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    Hawke , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 997min
    Hawke is a fast-paced adventure...truly an exciting listen, says Nelson DeMille. "Rich, spellbinding, and absorbing, Hawke is packed with surprises", raves Clive Cussler. Listeners beware, this stunning, high-caliber thriller is not recommended for the faint of heart. Lord Alexander Hawke is a direct descendant of the legendary English pirate Blackhawke and highly skilled in the cutthroat's deadly ways himself. While still a boy, on a voyage to the Caribbean, Alex Hawke witnesses an act of unspeakable horror. Hidden in a secret compartment on his father's yacht, Alex sees his parents brutally murdered by three modern-day pirates. It is an event that will haunt him for the remainder of his life. Now, fully grown and one of England's most decorated naval heroes, Hawke is back in the same Caribbean waters on a secret mission for the American government. A highly experimental stealth submarine, built by the Soviets just before the end of the Cold War, is missing. She carries 40 nuclear warheads and is believed to be in the hands of a very unstable government just 90 miles from the American mainland. Hawke is in a race against time. His mission: Find the deadly sub before a preemptive strike can be launched against the US, and confront the murderous men behind the personal nightmare that haunts him before they find him first. Featuring breathtaking action, international intrigue, and a hero worthy of the very finest adventure fiction, Hawke heralds the exciting debut of a bold new talent. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John Shea. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/010338/bk_brll_010338_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The New Rules of Retail: Competing in the World's Toughest Marketplace , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 413min
    The retail world is undergoing a fundamental transformation. Rapidly evolving technology, globalization, and a saturated marketplace offer consumers instant access to thousands of equally compelling products and services, creating unprecedented levels of expectation. The impact of these changes is so profound that 50 percent of today's retailers and consumer companies will not survive it. Traditional business models will become extinct, and the relationship between vendors and consumers will shift dramatically. Here, industry experts Robin Lewis and Michael Dart identify the forces behind these changes and look at the retail heroes of today and tomorrow to see how their business models are responding to the modern marketplace. They profile industry giants such as VF Corporation (owner of Wrangler and The North Face), Starbucks, and Ralph Lauren, as well as cutting-edge favorites like Apple, Gilt Groupe, and Amazon, to uncover why some retailers are so successful at reaching today's increasingly elusive and demanding customer while others miss the mark by a mile. What they find are three crucial factors that determine whether businesses win or lose: Neurological Connectivity - creating an addictive, irresistible shopping experience, from preshopping anticipation to consumption satisfaction Preemptive Distribution - using all possible distribution platforms to access consumers ahead of the competition Value Chain Control - vertically integrating control of a company's entire value chain, from creation through point of sale, for maximum delivery on the brand promise This essential formula, Lewis and Dart argue, is responsible for virtually every retail success story of the past few decades. So while the landscape may never look the same, The New Rules of Retail gives business leaders the tools they need to not only survive, but thrive. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Brian O'Neill. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/002919/bk_adbl_002919_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    A Pretext for War: 9/11, Iraq, and the Abuse of America's Intelligence Agencies, Hörbuch, Digital, 295min
    In The Puzzle Palace, James Bamford revealed the existence of the NSA, the largest, most secretive, and best-financed intelligence organization in the world. In Body of Secrets, he took readers inside the ultra-secret agency, charting its deeds and misdeeds from its founding in 1952 to the end of the 20th century. Now Bamford applies his relentless investigative drive and unparalleled access to intelligence sources to produce a headline-making book about the most pressing issues of the present day.From the mishandling of the pre-9/11 threat to the unproven claims about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, Bamford argues that the Bush administration has co-opted the intelligence community for its own political ends, and at the expense of American security. Bamford makes the case that the Bush administration's Middle East policy decisions, from overthrowing Saddam to ignoring the situation of the Palestinians, are driven by long-held beliefs and goals of an elite group of conservatives inside and outside of government.A Pretext for War hones in on the systematic weakness that led the intelligence community to ignore or misinterpret evidence of the impending terrorist attacks of 9/11, a failure rooted in the refusal to acknowledge the central role of the Palestinian cause in igniting Arab rage against the United States. Compounding the errors, the Bush administration's immediate response to 9/11 was to call for an attack on Iraq, and it subsequently invented justifications for the preemptive war that has ultimately left the United States more vulnerable to terrorism.A Pretext for War is an unprecedented, utterly convincing expose of the most secretive administration in history. Language: English. Narrator: Ray Childs. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/000439/bk_rand_000439_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Blockchain: 4 Manuscripts: Blockchain, Fintech, Investing in Ethereum, and Smart Contracts , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 226min
    Get the equivalent of a college education in financial technology with this amazing bundle! I've bundled together four of my best-selling books to give you the complete education in financial technology. When you purchase this bundle you'll receive Blockchain, FinTech, Investing in Ethereum, and Smart Contracts - all at an amazingly low price! Inside you'll get the following: Blockchain: The Ultimate Guide to Understanding the Hidden Economy Here you'll learn all about the virtual "Lego pieces" that financial technology is built on. Blockchains are changing everything from banking, shopping, peer-to-peer exchange, and our daily lives as a whole. Those who learn blockchain and how to utilize them will have a preemptive jump on their competition. You'll discover how to use them, their shortcomings, all about smart contracts, and much more! FinTech: Understanding Financial Technology and Its Radical Disruption of Modern Finance Here we take a 10,000 foot view of financial technology. Everything from future trading, online banking, conducting business, daily living, and much more will be discussed with regard to how they play out in financial technology. You'll discover the exciting opportunities that await in the coming years and how you can capitalize on them. Investing in Ethereum: The Ultimate Guide to Learning - and Profiting From - Cryptocurrencies Ethereum is one of the most profitable and promising platforms to trade cryptocurrency on to date. It's overtaken Bitcoin by leaps and bounds, and there's no indication it's going away either. In this book you'll learn all about this amazing platform, how to trade on it, how set up smart contracts, and how to program the right software to use it. Smart Contracts: How to Use Blockchain Smart Contracts for Crypotcurrency Exchange If blockchains were a house, then smart contracts wou ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Nathan W Wood. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/074316/bk_acx0_074316_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Koban: When Empires Collide: Koban, Volume 7 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 953min
    Koban: When Empires Collide, Volume 7 The end of the main series: Under threat of destruction or servitude to the Empire, facing the fleets of the Ragnar, Finth, and Thack Delos, and the larger force of the Thandol, Mirikami prepares the Federation for all-out war. The Planetary Union, allied with the Federation, receives a squadron of new technology Federation Scouts equipped with gravity controlled weapons. They conduct a preemptive strike on a Thandol base. The emperor blames it on the Federation, unaware of the PU's existence, and orders simultaneous attacks. Mirikami sends teams of Federation Scouts to the Security forces to subvert them. They carry diplomat-soldiers with tough messages. The messages are not well received, and the Kobani must improvise in their typically hostile manner. Unexpectedly, a mystery silver alien, the Silha, demands a meeting with Mirikami and the Olt'kitapi. It seems there are restrictions for species once they achieve advanced gravity control. The Kobani are told of limits they must obey, or else. To a god-like elevated species, survival of primitives is not their concern, so long as they don't use gravity technology in forbidden ways. After Security force fleets attack Federation and PU worlds, Mirikami leads a combined fleet against the Thandol Capitol world. He uses a new tactic that bypasses the weapons limits of the Silha. Vastly outnumbered, he faces the Thandol fleet with a great defense. Book one - Koban Book two - The Mark of Koban Book three - Rise of the Kobani Book four - Shattered Worlds Book five - A Federation Forged in Fire Book six - Conflict and Empire ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Eric Michael Summerer. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/096374/bk_acx0_096374_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Paradox , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 323min
    Thinkers have been fascinated by paradox since long before Aristotle grappled with Zeno's. In this volume in The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Margaret Cuonzo explores paradoxes and the strategies used to solve them. She finds that paradoxes are more than mere puzzles but can prompt new ways of thinking. A paradox can be defined as a set of mutually inconsistent claims, each of which seems true. Paradoxes emerge not just in salons and ivory towers but in everyday life. (An Internet search for "paradox" brings forth a picture of an ashtray with a "no smoking" symbol inscribed on it.) Proposing solutions, Cuonzo writes, is a natural response to paradoxes. She invites us to rethink paradoxes by focusing on strategies for solving them, arguing that there is much to be learned from this, regardless of whether any of the more powerful paradoxes is even capable of solution. Cuonzo offers a catalog of paradox-solving strategies - including the preemptive strike (questioning the paradox itself), the odd guy out (calling one of the assumptions into question), and the you can't get there from here (denying the validity of the reasoning). She argues that certain types of solutions work better in some contexts than others and that as paradoxicality increases, the success of certain strategies grows more unlikely. Cuonzo shows that the processes of paradox generation and solution proposal are interesting and important ones. Discovering a paradox leads to advances in knowledge: New science often stems from attempts to solve paradoxes, and the concepts used in the new sciences lead to new paradoxes. As Niels Bohr wrote, "How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress." ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jo Anna Perrin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/gdan/001670/bk_gdan_001670_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Blockchain: The Ultimate Guide to Understanding the Hidden Economy , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 64min
    Discover how blockchain works, how it's unveiling new possibilities every day, and how you can jump in and benefit from this enormous opportunity. If you have an interest in block chain and cryptocurrencies; if you're fascinated by this new underground network, its egalitarian nature, and its virtually impenetrable security walls; if you're ready to learn the mechanics of this breakthrough network and how to take advantage of it yourself, then there's no reason not to download this audio. Today, blockchains are being called the most important new technology since the World Wide Web. In fact in early 2016, the Russian economics minister called blockchain the most important new technology since the Internet itself. And so you understand blockchains better, try to think of them a bit like Legos - different bricks can be used to create different things depending on your needs and wants, but they all exist under the same Lego banner. In this book you will learn the various ways these digital Legos can be combined and why this unique ability makes them so important when looking toward the future. If you are planning on using a database of any type in the next decade, do yourself a favor and buy this audio today. Are you a business owner looking to get a preemptive jump on the competition? Getting in on blockchain and related technologies could help you boost efficiency, reduce costs, and increase revenue while still keeping shareholders and/or customers happy. You'll learn all about it in this book. In fact, when you download Blockchain: The Ultimate Guide to Understanding the Hidden Economy, you'll discover: The history of blockchain and what makes it so important The multitude of ways a blockchain can be put to use The scenarios where you would and wouldn't use a blockchain The truth about smart contracts and why your business should be using them A step-by-step guid ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Nathan W. Wood. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/065142/bk_acx0_065142_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Shell Game , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 900min
    The events of September 11, 2001, the invasion of Iraq, radical Islamists, an impending showdown with Iran - what do these have in common? Oil. And the world is running out. The Shell Game is far more than a thriller; it is a cautionary tale that exposes the next 9/11 event, a deception that will lead to a retaliatory chemical weapons strike on Iran and the terrorist elements that the regime supports. Though written as fiction, this novel is filled with all-too-real details provided by insiders in the oil industry, military, and Middle Eastern affairs, and extrapolates from real events of the past and presents a future that will lead us down a path of self-destruction, unless we stop the insanity now. In 2007, two CIA spooks meet with an American colonel in military intelligence. The war is going badly, and President Bush, who steadfastly refuses to back down, remains unchallenged at home as Democrats and Republicans focus on the 2008 elections. Meanwhile, Iran's pursuit of nuclear energy will yield enriched uranium by 2012 - uranium that could be used to manufacture suitcase nukes. The US military is too drained to invade Iran, and a preemptive strike is out of the question; unless, that is, a nuclear detonation were to occur in an American city - one in which the uranium can be traced to Iran. A US reprisal would strike a death blow to radical Islam, quell the insurgent violence in Iraq, and yield more oil. Yes, the cost is unthinkable, but doing nothing could result in a dozen suitcase bombs going off in a dozen American cities, bringing anarchy and the collapse of Western civilization. December 2011. Ashley "Ace" Futrell is an oil-industry expert married to Kelli Doyle, a former national security advisor and one of the CIA spooks in the 2007 meeting. When Kelli threatens to expose the plot, Ace finds his existence hurtling down a rabbit hole of deceit, in which the lies of the powerful few could lead to the darkest days of human exis ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Keith Szarabajka. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/009330/bk_blak_009330_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    To the End of the Land , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1579min
    From one of Israel’s most acclaimed writers comes a novel of extraordinary power about family life - the greatest human drama - and the cost of war. Ora, a middle-aged Israeli mother, is on the verge of celebrating her son Ofer’s release from army service when he returns to the front for a major offensive. In a fit of preemptive grief and magical thinking, she sets out for a hike in the Galilee, leaving no forwarding information for the “notifiers” who might darken her door with the worst possible news. Recently estranged from her husband, Ilan, she drags along an unlikely companion: their former best friend and her former lover, Avram, once a brilliant artistic spirit. Avram served in the army alongside Ilan when they were young, but their lives were forever changed one weekend when the two jokingly had Ora draw lots to see which of them would get the few days’ leave being offered by their commander—a chance act that sent Avram into Egpyt and the Yom Kippur War, where he was brutally tortured as POW. In the aftermath, a virtual hermit, he refused to keep in touch with the family and has never met the boy. Now, as Ora and Avram sleep out in the hills, ford rivers, and cross valleys, avoiding all news from the front, she gives him the gift of Ofer, word by word; she supplies the whole story of her motherhood, a retelling that keeps Ofer very much alive for Ora and for the listener, and opens Avram to human bonds undreamed of in his broken world. Their walk has a “war and peace” rhythm, as their conversation places the most hideous trials of war next to the joys and anguish of raising children. Never have we seen so clearly the reality and surreality of daily life in Israel, the currents of ambivalence about war within one household, and the burdens that fall on each generation anew. Grossman’s rich imagining of a family in love and crisis makes for one of the great antiwar novels of our time. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Arthur Morey. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/002406/bk_rand_002406_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Black September: The History and Legacy of the Conflict Between the Palestinians and Jordan in 1970 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 86min
    On May 14, 1948, the British Mandate officially expired. That same day, the Jewish National Council issued the Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel. About 10 minutes later, President Truman officially recognized the State of Israel, and the Soviet Union also quickly recognized Israel. However, the Palestinians and the Arab League did not recognize the new state, and the very next day, armies from Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, and Iraq invaded the former British Mandate to squelch Israel, while Saudi Arabia assisted the Arab armies. Jordan would also get involved in the war, fighting the Israelis around Jerusalem.  Initially, the Arab armies numbered over 20,000 soldiers, but the Zionist militia groups like the Lehi, Irgun, and Haganah made it possible for Israel to quickly assemble the Israel Defense Forces, still known today simply as the IDF. By the end of 1948, the Israelis had over 60,000 soldiers and the Arab armies numbered over 50,000. In early 1949, Israel began signing armistices with Egypt, Jordan, and Syria, which left Israel in control of nearly 75% of the lands that were to be partitioned into the two states under the 1947 plan. Jordan now occupied Judea and Samaria, which later became known as the West Bank due to its position on the western bank of the Jordan River. Jordan also occupied three quarters of Jerusalem, with the Israelis controlling only about a quarter in the western part of the city. To the west, Egypt occupied the Gaza Strip. The new armistice lines became known as the “Green Line”, and the conflict has continued to involve those lines and the issues that were contested in a war now nearly 70 years old. In early June 1967, the Israelis captured Jordanian intelligence that indicated an invasion was imminent. On June 5, the Israelis launched a preemptive attack that knocked out the air forces of its Arab neighbors. Over the next six days, the Israelis overwhelmed the Egyptians in the west, destroying th ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Colin Fluxman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/105061/bk_acx0_105061_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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