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  The Trouble With Being Born

  'Not to be born is undoubtedly the best plan of all. Unfortunately it is within no one's reach.' In The Trouble With Being Born, E. M. Cioran grapples with the major questions of human existence: birth, death, God, the passing of time, how to relate to others and how to make ourselves get out of bed in the morning. In a series of interlinking aphorisms which are at once pessimistic, poetic and extremely funny, Cioran finds a kind of joy in his own despair, revelling in the absurdity and futility of our existence, and our inability to live in the world. Translated by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and critic Richard Howard, The Trouble With Being Born is a provocative, illuminating testament to a singular mind.

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  Women, Religion, and Peace-Building

  This book explores the peacebuilding ideas and experiences of Maasai and Gusii women of faith in Kenya. Women of faith across the world have long demonstrated their leadership in peacebuilding. They have achieved this despite their underrepresentation in formal peacebuilding systems and the persistent lack of consideration for their critical contributions, and in the face of insecurity and violence against their very bodies. Their efforts include daily practices of sharing resources, building social cohesion, promoting human relations, and interlinking psychological, social, political, and spiritual encounters. This book provides a gender-responsive peacebuilding framework that leverages the intersectionality of women's diverse identities and roles as they navigate both secular and religious spaces for peace. The book will appeal to researchers and teachers as well as practitioners and activists.

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  The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All: Stories , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 735min

  Over the course of two award-winning collections and a critically acclaimed novel, The Croning, Laird Barron has arisen as one of the strongest and most original literary voices in modern horror and the dark fantastic. Melding supernatural horror with hardboiled noir, espionage, and a scientific backbone, Barron's stories have garnered critical acclaim and have been reprinted in numerous year's best anthologies and nominated for multiple awards, including the Crawford, International Horror Guild, Shirley Jackson, Theodore Sturgeon, and World Fantasy awards. Barron returns with his third collection, The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All. Collecting interlinking tales of sublime cosmic horror, including "Blackwood's Baby", "The Carrion Gods in Their Heaven", and "The Men from Porlock", The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All delivers enough spine-chilling horror to satisfy even the most jaded reader. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ray Porter. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/029900/bk_adbl_029900_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  A Little Hope (eBook, ePUB)

  In the small town of Wharton, Connecticut, lives are beginning to unravel. A husband betrays his wife. A son struggles with addiction. A widow misses her late spouse. At the heart of these interlinking stories is one couple: Freddie and Greg Tyler. Greg has just been diagnosed with a brutal form of cancer. He intends to handle this the way he has faced everything else: through grit and determination. But can he successfully overcome his illness? How will the Freddie and their daughter cope if he doesn't? How do the other residents of Wharton learn to live with loss and find happiness again? Celebrating the grace in everyday life, this powerful debut immerses the reader in a community of friends, family, and neighbours and identifies the ways that love and forgiveness can help us survive even the most difficult of life's challenges.

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  The Rise and Fall of the Nephilim: The Untold Story of Fallen Angels, Giants on the Earth, and Their Extraterrestrial Origins , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 459min

  The ancient books of Genesis and Enoch tell us that sprit beings known as the Watchers descended to the Earth, had sex with women, and begat a hybrid race of offspring known as the Nephilim. Such tales are as old as humanity itself. These histories and accounts of visitations and subsequent mixed-blood, alien-human races comprise the bulk of the world's myths, legends, religions, and superstitions. The Rise and Fall of the Nephilim examines: Elohim and the Bene Ha Elohim - God and the Sons of God The Watchers: UFOs, extraterrestrials, angels, infiltrators, and impregnators Biblical and apocryphal sources from Enoch to Moses The role of the Fae, Elves, Elementals, and ancient gods What if the old spiritualties and religions weren't just legends? What if there was something living and breathing beneath the surface, a tangible interlinking of religious thought and spirituality, science and myth, inter-dimensionality, and cold, hard fact? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Charles Bice. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/003668/bk_acx0_003668_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Crowd Sourcing , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 40min

  Crowdsourcing is an Online platform provided to you which lets the world know about your thought process. The Online outsourcing platform which helps the big business brands and IT firms to publicize their products or answers the queries of the public. The term crowd ‘Outsourcing’ was coined in 2005 which later turned into Crowdsourcing. It is that activity in which multiple participants can participate freely. There are various businessmen or start up owners who are in search for answers to their queries. Crowdsourcing makes it a lot easier for organizations to attain goods and services. The crowd or the public can freely participate in crowdsourcing and almost all the time they benefit with monetary gains and prizes. Crowdsourcing is not limited to an individual - it can be an interlinking element between various organizations, institutes, or group of individuals. It can be a promotional activity for small businesses, which are unknown to many. Crowdsourcing is an act of finding solutions to almost all the problems. Even the small firms can participate and benefit with the outcomes. Millions of people participate to showcase their talents in various sectors. This is the unique platform that forms real foundation of intelligence.This platform is flexible as there is no discrimination on the basis of race or status. Any individual can participate in group or collectively as institutes. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Andrea Giordani. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/128149/bk_acx0_128149_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Hidden Girl and Other Stories

  From the title story's fantastical inter-dimensional assassins to the steampunk dystopia of "Grey Rabbit, Crimson Mare, Coal Leopard" burrowing through the ruins of a civilisation destroyed by a plague, from Black Mirror-esque tales of blockchain cryptography ("Byzantine Empathy") and Internet trolling ("Thoughts and Prayers") to a three-story hard-SF arc about artificial intelligence and the singularity ("The Gods Will Not Be Chained", "The Gods Will Not Be Slain" and "The Gods Have Not Died In Vain"), here are 17 interlinking visions that explore what it is to be human, and what it is like to abandon or transcend that. This collection confirms Ken Liu, author of the astonishing and multi-award winning The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories, as one of speculative fiction's greatest short story writers. Contents include: Ghost Days, Maxwell's Demon,The Reborn, Thoughts and Prayers, Byzantine Empathy, The Gods Will Not Be Chained, Staying Behind, Real Artists, The Gods Will Not Be Slain, Altogether Elsewhere Vast Herds of Reindeer, The Gods Have Not Died in Vain, Memories of My Mother, Dispatches from the Cradle: The Hermit - Forty-Eight Hours in the Sea of Massachusetts, Grey Rabbit, Crimson Mare, Coal Leopard, A Chase Beyond the Storms (an excerpt from The Veiled Throne, Book 3 of the Dandelion Dynasty), The Hidden Girl, Seven Birthdays, The Message, Cutting.

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  Artificial Intelligence: Application in the Real Life , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 301min

  We live in a technological age in which artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming increasingly prevalent, whereby not only is a current moment recorded with several technological innovations, but above all new forms of relationship and interaction between people and non-people as well as between the real world and the virtual world. In this sense, we are experiencing a new era in which humanoid robots are gaining space in social life and new scientific and social perspectives are emerging.Artificial intelligence (AI) is already penetrating into the smallest and most private areas of our lives - Alexa, Siri and Co. are already at home in many living rooms and bedrooms and are happy to listen. Even in the field of computer games, social networks, or the digital sex industry, human and non-human relationships are already merging. This interlinking of the virtual and the real world, spurred on by improved AI technology, will continue to gain momentum, and of course this will have an impact on our social behavior. We will also increasingly experience real partnerships between people and machines, not only in Japan can you already notice such tendencies. As is so often the case, these developments have both good and dubious aspects, and the discussion about implications cannot be initiated early enough. Caring for and caring for the elderly, for example, poses great challenges for many countries and robotics and AI can, if used sensibly, be of great benefit here. However, problems could arise from incorrect, too humanized expectations of emotional intelligence or the competence of humanoid robots. Such applications of AI technologies should not be driven and controlled solely by economic interests, but should be mapped out by well-informed political decisions. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Michael Stuhre. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/180017/bk_acx0_180017_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Dropa Stones: Mystery & Conspiracy , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 7min

  Learn about the mystery of the Dropa Stones with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series. The Dropa Stones are supposedly a collection of circular stones found in a cave in Tibet in 1938. They were discovered by Chinese archaeologist Chi Pu Tei. They purportedly tell of aliens coming to earth in 10,000 BC. No claims have been verified, and so the Dropa Stones are part of a highly elusive mystery. High in the Baian-Kara-Ula mountains in Western China, Chi Pu Tei led a group of students on an expedition surveying interlinking caves in the Himalayas. The caves were apparently remarkable in that they appeared to have been carved using a technically-advanced cutter. What was most incredible about the expedition of Chi's team is the fact that they stumbled across 400 skeletons of an unidentifiable small creature. Each creature would have stood at little more than four-feet high. Perfect to listen to while commuting, exercising, shopping or cleaning the house.. iMinds brings knowledge to your MP3 with 8 minute information segments to whet your mental appetite and broaden your mind. iMinds offers 12 main categories; become a Generalist by increasing your knowledge of Business, Politics, People, History, Pop Culture, Mystery, Crime, Culture, Religion, Concepts, Science and Sport. Clean and concise, crisp and engaging, discover what you never knew you were missing. iMinds is the knowledge solution for the information age cutting through the white noise to give you quick, accurate knowledge .. Perfect your dinner party conversation, impress your boss - an excellent way to discover topics of interest for the future. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ellouise Rothwell. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/imnd/000068/bk_imnd_000068_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  What Is Artificial Intelligence? Three Books in One: Artificial Intelligence for Business: Trading, Industry + Artificial Intelligence for Law + Artificial Intelligence, Application in the Real Life , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 917min

  We live in a technological age in which artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming increasingly prevalent, whereby not only is a current moment recorded with several technological innovations, but above all new forms of relationships and interactions between people and non-people as well as between the real world and the virtual world are forming. In this sense, we are experiencing a new era in which humanoid robots are gaining space in social life and new scientific and social perspectives are emerging. Artificial intelligence is already penetrating into the smallest and most private areas of our lives - Alexa, Siri and others are already at home in many living rooms and bedrooms and are happy to listen. Even in the field of computer games, social networks or the digital sex industry, human and non-human relationships are already merging. This interlinking of the virtual and the real world, spurred on by improved AI technology, will continue to gain momentum, and of course this will have an impact on our social behavior. We will also increasingly experience real partnerships between people and machines, not only in Japan can you already notice such tendencies. As is so often the case, these developments have both good and dubious aspects, and the discussion about implications cannot be initiated early enough. Caring for the elderly, for example, poses great challenges for many countries. Artificial intelligence and the law is a sub-area of artificial intelligence, mainly related to applications of AI to the problems of legal informatics and original research on these problems. Another direction is the transfer of tools and methods developed in the context of solving legal problems to the sphere of artificial intelligence as a whole. For example, theories of legal decisions, especially the argumentation models, contributed to the development of the representation of knowledge and reasoning; norm-based social organization models have contributed ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Michael Stuhre. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/179821/bk_acx0_179821_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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