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    The marvellous wisdom and quaint conceits of Thomas Fuller D.D. being The holy state somewhat abridged and set in order; wherunto is added The first biography of The Doctor of famous memory
    The marvellous wisdom and quaint conceits of Thomas Fuller D.D. being The holy state somewhat abridged and set in order; wherunto is added The first biography of The Doctor of famous memory ab 24.49 € als Taschenbuch: . Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Ratgeber,
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    Democritus In London
    Democritus In London ab 50.99 € als gebundene Ausgabe: With The Mad Pranks And Comical Conceits Of Motley And Robin Good-Fellow. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, English, International, Gebundene Ausgaben,
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    Grey Area , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 498min
    Will Self, whom the Los Angeles Times calls "the hottest young novelist in England", demonstrates his razor-sharp wit in these nine new stories. Self's method depends upon taking an ordinary aspect of the world and then pushing it to its limit in furious absurdity. The short stories in Grey Area reflect the technical brilliance and satiric voice that have made him one of the most highly praised comic writers in a decade. These are stories that delve into the modern psyche with unsettling and darkly satiric results. "Inclusion" tells the story of a doctor who is illegally testing a new antidepressant made from bee excrement. "A Short History of the English Novel" brings us face to face with a pompous publisher who is greeted at every turn by countless rejected authors. In "The End of the Relationship", a woman who has been left by her boyfriend provokes - like some emotional Typhoid Mary - that same reaction among all the couples she goes to for comfort. The narrator of "Between the Conceits" declares without hesitation that London is controlled by only eight individuals, and, thankfully, he is one of them. Self's world in these pieces is both curiously familiar and hauntingly strange. Published to critical acclaim in England, Grey Area is a dazzling collection by one of the most talented and original writers of his generation. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gemma Dawson, Ralph Lister. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/021856/bk_adbl_021856_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Greene's Ghost Haunting Conycatchers Wherein Is Set Down The Art Of Humoring Etc.
    Greene's Ghost Haunting Conycatchers Wherein Is Set Down The Art Of Humoring Etc. ab 37.99 € als gebundene Ausgabe: With The Merry Conceits Of Doctor Pinchback (1860). Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, English, International, Gebundene Ausgaben,
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    The Mad Pranks of Tom Tram Son-in-law to Mother Winter
    The Mad Pranks of Tom Tram Son-in-law to Mother Winter ab 1.99 € als epub eBook: To Which Are Added His Merry Jests Odd Conceits and Pleasant Tales. Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Belletristik, Erzählungen,
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    Gentlemen and Players , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 805min
    The New York Times best-selling author takes a riveting new direction with this richly textured, multi-layered novel of friendship, murder, revenge, and class conflict set in an upper-crust English school - as enthralling and haunting as Ian McKewan's Atonement and Patricia Highsmith's The Talented Mr. RipleyAudere, agere, auferre.To dare, to strive, to conquer.For generations, elite young men have attended St. Oswald's School for Boys, groomed for success by the likes of Roy Straitley, the eccentric classics teacher who has been a revered fixture for more than 30 years. But this year, things are different. Suits, paperwork, and Information Technology rule the world, and Straitley is reluctantly contemplating retirement. He is joined in this, his 99th, term by five new faculty members, including one who - unknown to Straitley and everyone else - holds intimate and dangerous knowledge of St. Ozzie's ways and secrets, it's comforts and conceits. Harboring dark ties to the school's past, this young teacher has arrived with one terrible goal: Destroy St. Oswald's.As the new term gets underway, a number of incidents befall students and faculty alike. Beginning as small annoyances - a lost pen, a misplaced coffee mug - they soon escalate to the life threatening. With the school unraveling, only Straitley stands in the way of St. Ozzie's ruin. But the old man faces a formidable opponent - a master player with a strategy that has been meticulously planned to the final move.A harrowing tale of cat and mouse told in alternating voices, this riveting, hypnotically atmospheric novel showcases Joanne Harris' astonishing storytelling talent as never before. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Steven Pacey. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/001203/bk_harp_001203_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Singularity of Being: Lacan and the Immortal Within , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 708min
    The Singularity of Being presents a Lacanian vision of what makes each of us an inimitable and irreplaceable creature. It argues that, unlike the "subject" (who comes into existence as a result of symbolic prohibition) or the "person" (who is aligned with the narcissistic conceits of the imaginary), the singular self emerges in response to a galvanizing directive arising from the real. This directive carries the force of an obligation that cannot be resisted and that summons the individual to a "character" beyond his or her social investments. Consequently, singularity expresses something about the individual's non-negotiable distinctiveness, eccentricity, or idiosyncrasy at the same time it prevents both symbolic and imaginary closure. It opens to layers of rebelliousness, indicating that there are components of human life exceeding the realm of normative sociality. Written with an unusual blend of rigor and clarity, The Singularity of Being combines incisive readings of Lacan with the best insights of recent Lacanian theory to reach beyond the dogmas of the field. Moving from what, thanks in part to Slavoj Zizek, has come to be known as the "ethics of the act" to a nuanced interpretation of Lacan's "ethics of sublimation", the book offers a sweeping overview of Lacan's thought while making an original contribution to contemporary theory and ethics. Aimed at specialists and nonspecialists alike, the book manages to educate at the same time as it intervenes in current debates about subjectivity, agency, resistance, creativity, the self-other relationship, and effective political and ethical action. By focusing on the Lacanian real, Ruti honors the uniqueness of subjective experience without losing sight of the social and intersubjective components of human life. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Suzanne Toren. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/004979/bk_adbl_004979_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Mobs, Messiahs, and Markets: Surviving the Public Spectacle in Finance and Politics , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 804min
    Collectively, people think and act in ways that are different from how they think and act as individuals. Understanding these differences, says William (Bill) Bonner, a longtime maverick observer of the financial world and the vagaries of the investing public, is vital to preserving your wealth and personal dignity. From the witch hunts of the early modern world to the war on terror, from the dot-com mania to the real-estate bubble, people have always been caught up in frauds, conceits, and wild guesses - often with devastating results. Now Bonner and co-author Lila Rajiva show groupthink at work in an improbable array of instances throughout history and reveal why swimming against the current pays. They explain why people so often abandon good sense and good behavior to "follow the crowd" and show you how to avoid getting caught up in the public spectacles around you. If an investor merely recognizes the way mob sentiment works, he is far ahead of others. Ordinary people turn billions of dollars worth of their hard-earned money over to brokers and fund managers daily, believing that these strangers will give them back even more. Why? This audiobook demonstrates that investors are in fact caught between a rock and a soft place - between the private world they can understand and master and the misleading public spectacle of the markets. "The farther away you get from your investments, and the less you suffer the consequences if they go bad, the worse your performance will be," say Bonner and Rajiva. "That's why 'collective' investments like index-linked funds, mutual funds, hedge funds, insurance funds, and pension funds are usually so bad. The investors are too far from the facts, and the managers are too far from the consequences." ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Erik Synnestvedt. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/gdan/000116/bk_gdan_000116_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Greene's Ghost Haunting Conycatchers Wherein Is Set Down The Art Of Humoring Etc.
    Greene's Ghost Haunting Conycatchers Wherein Is Set Down The Art Of Humoring Etc. ab 17.49 € als Taschenbuch: With The Merry Conceits Of Doctor Pinchback (1860). Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, English, International, Englische Taschenbücher,
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    Unmasking the Gentiles: The European Plot to Replace Israel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 102min
    Does the term “Gentiles” refer to all non-Jews or is that just the lie we’ve been sold to cover up the truth? Who were the Gentiles, and where are they now? What role do they play in Bible prophecy, and where are we at on the prophetic countdown clock?Believe it or not, the Bible tells us exactly who the Gentiles are, where they are, and what’s about to happen when their time is up. Unfortunately, it is too often ignored. We’re about to get into some deep and controversial but pure Biblical truth, in this enlightening audiobook.There were two Bible verses that really inspired me to look into who the Gentiles are, according the Bible. I’ve heard many people teach on these verses, and I couldn’t shake the feeling that the in-formation was just being repeated, but not actually researched (myself included). Here are the verses:Verse one:“And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.” (Luke 21:24)Verse two:“For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles be come in.” (Romans 11:25)In verse one, we see that Jerusalem will be trodden down by Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles is fulfilled or completed. This is what I get from the context of verse one. But was the times of the Gentiles really fulfilled in 1967 during the Six Days War, or are we still looking at the Gentile occupation of Jerusalem?In verse two, we see that the partial blindness of Israel is only temporary and will be lifted after the fullness of the Gentiles comes in. What does that really mean, and what specifically would the blindness of Israel encompass?Whatever the answers to these questions are, they do seem to be connect ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: L.D. Peterson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/183586/bk_acx0_183586_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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