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Die Meinungsfreiheit ist für eine freiheitliche Demokratie konstituierend. In Deutschland ist sie deshalb verfassungsrechtlich besonders geschützt. Trotzdem haben mehr als zwei Drittel der Deutschen das Gefühl, sie könnten ihre Meinung nicht frei äußern. Wie kommt das? Wolfgang Kubicki widmet sich der Frage, welche Fehler in Politik, Medien und Gesellschaft gemacht wurden, die zu diesem Vertrauensverlust führten und zeigt, wie wir zu einer neuen Diskurskultur finden.

Deutschland im Jahr 2019. Billig, konsumfreundlich und auf Nur-nicht-drüber-Nachdenken getrimmt. Gewerkschaften gelten als unsexy, faire Bezahlung ist kein Thema. Dabei gibt es immer mehr Menschen, deren Einkommen nicht zum Leben reicht. Investigativ-Autorin Anette Dowideit nimmt die Löhne und Gehälter verschiedener Branchen unter die Lupe und fragt: Wer ist eigentlich noch Mittelschicht? Ehemals angesehene Berufe rutschen in Richtung Prekariat ab: Pilot, Stewardess, Lehrer, Krankenschwester.

In this fun and provocative book, Michael Fanuele, one of the world’s most successful marketing strategists, shares The Six Skills of Inspiration. With insights from music, politics, business, neuroscience, and a recipe for radishes, Stop Making Sense shares the creative blueprint that can unleash the inspiring leader in all of us.

John Henry Cole's life has quieted down from what it had always been, and he can now settle down and make improvements on his small ranch. But everything changes when an old rancher named Wilson rides in with his two sons. Wilson is willing to pay Cole $5,000 to help get back his wife Lenora who has been taken hostage by Lucky Jack Dancer, an outlaw who had robbed the train on which she was a passenger.

Wüssten wir nicht alle gerne, was andere Menschen wirklich denken, fühlen oder planen? Wie wir sie zu etwas überreden oder beeinflussen können? Wie wir sofort erkennen können, ob sie besorgt oder zufrieden sind? Und wünschen wir uns nicht auch, dass sie uns als jemanden wahrnehmen, der Selbstsicherheit, Autorität und Empathie ausstrahlt? Menschen kommunizieren ständig nonverbal: durch Körpersprache und Gesichtsausdrücke, Tonlage und Aussprache, die Art, wie sie Gefühle zeigen oder sich kleiden, aber auch durch die bewussten und unbewussten Verhaltensweisen und Einstellungen.

Es ist ein kurzer Blick, ein Blinzeln nur - doch er macht deutlicher als tausend Worte, welche unüberwindlichen Hindernisse sich zwischen einem Paar aufgebaut haben. Und nur eine kleine Handbewegung, eine spontane Drehung des Körpers, die Stellung der Füße sind glaubwürdigere Liebesbezeugungen, als Schwüre es jemals sein könnten.

Through the rising action of his life in literature, Lennon’s remembrances track the influence not only of his literary pater familias, Norman Mailer, but his actual father, a booze-bitten blue-collar bibliophile with his own reputation for genius, and how together these mentors forged and focused the 20/20 literary vision Lennon takes to the work of some of the greatest writers of the Twentieth Century, from Baldwin and Bishop to Didion and DeLillo and, not least, Mailer himself.

This book is designed for a fun and enjoyable experience for listeners of all ages. Perfect for car rides or family night with interesting , random facts about the animals in the ocean, you are sure to remember something fun that you can use to stand out in any conversation.

Anisa never expected a night out to flip her entire world upside down. Independent, driven, and focused on her daughter, love wasn’t on her radar—until Alan walked in, fine as hell and smooth with his words. What started as flirty banter turned into late-night conversations and the kind of intimacy that awakens the soul. But loving a man like Alan comes with complications. A secret entanglement from his past threatens everything they’re building. As trust is tested and hearts are on the line, Anisa must decide if passion is enough to withstand the storm—or if love means walking away.

What happens when you meet the man of your dreams, but it's the right place, wrong time? You walk away… What do you do when you keep running into him at the most random times, in the most random places? You let him in… What happens when you find out he makes his living in the shadows? You fall a little harder… Is it crazy to love him? Absolutely, but you do it anyway…

Audrey Pilar is a master in the art of breaking up. Her friends have dubbed her ritual of leaving men as “The Expiration Date.” Hurt from her past has caused Audrey to protect her heart at all costs, even if it means self sabotage. She’s developed the habit of looking for red flags, and it seems to work for her—until she meets Sullivan Santiago. The confident, thirty-three-year-old owner of Sullivan’s Coffee Tavern is unlike anyone she’s ever met, and for Audrey, if it’s too good to be true, it usually is.

Knit me into a cocoon. Help me eat a burrito. Pretend to be a chair at my dinner party. Wrestle a Komodo dragon. Race me in a lobster suit. Author Kelly Mahon posts absurd gig ads online and shares the conversations she had with the brave souls who wanted the job.

Winter Jacobs...daughter of the infamous Wise. She entered the world with a silver spoon in her mouth and has only ever known privilege and the finer things. Winter is wise beyond her years and seems to attract popularity and success with every move that she makes. To outsiders, her life is perfect, but Winter has problems like everyone else.

Ireland Wright is done with love. She's emotionally unavailable and not interested in being attached. Men love that about her until she proves that they can't break her. Ireland crushes egos with her passive demeanor and thinks nothing of it. She's not jaded or bitter, she simply doesn't want to deal with loss. Because everything ends. She learned that fact when her parents died two years apart. Fear of the unknown grips her like a vice and takes her thoughts hostage.

After a Frontier village's monitoring station fails, deadly vampire Nobles return to life, swearing vengeance on the descendants of the family that defeated them three hundred years ago. The mayor of the village, hoping to save his life and that of his family, hires five vampire hunters, but as the mayor's daughter returns from the Capital, he finds that she has been targeted by five revenge driven Nobles!

This is a compassionate, real-world dive into what it means to feel emotionally whole. Drawing on psychology, personal reflection, human development theory, and hard-won experience, J. Michael Hogarth guides the listener through a map of the emotional landscape we all share. Accessible, honest, and deeply human, The 7 Primal Human Emotional Needs offers listeners insight not just into their own emotional patterns, but into the people they love, the systems they live in, and the healing they may have never known they needed.

In the winter of 1942, an army vanishes into the icefields of the Eastern Front. In the summer of 1945, a massacre in small-town Italy makes international headlines. Today, an ordinary man is about to stumble onto a horrifying secret. Alex Lago is a jaded journalist whose family, marriage, and career are fading fast. So, when the accidental discovery of an aged photo from World War II offers him a last gasp at bonding with his dying father, Alex can't help but scratch at the scabs of a mystery seventy years in the making.

There was only one thing on my mind this football season: Revenge. Last season, my number one wide receiver had patted me on the back, then walked away with my fiancée. I'd become the laughingstock of the entire sports world, with my face being splashed across gossip sites. As I watched my ex, Shaunie, walk down the aisle to Vick, I vowed everybody was going to pay. The only person laughing this season would be me.

Sie sind keine Erfindung unserer Zeit, aber es ist auffällig, wie sehr sie wieder in Mode sind: legitime Herrscher, die sich wie Despoten verhalten. Staatenlenker, die auf Gewalt setzen und willkürlich regieren. Sie sind zwar nicht durch Putsch oder Revolution an die Macht gekommen, sondern (weitestgehend) demokratisch in ihre Ämter gewählt worden, doch läuft ihr Regierungsstil letztlich auf Tyrannei hinaus.

Since he was a child, Kadafi blamed the infamous Wise Jacobs for the fact that he didn't have either one of his parents. When the time finally comes for Kadafi to get his revenge, he doesn't plan on everything going wrong. Unfortunately, he missed, and that's not good for him. Wise isn't the man to go up against without an army behind you. In addition to Kadafi having beef with the king of the city, he has to deal with the consequences of doing the unthinkable and losing the love of his life.