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    Anti-Americanism , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 438min
    After the 9-11 attack on the United States, the brief moment of global sympathy for America soon began giving way to blame. In France and other quarters of Europe, and elsewhere in the world, it was said that the Americans had brought this violence upon themselves. The United States was a "cowboy" nation disinclined to abide by the will of the United Nations and other multilateral institutions and bent on pursuing its objectives at any cost. It was the "hyperpower" whose corporations manipulated world markets and whose riches were acquired at the price of Third World impoverishment. No wonder it had been attacked! Angered by these assaults on a nation he knows and admires, the distinguished French intellectual Jean-Francois Revel has come to America's defense in Anti-Americanism, a biting and erudite book that, paradoxically, given his country's especially vehement attack on the U.S., spent several weeks last year at the top of France's best seller list. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Christopher Lane. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/000788/bk_blak_000788_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Tatiana , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 488min
    In his groundbreaking Gorky Park, Martin Cruz Smith created one of the iconic investigators of contemporary fiction, Arkady Renko. In Tatiana, Smith delivers his most ambitious and politically daring novel since. When the brilliant and fearless young reporter Tatiana Petrovna falls to her death from a sixth-floor window in Moscow in the same week that notorious mob billionaire Grisha Grigorenko is shot in the back of the head, Renko finds himself on the trail of a mystery as complex and dangerous as modern Russia itself. The body of an elite government translator shows up on the sand dunes of Kalingrad: killed for nothing but a cryptic notebook filled with symbols. A frantic hunt begins to locate and decipher this notebook. In a fast-changing and lethal race to uncover what this translator knew, and how he planned to reveal it to the world, Renko makes a startling discovery that propels him deeper into Tatiana's past - and, at the same time, paradoxically, into Russia's future. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Henry Strozier. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/sans/006541/bk_sans_006541_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 315min
    It’s “the nuclear bomb of racial epithets,” a word that Whites have employed to wound and degrade African Americans for three centuries. Paradoxically, among many Black people it has become a term of affection and even empowerment. The word, of course, is nigger, and in this candid, lucidly argued book the distinguished legal scholar Randall Kennedy traces its origins, maps its multifarious connotations, and explores the controversies that rage around it. Should Blacks be able to use nigger in ways forbidden to others? Should the law treat it as a provocation that reduces the culpability of those who respond to it violently? Should it cost a person his job, or a book like Huckleberry Finn its place on library shelves? With a range of reference that extends from the Jim Crow south to Chris Rock routines and the O. J. Simpson trial, Kennedy takes on not just a word, but our laws, attitudes, and culture with bracing courage and intelligence.  ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Randall Kennedy. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/018189/bk_adbl_018189_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Rome at War: Farms, Families, and Death in the Middle Republic , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 451min
    Historians have long asserted that during and after the Hannibalic War, the Roman Republic's need to conscript men for long-term military service helped bring about the demise of Italy's small farms and that the misery of impoverished citizens then became fuel for the social and political conflagrations of the late republic. Nathan Rosenstein challenges this claim, showing how Rome reconciled the needs of war and agriculture throughout the middle republic.The key, Rosenstein argues, lies in recognizing the critical role of family formation. By analyzing models of families' needs for agricultural labor over their life cycles, he shows that families often had a surplus of manpower to meet the demands of military conscription. Did, then, Roman imperialism play any role in the social crisis of the later second century B.C.?Rosenstein argues that Roman warfare had critical demographic consequences that have gone unrecognized by previous historians: heavy military mortality paradoxically helped sustain a dramatic increase in the birthrate, ultimately leading to overpopulation and landlessness. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Rene Ruiz. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/001744/bk_adbl_001744_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Zoom Rooms (eBook, ePUB)
    The timeless and timely intersect in poems about our unique historical moment, from the prizewinning poet. In Zoom Rooms, Mary Jo Salter considers the strangeness of our recent existence, together with the enduring constants in our lives. The title poem, a series of sonnet-sized Zoom meetings-a classroom, a memorial service, an encounter with a new baby in the family-finds humor and pathos in our age of social distancing and technology-induced proximity. Salter shows too how imagination collapses time and space: in "Island Diaries," the pragmatist Robinson Crusoe meets on the beach a shipwrecked dreamer from an earlier century, Shakespeare's Prospero. Poems that meditate on objects-a silk blouse, a hot water bottle-address the human need to heal and console. Our paradoxically solitary but communal experiences find expression, too, in poems about art, from a Walker Evans photograph to a gilded Giotto altarpiece. In these beautiful new poems, Salter directs us to moments we may otherwise miss, reminding us that alertness is itself a form of gratitude.
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    Zoom Rooms: Poems
    The timeless and timely intersect in poems about our unique historical moment, from the prizewinning poet. In Zoom Rooms, Mary Jo Salter considers the strangeness of our recent existence, together with the enduring constants in our lives. The title poem, a series of sonnet-sized Zoom meetings-a classroom, a memorial service, an encounter with a new baby in the family-finds humor and pathos in our age of social distancing and technology-induced proximity. Salter shows too how imagination collapses time and space: in "Island Diaries," the pragmatist Robinson Crusoe meets on the beach a shipwrecked dreamer from an earlier century, Shakespeare's Prospero. Poems that meditate on objects-a silk blouse, a hot water bottle-address the human need to heal and console. Our paradoxically solitary but communal experiences find expression, too, in poems about art, from a Walker Evans photograph to a gilded Giotto altarpiece. In these beautiful new poems, Salter directs us to moments we may otherwise miss, reminding us that alertness is itself a form of gratitude.
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    Self Love: Learn How to Love Yourself and Transform Your Life , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 68min
    Magic is believing in yourself. If you can do that, you can make anything happen. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)Self-belief is at the root of a healthy and happy life, yet millions of people suffer from low self-confidence every day. Paradoxically, the very nature of low self-confidence, or self-doubt, is that it manifests a belief of its own. This false belief becomes the lens through which life is viewed, and it can be very difficult for sufferers to see a way out as a result.Here’s what you’ll find in the book: An Exploration of Self-BeliefCourage versus ConfidenceTwenty Minute Exercise - Reflections on Self-BeliefHow to Practice MindfulnessReplacing Self-Doubt with Self-BeliefAnd much more!Self Love will help you find the power to change as a person, and this step-by-step guide will explain exactly how it is possible as well as providing simple solutions for every situation.Would you like to start today? If you do, just scroll up and click on the "buy now" button.Enjoy! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: James Woodrich. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/175608/bk_acx0_175608_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Terror of the Machine, Hörbuch, Digital, 27min
    In this autobiography, the American industrialist Henry Ford wrote, "Repetitive labor... is a terrifying prospect to a certain kind of mind... but to other minds, perhaps I might say the majority of minds, repetitive operations hold no terrors." Pushing the "efficiency of movement" system of Frederick Winslow Taylor to its ultimate realization, Ford tirelessly toiled to reduce factory and assembly line work to its essential operations. This, in turn, reduced factory workers to automatons, seemingly nothing more than extensions of the machines for which they labored.Ford was not bothered by the prospect of reducing people to machines, since he firmly believed that it did not bother them and that they could do no better. But, paradoxically, and like all the great American industrialists, Ford feared the prospect that these 'mindless automatons' might get organized and demand their rights. So along with efficiency of movement came a system of indoctrination and punishment to insure that workers obeyed orders. In short, the industrialized west was built on the systematic oppression of its working people. Language: English. Narrator: Michael Scott. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/edel/008366/bk_edel_008366_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Diamond in Your Pocket: Discovering Your True Radiance , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 387min
    The Diamond in Your Pocket, the first major book release from Gangaji, describes our never-ending search to find fulfillment, which, paradoxically, is already present if we will only stop long enough to discover its true source. "I have discovered that it is actually impossible to find happiness," Gangaji explains. "As long as you are seeking to find happiness somewhere, you are overlooking where happiness is...in your true nature." With The Diamond in Your Pocket, the American-born teacher who has influenced the lives of thousands through her retreats and public events helps us to reconcile the observations and questions that arise along the spiritual path. Like a precious gem, The Diamond in Your Pocket cuts through what is false, and illuminates what is true, through a brilliant series of contemplations and insights you will want to hold dear and return to again and again. Gangaji shows us, thought-by-thought, how to stop the endless activity of our minds and experience the brilliance and radiance of who we really are in every present moment. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gangaji. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/true/000250/bk_true_000250_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Dog Separation Anxiety: Learn How to Cure Your Dog Separation Anxiety , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 28min
    This book contains proven steps and strategies on how to recognize and treat your dog separation anxiety. One of the best joys of dog possession is the tight bond we experience and inspire with our puppies. But if your dog becomes too reliant or dependent on you, canine separation anxiety can develop. Dog separation anxiety is a sizeable problem to a predicted 10 percent of all dogs and older puppies. Fairly paradoxically, it is the primary cause for dogs finishing up in animal shelters. I should say dog separation anxiety can be effortlessly fixed, but the reality is it can be a very tough and time-investing trouble to turn around. Dog separation tension is a commonplace problem that many canine owners have to cope with. It may be devastating to discover that your canine isn't able to deal with being left alone for any duration of time. One of the maximum commonplace reasons that separation tension develops is a lack of self-assurance within the canine. Just like people, dogs want to feel cherished. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Trevor Clinger. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/055935/bk_acx0_055935_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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