1,504 Results for : develops

  • Thumbnail
    The Premonition
    Fortunately, we are still a nation of skeptics. Fortunately, there are those among us who study pandemics and are willing to look unflinchingly at worst-case scenarios. Michael Lewis's taut and brilliant nonfiction thriller pits a band of medical visionaries against the wall of ignorance that was the official response of the Trump administration to the outbreak of COVID-19. The characters you will meet in these pages are as fascinating as they are unexpected. A thirteen-year-old girl's science project on transmission of an airborne pathogen develops into a very grown-up model of disease control. A local public-health officer uses her worm's-eye view to see what the CDC misses, and reveals great truths about American society. A secret team of dissenting doctors, nicknamed the Wolverines, has everything necessary to fight the pandemic: brilliant backgrounds, world-class labs, prior experience with the pandemic scares of bird flu and swine flu...everything, that is, except official permission to implement their work. Michael Lewis is not shy about calling these people heroes for their refusal to follow directives that they know to be based on misinformation and bad science. Even the internet, as crucial as it is to their exchange of ideas, poses a risk to them. They never know for sure who else might be listening in.
    • Shop: buecher
    • Price: 9.49 EUR excl. shipping
  • Thumbnail
    Violets (eBook, ePUB)
    We join San in 1970s rural South Korea, a young girl ostracised from her community. She meets a girl called Namae, and they become friends until one afternoon changes everything. Following a moment of physical intimacy in a minari field, Namae violently rejects San, setting her on a troubling path of quashed desire and isolation.We next meet San, aged twenty-two, as she starts a job in a flower shop. There, we are introduced to a colourful cast of characters, including the shop's mute owner, the other florist Su-ae, and the customers that include a sexually aggressive businessman and a photographer, who San develops an obsession for. Throughout, San's moment with Namae lingers in the back of her mind.A story of desire and violence about a young woman who everyone forgot, VIOLETS is a captivating and sensual read, full of tragedy but also beauty in its lush, vibrant prose."[VIOLETS] binds a spell around the reader until the very end" Park Wanseo"I always find myself acting out the main character in my mind when I read Kyung-Sook Shin's novels. Reading VIOLETS is like she's writing a script written perfectly for me" Doona Bae, actor (Netflix's SENSE8, CLOUD ATLAS)"The story of thwarted desires and the isolated individuals that harbor them... clean prose filled with Shin's trademark rich descriptions" Korea Economic Daily
    • Shop: buecher
    • Price: 7.49 EUR excl. shipping
  • Thumbnail
    Resilience and Human Persistence: A Book to Overcome Stress, Despair and Difficulties with Proven Strategies and People's Personal Experiences , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 209min
    Do you know what is resilience and human persistence? Do you struggle to deal with stressful life-changing events? Do you find yourself feeling frustrated daily?If you agree with any of these questions, then your problem is solved - this is the right book for you. In this audiobook, you will have a deep insight into resilience and persistence, how it develops, and how they affect our lives. You will be encouraged to change yourself, and you will realize how to manage stress and its benefits. It explains the difference between resilience and persistence, with people's personal experience and implementing strategies to help you to overcome stress in kids as well as women and becoming what you desire. This book explains magical steps to change your life completely.By listening to it, you will learn:Resilience and its importanceHuman persistence and its importanceSteps to build resilience in men, kids, and womenWays to manage stressWays to live ethicallyI highly recommend this audiobook to anyone who struggles with obtaining their level of perseverance. This book is an excellent guide for those people who want to overcome stress and change their habits to be happy, healthy, satisfied, and successful. Quickly get one for yourself! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Sharon Plummer. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/182921/bk_acx0_182921_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
    • Shop: Audible
    • Price: 9.95 EUR excl. shipping
  • Thumbnail
    Shopping Survival Guide for Men: How a Man Can Survive a Shopping Experience Without Having to Gnaw His Arm Off , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 153min
    A frank and hilarious guide to every man's mind-numbing nemesis: Shopping. Guys, spent one too many Saturdays marooned at the mall? Rejuvenate your manhood with the Shopping Survival Guide for Men. This indispensable sanity-saver exposes the hidden history and insidious psychology of shopping. Hint: it's crazy. Plus, this book cool-headedly guides you through the treacherous, credit card-melting mazes of: Shoes: "If you've ever been in the shoe section of any major department store, you now know what the gross national product of Belgium would look like if it consisted of footwear, which, for all I know about Belgium, it does." Makeup: "Egyptians used cochineal bugs to make red dye for their lips, and I don't even care what 'cochineal' means because the word 'bugs' is after it." Prom Dress Shopping: "Like most men, all you know about prom dresses is that they are more expensive than a good set of tires." Fashion Terminology: "Puckered Bodice: A banned professional wrestling move involving a lemon, a folding chair, and a car battery." Shopping History: "1687: Isaac Newton develops the law of universal gravity after his wife's shoe rack collapses on him." Don't get dragged to the mall without it! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Johnny Heller. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/037356/bk_acx0_037356_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
    • Shop: Audible
    • Price: 9.95 EUR excl. shipping
  • Thumbnail
    The Wealth of Nations: The Giants of Political Thought Series, Hörbuch, Digital, 307min
    An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations is one of the most important and influential works ever published on economic theory and is the foundation of classical economics. In it, Adam Smith stresses the importance of the division of labor to economic progress. He criticizes the arguments for economic planning and offers a detailed theoretical and historical case for free trade. In this masterpiece of the 18th-century Scottish Enlightenment, Smith develops a theory of social order arising from the unintended consequences of self-interested behavior. This self-regulating system of the free market, Smith contends, protects consumers from entrenched special interests and is usually harmed by government intervention. Far more than just a work on economic theory, The Wealth of Nations also contains Smith’s views on philosophy, history, and political theory. This program discusses Adam Smith’s general approach to philosophy and how The Wealth of Nations fits into that approach. It also explains Smith’s major arguments and themes. Smith’s sometimes difficult discourse is presented with the background information necessary for its comprehension. The Giants of Political Thought series is an easy and entertaining way to broaden your mind and your awareness of great ideas. Language: English. Narrator: Craig Deitschmann. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/005140/bk_blak_005140_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
    • Shop: Audible
    • Price: 9.95 EUR excl. shipping
  • Thumbnail
    Seventh Sense: A Different Way to See , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 176min
    Fast, vivid, effervescent aural experience, by the 6th-sense gifted WCBS-NY Anchorwoman who was shown 9/11. Play life as a game and tune into your power, purpose, and love, via the sixth sense. Therese flies thru the marriage of the mystic and the scientific, perception and time, the sixth sense and evidence, energy and creativity, sex and relationships, dreams death and healing, psychic kids and medical 'anomalies', and develops the Method she devised as an energy healer, for tuning into 'the voice inside that knows...don't think, listen...' Feel the energy you can almost see, as Therese lays the groundwork for a new 'Age of Discovery' via the science of impression. Enter the portal of grace she paints, unlocked by 9/11, to build the world of your dreams: your perfect business, your perfect relationship, your perfect creation. Original music and vocals with musicians Mark Egan, Bob Boyd, Kenny Brescia, Brad Mandigo. An inspiration and guide for people with creative, athletic, business, or psychic gifts, people in recovery, those facing adversity or medical anomaly. God and science combine in the guiding theorem: 'No matter what happens, we are held safe, within the mind of God...' Light, deep, humorous, imaginatively produced, and eternally hopeful. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: M. Therese Crowley. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/mtcs/000001/bk_mtcs_000001_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
    • Shop: Audible
    • Price: 9.95 EUR excl. shipping
  • Thumbnail
    The Mystery Master - Conspiracy: A Rick O’Shea Adventure , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 375min
    Meet a different kind of detective. Rick O’Shea’s intuitive nature and sense of curiosity led him into a career as an investigator. Not a private eye, not that kind of investigator. He’s one who is a “seeker” and “finder” of things that have been lost, stolen, or hidden. His methods may be unusual, but he gets the job done when no one else has been able to, and is rewarded with lucrative finder’s fees or found treasures for his trouble. Due to his fame and the substantial worth of the items he seeks to recover, Rick’s seemingly innocuous livelihood has its share of dangerous situations and harrowing experiences - hazardous encounters with hijackers, kidnappers, thieves, and drug dealers, to name a few. Good as he is at what he does, Rick would not have been nearly so successful without the Prof and “Q” providing invaluable research and technical backup. In this adventure, lovely aerospace expert Helga Lange and boyhood chum Luther (call me Lute) Martin also join his team and help him solve challenging mysteries in Europe, the Rockies, and Mexico. Of course, romance develops between Rick and Helga, although neither one seems quite ready to fully embrace a commitment. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: T. W. Ashworth. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/160596/bk_acx0_160596_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
    • Shop: Audible
    • Price: 9.95 EUR excl. shipping
  • Thumbnail
    In Bed with Susie Bright 407: The Woman Who Can't Stop Orgasming, Hörbuch, Digital, 33min, (USK 18)
    Okay it sounds like a joke - too many orgasms? No way! But it seems there's a disorder called Persistent Sexual Arousal Syndrome that turns what we all know to be a good thing into an uncontrollable pain in the loins. Susie looks at a story about a woman who can't stop having orgasms, but she's skeptical about the origins of this disorder and wants to hear more from medical experts on how a person develops such a twisted turn on. Next, Susie talks about the newly released movie Where the Wild Things Are. Children's book author Maurice Sendak is a straight-talking artist who doesn't coddle kids, and Susie thinks he's great! Susie finds kids' book authors to be really open and unafraid of rattling some cages. Then, in the "Try This at Home" mailbag, Susie gets a letter from a listener who asks, "My lesbian love life doesn't have all the kissing from head to toe that I want. What am I to do?" Have a question? You can call Susie's hotline at 831-480-5110. And you can send your confidential questions - plus requests for free samples and blog banners! - to susie@susiebright.com. (Episode 407, October 23, 2009) Explicit Language Warning: You must be 18 years or older to purchase this program. Language: English. Narrator: Susie Bright. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/pf/suzy/091023/pf_suzy_091023_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
    • Shop: Audible
    • Price: 9.95 EUR excl. shipping
  • Thumbnail
    An Odious Little Man , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 455min
    Charles Pettifer, 75, a former chief planning officer, returns from a hospital appointment, having received his final sentence. He lives alone. His wife left him years ago, and he is childless and friendless.His health worsens. Lonely and frightened, he confides in his cleaner and his nurse, revealing events in his youth in the 1950s and '60s when he couldn't relate to the culture of the times and was frightened of girls.But the memories of his former employees and his neighbors reveal how he gained the reputation of being a bigoted, womanizing bully who was forced to take early retirement, perhaps because of corrupt practices.As his end approaches, he is counselled by his nurse for whom he develops a growing affection. Does he regret the way he's behaved? It seems he might, but his will, which is read aloud to those attending his funeral, demonstrates not only these regrets, but also his desire to eke posthumous revenge on those who have crossed him. The funeral wake is calamitous.It is only after his death that the nature of the problem that affected him through is life is revealed and which probably accounted for him becoming an odious little man. But it seems that not everyone thought of him that way. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Robert Sebastian Cooper. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/184441/bk_acx0_184441_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
    • Shop: Audible
    • Price: 9.95 EUR excl. shipping
  • Thumbnail
    Social Movements in the World-System: The Politics of Crisis and Transformation (American Sociological Association's Rose Series in Sociology) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 475min
    Global crises such as rising economic inequality, volatile financial markets, and devastating climate change illustrate the defects of a global economic order controlled largely by transnational corporations, wealthy states, and other elites. As the impacts of such crises have intensified, they have generated a new wave of protests extending from the countries of the Middle East and North Africa throughout Europe, North America, and elsewhere. This new surge of resistance builds upon a long history of transnational activism as it extends and develops new tactics for pro-democracy movements acting simultaneously around the world. In Social Movements in the World-System, Jackie Smith and Dawn Wiest build upon theories of social movements, global institutions, and the political economy of the world-system to uncover how institutions define the opportunities and constraints on social movements, which in turn introduce ideas and models of action that help transform social activism as well as the system itself. Smith and Wiest trace modern social movements to the founding of the United Nations, as well as struggles for decolonization and the rise of national independence movements, showing how these movements have shifted the context in which states and other global actors compete and interact. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Julie Eickhoff. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/014133/bk_acx0_014133_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
    • Shop: Audible
    • Price: 9.95 EUR excl. shipping

Similar searches: