42 Results for : unearned
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Psycho by the Sea
*THE BRAND NEW MURDER MYSTERY FOR FANS OF RICHARD OSMAN* 'Another delectable crime story... While between the covers of her books, the world seems a better place' The Times 'A giddy spell of sheer delight!' Praise for the Constable Twitten Series, Daily Mail In the latest installment of this prize-winning crime mystery series, our trio of redoubtable detectives are faced with the arrival in town of an escaped convict... It's September in Brighton and the town is playing host to weeks of endless rain and lashings of villainy. A trusted member of a local gang has disappeared part way through planning a huge heist; a violent criminal obsessed with hunting policemen has escaped Broadmoor and is rumoured to be headed towards the town, while at Gosling's department store an American researcher has been found dead in the music section. Inspector Steine has other things on his mind as he typically bathes in unearned glory, but Sergeant Brunswick and Constable 'Clever Clogs' Twitten are both on the case. If only they could work out just who is behind these dastardly acts. 'Glorious... The fun is in Truss's keen ear for dialogue, original comic characters and affectionate recreation of a seaside resort' Praise for the Constable Twitten Series, Sunday Times Crime Club 'Outstanding. In her ability to blend crime and farce, Truss is in a class of her own' Publishers Weekly DISCOVER THE AWARD-WINNING CONSTABLE TWITTEN MYSTERY SERIES NOW- Shop: buecher
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My Football Romance: Opposites Attract: Sports Romance Series, Book 4 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 128min
A riveting football romance story of opposites attracting and a relationship of convenience turning into something more....For Charlotte Blair, life has never been easy. Growing up in a poor family, she had to constantly scrimp and save in order to afford college. Unfortunately, medical bills drain her savings, and she finds herself further behind the eight ball than ever. How will she ever be able to afford nursing school?Coming from a tight-knit and wealthy family, life has never been particularly hard for football star Dax Taylor. Born with natural ability as well as a father and older brother to train him, it appears as if Dax is on his way to football stardom. However, unearned success can be deadly, and Dax finds himself falling for the easy temptations of money and fame. So much so, they are threatening his career. What can he do?When Dax meets Charlotte at the café she works at, he hits upon the perfect plan. She will pretend to be his perfect girlfriend for the press, and he will pay her school tuition in return. The ground rules are set, and they couldn’t be simpler. Charlotte will not have to have sex with Dax, and in return, Charlotte promises to not fall in love. Easy, right? What could go wrong? It turns out...everything. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Martin Landry. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/169587/bk_acx0_169587_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Nowhere to Hide: Pine Hills Police, Book 4 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 558min
The trouble with running away is that you take yourself with you.After police officer Colleen McDonald is injured in a case gone south and her partner dies, she leaves her job and friends in small town Oregon for a fresh start as a civilian in Orlando. When a deputy sheriff comes to her door investigating a possible missing person, she’s determined to get him out of her life by beating him at his own game.Jeffrey Walters is missing - or is he? His stepdaughter insists he is. His aunt claims he’s simply out of town on business. His former business partner knows nothing. There’s a stranger living in his guesthouse.To Deputy Sheriff Graham Harrigan, finding Jeffrey might be his ticket to a permanent slot in the Criminal Investigations Division. He’s determined to prove he’s worthy of the promotion despite an unearned reputation passed down by an unsavory training partner. The attractive woman living in Jeffrey’s guesthouse complicates matters. Their rivalry becomes a partnership that stretches the boundaries of a professional relationship.Nowhere to Hide features Colleen McDonald, a character first introduced in Finding Sarah, the first book in the Pine Hills Police series. In series chronology, the book would fall between Finding Sarah and Hidden Fire, but Nowhere to Hide stands alone and can be enjoyed in any order. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kelley Hazen. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/235635/bk_acx0_235635_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Restoring Valor: One Couple’s Mission to Expose Fraudulent War Heroes and to Protect America’s Military Awards System , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 583min
Stolen valor occurs when a person lies about receiving military decorations that he or she has in fact never earned. It has become a major societal problem that has been discussed numerous times in the news and, most recently, by the US Supreme Court. According to The New York Times, the Department of Veterans Affairs paid disability benefits to more than six hundred people falsely claiming to have been POWs in the Vietnam and Persian Gulf wars. The number of stolen valor cases reported to the FBI has tripled in the last decade. In fact, more imposters lie about earning high military declarations for battlefield bravery than the actual number of real-life hero recipients. These imposters trade on tales and the trappings of military valor to secure privileges such as career advancements and even unearned veterans’ benefits. Because officially recognized valor is a calling card of trust and courage, many of these imposters steal” it to invade the lives of people and institutions, for personal gain and often with criminal results. In Restoring Valor, Doug Sterner provides riveting case studies of the stolen valor imposters he’s investigated and exposed, and the serious crimes — including murder — they’ve committed. He chronicles the evolution of stolen valor from the inception of the republic to today. Sterner demonstrates why the federal law he and his wife Pam helped to enact, called the Stolen Valor Act, is necessary. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Joe Geoffrey. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/016577/bk_adbl_016577_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Past Time: Baseball as History , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 532min
Few writers know more about baseball's role in American life than Jules Tygiel. In Baseball's Great Experiment: Jackie Robinson and His Legacy, Tygiel penned a classic work, a landmark book that towers above most writing about the sport. Now he ranges across the last century and a half in an intriguing look at baseball as history, and history as reflected in baseball. In Past Time, Tygiel gives us a seat behind home plate, where we catch the ongoing interplay of baseball and American society. We begin in New York in the 1850s, where pre-Civil War nationalism shaped the emergence of a "national pastime." We witness the true birth of modern baseball with the development of its elaborate statistics - the brainchild of English-born reformer, Henry Chadwick. Chadwick, Tygiel writes, created the sport's "historical essence" and even imparted a moral dimension to the game with his concepts of "errors" and "unearned" runs. Tygiel offers equally insightful looks at the role of rags-to-riches player-owners in the formation of the upstart American League and he describes the complex struggle to establish African-American baseball in a segregated world. He also examines baseball during the Great Depression (when Branch Rickey and Larry MacPhail saved the game by perfecting the farm system, night baseball, and radio broadcasts), the ironies of Bobby Thomson's immortal "shot heard 'round the world," the rapid relocation of franchises in the 1950s and 1960s, and the emergence of rotisserie leagues and fantasy camps in the 1980s. In Past Time, Jules Tygiel provides baseball history with a difference. Instead of a pitch-by-pitch account of great games, in this groundbreaking audiobook, the field is American history and baseball itself is the star. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Rodney Gardiner. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/015271/bk_adbl_015271_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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A Godly Humanism: Clarifying the Hope That Lies Within , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 301min
For Cardinal Francis George, the Catholic Church is not a movement built around ideas but a communion built around relationships. In A Godly Humanism, he shares his understanding of the church in lively, compelling prose, presenting a way to understand and appreciate the relationships of God to human beings and of human beings to one another. These loving relationships are continually made present to us in and through the church, from the time of Jesus' first disciples down to our own day. We are introduced to how the spiritual and intellectual life of Christians, aided in every generation by the Holy Spirit working through the Apostles and their successors, resist the danger of splitting apart from one another. God is the nonstop giver, we are nonstop recipients of his gifts, and the recent popes, no less than the Father of the Church, have made every effort to make us aware of the graces - that is, of the unearned benefits that God confers on us as Catholics, as Christians, as believers, and simply as human persons. Pope Francis, he reminds us, contrasts human planning with God's providence, and this book is at once an exposition of that providence and a personal response of gratitude for the way it has operated in one man's life. This persuasive book, imbued with the thoughts of profound thinkers from the ancient world, from St. Augustine and other church fathers, and steeped in the wisdom of church teaching from earliest times through to the Popes John Paul II, Benedict XVI, and Pope Francis.The book is published by The Catholic University of America Press. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kevin F Spalding. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/124858/bk_acx0_124858_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Passive Income: 14 Ways to Make $5,000 a Month in Passive Income , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 107min
Passive income opportunities have exploded and there is money to be made! 1. Would you like to make an extra $1000 to $10,000 a month? 2. Are you looking to diversify and attract multiple streams of income? 3. Do you desire to improve your business, career, and income prospects? If you answered "yes" to at least one of these questions, then this book is for you. It is an exciting time to delve into the world of residual income. The Internet has exploded with countless opportunities from self-publishing books to online courses and from e-commerce to robo-investing. It is no longer a matter of where to look, but what to choose from a plethora of options. In Passive Income, I discuss 14 activities that attract unearned or "sleep" income. These endeavors are divided into four categories including content producers, techies, creative retailers, and investors. As a result, there's something for you in this book irrespective of your skills, knowledge, and experience. What's inside: Fourteen paths to passive income generation accompanied by the best resources to get you started Get an understanding of passive income, advantages, disadvantages, and how it differs from earned income Gain a realistic idea of how to make residual income and what's involved in the process Learn how to avoid "the feel good trap" and gain insights into product portfolio theory Discover the advantages and disadvantages of online marketplaces to improve your strategic decision-making Get numerous insights about achieving success and when you can expect to make your first $1000 Appreciate the importance of skill development and learning concerning passive income ventures ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mike Norgaard. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/086584/bk_acx0_086584_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Jackpot: How the Super-Rich Really Live--And How Their Wealth Harms Us All
A senior editor at Mother Jones dives into the lives of the extremely rich, showing the fascinating, otherworldly realm they inhabit—and the insidious ways this realm harms us all. Have you ever fantasized about being ridiculously wealthy? Probably. Striking it rich is among the most resilient of American fantasies, surviving war and peace, expansions and recessions, economic meltdowns and global pandemics. We dream of the jackpot, the big exit, the life-altering payday, in whatever form that takes. (Americans spent $81 billion on lottery tickets in 2019, more than the GDPs of most nations.) We would escape "essential" day jobs and cramped living spaces, bury our debts, buy that sweet spread, and bail out struggling friends and relations. But rarely do we follow the fantasy to its conclusion—to ponder the social, psychological, and societal downsides of great affluence and the fact that so few possess it. What is it actually like to be blessed with riches in an era of plagues, political rancor, and near-Dickensian economic differences? How mind-boggling are the opportunities and access, how problematic the downsides? Does the experience differ depending on whether the money is earned or unearned, where it comes from, and whether you are male or female, white or black? Finally, how does our collective lust for affluence, and our stubborn belief in social mobility, explain how we got to the point where forty percent of Americans have literally no wealth at all? These are all questions that Jackpot sets out to explore. The result of deep reporting and dozens of interviews with fortunate citizens—company founders and executives, superstar coders, investors, inheritors, lottery winners, lobbyists, lawmakers, academics, sports agents, wealth and philanthropy professionals, concierges, luxury realtors, Bentley dealers, and even a woman who trains billionaires' nannies in physical combat, Jackpot is a compassionate, character-rich, perversely humorous, and ultimately troubling journey into the American wealth fantasy and where it has taken us.- Shop: buecher
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Undoing Privilege
Undoing Privilege - Unearned Advantage in a Divided World: ab 21.49 €- Shop: ebook.de
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The Industrial System (Routledge Revivals)
The Industrial System (Routledge Revivals) - An Inquiry into Earned and Unearned Income: ab 45.49 €- Shop: ebook.de
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