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    The Quants: How a New Breed of Math Whizzes Conquered Wall Street and Nearly Destroyed It , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 850min
    In March 2006, the world's richest men sipped champagne in an opulent New York hotel. They were preparing to compete in a poker tournament with ­million-dollar stakes. At the card table that night was Peter Muller, who managed a fabulously successful hedge fund called PDT. With him was Ken Griffin, who was the tough-as-nails head of Citadel Investment Group. There, too, were Cliff Asness, the sharp-tongued, mercurial founder of the hedge fund AQR Capital Management, and Boaz Weinstein, chess "life master" and king of the credit-default swap. Muller, Griffin, Asness, and Weinstein were among the best and brightest of a new breed, the quants. Over the past 20 years, this species of math whiz had usurped the testosterone-fueled, kill-or-be-killed risk takers who'd long been the alpha males of the world's largest casino. The quants believed that a cocktail of differential calculus, quantum physics, and advanced geometry held the key to reaping riches from the financial markets. And they helped create a digitized money-trading machine that could shift ­billions around the globe with the click of a mouse. Few realized that night, though, that in creating this extraordinary system, men like Muller, Griffin, Asness, and Weinstein had sown the seeds for history's greatest financial disaster. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mike Chamberlain. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/002179/bk_rand_002179_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Burning the Map , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 563min
    The choices Casey Evers has made in her 26 years aren't exactly making her happy. In fact, her life is so on course - college, law school, boyfriend, job offer - that it's actually off. So, before she slides into 14-hour days at a Chicago law firm, she heads to Rome and Greece with her two best friends for one last hurrah. The thing is, her best friends haven't really been all that close to her since she started seeing John two years ago, she hasn't been all that close to John lately, and she's awfully partial to Mediterranean men... I rest my head against his shoulder. The scooter starts to fly again, and Rome whizzes by - a myriad of fountains, marble statues, larger-than-life doors with gigantic handles, streets that look like alleys...The rigidity that has settled in my bones and head over the past year seems to thaw a bit. Yet with the thaw comes an army of questions from some unused corner of my brain. What about John? Will you tell him about this little excursion, this man you are hugging? What happens when you get back, when you have to start work, when you can no longer escape the world? I lift my head and let the wind snarl my hair around my face, trying to forget these questions, the ones with rifles in hand that are waiting to fire holes in my flimsy curtain of contentment. Set against the backdrop of sparkling beaches and old-world villages, Burning the Map ignites the fire within us all, to shine in unexpected ways... ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Piper Goodeve. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/013717/bk_acx0_013717_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 647min
    The phenomenal true story of the Black female mathematicians at NASA whose calculations helped fuel some of America's greatest achievements in space. Now a major motion picture starring Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monae, Kirsten Dunst, and Kevin Costner. Before John Glenn orbited the Earth or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of dedicated female mathematicians known as "human computers" used pencils, slide rules, and adding machines to calculate the numbers that would launch rockets and astronauts into space. Among these problem solvers were a group of exceptionally talented African American women, some of the brightest minds of their generation. Originally relegated to teaching math in the South's segregated public schools, they were called into service during the labor shortages of World War II, when America's aeronautics industry was in dire need of anyone who had the right stuff. Suddenly these overlooked math whizzes had shots at jobs worthy of their skills, and they answered Uncle Sam's call, moving to Hampton, Virginia, and the fascinating, high-energy world of the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory. Even as Virginia's Jim Crow laws required them to be segregated from their white counterparts, the women of Langley's all-Black West Computing group helped America achieve one of the things it desired most: a decisive victory over the Soviet Union in the Cold War and complete domination of the heavens. Starting in World War II and moving through to the Cold War, the civil rights movement, and the space race, Hidden Figures follows the interwoven accounts of Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, and Christine Darden, four African American women who participated in some of NASA's greatest successes. It chronicles their careers over nearly three decades as they faced challenges, forged alliances, and used their intellects to change their own lives - and their country's future.  ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Robin Miles. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/005487/bk_harp_005487_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Forex Trading: 3 Hour Crash Course: Master the Basics of Currency Investing in a Few Hours: The Beginner’s Guide , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 181min
    Discover a little known method to start forex trading in less than three hours.Are you feeling unfulfilled in your work? Are you looking for exciting new ways to earn money and learn new skills?Surveys have found that 45 percent of people are bored of their work. What if it didn’t have to be that way? What if there was a way for you to become a player in the biggest financial market in the world?Good news: There is! And you don’t need a masters degree to access it. All you need is three hours to learn the basic principles behind forex trading, and you’ll be all set to take your place in the most liquid market in the world.Maybe, you thought trading currency was just for bankers and math whizzes, but you were wrong. Being a successful trader doesn’t require more than eighth-grade math skills. College dropouts, such as 23-year-old Luke Blackburn, are the perfect example that anyone can become a millionaire after learning to trade forex.Whether you’re looking for a lucrative side hustle or a completely new lifestyle, forex trading has its doors open to you, and you can do it all in your pajamas from the comfort of your couch!In Forex Trading: 3 Hour Crash Course, you’ll learn everything you need to make sense of the forex market and start trading.Here’s just a glimpse of what you’ll discover:Exactly why you can make real money on the forex marketEverything you need to demystify the jargonThe secret behind why forex is the best market to playAll the skills you need to decipher currency quotes and start making money fastA blueprint on how to prepare a winning trading strategyHow to keep your cool in a volatile marketThe top five currency pairs to start trading withThe secret to finding the exact broker you needWhy 95 percent of aspiring traders fail and how you can do betterAnd much more...With ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John Rogers. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/210771/bk_acx0_210771_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    To Squeeze a Prairie Dog: An American Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 465min
    This is the story of J. D. Wiswall, a sincere young man from a small town who joins a state government agency in a data entry department comprised of quirky clerks. Quickly endearing himself to the diverse group in Unit 3, J. D. learns his coworkers have a pact to share the $10,000 prize if they win a cost-savings program for a suggestion that could save the government money, in turn helping them rise above their own personal struggles. A multimillion-dollar cost-savings suggestion is accidentally discovered by J. D.'s supervisor, the goof-off alcoholic Brent Baker. This lucrative discovery catches the attention of crotchety Governor Dwayne Bennett, a media-hungry demagogue, who turns the coworkers of Unit 3 into props for his selfish political reasons. The publicity surrounding the clerks piques the interest of a newspaper reporter Esther Jean Stinson, whose investigative reporting threatens to reveal the governor's career-ending secret, as well as jeopardizes the prize that the clerks so desperately desire.Along with J. D. and Brent, the lives of the amiable coworkers in Unit 3 are revealed. There is Rita Jackson, the kind matriarch of her large brood, who spends her time outside of work caring for her five struggling children and 13 wily grandchildren. Then there's Deborah Martinez, a single mother to a felonious son, who struggles to keep her head above her sinking financial woes. There's also Conchino Gonzalez, a quiescent giant of Mexican and Japanese descent, who street races at night to relieve worries about his ailing grandfather in Japan. Finally, J. D. has dreams bigger than his small hometown can provide, and Brent wants nothing more than to drop the bureaucratic routine to become a rock star with his bar band.A few blocks away from the agency that houses Unit 3, Governor Bennett, a smarmy politician who whizzes around the Governor's Mansion on a gold-plated wheelchair, parades the unwitting clerks in front of the local media in an attem ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Scott Semegran. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/142629/bk_acx0_142629_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Laila And The Gnome
    Laila And The Gnome - A Totally Completely and Utterly Bodacious Adventure with Whizzes and Wolves: ab 4.49 €
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