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Suggestible You: The Curious Science of Your Brain’s Ability to Deceive, Transform, and Heal , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 579min
This riveting narrative explores the world of placebos, hypnosis, false memories, and neurology to reveal the groundbreaking science of our suggestible minds. Could the secrets to personal health lie within our own brains? Journalist Erik Vance explores the surprising ways our expectations and beliefs influence our bodily responses to pain, disease, and everyday events. Drawing on centuries of research and interviews with leading experts in the field, Vance takes us on a fascinating adventure from Harvard's research labs to a witch doctor's office in Catemaco, Mexico, to an alternative medicine school near Beijing (often called "China's Hogwarts"). Vance's firsthand dispatches will change the way you think - and feel. Continuing the success of National Geographic's brain books and rounding out our pop science category, this book shows how expectations, beliefs, and self-deception can actively change our bodies and minds. Vance builds a case for our "internal pharmacy" - the very real chemical reactions our brains produce when we think we are experiencing pain or healing, actual or perceived. Supporting this idea is centuries of placebo research in a range of forms, from sugar pills to shock waves; studies of alternative medicine techniques heralded and condemned in different parts of the world (think crystals and chakras); and, most recently, major advances in brain mapping technology. Thanks to this technology, we're learning how we might leverage our suggestibility (or lack thereof) for personalized medicine, and Vance brings us to the front lines of such study. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Richard Powers. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/009361/bk_blak_009361_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Express Intent: An Intriguing Crime Thriller: Gold & Courage Series, Book 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 577min
Ex-cop Vance Courage is holed up at a luxury ranch when 15-year-old Caitlin Fleming goes for an early morning run and vanishes in the desert. His partner Lauren Gold fears the teenager was taken by the cartels operating on the US-Mexico border.But Vance is baffled by the crime scene: Why do the girl's footprints suddenly stop and why are there no tire tracks or signs of a struggle? Vance thinks he saw a UFO at the time the teen disappeared. But that's crazy. Or, is it? Southwest Texas is, after all, a hotbed for the private aerospace industry.When Native American tracker Daryl Flood arrives to help with the search and hints that an experimental aircraft was stolen from a nearby high-security R&D facility, Vance wonders if his theory isn't so outlandish. After the fitness tracker Caitlin is wearing pings on a cell tower in Alabama, he begins to suspect her abductor might be headed to Florida.As more arrows point to the Sunshine State, Vance hops a flight to Miami, and when Lauren discovers Daryl is headed there, too, she slyly follows him. As more go missing, including Vance's elderly mother, he fears the worst. With only each other to trust, Gold and Courage are back on their old turf, facing an evil nemesis from their past, racing the clock before time runs out for the hostages. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Adam Riley. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/214747/bk_acx0_214747_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Lucian: Dark God's Homecoming: The Above, Volume 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 557min
A stand-alone adventure that is also Volume One of The Above series ! The Power has returned. And now, I, the exiled dark lord Lucian, race across the infinite planes of creation, a charge of mass murder upon my head, vicious foes dogging my every step. My goals are simple: Justice for myself, vengeance upon my enemies, and conquest of the universe, if I get half a chance. But events are conspiring to bring me together with some very unexpected allies, and to thrust me into the most unlikely role of all... Hero?! After a failed coup attempt, the dark lord Lucian was exiled from the Golden City of the gods and has dwelt for centuries among the worlds of man. During that time, he carved out a star empire of his own. Now the Power has returned - the Power that fuels the immortality and astounding abilities of the gods - and Lucian has resolved to cast aside his ties to humanity, end his exile, and make his way back to his beloved celestial city. But what he finds when he arrives there is not what he expected: Mysterious beings all in black roam the cosmic pathways, most of the gods have somehow vanished, and those who remain look upon him with unadulterated suspicion and hate. His mission is this: he must clear his own name and find the true culprit, even as his brother and sister gods do everything in their power to capture and destroy him. No one ever said it was easy to be the god of evil... Lucian: Dark God's Homecoming combines exciting SF/Fantasy adventure with a puzzling murder mystery whodunit in the grand tradition of Roger Zelazny's Amber series and Jack Vance's Dying Earth. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Richard Coombs. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/087289/bk_acx0_087289_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Billionaire's Promise , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 492min
For two years I held Vance Winters off...right up until the day my fiancé dumped me for his mistress and Vance kissed me senseless. Vance Winters was six feet of dangerously beautiful mayhem. Wicked blue eyes, tousled blond hair, and golden skin covered in tattoos. Trouble. I should have taken one look and run in the other direction. I should have told him to take his job offer and shove it up his tight, perfect ass. I should have done a lot of things. I won't lie. One touch of Vance's mouth to mine was better than all four years with my ex. I was tempted. So very tempted. Tempted, but not stupid. How many women had I escorted from his bed in the two years I'd worked for him? Vance didn't do commitment and I'd been tossed aside one time too many. There was no way I was going to throw my broken heart at his feet, even if I suspected the orgasms might be worth it. Then she showed up. Rosalie. Only three months old, and she changed both of our lives in an instant. I could resist Vance when he was just my billionaire playboy boss. But could I keep my heart safe as I watched him fall in love with his daughter? The Billionaire's Promise is a standalone romance with a happy ending. It's the fourth book in the Scandals of the Bad Boy Billionaires series and reveals more about the notorious men of the Winters family. You can listen to it on its own, everything you need to know is explained, but once you get a taste of the Winters men you'll want to listen to the others. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: CJ Bloom, Beckett Greylock. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/029691/bk_adbl_029691_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Hotwife Double Penetrations, Volume 4 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 69min, (USK 18)
Have you ever wanted to share your beautiful wife with a buddy? Collecting three explicit stories of hardcore wife sharing, Hotwife Double Penetrations, Volume 4 is just the thing to satiate your extramarital threesome desires. Let's DP My Wife: On the Green Vance's boss is tired of hearing about his new commercial development project, and has finally put his foot down, forbidding Vance from ever bringing it up around the office again. But when the two of them and their loving wives go out for a game of golf, Vance sees the perfect opportunity to take his final shot at pitching the project. What Vance doesn't count on is his boss's wife not showing up for the game, nor the chemistry between his boss and his beautiful, horny wife. Let's DP My Wife: Copping a Feel It's hard having a cop as your wife, but Morgan and Jasmine make it work with honesty, communication, and a healthy sex life. When Jasmine reveals her attraction to her new partner, however, things start to get heated. Realizing that the thought of his wife with another man is actually strangely arousing, Morgan agrees to approach Jasmine's partner about a threesome, which he promptly declines. It looks as though all is lost, until the couple is pulled over on the drive home and thrown into a hardcore traffic stop double penetration! Let's DP My Wife: Bases Loaded Dave's wife, Ella, loves to play baseball in the local league just as much as Dave loves coming to the games and cheering her on. But when Dave notices a sexual stirring between Ella and her handsome teammate, Mike, he's not sure how to react. The issue soon comes to a head when the three of them share a beer after one of the games. Soon they find themselves back at the dugout in a wild hotwife double penetration. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Hannah Wilde. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/034852/bk_acx0_034852_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Songs of the Dying Earth: Stories in Honor of Jack Vance , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1737min
Jack Vance was a seminal figure in the development of modern fantasy - so much so that it's nearly impossible to imagine the genre as we know it today without him. In the course of his more than 50-year career, he has published dozens of major novels, as well as collections filled with marvelously crafted stories, winning the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award, the Edgar Award, the Grand Master Award from the Science Fiction Writers of America, and several World Fantasy Awards, including the prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award. Vance's masterpiece, The Dying Earth, may be the most influential fantasy novel of the 20th century, surpassed only by J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy. It has not only inspired several generations of fantasy writers, from Gene Wolfe and Michael Moorcock to Neil Gaiman and George R.R. Martin, but its influence has reached deep into the realms of graphic novels, comics, fantasy role-playing games such as Dungeons & Dragons, and even computer gaming. The anthology Songs of the Dying Earth has assembled one of the most distinguished casts of authors ever - including Dan Simmons, Neil Gaiman, George R. R. Martin, Paula Volsky, Mike Resnick, Robert Silverberg, Lucius Shepard, Tad Williams, Tanith Lee, Liz Williams, Glen Cook, and eleven other famous writers - to write stories in honor of the genius of Jack Vance, stories using the bizarre and darkly beautiful far future setting of the Dying Earth, near the very end of Earth's lifespan, where mighty wizards duel with spells of dreadful potency under a waning and almost burnt-out red sun, and adventurers and cutpurses strive to hoodwink and out-trick each other in haunted forests full of demons and monsters strange almost beyond comprehension. Authors include George R. R. Martin (editor and author), Gardner Dozois (editor), Dan Simmons, Neil Gaiman, Paula Volsky, Mike Resnick, Robert Silverberg, Lucius Shepard, Tanith Lee, Liz Williams, Jeff VanderMeer, ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Arthur Morey, Arthur Morey. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/001950/bk_brll_001950_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 409min
Winner, 2017 APA Audie Awards - Nonfiction From a former marine and Yale Law School graduate, a powerful account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broader, probing look at the struggles of America's white working class. Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis - that of white working-class Americans. The decline of this group, a demographic of our country that has been slowly disintegrating over 40 years, has been reported on with growing frequency and alarm but has never before been written about as searingly from the inside. J. D. Vance tells the true story of what a social, regional, and class decline feels like when you were born with it hung around your neck. The Vance family story begins hopefully in postwar America. J. D.'s grandparents were "dirt poor and in love" and moved north from Kentucky's Appalachia region to Ohio in the hopes of escaping the dreadful poverty around them. They raised a middle-class family, and eventually their grandchild (the author) would graduate from Yale Law School, a conventional marker of their success in achieving generational upward mobility. But as the family saga of Hillbilly Elegy plays out, we learn that this is only the short, superficial version. Vance's grandparents, his aunt, his uncle, his sister, and most of all his mother struggled profoundly with the demands of their new middle-class life and were never able to fully escape the legacy of abuse, alcoholism, poverty, and trauma so characteristic of their part of America. Vance piercingly shows how he himself still carries around the demons of their chaotic family history. A deeply moving memoir with its share of humor and vividly colorful figures, Hillbilly Elegy is the story of how upward mobility really feels. And it is an urgent and troubling meditation on the loss of the American dream for a large segment of this country. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: J. D. Vance. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/005312/bk_harp_005312_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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NCIS: Naval Criminal Investigative Service: The Sixteenth Season
The 16th season of NCIS returns one month after Director Vance (Rocky Carroll) was kidnapped by a terrorist who tortured Special Agent Sloane (Maria Bello) years ago in Afghanistan. As Special Agent Gibbs (Mark Harmon) assumes the role as Acting Director in Vance's absence, the team searches worldwide for their missing leader.- Shop: odax
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