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    The Corporation as Technology (eBook, PDF)
    Recent decades have witnessed environmental, social, and economic upheaval, with major corporations contributing to a host of interconnected crises. The Corporation as Technology examines the dynamics of the corporate form and corporate law that incentivize harmful excesses and presents an alternative vision to render corporate activities more sustainable. The corporate form is commonly described as a set of fixed characteristics that strongly prioritize shareholders' interests. This book subverts this widely held belief, suggesting that such rigid depictions reinforce harmful corporate pathologies, including excessive risk-taking and lack of regard for environmental and social impacts. Instead, corporations are presented as a dynamic legal technology that policymakers can re-calibrate over time in response to changing landscapes. This book explores the theoretical and practical ramifications of this alternative vision, focusing on how the corporate form can help secure an environmentally, socially, and economically sustainable future.
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    Sons of Camelot: The Fate of an American Dynasty , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 421min
    From renowned biographer and New York Times best-selling author of The Kennedy Women and The Kennedy Men comes The Sons of Camelot, the second volume in a multi-generational history bound to be considered an American epic.Almost a year before publication, The Sons of Camelot: The Fate of an American Dynasty was already being widely discussed and debated in the media. Based on exclusive interviews with many Kennedy family members, their closest friends and associates, and five years of research, The Sons of Camelot is neither tabloid fodder nor a sanitized authorized biography but a stunningly revealing, deeply truthful account with intimate new information.In this outstanding continuation of The Kennedy Men, his powerful American epic of the Kennedy family, Laurence Leamer chronicles the lives of the Kennedy sons and grandsons after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, and their struggle to fulfill the family legacy. These lives make for a book of overwhelming drama full of exalted aspirations, notable achievements, and the most spectacular mishaps, excesses, and tragedies. For the most part, these Kennedy men fell far short of the great vision that Joseph P. Kennedy had for his sons and grandsons. Their lives have been a bewildering juxtaposition of the most notable achievements and the most spectacular failures. There have been needless deaths, crippling accidents, drug addiction, alcoholism, and allegations of rape. Their pratfalls, mishaps, excesses, and tragedies have been one of the most certain forms of American popular entertainment for the last four decades. Yet among them are those who have helped Americans to have better health care, to sail on clean waters, to raise the rights and lives of those with mental retardation, to assist the poorest of African nations, to enable those with disabilities to lead normal lives, ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Laurence Leamer. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/000761/bk_harp_000761_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Stop Anger: The Ultimate Self-Help Guide for Women , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 201min
    How can I control my excesses of anger?Why can't I control my emotions?Is there a way to vent my anger in such a way that it doesn't hurt those around me?If you have asked yourself these questions at least once in your life I know exactly how you feel, you are not the only one who has thought about this.Anger is a natural way to react when people or circumstances cross our boundaries, don't meet our expectations, or things are just peachy! It's called life, right? But sometimes, it can get out of hand, or we wish we would be able to stop the boiling aggressive energy inside us.Get this audiobook now! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Conor Mathers, Lara Williams. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/186504/bk_acx0_186504_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    High Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Case Against Bill Clinton , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 569min
    The book that started it all! Ann Coulter's debut, High Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Case Against Bill Clinton, is written with Coulter's trademark irreverent wit and now available as an audiobook narrated by one of her biggest fans, Steven Roy Grimsley. Readers of Ann Coulter's best-selling Slander will love High Crimes and Misdemeanors. In this New York Times best-seller, Coulter mercilessly pillories Bill Clinton and examines his abuses and excesses of power point by point. She also shreds every conceivable defense of the Clintons as she probes the major Clinton scandals of the 1990s, including Monica, Filegate, the China connection, the travel office snafu, and the fundraising fiascoes. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Steven Roy Grimsley. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/023858/bk_acx0_023858_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Becoming Madame Mao , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 700min
    From the best-selling author of Red Azalea, this extraordinary novel tells the stirring, erotically charged story of Madame Mao Zedong, the woman almost universally known as the 'white-boned demon,' whom many hold directly responsible for the excesses of the Cultural Revolution. Bringing her lush psychological insight to bear on the facts of history, Min penetrates the myth surrounding this woman and provides a "convincing, nuanced portrait of a damaged personality" (Entertainment Weekly) driven by ambition, betrayal, and a never-to-be-fulfilled need to be loved. With all the compressed drama and high lyrical poetry of great opera, Becoming Madame Mao is a "remarkable accomplishment.... Madame Mao is finally given her own voice" (Ha Jin). ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Andi Arndt. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/016068/bk_adbl_016068_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Meditation and Mantras , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 625min
    The modern lifestyle with its excesses and worldly desires, the constant need to be connected, and the rapid development in technology, has made stress and lifestyle-related diseases the norm. The need for meditation, thus, is more acute. Meditation calms the mind, brings focus and enhances the senses, resulting in a better quality of life and work. And with the right Mantras, meditation becomes a highly effective tool in unleashing the immense potential within oneself. This audiobook from the Sivananda Ashram explains what meditation and Mantras are and how they can be effectively used to recharge oneself with divine energy, so that the tension of body and mind are gradually reduced. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Vikas Adam, Shuchi Gokhale. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/012002/bk_adbl_012002_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Maiden: The Morland Dynasty, Book 8 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 856min
    1720: Political intrigue besets the kingdom as the Stuarts try to claim the throne occupied by the Hanoverians and the Morlands have to use all their wiles to keep their fortunes intact. Jeremy Morland, sole heir to his father's will, has no option but to marry cold-hearted Lady Mary to secure Hanoverian protection and safeguard his inheritance. Then the rebellion of '45 and the bloody massacre at Culloden thrust his daughter Jemima into the spotlight as the savior of the family. Independent, single-minded, and a rare beauty, Jemima is a capable caretaker of the Morland heritage. Although Morland Place and its lands suffer from the excesses of her dissolute husband, Jemima's quiet courage earns her an abiding love and loyalty. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Terry Wale. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/twuk/000523/bk_twuk_000523_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Picture of Dorian Gray, Hörbuch, Digital, 166min
    Condemned as immoral when it was first published in 1890, Oscar Wilde's tale of the beautiful young man who "sold himself to the devil for a pretty face" follows the fortunes of Dorian Gray when his prayer for eternal youth as he contemplates his newly finished portrait is answered. Dorian falls under the corrupting influence of Lord Henry Wotton, who urges him to "be always searching for new sensations", and, relieved of any consequences of his actions, knowing that he will remain untainted while the portrait bears the burden of his excesses, he descends into brutality and even murder. Eventually, haunted by his own decadence and determined to redeem himself, Dorian realises that his only hope lies in destroying the portrait. Language: English. Narrator: Simon Callow. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hcuk/000089/bk_hcuk_000089_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Barn Blind , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 451min
    Best-selling author and Pulitzer-Prize winner Jane Smiley crafts compelling novels filled with quiet strength and emotion. In Barn Blind she portrays a middle-aged woman so galvanized with success that she drives a wedge between herself and those who love her most. Kate Karlson's only focus in life is her Midwestern horse farm. Ignoring her husband, she spends long days giving riding lessons and training horses. To showcase her teaching ability, she enters her three sons and daughter in all the equestrian shows. But when her family dares to thwart her interests, the results bring tragedy and devastation. In this spellbinding tale of love, work, and duty, Jane Smiley examines the excesses we sometimes commit in the name of ambition. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Suzanne Toren. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/reco/001782/bk_reco_001782_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Bloody White Baron: The Russian Nobleman Who Became the Last Khan of Mongolia , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 624min
    In the history of the modern world, there have been few characters more sadistic, sinister, and deeply demented as Baron Ungern-Sternberg. An anti-Semitic fanatic with a penchant for Eastern mysticism and a hatred of communists, Baron Ungern-Sternberg took over Mongolia in 1920 with a ragtag force of White Russians, Siberians, Japanese, and native Mongolians. While tormenting friend and foe alike, he dreamed of assembling a horse-borne army with which he would retake communist controlled Moscow. In this epic saga, which ranges from Austria to the Mongolian Steppe, historian and travel writer James Palmer has brought to light the gripping life story of a madman whose actions foreshadowed the most grotesque excesses of the 20th century. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/001091/bk_adbl_001091_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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