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    Antifragile
    Nassim Nicholas Taleb is an uncompromizing no-nonsense thinker for our times. He has spent his life immersing himself in problems of luck, uncertainty, probability, and knowledge, and he has led three high-profile careers around his ideas, as a man of letters, as a businessman-trader, and as a university professor and researcher. He is currently Distinguished Professor of Risk Engineering at New York University's School of Engineering. He is the author of the 4-volume INCERTO (Antifragile, The Black Swan, Fooled by Randomness, and The Bed of Procrustes). Taleb refuses all awards and honours as they debase knowledge by turning it into competitive sports.
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    The Bed of Procrustes
    Nassim Nicholas Taleb is an uncompromizing no-nonsense thinker for our times. He has spent his life immersing himself in problems of luck, uncertainty, probability, and knowledge, and he has led three high-profile careers around his ideas, as a man of letters, as a businessman-trader, and as a university professor and researcher. He is currently Distinguished Professor of Risk Engineering at New York University's School of Engineering. He is the author of the 4-volume INCERTO (Antifragile, The Black Swan, Fooled by Randomness, and The Bed of Procrustes). Taleb refuses all awards and honours as they debase knowledge by turning it into competitive sports.
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    Prince for Sale: Thrall Prince Romance , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 450min
    David Thomen is Earth’s premier scientist, and he wants to be alone with his inventions, his money, and his PTSD. Instead, a mute, starving alien slave is dropped in his lap. Not just any alien slave - the leader of Earth’s first alien invasion, defeated by David's technology.  Vell was a prince, a conqueror, a warrior-mage. Now, he is bound by a magical slave collar that forces him to debase himself for the gratification of his master. On Earth, he finally finds someone who can see the torment behind his submission. Someone who may be willing to give him his freedom, his dignity, or even just a hot meal.  Unwilling to let Vell die, David begins a journey that will compromise his morals, challenge his scientific beliefs, and teach him about loyalty, brotherhood, passion, and love.  Note to listeners: This is an MM romance audiobook for mature listeners. It contains dubious consent, memories of past rape, and steamy, consensual sex scenes. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Matt Haynes. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/147260/bk_acx0_147260_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Skin in the Game
    Nassim Nicholas Taleb spent twenty-one years as a risk taker before becoming a researcher in philosophical, mathematical, and (mostly) practical problems with probability. Although he spends most of his time as a fl¿ur, meditating in cafes across the planet, he is currently Distinguished Professor at New York University's Tandon School of Engineering but self-funds his own research. His books, Antifragile, The Black Swan, The Bed of Procrustes and Fooled by Randomness (part of a multi-volume collection called Incerto, Latin for uncertainty), have been translated into thirty-seven languages. Taleb has authored more than fifty scholarly papers as backup to Incerto, ranging from international affairs and risk management to statistical physics. He refuses all awards and honours as they debase knowledge by turning it into competitive sports.
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    Deadly Captive: Deadly Captive, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 594min, (USK 18)
    Lydia awakes, bound and blind, to the whispered urgings of a man who has his hands on her. His words confuse her at first, but she soon understands they are both in the middle of a performance that will determine whether she remains in captivity or dies. The crowd must be entertained, and her cellmate makes sure it is. Forced submission is not the only horror Lydia endures. She has no memories of life before her imprisonment, and Joe, her cellmate, is her only comfort as the powerful creatures that hold them captive torture and debase her. Together, she and Joe cling to the will to survive long enough to break free and seek revenge. Their desire to sustain one another triumphs over their wardens' efforts to destroy them. There is no pain, no suffering, that can tear them apart. Beyond their cell, their love is tested. Can they hold strong in the face of the challenge of the new powers they have gained along with their freedom? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Erin deWard. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/033167/bk_acx0_033167_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Benjamin Franklin: An American Life, Hörbuch, Digital, 433min
    In best selling author Walter Isaacson's vivid and witty full-scale biography, we discover why Franklin turns to us from history's stage with eyes that twinkle from behind his new-fangled spectacles. In Benjamin Franklin, Isaacson shows how Franklin defines both his own time and ours. The most interesting thing that Franklin invented, and continually reinvented, was himself. America's first great publicist, he was consciously trying to create a new American archetype. In the process, he carefully crafted his own persona, portrayed it in public, and polished it for posterity. His guiding principle was a "dislike of everything that tended to debase the spirit of the common people." Few of his fellow founders felt this comfort with democracy so fully, and none so intuitively. In this colorful and intimate narrative, Isaacson provides the full sweep of Franklin's amazing life, from his days as a runaway printer to his triumphs as a statesman, scientist, and Founding Father. He chronicles Franklin's tumultuous relationship with his illegitimate son and grandson, his practical marriage, and his flirtations with the ladies of Paris. He also shows how Franklin helped to create the American character and why he has a particular resonance in the twenty-first century. Language: English. Narrator: Boyd Gaines. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/sans/000448/bk_sans_000448_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Aphrodite: The Origins and History of the Greek Goddess of Love , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 77min
    Attempting to cover all the forms the "Goddess of Love" encapsulates is no small affair. The roles she played in romance, marriage, procreation, and all of the other desires of humanity were myriad, but the aim of this book is to paint a slightly different, perhaps more esoteric version of Aphrodite from the usual image of her in mythology books. The fact is that Aphrodite, as an ancient Greek goddess, was not the anthropomorphic personage modern aficionados see painted on canvas and hewn out of stone. In addition to that, she was also so much more, which can be a difficult concept for the modern audience to discern. In fact, it was difficult for certain ancient readers to discern too; the fifth century BCE philosopher Plato expressed disgust at the idea that his gods would debase themselves in the adulterous, murderous, and mischievous ways they were said to have in their myths. However, it is important to remember that Plato represented a very small proportion of ancient Athenian society, and the rest of the populace didn't seem to have much of a problem including the "personal" anthropomorphic aspect of the gods into their more "elemental" and "essential" beings. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Scott Clem. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/088941/bk_acx0_088941_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Benjamin Franklin: An American Life , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1480min
    Benjamin Franklin is the founding father who winks at us - an ambitious urban entrepreneur who rose up the social ladder, from leather-aproned shopkeeper to dining with kings. In best-selling author Walter Isaacson's vivid and witty full-scale biography, we discover why Franklin turns to us from history's stage with eyes that twinkle from behind his new-fangled spectacles. In Benjamin Franklin, Isaacson shows how Franklin defines both his own time and ours. The most interesting thing that Franklin invented, and continually reinvented, was himself. America's first great publicist, he was consciously trying to create a new American archetype. In the process, he carefully crafted his own persona, portrayed it in public, and polished it for posterity. His guiding principle was a "dislike of everything that tended to debase the spirit of the common people". Few of his fellow founders felt this comfort with democracy so fully, and none so intuitively. In this colorful and intimate narrative, Isaacson provides the full sweep of Franklin's amazing life, from his days as a runaway printer to his triumphs as a statesman, scientist, and Founding Father. He chronicles Franklin's tumultuous relationship with his illegitimate son and grandson, his practical marriage, and his flirtations with the ladies of Paris. He also shows how Franklin helped to create the American character and why he has a particular resonance in the 21st century. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Nelson Runger. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/sans/005486/bk_sans_005486_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Empath and Narcissist: Empath and Narcissist Is a Practical Guide to Dealing with the Narcissistic Personality and Escaping from a Codependent Relationship and Healing from Narcissistic Abuse , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 236min
    Have you met your soul mate? Is he a fascinating being and everyone admires him? Does he promise you seas and mountains and is the answer to your wildest dreams?You realize that his words, so beautiful, are not followed by actions. You don't understand why sometimes it seems to punish you, and like a Red Cross nurse, you want to help that being you feel suffers.In reality, you are sinking into emotional dependency; you are losing your individuality, you are disappearing into the other. If you recognize yourself in this scenario, it is very likely that you are facing a narcissistic manipulator.Also known as a perverse narcissist manipulator, this individual often shows himself as very lovely, brilliant, selfless, shy, or exuberant. But it's all fiction. In reality, his morbidity has repercussions on the victim (wife, life partner, emotional relationship, etc.) up to annihilate her psychologically and unfortunately sometimes even physically.His behavior is characterized by the absence of affectivity and emotions by insensitivity. Satisfy his victim to humiliate her and debase her. Geneviève Schmit offers all the basic knowledge of the mechanisms involved in the pathological dependency relationship between the victim and the narcissistic manipulator, to take up one's life and get out of the perverse grip, saying enough to years of personal and family suffering.In this audiobook, you will learn how to recognize a narcissist, how to analyze them, and how to defend yourself effectively. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: J. Sampson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/161701/bk_acx0_161701_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Star Script: How Astrology Helps Finding Out Who You Are: Scholarly Articles, Volume 8 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 59min
    The Star Script: How Astrology Helps Finding Out Who You Are is an extensive personal guide manual helping the listener build self-knowledge through a special kind of astrology that is non-predictive and karmic, and that the author calls "potential astrology." The popular image of astrology distilled original precious perennial science into a shallow pastime hobby for esoteric-minded freaks, rose buddies, and purple-spirited scam artists of all kinds. As with all things true, modern society was once again able to majestically pervert, debase, and tear into the gutter of the mass mind what was once a jewel for the select few of the leading elite. Predictive astrology is the one that makes predictions for people's future, for what is going to happen. And as a matter of general stupidity, this is the kind of astrology most people take for the only one that merits the name astrology. And here they are mistaken, if not misled. This is not the astrology that has the highest merit and that serves true spiritual guidance. What this audiobook is about is not predictive astrology, but the old art of potential astrology as it was part of perennial science and philosophy in all ancient wisdom traditions. Astrology provides knowledge you are looking for, within a range of freedom you are looking for. It draws a diagram of our soul, including our karma. It clearly indicates the traits of our unconscious and our conscious personalities, not only the one that we show like a mask to the outside world, which is our persona, but also the personalities that we bear inside of us and most of which are still virgin or in a state of potentiality. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Peter Fritz Walter. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/042360/bk_acx0_042360_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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