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  Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 802min

  Over a storied career, Daniel C. Dennett has engaged questions about science and the workings of the mind. His answers have combined rigorous argument with strong empirical grounding. And a lot of fun. Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking offers seventy-seven of Dennett’s most successful “imagination-extenders and focus-holders” meant to guide you through some of life’s most treacherous subject matter: evolution, meaning, mind, and free will. With patience and wit, Dennett deftly deploys his thinking tools to gain traction on these thorny issues while offering listeners insight into how and why each tool was built. Alongside well-known favorites like Occam’s Razor and reductio ad absurdum lie thrilling descriptions of Dennett’s own creations: Trapped in the Robot Control Room, Beware of the Prime Mammal, and The Wandering Two-Bitser. Ranging across disciplines as diverse as psychology, biology, computer science, and physics, Dennett’s tools embrace in equal measure light-heartedness and accessibility as they welcome uninitiated and seasoned listeners alike. As always, his goal remains to teach you how to “think reliably and even gracefully about really hard questions.” A sweeping work of intellectual seriousness that’s also studded with impish delights, Intuition Pumps offers intrepid thinkers - in all walks of life - delicious opportunities to explore their pet ideas with new powers. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jeff Crawford. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/004952/bk_brll_004952_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Victorian Britain, Hörbuch, Digital, 1116min

  This series of 36 fascinating lectures is a chronological journey into the story of Victorian Britain, from the unexpected ascension to the throne of teenaged Princess Victoria in 1837 to her death in 1901 as the Boer War neared its end. Presented with all of Victoria's strengths and foibles left intact by an award-winning teacher and author, the lectures invite you to reflect on both the positive and negative aspects of her reign. You'll discover the lives of Victorian women; the situation facing working people and the rise of trade unionism; Victorian achievements in art, literature, architecture, and music; and what Leonard Woolf called "the seriousness of games," and of leisure-time activities as windows on Victorian life. You'll discuss the important role played by Christianity as a force for both principled adherence to tradition and principled pursuit of change; and the influence of science and the debates over its impact that animated the Victorians. And you'll learn what the Victorians believed about education; the questions raised by Britain's rule over its empire, the problems of poverty and crime; the discoveries of Victorian explorers in Africa; and much more in this remarkable rendering of a remarkable age. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio. Language: English. Narrator: Patrick N. Allitt. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tcco/000338/bk_tcco_000338_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Deliverance Prayers That Will Optimize Your Potential Forever: 350 Powerful Prophetic Prayers & Declarations for Divine Heath, Financial Prosperity & Release of Detained Blessings , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 134min

  Are you faced with challenges in your personal life at one point or the other that often threatens to take breathe out of you momentarily? These challenges do come in form of grief, unemployment, illness, divorce, retrogressive relationships, marriage, business, crisis, and the like. Maybe you are worried about how to prevent such occurrence or how to terminate it as soon as it raises its ugly head. The enemy behind these happenings is the devil, and there is need to handle him in a way that you will not fall prey to his frequent craftiness. This is why this prayer audiobook has been suitably recorded to help you get victory over Satan and protect, recover, and claim your possessions in an uncommon way.This audiobook contains more than 350 powerful prayers suitable for calling forth your divine protection, healing, and finances.You are to pray the prayers in this audiobook with all seriousness. Pray most of them repeatedly before moving to the next prayer. These prayers would be also great during your special midnight prayers. You can pray these inspired prayers perfectly even if you don’t have access to the Holy Bible during your prayer time.I look forward to your arrays of testimonies as you listen to this book and add the wisdom and grace in it to your life and family. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Moses Omojola. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/146680/bk_acx0_146680_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Deep Hot Biosphere

  This book sets forth a set of truly controversial and astonishing theories: First, it proposes that below the surface of the earth is a biosphere of greater mass and volume than the biosphere the total sum of living things on our planet's continents and in its oceans. Second, it proposes that the inhabitants of this subterranean biosphere are not plants or animals as we know them, but heat-loving bacteria that survive on a diet consisting solely of hydrocarbons that is, natural gas and petroleum. And third and perhaps most heretically, the book advances the stunning idea that most hydrocarbons on Earth are not the byproduct of biological debris ("fossil fuels"), but were a common constituent of the materials from which the earth itself was formed some 4.5 billion years ago.The implications are astounding. The theory proposes answers to often-asked questions: Is the deep hot biosphere where life originated, and do Mars and other seemingly barren planets contain deep biospheres? Even more provocatively, is it possible that there is an enormous store of hydrocarbons upwelling from deep within the earth that can provide us with abundant supplies of gas and petroleum?However far-fetched these ideas seem, they are supported by a growing body of evidence, and by the indisputable stature and seriousness Gold brings to any scientific debate. In this book we see a brilliant and boldly original thinker, increasingly a rarity in modern science, as he develops potentially revolutionary ideas about how our world works.

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  The Deep Hot Biosphere (eBook, PDF)

  This book sets forth a set of truly controversial and astonishing theories: First, it proposes that below the surface of the earth is a biosphere of greater mass and volume than the biosphere the total sum of living things on our planet's continents and in its oceans. Second, it proposes that the inhabitants of this subterranean biosphere are not plants or animals as we know them, but heat-loving bacteria that survive on a diet consisting solely of hydrocarbons that is, natural gas and petroleum. And third and perhaps most heretically, the book advances the stunning idea that most hydrocarbons on Earth are not the byproduct of biological debris ("fossil fuels"), but were a common constituent of the materials from which the earth itself was formed some 4.5 billion years ago. The implications are astounding. The theory proposes answers to often-asked questions: Is the deep hot biosphere where life originated, and do Mars and other seemingly barren planets contain deep biospheres? Even more provocatively, is it possible that there is an enormous store of hydrocarbons upwelling from deep within the earth that can provide us with abundant supplies of gas and petroleum? However far-fetched these ideas seem, they are supported by a growing body of evidence, and by the indisputable stature and seriousness Gold brings to any scientific debate. In this book we see a brilliant and boldly original thinker, increasingly a rarity in modern science, as he develops potentially revolutionary ideas about how our world works.

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  Shadows: Legends of the Vampires , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 334min

  It started with a whisper, then a vision that unlocked my powers and led me to him.It started with a vision that made us follow the exodus back to Salem. No one knew the dangers that lay ahead or the seriousness of the threat coming. I didn’t know I’d have such a big part to play. After all, I thought I was just a half-witch. Until Noah showed me there was more to me than what met the eye. I’d always been told never to trust vampires. I’d always been told to beware of them. They’re dangerous and mysterious, and only look out for themselves. But I did the opposite of what I was told. I did more than just trust him.He’s the only one who can help and protect me. He’s the only one who seems to know what’s going on. He's the only one who seems to be able to speak to my heart.It’s never a good idea to mix business with pleasure. I just can’t resist the irresistible temptation that lures me to him. Calling to me and singing to my soul, even though I know I shouldn’t be with him.We both know the day will come when we have to choose. Neither of us can escape destiny. It’s the one sure thing we know we can’t change. If we try, darkness and death will reign. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jennifer Walls. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/188386/bk_acx0_188386_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Making Mavericks: The Memoir of a Surfing Legend , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 465min

  When Richard “Frosty” Hesson was first approached by a young Jay Moriarty in 1990, the skinny kid with a sparkle in his eye only wanted one thing from the icon: His help in becoming a better surfer. Hesson, one of the first to conquer the huge waves off northern California known as Mavericks, recognized that the kid “had a vision.” Jay quickly demonstrated a resolve that reminded Frosty of his younger self, pursuing his goal with a seriousness far beyond his years. His attitude and work ethic earned Frosty’s respect and, eventually, his friendship. Making Mavericks is the inspiring story of their father-son bond and of the challenges that made each of them who they were—surf legends, and the subject of the upcoming film Chasing Mavericks.In Making Mavericks, Frosty talks about his turbulent youth spent under difficult circumstances, with parents who tried to find a positive way to handle a child with a passion for water and a disregard for his own safety. Throughout his life he developed principles to live by, principles that would become the core tenets of his teaching philosophy. Most significantly, Frosty talks about how one of his best students, Jay Moriarty, used his philosophy to become a surfing phenomenon, and whose life inspired the phrase, “Live like Jay.”Affecting and poignant, Making Mavericks is a celebration of Hesson’s determination to live with joy and purpose, and his desire to help others do the same. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gary Dikeos. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/013398/bk_adbl_013398_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Healings , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 626min

  ... an international team of researchers... has finally come to the conclusion that the cat is the manliest pet. This gem of wisdom, and many, many others, are embedded in the search of one man - and his cat - for the Truth. Join them as they travel from "healer" to "healer" in their quest for wholeness. The Healings offers a pleasing marriage of humor and seriousness of life's situations. From the author: "Born and raised in the Balkans, a very culturally diverse area, I have been writing since I could hold a pen but it wasn't until I moved to the U.S. that I discovered that spontaneous, dark humor was part of my heritage. "The character in my stories is a depressed male - the universal human being in search of his own Self and his place in the society and, on a deeper level in the world. In his quest for healing, he is accompanied by his one and only partner, his talking cat. "The thoughts and dialogues, naive and hilarious as they seem, offer a deep insight into life, death and what's in between."Written in the first person, the short stories depict his encounters with those whom he calls 'sources of wisdom' from shamans to scientists, from dream interpreters to psychiatrists, from flesh-and-bone creatures to illusory entities or just bizarre life situations. "I invite you to take a very vivid and strong journey into the raw and uncensored human mind." ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Nicolas D. Frantela. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/006982/bk_acx0_006982_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Do Zombies Dream of Undead Sheep?: A Neuroscientific View of the Zombie Brain , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 424min

  Even if you’ve never seen a zombie movie or television show, you could identify an undead ghoul if you saw one. With their endless wandering, lumbering gait, insatiable hunger, antisocial behavior, and apparently memory-less existence, zombies are the walking nightmares of our deepest fears. What do these characteristic behaviors reveal about the inner workings of the zombie mind? Could we diagnose zombism as a neurological condition by studying their behavior? In Do Zombies Dream of Undead Sheep?, neuroscientists and zombie enthusiasts Timothy Verstynen and Bradley Voytek apply their neuro-know-how to dissect the puzzle of what has happened to the zombie brain to make the undead act differently than their human prey. Combining tongue-in-cheek analysis with modern neuroscientific principles, Verstynen and Voytek show how zombism can be understood in terms of current knowledge regarding how the brain works. In each chapter, the authors draw on zombie popular culture and identify a characteristic zombie behavior that can be explained using neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, and brain-behavior relationships. Through this exploration they shed light on fundamental neuroscientific questions such as: How does the brain function during sleeping and waking? What neural systems control movement? What is the nature of sensory perception? Walking an ingenious line between seriousness and satire, Do Zombies Dream of Undead Sheep? leverages the popularity of zombie culture in order to give listeners a solid foundation in neuroscience. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Scott Aiello. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/020918/bk_adbl_020918_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Lowdown: The EU - Should We Stay or Should We Go? , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 104min

  Faced with the prospect that the UK electorate might be asked whether it wants in or out of the EU in 2017, Paul Kent discovered he didn't have the first clue which side he was on. There are literally hundreds of books and websites that deal with the history, workings, constitution and finances of the EU. But they all tend to fall into one - or both - of two categories: hopelessly biased or hopelessly boring. No longer is Euroscepticism the exclusive province of 'swivel-eyed' activists deep in the Tory shires; it has now gone mainstream to the point where even the metropolitan political elite have had to sit up and take notice of what is being portrayed as a grassroots rebellion. But what is this antipathy based on? Is there a reasoned and reasonable explanation reflecting the prevailing economic, social and political climate in this country? Or is it naked prejudice pure and simple? One thing’s for sure - the standard of debate on the issue in the UK is for the most part lamentable, embarrassing, and even a little scary, considering the seriousness of the subject. So instead of relying on journalists, bureaucrats or politicians to feed us their distorted, dull or partisan half-truths, find out for yourself with this short, pithy look into what exactly the EU does for us, puts everything in perspective and doesn't try to tell you which way to vote. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Daniel Weyman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/crea/000042/bk_crea_000042_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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