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    Rapt: Attention and the Interested Life , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 465min
    In Rapt, acclaimed behavioral science writer Winifred Gallagher makes the argument that the quality of your life largely depends on what you choose to pay attention to and how you choose to do it. Gallagher grapples with provocative questions - Can we train our focus? What's different about the way creative people pay attention? Why do we often zero in on the wrong factors when making big decisions? - driving us to reconsider what we think we know about attention. As suggested by the expression "pay attention," this cognitive currency is a finite resource that we must learn to spend wisely. In Rapt, Gallagher introduces us to a diverse cast of characters - artists and ranchers, birders and scientists - who have learned to do just that and whose stories are profound lessons in the art of living the interested life. No matter what your quotient of wealth, looks, brains, or fame, increasing your satisfaction means focusing more on what really interests you and less on what doesn't. In asserting its groundbreaking thesis - the wise investment of your attention is the single most important thing you can do to improve your well-being - Rapt yields fresh insights into the nature of reality and what it means to be fully alive. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Laural Merlington. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/001628/bk_brll_001628_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Cruel Winter: A County Cork Mystery , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 447min
    Snow is a rarity in Maura Donovan's small village in County Cork, Ireland, so she wasn't sure what to expect when a major snowstorm rolled in around Sullivan's pub. But now she's stranded in a bar full of patrons - and a suspected killer in a long-ago murder. Maura's been in Ireland less than a year and hasn't heard about the decades-old unsolved crime that took place nearby, let alone the infamous suspect, Diane Caldwell. But the locals have, and they're not happy to be trapped with her. Diane, meanwhile, seeks to set the record straight, asserting her innocence after all this time. And since no one is going anywhere in the storm, Maura encourages Diane to share her side of the story, which she'd never had a chance to do in court. Over the next few hours, the informal court in Sullivan's reviews the facts and theories about the case - and comes to some surprising conclusions. But is it enough to convince the police to take a new look at an old case? A clever spin on the classic locked-room mystery, Cruel Winter, the fifth in New York Times best-selling author Sheila Connolly's series, will delight fans of the Emerald Isle. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Amy Rubinate. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/009758/bk_blak_009758_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Memory of the Temple and the Making of the Rabbis , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 325min
    When the rabbis composed the Mishnah in the late second or early third century C.E., the Jerusalem Temple had been destroyed for more than a century. Why, then, do the Temple and its ritual feature so prominently in the Mishnah? Against the view that the rabbis were reacting directly to the destruction and asserting that nothing had changed, Naftali S. Cohn argues that the memory of the Temple served a political function for the rabbis in their own time. They described the Temple and its ritual in a unique way that helped to establish their authority within the context of Roman dominance. At the time the Mishnah was created, the rabbis were not the only ones talking extensively about the Temple: other Judaeans (including followers of Jesus), Christians, and even Roman emperors produced texts and other cultural artifacts centered on the Jerusalem Temple. Looking back at the procedures of Temple ritual, the rabbis created in the Mishnah a past and a Temple in their own image, which lent legitimacy to their claim to be the only authentic purveyors of Jewish tradition and the traditional Jewish way of life. Seizing on the Temple, they sought to establish and consolidate their own position of importance within the complex social and religious landscape of Jewish society in Roman Palestine. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Steven Jay Cohen. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/021396/bk_acx0_021396_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Cluetrain Manifesto: 10th Anniversary Edition , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 581min
    The Cluetrain Manifesto began as a website in 1999, when Rick Levine, Chris Locke, Doc Searls, and David Weinberger posted 95 theses on the web, asserting that there was a new reality of the networked marketplace. They set out to overturn hierarchical marketing with ideas like: Markets consist of human beings, not demographic sectors. Companies need to realize their markets are often laughing - at them. Markets do not want to talk to flacks and hucksters. They want to participate in the conversations going on behind the corporate firewall. We are immune to advertising. Just forget it. The authors present a spirited, original, and wonderfully irreverent conversation that will challenge, provoke, and forever change your outlook on the digital economy. A rich tapestry of anecdotes, object lessons, parodies, insights, and predictions, The Cluetrain Manifesto illustrates how the internet has radically reframed the seemingly immutable laws of business - and what business needs to know to weather the seismic aftershocks. A best seller when it was published in 2000, The Cluetrain Manifesto remains more relevant than ever. Ten years after its original publication, the anniversary edition includes a new introduction and chapters by the authors, and commentary by Jake McKee, J. P. Rangaswami, and Dan Gillmor. Essential reading for anybody interested in the internet and e-commerce, this book is for anyone navigating the topography of the wired marketplace. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Brian A Morris. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/001223/bk_acx0_001223_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    When Things Went Right: The Dawn of the Reagan-Bush Administration , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 815min
    When Things Went Right is a colorful and insightful portrait of Washington at the beginning of the Reagan-Bush era (November 1980 - March 1983) as lived and recorded by an insider in his personal journal. Chase Untermeyer was a Texas state legislator and former journalist when called to national service by his friend and mentor George H. W. Bush after the 1980 election. In his journal entries and subsequent annotations he describes how the Reagan Administration began to grapple with the major national and international challenges it inherited. He also reveals specifically how then-Vice President Bush, Reagan’s former rival, became a valued participant in this effort, in the process solidifying the vice presidency as a significant position in modern American government. As executive assistant to the Vice President, Untermeyer saw how Bush, Reagan, and their top associates began asserting conservative principles on domestic, political, and foreign affairs. He captured in his journal not just the events of each day but also the atmosphere, the key personalities, and the witty, trenchant, and revealing things they said. For those who look back on the presidencies of Reagan and Bush with nostalgia and respect, and also for those interested in the inner workings of the administration during its earliest days, this is the story of the time “when things went right.” ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Chase G. Untermeyer. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/147733/bk_acx0_147733_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Authentic Happiness: Using the New Positive Psychology to Realize Your Potential for Lasting Fulfillment, Hörbuch, Digital, 265min
    Over a decade ago, Martin Seligman charted a new approach to living with "flexible optimism". Now, in his most stimulating and persuasive book to date, the best-selling author of Learned Optimism introduces the revolutionary, scientifically based idea of "Positive Psychology". Positive Psychology focuses on strengths rather than weaknesses, asserting that happiness is not the result of good genes or luck. Seligman teaches readers that happiness can be cultivated by identifying and using many of the strengths and traits that they already possess: kindness, originality, humor, optimism, and generosity. By frequently calling upon their "signature strengths" in all the crucial realms of life, listeners will not only develop natural buffers against misfortune and the experience of negative emotion, they will move their lives up to a new, more positive plane. Drawing on groundbreaking psychological research, Seligman shows how Positive Psychology is shifting the profession's paradigm away from its narrow-minded focus on pathology, victimology, and mental illness to positive emotion, virtue and strength, and positive institutions. Our signature strengths can be nurtured throughout our lives, with benefits to our health, relationships, and careers. The life-changing lesson of Authentic Happiness is that by identifying the very best in ourselves, we can improve the world around us and achieve new and sustainable levels of authentic contentment, gratification, and meaning. Language: English. Narrator: John Dossett. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/sans/000851/bk_sans_000851_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Be More Assertive - Hypnosis: Get What You Want and Be Counted, with Hypnosis, Hörbuch, Digital, 41min
    Be More Assertive - Get What You Want and Be Counted, with Hypnosis It's not easy asserting yourself. You have to know what you need and be able to communicate it clearly. You need to be sure of yourself and of what you say; and you need to get over the feeling that you're being pushy. After all, don't you deserve everything you're entitled to? It's time to stand up and be counted - with help from hypnosis. Stop Letting Others Walk All Over You The Be More Assertive hypnosis session will help you find the confidence and self-belief to put yourself first! As you listen, the powerful hypnosis and NLP commands will help you discover the self-assurance to know and convey exactly what you want. You'll overcome your fear of rejection and confrontation and be ready to handle any situation. You'll recognize what you need, and make sure others understand it too. Simply download the Be More Assertive hypnosis session, sit back and relax, slip on your headphones and listen, to: Become more assertive in every area of your life! Make it clear what you want from people - and get it Communicate confidently with colleagues, loved ones, or customers Download the Be More Assertive hypnosis session now to become a powerful and dynamic force to be reckoned with. Language: English. Narrator: Hypnosis Live. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/ispr/000076/bk_ispr_000076_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Hold Texas, Hold the Nation: Victory or Death , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 350min
    Texas is booming. In recent years, the Lone Star State has experienced some of the most rapid growth in the country, both in its economy and in its population. This is thanks to an influx of businesses relocating to Texas to take advantage of all its benefits. But this increase in population has also brought about a shift in the political dialogue within Texas's borders. As more people pour into Texas, they bring with them liberal and socialist ideologies as they try to swing the state from red to blue. These plans for changing policies will suffocate the highly successful capitalist state and its residents, and according to Lt. Col. Allen West (Ret.), allowing these liberal ideals to creep into the legislative branch will be the death of Texas. In Hold Texas, Hold the Nation: Victory or Death, West explains how the longstanding conservative capitalist policies within the state's government have allowed it to flourish over the years, providing hard-to-ignore evidence and allowing his experience in Congress to support his argument. He makes his stand, asserting that Texas must hold fast to its conservative ways and resist succumbing to liberal mindsets, or else cease to prosper, and begin to perish. Texas is a sustaining force for America, truly embodying the founding principles of America: those unalienable individual rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. In Texas, it's ''Victory or Death'.' ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Allen West. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/166911/bk_acx0_166911_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Surrender to the Scot : Highland Bodyguards, Book 7 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 426min
    A dangerous mission. A deadly conspiracy. A daring love. Jerome Munro has been battling a shameful truth all his life - he is the son of a traitor. So when Robert the Bruce orders him to deliver a bold declaration asserting Scotland’s independence, Jerome knows it’s his best chance to prove his allegiance. When he travels to the Borderlands to gather support for the King, he finds himself entranced by a copper-haired English lass whose determination to serve the Bruce kindles an unexpected attraction. Fearing his desire for Elaine will disrupt his assignment, Jerome fights against the heat between them, but when fate throws them together on a dangerous mission, he must choose between love and loyalty. Elaine longs for much more than the sheltered life of an English lady. The darkly handsome Highland warrior who arrives at her Borderland home provides the perfect opportunity for her to show that she’s more than a silly, spoiled girl. She convinces Jerome to let her return to the Bruce’s court with him, but when she accidentally uncovers a plot against the King, she realizes she and Jerome are the only ones who can save Scotland’s hard-earned freedom. As the threat spirals out of control, can they unravel the mystery and protect their growing love? This full-length Scottish historical romance is part of the Highland Bodyguards Series, but also can be enjoyed as a stand-alone novel. Pick up your copy today! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tim Campbell. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/171098/bk_acx0_171098_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Red Caddy: Into the Unknown with Edward Abbey , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 220min
    A passionate advocate for preserving wilderness and fighting the bureaucratic and business forces that would destroy it, Edward Abbey (1927-1989) wrote fierce, polemical books such as Desert Solitaire and The Monkey Wrench Gang that continue to inspire environmental activists. In this eloquent memoir, his friend and fellow desert rat Charles Bowden reflects on Abbey the man and the writer, offering up thought-provoking, contrarian views of the writing life, literary reputations, and the perverse need of critics to sum up “what he really meant and whether any of it was truly up to snuff.”  The Red Caddy is the first literary biography of Abbey in a generation. Refusing to turn him into a desert guru, Bowden instead recalls the wild man in a red Cadillac convertible for whom liberty was life. He describes how Desert Solitaire paradoxically “launched thousands of maniacs into the empty ground” that Abbey wanted to protect, while sealing his literary reputation and overshadowing the novels that Abbey considered his best books. Bowden also skewers the cottage industry that has grown up around Abbey’s writing, smoothing off its rougher (racist, sexist) edges while seeking “anecdotes, little intimacies...pieces of the True Beer Can or True Old Pickup Truck.” Asserting that the real essence of Abbey will always remain unknown and unknowable, The Red Caddy still catches gleams of “the fire that from time to time causes a life to become a conflagration.”   ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Brian Troxell. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/053259/bk_adbl_053259_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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