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  Philosophical Fictions at an Exhibition: Volume I , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 196min

  Philosophy has always been more than an ivory tower discipline. Renowned philosophers from Plato to Nietzsche and many others produced fiction with thought-provoking philosophical content. Many of philosophy’s story-tellers preferred long walks rather than the confines of the ivory tower. I’m a workaday philosopher of no renown who has enjoyed both for a long time, deep thoughts in the Tower, long walks to process them. I’ve been producing fiction for a long time, too, content that has been thought provoking to me because it has emerged in the course of my life’s expedition. These are short thoughts, medium thoughts, and longer thoughts, all somehow related. Philosophy is a grand discipline and there is something for everyone. There’s a lot to hate, too. There may be something grand here for you. Maybe you’ll find that deep thought suits you. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Alfred C. Lent. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/161858/bk_acx0_161858_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Night Shift: Virgin Office Boy, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 52min, (USK 18)

  After young Rick Johnson’s first encounter with an older executive at his new office, he is ready to do all he can to impress and get more of what he now has a taste for. He is more excited than ever to learn how to use his bottom to get to the top. Working late one night, he finds that even security guards and janitors who are also male strippers can come in very handy in getting him off and help him in unexpected ways. Rick Johnson was brand-new to the workaday world, a virgin. The tall, slender handsome young jock knew a lot about high school basketball, but not much about nine-to-five wages and less than zero about the politics of the corporate world, but he lusting to learn and willing to do anything to get ahead. Anything. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: James Talbot. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/233828/bk_acx0_233828_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Don't Stop the Carnival , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 837min

  It's every parrothead's dream: to leave behind the rat race of the workaday world and start life all over again amidst the cool breezes, sun-drenched colors, and rum-laced drinks of a tropical paradise. It's the story of Norman Paperman, a New York City press agent who, facing the onset of middle age, runs away to a Caribbean island to reinvent himself as a hotel keeper. (Hilarity and disaster - of a sort peculiar to the tropics - ensue.)  It's the novel in which the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of such acclaimed and best-selling novels as The Caine Mutiny and War and Remembrance draws on his own experience (Wouk and his family lived for seven years on an island in the sun) to tell a story at once brilliantly comic and deeply moving. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Angelo Di Loreto. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/033520/bk_adbl_033520_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Born in the U.S.A.: The Myths of America in Popular Music from Colonial Times to the Present , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 705min

  This is the first study to explore fully the myth of America as reflected in the nation's popular music. Beginning with the songs of the Pilgrims and continuing through more than two centuries of history and music, Born in the U.S.A. shows the emerging American myth and gives a close reading of the compositions of songwriters as diverse as William Billings, Henry Clay Work, Irving Berlin, Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan, and Bruce Springsteen. So that the full and diverse narrative of this complex nation might be recorded, this insightful study is focused both upon the national myth and upon the songwriters and performers representing subcultures and alternative viewpoints that are the text of America's story. Through hymnlike paeans and through discordant lamentations protesting the realities of the contemporary workaday world, popular music is an astonishing mirror of American history. The book is published by University Press of Mississippi. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gary Roelofs. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/084876/bk_acx0_084876_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Strange Tales: A Five-Story Collection , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 106min

  Here are five tales of people going off the beaten track of reality to experience something completely new and unworldly. Stories of individuals in pain who ride a rollercoaster of odd happenings that show life in a different perspective. People running to something or away from something. A young traveler who encounters a modern marvel in an ancient ruin. A group of youngsters in a Lewis Carroll-like tale, where language and logic are stretched and reshaped into a tongue-twisting, whimsical adventure. These are places where mundane occurrences mix with myth and magic to turn life inside-out, where anything can happen. Gone is the workaday world of knowing the beginning and ending, or of a sound, sane, sedate frame of reference. Sit back and give your mind a break from the worries of today, and get away to a world of strangeness. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jack Voorhies. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/013605/bk_acx0_013605_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Dont Make a Problem Anything (eBook, ePUB)

  In these discussions, Krishnamurti goes deeply into the question of human problems, drawing, in the process, a most interesting distinction between the 'professional' and the 'human being'. He asks whether we do not regard ourselves as professionals first and as human beings afterwards. Our education generally makes us professionals in the sense that right from childhood we are trained to solve physical problems. The brain thus gets conditioned to solving problems, and it carries over the same mentality to the psychological realm and so comes to look upon any situation, any emotion as a terrible problem to be solved. The very nature of the problem-solving mind is its inability to see itself as the problem-creating mind, and so it never comes to the end of problems. In different contexts, through various examples, Krishnamurti returns again and again to his great insight: Don't make a problem of anything in life. Though Krishnamurti is addressing mostly teachers of the schools he founded, there is something here for everyone-for those interested in a new kind of education, for parents, for the pundits in Vedanta or Buddhism, for psychologists, for those in the ordinary workaday world, for religious seekers...

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  Miracle Power for Infinite Riches , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 435min

  You will be amazed at this audiobook's down-to-earth practicality. You are presented with simple, usable formulas and techniques that anyone can apply in the workaday world. The special features of this book will enlighten, appeal, and reveal to you the reason why oftentimes many people get the opposite of what they prayed for. This audio will also point out to you clearly the reasons why. The age-old cry that you yourself have often heard is, "Why is it I prayed and prayed, and yet I receive no answer?" In this audiobook you will find the simple answer to this common complaint. The many simple programs, formulas, and techniques for impregnating your subconscious mind and getting the right answers make this an extraordinarily valuable book in extracting from the treasure house of eternity within you all the riches you need - spiritual, mental, material, and financial - enabling you to lead a full, happy, rich, and joyous life. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tim Andres Pabon. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/gdan/001975/bk_gdan_001975_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Before Journalism Schools: How Gilded Age Reporters Learned the Rules: Journalism in Perspective , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 304min

  Randall Sumpter questions the dominant notion that reporters entering the field in the late 19th century relied on an informal apprenticeship system to learn the rules of journalism. Drawing from the experiences of more than 50 reporters, he argues that cub reporters could and did access multiple sources of instruction, including autobiographies and memoirs of journalists, fiction, guidebooks, and trade magazines. Arguments for “professional journalism” did not resonate with the workaday journalists examined here. These news workers were more concerned with following a personal rather than a professional code of ethics, and implemented their own work rules. Some of those rules governed “delinquent” behavior. While scholars have traced some of the connections between beginning journalists and learning opportunities, Sumpter shows that much more can be discovered, with implications for understanding the development of journalistic professionalism and present-day instances of journalistic behavior.The book is published by University of Missouri Press. The audiobook is published by University Press Audiobooks. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kevin Moriarty. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/195219/bk_acx0_195219_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  No More Work: Why Full Employment Is a Bad Idea , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 196min

  For centuries we've believed that work was where you learned discipline, initiative, honesty, self-reliance - in a word, character. A job was also, and not incidentally, the source of your income: if you didn't work, you didn't eat, or else you were stealing from someone. If only you worked hard, you could earn your way and maybe even make something of yourself. In recent decades, through everyday experience, these beliefs have proven spectacularly false. In this book, James Livingston explains how and why Americans still cling to work as a solution rather than a problem - why it is that both liberals and conservatives announce that "full employment" is their goal when job creation is no longer a feasible solution for any problem, moral or economic. The result is a witty, stirring denunciation of the ways we think about why we labor, exhorting us to imagine a new way of finding meaning, character, and sustenance beyond our workaday world - and showing us that we can afford to leave that world behind. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Grover Gardner. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/009160/bk_blak_009160_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Gutter Medicine: Twenty-Six Years as a Firefighter Paramedic , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 329min

  My career as a firefighter/paramedic stretched from 1974 to 2000 when were inventing EMS as we went along. These are stories from those years on the street. That place I named so long ago, the other reality that exists just outside most people’s everyday lives. It is a place that seems to exist parallel to the normal workaday existence: yet it is only a car accident or cardiac away for any of us. It manifested itself in brushfires, house fires, shootings, stabbings, hangings, accidents with injuries, cardiacs, codes, drownings, and a thousand other emergencies.The street was more than a physical place. It was a place filled with excitement, fear, tragedy, horror, sadness, despair, joy, and laughter. It was a place where routine decisions could have terrible consequences: I am going to the grocery store. Or, I will get the wiring fixed next month. Where people died or were maimed. Often, it was a terrible place. Or maybe it was reality. It was where all safeguards ended and our job began. There were thousands of cases, but these are the ones etched in my memory. The ones that will never go away. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tom Jordan. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/131297/bk_acx0_131297_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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