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  Innovation in Early Modern Catholicism (eBook, ePUB)

  This volume demonstrates that the Catholic rhetoric of tradition disguised both novelties and creative innovations between 1550 and 1700. Innovation in Early Modern Catholicism reveals that the period between 1550 and 1700 emerged as an intellectually vibrant atmosphere, shaped by the tensions between personal creativity and magisterial authority. The essays explore ideas about grace, physical predetermination, freedom, and probabilism in order to show how the rhetoric of innovation and tradition can be better understood. More importantly, contributors illustrate how disintegrated historiographies, which often excluded Catholicism as a source of innovation, can be overcome. Not only were new systems of metaphysics crafted in the early modern period, but so too was a new conceptual language to deal with the pressing problems of human freedom and grace, natural law, and Marian piety. Overall, the volume shines significant light on hitherto neglected or misunderstood traits in the understanding of early modern Catholic culture. Re-presenting early modern Catholicism more crucially than any other currently available study, Innovation in Early Modern Catholicism is a useful tool for advanced undergraduates, postgraduates, and scholars in the fields of philosophy, early modern studies, and the history of theology.

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  Being Spiritual: What This Means, and Does Religion Matter? , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 189min

  What does it mean to be "spiritual"? For some, spirituality is at best a nebulous concept that's preferred by those who cannot accept the potential of science to one day explain everything, but for others, is at the core of what it means to be human. Taking a broad perspective, this thought-provoking book questions what being spiritual means for different people, explores the many different ways by which spirituality is expressed (unrestricted to the demands of having a religious faith), and considers ways to enjoy a so-called "spiritual experience". Attention is also given to the relevance of several important themes to understanding spirituality, and to which virtually everyone should be able to relate - topics such as life purpose, mortality, love, and beauty. Crucially, the book examines the "spiritual but not religious" phenomenon, asking whether it's necessary or desirable to hold onto a religious faith or a belief in a higher power in order to achieve spiritual growth and potential. Drawing on the thinking of sociologists, psychologists, historians, theologians, social commentators, and more, the potential attractions and risks of a "do-it-myself" approach to spirituality are weighed against the possible pitfalls and promises of following a more traditional path. Ultimately, the book opens up questions that are relevant for all, offering food for thought to both guide and inspire those who are curious about, embarking upon, or wanting to deepen an exploration of their spiritual life - whatever they perceive this to be. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Clive Johnson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/111337/bk_acx0_111337_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Managing Teams From Gen-Z to Boomer , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 58min

  For the first time, there are five distinct generations sharing the workplace at many American companies - from Baby Boomer to Generation Z. That means an age difference of up to 60 years and a multitude of experiences and attitudes. More crucially, it means there are tremendous challenges - as well as significant opportunity - when trying to foster collaboration between these diverse groups.In this workshop, workplace culture expert (and proud Gen Xer) Jennifer Romolini examines this extraordinary phenomenon and how it has upended typical management strategies. She guides you through the biases and stereotypes that can cause intergenerational teams to stumble, exploring how to encourage collaboration across diverse working styles. And she shows how fresh thinking, innovative hiring and reporting structures, and effective communication can build teams in which everyone thrives, innovates, and succeeds.Key takeaways:How age stereotypes can linger even in the most progressive workplacesWhy some management styles don’t work in today’s diverse officeWhy avoiding labels - even in jest - is vitalHow to recognize the difference between self-advocacy and entitlementHow hiring across generations can inject vitality and diversityAbout the mentor:Jennifer Romolini, a writer, speaker, consultant, and career expert, is the author of Weird in a World That’s Not: A Career Guide for Misfits, F*ckups, and Failures, the sharp-witted guide to getting the keeping the job you want. She was chief content officer for Shondaland.com as well as editor in chief for HelloGiggles and Yahoo Shine and ran the editorial operations for Yahoo’s Lifestyle sites. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jennifer Romolini. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/or/ente/000010/or_ente_000010_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  C Street: The Fundamentalist Threat to American Democracy , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 537min

  C Street - where piety, politics, and corruption meet.... Jeff Sharlet is the only journalist to have reported from inside the C Street House, the Fellowship residence known simply by its Washington, D.C., address. The house has lately been the scene of notorious political scandal, but more crucially, it is home to efforts to transform the very fabric of American democracy. And now, after laying bare its tenants' past in The Family, Sharlet reports from deep within fundamentalism in today's world, revealing that the previous efforts of religious fundamentalists in America pale in comparison with their long-term ambitions. When Barack Obama entered the White House, headlines declared the age of culture wars over. In C Street, Sharlet shows why these conflicts endure and why they matter now - from the sensationalism of Washington sex scandals to fundamentalism's long shadow in Africa, where Ugandan culture warriors determined to eradicate homosexuality have set genocide on simmer. We've reached a point where piety and corruption are not at odds but one and the same. Reporting with exclusive sources and explosive documents from C Street, the war on gays in Uganda, and the battle for the soul of America's armed forces - waged by a 15,000-strong movement of officers intent on "reclaiming territory for Christ in the military" - Sharlet reveals not the last gasp of old-time religion but the new front lines of fundamentalism. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jeremy Guskin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hach/000530/bk_hach_000530_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Psychology of High Self-Esteem: A Life-Changing Program for Personal Growth, Hörbuch, Digital, 331min

  A Life Changing Program for Personal Growth! How you feel about yourself crucially affects virtually every aspect of your life, especially how high in life you are likely to rise. Who and what you think you are shape all your responses. Self-esteem, therefore, becomes the key to success or failure. It is also the key to understanding yourself and others. In this outstanding audio program, the pioneering psychotherapist, Dr. Nathaniel Branden, details for you - in easy-to-understand language - the action, both mental and physical, you can take to advance your self-esteem and he self-esteem of others. His recommended strategies for building self-esteem have been thoroughly tested with the many thousands he has helped during his 30 years as a psychotherapist. You learn specific exercises and behaviors that will raise your self-esteem. You discover how to: Experience more joy in the sheer fact of being. Implement the four-step process that frees you from guilt. Gain insightful information that usually lies beyond your ordinary consciousness. Enhance your chances of forming relationships that are nourishing instead of destructive. “Live consciously” - the foundation for self-respect and self-confidence. Become more innovative, rather than ritualistic or tradition-bound, in your work. Expand the creative and spiritual areas of your life And much, much more! PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your My Library section along with the audio. Language: English. Narrator: Nathaniel Branden. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/ntgl/000012/bk_ntgl_000012_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Return of George Washington: 1783-1789 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 666min

  Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Edward J. Larson recovers a crucially important - yet almost always overlooked - chapter of George Washington's life, revealing how Washington saved the United States by coming out of retirement to lead the Constitutional Convention and serve as our first president. After leading the Continental Army to victory in the Revolutionary War, George Washington shocked the world: he retired. In December 1783, General Washington, the most powerful man in the country, stepped down as Commander in Chief and returned to private life at Mount Vernon. Yet as Washington contentedly grew his estate, the fledgling American experiment floundered. Under the Articles of Confederation, the weak central government was unable to raise revenue to pay its debts or reach a consensus on national policy. The states bickered and grew apart. When a Constitutional Convention was established to address these problems, its chances of success were slim. Jefferson, Madison, and the other Founding Fathers realized that only one man could unite the fractious states: George Washington. Reluctant, but duty-bound, Washington rode to Philadelphia in the summer of 1787 to preside over the Convention. Although Washington is often overlooked in most accounts of the period, this masterful new history from Pulitzer Prize winner Edward J. Larson brilliantly uncovers Washington's vital role in shaping the Convention - and shows how it was only with Washington’s support and his willingness to serve as President that the states were brought together and ratified the Constitution, thereby saving the country. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mark Bramhall. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/004148/bk_harp_004148_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Vagina: A Literary and Cultural History , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 810min

  From South Park to Kathy Acker, and from Lars Von Trier to Sex and the City, women's sexual organs are demonized. Rees traces the fascinating evolution of this demonization, considering how calling the "c-word" obscene both legitimates and perpetuates the fractured identities of women globally. Rees demonstrates how writers, artists, and filmmakers contend with the dilemma of the vagina's puzzlingly "covert visibility". In our postmodern, porn-obsessed culture, vaginas appear to be everywhere, literally or symbolically but, crucially, they are as silenced as they are objectified. The Vagina: A Literary and Cultural History examines the paradox of female genitalia through five fields of artistic expression: literature, film, TV, visual, and performance art. There is a peculiar paradox - unlike any other - regarding female genitalia. Rees focuses on this paradox of what is termed the "covert visibility" of the vagina and on its monstrous manifestations. That is, what happens when the female body refuses to be pathologized, eroticized, or rendered subordinate to the will or intention of another? Common, and often offensive, slang terms for the vagina can be seen as an attempt to divert attention away from the reality of women's lived sexual experiences such that we don't "look" at the vagina itself - slang offers a convenient distraction to something so taboo. The Vagina: A Literary and Cultural History is an important contribution to the ongoing debate in understanding the feminine identity. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Polly Lee. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/021170/bk_adbl_021170_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Old History, New Geography: Bifurcating Andhra Pradesh , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 365min

  In November 1956, a unified Telugu-speaking state of Andhra Pradesh came into being. In February 2014, Parliament bifurcated it to create two Telugu-speaking states: Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. Old History, New Geography provides the context, text and subtext to the bifurcation, which continues to be contentious and controversial. Jairam Ramesh makes an ideal commentator, given that he was a key member of the group of ministers (GoM) set up by the United Progressive Alliance government in October 2013 to prepare the legislation for the bifurcation. For the next seven months, he became the GoM's prime mover and its public face - and was thus always in the crossfire - as it strove to balance competing claims and differing demands to ensure a just and equitable outcome. Blending sharp commentary and humour, and drawing on his meticulously maintained personal records, parliamentary debates and a variety of thus far undisclosed primary sources, Ramesh recounts this momentous event as it unfolded. He brings to the Andhra bifurcation story the kind of authority and authenticity only an insider can.This singularly important book is a narrative of history told first-hand by someone who was not just a witness to it but one who actually shaped it. Combining an intensely personal account with in-depth scholarship, Old History, New Geography is a must-listen not only for academia but, crucially, also for the general listener seeking an understanding of contemporary India. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Sagar Arya. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/029031/bk_adbl_029031_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Keynes: The Return of the Master , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 449min

  The ideas of John Maynard Keynes have never been more timely. No one has bettered Keynes's description of the psychology of investors during a financial crisis: The practice of calmness and immobility, of certainty and security, suddenly breaks down. New fears and hopes will, without warning, take charge of human conduct [and] the market will be subject to waves of optimistic and pessimistic sentiment.' Keynes's preeminent biographer, Robert Skidelsky, Emeritus Professor of Political Economy at the University of Warwick, brilliantly synthesizes from Keynes' career and life the aspects of his thinking that apply most directly to the world we currently live in. In so doing, Skidelsky shows that Keynes's mixture of pragmatism and realism, which distinguished his thinking from the neo-classical or Chicago school of economics that has been the dominant influence since the Thatcher-Reagan era and which made possible the raw market capitalism that created the current global financial crisis, is more pertinent and applicable than ever. Keynes never wavered in his belief in the capitalist system. And crucially, Keynes offers nervous capitalists a positive answer to the question we now face: When unbridled capitalism falters, is there an alternative? "In the long run," as Keynes famously said, "we are all dead." We may not have time to wait for the perfect theoretical operation of capital, as the neo-classicists insist will happen eventually. In the meantime, we have Keynes: more supple, more human and more magnificently real than ever. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Robert Blumenfeld. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/001446/bk_adbl_001446_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Memory Clouds: The Circuit, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 744min

  The Circuit knows everything about you...because they are you.Ascension eveJake Montana waits for the letter every 18-year-old receives on their birthday. It’s the one from the Circuit. It’s the one that determines the rest of your life. Your life partner, job, home, and crucially, your importance factor are all selected for you. In the year 2054 your importance factor" is everything, but it’s not random. It’s based on a detailed assessment of every thought, emotion, and memory you’ve ever stored in your Memory Cloud since the first day you received the implants. Your fate, the Circuit insists, is always yours.But the future that Jake most wants won’t be inside his letter. It can’t be. His childhood sweetheart Christie won’t reach her Ascension Day for months, so it’s impossible that her name will appear. He’s right, but there are bigger surprises in store for him. The Memory Cloud has chosen a life for Jake that no one would want. A life that will lead to the murky world of the Spectrum, a community who denounce the Circuit and refuse to comply to their rules. A life designed to keep Jake from Christie and to hide the truth that lives deep inside him.A truth that the Circuit will stop at nothing to keep from the world...Memory Clouds is book one of the Circuit series, the brand-new dystopian thriller from Tony Moyle. if you like 1984, A Brave New World, or The Hunger Games, then this is a must-listen. Grab hold of this fast-paced thriller today. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Aubrey Parsons. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/215855/bk_acx0_215855_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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