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    Socialism with a Human Face (eBook, PDF)
    East Germany's economic history is typically told as a story of the unravelling of an inherently flawed system. Yet, while the system's inefficiency is undeniable, its economic history was much richer than its comparatively poor economic performance suggests. For many who lived there, it was a system that, over its forty years, was capable of achievements and generally functioned at bearable levels. This book combines the insights of behavioural economics with archival research to peel away layers of rhetoric and assumptions about the East German economy and explore aspects of that underlying functionality. Through a series of cases studies that examine the establishment of socialist workplaces, the searches for productivity growth and efficiency, and the emergence of financial crisis, the book considers the system from the perspective of the humans who operated it and made the decisions that made it work. Unencumbered by political preconceptions, it offers a more realistic understanding of East German economic history than that derived from stagnant debates about the clash of systems. The new perspectives and approaches presented demonstrate that, extracted from its Cold War context, East Germany's economic history can be analysed for what it was, rather than for what it symbolised.
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    The Digital Banking Revolution: How Financial Technology Companies Are Rapidly Transforming the Traditional Retail Banking Industry Through Disruptive Innovation , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 196min
    Over the past decade financial service innovations have contributed to a completely new way in which customers can bank, threatening the status quo of traditional retail banks, and redefining a banking model which has been in place for generations. These new technological advancements have facilitated the rapid emergence of digital banking firms and FinTech companies, leading to established banks being forced to swiftly increase their pace of digital adoption to stay relevant and stop mass client attrition to these agile financial start-ups. These threats come at an inopportune time for banks due to mature markets currently experiencing stagnant growth. This coupled with decreasing profit margins due to the competitive pricing of new entrants, and financial customer loyalty becoming ever increasingly more tenuous. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jim Cassidy. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/079964/bk_acx0_079964_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Dirty Gay Threesome Cuckold , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 41min, (USK 18)
    Daringly, I suggested to my husband Jared that, perhaps, our sex life had become stagnant. Our sex was okay, but it wasn’t exciting. Certainly not in the way it once was. We needed to spice things up. But the very thought of suggesting such a thing was a daunting prospect, let alone suggesting what I had in mind: a cuckold with another man.Would the mere mention of experimenting with our sex life in such a drastic way hurt Jared? Who would we even invite into our relationship for this? Would this ruin our relationship? So many questions streamed through my mind, but the dominant thought in my head was that of Jared being intimate with another man...and I liked that thought.  ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Richard L. Walton. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/203315/bk_acx0_203315_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Wilde's Army , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 748min
    Hello, Katriona. Those two words spark fear in Katriona Wilde and give way to an unlikely partnership with Perth, the man she's been traded to marry for a favor. Saving her true love and protector Arland, her family, and their soldiers keeps her motivated, but the at-odds duo soon realizes trust is something that comes and goes with each breath of Encardia's rotting, stagnant air. The moment when concern for her missing sister spirals out of control, all thoughts of trust are pushed aside and she finds herself trapped by the daemon tricks Perth warned her of. When so many she's grown fond of die along the journey, will she still be Katriona Wilde, the girl with fire? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Eileen Stevens. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/018060/bk_adbl_018060_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Monstrosity , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 620min
    Sexual obsessions running amok, a stagnant lake full of abominable horrors, and a secluded clinic with a secret wing that no one’s ever entered. These are just a few of the goings-on in this macabre tech-horror story in which veteran novelist Edward Lee takes the mad-scientist theme into shocking new territory. Security manager Clare Prentiss swears she’s being watched during her nightly rounds on a remote federal nature preserve. Meanwhile, local hoodlums disappear without a trace, and women are dragged into woods to be raped and discarded by some unspeakable thing. Indeed, something is stalking Clare. A man? A monster? Or something significantly worse? Creepy, erotic, and gory, Monstrosity delivers up the horrors at a break-neck pace and doesn’t stop until the final minute. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John E. Broussard. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/185867/bk_acx0_185867_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Safety Sucks!: The Bull $H!# in the Safety Profession They Don’t Tell You About. , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 158min
    A thorough and needed rebuke of the modern safety profession. (Anonymous)Change is hard, I get it. But, we move beyond bad ideas by introducing better ideas. I truly believe that by continuing to have these hard conversations in an upfront, honest, and fun way, we cultivate betterment. The safety profession has been stagnant for far too long. Safety folks are abused and misused; they’re often underpaid and overworked; they are undervalued and not appreciated; they find themselves being blamed and shamed when accidents occur; they are torn between the front line and management, they have been forced to knowingly promote flawed, ineffective and disproven safety management systems - to preach from a bible in which they do not believe, and its time for all of that to change. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Samuel Goodman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/200829/bk_acx0_200829_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Wrong Heaven , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 377min
    In The Wrong Heaven, Amy Bonnaffons draws us into a delightfully strange universe, in which her conflicted characters seek to solve their sexual and spiritual dilemmas in all the wrong places. The title story's heroine reckons with grief while arguing with Jesus and Mary lawn ornaments that come to life when she plugs them in. In 'Horse', we enter a world in which women transform themselves into animals through a series of medical injections. In 'Alternate', a young woman convinces herself that all she needs to revive a stagnant relationship is the perfect poster of the Dalai Lama.Intelligent, wry and crackling with energy, The Wrong Heaven is a stunning debut collection about the subtle mysteries beneath the surface of our lives and our power to transform.Read by Alex Vaillant. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Alex Vaillant. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/orio/001885/bk_orio_001885_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Ascend Online: Ascend Online, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1076min
    Diving into a revolutionary new video game, Marcus and his friends escape a stagnant society, entering into a world that defies their wildest imaginations. But from the moment that he logs in, Marcus finds himself separated from his friends and thrown into a remote village under attack by a horde of goblins. Forced into battle, Marcus rallies the beleaguered villagers and, with their help, manages to drive off the invading creatures. With the village in ruins and their supplies spoiled, the survivors desperately turn to Marcus for help in rebuilding the village. Realizing that this game is nothing like he's ever played before, Marcus is swept up into a whirlwind of adventure as he struggles to defend his new home, quickly finding that marauding goblins are the least of his problems. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Luke Daniels. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/podm/000452/bk_podm_000452_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    This Mournable Body
    SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 BOOKER PRIZE A searing novel about the obstacles facing women in Zimbabwe, by one of the country's most notable authors Anxious about her prospects after leaving a stagnant job, Tambudzai finds herself living in a run-down youth hostel in downtown Harare. For reasons that include her grim financial prospects and her age, she moves to a widow's boarding house and eventually finds work as a biology teacher. But at every turn in her attempt to make a life for herself, she is faced with a fresh humiliation, until the painful contrast between the future she imagined and her daily reality ultimately drives her to a breaking point. In This Mournable Body, Tsitsi Dangarembga returns to the protagonist of her acclaimed first novel, Nervous Conditions, to examine how the hope and potential of a young girl and a fledgling nation can sour over time and become a bitter and floundering struggle for survival. As a last resort, Tambudzai takes an ecotourism job that forces her to return to her parents' impoverished homestead. It is this homecoming, in Dangarembga's tense and psychologically charged novel, that culminates in an act of betrayal, revealing just how toxic the combination of colonialism and capitalism can be.
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    Walking with Purpose in the Footsteps of Jesus: A Study in Discipleship , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 175min
    Thanks to the efforts of many over the years to sow and reap, there have been untold masses who have come to know the Lord Jesus Christ and been born again into the family of God. However, many of those who've taken that initial step and put their trust in the Lord have been stagnant and unfruitful Christians because no one has invested the time and effort necessary to show them how to grow in their walk with the Lord.This volume does it's best to address that need so that they too can live their lives with purpose, and accomplish things that truly matter in the scope of eternity. Whether you've been a Christian for years or a fresh new convert, this volume we believe can help if you're trying to figure out how draw closer to the Lord and walk with purpose in the footsteps of Jesus. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Scott McGraw. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/162641/bk_acx0_162641_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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