105 Results for : confrontational
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I Dare You! , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 185min
William H. Danforth, who founded the Nestle Purina Company, saw life as a type of checkerboard. He believed that four key components, the mental, the physical, the social, and the religious, needed to be in balance in order to achieve fulfillment and success in life.He expounds on his ideas in I Dare You!. Once you get beyond the confrontational tone of the title what you will find in this book is enthusiastic encouragement and confidence-building. Sit back and let the author's words put that spark of fire in your eyes to be, do, see and share the best of what you are and what William Danforth is sure you can accomplish! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jim Killavey. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/jimc/001118/bk_jimc_001118_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Stage Two: Dreamspun Desires, Book 33 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 374min
Love has a steep learning curve. Assistant high school principal Blake Barnes has everything he wants - a chance to help troubled students and an outlet for his passion for theater. Well, almost everything - he still goes home to an empty apartment. Then his high school crush explodes back into his life, the unexpected guardian of two boys in Blake's care. Thane Dalton has always been a bad boy through and through. Not much has changed, including his mistrust of authority figures, and no amount of institutional bureaucracy will keep him from protecting his nephews from the bullies terrorizing them. If that means butting heads with Blake, so be it. Blake and Thane have lessons to learn: that they both have the boys' best interests at heart, that the tension between them isn't just confrontational, and that sparks can fly when opposites come together. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John Solo. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/086211/bk_acx0_086211_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 746min
Scott McClellan belonged to Bush's select inner circle of trusted advisers during one of the most challenging, contentious periods of recent history. Over a period of more than seven years, he witnessed, day-to-day, exactly how the presidency veered off course, not only by its decision to topple Saddam Hussein, but by an embrace of confrontational politics in the face of an increasingly partisan Washington and a hostile media. In this refreshingly clear-eyed book, McClellan provides his unique perspective on what happened and why it happened the way it did, including the Iraq war, Hurricane Katrina, and two hotly contested presidential campaigns. He gives listeners a candid look into who George W. Bush is and what he believes, and explores the lessons this presidency offers the American people as we prepare to elect a new leader. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Scott McClellan. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/002640/bk_blak_002640_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Love and Trouble: Memoirs of a Former Wild Girl , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 421min
A hilarious, confrontational and moving story of one woman's attempts to navigate her way through the challenges of mid-life, for lovers of How to Be a Woman and I'm Not with the Band. Claire Dederer's youth was wild, an endless cascade of beer and rock and acid and sex that left her benumbed and adrift. But then, after two decades of disciplined transformation, she'd become a successful writer, a faithful wife, and a mother - a real adult. That is, until one morning at 44, she found herself overcome by the same sexual cravings and ineffable sadness of her younger years. The hedonistic girl, 'that crazy bitch', was back - or had she never left? Frank and disarming, seductive and hilarious, Love and Trouble: A Midlife Reckoning is Dederer's attempt to reckon with those urges, and to reconcile the girl she'd been with the woman she's become. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Claire Dederer. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/head/000596/bk_head_000596_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Discipline Without Punishment: The Proven Strategy That Turns Problem Employees into Superior Performers , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 479min
The original edition of Discipline Without Punishment introduced a positive approach for getting problem employees to meet - and often even exceed - job requirements. The book still delivers on that promise, and in this revised edition, Dick Grote provides new insights, along with sample dialogues, memos, and worksheets. Grote's revolutionary method helps listeners:Avoid confrontational, anger-provoking sessionsPrepare for and conduct performance improvement discussions that enhance relationships and emphasize problem-solvingCreate and administer the entire disciplinary process, including a paid leave of absence as a final chance to commit to better performanceThis proven guidebook, from one of the country's leading experts on performance management, will help any organization get potentially great employees back on track.PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Steven Roy Grimsley. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/018092/bk_adbl_018092_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Visual Cultures of Africa
The voices in this book offer a multi-perspectival approach to Africa, focusing on the skills and the knowledge underpinning visual cultural expressions ranging from Akan symbolism to embodied performances by dancers and storytellers, even re-designed models of Western cars. Educators, designers, artists, critics, curators, and custodians based both in Africa and in Europe are configuring spaces for public, private, institutional as well as digital conversation - whether through pottery or portraiture, furniture or film, shoes or selfies, buildings or books. Readers are encouraged to question how African visual cultures are both 'in' and 'of'; identifying and confrontational; post- and decolonial; preserved and practised; old and new; borrowed and authentic; composite and complete; rooted and soaring. Disciplines being engaged include visual culture studies, media studies, performance studies, orature, literature, art and design - as well as their histories. The editors Mary Clare Kidenda, Lize Kriel and Ernst Wagner represent three nodes in the Exploring Visual Cultures north-south collaborative network: The Technical University of Kenya, the University of Pretoria in South Africa and Munich Academy of Fine Arts in Germany.- Shop: buecher
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My Heart Beats: The Cry of the Unborn , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 15min
My Heart Beats is a poetic heart-cry of the unborn innocents who have already perished and those who are destined to die. Some of what you will listen might sound harsh or confrontational. Truth sometimes comes across that way, even when the one penning the words does not intend to be harsh, just honest. These poems are not meant to cause confrontation between you and me or you and the person who suggested this book, but they are meant to confront a lie that has caused a grievous situation within our culture and our world.If you are pregnant and weighing your options, this audiobook is for you. If you have already had an abortion, please listen - this book is for you. If something you hear causes you to feel guilty or ashamed, please know that nobody is judging you. Quite the contrary!Please listen until the end! Relief and hope are available from those deep and painful emotions. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Stephen Carlock. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/185242/bk_acx0_185242_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Paper Children: An Immigrant's Legacy: An Immigrant's Legacy , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 563min
Driven by cataclysmic world events, the story encompasses the lives of three generations of women. In Book One, Paulina, the privileged daughter of aristocratic parents, reluctantly follows her driven businessman husband to America in 1929. From a vantage point in New York she endures a difficult marriage and slowly becomes aware of the destruction of her large, extended family in Poland as the Nazis tighten their grip on Europe. Book Two begins in 1940 following Paulina's daughter, Sarah, as she pursues a career in photography. Sent on assignment to the Displaced Persons camps in Europe, Sarah is shaken loose from her faith and pursues a hedonistic path. The Third book deals with Mimi, Sarah's daughter. A solitary young woman, she becomes curious about her family's past. She explores the Holocaust and searches for her roots. In a confrontational scene, Paulina hands over her family's pre-war correspondence that she calls her "Paper Children." ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Alexandria Stevens. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/008645/bk_acx0_008645_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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America and the Rogue States
America and the Rogue States traces and examines the policies and interaction of the United States with the main adversarial nations in the post-Cold War era. The book concentrates on the three major rogue states-North Korea, Iran, and pre-invasion Iraq. What are termed as lesser rogue nations-Libya, Syria, Cuba, and the Sudan-receive summarized treatment in one chapter together with a brief discussion about why Afghanistan and Venezuela are not rogues. The author makes clear the distinctions among these confrontational regimes, noting that North Korea, Iran, and Saddam Hussein's Iraq aroused much more anxiety in Washington than lesser rogues and other troublesome states. After an opening chapter placing the rogue-nation phenomenon in historical and current context, the manuscript devotes one chapter each to the three major adversarial rogues. A final chapter deals with the less threatening rogue regimes. Each chapter follows a chronological format with description and analysis. The work is intended for a general reader interested in the topic; it also will have appeal as a supplemental text for university classes in international relations covering the period after the Cold War ended.- Shop: buecher
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1983
'Gripping and frankly terrifying' Tom Holland 'The momentum inexorably growing as he assembles each part of the jigsaw. Indeed, Downing's narrative is so persuasive that by the time you are about two-thirds through, it takes some effort to remind yourself that the Third World War never happened' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times 'If you want to understand what brought about the end of the Cold War, read this book. Downing is authoritative, and his writing is vibrant and compelling . . . He brings to the page his skills and insights as a documentary film maker' Scotsman 'Downing's authoritative and well-researched narrative charts the growth of US-Soviet antagonism from Reagan's arrival in office in January 1981 to Able Archer. It deftly takes the reader from the White House to the skies over the Kamchatka peninsula, the streets of Beirut and the corridors of the Kremlin, where anxieties over confrontational US rhetoric were rising in the geriatric leadership of the Communist Party . . . This a remarkable story, which Downing tells in sparkling prose and in a feat of compression that many authors will envy' BBC History 'Downing tells this grim story with pace and flair' Guardian- Shop: buecher
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