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Natural Deception: A Sobering Look at the Truth Behind the Organic Food Industry , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 101min
Is Organic Worth the Price?$8 for organic milk. Sure, you could spend half as much, but it’s worth it to know that you’re supporting a small family farm where the cows can munch on green grass all day. Plus, you’re not drinking nasty hormones and chemicals, and you’re doing your part to save the environment. Seems like you’re winning all around, but what would you do if that picture of the happy farm, the personal health, and the clean air and water turned out not to be so pretty? What if organic isn't all it's hyped up to be?What if organic produce only had marginally less pesticide residues than conventional produce? What if the organic, grass-fed beef cows ended up on the very same feedlots as factory-farmed, grain-fed beef cows? What if large swaths of the country were being taken over by huge corporate-owned farming operations, organic farming operations that were destroying the landscape and depleting the soil? Organic is much more complicated than we’ve been led to believe. From the scale to the possible health implications of pesticides to the treatment of animals, it’s not a black and white issue.Natural Deception takes a sobering look at one of the fastest growing industries in the world today. We find that organic may be one more buzz phrase used to sell products rather than a movement really concerned for the wellbeing of our planet and its inhabitants. In the spirit of an undercover news reporter, author Joey Lott takes us through the organic food industry point by point, examining our assumptions and revealing the truth. Find out what major corporation owns your favorite small organic brand. Examine whether pesticides may be a health detriment or even partially beneficial. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Greg Zarcone. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/046656/bk_acx0_046656_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Forex Trading: Secrets, Strategies and the Psychology of the Trader to Earn $10,000 per Month in No Time, Manage the Risks and Your Money , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 138min
Are you interest in Forex Trading? If yes, then this is the right book for you!Forex is for foreign exchange or currency trading. It is a global, highly liquid economy with a huge quantity of periodic trade.Trading Forex overstocks has many advantages, including its large earnings capacity without some stock market constraints. The reality that Forex is a business of 24 hours implies that tiny shareholders who are just beginning out have a wonderful benefit. It implies you can suit your other regular tasks with forex trading - you can even operate on it in the center of the evening if you want! Somewhere around the globe, there is always a bank accessible to trading.For beginners, Forex trading is also highly simple to get involved in. This is because forex trading charges are usually smaller than trading stocks, and the scheme enables you to practice marginally. This implies that with only a tiny payment, you can purchase large quantities of currency -though this obviously brings both danger and advantages.This is only a very short summary of the advantages of forex trading. As you can see, for beginners who have little investment knowledge, many of these highlights create a good option.This book covers:Why You Have to Start Forex TradingTips Used In Money ManagementTechniques to Trading Forex The Major Currency PairsCharts and IndicatorsTrade Partial Close in MetatraderYour Trading Capital The Right Mindset to Make MoneyAnd so much more!If you decide where to trade, then look at the fundamentals of Forex, and you may find it to be the perfect choice for you.Buy now to start! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Steve Worsley. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/227391/bk_acx0_227391_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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God Is Alive and Well: The Future of Religion in America , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 453min
Popular books such as The God Delusion have dismissed religion as a delusional artifact of evolution and ancient superstitions. But should millions of Americans' statements of belief and their behavior be dismissed that quickly? The pattern of religious influence in American society suggests mass consequence rather than mass delusion. In God Is Alive and Well, Frank Newport, Gallup's Editor-in-Chief, provides a new evidence-based analysis of Americans' religious beliefs and practices - and bold predictions about religion's future in the U.S. Most Americans are at least marginally religious, significantly more so than in most developed nations around the world. The majority of Americans believe in God and say that religion is important in their daily lives. And Americans routinely participate in religious rituals. Levels of religious consciousness are not distributed equally. Systematic patterns of differences in religion occur with surprising regularity. An American's religiosity is very much bound up with social position and geographic space. There is an important interplay between religion and life status factors - age, gender, marital status, having children - and with achieved status distinctions - class, education, income. Those who are most religious are demonstrably different across a wide spectrum of outcomes from those who are not. These include lifestyle choices, social participation, ideology, partisanship, and views on political and social issues. Religion can be the driver for highly disruptive social behaviors, up to and including the taking of human life. Unlike citizens of any other country in the world, Americans group themselves into hundreds of distinct micro religious groups and denominations. These groups are constantly evolving, splitting like amoeba to form new groups. The most common pattern today is the development of the "no name" religious group, consisting of Americans who worship only under ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Adam Grupper. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/008232/bk_brll_008232_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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A Dirty Job , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 710min
Charlie Asher is a pretty normal guy. A little hapless, somewhat neurotic, sort of a hypochondriac. He's what's known as a Beta Male: the kind of fellow who makes his way through life by being careful and constant, you know, the one who's always there to pick up the pieces when the girl gets dumped by the bigger/taller/stronger Alpha Male. But Charlie's been lucky. He owns a building in the heart of San Francisco, and runs a secondhand store with the help of a couple of loyal, if marginally insane, employees. He's married to a bright and pretty woman who actually loves him for his normalcy. And she, Rachel, is about to have their first child. Yes, Charlie's doing okay for a Beta. That is, until the day his daughter, Sophie, is born. Just as Charlie, exhausted from the birth, turns to go home, he sees a strange man in mint-green golf wear at Rachel's hospital bedside, a man who claims that no one should be able to see him. But see him Charlie does, and from here on out, things get really weird. People start dropping dead around him, giant ravens perch on his building, and it seems that everywhere he goes, a dark presence whispers to him from under the streets. Strange names start appearing on his nightstand notepad, and before he knows it, those people end up dead, too. Yup, it seems that Charlie Asher has been recruited for a new job, an unpleasant but utterly necessary one: Death. It's a dirty job. But hey, somebody's gotta do it. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Fisher Stevens. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/001233/bk_harp_001233_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Dreyfus Affair: The History and Legacy of France's Most Notorious Antisemitic Political Scandal , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 76min
Sometime in 1889, a woman named Madame Marie Bastian was recruited as an agent of the secretive “Statistical Section”, an espionage and counter-intelligence agency attached to the military intelligence office of the French General Staff. Mme. Bastian was a cleaner employed by the German Embassy in Paris. Thanks to her Romany origins, she was somewhat acquainted with Germany and marginally conversant in the German language. She enjoyed complete and unrestricted access to the private residences of many important German diplomats and functionaries, and as she gathered up the torn-up documents in the various wastepaper baskets, she routinely passed them on to a handler attached to the Statistical Section.In September 1890, among a pile of torn-up documents delivered by Mme. Bastian was found a note handwritten in French which, when pieced together, proved to be a list of French military secrets handed over to the Germans by an unknown French officer of the General Staff. This discovery, which proved the existence of a traitor in the department, triggered a ferment in the corridors of the Conseil Supérieur de la Guerre, and the hunt was on for the culprit.By a process of elimination, officers of the military intelligence were able to narrow down a list of probable traitors, among whom was a young Jewish staff officer Captain Alfred Dreyfus who was immediately earmarked as the chief suspect. Dreyfus’ handwriting was compared to that on the bordereau and although the various handwriting experts who conducted the comparison failed to reach a common consensus, it was nonetheless judged that Dreyfus was indeed the culprit. In December 1894, Dreyfus was court-martialed, convicted, and sentenced to a term of life in prison. On January 5, 1895, in a formal parade, Captain Dreyfus was stripped of his rank, his sword was broken over the knee of a sergeant, and he was shipped overseas to the penal colony of Devil’s Island on the coast of French Guiana.p ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gregory T. Luzitano. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/160241/bk_acx0_160241_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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How Overwatch Became a Popular Global Gaming Phenomenon, How Overwatch Changed Peoples Lives, and How an Average Gamer Can Earn a Living Playing Overwatch , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 53min
This book sheds light on how Overwatch become a popular global gaming phenomenon and how Overwatch changed peoples lives. Moreover, how the average gamer can earn a living playing Overwatch is also delineated.There are ample reasons as to why Overwatch evolved into becoming a global phenomenon as one of the most popular video games of all time. Overwatch’s popularity goes beyond Overwatch simply launching as a Triple-A online first-person shooter video game by a major video game publisher Blizzard Entertainment.First and foremost, gamers are embracing the ample innovations that Overwatch has ushered into the first-person shooter genre. Rather than being comprised of characters that feel only marginally different from one another, just like the vast majority of online first person shooter video game, Overwatch unequivocally offers a mesmerizing breath of fresh air to its genre by having a copious amount of playable characters which have unique character abilities, epic ultimate abilities, and compelling personalities.The inclusion of unique character abilities and epic ultimate abilities that are hero-specific is a gamer changer and allows every hero to feel truly novel and not just a carbon copy with subtle differences of other playable characters, unlike the characters in other online first person shooter video games, such as Call of Duty - Blacks Ops 4 and Battlefield 5. In other words, the uniqueness of the game mechanics and zaniness of the hero characters is something that is eminently appealing and keeps gamers coming back to partake in the lunacy of the Overwatch online multiplayer matches that are outright fun to play.In Overwatch, the unexpected can always be expected. This is because, the hero characters are so unique and have astonishing abilities, such as Tracer being able to reverse time or Sombra being able to teleport. These unique hero abilities add a plethora of new dynamics to the first-person shooter genre which have ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jesse Weimer. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/217885/bk_acx0_217885_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Sunrise at the American Market , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 592min
Six years ago, a group of complete strangers began gathering each morning for coffee in a convenience store, The American Market, on the outskirts of Washington, DC, and a community was born. Their story is chronicled by Charlie Pratt, son of a wealthy New England family. After a legal education that left him marginally disinterested in law, Charlie moved to Washington where he lived a comfortable and solitary life until he (and his fat and affable Black Lab, Flynn) became a central player in the morning group at the Market. The bonds between members of the group began to solidify when Henry, the proprietor, removed the entire rack of goods in the front of the store replacing them with a table and folding chairs. It was Henry who organized the group and turned his otherwise predictable convenience store into a salon where all topics, serious and inane, were on the table. In time, the Market became that safe place we all seek where Charlie, Henry, Simone, Maurice, Alex, and Claire could simply be, freed of judgment, liberated from externally imposed identities. In that extraordinary setting, things began to happen, crystalizing in a passionate, potent, and disjointed relationship between Charlie and Claire beginning when they attend a fabulous, confrontational, and unforgettable New England wedding between Jennifer Strong and Samantha Ecktington. Each of the characters seated around the table face challenges with money, relationships, the nature and shape of their community, and overshadowing all, an encroaching, insurmountable medical crisis. Questions of fidelity, fate, a murder investigation pushing Charlie to get over his reluctant lawyer status, and compassionate life termination become transformative, particularly for Charlie, as they become that best of all families, a family of choice. Prepare to get to meet six remarkable and complex characters who are at once quite unique, and, if one has the courage to observe, ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tim Gerard Reynolds. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/136329/bk_acx0_136329_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Cabin Pressure: The Complete Series 3, Hörbuch, Digital, 168min
Stephanie Cole, Benedict Cumberbatch, and Roger Allam star in the first series of the hit sitcom about the tiny charter airline for whom no job is too small, but many, many jobs are too difficult. By John Finnemore (‘The News Quiz’, ‘That Mitchell & Webb Sound’) Run by the forbidding divorcée Carolyn Knapp-Shappey (an unfortunate marriage, namewise, but in Carolyn’s opinion, marginally better than Carolyn Shappey-Knapp), her two pilots are the smooth, experienced and almost-certainly-fired-by-a-big-airline-for-all-round naughtiness Douglas, and struggling almost-competent pilot and sweaty man Martin. All-round help is provided by Carolyn’s near-idiot son, Arthur...In the first of the complete six episodes - ""Qikiqtarjuaq"" - when MJN Air flies a party of tourists near the North Pole, Arthur goes hunting for polar bears, Carolyn for a rogue lemon and Martin for a believable French accent... Then we travel to episode 2 - ""Paris"", and when a bottle of highly-expensive whisky goes missing, Martin becomes the Miss Marple of MJN Air with Arthur assisting as his trusty Doctor Watson and Douglas hindering as his untrusty prime suspect. On to part 3, ""Newcastle"", where love is in the air, but also unfortunately in a small airport in Birmingham - and Martin has to choose between career, romance and fixing a very small tail-light. Part 4 finds us on the way to ""Ottery St Mary"". Martin is a Man With A Van, Douglas flies A Plane With An Otter and Carolyn dates A Pilot With A Problem With Sheep. And two mysteries solved - the name of Carolyn’s dog and the rules of “Yellow Car”. Arriving at episode 5, ""Rotterdam"", it's Lifejacket, Camera, Action as stardom beckons for one of the crew of MJN Air... but who will get to blow the final whistle? And will they look good in a vest? And in the last episode of the series - ""St. Petersburg"" - some vodka and an unwary bird could spell the end of the line for MJN Air, and when Carolyn mee Language: English. Narrator: Stephanie Cole, Benedict Cumberbatch, Roger Allam, John Finnemore. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/rt/bbcw/005198/rt_bbcw_005198_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Captain Class: The Hidden Force Behind the World's Greatest Teams , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 564min
Random House presents the unabridged downloadable audiobook edition of The Captain Class: The Hidden Force Behind the World's Greatest Teams by Sam Walker, read by Keith Szarabajka. Several years ago Sam Walker set out to answer one of the most hotly debated questions in sport: what are the greatest teams of all time? He devised a formula and applied it to thousands of teams across the world from the English Premier League to the NFL. When he was done, he had a list of the 16 most dominant teams ever. At that point he became obsessed with another more complex question: what did these freak teams have in common? As Walker dug more deeply, a pattern emerged: the teams were all driven by a singular type of leader, but not one with the characteristics you might expect. They were unorthodox outliers - awkward and disagreeable, marginally skilled, poor verbal communicators, at times aggressive and rule-breaking, and, rather than pursue fame, they preferred to hide in the shadows both on and off the field. Captains, in short, who will challenge your assumptions of what inspired leadership looks like. From the captains of world-renowned teams like Barcelona, Brazil, the All Blacks and the New York Yankees to lesser known successes of Soviet ice hockey or French handball, The Captain Class unveils the seven key qualities that make these elite leaders exceptional. Drawing on original interviews with athletes from two dozen countries as well as coaches, managers and others skilled at building teams, Walker attempts to answer questions such as: are great captains made or born? Why do so many teams pick the wrong captains? Why has the value of the captain fallen out of favour, and how can it be revived? The culmination of 10 years' research and a lifetime of sports watching, The Captain Class is like no other sports book and is guaranteed to spark endless debate and heated argument among fans of every sport. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Keith Szarabajka. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rhuk/002793/bk_rhuk_002793_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Competing Against Time (eBook, ePUB)
Today, time is the cutting edge. In fact, as a strategic weapon, contend George Stalk, Jr., and Thomas M. Hout, time is the equivalent of money, productivity, quality, even innovation. In this path-breaking book based upon ten years of research, the authors argue that the ways leading companies manage time-in production, in new product development, and in sales and distribution-represent the most powerful new sources of competitive advantage. With many detailed examples from companies that have put time-based strategies in place, such as Federal Express, Ford, Milliken, Honda, Deere, Toyota, Sun Microsystems, Wal-Mart, Citicorp, Harley-Davidson, and Mitsubishi, the authors describe exactly how reducing elapsed time can make the critical difference between success and failure. Give customers what they want when they want it, or the competition will. Time-based companies are offering greater varieties of products and services, at lower costs, and with quicker delivery times than their more pedestrian competitors. Moreover, the authors show that by refocusing their organizations on responsiveness, companies are discovering that long-held assumptions about the behavior of costs and customers are not true: Costs do not increase when lead times are reduced; they decline. Costs do not increase with greater investment in quality; they decrease. Costs do not go up when product variety is increased and response time is decreased; they go down. And contrary to a commonly held belief that customer demand would be only marginally improved by expanded product choice and better responsiveness, the authors show that the actual results have been an explosion in the demand for the product or service of a time-sensitive competitor, in most cases catapulting it into the most profitable segments of its markets. With persuasive evidence, Stalk and Hout document that time consumption, like cost, is quantifiable and therefore manageable. Today's new-generation companies recognize time as the fourth dimension of competitiveness and, as a result, operate with flexible manufacturing and rapid-response systems, and place extraordinary emphasis on R&D and innovation. Factories are close to the customers they serve. Organizations are structured to produce fast responses rather than low costs and control. Companies concentrate on reducing if not eliminating delays and using their response advantage to attract the most profitable customers. Stalk and Hout conclude that virtually all businesses can use time as a competitive weapon. In industry after industry, they illustrate the processes involved in becoming a time-based competitor and the ways managers can open and sustain a significant advantage over the competition.- Shop: buecher
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