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    Ghost Stories: Petrifying True Ghost Stories of the Undead and Their Supernatural Tales , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 128min
    Whether you believe it or not, whether you accept it or not, there are some things in the world that cannot be attributed to anything other than paranormal activity. Some spirits have been through tragedy so heartbreaking, they are trapped within that singular instance that stole their lives away - they relive that moment over and over and over. The world is an infinite place. We don't entirely understand it - we believe in what we see and what we hear and try to make sense of that alone. Things that are easy to quantify, easy to explain with science - some of them are frightening in their intensity, such as a natural disaster, but these things don't keep us up at night from fear. And then, there are those things that we cannot understand. The complexity of the human mind is such that what it cannot perceive or measure, it fears. And such things do exist - we can hear them, feel them, sense them. But we cannot quantify them, because their behavior does not remain consistent and there seems to be no rational explanation for them. In this book, we will take a look at the different places and spots on our planet where these inexplicable things exist. Everyone who has been to these places has come back changed; some have even gone just to see for themselves what it's like; their accounts are disturbing... Here is a preview of what's inside... Ghost Stories: Okiku - The Death of Loyalty Ghost Stories: Sagely Murders at Chillingham Castle Ghost Stories: The Wrecked Tale of The Alkimos Ghost Stories: Roommates of the Paranormal Kind at the Normandie Apartment Ghost Stories: On the Highway to Hell - Tuen Mun Road Ghost Stories: A Man Scorned at the Wolfsegg Castle ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gene Blake. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/065223/bk_acx0_065223_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    WRONG: Nine Economic Policy Disasters and What We Can Learn from Them , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 437min
    In recent years, the world has been rocked by major economic crises, most notably the devastating collapse of Lehman Brothers, the largest bankruptcy in American history, which triggered the breathtakingly destructive sub-prime disaster. What sparks these vast economic calamities? Why do our economic policy makers fail to protect us from such upheavals? In Wrong, economist Richard Grossman addresses such questions, shining a light on the poor thinking behind nine of the worst economic policy mistakes of the past 200 years, missteps whose outcomes ranged from appalling to tragic. Grossman tells the story behind each misconceived economic move, explaining why the policy was adopted, how it was implemented, and its short- and long-term consequences. In each case, he shows that the main culprits were policy makers who were guided by ideology rather than economics. For instance, Wrong looks at how America's unfounded fear of a centralized monetary authority caused them to reject two central banks, condemning the nation to wave after wave of financial panics. He describes how Britain's blind commitment to free markets, rather than to assisting the starving in Ireland, led to one of the 19th century's worst humanitarian tragedies - the Irish famine. And he shows how Britain's reestablishment of the gold standard after World War I, fuelled largely by a desire to recapture its pre-war dominance, helped to turn what would otherwise have been a normal recession into the Great Depression. Grossman also explores the Smoot-Hawley Tariff of 1930, Japan's lost decade of the 1990s, the American subprime crisis, and the present European sovereign debt crisis. Economic policy should be based on cold, hard economic analysis, Grossman concludes, not on an unquestioning commitment to a particular ideology. Wrong shows what happens when this sensible advice is ignored. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dennis Holland. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/017959/bk_adbl_017959_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Beat Procrastination Once and for All: How to Boost Your Productivity, Be Effective, Master Concentration and Multiply Your Time , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 59min
    Do you often find yourself avoiding things that you are supposed to be doing right now? Do you want to be multiple times more productive and get things done much faster than usual? Procrastination is a widespread phenomenon. Everyone finds themselves procrastinating and struggling to get things done from time to time, especially when working on tasks that seem to be too complex, dreadful, or simply just boring. However, the truth is that this bad habit is also limiting your success and is keeping you from achieving your major goals and reaching your full potential in life. Negative issues that can arise with procrastination are for instance: Low job performanceBad gradesMissing valuable opportunitiesA bad reputationHigh debtsHealth risksBecause of this, it is really important that you get to know ways of how to beat procrastination once and for all. This book will help you out! In this comprehensive guide, you will find several possibilities and proven tactics to support you on your way for getting rid of the time-consuming habit of procrastination and improve all areas in your life. You will find yourself automatically multiplying your time, boosting your productivity, having better focus, and long story short: Be successful in life!Among other things, you will learn in this book: The definition of procrastinationThe five types of procrastinationThe signs that you are procrastinatingEight things that trigger procrastination and how to get rid of themMore than 25 proven tactics to take your productivity to a whole new levelNo matter your degree of procrastination, this book will help you solve your problem. So give yourself a treat and learn how to Beat Procrastination Once and for All by downloading today! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Frank Phillips. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/127055/bk_acx0_127055_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Fairy Stories , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 390min
    These fairy tales are nasty. This is the land of goblins and sorceresses, with serious lines in revenge, not the land of unicorns and once upon a Barbie. The tales that the Brothers Grimm collected during their time as linguistics professors, first at the University of Göttingen and then in Berlin, at the request of the King of Prussia, were an attempt to map the folklore of the German-speaking people. These two seemingly inseparable brothers made one of the first collections of the stories that had been told by their forefathers for generations, but, more importantly, they wrote them down. They listened for years to the storytellers and tale spinners of the many disparate states and principalities which made up what would fairly shortly after their time become the newly unified Germany, collated them into several volumes and created what have become some of the major building blocks of the collective consciousness of Europe. They have often been accused of corrupting the tales they were told; they did not write them down word for word but adapted them and wrote them up into the deliciously tough tales we know today. Nor were they strict in their adherence to the idea that they were mapping the folklore of the German people exclusively. There are tales from a much wider selection of European origins in their collection. This is what transformed an academic exercise into a creative endeavour. It is fascinating to rediscover the origins of the bewilderingly Disneyfied story of Cinderella, for instance, but the Grimms' story of the soot-covered wench and her wish-granting bird is also a beautiful bit of writing - the Brothers Grimm tell a good story. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Anna Massey. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/slks/000018/bk_slks_000018_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Captain Future #4: The Triumph of Captain Future , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 326min
    Racing to the ringed planet in answer to Earth's clarion call, the Wizard of Science seeks a forbidden elixir of life - and finds the city of eternal youth! The Captain Future stories were not only populated with magnificent characters, but they were also set in a wild, imaginative, almost psychedelic universe. Edmond Hamilton built worlds and star systems that in many ways completely disregarded what the public knew to be true about outer space, but they did not care. Nearly every planet in our solar system could support life, and danger lurked there, too. Although the original stories took place amongst familiar planets, Hamilton would take fans far beyond anything familiar in later tales. Published from 1940 to 1951, Captain Future stories initially take place in the far flung year of 1990. As the series progressed, Hamilton moved away from pinning the ongoing adventures to a particular time and focusing more on forming continuity, where stories built on one another. This allowed for a freedom of imagination, for Hamilton to tell stories without restrictions. Although Captain Future was initially modeled on Doc Savage, hints and influences of other heroes make their way into the stories as well. For instance, the Planet Police summon Captain Future with a signal flare fired into the sky, similarly to Batman, the Phantom Detective, and others. Also, Captain Future has a female interest, although he never fully admits that she might be a romantic one. A member of the Space Patrol, Joan Randall proves in story after story that she can stand alongside the Futuremen. She also clearly has affection for Curt Newton, waiting for him to acknowledge his feelings for her that as so many Pulp heroines do. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Milton Bagby. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/075522/bk_acx0_075522_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Greatest Civil War Battles: The Battle of Chickamauga , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 94min
    I know Mr. Davis thinks he can do a great many things other men would hesitate to attempt. For instance, he tried to do what God failed to do. He tried to make a soldier of Braxton Bragg. - General Joseph E. Johnston Americans have long been fascinated by the Civil War and its biggest battles, particularly Gettysburg, Antietam, and Shiloh, all of which involved Robert E. Lee or Ulysses S. Grant. But the second biggest battle of the entire war mostly gets overlooked among casual listeners, despite the fact it represented the last great chance for the Confederates to salvage the Western theater. In mid-September, the Union Army of the Cumberland under General William Rosecrans had taken Chattanooga, but rather than be pushed out of the action, Army of Tennessee commander Braxton Bragg decided to stop with his 60,000 men and prepare a counterattack south of Chattanooga at a creek named Chickamauga. To bolster his fire-power, Confederate President Jefferson Davis sent 12,000 additional troops under the command of Lieutenant General James Longstreet, whose corps had just recently fought at Gettysburg in July. On the morning of September 19, 1863, Bragg's men assaulted the Union line, which was established in a wooded area thick with underbrush along the river. That day and the morning of the next, Bragg continue to pummel Union forces, with the battle devolving from an organized succession of uncoordinated assaults into what one Union soldier described as "a mad, irregular battle." Late that second morning, Rosecrans was misinformed that a gap was forming in his front line, so he responded by moving several units forward to shore it up. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Chris Abell. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/038819/bk_acx0_038819_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Angst: Origins of Anxiety and Depression , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 775min
    In this path-breaking volume, engagingly written for the general public, psychiatrist Jeffrey Kahn reveals that the Angst of anxiety and depression ultimately results from our transformation, over tens of thousands of years, from biologically shaped, almost herd-like prehistoric tribes, to rational and independent individuals in modern civilization. Because of our Reason, we don't choose to act like sheep. Kahn looks at five basic types of modern-day angst - Panic Anxiety, Social Anxiety, OCD, Atypical Depression, and Melancholic Depression - and shows how each derives from primeval social instincts that once helped our ancestors survive. For instance, the "panic disorder" which prevents some people from flying may have originally evolved to keep our tribal ancestors from traveling dangerously far from home. Likewise, the increased emotional sensitivity to social rejection that now triggers episodes of "atypical depression" may have helped maintain polite behavior and social harmony in our ancestors. Our distinctly human civilization and rational consciousness lets us defy these social instincts. But those over-ridden instincts can resurface as stressful emotional disorders. Kahn notes that some of us painfully tackle this distress head-on, in ways that can advance intellectual creativity, social performance and productivity. He also describes the interplay of instinct with the advance of civilization, and on how evolutionary perspective explains why modern treatments work. Ranging from Darwin and Freud to the most cutting-edge medical and scientific findings - drawing from ancient writings, modern humor and popular lyrics, and with many amusing cartoons - Angst offers us an exciting new slant on some of the most pervasive mental health issues of our time. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ralph Morocco. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/015489/bk_adbl_015489_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Sketches New and Old , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 741min
    Sketches New and Old is a compilation of fictional stories written by Mark Twain. Among them is "A Ghost Story". In each story, one can catch a great sense of Twain's humor and creativity. These classic sketches from Twain are no longer than 10 minutes each, but all show his quick-witted humor in response to the events of the day. A real storyteller can make a great story out of anything, even the most trivial occurrence. Composed between 1863 and 1875, the 63 often outrageous sketches in Sketches, New and Old contain, for instance, a piece about the difficulty of getting a pocket watch repaired properly; complaints about barbers and office bores; and satirical comments on bureaucrats, courts of law, the profession of journalism, the claims of science, and the workings of government. In Mark Twain's hands, all these potentially dry and dull topics bristle with vitality and interest. "What fascinates Twain," Lee Smith writes in her introduction, is how people "react to the things that happen to them." Twain "lets them speak in their own voices by and large, in a chorus ranging from high-flown oratory to the plain speech of working people.... It seems generally true that the more elevated the speech, the likelier that person is to be an idiot; words of wisdom and common sense are invariably voiced by the common man" - or woman. "The most profound and moving sketch in this whole collection" Smith writes, is one "told by a freed slave." The candid, ironic, playful, and petulant sketches in this volume are indispensable to our understanding of a harried genius during 13 quite amazing years. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Robin Field. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hove/001714/bk_hove_001714_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Creative Real Estate Marketing Equation: Motivated Sellers + Motivated Buyers=$ , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 221min
    In order to be a successful real estate investor and entrepreneur you must understand the following principle. Real estate marketing is the business. As a real estate investor you are in the business of marketing first and foremost. Marketing drives the business. It is the fuel that produces the leads and prospects you need to sustain and thrive in your business. Without it you are like a car without gas, you are going nowhere. In his book entitled The Creative Real Estate Marketing Equation: Motivated Sellers + Motivated Buyers = $ real estate marketing expert Omar Johnson shows you step by step how to market your real estate business so that it produces consistent, sustainable and explosive profits. In his book he gives you the ultimate blueprint on how to strategically find motivated sellers and motivated buyers of real estate because they make up the essential part of the equation that translates into dollars. If you are in the arena of creative real estate investing and practice such creative real estate investing strategies such as lease options, owner financing, short sales, wholesaling etc., then this book will serve you well. If you're into real estate in general and you want to learn some killer real estate marketing strategies that you can immediately apply to your business then this book will also serve you well. For instance, you will learn 50 secret insider techniques and places you can use to start finding motivated sellers deals immediately. You will also learn how to create a killer buyer's list from scratch and how to master the three stages of the real estate buying process. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Omar Johnson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/005188/bk_acx0_005188_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Science of Fear: Why We Fear the Things We Should Not - and Put Ourselves in Great Danger , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 728min
    From terror attacks to the War on Terror, bursting real-estate bubbles to crystal meth epidemics, sexual predators to poisonous toys from China, our list of fears seems to be exploding. And yet, we are the safest and healthiest humans in history. Irrational fear is running amok, and often with tragic results. In the months after 9/11, when people decided to drive instead of fly - believing they were avoiding risk - road deaths rose by 1,595. Those lives were lost to fear. The Science of Fear is a disarmingly cheerful roundtrip shuttle to the new brain science, dissecting the fears that misguide and manipulate us every day. As award-winning journalist Daniel Gardner demonstrates, irrational fear springs from how humans miscalculate risks. Our hunter-gatherer brains evolved during the old Stone Age and struggle to make sense of a world utterly unlike the one that made them. Numbers, for instance, confuse us. Our "gut" tells us that even if there aren't "50,000 predators...on the Internet prowling for children," as a recent U.S. Attorney General claimed, then there must be an awful lot. And even if our "head" discovers that the number is baseless and no one actually knows the truth - there could be 100,000 or 500,000 - we are still more fearful simply because we heard the big number. And it is not only politicians and the media that traffic in fearmongering. Corporations fatten their bottom lines with fear. Interest groups expand their influence with fear. Officials boost their budgets with fear. With more information, warnings and scary stories coming at us every day from every direction, we are more prone than ever to needlessly worry. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Scott Peterson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/gdan/000293/bk_gdan_000293_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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