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    The Accidental Scientist: The Role of Chance and Luck in Scientific Discovery , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 278min
    Have you ever wondered how the ideas for some things come about? Surprisingly, it is often as much down to chance as a single person's brilliance. The Accidental Scientist explores the role of chance and error in scientific, medical and commercial innovation, outlining exactly how some of the most well-known products, gadgets and useful gizmos came to be. Encompassing everything from DNA profiling to fingerprinting and TNT to the telephone, this book explores many of the discoveries that we are all so familiar with today yet have the most interesting origins because of the stories behind them. Not all discoveries require brilliance, and, as The Accidental Scientist demonstrates, sometimes a special ingredient is needed: luck. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David Thorpe. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/isis/003667/bk_isis_003667_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Reality and Other Stories
    In 2017, inspired in part by Henry James' The Turn of the Screw, the acclaimed English novelist John Lanchester published a ghost story in The New Yorker. "Signal," an eerie story of contemporary life and the perils of technology, was a sensation among readers-and since then Lanchester has written several more. Reality and Other Stories gathers the best of these, taking readers to an uncanny world familiar to fans of The Twilight Zone or Black Mirror. Household gizmos with a mind of their own. Mysterious cell-phone calls from unknown numbers. Reality TV shows and the creeping suspicion that none of this is real... Reality and Other Stories is a book of disquiet that captures the severe disconnection and distraction of our time.
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    How to Easily Manage and Clean Your Home in Just Ten Minutes a Day: The Ultimate Insider Guide to Not Go Crazy Cleaning Your Home , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 38min
    You’re about to discover how to...Clean your home without going crazy. We live in a very busy world. Cleaning and maintaining your home has never been easier. We live in an environment where simple gadgets and gizmos can do the heavy work. It’s your brain that needs to delegate to your cleaning tools how to properly manage your home. Yes, engineers have made your home easier to manage than ever before. It still needs you to delegate the chores to them. Even geniuses like Elon Musk say that robots can’t ever replace the human mind because they can’t handle mistakes like a person can. Mistakes happen in the home. Spills and dirt get in and only you can do something about it....Here's a preview of what you'll learn:Use your robot vacuumKeep the dust outDevelop a simple cleaning systemDesign a chore chartMuch, much more!Buy your copy today!  ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Lili Dubuque. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/140513/bk_acx0_140513_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Rosie Revere, Engineer
    From the powerhouse author/illustrator team of Iggy Peck, Architect comes Rosie Revere, Engineer, another charming, witty picture book about pursuing your passion. Rosie may seem quiet during the day, but at night she's a brilliant inventor of gizmos and gadgets who dreams of becoming a great engineer. When her Great, Great Aunt Rose (Rosie the Riveter) comes for a visit and mentions her one unfinished goal--to fly--Rosie sets to work building a contraption to make her aunt's dream come true. Her invention complete, Rosie attempts a test flight--but after a moment, the machine crashes to the ground. Discouraged, Rosie deems the invention a failure, but Aunt Rose insists that on the contrary, it was a raging success. You can only truly fail, she explains, if you quit. Reassured, Rosie returns to her engineering and inspires her classmates to join in the fun.
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    Can You Go?: Assessments and Program Design for the Active Athlete and Everybody Else , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 243min
    Training people in sport as coaches or in fitness as personal trainers is certainly rewarding work. But there's a problem: What do we do next? There are countless books on diet and exercise and hundreds of machines, devices, and gimmicks to train people, and new gadgets and gizmos are popping up with every passing day. Can You Go? answers this question: What do we need to do next? Appropriate assessment leads to an appropriate answer. When we find a mobility issue, let's focus on mobility work. The same is true for both body composition and strength - we focus on what we need to do, not what we want to do. For the performance athlete, sometimes assessment can be the short, brutal, and harsh question, "Can you go?" Lessons from this frankness can be learned by both the coach and the trainer. The deconditioned and the elite share the same basic human body. Our job is to enhance performance and quality of life with every training situation. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dan John. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/035616/bk_acx0_035616_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Girl's Still Got It: Take a Walk with Ruth and the God Who Rocked Her World , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 431min
    You know Ruth's story. Now meet her in person. And prepare to be changed. Walk with Ruth as she travels from Moab to Bethlehem, certain of her calling yet uncertain of her future. Hold Naomi's hand and watch love put the pieces of her broken life back together. And hang out with Boaz, their kinsman-redeemer, who blesses both women and honors God big time. With best-selling author Liz Curtis Higgs by your side, you'll tarry in the corners of their ancient houses, listen to their conversations, and consider every word of every verse until you can say, "I totally get the book of Ruth. And I see what God is trying to teach me through this rags-to-riches redemption story - he has a plan for my life." Girl, does he ever! Think of it as time travel without gimmicks, gizmos, or a DeLorean: a novel approach to Bible study that leaps from past to present, gleaning timeless truths that speak to the heart. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Liz Curtis Higgs. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hove/001495/bk_hove_001495_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Alien That Ate My Socks: The Hoolie and the Hooligans, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 228min
    A new series written by the illustrator of the Fablehaven series, Brandon Dorman. Meet the Hooligan brothers, Henry, Hank, and Hector, who are fun-loving, go-cart-racing, up-for-anything boys - and they are expert pranksters! The school bully, Rock, picks on the boys, tries to outprank them, and especially tries to lay blame for his pranks on them. Enter a purple, blobby, friendly outer-space alien. He has come to Earth to earn badges for his extraterrestrial space-scout sash. The brothers name him Hoolie, and quickly learn about his alien ways: Hoolie gets smelly when he's hungry, and that's how the boys know it's time to feed him. He eats clothes, especially socks. Mom and Dad don't know what is going on originally, but soon they figure out why the family socks are disappearing from the Hooligan house. He has a compartment in his belly, like Mary Poppins' carpetbag, that can somehow hold an endless supply of neat gizmos and gadgets. The boys can't communicate with him at first and rig up an electronic device to help them read Hoolie's mind. The Hooligan boys keep Hoolie a secret until he saves a neighborhood girl from a burning building and the town befriends him. Then, a team of mysterious strangers dressed in black who call themselves "Animal Control" arrive, but the Hooligan boys know this can't be true. The boys must resolve their problem with Rock, help Hoolie earn his merit badges on Earth, and help him find his way home before "Animal Control" captures him! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mark Turetsky. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/009105/bk_blak_009105_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Real Intelligence: The IntelliLearn System for Becoming Smarter and More Effective, Hörbuch, Digital, 550min
    In Real Intelligence, Dr. Martel reveals this proven brain-expanding system to you and shows you how to quickly and easily implement it in the most important areas of your life so that you can experience similarly extraordinary results. First, he'll guide you through a series of straightforward questions designed to help you identify your unique learning style. You'll discover which factors increase your ability to effectively think, act, and process information - and you'll come to understand exactly why, over the course of your life, you have excelled in some areas and struggled in others. Then you'll be introduced to the Magic Learning Box - a storehouse of unexpected yet extremely potent and practical secrets, techniques, and strategies, all designed to help you ignite your brain's full power. At a moment's notice, you'll have any one of these incredible "tools" at your disposal, including: The Ergonomics of Learning: 16 subtle, almost invisible environmental factors that will make or break your performance and success. A series of strategies, tactics, and tools that will build your Real Intelligence. Theory R relationship-building strategies to enhance your learning. Keys to bridging the gap between your brain and your heart to achieve an incredible state of integrated, whole-mind learning. A simple remedy for "reading fatigue." Gadgets, gizmos, and contraptions you can build to increase your learning experience and make it fun! The story of seven letters that will lead to unfathomable increases in your performance. How to use your eight different intelligences you may never even have known you had! PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your My Library section along with the audio. Language: English. Narrator: Dr. Laurence Martel. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/ntgl/000151/bk_ntgl_000151_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Body Language: Understand Psychology Through Non Verbal Communication, Easily Influence People and Even Crack Job Interview , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 201min
    Imagine knowing how to decode the secret messages of the human mind...having the power to influence and persuade people to your business advantage...what would that be worth to you?Wouldn't it be nice to know what people were really thinking? Imagine how helpful it would be to have a human lie detection tool in your hands! Well, now you do - this body language book!Since ancient times, we have used our body language to communicate, conveying our emotions and thoughts to those around us. Each person out there has a different body language, encompassing not only facial expressions but also body postures and gestures. Even eye movement is considered as part of the non-verbal communication, being closely followed by touch and using one’s personal space. There is really no way around it: The most successful, influential individuals are masters not only of the spoken word but of body language. They use nonverbal skills of their own - but also a bang-on interpretation of yours - to get things done by persuading you to seek them out, hear them out, do things for or with them and buy their gizmos. They are influential because they give you what you need in the way your own body language says you need it. They get along with most everyone since they read you correctly and adapt to you (rather than demanding the reverse).Most people use expressions through their physical behaviors that send out flags as to what they are truly thinking and feeling. When you learn to recognize these clues, cues and flags, you’ll be that much closer to getting the full picture of what he or she is really communicating. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Michael Reece. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/134066/bk_acx0_134066_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Dave Gorman - Genius: The Complete Series 1-3: The BBC Radio 4 Comedy, Hörbuch, Digital, 532min
    The complete Genius radio series, in which Dave Gorman and his celebrity guests consider the ridiculous, unworkable, but sometimes genius inventions of the public.  Guests such as Stewart Lee, Johnny Vegas, Germaine Greer and Charlie Brooker peruse a parade of proposals, be they innovations, gadgets, gizmos, philosophies or follies, in an attempt to sort the worthy from the worthless. Will they unearth some genuine gems of genius? And which pitch will win the legendary Genius trophy?  Ideas include the use of breathalysers on mobile phones to stop you making regrettable calls, a 99p coin, genetically engineered mini elephants as pets, Bovril as a fizzy drink, virtual reality headsets for chickens, Lego prisons and the best thing since sliced bread - perforated bread. If you've ever had an ingenious invention, a sublime plan for solving problems both small and large or a twisted scheme for making the world a better - or more interesting - place, then Genius is the midwife to your brainchild. The guests are Paul Daniels, Richard Madeley, John Fortune, Neil Innes, Stewart Lee, Johnny Vegas, Armando Iannucci, Chris Addison, Brian Sewell, Carol Vorderman, Sid Waddell, Germaine Greer, Gyles Brandreth, Matthew Wright, Rob Newman, Charlie Brooker and Simon Munnery. This complete collection also includes the Christmas Special edition of the show featuring Lee Mack. Bonus content: Dave Gorman’s Pub Olympics. In this one-off, very silly panel show, contestants Chris Addison, Roisin Conaty, Geoff Lloyd and Seymour Mace compete for gold medals in a series of ridiculous rounds, very loosely based on sports. Usain Bolt can run the 100m in 9.58 seconds. What do the panellists think they could do in 9.58 seconds? And what Olympic themed panel show would be complete without Quiz Akabusi? Language: English. Narrator: Dave Gorman, full cast. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rhuk/003753/bk_rhuk_003753_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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