108 Results for : eroding
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Trust Works: Four Keys to Building Lasting Relationships , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 130min
Best-selling author Ken Blanchard brings you the tie-in guide to accompany his TrustWorks! training program. Ken Blanchard is famous for his ability to make the seemingly complex simple. In Trust Works! he brings his talent to bear on the complicated and timely issue of trust. The book begins with an allegory – in this case, it’s the story of a dog and a cat with major trust issues. Their fighting, backbiting, and sabotaging soon affects the whole household – including the humans. It quickly becomes clear that unless the ongoing conflicts can be resolved, all of the pets will be without a home. Through the counsel of a wise old parrot, the animals learn the ABCDs of trust, becoming aware of the unconscious behaviours that had been eroding their relationships and begin to change their actions. In the end, the results have a positive effect that reaches far beyond the dog and cats’ relationship. Applying lessons presented in the fable to real life situations, Blanchard explores his ABCD trust model to address issues like poor morale, miscommunication in relationships, poor customer service issues, and dysfunctional leadership. Trust is an evergreen topic but is particularly relevant today, as protests in cities throughout the world underscore a growing distrust of corporations and institutions. Now more than ever, people need trust-building skills and a common language for learning the behaviours that build – or erode – trust. Trust Works! is the first book to create a common, easy-to-learn language for talking about trust in a way that can bring peace and co-operation where once there was dissension. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dan Woren, Ken Blanchard, Cynthia Olmstead. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hcuk/001311/bk_hcuk_001311_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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From Tragedy to Destiny: A Vision of America's Future , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 226min
In 2004, Julie Rowe was a happy wife and mother. Then her health took a turn for the worse. While in a weakened state, her spirit left her body and entered the Spirit World. An ancestor named John greeted her there and showed her many wonderful places. He also allowed Julie to read from the Book of Life, which showed her a panorama of the earth's past, present, and future. These scenes included the Savior's mortal life, along with his crucifixion and resurrection. During her time in the Spirit World, Julie met several of the Founding Fathers of the United States. They expressed their worries about the country's eroding moral fabric, and she promised to share their counsel and warnings when she returned to earth. Julie was then shown upcoming world events that will be both tragic and glorious. Earthquakes, famines, plagues, and wars are coming to the United States, but Julie saw how God is preparing places of safety to protect righteous people from the coming calamities. She was shown that after the turmoil, America will rise above these tragedies and fulfill its destiny as a bastion of freedom and liberty. Throughout the book, Julie stresses that we must not delay our preparations for these coming troubles. These events are not far off, and From Tragedy to Destiny will help you be ready for what awaits America. Publisher's Note: This book includes material that appeared in the author's previous books A Greater Tomorrow and The Time Is Now. However, much of that content has been condensed or revised, so that the author could include never-before-published anecdotes and other pertinent information. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Emma Daybell. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/057971/bk_acx0_057971_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Rules for Deplorables: A Primer for Fighting Radical Socialism , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 450min
This audiobook was written to educate Americans about the radical form of socialism spreading across our country. Schools are teaching a romanticized view of socialism that leaves our younger generation clueless as to what perils it may bring. It is up to adults to understand what socialism is so we can teach our children. The author commissioned 11-year-old Braylon Nance, who she's known since birth, to draw the cover art to impart the benefits of capitalism through hard work.The choice between capitalism and socialism is the issue causing great division in America today. Radicals are becoming increasingly vocal about their desire to transform our country to socialism, and they’re on the brink of achieving that goal.Most people don’t understand the game the left plays. President Donald J. Trump does, and plays it well. That’s why leftists hate him so much. We can’t prevent socialism in our country unless we, too, understand the rules of their game.Now, we can. Thirteen tactics are outlined in the 1972 blockbuster book, Rules for Radicals, by the father of community organizing, Saul Alinsky. They’ve been used by the left, effectively, for decades. His book is a literal blueprint on how to overwhelm our systems so the public will think the only solution is bigger government. The left’s fastest route to socialism, by any means necessary, discards ethics and uses political correctness to create the chaos needed to advance their agenda. They are stealing elections, eroding our Constitution, and weakening the rule of law. If they succeed, we risk losing our sovereignty and freedoms for generations.Rules for Deplorables: A Primer for Fighting Radical Socialism got its name when Hillary Clinton called Trump supporters a "basket of deplorables" during the 2016 presidential campaign. The audiobook was written by Cathi Chamberlain for Americans who want to understand the dangers our country is facing and to learn what they can d ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Cathi Chamberlain. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/169349/bk_acx0_169349_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Nitro: The Incredible Rise and Inevitable Collapse of Ted Turner's WCW , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1057min
In April 1999, Entertainment Weekly asked its readers what many were surely wondering to themselves: How did wrestling get so big?As a consequence of the heated ratings competition between World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and the World Wrestling Federation (WWF), the spectacle had taken over Monday nights on prime-time cable television. But in a departure from the family-friendly programming produced by the last industry boom - the 1980s wave, which made household names of Hulk Hogan, "Rowdy" Roddy Piper, and Andre the Giant - the new era of wrestling combined stunning athleticism with a raunchy sex appeal, engrossing story lines, and novel production techniques that reflected a changing society and its shifting values. Once again, wrestling was a ubiquitous phenomenon - only this time, it seemed as though the fad would never end. With both WCW and WWF expanding into other forms of entertainment - movies, video games, music, and the like - the potential for growth appeared to be limitless. But with uncertainty surrounding its corporate future, and increasingly uninspired programming eroding its audience, WCW stood on the verge of collapse. Three years into a five-year plan devised by its charismatic leader - a former Blue Ribbon Foods salesman named Eric Bischoff - the company whose unexpected ascension initiated the entire boom was operating on borrowed time. For by the end of the five-year plan, WCW ceased to exist.But Nitro is a story about much more than WCW and the Monday Night Wars. It is a story of an era, a time in which the media and cultural landscape precipitated - and later supported - pro wrestling's mainstream popularity. It is a story of how a company made in the image of an intuitively brilliant risk-taker betrayed its original promise. It is a story of how a handful of men, each struggling with their own limitations, facilitated a public obsession that changed television forever.*Featur ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Guy Evans. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/192210/bk_acx0_192210_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Duped: Truth-Default Theory and the Social Science of Lying and Deception , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 844min
From the advent of fake news to climate-science denial and Bernie Madoff’s appeal to investors, people can be astonishingly gullible. Some people appear authentic and sincere even when the facts discredit them, and many people fall victim to conspiracy theories and economic scams that should be dismissed as obviously ludicrous. This happens because of a near-universal human tendency to operate within a mindset that can be characterized as a “truth-default”. We uncritically accept most of the messages we receive as “honest”. We all are perceptually blind to deception. We are hardwired to be duped. The question is, can anything be done to militate against our vulnerability to deception without further eroding the trust in people and social institutions that we so desperately need in civil society?Timothy R. Levine’s Duped: Truth-Default Theory and the Social Science of Lying and Deception recounts a decades-long program of empirical research that culminates in a new theory of deception - truth-default theory. This theory holds that the content of incoming communication is typically and uncritically accepted as true, and most of the time, this is good. Truth-default allows humans to function socially. Further, because most deception is enacted by a few prolific liars, the so called “truth-bias” is not really a bias after all. Passive belief makes us right most of the time, but the catch is that it also makes us vulnerable to occasional deceit.Levine’s research on lie detection and truth-bias has produced many provocative new findings over the years. He has uncovered what makes some people more believable than others and has discovered several ways to improve lie-detection accuracy. In Duped, Levine details where these ideas came from, how they were tested, and how the findings combine to produce a coherent new understanding of human deception and deception detection. Duped is skillfully narrated by Scott Pollak.PLE ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Scott R. Pollak. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/205468/bk_acx0_205468_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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New Threats to Freedom , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 651min
New Threats to Freedom is edited by Adam Bellow. In the 20th century, free people faced a number of mortal threats, ranging from despotism, fascism, and communism to the looming menace of global terrorism. While the struggle against some of these overt dangers continues, some insidious new threats seem to have slipped past our intellectual defenses. These often unchallenged threats are quietly eroding our hard-won freedoms and, in some cases, are widely accepted as beneficial. In New Threats to Freedom, editor and author Adam Bellow has assembled an all-star lineup of innovative thinkers to challenge these insidious new threats. Some leap into already raging debates on issues such as Sharia law in the West, the rise of transnationalism, and the regulatory state. Others turn their attention to less obvious threats, such as the dogma of fairness, the failed promises of the blogosphere, and the triumph of behavioral psychology. These threats are very real and very urgent, yet this collection avoids projecting an air of doom and gloom. Rather, it provides a blueprint for intellectual resistance so that modern defenders of liberty may better understand their enemies, more effectively fight to preserve the meaning of freedom, and more surely carry its light to a new generation. What are the new threats to freedom? "...when has authority not claimed, when imposing trammels and curbs on liberty, that it does so for a wider good and a greater happiness?" (Christopher Hitchens) "The regulatory state amounts to a regressive tax that penalizes small independent producers and protects the status quo." (Max Borders) "Europe tends to favor stability over democracy, America democracy over stability." (Daniel Hannan) "The value of free expression is perceived to be at odds with goals that were considered 'more important,' like inclusiveness, diversity, nondiscrimination, and tolerance." (Greg Lukianoff ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: B. J. Harrison. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/001637/bk_acx0_001637_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Mineral Palace , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 608min
In a bold debut novel of the Great Depression, a young doctor's wife uncovers the sordid secrets of a withering Colorado mining town, even as she struggles with the ravaging truths about her marriage and her child.In the drought-ridden spring of 1934, Bena Jonnsen, her husband Ted, and their newborn baby relocate from their home in Minnesota to Pueblo, a Western plains town plagued by suffocating dust storms and equally suffocating social structures. Little can thrive in this bleak environment, neither Bena and Ted's marriage nor the baby, whom Bena believes - despite her husband's constant assurances - is slipping away from her.To distract herself from worrying, Bena accepts a part-time position at Pueblo's daily newspaper, The Chieftain, reporting on the "good works' of the town's elite Ladies' Club leaders, women such as Reimer Lee Jackson and her plans to restore the town's crumbling monument tot he mining industry - the Mineral Palace - to its turn-of-the-century grandeur. Bena is drawn to the Mineral Palace and to the lurid hallways of Pueblo's brothel, befriending a prostitute, Maude, and Red, a reticent cowpoke. Through these new emotional entanglements, Bena slowly exposes not only the sexual corruption on which the entire town is founded, but also the lies enclosing her own marriage and the sanctity of motherhood. She returns again and again to the decaying architecture of the Mineral Palace; within its eroding walls she is forced to confront her most terrifying secret, which becomes her only means for salvation.With her gritty and magical prose, Heidi Julavits elegantly examines the darker side of paternity and maternity, as well as the intersection of parental love and merciful destruction. The Mineral Palace is a startling and authentic story of survival in a world of decadence and depravity. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Susan Ericksen. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/001115/bk_brll_001115_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Niagara Falls: The History of North America's Most Famous Waterfalls , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 88min
All trembling, I reached the Falls of Niagara, and oh, what a scene! My blood shudders still, although I am not a coward, at the grandeur of the Creator's power; and I gazed motionless on this new display of the irresistible force of one of His elements. (John James Audubon) "It's Niagara Falls. It's one of the most beautiful natural wonders in the world. Who wouldn't want to walk across it?" (Nik Wallenda) North America is full of natural wonders, but few inspire as much awe as Niagara Falls, the continent's most famous waterfalls. Comprised of three separate waterfalls (Horseshoe Falls, American Falls, and Bridal Veil Falls), Niagara's falls can boast the fastest flow rate in the world, dropping six million cubic feet of water every minute from as high as 185 feet. Situated on the border between the United States and Canada, Niagara Falls is not just a prime tourist spot but a source of hydroelectric power that attracted scientists like Nikola Tesla who hoped to harness the waterfalls' energy. In fact Niagara Falls is so powerful that it is eroding the ground under it, to the extent that it will cease to exist in about 50,000 years. The falls are a byproduct of glaciers receding about 10,000 years ago, and they have been amazing people for as long as the area has been inhabited. It's widely believed Niagara is a word derived from the Mohawk tribe, but the most famous people now associated with the waterfalls are those who have dared to ride down the falls one way or another. The falls have seen both amateurs and professional stuntmen ride over it in barrels, some successfully and others fatally, and a local museum has even preserved some of the barrels used in the attempts. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Diane Lehman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/035112/bk_acx0_035112_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Sex Positions Guide: Tips and Techniques for Beginners to Explore Your Fantasies and Sexuality. Improve Your Sexual Life with Top Sex Positions and Spectacular ... Experiences for Couples, Women, and Men , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 263min, (USK 18)
Looking for tips to spice up your sex life? Do you want to improve your relationship with your partner? Then keep reading....When it comes to the subject of sexual positions, the first thing that comes to mind is penetrative. Experimenting a little can, however, make a massive difference in your sex life. Be it adding dildos, lubricants, or even a bowl of fresh grapes and molten chocolate can make the whole difference.When you change your mindset and address this topic of sexual positions form a different point of view, you can be able to achieve sensations that are way above their normal levels. A good example would be to make sure that you have set the lady's clitoris in such a manner that it cannot be missed; or if you have a lady who is more of the sensitive kind, an indirect stimulation will perform the magic.There are many books out there that claim to guide you on how you can improve your sex lives the most; however, that they are only able to offer is a whole lot of portrayals and images; similar to a comic book. Other books and also pornographic films and other such materials tend to lean more on the areas where people lack. They tend taking advantage of and consequently eroding people's self-worth and also sexual worth. These books mainly focus on the power of communication and taking advantage of our brainpower and emotions to achieve sexual pleasure and satisfaction.The aspect of this book that makes it different from the rest is that it has approached the sex position guide from an angle different from the rest. In this book, you will learn:The importance of intimacy in a relationship to make sure that you are both experience amazing sexual pleasures whether or not you engage in penetrative sex.Increase romance in your relationship. This will promote love between you and your partner, and it will go a long way in enhancing the passion you experience as a couple.How you achieve terrific ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Shaniese Reyes. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/179079/bk_acx0_179079_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Death of Right and Wrong: Exposing the Left's Assault on Our Culture and Values, Hörbuch, Digital, 363min
If you believe children should be seduced into warped sexual behavior by the Gay Elite, if you think confessed murderers should be set free by defense attorneys who know how to wield the race card, if you feel promiscuous gay men should be empowered to spread AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases, don't read this book.But if you've always suspected that factions on the Left are trying to destroy the values that define our civilization, this book proves it. Through The Death of Right and Wrong, author, activist, and pundit Tammy Bruce takes you inside the chilling world of the Left - a place where morals and decency have been turned on their heads and the crisp distinction between Right and Wrong has been blurred into a mushy, gray mess.Ms. Bruce smashes the facades of "Tolerance," "Understanding," and other Leftist slogans to reveal the ugly truth of their agenda. As a gay activist and former president of the Los Angeles chapter of the National Organization of Women, she witnessed firsthand the Left's attempts to undermine our millennia-old code of morals and values, aided by politically biased media and academia. And if the news headlines of today are any indication, they're winning the culture war. Unless we act now, we are doomed at the hands of special interest groups on the Left who want nothing more that to undermine our ability to judge right from wrong in order to foist their own selfish, anything-goes society on the rest of us. This book reveals what they're doing, how they're doing it, and what we can do to restore decency in our society.You'll discover powerful tools to help you understand the psychology of the Left - what makes them tick, and, more importantly, how to stop them from eroding our values completely. Full of controversial opinions and countless examples ripped from the headlines, The Death of Right and Wrong is a powerful, eye-opening book that you won't want to be without. Language: English. Narrator: Tammy Bruce. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/000295/bk_rand_000295_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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