69 Results for : dichotomies
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Hold Me: Story of Love/Jiai Jouwa, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 570min
The Jiai Jouwa (Story of Love) series takes a look into how one lesbian relationship overcomes the dichotomies that can keep two hearts apart: Age, class, social expectations, and distance.Born into an elite family, Jun has spent her life cultivating the professional qualities needed to claim her inheritance, the Nippon Royal Hotel empire. Just when she thinks her dream is about to come true, however, Jun's uncle ships her from her homeland of Hokkaido to the city of Nagoya to become the new local general manager. Enter Saya, a 20-something who invades Jun's life with a bang and leaves just as swiftly. It's the hope of seeing Saya again that keeps Jun grounded in her goal of taking over the family empire one day...and the more she encounters the enigmatic Saya, the more she realizes she's falling for her. Under the scrutiny of her uncle, Jun must prove that she can become the head of the family. But she also must prove to herself that she is capable of sustaining a romantic relationship, even if her intended has an insatiable wanderlust. Her family's judgment, Saya's crippling demons, and the needs of the people she meets along the way will all conspire to change Jun's life forever. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Laura Angell. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/181798/bk_acx0_181798_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Significance of Gothic Symbols and Elements in Dickens' Short Story The Signal-Man
The Significance of Gothic Symbols and Elements in Dickens' Short Story The Signal-Man ab 2.99 € als pdf eBook: A Literary Analysis of the Liminal Space between Gothic Dichotomies. Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Fachthemen & Wissenschaft, Literaturwissenschaft,- Shop: hugendubel
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Wolf Howling: Samsara , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 298min
A winding tale set in the heart of the French Quarter in New Orleans, Wolf Howling is the first of five titles in the series Samsara. There is a puzzle to discover; a path among the brick alleyways and uneven streets. Gather around, you travelers and malcontents. Come and sit a spell here with the gamblers, musicians, and thieves. Yes, yes...right here. They wait for you, your brothers, and your sisters; the ghosts of merchants, of voodoo priestesses, and jazz prophets; of poets, seekers, and the Bacchanalian. They gather in the cellar; our fresh, ripe bones thrown into the Caveaux to mix with the dry chalk of our ancestors. She is a siren; you see that, don’t you? This city. This New Orleans. Full of dichotomies and mysteries; brimming with character and characters. She offers a respite and reflection, a passion and a decadence. Her dowry is culture and sustenance; pleasure and rapacity. Can you see him there? Coming from the mist. He waits for her. Waiting for the young woman with her dog. She will lean close and whisper to him, and there will be dreams of white rabbits, silver lockets, marauding pirates, and hungry sharks. It is about to start! Don’t you see? Wait for it now with me. Here it comes....And it began again. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Brian Van Brunt. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/133927/bk_acx0_133927_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Miss You : Story of Love/Jiai Jouwa, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 600min, (USK 18)
The Jiai Jouwa (Story of Love) series takes a look into how one lesbian relationship overcomes the dichotomies that can keep two hearts apart: age, class, social expectations, and distance. Ten years ago, Saya escaped a forced marriage in the house of Hara, granting herself the freedom to follow her will. And for ten years, she has been content to live a life of near poverty and menial labor in exchange for being the master of her own destiny. That was until she met Jun, the hotel heiress who stole her heart and taught her what love and protection could feel like. Now, Saya finds herself torn between two worlds: her girlfriend’s reality, comprised of formalities and endless wealth, and her own head, which pulls her to the isolation of the Japanese countryside. Jun wants her to settle in the city, yet Saya is not sure she can live with the pressures to conform to high society. In the midst of this dilemma is the one thing Saya wants more than anything else – a divorce from the man who tried to ruin her life. But the leash connecting her to the Haras runs long, and Saya soon finds that her heart’s call of “Aitai,” or “I want to see you,” not only echoes for Jun when they are apart, but for the people who forced her to become the woman she is today. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Laura Angell. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/198808/bk_acx0_198808_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Dichotomy of Leadership: Balancing the Challenges of Extreme Ownership to Lead and Win , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 634min
The importance of balance as a leader by the number-one New York Times best-selling authors of Extreme Ownership. Every leader must be ready and willing to take charge, to make hard, crucial calls for the good of the team and the mission. Something much more difficult to understand is that in order to be a good leader, one must also be a good follower. This is a dichotomy - a Dichotomy of Leadership. It is, as authors Jocko Willink and Leif Babin explained in their best-selling first audiobook, Extreme Ownership, “Simple, Not Easy”.Now, in The Dichotomy of Leadership, the authors explain the power inherent in the recognition of the fine line that leaders must walk, balancing between two seemingly opposite inclinations. It is with the knowledge and understanding of this balance that a leader can most effectively lead, accomplish the mission, and achieve the goal of every leader and every team: victory. Using examples from the authors' combat and training experience in the SEAL Teams and then showing how each lesson applies to business and in life, Willink and Babin reveal how the use of seemingly opposite principles - leading and following, focusing and detaching, being both aggressive and prudent - require skill, awareness, understanding, and dexterity, all attributes that can be honed. These dichotomies are inherent in many of the concepts introduced in Extreme Ownership and integral to their proper implementation and effectiveness. Dichotomy is essential listening for anyone looking to lead and win. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jocko Willink, Leif Babin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/aren/003422/bk_aren_003422_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Freemasons: The Hidden History of Freemasonry in the Last 100 Years: Secret Societies, Book 7 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 93min
Freemasons have in many ways shaped the world as we know it today. Discover the hidden history of the secret society of Freemasonry in the last 100 years and the conspiracy theories that followed. In their three centuries of official existence, Freemasons have been routinely praised and despised, regularly cheered and derided. Some believe that they are a fraternal organization that promotes leadership and good character, while others are convinced that they are a secretive cabal hell-bent on world domination. Mason-backed organizations such as the Shriners are praised for their charitable giving, while other lodges are held in contempt for their secretiveness. When it comes to stark dichotomies such as this, the argument to moderation would indicate that the truth lies somewhere in between. Well, fallacious as that argument is, Freemasonry would still be a riveting tale even if it did fall neatly between both sides of the equation! In this book we will explore the last 100 years of Freemasonry, as well as the larger implications of Masonic influences and practices. We will also discuss Masonry’s latest trends and probable future trajectory. So, if you don’t know already - listen to this book to learn the full story of what really goes on in that quiet, nondescript little lodge on the corner! Because despite what your grandfather may have told you, there is more going on than card games, pancakes, and fish fries! Here, in one concise chronological timeline, we uncover the last 100 years of Freemasonry!Ready to discover the hidden history of the Freemasons?Scroll back up and get this audiobook now! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Charles D. Baker. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/123949/bk_acx0_123949_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Marketers, Tear Down These Walls!: Liberating the Postmodern Consumer , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 221min
We change our identities faster than a chameleon changes color. On Monday, you may be a Hugo Boss suit-wearing salesman who listens to Adele, reads The Wall Street Journal, quaffs a greasy burger for lunch, and tunes in to Fox News. Come Saturday, out come the tats from underneath the starched collar, you ditch the suit for a Kid Dangerous tee and Vans kicks, you down a sushi taco with a craft beer, and listen to Imagine Dragons while you check out the latest issue of High Times. Just what lifestyle category do you belong to? Good luck to the marketer who tries to describe you. Today's postmodern consumer defies categorization -- sometimes deliberately. S/he yearns to be liberated from cubicles, labels, market segments, and especially those confining walls that restrict him or her from expressing the unique self that s/he has constructed out of all the lifestyle materials that marketers of many stripes have to offer. The postmodern revolution requires marketers to revisit the walls they have erected over many years. That's not an easy thing to do. Conventional marketing strategies are built upon predictability, stability, and the comfort in knowing that we can understand our customer yesterday, today, and tomorrow. We love to put people into categories, and often into super-neat dichotomies, and call it a day. Those walls used to be solid, and marketers relied upon them to build a structure that formed the basis of their traditional strategic worldview. But now many of these walls are crumbling and fast. They are like safety hazards that threaten successful brands from thriving in the postmodern revolution. And they obstruct our view of the marketing possibilities that lie beyond them. In this audiobook, I describe many familiar walls that form the bedrock of marketing strategy and thought today. Then I demolish them. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Alan Taylor. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/112795/bk_acx0_112795_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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An Unkindness of Ghosts (eBook, ePUB)
One of the Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Books of the past decade, selected by NPRA Best Book of 2017: NPR, The Guardian, Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, Bustle, Bookish, Barnes & Noble, Chicago Public Library, Book Scrolling.CLMP Firecracker Award WinnerA Stonewall Book Award Honor BookFinalist for the 2018 Locus Award, John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, and the Lambda Literary Award.Nominated for the 2018 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Debut Novel"What Solomon achieves with this debut--the sharpness, the depth, the precision--puts me in mind of a syringe full of stars. I want to say about this book, its only imperfection is that it ended. But that might give the wrong impression: that it is a happy book, a book that makes a body feel good. It is not a happy book. I love it like I love food, I love it for what it did to me, I love it for having made me feel stronger and more sure in a nightmare world, but it is not a happy book. It is an antidote to poison. It is inoculation against pervasive, enduring disease. Like a vaccine, it is briefly painful, leaves a lingering soreness, but armors you from the inside out." --NPR"In Rivers Solomon's highly imaginative sci-fi novel An Unkindness of Ghosts, eccentric Aster was born into slavery on--and is trying to escape from--a brutally segregated spaceship that for generations has been trying to escort the last humans from a dying planet to a Promised Land. When she discovers clues about the circumstances of her mother's death, she also comes closer to disturbing truths about the ship and its journey." --BuzzFeed"What Solomon does brilliantly in this novel is in the creation of a society in which dichotomies loom over certain aspects of the narrative, and are eschewed by others...Hearkening back to the past in visions of the future can hold a number of narrative purposes...The past offers us countless nightmares and cautionary tales; so too, I'm afraid, can the array of possible futures lurking up ahead." --Tor.com"This book is a clear descendent of Octavia Butler's Black science fiction legacy, but grounded in more explicit queerness and neuroatypicality." --AutoStraddle"Ghosts are 'the past refusing to be forgot,' says a character in this assured science-fiction debut. That's certainly the case aboard the HSS Matilda, a massive spacecraft arranged along the cruel racial divides of pre-Civil War America." --Toronto StarAster has little to offer folks in the way of rebuttal when they call her ogre and freak. She's used to the names; she only wishes there was more truth to them. If she were truly a monster, she'd be powerful enough to tear down the walls around her until nothing remains of her world.Aster lives in the lowdeck slums of the HSS Matilda, a space vessel organized much like the antebellum South. For generations, Matilda has ferried the last of humanity to a mythical Promised Land. On its way, the ship's leaders have imposed harsh moral restrictions and deep indignities on dark-skinned sharecroppers like Aster. Embroiled in a grudge with a brutal overseer, Aster learns there may be a way to improve her lot--if she's willing to sow the seeds of civil war.- Shop: buecher
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City of Dreams
According to World Urbanization Prospects (UNDESA 2013), Asia will add something like 1.4 billion urban citizens by 2050. The same report says that the urban population of India will increase by a whopping 497 million by 2050. It is evident, that more than any other region, Asia will face the most daunting challenges of Urbanisation and demographic shifts in the coming decades. In our interconnected world, it has become necessary to understand the multi-dimensional impact and global ramifications of Urbanisation in Asia in general, and India in particular.While cities are the great consumers and unprecedented polluters of the world, they are also the centres of creativity and Innovation. These are the places where new ideas of the 21st Century are being created and tested. It is evident by now, that the future of the planet will be decided by how cities will "behave" today and in the future. However the three most palpable forces that are transforming the everyday lives of Indian citizens today are urbanization, climate change and the digital revolution. Adding to the trajectories and layers of the pre-colonial and colonial, traditional and modern, pre-industrial and industrial, Eastern and Western concepts of the city, India, like most other countries has added a new layer to the already existing complexities - that of the "smart city". While easy dichotomies could never define the Indian city, the addition of the new layer of a digitalized city is amplifying the already overwhelming complexity of the conditio urbana of cities of the sub-continent - and that is happening at an unprecedented rate. Inequality, resilience, inclusion, infrastructure, mobility - no discursive flows in urbanism will remain untouched by the technological disruption created through digitalisation.From both angles, critical or popular, the paradigm of the 'smart city' begs the question of its significance in a country where half its population lives off 2 - 3 $ /day. What is a smart city for the marginalized? Can it be conceptualized as an inclusive project?Mumbai is the financial capital of the $ 2.6 trillion economy of India (the fifth largest in the world). Despite its relative wealth, Mumbai has the typical maladies of the megacities of the Global South. Issues of labour market, technological divides, healthcare, education, housing, infrastructure, ethnic and religious diversity, water, energy, food - all create a Cocktail of daunting challenges. The unequal distribution of resources, amenities and space is surely one of its key challenges today. Around 60% of the city's population lives in slums, squeezed in 8% of the land area.Despite all the problems, the city is known to have a rather special spirit. Since over a Century, migrants have been Streaming in from all corners of the sub-continent with the hope of a better life.Mumbai is seen as the most 'modern' and also the most 'westernized' of Indian cities - rivalled only by Goa and Bangalore (Bengaluru). Urban development in India currently faces numerous challenges, amongst others socio-spatial polarization, lack of affordable housing, lack of accessible public spaces for all, increase in population, traffic congestion etc. Of course, these trends differ according to place and time, but architects and planners across the world can contribute to a better Organisation of space from which all social groups, particularly the not so well-off and the most vulnerable (urban) dwellers could benefit. In Order to do so they need to acquire a deeper and scientifically based knowledge about the urban fabric, but also about the role of the planner/architect in these different contexts. The aim of this student's project, was to reach a broad understanding of the challenges of Urbanisation in Mumbai. We looked at it from the perspectives of economic and policy issues on the macro level - to its challenges on the micro level of streets and neighbourhoods, in formal or informal quarters. We had a special interest for spaces for children's playgrounds - those spaces forgotten by most planners. Another aim was to understand the importance of urban planning and architecture in shaping the built environments and social spaces of Mumbai, but also their possible contributions to deal with serious social, economic and ecological challenges of the city.Always cognizant of our limited knowledge and experience of the conditio urbana of cities of the Global South, our students embarked, first on an intellectual journey, then on a physical and emotional journey to Mumbai. This book is the (one) result of these journeys.(From the editors' foreword)- Shop: buecher
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The Significance of Gothic Symbols and Elements in Dickens' Short Story The Signal-Man
The Significance of Gothic Symbols and Elements in Dickens' Short Story The Signal-Man - A Literary Analysis of the Liminal Space between Gothic Dichotomies: ab 2.99 €- Shop: ebook.de
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