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  Game Theory: A Very Short Introduction

  Games are everywhere: Drivers manoeuvring in heavy traffic are playing a driving game. Bargain hunters bidding on eBay are playing an auctioning game. A firm negotiating next year's wage is playing a bargaining game. The opposing candidates in an election are playing a political game. The supermarket's price for corn flakes is decided by playing an economic game. Game theory is about how to play such games in a rational way. Even when the players have not thought everything out in advance, game theory often works for the same reason that mindless animals sometimes end up behaving very cleverly: evolutionary forces eliminate irrational play because it is unfit. Game theory has seen spectacular successes in evolutionary biology and economics, and is beginning to revolutionize other disciplines from psychology to political science. This Very Short Introduction introduces the fascinating world of game theory, showing how it can be understood without mathematical equations, and revealing that everything from how to play poker optimally to the sex ratio among bees can be understood by anyone willing to think seriously about theproblem.

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  Sophie's Menage: The Key Club, Book 4 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 127min, (USK 18)

  It's Ménage Night at the Key Club and Sophie is finally taking the plunge back into the spank scene. She didn't count on her two hunky ex-flames to be there, or for their renewed interest in her. They're the only men she'd ever wanted to be in a serious romantic ménage relationship with, but she's determined not to submit to her naughty desires where they're concerned, especially after the way they'd left her. Surely a bit of harmless teasing is in order to show them what could have had. Steve and Eric are back in town and they can't wait to bend their sweet, timid hairstylist over their knees to give her the sensual spankings she craves. But the surprise is on them when they catch her auctioning herself to the highest bidder. Who knew the shy little firecracker could be such a sultry tease? Or that she wasn't going to be easily led back to their bed. The Key Club Series 1. Ménage 2. Marley's Ménage 3. A Merry Ménage Christmas 4. Sophie's Ménage 5. Jewel's Ménage 6. Jaxie's Menage ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Teri Clark Linden. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/095438/bk_acx0_095438_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 448min

  The unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Michael J. Sandel's What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets, read by the author himself. Should we pay children to read books or to get good grades? Is it ethical to pay people to test risky new drugs or to donate their organs? What about hiring mercenaries to fight our wars, outsourcing inmates to for-profit prisons, auctioning admission to elite universities, or selling citizenship to immigrants willing to pay? Isn't there something wrong with a world in which everything is for sale? In recent decades, market values have crowded out nonmarket norms in almost every aspect of life - medicine, education, government, law, art, sports, even family life and personal relations. Without quite realizing it, Sandel argues, we have drifted from having a market economy to being a market society. In What Money Can't Buy, Sandel examines one of the biggest ethical questions of our time and provokes a debate that's been missing in our market-driven age: What is the proper role of markets in a democratic society, and how can we protect the moral and civic goods that markets do not honour and money cannot buy? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Michael J Sandel. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/pauk/000252/bk_pauk_000252_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Cut and Run , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 585min

  Six years ago, witness protection marshal Roland Larson did the unthinkable: he fell in love with a protected witness, Hope Stevens, whose testimony was to put away prominent members of the Romero crime family. When Hope's plan to "cut and run" is interrupted by both the government and the mob, she disappears into a new identity, taking with her not only her testimony but a secret never shared with Larson.Larson, who has been looking for her ever since, is put back on her trail when the Romeros intercept the master WITSEC list from the Justice Department, and Hope is believed among the first protected witnesses to be targeted for execution.In a series of terrifying encounters, Larson matches wits with a brutally ingenious killer whose sole target is Hope Stevens. For Larson, the stakes couldn't be higher - he must find Hope in order to protect her and simultaneously prevent the mob from auctioning off the master witness protection list - an act that will put 7,000 innocent, and not-so-innocent, lives in jeopardy.Taut and edge-of-the-seat compelling, Cut and Run is a unique thriller that skillfully blends romance and suspense - Ridley Pearson at his heart-pounding best. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dick Hill. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/000274/bk_brll_000274_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The end of Privacy: Curious Reads , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 219min

  In this forceful, short audiobook, technology guru and author of the best-selling Social Media is Bull (St. Martins Press) B. J. Mendelson exposes the crude reality behind the smiley face of Internet networking: data trading. We are all auctioning our personal information, the audiobook argues, to the highest bidder. Mendelson discusses the end of privacy from a contemporary perspective, including chapters on: Metadata and its uses Data auctions The Internet of Things The use of social media for surveillance and suppression Just how safe is Cloud technology The Big Business of Big Data How online retailers stalk, without permission, their customers Anonymous and web activism The internet's dark side: Silk Road, hacking, extortio  EFF and other bodies promoting internet user rights When we talk about the so-called "end of privacy", we conjure up images of state-run agencies secretly monitoring and recording our every move. Whilst this is the case, the true perpetrator in this permeating culture of intrusion is not a third party; its our very selves. We willingly broadcast every moment of our lives in exchange for a moment's worth of virtual attention. Mendelson, artfully and through personal narratives and journalism, tells the story of how we have undermined one of our greatest societal assets. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Roger Wayne. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/108428/bk_acx0_108428_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Alien Captive's Abduction: A Sci-Fi Alien Abduction Romance , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 291min

  They want to auction you away. I’m going to make sure that doesn’t happen. Atropos has wings that make him look intimidating. He’s considered a brute by many but is actually very intelligent and sensitive. He has always lived in his brother’s shadow and has never tried to stand on his own before. After settling into her bed one night, Amber wakes to a bright light that lifts her from her bed and then renders her unconscious. The next thing she knows, she’s waking up on an alien ship.  She soon realizes that the man she’s been seeing was an alien. She’s told she can’t go back to Earth now after seeing them. Atropos tries to make her stay more comfortable by bringing her things from Earth for familiarity. Atropos spends more and more time with Amber, and their love blossoms. Unfortunately for them, Atropos has an older brother who has other plans for her race, like holding them captive and auctioning them off to the black market to be used as captive incubators. Will she and Atropos be able to save her fellow humans from being auctioned off? Will Amber get to live the life she wants, rather than living a forced one? Alien Captive's Abduction is book 3 of the Alien Abduction series. It is a sci-fi alien romance novel with NO cheating, NO cliffhangers, and a happy ending!" ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dorinda Ravish. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/196331/bk_acx0_196331_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Oligarchs: Wealth and Power in the New Russia , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1370min

  A brilliant investigative marrative: How six average Soviet men rose to the pinnacle of Russia's battered economy. David Hoffman, former Moscow bureau chief for The Washington Post, sheds light onto the hidden lives of Russia's most feared power brokers: the oligarchs. Focusing on six of these ruthless men Hoffman reveals how a few players managed to take over Russia's cash-strapped economy and then divvy it up in loans-for-shares deals. Before perestroika, these men were normal Soviet citizens, stuck in a dead-end system, claustrophobic apartments, and long bread lines. But as Communism loosened, they found gaps in the economy and reaped huge fortunes by getting their hands on fast money. They were entrepreneurs. As the government weakened and their businesses flourished, they grew greedier. Now the stakes were higher. The state was auctioning off its own assets to the highest bidder. The tycoons go on wild borrowing sprees, taking billions of dollars from gullible western lenders. Meanwhile, Russia is building up a debt bomb. When the ruble finally collapses and Russia defaults, the tycoons try to save themselves by hiding their assets and running for cover. They turn against one another as each one faces a stark choice - annihilate or be annihilated. The story of the old Russia was spies, dissidents, and missiles. This is the new Russia, where civil society and the rule of law have little or no meaning. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Steve Coulter. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/017176/bk_adbl_017176_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  A Rose in Winter

  The fairest flower in Mawbry is Erienne Fleming, the enchanting, raven-haired daughter of the village mayor. Charming, spirited and exquisitely lovely, she is beset on all sides by suitors, any one of whom would pay a king's fortune for a place in her heart. But Erienne has eyes for only one: the dashing and witty young Yankee, Christopher Seton.But marriage for love is not to be, for her irresponsible and unscrupulous father, crippled by gambling debts, is intent on auctioning off his beautiful daughter to the highest bidder. And in the end, Erienne is devastated to find it is the strange and secretive Lord Saxton who has purchased her--a mysterious, tragic figure who wears a mask and a cloak at all times to hide disfiguring scars gained in a terrible fire some years back.But in the passing days, Saxton's true nature is revealed to her. A gentle and adoring soul, he treats his new bride with warmth and abiding tenderness, yet appears to her only by daylight. She, in turn, vows to be a good and loyal wife to him. And then Christopher Seton reenters Erienne's world.Conflicted by emotions she cannot suppress, Erienne valiantly attempts to remain honorable to her elusive, enigmatic husband but feels herself irresistibly drawn to Seton's passion, his fire, and his secrets. Entangled in intrigues she doesn't yet understand, Erienne Fleming will soon have to make a devastating choice: between love and honor...between her duty and her heart.

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  Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 715min

  The dramatic story behind the most audacious power grab in American history. The financial crisis that exploded in 2008 isn’t past but prologue. The stunning rise, fall, and rescue of Wall Street in the bubble-and-bailout era was the coming-out party for the network of looters who sit at the nexus of American political and economic power. The grifter class - made up of the largest players in the financial industry and the politicians who do their bidding - has been growing in power for a generation, transferring wealth upward through increasingly complex financial mechanisms and political maneuvers. Rolling Stone’s Matt Taibbi here unravels the whole fiendish story, digging beyond the headlines to get into the deeper roots and wider implications of the rise of the grifters. He traces the movement’s origins to the cult of Ayn Rand and her most influential - and possibly weirdest - acolyte, Alan Greenspan, and offers fresh reporting on the backroom deals that decided the winners and losers in the government bailouts. He uncovers the hidden commodities bubble that transferred billions of dollars to Wall Street while creating food shortages around the world, and he shows how finance dominates politics, from the story of investment bankers auctioning off America’s infrastructure to an inside account of the high-stakes battle for health-care reform - a battle the true reformers lost. Finally, he tells the story of Goldman Sachs, the “vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity”. Taibbi has combined deep sources, trailblazing reportage, and provocative analysis to create the most lucid, emotionally galvanizing, and scathingly funny account yet written of the ongoing political and financial crisis in America. This is essential listening for anyone who wants to understand the labyrinthine inner workings of politics and finance in this country, and the profound consequences for us all. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Patrick Egan. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/002444/bk_rand_002444_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  What Money Can't Buy (eBook, ePUB)

  Should we pay children to read books or to get good grades? Should we allow corporations to pay for the right to pollute the atmosphere? Is it ethical to pay people to test risky new drugs or to donate their organs? What about hiring mercenaries to fight our wars? Auctioning admission to elite universities? Selling citizenship to immigrants willing to pay?In What Money Can’t Buy, Michael J. Sandel takes on one of the biggest ethical questions of our time: Is there something wrong with a world in which everything is for sale? If so, how can we prevent market values from reaching into spheres of life where they don’t belong? What are the moral limits of markets?In recent decades, market values have crowded out nonmarket norms in almost every aspect of life—medicine, education, government, law, art, sports, even family life and personal relations. Without quite realizing it, Sandel argues, we have drifted from having a market economy to being a market society. Is this where we want to be?In his New York Times bestseller Justice, Sandel showed himself to be a master at illuminating, with clarity and verve, the hard moral questions we confront in our everyday lives. Now, in What Money Can’t Buy, he provokes an essential discussion that we, in our market-driven age, need to have: What is the proper role of markets in a democratic society—and how can we protect the moral and civic goods that markets don’t honor and that money can’t buy?

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