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    Audible Technology Review, April 2011, Hörbuch, Digital, 75min
    In this issue, you'll hear how Japan's spiraling reactor accident could threaten the future of nuclear power - how residents in Tokyo were alerted by a new early warning system – how newer nuclear plant designs are more resilient to natural disaster – and how people around the globe were quickly able to mobilize online to provide relief for Japan. Plus, you'll learn about proposed U. S. legislation that would give the President authority to shut down the Internet in case of a cyber emergency. You'll hear how protestors are using the Internet and digital media to support mass movements against autocratic governments. You'll learn how the creators of new location-based services are aiming to be much more social. And you’ll hear news from the worlds of Biomedicine, Technology and Communications. Language: English. Narrator: Todd Mundt. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/pe/trev/110401/pe_trev_110401_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Eclipse , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 907min
    A spellbinding novel from the thinking man's thriller writer. In a novel of international intrigue, an American lawyer, Damon Pierce, attempts to save Bobby Okari, the West African leader of a protest movement, from execution by the country's corrupt and autocratic leader. Pierce is in a race against time, and as the complex trial - involving terrorism and the geopolitics of oil, missing witnesses and evidence, and the whims of a lawless country - unfolds, bodies fall and fates dangle. Complicating matters further is Okari's wife, Marissa Brand, with whom Pierce had a relationship years before that he's never quite forgotten; she, in fact, persuaded him to take the case in the first place, and it is who she plays a crucial role in the eventual outcome of this taut and atmospheric novel. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: William Hope. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/macm/000785/bk_macm_000785_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Villette , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1207min
    Arguably Brontë's most refined and deeply felt work, Villette draws on her profound loneliness following the deaths of her three siblings. Left by harrowing circumstances to fend for herself in the great capital of a foreign country, Lucy Snowe, the narrator and heroine of Villette, achieves by degrees her independence from both outer necessity and inward grief. Lucy flees from an unhappy past in England to begin a new life as a teacher at a French boarding school in the cosmopolitan capital of Villette. But her struggle for independence is soon overshadowed by her friendship with a worldly English doctor and her feelings for an autocratic schoolmaster. Brontë's strikingly modern heroine must decide if there is any man in her society with whom she can live and still be free. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Nadia May. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/001752/bk_blak_001752_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Patton , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 449min
    George S. Patton was a general who achieved greatness in his field by contradicting his own nature. A cavalryman steeped in romantic military tradition, he nevertheless pulled a reluctant American military into the most advanced realms of highly mobile armored warfare. An autocratic snob, Patton created unparalleled rapport and loyalty with the lowliest private in his command. An outspoken racist, he led the only racially integrated U.S. military unit in World War II. A profoundly insecure individual, he made his Third Army the most self-confident and consistently victorious fighting force in the European theater. An exuberantly profane man, he prayed daily and believed God had destined him for military greatness. Alan Axelrod delivers a fascinating account of Patton's fascinating life and legacy. This book is one of a series on great generals. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Brian Emerson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/001771/bk_blak_001771_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Information, Democracy, and Autocracy (eBook, PDF)
    Advocates for economic development often call for greater transparency. But what does transparency really mean? What are its consequences? This breakthrough book demonstrates how information impacts major political phenomena, including mass protest, the survival of dictatorships, democratic stability, as well as economic performance. The book introduces a new measure of a specific facet of transparency: the dissemination of economic data. Analysis shows that democracies make economic data more available than do similarly developed autocracies. Transparency attracts investment and makes democracies more resilient to breakdown. But transparency has a dubious consequence under autocracy: political instability. Mass-unrest becomes more likely, and transparency can facilitate democratic transition - but most often a new despotic regime displaces the old. Autocratic leaders may also turn these threats to their advantage, using the risk of mass-unrest that transparency portends to unify the ruling elite. Policy-makers must recognize the trade-offs transparency entails.
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    Save Our Shop: William Bridge Mysteries, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 368min
    Losing his job at the local newspaper after a series of unflattering doodles, William Bridge is called to help his uncle Albert keep his shop going. He immediately falls in love with Sally, the latest shop volunteer, despite formidable opposition from her autocratic stepmother, Lady Courtney.Following a break-in and lost orders, an SOS sent to Albert’s maverick brother Neil changes everything. On the run from the police, Neil disguises himself as his Aunt Isobel, and encourages William to be nice to a visiting American security expert and his flighty daughter Veronica, causing a rift in his budding romance. Pressure soon mounts for William to investigate rumors of a shady deal to take over the shop, and threaten the life of the village - a price he is willing to pay in a desperate fight to win back his love. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Michael Grinter. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/180712/bk_acx0_180712_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Defiant Surrender: A Medieval Time Travel Romance , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 512min
    Unlucky in love, Maddie St. Clair hides behind an antique store and her mudlarking hobby. That is until she finds a medieval ring that throws her back to 1102 Cumberland and into the life of Lady Madeline Vincent, heiress to Norman lands and about to be married to an autocratic Baron, William Dowell, 900 years her senior.Lord William Dowell protects his own. Usually, from his closest neighbor and long standing foe the Baron of Aimecourt. Forced to marry his dead enemy’s daughter, Lady Madeline, by King’s decree, he hides his growing respect for his wife behind a wanton mistress. Yet when Madeline’s life is threatened, William’s loyalty to his kin is tested by the astonishing desire that flares between them. Not to mention the love that Madeline ignites that would last an eternity. If fate will allow... ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Rebecca McKernan. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/164681/bk_acx0_164681_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    To Wed a Wicked Prince , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 873min
    Livia Lacey came to the house she inherited in London's Cavendish Square with her two friends, Lady Cornelia Dagenham and Lady Aurelia Farnham, to experience the excitement of city life. With Cornelia now happily married, Livia and Aurelia are on their own. But dashing Prince Alex Prokov, a newcomer to London, seems enchanted by Liv the moment they meet. Disarmed by the prince's determined pursuit of her, his exuberant joy of living, and the desires he awakens in her, Liv agrees to marry him. But while night is a time for passionate embraces, Liv discovers that her irresistible husband can be as autocratic as he is extravagantly generous. While Alex balks at Liv's independent ways, he refuses to explain his own comings and goings. When Liv learns one of Alex's secrets she only loves him more. But when she learns the other secret, will she feel wickedly betrayed? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Emma Taylor. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/013231/bk_adbl_013231_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Leviathan: Or, the Matter, Forme and Power of a Common Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1310min
    Born out of the political turmoil of the English Civil War, Leviathan stands out as one of the most in influential political and philosophical texts of the 17th century. It argues for the restoration of the monarchy in light of the republic and calls for a commonwealth ruled by an authoritative, autocratic figure with absolute sovereignty. This would put an end to all controversy, war, and fear and establish peace via social contract. Over the course of the book, Hobbes targets Christianity and contemporary philosophic methods, rejecting the idea of spirits and souls and arguing for a philosophy to end divisiveness and provide indisputable conclusions. These highly controversial theses led to book burnings in 1666 and Hobbes being dubbed the 'Monster of Malmsbury'. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Peter Wickham. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/naxo/001376/bk_naxo_001376_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Delphine and the Dangerous Arrangement , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 353min
    Delphine Delacroix has lived the life of bird in a gilded cage, kept in a stately home with only her cold autocratic mother for company. At her mother’s death, she finds herself to be a wealthy woman and comes to London to be fretted over by her three maternal aunts determined to have her marry well. But Delphine feels she is once more having to hand herself over to another’s will and seeks to be the mistress of her own destiny. But she recognizes she has none of the skills needed to steer herself through the shoals of fortune hunters who wish to marry her. Aware of her own naivety and not trusting her aunts, she recruits a rake to help her. Viscount Titus Gascoigne is her choice, and he agrees, but will their dangerous agreement prosper? Or will it be discovered and prove scandalous?  ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Rafe Beckley. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/118813/bk_acx0_118813_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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