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    Thoughts on population and the means of comfortable subsistence
    Thoughts on population and the means of comfortable subsistence ab 24.49 € als Taschenbuch: with suggestions regarding an increased supply and lessened cost of food for childhood and the industrial classes. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Ratgeber,
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    Thoughts On Population And The Means Of Comfortable Subsistence
    Thoughts On Population And The Means Of Comfortable Subsistence ab 24.49 € als Taschenbuch: With Suggestions Regarding An Increased Supply And Lessened Cost Of Food For Childhood And The Industrial Classes (1863). Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Ratgeber,
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    The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1051min
    Are mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic inequality? To judge by thousands of years of history, the answer is yes. Tracing the global history of inequality from the Stone Age to today, Walter Scheidel shows that inequality never dies peacefully. Inequality declines when carnage and disaster strike and increases when peace and stability return. The Great Leveler is the first book to chart the crucial role of violent shocks in reducing inequality over the full sweep of human history around the world. Ever since humans began to farm, herd livestock, and pass on their assets to future generations, economic inequality has been a defining feature of civilization. Over thousands of years, only violent events have significantly lessened inequality. The "Four Horsemen" of leveling - mass-mobilization warfare, transformative revolutions, state collapse, and catastrophic plagues - have repeatedly destroyed the fortunes of the rich. Scheidel identifies and examines these processes, from the crises of the earliest civilizations to the cataclysmic world wars and communist revolutions of the 20th century. Today, the violence that reduced inequality in the past seems to have diminished, and that is a good thing. But it casts serious doubt on the prospects for a more equal future. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Joel Richards. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tant/008559/bk_tant_008559_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    A Beginner's Guide to Wooing Your Mate: Being(s) in Love, Book 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 463min
    Zeki Janowitz has returned to his hometown of Wolf's Paw to start his wizarding career. Unfortunately, Wolf's Paw, a werewolf refuge, follows centuries of tradition and shuns human magic and a very human Zeki. He knows he's in for a struggle, but a part of him has always belonged in the mountain town, or rather belonged to Theo Greenleaf. Years away at school haven't lessened Zeki's crush on the quiet werewolf. When town gossip informs him Theo still suffers from his mate's rejection and does not date, it does little to ease Zeki's embarrassing feelings. He decides now's the time to get the man he's always wanted. Werewolves usually don't recover from losing their mates, and Theo barely pulled through by focusing on his love of baking. It's a daily struggle, and Zeki's return to Wolf's Paw shatters his peace. Theo doesn't know what to think when Zeki attempts to woo him, talking about his wizarding business and settling in town for good. It's like Zeki doesn't have a clue how his words years before left Theo a shell of a werewolf. Beginners in love, Theo and Zeki must seduce each other with a bit of heavenly baking and magic. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Robert Nieman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/071021/bk_acx0_071021_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Heart's Strum: Ugly Eternity, Book 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 167min
    For a moment, Jamie held the world, even though it wasn't his to hold…. Jamie has spent his entire life playing the good twin. Now, he's the one standing out after signing with Guillotine Records. Two years of being on his own in California hasn't lessened his desire for the man who made it happen. Too bad that man belongs to one of Jamie's oldest friends. Fate is about to hand him an unexpected chance. After losing everything, Hawke needs a break from reality. Too many lies and heartaches have left him with nothing except nightmares he can't escape. Seeing Jamie again reminds him of a different time - one where Jamie made him feel a spark of something pure. Can Jamie undo the years of damage caused by his so-called friend? In the face of everything Maddox has done to Hawke, Jamie can't let this chance pass him by. No friendship in the world is strong enough to overlook the pain Maddox has caused. Jamie can't think of a thing he'd rather do than pick up the pieces of Hawke's life, but will Hawke let him? Sometimes the most beautiful relationships spring from the most broken places. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Hollie Jackson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/036790/bk_acx0_036790_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Predators of Darkness: Aftermath , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 720min
    Imagine a world three years after a nuclear attack hits downtown Pittsburgh. No power. No radio. No communication. You emerge to find bloodthirsty creatures roaming the streets. The world as you knew it...gone.The world wasn't supposed to end like this....Fear what comes with the darkness.The desolate streets of downtown Pittsburgh in 2073 are a constant reminder of the missile attack that forever changed the lives of the surviving scientists and students hidden in the fallout shelter of Helmsby's Genetic Research Center. Believing themselves to be the only survivors, they station themselves inside the center until food supplies near depletion. Thinking the fallout has lessened, they emerge three years later to discover strange creatures patrolling the streets in search of human flesh and blood. The creatures possess the ability to shift their genomes and alter their appearances by realigning their genetic sequences.Daniel Hutchinson, their leader, teams with Lucas Ridale, and together they set out to scavenge the area for food and supplies with the hope to find other survivors. But Daniel's most recent journey uncovers mysteries more frightening than the shifters. He discovers the tip of Pittsburgh has been fenced off from the rest of the area. Low-flying helicopters observe the streets, making him ponder the question: Were the shifters released as simply part of a military experiment with humans being their prey? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Donald Pitsiladis. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/106821/bk_acx0_106821_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Blind Vigil : The Rick Cahill Series , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 548min
    Blind Vigil (The Rick Cahill Series) is a book by Anthony, Shamus, and Lefty Award-winning author Matt Coyle. A friend arrested for murder. A vicious killer lurking in the shadows. A world of darkness. Blinded by a gunshot wound to the face while working as a private investigator nine months ago, Rick Cahill is now sure of only one thing: He has to start a new life and leave his old one behind. He's still trying to figure out what that life is when his onetime partner, Moira MacFarlane, asks for his help on a case she's taken for Rick's former best friend. The case is simple, and Moira only needs Rick for one interview - but Rick is wary of waking sleeping demons. Ultimately, he goes against his gut and takes the case, which quickly turns deadly. Rick's old compulsion of finding the truth no matter the cost - the same compulsion that cost him his eyesight and almost his life - battles against his desire to escape his past. The stakes are raised when Rick's friend is implicated in murder and needs his help. Can he help the friend he no longer trusts, while questioning his own lessened capabilities? His life depends on the answer as a shadowy killer lurks in the darkness.This audiobook is perfect for fans of Michael Connelly and John Sandford. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Keith Jedlicka. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/230013/bk_acx0_230013_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Callahan Chronicals , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1011min
    This omnibus edition contains the trio of books that introduced the world to Mike Callahan, Jake Stonebender, Doc Webster, Mickey Finn, Fast Eddie Costigan, Long-Drink McGonnigle, Ralph Von Wau Wau, and the rest of the regulars of Callahan's Place, in the stories that helped Spider Robinson to win both a John W. Campbell Award and a legion of fans. Callahan's Crosstime Saloon is the neighborhood tavern to all of time and space, where the regulars are anything but. These time travelers, talking dogs, alcoholic vampires, and cybernetic aliens really, truly care about each other. It's the rare kind of place where bad puns are as appreciated as good conversation. Time Travelers Strictly Cash is their policy. Lay your money on the bar, name your poison, step up to the line drawn on the barroom floor, and after drinking make a toast and throw the glass into the fireplace. It's an odd tradition but one that's led to some interesting stories. Callahan's Secret may be something even the regulars would never guess. Then again, it may be as simple as listening to those post-toast stories. After all, like Callahan says, shared pain is lessened and shared joy is increased, a simple concept that could, after a few drinks, lead to saving the world. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Barrett Whitener. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/000617/bk_blak_000617_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Un Lun Dun , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 783min
    The iron wheel began to spin, slowly at first, then faster and faster. The room grew darker. As the light lessened, so did the sound. Deeba and Zanna stared at each other in wonder. The noise of the cars and vans and motorbikes outside grew tinny…. The wheel turned off all the cars and turned off all the lamps. It was turning off London. Zanna and Deeba are two girls leading ordinary lives, until they stumble into the world of UnLondun, an urban Wonderland where all the lost and broken things of London end up… and some of its lost and broken people too. Here, discarded umbrellas stalk with spidery menace, carnivorous giraffes roam the streets, and a jungle sprawls beyond the door of an ordinary house. UnLondun is under siege by the sinister Smog and its stink-junkie slaves; it is a city awaiting its hero. Guided by a magic book that can’t quite get its facts straight, and pursued by Hemi the half-ghost boy, the girls set out to stop the poisonous cloud before it burns everything in its path. They are joined in their quest by a motley band of UnLondun locals, including Brokkenbroll, boss of the broken umbrellas, Obaday Fing, a couturier whose head is an enormous pincushion, and an empty milk carton called Curdle. The world of UnLondun is populated by astonishing frights and delights that will thrill the imagination. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Karen Cass. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/macm/000619/bk_macm_000619_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    A Second Opinion , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 399min
    A world-renowned physician traces the rise of the medical-industrial complex that has made a disaster of our health care system and tells us incisively what we need to do to change it.The U.S. health care system is failing. It is run like a business, increasingly focused on generating income for insurers and providers rather than providing care for patients. It is supported by investors and private markets seeking to grow revenue and resist regulation, thus contributing to higher costs and lessened public accountability.Meanwhile, 46 million Americans are without insurance. And health care expenditures are rising at a rate of 7 percent a year, three times the rate of inflation.Dr. Arnold Relman is one of the most respected physicians and health care advocates in our country. This book, based on 60 years' experience in medicine, is a clarion call, not just to politicans and patients, but to the medical profession to evolve a new structure for health care, based on voluntary private contracts between individuals and not-for-profit, multi-specialty groups of physicians.Physicians would be paid mainly by salaries and would submit no bills for their services. All health care facilities would be not-for-profit. The savings from reduced administrative overhead and the elimination of billing fraud would be enormous. Healthcare may be our greatest national problem, but the provocative, sensible arguments in this book will provide a catalyst for change. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Stephen McLaughlin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/001456/bk_adbl_001456_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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