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    Whatever Happened to the Metric System?: How America Kept Its Feet , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 553min
    The American standard system of measurement is a unique and odd thing to behold, with its esoteric, inconsistent standards: 12 inches in a foot, three feet in a yard, 16 ounces in a pound, 100 pennies to the dollar. For something as elemental as counting and estimating the world around us, it seems like a confusing tool to use. So how did we end up with it? Most of the rest of the world is on the metric system, and for a time in the 1970s America appeared ready to make the switch. Yet it never happened, and the reasons for that get to the root of who we think we are, just as the measurements are woven into the ways we think. John Marciano chronicles the origins of measurement systems, the kaleidoscopic array of standards throughout Europe and the 13 American colonies, the combination of intellect and circumstance that resulted in the metric system's creation in France in the wake of the French Revolution, and America's stubborn adherence to the hybrid United States Customary System ever since. As much as it is a tale of quarters and tenths, it is a human drama, replete with great inventors, visionary presidents, obsessive activists, and science-loving technocrats. Anyone who listens to this inquisitive, engaging story will never read Robert Frost's line "miles to go before I sleep" or eat a foot-long sub again without wondering, "Whatever happened to the metric system?" ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Neil Hellegers. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/021681/bk_adbl_021681_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Time Travel Rescue: Escape from the 21st Century , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 494min
    Could you live in a world where personal vehicles are outlawed? Where coffee is a luxury for the elite? Where you are limited to three ounces of alcohol a day? Where food is manufactured? Could you live in a cube connected to thousands of other cubes in a massive complex that sits on the toxic remains of Mother Earth? This is the only life Rick has known in his 32 years.Living in a wasteland that is beyond repair becomes too much for Rick who, like most of those left on the planet in 2212, works for the Big Five mega corporation. A chance online meeting with a young hacker named Chen leads to a perilous journey through a wormhole back to the 21st century, where he and Chen hope to set things right before they go terribly wrong.Unbeknown to Rick is Chen’s propensity for violence, and her murderous exploits complicate an otherwise altruistic mission. Rick’s 21st-century guide, the smart and attractive Jill Strawbridge, introduces him to the charms and challenges of life 157 years before he was born. Their time together sparks mutual curiosity that draws them into something more than just a working relationship.While Rick is charmed and intrigued by 21st-century life, Chen racks up murderous misdeeds that catch up to him. Will he accomplish his mission to change the course of events in the 21st century so that Earth's future is saved? Discover the answer by listening to Time Travel Rescue. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Zach Thrasher. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/200640/bk_acx0_200640_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    South Beach Diet Phase 1, 2 & 3 Exposed!: Pros & Cons. Do's & Don'ts , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 53min
    A diet that does not require you to measure, count the amount you consume in ounces, or weigh the grams of carbohydrates in the food you eat. The South Beach Diet is a lifetime approach of healthy eating by balancing the lean protein, good carbs, and healthy fats in your meals. This diet focuses on consuming plenty of fiber by including more vegetables and fruits in your eating plan. The low glycemic load of this weight loss method also prevents the increase of blood sugar, which helps fight food cravings, which in turn helps shed the excess pounds and even prevent the development of diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Despite its seeming complexity, the South Beach Diet is a relatively easy plan to follow, and once you've completed the first phase, the fruit and starch restrictions will be over, and you will be able to eat all the healthy foods allowed in this diet. The first two-week restriction of this famous diet is definitely worth it. You don't even have to start with the restrictive phase if you have less than 10 pounds of weight to lose. This technique is reasonably simple. No need to count calories. All you really need to do is eat three balanced meals a day. Just follow the guide for a healthier and fitter you. Includes a 300+ South Beach Diet food list for shopping, seven day South Beach Diet meal plan, and South Beach Diet recipes. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kevin F. Spalding. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/051475/bk_acx0_051475_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    A Feathered River Across the Sky: The Passenger Pigeon's Flight to Extinction , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 677min
    In the early 19th century passenger pigeons accounted for 25 to 40 percent of North America’s birds, traveling in flocks so massive as to block out the sun for hours. Although adults weighed only twelve ounces, they nested and roosted in the millions, destroying large oaks as if hit by hurricanes. Their favorite foods were the seeds and nuts of beech, chestnuts, and other forest trees, but they also raided farmers’ buckwheat, wheat, corn, and rye crops. John James Audubon, remarking on their speed and agility in flight, said a lone passenger pigeon streaking through the forest “passes like a thought.” The observation was prophetic, for although a billion pigeons streamed over Toronto in May of 1860, a mere forty years later passenger pigeons were almost extinct. Martha, the last of the species, died in captivity at the Cincinnati Zoo on September 1, 1914. Their congregation in large numbers made it easy to kill them en masse, and the expansion of railroads and telegraph lines facilitated large hunting parties that supplied pigeons by the thousands to help feed people in growing cities. Audubon, novelist Gene Stratton-Porter, and James Fenimore Cooper were among those who advocated saving the passenger pigeon, but it was too late. Naturalist Joel Greenberg’s beautifully written story of the passenger pigeon provides a cautionary tale that no matter how abundant a resource is - animals, water or oil - it can be wiped out if we are not careful. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Andy Caploe. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/016910/bk_adbl_016910_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Echo Chamber
    'The funniest book I've read in ages. Savage but compelling' Ian Rankin'A fearless romp with big laughs along the way' Graham Norton'Funny, rumbustious, unstinting and wonderfully Hogarthian' The Observer'His relish is infectious' Times_____________________________What a thing of wonder a mobile phone is. Six ounces of metal, glass and plastic, fashioned into a sleek, shiny, precious object. At once, a gateway to other worlds - and a treacherous weapon in the hands of the unwary, the unwitting, the inept.The Cleverley family live a gilded life, little realising how precarious their privilege is, just one tweet away from disaster. George, the patriarch, is a stalwart of television interviewing, a 'national treasure' (his words), his wife Beverley, a celebrated novelist (although not as celebrated as she would like), and their children, Nelson, Elizabeth, Achilles, various degrees of catastrophe waiting to happen.Together they will go on a journey of discovery through the Hogarthian jungle of the modern living where past presumptions count for nothing and carefully curated reputations can be destroyed in an instant. Along the way they will learn how volatile, how outraged, how unforgiving the world can be when you step from the proscribed path.Powered by John Boyne's characteristic humour and razor-sharp observation, The Echo Chamber is a satiric helter skelter, a dizzying downward spiral of action and consequence, poised somewhere between farce, absurdity and oblivion. To err is maybe to be human but to really foul things up you only need a phone.'Sharp, funny, and beautifully written, but it's also a brilliant reflection on the landscape we now live in' Sunday Times bestselling author, Joanna Cannon
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    Bullying Prevention in Schools: The Adventures of Big Ollie , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 85min
    A significant event occurred in Jim's life when his son was born. His son, Michael, was born weighing 3 pounds, 14 ounces. He also had several health issues that were eventually diagnosed as a growth disorder. The growth disorder had many characteristics. Most significantly, the disorder made Michael, throughout his life, smaller and slighter than most children or adults. These characteristics led to Michael looking "different." Throughout Michael's life, there were many experiences where he was judged, teased, and bullied because he was small. Children and adults said cruel and inappropriate things to Michael, and stares and rejections were a constant part of his life. As this situation had the potential of being very defeating to both Michael and Jim, both used the experiences they had as a way to shape who they would become and what would happen in their lives. Jim focused on developing a story to help stop bullying and harassment. He felt the need to educate students, parents, and teachers about the effects of bullying on children. "Big Ollie" is a resource for teachers and anyone who works with children. No child should be afraid to go to school. Jim Jelinske received his undergraduate degree from the University of Whitewater in Whitewater, Wisconsin, and received his master's degree at Cardinal Stritch College in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He has spent twenty-five years working in various capacities, primarily with children and their families. Jim's passion has always been to help children and their families lead healthy and fulfilling lives. He has always championed those who have been treated with anything less than respect, especially children. For the last seven years, Jim has been traveling the country sharing his vision to stop bullying, harassment, violence, and disrespect to all people. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Michael Butler Murray. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/012444/bk_adbl_012444_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Nightmares in Analog: Three Supernatural Tales , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 289min
    Video is Dead The fading memories Jacob has of his deceased mother are buried on a few VHS home movies. Recently haunted by recurring dreams of her, he sets out to pick up a used VCR, and finds one at a local yard sale. However this is no ordinary VCR. According to the owner, this particular model not only plays movies, but it allows one to communicate with the dead. Fueled by curiosity, Jacob takes it home and soon discovers that what he possesses opens a doorway to darkness, death, and lust. Energy Drink Miller is frustrated. Hours at the gym and nothing to show for it. But once a coworker introduces him to RECRüT, a sports energy drink that guarantees results, the gains come quick. It isn't long before Miller attains the godlike physique he's always wanted. Unfortunately, these 12 little ounces come with a side effect - a high price he never expected to pay. And the more RECRüT he drinks, the more his world begins to unravel, uncovering a sinister side of himself he never knew existed. The Saltwater Marathon Bryan buries himself at work, opting for late night shifts at the mall, often drinking himself to sleep in the back office of his once beloved job. But everything changes the morning they show up...strangers at his office door...screaming, pleading and begging him to open the door because they're being pursued and desperately need somewhere to hide. As he awakens from his drunken stupor, he begins to wonder if this some sick joke? Bryan wouldn't be sure until he let these strangers in. However once he does, he soon witnesses for himself what has these people so afraid, so panicked, that he finds it impossible to stay caught in his own spiral of self-loathing. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Aaron Shedlock. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/072513/bk_acx0_072513_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Portuguese Macau: The History and Legacy of the Autonomous Chinese Territory That Became the Last European Colony in Asia , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 92min
    The Portuguese explorer Jorge Álvares visited the Chinese coast in 1513 and was the first European to do so via the sea. Shortly after, more Portuguese visited around the Tunmen Inlet, which is believed to have been somewhere around the Pearl River Delta, and an establishment was set up there in 1514. At this time the Chinese knew nothing of the Portuguese other than their violent takeover of Malacca, a tributary to the Chinese Empire, so the Portuguese were treated with caution. In 1516, Rafael Perestrello was dispatched from Malacca to the islands of Guangdong where his people were well received. Due to this favorable reception, more ships and trading vessels were sent the following year under the command of Perez de Andrade. The fleet anchored on the island Shang-chuan and was at first viewed with suspicion, given the frequent raids from Japanese pirates around the Guangdong region.The Portuguese fleet that arrived in 1518 under the command of Andrade’s brother quickly turned to piracy, and the diplomatic relations between the Chinese and Portuguese deteriorated. At the time, an envoy was in Beijing, where they had been peacefully welcomed, but after hearing news of the actions of Portuguese (led by Simão de Andrade), the Chinese demanded of the visiting envoy that the Portuguese leave Malacca (since it was a tributary of China). Despite the laws and regulations regarding dealings with foreigners, by 1537 three settlements had been established in the nearby region: Shang-chuan, Lang-peh-kao (Lampaçao), and Macau, which was established entirely on lies told to the Chinese. The Portuguese had told officials that tribute to the Chinese (which was in fact normal trading goods) had become wrecked in storms and needed to be dried. The Portuguese were allowed to erect sheds and structures for this purpose at Macau, but numerous merchants established themselves as tenants there and managed to pay the Chinese a yearly rent of 500 ounces of silver.  ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Colin Fluxman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/121801/bk_acx0_121801_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Small Step Habits Create Weight Loss Success: Basic Approach in Dieting. Form New Habits. Change Your Lifestyle Without Suffering , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 168min
    Did you know that you can burn fat like a flame raging across a dry field, drop pounds like a deserving ex, and keep the weight off without weighing your food, measuring your ounces, or leaving behind every taste you ever loved?Being overweight is a crutch that keeps snapping and a thorn that keeps digging deeper. You dream of waking up with a kick in your step, but instead, you’re drenched in sweat, have the energy of a 70-year-old, and need some weightlifting exercises to get out of bed.Does this sound all too familiar? Sometimes, it isn’t as straightforward as this. You might be someone who simply wants to tone up and drop a few pounds, but every diet you’ve ever tried has bounced you back to where you are now. Fad diets love doing that!The problem comes when you’re given bad advice from every corner of the media that tries to sell you the latest miracle cure for weight loss. Their drugs can cure obesity, slice through fat like a hot knife through butter, and pull your skin tight overnight.Weight loss is a journey filled with small steps. Every step changes one tiny habit that brings you even closer to your toned goals. One drop in the ocean still creates a rippling effect that spreads over the waves. Small changes give massive results. This book includes:The truth behind the biggest lies in the diet and food industries.The most common diet myths busted.Seven small steps for losing weight naturally and slowly.How to adopt the right mindset with a simple Twenty-one-day preparation challenge.Five tests to give you precise results for what you need to do.Twenty Rules to eat what you love and to keep those pounds dropping like the stock market in 2008.A 30-day fitness challenge to change your life.Two complete exercise routines that make it easy to tone your abs.Four methods of boosting your weight loss for optimal efficiency, including the keto rundown, ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Hilary Mills. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/237565/bk_acx0_237565_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Vanilla Ride: A Hap and Leonard Novel #7 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 454min
    Hap Collins is an east Texas redneck, with a liberal bent, and a weakness for Texas women. Leonard Pine is a black, gay, Vietnam veteran. Not who you'd normally pick for best friends but there you go. Together they share an affinity for the martial arts and are a bundle of trouble, but trouble is what they love. When an old friend of Leonard tells him that his daughter is dating an abusive, no-good drug dealer, Leonard does the only thing a man of his disposition would do: he offers to get her back, and invites Hap along for the fun. Wrapped in the Texas heat, they raid the drug dealer's hideout, rescue the girl, cause general chaos, and then proceed to teach the dealer a lesson by flushing ounces of raw cocaine down the toilet. That was their first mistake. Turns out the lowly hoods are pawns in a vast crime operation known as the Dixie Mafia, and when the Mafia comes calling for Hap and Leonard an all out car chase gunfight ensues, people die but Hap and Leonard come out on top. Their second mistake, however, was busting up one of the Dixie Mafia henchmen, who happened to be undercover FBI. Now they find themselves under arrest with only one chance to clear their name. The FBI has a Mafia man who is ready flip, but he will only do it if they can assure safe passage for him and his son. The problem is his son has skipped town with a load of the Mafia's money - some three hundred thousand dollars worth. In exchange for a clean slate, the FBI wants Hap and Leonard to find him and make sure he and the cash are returned safely. Not even Hap and Leonard can imagine the killers they will come up against this time. Suffice to say, they are big, fast, and deadly, but none of them are as smart or lethal as the legendary Vanilla Ride, who Hap and Leonard are just about to meet. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Phil Gigante. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/001708/bk_brll_001708_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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