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  Man-made Catastrophes and Risk Information Concealment

  Man-made Catastrophes and Risk Information Concealment ab 53.49 € als Taschenbuch: Case Studies of Major Disasters and Human Fallibility. Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Wirtschaft & Soziales,

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  The Trouble with Men: Reflections on Sex, Love, Marriage, Porn, and Power , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 220min

  David Shields’s The Trouble with Men: Reflections on Sex, Love, Marriage, Porn, and Power is an immersion into the perils, limits, and possibilities of human intimacy. All at once a love letter to his wife, a nervy reckoning with his own fallibility, a meditation on the impact of porn on American culture, and an attempt to understand marriage (one marriage, the idea of marriage, all marriages), The Trouble with Men is exquisitely balanced between the personal and the anthropological, nakedness and restraint. While unashamedly intellectual, it’s also irresistibly accessible and extremely moving. Over five increasingly intimate chapters, Shields probes the contours of his own psyche and marriage, marshalling a chorus of other voices that leaven, deepen, and universalize his experience; his goal is nothing less than a deconstruction of eros and conventional masculinity. Masterfully woven throughout is an unmistakable and surprisingly tender cri de coeur to his wife. The risk and vulnerability on display are in the service of radical candor, acerbic wit, real emotion, and profound insight - exactly what we’ve come to expect from Shields, who, in an open invitation to the listener, leaves everything transparent. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: James Patrick Cronin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/050005/bk_adbl_050005_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Subattraction Attract Wealth: Using Hypnosis & The Law Of Attraction , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 35min

  Many people have read books such as The Secret or the classic Think And Grow Rich and set about trying the Law Of Attraction for themselves. The Law Of Attraction states whatever you give your attention to is what you attract into your life. Readers are advised to think more about what they want in life in order to bring those things closer using an automatic law of the universe. Unfortunately, a significant percentage of people trying the system will fail to achieve the life of abundance they dream of. As a built in protection system against the fallibility of the human ego the Law Of Attraction only works at a subconscious level... essentially you get what you believe you deserve and not what you think you deserve! All problems & issues of scarcity in your life are simply the result of bad programming or erroneous beliefs in your subconscious. You can never be wealthy until you erase the internal programming that is preventing you from achieving your goal: Attract unlimited streams of income Change to a wealth based mentality Subconscious reprogramming audio tracks A short, relaxing audio track cleans your subconscious Written & produced to attract wealth. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Craig Beck. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/virl/000009/bk_virl_000009_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Run Towards the Danger (eBook, ePUB)

  'Fascinating, harrowing, courageous, and deeply felt, these explorations of "dangerous stories", harmful past events and trials of the soul speak to all who've encountered dark waters and have had to navigate them.' Margaret AtwoodSarah Polley's work as an actor, screenwriter and director is celebrated for its honesty, complexity and deep humanity. She brings all those qualities, along with her exquisite storytelling skills, to these six essays. Each one captures a piece of Polley's life as she remembers it, while at the same time examining the fallibility of memory and the embodied reactions of children and women adapting and surviving. The guiding light is the possibility of experiencing the past anew, as the person she is now but was not then.In this extraordinary book, Polley explores what it is to live in one's body, in a constant state of becoming, learning and changing. As she was advised after a catastrophic head injury - if we relinquish our protective crouch and run towards the danger, then life can be reset, reshaped and lived afresh.'[Polley is] a stunningly sophisticated observer of the world and an imperfect witness to the truth.' New York Times

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  Business Partnership Essentials: A Step-by-Step Action Plan for Succeeding in Business with a Partner, 1st Edition , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 301min

  Business partnerships are wonderfully complex entities. As with all relationships, they are vulnerable and subject to fallibility. If you think the fact that one in every two marriages in the United States ends in divorce (that's one every 36 seconds!) is unbelievable, then consider this: The number is significantly higher for business partnerships; about 70 percent of them fail. As a business partnership relationship coach, my mission is to help flip this fail/succeed ratio. The point is this: Whether you are considering going into a partnership now or in the future, you'll want to make sure that you do everything you can to help that partnership succeed. To that end, Business Partnership Essentials contains valuable (even invaluable) information. It walks you through every phase of the process - from deciding if you truly want to partner with the person you are considering to planning, building, and running your business on a daily basis and beyond, all the way to a planned exit strategy (a critical yet often overlooked consideration). If you already have a partner, this book will serve to enrich your partnership and give you renewed confidence in knowing that you're taking the necessary steps to ensure that your partnership (and therefore your business) runs as smoothly as a well-oiled machine. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Katherine Thompson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/041114/bk_acx0_041114_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Kickflip Boys: A Memoir of Freedom, Rebellion, and the Chaos of Fatherhood , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 446min

  What makes a good father, and what makes one a failure? Does less-is-more parenting inspire independence and strength, or does it encourage defiance and trouble? Kickflip Boys is the story of a father’s struggle to understand his willful skateboarder sons, challengers of authority and convention, to accept his role as a vulnerable “skate dad”, and to confront his fears that the boys are destined for an unconventional and potentially fraught future. With searing honesty, Neal Thompson traces his sons’ progression through all the stages of skateboarding: splurging on skate shoes and boards, having run-ins with security guards, skipping classes and defying teachers, painting graffiti, drinking and smoking, and more. As the story veers from funny to treacherous and back, from skateparks to the streets, Thompson must confront his complicity and fallibility. He also reflects on his upbringing in rural New Jersey and his own adventures with skateboards, drugs, danger, and defiance.  A story of thrill-seeking teens, of hope and love, freedom and failure, Kickflip Boys reveals a sport and a community that have become a refuge for adolescent boys who don’t fit in. Ultimately, it’s the survival story of a loving modern American family, of acceptance, forgiveness, and letting go. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Joe Knezevich. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/007273/bk_harp_007273_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Love's Work

  Love's Work is at once a memoir and a work of philosophy. Written by the English philosopher Gillian Rose as she was dying of cancer, it is a book about both the fallibility and the endurance of love, love that becomes real and lasting through an ongoing reckoning with its own limitations. Rose looks back on her childhood, the complications of her parents' divorce and her dyslexia, and her deep and divided feelings about what it means to be Jewish. She tells the stories of several friends also laboring under the sentence of death. From the sometimes conflicting vantage points of her own and her friends' tales, she seeks to work out (seeks, because the work can never be complete-to be alive means to be incomplete) a distinctive outlook on life, one that will do justice to our yearning both for autonomy and for connection to others. With droll self-knowledge ("I am highly qualified in unhappy love affairs," Rose writes, "My earliest unhappy love affair was with Roy Rogers") and with unsettling wisdom ("To live, to love, is to be failed"), Rose has written a beautiful, tender, tough, and intricately wrought survival kit packed with necessary but unanswerable questions.

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  Bad Endings , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 229min

  Finalist for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. Winner of the City of Vancouver Book Award. Top 100 of 2017, Globe and Mail.  “...Baker pushes readers to reconsider their desire for resolution. Eschewing the easy, the neat, the smoothed over, allows us to consider the things about ourselves we might not like. There’s a political dimension to this. One thread running through this book is the threat of environmental collapse - drought, massive bee death, dwindling salmon stock - and humans’ awkward interventions....” (The Globe and Mail) “Her characters possess an abundance of hard-luck stories, true, but she writes them as sometimes wrong and sometimes foolish and hence eminently human in their fallibility.” (The Georgia Straight)  “Baker is a skillful, sensitive writer with an uncanny gift for subtle, dark humor... There is no judgment or condemnation in these stories, but a tender, deep savoring of the quirks that make us human.” (Foreword Magazine)  Carleigh Baker likes to make light in the dark. Whether plumbing family ties, the end of a marriage or death itself, she never lets go of the witty, the ironic and, perhaps most notably, the awkward. Despite the title, the resolution in these stories isn’t always tragic, but it’s often uncomfortable, unexpected or just plain strange. Character digressions, bad decisions and misconceptions abound. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Carleigh Baker. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/032969/bk_adbl_032969_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Proust Was a Neuroscientist , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 459min

  In this technology-driven age, it's tempting to believe that science can solve every mystery. After all, science has cured countless diseases and even sent humans into space. But as Jonah Lehrer argues in this sparkling debut, science is not the only path to knowledge. In fact, when it comes to understanding the brain, art got there first. Taking a group of artists - a painter, a poet, a chef, a composer, and a handful of novelists - Lehrer shows how each one discovered an essential truth about the mind that science is only now rediscovering. We learn, for example, how Proust first revealed the fallibility of memory; how George Eliot discovered the brain's malleability; how the French chef Escoffier identified umami (the fifth taste); how Cézanne worked out the subtleties of vision; and how Gertrude Stein exposed the deep structure of language - a full half-century before the work of Noam Chomsky and other linguists. It's the ultimate tale of art trumping science. More broadly, Lehrer shows that there's a cost to reducing everything to atoms and acronyms and genes. Measurement is not the same as understanding, and this is what art knows better than science. An ingenious blend of biography, criticism, and first-rate science writing, Proust Was a Neuroscientist urges science and art to listen more closely to each other, for willing minds can combine the best of both, to brilliant effect. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dan John Miller. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/000660/bk_brll_000660_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Flesh and Blood: An Alex Delaware Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 798min

  Perennial and acknowledged master of the psychological thriller Jonathan Kellerman has created a riveting and memorable Alex Delaware novel about a troubled and elusive young woman whose brutal murder forces the brilliant psychologist-detective to confront his own fallibility. Lauren Teague is a beautiful, defiant, borderline-delinquent teenager when her parents bring her to Alex Delaware's office. But for all Alex's skill and effort, Lauren resists - angrily, provocatively. Reluctantly the psychologist chalks Lauren up as one of the inevitable failures of a challenging profession. But years later, when Alex encounters Lauren as a stag party's featured entertainment, both doctor and patient are stricken with shame. And the ultimate horror takes place when, soon after, Lauren's brutalized corpse is found dumped in an alley. Alex disregards the advice of his trusted friend, LAPD detective Milo Sturgis, and jeopardizes his relationship with longtime lover Robin Castagna in order to pursue Lauren's murderer. As he investigates his young patient's troubled past, Alex enters the shadowy worlds of fringe psychological experimentation and the sex industry and then into mortal danger when lust and big money collide in Southern California. Jonathan Kellerman's LA is evil, seductive, and unforgiving, and Flesh and Blood is mind opening in its drama of a driven man's personal quest, breathtaking in its ingenious plot, filled with unforgettable characters, and topped off by a terrifying climax. This is suspense fiction at its finest. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John Rubinstein. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/004714/bk_rand_004714_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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