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    Unexplained Mysteries: Bizarre Unexplained Mysteries from Every Corner of the Globe: True Ghost Stories and Hauntings Box Set , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 377min
    Over the years, there have been many strange or unexplained phenomena that people have experienced or witnessed in their lives. These experiences have been passed on from generation to generation. However, as time passed most of these may have been forgotten or simply remain unsolved. There are hundreds of paranormal stories and personal experiences that have happened over the last century but there are some that truly stand out and have become incidents that people will never forget. Take for instance "Australia's most haunted house", Monte Cristo homestead, or the Clark Air Base in the Philippines. How about the story of Jack the Ripper that up until now is still unsolved or the famous Amityville Horror House that has been made into a movie over and over again. If you are a fan of these hair-raising and bizarre stories, then this box set is the one you are looking for. Discover more strange incidents and scary situations as you listen to this book of paranormal stories. Get to know why an area in Boston, Ohio is called Hell Town. Explore at your own risk the haunted house in Beijing, the story behind the historical London Bridge, or the haunted areas inside the White House. Interested? Then brace yourself as you listen and discover these spine-tingling tales of horror. You never know, something else might be beside you listening to this book! If you love a good scary collection of ghostly tales and mysteries, this set is for you! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jeffrey A. Hering. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/097651/bk_acx0_097651_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    God Is Here (eBook, ePUB)
    Toba Spitzer's God Is Here is a transformative exploration of the idea of God, offering new paths to experiencing the realm of the sacred.Most of us are hungry for a system of meaning to make sense of our lives, yet traditional religion too often leaves those seeking spiritual sustenance unsatisfied. Rabbi Toba Spitzer understands this problem firsthand, and knows that too often it is traditional ideas of the deity-he's too big, too impersonal, and too unbelievable-that get in the way. In God Is Here, Spitzer argues that whether we believe in God or fervently disbelieve, what we are actually disagreeing about is not God at all, but a metaphor of a Big Powerful Person that limits our understanding and our spiritual lives.Going back to the earliest sources for Judaism as well as Christianity, Spitzer discovers in the Hebrew Bible a rich and varied palette of metaphors for the divine-including Water, Voice, Fire, Rock, Cloud, and even the process of Becoming. She addresses how we can access these ancient metaphors, as well as those drawn from rabbinic tradition and modern science, to experience holiness in our daily lives and to guide us in challenging times. In the section on water, for instance, she looks at the myriad ways water flows through the Biblical stories of the Israelites and emerges as a powerful metaphor for the divine in the Prophets and Psalms. She invites us to explore what it might mean to "drink from God," or to experience godly justice as something that "rains down" and "flows like a river."Each chapter contains insights from the Bible and teachings from Judaism and other spiritual traditions, accompanied by suggestions for practice to bring alive each of the God metaphors. Rabbi Toba Spitzer has helped many people satisfy their spiritual hunger. With God Is Here she will inspire you to find new and perhaps surprising ways of encountering the divine, right where you are.
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    Marfa Modern: Artistic Interiors of the West Texas High Desert
    Twenty-one houses in and around Marfa, Texas, provide a glimpse at creative life and design in one of the art world's most intriguing destinations. When Donald Judd began his Marfa project in the early 1970s, it was regarded as an idiosyncratic quest. Today, Judd is revered for his minimalist art and the stringent standards he applied to everything around him, including interiors, architecture, and furniture. The former water stop has become a mecca for artists, art pilgrims, and design aficionados drawn to the creative enclave, the permanent installations called "among the largest and most beautiful in the world," and the austerely beautiful high-desert landscape. In keeping with Judd's site-specific intentions, those who call Marfa home have made a choice to live in concert with their untamed, open surroundings. Marfa Modern features houses that represent unique responses to this setting-the sky, its light and sense of isolation-some that even predate Judd's arrival. Here, conceptual artist Michael Phelan lives in a former Texaco service station with battery acid stains on the concrete floor and a twenty-foot dining table lining one wall. A chef's modest house comes with the satisfaction of being handmade down to its side tables and bath, which expands into a private courtyard with an outdoor tub. Another artist uses the many rooms of her house, a former jail, to shift between different mediums-with Judd's Fort D. A. Russell works always visible from her second-story sun porch. Extraordinary building costs mean that Marfa dwellers embrace a culture of frontier ingenuity and freedom from excess-salvaged metal signs become sliding doors and lengths of pipe become lighting fixtures, industrial warehouses are redesigned after the area's white-cube galleries to create space for private or personally created art collections, and other materials are suggested by the land itself: walls are made of adobe bricks or rammed earth to form sculptural courtyards, or, in one remarkable instance, a mix of mud and brick plastered with local soils, cactus mucilage, horse manure, and straw.
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    Der Einfluss von Gazprom auf die deutsche und europäische Energie(versorgungs)politik (eBook, PDF)
    Inhaltsangabe:Einleitung: ¿The European market is skyrocketing: this April, for instance, we are going to export more gas than in some of the winter months, and by December gas is expected to cost around USD 500 under our long-term contracts. I believe these are not the last record figures for this year.¿ Das Erdbebenunglück in Japan und die Ereignisse um das Atomkraftwerk (AKW) von Fukushima haben in Deutschland und Europa eine öffentliche Debatte über den möglichen Atomausstieg und allgemein die zukünftige Energiesicherheit ausgelöst. Wie sensibel diese Thematik für die deutsche Bevölkerung war, ließ sich Ende März 2011 an den Ergebnissen der Landtagswahlen in Baden-Württemberg und an der unmittelbaren Gründung der Ethik Kommission ¿Sichere Energieversorgung¿ erkennen. Das Gremium sollte im Auftrag der Bundeskanzlerin Empfehlungen über einen etappenweisen Ausstieg aus der Kernenergie formulieren. In Europa ist die Energieversorgungsfrage generell ein heikles Thema und es besteht selten ein gemeinsamer Standpunkt zwischen den Partnern. Dennoch verordnete der Europäische Rat (ER) am 25.05.2011 die Durchführung von Sicherheitstests in allen EU-Atomkraftwerken. Die Entscheidung, ob ein Staat die Atomenergie in Anspruch nehmen sollte, wurde jedoch individuell den Mitgliedsstaaten überlassen. In Deutschland fand der Bericht der Ethikkommission die Zustimmung der Mehrheit von Bundestag und Bundesrat. Am 01.08.2011 beschloss der Bundespräsident gesetzlich den kompletten Ausstieg aus der Atomkraft bis zum Jahre 2022. Dieser Schritt implizierte die künftige Deckung des Bedarfs durch regenerative Energien sowie den Einsatz fossiler Energieträger. Gleichwohl steckt die diversifizierte Förderung von Technologien erneuerbarer Energien noch in den Kinderschuhen und eine dauerhafte Versorgung mit diesen Energietechnologien ist in absehbarer Zeit noch nicht denkbar. Aus diesem Grund wird fossilen Energieträgern, insbesondere dem Erdöl und Erdgas, für die Deckung der Grundlast weiterhin eine besondere Bedeutung zugemessen. Oft sind beide Rohstoffe in Regionen konzentriert, die Konfliktpotenziale in sich bergen. Das Erdöl sprudelt hauptsächlich aus dem Nahen Osten und dem Maghreb. Dem ¿Arabischen Frühling¿ verdanken Öllieferantenländer derzeit enorme politische und wirtschaftliche Risiken. Infolgedessen stellt der Import für Deutschland und die EU aufgrund der Preislabilität des Erdöls einen ernsthaften Risikofaktor dar. In Anbetracht dieser Tatsachen bleibt [...]
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    Religiöse Bildung im langen 19. Jahrhundert
    Der Band beleuchtet Wandlungsprozesse der Religionspädagogik im langen 19. Jahrhundert. Die epochalen gesellschaftlichen Umwälzungen in der Zeitspanne zwischen der Französischen Revolution (1789) und dem Ende des Ersten Weltkriegs (1918) betreffen zentrale Aspekte religiöser Bildung in Europa. Argumente, Narrative und Institutionen stehen auf dem intellektuellen wie politischen Prüfstand und werden neu justiert. Die versammelten Fallstudien bündeln diese Prozesse anhand exemplarisch verdichteter (inter-)nationaler Spannungsfelder, sie suchen u.a. schulische Orte auf, an denen die Veränderungen besonders spürbar wurden, sie zeigen diese Veränderungen an Medien wie Katechismen, Missionsheften oder Schulfibeln auf und weisen auf die Ausbildung neuer Berufsprofile hin. Der Band dokumentiert die Tagung des Arbeitskreises für historische Religionspädagogik im Frühjahr 2021, an der sich Historiker, Pädagogen und Religionspädagogen aus Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz beteiligten.[Religious Education in the Long 19th Century. Fields of Tension, Places, Media, Professional Profiles]This volume illuminates processes of change in religious pedagogy in the long 19th century. The epochal social upheavals in the period between the French Revolution (1789) and the end of the First World War (1918) concern all religious education in Europe. Arguments, narratives, and institutions are under intellectual and political scrutiny and are readjusted. The collected case studies bring together these processes on the basis of exemplary condensed (inter-)national tensions, seeking out, for instance, educational places where the changes became particularly noticeable. They show these changes in media such as catechisms, missionary booklets, or school handbooks, and they point to the formation of new professional profiles. The volume documents the conference of the Arbeitskreis für historische Religionspädagogik (Working Group for Historical Religious Education) in spring 2021, in which historians, teachers and religious educators from Germany, Austria and Switzerland participated. Mit Beiträgen von Guido Estermann, Robert Schelander, Antje Roggenkamp, Gert Franzenburg, Alexander Baimann, Andreas Kubik, Michael Lapp, Viktoria Gräbe, Michael Wermke, Werner Simon, Wendelin Sroka, Harmjan Dam, Stefan Dixius, Norbert Friedrich, Johannes Wischmeyer, David Käbisch, Jürgen Overhoff, Benjamin Ahme und Anne-Sophie Markert.
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    Rational Ritual (eBook, PDF)
    Why do Internet, financial service, and beer commercials dominate Super Bowl advertising? How do political ceremonies establish authority? Why does repetition characterize anthems and ritual speech? Why were circular forms favored for public festivals during the French Revolution? This book answers these questions using a single concept: common knowledge. Game theory shows that in order to coordinate its actions, a group of people must form "common knowledge." Each person wants to participate only if others also participate. Members must have knowledge of each other, knowledge of that knowledge, knowledge of the knowledge of that knowledge, and so on. Michael Chwe applies this insight, with striking erudition, to analyze a range of rituals across history and cultures. He shows that public ceremonies are powerful not simply because they transmit meaning from a central source to each audience member but because they let audience members know what other members know. For instance, people watching the Super Bowl know that many others are seeing precisely what they see and that those people know in turn that many others are also watching. This creates common knowledge, and advertisers selling products that depend on consensus are willing to pay large sums to gain access to it. Remarkably, a great variety of rituals and ceremonies, such as formal inaugurations, work in much the same way. By using a rational-choice argument to explain diverse cultural practices, Chwe argues for a close reciprocal relationship between the perspectives of rationality and culture. He illustrates how game theory can be applied to an unexpectedly broad spectrum of problems, while showing in an admirably clear way what game theory might hold for scholars in the social sciences and humanities who are not yet acquainted with it. In a new afterword, Chwe delves into new applications of common knowledge, both in the real world and in experiments, and considers how generating common knowledge has become easier in the digital age.
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    German Buenos Aires, 1900-1933
    This study of the German community of early twentieth-century Buenos Aires is a major contribution to the literature on Argentine history and on the New World immigrant experience. Beginning with the first wave of immigration in the late nineteenth century and continuing to the outbreak of World War II, Ronald C. Newton reconstructs the growth, development, and influence of a powerful foreign population in what was then the largest city in South America. In the three decades before World War I, Argentina became a major food-producing and exporting country. Through the port of Buenos Aires was funneled the bulk of the Pampas' foodstuff and fiber in one direction and Europe's capital, technology, and surplus labor in the other. The German speakers made up one of the smaller Western European communities within the Argentine metropolis, but their cultural and economic influence was far out of proportion to their numbers. Based in a large and occupationally diverse middle class, the German community was represented at all social levels. Newton analyzes the experience of this well-demarcated group during a period of rapid demographic growth and increasing pressure to assimilate. He constructs working hypotheses that may be applied and refined in further investigations. The book draws substantially on materials from within the Buenos Aires German community-newspapers, memoirs, the records of associations and welfare agencies-to reconstruct its intense daily life. The author highlights, for instance, the sharp economic reversals German-speaking residents suffered during World War I and shows how their fortunes declined further after continued Germanic immigration in the 1920s. Especially significant is his finding that the German community, which until 1914 had seemed impervious to the currents of Argentine nationalism, became susceptible to assimilation into Argentine society. In concluding chapters Newton demonstrates the way the German economic elite came to terms with the Nazis for opportunistic reasons; thus, the volume also serves as an introduction to the question of Nazism's diffusion in Argentina.
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    Outliers in Control Engineering
    Outliers play an important, though underestimated, role in control engineering. Traditionally they are unseen and neglected. In opposition, industrial practice gives frequent examples of their existence and their mostly negative impacts on the control quality. The origin of outliers is never fully known. Some of them are generated externally to the process (exogenous), like for instance erroneous observations, data corrupted by control systems or the effect of human intervention. Such outliers appear occasionally with some unknow probability shifting real value often to some strange and nonsense value. They are frequently called deviants, anomalies or contaminants. In most cases we are interested in their detection and removal. However, there exists the second kind of outliers. Quite often strange looking data observations are not artificial data occurrences. They may be just representatives of the underlying generation mechanism being inseparable internal part of the process (endogenous outliers). In such a case they are not wrong and should be treated with cautiousness, as they may include important information about the dynamic nature of the process. As such they cannot be neglected nor simply removed. The Outlier should be detected, labelled and suitably treated. These activities cannot be performed without proper analytical tools and modeling approaches. There are dozens of methods proposed by scientists, starting from Gaussian-based statistical scoring up to data mining artificial intelligence tools. The research presented in this book presents novel approach incorporating non-Gaussian statistical tools and fractional calculus approach revealing new data analytics applied to this important and challenging task. The proposed book includes a collection of contributions addressing different yet cohesive subjects, like dynamic modelling, classical control, advanced control, fractional calculus, statistical analytics focused on an ultimate goal: robust and outlier-proof analysis. All studied problems show that outliers play an important role and classical methods, in which outlier are not taken into account, do not give good results. Applications from different engineering areas are considered such as semiconductor process control and monitoring, MIMO peltier temperature control and health monitoring, networked control systems, and etc.
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    Wise Guy
    Silicon Valley icon and bestselling author Guy Kawasaki shares the unlikely stories of his life and the lessons we can draw from them. Guy Kawasaki has been a fixture in the tech world since he was part of Apple's original Macintosh team in the 1980s. He's widely respected as a source of wisdom about entrepreneurship, venture capital, marketing, and business evangelism, which he's shared in bestselling books such as The Art of the Start and Enchantment. But before all that, he was just a middle-class kid in Hawaii, a grandson of Japanese immigrants, who loved football and got a C+ in 9th grade English. Wise Guy, his most personal book, is about his surprising journey. It's not a traditional memoir but a series of vignettes. He toyed with calling it Miso Soup for the Soul, because these stories (like those in the Chicken Soup series) reflect a wide range of experiences that have enlightened and inspired him. For instance, you'll follow Guy as he . . . • Gets his first real job in the jewelry business--which turned out to be surprisingly useful training for the tech world. • Disparages one of Apple's potential partners in front of that company's CEO, at the sneaky instigation of Steve Jobs. • Blows up his Apple career with a single sentence, after Jobs withholds a pre-release copy of the Think Different ad campaign: "That's okay, Steve, I don't trust you either." • Reevaluates his self-importance after being mistaken for Jackie Chan by four young women. • Takes up surfing at age 62--which teaches him that you can discover a new passion at any age, but younger is easier! Guy covers everything from moral values to business skills to parenting. As he writes, "I hope my stories help you live a more joyous, productive, and meaningful life. If Wise Guy succeeds at this, then that's the best story of all."
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    Every 90 Seconds (eBook, PDF)
    An urgent examination of how violence against women is inextricably linked to other issues that stoke our greatest passions. Every 90 seconds a woman is sexually assaulted. In that same minute and a half, another is a victim of domestic violence at the hands of a current or former intimate partner. Every sixteen hours, one of those intimate partners shoots and kills a woman. Nearly two in ten women are stalked, while one in sixteen is raped during her first sexual experience. Despite these jaw-dropping statistics, collectively we are well practiced at seeing such acts as someone else's problem. And yet, violence against women is tangled up with the most frequently discussed and debated issues of our time: healthcare and education access, immigration, gun policies, economic security, and criminal justice reform-issues that impact us all, nearly every day. In Every 90 Seconds, Anne P. DePrince argues that to end violence against women, we must fundamentally redefine how we engage with it-starting by abandoning the idea that violence is a problem involving only those who abuse or are abused. Instead, DePrince illuminates how violence against women is inextricably linked to other issues that stoke our greatest passions. For instance, each time a woman requires emergency medical attention as a result of violence and abuse, our overburdened healthcare system bears an entirely preventable cost. Meanwhile, the threat of violence is a significant cause of pressure on the US southern border, driving women and their families to seek safety far from home. Violence against women also takes a stunning toll on the US economy by contributing to widespread poverty. Drawing on these and other complex examples, DePrince builds the case that this very complexity offers an opportunity for mobilizing ordinary people to work to stop violence against women in a way we never have before. DePrince's call to action arises out of the reality that when we address violence against women, we can make progress on a range of other significant issues that we care deeply about too.
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