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  Wild Drone , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 73min, (USK 18)

  Since women now rule, male office workers have all been demoted, becoming little more than assistants and servants for the females who make the important decisions. Occasionally, some of the women chat about that strange urban legend: the wild drone. These are the boys who have jobs but have somehow avoided getting sponsored by a handler or guardian. Theoretically, every male must answer to a woman.Except for Colin. He’s an actual wild drone because he managed to hold onto his independence. Out on the street and at work, he acknowledges the superiority of the women around him, but he still brings home his own paycheck and makes his own money. That is, until one woman discovers his secret. Daria is a young attorney at the same firm where Colin works as an assistant.Technically, she should report him right away, but she doesn’t. Instead, she decides to get to know this boy. He might have some potential after all. And if Colin isn’t careful, Daria might decide to play a few games with him. She might like to see him cuffed to her bed or naked. And she’s always been curious about what a boy might look like in a chastity cage. This could be fun — for Daria.This 12,000 word story features extensive female supremacy, bondage, male subservience, and elements of blackmail. All characters are consenting adults over the age of 18. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Lindsey M. Kline. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/211033/bk_acx0_211033_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Little Book of Common Sense Investing , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 307min

  Investing is all about common sense. Owning a diversified portfolio of stocks and holding it for the long term is a winner's game. Trying to beat the stock market is theoretically a zero-sum game (for every winner, there must be a loser), but after the substantial costs of investing are deducted, it becomes a loser's game. Common sense tells us, and history confirms, that the simplest and most efficient investment strategy is to buy and hold all of the nation's publicly held businesses at very low cost. The classic index fund that owns this market portfolio is the only investment that guarantees you your fair share of stock market returns. To learn how to make index investing work for you, there's no better mentor than legendary mutual-fund industry veteran John C. Bogle. Over the course of his long career, Bogle, founder of the Vanguard Group and creator of the world's first index mutual-fund, has relied primarily on index investing to help Vanguard's clients build substantial wealth. Now, with The Little Book of Common Sense Investing, he wants to help you do the same. Filled with in-depth insights and practical advice, The Little Book of Common Sense Investing will show you how to incorporate this proven investment strategy into your portfolio. It will also change the very way you think about investing. Successful investing is not easy. (It requires discipline and patience.) But it is simple - for it's all about common sense. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Thom Pinto. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/aren/000602/bk_aren_000602_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Collaborative Innovation in the Public Sector: Public Management and Change , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 995min

  Governments worldwide struggle to remove policy deadlocks and enact much-needed reforms in organizational structure and public services. In this book, Jacob Torfing explores collaborative innovation as a way for public and private stakeholders to break the impasse. These network-based collaborations promise to multiply the skills, ideas, energy, and resources between government and its partners across agency boundaries and in the nonprofit and private sectors. Torfing draws on his own pioneering work in Europe as well as examples from the United States and Australia to construct a cross-disciplinary framework for studying collaborative innovation. His analysis explores its complex and interactive processes as he looks at how drivers and barriers may enhance or impede the collaborative approach. He also reflects on the roles institutional design, public management, and governance reform play in spurring collaboration for public sector innovation. The result is a theoretically and empirically informed book that carefully demonstrates how multi-actor collaboration can enhance public innovation in the face of fiscal constraint, the proliferation of wicked problems, and the presence of unsatisfied social needs.The book is published by Georgetown University Press. The audiobook is published by University Press Audiobooks."In this path-breaking book, Torfing shows how collaborative innovation is an important component of new public governance.. His work will be of abiding interest to both scholars and practitioners." (Sandford Borins, emeritus professor, Harvard Kennedy School)"A highly-recommended resource for researchers and informed practitioners interested in public sector governance networks." (Nancy Roberts, emeritus professor, Naval Postgraduate School) ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mark Milroy. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/230811/bk_acx0_230811_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Technological Singularity , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 374min

  The idea that human history is approaching a "singularity" - that ordinary humans will someday be overtaken by artificially intelligent machines or cognitively enhanced biological intelligence, or both - has moved from the realm of science fiction to serious debate. Some singularity theorists predict that if the field of artificial intelligence (AI) continues to develop at its current dizzying rate, the singularity could come about in the middle of the present century. Murray Shanahan offers an introduction to the idea of the singularity and considers the ramifications of such a potentially seismic event. Shanahan's aim is not to make predictions but rather to investigate a range of scenarios. Whether we believe that singularity is near or far, likely or impossible, apocalypse or utopia, the very idea raises crucial philosophical and pragmatic questions, forcing us to think seriously about what we want as a species. Shanahan describes technological advances in AI, both biologically inspired and engineered from scratch. Once human-level AI -- theoretically possible, but difficult to accomplish 0- has been achieved, he explains, the transition to superintelligent AI could be very rapid. Shanahan considers what the existence of superintelligent machines could mean for such matters as personhood, responsibility, rights, and identity. Some superhuman AI agents might be created to benefit humankind; some might go rogue. (Is Siri the template, or HAL?) The singularity presents both an existential threat to humanity and an existential opportunity for humanity to transcend its limitations. Shanahan makes it clear that we need to imagine both possibilities if we want to bring about the better outcome. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tim Andres Pabon. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/gdan/001692/bk_gdan_001692_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Instant Pot Cookbook: Ultimate Book of Pressure Cooker Recipes , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 66min

  Almost all foods contain water, be they meat, veggies, or fruit. When we cook food, we’re essentially transferring heat from our heat source through the food. As the food heats up, a variety of molecular changes happen, ultimately resulting in cooked food. The primary changes have to do with the heating and transferring of water molecules. The single greatest limiting factor on how long it takes to cook food is the boiling point of water. Folks who live at high altitudes know this first-hand. Their air pressure is lower, and so their water boils at lower temperatures. (In the mile-high city of Denver, for example, water boils at 204 F, and in the camps on Mount Everest water boils at 160 F. For those of us at sea level, it boils at 212 F.) Cooking at these lower air pressures affects cook times for many foods since water will begin evaporating sooner and drying out the food more quickly.In a low-pressure environment, cooking times on moist foods must be increased. Turning up the heat will not help cook food faster! That’s because the temperature of water will never exceed its own boiling point - any higher temperatures and all you’ve got is steam. Theoretically, if you were at a high enough altitude, you could boil water at room temperature. Boiling, therefore, isn’t really a product of temperature at all, but of pressure! By increasing pressure, you raise the boiling point of water.Download this audiobook now! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Yael Eylat-Tanaka. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/109004/bk_acx0_109004_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Quantum Many-Body Dynamics

  The dynamics of atomic nuclei is amongst the most challenging problem to treat theoretically. The richness of phenomena occurring in heavy-ion collisions can only be studied within microscopic approaches where each nucleon is treated quantum mechanically. Our goal is to present recent advances on microscopic descriptions of low energy heavy-ion collisions. We present both formal aspects and practical applications of the time-dependent Hartree-Fock (TDHF) theory, giving a mean- eld dynamics of the system. As an example, we study the fusion of nuclei and some competing processes. The TDHF theory has some intrinsic limitations: absence of tunneling below the Coulomb barrier, missing dissipative e ects and quantum uctuations. Mean- eld theories should be improved to properly account for these e ects. Several approaches are presented which account for pairing and/or direct nucleon-nucleon collisions. Finally, we discuss recent progresses in exact ab-initio methods based on the stochastic mean- eld concept. This book is addressed to master and PhD students and/or researchers who want a general overview on microscopic approaches applied to nuclear dynamics.

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  Rethinking the Politics of Education (eBook, ePUB)

  Rethinking the Politics of Education provides an entirely original rethinking of the modern and contemporary mythology of education. Problematizing the ideas concerning education as fulfilment and redemption, the book critically reviews the association of education with projects of social justice, democracy and improvement. This book argues for a fundamental rethinking of what education is, exploring how things stand with education and educational apparatuses in the contemporary world. It examines relations between educational discourses and their implied ontological stances and offers new ways of thinking that draw on ontological positions from psychoanalytical, philosophical and social discourses. The book contends that education is an essential form of politics and must be understood through a careful examination of its history modes of operation and its basic structures, rather than an idealized version of what it might be. Presenting an original and alternative account of a theoretically informed political ontology of education, the book will be of great interest to academics, researchers and postgraduate students interested in the philosophy of education, the politics of education, educational theory and the sociology of education.

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  Rethinking the Politics of Education (eBook, PDF)

  Rethinking the Politics of Education provides an entirely original rethinking of the modern and contemporary mythology of education. Problematizing the ideas concerning education as fulfilment and redemption, the book critically reviews the association of education with projects of social justice, democracy and improvement. This book argues for a fundamental rethinking of what education is, exploring how things stand with education and educational apparatuses in the contemporary world. It examines relations between educational discourses and their implied ontological stances and offers new ways of thinking that draw on ontological positions from psychoanalytical, philosophical and social discourses. The book contends that education is an essential form of politics and must be understood through a careful examination of its history modes of operation and its basic structures, rather than an idealized version of what it might be. Presenting an original and alternative account of a theoretically informed political ontology of education, the book will be of great interest to academics, researchers and postgraduate students interested in the philosophy of education, the politics of education, educational theory and the sociology of education.

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  The Autonomy Paradox: Teachers' Perceptions of Self-Governance Across Europe

  What do we mean when we speak about teacher autonomy? How free are teachers to go about their work? To answer these complex questions the authors asked thousands of teachers in four national contexts: in Finland, Ireland, Germany and Sweden, what they think autonomy looks like. The resulting book examines teacher autonomy theoretically and empirically, comparing teachers' perceptions of their professional autonomy. Utilizing a mixed method approach the authors combine data from a large-scale questionnaire study, teacher interviews, lesson and meeting observations, and workshops that brought together teachers from the four participating countries. All this engagement with teachers revealed that simply increasing their professional autonomy might not lead to desired outcomes. This is because, from a teachers' point of view, increased decision-making capacity brings further complexity and risk to their work, and it may instead lead to anxiety, self-restriction, and the eventual rejection of autonomy. These surprising conclusions challenge the increasingly orthodox view that increased autonomy is a desirable end in itself. This is what the authors call the autonomy paradox.

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  Savanting: Outperforming Your Potential , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 492min

  What do Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Oprah Winfrey, and Jim Carrey have in common? This deep analysis reveals they all achieved their success using Savanting’s biology-driven modus operandi. This unprecedented protocol exploits how savants outperform their potential - how they achieve incredible feats of genius from deficient brains theoretically incapable of them. Savanting empowers creativity from noncreatives; brilliant breakthroughs from the nonbrilliant; vision from nonvisionaries; and extraordinary execution from the execution-challenged. It renders current methods for cultivating creativity obsolete. Learn how this savant-inspired protocol actualizes the most sought-after human goals - extreme self-knowledge; self-actualization; self-transcendence; sustained self-sufficient self-love and happiness; wholeness; expanded and even cosmic consciousness; and one’s true biology-driven purpose. The key is releasing your true potential - a potential which derives from reconnecting internal and external biological mechanisms which have co-evolved to work together. An overdrive state emerges which enables you to outperform your known potential. The result is a fundamental revision to not only our method of operation but the expansions of consciousness from which we can achieve. The future of humanity has been upgraded. Discover what you are truly capable of achieving. Biography Lauren Holmes is CEO of Frontiering, a company dedicated to creating biologically maximized careers which ensure intrinsically rewarding work, peak achievement, self-actualization, self-transcendence, and profound purpose and meaning. Two decades of studying global executives through the lens of her degree in biological anthropology has yielded a new formula for career, life, leadership, and entrepreneurial success. Lauren is an award-winning author known for in-depth research and analysis, original thought ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ivan Busenius. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/166606/bk_acx0_166606_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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