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  Elements of Retrofit : Thomas Elkin Series, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 190min

  Generation versus generation, traditional versus contemporary, these men are about to learn a lesson in architecture and love. Can they prove that the old and new can be the perfect design?A successful New York architect, Thomas Elkin almost has it all. Coming out as gay and ending his marriage before his 40th birthday, he needed to start living his life. Now, four years later, with his relationship with his son back on track, and after a few short-lived romances, this esteemed traditional draftsman thinks he knows everything about architecture, about life.Cooper Jones, 22 years old, is about to take the architect world by storm. Talented, professional, driven and completely infuriating, Cooper is the definition of Generation Y.Starting an internship working with Thomas, Cooper is about to knock Tom's world off its axis. Tom can teach Cooper about the architecture industry, but Cooper is about to teach Tom what it means to live. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Nick J. Russo. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/149478/bk_acx0_149478_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Not For Turning , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1069min

  Margaret Thatcher is one of the most iconic politicians of the 20th century. With the possible exception of Winston Churchill, no other Prime Minister has had such an impact on modern British history. Like it or not, her radical social and economic policies have made Britain the country it is today. Without Margaret Thatcher there could have been no New Labour, no Tony Blair and no David Cameron. Now Robin Harris, for many years Thatcher's speechwriter, trusted adviser, and the draftsman of two volumes of her autobiography, has written the defining book about this indomitable woman. He tells her extraordinary life story, from humble beginnings above her father's grocer's shop in Grantham, her early days as one of the first women in Westminster who became known as 'Thatcher milk-snatcher' during her days in the Ministry for Education and then as Prime Minister. We follow her through the 'Winter of Discontent', the tribulations of the miners' strike and the Falklands War. And Harris writes a stunning account of her exit from power and tells of her life after number 10. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Nigel Anthony. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rhuk/001537/bk_rhuk_001537_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Alfred Kubin. Confessions of a Tortured Soul

  The art of the great draftsman, illustrator and author Alfred Kubin, appears more current today than ever before: for it was violence, wartime destruction, pandemics, natural disasters, the manipulation of the masses and other abysses of human existence that pervaded his highly narrational works. The oeuvre of this fantastical creator confronts us with pessimistic visions which delineate "the worst of all possible worlds". The catalogue is the first to attempt an exploration of Kubin's oneiric worlds - which all too often enter nightmarish-somber spheres - in terms of their relation to the unconscious and the deep dimensions of the psyche. In this interpretation attempt, the psychoanalyst and psychiatrist August Ruhs will orient himself on works by Kubin selected by curator Hans-Peter Wipplinger with specific thematic emphases in mind. Kubin's works are placed into a dialogue with works by artists of the 19th century and of Classical Modernism from which Kubin derived inspiration for his oeuvre. Kubin's dystopian visualizations, which carry on from Symbolism and the fantastical art of the 19th century and may be considered precursors to French Surrealism, are composed of actual and imaginary reality: an ingenious synthesis, in which the uncanniness of these pessimistic realms is often seasoned with humor, irony and exaggeration. Text: Hans-Peter Wipplinger, August Ruhs, Burghart Schmidt, Annegret Hoberg, Lena Scholz.

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  The Mines of Falun , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 70min

  E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776 – 1822), was a German Romantic author of fantasy and horror as well as a jurist, composer, music critic, draftsman and caricaturist. His stories were highly influential during the 19th century, and he is one of the major authors of the Romantic movement."The Mines of Falun" tells the story of Elis Fröbom, a sailor, who returns from the East Indies to Gotherburg in Sweden, only to discover that his mother has died and he is alone in the world. He tells his story to an old miner who befriends him on the quay, and the miner tells him about the magical mines of Falun and urges him to become a miner. Soon after this, he sets out on a journey, and constantly sees the mysterious old miner ahead of him, showing him the way, and he realises that he is on the way to Falun.Once there he is taken into the house of the mine owner, Pehrson Dahlsjö, and falls in love with his lovely daughter, Ulla Dahlsjö. But the ghostly old miner will not permit Elis to be distracted from mining by his love for an earthly woman, and Elis is torn between his love for Ulla and his obsession with the underground world of fires and minerals. It is this obsession, and the pull of the ghost of the miner, which leads to his destruction. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Cathy Dobson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/redd/000377/bk_redd_000377_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Running Down My Dreams: A Memoir , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 167min

  Remember pencils?Designing and drafting homes became my passion.Author Richard Deatherage has created a memoir that will likely be a standard toward which all future memoirists will reach. Not only is the audiobook beautifully written as a coming-of-age story, but it also is a reflection on Americana - the way we have lived and the impact of history on our families and our lives.In a sensitive prologue, Richard writes, "Our American way of life has given each of us the individual challenge to become successful in our own individual way, with all the opportunities and common freedoms to mold yourself into a career field you have chosen. The evolution of my early childhood had set forth an abundance of confidence early on in my life. To make difficult decisions and to change easily to what ever came my way - continuing to this day. My adventures growing up in the 1960s and '70s throughout America as an official United States Air Force Brat (USAFB) had given me a unique perspective on our American way of life."Deatherage recounts witnessing racism, his family struggles while his father served in Vietnam, absorbing the Midwestern lifestyle while moving as a military family every four years, and his eventual settling in California; his passion for drafting discovered in mechanical drafting class in high school to his successful career as a carpenter, draftsman, builder, and construction superintendent has lead in the blossoming of the Sacramento area, the abrupt change in his life brought about by the infamous 2008 economic crash, and ultimately the death of his beloved father. All of this saga is related with the warmth that makes this audiobook memorable. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Caroline Waltz. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/170473/bk_acx0_170473_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Frederic Remington: The Life and Legacy of the Wild West’s Most Famous Artist , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 83min

  The West was an endless source of fascination for those who were either personally or circumstantially ill-suited to travel there. As explorers opened trails and people expanded the frontier, unusual walks of life like cattle drives and hunting became commonplace, as did images of dusty boomtowns. Before the Transcontinental Railroad connected the Atlantic and Pacific, the Old West possessed a distinctly separate culture from the East Coast, and cowboys, early settlers, and an enormous array of indigenous peoples produced a hybrid culture that seemed doomed to disappear as a result of the inevitable modernization.The subsequent growth of print journalism fed the East Coast’s interest in the West, whether it was based on fantasy and non-fiction, but with the art of photography in its infancy by the years of the Civil War, a more familiar type of artist stepped in to fill the need, one who like the storytellers in print could simultaneously bring both fantasy and reality to life. Painters and sculptors of the West bore little outward resemblance to their illustrious ancestors, the European masters, but they brought foreign landscapes and people to larger audiences through skillful examples of iconic Western images.Many of the first artists in the West were assigned to exploration and geological parties, working as archivists and obedient to demands of cold accuracy. However, a few were driven by an imaginative mix of real events and fantastical visions to whet the appetite of Eastern consumers and preserve their own nostalgia on canvas. Among the artists who developed a passionate relationship with the West to one degree or another, two remain iconic in the modern day. Charles Marion Russell, a Missourian drawn to the Montana country, expressed a general empathy for the Native American tribes and the American cowboy. New Yorker Frederic Remington held the advantage in education and talents as a draftsman, but he did not lose himself so entirely to th ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Scott Clem. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/191941/bk_acx0_191941_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Rewire Your Brain: Against Bad Habit and Its Component , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 239min

  This book will guide you through the way toward rewiring our brain so we can completely change our life. We can't change how we think and feel without changing our brains. We rewire our brain in order to improve for all intents and purposes for each part of your life.Eventually, we are the draftsman of our brains. At the point when we change our beliefs, gain some new useful knowledge, or become mindful of our routine responses to unsavory feelings, we really adjust the neurochemistry and the structure of our brain.Not very far in the past, it was felt that the brain we were born with was the brain we would die with and that the brain cells we had during childbirth were the most we could ever have. Our brain was believed to be "designed" to work in foreordained ways. Things being what they are false. Our brain is not hardwired; it's "soft-wired" by experience.In this book, we’ll learn:How we can rewire portions of the brain to feel progressively positive about our life, resist the urge to panic during unpleasant occasions, and improve our social connections.To activate the parts of our brain that have been under-activated and quiet down those zones that have been hyper-activated with the goal that we feel positive about our life and resist the urge to panic during unpleasant occasions. We will likewise figure out how to improve our memory, help our disposition, have better connections, and get a decent night rest.Ways by rewiring our brain during learning. We presume that bridling rewiring offers new roads to treat brain sicknesses.We'll learn out how to manage ordinary levels of feelings, and how to limit our emotions, and how to capitalize on life.We'll additionally learn healthy habits to upgrade our brain's life span and to expand a lively life liberated from self - forced confinements.In this book, we will learn how to overcome these kinds of common mistakes and man ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Samuel Jon. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/206000/bk_acx0_206000_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Selected by Extraterrestrials, Volume 2: My Life in the Top Secret World of UFOs, Think Tanks and Nordic Secretaries , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 354min

  The first volume of Selected by Extraterrestrials took the life of Bill Tompkins up to 1970 and did not go deeply into the super-secret briefings he attended by Navy spies reporting on what was going on in Nazi Germany from 1942-1945. In this second volume of his ground-breaking memoirs, we learn those details and more about his subsequent aerospace career at companies that included TRW. Here is a record of words that Bill Tompkins wrote about his life until his death in 2017. Of special interest are his detailed access to work being done by TRW, such as aggressive remote viewing projects and the early Bobby Ray Inman involvement, extensive underground alien and US tunneling systems, and the interesting role TRW played in the content of movies. He oversaw the famous Joe Papp engine development, one of many systems studied by TRW that did not use petroleum.   Bill was a teenager when the Navy took his personal ship models out of a Hollywood department store because they showed the classified locations of radars and gun emplacements. He was present at the “Battle of LA” when 1430 rounds were fired at UFOs, and he claims one of the Nordic craft selected him to be their rep in the evolving aerospace race. After working at North American Aviation and Northrop, he was hired by Douglas Aircraft Company in 1950, and when they found out about his involvement in classified work, was given a job as a draftsman with a peripheral assignment to work in a Think Tank. It was controlled by Navy personnel such as Bobby Ray Inman who used to work for James Forrestal and later developed what later became the “Solar Warden” secret spacecraft system. This story is peppered with very personal interactions with his co-workers and secretaries, some of whom he believes were Nordic aliens helping the “good guys” here on Earth. He sketched alien craft he personally saw on TV when Armstrong was landing on the Moon. Bill Tompkins confirms the existence of a secret ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Brandon Thornhill. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/223994/bk_acx0_223994_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Selected by Extraterrestrials: My Life in the Top Secret World of UFOs, Think-Tanks and Nordic Secretaries , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 829min

  Bill Tompkins was embedded in the world of secrecy as a teenager, when the navy took his personal ship models out of a Hollywood department store because they showed the classified locations of the radars and gun emplacements. He was present at the “Battle of LA”, when 1,430 rounds were fired at UFOs, and one of the Nordic craft selected him to be their rep in the evolving aerospace race. This book is a partial autobiography about his life to about 1970 including some of his early work for TRW. Selected by the navy prior to completing high school, he was the courier for secrets learned from navy spies about the Nazis until he was discharged in 1946.After working at North American Aviation and Northrop, he was hired by Douglas Aircraft Company in 1950, and when they found out about his involvement in classified work, was given a job as a draftsman with a peripheral assignment to work in a “think tank”. It was controlled by the navy personnel who used to work for James Forrestal, who was allegedly assassinated because he was going to publicly reveal what he knew about UFOs. Bill Tompkins was asked to conceive sketches of mile-long naval interplanetary craft designs.Later, as he became involved with the Apollo launch vehicle, his insight to systems engineering resulted in his offering some critical suggestions personally to Dr. Wehrner von Braun with more reliable checkout with missiles in their vertical position. This story is peppered with very personal interactions with his co-workers and secretaries, some of whom the he believes were Nordic aliens helping the “good guys” here on Earth. He sketches what he personally saw on TV when Armstrong was landing on the moon. Born in May 1923, Bill Tompkins is one of the few survivors of the “big war”, married to the same girl Mary, and was willing to tell his story about what he really did during his aerospace life in the '40s, '50s, and '60s that relate to aliens, NASA, and secrets that now can be told. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David Godfrey. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/149591/bk_acx0_149591_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Three Short Stories , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 214min

  E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776-1822) was a German Romantic author of fantasy and horror as well as a jurist, composer, music critic, draftsman and caricaturist. His stories were highly influential during the 19th century, and he is one of the major authors of the Romantic movement.  'The Mines of Falun' tells the story of Elis Fröbom, a sailor who returns from the East Indies to Gothenburg in Sweden, only to discover that his mother has died and he is alone in the world. He tells his story to an old miner who befriends him on the quay, and the miner tells him about the magical mines of Falun and urges him to become a miner. Soon after this, he sets out on a journey and constantly sees the mysterious old miner ahead of him, showing him the way, and he realises that he is on the way to Falun. Once there he is taken into the house of the mine owner, Pehrson Dahlsjö, and falls in love with his lovely daughter, Ulla Dahlsjö. But the ghostly old miner will not permit Elis to be distracted from mining by his love for an earthly woman, and Elis is torn between his love for Ulla and his obsession with the underground world of fires and minerals. It is this obsession, and the pull of the ghost of the miner, which leads to his destruction.  'Gambler's Luck' tells the story of a young German baron who is enjoying a streak of beginner's luck at the gambling tables. As his winnings mount up, the young man is gradually becoming sucked into the addictive habit of gambling. One night a stranger appears at the gambling table and watches the baron intently. The stranger appears night after night, until the baron is infuriated and challenges the man. A later chance meeting between the two results in the stranger relating a most unusual and gripping tale...  'The Cremona Violin' is the story of Councillor Krespel, an eccentric violin maker who lives with a mysterious woman, Antonia, who has the most beautiful singing voice ever heard by anyone in the town, but sh ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Cathy Dobson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/redd/001626/bk_redd_001626_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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