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    The Fix: How Nations Survive and Thrive in a World in Decline , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 593min
    A provocative look at the world's most difficult, seemingly ineradicable problems - and the surprising stories of the countries that solved them. We all know the bad news. The heady promise of the Arab Spring has given way to repression, civil war, and an epic refugee crisis. Economic growth is sputtering. Income inequality is rising around the world. And the threat of ISIS and other extremist groups keeps spreading. We are living in an age of unprecedented, irreversible decline - or so we're constantly being told. Jonathan Tepperman's The Fix presents a very different picture. The book reveals the often-overlooked success stories, offering a provocative, unconventional take on the answers hiding in plain sight. It identifies 10 pervasive and seemingly impossible challenges - including immigration reform, economic stagnation, political gridlock, corruption, and Islamist extremism - and shows that, contrary to the general consensus, each has a solution, and not merely a hypothetical one. In his close analysis of government initiatives as diverse as Brazil's Bolsa Família program, Indonesia's campaign against radicalism, Canada's early embrace of multiculturalism, and Mayor Michael Bloomberg's efforts to prevent another 9/11, Tepperman isolates the universally applicable measures that can boost and buttress equality, incomes, cooperation, and cohesion in wildly diverse societies. He flips conventional political wisdom on its head, showing, for example, how much the US Congress could learn about compromise and conciliation from its counterpart in Mexico. Tepperman has traveled the world to write this book, conducting more than 100 interviews with the people behind the policies. Meticulously researched and deeply reported, The Fix presents practical advice for problem solvers of all stripes and stands as a necessary corrective to the hand-wringing and grim prognostication that dominates the news, making a data-driven case for ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dan Woren, Jonathan Tepperman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/004742/bk_rand_004742_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Adventures from the Technology Underground: Catapults, Pulsejets, Rail Guns, Flamethrowers, Tesla Coils, Air Cannons, and the Garage Warriors Who Love Them , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 443min
    The technology underground is a thriving, humming, and often literally scintillating subculture of amateur inventors and scientific envelope-pushers who dream up, design, and build machines that whoosh, rumble, fly - and occasionally hurl pumpkins across enormous distances. In the process they astonish us with what is possible when human imagination and ingenuity meet nature's forces and materials. William Gurstelle spent two years exploring the most fascinating outposts of this world of wonders: meeting and talking to the men and women who care far more for the laws of physics than they do for mundane matters like government regulations and their own personal safety. Adventures from the Technology Underground is Gurstelle's lively and weirdly compelling report of his travels. In this audiobook, we meet Frank Kosdon and others who draw the scrutiny of the FAA, ATF, and other federal agencies in their pursuit of high-power amateur rocketry, which they demonstrate to impressive - and sometimes explosive - effect at the annual LDRS gathering held in various remote and unpopulated areas (a necessary consideration since that acronym stands for Large Dangerous Rocket Ships). Here also are the underground technologists who turn up at the Burning Man festival in the Nevada high desert, including Lucy Hosking, "the engineer from Hell" and the creator of Satan's Calliope, aka the World's Loudest Thing, a pipe organ made from jet engines. Also at Burning Man is Austin "Dr. MegaVolt" Richard, who braves the arcing, sputtering, six-digit voltages of a giant Tesla coil in his protective metal suit. Add in a trip to see medieval-style catapults, air cannons, and supersized slingshots in action at the World Championship Punkin Chunkin competition in Sussex County, Delaware, and forays to the postapocalyptic enclaves of the flamethrower builders and the future-noir pits of the fighting robots, and you have proof positive that the age of invention is still going ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Marc Cashman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/000779/bk_rand_000779_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Deadly Divergence , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 573min
    When FBI special agent Mariah Conners is injured in the line of duty, her partner, Quinn MacAllister, decides Bermuda is the perfect place for them to relax and recuperate. But it isn’t called the Bermuda triangle for nothing! First, their charter plane goes down in a freak electrical storm, and they’re cast adrift with two spoiled teenagers and an elderly retired couple. Then, they discover that the remote tropical island sheltering them holds a deadly secret - a unique sentient life-form with incredible healing power for those few who can survive exposure to its potent spores. And to really cap things off, an old enemy is in hot pursuit! He wants the spores for himself, and he’ll kill anyone who gets in his way! Can Mac and Conners keep their companions alive and escape the mysterious island before he destroys them all?Excerpt:"Mac!”Mariah stared in blank horror as the plane’s shattered nose sank beneath the choppy, storm-darkened waves, leaving behind only a trail of shimmering bubbles. “Mac!”Someone was holding her back, pleading with her, clutching her arms in a fierce paralyzing grip. “Let me go!” she yelled, wrenching free. “He’s my partner!”The bubbles were slowly fading away. She dove, kicking hard, following the plane’s lazy descent. Icy darkness enveloped her. Her lungs began to ache, and fiery spots danced before her eyes.More rising air bubbles suddenly exploded in her face, blinding her. Then her groping fingers brushed against something slippery. Mac’s leather jacket!One last frantic surge of energy moved her weakening legs, propelling her upward again, dragging his heavy weight behind her.Cold rain suddenly lashed against her upturned face. Sputtering, she sucked in deep breaths of precious air. Lightning flared overhead, painfully bright against her dilated eyes as she fought to keep Mac’s sagging head above the waves.New energy surged through her aching ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Aiden Black. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/169990/bk_acx0_169990_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The House , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 597min
    Perched on a hill overlooking San Francisco, the house was magnificent, built in 1923 by a wealthy man for the woman he adored. For her and for this house, he would spare no expense and overlook no detail, from the endless marble floors to the glittering chandeliers. Almost a century later, with the once-grand house now in disrepair, a young woman walks through its empty rooms. Sarah Anderson, a perfectly sensible estate lawyer, is about to do something utterly out of character. An elderly client has died and left her two gifts. One is a generous inheritance. The other, a priceless message: to use his money for something wonderful, something daring. And in this old house, surrounded by crumbling grandeur, Sarah knows just what it is. A respected attorney and self-described workaholic, Sarah had always lived life by the book. With a steady, if sputtering, relationship and a tiny apartment that has suited her just fine, Sarah cannot explain the force that draws her to the mansion and its history, to the story of a woman who once lived in the house, then mysteriously left it, to a child who grew up there, and a drama that unfolded in war-torn France, and to a history she never knew she had. Taking the biggest risk of her life, Sarah enlists the help of architect Jeff Parker, who shares Sarah's passion for bringing the exquisite old house back to life. As she and Jeff work to restore the home's every detail, as one relationship shatters and another begins, Sarah makes a series of powerful discoveries: about the true meaning of a dying man's last gift, about the extraordinary legacies that are passed from generation to generation, and about a future she's only just beginning to imagine. In a novel of daring and hope, of embracing life and taking chances, Danielle Steel brilliantly captures one woman's courageous choice to pour herself into a dream, and receive its gifts in return. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Erik Singer. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/000781/bk_rand_000781_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The House, Hörbuch, Digital, 359min
    The restoration of a majestic old home provides the exhilarating backdrop for Danielle Steel's 66th best-selling novel, the story of a young woman's dream, an old man's gift, and the surprises that await us behind every closed door. Perched on a hill overlooking San Francisco, the house was magnificent, built in 1923 by a wealthy man for the woman he adored. For her and for this house, he would spare no expense and overlook no detail, from the endless marble floors to the glittering chandeliers. Almost a century later, with the once-grand house now in disrepair, a young woman walks through its empty rooms. Sarah Anderson, a perfectly sensible estate lawyer, is about to do something utterly out of character. An elderly client has died and left her two gifts. One is a generous inheritance. The other, a priceless message: to use his money for something wonderful, something daring. And in this old house, surrounded by crumbling grandeur, Sarah knows just what it is. A respected attorney and self-described workaholic, Sarah had always lived life by the book. With a steady, if sputtering, relationship and a tiny apartment that has suited her just fine, Sarah cannot explain the force that draws her to the mansion and its history; to the story of a woman who once lived in the house, then mysteriously left it, to a child who grew up there, and a drama that unfolded in war-torn France; and to a history she never knew she had. Taking the biggest risk of her life, Sarah enlists the help of architect Jeff Parker, who shares Sarah's passion for bringing the exquisite old house back to life. As she and Jeff work to restore the home's every detail, as one relationship shatters and another begins, Sarah makes a series of powerful discoveries: about the true meaning of a dying man's last gift, about the extraordinary legacies that are passed from generation to generation, and about a future she's only just beginning to imagine. Language: English. Narrator: Eric Singer. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/001540/bk_rand_001540_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Sales Focused CEO: Looking at Business Through a New Lens , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 284min
    Companies fear looking at changes or improvements to their sales forces for good reason: Sales are the engine that drives revenue. No matter how patched up or sputtering that engine may be, the mere thought of overhauling it fills CEOs and senior executives alike with dread. Companies will make ongoing, piecemeal repairs as long as they can in a vain attempt to keep revenue flowing. They will tolerate behavior and performance from sales and marketing that would not be tolerated in any other areas of the business.For CEOs, there comes a point where changes or improvements must be made to these two areas of a business if growth is to continue. The world is not static, and sales and marketing organizations cannot be allowed to stagnate and to operate using now-primitive thinking. These business units are the last frontier for CEOs to address in business improvement.Fear of the unknown, and the use of the wrong lens for viewing the business, are the greatest barriers to overcome.The first step for any CEO is to become empowered with the knowledge of how the sales and marketing business should function; only then can he or she hope to become competitive and deliver profitable growth in today’s ultracompetitive market. Most of the information that people are exposed to has been written by former middle managers of sales and marketing units. Such information is narrow in content and is focused on compensation plans, training, and ingenuous reporting.This audiobook is written by a CEO, for CEOs like you, and is based on more than 25 years of consulting with CEOs in business turnarounds and profit improvement. This work views the broader demands of business that you, as a sales-focused CEO, must deal with; it establishes the thinking that you will require for reassessing your marketing and sales forces. This audiobook gives you a new lens for viewing your business and teaches you how to drive growth above industry standards and increase profita ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jim Cooper. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/232713/bk_acx0_232713_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Cat and Mouse: A Lesbian Romance Spanking Novella , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 224min, (USK 18)
    Cassidy Coleman is a sassy but rather introverted college sophomore out on her own for the first time ever in her young adult life. At the start of fall semester, she moves into an apartment along with a randomly assigned roommate from her university, Lauren Delaney. Lauren is a an outgoing and athletic economics major one year ahead of Cassidy in school and is just looking for a place to live that doesn’t also double up as a party house on the weekends, and from day one, Cassidy is smitten.Unfortunately for her, though, things are more than a little awkward between the two of them for the first several weeks of the new semester, with Cassidy too tongue-tied to properly carry on more than a two sentence conversation before needing to flee to her bedroom. Eventually, though, the two bond over a mutual love of video games from their childhood one evening, and overnight an instant and lifelong friendship is forged. From there friendship soon blossoms into love, but with a twist.Cassidy is a total brat and loves nothing more than to find excuses to push her long-suffering roommate’s buttons. Not too long after their friendship is formed, they fall into a routine of Cassidy seeing how far she can push things before Lauren finally snaps and scolds her. It’s a fun game of cat and mouse that they both enjoy, but one day things take a step further when Cassidy ends up pushing her best friend into a freezing pool on a chilly winter night! Laughing uproariously at her sputtering roommate, she suddenly finds herself being draped across her lap for a well-earned spanking.That spanking ends up throwing open the doors on advancing their relationship out of the sexually tense stalemate they’d found themselves in, and after having her bottom thoroughly reddened, Cassidy all but pounces on her roommate and best friend right there and then, kissing her for all she’s worth. From there, things only get steamier as the two of them start to fall more and more in lo ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Evelyn Levy. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/146790/bk_acx0_146790_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Control-oriented modeling and feedback control of reactive sputtering
    Control-oriented modeling and feedback control of reactive sputtering - presented by the running example of depositing aluminum oxide by means of an rf magnetron ccp set-up: ab 59.95 €
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    Handbook of Thin Film Process Technology
    Handbook of Thin Film Process Technology - 98/1 Reactive Sputtering: ab 46.49 €
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    Nanofabrication by Ion-Beam Sputtering
    Nanofabrication by Ion-Beam Sputtering - Fundamentals and Applications: ab 44.99 €
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