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  The Submission , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 767min

  A jury gathers in Manhattan to select a memorial for the victims of a devastating terrorist attack. Their fraught deliberations complete, the jurors open the envelope containing the anonymous winner's name - and discover he is an American Muslim. Instantly they are cast into roiling debate about the claims of grief, the ambiguities of art, and the meaning of Islam. Their conflicted response is only a preamble to the country's. The memorial's designer is an enigmatic, ambitious architect named Mohammad Khan. His fiercest defender on the jury is its sole widow, the self-possessed and mediagenic Claire Burwell. But when the news of his selection leaks to the press, she finds herself under pressure from outraged family members and in collision with hungry journalists, wary activists, opportunistic politicians, fellow jurors, and Khan himself - as unknowable as he is gifted. In the fight for both advantage and their ideals, all will bring the emotional weight of their own histories to bear on the urgent question of how to remember, and understand, a national tragedy. In this deeply humane novel, the breadth of Amy Waldman's cast of characters is matched by her startling ability to conjure their perspectives. A striking portrait of a fractured city striving to make itself whole, The Submission is a piercing and resonant novel by an important new talent. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Bernadette Dunne. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/boli/001926/bk_boli_001926_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Digital Silk Road

  An expert on China's global infrastructure expansion provides an urgent look at the battle to connect and control tomorrow's networks.From the ocean floor to outer space, China's Digital Silk Road aims to wire the world and rewrite the global order. Taking readers on a journey inside China's surveillance state, rural America, and Africa's megacities, Jonathan Hillman reveals what China's expanding digital footprint looks like on the ground and explores the economic and strategic consequences of a future in which all routers lead to Beijing.If China becomes the world's chief network operator, it could reap a commercial and strategic windfall, including many advantages currently enjoyed by the United States. It could reshape global flows of data, finance, and communications to reflect its interests. It could possess an unrivaled understanding of market movements, the deliberations of foreign competitors, and the lives of countless individuals enmeshed in its networks. However, China's digital dominance is not yet assured. Beijing remains vulnerable in several key dimensions, the United States and its allies have an opportunity to offer better alternatives, and the rest of the world has a voice. But winning the battle for tomorrow's networks will require the United States to innovate and take greater risks in emerging markets. Networks create large winners, and this is a contest America cannot afford to lose.

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  Her Leading Man , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 280min, (USK 18)

  Gretchen Williams had finally been offered her dream job. After years of writing - screenplays, various freelance jobs, and erotic spanking romance - one of her book series had been adapted for television. She had been over the moon at the invitation to join the crew on set and overlook day to day operations. Of course she never expected to wind up as the whipping girl. The main actress balked at the idea of a hand coming anywhere near her perfect round behind, and after some deliberations Gretchen offers up her derriere for showbiz. She never dreamed her bottom would be on display for everyone to see, but the bigger problem is the sudden attention from the male lead actor. Tristan Callahan knew exactly what he was signing up for when he accepted the contract for a one year term, tentative for a second season at best. The subject matter appealed to him for a variety of reasons, ones he kept to himself. Until Gretchen throws a temper tantrum like a true diva. He takes her in hand, right in her own trailer, proving that he's been doing very little acting so far. They embark into a secret D/s relationship. When photos of them together at a local BDSM dungeon surface and leak to the media, they find themselves with tough choices to make. Will their relationship overcome the scandal or is Gretchen doomed to say goodbye to Tristan in true Hollywood fashion? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Augustine Poe. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/065794/bk_acx0_065794_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Lethal Beauty: A Mia Quinn Mystery, Book 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 497min

  It should have been an open and shut murder case, but Mia Quinn finds out that nothing about it is simple. After a young Chinese prostitute is stabbed to death by her rich American client, the tabloids dub Dandan Yee "Lethal Beauty" - despite the fact that she was the one who ended up dead. Yet even with double standards and naked prejudice working against her, Seattle prosecutor Mia Quinn is determined to get justice for Dandan Yee. But when a key witness goes missing and an unsavory juror shuts down deliberations without explanation, Mia fears the trial - and the law - are being tampered with. A constellation of fresh killings has Mia and homicide detective Charlie Carlson searching for a common source, and puts Mia's family in the crosshairs of a Chinese crime cabal. Meanwhile, Dandan Yee's mother has opted to take matters into her own hands... and the stakes get more lethal overnight. In the midst of all this, Mia has to contend with a 15-year-old son who is growing up too fast for his own good, and the idea that Charlie might want to be more than just friends. Can Mia and Charlie stop the murders and still keep her family safe? Or is the very act of seeking justice enough to cost her everything - and everyone - she loves? PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your My Library section along with the audio. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ashley Laurence. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/oasi/001459/bk_oasi_001459_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  New Horizons for Canada's Children/Horizons Nouveaux pour les Enfants du Canada

  New Horizons for Canada's Children/Horizons Nouveaux pour les Enfants du Canada ab 46.95 € als pdf eBook: Proceedings of the first Canadian Conference on Children/Deliberations de la premiere Conference Canadienna de l'Enfance. Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Fachthemen & Wissenschaft, Medizin,

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  Correspondence Between Gen. Andrew Jackson And John C. Calhoun

  Correspondence Between Gen. Andrew Jackson And John C. Calhoun ab 35.99 € als gebundene Ausgabe: On The Subject Of The Course Of The Latter In The Deliberations Of The Cabinet Of Mr. Monroe On The Occurrences In The Seminole War. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, English, International, Gebundene Ausgaben,

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  Deep Sleep Hypnosis: A Step-by-Step Guide to Learning How to Fall Asleep Instantly and Defeat Insomnia , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 325min

  Would you like to fall asleep faster and sleep deeper and better? If your answer is yes, then keep reading!Your thoughts torment you throughout the day and do not let you fall asleep, but instead make sure that you roll over your problems in bed.The reasons are diverse; we are demanding more and more from ourselves and our bodies, the result is physical and mental breakdowns. The negative stress increases more and more, and the positive balance is neglected. Often the result is insomnia.The need for sleep is very different, but we all have one thing in common, we need our sleep and recovery phases. A lack of sleep is harmful to our health because a night of good, deep sleep is just as important as eating or drinking.This audiobook covers:Self-hypnosis: What is it and how to do itThe benefits of hypnosisHow to improve your deep sleepHow to fall asleep in 120 secondsHow to solve common sleep problemsHow to eliminate bad habits and replace them with new onesAnd so much more!Healthy sleep is one of the most important basic human needs. Unfortunately, many people cannot take good quality sleep for granted. In the long run, insomnia can lead to a severe reduction in the joy of life and even trigger depression. Sleep disorders can have a wide variety of causes, but 90 percent of all sleep disorders have one thing in common: They are psychological. Sorrow, stress, but also plans and deliberations can massively destabilize our sleep. This therapeutic support for falling asleep and staying asleep enables you, in a gentle and pleasant way, to get the necessary mental “sleep attitude”.Ready to get started? Buy this audiobook now! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Orlena Cain. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/227195/bk_acx0_227195_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Power Wars: Inside Obama's Post-9/11 Presidency , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1660min

  Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Charlie Savage's penetrating investigation of the Obama presidency and the national security state. Barack Obama campaigned on a promise of change from George W. Bush's "global war on terror". Yet from indefinite detention and drone strikes to surveillance and military tribunals, Obama ended up continuing - and in some cases expanding - many policies he inherited. What happened? In Power Wars, Charlie Savage looks inside the Obama administration's national security legal and policy team in a way that no one has before. Based on exclusive interviews with more than 150 current and former officials and access to previously unreported documents, he lays bare their internal deliberations, including emotional debates over the fates of detainees held on torture-tainted evidence and acts of war that lacked congressional authorization. He tells the inside stories of how Obama came to order the killing of an American citizen, preside over an unprecedented crackdown on leaks, and keep a then-secret National Security Agency program that collected records of every American's phone calls. Savage also pieces together the first comprehensive history of how American surveillance secretly developed over the past 35 years, synthesizing recent revelations and filling in gaps with new reporting. And he provides lucid explanations of legal dilemmas in a way that nonlawyers can understand. Highlighted by new information about the pivotal aftermath to the failed Christmas underwear bombing and the planning for the Osama bin Laden raid, Savage's own eyewitness reporting at Guantánamo, and detailed accounts of closed-door meetings at the highest levels of government, Power Wars equips listeners to understand the legacy of Obama's presidency. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dan Woren. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hach/002310/bk_hach_002310_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Open Strategy

  How smart companies are opening up strategic initiatives to involve front-line employees, experts, suppliers, customers, entrepreneurs, and even competitors. Why are some of the world's most successful companies able to stay ahead of disruption, adopting and implementing innovative strategies, while others struggle? It's not because they hire a new CEO or expensive consultants but rather because these pioneering companies have adopted a new way of strategizing. Instead of keeping strategic deliberations within the C-Suite, they open up strategic initiatives to a diverse group of stakeholders-front-line employees, experts, suppliers, customers, entrepreneurs, and even competitors. Open Strategy presents a new philosophy, key tools, step-by-step advice, and fascinating case studies-from companies that range from Barclays to Adidas-to guide business leaders in this groundbreaking approach to strategy. The authors-business-strategy experts from both academia and management consulting-introduce tools for each of the three stages of strategy-making: idea generation, plan formulation, and implementation. These are digital tools (including strategy contests), which allow the widest participation; hybrid digital/in-person tools (including a "nightmare competitor challenge"); a workshop tool that gamifies the business model development process; and tools that help companies implement and sustain open strategy efforts. Open strategy has an astonishing track record: a survey of 200 business leaders shows that although open-strategy techniques were deployed for only 30 percent of their initiatives, those same initiatives generated 50 percent of their revenues and profits. This book offers a roadmap for this kind of success.

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  Genomic Designing for Abiotic Stress Resistant Pulse Crops

  This book presents deliberations on molecular and genomic mechanisms underlying the interactions of crop plants to the abiotic stresses caused by heat, cold, drought, flooding, submergence, salinity, acidity, etc., important to develop resistant crop varieties. Knowledge on the advanced genetic and genomic crop improvement strategies including molecular breeding, transgenics, genomic-assisted breeding, and the recently emerging genome editing for developing resistant varieties in pulse crops is imperative for addressing FHNEE (food, health, nutrition, energy, and environment) security. Whole genome sequencing of these crops followed by genotyping-by-sequencing has provided precise information regarding the genes conferring resistance useful for gene discovery, allele mining, and shuttle breeding which in turn opened up the scope for 'designing' crop genomes with resistance to abiotic stresses.The nine chapters each dedicated to a pulse crop in this volume elucidate on different types of abiotic stresses and their effects on and interaction with the crop; enumerate on the available genetic diversity with regard to abiotic stress resistance among available cultivars; illuminate on the potential gene pools for utilization in interspecific gene transfer; present brief on classical genetics of stress resistance and traditional breeding for transferring them to their cultivated counterparts; depict the success stories of genetic engineering for developing abiotic stress-resistant crop varieties; discuss on molecular mapping of genes and QTLs underlying stress resistance and their marker-assisted introgression into elite varieties; enunciate on different genomics-aided techniques including genomic selection, allele mining, gene discovery, and gene pyramiding for developing adaptive crop varieties with higher quantity and quality of yields, and also elaborate some case studies on genome editing focusing on specific genes for generating abiotic stress-resistant crops.

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