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Jumping at Shadows: The Triumph of Fear and the End of the American Dream , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 531min
Why is an unarmed young black woman who knocks on a stranger's front door to ask for help after her car breaks down perceived to be so threatening that he shoots her dead? Why do we fear infrequent acts of terrorism more than far more common acts of violence? Why does a disease like Ebola, which killed only a handful of Americans, provoke panic whereas the flu - which kills tens of thousands each year - is dismissed with a yawn? Jumping at Shadows is Sasha Abramsky's searing account of America's most dangerous epidemic: irrational fear. Taking listeners on a dramatic journey through a divided nation, where everything from immigration to disease, gun control to health care has become fodder for fearmongers and conspiracists, he delivers an eye-popping analysis of our misconceptions about risk and threats. What emerges is a shocking portrait of a political and cultural landscape that is, increasingly, defined by our worst fears and rampant anxieties. Ultimately, Abramsky shows that how we calculate risk and deal with fear can teach us a great deal about ourselves, exposing deeply ingrained strains of racism, classism, and xenophobia within our culture as well as our growing susceptibility to the toxic messages of demagogues. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Matthew Waterson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hach/003372/bk_hach_003372_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Human Cloning , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 42min
Human cloning has received little serious and careful scientific and ethical attention until now, as it has been typically dismissed as a fiction of science. However, it still stirs deep for the articulation, revulsion, and uneasiness in several people. Any form of ethical assessment of human cloning at this point can be considered provisional and tentative. Fortunately, the technology and science of human cloning has not yet been achieved in hand, and therefore, a professional and public debate is quite possible without the need for a quick and precipitated policy response. The ethical pros and cons of human cloning can be considered sufficiently balanced and quite uncertain, as there are not any ethically decisive cases either for or against the process of giving the permit for doing it or not. Gaining access to human cloning can be brought within the moral right for the reproductive freedom. However, the circumstances of its usage can have significant benefits appearing for the first time in an infrequent manner. It is not a central component of the moral right to reproductive freedom, and it serves no significance or for the social needs. On the other hand, in contrary to the pronouncements of several opponents, human cloning seems to not be a violation of the human rights or moral rights. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Andrea Giordani. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/086653/bk_acx0_086653_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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I Swear I'll Make It Up to You: A Life on the Low Road , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 815min
An odyssey of family, heartbreak, violence, punk rock, brokenness, broke-ness, sex, love, loss, drinking, drinking, drinking, and an unlikely savior: distance running. A misfit kid at the best of times, Mishka Shubaly had his world shattered when, in a 24-hour span in 1992, he survived a mass shooting on his school's campus then learned that his parents were getting divorced. His father, a prominent rocket scientist, abandoned the family, and their home was lost to foreclosure. Shubaly swore to avenge the wrongs against his mother but instead plunged into a magnificently toxic love affair with alcohol. Almost two decades later, Shubaly's life changed again when a fateful five-mile run after a bar fight inspired him to clean up his life. And when he finally reconnected with his estranged father, he discovered the story of his childhood was radically different from what he thought he knew. In this fiercely honest, emotional, and self-laceratingly witty book, Shubaly relives his mistakes, misfortunes, and infrequent good decisions: the disastrous events that fractured his life; his incendiary romances; his hot-and-cold career as a rock musician; meeting his newborn nephew while out of his gourd on cough syrup. I Swear I'll Make It Up to You is an apology for choices Shubaly never thought he'd live long enough to regret, a journey so far down the low road that it took him years of running to claw his way back. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mishka Shubaly. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/008557/bk_blak_008557_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Maybe the Moon, Hörbuch, Digital, 350min
All of 31 inches tall, Cady is a true survivor in a town where, as she says, "you can die of encouragement". Her early starring role as a lovable elf in an immensely popular American film proved a major disappointment, since moviegoers never saw the face behind the stifling rubber suit she was required to wear. Now, after a decade of hollow promises from the Industry, she is reduced to performing at birthday parties and bat mitzvahs as she waits for the miracle that will finally make her a star. In a series of mordantly funny journal entries, Maupin tracks his spunky heroine across the saffron-hazed wasteland of Los Angeles, from her all-too-infrequent meetings with agents and studio moguls to her regular, harrowing encounters with small children, large dogs, and human ignorance. Then, one day, a lanky piano player saunters into Cady's life, unleashing heady new emotions, and she finds herself going for broke, shooting for the moon with a scheme so harebrained and daring that it just might succeed. Her accomplice in the venture is her best friend, Jeff, a gay waiter who sees Cady's struggle for visibility as a natural extension of his own war against the Hollywood Closet. As clear-eyed as it is charming, Maybe the Moon is a modern parable about the mythology of the movies and the toll it exacts from its participants on both sides of the screen. It is a work that speaks to the resilience of the human spirit from a perspective rarely found in literature. Language: English. Narrator: Armistead Maupin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/001439/bk_harp_001439_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Rogue , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 566min
Being married to Blake had been an amazing adventure for Maxine. Brilliant, charismatic, and wholly unpredictable, Blake Williams made millions and grabbed headlines as a dotcom entrepreneur. His only shortcoming was as a husband - first his work, and then his never-ending quest for fun, kept him constantly on the move, far away from Maxine and his family. For five years, Blake and Maxine have worked out an odd but amicable divorce, with friendly though infrequent visits, a yacht he lends her every summer, and three children they both adore. Blake enjoys his globe-trotting lifestyle - dating a succession of beautiful, famous, and very young women - while Maxine raises their kids in Manhattan and pursues her passion, working as a psychiatrist, a world-renowned expert on childhood trauma and adolescent suicide. Then everything changes.... For Maxine, it starts when she falls in love with Dr. Charles West, a man who is everything Blake is not - mature, grounded, and present. For Blake, it begins when a devastating earthquake strikes near one of his palatial foreign homes, and he sees hundreds of orphaned children in need of shelter. Now, Blake wants Maxine in his life again - as a partner in a humanitarian project that could change countless lives. For Maxine, the choice is clear. But Blake's sudden transformation - from carefree playboy to compassionate, responsible grown-up - raises questions she can't manage to answer...and some she's afraid to ask. After all, Maxine is on the cusp of a new life, about to marry Charles, and almost certain that Blake Williams, a.k.a. the Rogue, is a man capable of doing anything - except changing. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Brian Keith Lewis. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/000277/bk_brll_000277_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Control of Candy Jones , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 610min
Candy Jones was the stage name of Jessica Wilcox (b. 1921) who became famous as a model and "pinup girl" in the early 1940s. Her story seems too bizarre to be true. One of America's most famous models, brainwashed by the CIA? Yes, it is another example of truth being stranger than fiction. The story begins with Candy's wedding to Long John Nebel, New York's most successful radio talk-show host. During the wedding, and regularly thereafter, Candy's personality would seem to shift. She would suddenly change from her affable, self-effacing self to a brusque, aggressive "stranger". For the first few months of the marriage, these shifts were infrequent enough that Nebel didn't worry much about it, but as time went on, they got worse.Nebel began trying to relax his wife by hypnotizing her. Although Candy insisted that she couldn't be hypnotized, she slipped easily into a relaxed state and then into a healthy, deep sleep. But during the third session, with no suggestion from Nebel, Candy spontaneously regressed to a young age. After that, Nebel began to record their sessions.The result of these sessions was that Nebel discovered his wife had been brainwashed into have a second identity, "Arlene", whom a CIA doctor had used to carry messages all over the world. Eventually, Candy was tortured at CIA headquarters, so that her doctor could display her "successful" programming.The Control of Candy Jones sent shockwaves through the corridors of power when it was first published in 1976. After reportedly being suppressed by the CIA, it became an instant classic and remains so today. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Joe Mills. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/123038/bk_acx0_123038_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Yellow Duster Sisters: A Wartime Childhood , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 556min
The year is 1939. As war breaks out across Europe, nine-year-old Susie and her older sister Gyll are dispatched to Africa by their mother. Alone on the dusty continent, the sisters find little sympathy in their new guardians, and little to like about their new way of life: patched-up clothes, a 6 o'clock bedtime (a particular indignity) and regular obsessive cleanliness rituals. Their continued presence a nuisance, and overwhelmed by fear of doing the wrong thing, Susie and Gyll seek an ally in Mavis, the only other child of the house, but it's a relationship that becomes tinged with jealousy. Feeling increasingly abandoned as the years pass and letters from home become ever more infrequent, the sisters begin to dream desperately of escape; if only they could go home, everything would return back to the ways things used to be. But when they do finally arrive home and get off the boat, no-one is there to greet them off the boat. Gradually they learn that their mother has joined the Polish army and that their father has taken on a mistress, who has moved into the family home. Life only gets stranger when they are sent off to the baffling Cheltenham Ladies College, where English boarding school life only adds to their feelings of alienation. Recounting a youth filled with both hope and despair, Susan Kennaway writes with a charm and honesty of the challenges of growing up during evacuation. The Yellow Duster Sisters is a wonderfully evocative and moving exploration of the shifting nature of war-time family relationships. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Christine Rendel. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/009546/bk_adbl_009546_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Dating for the One: In 3 Easy Steps (Love Attraction Series) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 80min
Do you choke when it comes to facing someone you find attractive? Does dating scare you? Do you cringe at the thought of dating again? Have you not dated in years? Does everyone you consider "hot" seem out of your league?You need this audiobook!Up until now, the only way to access this magical process was to take the infrequent courses Kathryn Alice occasionally offers on dating at considerable expense.This is the first time this sought-after information - proven so effective - has been made available in a concise audiobook format. This process is invaluable and will save you hundreds of dollars on online dating and doing unnecessary things to date successfully for your soul mate.In this long-awaited audiobook by Kathryn Alice on dating, she shows you how to date for your soul mate - very different than the tortuous dating in which most people engage.This audiobook teaches you how to save years of your life, heartbreak, and drama to date quickly into the arms of the love of your life.This method will show you how to:Connect with people you find attractive in a very effective way - no matter how shy you areConquer your fears about datingTurn dating into a whole new ball gameDate effectively to avoid hurt and wasting your time"Target date" for the love of your life, skipping the detoursHave the time of your life for these, your last single daysEradicate rejection entirelyMake the next person you date your soul mateSpecial subjects include: breaking patterns, online dating, how to connect well no matter how introverted you are, and how to interact with someone hot who is most likely to be your soul mate.Kathryn's dating classes have resulted in thousands of people breaking their tired, old dating patterns and at long last finding the love of their lives.The three easy steps outlined here have resulted in e ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kathryn Alice. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/124539/bk_acx0_124539_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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A Kind of Mirraculas Paradise: A True Story About Schizophrenia , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 439min
Dazzlingly, daringly written, marrying the thoughtful originality of Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts with the revelatory power of Neurotribes and The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, this propulsive, stunning book illuminates the experience of living with schizophrenia like never before. Writer Sandy Allen did not know their uncle Bob very well. As a child, Sandy had been told Bob was “crazy”, that he had spent time in mental hospitals while growing up in Berkeley in the 60s and 70s. But Bob had lived a hermetic life in a remote part of California for longer than Sandy had been alive, and what little Sandy knew of him came from rare family reunions or odd, infrequent phone calls. Then in 2009, Bob mailed Sandy his autobiography. Typewritten in all caps, a stream of error-riddled sentences over 60, single-spaced pages, the often-incomprehensible manuscript proclaimed to be a “true story” about being “labeled a psychotic paranoid schizophrenic” and arrived with a plea to help him get his story out to the world. In A Kind of Mirraculas Paradise: A True Story About Schizophrenia, Sandy translates Bob’s autobiography, artfully creating a gripping coming-of-age story while sticking faithfully to the facts as he shared them. Lacing Bob’s narrative with chapters providing greater contextualization, Sandy also shares background information about their family, the culturally explosive time and place of their uncle’s formative years, and the vitally important questions surrounding schizophrenia and mental healthcare in America more broadly. The result is a heartbreaking and sometimes hilarious portrait of a young man striving for stability in his life as well as his mind, and an utterly unique lens into an experience that, to most people, remains unimaginable. Called “an act of radical empathy” by Anne Fadiman and “a truly original piece of work” by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc, i ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Sandy Allen, Pete Simonelli. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/sans/008196/bk_sans_008196_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Soccer Shooting & Finishing: A Step-by-Step Guide on How to Score: Understand Soccer, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 136min
How defenses think and react during a game is not easily understood...or is it? Through countless hours of practice, training, and experience, soccer's elite have shown patterns of skills that lead to predictable outcomes - more goals, more assists, and more wins! The current soccer books on the market teach about general knowledge of infrequent game situations without the steps to score. This audiobook is for players who need the tips, tricks, tweaks, and techniques to reach 10 times the goals they score in a season.There are well over 100 tips to score. From 1v1/2v1/1v2/2v2s to five shooting techniques, heading the ball to rebounding, and turning under pressure to correct ball placement on shots, this audiobook will help make you the MVP goal scorer. When many coaches’ advice for scoring is to pass more, improve your conditioning, practice taking free kicks, and hope for the best, this book stands out on turning any player into an unstoppable goal producer.Learn what coaches do not teach, not because they don’t care, but because they just don’t know how to get a player to score consistently. Often, coaches only emphasize the team's abilities to pass and work as a unit, while giving no time to the scoring skills of each individual.Who this audiobook is for:The defender who gets a few chances to shoot or who wants to be a forwardThe midfielder who has had little success at shooting accuratelyThe forward who doesn’t score two goals a gameThe parent who loves their child but hates to see them struggle with a lack of self-esteem from not being able to scoreThe coach who knows their squad can score more if their players' shooting power, heading form, and awareness on outsmarting defenders were improved through increased IQIt is time for hours of shooting and finishing to pay off. Become the player, coach, or parent who changes every game from here on out.PLEASE NOTE: Wh ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dylan Joseph. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/140839/bk_acx0_140839_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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