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    Comfortably Insane: A Journey from the Hell of Alcoholism to a Healthy Productive Life , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 269min
    In 2019, nearly 88,000 people died from alcohol related causes and many today still suffer from this great epidemic. Mothers, fathers, children, employers, and employees of alcoholics are victims of this grave disease. And although they suffer gravely, I am here to say that no one suffers more than the alcoholic themselves. I realize that to some this is hard to understand, but if you are an addict yourself you know exactly what I mean.My book Comfortably Insane, provides 42 valuable lessons that I learned. This is my own story of alcoholism. I drank myself out of military school. I drank myself out of relationships. I drank myself into insanity. Each time falling deeper and deeper into a mental abyss and skewed perspective: I always believed it was not my fault, and that I was not powerless against alcohol. I was, in control! I gave sanity a shot. I really did.For eight years I played the part of the perfect husband, perfect worker, and perfect churchgoer. But it just didn't seem normal. Sanity didn't suit me. So, I fell back into the comfortable arms of insanity and stayed there for 10 years drinking my life away. It wasn't until I hit rock bottom that I saw the insanity for what it was - a - hiding place. It took me 10 more years to come out of that hiding place and into the light.Comfortably Insane is more than just overcoming addiction. It is about recognizing your flaws, taking ownership of them, recognizing that change is within you, and making the daily choice to do better and be better. My book provides 42 lessons learned to help you on your journey out of the hell of alcoholism. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Neal Linares. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/213801/bk_acx0_213801_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Pedigree: How Elite Students Get Elite Jobs , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 735min
    Americans are taught to believe that upward mobility is possible for anyone who is willing to work hard, regardless of their social status. Yet it is often those from affluent backgrounds who land the best jobs. Pedigree takes listeners behind the closed doors of top-tier investment banks, consulting firms, and law firms to reveal the truth about who really gets hired for the nation's highest-paying entry-level jobs, who doesn't, and why. Drawing on scores of in-depth interviews as well as firsthand observation of hiring practices at some of America's most prestigious firms, Lauren Rivera shows how, at every step of the hiring process, the ways that employers define and evaluate merit are strongly skewed to favor job applicants from economically privileged backgrounds. She reveals how decision makers draw from ideas about talent - what it is, what best signals it, and who does (and does not) have it - that are deeply rooted in social class. Displaying the "right stuff" that elite employers are looking for entails considerable amounts of economic, social, and cultural resources on the part of the applicants and their parents. Challenging our most cherished beliefs about college as a great equalizer and the job market as a level playing field, Pedigree exposes the class biases built into American notions about the best and the brightest, and shows how social status plays a significant role in determining who reaches the top of the economic ladder. 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: Dina Pearlman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/023860/bk_adbl_023860_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 679min
    Raghuram Rajan was one of the few economists who warned of the global financial crisis before it hit. Now, as the world struggles to recover, it's tempting to blame what happened on just a few greedy bankers who took irrational risks and left the rest of us to foot the bill. In Fault Lines, Rajan argues that serious flaws in the economy are also to blame and warns that a potentially more devastating crisis awaits us if they aren't fixed. Rajan shows how the individual choices that collectively brought about the economic meltdown - made by bankers, government officials, and ordinary homeowners - were rational responses to a flawed global financial order in which the incentives to take on risk are incredibly out of step with the dangers those risks pose. He traces the deepening fault lines in a world overly dependent on the indebted American consumer to power global economic growth and stave off global downturns. He exposes a system where America's growing inequality and thin social safety net create tremendous political pressure to encourage easy credit and keep job creation robust, no matter what the consequences to the economy's long-term health and where the US financial sector, with its skewed incentives, is the critical but unstable link between an overstimulated America and an underconsuming world. In Fault Lines, Rajan demonstrates how unequal access to education and health care in the United States puts us all in deeper financial peril, even as the economic choices of countries like Germany, Japan, and China place an undue burden on America to get its policies right. He outlines the hard choices we need to make to ensure a more stable world economy and restore lasting prosperity. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Devin Ryan Pearl. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/031141/bk_adbl_031141_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Magic Street , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 803min
    Living in a peaceful, prosperous African-American neighborhood in Los Angeles, Mack Street is a mystery child who has somehow found a home. Discovered abandoned in an overgrown park, raised by a blunt-speaking single woman, Mack comes and goes from family to family, a boy who is surrounded by boisterous characters and yet deeply alone. But while Mack senses that he is different from most and knows that he has strange powers, he cannot understand how unusual he is until the day he sees, in a thin slice of space, a narrow house. Beyond it is a backyard, and an entryway into an extraordinary world stretching off into an exotic distance of geography, history, and magic. Passing through the skinny house that no one else can see, Mack is plunged into a realm in which time and reality are skewed, a place where what Mack does seems to have strange effects on the "real world" of concrete, cars, commerce, and conflict. Growing into a tall, powerful young man, pursuing a forbidden relationship, and using Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream as a guide into the vast, timeless fantasy world, Mack becomes a player in an epic drama. Understanding this drama is Mack's challenge. His reward, if he can survive the trip, is discovering not only who he really is but why he exists. Both a novel of constantly surprising entertainment and a tale of breathtaking literary power, Magic Street is a masterwork from a supremely gifted, utterly original American writer, a novel that uses realism and fantasy to delight, challenge, and satisfy on the most profound levels. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mirron E. Willis. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/001105/bk_blak_001105_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Satan's Grace : The Greatest Deception of All , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 187min
    Satan’s Grace: The Greatest Deception of AllPerhaps you’ve heard it said that as a Christian, you have been absolved of all your sins and your place in heaven is guaranteed. You may even have been told that your slip-ups in reverting to sinful ways are no big deal. Everyone does it. God can’t see those sins and doesn’t care anyway, because you’ve already been saved. Have you ever felt like something is not quite right with these teachings and perspectives on the Bible and Christianity? If so, you’re correct. In the book Satan’s Grace: The Greatest Deception of All, the author Joe Tango tackles the problem of the false grace and once saved, always saved movements in Christianity, taking exception to their arguments and claims of scripture that backs their beliefs. Joe takes each point made by adherents to the false grace doctrines and dissects them to point out the falsehoods, misinformation, and out-of-context problems with each. Then Joe clarifies the true meanings of these Bible verses in order to allow Christians to understand how to avoid the problem of skewed scripture tainting their understanding of how to live a holy life. Further, Joe uses the same verses and more scripture to bolster his proof of Satan’s influence on the misleading doctrines that are so popular today, putting the eternal lives of Christians everywhere in dire jeopardy. Then he advises listeners on how to avoid these pitfalls that risk their salvation so they can repent and get their lives back on track in the glory of God’s true grace. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/226233/bk_acx0_226233_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Myth of Security: Hackers’ Inventions Will Win the Race for Information , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 192min
    If online data safety is your number one priority, then this book is not for you.Whether you’ve been hacked in the past or not, worrying about your information security is a problem you can fix. This book will illuminate the illusion of data protection and what it means to have a "secure" online life. If you want to change your digital state from privacy and protection to striving and thriving, then listen to this audiobook! In this new and original book, author Niels Starling shares his unusual and unconventional narrative about information security. In a counterintuitive approach, Niels argues that the majority of internet users have too high a focus on information protection and online security. We all think our information is at risk when actually hiding it away runs the greatest risk.The idea of "hackers" brings fear to many and causes us to create a skewed perception of what risks are actually lurking online. We are often spending unnecessary amounts of time strapping on our shields and armor and sharpening our swords to fend off security threats while not realizing the internet isn’t an all out war zone. This book aims to help shape a world where people share more and collaborate more online. You will gain insights toward: The vulnerability of open informationPeer-to-peer sharing and how it changes everythingThe history of an internet revolutionAn online philosophy that worksOpen-source technologies and what the future can bringHow to safeguard what actually mattersIs cybersecurity important?Ways to relax and enjoy life onlineAnd much more! You can learn how to make your online presence more vibrant and rewarding, just buy now. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Simon de Deney. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/228084/bk_acx0_228084_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Predator Nation: Corporate Criminals, Political Corruption, and the Hijacking of America , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 810min
    Charles H. Ferguson, who electrified the world with his Oscar-winning documentary Inside Job, now explains how a predator elite took over the country, step by step, and he exposes the networks of academic, financial, and political influence, in all recent administrations, that prepared the predators' path to conquest. Over the last several decades, the United States has undergone one of the most radical social and economic transformations in its history. Finance has become America's dominant industry, while manufacturing, even for high technology industries, has nearly disappeared. The financial sector has become increasingly criminalized, with the widespread fraud that caused the housing bubble going completely unpunished. Federal tax collections as a share of GDP are at their lowest level in 60 years, with the wealthy and highly profitable corporations enjoying the greatest tax reductions. Most shockingly, the United States, so long the beacon of opportunity for the ambitious poor, has become one of the world's most unequal and unfair societies. If you're smart and a hard worker, but your parents aren't rich, you're now better off being born in Munich, Germany, or in Singapore than in Cleveland, Ohio, or New York. This radical shift did not happen by accident. Ferguson shows how, since the Reagan administration in the 1980s, both major political parties have become captives of the moneyed elite. It was the Clinton administration that dismantled the regulatory controls that protected the average citizen from avaricious financiers. It was the Bush team that destroyed the federal revenue base with its grotesquely skewed tax cuts for the rich. And it is the Obama White House that has allowed financial criminals to continue to operate unchecked, even after supposed "reforms" installed after the collapse of 2008. Predator Nation reveals how once-revered figures like ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Rob Shapiro. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/003086/bk_rand_003086_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    How to Be a Fearless Badass , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 230min
    Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less. (Marie Curie, scientific badass) You know it, I know it, everyone knows it - fear is your constant companion and lifelong enemy. It strips your days of meaning, it robs you of opportunities, and it undermines your confidence as it imagines a future you wouldn't want to step in. Let's be real about it: It's also a necessary evil that keeps your ass on this side of the grass. So, the question is: How do you manage fear? Well, that's no easy task. No lie, it is a daily struggle. American writer Zaron Burnett III may not be a former MMA champion or a millionaire life coach who's here to teach you how to overcome your fears - no, he's something else entirely: He's honest. In this collection of essays, he offers you his casual and candid, humorously skewed view of the world, one that's guaranteed to make you laugh as he hands you tools and gives you the understanding you need to live like a fearless badass. With chapters like: How to Make Strangers Want to See You Naked How to Have Sex So They Never Forget You How to Love Like You'll Never Get Hurt How to Drive Like a Stuntdrivin' Badass How to Make Your Boss Look You in the Eye This is a frank, modern, funny-cause-it's-true sort of guidebook that shows you how to live like there ain't no tomorrow and ensures you make it there anyway. Whether you're a guy or a gal, maybe it's time you learned to live like a fearless badass. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Michael Stiggers. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/024670/bk_adbl_024670_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Constantine the Emperor , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 674min
    This year Christians worldwide will celebrate the 1700th anniversary of Constantine's conversion and victory at the Battle of the Milvian Bridge. No Roman emperor had a greater impact on the modern world than did Constantine. The reason is not simply that he converted to Christianity but that he did so in a way that brought his subjects along after him. Indeed, this major new biography argues that Constantine's conversion is but one feature of a unique administrative style that enabled him to take control of an empire beset by internal rebellions and external threats by Persians and Goths. The vast record of Constantine's administration reveals a government careful in its exercise of power but capable of ruthless, even savage actions. Constantine executed (or drove to suicide) his father-in-law, two brothers-in-law, his eldest son, and his once beloved wife. An unparalleled general throughout his life, even on his deathbed he was planning a major assault on the Sassanian Empire in Persia. Alongside the visionary who believed that his success came from the direct intervention of his God resided an aggressive warrior, a sometimes cruel partner, and an immensely shrewd ruler. These characteristics combined together in a long and remarkable career, which restored the Roman Empire to its former glory. Beginning with his first biographer Eusebius, Constantine's image has been subject to distortion. More recent revisions include John Carroll's view of him as the intellectual ancestor of the Holocaust (Constantine's Sword) and Dan Brown's presentation of him as the man who oversaw the reshaping of Christian history (The Da Vinci Code). In Constantine the Emperor, David Potter confronts each of these skewed and partial accounts to provide the most comprehensive, authoritative, and readable account of Constantine's extraordinary life. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Phil Holland. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/015494/bk_adbl_015494_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World's Economy , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 778min
    Raghuram Rajan was one of the few economists who warned of the global financial crisis before it hit. Now, as the world struggles to recover, it's tempting to blame what happened on just a few greedy bankers who took irrational risks and left the rest of us to foot the bill. In Fault Lines, Rajan argues that serious flaws in the economy are also to blame, and warns that a potentially more devastating crisis awaits us if they aren't fixed. Rajan explains how the individual choices that collectively brought about the economic meltdown - made by bankers, government officials, and ordinary homeowners - were rational responses to a flawed global financial order in which the incentives to take on risk are incredibly out of step with the dangers those risks pose. He traces the deepening fault lines in a world overly dependent on the indebted American consumer to power global economic growth and stave off global downturns. He exposes a system where America's growing inequality and thin social safety net create tremendous political pressure to encourage easy credit and keep job creation robust, no matter what the consequences to the economy's long-term health; and where the U.S. financial sector, with its skewed incentives, is the critical but unstable link between an overstimulated America and an underconsuming world. In Fault Lines, Rajan demonstrates how unequal access to education and health care in the United States puts us all in deeper financial peril, even as the economic choices of countries like Germany, Japan, and China place an undue burden on America to get its policies right. He outlines the hard choices we need to make to ensure a more stable world economy and restore lasting prosperity. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Richard Davidson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/002489/bk_adbl_002489_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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