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    The Federalist Society: How Conservatives Took the Law Back from Liberals , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 730min
    Over the last 30 years, the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies has grown from a small group of disaffected conservative law students into an organization with extraordinary influence over American law and politics. Although the organization is unknown to the average citizen, this group of intellectuals has managed to monopolize the selection of federal judges, take over the Department of Justice, and control legal policy in the White House. Four Supreme Court Justices - Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas, John Roberts, and Samuel Alito - are current or former members. Every single federal judge appointed in the two Bush presidencies was either a Society member or approved by members. During the Bush years, young Federalist Society lawyers dominated the legal staffs of the Justice Department and other important government agencies. The Society has lawyer chapters in every major city in the United States and student chapters in every accredited law school. How did this happen? How did this group of conservatives succeed in moving their theories into the mainstream of legal thought? What is the range of positions of those associated with the Federalist Society in areas of legal and political controversy? The book is published by Vanderbilt University Press. The audiobook is published by University Press Audiobooks."...illuminating and important...." (Washington Independent Review of Books)"An important, highly informative book about the role of the Federalist Society in shaping jurisprudence and public policy over the last 30 years." (Choice)"Anyone who cares about the courts or the law will find The Federalist Society a stark reminder of the power of abstract ideas to effect real and lasting change for decades." (Dahlia Lithwick, Senior Editor, Slate.com) ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Douglas R. Pratt. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/179302/bk_acx0_179302_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Einstein's Wastebasket: The Future of Philosophy , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 130min
    This book is a collection of distinct essays that explore the future of philosophy by critically examining 10 key texts on consciousness and artificial intelligence. These reviews, several of which were published as stand-alone pieces on Integral World in Europe, explore the ins and outs of what self-reflective awareness is and what it means to be human in an increasingly digitized world. What is perhaps most telling in these various books is not where they will be right, but where they will be wrong and what they didn't foresee. It is always illustrative and deeply informative to look back at what previous prognosticators had envisioned 20 to 30 years hence. Nicholas Negroponte's prophetic tome, Being Digital, published back in the early days of the World Wide Web (1995), was right on the mark on many of his predictions, but what he didn't foreshadow (at least not as clearly and cleanly) was how certain companies would monopolize the Internet. Today, Facebook, Google, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft dominate the navigation habits of large chunks of the population. Moreover, few predictors realized how powerful Google search would become or how addicting smart phones would become to the general populace. So, books dealing with the future of philosophy and where we are heading technologically should come with a warning for readers/listeners: look to what is not being said and take what is being prophesized with some necessary grains of intellectual skepticism. Having been on the Internet since 1984 when I was getting my undergraduate degree at the University of California, San Diego, I am keenly aware of the amazing strides that have been made in the past three decades. I never would have imagined then how powerful our personal computers would become or how almost everyone would connect to each other hourly, if not minute-by-minute. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jennifer Dorr. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/062038/bk_acx0_062038_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Faith in Heroin Anonymous , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 137min
    The roles of faith, belief, and spirituality in Heroin Anonymous are covered, but mostly this audiobook is about behavior motivating beliefs, like those of the cognitive model. The beliefs of using heroin addicts about their addiction, their life and heroin are what keeps them using. These beliefs are shaped by the addict’s mental obsession, which excuses and justifies using at every turn. Obsessions of every kind function by excusing and justifying aberrant behavior. Loss of faith in these excuses and justifications coupled with a crisis situation and the availability sobriety knowledge enables the heroin addict to see clearly and get sober. The addict gets sober by believing in abstinence as the solution and active participation in the Heroin Anonymous as the method. Created and driven by the addicts will to live, sober beliefs get and keep the addict sober.The personality and character shaping role of a higher power in 12 step recovery is explained. The adaptability of non-theistic faiths, such as Buddhist meditation, is discussed. Freedom of belief is explained, including the freedom to be an atheist and participate in HA. Cognitive behavior therapy employs the cultivation of rational beliefs. This books explanation of how beliefs are formed, within the human personality, adds much to the understanding of cognitive science. Faith and belief are defined and expanded on and the traditional religious connotations that monopolize these powerful psychological words are challenged. Use of faith and belief as terms of cognitive science is encouraged.The concept of faiths plural is introduced. Faiths plural is the idea that several forms of faith acting in synergy get and keep addicts sober. For example faith in the HA program and faith in one's decision to stay sober together with other forms of faith create the belief structure within the personality of the addict that motivates lasting meaningful sobriety. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: A Bill Friend. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/149453/bk_acx0_149453_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Cuckoo Syndrome (eBook, ePUB)
    Is there someone in your life who tries to monopolize your time and consume your energy? Or someone who leaves you feeling confused or misunderstood, but you cannot put your finger on exactly how or why? Is there someone with whom you are unable to have a rational conversation and things seem very complicated? Maybe this person is never satisfied, no matter how much you try to love, help, and please them. Are you the one doing all the work in a relationship? In The Cuckoo Syndrome, Andrea Anderson Polk, a licensed professional counselor, helps us fend off the cuckoos-unhealthy relationships, toxic thinking, and self-sabotaging behavior-in order to find our identity in Christ and discover new purpose, vision, and meaning in our lives. We know the cuckoo bird as a colorful wooden figurine that pops out of a clock and chirps the hours of the day to the delight of children and adults alike. In reality, the cuckoo bird is a parasite-invading the nest of other birds, destroying the eggs already present, and fooling the family into raising an ever-demanding, never-satisfied cuckoo chick. Polk, a licensed professional counselor, compares cuckoo birds-nature's infamous imposter-to the human experience, situations, and relationships demonstrating haunting confusion and unnecessary suffering. Cuckoos can invisibly sabotage our most intimate relationships, our ministries, and our careers-our deepest desires. In The Cuckoo Syndrome, Polk gives us new insight and ways to fend off these cuckoos that invade our "nests" with their devious disguises. Cuckoos can take many forms. There is the cuckoo of avoiding emotion, the fear cuckoo, the stress cuckoo, the shame cuckoo, the unresolved grief cuckoo, the perfectionism cuckoo, the counselor cuckoo, and probably the most insidious cuckoo of all: the religion cuckoo. Drawing from a depth of study in scripture, science, and psychology, Polk breaks us free from the cuckoo's snare by teaching us to embrace the desires of our heart as we uncover the truth of who we are, who others are, and who Jesus is. We can learn to establish great joy in our identity by committing ourselves to discover meaning in suffering and understanding how our pain is the genuine catalyst for purpose.
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    Level 7
    The second release from The Robin Cox Ensemble. These tracks are a reflection of the ensemble's very unique instrumentation of percussion and strings as well as the provocative individuality of the contemporary classical influenced music the group regularly performs live in concert. The CD includes first recordings by Cox, Joseph Koykkar, Leslie Hogan, HyeKyung Lee, and a recording of Evan Ziporyn's What She Saw There in it's original instrumentation. Reviews: 'The Robin Cox Ensemble may very well be predisposed to monopolize the esoteric niche of string and percussion quartets, and judging from their new CD Level 7, why shouldn't they? Owing in part to a nicely taut performance by the ensemble, Joseph Koykkar's Music for Mallets and Strings showcases the surprisingly homogeneous qualities shared by the disparate instrumentation. In the case of Evan Ziporyn's What She Saw There, the solo cello often cuts against the ostinatos established by the marimbas, creating a congenial tension. The most unique handling of the group appears in Quickly Casual, a spunky piece full of odd motifs and evocative instrumental color. Pieces by the ensemble's founder and violinist-yes, Robin Cox-as well as Leslie Hogan complete this enjoyable collection.'&nbsp,-Randy Nordschow, NewMusicBox 'The Robin Cox Ensemble is a unique new music group that combines violin, cello, percussion, and live electronics to create vivid performances of new music. ...including on this--the group's second CD--the marvelous Evan Ziporyn.'&nbsp,-Sequenza 21 Magazine's 'Editor's Pick' TRACKS: (with notes from the composers) 1. Escher by Robin Cox &nbsp,5:00 ...imagine Thelonious Monk walking around in one of the 'Relativity' series of artworks by MC Escher. 2. What She Saw There by Evan Ziporyn&nbsp,&nbsp,14:21 ...I wrote it in a bamboo hut in Bali on a miniature Casio keyboard. I was there on a Fulbright, and I was thinking quite a lot about cross-cultural influences, about this strange phenomenon of being able to listen to and enjoy music that one didn't necessarily understand. I was thinking story-songs in unknown languages, where one can feel the drama and the course of the narrative, even if one doesn't know what's going on. I also was interested in finding links between the musical languages I did understand, so the melodies straddle a line between jazz, Balinese music, classical rhetoric, etc. 3. For Mallets and Strings by Joseph Koykkar&nbsp,&nbsp,3:32 ...an interplay between sections featuring unison tutti passages and those of a more contrapuntal nature. A rhythmically driving mode of performance is demanded of the players. The composition is structured on the movement I to IV in relation to the tonic and subdominant notes of the scale, not by utilizing any traditional type of functional harmony or key modulation, but by providing a focus for pitch direction akin to a type of 'new tonality' which I have been exploring in my music over the past twenty years. 4. Thirty-Five by Leslie Hogan&nbsp,&nbsp,5:00 ...inspired by driving the stretch of Interstate 35 between Dallas and Austin, Texas, on a bright, hot, and windy July day in 1999. The drive was pretty much like watching paint dry, the composer started to think about music for cruising. 5. Quickly Casual by HyeKyung Lee&nbsp,&nbsp,9:18 ...designed to get back to, or out of, the notes C and D flat, this was my attempt to arrive at a more oriental sound (using C, D flat and G, F sharp, instead of a pentatonic scale). This music reflects an interest in combining colors of both my western education and of my Korean heritage within a personal style and sound. 6. Volt by Robin Cox&nbsp,&nbsp,5:00 ...in an ensemble consisting of two very different instruments types, it is easy to find one's writing engaged in the duality of long, sweeping string gestures against the quick attack and beat oriented nature of percussion. Volt is a conscious attempt to avoid that 'role-playing' by presenting violin and cello with distinctly percussive tasks. I have also engaged in my increasingly common practice of, both in harmony and rhythm, juxtapositions between the highly consonant and highly dissonant.
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