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    Applying Anthropology to General Education (eBook, ePUB)
    The current higher education policy and practice landscape is simultaneously marked by uncertainty and hope, and nowhere are these tensions more present than in discussions and actions around general education. This volume uses an anthropological approach to contemplate ways of reimagining general education for the 21st century and how faculty, teachers, administrators, and others can transform the educational endeavor to be holistic, comprehensive, and aligned with the needs of people and the planet in the decades to come. Included are analyses of general education concepts such as "diversity," case studies of general education and connecting curricula, opportunities for faculty development, unique general education student populations, assessment strategies, and philosophical/pedagogical challenges. Contributors make the case that far from receding from a central role in higher education, there is a need to strengthen general education curricula as key to the educational needs of students, for the skills and competencies they require in the workplace and for civic engagement.
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    Mercy Dogs , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 541min
    How can a shattered ex-cop follow the rules when he's no longer sure of them? For 16 years, Ben Shepard loyally served the Long Beach Police Department. Then he took a bullet to the head, and his life was shattered. No one expects much of anything from him anymore - except his father, an old man receding into a fog of his own. And except maybe his tenant, Grace, who's been a warm and friendly constant in his and his father's bleak lives. Until the day she vanishes. After an official investigation stalls, Ben moves forward on his own. But stepping into Grace's past - and all she was hiding - is a dangerous move for a man who can't trust his memories from one day to the next. The deeper he gets, the more he has to question whether he's being driven by the gut instincts of a suspicious former cop or by paranoia. Recognizing what's real can save Grace's life. If only he can trust himself to do it.... ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tyler Dilts. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/010324/bk_brll_010324_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Beautiful and Damned (AmazonClassics Edition) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 861min
    Anthony Patch is the idle heir to a vast fortune. His wife, Gloria, dazzles society with her good looks. Satisfied by privilege and beauty alone, they are beholden only to the "magnificent attitude of not giving a damn." When Anthony’s inheritance is withheld, it causes an irreparable rift in their marriage, threatening their fragile paradise. Oblivious to their future, he and Gloria have little left to define themselves but their ever-receding pasts. A bitter critique of the empty pleasures of post-World War I Café Society, The Beautiful and Damned endures not only as a cautionary tale but as a social artifact of the decadent Roaring Twenties. AmazonClassics brings you timeless works from the masters of storytelling. Ideal for anyone who wants to read a great work for the first time or rediscover an old favorite, these new editions open the door to literature’s most unforgettable characters and beloved worlds. Revised edition: Previously published as The Beautiful and Damned, this edition of The Beautiful and Damned (AmazonClassics Edition) includes editorial revisions. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Adam Verner. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/010490/bk_brll_010490_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Sea of Galilee Boat: Ed Rachal Foundation Nautical Archaeology Series , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 542min
    Winner of the Biblical Archaeology Society’s Award for best popular book published in archaeology.On a cold, cloudy day in early February 1985, Shelley Wachsmann, then resident nautical archaeologist for the Israel Department of Antiquities and Museums, drove to Kibbutz Ginosar, an agricultural settlement near the shores of the Sea of Galilee. Two brothers, avid amateur archaeologists, had found a boat buried in the lake, its outlines revealed by receding lake waters. The boat was "possibly ancient," according to the handwritten note placed on Wachsmann's desk a day or two before. So begins the fascinating story of The Sea of Galilee Boat, as Wachsmann narrates the intriguing discovery and painstaking excavation of the very first biblical-era boat ever found in the Sea of Galilee.The book is published by Texas A&M University Press. The audiobook will be published by University Press Audiobooks."An excellent model for archaeological reporting that bridges the gap between research and the lay reader." (The Biblical Archaeologist)"Wachsmann's pleasure in his work is evident and well conveyed by his personal reflections." (American Journal of Archaeology)"A pleasure to read; it is good science, and it is just plain fun." (Biblical Archaeology Review) ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Charles Henderson Norman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/142596/bk_acx0_142596_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Riverine: A Memoir from Anywhere but Here , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 537min
    Angela Palm grew up in a place not marked on the map, her house set on the banks of a river that had been straightened to make way for farmland. Every year, the Kankakee River in rural Indiana flooded and returned to its old course while the residents sandbagged their homes against the rising water. From her bedroom window, Palm watched the neighbor boy and loved him in secret, imagining a life with him even as she longed for a future that held more than a job at the neighborhood bar. For Palm, caught in this landscape of flood and drought, escape was a continually receding hope. Though she did escape, as an adult Palm finds herself drawn back, like the river, to her origins. But this means more than just recalling vibrant, complicated memories of the place that shaped her, or trying to understand the family that raised her. It means visiting the prison where the boy that she loved is serving a life sentence for a brutal murder. It means trying to chart, through the mesmerizing, interconnected essays of Riverine, what happens when a single event forces the path of her life off course. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jorjeana Marie. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tant/006887/bk_tant_006887_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Out of the Woods , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 114min
    On one side of the forest lay the lands of psychological realism. On the other rest the realms of fantasy and fabulism. And in the long shadows of the trees themselves.... Three sons send their father to Valhalla in his old jalopy. A rusted robot waits on the stone wall by a child’s bus stop. An undertaker is one coin short at the river Styx. And in the bookending stories “Anything But Pure” and “Receding,” a soldier seeks to unbury stories once lost to a winter of war.Fathers and the daughters they find, girls and the dogs they've loved, and a woman from Kansas with a cyclone in her heart — each discovers what happens when people go too far, love too hard, and take too much on their way Out of the Woods.But will they learn from what they learn? Will they grow? And will you?Out of the Woods is a short story collection by E. Christopher Clark. If you liked Carmen Maria Machado’s Her Body and Other Parties, Lincoln Michel’s Upright Beasts, or Luke Geddes’ I Am a Magical Teenage Princess, you’ll love this genre-bending blend of hypnotic fictions inspired by those three great works. Buy Out of the Woods and begin your journey today! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: E. Christopher Clark. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/206122/bk_acx0_206122_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Death On The Ferry Hygeia
    THE 1920'S. A TIME OF EXCITEMENT AND TUMULTUOUS SOCIAL CHANGE. The horrors of World War One have passed, receding into history and the Great Depression has yet to come. In the bubble of relative calm, the city prospered as her citizens went about their lives. Ineffective social welfare led to crushing poverty and low-level crime. Defending the city from villains was an undermanned and under equipped police force experiencing great change. A well connected but guileless young policeman begins his career in this city of contrasts, blended extreme poverty and wealthy privilege. Constable Jim Foley's commitment and enthusiasm is put to the test under the scrutiny of his uncle a senior Officer in the force. A major charity event is planned aboard the majestic Port Phillip Bay excursion ferry Hygeia. But his career, and even his very life, are on the line as evil stalks the decks of this luxurious excursion ship and the blood flows into the water... "An historical ride into a period of modesty and hopefulness that drives a tale of suspense and thrill just as Agatha did on the Nile, a blast of classic past storytelling and mystery...wonderful work!" Dianne, Indiebook reviewer
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    Death On The Ferry Hygeia (eBook, ePUB)
    THE 1920'S. A TIME OF EXCITEMENT AND TUMULTUOUS SOCIAL CHANGE.The horrors of World War One have passed, receding into history and the Great Depression has yet to come. In the bubble of relative calm, the city prospered as her citizens went about their lives. Ineffective social welfare led to crushing poverty and low-level crime. Defending the city from villains was an undermanned and under equipped police force experiencing great change. A well connected but guileless young policeman begins his career in this city of contrasts, blended extreme poverty and wealthy privilege. Constable Jim Foley's commitment and enthusiasm is put to the test under the scrutiny of his uncle a senior Officer in the force. A major charity event is planned aboard the majestic Port Phillip Bay excursion ferry Hygeia. But his career, and even his very life, are on the line as evil stalks the decks of this luxurious excursion ship and the blood flows into the water... "An historical ride into a period of modesty and hopefulness that drives a tale of suspense and thrill just as Agatha did on the Nile, a blast of classic past storytelling and mystery...wonderful work!" Dianne, Indiebook reviewer
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    Anish Kapoor: Between Painting and Sculpture: Cv/Visual Arts Research, Book 232, Hörbuch, Digital, 16min
    A recorded visit to an exhibition by Anish Kapoor at the Lisson Gallery, London continued to 22nd June, 2019. Includes descriptions of works and bio-dara of the artist. In the rear ground floor space of the gallery a suite of new paintings, completed at the end of 2018. Each canvas is 274 cms tall by 213 cms wide. The colour range is restricted and highly pitched, a distinctly abstract expressionist handling with sweeping brush and hand work. An aggressive and confrontational approach infuses a violently striated surface. A basic pink shape, in some like sagging flesh or an upturned vessel is worked with smeared white strokes, then corrupted by slashed veins of blood red and pitch black, scarring the lower part of the canvases. The hand work introduces an element of unleashed energy on the white ground, in a scheme of unleashed emotion. It is violently expressive, chaotic and turbulent. The painting ‘Teeth’ 2018 resembles a tip tilted jug spewing corrupted matter. These recent paintings progress of the artist’s constant preoccupation with the life force of the body. Previously viewed in the giant ‘Leviathan’; a maroon inflatable of spectacular dimension installed in Monumenta 2011 at the Grand Palais Paris. Here visitors walked inside the heart shaped cavern, encountering receding passages of valves and vents. Kapoor has never resisted dynamic scale for maximum resonance of effect. Language: English. Narrator: Christopher Selbie. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/155581/bk_acx0_155581_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Grace and Mary , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 442min
    A profoundly moving story spanning three generations. Could he not put together a memory for her? Perhaps he could become her memory. To build it from fragments, or make it up. And most of all bring back Grace. Her own mother. John visits his ageing mother, Mary, in her nursing home by the sea, and mourns the slow fading of her mind. Hoping to shore up her receding memory, he prompts her with songs, photographs, and questions from their shared past, taking her back to the 1940s, when she was a young woman and he a child in a small Cumbrian town. But as he rekindles her memories, it is her own mother she longs for - and John finds himself delving further back, into the secrets and silences of Mary's fractured childhood, and the unsung sorrows of her thwarted yet spirited mother, Grace. In an effort to console his mother before she slips away, John sets out to re-imagine Grace's life, to honour the memory of a grandmother he barely knew. Reaching from the late 19th century to the present, John's loving recreation of forgotten family history and unspoken maternal grief becomes a moving elegy for the long, hidden chain of love, loss, and self-sacrifice that forms each and every generation. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gordon Griffin, Sandra Duncan. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hodd/000554/bk_hodd_000554_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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