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  State Building (eBook, ePUB)

  Weak or failed states - where no government is in control - are the source of many of the world's most serious problems, from poverty, AIDS and drugs to terrorism. What can be done to help? The problem of weak states and the need for state-building has existed for many years, but it has been urgent since September 11 and Afghanistan and Iraq. The formation of proper public institutions, such as an honest police force, uncorrupted courts, functioning schools and medical services and a strong civil service, is fraught with difficulties. We know how to help with resources, people and technology across borders, but state building requires methods that are not easily transported. The ability to create healthy states from nothing has suddenly risen to the top of the world agenda. State building has become a crucial matter of global security. In this hugely important book, Francis Fukuyama explains the concept of state-building and discusses the problems and causes of state weakness and its national and international effects.

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  Gallant Bride: Brides of Montclair, Book 6 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 492min

  Blythe gazed into his eyes. It seemed as if she were looking into his very soul. Could she read genuine repentance there... or just regret that he had brought shame to himself, disgraced his family? Suddenly, she knew. This was the real Malcolm - before the War, before Rose died, before his life became a wasteland. She saw the Malcolm who remained uncorrupted - gentle, intelligent, gallant before tragedy and loss took their bitter toll. Could she help reclaim that man - whole, healthy, with renewed vigor and pride in himself and his heritage? Hope stirred in Blythe's heart. Yes! Yes, with God's help, she could. In 1870, Blythe Dorman, the high-spirited daughter of a prosperous Western rancher, falls hopelessly in love with a mysterious stranger , where instead of the happiness she anticipated, Blythe finds only disillusionment and loneliness. The unselfish commitment and undiscouragable love that Blythe expends in her gallant struggles to heal a star-crossed marriage frame the poignant plot of Gallant Bride. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Renee Raudman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/zond/001147/bk_zond_001147_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Between the Devil and Desire: Scoundrels of St. James, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 675min

  London's most notorious rogue - decadent, depraved, forbidden: The ladies of the town won't stop whispering about deliciously wicked Jack Dodger - once a thieving street urchin, now the wealthy owner of London's most exclusive gentleman's club. There's no pleasure he hasn't enjoyed, no debauchery the handsome scoundrel won't provide for the lords who flock to his house of carnal intrigue. London's most virtuous lady - honorable, uncorrupted, and all too human: Olivia, Duchess of Lovingdon, would never associate with such a rogue. So when Jack is named sole heir to the duke's personal possessions, the beautiful, well-bred lady is outraged. Now, Olivia is forced to share her beloved home with this despicable man. But Olivia's icy disdain is no match for Jack's dangerous charm. His touch awakens desire. His kiss demands surrender. She will struggle to bar Jack from her heart....but her body, coveting divine release, will not let her bar him from her bed. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Susan Ericksen, Antony Ferguson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/000784/bk_acx0_000784_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Unlocking the Secrets of 2012 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 212min

  Did the ancient Mayans predict that the "world will end" in 2012 - or is that a modern misinterpretation of their true message? Respected author and researcher John Major Jenkins goes to the source to find the surprising answers: the original Mayan calendar found in the city of Izapa.Learn how the Mayan mystics based their myths and prophecies on a deep understanding of cycles, their beginnings, their endings, and how the impending cycle ending impacts our lives. According to Jenkins, the Mayan legacy offers the following teachings to help us understand 2012:What is the Galactic Alignment? The astronomical phenomenon predicted by the Mayans, and how it will affect us.Izapa as the origin place of the 2012 calendar and the "uncorrupted vision" of the early Mayan skywatchers.Living at the end of a cycle and practices drawn from Mayan spirituality that we can apply in our everyday lives.Beyond 2012 - transforming our consciousness so we can create and nurture a better world, and more. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John Major Jenkins. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/true/000269/bk_true_000269_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  A Bad Night’s Sleep: The Joseph Kozmarski Series, Book 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 394min

  Michael Wiley’s third mystery—following The Bad Kitty Lounge and the Shamus-nominated The Last Striptease Working late-night surveillance at a luxury condominium development in a city world famous for corruption, Chicago private detective Joe Kozmarski encounters a burglary crew. Two of the crew members show up in a police cruiser. In the chaos that follows, Kozmarski shoots and kills a thief, who is also one of Chicago’s finest. Kozmarski is in for many a bad night’s sleep. Kozmarski joins the criminal crew, working as an inside agent for his old friend Lieutenant Bill Gubman. Facing dangerous suspicions from both the criminal gang and the uncorrupted ranks of the police department, uncertain who wishes him to stay alive and who wishes him dead, Kozmarski takes a wild, dangerous ride. In the high-end spa club for gentlemen and couples, during a showdown with a consortium of Chicago street gangs, and in a breakneck rooftop chase, A Bad Night’s Sleep pushes full throttle to a stunning conclusion. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Johnny Heller. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/004376/bk_blak_004376_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Aran Island , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 361min

  J.M. Synge, one of the greatest English language playwrites of the 20th century, immortalized the Aran Islands and its people with vivid written portraits that are among the greatest in modern literature. Synge’s vibrant language and earthy themes breathtakingly capture the folklore and way of life that has since perished on these remote northern islands. As an aspiring writer in 1897, Synge was commanded by William Butler Yeats to, “Go to the Aran Islands. Live there as one of the people themselves; express a life that has never found expression.” Synge captures his first four visits to the islands in this magical book. However, their influence continued to permeate his work, including The Playboy of the Western World. Filled with the exuberant energy of an artist coming into his own, The Aran Islands provides an unforgettable look at a land that holds Ireland’s ancestral language, culture and uncorrupted heart. Synge’s lyrical glimpses into the past, coupled with Donal Donnelly’s rich, lilting voice transports listeners to these tiny Emerald Islands. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Donal Donnelly. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/reco/005283/bk_reco_005283_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Her Beast: A Dark Romance : Beauty and the Captor, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 237min

  A dark beast. A disenchanted beauty...and a dangerous game of lust that she can’t resist.Derek Beautiful. Pure. Flawless. The girl made my body burn with lust. I'm the monster from her nightmares. And Scarlett? She’s still an innocent, naive, and uncorrupted doll. She’s about to lose everything. She just doesn’t know it yet. Scar Captured. Taken. About to be Broken. That was when my life changed forever. Forced into a world full of darkness and terror. Where there is no sight. Where there is no sound. Only a dangerous and beautiful beast in the dark. He is punishing me for every mistake I make. He is training me, preparing me for what’s going to happen next. Slowly, my body is learning to crave.... His dominant voice. His gentle touch. His acts of kindness. It's hot and forbidden, but somehow...familiar. And now, he is about to claim the one thing I am not ready to give....My soul. Warning: Dark, dirty, forbidden, and hot as hell. This is a dark romance that contains captivity and scenes some will find disturbing. It is intended for mature audiences only. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Christopher Boucher, Jessica Threet. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/150166/bk_acx0_150166_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Ace of Shades , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 732min

  Welcome to the City of Sin, where casino families reign, gangs infest the streets...and secrets hide in every shadow Enne Salta was raised as a proper young lady, and no lady would willingly visit New Reynes, the so-called City of Sin. But when her mother goes missing, Enne must leave her finishing school - and her reputation - behind to follow her mother's trail to the city where no one survives uncorrupted. Frightened and alone, her only lead is a name: Levi Glaisyer. Unfortunately, Levi is not the gentleman she expected - he's a street lord and con man. Levi is also only one payment away from cleaning up a rapidly unraveling investment scam, so he doesn't have time to investigate a woman leading a dangerous double life. Enne's offer of compensation, however, could be the solution to all his problems. Their search for clues leads them through glamorous casinos and illicit cabarets and into the clutches of a ruthless Mafia donna. As Enne unearths an impossible secret about her past, Levi's enemies catch up to them, ensnaring him in a vicious execution game where the players always lose. To save him, Enne will need to surrender herself to the city...and she'll need to play. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Saskia Maarleveld. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/011479/bk_blak_011479_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Willing Spirit , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 557min

  Hari, a remarkably well-set-up young lad, has spent his entire life in a small village with his pious widowed mother, and the purity of his soul is largely uncorrupted by worldly sophistication. But now, poised on the brink of manhood, he feels himself moved by strange new urgings - urgings that will lead him far from the quiet life he has known. Though these strings are unfamiliar to him, virtuous Hari recognizes them for what they are: a hunger for spiritual enlightenment. As so many have before, he sets his feet upon the pilgrim's path, becoming a wanderer in search of true wisdom. But who can know the ways of the gods, or foretell the twists of fortune? Unbeknownst to Hari, his quest has become the subject of wager between two immortals: Mohini, a pulchritudinous Apsara and the vilely demonic Ravana, who lusts after her. Mohini and Ravana are at an impasse. Both are weary of arguing with each other - but while Mohini's idea of a happy outcome is to have Ravana go away and leave her alone, Ravana's ideas run along other lines entirely. They settle upon a contest and a wager, with the loser bound to do the winner's bidding. Verily, the sages have written that there is a seeker born every minute, but Hari's journey of discovery is fated to be stranger - and far livelier - than most. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Deepti Gupta. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/022127/bk_adbl_022127_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Gallows Thief , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 664min

  1820s Britain: after the wars with France, when unemployment was high and soldiers could be paid off, when the government was desperately afraid of social unrest, any crime was drastically punished and thousands were hung. But one could petition the King and an investigation might ensue.… The man in the dark cell in Newgate Prison was due to hang in a week. He had been found guilty of murdering the aristocrat whose portrait he was painting. He claimed to be innocent - but then the hangman had never hung a guilty man, he said. But even in 1820, the Home Secretary could occasionally use his powers to grant mercy if his investigator found cause and Rider Sandman, once of the First Foot Guards, is given the job. Rider Sandman, a hero of Waterloo, has family debts to repay but when his first steps in the investigations produce a sizeable bribe to look the other way, this only arouses his smouldering anger over the condition of England, a country which he and others in Wellington's army had fought to preserve. Stepping between gentlemen's clubs and taverns, talking to aristocrats, fashionable painters, their models, and their mistresses, dodging professional cut-throats and deceptive swordsmen, Sandman uncovers a conspiracy of silence, a group whose proudest boast was that they would do anything for any one of them. Sandman is a wonderful character, as yet undaunted by the sleazy streets, dank jails, or the looming scaffold, and uncorrupted by politicians, sneering gentlemen, or frightening bruisers, an investigator in the making and a brilliant, but very different, hero for all Bernard Cornwell fans. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jonathan Keeble. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hcuk/001804/bk_hcuk_001804_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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