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Edge of Armageddon: The Imminent Nuclear Consequence

Edge of Armageddon: The Imminent Nuclear Consequence is a gripping nonfiction political thriller exploring the intricate dance of dominance and diplomacy surrounding nuclear war on the global stage. Delve into the heart of US hegemony, tracing the history from World War II to the present, revealing the evolution of nuclear diplomacy and the challenges to American supremacy. Through insightful analysis, it explores the decline of the US Dollar and the rise of multipolar currency dynamics. Timely and sobering, it challenges readers to ponder the consequences of America's decline and offers hope for humanity amidst the foreboding, urging action to steer away from a nuclear war precipice. This book is a must-read (a call to action) for anyone who dares to understand the fragility of our current geopolitical landscape and the ray of light needed to steer us away from a nuclear war precipice. Step to the Edge of Armageddon, and arm yourself with knowledge to envision a future of cooperation over annihilation.

Robert Enochs (Author), James Wilson (Narrator)

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Wreckonomics: Why It's Time to End the War on Everything

A powerful exposé of the 'war' framework that governments around the world have adopted to tackle difficult problems yet which locks them into failed and cruel policies that never seem to end. The United States recently exited a two-decade long war in Afghanistan -- part of its 'global war on terror' -- in ignominy, with the Taliban taking Kabul. The US and European countries also continually increase funding for their own border security, leading to more chaos and shifting the problem around. And America's war on drugs has failed to dampen narcotics demand, while fueling atrocities and profiteering from Mexico to the Philippines. Why do politicians keep feeding the very crises they say they are combating? In Wreckonomics, Ruben Andersson and David Keen analyze why disastrous policies continue to live on when it has become apparent that they do not work. The authors show how the perverse outcomes we see in the fight against terror, migration, and drugs are more than a blip or an anomaly. Rather, the proliferation of pseudo-wars has become a dangerous political habit and an endless source of political advantage and profit. From combating crime to the war on drugs, from civil wars to global wars and even 'culture wars,' chronic failure has been harnessed to the appearance of success. A wide variety of problems have persisted or even worsened not so much despite the wars and pseudo-wars that are waged against them as because of them. Covering a range of cases around the world, Wreckonomics exposes and interrogates the incentive systems that allow destructive policies to remain in effect even in the face of systemic failure. It also develops strategies to collectively dismantle the addiction to waging war on everything.

David Keen, Ruben Andersson (Author), Colin Mace (Narrator)

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The Breakthrough Manifesto: Ten Principles to Spark Transformative Innovation

Innovation is a process by which new ideas, services, and sources of value are brought to life. Yet approaches to the pursuit of innovation are often far from novel, relying on stale methodologies applied against well-defined problem sets. Transformative innovation requires something else. Not just methodologies, but mindsets. Not just focusing on known challenges, but on unknown opportunities. Not just hoping for breakthrough by default, but realizing breakthrough by design. In The Breakthrough Manifesto, a renowned business innovation leader teams up with a social-personality psychologist to offer that something else-a collection of ten visionary principles to obliterate barriers to change and ignite a whole new level of creative problem-solving. Drawing upon decades of experience working with the world's best-known organizations and their teams, the authors provide practical advice that goes beyond 'business as usual' for successfully tackling intractable challenges. The Breakthrough Manifesto explores why these principles are critical for the current times and how they can spark breakthrough and unlock potential for you and your teams. Whether you're an executive or manager, product or service designer, educator or student, this book is a must-listen for anyone inspired to change the world or transform their own place in it.

Kim Christfort, Suzanne Vickberg (Author), Alex Picard (Narrator)

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Price of the Modi Years

Columnist, author and political commentator, Aakar Patel has long been a close observer of the political scenario. In Price of the Modi Years, he seeks to explain the data and facts on India’s performance under Narendra Modi.Modi’s predecessor, Manmohan Singh, had once said that Modi would be a disaster as prime minister. This book shows how. It concedes Modi’s popularity; this is an accounting of the damage he has wrought. It is the history of India since 2014, assessing the damage across the polity from the economy, national security, federalism, foreign relations, legislations and the judiciary to media and civil society.Our memories are not long, news cycles are transient and incidents are forgotten or misclassified as being only episodic, unless documented, unified and placed together as a record. And, therefore, this book-a history of these present times.

Aakar Patel (Author), Aakar Patel (Narrator)

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Gambling on Development: Why Some Countries Win and Others Lose

In the last thirty years, the developing world has undergone tremendous changes. Overall, poverty has fallen, people live longer and healthier lives, and economies have been transformed. And yet many countries have simply missed the boat. Why have some countries prospered, while others have failed? Stefan Dercon argues that the answer lies not in a specific set of policies, but rather in a key 'development bargain,' whereby a country's elites shift from protecting their own positions to gambling on a growth-based future. Despite the imperfections of such bargains, China is among the most striking recent success stories, along with Indonesia, and more unlikely places, such as Bangladesh, Ghana, and Ethiopia. Gambling on Development is about these winning efforts, in contrast to countries stuck in elite bargains leading nowhere. Building on three decades' experience across forty-odd countries, Dercon winds his narrative through Ebola in Sierra Leone, scandals in Malawi, beer factories in the DRC, mobile phone licenses in Mozambique, and relief programs behind enemy lines in South Sudan. Weaving together conversations with prime ministers, civil servants, and ordinary people, this is a probing look at how development has been achieved across the world, and how to assist such successes.

Stefan Dercon (Author), Michael Langan (Narrator)

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Our Lives in Their Portfolios: Why Asset Managers Own the World

Banks have taken a backseat since the global financial crisis over a decade ago. Today, our new financial masters are asset managers, like Blackstone and BlackRock. And they don't just own financial assets. The roads we drive on; the pipes that supply our drinking water; the farmland that provides our food; energy systems for electricity and heat; hospitals, schools, and the homes in which many of us live-all now swell asset managers' bulging investment portfolios. As the owners of more and more of the basic building blocks of everyday life, asset managers shape the lives of each and every one of us in profound and disturbing ways. In this eye-opening follow-up to Rentier Capitalism, Brett Christophers peels back the veil on 'asset manager society.' Asset managers are unlike traditional owners of housing and other essential infrastructure. Buying and selling these life-supporting assets at a dizzying pace, the crux of their business model is not long-term investment and careful custodianship but making quick profits for themselves. In asset manager society, the natural and built environments that sustain us become one more vehicle for siphoning money from the many to the few.

Brett Christophers (Author), Mike Cooper (Narrator)

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The Dollar: How the US Dollar Became a Popular Currency in Argentina

Originally published in Argentina in 2019 and now finally available in English, Luzzi and Wilkis's acclaimed book traces the history of the economic, social, and political relevance of the dollar in Argentina and its popularization over the years. How did the dollar come to play such a leading role in Argentina's national existence? How and why did this global currency become a local currency on the other end of the Western hemisphere? Through the reconstruction of the social and cultural history of the US dollar in Argentina, Luzzi and Wilkis provide original insight into this sidebar of the dollar's history, showing how it became a 'local' currency even outside its country of origin.

Ariel Wilkis, Mariana Luzzi (Author), Kate Udall (Narrator)

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Vienna: How the City of Ideas Created the Modern World

How can one European capital be responsible for most of the West's intellectual and cultural achievements in the twentieth century? Viennese ideas saturate the modern world. From California architecture to Hollywood Westerns, modern advertising to shopping malls, orgasms to gender confirmation surgery, nuclear fission to fitted kitchens-every aspect of our history, science, and culture is in some way shaped by Vienna. The city of Freud, Wittgenstein, Mahler, and Klimt was the melting pot at the heart of a vast metropolitan empire. But with the Second World War and the rise of fascism, the dazzling coteries of thinkers who squabbled, debated, and called Vienna home dispersed across the world, where their ideas continued to have profound impact. Richard Cockett gives us the entirety of this extraordinary story. Tracing Vienna's rich intellectual history from psychoanalysis to Reaganomics, Cockett encompasses everything from the communist rebels of Red Vienna to the neoliberal economists of the Austrian School. This is the panoramic account of how one city made the modern world-and how we all remain inescapably Viennese.

Richard Cockett (Author), Gareth Richards (Narrator)

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Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia

An "introduction to the nonfascist life" (Michel Foucault, from the Preface) When it first appeared in France, Anti-Oedipus was hailed as a masterpiece by some and "a work of heretical madness" by others. In it, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari set forth the following theory: Western society's innate herd instinct has allowed the government, the media, and even the principles of economics to take advantage of each person's unwillingness to be cut off from the group. What's more, those who suffer from mental disorders may not be insane, but could be individuals in the purest sense, because they are by nature isolated from society. More than twenty-five years after its original publication, Anti-Oedipus still stands as a controversial contribution to a much-needed dialogue on the nature of free thinking.

Felix Guattari, Gilles Deleuze (Author), Jon Orsini (Narrator)

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Take Your Company Global: The New Rules of International Expansion

Companies looking to expand used to think about entering international markets, but today you're global from the moment you create a website. Nataly Kelly, Chief Growth Officer at Rebrandly (a global tech company with customers in more than 100 countries) and former VP International Ops and Strategy at HubSpot, says now the goal should be market intensification-building on the presence you already have. Kelly's MARACA model enables companies to distill the mass amounts of data available to determine if, how, and where they should expand by looking at three key areas of measurement: MA: market availability-the size of the market opportunity within a given country; RA: real-time analytics-data indicating how your company is currently performing in that market; and CA: customer addressability-the measure of your company's ability to address the market, no matter its size. The book is based on Kelly's experiences with building a global business both at HubSpot and as a consultant, but also contains numerous examples from successful global companies of various sizes, such as Airbnb, Canva, Dashlane, GoStudent, Facebook, LinkedIn, Lottie Dolls, Netflix, Revolut, Teamwork, and Zoom. Including information on building a globally minded corporate culture, this is a complete strategic guide to discovering international growth opportunities.

Nataly Kelly (Author), Sarah Welborn (Narrator)

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[German] - Die Waffen des Lichts - Kingsbridge-Roman, Band 5 (Gekürzt)

Willkommen zurück in KINGSBRIDGE! Mit seinem neuesten Werk läutet Ken Follett für die Menschen in Kingsbridge eine neue Ära ein. Eine Ära, in der Tradition und Fortschritt aufeinanderprallen, Klassenkämpfe in alle Teile der Gesellschaft vordringen und der gesamte Kontinent von einem erbitterten Krieg erfasst wird: die Zeit der Industrialisierung England 1770. Mit Erfindung der 'Spinning Jenny' bricht eine neue Ära der Fertigung und Industrie an. Innerhalb nur einer Generation verändert die Webmaschine das Leben der Menschen grundlegend. Die Welt ist in Unruhe, auch in Kingsbridge. Maschinen machen die traditionelle Handarbeit der Weber überflüssig - und gefährlich. Ein Arbeiter stirbt bei einem durch Fahrlässigkeit verursachten Arbeitsunfall und hinterlässt Witwe und Kinder. Eine junge Frau kämpft um die Finanzierung ihrer Schule für Kinder aus armen Familien. Ein wohlwollender junger Mann erbt unerwartet ein scheiterndes Unternehmen. Ein anderer schützt rücksichtslos seinen Reichtum, koste es, was es wolle. Zur selben Zeit, in der Englands Herrscher versuchen, das Königreich zur dominierenden Handelsmacht zu formen, wird in Frankreich Kriegsgeschrei laut. Napoleon Bonaparte ist an der Macht und schmiedet einen gewaltigen Plan, um die Herrschaft über die Welt an sich zu reißen. Auf einmal ist Krieg in Europa, und überall auf dem Kontinent stehen jahrhundertealte Institutionen infrage. Nichts ist mehr, wie es einmal war. Der Wandel bestimmt das Leben der Menschen. Wird es ihnen gelingen, sich in der neuen Welt zurechtzufinden und sich aus der Asche des Krieges zu erheben? Vor über dreißig Jahren veröffentlichte Ken Follett seinen populärsten Roman, DIE SÄULEN DER ERDE. Der nun fünfte Teil der bahnbrechenden Kingsbridge-Reihe führt erneut direkt ins Herz der Geschichte. Er ist Ken Folletts bisher ehrgeizigstes Werk und zeigt meisterhaft die seismischen Verschiebungen, die das Europa des 19. Jahrhunderts erschütterten. Tauchen Sie mit Ken Folletts Helden ein in den Kampf zwischen Mitgefühl und Gier, Liebe und Hass, Fortschritt und Tradition!

Ken Follett (Author), Tobias Kluckert (Narrator)

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[German] - Exportweltmeister: Geschichte einer deutschen Obsession

Im WM-Finale 1986 musste sich die DFB-Elf der argentinischen Auswahl um Diego Maradona mit 2:3 geschlagen geben. Trotzdem durften sich die Westdeutschen als Weltmeister fühlen, denn in diesem Jahr exportierte die Bundesrepublik erstmals mehr Güter als jeder andere Staat. Das Land war »Exportweltmeister« – Champion in einer Disziplin, die nicht nur das Fundament für unseren Wohlstand bildet: Die deutsche Exportstärke ist Bestandteil des Nationalstolzes und Hinweis auf den exzellenten Ruf der Waren »Made in Germany«. Der Wirtschaftshistoriker Jan-Otmar Hesse begibt sich auf die Spuren dieses Erfolgs, der sich einer erstaunlichen Anpassungsfähigkeit deutscher Unternehmen und einer exportfreundlichen Politik verdankt. Schon Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts wurden wichtige Weichen gestellt. Die Weimarer Republik schuf die ersten Instrumente zur Unterstützung der Exportwirtschaft. Die Geldpolitik der Nachkriegszeit stärkte ihre globale Wettbewerbsfähigkeit. Fesselnd und mit vielen bislang unbekannten Details berichtet Exportweltmeister davon, wie aus Werkstätten und Manufakturen Global Player und aus einem rohstoffarmen Land die ökonomische Supermacht wurde, die es heute ist.

Jan-Otmar Hesse (Author), Erich Wittenberg (Narrator)

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