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A Macat Analysis of Jared M. Diamond's Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 128min

In his 2005 book Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (also subtitled How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive), author and multifaceted US scholar Jared M. Diamond clearly identifies five major factors that he says determine the success or failure of all human societies in all periods of history. Having first asked why societies collapse, Diamond explores various examples of failed societies, from the Norsemen of Scandinavia, who colonized Greenland in the early 10th century, to the 18th-century inhabitants of Easter Island. As a counterpoint, he shows how inhabitants of Highland New Guinea over the past 7,000 years, and Japan in the 17th to 19th centuries, managed to overcome potentially terminal challenges to their survival. Investigating these successes and failures allows Diamond to pinpoint the five key factors. Collapse alienated many academics, especially those who objected to Diamond's emphasis on "geographic determinism", or the impact of local environments on the way societies develop. Many of them dismissed this view as outdated and racist. But Diamond's depth of knowledge, and the way he uses it so engagingly, have won Collapse a huge worldwide readership. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Macat.com. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/063879/bk_acx0_063879_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Custom Nation: Why Customization Is the Future of Business and How to Profit From It , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 330min

Customization is coming in every industry, for every product. Embrace it or get left behind. Smart brands such as Chipotle, Zazzle, Nike, and Pandora are ditching the outdated 20th century model of a one-size-fits-all approach to providing products and services. From a Netflix movie night to a marriage courtesy of eHarmony, customization is changing every corner of American life and business. Custom Nation is a practical how-to guide by someone who has built his business on the power of customization. YouBar founder Anthony Flynn and business journalist Emily Flynn Vencat explain how marketers, brand managers, and entrepreneurs across all industries can reinvigorate their businesses and increase profits. In Custom Nation, learn: Why customization is key to today’s businesses and what does and doesn’t workHow to incorporate customization in new and established businesses to make your products stand out and sell What strategies work for the most successful and profitable custom brands Drawing on firsthand interviews with the CEOs and founders of dozens of companies specializing in customization, Custom Nation reveals how customization can make any business stand apart and generate market share, increase profit margins, and develop customer loyalty. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tori Kamal. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/007551/bk_adbl_007551_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Euth Camp , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 206min

A senior living in the future finds that he is on the wrong side of the law and has become a criminal because of his outdated convictions. His entire mind-set and lifestyle have made him a person of interest to the rulers of the new world in which he lives. Progressively marginalized almost to the point of extinction by new laws and requirements of an all-powerful government, his life is difficult. As he goes about doing what he needs to do to survive, he finds himself instructing and helping many normal everyday people who oppose the state mandate requiring all to be branded with marks on their hands or foreheads. Clinging to an old book, which has long been a capital offense to own or disseminate, he finds that its words give him comfort and understanding. He is eventually arrested and taken to a state-run compound for "rehabilitation". There he discovers the mysterious power that the words of the book have, as he becomes the leader of a prison escape and mass exodus to the mountains. So begins the greatest testing of his faith that he has ever known. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Christopher Glyn. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/009804/bk_blak_009804_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Worksmart: Work Smarter Not Harder , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 47min

If you are already ‘full’ how will you find more time and space for more? It’s time to work smarter not harder. No-one won a school cup or got a good school report for working smart. Working hard is what we have traditionally been rewarded for. But working smart is what we need. Especially now when more needs to be done, in less time, by people like you who are already busy! Working smart often means working less dumb, that is doing less of what we know doesn’t work but keep doing anyway. This is usually a case of: Identify outdated habits and new ways of being and working Assess your stress levels, energy and performance so you get the most out of yourself without putting everything in Make systemic adjustments in your business to sustain these changes Create and innovate new working practices Get the balance back in your working and personal lives. David Pearl draws upon his eclectic background as performer, opera singer, writer, director, broadcaster, Experience Engineer and 'creative confidante' to top CEOs and their boards, David's distinctive brand of personal and professional development work inspires, captivates and gives you real time solutions. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David Pearl. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/sp/sylo/000054/sp_sylo_000054_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Under New Management: How Leading Organizations Are Upending Business as Usual , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 391min

A provocative work that challenges the traditional and widely accepted principles of business management - and proves that they are outdated, outmoded, or simply don't work. Do open floor plans really work? Are there companies that put their employees' welfare first and their clients second? Are annual performance reviews necessary? Dr. David Burkus is a highly regarded and increasingly influential business school professor who challenges many of the established principles of business management. Drawing on decades of research, Burkus has found that not only are many of our fundamental management practices wrong and misguided, but they can be downright counterproductive. These days, the best companies are breaking the old rules. At some companies, email is now restricted to certain hours, so employees can work without distraction. Netflix no longer has a standard vacation policy of two to three weeks but instructs employees to take time off when they feel they need it. And at Valve Software, there are no managers; the employees govern themselves. The revolutionary insights Burkus reveals here will convince companies to leave behind decades-old management practices and implement new ways to enhance productivity and morale. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Rich Orlow. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/reco/009309/bk_reco_009309_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Rethink Time Management - G.O.D.’s Guide to Heaven on Earth , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 306min

Have you noticed with every month that passes that you are continuously getting busier? Are you finding your life has become a constant battle to “find time” to do the things you truly wish to do? You are not alone!In today’s world, we are mostly living among a community of highly stressed individuals “busy” rushing from one task to the next. The advice we mostly receive is that we are struggling with our “time management” skills. Rethink Time Management challenges this idea and instead gives you an alternative approach to mastering your life rooted in timeless truths and wisdom. You are about to discover the keys to living a much more productive and happier life and experience a little heaven on earth! “This is BRILLIANT.... In covering a topic that is rooted in outdated dogma, Paul humorously challenges the very foundations upon which 'time management' are based and magnificently overlays a timeless, more expanded, 'celestial' perspective. This is a phenomenally practical guide that gives you a step by step set of inspiring actions to a more productive, mission based life.” (Dr. John Demartini, international best-selling author of The Values Factor) ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Paul O'Mahony. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/140316/bk_acx0_140316_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Rambunctious Garden: Saving Nature in a Post-Wild World , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 435min

A paradigm shift is roiling the environmental world. For decades people have unquestioningly accepted the idea that our goal is to preserve nature in its pristine, pre-human state. But many scientists have come to see this as an outdated dream that thwarts bold new plans to save the environment and prevents us from having a fuller relationship with nature. Humans have changed the landscapes they inhabit since prehistory, and climate change means even the remotest places now bear the fingerprints of humanity. Emma Marris argues convincingly that it is time to look forward and create the "rambunctious garden," a hybrid of wild nature and human management. In this optimistic book, listeners meet leading scientists and environmentalists and visit imaginary Edens, designer ecosystems, and Pleistocene parks. Marris describes innovative conservation approaches, including re-wilding, assisted migration, and the embrace of so-called novel ecosystems. Rambunctious Garden is short on gloom and long on interesting theories and fascinating narratives, all of which bring home the idea that we must give up our romantic notions of pristine wilderness and replace them with the concept of a global, half-wild rambunctious garden planet, tended by us. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Renee Chambliss. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/009767/bk_adbl_009767_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Fresh Air, Gretchen Worden and Ricky Jay, Hörbuch, Digital, 50min

Gretchen Worden, Director of the Mutter Museum in Philadelphia, PA, and sleight of hand expert and actor Ricky Jay on this edition of Fresh Air. Worden has put together a book of photographs of and from the museum's collection of human oddities and outdated medical models. It is one of the last medical museums from the nineteenth century. It originated with the collection of Dr. Thomas Dent Mutter who gathered unique specimens for teaching purposes. The museum displays many strange human artifacts, such as a slice of a face, amputated limbs, deformed fetuses and a plaster cast of the Siamese twins Chang and Eng Bunker.Jay's recent book, Dice: Deception, Fate & Rotten Luck, is a collection of essays about the history of dice and the many ways of cheating at the game. Photographs by Rosamond Purcell accompany the text. The New York Times says of Jay, "He's a master's master." His other books include Learned Pigs & Fireproof Women and Jay's Journal of Anomalies. He's appeared in a number of David Mamet films and his one man shows include Ricky Jay & His 52 Assistants and Ricky Jay: On the Stem. (Original Broadcast Dates: November 5, 2002 and December 2, 2002) Language: English. Narrator: Terry Gross. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/rt/whyy/030827/rt_whyy_030827_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Bombshell, Hörbuch, Digital, 35min

This girl's got sass. After questioning a silent audience member at Mottley's Comedy Club in Boston who Kelly MacFarland presumed was questioning her running regimen: "I lost weight a few years ago, and then I was hungry and I was like 'F--k this, I need a cake!" Awarded Best of the Fest at the 2010 Aspen Rooftop Comedy Festival, MacFarland's debut album, Bombshell is the result of that win. And she still feels victorious here. Instead of worrying about her weight or how she looks when she runs in "One Sports Bra," MacFarland mocks "The Tinys" and their women whose behavior is annoying, dumb and unnatural. Her lengthiest bit covers two tracks near the end of her set in which he discusses how sneezing is different for dumb girls than for normal people, or even for herself. There's nothing particularly topical discussed on Bombshell, so the material never will become outdated. She's very charismatic and audiences easily love and root for her. Bombshell offers 19 tracks, plus two bonus tracks in which MacFarland pauses to find out more about specific audience members. Language: English. Narrator: Kelly MacFarland. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rftp/000041/bk_rftp_000041_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Personality Plus , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 170min

In this continuation of Pulitzer Prize-winner Edna Ferber's series set at the turn of the 20th century, the magnetic divorcée Emma McChesney faces a new set of challenges. At the end of Roast Beef Medium, Emma exchanged traveling cloak and sample case for a head office and, her lifelong dream, a NYC home for her and her son, Jock. In partnership with T.A. Buck Jr., Emma struggles to keep the T.A. Buck Featherloom Petticoat Company relevant, while her charismatic 21-year-old son takes the NY advertising world by storm. Jock's insistence that his business-savvy mother's methods are outdated leads to a crisis of confidence for Emma. But Jock's charm and ability to "sell ice to an Eskimo" land him in trouble when he runs afoul of clients and company ethics. Will Jock make choices based on his mother's moral compass, or will he become his father's son? As with Roast Beef Medium and the final volume of the series, Emma McChesney & Co., Personality Plus contains humor, wit, and compassion for Ferber's whip-smart women and boldly drawn secondary characters. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Suzanne Barbetta. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/mike/001779/bk_mike_001779_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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