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  Living Tao: Timeless Principles for Everyday Enlightenment , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 571min

  Tao has been built into the foundation of East Asian culture for millennia, and many books have been written to explain it. But Tao cannot fully be explained in words; it can only felt and experienced. Tao is something you live, day by day, moment by moment. It's the omnipresent oneness beyond ephemeral phenomena that expresses itself in everything. New York Times best-selling author Ilchi Lee, an enlightened Tao master from South Korea, has laid out a path to living Tao every day. Along this path, he guides you to an understanding of the meaning of birth, death, and everything in between, building a foundation for living a complete and whole life. The universal principles contained in this book stem from the Korean practice of Sundo, an ancient tradition of mind-body training, as well as Lee's own life experience. With these tangible principles, Ilchi Lee makes this profound topic simple and accessible. Living Tao has an unparalleled depth in its simplicity that anyone can absorb and immediately apply. 2015 INDIEFAB Book of the Year Award Winner, Bronze, Body, Mind & Spirit ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Andrew Start. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/084731/bk_acx0_084731_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Night Mayor , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 522min

  Welcome to the City made from a dream. But this isn't any dream; it is the dark and haunting nightmare of a killer. It is the near future, and old-fashioned movies, or flatties, have been replaced by Dreams, virtual reality scenarios written by professional Dreamers. When infamous criminal Truro Daine escapes imprisonment, he flees into the City, an artificial world of his own creation, where he rules as the all-powerful Night Mayor. Now, detective Dreamer Tom Tunney and Susan Bishopric, author of romance Dreams, must join forces to track him down. But how do you hunt the Night Mayor in a city populated by a dense crowd of strangely familiar characters, where it's always 2.30 a.m., shots never kill and the creator is omnipresent in every drop of falling rain...? Kim Newman is a well-known and respected author and movie critic. He writes regularly for Empire Magazine and contributes to The Guardian, The Times, Time Out and others. He makes frequent appearances on radio and TV. He has won the Bram Stoker, International Horror Guild, British Fantasy and British Science Fiction Awards and been nominated for the Hugo and World Fantasy Awards. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mark Meadows. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/011519/bk_adbl_011519_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Scabs III: Humans, Gods, and Monsters , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 706min

  The final tale in the intense Scabs trilogyI was created by human emotion; love, elation, hate, fear, desperation. On occasion, I awaken and become aware. It is always triggered by humanity's cry for help. - Kokumthena Scott, Warren, and Missy Walsh did not understand what their roles were to be when the omnipresent light first blinked on. They believed their only obligation was to find a safe place for their small family to escape what was happening all around them. But fate would not allow them to hide away in the North Carolina cabin for long. Now, with their number hovering near a dozen survivors, they must work together - along with Koku, the flawed, self-aware goddess with a long-term memory problem - to preserve Earth for humanity's occupation. Earth Canyon Retreat is their sanctuary for the moment, but as the invaders make adjustments, so must the survivors. As the winged, clawed, and fanged monsters ravage all life forms on Earth, working toward their goal of total annihilation, these ragtag remnants of humanity must find some way to drive the interlopers from the planet. For when humanity dies, so do its Gods...once and for all. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Eric A. Shelman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/088909/bk_acx0_088909_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Determinants of the Performance of Strategic Initiatives

  Foreword Since the first studies by Bower and Burgelman in the early 1980's on the phenomenon of strategic initiatives, the use of strategic initiatives in the strategic management of diversified organizations now is omnipresent. Strategic initiatives are seen as efficient answers of management teams for pressing challenges. By making use of strategic initiatives, managers can proceed flexibly and with entrepreneurial vigor from broad ideas toward specific commitments. Managing initiatives is perceived as a complex challenge by most managers. Empirical studies show that about 70% of all strategic initiatives fail to reach their goals. This statistic shows us, that successful management and implementation of strategic initiatives requires a multitude of diverse managerial skills. To date, the complexity of strategic initiatives is most often not fully taken into account in strategic management research. Almost all studies investigating strategic initiatives have concentrated either on the external or internal organizational context or have solely identified contextual factors that undermine the successful implementation of strategic initiatives. This underscores the fact that most prior research on the relationship between the organizational context and strategic initiatives is too narrow and suggests the need for a more holistic approach.

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  A Lonely Man

  "A Lonely Man is a superb suspense novel, imbued with moral and narrative complexity and an omnipresent low cloud cover of dread." -The Washington Post Two British men, both writers, meet by chance in Berlin. Robert is trying and failing to finish his next book while balancing his responsibilities as a husband and a father. Patrick, a recent arrival in the city, is secretive about his past, but eventually reveals that he has been ghostwriting the autobiography of a Russian oligarch. The oligarch has turned up dead, and Patrick claims to be a hunted man himself. Although Robert doubts the truth of Patrick's story, it fascinates him, and he thinks it might hold the key to his own foundering novel. Working to gain the other man's trust, Robert draws out the details of Patrick's past while ensnaring himself ever more tightly in what might be either a fantasist's creation or a lethal international plot. Through an elegant existential game of cat and mouse, Chris Power's A Lonely Man depicts an attempt to create art at the cost of empathy. Robert must decide what is his for the taking-and whether some stories are too dangerous to tell.

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  Little Liar: Outsmart the Narcissist's Tactics to Control You , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 31min

  You enter into a relationship, thinking that everything will be wonderful. There will be romance, intimacy, reciprocity, and love. There will be partnership, generosity, emotional support and communication. Then...wham! You find yourself the victim of mind control, gaslighting, abuse, circular conversations, compartmentalization, triangulation, and more. What do you do? Where do you go? Should you continue the relationship? How can you keep the upper hand in the relationship without being enveloped into the pit of despair that is created by the narcissist? How can you keep him from demeaning, devaluing and destroying your life? How can you survive this relationship, or how can you go "no contact" safely without being sucked back into his game? You are lost, and you feel like you have nowhere to turn. The narcissist has become omniscient and omnipresent in your life. You may have allowed him to do this, or he may have invited himself to exert this much control over you. Either way, you have a problem. If you don't extract yourself from his skewed view of reality, you will suffer excruciating emotional pain at the hands of the narcissist. He will turn your whole world upside down. Download now to hear more! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: D Gaunt. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/090977/bk_acx0_090977_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Sex-O-S: The Tragicomical Adventure of an Italian Surviving the First Time (The Italian Saga, Book 4) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 486min

  Colleen Hoover meets Jandy Nelson in this emotional coming of age story, culminating the celebrated Italian saga. Italy, the mid-90s. Fifteen-year-old bookish tomboy Leda is dating the bad boy of her dreams. Is it love? Is she ready for her first time? Leda discovers at her own expense that life is not a fairy tale and she finds her own way to make sense of darkness, love, and friendship.... Authentic, emotional, and gripping, this novel denounces the hypocrisy of a society that would rather see pregnant teens than having an honest conversation about sex. Breathtaking Italy with its fascinating culture adds to the charm of this addictive, empowering novel about a girl trying to make it on her own, no matter what. "Sex to me was mysterious and omnipresent, just like God. Several of my friends were no virgins, definitely including Nico. The biology and anatomy of the act had been unraveled for me in school with all the pain embarrassment could bring. The many books I surrounded myself with had answered any residual question but one: when was the right time? Was there a moment in your life when this cumbersome question mark turned into an exclamation?" ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gaia B. Amman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/070785/bk_acx0_070785_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Dancing with Mr. D. Der Tod in Popmusik und Kunst

  Ein guter Song, tanzbar, drei Minuten, vergänglich. Das Ende ist gewiss und so unausweichlich wie der Tod. Der Beat ist eingängig und doch, in den Lyrics wird gestorben, gemordet und getrauert. Die Vergänglichkeit und das Sterben, aber auch ein koketter Umgang mit dem Tod, sind in der Rock- und Popmusik der Jugendkultur der 1950er und 1960er-Jahre omnipräsent. Die Themen ähneln denjenigen der Bildenden Künste aus der Tradition der Totentänze und Vanitas-Darstellungen. Der vorliegende Band führt die beiden Stränge zusammen: Exemplarisch werden Songs und Bands vom Beat der 1960er-Jahre, dem Classic Rock, Punk und Reggae bis hin zum Pop und Hip Hop vorgestellt und mit Abbildungen aus der Graphiksammlung Mensch und Tod der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf sowie zeitgenössischen Kunstwerken verknüpft.A good song, danceable, three minutes, and then it's over. The beat is catchy, and yet the lyrics tell a tale of death, murder and mourning. Transience and mortality - but also a coquettish way of dealing with death - are omnipresent in the rock and pop music of the youth culture of the 1950s and 60s. The themes are similar to those of the fine arts from the tradition of the 'dance of death' and vanitas motifs. The present volume brings the two strands together.

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  The Healing Power of Mind: Simple Meditation Exercises for Health, Well-Being, and Enlightenment (Buddhayana Series, VII) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 400min

  The true nature of our minds is enlightened and peaceful, as the depth of the ocean is calm and clear. But when we mentally grasp and emotionally cling to our wants and worries with all our energy, we lose our own enlightened freedom and healing power, only to gain stress and exhaustion, suffering and overexcitement, like the turbulent waves rolling on the surface of the ocean. Our minds possess the power to heal pain and stress, and to blossom into peace and joy, by loosening the clinging attitudes that Buddhists call "grasping at self." If we apply the mind's healing power, we can heal not only our mental and emotional afflictions, but physical problems also. This book is an invitation to awaken the healing power of mind through inspiring images and sounds, mindful movements, positive perceptions, soothing feelings, trusting confidence, and the realization of openness. The healing principle on which these exercises are based is the universal nature and omnipresent power envisioned in Mahayana Buddhism. Yet for healing, we don't have to be believers in any particular faith. We can heal body and mind simply by being what we truly are, and by allowing our own natural healing qualities to manifest: a peaceful and open mind, a loving and positive attitude, and warm, joyful energy in a state of balance and harmony. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Elijah Alexander. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/019909/bk_adbl_019909_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Keep the Change: A Clueless Tipper's Quest to Become the Guru of the Gratuity , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 589min

  Tipping is huge in America. Almost everyone leaves at least one tip every day. More than five million American workers depend on them, and we spend $66 billion on tips each year. And everyone recognizes that queasy feeling - in bars and restaurants, barbershops and beauty parlors, hotels and strip clubs, and everywhere else - when the check arrives or the tip jar looms. Omnipresent yet poorly understood, tipping has worked its way into almost every part of daily life. In Keep the Change, bestselling author Steve Dublanica dives into this unexplored world, in a comical yet serious attempt to turn himself into the Guru of the Gratuity. As intrepid and irreverent as Michael Moore or A. J. Jacobs, Dublanica travels the country to meet strippers and shoeshine men, bartenders, bellhops, bathroom attendants, and many others, all in an effort to overcome his own sweaty palms when faced with those perennial questions: Should I tip? How much? Throughout, he explores why tipping has spread; he explains how differences in gender, age, ethnicity, and nationality affect our attitudes; and he reveals just what the cabdriver or deliveryman thinks of us after we’ve left a tip. Written in the lively style that made Waiter Rant such a hit, Keep the Change is a fun and enlightening quest that will change the way we think - and tip. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dan John Miller. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/002544/bk_brll_002544_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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