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    The Battle of the Ironclads: The Monitor & the Merrimac , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 93min
    We of the Monitor think, and still think, that we had gained a great victory. This the Confederates have denied. (S. Dana Greene) On March 8, 1862, the newest era of naval warfare began. That day the CSS Virginia, an ironclad created out of the hull of the scuttled USS Merrimac by the Confederates, sailed down the Elizabeth River to Hampton Roads, where a Union blockade fleet was anchored. The wooden ships of the North were no match for the ironclad, which quickly rammed and sank the USS Cumberland, and as it trained its sights on the USS Congress, one Union officer noted the former Merrimac fired "shot and shell into her with terrific effect, while the shot from the Congress glanced from her iron-plated sloping sides, without doing any apparent injury." The Merrimac had overwhelmingly demonstrated the superiority of the ironclad over the traditional frigates and gunships of the time, but it met its match the following day. On March 9, the North's ironclad, the USS Monitor, arrived to challenge the Confederate ironclad. Though they were both outfitted with iron, the two ships had important differences. The Merrimac had more guns than the Monitor but was slower and more difficult to maneuver. The Monitor, however, did not have the size and power. Lieutenant S. Dana Greene described the initial shots in the battle of the ironclads: "The turrets and other parts of the ship were heavily struck, but the shots did not penetrate; the tower was intact, and it continued to revolve. A look of confidence passed over the men's faces, and we believed the Merrimac would not repeat the work she had accomplished the day before." The two ironclads would fight to a standstill on that day, but naval warfare would never be the same. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Joseph Chialastri. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/038420/bk_acx0_038420_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Knocking on Heaven's Door: The Path to a Better Way of Death , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 628min
    Like so many of us, award-winning writer Katy Butler always assumed her aging parents would experience healthy, active retirements before dying peacefully at home. Then her father suffered a stroke that left him incapable of easily finishing a sentence or showering without assistance. Her mother was thrust into full-time caregiving, and Katy became one of the 24 million Americans who help care for aging parents. In an effort to correct a minor and non - life threatening heart arrhythmia, doctors outfitted her father with a pacemaker. The device kept his heart beating but did nothing to prevent his slide into dementia, incontinence, near-muteness, and misery. After several years, he asked his wife for help, telling her, "I am living too long." Mother and daughter faced a series of wrenching moral questions: When does death cease being a curse and become a blessing? Where is the line between saving life and prolonging a dying? When is the right time to say to a doctor, "Let my loved one go?" When doctors refused to disable the pace-maker, sentencing her father to a protracted and agonizing death, Katy set out to understand why. Her quest had barely begun when her mother faced her own illness, rebelled against her doctors, refused open-heart surgery, and instead met death head-on. Knocking on Heaven's Door, a revolutionary blend of memoir and investigative reporting, is the fruit of the Butler family's journey. With a reporter's skill, a poet's eye, and a daughter's love, Butler explores what happens when our terror of death collides with the technological imperatives of modern medicine. Her provocative thesis is that advanced medicine, in its single-minded pursuit of maximum longevity, often creates more suffering than it prevents. Butler lays bare the tangled web of technology, medicine, and commerce that modern dying has become and chronicles the rise of Slow Medicine - a growing movement that promotes care over cure. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Katy Butler. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/sans/006497/bk_sans_006497_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Bionics: The Bionics Novels, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 492min
    All Blythe Sol ever wanted was to be a normal girl. Yet, her dreams of following in her father's footsteps by joining the military after graduation are crushed when nuclear war comes to the United States in the year 4006. Tens of thousands are killed in a series of attacks on many major cities, while thousands more are left injured from the devastation of the blasts, or terminally ill from the effects of radiation. When the government offers the sick and injured a second chance as part of the Restoration Project, how could they refuse? Hoping to put her life back together after the blasts take both her arm and her eye, Blythe enrolls in the program filled with hope. She never expects that the bionic additions will change her life so drastically. When it is discovered that those outfitted with the robotic parts have become enhanced beyond the limits of ordinary human ability, normal can never exist for her again. The Bionics become targets of the government, as fear of them spreads across the nation, further enflamed by media propaganda and political conspiracy. Forced to go into hiding or face execution, society's outcasts band together to form the Restoration Resistance - an underground rebellion which Blythe becomes a part of in order to survive. She could never imagine that joining them would thrust her at the forefront of an imminent revolution, or that it would put her in a confusing tug-of-war between two of her fellow soldiers; Gage Bronson, the mysterious new addition to the Resistance, and Dax Janner, her best friend. Even though Gage is rapidly capturing her heart, she is forced to face the possibility that her feelings for Dax might just go beyond friendship. However, with impending war and the threat of death hanging over her head, Blythe hardly has time to worry about anything as trivial as a love life. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Marissa Clay. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/068580/bk_acx0_068580_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Douglas MacArthur: American Warrior , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 2342min
    Douglas MacArthur was arguably the last American public figure to be worshipped unreservedly as a national hero, the last military figure to conjure up the romantic stirrings once evoked by George Armstrong Custer and Robert E. Lee. But he was also one of America's most divisive figures, a man whose entire career was steeped in controversy. Was he an avatar or an anachronism, a brilliant strategist or a vainglorious mountebank? Drawing on a wealth of new sources, Arthur Herman delivers a powerhouse biography that peels back the layers of myth - both good and bad - and exposes the marrow of the man beneath. MacArthur's life spans the emergence of the United States Army as a global fighting force. Its history is to a great degree his story. The son of a Civil War hero, he led American troops in three monumental conflicts - World War I, World War II, and the Korean War. Born four years after Little Big Horn, he died just as American forces began deploying in Vietnam. Herman's magisterial book spans the full arc of MacArthur's journey, from his elevation to major general at 38 through his tenure as superintendent of West Point, field marshal of the Philippines, supreme ruler of postwar Japan, and beyond. More than any previous biographer, Herman shows how MacArthur's strategic vision helped shape several decades of US foreign policy. Alone among his peers, he foresaw the shift away from Europe, becoming the prophet of America's destiny in the Pacific Rim. Here, too, is a vivid portrait of a man whose grandiose vision of his own destiny won him enemies as well as acolytes. MacArthur was one of the first military heroes to cultivate his own public persona - the swashbuckling commander outfitted with Ray-Ban sunglasses, riding crop, and corncob pipe. Repeatedly spared from being killed in battle - his soldiers nicknamed him "Bullet Proof" - he had a strong sense of divine mission. "Mac" was a man possessed, in the words of one of his contemp ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Henry Strozier. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/reco/009577/bk_reco_009577_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Knight Rider - The Complete Collection
    Gear up for action with superstar David Hasselhoff and his supercar, K.I.T.T., as they throttle crime in all 90 high-octane episodes of Knight Rider now fully restored and in hi-definition. The series follows the thrilling adventures of Michael Knight, a detective thought to be dead, who’d been given a new face and identity. His assignment to fight crime with the help of an artificially intelligent, talking car named K.I.T.T., a high-speed, futuristic weapon outfitted with high-tech gadgets and a personality of its own. Driven by justice, they set out to take- down criminals who operate above the law. Extras:Knight Moves, Knight Rider: Under The Hood, Photo Gallery, Blueprints Gallery, The Great 80's TV Flashback.
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    Living Dead Dolls Presents: Silent Hill 2: Bubble Head Nurse
    Your worst nightmare personified, the Bubble Head Nurse from Silent Hill 2 joins the LDD Presents line!Lurking around every corner of Brookhaven Hospital, the Bubble Head nurse is a manifestation of James Sunderland’s subconscious. Her swollen head and spastic movements echo the murder of his wife.Fairly aggressive in nature, this shrieking and gurgling monster is every night terror you’ve ever had…The Bubble Head Nurse features an all-new head sculpt depicting the humanoid’s grotesque appearance and is outfitted in a nurse’s uniform. LDD Presents Silent Hill 2: Bubble Head Nurse stands 10” tall and features 5 points of articulation. She is packaged in a window box, perfect for display.Ages 15+
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    Living Dead Dolls Presents: DCU Catwoman
    LDD Presents DC Universe: CatwomanThis kitten has claws! Catwoman, also known as Selina Kyle, is known to steal from Gotham City’s rich and corrupt. Do not cross this cat or bad luck is sure to follow.Based on her appearance in the comics, Catwoman is outfitted in a leather-like body suit with a functional zipper. Her belt features a cat-shaped buckle.The furtive femme fatale comes complete with removable night-vision goggles and her signature bullwhip, which she can hold in her hand.LDD Presents DC Universe: Catwoman stands ten inches tall and features five points of articulation. She comes packed in a window box, purrrfect for display.
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