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God and Mankind: Comparative Religions, Hörbuch, Digital, 347min
How do the major religions answer unanswerable questions? What can we gain from their answers? Why are we here? Will we ever discover the source of the mystery? Each of these questions raises countless more, and these eight eye-opening lectures are an ideal starting point for gaining some progress in considering them. Professor Oden's lectures approach religious belief and ritual as possible answers to these most difficult and enduring questions, which have occupied humanity from the beginning. They underscore both the unity and the diversity of religious approaches to life in a sweeping conceptual grasp. And they treat the study of religion as both a matter of faith and as an appropriate subject of intellectual and academic pursuit. Throughout these lectures, you'll examine the four traditional views of religion; ponder the best ways to understand and compare religious beliefs; investigate the problem of the existence of evil in a world created by a benevolent deity; compare the birth narratives of several important religious figures including Moses, Jesus, and the Buddha; probe the secrets of rituals and their ramifications for the religious communities of sect and church; see how the United States is the perfect case study for learning about the religious nature of a particular society; and much more. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio. Language: English. Narrator: Robert Oden. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tcco/000108/bk_tcco_000108_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Pranksters: Making Mischief in the Modern World , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 824min
From Benjamin Franklin's newspaper hoax that faked the death of his rival to Abbie Hoffman's attempt to levitate the Pentagon - pranksters, hoaxers, and con artists have caused confusion, disorder, and laughter in Western society for centuries. Profiling the most notorious mischief-makers from the 1600s to the present day, Pranksters explores how "pranks" are part of a long tradition of speaking truth to power and social critique. Invoking such historical and contemporary figures as P.T. Barnum, Jonathan Swift, WITCH, The Yes Men, and Stephen Colbert, Kembrew McLeod shows how staged spectacles that balance the serious and humorous can spark important public conversations. In some instances, tricksters have incited social change (and unfortunate prank blowback) by manipulating various forms of media, from newspapers to YouTube. For example, in the 1960s, self-proclaimed "professional hoaxer" Alan Abel lampooned America's hypocritical sexual mores by using conservative rhetoric to fool the news media into covering a satirical organization that advocated clothing naked animals. In the 1990s, Sub Pop Records then-receptionist Megan Jasper satirized the commodification of alternative music culture by pranking The New York Times into reporting on her fake lexicon of "grunge speak." Throughout this book, McLeod shows how pranks interrupt the daily flow of approved information and news, using humor to underscore larger, pointed truths. Written in an accessible, story-driven style, Pranksters reveals how mischief makers have left their shocking, entertaining, and educational mark on modern political and social life. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gary Roelofs. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/091220/bk_acx0_091220_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Sales Demystified: An Insider's Guide to Building Better Sales Professionals , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 448min
Steve Rangoussis has been there. He started his first career as a sales rep, learning the ropes and steadily climbing the sales ladder. Nearly 25 years later, Steve has served in just about every position in the sales hierarchy, uniquely qualifying him to demystify the sales world for sellers and non-sellers, alike.Sometimes, sales feels like alchemy. Sometimes, it feels like science. Sometimes, it feels like a foreign world, hard to penetrate and even harder to successfully navigate, with its particular jargon, professional pressures, and overall culture.Sales Demystified casts light on the sales profession mystique for those in non-sales functions, while providing salespeople in various positions actionable insights to fast-track their careers to success. Based on the author’s extensive sales and leadership career, the book, much like sales itself, uses the power of story to underscore life lessons, provide concrete career advice, unpack leadership techniques, explore the nature of influence, categorize the various iterations of present-day sales, and reveal the various technologies and their roles in the sales world.With its blend of hard facts and anecdotal evidence, all delivered in an engaging, conversational tone, this comprehensive work on sales takes the listener on a journey toward what “good” looks like in the sales realm and reveals the most direct approach to getting there.PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dug Joy. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/206309/bk_acx0_206309_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Caught in the Path of Katrina: A Survey of the Hurricane's Human Effects (The Katrina Bookshelf) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 225min
In 2008, three years after Hurricane Katrina cut a deadly path along the northern coast of the Gulf of Mexico, researchers J. Steven Picou and Keith Nicholls conducted a survey of the survivors in Louisiana and Mississippi, receiving more than 2500 responses, and followed up two years later with more than 500 of the initial respondents. Showcasing these landmark findings, Caught in the Path of Katrina: A Survey of the Hurricane's Human Effects yields a more complete understanding of the traumas endured as a result of the Storm of the Century. The authors report on evacuation behaviors, separations from family, damage to homes, and physical and psychological conditions among residents of seven of the parishes and counties that bore the brunt of Katrina. The findings underscore the frequently disproportionate suffering of African Americans and the agonizingly slow pace of recovery. Highlighting the lessons learned, the book offers suggestions for improved governmental emergency management techniques to increase preparedness, better mitigate storm damage, and reduce the level of trauma in future disasters. Multiple major hurricanes have unleashed their destruction in the years since Katrina, making this a crucial study whose importance only continues to grow.The book is published by University of Texas Press. The audiobook is published by University Press Audiobooks."A high-level yet easy-to-read overview...Highly recommended." (CHOICE)"An essential book for anyone seeking a more complete understanding of this disaster." (Duane Gill, Oklahoma State University) ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Marlin May. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/232502/bk_acx0_232502_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Power of Communication and Persuasion: Six Keys to Forgiving Yourself and Others, Hörbuch, Digital, 168min
Mike Wickett's personal success is surefire proof of his unique communication and persuasion skills! Mike Wickett likes to quote psychologist William James: "Most people live, whether physically, intellectually, or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being." Mike has learned - and will teach you - how to tap into that potential and become the confident, sensitive and enthusiastic person you are meant to be. When Mike teaches, it becomes instantly apparent that he knows what he's talking about. He has climbed the ladder of success, rung by rung, from the basement. Born into an alcoholic family, Mike had to overcome poverty and unhappiness, poor self-esteem and negativism, to become a top business trainer and seminar leader. His thousands of listeners have come away from his sessions filled with a new sense of self-worth and an eagerness to garner the rich rewards which life has in store. His corporate clients, which include many of the best known Fortune 500 companies, ask him back time and again. Mike Wickett is president of Mike Wickett Enterprises, a public speaking and business consulting firm headquartered in Birmingham, Michigan. He is the author-narrator of the best-selling Nightingale-Conant audiocassette program It's All Within Your Reach, and he is a pivotal speaker for Nightingale-Conant Seminars. Mike speaks with energy, honesty, humor, compassion, and insight. His compelling audience interaction techniques underscore every point in his presentation, making the time spent with him an instantly valuable experience. Language: English. Narrator: Michael Wickett. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/ntgl/000345/bk_ntgl_000345_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Sherlock Holmes and the Eisendorf Enigma: Sherlock Holmes in Minnesota, Book 8 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 502min
Dogged by depression, doubt, and - as a trip to the Mayo Clinic has revealed - emphysema, 66-year-old Sherlock Holmes is preparing to return to England when he receives a shock: a note slipped under his hotel room door, from a vicious murderer he'd nearly captured in Munich in 1892. The murderer, known as the Monster of Munich, announces that he has relocated to Eisendorf, a tiny village near the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. If Holmes is not what he once was, the same can be said for Eisendorf: once a thriving community founded by German idealists but now a dying town with only 40 residents - two of whom have, indeed, died recently under highly mysterious circumstances. Replete with all the Gothic richness of Larry Millett's earlier Holmes novels, Sherlock Holmes and the Eisendorf Enigma links events in 1892 Germany with those in small-town Minnesota in 1920 in a double mystery that tests the aging detective's mettle - and the listener's nerve - as never before. Guided by Eisendorf's peculiar archivist and taunted by the Monster, Holmes finds himself drawn into the town's dark history of violence and secrecy and into the strange tunnels that underscore the old flour mill where answers and grievous danger lie in wait. No longer the cool, flawless logician of times past, Holmes must nonetheless match wits with a fiendish opponent who taunts him right up to an explosive final confrontation. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Steve Hendrickson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/010050/bk_blak_010050_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Double Time, Hörbuch, Digital, 522min
Could you use another life? This is the story of a woman who has the courage to reinvent herself. Heirs to the Jackson textile mill, designer Dani and her singer/songwriter twin Dylan feel free to follow the siren call of the music world - until they’re interrupted by a car accident. With Dani behind the wheel, her father ends up on a stretcher. Youthful free spirits cut short, Dani swaps her fringed jacket for a business suit, the Red Hot Chili Peppers for the Brandenburg concertos. Marrying attending physician Gunner Nygård seems a good move until a fertility quest reveals his hidden agenda. But the golden handcuffs of Dr. Gunner can’t hold Dani forever. Overworked and under loved, Dani hears a new tune, one that leads her where few will dare to follow. Imbedded in this audiobook, seven songs underscore the unfolding events of the novel’s seven parts. Throughout, music is the freeing agent, the energizing constant, the consoling balm. Double Time is a love story, set to music. With special thanks to the musicians, publishers, and recording studios whose cooperative efforts paved the way for the inclusion of the following songs: "Oxford Comma" by Vampire Weekend, "Ain’t Nobody’s Business" by Susan Tedeschi, "Daniella" by The John Butler Trio, "Polaroid Solution" by Faded Paper Figures, "Not Your Lover Anymore" by Blitzen Trapper, "Vienna" by Matt Costa, and "Untold by Pete Francis". Language: English. Narrator: Carol Monda, Jay Snyder, Joan Esposito, Mick Lauer, Jack Riccobono, Steven Brezzo, Linda Jones, Corinna Clendenen. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/jack/000001/bk_jack_000001_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins: Key Takeaways, Analysis, & Review , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 28min
In The God Delusion, philosopher Richard Dawkins evaluates popular arguments for the existence of God. The idea that God is not an object that can be accessed and reviewed using human reason is rejected. Instead, evidence that proves with at least 51 percent certainty is presented to prove that God does, in fact, not exist, casting reasonable doubt on the efficacy and usefulness of belief in God. Genuine curiosity as disciplined by a sound scientific method is far more useful than religions. Religion is all too often based on superstition. An in-depth investigation of the intellectual bankruptcies of polytheism and monotheism, the secular beliefs of the Founding Fathers, and the Galton and Stannard prayer experiments underscore this idea. In contrast, the argument for natural selection shows it can account for the whole of human life, rather than the idea that there is one divine creator - a statement that in itself leads to more questions, such as the origins of that single creator.... Please note: this is key takeaways and analysis of the book and not the original book. Inside this Instaread of The God Delusion: Overview of the book Important people Key takeaways Analysis of key takeaways About the author: With Instaread, you can get the key takeaways and analysis of a book in 15 minutes. We read every chapter, identify the key takeaways, and analyze them for your convenience. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Michael Gilboe. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/044027/bk_acx0_044027_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Archetypal Imagination: Carolyn and Ernest Fay Series in Analytical Psychology , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 321min
What we wish to know, and most desire, remains unknowable and lies beyond our grasp. With these words, James Hollis leads listeners to consider the nature of our human need for meaning in life and for connection to a world less limiting than our own. In The Archetypal Imagination, Hollis offers a lyrical Jungian appreciation of the archetypal imagination. He argues that without the human mind's ability to form energy-filled images that link us to worlds beyond our rational and emotional capacities, we would have neither culture nor spirituality. Drawing upon the work of poets and philosophers, Hollis shows the importance of depth experience, meaning, and connection to an "other" world. Just as humans have instincts for biological survival and social interaction, we have instincts for spiritual connection as well. Just as our physical and social needs seek satisfaction, so the spiritual instincts of the human animal are expressed in images we form to evoke an emotional or spiritual response, as in our dreams, myths, and religious traditions. The author draws upon the work of the poet Rainer Maria Rilke's Duino Elegies to elucidate the archetypal imagination in literary forms. To underscore the importance of incarnating depth experience, he also examines a series of paintings by Nancy Witt. With the power of the archetypal imagination available to all of us, we are invited to summon courage to take on the world anew, to relinquish outmoded identities and defenses, and to risk a radical reimagining of the larger possibilities of the world and of the self. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kevin Pierce. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/003067/bk_acx0_003067_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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A Difference in Magnitude: The World's First Nuclear Attacks , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 177min
In post-9/11, nuclear proliferation has put new meaning to the world's first nuclear attacks. Defense analysts say that America could be next. The attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki give us a clear picture of the consequences and underscore the imperative of vigilance and preparedness. With this in mind, Pocket University is releasing another important and timely audiobook. A Difference in Magnitude uses selected government documents, radio and newsreel broadcasts, and eyewitness accounts to tell the story of the atomic bomb and the nuclear attacks on Japan. Letters, official memos, and diary entries describe the Trinity Test in White Sands, New Mexico; recount President Truman's thoughts before the attacks; tell of the opposition of scientists who worked on the Manhattan Project; and give Japan's response to the devastation. Extensive and well-written reports detail and quantify the destruction and casualties. Included are information on how the atomic bomb works and how it compares to conventional weapons, the reasons for the attacks and how the targets were selected. Original documents and recordings provide an authenticity that only audio can give. An interview with members of the crew who dropped the first bomb conveys the objectivity and remoteness of the execution. Eyewitness reports by a Jesuit priest who saw and felt the blast and then treated the injured and dying. And a girl, a student at a junior college who was less than a half-mile from the explosion, describes the havoc and horror on the ground. Masterfully narrated by Ralph Cosham, this original production is powerful and compelling. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ralph Cosham. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/comm/000088/bk_comm_000088_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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