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Visionaries, Mystics, and Contactees , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 278min
Salvador Freixedo was born in Galicia, Spain, in 1923. Raised in a devoutly Catholic family, he entered the Jesuit order as a teenager and spent the next 30 years as a priest. While living in Cuba, he wrote 40 Cases of Social Injustice, for which he was "invited to leave" by the dictator Batista. He moved to Puerto Rico, where in 1969 he wrote Mi Iglesia Duerme (My Church Is Asleep) in a sincere attempt to force ecclesiastical recognition of the many shortcomings he saw in Catholicism. The bishops of Puerto Rico suspended his ministry, and he was later, under Church pressure, imprisoned in Venezuela. All these events caused Freixedo to review the ideas he had held as a Jesuit priest. He began to make an exhaustive, comparative study of all religions and found common patterns among them. He discovered that all religions had saints and miracles - aspects that the Catholic church had long considered its own monopoly. Freixedo then understood "miracles" were actually a commonplace phenomenon, that reality has always been "plastic" and malleable, and that interaction of humans with other, nonhuman intelligences could be traced back to the beginnings of recorded history. This audiobook features an enlightening introduction by noted UFO author and Fortean pioneer John A. Keel (author of The Mothman Prophecies and Our Haunted Planet), who first brought international attention to Freixedo's personal story and research. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Robert Plank. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/119392/bk_acx0_119392_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Learn Languages & Spanish, 2 Books in 1!: Learning Languages and Learn Spanish , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 129min
This two-book bundle includes Learning Languages and Learn Spanish. Learning Languages Do you need to learn a language? This is the place to do it, no questions asked. This book uses a combination of orthodox immersion methods in order to make you go in one end a complete newbie to a language and come out the other a fluent speaker. It won't be any shortage of work on your part, but this book is going to set you up with all the tools that it possibly can so that you can be a fantastic speaker of a second language in as short of a time as a few months. Through encouragement, motivation, rational observation, and careful breaking down of key concepts into malleable bite-sized chunks, this book makes learning language easier than it's ever been before. Learn Spanish Let's face it: the language market is changing. English has been the lingua franca for a while now, but it's not going to always be that way. It's projected that Chinese or Spanish might take over the English language as the lingua franca in the next century. So it makes sense that you're searching this book: Spanish is an in-demand language to know. By knowing Spanish, you're opening the door to communication with hundreds of millions of more people than you could speak with before. This makes you a desirable asset to a great number of companies and makes you an all around more well-rounded person. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John Fiore. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/087320/bk_acx0_087320_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Cognitive Gadgets: The Cultural Evolution of Thinking , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 454min
How did human minds become so different from those of other animals? What accounts for our capacity to understand the way the physical world works, to think ourselves into the minds of others, to gossip, read, tell stories about the past, and imagine the future? These questions are not new: they have been debated by philosophers, psychologists, anthropologists, evolutionists, and neurobiologists over the course of centuries. One explanation widely accepted today is that humans have special cognitive instincts. Unlike other living animal species, we are born with complicated mechanisms for reasoning about causation, reading the minds of others, copying behaviors, and using language. Cecilia Heyes agrees that adult humans have impressive pieces of cognitive equipment. In her framing, however, these cognitive gadgets are not instincts programmed in the genes but are constructed in the course of childhood through social interaction. Cognitive gadgets are products of cultural evolution, rather than genetic evolution. At birth, the minds of human babies are only subtly different from the minds of newborn chimpanzees. We are friendlier, our attention is drawn to different things, and we have a capacity to learn and remember that outstrips the abilities of newborn chimpanzees. Yet when these subtle differences are exposed to culture-soaked human environments, they have enormous effects. They enable us to upload distinctively human ways of thinking from the social world around us. As Cognitive Gadgets makes clear, from birth our malleable human minds can learn through culture not only what to think but how to think it. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Esther Wane. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tant/011967/bk_tant_011967_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Volume II: Adjustment Team , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1136min
Philip K. Dick (1928-1982) was one of the seminal figures of 20th century science fiction. His many stories and novels, which include such classics as The Man in the High Castle and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, reflect a deeply personal world view, exploring the fragile, multifarious nature of reality itself and examining those elements that make us - or fail to make us - fully human. He did as much as anyone to demolish the artificial barrier between genre fiction and "literature," and the best of his work has earned a permanent place in American popular culture. Adjustment Team is the second installment of a uniform, five-volume edition of The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick. This wide-ranging collection contains 26 stories and novellas from the extraordinarily productive years of 1952 and 1953, along with extensive story notes. Included here are "The Cookie Lady," an account of a young boy whose relationship with a lonely widow results in a bizarre act of transformation, Second Variety (filmed in 1995 as Screamers), a novella that powerfully evokes a post-apocalyptic society overrun by all-too-human looking robots known as "Claws," and the title story, in which a small accident of timing leads real estate salesman Ed Fletcher to an unexpected confrontation with the malleable nature of a once familiar world. Like its predecessor, The King of the Elves, this new volume offers both an astonishing variety of narrative pleasures and a fascinating glimpse into the evolution of a major American artist. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jeff Cummings. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/008049/bk_brll_008049_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Learn Language: A Simple and Easy Guide for Beginners to Learn Any Foreign Language , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 53min
Do you need to learn a language? This is the place to do it, no questions asked. This book uses a combination of orthodox immersion methods in order to make you go in one end a complete newbie to a language and come out the other a fluent speaker. It won't be any shortage of work on your part, but this book is going to set you up with all the tools that it possibly can so that you can be a fantastic speaker of a second language in as short of a time as a few months. Through encouragement, motivation, rational observation, and careful breaking down of key concepts into malleable bite-sized chunks, this book makes learning language easier than it's ever been before. What makes this book better than other language books which tell you how to do something similar? The fact that this is the same exact method I've used to study several languages. I know that anecdotal evidence doesn't mean much, but there's genuine merit to the methods contained in this book, and if you give it a chance, then you'll see for yourself that there's no method to language learning out there that is as effective as this one proves itself to be. So what are you waiting for? If you're tired of sitting around deliberating on exactly when you're going to start learning a language, I implore you to jump in right now with this book and see if you aren't speaking the language spectacularly in a few months' time. There are a lot of books on this topic, but there are none like this one. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John Fiore. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/089893/bk_acx0_089893_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Namesake , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 610min
The Namesake follows the Ganguli family through its journey from Calcutta to Cambridge to the Boston suburbs. Ashima and Ashoke Ganguli arrive in America at the end of the 1960s, shortly after their arranged marriage in Calcutta, in order for Ashoke to finish his engineering degree at MIT. Ashoke is forward-thinking, ready to enter into American culture if not fully at least with an open mind. His young bride is far less malleable. Isolated, desperately missing her large family back in India, she will never be at peace with this new world. Soon after they arrive in Cambridge, their first child is born, a boy. According to Indian custom, the child will be given two names: an official name, to be bestowed by the great-grandmother, and a pet name to be used only by family. But the letter from India with the child's official name never arrives, and so the baby's parents decide on a pet name to use for the time being. Ashoke chooses a name that has particular significance for him: on a train trip back in India several years earlier, he had been reading a short story collection by one of his most beloved Russian writers, Nikolai Gogol, when the train derailed in the middle of the night, killing almost all the sleeping passengers onboard. Ashoke had stayed awake to read his Gogol, and he believes the book saved his life. His child will be known, then, as Gogol. Lahiri brings her enormous powers of description to her first novel, infusing scene after scene with profound emotional depth. Condensed and controlled, The Namesake covers three decades and crosses continents, all the while zooming in at very precise moments on telling detail, sensory richness, and fine nuances of character. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Sarita Choudhury. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/000315/bk_rand_000315_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Fixing My Gaze: A Scientist's Journey Into Seeing in Three Dimensions , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 313min
When neuroscientist Susan Barry was 50 years old, she took an unforgettable trip to Manhattan. As she emerged from the dim light of the subway into the sunshine, she saw a view of the city that she had witnessed many times in the past but now saw in an astonishingly new way. Skyscrapers on street corners appeared to loom out toward her like the bows of giant ships. Tree branches projected upward and outward, enclosing and commanding palpable volumes of space. Leaves created intricate mosaics in 3D. With each glance, she experienced the deliriously novel sense of immersion in a three dimensional world. Barry had been cross-eyed and stereoblind since early infancy. After half a century of perceiving her surroundings as flat and compressed, on that day she was seeing Manhattan in stereo depth for first time in her life. As a neuroscientist, she understood just how extraordinary this transformation was, not only for herself but for the scientific understanding of the human brain. Scientists have long believed that the brain is malleable only during a critical period in early childhood. According to this theory, Barry's brain had organized itself when she was a baby to avoid double vision - and there was no way to rewire it as an adult. But Barry found an optometrist who prescribed a little-known program of vision therapy; after intensive training, Barry was ultimately able to accomplish what other scientists and even she herself had once considered impossible. A revelatory account of the brain's capacity for change, Fixing My Gaze describes Barry's remarkable journey and celebrates the joyous pleasure of our senses. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Barbara Longo. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/000748/bk_acx0_000748_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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How to Influence People and Become a Master of Manipulation: Proven Methods to Analyze People, Control Your Emotions and Body Language, Leverage Persuasion in Business and Relationships , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 272min
Ever wish you could evoke a desired response with a simple gesture or tone of voice? Do you dream of commanding more respect in your social and professional circles? Then, you need to keep reading...For centuries, psychologists have agreed on a powerful fact: The human mind is highly malleable. Special techniques can incite unusual responses and, in many cases, trigger behavior that conflicts with one’s true personality.Whether you’re aware of it or not, these techniques are used on you daily. Big companies, your employer, and some of your closest friends are wielding influence over your personal choices. Will you continue to be played like a puppet or will you, too, learn to pull the strings?In this audiobook, you’ll discover:Nine ways to cultivate powerful emotional intelligence now (Follow these expert-approved tips to develop a strong hold over your emotions and become psychologically untouchable!)How to turn someone into their own worst enemy so they immediately refer to you for leadership. No aggression required!The secrets behind manipulating your boss and negotiating your way to the topA step-by-step guide to reverse psychology and getting people to enjoy giving you what you wantLittle-known tricks to decipher the hidden messages in common facial expressions and other types of behaviorThe dangerously powerful tool that can seduce nearly anyone you desireSubtle body language that asserts dominance and instantly makes it known that you’re in control. (Display highly effective “top dog” behavior and subconsciously make everyone follow your rules!)And much, much more...If you want to access these advanced techniques and transition from “played” to “major player”, then you need to start listening to this audiobook! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tyler Krzeszewski. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/218451/bk_acx0_218451_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Why Don't Students Like School?: A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions About How the Mind Works and What It Means for the Classroom , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 411min
Kids are naturally curious, but when it comes to school it seems like their minds are turned off. Why is it that they can remember the smallest details from their favorite television programs, yet miss the most obvious questions on their history test? Cognitive scientist Dan Willingham has focused his acclaimed research on the biological and cognitive basis of learning and has a deep understanding of the daily challenges faced by classroom teachers. This book will help teachers improve their practice by explaining how they and their students think and learn - revealing the importance of story, emotion, memory, context, and routine in building knowledge and creating lasting learning experiences. In this breakthrough book, Willingham has distilled his knowledge of cognitive science into a set of nine principles that are easy to understand and have clear applications for the classroom. Some examples of his surprising findings are: "Learning styles" don't exist. The processes by which different children think and learn are more similar than different. Intelligence is malleable. Intelligence contributes to school performance and children do differ, but intelligence can be increased through sustained hard work. You cannot develop "thinking skills" in the absence of facts. We encourage students to think critically, not just memorize facts. However, thinking skills depend on factual knowledge for their operation. Why Don't Students Like School is a basic primer for every teacher who wants to know how their brains and their students' brains work and how that knowledge can help them hone their teaching skills. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your My Library section along with the audio. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Paul Costanzo. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tant/002168/bk_tant_002168_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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How to Overcome Negativity: A Simple Step by Step Guide to Overcoming Mental Illness, Mastering Your Emotions and Developing Positive Strategies That Will Change Your Life , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 182min
Do you find yourself trapped in a whirlwind of negative thoughts all the time? Is it hard for you to see the optimism in life?Do you feel as if your negative thinking is affecting your mental health?If so, you may have developed a bad habit of negative thinking without knowing.This audiobook will help you not only overcome your negative thinking processes, but it will educate you on what negative thinking is and where it comes from.Everybody has their own reasons for negative thinking, it can simply be a bad habit they’ve developed growing up, it could be a self-esteem issue, or it could be a mental health issue.This audiobook will help you identify where your own personal negative thinking comes from so you can employ the right practices to help you overcome it.This audiobook will help you tackle change your mindset from negative thinking into positive thinking by covering the following topics:The definition of negativityCan negativity be stopped?Where do our negative thoughts originate from?The relationship between negative thinking and mental health, self-esteem, and traumaThe benefits of positive thinkingThe effects of negativity on a person’s health, work, and relationshipsLearning to deal with other people’s negativityLearning to deal with your own negative thinkingLearning about your inner-critic, are they negative?Thirty strategies to put a stop to your negativityThe important part of being able to overcome negative thinking is to understand that your mind can be rewired at any time as long as you stay open-minded.This audiobook will help you understand human psychology so you can be committed to changing your mindset.The mind is a malleable organ that you can train into being anything that you like. You can literally teach yourself new thinking processes that will allow you to see the wor ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John William Cantees. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/215736/bk_acx0_215736_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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