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  The Logic of Compressed Modernity

  Most theories of modernity are based, explicitly or implicitly, on the development of Western societies since the late medieval period, but these theories are of limited value for understanding the development of societies in Asia and other parts of the world, where the process of modernization took place under different circumstances and often in a rapid and highly compressed fashion - not over centuries but in decades. Asian societies have been propelled into modernity too, but theirs is a compressed modernity, which displays very different traits.In this important book, Chang Kyung-Sup provides a systematic account of this compressed modernity and uses it to analyse the extreme social changes, complexities and imbalances found in South Korea and other East Asian societies. While these changes enabled South Korea to modernize very quickly and achieve high levels of economic growth, they also created a society that is haunted by various developmental and civilizational costs, such as endemic generational conflicts, overloaded family responsibilities and exceptionally high suicide rates. As with other societies that have experienced compressed modernity, the South Korean "miracle" is replete with extreme and contradictory social traits.This pioneering work of the nature and consequences of compressed modernity will be of great interest to students and scholars of sociology, politics and development studies, as well as anyone interested in South Korea, Asia and postcolonial societies.

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  The Five Levels of Attachment: Toltec Wisdom for the Modern World , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 202min

  Building on the principles found in his father’s best-selling book The Four Agreements, don Miguel Ruiz, Jr., invites us to gauge how attached we are to our own point of view. In The Five Levels of Attachment, he will help you gain awareness of the agreements you have been implicitly making all these years that shape your reality and affect your future and show you how to release the attachments which no longer reflect who you really are. This method is 20 years in the making. When don Miguel Ruiz, Jr., began his apprenticeship into his family’s Toltec tradition, he was just 14 years old. His first task was translating his grandmother’s talks from Spanish into English. One day, as he struggled to keep up with her, she asked him: Are you using knowledge, or is knowledge using you?Finding the answer to this question would shape the destiny of his life. In this groundbreaking work, Ruiz explains each of the Five Levels of Attachment in detail and shows that as our level of attachment to a belief or idea increases, "who we are" becomes directly linked to "what we know". Our attachment to beliefs - our own and the beliefs of others - manifests as a mask we don’t realize we can take off. But with don Miguel Ruiz’s help, and some Toltec wisdom along the way, we can return to our True, Authentic Selves, unhindered by judgment and free to pursue our true life’s calling. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Arthur Morey. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/004762/bk_brll_004762_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Martin Luther King's Biblical Epic: His Final, Great Speech (Race, Rhetoric, and Media) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 478min

  In his final speech "I've Been to the Mountaintop," Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his support of African American garbage workers on strike in Memphis. Although some consider this oration King's finest, it is mainly known for its concluding two minutes, wherein King compares himself to Moses and seems to predict his own assassination. But King gave an hour-long speech, and the concluding segment can only be understood in relation to the whole. King scholars generally focus on his theology, not his relation to the Bible or the circumstance of a Baptist speaking in a Pentecostal setting. Even though King cited and explicated the Bible in hundreds of speeches and sermons, Martin Luther King's Biblical Epic is the first book to analyze his approach to the Bible and its importance to his rhetoric and persuasiveness. Martin Luther King's Biblical Epic argues that King challenged dominant Christian supersessionist conceptions of Judaism in favor of a Christianity that affirms Judaism as its wellspring. In his final speech, King implicitly but strongly argues that one can grasp Jesus only by first grasping Moses and the Hebrew prophets. This book also traces the roots of King's speech to its Pentecostal setting and to the Pentecostals in his audience. In doing so, Miller puts forth the first scholarship to credit the mostly unknown, but brilliant African American architect who created the large yet compact church sanctuary, which made possible the unique connection between King and his audience on the night of his last speech. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Andrew L. Barnes. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/085043/bk_acx0_085043_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 332min

  Humans live in landscapes of make-believe. We spin fantasies. We devour novels, films, and plays. Even sporting events and criminal trials unfold as narratives. Yet the world of story has long remained an undiscovered and unmapped country. It's easy to say that humans are "wired" for story, but why? In this delightful and original book, Jonathan Gottschall offers the first unified theory of storytelling. He argues that stories help us navigate life's complex social problems - just as flight simulators prepare pilots for difficult situations. Storytelling has evolved, like other behaviors, to ensure our survival. Drawing on the latest research in neuroscience, psychology, and evolutionary biology, Gottschall tells us what it means to be a storytelling animal. Did you know that the more absorbed you are in a story, the more it changes your behavior? That all children act out the same kinds of stories, whether they grow up in a slum or a suburb? That people who read more fiction are more empathetic? Of course, our story instinct has a darker side. It makes us vulnerable to conspiracy theories, advertisements, and narratives about ourselves that are more "truthy" than true. National myths can also be terribly dangerous: Hitler's ambitions were partly fueled by a story. But as Gottschall shows in this remarkable book, stories can also change the world for the better. Most successful stories are moral - they teach us how to live, whether explicitly or implicitly, and bind us together around common values. We know we are master shapers of story. The Storytelling Animal finally reveals how stories shape us. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kris Koscheski. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tant/002696/bk_tant_002696_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Spider #40, January 1937 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 229min

  With appalling suddenness, a new hooded monster of crime unleashed swift murder and soul-chilling madness upon Manhattan. His army of assassins struck with wanton savagery to lash terrified millions into a paralysis of fear. The Dictator held sway! And Richard Wentworth, the avenging Spider, driven to the ambuscades of the underworld, faced the vortex of sudden peril alone. According to author Norvell W. Page, Richard Wentworth was a nemesis of the night, a swift and secret avenger who meted out lethal justice to those of the underworld who dared to raise their hand against humanity; he was the man known throughout half the civilized world as the Spider, and tonight he wore the disguise that would instantly identify him as that dread killer. A long, black cape covered twisted shoulders. A broad-brimmed hat tightly pulled down over a lank wig shadowed a beak-nosed face. The eyes that glittered there were steely with bitter hatred. As for Wentworth himself, he believed in his mission implicitly: He was, he told himself, no longer a human being, but a cause. He was the Spider! He must live to defend humanity.... With a "cold cosmic anger" in his eyes, his "eerie weapons of mercy" blasting away unerringly, the Spider seemed superhuman, shrugging off crippling bullet wounds and performing other feats of preternatural endurance that would have demolished an ordinary mortal. No wonder Norvell W. Page called him a "man of steel" four years before Superman. Once more, the incomparable Nick Santa Maria reads another thrilling Spider exploit. "Dictator of the Damned" originally published in The Spider magazine, January 1937. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Nick Santa Maria. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/092212/bk_acx0_092212_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Scottish Fairy Book, Volume Three , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 100min

  Volume 3 - the final six Scottish fairy tales to complete the collection, perfect for children (and adults) of all ages. There are, roughly speaking, two distinct types of Scottish fairy tales. There are what may be called Celtic stories, which were handed down for centuries by word of mouth by professional storytellers who went about from clachan to clachan in the Highlands and Islands, earning a night's shelter by giving a night's entertainment, and which have now been collected and classified for us by Campbell of Isla and others. These stories, which are also common to the North of Ireland, are wild and fantastic and very often somewhat monotonous, and their themes are strangely alike. They almost always tell of some hero or heroine who sets out on some dangerous quest and is met by giants, generally three in number, who appear one after the other, with whom they hold quaint dialogues, and whom eventually they slay. Most of them are fairly long, and although they have a peculiar fascination of their own, they are quite distinct from the ordinary fairy tale. These latter, in Scotland, have also a character of their own, for there is no country where the existence of spirits and goblins has been so implicitly believed in up to a comparatively recent date. Volume 3 of traditional Scottish fairy/folk tales, as collected and edited by Elizabeth W Grierson and originally published in 1910. Volume 3 contains the following tales: 'The Fox and the Wolf', 'Katherine Crackernuts', 'The Well o' the World's End', 'Farquhar MacNeill', 'Peerifool', 'The Heather Lintie'. Read by Steven Cree(Outlander, Brave, John Carter, 300: Rise of an Empire , Maleficent). Volumes 1 and 2 are also available, as is a complete collection. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Steven Cree. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/lbrk/000075/bk_lbrk_000075_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Pax Imperia , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1035min

  Commander Jonathan Radec has finally obtained everything he ever wanted in life. However, in a cruel twist of fate, just as he reaches out for his most heartfelt desire, it is torn from his grasp forever. "For only he who has experienced ultimate happiness, can completely understand the deepest depths of absolute despair." Jon has always trusted those closest to him implicitly. It has long been his greatest strength, but one that his enemies have come to realize is also his ultimate weakness. For it is always those closest to you whose betrayal cuts the deepest. In a horrific, pre-emptive strike at the very heart of the Imperium, the Senate is completely wiped out. In the aftermath of the attack, surrounded by the cries of the dead and dying, destiny once again reaches out its long arm, forcing Jon down a path he has long resisted. For, ever since the day he first set eyes upon Sofia, Jon has been destined to stand above all others. As the last Emperor of the Imperium. Jon has already fought through the very depths of hell itself and out the other side to save the ones he loves. Now, to save his family, he will gladly lay siege to the heavens themselves, for they tremble at his approach. As Jon not only commands the living, but also the dead, and they all want revenge against those who have taken everything from them. Even if the rest of the Imperium must burn first. The terrifying finale of the Redemption Trilogy. A Science Fiction adventure/romance, which tries to answer the question: "Can you ever find redemption for the mistakes of your past?" ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David Benjamin Bliss. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/024592/bk_adbl_024592_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Manipulation: The Complete Guide for Influencing and Analyze People’s Personality Using Mind & Emotional Control, Dark Psychology, NLP Programming Techniques, Stealth Persuasion and Social Skills. , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 194min

  Do you want to know what manipulation is or how to identify it? If so, then keep reading...While outright mimicry is obviously out of the question, you can certainly seek to mirror the communication styles of the people you're engaging with, in order to help you establish rapport and common ground.Suppose someone looks at you for just a couple of seconds before looking down, or goes past you and then looks back at you. This nonverbal style tells you something important about the person you're engaging - sustained eye contact is undesirable. So, mirror that to establish a comfortable level of communication that's implicitly agreed upon by both parties. This is an unspoken level of communication.By mirroring the tendencies of the other party, you are sending a message of respect and concession to the communication style being modeled. After a business interaction, especially a meeting, you must provide a summation of what you came into that meeting intending to do. In the course of your summation, you can acknowledge the importance of the feedback and input the exchange or meeting has provided.Pointing out that the feedback received was pivotal to the development of your agenda and enriched it gets people on your bus and ready to roll. When people feel their opinions are valued, they will come along for the ride. They will also form a part of a team that is more cohesive than if you hadn't included and acknowledged the role their input played in reinforcing your foundational agenda.The addition of the input of others to your narrative is a key component of consensus building as a part of influential action. It's a form of leadership outreach that not only strengthens the leader's position. but strengthens the agenda’s integrity. Adding useful feedback and input can only build a better mousetrap. Good and successful leaders are keenly aware of this.This audiobook gives comprehensive guidance on the following: ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kelly Ryan Wilmoth. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/197151/bk_acx0_197151_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Essential Englishman: A Celebration , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 516min

  There is no watertight excuse for this book. It strolls impertinently over ground that has been carefully mapped by the qualified authorities and elegantly appreciated by many devoted amateurs. Its purview is ludicrously broad - nothing less than an exhibition of the Englishman in his more characteristic manifestations through the ages. It is, wriggle out of it as we would, a hopelessly, damnably patriotic book. However, it is our opinion that the evils of nationalism, cultural hostility, race hatred and fear of social change are best countered by an open regard for the values of one's own society and a cheerful celebration of its virtues - and, on this basis, an honest recognition of its failures and weaknesses. The Essential Englishman is a fascinating portrait that seeks to define at least some of the Englishman's attitudes, to celebrate his successes, admire his strengths, to glance with understanding at his weaknesses and also to reflect the way that others see him. Recent dramatic political changes make it even more timely for the millennial Englishman to be able to gain, through looking back at history, a quirky if affectionate view at who and what he is. The picture that emerges is rich in contradictions. The archetypal Englishman, it seems, adores animals yet has a passion for fox hunting; he has founded empires but has an inherent mistrust for anything foreign; he is suspicious of government yet trusts his (unwritten) Constitution implicitly. And while the English possess a profound scepticism about the value of creative endeavour, England has consistently given the world some of its greatest poets, writers, musicians and artists. Authors Duncan Steen and Nicolas Soames have called evidence for the defence (and occasionally for the prosecution) from more than a thousand years of English literature, history and historical anecdote while witnesses range from Shakespeare to Bernard Shaw, from Dr Johnson to D. H. Lawrence ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Nicholas Boulton. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/dhrm/000072/bk_dhrm_000072_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Dark Psychology and Manipulation: Understanding the Techniques of Mind Control, and Master Emotional Intelligence, Persuasion, and Body Language , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 236min

  Have you ever wondered if the thoughts that arise in your mind yours?Or do you think your colleague or boss is playing you while secretly taking all the benefits and perks of your hard work?Or do you feel it is never enough, no matter how much effort and hard work you put into your relationship, and it is never appreciated or validated?These questions and many more have the same root cause, affecting thousands of people around the world, which is "manipulation" and "mind control".Since the dawn of civilization, people have controlled other people, on a small scale in interpersonal dialogues with peers, children, siblings, spouse, parents, teachers, boss, etc. And on a large scale where leaders, scammers, and politicians manipulate the masses for their own means. Even at this very moment, you are controlled by thoughts that are so ingrained in your subconscious brain circuits that you don't even notice them because you are aware of five percent of your brain activity and 95 percent of your brain activity is inaudible. Your behavior, your actions, your emotions, and your choices are implicitly altered day by day by massive advertisements, society standards, and cultural norms.This audiobook explains how you are controlled by all these strange forces, while it can also expose you to a knowledge where you can also control people, but with great power comes great responsibility and only in the drastic of times should you take drastic measures.Dark psychology is real whether you believe it or choose to ignore it; it is affecting our lives and social events around the world. This audiobook will enlighten you about things from the little tricks people do to the mass manipulation used by the mainstream media and influential politicians. Take full control of your life, defend yourself, and reject people who try to delude you, overwhelm you, belittle you, or in more specific terms "manipulate you". ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Robert Plank. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/220808/bk_acx0_220808_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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