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Unformed Landscape , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 257min

Unformed Landscape begins in a small village on a fjord in the Finnmark, on the northeastern coast of Norway, where the borders between Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia lie covered in snow and darkness, where the real borders are between day and night, summer and winter, and between people. Here, a sensitive young woman like Kathrine finds few outlets for her desires. Half Norwegian, half Sami (an indigenous people), Kathrine works for the customs office inspecting the fishing boats arriving regularly in the harbor. She is in her late 20s, has a son from an early marriage, and has drifted into a second loveless marriage to a man whose cold and dominating conventionality forms a bold stroke through the unformed landscape of her life. After she makes a discovery about her husband that deeply wounds her, Kathrine cuts loose from her moorings and her confusion and sets off in search of herself. Her journey begins aboard a ship headed south, taking her below the Arctic Circle for the first time in her life. Kathrine makes her way to France and has the bittersweet experience of a love affair that flares and dies quickly, her starved senses rewarded by the shimmering beauty of Paris. Through a series of poignant encounters, Kathrine is led to the richer life she was meant to have and is brave enough to claim. Using simple words strung together in a melodic alphabet, Peter Stamm introduces us, through a series of intimate sketches, to the heart of an unforgettable woman. Her story speaks eloquently about solitude, the fragility of love, lost illusions, and self-discovery. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Carolyn Cook. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/017706/bk_adbl_017706_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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From a Park to a Stadium to a "Little Piece of Heaven": Cultural Changes as Seen Through the St. Louis Cardinals Baseball Diamonds , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 574min

This study, based on newspapers, journals, oral interviews, and academic studies examines 19th- and 20th-century cultural changes through the space and place of American baseball parks to expose how public buildings exemplify American culture. The argument put forth by author Connie F. Sexauer is: Connections can be made by examining these places to reveal economic, political, and social conditions of American society to reveal changes to the culture of the day.The park is an important source to follow American society in the 20th century. Beyond the architectural structure and the neighborhood setting, how did people use the grounds, and how can we understand society by inspecting this material cultural? How did the parks change the communities and the people who attended the games? How did the people attempt to control the setting?This audiobook will examine cultural spaces in St. Louis, Missouri, that attracted sports enthusiasts, Sportsman’s Park at Grand and Dodier in use from 1866 to 1966, and Civic Center Busch Memorial Stadium at Seventh and Spruce, which opened in 1966 and closed in 2005, as well as the new stadium, Busch III, which opened in spring 2006.Sexauer contends that the development of the ballpark design, the space and place of the ballpark, parallels the general cultural development of American urban design and reflects the technological and cultural changes in 20th-century America and into the 21st century. Specifically baseball went from a poor man’s exercise of fun to a multibillion-dollar industry in the course of a century with the unsuspecting American citizens feeding the pockets of the rich owners.This audiobook will more clearly illuminate the importance of professional baseball in the cultural advance of American society.About the author, Connie F. Sexauer: Dr. Sexauer has taught at the University of Wisconsin-Marathon County for the past 15 years. She teaches US history and gender studies. She is ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Connie F. Sexauer. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/217313/bk_acx0_217313_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Dead Centre: Not All Suicide Bombers Are Religious! , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 423min

When a suicide bomber detonates his vest in Scheherazade's, an up-market department store in Baghdad, the first reaction of the Iraqi authorities is to treat it as a normal act of terrorism and hand it over to Captain Allawi of the Iraqi National Police.However, while routinely inspecting the video footage from the store's security cameras, a sharp-eyed, young police officer notices that the suicide bomber is not all that he makes himself out to be and this leads the investigation down a path that no-one had ever considered possible before.The consequences of this new form of terrorism are horrific.Then, over a short space of time, six other crimes involving suicide bombers occur that are inexplicable unless thy are seen in the same light as the Baghdad bombing. This leads the police forces of six other cities - Marseille, Essen, Belfast, New York, London, and Los Boliches - to work together under the umbrella of Interpol to put an end to this new criminal gang.A twist comes when the police realise that there are several motives for the suicide bombings, but because the perpetrators are unpredictable, it makes apprehending them impossible.Their only viable tactic is to concentrate on the source of the bombers themselves, although they obviously all die in the raids. The case starts to look hopeless.Despite numerous breaks-through, the combined police forces, loosely headed by Captain Allawi, fail to make any serious headway, so they ask the Chinese government for the assistance of their Internet experts, because they are widely believed to be the best in the world.The Chinese, with some help from the Latvian and Argentine authorities, trace the gang's probable headquarters to "West England", but when their British counterparts examine the data, they pinpoint it to West Wales.The SAS is called in from Hereford, when it is realised that ex-military personnel are probably involved in the bombings because of ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Matt Jenkins. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/224204/bk_acx0_224204_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Company-Wide Agility with Beyond Budgeting, Open Space & Sociocracy: Survive & Thrive on Disruption , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 393min

Today, companies are expected to be flexible and both rapidly responsive and resilient to change, which basically asks them to be agile. Lack of an overarching theory about how to expand the "Agile Manifesto" has led to many fragmented attempts to apply Agile company-wide. Enjoy insights in the book shared by Jez Humble, Diana Larsen, James Shore, Johanna Rothman, and Bjarte Bogsnes. Find out what Spotify, ING, Ericsson, and Walmart say in the book. Notice, how they emphasize that doing Agile (the mechanics) is different from being agile (the mindset). The mindset lets you apply flexible Agile patterns not only for software development teams but for the whole company. Many experts are looking into implementing company-wide Agility. Yet, they work from one perspective. For example:A Beyond Budgeting expert might say, “Stop fixing the budget annually, because otherwise, you won't have the flexibility to react to frequent market changes.”An Open Space expert might say, “You need to make space for what you don’t know and can’t control, for totally new things to emerge. If people can follow their passion, you will be able to implement company-wide Agility, otherwise people will just do what they are asked.”A Sociocracy expert might say, “You first need to resolve the power structure, because as long as you have a hierarchy defined as top-down you will not become agile.”An Agile expert might say, “You need to start inspecting and adapting by using regular retrospectives in order to react flexibly, otherwise you will neither be able to learn from the market nor from within your company.” All of these perspectives are true, but the perspective is always from within the discipline. Our new perspective synthesizes these approaches and invites you to take a new, overview perspective that can truly address the challenges of doing business in a volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous world. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Nancy Bober. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/134029/bk_acx0_134029_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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