21 Results for : demonstrably
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Arms and the Man , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 142min
Arms and the Man by George Bernard Shaw: Presented by The Online Stage. In Biography for Beginners, a collection of sarcastic quatrains about various celebrities, Edmund Clerihew Bentley wrote: Mr Bernard Shaw Was just setting out for the war, When he heard it was a dangerous trade And demonstrably underpaid. This rather unkind stanza is illustrative of Shaw's convenient pacifism, which forms the major theme of this play. For Shaw, war was an anachronistic form of barbarism - in his view, people ought to be able to resolve their differences through intelligent and spirited discourse. The action of the play, which occurs during a conflict on the Balkans, is initiated by the discovery by Raina, the daughter of an military officer, of a man who has taken refuge in her bedroom. Unfortunately, the man belongs to the opposing army. How will she deal with a notional enemy who behaves with such quixotic courtesy? Cast Narrator - Noel Badrian Captain Bluntschli - Rob Goll Major Petkoff - Peter Tucker Officer/ Major Sergius Saranoff - Jeff Moon Catherine Petkoff - Sarah Mitchell Nicola - Craig Franklin Raina Petkoff - Amanda Friday Louka - Anna Grace Audio edited by Denis Daly ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Noel Badrian, Rob Goll, Jeff Moon, Sarah Mitchell, Craig Franklin, Amanda Friday, Anna Grace. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/mike/002843/bk_mike_002843_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Who Is This Man?: The Unpredictable Impact of the Inescapable Jesus , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 460min
Jesus' impact on our world is highly unlikely, widely inescapable, largely unknown, and decidedly double-edged. It is unlikely in light of the severe limitations of his earthly life; it is inescapable because of the range of his impact; it is unknown because history doesn't connect dots; and it is doubled-edged because his followers have wreaked so much havoc, often in his name. He is history's most familiar figure, yet he is the man no one knows. His impact on the world is immense and non-accidental. From the Dark Ages to Post-Modernity, he is the Man who won't go away. And yet... you can miss him in historical lists for many reasons, maybe the most obvious being the way he lived his life. He did not loudly and demonstrably defend his movement in the spirit of a rising political or military leader. He did not lay out a case that history would judge his brand of belief superior in all future books. His life and teaching simply drew people to follow him. He made history by starting in a humble place, in a spirit of love and acceptance, and allowing each person space to respond. His vision of life continues to haunt and challenge humanity. His influence has swept over history, bringing inspiration to what has happened in art, science, government, medicine, and education; he has taught humans about dignity, compassion, forgiveness, and hope. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Arthur Morey. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/zond/001353/bk_zond_001353_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Breach of Trust: How Americans Failed Their Soldiers and Their Country , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 426min
A blistering critique of the gulf between America’s soldiers and the society that sends them off to war, from the best-selling author of The Limits of Power and Washington Rules. The United States has been "at war" for more than a decade. Yet as war has become normalized, a yawning gap has opened between America’s soldiers and the society in whose name they fight. For ordinary citizens, as former secretary of defense Robert Gates has acknowledged, armed conflict has become an "abstraction" and military service "something for other people to do". In Breach of Trust, best-selling author Andrew Bacevich takes stock of the separation between Americans and their military, tracing its origins to the Vietnam era and exploring its pernicious implications: a nation with an abiding appetite for war waged at enormous expense by a standing army demonstrably unable to achieve victory. Among the collateral casualties are values once considered central to democratic practice, including the principle that responsibility for defending the country should rest with its citizens. Citing figures as diverse as the martyr-theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the marine-turned-anti-warrior Smedley Butler, Breach of Trust summons Americans to restore that principle. Rather than something for "other people" to do, national defense should become the business of "we the people". Should Americans refuse to shoulder this responsibility, Bacevich warns, the prospect of endless war, waged by a "foreign legion" of professionals and contractor-mercenaries, beckons. So too does bankruptcy - moral as well as fiscal. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Sean Runnette. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/aren/001653/bk_aren_001653_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Power Paradox: How We Gain and Lose Influence , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 277min
A revolutionary and timely reconsideration of everything we know about power. Celebrated UC Berkeley psychologist Dr. Dacher Keltner argues that compassion and selflessness enable us to have the most influence over others, and the result is power as a force for good in the world. It is taken for granted that power corrupts. This is reinforced culturally by everything from Machiavelli to contemporary politics. But how do we get power? And how does it change our behavior? So often, in spite of our best intentions, we lose our hard-won power. Enduring power comes from empathy and giving. Above all, power is given to us by other people. This is what all too often we forget and what Dr. Keltner sets straight. This is the crux of the power paradox: By fundamentally misunderstanding the behaviors that helped us to gain power in the first place, we set ourselves up to fall from power. We can't retain power because we've never understood it correctly - until now. Power isn't the capacity to act in cruel and uncaring ways; it is the ability to do good for others, expressed in daily life, and itself a good a thing. Dr. Keltner lays out exactly - in 20 original "Power Principles" - how to retain power, why power can be a demonstrably good thing, and the terrible consequences of letting those around us languish in powerlessness. Includes bonus PDF with images, graphs, and exercises. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kaleo Griffith. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/peng/002820/bk_peng_002820_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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God Is Alive and Well: The Future of Religion in America , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 453min
Popular books such as The God Delusion have dismissed religion as a delusional artifact of evolution and ancient superstitions. But should millions of Americans' statements of belief and their behavior be dismissed that quickly? The pattern of religious influence in American society suggests mass consequence rather than mass delusion. In God Is Alive and Well, Frank Newport, Gallup's Editor-in-Chief, provides a new evidence-based analysis of Americans' religious beliefs and practices - and bold predictions about religion's future in the U.S. Most Americans are at least marginally religious, significantly more so than in most developed nations around the world. The majority of Americans believe in God and say that religion is important in their daily lives. And Americans routinely participate in religious rituals. Levels of religious consciousness are not distributed equally. Systematic patterns of differences in religion occur with surprising regularity. An American's religiosity is very much bound up with social position and geographic space. There is an important interplay between religion and life status factors - age, gender, marital status, having children - and with achieved status distinctions - class, education, income. Those who are most religious are demonstrably different across a wide spectrum of outcomes from those who are not. These include lifestyle choices, social participation, ideology, partisanship, and views on political and social issues. Religion can be the driver for highly disruptive social behaviors, up to and including the taking of human life. Unlike citizens of any other country in the world, Americans group themselves into hundreds of distinct micro religious groups and denominations. These groups are constantly evolving, splitting like amoeba to form new groups. The most common pattern today is the development of the "no name" religious group, consisting of Americans who worship only under ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Adam Grupper. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/008232/bk_brll_008232_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 585min
From one of the world's most highly regarded social scientists, a transformative book on the habits of mind that lead to the best predictions. Everyone would benefit from seeing further into the future, whether buying stocks, crafting policy, launching a new product, or simply planning the week's meals. Unfortunately people tend to be terrible forecasters. As Wharton professor Philip Tetlock showed in a landmark 2005 study, even experts' predictions are only slightly better than chance. However, an important and underreported conclusion of that study was that some experts do have real foresight, and Tetlock has spent the past decade trying to figure out why. What makes some people so good? And can this talent be taught? In Superforecasting, Tetlock and coauthor Dan Gardner offer a masterwork on prediction, drawing on decades of research and the results of a massive, government-funded forecasting tournament. The Good Judgment Project involves tens of thousands of ordinary people - including a Brooklyn filmmaker, a retired pipe installer, and a former ballroom dancer - who set out to forecast global events. Some of the volunteers have turned out to be astonishingly good. They've beaten other benchmarks, competitors, and prediction markets. They've even beaten the collective judgment of intelligence analysts with access to classified information. They are "superforecasters". In this groundbreaking and accessible book, Tetlock and Gardner show us how we can learn from this elite group. Superforecasting offers the first demonstrably effective way to improve our ability to predict the future - whether in business, finance, politics, international affairs, or daily life - and is destined to become a modern classic. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your My Library section along with the audio. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Joel Richards. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/013483/bk_adbl_013483_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Art of Wholesaling Properties: How to Buy and Sell Real Estate Without Cash or Credit , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 281min
The Art of Wholesaling Properties: How to Buy and Sell Real Estate Without Cash or Credit distills the experiences of two of the nation's largest real estate wholesalers who, all told, have flipped over 1,000 homes. Aram Shah and Alex Virelles present a step-by-step guide that explains how others may replicate their proven methods in their own wholesaling ventures. Listening to this book will give investors the A-to-Z insights they need for cashing in on the fastest and most profitable ways to flip paper in the real estate market. Moving along a strategic step at a time, The Art of Wholesaling Properties explains how to: Make offers that actually get accepted Find hidden, motivated sellers Use a real estate agent to find gold mines through the Mls Build a strong list of cash buyers Negotiate with sellers using proven and tested scripts Assign or double close on properties Master the A-B, B-C transaction Deploy a team and put the business on autopilot Achieve financial freedom without using cash or credit! If you find the prospects of making money exciting, if you get the feeling there is wealth hidden in the real estate market in your community, and if you desire to learn demonstrably successful techniques to apply in your own ventures, then The Art of Wholesaling Properties: How to Buy and Sell Real Estate Without Cash or Credit will give you the guidance and education you need to begin wholesaling homes and generating profits without using your own cash or credit. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Sean Patrick Hopkins. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/067948/bk_acx0_067948_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Bitcoin: The Most Comprehensive Handbook Ever on Bitcoin, Blockchain Technology, Cryptocurrency, Mining, Investing and Smart Contracts , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 219min
Bitcoin can better be interpreted as a distributed software that uses a currency safe from unpredictable inflation without relying on trusted third parties to pass value. In other words, Bitcoin automates a modern central bank's functions and makes them transparent and practically unchangeable by programming them into decentralized code among thousands of network users, none of whom can change the code without the consent of the rest. It makes Bitcoin the first demonstrably accurate example of digital cash and digital hard currency in service. While Bitcoin is a modern development of the digital era, the problems that it purports to solve — namely having a form of money that is under its owner's full command and likely to retain its value in the long run— are as old as human society. The book provides a conception of these issues based on years of researching the technology and the economic challenges it addresses, and how communities have historically found solutions across history for themselves. My argument can shock those who mark Bitcoin a speculators and promoters’ fraud or ruse to make a fast buck. In fact, Bitcoin is improving on earlier "value store" solutions, and the suitability of Bitcoin as the sound money of a digital age may surprise naysayers.History can foreshadow what's to come, particularly when closely examined. And time will tell how sound this book is about the subject (I can assure you that the secrets and details in this book are second to none). The first part of the book describes money, its purpose and its property, as it must. As an economist with an engineering background, I have always tried to understand a technology in terms of the problems it aims to solve, allowing its practical nature to be defined and its isolation from incidental, decorative, and insignificant characteristics. Through understanding the problems that money is attempting to solve, it is possible to elucidate what makes sound and unsound money and apply ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kevin McAlister. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/217075/bk_acx0_217075_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Warrior Princess Submissive , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 255min, (USK 18)
Ever get the feeling, when you hear about all the "classic" categories of submissive, that there must be one missing? You know which one we're talking about. The missing submissive is the one that is the wicked-smart, strong-willed, uber-competent, ultra-competitive, synergistic, switchy, crusader. She's no one's doormat, never a victim. She is a kick-ass submissive for the 21st century. Think: Xena, the Warrior Princess, kneeling at the feet of Hercules. This definitely isn't a woman in a precarious predicament waiting helplessly for her white knight to arrive and slay a dragon for her. This was a woman who, as she is kicking the dragon's ass, smiles at the white knight standing on the sidelines and says, "Hey, buddy! Feel free to jump right in and lend your sword to this fight. Otherwise, stay the hell out of my way!" The Warrior Princess doesn't need or want a rescuer. The Warrior Princess needs an ally that she can rely upon in the chaos of battle. She seeks a warrior equal to the tasks that she has already chosen for herself, and is demonstrably capable of accomplishing with, or without, his help. She is willing and able to fight the good fight alone, but welcomes the notion of having a worthy partner, fighting by her side. And yet, when the day's fighting is done, she is perfectly at ease with considering herself entirely his - heart, might, mind, body, and soul. Why is she important? She is important because she just may be the hope and salvation of this lifestyle. There will come a day, in the not too distant future, when the Warrior Princess Submissive will be forced to become a combatant in a highly politicized war on the BDSM lifestyle. It will be a propaganda war that characterizes all dominants as abusers and all submissives as victims of abusive and exploitative relationships. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Naughty Sound, Tobias Ezra Queen. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/038829/bk_acx0_038829_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Armada , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 926min
In August of 1588, a Spanish fleet of 130 ships departed from La Coruña under the command of the Duke of Medina Sidonia. Its purpose was to rendezvous with the Spanish army at the Dutch port of Sluys. At this point, the fleet was to act as a screen while the Spanish army was shuttled across the English Channel in barges. Upon landing, the Spanish invasion force - the finest professional army in the world led by the finest military commander in Europe - would march to London, seize the crown from Elizabeth, avenge the execution of her Catholic Majesty (Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots), and return the English crown to a Catholic ruler. But there was one problem: the English fleet. Though much smaller than the Spanish fleet, it was a demonstrably superior fighting force of sailors, ships, naval technology, and guns. Its admirals, among them Sir Francis Drake and Sir John Hawkins, were unsurpassed. And the Spanish admiralty was acutely aware of this. They hoped to overwhelm the English fleet by sheer weight of numbers, or at least keep it at bay long enough to allow their invincible Spanish army, led by the brilliant Duke of Parma, to be brought over to the English coast from Holland. On paper, it looked like a solid plan. As the Duke of Parma realized, however, the logistic details were going to be formidable. But Philip II of Spain insisted on sticking to a strict timetable for his "enterprise." In order for the Armada to succeed, everything must be timed to perfection, and the tactics had to be flawlessly executed. The world's first modern naval engagement was in the making, and neither side had the foggiest idea how to fight such a battle. There were four principal nations involved in the great struggle: England, Spain, France, and the Netherlands. As events unfolded, each of these participants were to play crucial roles, some from behind the scenes. In the end, it became a logistics nightmare for both sides...and it was to change naval warfare for ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Charlton Griffin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acon/000218/bk_acon_000218_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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