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Nobody Told Me

'This book should be required reading for anyone thinking of having a baby, or even anyone who knows someone who is thinking of having a baby'Scotland on Sunday'Fascinating and honest'Mumsnet'Like talking to a friend'ObserverWinner of the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in PoetryThere were many things that Hollie McNish didn't know before she was pregnant. How her family and friends would react; that Mr Whippy would be off the menu; how quickly ice can melt on a stomach. These were on top of the many other things she didn't know about babies: how to stand while holding one; how to do a poetry gig with your baby as a member of the audience; how drum'n'bass can make a great lullaby. And that's before you even start on toddlers. But Hollie learned.And she's still learning, slowly. Nobody Told Me is a collection of poems and stories; Hollie's thoughts on raising a child in modern Britain, of trying to become a parent in modern Britain, of sex, commercialism, feeding, gender and of finding secret places to scream once in a while.

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Breaking the Chain: How I Banned Chain Restaurants from My Diet and Went from Full to Fulfilled , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 392min

Breaking the Chain began with Allyson Reedy wanting to eat better-tasting, more adventurous food. After watching friends, family, and strangers eat unsatisfactory meal after meal at chain restaurants and get fatter as a result, she wondered how we could break this chain of mediocrity, obesity, and commercialism. So in 2009, Allyson Reedy stopped eating meals, snacks, and goodies from the kinds of restaurants that line America’s streets and dominate our stomachs. This food memoir chronicles her year-long experience as she sought out local alternatives to the fast food we’ve come to rely upon. Breaking the Chain is Fast Food Nation (Eric Schlosser) told from Carrie Bradshaw’s point of view (if she loved manicotti as much as Manolos). Allyson shares the good and bad effects of her experiment, including passing up on her food rituals like an office breakfasts of bagels and donuts, her break from social customs, the inconvenience on friends, support for her neighbors and local food community, the discovery of new favorite foods, saving money, and ultimately, weight loss. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Melanie Haynes. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/010490/bk_adbl_010490_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Nobody Told Me: Poetry and Parenthood , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 434min

There were many things that Hollie McNish didn't know before she was pregnant. How her family and friends would react; that Mr Whippy would be off the menu; how quickly ice can melt on a stomach. These were on top of the many other things she didn't know about babies: how to stand while holding one; how to do a poetry gig with your baby as a member of the audience; how drum'n'bass can make a great lullaby. And that's before you even start on toddlers: how to answer a question like 'is the world a jigsaw?'; dealing with a 10-hour train ride together; and how children can be caregivers, too. But Hollie learned. And she's still learning, slowly. Nobody Told Me is a collection of poems and stories taken from Hollie's diaries - one person's thoughts on raising a child in modern Britain, on trying to become a parent in modern Britain, on sex, commercialism, feeding, gender and finding secret places to scream once in a while. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Hollie McNish. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/029747/bk_adbl_029747_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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God Is My Broker, Hörbuch, Digital, 298min

With this latest work of fiction, a collaboration with New York Times writer, John Tierney, Christopher Buckley promises to be every bit as hilarious and witty as in his previous audiobook, Thank You for Smoking.In God Is My Broker, Buckley aims his sharp humor at the self-help gurus; and the likes of Stephen Covey, Anthony Robbins, and Deepak Chopra had better watch out. Down to their last $304, the abbots in this story make a bunch of money playing the stock market - and then get carried away in today's commercialism and self-help principles when they begin to market their homemade wine. From redecorating their decrepit digs in the "peasant chic" style to outrageous television commercials to a "Cask-cade" water slide and artificial alp behind their monastery, (and passing off "decent Chilean table wine" as their own $16 a bottle brew) these monks will stop at nothing to get to the top of the wine business!God Is My Broker includes actual excerpts from the writings of Robbins, Chopra, and Covey, and lists hysterical questions about God, money, etc., that followers of the "program" can ask themselves! Language: English. Narrator: Mark Linn-Baker. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bant/000062/bk_bant_000062_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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For the Common Good: A New History of Higher Education in America , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 673min

In For the Common Good, Charles Dorn challenges the rhetoric of America’s so-called crisis in higher education by investigating two centuries of college and university history. From the community college to the elite research university - in states from California to Maine - Dorn engages a fundamental question confronted by higher education institutions ever since the nation’s founding: Do colleges and universities contribute to the common good?Tracking changes in the prevailing social ethos between the late 18th and early 21st centuries, Dorn illustrates the ways in which civic-mindedness, practicality, commercialism, and affluence influenced higher education’s dedication to the public good. Each ethos, long a part of American history and tradition, came to predominate over the others during one of the four chronological periods examined in the audiobook, informing the character of institutional debates and telling the definitive story of its time. For the Common Good demonstrates how 200 years of political, economic, and social change prompted transformation among colleges and universities - including the establishment of entirely new kinds of institutions - and refashioned higher education in the United States over time in essential and often vibrant ways.The book is published by Cornell University Press. The audiobook is published by University Press Audiobooks. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Doug McDonald. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/162803/bk_acx0_162803_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Minimalist Budget: Spend Less and Live More with a Minimalist Lifestyle , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 80min

Excerpt from the Introduction of the book: A lot of people think that they don’t have enough – whether it is enough wealth, enough cash, or enough possessions – but they are wrong. Often times, the problem is that you have too much. But you don’t realize it. You don’t realize it because you are crowded by all your thoughts, your possessions, and by what society and commercialism want you to think. Enter minimalism and the philosophy that less is more. As an answer to consumerism and endless consumption, minimalism tries to strip what is unnecessary and only keep the essentials. Many individuals convert to minimalism to simplify their lives. Possessions get thrown out and emotional attachments are severed so that minimalists get the clarity they need to realize what is truly important in their lives. With a middle class that is gradually becoming smaller, more and more individuals are struggling to make ends meet. Like possessions, money is slowly taking control of people’s lives. You work for your money, literally and figuratively. You work for money like money is your boss. But is money truly that important? Why does this manmade invention hold so much power over mankind? Can you apply the philosophies of minimalism and claim that less money is enough money? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Benjamin McLean. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/110591/bk_acx0_110591_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Mr. America: The Tragic History of a Bodybuilding Icon: Terry and Jan Todd Series on Physical Culture and Sports , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1170min

For most of the 20th century, the “Mr. America” image epitomized muscular manhood. From humble beginnings in 1939 at a small gym in Schenectady, New York, the Mr. America Contest became the world’s premier bodybuilding event over the next 30 years. Rooted in ancient Greek virtues of health, fitness, beauty, and athleticism, it showcased some of the finest specimens of American masculinity. Interviewing nearly one hundred major figures in the physical culture movement (including 25 Mr. Americas) and incorporating copious printed and manuscript sources, John D. Fair has created the definitive study of this iconic phenomenon.Revealing the ways in which the contest provided a model of functional and fit manhood, Mr. America captures the event’s path to idealism and its slow descent into obscurity. As the 1960s marked a turbulent transition in American society - from the civil rights movement to the rise of feminism and increasing acceptance of homosexuality - Mr. America changed as well. Exploring the influence of other bodily displays, such as the Mr. Universe and Mr. Olympia contests and the Miss America Pageant, Fair focuses on commercialism, size obsession, and drugs that corrupted the competition’s original intent. Accessible and engaging, Mr. America is a compelling portrayal of the glory days of American muscle.The book is published by University of Texas Press. The audiobook is published by University Press Audiobooks. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Brian McKiernan. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/201412/bk_acx0_201412_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Degrees for Everyone , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 344min

University degrees should be for everyone. Not just for some self-appointed elite who study obscure stuff like classics, history, and medieval studies. Universities need to offer a range of subjects that will ensure anyone can get a degree in something - it's purely a matter of responding to modern market forces. This is the vision of Ralston University's new vice chancellor.Unburdened by any sense of academic tradition or excellence - and coming from a background in company liquidations - he proceeds to close down the teaching of traditional academic subjects, replacing them with diploma and degree courses in line dancing, hamburgerology, and applied witchcraft. More than a new broom that sweeps clean, he is hell-bent on excoriating every last shred of intellectual fiber from the bones of academic tradition. Drawn into this sudden chain of events, can the wise but world-weary Professor Trout save his own job in the department of medieval studies? Or will the monstrous Professor Beefenstein squeeze him out with her teaching of Rubenesque Studies to justify female obesity? Are panel-beating and pedophiliac studies to become legitimized as scholarship? It seems anything is possible.As Sir Robert Jones describes in Degrees for Everyone, we have entered an age in which commercialism has replaced professionalism, and never more so than with our universities. A university degree was once held mana; today it is a badge of attendance. Scholarship has been pushed aside to accommodate the meanest intelligence with nonsense degrees in nonsense subjects, and universities are today driven by commercial considerations.In this hilarious but devastatingly prescient work exposing the corruption of our universities, Bob Jones shows, once again, that he is not only a deft and witty storyteller but a man of letters himself. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Paul Barrett. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/169681/bk_acx0_169681_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Minimalist Living: People Who Enjoy More by Living with Less , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 93min

Minimalism comes in many forms, and some practices you may already be familiar with, such as Feng Shui, tiny living, or downsizing. While minimalism has become increasingly popular over the last few years, there is much about the lifestyle that is often misunderstood and even unacknowledged. While the foundation of the lifestyle is based on simplifying your living space there is much more to minimalism than clearing out space in your closet. Minimalism is a way of life that improves your quality of life, while also enhancing your mental state, relationships, financial state, and surrounding environment. By implementing minimalist values into your life, you can experience newfound freedom and opportunities that are often unavailable with a materialistic lifestyle. This book contains proven strategies and techniques on how to efficiently and effectively transition into the minimalist lifestyle, as well as methods for decluttering your home, reevaluating your goals, and how to use minimalism to achieve your dreams and live the life you truly desire. A widely acknowledged truth among the minimalist community is that materialism has completely consumed the mindset of the general population so that we are in a constant state of wanting or needing more unnecessary items. Corporations have reinvented commercialism to target your insecurities and desire to feel fulfilled by selling objects that only grant instant gratification, rather than true contentment or change. This book will open your mind to a world with entirely new possibilities and open doors that are impossible to take advantage of in a life that is centered around what you own. The foundational values of minimalism are focused on improving your overall quality of life through reevaluating your spending habits, relationships, state of mind, and instinct to consume needlessly. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Alexander Parrish. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/086580/bk_acx0_086580_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Angel at the Top of My Tree , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 172min

After purchasing a beautiful and unique antique angel tree topper, Marq North is excited to gift it to his long-time girlfriend, but he should’ve known she appreciates a bigger price tag more than sentimental value. Why has he wasted years of his life trying to buy her love? When she tells him she’s ending their relationship right before the holidays, he’s almost…relieved. Ione and her fellow archangels are used to the rise in demonic activity during Samhain, but at Christmas? That is a surprise to them all. Yet it seems more and more people are focusing on the greed and commercialism these days rather than the real reason for the season. And the demons plan to take advantage of mankind’s vulnerability and overtake as many mortals as possible this time of year. It’s up to Ione and Heaven’s best protectors to save every valuable soul. He’d swear he saw her literally fall from the sky, to find her injured and vulnerable. After Marq rescues her, he discovers she’s the spitting image of the angel doll. She says her name is Ione, and claims to be an archangel. After he offers her a place of safety in order to recover, he finds she’s become jaded through the years, which has him determined to have her see that it’s not greed, but the love of giving that makes this time of year special. Despite knowing she must return to Heaven, or risk drawing the demons’ wrath to Marq, Ione wants to remain with her rescuer, but she must let him go to save his life as he did hers. After all, a relationship between a mortal and a celestial being would never work. Or can it? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Michael Reaves. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/233965/bk_acx0_233965_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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