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  The Two-Income Trap: Why Middle-Class Parents are Going Broke , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 430min

  In this revolutionary exposé, Harvard Law School bankruptcy expert Elizabeth Warren and financial consultant Amelia Tyagi show that today's middle-class parents are increasingly trapped by financial meltdowns. Astonishingly, sending mothers to work has made families more vulnerable to financial disaster than ever before. Today's two-income family earns 75% more money than its single-income counterpart of a generation ago, but has 25% less discretionary income to cover living costs. This is "the rare financial book that sidesteps accusations of individual wastefulness to focus on institutional changes," raved the Boston Globe. Warren and Tyagi reveal how the ferocious bidding war for housing and education has silently engulfed America's suburbs, driving up the cost of keeping families in the middle class. The authors show why the usual remedies - child-support enforcement, subsidized daycare, and higher salaries for women - won't solve the problem. But as the Wall Street Journal observed, "The book is brimming with proposed solutions to the nail-biting anxiety that the middle class finds itself in: subsidized day care, school vouchers, new bank regulation, among other measures." From Senator Edward M. Kennedy to Dr. Phil to Bill Moyers, The Two-Income Trap has created a sensation among economists, politicians, and families - all those who care about America's middle-class crisis. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Julie Eickhoff. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/017180/bk_adbl_017180_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Free Innovation , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 324min

  In this book, Eric von Hippel, author of the influential Democratizing Innovation, integrates new theory and research findings into the framework of a "free innovation paradigm." Free innovation, as he defines it, involves innovations developed by consumers who are self-rewarded for their efforts, and who give their designs away "for free." It is an inherently simple grassroots innovation process, unencumbered by compensated transactions and intellectual property rights. Free innovation is already widespread in national economies and is steadily increasing in both scale and scope. Today, tens of millions of consumers are collectively spending tens of billions of dollars annually on innovation development. However, because free innovations are developed during consumers' unpaid, discretionary time and are given away rather than sold, their collective impact and value have until very recently been hidden from view. This has caused researchers, governments, and firms to focus too much on the Schumpeterian idea of innovation as a producer-dominated activity. Free innovation has both advantages and drawbacks. Because free innovators are self-rewarded by such factors as personal utility, learning, and fun, they often pioneer new areas before producers see commercial potential. At the same time, because they give away their innovations, free innovators generally have very little incentive to invest in diffusing what they create, which reduces the social value of their efforts. The best solution, von Hippel and his colleagues argue, is a division of labor between free innovators and producers, enabling each to do what they do best. The result will be both increased producer profits and increased social welfare - a gain for all. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tom Parks. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/008512/bk_brll_008512_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Employee Engagement 2.0: How to Motivate Your Team for High Performance , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 66min

  Imagine if you could: Create massive emotional commitment among all your direct reports Turn apathetic groups into high performance teams exhibiting huge discretionary effort Be a leader who people fight to work with Win a "Best Place to Work" award within 12 months Indeed, you can do all that and more, and it doesn't take a lot of time or a big budget. This isn't just another ivory tower book on leadership. Employee Engagement 2.0 is the result of both massive research and real-world experience. The author, Kevin Kruse, is a former Best Place to Work winner, serial entrepreneur, and New York Times best-selling author. He has advised dozens of organizations, from Fortune 500 companies like SAP, to startups and non-profits, and even to the US Marines. This is your step-by-step guide that will teach you: What employee engagement is (it does not mean happy or satisfied) How engagement directly drives sales, profits, and even stock price The secret recipe for making anyone feel engaged How to quantify engagement, even if you have no budget Seven questions to ask that will identify your engagement weakness What to say to facilitate a team meeting on engagement A communication system that ensures rapid, two-way flow of information How to make your strategic vision memorable and "sticky" How to implement a complete engagement plan in only eight weeks! Being a great leader - one who drives massive passion, commitment and engagement - is within your reach. Follow the step-by-step plan in Employee Engagement 2.0 and prepare to be a great place to work. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kevin Kruse. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/056494/bk_acx0_056494_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Dual Penal State (eBook, ePUB)

  In The Dual Penal State, Markus Dubber addresses the rampant use of penal power in Western liberal democracies. The interference with the autonomy of the very persons upon whose autonomy the legitimacy of state power is supposed to rest is systemically normalized, rather than continuously scrutinized. The fundamental challenge of the penal paradox-the prima facie illegitimacy of modern punishment-remains unaddressed and unresolved. Focusing on the United States and Germany, and drawing on his influential account of the patriarchal origins of police power, Dubber exposes the persistence of a two-sided criminal justice regime: the dual penal state. The dual penal state combines principled punishment of equals under the rule of law, on one side, with punitive discipline of others under the rule of police, on the other. Slavery has long played a central role in drawing the line between the two sides of the dual penal state. In Europe, the slave appears in the classic and still foundational accounts of liberal punishment (from Beccaria to Kant) as the paradigmatic other beyond the protection of law, not a legal subject but a mere object of the master's or the state's discretionary discipline. In America, the patriarchal power to police portrays the continuum from the antebellum slaveholder's whipping of his slaves in private and the racial terror perpetrated by slave patrols in public, to the apartheid regime of Jim Crow and the treatment of prisoners as "slaves of the state," and eventually to the late 20th century's systemic racial violence of the "war on crime" and the widespread killing of Black suspects by an increasingly militarized and armed police force that triggered the global Black Lives Matter movement.

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  Taxation

  Taxation ab 38.99 € als Taschenbuch: Tax Tax per head Income tax Tax law Effect of taxes and subsidies on price Tax Freedom Day Tobin tax Seigniorage Disposable and discretionary income Subsidy Dividend tax Private copying levy Income tax in the United States. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Wirtschaft & Soziales,

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  What's Most Important?: The 5 Factors for Living an Intelligent Life , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 311min

  Let's start a revolution. I want us to start a revolution. We need to start a revolution. I don't mean an armed rebellion against the government or other forms of authority. I mean an intellectual and behavioral revolution that questions the status quo at every level and then makes changes based on that which we deliberately determine to be most important. These are the words of Dr. Bill Svoboda, and he invites you to join his revolution that, literally, will change your life. By asking yourself the question, "What's most important?" you will take the first step in challenging and changing your thinking and behaviors. But how do you determine what's most important to you? Dr. Svoboda will guide you through the process to determine your values and priorities in life, by analyzing five factors: Factor 1: Gaining and maintaining physical health; Factor 2: Gaining and maintaining mental health; Factor 3: Gaining and maintaining financial security; Factor 4: Mastering and using problem-solving and critical-thinking skills; Factor 5: Acting responsibly to others, the environment, and yourself. These factors are the keys to living a well-rounded, satisfying and focused life. They will help you to: Use your discretionary time to seek information that can improve your life and the lives of those around you Develop the ability to use objective questions, healthy skepticism, and critical analysis of ideas and actions Shift away from a win-lose mentality in decision-making and negotiating to a problem-solving process based on win-win solutions that emphasize positive human consequences Develop a lifestyle that emphasizes plant-based, nutritious "real foods" along with a variety of physical exercise Gain an increased awareness to conserve and nurture what nature has given us Seek happiness through adding value to others, to the environment, and to yourself ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John Alan Martinson Jr.. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/077114/bk_acx0_077114_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Render unto Rome: The Secret Life of Money in the Catholic Church , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1079min

  An investigation of epic finanical intrigue, Render unto Rome exposes the secrecy and deceit that run counter to the values of the Catholic Church. The Sunday collection in every Catholic church throughout the world is as familiar a part of the Mass as the homily and even Communion. There is no doubt that, historically, the Catholic Church has been one of the great engines of charity in history. But once a dollar is dropped in that basket, where does it go? How are weekly cash contributions that can amount to tens of thousands of dollars accounted for? Where does the money go when a diocese sells a church property for tens of millions of dollars? And what happens when hundreds of millions of dollars are turned over to officials at the highest ranks, no questions asked, for their discretionary use? The Roman Catholic Church is the largest organization in the world. The Vatican has never revealed its net worth, but the value of its works of art, great churches, property in Rome, and stocks held through its bank easily run into the tens of billions. Yet the Holy See as a sovereign state covers a mere 108 acres and has a small annual budget of about $280 million. No major book has examined the Church’s financial underpinnings and practices with such journalistic force. Today the Church bears scrutiny by virtue of the vast amounts of money (nearly $2 billion in the United States alone) paid out to victims of clergy abuse. Amid mounting diocesan bankruptcies, bishops have been selling off whole pieces of the infrastructure—churches, schools, commercial properties—while the nephew of one of the Vatican’s most powerful cardinals engaged in a lucrative scheme to profiteer off the enormous downsizing of American Church wealth. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jason Berry. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/002660/bk_rand_002660_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Discretionary Justice

  Discretionary Justice - A Preliminary Inquiry. digital only: ab 19.99 €

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  Discretionary Arrests

  Discretionary Arrests - 1. Auflage: ab 12.99 €

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  Discretionary Time

  Discretionary Time - A New Measure of Freedom: ab 32.99 €

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