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Free Will: Its Refutation, Societal Cost and Role in Climate Change Denial , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 50min
While the author's previous book on the matter, Exploring the Illusion of Free Will, Second Edition, is a popular work, this brief discourse is decidedly and robustly academic. The audiobook focuses exclusively on the physical refutation of the free will construct, concurrently addressing claims that because we are human, our choices are somehow exempt from physical law. It also delves deeply into quantum mechanical principles and phenomena relevant to the free will question, siding with Einstein, Bohm, Hawking, Krauss, and others regarding the causal nature of both the macro and quantum world. The refutations presented hopefully describe the physical evidence against free will with sufficient strength and clarity to win over more hitherto agnostic minds than have earlier attempts by other authors. The audiobook's original contributions to the literature on human agency are that it presents an a priori argument for the causality that refutes free will and that it not only challenges recent published warnings of dangerous repercussions from abandoning belief in free will, but it also presents a convincing argument for humanity evolving beyond a notion of free choice that seems the catalyst for more harm than good. The author presents evidence associating the psychological defense mechanism known as "denial" with free will belief and proposes that a belief in human autonomy's correlate of fundamental moral responsibility amplifies the widespread denial of the existence and anthropogenic origin of a climate change crisis that, unless successfully mitigated, many prominent scientists fear poses a serious threat to the civilization we know. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Philip D. Moore. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/124868/bk_acx0_124868_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Why Do Only White People Get Abducted by Aliens?: Teaching Lessons from the Bronx , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 447min
The true story of a young teacher attempting to change lives in a troubled educational system. According to Ilana Garon, popular books and movies are inundated with the myth of the "hero teacher" - the one who charges headfirst into dysfunctional inner-city schools like a firefighter into an inferno, bringing the student victims to safety through a combination of charisma and innate righteousness. The students are then "saved" by the teacher’s idealism, empathy, and faith. This is not that type of book. Here, Garon reveals the sometimes humorous, oftentimes frustrating, and occasionally horrifying truths that accompany the experience of teaching at a public high school in the Bronx. The overcrowded classrooms, lack of textbooks, and abundance of mice, cockroaches, and drugs weren’t the only challenges Garon faced during her first four years as a teacher. Every day, she’d interact with students dealing with addiction, miscarriages, stints in "juvie", abusive relationships, and gang violence. These students brought with them big dreams and uncommon insight - and challenged everything Garon thought she knew about education. In response, Garon - a naive, suburban girl with a curly ponytail, freckles, and Harry Potter glasses - opened her eyes, rolled up her sleeves, and learned to distinguish between mitigated failure and qualified success. In this book, Garon explains how she realized that being a new teacher was about trial by fire, making mistakes, learning from the very students she was teaching, and occasionally admitting that she may not have answers to their thought-provoking (and amusing) questions. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Romy Nordlinger. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/013499/bk_adbl_013499_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Personal Investment Crash Course , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 42min
Investment refers to the purchasing of products and services for the future gains of an individual, a family unit, or an institution. Though these products and services are not purchased for immediate consumption, they have the potential to create higher future returns for the investor.Some of the products and services that can be used as an instrument for getting personal financial returns are: bank products, bonds, stocks, investment funds, annuities, educational investments, insurance, retirement plans, and so on. By adopting a wise investment strategy and a diversified investment portfolio, returns can be maximized and your financial goals can be achieved for both long-term and short-term tenure.The short-term financial plan is adopted for short-term monetary gains, wherein the returns can be expected within a year that is attributed with low-profit and low-risk factors. Examples of the short-term financial plans include savings account investments, fixed deposit scheme, and money market funds.On the contrary, a long-term financial plan can be adopted for long-term monetary gains, wherein the duration of the plan can extend for more than year. Generally, short-term assets are sold in the market after the maturity period, which provides good returns for the investor. However, long-term assets are held in the investor’s possession and can earn returns in the form of dividends or interest as declared in the financial market.While there are various type of investments available in the market to gain profitable returns, many types of risks prevail while adapting the personal investment plan. These risks can be mitigated by availing some of the insurance coverage bonds. For example, an individual’s life can be covered through life insurance coverage, a vehicle asset of an individual can be covered through an automobile insurance coverage, and a retirement plan of an individual can be covered through long-term care insurance.Furthe ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Andrea Giordani. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/102483/bk_acx0_102483_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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How to Develop Your Self-Confidence: Effective Help Guide to Create and Grow Self-Esteem: The Healing Power of Love, Empathy, and Compassion , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 204min
Change your life and develop unstoppable confidence.If you want to wake up every day and feel like an emperor of your own world, keep reading.If you have the tools you need to survive in life and succeed, among others, it is the power to believe in yourself and your abilities. Most of the difficulties in life can be mitigated only by those who know how powerful they are and their ability to do everything with their hearts.Confidence is the gateway to success in all areas of life. Whether you want to win your career, triple your income, build a great relationship, or just be happy and satisfied with whom you are, confidence is essential.Confidence begins with knowing yourself. From confronting fear to practicing acceptance and self-sympathy, this self-confidence workbook provides a practical and accessible strategy to know your best self and see real-world results.It is known that self-esteem grows out of good communication and interpersonal skills and is necessary for many people to lead a more satisfying life. It is a learning skill that anyone can develop. Trust features are highly valued because they are considered very attractive to individuals. Above all, he must be enthusiastic about how they interact with other people and how they behave.Developing deep confidence by controlling the trail of thoughts, emotions, bad feelings, and blocks; improving self-discipline; the drastic impact on your motivation will quickly lead you through every challenge that throws your life, so you can become the person you have always dreamed of and live the life you have always dreamed of.How to Develop Your Self-Confidence is here to take people who feel disadvantaged by the limitations of their low self-esteem and help them overcome these seemingly impossible barriers.This audiobook includes:Benefits of self-confidenceHow to develop self-confidenceWhy Is self-confidence ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jason Belvill. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/175190/bk_acx0_175190_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Secret Agent , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 680min
The Secret Agent was one of the first espionage novels ever written, and it is certainly one of the finest in the oeuvre of Joseph Conrad. The story concerns the attempt by a group of back-alley revolutionaries to destroy one of London's most famous landmarks and thereby set off a revolution. As the plot unfolds, we discover a cast of unlikely villains, self-aggrandizing intellectuals, overeager bureaucrats, fame hungry politicians, and innocent bystanders, all described with poignant psychological depth as only Conrad could. The story centers around Adolph Verloc, owner of a Soho bookshop and ostensibly a member of a group of home-grown anarchists, but actually in the pay of a foreign government. Verloc's quiescent wife, Winnie, maintains their stable household in which she tries to provide for her retarded brother and her aging mother under the thinly disguised irritability of her husband. The anarchist collective consists of "Doctor" Ossipan, who lives off his romantic attachments to women barely able to take care of themselves; "The Professor", an explosives expert who is so insecure that he is perpetually wired with a detonator in case he is threatened by police capture; and Michaelis, a corpulent writer composing an autobiography after a mitigated sentence in prison. When Verloc is summoned to the embassy in whose pay he works, he receives a cold reception from his new superior, Vladimir. Vladimir tells Verloc that he's going to have to start producing or he'll lose the wages he receives. A humiliated Verloc is shocked when he receives orders to blow up Greenwich Observatory. As the scheme takes shape, it is Verloc who is compelled to execute the plan. But his doubts and fears are only too well justified, and despite his misgivings, he pushes ahead. However, it is the man-child Stevie who brings the enterprise to its ignominious end. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Charlton Griffin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acon/000089/bk_acon_000089_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Translation of Love: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 710min
An emotionally gripping portrait of postwar Japan, where a newly repatriated girl must help a classmate find her missing sister. Born and raised in Vancouver, 13-year-old Aya Shimamura is released from a Canadian internment camp only to be repatriated to Japan with her father, who was faced with an unsettling choice: move east of the Rocky Mountains or go back to Japan. With no hope of restitution and grieving the loss of Aya's mother during internment, her father feels there's nothing left for them in Canada and signs a form that enables the government to deport him. But life in Tokyo is not much better. Aya's father struggles to find work, compromising his morals and toiling long hours. Aya, meanwhile, is something of a pariah at her school, bullied for being foreign and paralyzed when asked to communicate in Japanese. Aya's alienation is eventually mitigated by one of her principal tormentors, a willful girl named Fumi Tanaka, whose older sister has mysteriously disappeared. When a rumor surfaces that Douglas MacArthur, who is overseeing the Allied occupation of Japan, sometimes helps citizens in need, Fumi enlists Aya to compose a letter asking the general to find her beloved sister. The letter is delivered into the reluctant hands of Corporal Matt Matsumoto, a Japanese American serving with the Allied forces, whose endless job is translating the thousands of letters MacArthur receives each week. Matt feels an affinity toward Fumi but is largely powerless, and the girls decide to take matters into their own hands, venturing into the dark and dangerous world of Tokyo's red-light district. Told through rich, interlocking storylines, The Translation of Love mines a turbulent period to show how war irrevocably shapes the lives of the conquered - and yet the novel also allows for a poignant spark of resilience, friendship, and love that translates across cultures and borders to stunning effect. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Nancy Wu. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/008604/bk_blak_008604_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Supply Chain Risk Management in Entomology Farms Case: High Scale Production of Human Food and Animal Feed , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 102min
This qualitative research focuses on risk management in the supply chain of industrial entomology companies that are mass-rearing insects for human food or for feed for farmed animals. This research presents answers to such questions as what are the risks related especially to the entomology industry, what are the reasons behind the risks, and finally how the risks can be mitigated. The industry has started to bloom only recently in the 2010's, meaning that the industry is still lacking knowledge based on historical data and scientific coverage of the field. This research is one of the first in the world that identifies the supply chain risks associated especially with the large scale insect farming for human food and animal feed, and determines how the risk profile is formed. The novel nature of the industry reflects too many parts of the supply chain risk management. By the time of writing this research, the established networks and operators, together with standards and regulations, are still in the making. Even the biggest companies in the market are still only planning their large farming facilities. Risks like fluctuations of feed raw material prices are in common with traditional farming, but the main risks that insect farms are facing are related to the health of the animals. The knowledge of pathogens and parasites of insects is very limited. As the nature of the health risks is unknown, the mitigation must be based on precautions and preventive actions. What is alarming for the companies operating in the field is that even a well-managed risk control cannot give high level of security simply because of the lack of knowledge. The industry will continue growing globally. When the industry gets an established foothold and the production and supply chain functions get standardized, the risk management can reach an acceptable level. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Chris Abernathy. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/057411/bk_acx0_057411_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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La mariposa de Jackeline / Jackeline's Butterfly
Jackeline's Butterfly honors and commemorates the life of Jackeline Caal, the seven-year-old Guatemalan girl who died while in the custody of US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) on December 8, 2018. Jackeline and her father, Nery Caal, were part of a group of 163 asylum seekers who crossed the New Mexican border the previous day. They turned themselves in to the authorities at around 10 PM, but when Jackeline began to vomit and have seizures, it took 90 minutes before she was seen by medical professionals. The doctors recorded a body temperature of 105.7° F. Jackeline was transported to the children's hospital in El Paso, Texas, but it was too late to save her. The President of the American Academy of Pediatrics called this tragic death "preventable." In this wide-ranging collection, Xánath Caraza calls upon nature and the gods (both ancient Greek and Mesoamerican) to witness the senseless death of Jackeline and other children who "One by one ... / die alone." Attention must be paid to the horrors that are taking place: "Red moon: bear witness / to this tragedy. / Nocturnal birds: / wake from your slumber / and strengthen your flight. / Stop gliding / with the wind. / Flap your wings, / dominate the skies, / spread the news." The final poems address Jackeline directly and celebrate the seven-year-old child who had the strength and audacity to travel over 2000 miles in search of a better life. Jackeline's memory is honored: "You depart full of poetry, Mayan girl. / Your huipil embroidered with blue butterflies. / Your motionless hands loaded with golden memories. / Your closed eyes still cold. / You are flower and song, beautiful girl." The horror of this loss is mitigated only by the butterfly that continues to flutter about, representing hope and the innocence of childhood. Edward Lorenz asked whether a single flap of a butterfly's wings in one part of the world might lead to a tornado in another. Here's hoping that the fluttering of this butterfly leads, instead, to a rebirth of compassion and concern for the most vulnerable among us.- Shop: buecher
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LAN Switch Security (eBook, ePUB)
Contrary to popular belief, Ethernet switches are not inherently secure. Security vulnerabilities in Ethernet switches are multiple: from the switch implementation, to control plane protocols (Spanning Tree Protocol [STP], Cisco® Discovery Protocol [CDP], and so on) and data plane protocols, such as Address Routing Protocol (ARP) or Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP). LAN Switch Security explains all the vulnerabilities in a network infrastructure related to Ethernet switches. Further, this book shows you how to configure a switch to prevent or to mitigate attacks based on those vulnerabilities. This book also includes a section on how to use an Ethernet switch to increase the security of a network and prevent future attacks. Divided into four parts, LAN Switch Security provides you with steps you can take to ensure the integrity of both voice and data traffic traveling over Layer 2 devices. Part I covers vulnerabilities in Layer 2 protocols and how to configure switches to prevent attacks against those vulnerabilities. Part II addresses denial-of-service (DoS) attacks on an Ethernet switch and shows how those attacks can be mitigated. Part III shows how a switch can actually augment the security of a network through the utilization of wirespeed access control list (ACL) processing and IEEE 802.1x for user authentication and authorization. Part IV examines future developments from the LinkSec working group at the IEEE. For all parts, most of the content is vendor independent and is useful for all network architects deploying Ethernet switches. After reading this book, you will have an in-depth understanding of LAN security and be prepared to plug the security holes that exist in a great number of campus networks. Use port security to protect against CAM attacks Prevent spanning-tree attacks Isolate VLANs with proper configuration techniques Protect against rogue DHCP servers Block ARP snooping Prevent IPv6 neighbor discovery and router solicitation exploitation Identify Power over Ethernet vulnerabilities Mitigate risks from HSRP and VRPP Stop information leaks with CDP, PaGP, VTP, CGMP and other Cisco ancillary protocols Understand and prevent DoS attacks against switches Enforce simple wirespeed security policies with ACLs Implement user authentication on a port base with IEEE 802.1x Use new IEEE protocols to encrypt all Ethernet frames at wirespeed. This security book is part of the Cisco Press® Networking Technology Series. Security titles from Cisco Press help networking professionals secure critical data and resources, prevent and mitigate network attacks, and build end-to-end self-defending networks.- Shop: buecher
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Klaviersonaten Hob Xvi: 36,44,49,52
In recent decades it has been promoted that Haydn had no great skill at the keyboard, and while his manifold duties at the Esterházy court mitigated against life as a virtuoso keyboardist, there is enough evidence to suggest that he was a very fine player. As well as playing the violin to concerto standard, he was apparently a fine singer and thought of himself "no mean keyboard player".- Shop: odax
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