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  Risk: The Surprising Science Behind Everyday Calamities - and How You Can Avoid Them , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 436min

  The modern world can be a dangerous place, filled with fast cars, smartphones, drugs and extreme sports. Meanwhile, we humans are as fragile as ever. In fact after a century of decline in injuries and accidental deaths, they are on the rise again. The question is - why?  Steve Casner has devoted his career to studying the psychology of safety, and he knows that there's not a safety warning we won't ignore or a foolproof device we can't turn into an implement of disaster.  Based on years of research and understanding of human behavior learnt as a research psychologist, Risk is the definitive user guide to avoiding everyday calamity. It will help us understand why we behave in such contradictory ways - insisting on fat-free salad dressing but then texting while driving - and explain the psychological traps that can lead us to the scene of an accident. By showing us how and when injuries happen, we learn what we should really be worrying about. Helping to keep our fingers attached in the kitchen, our children afloat at the pool and teenagers safe behind the wheel, Casner shows us all the ways we can take control of our own safety and get through the day in one piece.  ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Steve Casner. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/macm/001093/bk_macm_001093_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  A Life Less Stressed , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 758min

  A holistic guide to the stresses that wear us down and the simple changes we can make to lead happier, healthier and more resilient lives. Life has never been more stressful. It is no coincidence that chronic degenerative disorders such as cancer, heart disease, autoimmune illnesses and mental-health conditions are on the rise. But if we want to tackle them, we need to look beyond their symptoms. That is the message of dentist and health advocate Ron Ehrlich. He explores why public health messages have been so confusing and often contradictory, including the role of the food and pharmaceutical industries in all parts our health care system. It's a story that's easy to miss but difficult to ignore. He then untangles how problems in one part of the body are intimately connected to the whole and how we as individuals are inextricably linked to our own environment. Ehrlich redefines the stresses that affect us in our modern world and shows how to strengthen the five pillars - sleep, breathing, nutrition, movement and thought - that support our health. A Life Less Stressed will help you develop a broader understanding of the challenges we face today and empower you to take control, build resilience and be the best you can be. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ron Ehrlich. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/032989/bk_adbl_032989_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Exiles' Escape: Book 2 of Old Men and Infidels , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 680min

  Malila is dead by her own hand - at least, that is what she hopes General Jourdaine and the entire Unity will believe. Middle-aged 17-year-old Malila Chiu has no choice but to escape her homeland. Making common cause with the strange subterranean workers of the beltways, Malila perseveres toward freedom in the scorched fields of America. Nearly naked, with no friends, no resources, and only a scant idea of the route, Malila's only real information comes from time in the outlands. While a captive of the old, harsh-and-tender-by-turns Jesse Johnstone, Malila learned of the lies told her by her homeland and the truths shown her by the arrogant and contradictory Jesse. She thinks she may love him. If only he were not so strange.... Pursuing Malila and becoming more obsessed with each failure, Jourdaine moves closer at each turn. Jesse, once again the target for assassination from old enemies, escapes to the skies, using a huge new American R-ship, the Illinois, in his own attempt to find Malila. Spies, subterranean poet-socialists, virtual entities, interfaces, and people - both good and bad - wrestle the Fates for survival and supremacy in a 22nd-century America. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jack Nolan. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/112488/bk_acx0_112488_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Gospel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 23min

  When you hear the word gospel, you usually think in terms of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, but tonight I want to introduce you to the gospel as found in the letters of Paul.Listen to these words carefully: "I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ and turning to a different gospel, not that there is another gospel, but there are some who trouble you and want to pervert the gospel of Christ. But even if we, or any who hear him, should preach a gospel that is contradictory to that which we preached to you, let him be accursed."Then he repeats this saying: "I have said before so now I say again. If anyone teaches a gospel that is contrary to the gospel we preach, let him be accursed."You will notice that Paul includes himself in that statement, because it is possible under the threat of death or pain or torture for man to confess that he was wrong. (The churches made Galileo confess, under the threat of Cain, that the Earth was stationary and not moving around the sun, even though today we know Galileo was right.) ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Russell Stamets. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/105582/bk_acx0_105582_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Run to the Phantom , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 406min

  During a national emergency, a liberal Marxist-leaning political leadership takes absolute control of the United States. Martial law is declared and elections are suspended. This leadership morphs into a complete Communist-style government. All dissent is brutally repulsed. Two young university students, Peter Blake and Natalie Biriukova, become active leaders in the resistance movement. They soon fall in love. In time they are targeted by the government and forced to go on the run. A feared and notorious Compliance Officer, Nicholas Snoopczech, is hot on their trail. He is hated and feared by Americans, especially those who are brave enough to oppose big government. The underground resistance network sets in motion a plan to move Peter and Natalie across several states to a mysterious sanctuary, where they are to meet "The Phantom". The Phantom occupies a beautiful "haunted" southern style mansion located in the hills of southeast Kansas. Contradictory to this plan, the people they encounter on their journey warn them to avoid The Phantom. The mystery that surrounds them is, "What is 'The Phantom', and can it really be trusted?" As Peter and Natalie resist the government and run for safety, will the whippoorwill keep them safe? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: R.A. Brown. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/021757/bk_acx0_021757_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The ISIS Apocalypse: The History, Strategy, and Doomsday Vision of the Islamic State , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 404min

  The Islamic State is one of the most lethal and successful jihadist groups in modern history, surpassing even al-Qaeda. Thousands of its followers have marched across Syria and Iraq, subjugating millions, enslaving women, beheading captives, and daring anyone to stop them. Thousands more have spread terror beyond the Middle East under the Islamic State's black flag. How did the Islamic State attract so many followers and conquer so much land? By being more ruthless, more apocalyptic, and more devoted to state building than its competitors. The shrewd leaders of the Islamic State combined two of the most powerful yet contradictory ideas in Islam - the return of the Islamic Empire and the end of the world - into a mission and a message that shapes its strategy and inspires its army of zealous fighters. They have defied conventional thinking about how to wage wars and win recruits. Even if the Islamic State is defeated, jihadist terrorism will never be the same. Based almost entirely on primary sources in Arabic - including ancient religious texts and secret al-Qaeda and Islamic State letters that few have seen - William McCants' The ISIS Apocalypse explores how religious fervor, strategic calculation, and doomsday prophecy shaped the Islamic State's past and foreshadow its dark future. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Stephen McLaughlin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/aren/002087/bk_aren_002087_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Promise of Change , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 591min

  Sarah Edwards loves stability, but now finds life has other plans for her. Divorced, bored, and twitchy, she's convinced her impulsive, sometimes irrational decisions are the sign of a mid-life crisis, and the contradictory actions and emotions are giving her family and friends mental whiplash. Her abrupt resignation from her job is the final straw. But a two-week trip to England seems the perfect pick-me-up for this Anglophile and Austenite. Enter Alex Fraser, a.k.a. the Earl of Rutherford, who although a member of the lucky sperm club, prefers to be known for what he's accomplished, rather than a fate of birth. Despite his family's disapproval, he is determined to work in his chosen profession of acting. He's always preferred casual flings with beautiful women who have no illusions of marriage. That is until he literally bumps into Sarah in an Oxford pub. Despite an idyllic week together, Sarah gets cold feet and returns to the States determined to come back down to reality. A year later, the realization of Sarah's life-long dream unexpectedly brings Alex back into her life, in what she believes is an ironic twist of fate. Will Sarah's decisions leave her life in shambles, or will they lead to the promise of change? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Crystal Sershen. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/016852/bk_acx0_016852_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Indigo Nights: The Nights Series, Volume 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 452min

  I don't do romance. I don't do love. I certainly don't do relationships. Women are attracted to my power and money, and I like a nice ass and a pretty smile. It's a fair exchange - a business deal for pleasure. Meeting Beth Harrison in the first-class cabin of my flight from Chicago to London throws me for a loop, and everything I know about myself and women goes out the window. I'm usually good at reading people, situations, the markets. I know instantly if I can trust someone or if they're lying. But Beth is so contradictory and confounding, I don't know which way is up. She's sweet but so sexy, she makes my knees weak and mouth dry. She's confident but so vulnerable, I want to wrap her up and protect her from the world. And then she fucks me like a train and just disappears, leaving me with my pants around my ankles, wondering which day of the week it is. If I ever see her again, I don't know if I'll scream at her, strip her naked, or fall in love. Thank goodness I live in Chicago and she lives in London, and we'll never see each other again, right? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Andi Arndt, Sebastian York. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/061781/bk_acx0_061781_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Superchurch: The Rhetoric and Politics of American Fundamentalism , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 562min

  Christian Fundamentalism is a doctrine and a discourse in tension. Fundamentalists describe themselves as both marginal and a majority. They announce the imminent end of the world, while building massive megachurches and political lobbying organizations. They speak of the need for purity and separation from the outside world, while continually innovating in their search for more effective and persuasive ways to communicate with and convert outsiders. To many outsiders, Fundamentalist speech seems contradictory, irrational, intolerant, and dangerously antidemocratic. To understand the complexity of Fundamentalism, we have to look inside the tensions and the paradoxes. We have to take seriously the ways in which Fundamentalists describe themselves to themselves, and to do that, we must begin by exploring the central role of "the church" in Fundamentalist rhetoric and politics. Drawing on five fascinating case studies, Superchurch blends a complex yet listenable treatment of rhetorical and political theory with a sophisticated approach to Fundamentalism that neither dismisses its appeal nor glosses over its irresolvable tensions. Edwards challenges theories of rhetoric, counterpublics, deliberation, and civility, while offering critical new insights into the evolution and continuing influence of one of the most significant cultural and political movements of the past century. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Michael Rene Zuzel. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/062143/bk_acx0_062143_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Temptation of Forgiveness

  A suspicious accident draws Brunetti into Venice's underworld - with unintended, disturbing consequences...When important information is leaked from inside the Venetian Questura, Commissario Guido Brunetti is entrusted with the task of uncovering which of his colleagues is responsible. But before Brunetti can begin his investigation, he is surprised by the appearance in his office of a friend of his wife's, who is fearful that her son is using drugs. A few weeks later, Tullio Gasparini, the woman's husband, is found unconscious with a serious head injury at the foot of a bridge, and Brunetti is drawn to pursue a possible connection to the boy's behaviour. But the truth is not straightforward.Following various contradictory leads, Brunetti navigates his way through a world of mysterious informants, underground deals and secret longstanding scam networks, all the while growing ever more impressed by the intuition of his fellow Commissario, Claudia Griffoni, and by the endless resourcefulness of Signorina Elettra, Vice-Questore Patta's secretary and gate-keeper.With Gasparini's condition showing no signs of improvement, and his investigations leading nowhere, Brunetti is steadied by the embrace of his own family and by his passion for the classics. He turns to Sophocles's Antigone in an attempt to understand the true purpose of justice, and, in its light, he is forced to consider the terrible consequences to which the actions of a tender heart can lead.

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