112 Results for : chancer
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The Quantum Astrologer's Handbook , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 384min
A book of science like no other about a scientist like no other. This is a landmark in science writing. It resurrects from the vaults of neglect the polymath Jerome Cardano, a Milanese of the 16th century. Who is he? A gambler and blasphemer, inventor and chancer, plagued by demons and anxieties, astrologer to kings, emperors and popes. This stubborn and unworldly man was the son of a lawyer and a brothel keeper but also a gifted physician and the unacknowledged discoverer of the mathematical foundations of quantum physics. That is the argument of this charming and intoxicatingly clever book, which is truly original in its style and, in the manner of the modernists, embodies in its very form its theories about the world. The Quantum Astrologer's Handbook is a science book with the panache of a novel, for fans of Carlo Rovelli or Umberto Eco. It is a work of and about genius. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Alex Wyndham. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/031159/bk_adbl_031159_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Natural Born Heroes , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 878min
When Chris McDougall stumbled across the story of Churchill's 'dirty tricksters', a motley crew of English poets and academics who helped resist the Nazi invasion of Crete, he knew he was on the track of something special. To beat the odds, the tricksters - starving, aging, outnumbered - tapped in to an ancient style of fitness: the lost art of heroism. They listened to their instincts, replaced calories with stored bodily fat, and used their fascia, the network of tissue which criss-crosses the body, to catapult themselves to superhuman strength and endurance. Soon McDougall was in the middle of a modern fitness revolution taking place everywhere from Parisian parkour routes to state-of-the-art laboratories and based on the know-how of Shanghai street fighters and Wild West gunslingers. Just as Born to Run got runners off the treadmill and into nature, Natural Born Heroes will inspire casual athletes to dump the gym memberships for cross-training, mud runs, and free running. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John Chancer. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/012905/bk_adbl_012905_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Impact , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 822min
Following Tracer and Zero-G comes Impact, the explosive conclusion to the Outer Earth trilogy - a heart-pounding thriller set in space where the hero moves like lightning and the consequences for failure are deadly. A signal has been picked up from Earth. The planet was supposed to be uninhabitable. But it seems there are survivors down there - with supplies, shelter and running water. Perhaps there could be a future for humanity on Earth after all. Riley Hale will find out soon enough. She's stuck on a spaceship with the group of terrorists that is planning to brave the planet's atmosphere and crash-land on the surface. But when the re-entry goes wrong, Riley ends up 100s of miles from her companions Prakesh and Carver, alone in a barren wilderness. She'll have to use everything she knows to survive. And all of them are about to find out that nothing on Earth is what it seems.... ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John Chancer, Sarah Borges. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/twuk/001187/bk_twuk_001187_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Predator - Incursion: The Rage War, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 690min
Predator ships stream into human space in unprecedented numbers. The Colonial Marines, controlled by Weyland-Yutani, respond to the incursion, thus entering the Rage War. This terrifying assault by the Yautja cannot go unchallenged, yet the cost of combat is high. Predators are master combatants, and each encounter yields a high body count. Then, when Lt. Johnny Mains and his marines - the VoidLarks - enter the fray, they discover an enemy deadlier than any could imagine. Audiobook one in an epic trilogy that continues in Alien: Invasion and concludes in Aliens vs. Predator: Armageddon. The universe will forever be changed. Tim Lebbon is the New York Times best-selling author of the movie novelisations of 30 Days of Night and The Cabin in the Woods. He has also written many critically acclaimed horror and dark fantasy novels. Tim has won three British Fantasy Awards, a Bram Stoker Award, a Shocker and a Tombstone and been a finalist for the International Horror Guild and World Fantasy Awards. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John Chancer. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/026651/bk_adbl_026651_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Skios , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 457min
On the sunlit Greek island of Skios, the Fred Toppler Foundation's annual lecture is to be given by Dr Norman Wilfred, the world-famous authority on the scientific organisation of science. He turns out to be young and charming - not at all the intimidating figure they had been expecting. The Foundation's guests are soon eating out of his hand. So is Nikki, the attractive and efficient organiser. Meanwhile, in a remote villa at the other end of the island, Nikki's old school-friend Georgie waits for the notorious chancer she has rashly agreed to go on holiday with, who has characteristically failed to turn up. Trapped in the villa with her, by an unfortunate chain of misadventure, is a balding old gent called Dr Norman Wilfred, who has lost his whereabouts, his luggage, his temper, and his sense of reality - everything he possesses apart from the flyblown text of a well-travelled lecture on the scientific organisation of science... ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Martin Jarvis. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bbcw/005812/bk_bbcw_005812_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Persuaders , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 541min
Every day many people will try to change your mind, but they won't reason with you. Instead you'll be nudged, anchored, incentivised and manipulated in barely noticeable ways. It's a profound shift in the way we interact with one another. Philosopher James Garvey explores the hidden story of persuasion and the men and women in the business of changing our minds. From the covert PR used to start the first Gulf War to the neuromarketing of products to appeal to our unconscious minds, he reveals the dark arts practised by professional persuaders. How did we end up with a world where beliefs are mass produced by lobbyists and PR firms? Could Google or Facebook swing elections? Are new kinds of persuasion making us less likely to live happy, decent lives in an open, peaceful world? Is it too late, or can we learn to listen to reason again? The Persuaders is a call to think again about how we think now. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John Chancer. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/027183/bk_adbl_027183_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Reinventing Capitalism in the Age of Big Data , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 475min
Markets have long been acknowledged to be a superior mechanism for managing resources, but until the advent of big data, they largely functioned better in theory than in practice. Now, as ideal markets are within reach because of vastly greater access to information, we are on the verge of a major disruption. As data becomes a more valuable asset than cash, the rules for surviving and thriving are changing. Reinventing Capitalism is a provocative look at how data is reinventing markets and, in so doing, is ushering in an era where the firm is no longer predominant. With richer and more comprehensive information about human wants and needs, an economy powered by data offers the possibility of increased abundance, equality and resilience. The data-driven markets that will thrive in this environment are far better than firms at organising human endeavors, meaning that finance-driven capitalism is being displaced by its more efficient, more sustainable and more democratic disruptor: data capitalism. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John Chancer. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hodd/001392/bk_hodd_001392_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Innocence Game , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 463min
They're young, brilliant, and naïve enough to believe they can make a difference. For three graduate students, the exclusive innocence seminar at the nation's most esteemed journalism school is supposed to teach them how to free the falsely accused from prison. But the most important lesson they'll learn is how to stay alive... The first day of class for Ian Joyce and Sarah Gold starts like any other, until fellow student Jake Havens pulls a wrinkled envelope from his backpack. Inside is a blood-stained scrap of shirt from a boy murdered fourteen years ago and an anonymous note taking credit for the killing. But the alleged murderer is already dead. Suddenly, the class has a new assignment: find the real killer. Soon, the bodies and questions begin to pile up. Why are innocent men being framed? Who's been getting away with murder? Drawn into a web of deceit and corruption, the students realize they, too, are being hunted... ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John Chancer. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bbcw/007125/bk_bbcw_007125_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Believe Me , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 573min
The sensational new psychological thriller from the internationally best-selling author of The Girl Before.Claire Wright likes to play other people. A British drama student, in New York without a green card, Claire takes the only job she can get: working for a firm of divorce lawyers, posing as an easy pick-up in hotel bars to entrap straying husbands. When one of her targets becomes the subject of a murder investigation, the police ask Claire to use her acting skills to help lure their suspect into a confession. But right from the start, she has doubts about the part she's being asked to play. Is Patrick Fogler really a killer.... Or the only decent husband she's ever met? And is there more to this set-up than she's being told?And that's when Claire realises she's playing the deadliest role of her life.... ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Eric Meyers, Lorelei King, John Chancer, Matt Reeves, Sally Scott. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/qpuk/000369/bk_qpuk_000369_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Love, Love Me Do , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 686min
1963: The year the Beatles first top the charts. The year Martin Luther King has a dream. The year Truman Bird moves his family from their home in Brighton to a dilapidated caravan in the Ashdown Forest - then disappears. Truman's a charmer, a chancer, a liar. He's always got away with it, too. But now he's gone a dangerous step too far and only has one day to put things right - before he loses everything. For Truman's wife, Christie, life has not turned out the way she'd imagined. How has she, that young girl of not that many years ago, ended up like this? In a caravan. With three children. And an absent husband. Honest and unsettling, yet ultimately uplifting, this unique, wise, and addictive British debut weaves themes of love, betrayal, family, and childhood, and shows that even though life has a habit of getting in the way of dreams, people find their own extraordinary ways of bouncing back. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Katie Scarfe, David Thorpe. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/twuk/000822/bk_twuk_000822_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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