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    There Is No Map in Hell: The Record-Breaking Run Across the Lake District Fells , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 416min
    In 1986, the legendary fell runner Joss Naylor completed a continuous circuit of all 214 Wainwright fells in the Lake District, covering a staggering distance of over 300 miles - plus many thousands of metres of ascent - in only seven days and one hour.Those in the know thought that this record would never be beaten. It is the ultimate British ultramarathon. The person taking on this superhuman challenge would have to be willing to push harder and suffer more than ever before. There Is No Map in Hell tells the story of a man willing to do just that.In 2014, Steve Birkinshaw made an attempt at setting a new record. With a background of nearly 40 years of running elite orienteering races and extreme-distance fell running over the toughest terrain, if he couldn’t do it, surely no one could. But the Wainwrights challenge is in a different league: Aspirants need to complete two marathons and over 5,000 metres of ascent every day for a week.With a foreword by Joss Naylor, There Is No Map in Hell recounts Birkinshaw’s preparation, training, and mile-by-mile experience of the extraordinary, and sometimes, hellish demands he made of his mind and body, and the physiological aftermath of such a feat. His deep love of the fells, phenomenal strength, and tenacity are awe inspiring and testimony to athletes and onlookers alike that "in order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd". ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Stewart Crank. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/151381/bk_acx0_151381_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Mechanical Horse: How the Bicycle Reshaped American Life , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 304min
    With cities across the country adding miles of bike lanes and building bike-share stations, bicycling is enjoying a new surge of popularity in America. It seems that every generation or two, Americans rediscover the freedom of movement, convenience, and relative affordability of the bicycle. The earliest two-wheeler, the draisine, arrived in Philadelphia in 1819 and astonished onlookers with the possibility of propelling themselves "like lightning". Two centuries later, the bicycle is still the fastest way to cover ground on gridlocked city streets. Filled with lively stories, The Mechanical Horse reveals how the bicycle transformed American life. As bicycling caught on in the 19th century, many of the country's rough, rutted roads were paved for the first time, laying a foundation for the interstate highway system. Cyclists were among the first to see the possibilities of self-directed, long-distance travel, and some of them (including a fellow named Henry Ford) went on to develop the automobile. Women shed their cumbersome Victorian dresses - as well as their restricted gender roles - so they could ride. And doctors recognized that aerobic exercise actually benefits the body, which helped to modernize medicine. Margaret Guroff demonstrates that the bicycle's story is really the story of a more mobile America - one in which physical mobility has opened wider horizons of thought and new opportunities for people in all avenues of life. The book is published by University of Texas Press. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Margaret Guroff. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/087204/bk_acx0_087204_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Donnybrook: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 386min
    The raw and as-insane-as-anticipated first novel from Frank Bill, author of Crimes in Southern Indiana. The Donnybrook is a three-day bare-knuckle tournament held on a thousand-acre plot out in the sticks of southern Indiana. Twenty fighters. One wire-fence ring. Fight until only one man is left standing while a rowdy festival of onlookers - drunk and high on whatever’s on offer - bet on the fighters. Jarhead is a desperate man who’d do just about anything to feed his children. He’s also the toughest fighter in southeastern Kentucky, and he’s convinced that his ticket to a better life is one last fight with a cash prize so big it’ll solve all his problems. Meanwhile, there’s Chainsaw Angus - an undefeated master fighter who isn’t too keen on getting his face punched anymore, so he and his sister, Liz, have started cooking meth. And they get in deep. So deep that Liz wants it all for herself, and she might just be ready to kill her brother for it. One more showdown to take place at the Donnybrook. As we travel through the backwoods to get to the Donnybrook, we meet a cast of nasty, ruined characters driven to all sorts of evil, all in the name of getting their fix - drugs, violence, sex, money, honor. Donnybrook is exactly the fearless, explosive, amphetamine-fueled journey you’d expect from Frank Bill’s first novel...and then some. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tom Stechschulte. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/reco/006743/bk_reco_006743_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Joan of Arc: The Final Defiance: Her Last 72 Hours , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 201min
    May 30, 1431: Joan of Arc will soon be burned at the stake. This is the story of the final 72 hours of Joan of Arc. The story is told in a compelling countdown up until Joan of Arc's head slumps forward and her innocent life is extinguished by the smoke that quickly fills her lungs as onlookers cheer. The girl who led the English against the French in the One Hundred Years War, who hears voices of the saints and God himself, discovers she will burn at the stake, not for leading the French Armies against her English captors, not for heresy against the church, but for cross-dressing. Despised by Bishop Cauchon, he lays out a legal case against Joan which is full of lies but no one goes against him. Most look forward to watching whom they believe is the devil woman burn at the stake. A guard she has befriended lays out an escape plan to free her but fate intervenes. As the hours count down to Joan's final hours, she reminisces about her visions, those hard yet wonderful things that guided her life, and she wonders if they were all worth it as she is led to the courtyard and her final minutes of her life. What were Joan's thoughts during her last 72 hours? What was behind Bishop Cauchon's motives to burn Joan? What were the thoughts of the guard and soldier that she had befriended during her last hours? How would her parents get past losing their daughter in a most horrific way? As the clock winds down, Joan must try to escape, or accept the fact that the voices knew what her fate was to be since the day she was born. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Yael Eylat-Tanaka. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/086466/bk_acx0_086466_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Facebook Marketing Advertising 2019: 10,000/Month Ultimate Guide for Personal Branding, Affiliate Marketing, & Dropshipping - Best Tips & Strategies to Skyrocket Your Business Facebook Ads , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 199min
    Are looking for something more than just a few tips and examples to improve your Facebook marketing? What if you could put a hundred dollars into Facebook advertising and receive back $200 or more in sales? Imagine if you escaped the business hamster wheel of chasing customers and instead, started attracting them.Then you’ve just hit the Jackpot!In recent years, Facebook marketing has undergone some big changes to improve the way marketers use their platform. From advanced analytics to API innovation, the ability to grow your business using Facebook is limitless.Facebook has become a viable instrument of promoting that consistently changes because of the standard presentation of new highlights. The updates ensure that you won’t regret spending your precious hours on the platform, and that its interface gets more impressive than ever. Gone are those times that individuals pay special mind to billboard promotions, magazines, or TV advertisements. With an immense measure of your center group of onlookers on Facebook in 2019, building a brand network will be easy on this channel. Facebook promoting has been demonstrated to convey fantastic outcomes at little expense to build your clients and benefit.Here’s a taster of other things you’ll discover in this guide:How to measure your ads’ effectiveness through Facebook PixelFacebook Metrics you need to track as a business ownerData provided by Facebook Audience Insights to understand your community betterThe importance of becoming an affiliate marketer and tips on how to become a successful oneHot to get traffic on the merchant’s websiteDrop shipping; feasibility, profitability, critical roles and the perks as well as cons involvedAnd so much more.Although the number of books on this subject are endless out there, throughout this book, you’ll dive deep into the world of Facebook advertising and understand what happ ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Arthur Milton. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/151878/bk_acx0_151878_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Persuasion Techniques Second Edition: The Art of Mental Manipulation Through a Practical Guide to Influence and Improve the Mental Control of People and Increase Your Conversation Capacity , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 203min
    If you want to learn the art of mental manipulation, improve your persuasion skills, and learn the best methods so that people get your ideas, and know the magic words to get out of any problematic situation, keep reading...You see, when you can convince people to take up your ideas and way of doing things, you can get them to follow you and to do all that you want them to do. Onlookers will interpret it as you having leadership skills and the ability to move masses, but the secret to your success will be far from it.As you can see, persuasion skills serve to draw people to work with the same aim: to achieve a common goal. They get us working together, whether we succeed or we fail, and that is the essence of being in a family, a community, or a country.We are not obliged to think the same way, but we should at least take up the best suggestion as our direction and forge forward instead of wasting time weighing out opinions.You will find in this audiobook:The most complete coverage of persuasion skills with real-life examples of how they are used to shift opinionThe most credible advice on how to convince others of your opinionThe most useful guide on how to express your opinion and your voiceAdvice on how to make your voice heard by people in authorityThe most valuable tips to help you read body communicationA discussion on the most powerful weapons of influenceThe most vivid description of a good leader's behaviorA description of some of the most powerful magic words you can use to get out of any problem situationWhat are you waiting for? Click on the "buy now" button. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Craig Hannaway. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/215948/bk_acx0_215948_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Once a Warrior: How One Veteran Found a New Mission Closer to Home , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 492min
    The book that America needs right now. (Tom Brokaw, journalist and author of The Greatest Generation)"Jake Wood offers one of the most soaring definitions of service I've ever seen." (Maria Shriver, award-winning journalist and author of I've Been Thinking)From Marine sniper Jake Wood, a riveting memoir of leading over 100,000 veterans to a life of renewed service, volunteering to battle, hurricanes, tornados, wildfires, pandemics, and civil wars, and inspiring onlookers as their unique military training saved lives and rebuilt our country. When Jake Wood arrived in the States after two grueling tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, he watched his unit lose more men to suicide than to enemy hands overseas. Reeling, Jake looked for a way to direct their restlessness towards a new mission - and put their formidable skills to good use. When an earthquake struck Haiti in 2010, Jake had his answer. He convinced several fellow veterans to join him on a ragtag mission to provide desperately needed aid. Despite the high stakes, they were able to untangle complex problems quickly and keep calm under pressure.In this raw, adrenaline-filled narrative, Jake recounts, how, over the past 10 years, he's built the disaster response organization Team Rubicon, and seen the work provide a lifeline back to purpose for the heroes among us. Not only do these intrepid volunteers race against the clock to aid communities after Hurricane Sandy, Hurricane Harvey, COVID-19, and hundreds of other disasters they also fight for something just as important - each other. Once a Warrior provides a soaring look at what our veterans are capable of - and what might become of America's next greatest generation. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jake Wood. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/peng/005150/bk_peng_005150_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    In Bed with Susie Bright 564: Octopus Sex, Fat Sex, Babysitter Sex!, Hörbuch, Digital, 32min, (USK 18)
    Today's show starts with a look into the exotic world of underwater sex - between octopuses. The octopus is a solitary creature until it's time to mate. A Scientific American blog article reveals what really happens when the creatures need to get down. In a Seattle aquarium, a pair was joined together in a very public fashion with onlookers observing 16 arms and 4,000 suckers as the couple entwined. After four-plus hours, the octopuses were released back into Puget Sound to lay eggs in the wild, and then, sadly, each animal - as is the standard octopus destiny - died soon after mating. What a love story! Next, Susie profiles author Hanne Blank's new audiobooks: Virgin: The Untouched History, Straight: The Surprisingly Short History of Heterosexuality, and Big, Big Love: A Sex and Relationships Guide for People of Size (and Those Who Love Them). Susie talks about Blank's unique approach to writing how-to sex books. And we'll hear an audio sample with narrator Johanna Taylor from Big, Big Love that deals with the myths associated with people of size. Hint: size doesn't stop many people from having great sex! Then, it's the "Try This at Home" mailbag. A female listener writes in about a problem with her babysitter: "After a night out with my husband, when returning home, we found our babysitter in the middle of the act, rolling on the floor in the kitchen with a teenage boy. I'm not a prude, but yikes!" Have a question? You can call Susie's hotline at 831-480-5110. And you can send your confidential questions - plus requests for free samples and blog banners! - to susie@audible.com. [Episode 564, April 5, 2013] Explicit Language Warning: You must be 18 years or older to purchase this program. Language: English. Narrator: Susie Bright. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/pf/suzy/130405/pf_suzy_130405_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Battle of Shanghai: The History and Legacy of the Battle That Started the Second Sino-Japanese War , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 114min
    On October 29, 1937, a large crowd of people gathered on the bank of the Wusong River in Shanghai to watch a spectacle - a life and death struggle unfolding directly in front of them across the river. The crowd was a curious blend of Chinese, European, and American civilians and journalists. Their focus was on the Sihang Warehouse across the river, but it wasn’t the warehouse itself that fascinated the onlookers. Instead, it was the men inside the warehouse - the men of the 524th regiment and the 88th division of the Chinese Nationalist Army. The soldiers were elite, and they were widely considered the best of the Nationalist Army. They proudly called themselves “the generalissimo’s own”, after Jiang Jieshi, the generalissimo of the Nationalist government and leader of China. The Chinese soldiers were prepared to fight and die to the last man, and they were making their last stand there. By then, the city of Shanghai was in shambles. The Imperial Japanese Military had invaded Shanghai on August 13, 1937, rapidly reducing the once-prosperous city to a pile of burning rubble after three months of brutal urban combat. Countless blazing fires raged throughout the city, some of which had been caused by the fighting, but most had been set by the retreating Chinese Army in a futile effort to stall the Japanese invaders.The Chinese Nationalist Army had fought valiantly against the Japanese, but the Chinese were hopelessly outgunned. Possessing few heavy weapons, aircraft, and artillery, the Nationalist Army could not hope to defeat the Japanese, who possessed superior firepower in every engagement against the Chinese troops. Causality rates for the Nationalist Army were horrific, with some units being completely wiped out in the fighting. Many Nationalist Army units would be completely annihilated in the three months of house-to-house fighting. As spectators watched from across the river, a barrage of Japanese artillery slammed the warehouse, creatin ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jim D. Johnston. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/171324/bk_acx0_171324_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    In Sickness and in Health: Love, Disability, and a Quest to Understand the Perils and Pleasures of Interabled Romance , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 490min
    A frank, humorous exploration of interabled dating, love, and marriage Ben Mattlin's wife, ML, recalls falling in love with his confidence and sheer determination. On one of their earliest dates, he persuaded her to ride on his lap in his wheelchair on their way home from an Elvis Costello concert. Thirty years later, they still travel like this from time to time, undaunted by the curious stares following them down the street. But In Sickness and in Health is more than an "inspiring" story of how a man born with spinal muscular atrophy - a congenital and incurable neuromuscular condition - survived childhood, graduated from Harvard, married an able-bodied woman, built a family with two daughters and a cat and a turtle, established a successful career in journalism, and lived happily ever after. As Mattlin considers the many times his relationship has been met with surprise or speculation by outsiders - those who consider his wife a "saint" or him just plain "lucky" for finding love - he issues a challenge to listeners: why should the idea of an "interabled" couple be regarded as either tragic or noble? Through conversations with more than a dozen other couples of varying abilities, ethnic backgrounds, and orientations, Mattlin sets out to understand whether these pairings are as unusual as onlookers seem to think. Reflecting on his own experience he wonders: How do people balance the stresses of personal-care help with the thrill of romance? Is it possible that the very things that appear to be insurmountable obstacles to a successful relationship - the financial burdens, the physical differences, the added element of an especially uncertain future - could be the building blocks of an enviable level of intimacy and communication that other couples could only dream of? We meet Shane Burcaw, a 23-year-old writer, who offers a glimpse of his first forays into dating with a disability. There's Rachelle Friedman, ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Rene Ruiz. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/005453/bk_rand_005453_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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