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    Zero to Five: 70 Essential Parenting Tips Based on Science (and What I’ve Learned So Far) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 299min
    Pregnancy? Newborn baby? Partway through parenthood with a toddler or preschooler? No matter your stage, I'm guessing you could use more calm, more confidence. You could listen to dozens of parenting books on pregnancy, baby sleep, picky eaters, child psychology, child development, potty training, and discipline. Or you could listen to Zero to Five: 70 Essential Parenting Tips Based on Science. Journalist Tracy Cutchlow cuts to the chase, summarizing the best parenting research in bite-size chunks. She knows from her own experience with motherhood: New parents are too busy and sleep-deprived. With the premise that science isn't perfect, but it's the best guide we've got, Zero to Five draws on scientific research and studies from experts such as Dimitri Christakis (screen time), Diana Baumrind (parenting styles), Adele Diamond (neuroscience and executive function), Carol Dweck (growth mind-set), Alison Gopnik (child psychology), John Gottman (marriage and conflict resolution), Megan McClelland (executive function), Patricia Kuhl (language acquisition and brain development), Ellyn Satter (feeding children), Dan Siegel (emotions), Paul Torrance (creative thinking), Grover Whitehurst (literacy and reading comprehension), and more. Then Cutchlow makes it all understandable, for that two-minute break you've got during the day. Zero to Five is your quick and easy guide to the best practices in parenting. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Xe Sands. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/pprs/000005/bk_pprs_000005_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Through the Children's Gate , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 12min
    Through The Children's Gate is a short story from the collection Central Park. Central Park is perhaps the most well-trod and familiar green space in the country. It is both a refuge from the city and Manhattan's very heart; a respite from the urban grind and a hive of activity all its own. Eight hundred forty-three carefully planned acres allow some 37 million visitors each year to come and get lost in a sense of nature. Unsurprisingly, the park also inspires a wealth of great writing, and here Andrew Blauner collects some of the finest fiction and nonfiction - 20 pieces in all, with classics sprinkled among 13 new ones commissioned from great New York writers. Bill Buford spends a wild night in the park; Jonathan Safran Foer envisions it as a tiny, transplanted piece of a mythical Sixth Borough; and Marie Winn answers definitively Holden Caulfield's question of where the ducks go when the park's ponds freeze over. There are bird sightings and fish sightings; Jackie Kennedy and James Brown sightings; and pieces by Colson Whitehead, Paul Auster, and Francine Prose. This vibrant collection presents Central Park in all its many-faceted glory, a 51-block swath of special magic. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Adam Gopnik. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/017070/bk_adbl_017070_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Next Fifty Years: Science in the First Half of the Twenty-First Century, Hörbuch, Digital, 473min
    A brilliant ensemble of the world's most visionary scientists provides 25 original never-before-published essays about the advances in science and technology that we may see within our lifetimes.Theoretical physicist and best selling author Paul Davies examines the likelihood that by the year 2050 we will be able to establish a continuing human presence on Mars. Psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi investigates the ramifications of engineering high-IQ, genetically happy babies.Psychiatrist Nancy Etcoff explains current research into the creation of emotion-sensing jewelry that could gauge our moods and tell us when to take an anti-depressant pill. Evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins explores the probability that we will soon be able to obtain a genome printout that predicts our natural end for the same cost as a chest x-ray. (Will we want to read it? And will insurance companies and governments have access to it?) This fascinating and unprecedented book explores not only the practical possibilities of the near future, but also the social and political ramifications of the developments of the strange new world to come.Includes original essays by: Lee Smolin, Martin Rees, Ian Stewart, Brian Goodwin, Marc D. Hauser, Alison Gopnik, Paul Bloom, Geoffrey Miller, Robert M. Sapolsky, Steven Strogatz, Stuart Kauffman, John H. Holland, Rodney Brooks, Peter Atkins, Roger C. Schank, Jaron Lanier, David Gelernter, Joseph LeDoux, Judith Rich Harris, Samuel Barondes, and Paul W. Ewald.The Next Fifty Years is also available in print from Vintage. Language: English. Narrator: Henry Leyva, Jennifer Wiltsie. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rhau/000083/bk_rhau_000083_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    To the Best of Our Knowledge: Kid Knowledge, Hörbuch, Digital, 52min
    In this hour, LaNiyah Bailey was a pre-schooler with a weight problem. Other kids called her names. One day, LaNiyah decided she'd had enough. She told her mom she wanted to write a book. Not Fat Because I Wanna Be was published when she was 6 years old. Next, Psychologist Alison Gopnik tells us even the experts underestimate children. At her UC-Berkeley lab, she and her colleagues demonstrate empathy and logical, scientific thinking in children as young as 14 months. She explains the implications for early childhood education. Then, Zia Hassan's video of the 9-year old boy he calls "The Philosopher" was a YouTube sensation. 2.4 million people have watched this 4th grade Socrates as he considers dark matter, the origins of the universe, the meaning of life and more. We hear the story behind the video.After that, 4th graders in John Hunter's class spend part of every year playing a fiendishly complex game he calls "The World Peace Game." It's the subject of a book and documentary, World Peace and Other Fourth-Grade Achievements. John says most adults have no idea what kids can accomplish. And finally, In the wake of the tragic shootings in Newtown last year, Muadh Bhavnagarwala volunteered to read from the Qu'ran at the memorial service, on national television. He hoped his words, and the text he loves, could bring some healing to people in his community. His parents and his teacher agreed. [Broadcast Date: December 18, 2013] Language: English. Narrator: Jim Fleming. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/rt/tbon/131218/rt_tbon_131218_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Still Me
    From the New York Times bestselling author of The Giver of Stars, discover the love story that captured over 20 million hearts in Me Before You, After You, and Still Me. Louisa Clark arrives in New York ready to start a new life, confident that she can embrace this new adventure and keep her relationship with Ambulance Sam alive across several thousand miles. She steps into the world of the superrich, working for Leonard Gopnik and his much younger second wife, Agnes. Lou is determined to get the most out of the experience and throws herself into her new job and New York life. As she begins to mix in New York high society, Lou meets Joshua Ryan, a man who brings with him a whisper of her past. Before long, Lou finds herself torn between Fifth Avenue where she works and the treasure-filled vintage clothing store where she actually feels at home. And when matters come to a head, she has to ask herself: Who is Louisa Clark? And how do you find the courage to follow your heart-wherever that may lead? Funny, romantic, and poignant, Still Me follows Lou as she discovers who she is and who she was always meant to be-and learns to live boldly in her brave new world.
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    This Idea Is Brilliant: Lost, Overlooked, and Underappreciated Scientific Concepts Everyone Should Know , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 971min
    The latest volume in the best-selling series from Edge.org - dubbed "the world's smartest website" by The Guardian - brings together 206 of the world's most innovative thinkers to discuss the scientific concepts that everyone should know. As science informs public policy, decision making, and so many aspects of our everyday lives, a scientifically literate society is crucial. In that spirit, Edge.org publisher and author of Know This, John Brockman, asks 206 of the world's most brilliant minds the 2017 Edge Question: What scientific term or concept ought to be more widely known? Contributors include: author of The God Delusion Richard Dawkins on using animals' "Genetic Book of the Dead" to reconstruct ecological history; MacArthur Fellow Rebecca Newberger Goldstein on "scientific realism", the idea that scientific theories explain phenomena beyond what we can see and touch; author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics Carlo Rovelli on "relative information", which governs the physical world around us; theoretical physicist Lawrence M. Krauss on the hidden blessings of "uncertainty"; cognitive scientist and author of The Language Instinct Steven Pinker on "The Second Law of Thermodynamics"; biogerontologist Aubrey De Grey on why "maladaptive traits" have been conserved evolutionarily; musician Brian Eno on "confirmation bias" in the Internet age; Man Booker-winning author of Atonement Ian Mcewan on the "Navier-Stokes Equations", which govern everything from weather prediction to aircraft design and blood flow; plus pieces from Richard Thaler, Jared Diamond, Nicholas Carr, Janna Levin, Lisa Randall, Kevin Kelly, Daniel Coleman, Frank Wilczek, Rory Sutherland, Nina Jablonski, Martin Rees, Alison Gopnik, and many, many others. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Cassandra Campbell, Charles Constant. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/006462/bk_harp_006462_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Peanuts Papers: Writers and Cartoonists on Charlie Brown, Snoopy & the Gang, and the Meaning of Life , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 539min
    A one-of-a-kind celebration of America's greatest comic strip - and the life lessons it can teach us - from a stellar array of writers and artists Over the span of 50 years, Charles M. Schulz created a comic strip that is one of the indisputable glories of American popular culture - hilarious, poignant, inimitable. Some 20 years after the last strip appeared, the characters Schulz brought to life in Peanuts continue to resonate with millions of fans, their beguiling four-panel adventures and television escapades offering lessons about happiness, friendship, disappointment, childhood, and life itself. In The Peanuts Papers, 33 writers and artists reflect on the deeper truths of Schulz’s deceptively simple comic, its impact on their lives and art and on the broader culture. These enchanting, affecting, and often quite personal essays show just how much Peanuts means to its many admirers - and the ways it invites us to ponder, in the words of Sarah Boxer, “how to survive and still be a decent human being” in an often bewildering world. Featuring essays, memoirs, poems, and two original comic strips, here is the ultimate listener's companion for every Peanuts fan.Featuring:Jill Bialosky Lisa Birnbach Sarah BoxerJennifer Finney Boylan Ivan Brunetti Hilary Fitzgerald Campbell Rich Cohen Gerald Early Umberto EcoJonathan Franzen Ira GlassAdam Gopnik David Hajdu Bruce Handy David Kamp Maxine Hong KingstonChuck Klosterman Peter D. Kramer Jonathan Lethem Rick Moody Ann Patchett Kevin PowellJoe QueenanNicole Rudick George Saunders Elissa Schappell Janice Shapiro Mona Simpson Leslie Stein Clifford Thompson David L. Ulin Chris WarePLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mark Boyett, JD Jackson, Khristine Hvam, Allyson Johnson, Dina Pearlman, Bill Andrew Quinn, Richard Ferrone, Jonathan Davis, Elizabeth Evans, Steve Rimpici, Kevin T. Collins, Mack Sanderson, Josh Hurley. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/055316/bk_adbl_055316_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Central Park: An Anthology , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 352min
    Central Park is perhaps the most well-trod and familiar green space in the country. It is both a refuge from the city and Manhattan's very heart; a respite from the urban grind and a hive of activity all its own. Eight hundred forty-three carefully planned acres allow some 37 million visitors each year to come and get lost in a sense of nature. Unsurprisingly, the park also inspires a wealth of great writing, and here Andrew Blauner collects some of the finest fiction and nonfiction - 20 pieces in all, with classics sprinkled among 13 new ones commissioned from great New York writers. Bill Buford spends a wild night in the park; Jonathan Safran Foer envisions it as a tiny, transplanted piece of a mythical Sixth Borough; and Marie Winn answers definitively Holden Caulfield's question of where the ducks go when the park's ponds freeze over. There are bird sightings and fish sightings; Jackie Kennedy and James Brown sightings; and pieces by Colson Whitehead, Paul Auster, and Francine Prose. This vibrant collection presents Central Park in all its many-faceted glory, a 51-block swath of special magic. Introduction ©2012 by Adrian Benepe. Epilogue ©2012 by Doug Blonsky. "Negative Space" ©2012 by Thomas Beller, "The Goodbye" ©2012 by Buzz Bissinger, "My Little Bit of Country" ©2012 by Susan Cheever, "Goodnight Moon" ©2012 by Ben Dolnick, "Beastie" ©2012 by Brooks Hansen, "Framed in Silver" ©2012 by Mark Helprin, "Carp in the Park" ©2012 by David Michaelis, "Some Music in the Park" ©2012 by Francine Prose, "Squawkeye and Gang on the Dendur Plateau" ©2012 by Nathaniel Rich, "The Meadow" ©2012 by John Burnham Schwartz, "Sunday in the Park with Mother" ©2012 by Susan Sheehan, "The Hidden Life" ©2012 by Alee Wilkinson. Excerpts from Moon Palace, ©1989 by Paul Auster, from Through the Children's Gate, ©2006 by Adam Gopnik, from The Falconer of Central Park, ©1984 by Donald Knowler, from The Colossus of New York ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jennifer Van Dyck, L. J. Ganser, Edoardo Ballerini, Scott Aiello, Jonathan Davis, Steven Crossley, Jeff Woodman, Adrian Benepe. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/014745/bk_adbl_014745_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Talks About Nothing
    Some of the world's most active minds came to New York's Rubin Museum of Art from 2010-2011 to talk about... nothing. Two by two, they partook in probing, inspired conversations about universal questions: what is, what isn't, and how can we tell? the concept of nothing is central to Buddhism's diamond sutra, Shakespeare's Hamlet, Einstein's theory of relativity, and countless more works of art, philosophy, science, and spirituality. So there was plenty for each pair to talk about. The Economist applauded the Rubin's "inspired pairings": neurologist Oliver Sacks and blind photographer John Dugdale, Shakespearean actor Brian Cox and developmental psychologist Alison Gopnik, filmmaker Ken Burns and Tibetan Buddhist teacher Traleg Rinpoche, performance artist Laurie Anderson and Charles Seife, author of a book about zero. The results were unscripted, unlimited, and enlightening-food for thought from some of the greatest thinkers of our time.
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