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25 Poems in Praise of Political Independents and Mavericks , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 12min

In America, the two major parties monopolize our political system, but despite this, political independents, 3rd party candidates, and mavericks still press on. Bold political independents, mavericks, and 3rd party candidates refuse to lie down and accept less than God's best. Instead, these political independents, mavericks, and 3rd party candidates fearlessly advance novel and liberating solutions. In the process, they inspire us to live the best possible life. Through poetry, this work honors and praises these brave political independents, mavericks, and 3rd party candidates. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Bruce Inn. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/014476/bk_acx0_014476_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Case File: Union Pacific: Case File Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 578min

President Ulysses S. Grant dispatches Justice Department Special Services Officer, U.S. Marshal J.R. Chance to investigate suspected railroad construction fraud. Chance confronts a ruthless conspiracy that will stop at nothing in its quest to monopolize Union Pacific construction contracts and the lucrative right of way land grants that go with them. Fast paced action sweeps the young marshal, and the Cheyenne woman who saves his life, across the Wyoming basin on a trail that ultimately leads to the financial center of the plot in New York. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Rusty Nelson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bimo/000944/bk_bimo_000944_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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American Revolt: (The Pacification of Earth) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 669min

American Revolt: By 2090 almost half of Americans are on welfare. Brilliant, talking computers have stolen most service and middle management jobs, while exploding populations in the southern hemisphere monopolize dumb factory work. And aquifers dry, world-wide, causing food shortages. A blond young "welfie" vows to remedy all this. He enters the Marines and then leads a revolution. The author, a veteran, a retired aerospace executive who specialized in financing advanced weapons and who marketed them abroad, gives us a rousing, yet prophetic view of how that endeavor might unfold. This volume introduces an account of world-wide reform by taking us through his conquest of North America. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Todd Menesses. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/014406/bk_acx0_014406_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Quest of the Silver Fleece , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 857min

W.E.B. DuBois, one of the most influential African- Americans of the 20th century, made significant societal contributions as a teacher, writer, and founding director of the NAACP. The Quest of the Silver Fleece reflects the attitudes and mindset of Americans - Northerners and Southerners, rich and poor, black and white - at the dawn of the century. The Silver Fleece, cotton, could be the answer to Zora and Bles' prayers in overcoming poverty. While attending Miss Smith's School in rural Alabama, they lovingly nurture their crop. But, the white aristocracy is determined to control the price of cotton and monopolize the market. Can two young lovers prevail despite the daunting obstacles laid before them? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Peter Jay Fernandez. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/reco/002971/bk_reco_002971_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Gods of the Valley: How Today's Tech Giants Monopolize the Future , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 348min

In this eye-opening audiobook, accomplished entrepreneur, angel investor, and thought leader Matt Ward tears the tech companies a new one, dissecting the super-corporations of Silicon Valley to reveal the winners and losers and where the industry is headed. Today’s tech monopolies are unlike anything the world has ever seen. With hundreds of billions in revenue, user bases in the billions, and aggressive CEOs willing to make big bets to remain in power (and kill startups), we are entering a new era of innovation. Yet while Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Apple control ever-increasing pieces of the economic pie, the world is not standing still. Each of these empires is facing existential threats in the coming years. Who wins? Who loses? Where is the world headed? Gods of the Valley downs the businesses and big problems with GAFA, examining upcoming market trends and potential disruptions that impact today’s tech giants and rating the businesses accordingly. Up close and personal with GAFA Who should Apple acquire? Does voice computing kill Google’s search business? Is Facebook the future of finance? Will Amazon kill the economy? These are the kinds of questions investors, economists, and entrepreneurs ponder. Here is the best-researched audiobook to date on the future, what it holds, where opportunities lie, and which companies will win it all. From cryptocurrency to ecommerce, ridesharing, venture capital, and voice computing to social media and streaming video, let’s look at how the Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Apple build infinitely more defensible business models even Trump can’t touch. Spoiler alert: The bigger they are, the harder they fall - and one of these four is headed for a crash; you will never guess who. This audiobook is either: an early postmortem or the perfect product road map for Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Apple (and any startups ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Alan Carlson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/120679/bk_acx0_120679_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Source

The Source is a time-travelling fantasy comic book series that explores magic throughout history and journeys from East St. Louis to Ancient Egypt written by Don Handfield and Joshua Malkin. The Source. To some it is magic, to others it is pure power, to St. Louis Missouri high school teacher Jon Flood it is a mystery that will upend his quiet life and thrust him into a journey across time. After discovering that he has inexplicable powers, Jon Flood finds himself on the run from an elite group of tyrannical sorcerers (known as "The Few") who seek to monopolize the The Source for their own dark purposes. With the help of a Witch named Cate, Flood must learn to use his power to defeat evil and discover who he really is, while venturing through time. Flood and Cate are humanity's last hope in more ways than they know.

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Frank Einstein and the Electro-Finger: Frank Einstein , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 146min

In this second audiobook in the series, Frank Einstein (kid-genius scientist and inventor) and his best friend Watson, along with Klink (a self-assembled artificial-intelligence entity) and Klank (a mostly self-assembled artificial almost intelligence entity), once again find themselves in competition with T. Edison, their classmate and archrival - this time in the quest to unlock the power behind the science of energy. Frank is working on a revamped version of one of Nikola Tesla's inventions, the "Electro-Finger", a device that can tap into energy anywhere and allow all of Midville to live off the grid, with free wireless and solar energy. But this puts Frank in direct conflict with Edison's quest to control all the power and light in Midville, monopolize its energy resources, and get "rich rich rich". Time is running out, and only Frank, Watson, Klink, and Klank can stop Edison and his sentient ape, Mr. Chimp! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jon Scieszka, Brian Biggs. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/lili/001815/bk_lili_001815_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Water Knife , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 841min

Paolo Bacigalupi, New York Times best-selling author and National Book Award finalist, dives once again into our uncertain future with his first thriller for adults since his multi-award-winning debut phenomenon The Windup Girl. In the American Southwest, Nevada, Arizona, and California skirmish for dwindling shares of the Colorado River. Into the fray steps Angel Velasquez, detective, leg breaker, assassin, and spy. A Las Vegas water knife, Angel "cuts" water for his boss, Catherine Case, ensuring that her lush, luxurious arcology developments can bloom in the desert, so the rich can stay wet while the poor get nothing but dust. When rumors of a game-changing water source surface in drought-ravaged Phoenix, Angel is sent to investigate. There he encounters Lucy Monroe, a hardened journalist with no love for Vegas and every reason to hate Angel, and Maria Villarosa, a young Texas refugee who survives by her wits and street smarts in a city that despises everything she represents. With bodies piling up, bullets flying, and Phoenix teetering on collapse, it seems like California is making a power play to monopolize the life-giving flow of a river. For Angel, Lucy, and Maria, time is running out, and their only hope for survival rests in each other's hands. But when water is more valuable than gold, alliances shift like sand, and the only thing for certain is that someone will have to bleed if anyone hopes to drink. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Almarie Guerra. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/004599/bk_adbl_004599_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Red Alert: How China's Growing Prosperity Threatens the American Way of Life , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 456min

The American Dream is close to being replaced by a living nightmare: Key commodities that are essential to our daily lives and that are widely believed to be abundant are running critically short. Even worse, the Chinese are doing what they can to monopolize the world's dwindling resources. The U.S. is now largely dependent on our greatest economic rival for rare earth elements as well as a host of other minerals - all of which are absolutely essential to the development of alternative energies and are critically important for our defense industry, computers, cell phones, and other electronic devices. While America has been fighting wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, China has focused its substantial muscle on securing vital commodities from these and other lands to upgrade its infrastructure and industrial strength to meet the resource challenge head-on. China has wrapped itself in the green flag of combating climate change while systematically discouraging other nations from adopting similar policies in a bid to gain time to achieve its plans. Red Alert is a provocative and frightening look at the growing political, economic, and social power of China and the threat that nation poses to the Western world. It lays out how the Chinese are strategizing to overtake the United States as the world's premier economic power - and details how our failure to respond quickly will result in a permanently lower standard of living for Americans. Peppered with startling statistics, charts, and evidence of how China continues to expand its economic reach, Red Alert is both controversial and powerful in its scope. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Brian Bascle. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hach/000727/bk_hach_000727_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Age of Reason , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 375min

The Age of Reason is formed of two parts. The first, written in 1793 in France during the revolution, is a criticism of not just the Christian church, although it is primarily focused on Christian theology, but as a rejection of all forms of organized religion, including Judaism and Islam. However, Paine's position is not one of atheism, and he begins the book with a declaration of faith in one god. However he considers organized religion to be a construct of man, and the books it is based upon; the Bible, Torah, and Quran, to be no other than human inventions set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit. The second part of The Age of Reason, was written in 1795, and comes as a response to criticism of the first, and is also a more detailed analysis of the Bible, because whilst writing the first part he did not have access the book, where he goes through both the old and new testaments to highlight inconsistencies and explain his doubts as to the provenance of the books. Paine explains that although he does not doubt that Jesus existed and was a righteous man, the account of the Bible is doubtful at best because it is written by others, and cannot be the direct word of God. He does not believe Jesus to be the savior of the world, and implores listeners to seek God through his creation and its exploration through science, rather than through what he terms religious mythologies. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Alastair Cameron. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/068415/bk_acx0_068415_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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