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Lesath , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 427min

Locked in his dark cell, Greg lay awake in bed, fidgeting with the small cassette recorder, pressing the rewind and stop buttons to listen to the heavy click and spring-loaded clank that initiated and punctuated the faint whirring mechanics. He knew well enough no one was going to come looking for him - not while he was in between jobs, living in a four-door pickup truck, and had traveled to an undisclosed location without telling anyone.What brought him here were rumors of an abandoned building there that was said to be part of a black site - rumors that were circulated amongst truckers and drifters: some exaggerated the sinister aspect of the place, detailing with morbid relish the methods of enhanced interrogation that were being developed or deployed there, while others assumed the contrarian position and downplayed the horrors, if not downright dismissed the whole story as hyperbole.Questionable as the lead was, the story seemed too good for an amateur journalist like Greg to pass up. All the same, he did not expect there would be some truth to those rumors, that the building is not quite derelict as he had imagined. And that, thanks to a case of mistaken identity, he was now incarcerated there as an inmate.Greg stopped the rewinding mechanism when he detected rustling and soft thumps coming through the ceiling vent - or thought he did, since the quirky nature of unidentified noise is that it usually ceases whenever one stops to listen. Like a living body, no running building is without its small, unaccountable bumps and muffled clanks; yet even if they're mostly benign noise, at night, they're magnified by the ever-present hush, and their unfamiliarity never fails to inflame the imagination of the sleepless newcomer. Lesath is a psychological thriller that pays tribute to classic gothic fiction. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Neil Hellegers. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/170880/bk_acx0_170880_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Hearts and Mines: With the Marines in al Anbar - A Story of Psychological Warfare in Iraq , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 482min

This is a true story of war, the story of one man's transformation as he retraces the mine-strewn roads of a land itself transformed by mankind's most shockingly inhuman practice. It is the firsthand account of a member of one of the United States Army's three-man Tactical Psychological Operations Teams, groups of men tasked with winning the hearts and minds of Iraq's civilian population through leaflets, loudspeakers, conversation, and bribery. Transcribed from and inspired by the author's personal wartime journal, it is a story of introspection. It relates how the feelings of eagerness and uncertainty in a young man unfamiliar with war were replaced with the dread knowledge that, buried within his soul, beneath a facade of goodwill and morality, lurked the capacity to kill his fellow men. There are scenes of battle retold in Hearts and Mines. There are descriptions of the feelings of seeing once-familiar human bodies destroyed beyond recognition. Some days are described as being full of hope and appreciation for the beauty of the world, others with despair for the omnipresent cruelty and destruction which has a habit of consuming men when they feel unaccountable for their actions. It captures the sensory experience of living in a singular environment full of strange plants and animals, friends true and false, and determined enemies, encapsulating the existential fear of mortar and rocket attacks, and the ever-present threat of IEDs, as well as the ridiculousness of military bureaucracy, such as was demonstrated by a sergeant major's decision to punish graffiti artists by removing the doors of all the camp's toilets. In late 2001 Russell Snyder joined the United States Army as a psychological operations specialist. As a member of the 9th PSYOP Battalion, the army's only active-duty, tactical psychological operations unit he deployed to Iraq, the experience that inspired him to write Hearts and Mines. Subsequently he was deployed twice ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John Allen Nelson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/010086/bk_adbl_010086_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Death by HR: How Affirmative Action Cripples Organizations , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 785min

Human resources (HR) departments are widely disliked, and job searchers are generally advised to contact the hiring manager directly if they really want to be considered for a job. There are good reasons why HR acts like an arm of the government bureaucrats pressuring companies to hire more protected minorities and women - because that's what they are, in many companies. From the best-selling author of Avoidant comes a fresh look at HR and the hiring of mediocre employees favored by affirmative action programs. It's a new age of incompetence, with brain-dead, unaccountable employees holding sinecures at the heart of our government agencies and regulated institutions like banks and hospitals, protected by affirmative action and union policies. The rot is spreading as pressure from state and federal regulation of companies has increased, promoting an internal compliance bureaucracy that has devalued the best job candidates and employees and promoted affirmative action and diversity over team productivity. The result has been ever-more-costly failures and a steep decline in performance. From the mortgage meltdown that brought down the world's economy in 2008, to the disastrous launch of the healthcare.gov website for Obamacare, major segments of business and government in the US have grown more expensive and less competent over the past few decades. Billions of dollars of waste in government contracts for IT projects, weapons systems, and service failures at the VA are in the news every day. Public schools are widely seen as mediocre, and in the poorest urban districts they are failing to provide a decent education for the students who need good schools the most to make up for bad family backgrounds. Costs for regulated services like schools, colleges, medical insurance, drugs, courts, prisons, and infrastructure like roads and bridges rise far faster than inflation, while time to complete major projects stretches out to decades, and many fail ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Joe Farinacci. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/074940/bk_acx0_074940_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Vital Energy Program: How to Master Your Body's Energy Cycles for Optimal Health, Hörbuch, Digital, 488min

Master Your Body's Vital Energy for the Best Health of Your Life Do you experience unaccountable fatigue? Would you like to have more energy for the things you love most? Western science is finally validating what doctors in Eastern medicine have known for centuries: that the human body's life essence, or vital energy, plays a critical role in our general health and well-being. In The Vital Energy Program, pioneering nutritional biochemist Dr. Susan Taylor introduces you to this potent force that can infuse and sustain every aspect of your physical, emotional, and spiritual being. Cultivate the Energy of the Universe Recognized for centuries in China as qi and in India as prana, vital energy can be cultivated and directed with pinpoint accuracy, teaches Dr. Taylor. Using a unique integrated approach encompassing both Eastern and Western traditions, Dr. Taylor has helped hundreds of people raise their energy levels and overcome debilitating problems, including fatigue, depression, illness, weight gain, loss of sex drive, and sleep disturbances. Now, for the first time, her techniques culled from more than 17 years of success in her private practice are collected together and presented by Dr. Taylor for everyone seeking the gift of vibrant health through improved metabolic functioning. Four Keys to Unlock Your Vital Energy In this ultimate, energy-boosting curriculum, Dr. Taylor will show you how to work with the natural cycles of your metabolism and four key principles: nourishment, breathing, movement, and relaxation. You will learn: How to optimize your energy through what you eat and when you eat it Special breathing principles that directly influence your nervous system, yielding a new ability to think clearly and quickly, while reducing stress levels Specific exercises to circulate and cleanse stagnated energy, revitalizing every organ in your body And much more Language: English. Narrator: Susan Taylor. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/sp/true/000739/sp_true_000739_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Lords of Secrecy: The National Security Elite and America's Stealth Warfare , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 442min

Forty years ago, a majority of Americans were highly engaged in issues of war and peace. Whether to go to war or keep out of conflicts was a vital question at the heart of the country's vibrant, if fractious, democracy. But American political consciousness has drifted. In the last decade, America has gone to war in Iraq and Afghanistan, while pursuing a new kind of warfare in Yemen, Somalia, Libya, and Pakistan. National security issues have increasingly faded from the political agenda, due in part to the growth of government secrecy. In lucid and chilling detail, journalist and lawyer Scott Horton shows how secrecy has changed the way America functions. Executive decisions about war and peace are increasingly made by autonomous, self-directing, and unaccountable national security elites. Secrecy is justified as part of a bargain under which the state promises to keep the people safe from its enemies, but in fact allows excesses, mistakes, and crimes to go unchecked. Bureaucracies use secrets to conceal their mistakes and advance their power in government, invariable at the expense of the rights of the people. Never before have the American people had so little information concerning the wars waged in their name, nor has Congress exercised so little oversight over the war effort. American democracy is in deep trouble. Lords of Secrecy explores the most important national security debates of our time, including the legal and moral issues surrounding the turn to private security contractors, the sweeping surveillance methods of intelligence agencies, and the use of robotic weapons such as drones. Horton looks at the legal edifice upon which these decisions are based and discusses approaches to rolling back the flood of secrets that is engulfing America today. Whistleblowers, but also Congress, the public, and the media, play a vital role in this process. As the ancient Greeks recognized, too much secrecy changes the nature of the state itself, transforming a ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Joe Barrett. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/022315/bk_adbl_022315_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 625min

An enraging, necessary look at the private prison system, and a convincing clarion call for prison reform.” (NPR.org)New York Times Book Review 10 Best Books of 2018One of President Barack Obama’s favorite books of 2018 Winner of the 2019 J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize Winner of the Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in JournalismWinner of the 2019 RFK Book and Journalism Award A New York Times Notable BookA groundbreaking and brave inside reckoning with the nexus of prison and profit in America in one Louisiana prison and over the course of our country's history. In 2014, Shane Bauer was hired for nine dollars an hour to work as an entry-level prison guard at a private prison in Winnfield, Louisiana. An award-winning investigative journalist, he used his real name; there was no meaningful background check. Four months later, his employment came to an abrupt end. But he had seen enough, and in short order he wrote an exposé about his experiences that won a National Magazine Award and became the most-read feature in the history of the magazine Mother Jones. Still, there was much more that he needed to say. In American Prison, Bauer weaves a much deeper reckoning with his experiences together with a thoroughly researched history of for-profit prisons in America from their origins in the decades before the Civil War. For, as he soon realized, we can't understand the cruelty of our current system and its place in the larger story of mass incarceration without understanding where it came from. Private prisons became entrenched in the South as part of a systemic effort to keep the African-American labor force in place in the aftermath of slavery, and the echoes of these shameful origins are with us still. The private prison system is deliberately unaccountable to public scrutiny. Private p 9780525528784 N N ©2018 Shane Bauer;(P)2018 Penguin Audio http://www.audible.de/pd/B07DKHMYZ1?source_code=PNHFA145032019009G&ipRedirectOverride=true http://www.audible.de/pd/B07DKHMYZ1?source_code=PNHFA145032019009G&ipRedirectOverride=true Love and Lady Lovelace: Regency Royal, Book 10 (Unabridged) 22.95 AVAILABLE Love and Lady Lovelace: Regency Royal, Book 10 (Unabridged) Love and Lady Lovelace (Unabridged) M. C. Beaton When young widow Lady Lovelace realized she had been swindled to near bankruptcy by her curmudgeonly cousin, she knew she would have to marry again for money.... Karen Cass Hachette Audio UK 2018-09-27 07:00:00 276 B07DNHY39B English - Fiction British English 1.00 9.95 N http://img.audible.de/audiblewords/content/bk/twuk/001501de/lg_image.jpg http://samples.audible.de/bk/twuk/001501/bk_twuk_001501_sample.mp3 When young widow Lady Lovelace realised she had been swindled to near bankruptcy by her curmudgeonly cousin, she knew she would have to marry again for money. These were the very thoughts of Lord Philip, who had nothing between him and destitution but his small army pension. And so these two attractive fortune hunters somehow found each other and, before long, popped into marriage - and into the bridal chamber - only to discover they were both virtually penniless. What a diabolical situation. What would they do now? 9781405540322 N N ©2013 M. C. Beaton;(P)2018 Hachette Audio UK http://www.audible.de/pd/B07DNHY39B?source_code=PNHFA145032019009G&ipRedirectOverride=true http://www.audible.de/pd/B07DNHY39B?source_code=PNHFA145032019009G&ipRedirectOverride=true El asedio [The Siege] (Unabridged) 22.95 AVAILABLE El asedio [The Siege] (Unabridged) El asedio [The Siege] (Unabridged) Arturo Pérez-Reverte Cádiz, 1811. España lucha por su independencia mientras América lo hace por la suya. En las calles de la ciudad más liberal de Europa se libran batallas de otra índole. Mujeres aparecen desolladas a latigazos. En cada lugar, antes del hallazgo del cadáver, ha caído una bomba francesa.... Victor Velasco Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial 2018-06-07 14:52:11 1385 B07DLLQN3J English - Mysteries & Thrillers Spanish 1.00 9.95 N http://img.audible.de/audiblewords/content/bk/rhsp/000774de/lg_image.jpg http://samples.audible.de/bk/rhsp/000774/bk_rhsp_000774_sample.mp3 en español, en espanol, español, espanol, audiolibros en español, audiolibros en espanol ¿Puede ser una coincidencia que una muchacha muera a latigazos donde acaba de caer una bomba? ¿Puede jugarse una partida de ajedrez usando como escenario una ciudad sitiada? El asedio es la novela más enigmática de Arturo Pérez-Reverte Cádiz, 1811. España lucha por su independencia mientras América lo hace por la suya. En las calles de la ciudad más liberal de Europa se libran batallas de otra índole. Mujeres jóvenes aparecen desolladas a latigazos. En cada lugar, antes del hallazgo del cadáver, ha caído una bomba francesa. Eso traza sobre la ciudad un mapa superpuesto y siniestro: un complejo tablero de ajedrez donde la mano de un jugador oculto -un asesino despiadado, el azar, las curvas de artillería, la dirección de los vientos, el cálculo de probabilidades- mueve piezas que deciden el destino de los protagonistas: un policía corrupto y brutal, la heredera de una importante casa comercial gaditana, un capitán corsario de pocos escrúpulos, un taxidermista misántropo y espía, un enternecedor guerrillero de las salinas y un excéntrico artillero a quien las guerras importan menos que resolver el problema técnico del corto alcance de sus obuses. El asedio narra el pulso asombroso de un mundo que pudo ser y no fue. El fin de una época y unos personajes condenados por la Historia, sentenciados a un vida que, como la ciudad que los alberga -una Cádiz equívoca, enigmática, solo en apariencia luminosa y blanca-, nunca volverá a ser la misma. Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish. 9788420432809 N N ©2010 Arturo Pérez Reverte;(P)2018 Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial, S. A. U. http://www.audible.de/pd/B07DLLQN3J?source_code=PNHFA145032019009G&ipRedirectOverride=true http://www.audible.de/pd/B07DLLQN3J?source_code=PNHFA145032019009G&ipRedirectOverride=true Anything for Him (Unabridged) 17.95 AVAILABLE Anything for Him (Unabridged) Anything for Him (Unabridged) L.K. Chapman Alone after the loss of her parents, Felicity finds herself in a relationship with volatile Jay. Reluctantly drawn in to a revenge plan against Jay's former best friend, Felicity soon becomes trapped, and as Jay turns increasingly controlling she questions everything he has told her.... Anna Parker-Naples Tantor Audio 2018-06-26 07:00:00 415 B07DM5WMD2 English - Mysteries & Thrillers English 1.00 9.95 N http://img.audible.de/audiblewords/content/bk/tant/011549de/lg_image.jpg http://samples.audible.de/bk/tant/011549/bk_tant_011549_sample.mp3 Vulnerable and alone after the tragic loss of her parents, Felicity finds herself in a relationship with volatile and troubled Jay. Reluctantly drawn in to a twisted revenge plan against Jay's former best friend, Felicity soon becomes trapped, and as Jay turns increasingly controlling and abusive she questions everything he has told her about his past and his former girlfriend Sammie. But when she wants to expose the truth she comes up against an even greater threat: Someone obsessed and dangerous. Someone who has always been in the background of Jay's life. Someone who will do anything for him. 9781977386397 N N ©2016 LK Chapman;(P)2018 Tantor http://www.audible.de/pd/B07DM5WMD2?source_code=PNHFA145032019009G&ipRedirectOverride=true http://www.audible.de/pd/B07DM5WMD2?source_code=PNHFA145032019009G&ipRedirectOverride=true Shelter for Blythe : Badge of Honor: Texas Heroes, Book 11 (Unabridged) 20.95 AVAILABLE Shelter for Blythe : Badge of Honor: Texas Heroes, Book 11 (Unabridged) Shelter for Blythe (Unabridged) Susan Stoker Blythe Coopman never imagined she'd be homeless, but a series of events has landed her on San Antonio's streets hungry, tired, and scared. She clings to her most precious possession, a phone accidentally swiped from a local firefighter.... Erin Mallon Stoker Aces Production, LLC 2018-06-12 07:00:00 380 B07DJYRH7P English - Romance English 1.00 9.95 N http://img.audible.de/audiblewords/content/bk/acx0/118068de/lg_image.jpg http://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/118068/bk_acx0_118068_sample.mp3 firefighter romance Blythe Coopman never imagined she'd be homeless, but a series of events has landed her on San Antonio's streets...hungry, tired, and scared. She clings to her most precious possession, a phone accidentally swiped from a local firefighter, who, instead of canceling the number, starts texting her. Soon, the man's calls and texts are the highlight of her days, but she declines his frequent offers of help. Blythe refuses to be his burden - until a vicious attack takes the decision out of her hands. When the woman he's already begun to care for ends up in the ER, Sawyer “Squirrel” McClay is livid - and ashamed. He should have insisted she accept his help long ago. Now, he's not taking no for an answer. While his friends rally round Blythe, Squirrel's bond with her grows stronger by the day, until he realizes he'll do anything to keep her safe, healthy, and happy...even as his own lifelong insecurities work against him. But despite leaving the streets behind, Blythe and Sawyer discover old dangers still linger, threatening to end the couple's new bliss before it's barely begun. UNKNOWN N Y ©2018 Susan Stoker;(P)2018 Susan Stoker http://www.audible.de/pd/B07DJYRH7P?source_code=PNHFA145032019009G&ipRedirectOverride=true http://www.audible.de/pd/B07DJYRH7P?source_code=PNHFA145032019009G&ipRedirectOverride=true Options Trading: Beginners Guide to Get You Started with Options Trading (Unabridged) 7.95 AVAILABLE Options Trading: Beginners Guide to Get You Started with Options Trading (Unabridged) Options Trading (Unabridged) George Graham The concept of options is treated with trepidation in some quarters. The simple fact is you need to have a trading plan that works. Over the years, my trading plan has become progressively simpler. To make it as a trader, it helps to develop the following traits in this audiobook.... Dave Wright George Graham 2018-06-07 18:13:34 110 B07DLG43QD English - Business English 1.00 4.95 N http://img.audible.de/audiblewords/content/bk/acx0/118309de/lg_image.jpg http://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/118309/bk_acx0_118309_sample.mp3 Do you want to learn about options trading? Options have become remarkably popular, especially in the US. Far from being confined solely to the institutions and professional money managers, options trading is now mainstream for retail" traders from all walks of life. The concept of options is still, however, treated with fear and trepidation in some quarters. When I first embarked upon serious trading, a friend warned me about what I was getting into, but trading can be as safe as you want it to be. The simple fact is you need to have a trading plan that works. It needs to keep your risk low and your potential for reward high. You need your plan to have structure and simplicity so you can follow it every time. Over the years, my trading plan has become progressively simpler. To make it as a trader, it helps to develop the following traits in this audiobook, and they can all be developed. Why options trading? The main reason for trading options is that for a smaller amount of money, you can control a large amount of stock, particularly with call options. Call options are always cheaper than the underlying asset and put options usually are. Options are generally more volatile than their underlying instruments; therefore, investors get "more bang for their buck", or more action. Clearly, this can lead to danger, but as you'll see, it also can lead to more safely and security. You'll also see that it can mean much greater flexibility in your trading and even give you the ability to make profit when you don't know the direction in which the stock will move. Here is a preview of what you'll learn: What is options trading? The basics of options trading Types of options How to manage risk and the various option strategies How to choose currency options The leverage inherent in options The fundamentals of put and call option ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: James Fouhey, Shane Bauer. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/peng/004039/bk_peng_004039_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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