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    The Revenge of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 804min
    In The Revenge of Geography, Robert D. Kaplan builds on the insights, discoveries, and theories of great geographers and geopolitical thinkers of the near and distant past to look back at critical pivots in history and then to look forward at the evolving global scene. Kaplan traces the history of the world's hot spots by examining their climates, topographies, and proximities to other embattled lands. The Russian steppe's pitiless climate and limited vegetation bred hard and cruel men bent on destruction, for example, while Nazi geopoliticians distorted geopolitics entirely, calculating that space on the globe used by the British Empire and the Soviet Union could be swallowed by a greater German homeland. Kaplan then applies the lessons learned to the present crises in Europe, Russia, China, the Indian subcontinent, Turkey, Iran, and the Arab Middle East. The result is a holistic interpretation of the next cycle of conflict throughout Eurasia. Remarkably, the future can be understood in the context of temperature, land allotment, and other physical certainties: China, able to feed only twenty-three percent of its people from land that is only seven percent arable, has sought energy, minerals, and metals from such brutal regimes as Burma, Iran, and Zimbabwe, putting it in moral conflict with the United States. Afghanistan's porous borders will keep it the principal invasion route into India, and a vital rear base for Pakistan, India's main enemy. Iran will exploit the advantage of being the only country that straddles both energy-producing areas of the Persian Gulf and the Caspian Sea. Finally, Kaplan posits that the United States might rue engaging in far-flung conflicts with Iraq and Afghanistan rather than tending to its direct neighbor Mexico, which is on the verge of becoming a semifailed state due to drug cartel carnage. A brilliant rebuttal to thinkers who suggest that globalism will trump geography, this indispensable work shows how ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Michael Prichard. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tant/002742/bk_tant_002742_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Movement Made Us: A Father, a Son, and the Legacy of a Freedom Ride
    ?The Movement Made Us takes literature to a momentous Southern Black space to which I honestly never thought a book could take us. This is literally the Movement that made us and both Davids love us whole here with a creation that is as ingenious as it is soulfully sincere. Stunning.??Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy A dynamic family exchange that pivots between the voices of a father and son, The Movement Made Us is a unique work of oral history and memoir, chronicling the extraordinary story of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s and its living legacy embodied in Black Lives Matter. David Dennis Sr, a core architect of the movement, speaks out for the first time, swapping recollections both harrowing and joyful with David Jr, a journalist working on the front lines of change today. Taken together, their stories paint a critical portrait of America, casting one nation's image through the lens of two individual Black men and their unique relationship. Playful and searching, anxious and restorative, fearless and driving, this intimate memoir features scenes from across David Sr's life, as he becomes involved in the movement, tries to move beyond it, and ultimately returns to it to find final solace and new sense of self?revealing a survivor who travels eternally with a cabal of ghosts. A crucial addition to Civil Rights history, The Movement Made Us is the story of a nation reckoning with change and the hopes, struggles, setbacks, and triumphs of modern Black life. This is it: the extant chronicle of why we live, why we move, and for what we are made.
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    The Movement Made Us (eBook, ePUB)
    The Movement Made Us takes literature to a momentous Southern Black space to which I honestly never thought a book could take us. This is literally the Movement that made us and both Davids love us whole here with a creation that is as ingenious as it is soulfully sincere. Stunning.Kiese Laymon, author of HeavyA dynamic family exchange that pivots between the voices of a father and son, The Movement Made Us is a unique work of oral history and memoir, chronicling the extraordinary story of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s and its living legacy embodied in Black Lives Matter. David Dennis Sr, a core architect of the movement, speaks out for the first time, swapping recollections both harrowing and joyful with David Jr, a journalist working on the front lines of change today. Taken together, their stories paint a critical portrait of America, casting one nation's image through the lens of two individual Black men and their unique relationship. Playful and searching, anxious and restorative, fearless and driving, this intimate memoir features scenes from across David Sr's life, as he becomes involved in the movement, tries to move beyond it, and ultimately returns to it to find final solace and new sense of selfrevealing a survivor who travels eternally with a cabal of ghosts. A crucial addition to Civil Rights history, The Movement Made Us is the story of a nation reckoning with change and the hopes, struggles, setbacks, and triumphs of modern Black life. This is it: the extant chronicle of why we live, why we move, and for what we are made.
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    Forex Trading: Die komplette Serie! (eBook, ePUB)
    Forex Trading Die komplette Serie! Devisenmärkte werden bekanntlich von Nachrichten bestimmt. Da Nachrichten aber eher selten auftreten, bewegen sich die meisten Devisenpaare zu 80 % der Zeit seitwärts. Anders gesagt: es ist sehr schwer, Devisen mit Trend-Strategien profitabel zu traden. Die Reihe "Forex Trading" beschäftigt sich daher mit Strategien, die speziell für Seitwärtsmärkten konzipiert sind. Außerdem geht Heikin Ashi Trader ein auf die Frage weshalb Trader, die sich auf den Forex-Handel spezialisieren, dazu neigen, nur eine einzelne Strategie zu traden. Sie tun dies, weil sie glauben, dass diese eine Strategie anderen Handelsmethoden überlegen ist. Unglücklicherweise macht sie dieser Ansatz besonders anfällig für die Ups und Downs dieser einen Strategie. Durch die Verteilung von Gewinn und Verlust auf mehrere Strategien erzeugt der Trader jedoch eine Indifferenz gegenüber den Verlustserien in jeder einzelnen Strategie. Betrachtet er sie mehr wie ein Investment in seinem Portfolio, genauso wie eine Aktie oder ein Fonds, erhält er eine objektivere Sicht auf das Geschehen an den Märkten. Teil 1: Zwei Strategien der runden Zahl Einführung Strategie 1: Die Strategie der runden Zahl Strategie 2: Die Stop-Hunting Strategie Betrachten Sie Forex-Trading wie ein Wahrscheinlichkeitsspiel Teil 2: Traden mit weekly Pivots Strategie 1: Trade the Pivot Strategie 2: The last 20 Pips-Strategie Sollte man die Parameter ändern wenn es nicht so gut läuft? Teil 3: Einführung in das Traden mit dem weekly High und Low Strategie 1: Chase the Weekly High and Low Strategie 2: Weekly High and Low Stretch Praktische Fragen Teil 4: trade mehere Strategien gleichzeitig! 1. Warum Sie mehrere Strategien gleichzeitig traden sollten! 2. Weniger Volatilität in der Kapitalkurve 3. Wie viele Strategien sollte ich gleichzeitig traden? 4. Kann man auch mit kleinen Konten diversifizieren? 5. Wann sollte ich anfangen, einen Hebel zu benutzen? 6. Forex-Trading ist ein Business
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    Between the World and Me
    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NAMED ONE OF TIME'S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE • PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST Hailed by Toni Morrison as "required reading," a bold and personal literary exploration of America's racial history by "the most important essayist in a generation and a writer who changed the national political conversation about race" (Rolling Stone) NAMED ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL BOOKS OF THE DECADE BY CNN • NAMED ONE OF PASTE'S BEST MEMOIRS OF THE DECADE • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • O: The Oprah Magazine • The Washington Post • People • Entertainment Weekly • Vogue • Los Angeles Times • San Francisco Chronicle • Chicago Tribune • New York • Newsday • Library Journal • Publishers Weekly In a profound work that pivots from the biggest questions about American history and ideals to the most intimate concerns of a father for his son, Ta-Nehisi Coates offers a powerful new framework for understanding our nation's history and current crisis. Americans have built an empire on the idea of "race," a falsehood that damages us all but falls most heavily on the bodies of black women and men-bodies exploited through slavery and segregation, and, today, threatened, locked up, and murdered out of all proportion. What is it like to inhabit a black body and find a way to live within it? And how can we all honestly reckon with this fraught history and free ourselves from its burden? Between the World and Me is Ta-Nehisi Coates's attempt to answer these questions in a letter to his adolescent son. Coates shares with his son-and readers-the story of his awakening to the truth about his place in the world through a series of revelatory experiences, from Howard University to Civil War battlefields, from the South Side of Chicago to Paris, from his childhood home to the living rooms of mothers whose children's lives were taken as American plunder. Beautifully woven from personal narrative, reimagined history, and fresh, emotionally charged reportage, Between the World and Me clearly illuminates the past, bracingly confronts our present, and offers a transcendent vision for a way forward.
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    The Revenge of Geography
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In this ambitious and challenging (The New York Review of Books) work, the bestselling author of Monsoon and Balkan Ghosts offers a revelatory prism through which to view global upheavals and to understand what lies ahead for continents and countries around the world.In The Revenge of Geography, Robert D. Kaplan builds on the insights, discoveries, and theories of great geographers and geopolitical thinkers of the near and distant past to look back at critical pivots in history and then to look forward at the evolving global scene. Kaplan traces the history of the world s hot spots by examining their climates, topographies, and proximities to other embattled lands. The Russian steppe s pitiless climate and limited vegetation bred hard and cruel men bent on destruction, for example, while Nazi geopoliticians distorted geopolitics entirely, calculating that space on the globe used by the British Empire and the Soviet Union could be swallowed by a greater German homeland.Kaplan then applies the lessons learned to the present crises in Europe, Russia, China, the Indian subcontinent, Turkey, Iran, and the Arab Middle East. The result is a holistic interpretation of the next cycle of conflict throughout Eurasia. Remarkably, the future can be understood in the context of temperature, land allotment, and other physical certainties: China, able to feed only 23 percent of its people from land that is only 7 percent arable, has sought energy, minerals, and metals from such brutal regimes as Burma, Iran, and Zimbabwe, putting it in moral conflict with the United States. Afghanistan s porous borders will keep it the principal invasion route into India, and a vital rear base for Pakistan, India s main enemy. Iran will exploit the advantage of being the only country that straddles both energy-producing areas of the Persian Gulf and the Caspian Sea. Finally, Kaplan posits that the United States might rue engaging in far-flung conflicts with Iraq and Afghanistan rather than tending to its direct neighbor Mexico, which is on the verge of becoming a semifailed state due to drug cartel carnage.A brilliant rebuttal to thinkers who suggest that globalism will trump geography, this indispensable work shows how timeless truths and natural facts can help prevent this century s looming cataclysms.
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    Phasers on Stun! (eBook, ePUB)
    Written with inside access, comprehensive research, and a down-to-earth perspective, Phasers on Stun! chronicles the entire history of Star Trek, revealing that its enduring place in pop culture is all thanks to innovative pivots and radical change. For over five decades, the heart of Star Trek's pro-science, anti-racist, and inclusive messaging has been its willingness to take big risks. Across thirteen feature films, and twelve TV series-including five shows currently airing or in production-the brilliance of Star Trek is in its endless ability to be rethought, rebooted, and remade. Author and Star Trek expert Ryan Britt charts an approachable and entertaining course through Star Trek history; from its groundbreaking origins amid the tumultuous 1960s, to its influence on diversifying the space program, to its contemporary history-making turns with LGBTQ+ representation, this book illuminates not just the behind-the-scenes stories that shaped the franchise but the larger meaning of the Final Frontier. Featuring over 100 exclusive interviews with actors and writers across all the generations, including Walter Koenig, LeVar Burton, Dorothy Fontana, Brent Spiner, Ronald D. Moore, Jeri Ryan, and many more, Britt gets the inside story on all things Trek, like Spock's evolution from red devil to the personification of logical empathy, the near failure to launch of The Next Generation in 1987, and how Trekkie outrage has threatened to destroy the franchise more than once. The book also dives deep with creators like Michael Chabon (co-creator of Star Trek: Picard) and Nicholas Meyer (director, The Wrath of Khan). These interviews extend to the bleeding edge of contemporary Star Trek, from Discovery to Picard to Lower Decks, and even the upcoming highly anticipated 2022 series, Strange New Worlds. For fans who know every detail of each Enterprise bridge, to a reader who has never seen a single minute of any Star Trek, this book aims to entertain, inform, and energize. Through humor, insight, archival research, and unique access, this journey through the Star Trek universe isn't just about its past but a definitive look at its future.
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    Dressing the Man
    Dressing the Man is the definitive guide to what men need to know in order to dress well and look stylish without becoming fashion victims.Alan Flusser's name is synonymous with taste and style. With his new book, he combines his encyclopedic knowledge of men's clothes with his signature wit and elegance to address the fundamental paradox of modern men's fashion: Why, after men today have spent more money on clothes than in any other period of history, are there fewer well-dressed men than at any time ever before?According to Flusser, dressing well is not all that difficult, the real challenge lies in being able to acquire the right personalized instruction. Dressing well pivots on two pillars -- proportion and color. Flusser believes that "Permanent Fashionability," both his promise and goal for the reader, starts by being accountable to a personal set of physical trademarks and not to any kind of random, seasonally served-up collection of fashion flashes.Unlike fashion, which is obliged to change each season, the face's shape, the neck's height, the shoulder's width, the arm's length, the torso's structure, and the foot's size remain fairly constant over time. Once a man learns how to adapt the fundamentals of permanent fashion to his physique and complexion, he's halfway home.Taking the reader through each major clothing classification step-by-step, this user-friendly guide helps you apply your own specifics to a series of dressing options, from business casual and formalwear to pattern-on-pattern coordination, or how to choose the most flattering clothing silhouette for your body type and shirt collar for your face.A man's physical traits represent his individual road map, and the quickest route toward forging an enduring style of dress is through exposure to the legendary practitioners of this rare masculine art. Flusser has assembled the largest andmost diverse collection of stylishly mantled men ever found in one book. Many never-before-seen vintage photographs from the era of Cary Grant, Tyrone Power, and Fred Astaire are employed to help illustrate the range and diversity of authentic men's fashion. Dressing the Man's sheer magnitude of options will enable the reader to expand both the grammar and verbiage of his permanent-fashion vocabulary.For those men hoping to find sartorial fulfillment somewhere down the road, tethering their journey to the mind-set of permanent fashion will deliver them earlier rather than later in life.
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    Forex Trading (eBook, ePUB)
    Forex Trading Die komplette Serie! Devisenmärkte werden bekanntlich von Nachrichten bestimmt. Da Nachrichten aber eher selten auftreten, bewegen sich die meisten Devisenpaare zu 80 % der Zeit seitwärts. Anders gesagt: es ist sehr schwer, Devisen mit Trend-Strategien profitabel zu traden. Die Reihe "Forex Trading" beschäftigt sich daher mit Strategien, die speziell für Seitwärtsmärkten konzipiert sind. Außerdem geht Heikin Ashi Trader ein auf die Frage weshalb Trader, die sich auf den Forex-Handel spezialisieren, dazu neigen, nur eine einzelne Strategie zu traden. Sie tun dies, weil sie glauben, dass diese eine Strategie anderen Handelsmethoden überlegen ist. Unglücklicherweise macht sie dieser Ansatz besonders anfällig für die Ups und Downs dieser einen Strategie. Durch die Verteilung von Gewinn und Verlust auf mehrere Strategien erzeugt der Trader jedoch eine Indifferenz gegenüber den Verlustserien in jeder einzelnen Strategie. Betrachtet er sie mehr wie ein Investment in seinem Portfolio, genauso wie eine Aktie oder ein Fonds, erhält er eine objektivere Sicht auf das Geschehen an den Märkten. Teil 1: Zwei Strategien der runden Zahl Einführung Strategie 1: Die Strategie der runden Zahl Strategie 2: Die Stop-Hunting Strategie Betrachten Sie Forex-Trading wie ein Wahrscheinlichkeitsspiel Teil 2: Traden mit weekly Pivots Strategie 1: Trade the Pivot Strategie 2: The last 20 Pips-Strategie Sollte man die Parameter ändern wenn es nicht so gut läuft? Teil 3: Einführung in das Traden mit dem weekly High und Low Strategie 1: Chase the Weekly High and Low Strategie 2: Weekly High and Low Stretch Praktische Fragen Teil 4: trade mehere Strategien gleichzeitig! 1. Warum Sie mehrere Strategien gleichzeitig traden sollten!      2. Weniger Volatilität in der Kapitalkurve        3. Wie viele Strategien sollte ich gleichzeitig traden?          4. Kann man auch mit kleinen Konten diversifizieren?          5. Wann sollte ich anfangen, einen Hebel zu benutzen?      6. Forex-Trading ist ein Business Über die Autorin Heikin Ashi Trader ist das Pseudonym eines Traders, der mehr als 19 Jahren Erfahrung in Daytrading mit Futures und Devisen hat. Er hat für einen Hedgefonds gehandelt und gehörte zu den Top5 Tradern des Social Trading-Plattforms "Ayondo". Er ist spezialisiert in Scalping und schnelles Daytrading. Er hat mehrere Bücher über Trading veröffentlicht, die sich gegenseitig erklären. Der Autor kann unter der Mail-Adresse pdevaere@yahoo.de erreicht werden.  
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    The Godel Operation
    SCIENCE FICTION AT ITS SENSE-OF-WONDER BEST: A WILD CHASE THROUGH THE BILLION WORLDS OF THE TENTH MILLENNIUM IN SEARCH OF A MYTHICAL WEAPON THAT COULD SAVE CIVILIZATION-OR DOOM IT! A droid and his boy, on a search for a legendary weapon. Daslakh is an AI with a problem. Its favorite human, a young man named Zee, is in love with a woman who never existed. But in the Tenth Millennium, a billion worlds circle the Sun-everything from terraformed planets to artificial habitats, home to a quadrillion beings. Zee is convinced she's out there somewhere. Then Zee helps Adya-a girl, but definitely not his dream girl-escape a gang of crooks. To get away, the pair must join the hunt for the Godel Trigger, a legendary weapon left over from the ancient war between humans and machines. Now Daslakh must aid in the search, keep Zee's love life on the right track, and make sure that nobody discovers the real secret of the Godel Trigger-for that would spell doom for men, machines, and the Solar System itself! About The Godel Operation: "With this freewheeling story of an ancient, cunning artificial intelligence and its naïve human companion, Cambias (The Initiate) mashes humor, mystery, and looming apocalypse into a roundly satisfying space epic. . . . With plenty of fun moments along the way, this raucous adventure through the solar system's distant future will appeal to any fan of lighter science fiction."-Publishers Weekly Praise for Arkad's World: "Far-flung adventure . . . Cambias offers up an entertaining coming-of-age novel filled with action and surprises. His aliens are suitably non-human in mannerisms, attitudes, and objectives, and his worldbuilding suggests a vast universe ready for further exploration. Readers . . . will find this hits the spot."-Publishers Weekly ". . . a classic quest story, a well-paced series of encounters with different folk along the way, building momentum toward a final confrontation with Arkad's past . . . [with] a delicious twist to the end."-ALA Booklist "Cambias has achieved a feat of world-building: an expansive, believable setting with fascinating aliens, compelling mysteries, and a rich sense of history."-Bookpage "Drop a teenage boy into a distant planet chock full of colorful aliens-with troubles all their own. Stir, flavor, apply heat. A tour de force in the field, and great, quick fun."-Gregory Benford Praise for the work of James L. Cambias: "Beautifully written, with a story that captures the imagination the way SF should."-Booklist, starred review "An engaging nail-biter that is exciting, fun and a satisfying read."-The Qwillery "An impressive debut by a gifted writer."-Publishers Weekly starred review "An exceptionally thoughtful, searching and intriguing debut."-Kirkus starred review "James Cambias will be one of the century's major names in hard science fiction."-Robert J. Sawyer, Hugo Award-winning author of Red Planet Blues "Fast-paced, pure quill hard science fiction. . . . Cambias delivers adroit plot pivots that keep the suspense coming."-Gregory Benford, Nebula Award-winning author of Timescape
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