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  The Burn Zone , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 621min

  Plagued by overpopulation, disease, and starvation, humanity was headed for extinction - until an alien race called the haan arrived. And then the real trouble began. It's been a rough day for Sam Shao. As part of a program that requires humans to act as surrogates to haan infants, Sam has been genetically enhanced to bond with them. So when three soldiers invade her apartment and arrest her guardian for smuggling a dangerous weapon into the country, Sam can sense that something isn't right. One of his abductors is a haan masquerading as a human, and the supposedly fragile haan seems to be anything but. Racing through the city slums, trying to stay one step ahead of the mysterious haan soldier, Sam tries to find the man who, in her 20 years, has been the only father she's ever known. Could he truly have done what he is accused of? Or did he witness something both human and haan would kill to keep hidden? The only thing certain is that the weapon is real - and lost now somewhere in a city of millions. Fighting the clock, Sam finds an ally in Nix, a haan envoy devoted to coexisting with humans, or so it seems. But what she really needs are answers. Fast. Or else everything she knows - and everyone she loves - will burn. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jeannie Lin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/053663/bk_acx0_053663_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Death, Time and Mortality in the Later Novels of Don DeLillo (eBook, ePUB)

  This book offers the first systematic study of death in the later novels of Don DeLillo. It focusses on Underworld to The Silence along with his 1984 novel White Noise, in which the fear of death dominates the protagonists most hauntingly. The study covers eight novels which mark the development of one of the most philosophical and prestigious novelists writing in English. Death, in its close relation to time, temporality and transience, has been an ongoing subject or motif in Don DeLillo's oeuvre. His later work is shot through with the cultural and socio-psychological symptoms and responses death elicits. His 'reflection on dying' revolves around defensive mechanisms and destruction fantasies, around immortalism and cryonics, covert and overt surrogates, consumerism and media, the mortification of the body. His characters give themselves to mourning, are afflicted with psychosis, depression and the looming of emptiness. Yet writing about death also means facing the ambiguity and failing representability of 'death.' The book considers DeLillo's use of language in which temporality and something like 'death' may become manifest. It deals with the transfiguration of time and death into art, with apocalypse as a central and recurring subject, and, as a kind of antithesis, epiphany. The study eventually proposes some reflections on the meaning of death in an age fully contingent on media and technology and dominated by financial capitalism and consumerism. Despite all the distractions, death remains a sinister presence which has beset the minds not only of DeLillo's protagonists.

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  Death, Time and Mortality in the Later Novels of Don DeLillo (eBook, PDF)

  This book offers the first systematic study of death in the later novels of Don DeLillo. It focusses on Underworld to The Silence along with his 1984 novel White Noise, in which the fear of death dominates the protagonists most hauntingly. The study covers eight novels which mark the development of one of the most philosophical and prestigious novelists writing in English. Death, in its close relation to time, temporality and transience, has been an ongoing subject or motif in Don DeLillo's oeuvre. His later work is shot through with the cultural and socio-psychological symptoms and responses death elicits. His 'reflection on dying' revolves around defensive mechanisms and destruction fantasies, around immortalism and cryonics, covert and overt surrogates, consumerism and media, the mortification of the body. His characters give themselves to mourning, are afflicted with psychosis, depression and the looming of emptiness. Yet writing about death also means facing the ambiguity and failing representability of 'death.' The book considers DeLillo's use of language in which temporality and something like 'death' may become manifest. It deals with the transfiguration of time and death into art, with apocalypse as a central and recurring subject, and, as a kind of antithesis, epiphany. The study eventually proposes some reflections on the meaning of death in an age fully contingent on media and technology and dominated by financial capitalism and consumerism. Despite all the distractions, death remains a sinister presence which has beset the minds not only of DeLillo's protagonists.

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  Aim True, My Brothers: A Political Action Thriller , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 636min

  Rooted in the history of the Middle East, this political action thriller is set in contemporary Washington DC and Virginia, when terrorism explodes on American shores. Ibrahim Al-Bari is a highly skilled Hamas commander who has battled and killed Americans throughout Iraq and Afghanistan. After losing two brothers and a sister in a bloody attack on a civilian bus in Israel, Al-Bari decides that fighting US surrogates in far-away places is a futile waste of Palestinian blood. "To kill a snake, you must go to its lair and cut off its head," he says, as he decides to take his war private and strike at the heart of the American government itself. No simple man with a rifle in a book depository window; when Al-Bari strikes, he will unleash an old weapon that will take out the President and many other national and international leaders in a dramatic, fiery attack on national television. In this fast-paced murder mystery, trying to find him and stop him, is Eddie Rankin, a maverick FBI agent, who has never met a rule he couldn't break; Moustapha 'Mouse' Khalidi, the smooth, urbane Chief of Security at the Egyptian Embassy in Washington; and Rachel Ullman, a hard-edged, female Israeli Mossad agent, counter-terror specialist, and killer, who lost her own family to a suicide bomber. The question is, with their personal frictions and contradictory orders, can this temporary, dysfunctional alliance hold together long enough to catch Al-Bari before they kill each other - and the clock is ticking. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Eddie Frierson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/018791/bk_acx0_018791_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Abolition of Woman: How Radical Feminism Is Betraying Women , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 445min

  For the great majority on both sides of the abortion debate, the idea of a pro-life feminist is the ultimate contradiction in terms. Abortion has become so central to feminist thinking that women who affirm their belief in both women's empowerment and the inalienable right to life can find themselves viewed with suspicion and hostility from both sides. Yet the author of this book is indeed a pro-life feminist, and her insightful analysis of contemporary issues can provide the basis for common ground between those defending human rights.This book unashamedly calls mainstream feminists, journalists and Western politicians to account for their silence and - in some cases - vocal justification of the persecution of women because of an absolutist loyalty to abortion. It asks uncomfortable questions to those who claim to believe in women's empowerment: Where is their passionate outrage when Chinese women are forcibly aborted and sterilized? Where is their concern for the thousands of baby girls killed by abortion every year because their lives are held as worthless simply for being female? What about the thousands of women used as surrogates for wealthy Western couples, treated as chattels and denied their most basic human rights? But the book also tackles difficult issues for the pro-life side--the need for a sensitive, realistic approach to problematic pregnancies and the importance of confronting the continued exploitation and abuse of women within a sexualized society.Pro-life feminism is not only possible, it is vital if the complex struggles facing women are to be adequately met. Abolition of Woman is a rallying cry to feminists to stand with the pro-life movement, fighting to build a society in which women are equal and every human life is protected. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Fiorella Nash. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/178430/bk_acx0_178430_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Cuba Libre: A Timeline 10/27/62 Story , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 117min

  This was where it had started; and ought to have ended.Cuba...Initially, it was estimated that over 90 percent of the population of the main island - over six million men, women, and children - had died on the day of the war. In fact, although the western provinces of Cuba were devastated and the capital Havana utterly wrecked, some two million people had probably survived the US Air Force retaliatory strike, mainly because great care had been taken to avoid the US enclave at Guantanamo Bay, situated near its southeastern extremity from being inundated with radioactive fallout. Fatefully, in early 1963, the decision had been made - in great secrecy - to contract the problem of ensuring a second Castro-like regime could never again arise to the CIA and its exiled Cuban surrogates. Thereafter, distracted by other more pressing matters, the Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon administrations had tried their level best to forget all about "that goddamned island"!However, that was then, and much blood and treasure later, the still secret, dirty war for the eastern province of Oriente - known as Santiago de Cuba before 1905 - has sucked in 30,000 US infantrymen and marines to prop up Central Intelligence’s brigade of as many as 20,000 former mobsters, Batista-loyalists, and soldiers of fortune.It is 1969. The casualties are mounting, and the new man in the Oval Office, working through his in-tray has got to the file marked "Cuba: Options for Consideration".There is a great deal of unfinished business for the newly inaugurated 39th president of the United States, and "Cuba: Options for Consideration" file has briefly found its way to the top of his to-do list! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Stephen M. Ray, Jr.. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/231596/bk_acx0_231596_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Defending Beef: The Case for Sustainable Meat Production , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 639min

  For decades, it has been nearly universal dogma among environmentalists and health advocates that cattle and beef are public enemy number one. But is the matter really so clear cut? Hardly, argues environmental lawyer turned rancher Nicolette Hahn Niman in her new book, Defending Beef.  The public has long been led to believe that livestock, especially cattle, erode soils, pollute air and water, damage riparian areas, and decimate wildlife populations. In Defending Beef, Hahn Niman argues that cattle are not inherently bad for either the Earth or our own nutritional health. In fact, properly managed livestock play an essential role in maintaining grassland ecosystems by functioning as surrogates for herds of wild ruminants that once covered the globe.  Hahn Niman argues that dispersed, grass-fed, small-scale farms can and should become the basis for American food production, replacing the factory farms that harm animals and the environment. The author - a longtime vegetarian - goes on to dispel popular myths about how eating beef is bad for our bodies. She methodically evaluates health claims made against beef, demonstrating that such claims have proven false. She shows how foods from cattle - milk and meat, particularly when raised entirely on grass - are healthful, extremely nutritious, and an irreplaceable part of the world’s food system.  Grounded in empirical scientific data and with living examples from around the world, Defending Beef builds a comprehensive argument that cattle can help to build carbon-sequestering soils to mitigate climate change, enhance biodiversity, help prevent desertification, and provide invaluable nutrition. Defending Beef is simultaneously a book about big ideas and the author’s own personal tale - she starts out as a skeptical vegetarian and eventually becomes an enthusiastic participant in environmentally sustainable ranching.  While no single book can definitively answer t ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Nicolette Hahn Niman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/novl/000519/bk_novl_000519_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Trump Rhymes: Surviving Trump Times , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 43min

  A humorous and sometimes thought provoking take on the crazy events that occurred during the 2016 election season and right up through the inauguration, centering around that whirlwind of narcissistic sociopath himself, Donald Trump. Twenty-five poems about Trump, his rogue's gallery of supporters and opponents, as well the media chronicling it. If you feel ready to burst into tears at any moment, this book will offer a short respite of laughter before you go back to contemplating doomsday. We will answer many questions, most of which you never considered asking. What do Trump and Dorian Gray have in common? (Hint: it's not upper class British manners.) What's worse than a week with Ted Cruz? Which Fox News personality do the authors hate the most? (There may be no wrong answer.) Who is scared of Mike Pence? Raise your hand. Why would Morning Joe be better without Joe? Who do you think best fits the description of a "cornpone Giuliani"? Will the authors end up in Gitmo? Will we receive a thank you note from Jimmy Fallon? Poems: "Alternative Facts are Just Other Words for Nothing Left to Truth" "Midnight in Gotham" "Four Surrogates of the Apocalypse Now" "The Popular Vote Still Gets His Goat" "Thanks Obama" "A Street Car Named Lindsey" "Fox and Friends - Breakfast with Morons" "Late Night Christmas in June" "Birther Redux" "A Week with Ted Cruz" "Der Furor" "Thumb on the Scale" "Fox News - Unfair and I'm Becoming Balanced" "The Portrait of Reverse Dorian Gray" "Landslide? Takes Big Rocks to Suggest That" "Morning Joe with No Joe" "21st Century Man-churian Candidate " "Mitt Romney's Back and There Is Going to Be Trouble (Not R ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Robbyn Ackner. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/082926/bk_acx0_082926_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Wherever You Go, There They Are: Stories About My Family You Might Relate To , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 602min

  A hysterically funny and slyly insightful new collection of essays from New York Times best-selling author Annabelle Gurwitch, about her own family of scam artists and hucksters as well as the sisterhoods, temporary tribes, and show-biz klatches who have become surrogates along the way. When Annabelle Gurwitch was a child, surrounded by a cast of epically dysfunctional relatives, she secretly prayed that it was all a terrible mistake. Maybe she was a long-lost daughter of Joni Mitchell or a reincarnation of the Russian princess Anastasia. A family of bootleggers, gamblers, and philanderers, the Gurwitches have always been a bit vague on the standard ideal of a loving and supportive family. Their definition includes people you can count on to borrow money from, hold a grudge against, or blackmail. One day, unfortunately, Gurwitch woke up to realize that she'd made similar, if not the same, mistakes as everyone else before her - just in a new zip code. Wherever she went, there they were. With her wry wit and hard-learned wisdom, Gurwitch explores the inescapable yet rewarding realities of life with her relatives and her Southern Jewish roots as well as her flirtation with surrogate families including theater folk, pet people, the secular humanist brotherhood, a tribe of vegan cosplaying plushies, the "Arbonne sisterhood", and the ladies who brunch at Tel Aviv Gardens Retirement Home in Miami, Florida. She's learned that for better or for worse (you can guess which), it's worth celebrating the traditions, rituals, and recipes that come with a shared mythology and legacy, even if her own inheritance amounts to a small plot of land split between five relatives on an ill-fated sliver of sand known as Massacre Island. Beautifully written, and filled with surreal yet poignant family moments and social commentary, Gurwitch delivers a provocative treatise on the importance and insanity of family. Wherever You Go, There They Are is a ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Annabelle Gurwitch. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/peng/003058/bk_peng_003058_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Abraham Lincoln: A Life 1860-1861: An Election Victory, Threats of Secession, and Appointing a Cabinet , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 518min

  Publishers Weekly describes this book as "the most meticulously researched Lincoln biography ever written. Burlingame's Lincoln comes alive as the author unfolds vast amounts of new research while breathing new life into familiar stories. It is the essential title for the bicentennial." Publishers Weekly also notes, "The book need not be heard in one sitting. Each part stands alone." Now Gildan Media brings to you, chapter by chapter, what Doris Kearns Goodwin calls a "…profound and masterful portrait." "I Have Been Elected Mainly on the Cry ‘Honest Old Abe’" The Presidential Campaign (May - November 1860): Lincoln campaigns for the presidency and the new Republican Party struggles to win the popular support of ex-Whigs and disaffected Democrats. They must also placate the Seward and Chase camps with patronage promises, fend off charges of being the party of "negro equality" and keep the abolitionist elements of their coalition in line. Since presidential candidates did not themselves campaign across the country, both Lincoln and Douglas rely on surrogates to get their messages out to the public. The chapter closes with Lincoln’s election victory being dampened by threats of Southern secession. "I Will Suffer Death Before Me Will Consent to Any Concession or Compromise." President-elect in Springfield (1860 – 1861): Now the president-elect, Lincoln must contend with meeting hordes of office seekers, delivering on patronage promises and filling his cabinet with an eye on regional political calculations, all while talk of secession is building momentum throughout the South. Lincoln ponders the seriousness of the threat and his response to it. Meanwhile, from Washington come calls for Lincoln and the Congress to appease the radical Southern elements with the Crittenden Compromise. Lincoln’s rejection of these concessions and its subsequent failure, along with the South’s misreading of Northern pol ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Sean Pratt. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/gdan/000788/bk_gdan_000788_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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