145 Results for : enthusiastically
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The King of Vodka: The Story of Pyotr Smirnov and the Upheaval of an Empire , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 736min
A operatic tour-de-force. —Tilar J. Mazzeo, author of The Widow Clicquot "An impressive feat of research, told swiftly and enthusiastically." —San Francisco Chronicle From Vanderbilt and Rockefeller to Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, America's captains of industry are paragons of entrepreneurial success, and books about business history, from The First Tycoon to The Big Short, show exemplars of capitalistic cunning and tenacity…but just as American cocktail connoisseurs can mistake Absolut, Skyy, Grey Goose, or Ketel One for the quintessential clear spirit, so too has America's vision of business history remained naïve to a truth long recognized in Eastern Europe: since the time of Tsar Nicholas, both vodka and commercial success have been synonymous in Russia with one name—Smirnoff. Linda Himelstein's critically acclaimed biography of Russian vodka scion Pyotr Smirnov—a finalist for the James Beard Award, winner of the IACP and Saroyan Awards, and a BusinessWeek Best Business Book of 2009—is the sweeping story of entrepreneurship, empire, and epicurean triumph unlike anything the world has ever seen before. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Arthur Morey. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/000273/bk_acx0_000273_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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What Now? , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 53min
The best graduation present on the market.... A wise, generous and compact primer for life that could well become a touchstone, readers will return to this book, and probably find something new each time they do; deserves to be given often and enthusiastically. (Publishers Weekly) Based on her lauded commencement address at Sarah Lawrence College, this stirring essay by best-selling author Ann Patchett offers hope and inspiration for anyone at a crossroads, whether graduating, changing careers, or transitioning from one life stage to another. With wit and candor, Patchett tells her own story of attending college, graduating, and struggling with the inevitable question, "What now?" From student to line cook to teacher to waitress and eventually to award-winning author, Patchett's own life has taken many twists and turns that make her exploration genuine and resonant. As Patchett says, "'What now?' represents our excitement and our future, the very vitality of life." She highlights the possibilities the unknown offers and reminds us that there is as much joy in the journey as there is in reaching the destination. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ann Patchett. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/001626/bk_harp_001626_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Socialism: The Failed Idea That Never Dies , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 558min
Socialism is strangely impervious to refutation by real-world experience. Over the past hundred years, there have been more than two dozen attempts to build a socialist society, from the Soviet Union to Maoist China to Venezuela. All of them have ended in varying degrees of failure. But, according to socialism’s adherents, that is only because none of these experiments were “real socialism”. This audiobook documents the history of this, by now, standard response. It shows how the claim of fake socialism is only ever made after the event. As long as a socialist project is in its prime, almost nobody claims that it is not real socialism. On the contrary, virtually every socialist project in history has gone through a honeymoon period, during which it was enthusiastically praised by prominent Western intellectuals. It was only when their failures became too obvious to deny that they got retroactively reclassified as “not real socialism”.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: Russell Newton. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/148224/bk_acx0_148224_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Adventures in Parenting: An Honest and Sardonic Look at the Beginning , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 83min
Widely regarded as an okay mom, Lisa Allen humorously highlights that bringing children into the world isn’t all sunshine and roses. And that’s fine! Adventures in Parenting: An Honest and Sardonic Look at the Beginning is the authentic storytelling of motherhood that is missing in today’s world. You don’t have to love being pregnant; it isn’t fun. Acknowledging that doesn’t make you a bad mother, it can make you laugh! Wind down with this short, easy listen and realize you’re not alone and that you’re awesome. Society tells women they should happily glow while pregnant and enthusiastically absorb the loving gazes (and uninvited touches) of those around them. Lisa has been there, done that, and tells it like it is. Laugh at her and enjoy yourself with this honest audiobook. This sarcastic, blunt, and funny audiobook is for you if:You are pregnantYou have been pregnantYou know someone who has been pregnantYou know someone who someday could get pregnantYou are literate and want to laugh at someone else’s misery ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Lisa Allen. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/133520/bk_acx0_133520_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Overcome Stage Fright: Give Confident Performances with Subliminal Messages, Hörbuch, Digital, 70min
Overcome Stage Fright - Give Confident Performances with Subliminal Messages. Seven powerful recordings, each 10 minutes long, containing thousands of embedded subliminal messages designed to help you reach your goal. This recording contains the following subliminal affirmations: I feel relaxed and confident onstage Performing onstage is a comfortable experience I stay relaxed in front of an audience I am a natural born performer I thrive under pressure My nerves disappear when I'm onstage I love being in the spotlight The thought of performing excites me I feel totally at home when onstage I give my best with every performance Audiences respond enthusiastically to me Stage fright is easy for me to deal with To use this recording, simply hit "play" and listen. You can also listen on repeat in the background if you desire. For full listening instructions, visit: http://www.subliminalguru.com/listen To learn more about this audio, look it up in our catalog at http://subliminalguru.com/catalog To learn how subliminal messages are embedded into this audio, visit http://www.subliminalguru.com/subliminalanatomy.pdf Language: English. Narrator: Subliminal Guru. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/ispr/000535/bk_ispr_000535_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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7 Principles of Transformational Leadership: Create a Mindset of Passion, Innovation, and Growth , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 392min
In the world of work, the single greatest asset of successful individuals, teams, and organizations is their mindset - what happens in between their ears. It's not the corporate strategy, the sales compensation plan, or the market segments they're pursuing. It is what each leader, team member, and employee chooses to focus on, to believe, and to create for themselves and others. The 7 Principles of Transformational Leadership presents the fundamental concepts whose implementation will result in dramatic revenue, performance, and relationship growth. Specifically, leaders will learn to: Live their professional and personal lives with unbridled purpose and passion. Execute strategic priorities more effectively and with accelerated results. Retain the brightest and best talent.Have employees, key stakeholders, and managers enthusiastically follow them. Be exemplars of innovation, growth, and positive mindsets.Cascade excellence throughout their organizations. You may have employees with all the talent in the world, but you'll never achieve remarkable results until you change your employees' mindset. The 7 Principles of Transformational Leadership will help you convert your human potential into accelerated business results. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: James Anderson Foster. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/009372/bk_brll_009372_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Ruling over Monarchs, Giants & Stars: True Tales of Breaking Barriers, Umpiring Baseball Legends, and Wild Adventures in the Negro Leagues , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 505min
The Kansas City Monarchs, the Chicago American Giants, the St. Louis Stars, the Birmingham Black Barons, the Homestead Grays, and the Indianapolis Clowns; for over 50 years, they were the Yankees, Cardinals, and Red Sox of black baseball in America. And for over a decade beginning in the late 1940s, umpire Bob Motley called balls and strikes for many of their games, working alongside such legends as Satchel Paige, Hank Aaron, Ernie Banks, and Willie Mays. Today, Motley is the only living arbiter from the Negro Leagues. His personal account of the Negro Leagues is a revealing, humorous, and unforgettable memoir celebrating a long-lost league and a remarkable group of baseball players. In Ruling Over Monarchs, Giants, and Stars, Motley and his son Byron share the characters, adventures, and challenges faced by these amazing men as they enthusiastically embraced America’s pastime and made it their own. Filled with stories of talented heroes, small miracles, and downright fun, this unique memoir is a must-listen for any baseball fan. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Richard Allen. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/009015/bk_adbl_009015_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Breaking Knees (eBook, ePUB)
Wry, satirical and bawdy, Tamer's stories are always informed by his dark view of humanity and of Syrian society in particular. Through these glimpses of corrupt, fearful lives under a violent dictatorship, it is possible to discern echoes of the storm that has brought Syria to near-disintegration. Tamer's stories explore taboos and power relations, bringing together religion, politics and sexuality (often all at once) and implying that these forms of oppression are connected. An assault is deflected when the victim responds enthusiastically; a woman is spared stoning because the streets have no cobbles, and her neighbours cannot afford any; A comatose man awakens after years to find the regime unchanged, and tries to escape back into the coma; a newborn baby curses the hospital staff that delivers him, and when his mother tries to quiet him, retorts: 'You're talking like our leaders!'; a man is warned by two apples not to eat them, and anxiously questions them about their political connections. Unsentimental and brilliantly compressed, these sixty-three stories are the work of a virtuoso, and translator Ibrahim Muhawi has found exactly the right deadpan style with which to express them.- Shop: buecher
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Enclaves of Exception (eBook, ePUB)
How do we measure and truly grasp the sweeping social and environmental effects of an oil-based economy? Focusing on the special economic zones resulting from China's trading partnership with Nigeria, Enclaves of Exception offers a new approach to exploring the relationship between oil and technologies of extraction and their interrelatedness to local livelihoods and environmental practices. In this groundbreaking work, Omolade Adunbi argues that even though the exploitation of oil resources is dominated by big corporations, it establishes opportunities for many former Nigerian insurgents and their local communities to contest the ownership of such resources in the oil-rich Niger Delta and to extract oil themselves and sell it.Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork, Enclaves of Exception makes clear that, although both the free trade zones and the now booming local artisanal refineries share the goals of profit-making and are enthusiastically supported by those benefiting from them economically, they have yielded dramatically the same environmental outcome for communities around them that included pollution with precarious effects on the health of the populations in the regions, and displacement of population from their livelihood practices.- Shop: buecher
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Building Bridges With Music (eBook, PDF)
After over sixty years of teaching and finally retiring for the third time in May of 2016, I felt the urge to write down the many stories I have experienced during my long life. This book covers occurrences from my early childhood in Nazi Germany, emigrating to the United States at age ten, my education on the high school and college levels, my years in the army (an education, to be sure, albeit of a different kind), as well as the many professional experiences as a composer, conductor, teacher, author and administrator both in America and abroad. I have tried to relate the many encounters with some of the most important personalities in the world of music, the other arts, academia, religion, and even politics. My life has been blessed with a most supportive family, many good friends, and a host of students who have made my teaching years rewarding and colorful. Building Bridges with Music seems to have been part of my destiny and I have embraced this enthusiastically whenever the opportunity presented itself. I invite you to have this experience with me through this book. --Samuel Adler- Shop: buecher
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