43 Results for : bribed
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Pirates: The Golden Age of Piracy: A History from Beginning to End , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 67min
Pirates dominate movie box-office profits, they are theme park entertainment, and they occupy a place in popular culture that has outlasted the era when they originally ruled the seas. Contemporary audiences who are safe from the pistols and cutlasses of the men who sailed the Caribbean, Indian, and Atlantic Oceans to prey upon ships and claim their cargo may find it hard to reconcile the perceived glamour of Captain Jack Sparrow with the authentic bloodlust and greed of the real pirates who killed without conscience, kidnapped innocent victims for ransom, and ravaged, bribed, and robbed their way into legend. Tragut Rais, Grace O’Malley, William Kidd, Blackbeard, and their colleagues were dangerous adventurers who lived at a time when piracy was an economic enterprise that yielded both wealth and a hangman’s noose. This audiobook will teach you about: When pirates owned the seas The roots of piracy The original pirates of the Caribbean The pirate round Piracy after the Spanish War of Succession The pirates of the Barbary Coast The modern-day pirates Most pirates had a short life before they were captured and executed. A few lucky ones did die of natural causes, but they were rare. Nonetheless, those tales of swashbuckling adventure under the Jolly Roger continue to mesmerize us. Listen to more about the reality of the golden age of piracy to find out whether or not Hollywood’s version can possibly compare with the truth. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Christopher Boozell. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/119089/bk_acx0_119089_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Not Black and White: From the Very Windy City to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 628min
Chicago-style politics is front and center. When a sitting president has his roots in this sullied political heritage, it makes for news and leads to speculation. Not Black and White is a fictional account of many of the events that led to the meteoric rise of a local charismatic street politician to become America's first African American president and the downfall and imprisonment of two consecutive governors of the state of Illinois, along with several of their most trusted advisors and cohorts. This story puts the listener inside the campaign offices and smoke-filled back rooms where political deals are made. It depicts the rise and fall of a Syrian immigrant who made millions by pretending he had billions while charming his way into the highest halls of wealth and power. The perspective of a local attorney/businessman who found himself in a front-row seat to politics as usual in the City That Works is reflected throughout the story. The cast of characters may appear familiar to anyone who's ever read a headline or watched cable news and talk shows across the country. In 1994, a freak traffic accident occurred, killing a family of six young children when their van burst into flames after being struck by a semi-trailer truck driven by a man unqualified to drive such a vehicle. The truck driver, a victim himself, had bribed an employee of the Illinois secretary of state's office in order to procure his commercial driver's license. The tragic accident and resulting exposé of corruption and scandal that followed changed forever the course of American history. Inspired by true events, Not Black and White leaves it to the listener to interpret fact from fiction. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Adam Verner. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/050351/bk_acx0_050351_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Goths and Vandals: The History and Legacy of the Barbarians Who Sacked Rome in the 5th Century CE , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 138min
The birth of Europe as people know it today was hardly an easy and effortless process. The Old World was reshaped by centuries of continuous wars, raids, and the falls and rises of empires. The most turbulent of these events happened at the beginning of the Middle Ages, from the third through seventh centuries CE. This was the time when the old slave society gave way to the feudal system that marked the latter Middle Ages, and it was also a period of battles between the Roman Empire and various barbarian peoples. The Roman Emperors waged wars, made and broke alliances, and bribed and negotiated with chieftains of various “barbarian” tribes to preserve the territorial integrity of their Empires, but the razor-edge division between the civilized world of the Romans and that of the “savages” that threatened their borders was dulling with every decade. In fact, the constant need for army recruits swelled the Roman legions with barbarian foederati, a phenomenon that forced both the Romans and Byzantines to use a very subtle way of playing the barbarian tribes against each other via diplomatic schemes and bountiful rewards. A new religion was also taking root: Christianity became a reason for both unification and division, as different people adopted different variations of its teachings. It is true that the Vandals sacked Rome in 455 AD, but even that act was a unique historical accomplishment in itself as they were only the third people to inflict such destruction on one of the world’s greatest cities. Despite living on the lawless marchlands of the Roman Empire, the Vandals were able to establish two different kingdoms, and introduce a fairly complicated code of royal succession, that gave stability to their people for some time. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Colin Fluxman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/117219/bk_acx0_117219_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Punished By Rewards: Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition
Revised for the twenty-fifth anniversary of its publication, Alfie Kohn's landmark challenge to carrot-and-stick psychology features updated reflections and research in a major new afterword by the author. Our basic strategy for raising children, teaching students, and managing workers can be summed up in six words: Do this and you'll get that. We dangle goodies (from candy bars to sales commissions) in front of people in the same way that we train the family pet. Since its publication in 1993, this groundbreaking book has persuaded countless parents, teachers, and managers that attempts to manipulate people with incentives may seem to work in the short run, but they ultimately fail and even do lasting harm. Drawing from hundreds of studies, Kohn demonstrates that we actually do inferior work when we are enticed with money, grades, or other incentives—and are apt to lose interest in whatever we were bribed to do. Promising goodies to children for good behavior, meanwhile, can never produce anything more than temporary obedience. Even praise can become a verbal bribe that gets kids hooked on our approval. Rewards and punishments are two sides of the same coin—and the coin doesn't buy much. What is needed, Kohn explains, is an alternative to both ways of controlling people. Hence, he offers practical strategies for parents, teachers, and managers to replace carrots and sticks. Seasoned with humor and familiar examples, Punished by Rewards presents an argument that is unsettling to hear but impossible to dismiss.- Shop: buecher
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Victor Lustig: The Life and Legacy of the 20th Century’s Most Notorious Con Artist , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 87min
“Never pry into a person's personal circumstances (they'll tell you all eventually).” (“The Ten Commandments for Con Men”, attributed to Victor Lustig)The art of the confidence trick is a controversial craft that is as old as time itself. In the early years of civilization, unscrupulous folks bottled and peddled assortments of fake cures and potions. Snake oil salesmen aside, charlatans posed as mystical beings with supernatural powers, promising to end droughts and other misfortunes of the gullible with what were in reality parlor tricks and illusions. Indeed, throughout history, unabashedly brazen characters managed to make careers out of deception. Seventeenth-century Britain, for instance, was terrorized by William Chaloner, the most infamous serial counterfeiter and con artist of his time before he was ultimately bested by Sir Isaac Newton himself. The British trickster posed as a quack doctor and a clairvoyant who dispensed false fortunes (most likely via an early form of cold reading) and bogus healing antidotes, but these were bush-league frauds in comparison to one of his most renowned claims to fame: He once bribed four Jacobite sympathizers to crank out pamphlets regarding King James II's denunciation of His Royal Highness William and later double-crossed his coconspirators by tipping off the cops and swiftly decamping with the $1,000 reward. Confidence women were equally active players in such dirty, fixed games. Doris Payne was a professional pilferer of jewels whose unconventional vocation spanned six decades. Throughout all her hits across the United States, Europe, and Asia, Payne adhered to a simple, yet effective method of operation: She donned stylish, pricey clothes, singled out impressionable male shopkeepers and distracted them with flirtatious small talk, and secretly palmed jewelry with sleight-of-hand tricks. One of the most recent was Frank Abagnale, a career impersonator, former forger of bank checks turned FBI empl ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David Pickering. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/194184/bk_acx0_194184_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Someone Completely New , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 207min
In a recent CNN/Suffolk University poll, more than half of the Democrats polled chose “Someone Completely Different” over all of the other democratic candidates for president. When you leave “Someone Completely Different” out of the polling, then of course, you get the majority of democrats choosing someone like Joe Biden, Beto O’Rourke, Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, Kamala Harris, etc. Results will vary depending on the poll, the news, and the amount of money spent by any given candidate at any given time. But, when you include someone other than just the usual suspects, the democratic party favorites, people will choose "Someone Completely New" by a vast majority, strictly in order to demonstrate just how desperate we all our for something new, something revolutionary, to happen in American politics. They know that this lack of choice of people on their ballot every four years means that they really can’t make a difference, because there is no difference between the two parties that rule over this country. And the voters didn’t really make a difference until the elections in 2016, when the people who stayed away from our elections allowed Russian hackers to come in and win America’s elections for a foreign leader, Vladimir Putin. What’s next? I may be answering that question for you in my next audiobook - Das Va Danya, Donald. In this audiobook, however, the author outlines how his definition of “Someone Completely Different” is created by the technology of the day - robotics and how an artificially intelligent being could be our salvation because a robot in the White House will never be bribed, will never care about sex, money, or power. An artificial intelligence running our government could solve all of the world's problems in a matter of seconds and then use the rest of the day to make sure we're all happy and well-fed and prosperous besides. The author counters many of the arguments that people have put up to reward the fear tha ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Michael Mathiesen. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/142223/bk_acx0_142223_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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A Death at Eastwick: The Eastwick Mansion Mysteries, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 303min
When John Eastwick, Jr.’s father dies, he finds out about one family secret that will change his life forever. But a murder the night of the memorial service raises the question: What else was his beloved father hiding? Twenty-one-year-old John Eastwick Jr. has lived a charmed and cozy life. The sole heir of the Eastwick family fortune, John is on the cusp of graduating from the renowned Montvale University out east before returning home to run his family business. But in late fall of his final year, John’s father dies of heart failure. Days later, his father is named as one of the disgraced moguls who bribed John’s way into his prestigious college.Kicked out of school, John returns home to his distraught mother at their lakeside mansion to bury his father. There, John’s world continues to crumble beneath his feet: the will that the family lawyer reads bears no resemblance to the last version that the late John Eastwick, Sr. created. In fact, John Eastwick, Sr. has divided his estate not only between his son and wife but the family chef, their loyal lawyer, his young secretary, and his estranged brother. John wonders, is his father trying to atone for past mistakes? And what other secrets might he be keeping? But that night, after the reading of the will, one among the group is murdered. And John Eastwick, Jr. must not only piece together who the threat is but also face what else his beloved father might have been hiding.A Death at Eastwick is the first novel in the mystery trilogy The Eastwick Mansion Mysteries. Each novel in the trilogy is a complete stand-alone, featuring a different story taking place in the Eastwick mansion in St. Clair.Praise for L.C. Warman’s works:“Captivating” (Kirkus Reviews)About the authorL.C. Warman is the author of the St. Clair mystery series. She grew up in New England in a town where real estate contracts stipulated that you couldn’t back out if y ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Brooke Myers. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/170952/bk_acx0_170952_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Visigothic Kingdom of Tolosa: The History and Legacy of the Goths’ Kingdom in Gaul During the Collapse of the Roman Empire , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 99min
The birth of Europe as people know it today was hardly an easy and effortless process. The Old World was reshaped by centuries of continuous wars, raids, and the falls and rises of empires. The most turbulent of these events happened at the beginning of the Middle Ages, from the third through seventh centuries CE. This was the time when the old slave society gave way to the feudal system that marked the latter Middle Ages, and it was also a period of battles between the Roman Empire and various barbarian peoples. The Roman Emperors waged wars, made and broke alliances, and bribed and negotiated with chieftains of various “barbarian” tribes to preserve the territorial integrity of their empires, but the razor-edge division between the civilized world of the Romans and that of the “savages” that threatened their borders was dulling with every decade. In fact, the constant need for army recruits swelled the Roman legions with barbarian foederati, a phenomenon that forced both the Romans and Byzantines to use a very subtle way of playing the barbarian tribes against each other via diplomatic schemes and bountiful rewards. A new religion was also taking root: Christianity became a reason for both unification and division, as different people adopted different variations of its teachings. It goes without saying that the Goths played an integral part in the history of Europe during this time, and they remain among the most notorious and controversial groups in history. By the fourth century CE, The Goths were among the prominent barbarian groups who became a threat to the Roman Empire, but they also had contacts with the Romans well before then, and they even traded for awhile. The two branches of the Goths that are best known, the Visigoths and Ostrogoths, stared down the Roman Empire as it neared its collapse and supplanted it with a kingdom in Italy in the 5th and 6th centuries respectively. The Visigoth leader Alaric and the Ostrogoth leader Theodoric are st ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jim Johnston. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/200788/bk_acx0_200788_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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May All Your Traffic Lights Be Green: Green Light Democracy , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 256min
What if all the Traffic Lights you encounter for the rest of your life would always turn to Green as you approached the intersection? First of all - you would think it was your lucky day. Next, you'd wonder how they did that. Next you'd wonder why the government couldn't do more things right like this. This book is not really about how to get all your traffic lights to go Green as you approach, but is a road map to how to make all the government rules and regulations work for us at all times, not only in the way that our Traffic Lights work. In the age of small and cheap computer chips, it's actually quite easy to make all the traffic lights to accommodate a more efficient flow of traffic thus saving America millions of barrels of oil per day and saving you the driver hundreds of dollars a year and with far less frustration as you maneuver through the traffic. The author explains that the only reason our traffic system is so broken is because decisions about what to do for the average citizen and how to do them is left in the hands of the few and the bribed. Could there be a better way so that all of our traffic lights turn green as we approached the intersections, but more importantly every aspect of our lives might be improved by using a new approach to democracy, putting the technology of the Internet to work for us and VOTING ONLINE in what would be the world's first Direct Democracy. This book also details the one major overarching solution to all the world's problems - putting all or most of our decision-making on the Internet where the majority of us can vote directly on simple solutions like this one, making traffic lights stay green longer. That's just the beginning of what we can do - if we want to. This book has many more examples of how and why we can and must use our technical know-how to save lives, save money, save time, save our country, and then later the world. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Michael Mathiesen. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/027625/bk_acx0_027625_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The World's Greatest Civilizations: The History of the Goths , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 70min
The birth of Europe as people know it today was hardly an easy and effortless process. The Old World was reshaped by centuries of continuous wars, raids, and the falls and rises of empires. The most turbulent of these events happened at the beginning of the Middle Ages, from the 3rd-7th centuries CE. This was the time when the old slave society gave way to the feudal system that marked the latter Middle Ages, and it was also a period of battles between the Roman Empire and various barbarian peoples. The Roman Emperors waged wars, made and broke alliances, and bribed and negotiated with chieftains of various "barbarian" tribes to preserve the territorial integrity of their Empires, but the razor-edge division between the civilized world of the Romans and that of the "savages" that threatened their borders was dulling with every decade. In fact, the constant need for army recruits swelled the Roman legions with barbarian foederati, a phenomenon that forced both the Romans and Byzantines to use a very subtle way of playing the barbarian tribes against each other via diplomatic schemes and bountiful rewards. A new religion was also taking root: Christianity became a reason for both unification and division, as different people adopted different variations of its teachings. It goes without saying that the Goths played an integral part in the history of Europe during this time, and they remain among the most notorious and controversial groups in history. By the 4th century CE, The Goths were among the prominent barbarian groups who became a threat to the Roman Empire, but they also had contacts with the Romans well before then, and they even traded for awhile. The two branches of the Goths that are best known, the Visigoths and Ostrogoths, stared down the Roman Empire as it neared its collapse and supplanted it with a kingdom in Italy in the 5th and 6th centuries respectively. The Visigoth leader Alaric and the Ostrogoth leader Theodoric are still well-kno ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Colin Fluxman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/034776/bk_acx0_034776_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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