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    Greek Legacy: Classical Origins of the Modern World, Hörbuch, Digital, 367min
    Virtually all of the major building blocks of our culture (law, government, religion, science, medicine, drama, architecture, and more) derived ultimately from the ancient Greeks. In these 12 lectures, you'll explore the continuing influence of the classical Greek achievement on contemporary life. The point is not the often tedious claim that there is nothing new under the sun. Rather, it is to underscore the remarkable continuity of the Greek perspective and ethos preserved over several millennia. You'll learn how great literary themes that have dominated creative writing over the past two millennia were developed and bequeathed to us by a handful of ancient Greek poets and dramatists. You'll study the pure symmetry of ancient Greek art and architecture and its influence on everything from politics to the works of Leonardo da Vinci. You'll explore the Greek ideals in scholarship and the relationship the ancient Greeks saw between what you study and what you become. You'll also get a chance to investigate the origins of the modern scientific method in the mathematical deductions of Pythagoras and the explosively productive inductive inquiries of Aristotle, as well as the origins of modern clinical medicine in the work of Hippocrates of Cos and the Greek writings of Galen. And you'll study statecraft, specifically the contemporary notions of freedom, self-government, virtuous leadership, and civic life that have their origins in the Athens of Pericles, Plato, and Aristotle. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio. Language: English. Narrator: Daniel N. Robinson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tcco/000140/bk_tcco_000140_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Hunting Girls: Sexual Violence from The Hunger Games to Campus Rape , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 395min
    2016 Choice Magazine Award Outstanding TitleThis book is a must-listen in the age of #MeToo and #TimesUp. Katniss Everdeen (The Hunger Games), Bella Swan (Twilight), Tris Prior (Divergent), and other strong and resourceful characters have decimated the fairy-tale archetype of the helpless girl waiting to be rescued.Giving as good as they get, these young women access reserves of aggression to liberate themselves. But who truly benefits? By meeting violence with violence, are women turning victimization into entertainment? Are they playing out old fantasies, institutionalizing their abuse?In Hunting Girls, Kelly Oliver examines popular culture's fixation on representing young women as predators and prey and the implication that violence - especially sexual violence - is an inevitable, perhaps even celebrated, part of a woman's maturity. In such films as Kick-Ass (2010), The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011), and Maleficent (2014), power, control, and danger drive the story, but traditional relationships of care constrict the narrative. Even the protagonist's love interest adds to her suffering. To underscore the threat of these depictions, Oliver locates their manifestation of violent sex in the growing prevalence of campus rape, the valorization of woman's lack of consent, and the new urgency to implement affirmative consent apps and policies.The book is published by Columbia University Press. The audiobook is published by University Press Audiobooks.Praise for the book:"A must read for scholars and students." (Choice)"Essential reading..." (E. Ann Kaplan, author of Climate Trauma: Foreseeing the Future in Dystopian Film and Fiction)"A challenging, disturbing, and enlightening book." (Barbara Creed, author of The Monstrous-Feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis) ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Michelle Peyroux. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/190821/bk_acx0_190821_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Do More Faster: TechStars Lessons to Accelerate Your Startup , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 469min
    It is a cold, hard fact of business life that most startups fail. Even many of those entrepreneurs who ultimately succeed have stories of personal challenges, unsuccessful companies, and difficulties along the way. The founders of TechStars, a mentorship-driven startup accelerator, have worked with entrepreneurs and companies over the past twenty-five years, and have seen a number of the same issues come up again and again. In Do More Faster, the founders of TechStars identify the key issues that first-time entrepreneurs encounter, and offer proven advice from successful entrepreneurs who have worked with the TechStars program. The authors organize the most critical issues into seven themes: Idea and Vision, People, Execution, Product, Fundraising, Legal and Structure, and Work and Life Balance. Many of the examples are personal experiences from the entrepreneurs themselves, integrated into a cohesive narrative - while at the same time able to stand on their own. Throughout the book, they debunk numerous myths about startups and reveal some surprising truths. They explain, for instance, that the core of a startup is not always a world-changing and earth-shattering idea - in fact, it is often the case that successful startups started out doing something else. They also underscore the efficiency of execution: great entrepreneurs know how to synthesize data, make a decision about the path they are going down, and execute. And they offer some alternatives to traditional ways of raising money, while stressing that you shouldn't start with the assumption that you need to raise money. Mastering the seven themes may not ensure success, but understanding the issues, reading the stories, and getting advice pertaining to these issues will increase your chances dramatically. And if nothing else, you'll realize that you aren't alone in facing these challenges. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Sean Pratt. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/gdan/000664/bk_gdan_000664_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Largesse of the Sea Maiden: Stories , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 317min
    Twenty-five years after Jesus’ Son, a haunting new collection of short stories on mortality and transcendence, from National Book Award winner and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Denis Johnson The Largesse of the Sea Maiden is the long-awaited new story collection from Denis Johnson. Written in the luminous prose that made him one of the most beloved and important writers of his generation, this collection finds Johnson in new territory, contemplating the ghosts of the past and the elusive and unexpected ways the mysteries of the universe assert themselves.Finished shortly before Johnson’s death, this collection is the last word from a writer whose work will live on for many years to come.Audiobook Table of Contents:“The Largesse of the Sea Maiden”, read by Nick Offerman “The Starlight on Idaho”, read by Michael Shannon “Strangler Bob”, read by Dermot Mulroney “Triumph over the Grave”, read by Will Patton “Doppelgänger, Poltergeist”, read by Liev SchreiberAdvance praise for The Largesse of the Sea Maiden:“Mesmerizing...psychologically revelatory, spiritually inquisitive, and grimly funny stories...Johnson will be remembered and revered as an incisive storyteller fluent in the comedy and tragedy of human confusion and the transcendence of compassion.” [Booklist (starred review)]“American literature suffered a serious loss with Johnson’s death. These final stories underscore what we’ll miss.... Johnson is best known for his writing about hard-luck cases - alcoholics, thieves, world-weary soldiers. But this final collection ranges up and down the class ladder; for Johnson, a sense of mortality and a struggle to make sense of our lives knew no demographic boundaries.” [Kirkus Reviews (starred review)]“An instant classic... A masterpiece of deep humanity and astonishing prose... It’s filled with Johns ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Nick Offerman, Michael Shannon, Dermot Mulroney, Will Patton. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/005316/bk_rand_005316_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    A Kind of Light , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 482min
    Written in 1987 and recently discovered by his widow, H. R. F. Keating's A Kind of Light is an homage to Joseph Conrad, a writer he greatly admired. It is from that author's Heart of Darkness that the title is taken. Conrad's African jungle is the setting, and it has two interwoven stories. The first concerns a young Victorian gentlewoman who sets out into the heart of the Dark Continent, accompanied only by native bearers, in search of a plant which she has been told is the cure for the ravaging disease typhoid. She keeps diaries, six of which resurface a century later. Excerpts of these, together with a firsthand narration of her physically hazardous and mentally disturbing journey, give us a glimpse of Africa 100 years ago. Alongside this, but set in present-day 1987, when Keating wrote the book, a young couple, having learnt of the existence of the diaries and the possibility that a further six were written and were preserved in Africa, determine to make a documentary film following in her footsteps, and they, too, set off into the unknown, hoping to discover the remaining notebooks. Keating, as usual, manages to underscore these gripping narratives with provocative philosophical arguments on such topics as savagery versus civilisation, innocence versus corruption and atheism versus divinity as well as exploring the moral dilemmas facing the young in the mid-1980s. Five years after his death, there is no doubt that Keating would have been delighted that A Kind of Light is surfacing as an original audiobook - he was passionate about the spoken word. http://www.hrfkeating.com. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Sheila Mitchell, Michael Holroyd, Simon Keating. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/027874/bk_adbl_027874_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Interestings , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 941min
    “Remarkable.... With this book [Wolitzer] has surpassed herself.” (The New York Times Book Review)"A victory.... The Interestings secures Wolitzer's place among the best novelists of her generation.... She's every bit as literary as Franzen or Eugenides. But the very human moments in her work hit you harder than the big ideas. This isn't women's fiction. It's everyone's." (Entertainment Weekly)A New York Times best-selling novel by Meg Wolitzer that has been called "genius" (Chicago Tribune), “wonderful” (Vanity Fair), "ambitious" (San Francisco Chronicle), and a “page-turner” (Cosmopolitan), which The New York Times Book Review says is "among the ranks of books like Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom and Jeffrey Eugenides' The Marriage Plot." The summer that Nixon resigns, six teenagers at a summer camp for the arts become inseparable. Decades later the bond remains powerful, but so much else has changed. In The Interestings, Wolitzer follows these characters from the height of youth through middle age, as their talents, fortunes, and degrees of satisfaction diverge. The kind of creativity that is rewarded at age 15 is not always enough to propel someone through life at age 30; not everyone can sustain, in adulthood, what seemed so special in adolescence. Jules Jacobson, an aspiring comic actress, eventually resigns herself to a more practical occupation and lifestyle. Her friend Jonah, a gifted musician, stops playing the guitar and becomes an engineer. But Ethan and Ash, Jules’s now-married best friends, become shockingly successful - true to their initial artistic dreams, with the wealth and access that allow those dreams to keep expanding. The friendships endure and even prosper, but also underscore the differences in their fates, in what their talents have become and the shapes their lives have taken. Wide in scope, ambitious, and populate ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jen Tullock. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/peng/002079/bk_peng_002079_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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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.
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    Let Me Tell You What I Mean
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From one of our most iconic and influential writers, the award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking: a timeless collection that reveals what would become Joan Didion's subjects, including the press, politics, California robber barons, women, and her own self-doubt. "Didion's remarkable, five decades-long career as a journalist, essayist, novelist, and screen writer has earned her a prominent place in the American literary canon, and the twelve early pieces collected here underscore her singularity."-O Magazine With a forward by Hilton Als, these pieces from 1968 to 2000, never before gathered together, offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of a legendary figure. They showcase Joan Didion's incisive reporting, her empathetic gaze, and her role as "an articulate witness to the most stubborn and intractable truths of our time" (The New York Times Book Review). Here, Didion touches on topics ranging from newspapers ("the problem is not so much whether one trusts the news as to whether one finds it"), to the fantasy of San Simeon, to not getting into Stanford. In "Why I Write," Didion ponders the act of writing: "I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means." From her admiration for Hemingway's sentences to her acknowledgment that Martha Stewart's story is one "that has historically encouraged women in this country, even as it has threatened men," these essays are acutely and brilliantly observed. Each piece is classic Didion: incisive, bemused, and stunningly prescient.
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    Being the Best: A Life-Changing Guide to Real Success , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 338min
    Everyone wants to be a winner. But few can honestly count themselves as always Being the Best. Too often, people are thrown off course by popular notions of what true success is all about. Even Denis Waitley, author and narrator of Being the Best, readily admits he's been frequently sidetracked in the past. In this new blockbuster by Denis, you'll find real-life answers to being happy with yourself, admired and respected by others, and truly successful in life. Genuine, lasting success, he says, comes from nurturing your own special talents, recognizing your natural abilities, and learning to live fully without limitations. "Success is not a score. It’s not what you own or earn." And it has no connection with pervasive myths, such as: If you die with the most toys, you win Nice guys finish last Always look out for Number One To underscore these observations, Denis shares his own odyssey and the critical mistakes he has made. He tried to please his father in a career choice. It didn't work. He tried to heed inner signals and found they were off the mark. When he gained material success, he became a show-off, enamored of possessions but empty inside. Not liking what he was, Denis changed. Profiting from his own experience and his study of hundreds of famous and not-so-famous winners, he traded fantasy for reality, fiction for truth. And now step by step, he shows how you can become what he calls "a five-star person". You discover: How to put your Reticular Activating System to work Where you are in the multilayered hierarchy of self-esteem - and what it takes to reach the top A self-test of your integrity If you're ready to break away from what holds millions back to live like the gifted, unique individual you are, Waitley provides new guidelines to get past mistakes and fears.PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the a ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Denis E. Waitley. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/ntgl/000307/bk_ntgl_000307_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The 3 T’s of Matty’s Daughter: Tears, Trials, and Tribulations , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 792min
    Faith Brown is a poor colored girl from Elizabeth City, North Carolina and the oldest of six small children. And In the winter of 1948, a helpless seven-year-old, watches intently from the front room window as her 26-year-old mother, Matty, walks swiftly away, into the unforgiving darkness. And now that Matty has made her escape, the old blue house on Butler lane, will never be the same.Faith’s wake-up call to the harsh realities of her existence arrives without warning. However, her tears, trials, and tribulations, will soon cover a multitude of miles and pain. Why did her mommy leave? Will she now be a motherless child? Was it her daddy’s fault? Who’s going to protect her and her siblings from the shadows of the night? Faith’s desire to find out why, is a seed that will eventually grow in multiple directions. The remedy to her plight may reveal itself in time but the cost of uncovering her truth will not be free.The 1960s arrive and Faith’s courage and willingness to fight will soon lead her beyond the city limits of her small town. Her travels to the north will be filled with both smiles and cries. Along the way, Faith’s metamorphosis will happen gradually. But will it ever settle her restless soul? And as she struggles to carry her cross beyond the finish line, she will encounter a number of compelling characters.As the decades of the '70s, '80s, and '90s rapidly expire, Faith’s life in the north will offer its share of adversity. Her experiences with poverty, violence, sex, happiness, heartbreak and love, will forever shape her view of the world. Faith’s wheel of misfortune will spin at its own wretched pace. And In the end, Faith’s determination to trek out of the darkness will underscore an authentic display of internal fortitude and survival. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tony Rush. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/224977/bk_acx0_224977_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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