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Pikelet's Gift (eBook, ePUB)
Pikelet was a little dog who lived with three big dogs. Being little, but with a big doggie ego, Pikelet tried to boss the big dogs around with his yapping and his attempts to dominate the food bowls. When the big dogs finally got sick of Pikelet's bad behaviour, they ganged up on him. They leased him. They snapped at his tail and stood on his toes. Pikelet got so miserable that one day he decided he had had enough, so he left home and went looking for a smallness cure. At first Pikelet enjoyed being free. A little boy decided that Pikelet was going to be his pet. But Pikelet would have none of that so he took off. Then came the evening, Pikelet was cold, hungry and miserable. He went looking for food in a cafeteria, but the crumbs that fell to the floor were too few to satisfy his hunger. He wandered the streets some more, jumping in fright at every loud sound. Then Pikelet encountered a homeless man. The man gave him bit of food and a warm bed for the night. He told Pikelet that he's better get used to being small as nothing would ever change that. When PIkelet woke up that morning he decided that leaving home had been a bad idea. He realised that he was going to be small for the rest of his life and that he had better get used to it. When he got home he was welcomed by the big dogs. There were apologies all round. After that the yard was a peaceful place and they all got along very well together.- Shop: buecher
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Drowning in Oil: BP & the Reckless Pursuit of Profit , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 483min
As night settled on April 20, 2010, a series of explosions rocked Deepwater Horizon, the immense semisubmersible drilling platform leased by British Petroleum, located 40 miles off the Louisiana coast. The ensuing inferno claimed 11 lives and would rage uncontained for three days until its wreckage sank to a final resting place nearly a mile beneath the waves. On the ocean floor, the unit’s wellhead erupted. Over the next 10 weeks, as repeated attempts to cap the geyser failed, an estimated 1.7 million gallons of oil - the equivalent of 15 Exxon Valdez spills - spewed into the Gulf of Mexico, eventually lapping up on beaches as far away as Florida.Drowning in Oil, by award-winning business writer Loren Steffy - considered by many to be the writer with the best access to the story - is an unprecedented and gripping narrative of this catastrophe and how BP’s winner-take-all business culture made it all but inevitable. Through never-before-published interviews with BP executives and employees, environmental experts, and oil industry insiders, Steffy takes us behind the scenes of 100 years of BP corporate history.Beginning with the conglomerate’s early gambits in the Middle East to its recent ascent among energy titans, Steffy unearths the roots of the Gulf oil spill in the unwritten bargain between oil producers and consumers, whose insatiable appetites drive the search for new supplies faster, farther, and deeper. Beyond this, the Deepwater Horizon disaster was caused by BP’s reckless cost-cutting in pursuit of profits, particularly under the guidance of its two most recent ex-CEOs, John Browne and Anthony Hayward.Exhaustively researched and documented, Drowning in Oil is the first in-depth examination of how a lack of corporate responsibility and government oversight led to the biggest offshore oil spill in US history. It is an objective, definitive account of the energy industry and BP's pursuit of profit at any cost. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Loren C. Steffy. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/209091/bk_acx0_209091_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Slavery in Ancient Greece: The History of Slaves Across the Greek City-States , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 82min
Slavery was a universal and totally accepted feature of ancient Greek society, so much so that while the conditions under which slaves lived and worked varied considerably, many ordinary citizens kept at least one slave, often working alongside their owners, while larger commercial enterprises involved huge numbers, many of whom could rise to positions of authority and wealth. It was possible for some slaves to buy their freedom, while others lived and died in conditions of appalling brutality, notably in the silver mines at Laurium. The revenues from these mines paid for the fleet with which Athens defeated Xerxes and were the basis of the Attic owls, the four drachma coins that revolutionized the Athenian economy. The mines were often leased to contractors and worked by slaves and condemned criminals. The galleries averaged approximately three and a half feet in height, so most miners had to work on their hands and knees. Another specific group of slaves that suffered particularly brutal treatment was the pornai, slaves used in the brothels as prostitutes. While those sound like the conditions of slavery people are accustomed to hearing about in more modern times, other forms of slavery in Greece were quite unique, and perhaps fittingly, Sparta might have had the most unusual system of all. Sparta will forever be known for its military prowess, but the importance the Spartans placed upon being a warrior society meant their way of life was entirely dependent on a class of indentured servants known as the helots. The Spartans needed the helots to maintain the domestic front, but they also frequently brought helots to the battlefield with them, and they repeatedly had to turn their own hoplites on unruly helots to suppress potential rebellions. As this makes clear, however unpalatable it may be to modern historians who expound on the virtues of the Greek legacy to western civilization, it is indisputably the case that slavery constituted a central pa ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ken Teutsch. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/075632/bk_acx0_075632_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Shea Stadium Remembered
Few remember that Shea Stadium?and indeed the Mets baseball club itself?arose out of a dispute between two oversized egos: New York City official Robert Moses and Brooklyn Dodgers owner Walter O'Malley. While O'Malley wanted complete control over a new stadium and all of its concessions in Brooklyn, Moses insisted that the stadium be built by the city in Queens and leased to the Dodgers. The impasse led to the Dodgers following the Giants out to the West Coast, where The City of Los Angeles granted O'Malley all of the concessions he had sought in New York. With now no National League team in the New York area, the National League office awarded a new franchise to the city in 1960 on conditional that it fund and build a new stadium, which the Mets (and later the AFL Jets) would lease. The stadium was named in honor of William Shea, the person most responsible for returning National League baseball to New York.Over its forty-four year existence Shea Stadium witnessed a colorful cavalcade of sporting and entertainment events, all detailed in this lively, skimable tribute to a memorable New York landmark.It's all here: the memorable games; the unforgettable characters such as Tom Seaver, Joe "Willie? Namath, and Seinfeld buddy Keith Hernandez; and even the solemn moments such as when Shea was used as a staging area for first responders after 9/11. By the time of its demolition in 2008, the Mets had played more games at Shea than the Dodgers had ever played at Ebbets Field, and the stadium had hosted seven National League Championship Series, four World Series, three Jets playoff games, and the American Football League Championship game in 1968.- Shop: buecher
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Far from the Madding Crowd , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 914min
Gabriel Oak is a young shepherd. With the savings of a frugal life and a loan, he has leased and stocked a sheep farm. He falls in love with a newcomer eight years his junior, Bathsheba Everdene, a proud beauty who arrives to live with her aunt, Mrs. Hurst. She comes to like him well enough and even saves his life once, but when he makes her an unadorned offer of marriage, she refuses; she values her independence too much and him too little. Gabriel's blunt protestations serve only to drive her to haughtiness. After a few months, she moves to Weatherbury, a village some miles off. When next they meet, their circumstances have changed drastically. An inexperienced new sheepdog drives Gabriel's flock over a cliff, ruining him. After selling off everything of value, he manages to settle all his debts but emerges penniless. He seeks employment at a work fair in the town of Casterbridge (a fictionalized version of Dorchester). When he finds none, he heads to another fair in Shottsford, a town about 10 miles from Weatherbury. On the way, he happens upon a dangerous fire on a farm and leads the bystanders in putting it out. When the veiled owner comes to thank him, he asks if she needs a shepherd. She uncovers her face and reveals herself to be none other than Bathsheba. She has recently inherited the estate of her uncle and is now a wealthy woman. Though somewhat uncomfortable, she hires him. Meanwhile, Bathsheba has a new admirer: the lonely and repressed William Boldwood. Boldwood is a prosperous farmer of about 40 whose ardor Bathsheba unwittingly awakens when - her curiosity piqued because he has never bestowed on her the customary admiring glance - she playfully sends him a valentine sealed with red wax on which she has embossed the words "marry me". Boldwood, not realizing the valentine was a jest, becomes obsessed with Bathsheba and soon proposes marriage. Although she does not love him, she toys with the idea of accepting his offer; h ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Davina Porter. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/reco/009214/bk_reco_009214_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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How to Master 13 Negotiating Skills and Win in Business , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 106min
There have been a few major failures in my 25 years of business that I have talked about on my podcast show a few times. Admitting my own failure isn't easy to do, but I knew in order to move on, I would have to face my failure, deal with it and put it behind me. But more importantly analyze and pinpoint what and why I lost in those deals. There is a valuable lesson to be learned in every failure. Although there is a very high cost, they are valuable, and I took them to heart. In 25 years; I have owned, leased, operated, bought and sold over 20 different types of businesses. They have ranged from restaurants to wholesale route sales and everything in between. Looking back I can say with confidence that all the ones I was successful at had one thing in common: a great negotiation that leads to a great deal either in the lease/rent or price. This is the most essential skill needed for any new business. Looking back on the ones where I failed, I know where I went wrong. Again they all had one thing in common: I was too eager and desperate to pay attention to the details and agreed too easily to the terms I was offered. When I started in the business, there wasn't a mentor or a book that taught me how to actually negotiate in business. Rather, I did what came naturally to me; little did I know that a common sense approach to business negotiations is not the best idea. It is really like a game of tough folks, where the one who doesn't blink wins. If this sounds strange, that's because it is strange but that's the reality. Over the years I learned to play the game of negotiation well as I had to practice it often in various business ventures. Business negotiation is one skill no one is born with, nor should you "learn on the go" because the stakes are too high. Looking back at my very first deal to the last one, the journey has been painfully long and at times it cost me dearly. But one thing I will say is that most of the costly mistakes ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Randal Schaffer. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/067339/bk_acx0_067339_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Art Of Commercial Real Estate Leasing
The Art Of Commercial Real Estate Leasing - How To Lease A Commercial Building And Keep It Leased: ab 16.99 €- Shop: ebook.de
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Leased territories in Guangdong China. A comparative study
Leased territories in Guangdong China. A comparative study: ab 34.99 €- Shop: ebook.de
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The Urban Farmer
The Urban Farmer - Growing Food for Profit on Leased and Borrowed Land: ab 27.99 €- Shop: ebook.de
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