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Unaccountable: How Elite Power Brokers Corrupt Our Finances, Freedom, and Security , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 694min

A groundbreaking book that challenges Americans to reevaluate our views on how corruption and private interest have infiltrated every level of society.From the Tea Party to Occupy Wall Street, however divergentt heir political views, these groups seem united by one thing: outrage over a system of power and influence that they feel has stolen their livelihoods and liberties. Increasingly, protesters on both ends of the political spectrum and the media are using the word corrupt to describe an elusory system of power that has shed any accountability to those it was meant to help and govern.But what does corruption and unaccountability mean in today's world? It is far more toxic and deeply rooted than bribery. From superPACs pouring secret money into our election system to companies buying better ratings from Standard & Poor's or the extreme influence of lobbyists in Congress, all embody a "new corruption" and remain unaccountable to our society's supposed watchdogs, which sit idly alongside the same groups that have brought the government, business, and much of the military into their pocket. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Pam Ward. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/007004/bk_blak_007004_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 556min

A Huffington Post Definitive Tech Book of 2013 Artificial Intelligence helps choose what books you buy, what movies you see, and even who you date. It puts the "smart" in your smartphone and soon it will drive your car. It makes most of the trades on Wall Street, and controls vital energy, water, and transportation infrastructure. But Artificial Intelligence can also threaten our existence. In as little as a decade, AI could match and then surpass human intelligence. Corporations and government agencies are pouring billions into achieving AI’s Holy Grail - human-level intelligence. Once AI has attained it, scientists argue, it will have survival drives much like our own. We may be forced to compete with a rival more cunning, more powerful, and more alien than we can imagine. Through profiles of tech visionaries, industry watchdogs, and groundbreaking AI systems, Our Final Invention explores the perils of the heedless pursuit of advanced AI. Until now, human intelligence has had no rival. Can we coexist with beings whose intelligence dwarfs our own? And will they allow us to? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gary Dana. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/019075/bk_adbl_019075_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Great American Foreclosure Story: The Struggle for Justice and a Place to Call Home , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 159min

ProPublica’s mesmerizing and groundbreaking look at the national housing crisis, told through the lens of one woman whose story came to exemplify it. Sheila Ramos’s story mirrors the lives of millions of Americans who have lost their homes since the beginning of the housing crisis in 2007. The Great American Foreclosure Story details with clarity and empathy the road that led Ramos and so many like her toward financial ruin. Once the owner of a small business and a home, Ramos fell on hard times. Predatory lending and denied loan-modification applications eventually sent her and her three grandchildren packing, leaving behind their house in Florida and winding up in a tent outside of Ramos’s faraway hometown. Alongside Ramos’s story are additional investigations by ProPublica reporter Paul Kiel and his colleagues Olga Pierce and Cora Currier documenting the systematic failures at banks, mortgage servicers, and government watchdogs that have exacerbated the country’s most severe foreclosure crisis since the Great Depression. Drawing from whistleblower testimonies, extensive homeowner databases, and a trove of underlying data, The Great American Foreclosure Story is a comprehensive and unrivaled look at the housing crisis, and its continuing human toll. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gregory St. John. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/012956/bk_adbl_012956_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Doggie in the Window: How One Dog Led Me from the Pet Store to the Factory Farm to Uncover the Truth of Where Puppies Really Come From , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 598min

When journalist Rory Kress met Izzie, she didn't think twice before bringing her home. She found the 12-week-old wheaten terrier in a pet shop and was handed paperwork showing Izzie had been born in a USDA-licensed breeding facility - so she couldn't be a puppy mill dog, right? But a few years later, as Rory embarked on her own difficult journey to become a mother, her curiosity began to tug at her. Sure, Izzie was her fur baby, but who was her dog's real mother, and where was she now? And where did Izzie pick up her strange personality quirks? Like so many people, Rory had assumed the young puppy was a clean slate when she bought her. Those questions led Rory - with Izzie by her side - on a nationwide investigation, the first of its kind. From a dog livestock auction to the laboratory of one of the world's leading animal behavioral scientists all the way up to the highest echelons of the USDA, they sought answers about who we're trusting to be the watchdogs for our pet dogs. The Doggie in the Window is a story of hope and redemption. With Izzie's help, we learn the real story behind the dog in the window and how she got there in the first place. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Teri Schnaubelt. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tant/011031/bk_tant_011031_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Reckless Endangerment: How Outsized Ambition, Greed, and Corruption Led to Economic Armageddon , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 717min

The New York Times' Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist reveals how the financial meltdown emerged from the toxic interplay of Washington, Wall Street, and corrupt mortgage lenders. In Reckless Endangerment, Gretchen Morgenson, the star business columnist of The New York Times, exposes how the watchdogs who were supposed to protect the country from financial harm were actually complicit in the actions that finally blew up the American economy. Drawing on previously untapped sources and building on original research from coauthor Joshua Rosner, who himself raised early warnings with the public and investors, and kept detailed records, Morgenson connects the dots that led to this fiasco. Morgenson and Rosner draw back the curtain on Fannie Mae, the mortgage-finance giant that grew, with the support of the Clinton administration, through the 1990s, becoming a major opponent of government oversight even as it was benefiting from public subsidies. They expose the role played not only by Fannie Mae executives but also by enablers at Countrywide Financial, Goldman Sachs, the Federal Reserve, HUD, Congress, the FDIC, and the biggest players on Wall Street, to show how greed, aggression, and fear led countless officials to ignore warning signs of an imminent disaster. Character-rich and definitive in its analysis, this is the one account of the financial crisis you must hear. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: L. J. Ganser. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/003473/bk_adbl_003473_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Nation on the Take , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 565min

American democracy has become coin operated. Special interest groups increasingly control every level of government. The necessity of raising huge sums of campaign cash has completely changed the character of politics and policymaking, determining what elected representatives stand for and how they spend their time. The marriage of great wealth and intense political influence has rendered our country unable to address our most pressing problems, from runaway government spending to climate change to the wealth gap. It also defines our daily lives: from the cars we drive to the air we breathe to the debt we owe. In this powerful work of reportage, Wendell Potter and Nick Penniman, two vigilant watchdogs, expose legalised corruption and link it to the kitchen-table issues citizens face every day. Inciting our outrage, the authors then inspire us by introducing us to the army of reformers laying the groundwork for change, ready to be called into action. The battle plan for reform presented is practical, realistic and concrete. No one - except some lobbyists and major political donors - likes business as usual, and this book intends to help forge a new army of reformers who are compelled by a patriotic duty to fight for a better democracy. An impassioned, infuriating yet ultimately hopeful call to arms, Nation on the Take lays bare the reach of moneyed interests and charts a way forward, toward the recovery of America's original promise.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: Michael Butler Murray. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/027485/bk_adbl_027485_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Fairview Felines , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 200min

Fairview is a quiet town. Nothing strange ever happens. Certainly nothing so weird and sinister as the disappearance, one by one, of its cats. But it is happening, and Thomas Weston, eight-grade wannabe reporter and inveterte snoop, is going to find out why. If, that is, he doesn't get grounded for bringing home a string of grades that give new meaning to the term D-. It's not that Thomas is stupid; he's just not interested in anything that doesn't pertain to getting a story. But in addition to solving the mystery of Fairview's disappearing cats, Thomas has a new ambition - one that dosn't go with a GPA that can be expressed in negative numbers (one of many mathematical concepts Thomas doesn't get) he wants to launch a school newspaper - and he's got good reason to expect that, without a B average at least, he'll never be made its editor. At least Thomas isn't alone in his problems. He has Quinn, his ultra-smart science nerd girl friend (not girlfriend) and Leland, the closest thing to Thelonious Monk any eighth-grade class has ever had, to help him find the cats and maybe even bring up his grades. Together the three consider a roster of of very suspect suspects: Mr. Klim, the cat-hating neighbor; Mrs. Adams, the mad science teacher with an army of flesh-eating beetles at her command; - and is there a sinister gang of burglars using the cats as bait for watchdogs? The answer, when it comes, is a twist as surprising as a good Agatha Christie story's, and solving it gets Thomas the inside track on the editorship he wants so much. If he can just keep his grades up... ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jerry Fischer. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/015078/bk_acx0_015078_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Arrogance: Rescuing America from the Media Elite, Hörbuch, Digital, 371min

In his #1 New York Times bestseller, Bias, Emmy Award-winning journalist Bernard Goldberg created a national firestorm when he exposed the liberal biases of the so-called mainstream media. Now, in his new blockbuster, Goldberg goes even further. He not only takes on Big Journalism, but offers a twelve-step program to help the media elites overcome their addiction to bias.In Arrogance, Goldberg punctures the bubble in which the media elites live and work, a culture of denial where contrary views are not welcome. He shows how they base their stories on assumptions many Americans don't share-which inevitably leads to biased reporting and slanted news. With blistering wit and passion, he names names and builds his case, revealing:¿ How the media's coverage of the Jayson Blair scandal missed far more serious problems at the New York Times¿ How some of the toughest watchdogs in journalism became Hillary Clinton's lapdogs¿ Why the media refuse to shoot straight when the subject turns to guns¿ What the real truth is behind the Ms.-information put out by feminists and passed on to you by their friends in the media¿ Which CBS News icon is "transparently liberal," according to commentator Andy Rooney¿ Which Hollywood celebrities say the dopiest things about America¿ Why some think the top journalism school in America is an intellectual gulag¿ Why the only kind of diversity you cannot find in a lot of newsrooms is a diversity of ideas¿ How some journalists, like Bob Costas and Tim Russert, do get it ¿ and how they think American journalism can be made better.Arrogance is one of those rare programs that can change not only a powerful American institution, but the American landscape as well. Language: English. Narrator: Bernard Goldberg. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/time/000316/bk_time_000316_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Dash Diet: The Definitive Guide to Fighting Hypertension with Recipes and the 14-Day Dash Meal Plan to Improve Your Health. , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 194min

Are you looking for a solution to lose weight and permanently improve hypertension? For those interested in transforming their lifestyle with the healthiest of diets, lowering their blood pressure and losing weight at the same time, Dash Diet has it all. An award-winning diet recognized by medical institutions and watchdogs worldwide, an eight-time winner of the U.S. News & World Report’s Best Diets, the Dash Diet is a simple yet effective way of losing the weight you don’t need and still getting all the nutrients that are vital to life. Dash Diet has comprehensive explanations of the program for the beginner, as well as coaching assistance, and practical day-to-day advice on how to turn your life around with approaches, routines, and activities that are focussed on a new, healthy lifestyle. This book contains all of the most important information, practices, and advice to help put readers on course to some healthy Dash living. The Dash Diet includes: An overview of the diet, its merits, and why it makes perfect sense.The health benefits that the Dash Diet brings, which extend far beyond weight loss and keeping the blood pressure at a sensible level. Specific advice for a weight loss program with the Dash Diet. Motivational coaching for staying on track, from those with experience. A 14-day Dash Diet meal plan to follow, with suggested foods to include, the nutrients they contain, and a recommended routine. Lists of delicious recipes for meals recommended for the Dash Diet, for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and dessert. Advice on the best exercise that can be carried out while on the Dash Diet food program, to make the most of the health and fitness benefits that this leading diet can bring. Scroll up and click on the buy now button! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Catherine O'Connor. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/175394/bk_acx0_175394_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Complete Guide to Pit Bulls , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 200min

Pit Bulls are an often misunderstood breed because of their strong physique and history of poor treatment. These dogs are commonly believed to be aggressive watchdogs when their true temperament is the complete opposite. Pit Bulls are sweet, gentle dogs that make excellent family pets. They love to play and have fun, and with proper care, would never have a reason to hurt the humans in their life. In fact, Pit Bulls are frequently referred to as “nanny dogs” because of how great they are with kids. Once you get to know a Pit Bulls, you’ll find that they are a perfect addition to your family.The Complete Guide to Pit Bulls is written for the busy new owner who needs to quickly and easily learn everything they need to know as they embark on their ownership journey. This comprehensive guide answers every question you may have including:Is a Pit Bull the right dog for me?I brought my Pit Bull home. What now?How can I best train my Pit Bull?What are some common mistakes should I avoid?No matter how fun and easy-going this breed is, there’s a lot you’ll need to know about Pit Bulls before you bring your new best friend home. The first few sections will introduce you to the breed and help you find the perfect pup. You’ll continue on listening to find out everything you'll need to know as a new owner, including:Choosing a Pit BullPreparing your Household for your Pit Bull Bringing Your Pit Bull Home Puppy Parenting Housetraining Socializing with People and Animals Pit Bulls and Your Other Pets Exercise Training your Pit Bull Dealing With Unwanted Behaviors Basic Commands Advanced Commands Traveling with Pit Bulls Grooming your Pit Bull Nutrition and Healthcare If you’ve never owned a Pit Bull before, this audiobook will guide you through every life stage. Br ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Erica Hilliard. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/186252/bk_acx0_186252_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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