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Spiritual Graffiti , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 181min

In this entrancing collection, author Jeff Brown shares more of his profound quotes and musings with us. Words written on walls - in his home, in back-alleys, on Facebook - come vibrantly to life in this poignant offering. Building on the popularity of his first two quotes books - Love it Forward and Ascending with Both Feet on the Ground - Brown takes it to the next level in this collection, cutting straight to the heart of the matter with wisdoms that both energize and uplift. This book is alive! In a style uniquely his own, Brown invites listeners in the direction of their own transformation. They are invited, and they are supported as they endeavor to find meaning on their life's journey. Spiritual Graffiti is a lighthouse of possibility, one that both celebrates our perfectly imperfect humanness and reminds us that there is hope at every turn. As an added bonus, Jeff has included more of the inspirations he wrote for ABC'S Good Morning America and his popular healing blog "Apologies to the Battered Child". This book is a beautiful gift for anyone who is seeking a deeper and more authentic life. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jeff Brown. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/009561/bk_blak_009561_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Life with a Capital L: Embracing Your God-Given Humanity , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 551min

What is it that you long for? Dream about? Hunger after? We all desire more than just the endurance of our daily routines. But often we feel limited and stuck - like we're merely existing instead of living. That's not the way it was meant to be. God intends the humanity in each of us to be deeply experienced, lavishly enjoyed, and exuberantly celebrated. In fact this is what the gospel is all about. Yes, the gospel. Contrary to conventional thinking - inside and outside the church - following Jesus is not about denying our humanness but embracing it. Rather than acting more spiritual or being more religious, we're called and enabled to become more fully human...and alive. Matt Heard escorts us on a journey of discovery: that Jesus didn't come to save us from our humanity - Christ instead yearns to restore it to what God originally intended. Matt then explores 10 key areas where everyday life can become extraordinary Life. Christ promised we could "live life to the full". He didn't just mean eventually. Life with a Capital L is the Life you are longing for. Now. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Matt Heard. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hove/001322/bk_hove_001322_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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A Window to Young Minds: Short Stories by Young Writers, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 245min

Our future depends on stories. As the world advances, literature has the ability to ground us - in our humanness, our imaginations, and our enlightenment. Fueled by the need to interpret the past, to explore the present, and to imagine the future, each generation shapes the world of books. In order to preserve this, we must have a new generation willing to share their stories. The annual Lune Spark Short Story Contest was started in May 2017 with the vision of supporting young writers. A Window to Young Minds is the first of the contest’s yearly anthologies, Short Stories by Young Writers. The 23 wonderful stories in this audiobook are handpicked from 2017’s entries. The talent of these young writers shines in their command of storytelling and their unique take on genre - from a pirate love story to the Hindenburg disaster on May 6, 1937, in New Jersey. Full list of authors: Sonia Birla, Sivaranjani Velmurugan, Soumya Shenoy, Elliot Hui, Fisher Lynn Mishmash, Christopher Joseph Maxwell, Logan M. Egle, Charlotte MenkeCate Pitterle, Molly Heinold, Ankita S. Karuturi, Sreya Vannapagari, Niharika Thuppanna, Hannah Won, Khloe Corrine Marie Beutler, Kydn Aurora Meyer, Tarisha Badaya, Debra Adamolekun, Ayanna Schubert, and Huda Haque. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Georgie Leonard. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/105411/bk_acx0_105411_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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As Far as the Heart Can See: Stories to Illuminate the Soul , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 292min

Stories carry the seeds of our humanness. They help us, teach us, heal us, and connect us to what matters. As Far as the Heart Can See is an invitation to be in relationship with deep and life-giving material. Poet and philosopher Mark Nepo reaches people through their hearts, bringing something fresh and new to the field by stimulating change through reflection of thoughts and feelings. The stories he shares in As Far as the Heart Can See come from many places - from Nepo's personal history to dreams to the myths of our ancestors. Each one is an invitation to awaken an aspect of living in relationship with the sacred. Following each of the 45 stories are three forms of an invitation to further the conversation: journal questions, table questions, and meditations. The questions, whether reflected upon in a journal or discussed in deeper conversation with friends or family, are meant to lead the seeker down unimagined paths and back into life; the meditations are meant to ground the learning. These stories and parables about universal concepts and themes offer a poet's sensuality and a philosopher's sensibility to personalizing the journey of the human experience in the world. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mark Nepo. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/sans/005654/bk_sans_005654_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Suicide Notes

An unforgettable coming of age novel for fans of 13 Reasons Why, It's Kind of a Funny Story, and The Perks of Being a Wallflower. Fifteen-year-old Jeff wakes up on New Year's Day to find himself in the hospital—specifically, in the psychiatric ward. Despite the bandages on his wrists, he's positive this is all some huge mistake. Jeff is perfectly fine, perfectly normal; not like the other kids in the hospital with him. But over the course of the next forty-five days, Jeff begins to understand why he ended up here—and realizes he has more in common with the other kids than he thought. "With a sprinkling of dark humor and a full measure of humanness, Suicide Notes is quirky, surprising, and a riveting read.” —Ellen Hopkins, author of The You I've Never Known and Love Lies Beneath "Like the very best teen novels, Suicide Notes is both classic and edgy, timeless and provocative.” —Brent Hartinger, author of Geography Club "Makes a powerful emotional impact.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Jeff's wit and self-discovery are refreshing, poignant, and, at times, laugh-out-loud funny.” —School Library Journal

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What Do You Think About Machines That Think?: Today's Leading Thinkers on the Age of Machine Intelligence , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 899min

As the world becomes ever more dominated by technology, John Brockman's latest addition to the acclaimed and best-selling Edge Question Series asks more than 175 leading scientists, philosophers, and artists: What do you think about machines that think? The development of artificial intelligence has been a source of fascination and anxiety ever since Alan Turing formalized the concept in 1950. Today, Stephen Hawking believes that AI "could spell the end of the human race". At the very least, its development raises complicated moral issues with powerful real-world implications - for us and for our machines. In this volume, recording artist Brian Eno proposes that we're already part of an AI: global civilization, or what TED curator Chris Anderson elsewhere calls the hive mind. And author Pamela McCorduck considers what drives us to pursue AI in the first place. On the existential threat posed by superintelligent machines, Steven Pinker questions the likelihood of a robot uprising. Douglas Coupland traces discomfort with human-programmed AI to deeper fears about what constitutes "humanness". Martin Rees predicts the end of organic thinking while Daniel C. Dennett explains why he believes the Singularity might be an urban legend. Provocative, enriching, and accessible, What Do You Think About Machines That Think? may just be a practical guide to the not-so-distant future. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Brett Barry, Lisa Larsen. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/004632/bk_harp_004632_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 686min

Every day, we make decisions on topics ranging from personal investments to schools for our children to the meals we eat to the causes we champion. Unfortunately, we often choose poorly. The reason, the authors explain, is that, being human, we are all susceptible to various biases that can lead us to blunder. Our mistakes make us poorer and less healthy; we often make bad decisions involving education, personal finance, health care, mortgages and credit cards, the family, and even the planet itself. Thaler and Sunstein invite us to enter an alternative world, one that takes our humanness as a given. They show that by knowing how people think, we can design choice environments that make it easier for people to choose what is best for themselves, their families, and their society. Using colorful examples from the most important aspects of life, Thaler and Sunstein demonstrate how thoughtful "choice architecture" can be established to nudge us in beneficial directions without restricting freedom of choice. Nudge offers a unique new take - from neither the left nor the right - on many hot-button issues, for individuals and governments alike. This is one of the most engaging and provocative audiobooks to come along in many years. Included in this recording are a bonus chapter and a Postscript that was added in the paperback edition. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Sean Pratt. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/gdan/000243/bk_gdan_000243_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Darker the Night, the Brighter the Stars: A Neuropsychologist's Odyssey Through Consciousness , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 660min

When celebrated neuropsychologist Paul Broks' wife died of cancer, it sparked a journey of grief and reflection that traced a lifelong attempt to understand how the brain gives rise to the soul. The result of that journey is a gorgeous, evocative meditation on fate, death, consciousness, and what it means to be human. The Darker the Night, the Brighter the Stars weaves a scientist’s understanding of the mind - its logic, its nuance, how we think about what makes a person - with a poet’s approach to humanity, that crucial and ever-elusive why. It’s a story that unfolds through the centuries, along the path of humankind’s constant quest to discover what makes us human, and the answers that consistently slip out of our grasp. It’s modern medicine and psychology and ancient tales; history and myth combined; fiction and the stranger truth. But, most importantly, it’s Broks’ story, grounded in his own most fascinating cases as a clinician - patients with brain injuries that revealed something fundamental about the link between the raw stuff of our bodies and brains and the ineffable selves we take for who we are. Tracing a loose arc of loss, acceptance, and renewal, he unfolds striking, imaginative stories of everything from Schopenhauer to the Greek philosophers to jazz guitarist Pat Martino in order to sketch a multifaceted view of humanness that is as heartbreaking at it is affirming. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Simon Bubb. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/006170/bk_rand_006170_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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China's Long March: 6,000 Miles of Danger , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 190min

From award-winning children's author Jean Fritz comes the incredible true account of the Long March, a 6,000-mile journey across China In 1986, Jean Fritz went to China and talked to survivors of the Long March. It is from their recollections and her own broad, personal knowledge of Chinese history that Fritz has written one of the most compelling accounts of the incredible 6,000-mile journey across China made by the Communist Army in 1934 and 1935. Fritz takes us on the route of the 60-mile-long First Front Army, the unit of Mao Zedong that wound its way through a terrain so perilous it was often more threatening than their battles with the enemy. The fear of a young soldier on Old Mountain afraid to go to sleep in case he might roll over and fall off the cliff is real to us; the drama and devastation that reduced the Red Army to 20,000 men and women are immediate. And when the army crosses the thundering Dadu River on the threadbare remains of a bridge, we cross our fingers and hope to make it, too. Skillfully placing events within the context of history, Fritz allows us to view them with the perspective of time, and, as she shares the memories of those she talked with, she brings humanness and intimacy to the participants and their unforgettable journey. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Bernadette Dunne. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/006293/bk_blak_006293_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Gospel: A Life-Changing Message , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 193min

Part of the Contemporary Christian series.John Stott's best-selling volume, The Contemporary Christian: An Urgent Plea for Double Listening, updated and presented for today's audience.What is the authentic gospel? How do we answer the sceptics?Christianity is not a religion but God's good news for the world. This implies that it has both a divine origin and a human relevance: it comes from God, and it speaks to our condition.So, before we ask, 'What is the gospel?', we need to ask, 'What is a human being?'Chapter one: The human paradox looks at what the Bible teaches and what our experience endorses: the glory and shame of our humanness, both our dignity as creatures made in God's image and our depravity as sinners under his judgement.Chapter two: Human freedom: what is traditionally called 'salvation', seen in terms of 'authentic freedom'.Chapters three and four: The central themes of the death and resurrection of Jesus, securing our freedom. This section also looks at a number of objections and denials.Chapter five: The far-reaching implications, both for faith and for life.Radical indeed is the discipleship which takes all of this and Christ's lordship seriously. It's nothing short of a life-changing message.About the author:John Stott exercised a worldwide ministry as a church leader, Bible expositor and author. His best-selling books have been translated into numerous languages, won several awards and shaped whole generations of ministers, thinkers, writers and bloggers. John was Rector Emeritus of All Souls Langham Place, London, and Founder-President of the Langham Partnership. He was awarded the CBE in the Queen's 2006 New Year honours. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Neil Gardner. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/lbrk/000655/bk_lbrk_000655_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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