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    Martin Sharp: His Life and Times , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 542min
    This is the beautifully told story of charismatic and unconventional pop artist Martin Sharp, from his lonely privileged childhood to the heady days of the underground magazine Oz to Swinging London and beyond. Sharp blurred the boundaries of high art and low; he drew rock stars and reprobates into his world, collaborated with Eric Clapton, obsessively championed eccentric singer Tiny Tim, was haunted by Sydney's Luna Park and, paradoxically, became a recluse whose phone never stopped ringing. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Daniel Koek. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/howe/003358/bk_howe_003358_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Love, Death, and Revolution in Central Europe
    The philosopher of religion and critic of idealism, Ludwig Feuerbach had a far-reaching impact on German radicalism around the time of the Revolution of 1848. This intellectual history explores how Feuerbach s critique of religion served as a rallying point for radicals, and how they paradoxically sought to create a new, post-religious form of religiosity as part of the revolutionary aim. At issue for the Feuerbachian radicals was the emergence of a humanity emancipated from the constraints of mere institutions, able to express itself freely and harmoniously. Caldwell also touches on Moses Hess, Louise Dittmar, and Richard Wagner in his discussion of the time. Thisbook reconstructs the nature of Feuerbach s radicalism and shows how it influenced early works of socialism, feminism, and musical modernism.
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    Useful Delusions
    Everyone agrees that lies and self-deception can do terrible harm to our lives, to our communities and to the planet. But in Useful Delusions, host of Hidden Brain Shankar Vedantam argues that, paradoxically, deceiving ourselves and others can also play a vital role in human success and well-being. The lies we tell each other and the lies that we tell ourselves sustain our daily interactions with friends, lovers and co-workers. They explain why some people live longer than others, why some couples remain in love and others don't, why some nations and tribes hold together while others splinter. Filled with powerful personal stories and drawing on new insights in psychology, neuroscience and philosophy, Useful Delusions offers a fascinating tour of an upside-down world.
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    Quicksand, Hörbuch, Digital, 314min
    Helga Crane yearns to become more than she is and to feel the world more intensely. She consequently dismisses her native Chicago, New York's Harlem, Copenhagen even. She also passes on opportunities for extended family, for marriage, and for true love. What is always latent in this truly outstanding work; is how much the background of 1920's American racial segregation defines Helga's malaise, and how much - paradoxically - is of herown doing... The title of this novel is tragically fitting: living in a country with so much unresolved tensions, so much injustice and hypocrisy and violence could very well feel like walking in quicksand. Language: English. Narrator: Margaret Melosh. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/edel/011336/bk_edel_011336_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Born Again: What Really Happened to the White House Hatchet Man , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 796min
    Born Again is the autobiography of one of the most influential men of our time. It is not only a remarkable story of one man's redemption in Christ, but a fascinating look inside the events of one of America's most riveting sagas. In the 1970s, against the backdrop of the explosive Watergate scandal, Charles Colson revealed the story of his own search for meaning during the tumultuous investigations that led to the collapse of the Nixon administration. A convicted former special counsel to the president, Colson paradoxically found new life - not with success and power, but while in national disgrace and serving a prison sentence. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jon Gauger. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/oasi/000883/bk_oasi_000883_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Master's "Little Miss": An Age-Play Novelette , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 60min, (USK 18)
    Book two of R. Greco's six-part age-play series continues the evolving relationship of a non-lifestyle dom and a sexually adventurous divorcee that started with a serendipitous online chat and a lust-at-first-sight hookup. Biding their time until they can resolve the issue of living on opposite coasts, Jon and Kay utilize a variety of modern electronic tools to indulge in long distance D/s games, including an indefinite period of orgasm denial for Kay, which paradoxically proves to be extremely arousing and escalates their sexual enjoyment. Kay's sexual frustration soon motivates her to seduce her bi-curious BFF, and then share the lurid details of the experience with her NY-based master. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jazmin Kensington. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/069058/bk_acx0_069058_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Alex Katz: Studies in World Art, Book 4 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 15min
    Alex Katz is one of the great survivors of a heroic period in American art. He is also one of the great unclassifiables. At various times he has been described both as a Pop artist and as a classic American Realist, though critics admit that he does not fit comfortably into either of these categories.What most people admit, however, is that he reflects and presents aspects of American culture and American landscape in a uniquely skillful and economical way. In his hands, certain aspects of American culture and of the American environment have acquired iconic status. His paintings are epigrams about America, uniquely pithy. Paradoxically, they possess this epigrammatic quality even though they exist physically on a very large scale. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Joe Van Riper. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/104290/bk_acx0_104290_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Why Are We at War? , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 113min
    Beginning with his debut masterpiece, The Naked and the Dead, Norman Mailer has repeatedly told the truth about war. Why Are We at War? returns Mailer to the gravity of the battlefield and the grand hubris of the politicians who send soldiers there to die. First published in the early days of the Iraq War, Why Are We at War? is an explosive argument about the American quest for empire that still carries weight today. Scrutinizing the Bush administration's words and actions, Mailer unleashes his trademark moral rigor: "Because democracy is noble, it is always endangered.... To assume blithely that we can export democracy into any country we choose can serve paradoxically to encourage more fascism at home and abroad." ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Norman Mailer. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/008582/bk_brll_008582_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Normal Now
    This is a book about what we consider normal. It details how the very concept of normality emerged in the modern era, and how it has changed over the centuries.By the mid-twentieth century, the expansion of norms across various areas of human endeavour generated a governing normative order in Western societies. Normality was defined as conformity with a narrow model of conventional human behaviour. However, this model has since been displaced by an anti-conformism, in which normality is defined as absolute self-fulfilment, defying older restrictions on our behaviour. Paradoxically, narcissistic individualism and rebellion against conformity have become compulsory.Normal Now explores in detail how this new normative order plays out today in the arenas of politics, health, and sex and sexuality. In all these areas, the uncompromising perfectionism of our norms of self-expression leads to increasingly deep-seated and ubiquitous anger, anxiety and dissatisfaction.
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    Normal Now
    This is a book about what we consider normal. It details how the very concept of normality emerged in the modern era, and how it has changed over the centuries.By the mid-twentieth century, the expansion of norms across various areas of human endeavour generated a governing normative order in Western societies. Normality was defined as conformity with a narrow model of conventional human behaviour. However, this model has since been displaced by an anti-conformism, in which normality is defined as absolute self-fulfilment, defying older restrictions on our behaviour. Paradoxically, narcissistic individualism and rebellion against conformity have become compulsory.Normal Now explores in detail how this new normative order plays out today in the arenas of politics, health, and sex and sexuality. In all these areas, the uncompromising perfectionism of our norms of self-expression leads to increasingly deep-seated and ubiquitous anger, anxiety and dissatisfaction.
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    • Price: 22.99 EUR excl. shipping

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