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    Great World Religions: Hinduism, Hörbuch, Digital, 365min
    In this 12-lecture series, you'll encounter a religion that is perhaps the most diverse of all; one that worships more gods and goddesses than any other, and one that rejects the notion that there is only one path to the divine. These lectures provide a window into the roots of, perhaps, all religions. You'll explore over the course of Hinduism's 5,000-year journey: the Indus Valley civilization; the sizable variety of Hindu gods and goddess; the sacred writings in the Vedas, Bhagavad Gita, and Upanishads; Hindu ritual purity rites; the Aryan language of Sanskrit, whose roots can be seen in English words such as "divine," "video," and "ignite"; and much more. The story of Hinduism, you'll come to see, is the story of very non-Western traditions (such as arranged marriages and the caste system) that have survived and thrived for thousands of years. It's also home to a wealth of gods, terms, and practices (such as karma, Krishna, yoga, and guru) that have found a home in Western lives and language. Along the way, Dr. Muesse discusses salient aspects of Hindu life and places them in historical and theological context. He also explains that Hinduism honors all seekers of truth, that it contains multiple paths to divine reality (the way of action, the way of wisdom, and the way of devotion), and that it can be both a monotheistic and a polytheistic faith. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio. Language: English. Narrator: Mark W. Muesse. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tcco/000134/bk_tcco_000134_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Mandibles: A Family, 2029-2047 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 825min
    The brilliant new novel from the Orange Prize-winning author of We Need to Talk About Kevin centres on three generations of the Mandible family as a fiscal crisis hits a near-future America. It is 2029. The Mandibles have been counting on a sizable fortune filtering down when their 97-year-old patriarch dies. Yet America's soaring national debt has grown so enormous that it can never be repaid. Under siege from an upstart international currency, the dollar is in meltdown. A bloodless world war will wipe out the savings of millions of American families. Their inheritance turned to ash, each family member must contend with disappointment but also - as the effects of the downturn start to hit - the challenge of sheer survival. Recently affluent Avery is petulant that she can't buy olive oil while her sister, Florence, is forced to absorb strays into her increasingly cramped household. As their father, Carter, fumes at having to care for his demented stepmother now that a nursing home is too expensive, his sister, Nollie, an expat author, returns from abroad at 73 to a country that's unrecognisable. Perhaps only Florence's oddball teenage son, Willing, an economics autodidact, can save this formerly august American family from the streets. This is not science fiction. This is a frightening, fascinating, scabrously funny glimpse into the decline that may await the United States all too soon, from the pen of perhaps the most consistently perceptive and topical author of our times. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: George Newbern. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hcuk/002299/bk_hcuk_002299_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    When a Man Loves a Man, Volume 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1161min, (USK 18)
    Welcome to When a Man Loves a Man, Volume 1 a Mars Audio Books collection of three M/M love stories by acclaimed erotic and romance author Claire Thompson.  For the first time three of the author's best M/M works are presented as a single boxed set for your enjoyment and pleasure listening. These are three lovingly crafted stories regaling tales of hope, broken promises, and overcoming all the hurdles that often lie in the way of finding true love. We all believe that one day, love will find a way. Please enjoy the following stories that are beautifully narrated by Josh Walker. 'Alternative Treatment':   Nolan Daniels will have those 100 hours of community service nailed, just as soon as he nails the handsome Dr Mark Harrison, who controls Nolan's time served. His sizable ego takes a hit when the doctor rejects his advances in no uncertain terms. What did Nolan expect from a man of privilege?  'Texas Surrender':   JD Reed can never resist a challenge, and Avery Dalton is no exception. Determined to seduce and claim the tattooed, tough cowboy, JD teases and taunts his prey until he goes too far. In a battle of wills that turns physical, the sexual tension seething just below the surface explodes like a Texas tornado that sweeps them both off their feet.   'Handyman':   What can a sophisticated Wall Street trader and a simple handyman possibly have in common? In an unlikely pairing, Will and Jack explore an incendiary relationship, sometimes humorous, sometimes heartbreaking, but always scintillatingly erotic. Jack is forced to confront feelings he’s hidden for a lifetime. Will is faced with something he isn’t sure he can handle - love.   Warning: Hot, delicious male/male erotic romance. Danger: Explicit m/m sex. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Josh Walker. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/marz/000182/bk_marz_000182_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Battle of Midway: The Greatest Battles in History , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 83min
    The names of history's most famous battles still ring in our ears today, with their influence immediately understood by all. Marathon lent its name to the world's most famous race, but it also preserved Western civilization during the First Persian War. Saratoga, won by one of the colonists' most renowned war heroes before he became his nation's most vile traitor. Hastings ensured the Normans' success in England and changed the course of British history. Waterloo, which marked the reshaping of the European continent and Napoleon's doom, has now become part of the English lexicon. In Charles River Editors' Greatest Battles in History series, listeners can get caught up to speed on history's greatest battles in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. Although not as well-remembered as D-Day or even the attack at Pearl Harbor that preceded it, the Battle of Midway was one of the most unique and important battles fought during World War II. In fact, the turning point in the Pacific theater took place between June 4-7, 1942, as a Japanese fleet moved a sizable fleet intending to occupy Midway Island and draw the American navy near. Instead, American aircraft flying from three aircraft carriers that had been away from Pearl Harbor in December 1941 got a bearing on the Japanese fleet and sunk four Japanese aircraft carriers, permanently crippling Japan's navy. The Battle of Midway was one of the first major naval battles in history where the enemy fleets never actually saw or came into contact with each other. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ken Teutsch. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/076321/bk_acx0_076321_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Even the Odds: Sensible Risk-Taking in Business, Investing, and Life , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 346min
    In Even the Odds, Karen Firestone explains how risk assessment plays a prominent role in all aspects of life. We may all define risk, and our tolerance for it, somewhat differently, but we might all agree it plays a pivotal role in guiding us toward an optimal outcome. As a long-time investment advisor, Firestone has grown accustomed to interpreting risk on a daily basis. She has developed four core tenets of risk-taking we can all apply to anticipating, evaluating, and responding to the risks we face in our business, investing, and personal lives. These tenets are right-sizing; right-timing; relying on skill, knowledge, and experience; and staying skeptical about numbers, promises, and forecasts. Firestone's approach is both practical and accessible to individuals who are making important decisions, such as embarking on new career or life changes, starting or running an enterprise, making a sizable investment, or deciding how to balance across a full portfolio of assets. The audiobook is rich with anecdotes and examples of how many prominent leaders in their fields encountered and dealt with risk along the way. Firestone also shares her own successes and failures, in particular when she decided to risk it all - a fabulous career managing billions of dollars at a premium investment company, her reputation, and the security at home that comes with a strong and stable job - to go out on her own. Even the Odds helps us understand the broader implications of risk - and how it guides our decision-making - so that we can improve outcomes across multiple facets of our lives, from our businesses and investments, to the personal choices we make. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Karen Saltus. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/gdan/001879/bk_gdan_001879_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    What Makes a Terrorist?: Economics and the Roots of Terrorism (10th Anniversary Edition) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 379min
    Why we need to think more like economists to successfully combat terrorismIf we are to correctly assess the root causes of terrorism and successfully address the threat, we must think more like economists do. This is the argument of Alan Krueger's What Makes a Terrorist, a book that explains why our tactics in the fight against terrorism must be based on more than anecdote, intuition, and speculation.Many popular ideas about terrorists and why they seek to harm us are fueled by falsehoods, misinformation, and fearmongering. Many believe that poverty and lack of education breed terrorism, despite the wealth of evidence showing that most terrorists come from middle-class, and often college-educated, backgrounds. Krueger closely examines the factors that motivate individuals to participate in terrorism, drawing inferences from terrorists' own backgrounds and the economic, social, religious, and political environments in the societies from which they come.He describes which countries are the most likely breeding grounds for terrorists, and which ones are most likely to be their targets. Krueger addresses the economic and psychological consequences of terrorism and puts the threat squarely into perspective, revealing how our nation's sizable economy is diverse and resilient enough to withstand the comparatively limited effects of most terrorist strikes. He also calls on the media to be more responsible in reporting on terrorism.Bringing needed clarity to one of the greatest challenges of our generation, this 10th anniversary edition of What Makes a Terrorist features a new introduction by the author that discusses the lessons learned in the past decade from the rise of ISIS and events like the 2016 Pulse nightclub attack in Orlando, Florida. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jonathan Hogan. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/reco/011829/bk_reco_011829_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Passive Income Ideas 2019: $10,000/month Ultimate Guide - Dropshipping, Affiliate Marketing, Amazon FBA Analyzed + 47 Profitable Opportunities to Make Money Online Working with Time & Location Freedom , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 180min
    Are you interested in earning a sizable income through online work? Do you want to build a business that empowers you to achieve financial, time, and location freedom? Would you like to explore some unique things you can do to develop multiple passive income streams?If so, this is just the right book to teach you everything you need to know about the best ways to make money online! Keep reading...In recent years, thousands of people have managed to earn large incomes by creating profitable online businesses in a relatively short period of time. However, making money online requires knowledge, consistent effort, and using the correct approach to make it work. Running a successful online business does require an investment of time and money.Explore the most established and profitable methods to enable you to start building your own online business and earning the income you’ve always dreamed of. There are so many diverse methods out there, from day trading to freelance ghostwriting to affiliate marketing, among many others.In Passive Income Ideas 2019: $10,000/Month Ultimate Guide - Dropshipping, Affiliate Marketing, Amazon FBA Analyzed + 47 Profitable Opportunities to Make Money Online Working with Time & Location Freedom, Ronald Roberts provides an analysis of profitability, future potential, difficulty, starting budget needed for dropshipping, affiliate marketing, and Amazon FBA and also presents dozens of other online work and business opportunities.By the end of this book, you will discover:How to build a mind-set of abundanceHow to get started with dropshippingTop affiliate marketing niche productsHow to get started with listing and launching products on Amazon FBAWays to do blogging for profitHow to create your affiliation networkBest methods of Kindle self-publishingAmazing tips for retail arbitrage on EbayPlus tons of other s ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Doug Eisengrein. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/151042/bk_acx0_151042_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Against the Day: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 3212min
    Spanning the period between the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and the years just after World War I, this novel moves from the labor troubles in Colorado to turn-of-the-century New York, to London and Gottingen, Venice and Vienna, the Balkans, Central Asia, Siberia at the time of the mysterious Tunguska Event, Mexico during the Revolution, postwar Paris, silent-era Hollywood, and one or two places not strictly speaking on the map at all. With a worldwide disaster looming just a few years ahead, it is a time of unrestrained corporate greed, false religiosity, moronic fecklessness, and evil intent in high places. No reference to the present day is intended or should be inferred. The sizable cast of characters includes anarchists, balloonists, gamblers, corporate tycoons, drug enthusiasts, innocents and decadents, mathematicians, mad scientists, shamans, psychics, and stage magicians, spies, detectives, adventuresses, and hired guns. There are cameo appearances by Nikola Tesla, Bela Lugosi, and Groucho Marx. "As an era of certainty comes crashing down around their ears and an unpredictable future commences, these folks are mostly just trying to pursue their lives. Sometimes they manage to catch up; sometimes it's their lives that pursue them. "Meanwhile, the author is up to his usual business. Characters stop what they're doing to sing what are for the most part stupid songs. Strange sexual practices take place. Obscure languages are spoken, not always idiomatically. Contrary-to-the-fact occurrences occur. If it is not the world, it is what the world might be with a minor adjustment or two. According to some, this is one of the main purposes of fiction. "Let the reader decide, let the reader beware. Good luck." —Thomas Pynchon ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dick Hill. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tant/000323/bk_tant_000323_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Male Life Expectancy: How Men Can Live Longer , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 52min
    It is the desire of all humans to live long on earth and fulfill their purpose for existence. Many have desired to live up to 80, 90, 100, and some even wish to live longer. While this desire to live long is a legitimate one, it often happens that people die when they least wished or expected. Historically, women live longer than men and this trend may continue for centuries and perhaps longer. Even with the sizable risk conferred by childbirth, women lived longer than men in 1900, and it appears that women have out-survived men at least since the 1500s, when the first reliable mortality data were kept. Sweden was the first country to collect data on death rates nationally; in that country's earliest records, between 1751 and 1790, the average life expectancy at birth was 36.6 years for women and 33.7 years for men. Death rates in less developed countries, whose citizens have limited access to cars, guns, and maternal care, also provide a measure of mortality before modernity. At present, the only countries in which male life expectancy exceeds that for females are those with long-standing sexual discrimination - including Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan - where social pressures and practices such as female infanticide and bride-burning result in unique losses of females. The fact that women live longer than men does not necessarily mean that they enjoy better health than men. It could be that women live with their diseases, while men die from them. Indeed, there is a difference between the sexes in disease patterns, with women having more chronic non-fatal conditions - such as arthritis, osteoporosis and autoimmune disorders - and men having more fatal conditions, such as heart disease and cancer. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Trevor Clinger. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/067328/bk_acx0_067328_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Defenceless , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 594min
    Winner: Best Finnish Crime Novel 2014 When an old man is found dead on the road - seemingly run over by a Hungarian au pair - police investigator Anna Fekete is certain that there is more to the incident than meets the eye. As she begins to unravel an increasingly complex case, she’s led on a deadly trail where illegal immigration, drugs and ultimately murder threaten not only her beliefs but her life. Anna’s partner, Esko, is entrenched in a separate but equally dangerous investigation into the activities of an immigrant gang, where deportation orders and raids cause increasing tension and result in desperate measures by gang members - and the police themselves. Then a bloody knife is found in the snow, and the two cases come together in ways that no one could have predicted. As pressure mounts, it becomes clear that having the law on their side may not be enough for Anna and Esko. Chilling, disturbing and terrifyingly believable, The Defenceless is an extraordinary, vivid and gripping thriller by one of the most exciting new voices in crime fiction. Kati Hiekkapelto is a best-selling, award winning author, punk singer, performance artist and, formerly, special-needs teacher. She lives on an old farm (which has been in her family for hundreds of years) on the island of Hailuoto in Northern Finland with her children and sizable menagerie. Here she is currently setting up an asylum for artists in danger. Hiekkapelto has taught immigrants and lived in the Hungarian region of Serbia, which inspired her to write her highly regarded debut crime novel, The Hummingbird. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Julie Masiey. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/024718/bk_adbl_024718_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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