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    Olive, Again
    From the Pulitzer Prize-winning, Number One New York Times bestselling author of Olive Kitteridge and My Name is Lucy Barton 'A terrific writer' Zadie Smith 'A superbly gifted storyteller and a craftswoman in a league of her own' Hilary Mantel 'A novel to treasure' Sunday Times Olive, Again follows the blunt, contradictory yet deeply loveable Olive Kitteridge as she grows older, navigating the second half of her life as she comes to terms with the changes - sometimes welcome, sometimes not - in her own existence and in those around her. Olive adjusts to her new life with her second husband, challenges her estranged son and his family to accept him, experiences loss and loneliness, witnesses the triumphs and heartbreaks of her friends and neighbours in the small coastal town of Crosby, Maine - and, finally, opens herself to new lessons about life. 'A powerful storyteller immersed in the nuances of human relationships' Observer 'She gets better with each book' Maggie O'Farrell 'Her writing is exquisite; her vision is boundless. What a sublime book.' Rachel Joyce 'Glorious' The Times 'A perfect novel' Financial Times
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    A Widow for One Year
    Ruth Cole is a complex, often self-contradictory character--a "difficult" woman. By no means is she conventionally "nice," but she will never be forgotten. Ruth's story is told in three parts, each focusing on a crucial time in her life. When we first meet her--on Long Island, in the summer of 1958--Ruth is only four. The second window into Ruth's life opens in the fall of 1990, when Ruth is an unmarried woman whose personal life is not nearly as successful as her literary career. She distrusts her judgment in men, for good reason. A Widow for One Year closes in the autumn of 1995, when Ruth Cole is a forty-one-year-old widow and mother. She's about to fall in love for the first time. Richly comic, as well as deeply disturbing A Widow for One Year is a multilayered love story of astonishing emotional force. Both ribald and erotic, it is also a brilliant novel about the passage of time and the relentlessness of grief.
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    Alcohol, Binge Sobriety and Exemplary Abstinence (eBook, PDF)
    Where did Temporary Sobriety Initiatives (TSIs) such as Dry January, FebFast and Ocsober, come from? And what is their role, if any, in prompting people to revisit their relationship with alcohol? These organized campaigns have flourished throughout the English-speaking world in the past decade. Collectively, they involve thousands of participants and raise substantial sums of money for medical research, as well as drug and alcohol related charities. Alcohol, Binge Sobriety and Exemplary Abstinence considers these campaigns as part of a lifestyle movement that transcends single events and even singular national contexts. It uses case studies from Australia, the USA and the UK to examine both the short history of TSIs as a response to problematic localized drinking cultures - including binge drinking - and their relationship to a much longer and transnational history of temperance activism. In taking TSIs as a case study of both embodied philanthropy and participatory health promotion, this book considers how TSIs are structured, promoted and experienced as an embodied event to create imitable, and sometimes contradictory, examples to create a public pedagogy of 'responsible drinking'.
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    Alcohol, Binge Sobriety and Exemplary Abstinence (eBook, ePUB)
    Where did Temporary Sobriety Initiatives (TSIs) such as Dry January, FebFast and Ocsober, come from? And what is their role, if any, in prompting people to revisit their relationship with alcohol? These organized campaigns have flourished throughout the English-speaking world in the past decade. Collectively, they involve thousands of participants and raise substantial sums of money for medical research, as well as drug and alcohol related charities. Alcohol, Binge Sobriety and Exemplary Abstinence considers these campaigns as part of a lifestyle movement that transcends single events and even singular national contexts. It uses case studies from Australia, the USA and the UK to examine both the short history of TSIs as a response to problematic localized drinking cultures - including binge drinking - and their relationship to a much longer and transnational history of temperance activism. In taking TSIs as a case study of both embodied philanthropy and participatory health promotion, this book considers how TSIs are structured, promoted and experienced as an embodied event to create imitable, and sometimes contradictory, examples to create a public pedagogy of 'responsible drinking'.
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    You Are the Best Wife: A true love story , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 449min
    Ajay believes in living for himself; Bhavna teaches him to live for others. Ajay is a planner for life; Bhavna makes him live in every moment. You are the Best Wife is a story of two people with contradictory ideologies who fall in love. It changes them for good. It changes the way they look at the world and the way the world looks at them. Until destiny reveals its plans. This is a true inspiring story of the author and his struggle with life, after his beloved wife left him halfway through their journey. But her last words, "you are the best husband" gave him the strength to live on, and fulfil his promise of love. Told with frankness and doses of humor, this heartwarming tale of a boy and a girl who never gave up on their love in face of adversities, ends on a bittersweet and poignant note as Ajay comes to terms with the biggest lesson life has to offer. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Shlok Menon. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/029223/bk_adbl_029223_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    What Do We Do With the Bible? , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 100min
    What do we do with the Bible? Does this ancient, sometimes violent and contradictory text have anything to teach us today? Selective use of scripture - by preachers and politicians alike - has been employed to justify violence, racism, misogyny, homophobia...the list goes on. Still, we believe the Bible has something important to say. How can we read it in a contemplative and intelligent way?In What Do We Do with the Bible?, Richard Rohr answers just this question. He offers a methodology of hermeneutics (interpretation) that creates a foundation for a hopeful and cosmic vision - incarnation from beginning to end of time. (He explores this vision further in The Universal Christ). In particular, Father Richard focuses on Jesus' own method of using his Hebrew Scriptures. Jesus read between the lines to find and follow God's mercy, inclusion, and compassionate justice. For him, everything came down to relationship and transformation. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John Quigley , O.F.M.. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/055022/bk_adbl_055022_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Creativity Wears Boots: It's a Brain Thing , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 253min
    What Is Creativity? What Is Art?It isn't something ethereal, it's about the structure of your brain! Everyone is an artist because everyone has a brain. This book unlocks the secret of art and creativity. Why we are compelled to create, the purpose of art, how you can be more creative, are all answered here. Once you realize you're an artist, this book explains what is required to grow as an artist, what it relies on, and the different elements of growth. This isn't about one artistic medium, it is about all media, it is the foundation of art and creativity. This book was written for artists - beginners, intermediate, and advanced. It's for teachers and students. It's for you. You'll also discover why you say one thing and do another, why so much of human behavior is contradictory. You'll learn about creativity, why it wears boots, and so much about being human! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Robert Alexander Swanson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/203176/bk_acx0_203176_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Agent of Time: A Time Travel Thriller (In Times Like These) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 251min
    How do you race a clock that’s running backward? Special Agent Stella York watched a man die in the middle of the interstate. But he didn’t stay dead for long. When a rookie FBI agent is tasked with solving a series of bizarre murders in Saint Petersburg, Florida, her case is going nowhere.The evidence is contradictory, the timeline is impossible, and if she doesn’t solve it soon, someone she knows will die. But how can she race a clock that’s running backward?Agent of Time is a mind-bending multiverse thriller. If you like twisting time travel and heroes who won’t quit, you’ll love this novella-length adventure in the world of In Times Like These. Download. Listen. Rewind.Start your next adventure today, because yesterday may be too late. Caution: This novella contains spoilers for the novel In Times Like These and is best enjoyed as the second book of the series. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kylah Williams. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/214159/bk_acx0_214159_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Corona, False Alarm?: Facts and Figures , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 174min
    No other topic dominates our attention as much as coronavirus and COVID-19, the infectious disease it triggers. There’s been a global deluge of contradictory opinions, fake news, and politically controlled information. Differing views on the dangers posed by the pandemic have led to deep division and confusion, within governments, society, and even among friends and family.In Corona, False Alarm?, award-winning researchers Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi and Dr. Karina Reiss give clarity to these confusing and stressful times. They offer analysis of whether radical protective measures, including lockdown, social distancing, and mandatory masking, have been justified, and what the ramifications have been for society, the economy, and public health. Dr. Bhakdi and Dr. Reiss provide dates, facts, and background information.Corona, False Alarm? provides you with sound information and substantiated facts, and encourages you to form your own opinion on the corona crisis.PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Madison Niederhauser. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/223148/bk_acx0_223148_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    A Macat Analysis of Leon Festinger's A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 98min
    Why do we want to justify our decisions, even if they appear to be irrational? The answer lies in cognitive dissonance, the mental discomfort we experience when we hold two contradictory beliefs at the same time. In A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance, first published in 1957, American social psychologist Leon Festinger investigates the problem. In what another social psychologist, Bertram Gawronski, has called "arguably one of the most influential theories in the history of social psychology", Festinger puts forward the idea that we have developed mechanisms to try to deal with the stress brought on by cognitive dissonance. So we change an existing attitude, alter its relative importance, or add new ones to create logic in our choices. This can explain the way we rationalize a decision after it's been made or why we justify our actions after the event, even if we were forced into them. Research on dissonance has been very important in encouraging sociable behavior, promoting healthy habits, and reducing prejudice. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Macat.com. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/062515/bk_acx0_062515_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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