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    Spies for Hire: The Secret World of Intelligence Outsourcing , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 942min
    Running spy networks overseas. Tracking down terrorists in the Middle East. Interrogating enemy prisoners. Analyzing data from spy satellites and intercepted phone calls. All of these are vital intelligence tasks that have traditionally been performed by government officials accountable to Congress and the American people. But that is no longer the case. Starting during the Clinton administration, when intelligence budgets were cut drastically and privatization of government services became national policy, and expanding dramatically in the wake of 9/11, when the CIA and other agencies were frantically looking to hire analysts and linguists, the intelligence community has been relying more and more on corporations to perform sensitive tasks heretofore considered to be exclusively the work of federal employees. This outsourcing of intelligence activities is now a $50-billion-a-year business that consumes up to 70 percent of the U.S. intelligence budget. And it's a business that the government has tried hard to keep under wraps. Drawing on interviews with key players in the intelligence-industrial complex, contractors' annual reports and public filings with the government, and on-the-spot reporting from intelligence industry conferences and investor briefings, Spies for Hire provides the first behind-the-scenes look at this new way of spying. Shorrock explores how this partnership has led to wasteful spending and how it threatens to erode the privacy protections and congressional oversight that is so important to American democracy. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dick Hill. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tant/001861/bk_tant_001861_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    New Better You: Staying Positive for Big Time Results in Everything You Do , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 84min
    Believing in yourself and your abilities is absolutely the most important thing you can do on your journey to a new better you. It is critical to develop the self-confidence you need to carry you through to the realization of your goals. Self-confidence is a bit different from self-esteem. Self-esteem refers to your feelings about yourself, your behaviors, and your worth as a person.  Self-confidence is your belief in your abilities and in the way you present yourself to the world. The actions of others are more likely to erode your self-confidence rather than your self-esteem.  However, the two emotions have quite a bit in common. Both are measures of your inherent or developed belief in yourself - and both can be easily pushed off balance, resulting in either over-confident or defeatist behaviors that distance you from your ultimate objectives.  You need to create a balance between too little self-confidence and too much. You cannot accomplish anything without self-confidence; on the other hand, too much self-confidence can ensure that you don’t try hard enough to reach your goals, and you will fall short of realizing your possibilities.  Once you understand that you truly can do anything you put your mind to, you will have unlocked the key to positive thinking. There is no limit to the power of the human mind. Your possibilities really are endless. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Todd Weir. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/106523/bk_acx0_106523_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Capitalism Is Dead: Peoplism Rules: Creating Success out of Corporate Chaos , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 358min
    Peoplism is a revolution. It is radically altering the formation and functioning of business and society. This strategic management book analyzes the impact peoplism has on organizational success. It outlines the challenges facing business leaders in adjusting to the demands of a marketplace where commoditization and globalization continually erode margins.Coined by Alec Reed, the term "peoplism" describes an economic state where individuals own and control the most important factor of production, their human ability. After centuries where money and capital have been the driving force of business and the economy, Reed argues that the importance has shifted irreversibly toward the individual. And while companies confidently declare that people are their most important asset, the real consequences of such statements have yet to bite.Based on original research, Capitalism Is Dead: Peoplism Rules examines and proffers practical solutions to the key challenges that lie at the core of today's business. They include:The diminishing power of the state - organizational implications and opportunities Recruitment, retention, and measurement of top talent - optimizing private intellect insuranceThe diminishing power of the brand - how to reposition marketing when it is off-targetShort-termism and narrow focus of accounting practices - how to realign with the key value driversHow to develop unique strategic positioning within companies, strategies for boosting the corporate libido, and proposals for developing the new Profit:Enterprise ratios.This audiobook explains why companies need to act on the radical sea change of the thought that peoplism is no kinder than capitalism, and advises how best to do so. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jonathan Keeble. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/157972/bk_acx0_157972_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Growing Up Social: Raising Relational Kids in a Screen-Driven World , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 380min
    Is technology bringing your family closer together or driving you farther apart? Children today are no longer playing hide-and-seek outside or curling up with a good book - instead they've been introduced to a world of constant digital entertainment through television, video games, and mobile devices. And while technology has the potential to add value to our lives and families, it can also erode a sense of togetherness and hinder a child’s emotional and social development. In Growing Up Social, Gary Chapman and Arlene Pellicane will empower you with the necessary tools to make positive changes starting today. Through stories, wit, and wisdom, you’ll discover how to take back your home from an overdependence on screens. Plus, you'll learn to teach the five A+ skills that every healthy child needs to master: affection, appreciation, anger management, apology, and attention. Equip your child to be relationally rich in a digital world. Replace mindless screen time with meaningful family time. Establish simple boundaries that make a huge difference. Discover what's working for families that have become screen savvy. Learn healthy ways to occupy your child while you get things done. Now is the time to equip your child to live with screen time, not for screen time. No phone, tablet, or gaming device can teach your child how to have healthy relationships - only you can. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your My Library section along with the audio. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Chris Fabry. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/oasi/001397/bk_oasi_001397_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    How to Make Girls Want You! , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 53min
    How to Make Girls Want You! is a guide for the average guy who is struggling to have success with the opposite sex. This book contains practical advice for attracting girls and real-world examples that you can use now to improve your own life. As you're probably well aware, there are a huge number of so-called "systems" out there that promise a magic-bullet solution for attracting girls. I'm here to tell you that they are, for the most part, total crap. A number of the most popular "systems" promote bombarding the girl you like with subtle negative comments to erode her self-confidence. Think about how silly that sounds. Most guys who need this kind of help don't possess the courage or self-confidence to even ask a girl out on a simple date, let alone pepper her with negative comments to her face. Not only are these overly complicated methods for attracting women a waste of your time, they'll actually hurt your chances. How to Make Girls Want You! is not one of these overly elaborate systems. Rather, it's a smack in the face with some useful, real-world advice that you can implement to make your life better...immediately! The reality is that I've made a lot of mistakes over the years before I stumbled onto what actually works. I know how you can get girls to like, respect, and want to date you. Now I want to put that accumulated knowledge to work for your benefit! Let's get started together.... ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kevin Killavey. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/005301/bk_acx0_005301_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Psychopath Factory: How Capitalism Organises Empathy , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 313min
    Psychopaths seem to be everywhere. They are on the news and at the movies. People who lack empathy, be they ruthless entrepreneurs or crazed spree killers, are frequently labelled psychopathic; the charming socialiser is just as suspect as the awkward antisocial loner. The conception of what defines a psychopath seems to be a morass of contradictions, the only consistency being the supposition of a lack of empathy. The Psychopath Factory: How Capitalism Organises Empathy examines how the requirements, stimuli, affects and environments of work condition our empathy. In some cases work calls for no-empathy characters who don't blink or flinch in the face of danger or crack under pressure. In other cases capitalism requires empathy in spades - charming, friendly, sensitive and listening managers, customer service agents and careers. When workers are required to either ignore their empathy to do a job or dial it up to increase productivity, they are entering a psychopathic modality. The affective blitz of work, flickering screens, emotive content, vibrating alerts and sounding alarms erode our sensitivities whilst we are modulated with attention stimulants, social lubricants and so called antianxiety drugs. This is amidst a virulent and exacerbating climate of competition and frenzied quantification. Capitalism pressures us to feign empathy and leverage social relationships on one hand whilst being cold and pragmatic on the other. We are passionate and enthusiastic whilst keeping a professional distance. Sympathy, care, compassion and altruism are important; The Psychopath Factory: How Capitalism Organises Empathy argues that it is a mistake to presuppose that empathy can achieve these. Rather than being subject to the late capitalist organisation of our empathy, psychopathy could be a means of escape. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Barnaby Edwards. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/029566/bk_adbl_029566_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Pride and Joy: A Guide to Understanding Your Child's Emotions and Solving Family Problems  , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 393min
    Pride and Joy is a different kind of parenting book. In Pride and Joy, child psychologist Kenneth Barish brings together the best of recent advances in clinical and neuroscience research with the author's three decades of experience working with children and families. He shows how a deeper appreciation of our children's emotions offers parents a new understanding of their children's development and better solutions to the problems in their lives. Barish offers advice to parents on how we can restore more joyfulness and pride in our relationships with our children and how we can help children bounce back from disappointment and defeat. He shows how we can repair family relationships that have been damaged by frequent anger and resentment and how we can preserve our children's idealism and their concern for others - how we can raise children who feel good about themselves and also care about the needs and feelings of others. Barish also offers advice on how to solve problems of daily family life: establishing rules and limits, doing homework and going to sleep, winning and losing at games, our children's reluctance to talk to us, their tantrums and lack of motivation, and their addiction to television and video games. He presents down-to-earth recommendations for solving these common family problems - problems that too often erode the joyfulness of our children and our pleasure in being parents. Pride and Joy is both informative and highly practical, and a balanced answer to the extreme methods that too often dominate parenting debates. Few parenting books address the central issues of concern to today's parents while also offering parents as much day-to-day advice. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kevin Young. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/011585/bk_adbl_011585_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Cosmic Constitutional Theory: Why Americans Are Losing Their Inalienable Right to Self-Governance  , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 260min
    American constitutional law has undergone a transformation. Issues once left to the people have increasingly become the province of the courts. Subjects as diverse as abortion rights and firearms regulations, health care reform and counterterrorism efforts, not to mention a millennial presidential election, are more and more the domain of judges. What sparked this development? In this engaging volume, Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson argues that America's most brilliant legal minds have launched a set of cosmic constitutional theories that, for all their value, are undermining self-governance. Thinkers as diverse as Justices William Brennan and Antonin Scalia, Professor John Hart Ely, Judges Robert Bork and Richard Posner, have all produced seminal interpretations of our Founding document, but ones that promise to imbue courts with unprecedented powers. While crediting the theorists for the sparkling quality of their thoughts, Judge Wilkinson argues they will slowly erode the role of representative institutions in America and leave our children bereft of democratic liberty. The loser in all the theoretical fireworks is the old and honorable tradition of judicial restraint. The judicial modesty once practiced by Learned Hand, John Harlan, and Oliver Wendell Holmes has given way to competing schools of liberal and conservative activism seeking sanctuary in Living Constitutionalism, Originalism, Process Theory, or the supposedly anti-theoretical creed of Pragmatism. Each of these seemingly disparate theories promises their followers an intellectually respectable route to congenial political outcomes from the bench. Judge Wilkinson calls for a plainer, simpler, self-disciplined commitment to judicial restraint and democratic governance, a course that alas may be impossible so long as the cosmic constitutionalists so dominate contemporary legal thought. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Noah Michael Levine. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/011554/bk_adbl_011554_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Darkness Will Not Overcome , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 223min
    Addiction is a disease that not only affects the addict but also everyone who loves them.Spouse, parents, children, friends - addicts end up hurting the ones who love them the most. It creeps into their minds: constant worry, perpetual suspicion, paranoia, and sleepless nights anticipating a phone call notifying them that their precious loved one has been arrested - or, worse, killed. Just when it seems the addict is getting better, they sink to a whole new low. The bottom goes deeper and darker. Hope continues to erode until there's not much left to hold onto. People keep trying to get through to them, but nothing seems to stop the storm.Richie Halversen's life had hit rock bottom. Chemical dependency had led him on a downward spiral. The lies, the stealing, the arrests, and the broken promises had reached a critical point. He knew this trip to rehab was the last chance he would ever get. At his very worst, while suffering through withdrawal, Richie heard God's voice for the first time in forever."Richie, if you go out that door, you will die, but if you give me your life, I promise you, you will live again."Opioid use is an epidemic. But all the statistics in the world won't make the same impact as one true story. Starting that day, Richie's life began to turn around. God never gave up on Richie, and he won't give up on you. Are you trying to understand addiction? Do you know someone who is struggling with drug dependency? Everyone loves a true story of a changed life. Richie Halversen went from the lowest of the low to a life led by God. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dalan Decker. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/189161/bk_acx0_189161_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Secrets of the Secret Service: The History and Uncertain Future of the U.S. Secret Service , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 542min
    From the author of the number-one New York Times best seller Crisis of Character comes an explosive new exposé of the Secret Service. The United States Secret Service is tasked with protecting our presidents, their families, and the complex in which they live and work. Given this important mission, world stability rests upon the shoulders of its agents. In his new book, former Secret Service officer Gary Byrne takes listeners behind the scenes to understand the agency's history and today's security failings that he believes put Americans at risk. The American public knows the stories of Secret Service heroism, but they don't know about the hidden legacy of problems that have plagued the agency ever since its creation. Gary Byrne says that decades of catastrophic public failures, near misses, and bureaucratic and cultural rot threaten to erode this critical organization from the inside out. Today, as it works to protect President Trump, the Secret Service stands at a crossroads, and the time needed to choose the right course is running out. Agents and officers are leaving the Secret Service in droves, or they're being overworked to the point where they lose focus on the job. Management makes decisions based on politics, not the welfare of their employees. Byrne believes that this means danger for the men and women of the Secret Service, danger for the president they protect, and danger for the nation. In this book, he shares what he has witnessed and learned about the Secret Service with the hope that the problems of this most important agency can be fixed before it's too late. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Pete Larkin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hach/003629/bk_hach_003629_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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