, offering impeccable reasoning and irrefutable evidence of the opposite. Is quantum entanglement mystical, or just mystifying? In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Jed Brody equips readers to decide for themselves. He explains how our commonsense assumptions impose constraints from which entangled particles break free.Brody explores such concepts as local realism, Bell's inequality, polarization, time dilation, and special relativity. He introduces readers to imaginary physicists Alice and Bob and their photon analyses; points out that it's easier to reject falsehood than establish the truth; and reports that some physicists explain entanglement by arguing that we live in a cross-section of a higher-dimensional reality. He examines a variety of viewpoints held by physicists, including quantum decoherence, Niels Bohr's Copenhagen interpretation, genuine fortuitousness, and QBism. This relatively recent interpretation, an abbreviation of quantum Bayesianism, holds that there's no such thing as an absolutely accurate, objective probability out there, that quantum mechanical probabilities are subjective judgments, and there's no action at a distance, spooky or otherwise.
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    The Science of Sci-Fi: From Warp Speed to Interstellar Travel, Hörbuch, Digital, 239min
    Science fiction allows us to go places we can only dream of seeing - other worlds, distant stars, entirely different galaxies. While not every story is concerned with the hard science behind space travel and other futuristic ventures, fiction can give us amazing insight into what we could be capable of and what we dream of doing. In the 10 lectures of The Science of Sci-Fi: From Warp Speed to Interstellar Travel, Professor Erin Macdonald interweaves real science and the achievements of the imagination to reveal the truth that underlies our favorite stories and sheds light on what the future may hold. From faster-than-light travel to journeys through time itself, science fiction makes humanity seem limitless. So, what scientific boundaries are we pushing against as we seek to fly among the stars? Beginning with an overview of the physics of time and space as we know them, Professor Macdonald shows how stories extrapolate current knowledge to create visions of the future and how likely - or unlikely - these fictional journeys could be. What would happen if a spaceship flew into a wormhole, as it does in the film Galaxy Quest? Or, if you prefer video games, what would happen if you fired a rocket launcher on the Moon like the soldiers of Mass Effect? Could we ever break the bounds of light speed as they do in Star Wars and move across the universe without spending decades trying to make it to a distant exoplanet? Is the transporter technology of Star Trek really possible? As you look closely at artificial gravity, inertial dampeners, tachyons, red matter, time dilation, and other sci-fi mainstays through the theories of some of science’s greatest thinkers, you will find that your favorite science fiction stories become even more astonishing. Language: English. Narrator: Erin Macdonald. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/or/orig/000746/or_orig_000746_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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