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    Her Protector's Pleasure: Mayhem in Mayfair, Volume 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 769min
    She Breaks Society's Rules Wealthy widow Lady Marianne Draven is as notorious for her behavior as she is for her beauty. Unbeknownst to the ton, however, her scandalous image obscures a desperate quest: to find her kidnapped daughter. Clever and daring, Marianne will stop at nothing to get her little girl back ... and the last thing that she expects is for her heart to get in the way. He Stands for Justice and Orde A man of honor, Thames River Policeman Ambrose Kent has devoted his life to duty and doing what is right. When his father faces financial ruin, Kent takes on a risky yet lucrative assignment to save his family. Fate has him investigating a mysterious and unscrupulous beauty, a lady he has no right to desire ... and no power to resist. When Two Opposing Forces Collide Passion ignites between the unlikely lovers. As secrets unravel, can Marianne and Kent trust one another and work together to rescue her child from a dangerous foe? Can their love survive betrayal ... and will Marianne surrender to Her Protector's Pleasure? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Erin Mallon. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/013924/bk_acx0_013924_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    One Perfect Touch: Very Irresistible Bachelors, Book 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 480min
    In business circles, I’m known for being cutthroat and demanding. Robert Dumont is a hard-ass, they say. And it’s true. I thrive on challenges. Taking the family-owned restaurant chain to the next level is my passion. When my sister’s marriage implodes, I head back to New York, to be there for her and my niece.These are my only two priorities: growing the business and taking care of my family. My new neighbor is a temptation I hadn’t counted on. Skye Winchester is bold, sensual, and I just can’t keep my distance. I’m determined to make her mine. But once I’ve touched her, I want more. I want to worship her all night long.As a business owner herself, Skye’s got enough on her plate. I was expecting her to run in the opposite direction when she realizes how complicated my life is. Instead, she does the opposite: making my sister laugh, charming my niece...she completely wins me over.Neither of us expected our attraction to grow until it obscures everything but each other. And neither of us can afford to allow that. But how can we stop now? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Joe Arden, Maxine Mitchell. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/205675/bk_acx0_205675_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Eating Right in America: The Cultural Politics of Food and Health , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 366min
    Eating Right in America is a powerful critique of dietary reform in the United States from the late nineteenth-century emergence of nutritional science through the contemporary alternative food movement and campaign against obesity. Charlotte Biltekoff analyzes the discourses of dietary reform, including the writings of reformers, as well as the materials they created to bring their messages to the public. She shows that while the primary aim may be to improve health, the process of teaching people to “eat right” in the U.S. inevitably involves shaping certain kinds of subjects and citizens, and shoring up the identity and social boundaries of the ever-threatened American middle class. Without discounting the pleasures of food or the value of wellness, Biltekoff advocates a critical reappraisal of our obsession with diet as a proxy for health. Based on her understanding of the history of dietary reform, she argues that talk about “eating right” in America too often obscures structural and environmental stresses and constraints, while naturalizing the dubious redefinition of health as an individual responsibility and imperative. The book is published by Duke University Press ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Caroline Miller. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/015978/bk_acx0_015978_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Good News About Bad Behavior , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 617min
    The current model of parental discipline is as outdated as a rotary phone. Why don't our kids do what we want them to do? Parents often take the blame for misbehavior, but this obscures a broader trend: in our modern, highly connected age, children have less self-control than ever. About half of the current generation of children will develop a mood or behavioral disorder or a substance addiction by age 18. Contemporary kids need to learn independence and responsibility, yet our old ideas of punishments and rewards are preventing this from happening. To stem this growing crisis of self-regulation, journalist and parenting expert Katherine Reynolds Lewis articulates what she calls The Apprenticeship Model, a new theory of discipline that centers on learning the art of self-control. Blending new scientific research and powerful individual stories of change, Lewis shows that, if we trust our children to face consequences, they will learn to adapt and moderate their own behavior. She watches as chaotic homes become peaceful, bewildered teachers see progress, and her own family grows and evolves in light of these new ideas. You'll recognize your own family in Lewis's sensitive, realistic stories, and you'll find a path to making everyone in your home more capable, kinder, and happier - including yourself.  ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Katherine Reynolds Lewis. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hach/004429/bk_hach_004429_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Mаnірulаtіоn Tесhnіԛuеѕ: Dаrk Psychology Influencing Pеорlе wіth Persuasion, NLP and Mind Cоntrоl , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 199min
    Manipulation is a massive concept that is apparent in almost every area of our social life. It is a puzzling motivating action aimed at interfering with another person's decision-making process, usually without his consent. These interference is achieved implicitly through the use of morally questionable techniques such as coercion, diversion, and misdirection. The trickery factor synonymous with deceit causes the practice to occur in almost infinite variations and in many different ways, ranging from a powerful weapon in the pursuit of indecent advertising to altruistic psychotherapy and even education steps. Nonetheless, social scientists have found out that without utilizing a certain degree of coercion, a successful improvement in human decision-making and actions cannot be accomplished. Manipulation is not exactly bribery, not manipulation, and not just deception-like. The enigmatic trend is located between these motivational behavior somewhere in the gray area, and this gray position poses critical difficulties in characterizing coercion and calculating its effect. The expert manipulator adopts tactics in a fashion that obscures his acts' moral and legal judgement. His sophisticated and illusive influencing methods challenge the wisdom of the open society's leading proponents. The problem exists in almost every aspect that can be considered, from politics to ads, employment, and even the most intimate relationships. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jeremy Prost. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/196978/bk_acx0_196978_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Inheritors of the Earth: How Nature Is Thriving in an Age of Extinction , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 552min
    Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Inheritors of the Earth by Chris D. Thomas, read by Leighton Pugh.  The Times, Economist and Guardian books of the year 2017. It is accepted wisdom today that human beings have irrevocably damaged the natural world. We have altered our climate, acidified our oceans, and we are in the process of causing the sixth mass extinction. Yet what if this gloomy narrative obscures a more hopeful truth? In Inheritors of the Earth, renowned ecologist and environmentalist Chris D. Thomas overturns this loss-only view of the world's biodiversity, revealing how many animals and plants have benefited from the human-altered planet. Taking us on a round-the-world journey to meet the enterprising animals and plants that are thriving in the Anthropocene, from York's ochre-coloured comma butterfly to the hybrid American bison and the scarlet-beaked New Zealand pukeko, Thomas questions why we resist the success of so-called 'invasive species', and why we see human activities as fundamentally unnatural. Combining a naturalist's eye for wildlife with an ecologist's wide lens, Chris Thomas forces us to re-examine humanity's relationship with nature, and reminds us that the story of life is the story of change. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Leighton Pugh. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/pauk/001714/bk_pauk_001714_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    A Map of the Dark: The Searchers, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 426min
    A race-against-time thriller for fans of Tana French and Megan Abbott: To save a missing girl, FBI Agent Elsa Myers may have to lose herself.... Even as her father lies dying in a hospital north of New York City, FBI Agent Elsa Myers can't ignore a call for help. A teenage girl has disappeared from Forest Hills, Queens, and during the critical first hours of the case, a series of false leads obscures the fact that she did not go willingly. With each passing hour, as the hunt for Ruby deepens into a search for a man who may have been killing for years, Elsa's carefully compartmentalized world collapses around her. She finds missing people, but she knows too well how it feels to be lost. Everything she has buried - her fraught relationship with her sister and niece, her self-destructive past, her mother's death - threatens to resurface, with devastating consequences. Can our most painful childhood secrets be forgotten? Or will they always find their way back into our adult lives? These questions lie at the heart of A Map of the Dark, a riveting portrait of a woman haunted by her family legacy, and a race-against-time thriller. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Lisa Flanagan. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hach/003691/bk_hach_003691_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Secret History of Home Economics: How Trailblazing Women Harnessed the Power of Home and Changed the Way We Live
    The term "home economics" may conjure traumatic memories of lopsided hand-sewn pillows or sunken muffins. But common conception obscures the story of the revolutionary science of better living. The field exploded opportunities for women in the twentieth century by reducing domestic work and providing jobs as professors, engineers, chemists, and businesspeople. And it has something to teach us today. In the surprising, often fiercely feminist and always fascinating The Secret History of Home Economics, Danielle Dreilinger traces the field's history from Black colleges to Eleanor Roosevelt to Okinawa, from a Betty Crocker brigade to DIY techies. These women-and they were mostly women-became chemists and marketers, studied nutrition, health, and exercise, tested parachutes, created astronaut food, and took bold steps in childhood development and education. Home economics followed the currents of American culture even as it shaped them. Dreilinger brings forward the racism within the movement along with the strides taken by women of color who were influential leaders and innovators. She also looks at the personal lives of home economics' women, as they chose to be single, share lives with other women, or try for egalitarian marriages. This groundbreaking and engaging history restores a denigrated subject to its rightful importance, as it reminds us that everyone should learn how to cook a meal, balance their account, and fight for a better world.
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    Measuring Happiness: The Economics of Well-Being , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 433min
    Can money buy happiness? Is income a reliable measure for life satisfaction? In the West after World War II, happiness seemed inextricably connected to prosperity. Beginning in the 1960s, however, other values began to gain ground: peace, political participation, civil rights, environmentalism. "Happiness economics" - a somewhat incongruous-sounding branch of what has been called "the dismal science" - has taken up the puzzle of what makes people happy, conducting elaborate surveys in which people are asked to quantify their satisfaction with "life in general". In this book three economists explore the happiness-prosperity connection, investigating how economists measure life satisfaction and well-being. The authors examine the evolution of happiness research, considering the famous "Easterlin Paradox", which found that people's average life satisfaction didn't seem to depend on their income. But they question whether happiness research can measure what needs to be measured. They argue that we should not assess people's well-being on a "happiness scale" because that necessarily obscures true social progress. Instead, rising income should be understood as increasing opportunities and alleviating scarcity. Economic growth helps societies to sustain freedom and to finance social welfare programs. In this respect, high income may not buy happiness with life in general, but it gives individuals the opportunity to be healthier, better educated, better clothed, and better fed, to live longer and to live well. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Steven Menasche. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/gdan/001665/bk_gdan_001665_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Monk with No Past , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 166min
    A long-awaited trip to New York, an alarm clock that doesn’t go off, a useless race to the airport. And then, as the last chance for departure fades, an unexpected gift from a stranger. The protagonist of this story is unaware that when he casually accepts a proposal to travel to Tibet, he is actually saying yes to his destiny.Nothing happens by chance, and now that the gears are in motion, his eyes are about to open on an unimaginable reality. From a fortuitous encounter begins his initiatory path in a Tibetan monastery where, thanks to the wise words of an old monk, he discovers surprising truths and the existence of a new world and a new self. A self-publishing success in Italy, The Monk With No Past is a tale of enlightenment, a companion for interior growth, and a guide to abandoning mental schemes as you journey toward greater awareness.“It is impossible for you to search for truth because you would have no chance of finding it. Finding something assumes that you have been separated from the object you are seeking. You have not been separated from the truth: You are the truth. It is your most intimate nature. How can you find something you already are? It is like looking for your glasses without realizing they are sitting on your nose. Put your efforts, instead, into cleaning your house with the purpose of eliminating everything that is not true and that obscures the vision of who you are. This is your task.” ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Alan H. Staples. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/163196/bk_acx0_163196_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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