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Disrupted: Ludicrous Misadventures into the Tech Start-Up Bubble , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 557min

The shocking and hilarious New York Times best-selling exposé of a new age of excess in Silicon Valley. Dan Lyons was technology editor at Newsweek for years, a magazine writer at the top of his profession. One Friday morning he received a phone call: his job no longer existed. Fifty years old, and with a wife and two young kids, Dan was unemployed and facing financial oblivion. Then an idea hit. Dan had long reported on Silicon Valley and the tech explosion. Why not join it? HubSpot, a Boston start-up, was flush with $100 million in venture capital. They offered Dan a pile of stock options for the nebulous role of 'marketing fellow'. What could possibly go wrong? What follows is a hilarious and excoriating account of Dan's time at the start-up and a revealing window onto the dysfunctional culture that prevails in a world flush with cash and devoid of experience. Filled with stories of meaningless jargon, teddy bears at meetings, push-up competitions and all-night parties, this uproarious tale is also a trenchant analysis of the dysfunctional start-up world, a de facto conspiracy between those who start companies and those who fund them. It is a world where bad ideas are rewarded with hefty investments, where companies blow money lavishing perks on their postcollegiate workforces, and where everybody is trying to hang on just long enough to cash out with a fortune. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dan Lyons. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/boli/003000/bk_boli_003000_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Mars Room , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 581min

Random House presents the audiobook edition of The Mars Room, written and read by Rachel Kushner. Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2018.The New York Times best seller.Romy Hall is at the start of two consecutive life sentences, plus six years, at Stanville Women’s Correctional Facility. Outside is the world from which she has been permanently severed: the San Francisco of her youth, changed almost beyond recognition. The Mars Room strip club where she once gave lap dances for a living. And her seven-year-old son, Jackson, now in the care of Romy’s estranged mother. Inside is a new reality to adapt to: thousands of women hustling for the bare essentials needed to survive. The deadpan absurdities of institutional living, which Kushner details with humour and precision. Daily acts of violence by guards and prisoners alike. Allegiances formed over liquor brewed in socks, and stories shared through sewage pipes. Romy sees the future stretch out ahead of her in a long, unwavering line - until news from outside brings a ferocious urgency to her existence, challenging her to escape her own destiny and culminating in a climax of almost unbearable intensity. Through Romy - and through a cast of astonishing characters populating The Mars Room - Rachel Kushner presents not just a bold and unsentimental panorama of life on the margins of contemporary America but an excoriating attack on the prison-industrial complex. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Rachel Kushner. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rhuk/003787/bk_rhuk_003787_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Degrees for Everyone , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 344min

University degrees should be for everyone. Not just for some self-appointed elite who study obscure stuff like classics, history, and medieval studies. Universities need to offer a range of subjects that will ensure anyone can get a degree in something - it's purely a matter of responding to modern market forces. This is the vision of Ralston University's new vice chancellor.Unburdened by any sense of academic tradition or excellence - and coming from a background in company liquidations - he proceeds to close down the teaching of traditional academic subjects, replacing them with diploma and degree courses in line dancing, hamburgerology, and applied witchcraft. More than a new broom that sweeps clean, he is hell-bent on excoriating every last shred of intellectual fiber from the bones of academic tradition. Drawn into this sudden chain of events, can the wise but world-weary Professor Trout save his own job in the department of medieval studies? Or will the monstrous Professor Beefenstein squeeze him out with her teaching of Rubenesque Studies to justify female obesity? Are panel-beating and pedophiliac studies to become legitimized as scholarship? It seems anything is possible.As Sir Robert Jones describes in Degrees for Everyone, we have entered an age in which commercialism has replaced professionalism, and never more so than with our universities. A university degree was once held mana; today it is a badge of attendance. Scholarship has been pushed aside to accommodate the meanest intelligence with nonsense degrees in nonsense subjects, and universities are today driven by commercial considerations.In this hilarious but devastatingly prescient work exposing the corruption of our universities, Bob Jones shows, once again, that he is not only a deft and witty storyteller but a man of letters himself. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Paul Barrett. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/169681/bk_acx0_169681_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Engaging the Evil Empire: Washington, Moscow, and the Beginning of the End of the Cold War , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 450min

Engaging the Evil Empire dramatically alters how we look at the beginning of the end of the Cold War. Tracking key events in US-Soviet relations across the years between 1980 and 1985, Simon Miles shows that covert engagement gave way to overt conversation as both superpowers determined that open diplomacy was the best means of furthering their own, primarily competitive, goals.President Ronald Reagan consistently applied a disciplined carrot-and-stick approach, reaching out to Moscow, while at the same time, excoriating the Soviet system and building up US military capabilities. The received wisdom in diplomatic circles is that the beginning of the end of the Cold War came from changing policy preferences and that President Reagan, in particular, opted for a more conciliatory and less bellicose diplomatic approach.In reality, Miles clearly demonstrates, Reagan and ranking officials in the National Security Council had determined that the United States enjoyed a strategic margin of error that permitted it to engage Moscow overtly.Engaging the Evil Empire covers five critical years of Cold War history when Soviet leaders tried to reduce tensions between the two nations in order to gain economic breathing room and to ensure domestic political stability and to prioritize expenditures on butter over those on guns.Miles' bold narrative shifts the focus of Cold War historians away from exclusive attention on Washington by focusing on the years of back-channel communiqués and internal strategy debates in Moscow as well as Prague and East Berlin.The book is published by Cornell University Press. The audiobook is published by University Press Audiobooks."Well researched and brings out the complexities of US foreign-policymaking...." (Jussi Hanhimäki, Graduate Institute, Geneva, author of The Flawed Architect) ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mark Sando. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/213378/bk_acx0_213378_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 589min

In May 2013, Glenn Greenwald set out for Hong Kong to meet an anonymous source who claimed to have astonishing evidence of pervasive government spying and insisted on communicating only through heavily encrypted channels. That source turned out to be the 29-year-old NSA contractor Edward Snowden, and his revelations about the agency’s widespread, systemic overreach proved to be some of the most explosive and consequential news in recent history, triggering a fierce debate over national security and information privacy. As the arguments rage on and the government considers various proposals for reform, it is clear that we have yet to see the full impact of Snowden’s disclosures. Now for the first time, Greenwald fits all the pieces together, recounting his high-intensity 10-day trip to Hong Kong, examining the broader implications of the surveillance detailed in his reporting for The Guardian, and revealing fresh information on the NSA’s unprecedented abuse of power with never-before-seen documents entrusted to him by Snowden himself. Going beyond NSA specifics, Greenwald also takes on the establishment media, excoriating their habitual avoidance of adversarial reporting on the government and their failure to serve the interests of the people. Finally, he asks what it means both for individuals and for a nation’s political health when a government pries so invasively into the private lives of its citizens - and considers what safeguards and forms of oversight are necessary to protect democracy in the digital age. Coming at a landmark moment in American history, No Place to Hide is a fearless, incisive, and essential contribution to our understanding of the U.S. surveillance state. 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: L. J. Ganser. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/019998/bk_adbl_019998_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Empathy: A Guide to Developing Your Social and Emotional Intelligence , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 184min

We are constantly plugging in and exiting when we fall asleep and awaken to a new day. This book covers much of what should be talked about in the current climate of mankind. Empathy and empaths are involving, just like technology is providing us with the answer before we get to think about the problem.There are many who see themselves as special, empathetically. But in my opinion, we all have the ability to access what is known as the mother ship of feelings and emotions: ourselves. The fact is we don’t revel in silence and isolation. Some can’t stand to be alone for more than a few hours. Some find it excoriating to hear that they are loners or indifferent to the norms of society. I touch upon my opinionated view and truths; in the aspect of it-is-what-it-is. How can you begin to be infatuated with a gift that is closer to the cosmos then many realize? It’s not a crying shame to suffer from those who abuse your opened ears and welcoming arms for their pleasure. Take it as a learning lesson and operation of self-defence needing to be detracted for the sake of evolving into a new resolution.A new gearstick is what I try to convey with this book. I’ve come across so many articles and all are very similar. Yes, I’ve taken parts to supplement the nutrients and make it a healthier proposal, but like Bruce Lee who took particles from various martial arts techniques, it leads to an all-rounder that consists of what I was trying to get across.This book on empathy came from the sinking depths of being quite sensitive myself. And having a hard time with my focus just being on people. You see, we waste to much time on man/woman, and ignore the home that we were placed in. Who gave us life? Some say God. Others say the aliens. And if you want to go deeper, then there’s a specific type of species that envisioned the completion of the world in seven days. (Just like the Bible portrays).Do I talk about aliens in this book? No. But the ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David Van Der Molen. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/132696/bk_acx0_132696_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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