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  The Secret History of Home Economics: How Trailblazing Women Harnessed the Power of Home and Changed the Way We Live

  The term "home economics" may conjure traumatic memories of lopsided hand-sewn pillows or sunken muffins. But common conception obscures the story of the revolutionary science of better living. The field exploded opportunities for women in the twentieth century by reducing domestic work and providing jobs as professors, engineers, chemists, and businesspeople. And it has something to teach us today. In the surprising, often fiercely feminist and always fascinating The Secret History of Home Economics, Danielle Dreilinger traces the field's history from Black colleges to Eleanor Roosevelt to Okinawa, from a Betty Crocker brigade to DIY techies. These women-and they were mostly women-became chemists and marketers, studied nutrition, health, and exercise, tested parachutes, created astronaut food, and took bold steps in childhood development and education. Home economics followed the currents of American culture even as it shaped them. Dreilinger brings forward the racism within the movement along with the strides taken by women of color who were influential leaders and innovators. She also looks at the personal lives of home economics' women, as they chose to be single, share lives with other women, or try for egalitarian marriages. This groundbreaking and engaging history restores a denigrated subject to its rightful importance, as it reminds us that everyone should learn how to cook a meal, balance their account, and fight for a better world.

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  P.S. It's Always Been You: Part 3, Hörbuch, Digital, 153min

  Devour the final installment in number one NYT best seller Lauren Blakely's sweeping, second chance romance - narrated by Scott Eastwood and Andi Arndt!   Hunter Armstrong sauntered back into my life unexpectedly, all lopsided grin, mischievous eyes and rugged determination. Not to mention a huge heart. He's nearly impossible to resist, but that's what I have to do as we follow the clues in a trail of love letters from a century ago.  But with every new twist in the story, this treasure hunter seems to set his sights more firmly on reclaiming my heart.  I desperately want to believe him, but the trouble is I don’t know if I'm simply getting swept up in the past, or if we can truly try again for a brand new present.    P.S. It's Always Been You: Part 3 is the third installment in the P.S. It's Always Been You serial novel and should be enjoyed following P.S. It’s Always Been You: Part 1 and P.S. It's Always Been You: Part 2.Enjoy unlimited listening of this installment and future installments in Audible Escape!  Language: English. Narrator: Andi Arndt, Saskia Maarleveld, Zachary Webber, Scott Eastwood. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/or/orig/000906/or_orig_000906_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  A Chance to Win: Boyhood, Baseball, and the Struggle for Redemption in the Inner City , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 607min

  A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist follows an embattled Little League team in inner-city Newark, revealing the complex realities of life in one of America's most dangerous cities. When Rodney Mason, an ex-con drug dealer from Newark's rough South Ward, was shot and paralyzed, he vowed to turn his life around. A former high-school pitching ace with a 93-mph fastball, Mason decided to form a Little League team to help boys avoid the street life that had claimed his youth and mobility. Predictably, the players struggle - they endure poverty, unstable family lives with few positive male role models, failing schools, and dangerous neighborhoods - but through the fists and tears, lopsided losses and rare victories, this bunch of misfits becomes a team, and in doing so gives the community something to root for. With in-depth reporting, fascinating characters, and vivid prose, Jonathan Schuppe's book is both a penetrating, true-to-life portrait of what's at stake for kids growing up poor in America's inner cities and a portrait of Newark itself, a struggling city that has recently known great hope as well as failure. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: L. J. Ganser. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/019228/bk_adbl_019228_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Messy Spirituality: God's Annoying Love for Imperfect People , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 244min

  Find freedom from legalism's shoulds and discover the deep spirituality of being loved by the God who meets and transforms you in the midst of a messy and unpredictable life.Do you ever feel like you don't pray enough, read your Bible enough, share your faith enough, love God enough...and ultimately that you're not a very good Christian? Welcome to the club. Messy Spirituality was written for the silent majority of us who are convinced we just don't do Christianity right. Mike Yaconelli dares to suggest that imperfection, unfinishedness, and messiness are, in fact, the earmarks of true Christianity; that real Christianity is messy, erratic, lopsided...and gloriously liberating.In this audiobook, he challenges you to let go of the legalism that holds you back and embrace the grace freedom that God offers. He opens your eyes to the one-size-fits-all spirituality churches often want us to embrace and shares what it truly means to walk with God in a deep, intimate, life-changing way. Full of innovative ideas and concepts, Messy Spirituality is a classic that offers timeless wisdom for anyone ready to be free from the bonds of perfectionism. Spanish edition also available. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Fred Stella. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/zond/000296/bk_zond_000296_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Undeniable Attraction: Insta Love Alpha Male, Book 5 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 53min

  A romance story featuring a tattooed alpha male and a strong, curvy woman.From the moment apprentice tattoo artist Pete meets Megan, he knows she’s someone truly special. And Megan couldn’t think of anyone she’d rather be with than Pete. But will the two lovebirds be able to escape Megan’s dark past?Pete That smile could have ended wars, I swear it. I’d never seen anyone as unintentionally cool as Megan. She was wearing very little makeup, but she didn’t need it. And she was wearing a simple white T-shirt and a brown leather jacket. Everything about her was beautiful, from her eyes and smile to the way she said her own name.MeganI’d already met Tommy, but his friend Pete introduced himself. He was kind of handsome in a sort of tall and lanky way. But the way he was looking at me was sort of sweet. I smiled up at him, and he smiled back with this really cute, lopsided grin. It was hard not to like someone with a face like that.  In this truly sweet insta-love story, you’ll follow Megan and Pete as they fall in love and deal with a past that Megan can’t control. There are no cliff-hangers, and there is a guaranteed HEA in this stand-alone story. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: HotGhost Productions. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/181184/bk_acx0_181184_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Prayers That Run: Is It Faith or Fear? (Wisdom-4-Excellence Books) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 267min

  In the first two quarters of the year 2020, the human race was petrified by the COVID-19 pandemic, which infected more than 10 million people worldwide and claimed more than half a million lives. Indeed, the fear was palpable, and churches that could have been places of solace and refuge were shut down because of the fear of more infections. The panic button of the human race was switched on by the mass media.Humans grappled with the perplexities that cut across their several dispositions to God, in the aspect of how much he is able to meet their needs. Then suddenly, a book that seeks to recalibrate and resuscitate the praying capacity of Christians came out of the blue. This eye-opening book reveals the secrets on how we can get our prayers running to God with faith, rather than running to the devil with fear.The author explains the distinguishing factors one must possess to attract God's unlimited grace. The book makes you appreciate your tri-patriach nature and totally disregard the lopsided Christianity that unfortunately many practice. This book encapsulates all aspects of life, while capitalizing on our motives, intentions, lifestyle, and relationship with God through prayers. It will empower you to be a shining light and a power-filled Christian that uses affliction as tool for greatness, rather than a tool for despair. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Darcey Kobs. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/213365/bk_acx0_213365_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Fear Your Strengths: What You Are Best at Could Be Your Biggest Problem , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 130min

  Once you’ve discovered your strengths, you need to discover something else: Your strengths can work against you. Many leaders know this on some intuitive level, and they see it in others. But they don’t see it as clearly in themselves. Mainly, they think of leadership development as working on their weaknesses. No wonder. The tools used to assess managers are not equipped to pick up on overplayed strengths - when more is not better. Nationally recognized leadership experts Bob Kaplan and Rob Kaiser have conducted thousands of assessments of senior executives designed to determine when their strengths serve them well - versus betray them. In this groundbreaking audiobook, they draw on their data and practical experience to identify four fundamental leadership qualities, each positive in and of itself but each of which, if overemphasized, can seriously compromise your effectiveness. Most leaders, they’ve found, are "lopsided" - they favor certain qualities to the exclusion of others without realizing it. The trick is to keep all four in balance. Fear Your Strengths provides tools to help you become aware of your leadership leanings and excesses and provides insights for combatting the mindset that encourages them. It offers a practical psychology of leadership, a better way for leaders to calibrate their performance so that you can make sure your strengths don’t overpower you but rather move you - and your organization - forward. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Derek Shetterly. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/gdan/000916/bk_gdan_000916_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  India Uninc. , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 406min

  While the nation's newspapers, journals, business magazines, TV channels and the Internet continue to churn out reams, airtime and gigabytes of information about India's business houses - India Inc. - in this one-of-its kind book, Prof. R. Vaidyanathan delves deep into India Uninc. and presents a persuasive case for why the latter is really what is at the heart of our economy, and why any growth story about India is incomplete if that real engine of our growth is ignored. The author argues that the real India story, over generations, lies with the many proprietorship and partnership firms, small manufacturing units, kirana stores, single entrepreneurs and household enterprises. That they are being finally given their due, in this important study, is the result of many years of cutting-edge research, which lays bare the lopsided viewpoints of policy-makers and 'experts', and urges a broader vision of the country's economy. The small entrepreneur, says Prof. Vaidyanathan, should prevail over crony capitalism. Scholarly yet accessible, and offering a wealth of information on an uncharted territory, India Uninc. is a must-listen for anybody who aspires to understand the Indian economy - as well as India itself. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Anuj Munot. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/029355/bk_adbl_029355_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  HvZ: Ripping into the Darkness: M/M Gay Sports Shifter Romance, Book 4 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 151min

  With his freshman year of college over and summer already in the air, Lucas Brown is more than happy to have finished his spring semester with all A's and Salem State's official promise to continue funding his scholarships. Excited and relieved to take a break and begin his first college summer vacation, he's spending his first few lazy days just sleeping in and half-heartedly unpacking the moving boxes at his new apartment. Well, his and his boyfriend's, Dean Gray. Waking up late and going to bed much, much later, Lucas has never had it easier. And, as werewolves, he and Dean are taking their relationship slow, just as nature intended. Only, Dean just told Lucas that his grandmother is coming to visit, and she has a much more traditional idea of how an Omega and an alpha should be living together. An old werewolf from the prestigious Gray pack with a soft spot for her favorite grandson and a critical eye for Lucas, Grandma Gray isn't about to let them off easily, especially when neither of them can seem to appease her with a good reason as to why they are not already mated to one another. As Lucas struggles to appease both his nagging future in-law and his frustrated boyfriend, he quickly learns that, sometimes, love is a lopsided balance of playing nice and growing a pair. DISCLAIMER: This book contains sexually explicit content that is intended for a mature audience only. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Zachary Liebenstein. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/055285/bk_acx0_055285_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Whale Vomit Method (2nd Edition): The Simplest, Fastest, Easiest Way to Stand Out from the Competition, Sell Your Stuff for Top Dollar, and Still Sleep Like a Baby , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 398min

  Problemogue. You've been duped into thinking that volume of effort is a substitute for value. You're victimized by the iniquity of ubiquity. Your company is advertising as if it's still 1962. You have a serious, undiagnosed lemming problem. Your company is screaming louder and louder, and your market is caring less and less. In the race to compete, you're becoming redundant. You're locked in price wars. You're scared of coloring outside of the lines, because no one told you the lines were imaginary. You're hemorrhaging marketing buys. You chalk up poor response to nebulous and impossibly insurmountable forces like "the bad economy," or "corrupt back-door deals." Your business is struggling. You're part of the 99%. On the other hand, a handful of companies get it right. 1% of companies have the rare courage to make their stuff remarkable. They embrace the plural nature of perfection, and welcome a market holding the veto card. They're fixated and obsessed, and at peace with a lopsided value proposition. They understand marketing isn't a shiny coat of paint on a rusted out shell, but must be baked into the DNA of your products and services. They've learned that pricing is a game. They carefully engineer scarcity and exclusivity, even where it's never existed before. They know what their clients want, and have found a way to peer at the world through eyes that are not their own. Their businesses are booming. And profitable. This book is about how to move your company from the 99% to the 1%, as quickly and easily as possible, using The Whale Vomit Method, no matter what business you're in. Which means it's time to introduce you to William. He's waiting. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kevin Dubrosky. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/089290/bk_acx0_089290_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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