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Global Warming and Other Bollocks: The Truth about All Those Science Scare Stories
The end of the world is not nigh. The idea that we are one step from calamity is as old as history itself. Every step on the road of progress has always been countered by those who think that we should keep to a primitive lifestyle that they claim is compatible with nature. But despite the fact that they've been proved wrong, the pessimists are undeterred by their abysmal record. They continue to echo a deep-seated fear that unless we repent and change the way we live, we will be instrumental in destroying our own world. Today. industrialisation, genetically modified crops, scientific medicine, nuclear power and the car are held up as the harbingers of doom. Politicians and persuasive pressure groups play on this same basic fear. They scare us with tales of an inevitable global warming catastrophe blamed on CO2 emissions, they stoke the fires of terror that an epidemic of obesity will kill all our children and they sternly tell us that our indulgent lifestyle will consume the earth's precious resources. But will pesticides kill off life in our oceans, will chemicals in food poison us all and invisible rays from power cables and mobiles kill us with cancer?- Shop: buecher
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The Pathology of Dental Infections: and Its Relation to General Diseases - History of Dentistry
These transcriptions of dental meetings and seminars of the early 20th century shed light on the history and development of dentistry. The dentist of the time hadn't standardized their prescribing practices, with private practices around the USA and Canada often giving their patients different medicines for pain, inflammation and infections. Some dentists at the turn of the 20th century lacked detailed knowledge of what they had prescribed, having simply been recommended by other dentists, or been advertised to by a drug company. The Canadian Oral Prophylactic Association was conceived as a way to inform and improve the situation; within months of founding, they had created their own toothpaste and were publishing guidelines. These lectures sought to educate and inform dentists about the latest advances in the field. The abysmal death rates involved in dental infections remained an enormous problem; public education in dental care, oral hygiene and better treatments were still areas in dire need of improvement when these lectures were published in 1916. However, the recent technological advances in X-rays were encouraging; with the use of radiology, diagnosis of cavities and tooth decay became easier. The case studies related provide valuable historic context on dentistry at the time.- Shop: buecher
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The Knucklehead of Silicon Valley , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 605min
Ralph Gibsen isn’t your typical spy. In fact, he may not be a spy at all. He's lumpy, blundering and abysmal at chatting up the fairer sex. Yet, he is attracting a significant amount of attention from the intelligence community. After all, as a 30-year Silicon Valley mainstay, he can phish your passwords, bust firewalls, and has developed software used by millions to circumvent government censorship. And now, he thinks he has stumbled upon a cabal who is pushing to misuse his own technology for world domination. Ralph helps create an educational Tool that maps a learner’s neurological processes and pinpoints the exact moment a student learns. But the Tool can also manipulate people’s beliefs. At least, that what several influential people think. Soon, Ralph finds himself the target of increasingly complex attacks on his businesses, reputation, freedom, and life. Ralph enlists an eclectic group of ‘frenemies’ to thwart this nefarious plot. McKenna may or may not still work for the CIA. Beautiful Eva may work for the Chinese government, who wants the Tool for themselves. Even Ralph’s lovely wife Jen could be involved... Ralph simply isn’t equipped to figure it out. And the world is closing in. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: G. Craig Vachon. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/183429/bk_acx0_183429_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Someone to Cherish , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 488min
The death of Callie Scott's fashionable father left her with nothing - except an inquisitive mind not even her grandmother's puritanical upbringing could quash. An adventurous spirit doesn't get her much in New York City, however, except an abysmal position as a ladies maid. Things are looking up when she lands a trial job in a library. Her benefactor's offer of wine before noon should have signaled something amiss - not to mention the heated text she's asked to translate. The more she reads, the more wine she needs to cool her blush. Detective Cutter can't quite place the tipsy young woman he encounters in a notorious brothel, but when she plants a dizzying kiss on his lips, he's sure she doesn't belong there. The resulting scandal of the police raid leaves Callie on the street, and Cutter feels responsible for her welfare. Despite the cruel knowledge that he will never be part of her world, Cutter impulsively offers her a job in his home, where she turns out to possess more than the face of an angel. She has an irresistible, innocent sensuality - and an insatiable curiosity that could bring her one step too close to a murderer. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kathy Bell Denton. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/007576/bk_acx0_007576_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Believe in Me This Christmas Morn : Star Light, Star Bright, Book 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 182min
A Grantham never quits. Especially at Christmas!It’s the week before Christmas and Santa arrives early, gifting Belle Grantham with a new website for her struggling literacy non-profit. Nary a lump of coal in sight.Mitchell Thomas is a web wizard. His website makeover contest is won by Belle purely on her abysmal website but worthy goal. As he works alongside her, he discovers she’s a Texas bred princess, born with a silver spoon...or two. Unlike himself who barely owned a spoon until college.The lump of coal finally appears in the form of her board of directors, comprised of her rancher father, younger brother and global entrepreneur best friend, who demand that she either hand over Goal 100% to a qualified staff or they’ll close her down.Belle knows that Mitchell believes in her dream and is drawn to her, yet there’s a barrier to his heart she can’t breach. Will she find out why her board is so adamant about their demands? Will Mitchell abandon her when his work is done?Believe in Me This Christmas Morn, Book Three in the Star Light - Star Bright series, introduces Belle and heralds the return of Mitchell Thomas. If you love hearing stories about falling in love with the last person you’d expect, and learning if indeed a Grantham never quits, then Believe in Me This Christmas Morn is for you. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: James Angell. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/228813/bk_acx0_228813_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Tail Wags the Dog: International Politics and the Middle East , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 556min
The continuing crisis in Syria has raised a question mark over the common perception of Middle Eastern affairs as an offshoot of global power politics. To Western intellectuals, foreign-policy experts, and politicians, "empire" and "imperialism" are categories that apply exclusively to the European powers and more recently to the United States of America. Lacking an internal dynamic of its own, the view of such people is that Middle Eastern history is the product of its unhappy interaction with the West. This is the basis of Obama's much ballyhooed "new beginning between the United States and Muslims around the world". Efraim Karsh propounds in this audiobook a radically different interpretation of Middle Eastern experience. He argues that the Western view of Muslims and Arabs as hapless victims is absurd. On the contrary modern Middle Eastern history has been the culmination of long-existing indigenous trends, passions, and patterns of behavior. Great power influences, however potent, have played a secondary role, constituting neither the primary force behind the region's political development nor the main cause of its notorious volatility. Notwithstanding the Obama administration's abysmal failure to address the momentous Middle Eastern events of recent years, Karsh argues it is only when Middle Eastern people disown their victimization mentality and take responsibility for their actions and their Western champions drop their condescending approach to Arabs and Muslims that the region can at long last look forward to a real "spring". ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jonathan Coote. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/023403/bk_adbl_023403_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Persephone's Problem
A wayward goddess with a problem lover, a treacherous Fae prince, and a surprise visit from long lost family nixes Alex's wish for a quiet life ... and propels her into a battle for the Fae throne that could destroy the realm. Persephone knew her affair with the Fae prince wasn't a good idea, but she's a sucker for a handsome face and polite manners. Now, the prince wants to leverage her powerful magic to help him steal his father's throne. Her affair has angered Danu, goddess of the Fae, and that spells divine trouble. Persephone calls in a favor and leaves the brewing mess in Alex's lap. At the same time, a trio of dangerous goddesses arrive at the San Antonio Crossroads for a surprise visit. Alex soon discovers the Fates are not her only long lost divine relatives--and that the magic she inherited from her father is vastly more dangerous than anyone suspected ... even the gods. Alex must use every scrap of her abysmal diplomacy skills and new-found death magic to wrangle her crazy relatives, referee Persephone's divine dispute, and prevent a bloody war for the Fae throne before it spills over into the Crossroads and endangers her heart family ... and everyone else in its path. This book is the second in The Crossroads Keeper series. Greek gods of myth and legend mingle with the supernatural creatures of urban fantasy in this modern tale filled with danger, humor, and family ties. It contains mature themes and includes swearing and some violence.- Shop: buecher
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Bushwhacked: Life in George W. Bush's America, Hörbuch, Digital, 361min
For years, best selling political commentator Molly Ivins has been sounding the alarm about George W. Bush. In Shrub, her 2000 skewering of presidential candidate Bush, the inimitable Ivins, with co-author Lou Dubose, offered a devastating exposi of Dubya's career and abysmal record as governor of Texas. Now, in their second book on our current White House occupant, Ivins and Dubose take the wire brush to the Bush presidency and show how he has applied the same flawed strategies he used in governing Texas to running the largest superpower in the world. Bushwhacked brings to light the horrendous legacy of the Bush tax cut, his increasingly appalling environmental record, his administration's involvement in the Enron scandal, and the real Bush foreign policy - botched nation building in Kabul and Baghdad, alienation of former allies - and, unfortunately, much more. Ivins and Dubose go beyond the too frequently soft media coverage of Bush to show us just how damaging his policies have been to ordinary Americans - "the Doug Jones Average," rather than the Dow Jones Average. Bushwhacked is filled with sharp observation, humor and compassion for the people often ignored by the federal government and the Washington press corps. With the war on terrorism posing unprecedented challenges to our civil liberties, and with the Bush economic policy in shambles, it is high time for a close look at the state of our Union. Molly Ivins and Lou Dubose provide just that in Bushwhacked - an incisive, entertaining and damning indictment of the Bush presidency. Language: English. Narrator: Molly Ivins. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/000319/bk_rand_000319_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Billionaire Bad Boy: Quicky , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 67min, (USK 18)
Billionaire Bad Boy is an unusual romance between Dominic, a billionaire with a secret about his past, and Olivia, a woman who is hesitant to let herself truly fall in love. Dominic is brash, bold, and supremely confident in what he wants and goes for it, while Olivia normally plays it on the safer side, preferring to stay at home with Netflix than to go out on yet another bad date. Olivia doesn’t get out much these days, as the dating scene for a single woman in Manhattan is abysmal. Even though she hates them these days, Olivia is talked into attending a bachelorette party at the hottest club in town. She’s hit on by a few low-quality men when someone sends her a drink across the room - Dominic. Dominic has spotted his prey and knows she is absolutely the one he wants. Dominic has made the first move, and Olivia accepts, which turns her life a completely different direction than she had ever thought it might go. When Dominic saves Olivia from a terrifying and life-threatening situation, he realizes he can’t live without Olivia and asks something crazy of her - but she can’t accept right away! Listen to find out how these two eventually make their way to each other, overcoming obstacles and finding true love, despite the secret about his past Dominic has been hiding from Olivia this whole time.... This audiobook is a pause resister and one that you won’t be able to stop until the very end! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Holly Holt. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/116352/bk_acx0_116352_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Rise of the Shadow Rogue , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1049min
Betrayal cuts deepest when someone you love wields the knife. For Kellik, a once-rising star of Port Gloom's guild of thieves, it also leaves him floating in the bay, bleeding out and without hope or allies. Saved by an urchin and healed by a disgraced saint, Kellick is consumed by a single desire: to find out why his guild master ordered him cut down moments after passing his initiation trial. Burning with injustice, Kellik recruits a number of gorgeous rogues to his side: fallen assassins, dark elf witches, and unnervingly polite necromancers. Together they journey through the shadowy underbelly of Port Gloom in pursuit of bloody revenge, daring to face impossible odds and uncover the grim truth: not only the reason for the guild's unnatural monopoly on crime, but why his guild master might have been justified in ordering his death after all. Warning and minor spoilers: Rise of the Shadow Rogue is an 18+ audiobook intended for mature listeners. It contains graphic sex, medieval violence, and nudity. People swear, betray their loved ones, set each other on fire, seduce each other, and are scared witless by abysmal horrors. Most importantly, you'll meet gorgeous, powerful women, some capable of twisting the very fabric of fate, others of tearing a man in half with their bare hands. All are willing to enter unconventional, polyamorous harem relationships if it means helping Kellik achieve justice, and with this many powerful women on his side, he just might stand a chance. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ryan West. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/052097/bk_adbl_052097_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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