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  Dancing on Ropes

  Would Hiroshima have been bombed if Japanese contained a phrase meaning 'no comment'? Is it alright for missionaries to replace the Bible's 'white as snow' with 'white as fungus' in places where snow never falls? Who, or what, is Kuzma's mother, and why was Nikita Khrushchev so threateningly obsessed with her (or it)?The course of diplomacy rarely runs smooth; without an invisible army of translators and interpreters, it's hard to see how it could run at all. But though such go-betweens tend to be overlooked, even despised, the subtlest of them have achieved a remarkable degree of influence.Join veteran translator Anna Aslanyan to explore hidden histories of cunning and ambition, heroism and incompetence. Meet the figures behind the notable events of history, from the Great Game to Brexit, and discover just how far a simple misunderstanding can go.

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  The Imposter Syndrome Remedy: A 30-Day Action Plan to Stop Feeling like a Fraud: The Pame Code to End Self Sabotage, Know Your Worth, and Flourish with Self-Confidence at Work and in Life , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 141min

  Embrace challenge, unleash your self-confidence, and recognize your true worth  Do you sometimes feel like a fraud at work, despite years of training and experience? Do you feel like it's pure luck that people can’t see your incompetence? Are you worried that one day, people will find out that you’re really just faking it? If you answered a resounding yes to these questions, then you might be experiencing imposter syndrome. Imposter syndrome is a persistent feeling of self-doubt, incompetence, and inadequacy, despite evidence that reflects otherwise.  Sure, we all feel self-doubt sometimes. But imposter syndrome is a whole new level of self-doubt. It’s like self-doubt on steroids! It makes you feel as if you don’t deserve any of your accomplishments because you can’t shake off the feeling that you are not good enough at what you do. It’s almost as if you are just “winging it” and you are lucky that people are fooled by your act.  Psychologist Dr. E. V. Estacio shares groundbreaking research from applied psychology and insights from her own experience so you can apply these practical and easy-to-follow techniques to overcome imposter syndrome, know your worth, and flourish with self-confidence at work and in life.  It draws upon scientific research from health psychology, positive psychology, organizational psychology, coaching psychology, client-centered and humanist counseling, brain and cognitive psychology, and critical psychology, to effectively melt away feelings of worry, fear, and self-doubt, and ultimately manage your imposter syndrome.  In this audiobook, you will learn about:  The basics: what imposter syndrome is and what is not; the characteristics and symptoms of imposter syndrome; and how mismanaging imposter syndrome can be harmful to you and others around you; Mindset: ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: E. V. Estacio. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/116103/bk_acx0_116103_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Happily , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 409min

  If the shoe fits, wear it. If it doesn't, make it. Laure is a teenage street urchin, struggling to get by and dreaming of the day she can get away from it all. But then she hears about the prince's hunt for a girl who lost a glass slipper. Where the rest of the world sees an enchanting love story, Laure sees royal incompetence and an opportunity to exploit it. She'll have wealth and a way out of a life she detests, if she can only manage to hoodwink the royal family and survive to tell the tale. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Emily Brady. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/113241/bk_acx0_113241_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Under the Red Sea Sun , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1129min

  A gripping first-hand description of the salvage operations at the port of Massawa on the Red Sea coast of Eritrea during the early days of World War II. When forced from the region, Italian troops had scuttled many ships to block the important harbour, which was vital to the British war effort. Ellsberg, an American salvage officer, was placed in charge and a small group of workers under his direction accomplished an almost Herculean task with virtually no resources. The book paints a realistic picture of confusion and incompetence in the early days of the war. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David Baker. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/019186/bk_adbl_019186_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Devil Wears Scrubs: A Short Comedic Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 341min

  Newly minted doctor Jane McGill is in hell. Not literally, of course. But between her drug addict patients, sleepless nights on call, and battling wits with the sadistic yet charming Sexy Surgeon, Jane can't imagine an afterlife much worse than her first month of medical internship at County Hospital. And then there's the devil herself: Jane's senior resident, Dr. Alyssa Morgan. When Alyssa becomes absolutely hell-bent on making her new interns pay tenfold for the deadly sin of incompetence, Jane starts to worry that she may not make it through the year with her soul or her sanity still intact. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gabra Zackman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tant/007701/bk_tant_007701_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Rabbi Gabrielle's Defiance , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 702min

  Rabbi Gabrielle continues her personal and professional odyssey, this time toying with running for a seat in Congress. In the process she becomes entangled with a Korean computer geek who operates a successful on-line political campaign website for underfunded, unknown candidates. At the same time her congregation has lost a child burned to death in an accident lighting Hanukkah candles. Gabrielle must grapple with accusations against her talented but sensitive associate rabbi for unprofessional incompetence and a nasty law-suit leveled against Ohav Shalom. Arson is the subject and Rabbi Gabrielle becomes a hound dog on scent, all the while wrestling with a new romance in her life. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dina Pearlman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/010485/bk_adbl_010485_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Between Summer's Longing and Winter's End: The Story of a Crime , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1346min

  Between Summer's Longing and Winter's End is the first novel in a trilogy that is the defining account of the unsolved assassination of Swedish Prime Minister Olaf Palme in 1986 that still haunts the collective Swedish memory. Beginning with the death of an unknown American citizen in Stockholm, Persson slowly unravels the complex web of international espionage, greed, sheer incompetence and a poorly constructed Swedish intelligence force, that in this fiction lead to the murder of the Prime Minister. This is a riveting insider's combination of black satire, thriller, psychological drama, and police procedural novel about the biggest police investigation in recorded history. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David Thorn. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/000179/bk_acx0_000179_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Bartender, P.I. , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 150min

  When hockey star Linc Carpenter is banned from playing his beloved sport, he starts over, slinging drinks in Tampa. He's inept as a bartender, so when the opportunity arises to train as a private investigator he takes it. He's not very good at that either, but he still manages to get hired to follow fashion mogul Quentin Faulkner. Linc's incompetence is a hindrance, but Brady Williams, Faulkner's studly bodyguard, may prove to be his undoing. Brady is drawn to Linc despite his bungling, and Linc's stupidity may be just what's needed to solve the case and save their lives. Second edition. A scene of approximately 2,000 words was added. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John Solo. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/034146/bk_acx0_034146_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Wal-Mart: Bad Management as Unethical , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 39min

  Beneath the gloss of Walmart's corporate social responsibility program lies the reality of how the stores are actually managed on a daily basis. This booklet asks whether corporate social responsibility can make up for bad customer treatment and faulty management. Do corporate-level programs geared to societal problems compensate in terms of the company's reputational capital and to the customers? The booklet also looks at whether managers and other employees of a large retail company can be so incompetent that the incompetence itself, apart from any related "attitude," is unethical, given societal expectations as to how businesses are normally operated and customers treated. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: JD Kelly. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/099975/bk_acx0_099975_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Fables of the CIA , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 423min

  This audiobook by a veteran intelligence officer describes the world of spying as it really is, replete with incompetence, bureaucracy, duplicity, and sometimes murder. Although presented as fiction, many of the stories and characters are based on real events and people. Hear how an incompetent station chief can destroy the operations of a CIA station. Follow the efforts of a CIA officer to return to the agency a large sum of CIA cash that has come into his possession, leading unknown persons to try to murder him. This audiobook is for anyone who enjoys good spy fiction, as well as those contemplating a career in government or politics. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mark Rossman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/101134/bk_acx0_101134_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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