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The Apocryphal Gospels: Exploring the Lost Books of the Bible, Hörbuch, Digital, 295min
Discover some of the most fascinating early Christian texts. What are the apocryphal gospels? Purporting to fill in the missing pieces of Jesus' life story, these books are often the subject of popular discussion and heated debates. Few, however, truly understand their context and meaning. In The Apocryphal Gospels: Exploring the Lost Books of the Bible, you have the opportunity to explore these gripping texts with one of Catholicism's great scholars. These 12 erudite lectures will shed light upon the early Christian community and how they responded to questions that could not be found in the canonical New Testament. Under the guidance of Fr. Bert Buby, you will explore the most important non-canonical gospels and the controversies that surround them. As you will come to understand, the apocryphal gospels display the great diversity among the churches in the early centuries of Christianity. While exploring such texts as the Infancy Gospel of Thomas, the Gospel of Mary Magdalene, and early Gnostic books, you will gain a powerful glimpse into the beliefs of first followers of Christ. Just like the ancient writers of the apocryphal gospels, believers today are fascinated by the life of Christ. Take this adventure through the intriguing stories that influenced the founders of the Christian faith. Language: English. Narrator: Bertrand A. Buby. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/nykm/000042/bk_nykm_000042_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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What We Owe , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 253min
Tehran, 1978: Nahid and Masood, both 18, are young lovers and young revolutionaries, determined to overthrow the Shah's regime and help to bring about democracy. Their clandestine activities are dangerous, but with youth, passion and right on their side, they feel invincible. Then one night, Nahid allows her younger sister to come along to a huge demonstration. Violence breaks out. Nahid lets go of her sister's hand. Everything changes. As the revolution sours, and the loss becomes too much to bear, Nahid and Masood are forced to flee to Sweden, on borrowed money with forged passports. Tehran is no longer safe for them, and now they are expecting a baby; they need to get out before they lose everything. Thirty years later, Nahid lies in a hospital bed replaying her life, raging at her carers, at her recent cancer diagnosis, at Masood, at her - now pregnant - daughter, and at her exile among people who while purporting to understand know nothing of what she has been through. Told with startling honesty, dark wit and an irresistible momentum, What We Owe is a novel of love, guilt and dreams for a better future, vibrating with both sorrow and an unquenchable joie de vivre. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Anoushka Rava. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/lbas/001034/bk_lbas_001034_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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In Their Own Words: A History in Letters , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 441min
The way we communicate has changed. Today many of our interactions are digital, but until recently writing letters was the norm. Drawing from over 100 miles of records held at the UK's official government archive, The National Archives at Kew, this collection of letters, postcards and telegrams will shine a spotlight on a range of significant historical moments and occurrences, recapturing a lost world in which correspondence was king. The audiobook includes letters from Karl Marx, requesting UK citizenship; an anonymous writer purporting to be Jack the Ripper; Josef Kramer, the commandant of Bergen Belsen; Winston Churchill to President Roosevelt, requesting US support against Hitler; Clement Atlee to Harry S Truman following Hiroshima; the spies Burgess and Maclean; as well as the 'real Charlotte Gray' spy, Christine Granville, amongst others. Topics covered include the Monteagle letter that warned about the Gunpowder plot, letters from the Wright brothers trying to get the War Office to fund their aeronautical research, a dispatch on the murder of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Christine Keeler's Russian-British love triangle that begat the Profumo affair, US disapproval of British trade with Cuba, a letter reporting on the first day of the trial of Nelson Mandela, and the anonymous letter that framed the Krays. The audiobook features approximately 80 letters, each with a 600-word essay, and a 3,000-word introduction. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Daniel Mays, Miriam Margolyes, David Haig, Indira Varma, Arthur Smith, Robert Bathurst. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/027977/bk_adbl_027977_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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They All Love Jack: Busting the Ripper , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1825min
For over 100 years, the mystery of Jack the Ripper has been a source of unparalleled fascination and horror, spawning an army of obsessive theorists and endless volumes purporting to finally reveal the identity of the brutal murderer who terrorized Victorian England. But what if there was never really any mystery at all? What if the Ripper was always hiding in plain sight, deliberately leaving a trail of clues to his identity for anyone who cared to look while cynically mocking those who were supposedly attempting to bring him to justice? In They All Love Jack, the award-winning film director and screenwriter Bruce Robinson exposes the cover-up that enabled one of history's most notorious serial killers to remain at large. More than 12 years in the writing, this is no mere radical reinterpretation of the Jack the Ripper legend and an enthralling hunt for the killer. A literary high-wire act reminiscent of Tom Wolfe or Hunter S. Thompson, it is an expressionistic journey through the cesspools of late-Victorian society: a phantasmagoria of highly placed villains, hypocrites, and institutionalized corruption. A Polemic forensic investigation and panoramic portrait of an age, underpinned by deep scholarship and delivered in Robinson's inimitably vivid and scabrous prose, They All Love Jack is an absolutely riveting and unique book, demolishing the theories of generations of self-appointed experts - the so-called Ripperologists - to make clear, at last, who really did it and, more important, how he managed to get away with it for so long. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Phil Fox. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/004779/bk_harp_004779_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Journey to the Black City , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 894min
On an Earth that is very much like our own, the civilizations of ancient man have been crushed; the giant glaciers that cover the northern part of the globe continue, even now, moving ever south, grinding the remains of the sky-touching cities of men beneath them. This Ice Age created warfare between two mighty nations, and in the midst of this mechanized slaughter, a virulent influenza plague ultimately killed most of the human population of the Earth within just one year. Now, almost 2,000 years later, some of the survivors of that plague have again gathered together in a few vast city-states. In the wild lands between these megalopolises, the individuals who'd chosen not to return to the sprawl of the city-states roam as the Free Tribes in the company of sabretooth cats, mammoths, and dire wolves. In this world there is only a tentative peace; there are those in the Black City of the West for whom only one thing matters: the power to dominate and subjugate; the power to kidnap and enslave children and women into a sexual bondage purporting to save their souls, but in reality to supply wealth to a priesthood whose hearts are as black as the zeppelins they fly. Into this steam-power world, two young people must journey. It will be a journey from innocence that will carry them from their tribe into the black heart of the basalt city. It will be a journey that will change them forever and bring them closer together than they'd thought possible. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Michael Snider. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/062674/bk_acx0_062674_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Talisman , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 709min
The Crusaders, led by Richard I of England, are encamped in the Holy Land, and torn by the dissensions and jealousies of the leaders, including, besides Coeur de Lion himself, Philip of France, the duke of Austria, the Marquis of Montferrat, and the Grand Master of the Templars. The army's impotence is accentuated by the illness of Richard. A poor but doughty Scottish crusader, known as Sir Kenneth or the Knight of the Leopard, on a mission far from the camp encounters a Saracen emir, with whom, after an inconclusive combat, he strikes up a friendship. This emir proves subsequently to be Saladin himself, and he presently appears in the Christian camp in the disguise of a physician sent by the Soldan to Richard, whom he quickly cures. Meanwhile, Sir Kenneth is lured from his post by Queen Berengaria, Richard's wife, who in a frolic sends him an urgent message purporting to come from Edith Plantagenet, for whom Sir Kenneth has a romantic attachment. During his brief absence, his faithful hound is wounded and the English flag torn down. Sir Kenneth, thus dishonored, narrowly escapes execution at Richard's order by the intervention of the Moorish physician, who receives him as his slave. Kindly and honorably treated by Saladin, he is sent, in the disguise of a black mute attendant, to Richard, whom he saves from assassination. Richard pierces Kenneth's disguise and gives him the opportunity he desires of discovering who wounded the hound and tore down the standard. As the Christian princes and their forces file past the re-erected standard, the hound springs on Conrade of Montferrat and tears him from his horse. A trial by combat is arranged in which Sir Kenneth defeats and wounds Montferrat, and is revealed to be Prince David of Scotland. The obstacle that his supposed lowly birth presented to his union with Edith Plantagenet is thus removed. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Robert Whitfield. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/000726/bk_blak_000726_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Cowboys, Lawmen, and Outlaws: The Myth of the American Psyche , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 226min
Cowboys, Lawmen, and Outlaws: The Myth of The American Psyche Preface In the 1950s, westerns were the most popular form of television drama. Saturday mornings were filled with black and white images of Roy Rogers, Gene Autry, The Lone Ranger, and The Cisco Kid. In the evening you had the more adult westerns like Have Gun - Will Travel, Rawhide, and Wanted Dead or Alive. Sprinkled amongst these shows were programs purporting to be about real historic characters, people like Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, Bat Masterson, Annie Oakley, and Wild Bill Hickok. Although Gunsmoke's Marshal Matt Dillon wasn't real, the Long Branch Saloon was. Of course writer John Meston's Matt Dillon was much closer to a real cowboy lawman than what was represented by James Arness. William Conrad's radio version was somehow more real, more colorful, and more dramatic than the whitewashed television version even though the stories were similar. Perhaps it's just a malleable memory but somehow radio always felt more real, more vivid, and more present than television. Television turned everything into pabulum; even fascinating gritty historical characters were turned into cardboard-cutouts designed for the front of cereal boxes featuring the soft mushy historical mess that lay inside. The difference between cowboys, lawmen, and outlaws was merely a cheap metal badge: most often these designations were interchangeable with men easily moving from marshal to villain and back with the deal of a card. When we think of the Old West, it seems like ancient history, but historically it was yesterday. Many of the characters of the post Civil War Old West lived well into the 20th century: Bat Masterson died in 1921 and Wyatt Earp didn't die until 1929. Josie Bassett, one of the Wild Bunch girls, managed to hang on until 1963 and she only died then because she got kicked in the head by a horse. History doesn't end wit ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Trent R Stephens. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/113751/bk_acx0_113751_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Essential Handbook to Choosing the Right Diet: A Guide to the Most Popular Diets and If They Are Right for You , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 38min
What diet should you choose? There are hundreds of diets out there purporting to help you lose weight, but not all diets are right for you. This handbook looks at the most popular diets out there so you can get a synopsis of each one including a sample meal plan to determine if it is a diet that you can commit to. There are so many diets out there that it can be hard to know which one you should be on. The fact is that there's no right or wrong answer, but depending on your energy expenditure you could find a diet that suits you to a tee. I have always struggled finding a diet that works for me, simply because I had no interest in restricting what I eat to a dangerous level. I watched friends and family members give restrictive diets a try, only to watch them fail a few weeks later. I knew then that I needed to find a diet that worked for me, and how I lived my life. I didn't want to eat a 1,000 calorie-a-day diet while working out for 30 minutes each day. I wanted a diet that would help me lose weight, but give my body the nutrients that it needs. It doesn't matter if you don't exercise, or if you only exercise now and then, there is a diet out there for you that will help you to lose weight. Let this book talk you through the different diets that will help you achieve your weight-loss goals, while you go about your day to day life. This book will also compare some of the most popular diets such as the ketogenic diet, the Brazilian diet, sugar busters, the Paleo diet, low carb diets, the low glycemic index diet, and cleanses. If you know the difference between the above diets, you'll know which is the right one for you, and which ones you should avoid. Let this book be your guide to a newer, healthier, and happier you. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Christine Scherer. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/078631/bk_acx0_078631_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Hélas Pour Moi
Jean-Luc Godard's Hélas Pour Moi (1993) is a provocative film about faith and desire starring Gérard Depardieu. Inspired by the Greek myth of Alcmene and Amphitryon, it investigates the story of a god inhabiting the body of a man to experience the pleasures of the flesh. The incident is told through the eyes of a publisher, Abraham Klimt (Bernard Verley), who is interviewing the inhabitants of a Swiss village regarding the strange story of Rachel (Laurence Masliah) and Simon Donnadieu (Depardieu). One summer Simon leaves on a business trip, but soon after a doppelgänger arrives in the village purporting to be Simon. He appears to be a god in human form, and he pursues Rachel in a series of philosophical seductions that explore divine and physical ecstasy. One of Godard's most beautiful films (shot by DP Caroline Champetier), Hélas pour moi is a thought- provoking and sensuous work of art.- Shop: odax
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