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  Intempra: The Schema Trilogy, Book 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 822min

  Give them nothing. Give them nothing to report, and you might just succeed.Three years since their return, Kai and the others find themselves living independently in an unfamiliar world. The Schema’s influence has loomed larger than they could’ve ever imagined, permeating nearly all aspects of modern life. From guiding global policy to selecting your evening’s entrée, State’s feedback program helps snuff out uncertainty in order to protect society at large.Partnering with State, companies like Dynamism and Normalized Securities utilize the Schema to offer critical insight for their customers, shielding them from whatever hazards may lurk within their futures. But despite widespread adoption, a handful of mysterious cases have called into question the Schema’s accuracy - and State’s willingness to redact its mistakes.According to scripture, an ancient figure once prophesied the return of a chosen group of travelers, commonly known as the Precedents. Each of them hide in plain sight.Only, Kai is truly lost.Intempra is the final book of The Schema Trilogy by Avery Dox."Profound...dazzling...with a tragic humor about what we believe." (Heather Sharfeddin, author of Sweetwater Burning) ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Michael Lloyd. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/201452/bk_acx0_201452_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Corpus-Assisted Ecolinguistics (eBook, PDF)

  Corpus-Assisted Ecolinguistics introduces and integrates key research concepts, principles and techniques in ecolinguistics and corpus-assisted discourse study, answering foundational questions for researchers new to the discipline and asserting the urgent need to expand its scope. Breaking new ground, the book analyzes under-explored environmental discourses that have a tangible impact on ecological wellbeing and sustainability by perpetuating harmful attitudes, practices and ideologies. Chapters present in-depth case studies, including an analysis of the evolving representations of wilderness, an eco-stylistic analysis of a popular novel, and an investigation of the use of humor in reports on animal escapes from slaughterhouses. The studies employ a range of corpus analysis techniques to show how ecological degradation and crisis have become normalized, and even trivialized, in popular discourse but also spaces where positive discourse practices are present. By applying tools from corpus linguistics to a diverse range of environmental discourses, this book makes a significant contribution to advancing the field of ecolinguistics.

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  Corpus-Assisted Ecolinguistics (eBook, ePUB)

  Corpus-Assisted Ecolinguistics introduces and integrates key research concepts, principles and techniques in ecolinguistics and corpus-assisted discourse study, answering foundational questions for researchers new to the discipline and asserting the urgent need to expand its scope. Breaking new ground, the book analyzes under-explored environmental discourses that have a tangible impact on ecological wellbeing and sustainability by perpetuating harmful attitudes, practices and ideologies. Chapters present in-depth case studies, including an analysis of the evolving representations of wilderness, an eco-stylistic analysis of a popular novel, and an investigation of the use of humor in reports on animal escapes from slaughterhouses. The studies employ a range of corpus analysis techniques to show how ecological degradation and crisis have become normalized, and even trivialized, in popular discourse but also spaces where positive discourse practices are present. By applying tools from corpus linguistics to a diverse range of environmental discourses, this book makes a significant contribution to advancing the field of ecolinguistics.

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  Torture and Impunity: The U.S. Doctrine of Coercive Interrogation , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 924min

  Many Americans have condemned the "enhanced interrogation" techniques used in the War on Terror as a transgression of human rights. But the United States has done almost nothing to prosecute past abuses or prevent future violations. Tracing this knotty contradiction from the 1950s to the present, historian Alfred W. McCoy probes the political and cultural dynamics that have made impunity for torture a bipartisan policy of the U.S. government. During the Cold War, McCoy argues, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency covertly funded psychological experiments designed to weaken a subject's resistance to interrogation. After the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the CIA revived these harsh methods, while U.S. media was flooded with seductive images that normalized torture for many Americans. Ten years later, the U.S. had failed to punish the perpetrators or the powerful who commanded them, and continued to exploit intelligence extracted under torture by surrogates from Somalia to Afghanistan. Although Washington has publicly distanced itself from torture, disturbing images from the prisons at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo are seared into human memory, doing lasting damage to America's moral authority as a world leader. The book is published by University of Wisconsin Press. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David Halliburton. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/021883/bk_acx0_021883_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Insane Taxi Driver Confessions , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 187min

  Insane Taxi Driver Confessions is a collection of wonderfully weird and outrageously funny short stories from the author’s personal experiences with passengers, as well as strange tales from passengers and other fellow taxi drivers. The listener will enjoy a detailed insight into the real and raw situations that occur in today’s society. This book will bring the secret lives that people live in the big cities out of the darkness and into the street lights.This book has evolved into a rich collection of stories about people of all age groups from different walks of life. Working throughout the night gives taxi drivers the opportunity to pick up a lot of drunken passengers, who are more than happy to share their intimate secrets to the inconsequential taxi driver. The author details these wild stories, taking a closer look at the infidelity that has unfortunately become normalized for many people.Besides the humor and entertainment, Aaron Kline hopes that his book will encourage people to become more vigilant and aware when they are out in the big cities, surrounded by the extreme craziness of society. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ryan Francona. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/151391/bk_acx0_151391_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Paleo Diet: Paleo Diet Recipes Cookbook , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 50min

  You too can lose weight with the modern paleo diet. Let me ask you a few questions: Do you find that you don't have time to prepare healthy and delicious meals and snacks? Would you love to have more energy, be happier, and feel healthier every single day? Do you want an abundant supply of delicious, quick, and easy recipes at your fingertips? Did you know that the paleo diet is one of the most successful weight loss diets because it is the only nutritional approach that works with your genetics to help you stay lean, strong, and energetic? I bet you didn't - but now you do! In Paleo Diet, author Howard Benson shares the necessary steps for starting the diet and, most importantly, finishing it! We all know that diets can be a drag, but this doesn't have to be that way! Also known as the caveman diet, it can be both fun and beneficial. All you need to do is follow the steps and, before you know it, you'll be rocking that paleo diet like nobody else! Some of the profound benefits you will experience: Increased energy levels and vitality Accelerated fat loss Improved mental focus Lowered blood sugar and cholesterol Hormonal balance Normalized sleeping patterns Reduced anxiety and stress ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kristina Gee. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/096234/bk_acx0_096234_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Crisis Under Critique (eBook, PDF)

  The word "crisis" denotes a break, a discontinuity, a rupture-a moment after which the normal order can continue no longer. Yet our political vocabulary today is suffused with the rhetoric of crisis, to the point that supposed abnormalities have been normalized. How can the notion of crisis be rethought in order to take stock of-and challenge-our understanding of the many predicaments in which we find ourselves?Instead of diagnosing emergencies, Didier Fassin, Axel Honneth, and an assembly of leading thinkers examine how people experience, interpret, and contribute to the making of and the response to critical situations. Contributors inquire into the social production of crisis, evaluating a wide range of cases on five continents through the lenses of philosophy, sociology, anthropology, political science, history, and economics. Considering social movements, intellectual engagements, affected communities, and reflexive perspectives, the book foregrounds the perspectives of those most closely involved, bringing out the immediacy of crisis. Featuring analysis from below as well as above, from the inside as well as the outside, Crisis Under Critique is a singular intervention that utterly recasts one of today's most crucial-yet most ambiguous-concepts.

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  Wicca for Beginners: Part 1: The Complete Guide to Wicca History, Beliefs and Rituals , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 228min

  You are about to learn how to immerse yourself into the realm of Wicca to start your Wiccan journey from a point of knowledge about everything to do with the practice. Wicca is the fastest growing religion in America for a reason - its practice has been seen to yield positive experiences for its practitioners!Growing from a sheer 8000 in 1990 to over eight million Wiccans by 2019, with this number doubling every 30 months or so, there seems to be something truly transformational about Wicca that is drawing in these huge numbers.In fact, Wicca is seemingly creeping into mainstream media where casting of spells has been so much normalized. Here are the questions this book will answer:What exactly is Wicca? What does it entail? Does it entail devil worship? What do Wiccans believe in? How is it different from other religions?How exactly do you practice Wicca?What are its foundations, beliefs, practices, etc?What are these spells that you’ve heard about in Wicca and how do you cast your first spell?This audiobook seeks to give answers to each one of these questions and more to ensure that you have a comprehensive understanding of Wicca as a religion, its practices, its guidelines/principles, the tools or things you need, and other Wicca beginner friendly information that will get you started well.Indeed, Wicca offers far more than you can imagine and this audiobook will introduce you to a new world that you never thought existed!Click the "buy now" button to get started!  ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: J.M. DeBord. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/172733/bk_acx0_172733_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Breach of Trust: How Americans Failed Their Soldiers and Their Country , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 426min

  A blistering critique of the gulf between America’s soldiers and the society that sends them off to war, from the best-selling author of The Limits of Power and Washington Rules. The United States has been "at war" for more than a decade. Yet as war has become normalized, a yawning gap has opened between America’s soldiers and the society in whose name they fight. For ordinary citizens, as former secretary of defense Robert Gates has acknowledged, armed conflict has become an "abstraction" and military service "something for other people to do". In Breach of Trust, best-selling author Andrew Bacevich takes stock of the separation between Americans and their military, tracing its origins to the Vietnam era and exploring its pernicious implications: a nation with an abiding appetite for war waged at enormous expense by a standing army demonstrably unable to achieve victory. Among the collateral casualties are values once considered central to democratic practice, including the principle that responsibility for defending the country should rest with its citizens. Citing figures as diverse as the martyr-theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the marine-turned-anti-warrior Smedley Butler, Breach of Trust summons Americans to restore that principle. Rather than something for "other people" to do, national defense should become the business of "we the people". Should Americans refuse to shoulder this responsibility, Bacevich warns, the prospect of endless war, waged by a "foreign legion" of professionals and contractor-mercenaries, beckons. So too does bankruptcy - moral as well as fiscal. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Sean Runnette. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/aren/001653/bk_aren_001653_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Don't You Know Who I Am?": How to Stay Sane in an Era of Narcissism, Entitlement, and Incivility , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1146min

  It’s time to take our lives back from a world of narcissism, entitlement, and toxic relationships.“Don’t you know who I am?” has become the mantra of the famous and infamous, the entitled and the insecure. It’s the tagline of the modern narcissist. Health and wellness campaigns preach avoidance of unhealthy foods, sedentary lifestyles, tobacco, drugs, and alcohol, but rarely preach avoidance of unhealthy, difficult, or toxic people. Yet the health benefits of removing toxic people from your life may have far greater benefits to both physical and psychological health. We need to learn to be better gatekeepers for our minds, bodies, and souls. Narcissism, entitlement, and incivility have become the new world order, and we are all in trouble. They are not only normalized but also increasingly incentivized. They are manifestations of pathological insecurity - insecurities that are experienced at both the individual and societal level. The paradox is that we value these patterns. We venerate them through social media, mainstream media, and consumerism, and they are endemic in political, corporate, academic, and media leaders. There are few lives untouched by narcissists. These relationships infect those who are in them with self-doubt, despair, confusion, anxiety, depression, and the chronic feeling of being “not enough,” all of which make it so difficult to step away and set boundaries. The illusion of hope and the fantasy of redemption can result in years of second chances, and despondency when change never comes. It’s time for a wake-up call. It’s time to stem the tide of narcissism, entitlement, and antagonism, and take our lives back. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ramani S. Durvasula, PhD. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/166322/bk_acx0_166322_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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