62 Results for : amplifies

  • Thumbnail
    Evil in Mind (eBook, PDF)
    What is evil? Who does evil things? Who is evil? How do you know? Whether in response to witnessing mass suffering or feeling the sting of personal injustice, people confidently apply the "evil" label to perpetrators and the harm that they inflict, yet evil's essence remains mysterious to many. This book offers readers an accessible, social-scientific definition and analysis of evil in its various incarnations to foster a sophisticated and self-reflective understanding of the phenomenon, departing from ghoulish or self-righteous generalizations. Part 1 explores why most of us want to be seen as good, when and why we deem something evil, and what psychological and environmental factors increase our propensity for harming others in spite of our drive for social acceptance. Part 2 presents illustrative examples of how Part 1's insights can be applied, specifically examining hate, sadism, serial killers, group-based atrocities, organizational offenses, and familial abuse. The concluding chapter amplifies and integrates the book's big themes to foster a more mindful, informed confrontation of the elusive problem we call evil. Evil in Mind delivers a systematic, research-based psychological understanding of evil that is compact, digestible, and potentially transformative for academics, students, and educated lay readers.
    • Shop: buecher
    • Price: 24.95 EUR excl. shipping
  • Thumbnail
    Resisting Ryann: Bad Boy Reformed, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 320min
    Luke Ryann was the first man to touch me. He made me feel beautiful and adored. And the words that he spoke...don't even get me started. I loved it. I love him. - Reese Johnson - USA Today Bestselling author Alyssa Rae Taylor amplifies the angst-filled love story that started in Raising Ryann. - What happens when the person you love becomes threatened by your very existence? How far will you go to keep them safe? Luke Ryann will do anything to protect the woman he loves, even if it means shattering her heart. When the mystery of his past comes back to haunt him, he leaves Reese behind and enters the life of crime he had worked so hard to escape. When all is said and done, will he be able to get out of this alive, or will he be in over his head? She's been in love with him since her childhood, but now she questions everything. After Reese Johnson discovers Luke's disappearance has nothing to do with the MMA, she faces a difficult choice. - Can she find it in her heart to forgive him? Or will the secrets and lies be too damaging for her to trust again? Will this couple ever have a chance? You know what they say. Sometimes ... love just isn't enough. - Resisting Ryann is the second book in The Bad Boy Reformed Trilogy. Recommended for mature readers due to situations of abuse, violence, language, and sexual content. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tim Campbell. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/025118/bk_acx0_025118_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
    • Shop: Audible
    • Price: 9.95 EUR excl. shipping
  • Thumbnail
    The Dream Machine , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1636min
    Behind every great revolution is a vision, and behind perhaps the greatest revolution of our time, personal computing, is the vision of J.C.R. Licklider. He did not design the first personal computers or write the software that ran on them, nor was he involved in the legendary early companies that brought them to the forefront of our everyday experience. He was instead a relentless visionary who saw the potential of the way individuals could interact with computers and software. At a time when computers were a short step removed from mechanical data processors, Licklider was writing treatises on "human-computer symbiosis", "computers as communication devices", and a now not-so-unfamiliar "Intergalactic Network". His ideas became so influential, his passion so contagious, that Waldrop called him "computing's Johnny Appleseed". In a simultaneously compelling personal narrative and comprehensive historical exposition, Waldrop tells the story of the man who not only instigated the work that led to the internet, but also shifted our understanding of what computers were and could be.Included in this edition are also the original texts of Licklider's three most influential writings: "Man-computer symbiosis" (1960), which outlines the vision that inspired the personal computer revolution of the 1970s; his "Intergalactic Network" memo (1963), which outlines the vision that inspired the Internet; and "The computer as a communication device" (1968, coauthored with Robert Taylor), which amplifies his vision for what the network could become. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jamie Renell. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/129410/bk_acx0_129410_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
    • Shop: Audible
    • Price: 9.95 EUR excl. shipping
  • Thumbnail
    My Head! My Head! , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 238min
    Written in 1925, My Head! My Head! was Robert Graves's first novel - a retelling of the story of Elisha and the Shunamite woman. Graves amplifies the brief Old Testament story into a series of dramatic encounters between the wandering prophet and his inquisitive, quick-witted hostess, who, by skilful questioning, prizes from Elisha the secret religious history of ancient Israel and the true story of the patriarch Moses. Graves uses the extended dialogue of Elisha and Jochebed to elaborate his own unorthodox theory of the origins of primitive Judaism and the role of Moses in the eventual triumph of the cult of Jahweh over the other desert religions of the time. Robert von Ranke Graves (24 July 1895 - 7 December 1985) was an English poet and novelist, scholar, translator and writer of antiquity, specialising in Classical Greece and Rome. During his long life he produced more than 140 works. Graves's translations and innovative analysis and interpretations of the Greek myths, the memoir of his early life, Good-bye to All That, and his speculative study of poetic inspiration, The White Goddess, have never been out of print. Graves earned his living by writing popular historical novels, including I, Claudius (for which he was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize), King Jesus, The Golden Fleece and Count Belisarius. He was elected Professor of Poetry at Oxford in 1961 and made an honorary fellow of St John’s College, Oxford, in 1971. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gordon Griffin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/014347/bk_adbl_014347_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
    • Shop: Audible
    • Price: 9.95 EUR excl. shipping
  • Thumbnail
    Haramacy (eBook, ePUB)
    Journalism in the UK is 94 per cent white and 55 per cent male, while only 0.4 per cent of journalists are Muslim and 0.2 per cent are Black. The publishing industry's statistics are equally dire. Many publications will use British Black, Indigenous People of Colour when it's convenient; typically, when the region the writer represents is topical and newsworthy. Otherwise, their voices are left muted.Haramacy amplifies under-represented voices. Tackling topics previously left unspoken, this anthology offers a space for writers to explore ideas that mainstream organisations overlook. Focusing on the experiences of twelve Middle Eastern and South Asian writers, the essays explore visibility, invisibility, love, strength and race, painting a picture of what it means to feel fractured - both in the UK and back home. Appreciating both heritage and adopted home, the anthology highlights the various shades that make up our society.The title, Haramacy, is an amalgamation of the Arabic word 'haram', meaning indecent or forbidden, and the English word 'pharmacy', implying a safe, trustworthy space that prescribes the antidote to ailments caused by intersectional, social issues.The book features contributions by novelists, journalists, and artists including Aina J. Khan, Ammar Kalia, Cyrine Sinti, Joe Zadeh, Kieran Yates, Nasri Atallah, Nouf Alhimiary, Saleem Haddad and Sanjana Varghese, as well as essays by editors Dhruva Balram, Tara Joshi and Zahed Sultan.
    • Shop: buecher
    • Price: 4.99 EUR excl. shipping
  • Thumbnail
    Final Storm The Conclusion (Storm Series, #6) (eBook, ePUB)
    Being possessed by the Demon of Lust sure amplifies a werewolf's secret crush on a certain vampire Guardian. Cellica Scott may be tied to his bed, but Christoph's harsh growls and meager resistance crumble to dust under the beast's erotic seduction. With her initial transition fast approaching and the demon's control becoming tougher to combat, Cellica escapes and embarks on a terrifying journey with a furious vampire hot on her heels. Christoph Nox's first loyalty is to his queen, the notoriously sarcastic Halfling, with a prophecy to uphold. The last thing he needed was to babysit his best friend's spirited little sister possessed by a Prince of Hell. The werewolf's wanton behavior drives him mad with lust, and the need to mark her as his has become an obsession.​With the insatiable pull of the mate bond ripping him apart, his friendship with the Werewolf King hanging in the balance, the queen's birth of the first Daywalker King transforms into life-or-death. Will Nox get to Cellica before her pending transformation forever binds her soul to the demon? Or will Abigail-the witch with the ability to slaughter them all-destroy his reason for living? Author's Note: This book contains sexual scenes which include menage play, kink/fetish content, horror elements, scenes of trauma, anxiety, A complete CW can be found in the frontmatter of the book.
    • Shop: buecher
    • Price: 5.49 EUR excl. shipping
  • Thumbnail
    Free Will: Its Refutation, Societal Cost and Role in Climate Change Denial , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 50min
    While the author's previous book on the matter, Exploring the Illusion of Free Will, Second Edition, is a popular work, this brief discourse is decidedly and robustly academic. The audiobook focuses exclusively on the physical refutation of the free will construct, concurrently addressing claims that because we are human, our choices are somehow exempt from physical law. It also delves deeply into quantum mechanical principles and phenomena relevant to the free will question, siding with Einstein, Bohm, Hawking, Krauss, and others regarding the causal nature of both the macro and quantum world. The refutations presented hopefully describe the physical evidence against free will with sufficient strength and clarity to win over more hitherto agnostic minds than have earlier attempts by other authors. The audiobook's original contributions to the literature on human agency are that it presents an a priori argument for the causality that refutes free will and that it not only challenges recent published warnings of dangerous repercussions from abandoning belief in free will, but it also presents a convincing argument for humanity evolving beyond a notion of free choice that seems the catalyst for more harm than good. The author presents evidence associating the psychological defense mechanism known as "denial" with free will belief and proposes that a belief in human autonomy's correlate of fundamental moral responsibility amplifies the widespread denial of the existence and anthropogenic origin of a climate change crisis that, unless successfully mitigated, many prominent scientists fear poses a serious threat to the civilization we know. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Philip D. Moore. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/124868/bk_acx0_124868_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
    • Shop: Audible
    • Price: 9.95 EUR excl. shipping
  • Thumbnail
    Mississippi River Tragedies: A Century of Unnatural Disaster , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 464min
    American engineers have done astounding things to bend the Mississippi River to their will: forcing one of its tributaries to flow uphill, transforming over 1000 miles of roiling currents into a placid staircase of water, and wresting the lower half of the river apart from its floodplain. American law has aided and abetted these feats. But despite our best efforts, so-called "natural disasters" continue to strike the Mississippi basin as raging floodwaters decimate waterfront communities and abandoned towns literally crumble into the Gulf of Mexico. In some places, only the tombstones remain, leaning at odd angles as the underlying soil erodes away. Mississippi River Tragedies reveals that it is seductively deceptive - but horribly misleading - to call such catastrophes "natural". Authors Christine A. Klein and Sandra B. Zellmer present a sympathetic account of the human dreams, pride, and foibles that got us to this point, weaving together engaging historical narratives and accessible law stories drawn from actual courtroom dramas. The authors deftly uncover the larger story of how the law reflects and even amplifies our ambivalent attitude toward nature - simultaneously revering wild rivers and places for what they are, while working feverishly to change them into something else. Despite their sobering revelations, the authors' final message is one of hope. Although the acknowledgement of human responsibility for unnatural disasters can lead to blame, guilt, and liability, it can also prod us to confront the consequences of our actions, leading to a liberating sense of possibility and to the knowledge necessary to avoid future disasters. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Troy McElfresh. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/090803/bk_acx0_090803_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
    • Shop: Audible
    • Price: 9.95 EUR excl. shipping
  • Thumbnail
    Summary of The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 48min
    This is a Summary of Ben Horowitz's The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers .Ben Horowitz, cofounder of Andreessen Horowitz and one of Silicon Valley's most respected and experienced entrepreneurs, offers essential advice on building and running a startup - practical wisdom for managing the toughest problems business school doesn't cover. While many people talk about how great it is to start a business, very few are honest about how difficult it is to run one. Ben Horowitz analyzes the problems that confront leaders every day, sharing the insights he's gained developing, managing, selling, buying, investing in, and supervising technology companies. A lifelong rap fanatic, he amplifies business lessons with lyrics from his favorite songs, telling it straight about everything from firing friends to poaching competitors, cultivating and sustaining a CEO mentality to knowing the right time to cash in. Filled with his trademark humor and straight talk, The Hard Thing About Hard Things is invaluable for veteran entrepreneurs as well as those aspiring to their own new ventures, drawing from Horowitz's personal and often humbling experiences. This summary is aimed for those who want to capture the gist of the book but don't have the current time to devour all of it. You get the main summary along with all of the benefits and lessons the actual book has to offer. This is a summary that is not intended to be used without reference to the original book. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tom Johnson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/072221/bk_acx0_072221_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
    • Shop: Audible
    • Price: 9.95 EUR excl. shipping
  • Thumbnail
    Putting Excellence into Practice: A Proven Roadmap to a Profitable, Sustainable and Value Driven Accountancy Business , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 650min
    Research and experience spanning three decades have gone into authoring this book for accountants in practice. This audiobook offers a proven seven-step methodology described in detail and supported with real- life examples throughout from accountants who have implemented the concepts within.When most accountants start to build their accountancy practice, they have a defined capacity to which they can work. As they take on more clients, however, this capacity is consumed and then exceeded as they take on ever more clients just to pay the bills. Eventually, of course, maximum capacity is reached, by which point they're working far too many hours, for far too little income, and leaving themselves far too little time to spend with their family, their friends and, worryingly, their own health.An approach to marketing which simply involves offering cheaper services than their competitors amplifies this situation, and a vicious downward spiral ensues that leads to ever more stress and ever less time. All in all, it's not a pleasant way to work or live.To make sure you don't fall into the trap I've outlined above, I'd like to share my proven, seven-step methodology with you. The first three steps will enable you to achieve a more efficient capacity level. In other words, you'll be able to work less hours whilst earning more income and gaining a greater sense of fulfillment in all that you do. The next three steps will focus on creating scalability so that your practice can grow without overburdening either you or any of your employees. The final step - the icing on the cake, as it were - will be learning how to become truly purposeful, thereby making a profound difference to businesses (and to the loved ones of those businesses) throughout the world. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Shane Lukas. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/190346/bk_acx0_190346_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
    • Shop: Audible
    • Price: 9.95 EUR excl. shipping

Similar searches: