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Bitcoin: 2 Manuscripts: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency: Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, Blockchain, Ethereum, Book 4 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 95min
Join the revolution with this bundle! Learn everything you need to know about blockchain and cryptocurrency. In the past few years, the world has seen the tendency towards favoring decentralized systems, rather than depending on a central authority. The infrastructure that is allowing this revolution to take place is called blockchain. What is it? In the words of Don and Alex Tapscott, two of the biggest experts in the cryptocurrency sphere, "The blockchain is an incorruptible digital ledger of economic transactions that can be programmed to record not just financial transactions, but virtually anything of value." On the blockchain, different cryptocurrencies have been developed. Today, there are more than 1,300 cryptos on the market, each one with its own features. The market of cryptocurrencies has now reached over 350 billion dollars in valuation. It is a remarkable achievement, since now this industry is bigger than McDonald's and Pepsi. If this phenomenon could be left outside the media a few years ago, now it is impossible to deny that there is a true revolution in act. With his flawless style and his profound knowledge, Corey managed to put together a simple yet efficient approach to introduce people to the world of blockchain and cryptos. This manual goes into well-researched and newbie-friendly reflections about the most important aspects of blockchain and cryptocurrency, such as: What blockchain is Blockchain’s future Differences between blockchain and Bitcoin Pros and cons of the blockchain infrastructure The relationship between blockchain and the financial industry How can blockchain affect other industries What hard forks are The big impact of blockchain What is a cryptocurrency? Basic knowledge of cryptocurrency language What are altcoins? What is an ICO? How many c ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Andy Dickson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/108896/bk_acx0_108896_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Blockchain: Everything You Need to Know About Blockchain , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 45min
The world is undergoing a deep 360° revolution Learn everything you need to know about blockchain. In the past few years, the world has seen the tendency towards favoring decentralized systems, rather than depending on a central authority. The infrastructure that is allowing this revolution to take place is called blockchain. What is it? In the words of Don and Alex Tapscott, two of the biggest experts in the cryptocurrency sphere, “The blockchain is an incorruptible digital ledger of economic transactions that can be programmed to record not just financial transactions, but virtually anything of value.” It is an extremely powerful concept that permits us to cut out every central system, using a relationship of trust instead. However, by diving deep inside this fascinating topic, it is easy to see that there is an entire part of blockchain that is not often discussed. Why was it invented? Is it the same thing as Bitcoin? Why is it becoming so popular? What impact might it have in the next few years? All fair questions that deserve deep and well-researched answers. In this book, Corey Bowen has condensed years of studying and developing dapps (decentralized applications), providing a complete education about the world of blockchain. With his flawless style and his profound knowledge, Corey managed to put together a simple yet efficient approach to introducing people to the world of blockchain and cryptos. This manual goes into well-researched and newbie-friendly reflections about the most important aspects of blockchain, such as: What blockchain is Blockchain’s future Differences between blockchain and Bitcoin Pros and cons of the blockchain infrastructure The relationship between blockchain and the financial industry How can blockchain affect other industries? What Hard Forks are The ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Andy Dickson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/106658/bk_acx0_106658_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Who Stole the American Dream? , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 989min
Pulitzer Prize winner Hedrick Smith’s new book is an extraordinary achievement, an eye-opening account of how, over the past four decades, the American Dream has been dismantled and we became two Americas. In his best-selling The Russians, Smith took millions of readers inside the Soviet Union. In The Power Game, he took us inside Washington’s corridors of power. Now Smith takes us across America to show how seismic changes, sparked by a sequence of landmark political and economic decisions, have transformed America. As only a veteran reporter can, Smith fits the puzzle together, starting with Lewis Powell’s provocative memo that triggered a political rebellion that dramatically altered the landscape of power from then until today. This is a book full of surprises and revelations - the accidental beginnings of the 401(k) plan, with disastrous economic consequences for many; the major policy changes that began under Jimmy Carter; how the New Economy disrupted America’s engine of shared prosperity, the "virtuous circle" of growth, and how America lost the title of "Land of Opportunity". Smith documents the transfer of $6 trillion in middle-class wealth from homeowners to banks even before the housing boom went bust, and how the U.S. policy tilt favoring the rich is stunting America’s economic growth. This book is essential reading for all of us who want to understand America today, or why average Americans are struggling to keep afloat. Smith reveals how pivotal laws and policies were altered while the public wasn’t looking, how Congress often ignores public opinion, why moderate politicians got shoved to the sidelines, and how Wall Street often wins politically by hiring over 1,400 former government officials as lobbyists. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Rob Shapiro. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/003273/bk_rand_003273_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Plague Among the Magnolias: The 1878 Yellow Fever Epidemic in Mississippi , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 427min
Deanne Stephens Nuwer explores the social, political, racial, and economic consequences of the 1878 yellow fever epidemic in Mississippi. A mild winter, a long spring, and a torrid summer produced conditions favoring the Aedes aegypti and spread of fever. In late July New Orleans newspapers reported the epidemic and upriver officials established checkpoints, but efforts at quarantine came too late. Yellow fever was developing by late July, and in August deaths were reported. The fever raged until mid-October, killing many. Thought to be immune to the disease, blacks also contracted the fever in large numbers, although only 7 percent died. It is possible that exposure to yellow fever in Africa provided blacks with inherited resistance. Those fleeing the plague encountered quarantines throughout the South. Some were successful in keeping the disease from spreading, but most efforts failed. Yellow fever’s impact, however, was not all negative. Many communities began sanitation reforms, and yellow fever did not again strike in epidemic proportions. Sewer systems and better water supply did wonders for public health in preventing cholera, dysentery, and other water-borne diseases. Mississippi also undertook an infrastructure leading to acceptance of national health care efforts: not an easy step for a militantly states' rights and racially reactionary society.The book is published by The University of Alabama Press. The audiobook will be published by University Press Audiobooks."I highly recommend this very well documented and highly readable work." (Mississippi Library Association Book Reviews)"A detailed, thick description of events… Few books have depicted this disruption and panic as clearly as Nuwer’s account." (Bulletin of the History of Medicine)“Provides important insight into the interrelatedness of political history and public health care." (Journal of Mississippi History) ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Cynthia Hemminger. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/131281/bk_acx0_131281_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Law's Order: What Economics Has to Do with Law and Why It Matters , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 931min
What does economics have to do with law? Suppose legislators propose that armed robbers receive life imprisonment. Editorial pages applaud them for getting tough on crime. Constitutional lawyers raise the issue of cruel and unusual punishment. Legal philosophers ponder questions of justness. An economist, on the other hand, observes that making the punishment for armed robbery the same as that for murder encourages muggers to kill their victims. This is the cut-to-the-chase quality that makes economics not only applicable to the interpretation of law, but beneficial to its crafting. Drawing on numerous commonsense examples, in addition to his extensive knowledge of Chicago-school economics, David D. Friedman offers a spirited defense of the economic view of law. He clarifies the relationship between law and economics in clear prose that is friendly to students, lawyers, and lay listeners without sacrificing the intellectual heft of the ideas presented. Friedman is the ideal spokesman for an approach to law that is controversial not because it overturns the conclusions of traditional legal scholars - it can be used to advocate a surprising variety of political positions, including both sides of such contentious issues as capital punishment - but rather because it alters the very nature of their arguments. For example, rather than viewing landlord-tenant law as a matter of favoring landlords over tenants or tenants over landlords, an economic analysis makes clear that a bad law injures both groups in the long run. And unlike traditional legal doctrines, economics offers a unified approach, one that applies the same fundamental ideas to understand and evaluate legal rules in contract, property, crime, tort, and every other category of law, whether in modern day America or other times and places - and systems of non-legal rules, such as social norms, as well.PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in y ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David D. Friedman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/202623/bk_acx0_202623_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Partition of the British Mandate of Palestine: The History and Legacy of the United Nations Partition Plan and the Creation of the State of Israel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 89min
The conflict between the Israelis and Palestinians is technically 69 years old and counting, but it has its roots in over 2,000 years of history. With so much time and history, the Middle East peace process has become laden with unique, politically sensitive concepts like the right of return, contiguous borders, secure borders, demilitarized zones, and security requirements, with players like the Quartet, Palestinian Authority, Fatah, Hamas, the Arab League and Israel. Over time, it has become exceedingly difficult for even sophisticated political pundits and followers to keep track of it all. Nearly a century before the state of Israel was founded in 1948, Palestine was under the control of the Ottoman Turkish Empire, consisting mostly of Arabs. During the 1850s, Jews began settling in small villages across the lands that once comprised Judea and Samaria, which the Jews considered their ancient Biblical homeland. These efforts to buy property were driven by the motivation of some Jews to help reestablish the land as the Jewish homeland. These Jews became known as Zionists, in reference to Zion, which is often thought of as a reference to all of Israel but is in fact a reference to part of Jerusalem. The Zionists attempted to establish a Jewish National Fund that would assist Jews in buying land in Palestine for Jewish settlement. In the middle of World War I, the British pledged their support to the Zionist cause and the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine through the Balfour Declaration of November 1917. At the time, the British realized the strategic importance of Palestine because it was near the Suez Canal, and they saw the Zionists as potentially helpful allies in the region following the war. British foreign secretary Arthur James Balfour sent a letter to Lord Rothschild on November 2, 1917, declaring the government’s “sympathy with Jewish Zionist aspirations,” and favoring “the establishment in Palestine of a National Home for the J ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Colin Fluxman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/100730/bk_acx0_100730_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Seth: The History and Legacy of the Ancient Egyptian God Who Killed Osiris to Usurp the Throne , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 90min
Africa may have given rise to the first human beings, and Egypt probably gave rise to the first great civilizations, which continue to fascinate modern societies across the globe nearly 5,000 years later. From the Library and Lighthouse of Alexandria to the Great Pyramid at Giza, the Ancient Egyptians produced several wonders of the world, revolutionized architecture and construction, created some of the world’s first systems of mathematics and medicine, and established language and art that spread across the known world. With world-famous leaders like King Tut and Cleopatra, it’s no wonder that today’s world has so many Egyptologists. To the ancient Egyptians, as was the case with any society made up of inquiring humans, the world was a confusing and often terrifying place of destruction, death and unexplained phenomena. In order to make sense of such an existence, they resorted to teleological stories. Giving a phenomenon a story made it less horrifying, and it also helped them make sense of the world around them. Unsurprisingly, then, the ancient Egyptian gods permeated every aspect of existence. In the first dynastic period there is a symbolic depiction of the earliest form of kingship. The symbol consisted of the “Two Ladies and Two Lords”. The Ladies were the goddesses Nekhbet and Wadjyt, who represented the Upper and Lower kingdoms of Egypt, each with her crown of either White or Red; the Two Lords were the conflicting gods Horus and Seth. The contention between these two gods was transmuted into real-world conflict when, during the Second Dynasty, king Peribsen chose to put the mysterious “Seth Animal” above his name, thus favoring one of the “Two Lords” over the other. Peribsen kept this close association with Seth, betraying the earlier kingly association with Horus, until king Khasekhemwy dethroned him and placed both gods' animals above his own name and declared “the Two Lords are at rest”. The modern historian Geraldine Pinch suggests t ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dan Gallagher. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/119121/bk_acx0_119121_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Liberty Collection, Hörbuch, Digital, 247min
The Liberty Collection includes: "The Law" by Frederic Bastiat (1 hour 20 minutes). Bastiat (bawst ya) (1801-1850) was an economist, a member of the French assembly, and an influential libertarian speaker and writer. "The Law", Bastiat's most famous work, argues that the purpose of the law is the protection of individual rights, and that when governments adopt policies favoring particular industries or groups, the law becomes an instrument of injustice and oppression. "Things Seen and Things Not Seen" by Frederic Bastiat (1 hour 9 minutes). Bastiat considers the value of a broken window in promoting industry; the value of armies, public works, and government credit guarantees in increasing employment; the danger that better machinery poses to employment; the use of tariffs to protect industry and other economic fallacies. "Cyrus McCormick, Inventor of the Reaper" by Christopher Crennen (34 minutes). McCormick (1809-1884) demonstrated a workable reaper in 1831 and spent the rest of his life expanding the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company. McCormick's reapers had profound effects on the alleviation of US and world hunger. "The Way to Wealth" by Benjamin Franklin (23 minutes). Franklin (1706-1790) grew rich publishing Poor Richard's Almanack, under the pseudonym Richard Saunders, from 1732 to 1758. Besides calendar and weather information, Franklin's almanacs had many sayings, proverbs, and aphorisms. A selection of these sayings was added to the 1757 almanac as "The Way to Wealth", a speech by an old man to buyers at an auction. "The Declaration of Independence" by Thomas Jefferson (9 minutes). Jefferson (1743-1826) was the principal author of the Declaration, which asserts that all men are endowed by their Creator with unalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, and that the only proper purpose of government is to secure these rights. "The United States Constitution and Bill of Language: English. Narrator: Christopher Crennen. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/aspe/000007/bk_aspe_000007_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Cabins & Cottages: Buying, Building and Living in Tiny Homes, Cabins & Cottages , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 159min
For many, the only way to go with housing is up: more rooms, more space, and more stuff to fill it all with. The only reason to save money is for them to get themselves into further debt to finance that huge house on the hill. More and more though, people find that the bigger house doesn't give them a bigger life or any more satisfaction while they're living among all the empty rooms. What once seemed to impress their friends and neighbors now seems over the top in a world of minimalist designs and real environmental concerns. Recent trends are favoring smaller, more compact and more self-conscious living. These homes are full of character, they are highly personalized, and they are driven by design and utility instead of might and size. In Cabins, Cottages and Teeny Tiny Living, you will be introduced into the world of smaller homes and all that they can offer you. Whether you are looking for a small house, a shipping container home, a compact cabin, or even a tiny home you will be led with easy-to-follow and insightful advice that will take you from dreaming, to planning, to building your new small home with the bigger life. Cabins and cottages have long been seen as a cute dream or only suitable for a holiday home but this is no longer the case. By using special techniques you can create smaller and custom made homes with all the fun cabins and cottages can offer right in your home town. The stress of downsizing is no longer the burden it once was with the endless waves of innovation in the design world that allow you to have all the comforts of a modern life, and more, all in a few seamlessly connected small spaces. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dave Wright. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/056416/bk_acx0_056416_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Empath: Tips and Tricks to Learn to Become a Good and Effective Empath , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 92min
You may have heard about empaths. You know that they are individuals who have a unique gifting for detecting and responding to the emotions of others. Maybe you have seen empaths on television or in movies. Perhaps you even consider yourself to be one, but are trying to harness your gift in such a way that it doesn’t overwhelm you and keep you from living your life. Maybe you want to develop your own skills so that you have many of the abilities of empaths, even if you weren’t born with the gift. Maybe you are just curious and want to know more. If you fit into any of the above categories, then this audiobook is for you. It is a beginner’s guide to understanding the world of the empath and developing an empath’s skills. It begins by explaining the difference between sympathy and empathy. From there, it looks at some of the physics and biology regarding how our emotions actually have an effect on our surrounding environments and even on the people with whom we come into contact. With that understanding, it tells you what exactly an empath is and what makes their gift unique. The following chapter looks at some of the characteristics common to empaths. They tend to be introverted individuals who are intensely aware of the emotions of others. They may even have trouble distinguishing their own emotions from those of the people around them. They tend to have particular nuances in common, like favoring the country and needing to be around water sources. After that is a quiz to help you determine how strong your own abilities are. You may find that you are a natural empath (even if you had never considered yourself to be one), that you possess many of the characteristics of an empath, or that you are in a good place to learn more about the empath’s journey. Finally, this book gives you tips for developing your skills as an empath. These apply both to natural empaths and to those who want to become ones. It explains the benefits of developing these ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: William Bahl. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/108171/bk_acx0_108171_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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