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    A Brief History of Vice
    A celebration of the brave, drunken pioneers who built our civilization one seemingly bad decision at a time, A Brief History of Vice explores a side of the past that mainstream history books prefer to hide. History has never been more fun or more intoxicating.Guns, germs, and steel might have transformed us from hunter-gatherers into modern man, but booze, sex, trash talk, and tripping built our civilization. Cracked editor Robert Evans brings his signature dogged research and lively insight to uncover the many and magnificent ways vice has influenced history, from the prostitute-turned-empress who scored a major victory for women s rights to the beer that helped create and destroy South America's first empire. And Evans goes deeper than simply writing about ancient debauchery; he recreates some of history's most enjoyable (and most painful) vices and includes guides so you can follow along at home. You ll learn how to:Trip like a Greek philosopher. Rave like your Stone Age ancestors. Get drunk like a Sumerian. Smoke a nose pipe like a pre Columbian Native American.Mixing science, humor, and grossly irresponsible self-experimentation, Evans paints a vivid picture of how bad habits built the world we know and love. David Wong, author of John Dies at the End
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    Fatal Puzzle , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 245min
    1495: In the peaceful medieval city of Zons, on the banks of the Rhine, a young woman is found hanging from a parapet, raped and mutilated. A month later, another maiden falls prey. Bastian Mühlenberg, head of the City Guard, is determined to decipher the murderer's gruesome code, unaware that he and the woman he loves are in the killer's sights. With the help of an old psychic, a priest, and the stars above, Mühlenberg must solve the "fatal puzzle" before it's too late. Present day: Journalist Emily Richter is thrilled when she's assigned a series of articles about the historic Zons killings. However, right before her stories are to be published, a young woman's body is found hanging from a city tower - grossly maimed and wearing a linen gown, like her medieval predecessors. Detective Oliver Bergmann leads the investigation, tapping the knowledge of the attractive young journalist. Working together - and using Mühlenberg's old notes - they race to stay one step ahead of the copycat killer. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mikael Naramore, Tanya Eby. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/006645/bk_brll_006645_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Million Heartbeat Challenge: Can You Do It? , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 20min
    I spent years fighting against morbid obesity, and morbid obesity won hands down. It brought along its best pals - self-loathing, despair, and false hope; oh, and its tank division - the weight scales. I was on the edge of disability and ready to just give up and accept my fate. Then the first swallow of spring appeared - something I could do that would yield rapid results and turn back the tide. In a mere 21 days, you can make a massive difference. The challenge is not about attacking morbid obesity - it's about going around it. Let morbid obesity shout and bawl and scream for attention as you go down a different path that your body will love you for. Every good general knows that the best victories come from outmaneuvering the opposition. That's what we will do here. And as the audiobook outlines, it doesn't matter if you are grossly unfit just now - you will see an improvement. One that will delight you. So come and join the Million Heartbeat Challenge now, and make the difference your body deserves. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ron Herczig. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/035447/bk_acx0_035447_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Pigs at the Trough: How Corporate Greed and Political Corruption Are Undermining America, Hörbuch, Digital, 394min
    Who filled the trough? Who set the table at the banquet of greed? How has it been possible for corporate pigs to gorge themselves on grossly inflated pay packages and heaping helpings of stock options while the average American struggles to make due with their leftovers? Provocative political commentator Arianna Huffington yanks back the curtain on the unholy alliance of CEOs, politicians, lobbyists, and Wall Street bankers who have shown a brutal disregard for those in office cubicles and on factory floors. The media have put their fingers on pieces of the sordid puzzle, but Pigs at the Trough presents the whole ugly picture of what's really going on for the first time: a blistering, wickedly witty portrait of exactly how and why the worst and the greediest are running American business and government into the ground. Arianna Huffington turns the spotlight on the tough reforms we must demand from Washington to stop the voracious corporate predators from eating away at the very foundations of our democracy. Devastatingly funny and powerfully indicting, Pigs at the Trough is a rousing call to arms and essential listening for all those who are outraged by the scandalous state of corporate America. Language: English. Narrator: Alison Fraser. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/high/000141/bk_high_000141_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Twisted 3: And Then There Was One , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 237min
    Misfortune seemed to follow us psychologists. Through my observations of my two colleagues Jillian and Kendal, I lost all hope for normalcy in my own life. My patient’s problems and disturbed interpretation of life began to cloud my mind. It took years for them to get inside my head. But they did it. It wasn’t one that got to me, but all contributed to my undoing.I found myself constantly doubting my education and training. Once I lost my confidence I was like a bleeding seal in a shark tank. Each ignorant predator got a piece of me. It wasn’t their fault, they were doing what they do. And like the shark that does what they are programmed to do - a mentally touched person does and says whatever they are programmed to say and do.Some are quite convincing of both words and behavior. It was simple numbers. I was grossly outnumbered, and there was no support system or rescue on the way. Kendal and Jillian got out of the shark tank barely alive, leaving me alone to battle the beast. And then there was one - in a crowd but still alone. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jessica Mathison. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/216679/bk_acx0_216679_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Happy Depressive: In Pursuit of Personal and Political Happiness , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 102min
    Are you happy? Does it matter? Increasingly, governments seem to think so. As the UK government conducts its first happiness survey, Alastair Campbell looks at happiness as a political as well as a personal issue; what it should mean to us, what it means to him. Taking in economic theories and the example of Bhutan - which measures 'gross national happiness' ahead of gross domestic product - he questions how happiness can survive in a grossly negative media culture, and how it could inform social policy. But happiness is also deeply personal. Campbell, who suffers from depression, looks in the mirror and finds a bittersweet reflection, a life divided between the bad and not-so-bad days, where the highest achievements in his professional life could leave him numb, and he can somehow look back on a catastrophic breakdown 25 years ago as the best thing that happened to him; he writes too of what he has learnt from the recent death of his best friend, further informing his view that the pursuit of happiness is a long game. Part of the Brain Shots series, the pre-eminent source for high quality, short-form digital non-fiction. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Alastair Campbell. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rhuk/001220/bk_rhuk_001220_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Completing Capitalism: Heal Business to Heal the World , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 311min
    For the past 50 years, the business world has been dominated by the Milton Friedman financial capitalism economic model, which preaches that it is the "sole social responsibility of business to maximize profit for distribution to shareholders". This one-dimensional focus represents a grossly incomplete view of reality - there are many other factors businesses need to pay attention to if they are to thrive and endure - and has resulted in increasing global economic dysfunction, widening inequality, and environmental destruction. In this book, Roche and Jakub offer a new model that is built around detailed metrics to measure and track performance in all forms of capital, including social, human, and natural as well as financial. And this is not simply theory: The model has been extensively field-tested in live business pilots in Africa, Asia, and elsewhere. It is delivering superior measurable performance across the different forms of capital, including generating more profit than a profit maximization approach. Recent high-profile books like Capital in the Twenty-First Century have exposed the shortcomings of today's financial capitalism model, but this book goes far beyond by describing a well-developed, proven alternative. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tom Kruse. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/082934/bk_acx0_082934_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Immortal Salvation , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 657min
    As darkness drains the life out of his soul, immortal Templar knight Declan MacNeill can think of little else but the call of Azazel's unholy promises. Locked away in the pits of the holy Order's temple, his fate is all but sealed. He will die in shame, a pawn in a game of power, and a disgrace to his loyal brethren. Only the knowledge his seraph exists has stayed the executioner's blade. For two years Sophie McPherson worked under the archangel Gabriel, training for the role she must assume. She's bound to a monster. Only when she meets the traitor Declan, he's nothing like the vile creature she imagined. In brilliant blue eyes, she recognizes what's left of noble valor. Determined to pull him from the claws of evil, she devotes herself to reaching the man buried deep inside. But Declan's tragic past stands in her way, and overcoming it requires an emotional investment she's grossly unprepared for. Time is running short. Azazel's one step away from ultimate power. As the last seraph in the sacred Prophecy, Sophie must make a choice. Save the man she's grown to love, or save the Order from eternal damnation. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dina Pearlman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/019063/bk_adbl_019063_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Incursion at Elea Station: Privateer Tales, Book 17 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 575min
    An alien invasion. A home-world destroyed. Can an embattled captain survive a daring fight to save the remnant of his colony? Privateer Liam Hoffen can’t wait to reunite with his family. But after he emerges from a 20-year stasis, he’s shocked to discover a hostile enemy has razed his home and exiled his people. With his foes dependent on a gas-mining platform to keep their ships fueled, Liam’s last-ditch hope is to cut off the vicious aliens with the help of a brother he never knew he had....Armed only with ancient combat-damaged clunkers, he and his stubborn sibling must lead a dangerous assault on the enemy’s critical resources. Grossly outnumbered and far from reinforcements, Liam fears he’ll have to put everything on the line to defend the people he loves from annihilation. Can Liam stop the powerful adversary from killing his family and taking over the system?Incursion at Elea Station is the 17th standalone book in the epic Privateer Tales space opera saga. If you like intergalactic crusades, spirited sibling rivalry, and underdog heroes, then you’ll love Jamie McFarlane’s riveting sci-fi adventure. Buy Incursion at Elea Station to climb aboard for a rollicking thrill-ride today! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mikael Naramore. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/159228/bk_acx0_159228_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Darbyshire: Welcome to the Jungle , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 67min
    Greetings from Darbyshire, a town where some wacky and offensive characters live and interact. This is the first book of the series and introduces a handful of characters in stories where they have limited contact with one another, although they all live in the fictitious city of Darbyshire. Darbyshire: Welcome to the Jungle is Maverick Alexander's first title and opens up the living, breathing world of his wild imagination.With which character will you identify most? Could it be the bold Brett Whiskers or possibly the brash raven Damien? Will you be a huge fan of gym owner Banana Fingers or the scholarly badger, George Monocle? Will you be grossly offended and lose your ability to self-regulate, or will you enjoy the humor and wit of these wildly entertaining tales?We follow this motley crew through a wide range of experiences as the stories are told in a politically incorrect, fantastical fashion. These stories are fictional, satirical, purposefully hyperbolic, and not meant to be taken too seriously.This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Maverick Alexander. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/136593/bk_acx0_136593_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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