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    The American Association For The Relief Of The Misery Of Battle Fields
    The American Association For The Relief Of The Misery Of Battle Fields ab 21.49 € als Taschenbuch: Letter Of Henry W. Bellows To M. J. Henri Dunant (1866). Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Geist & Wissen,
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    A Coat, a Hat and a Gun (BBC Radio 4: Documentary), Hörbuch, Digital, 27min
    To tie-in with Radio 4's new versions of the Raymond Chandler classic thrillers aired in February 2011, Harriett Gilbert presents a reappraisal of the life and legacy of the man from Upper Norwood who invented the PI as we know him. 'I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the country. What I had was a coat, a hat and a gun.' Philip Marlowe has become, in many people's minds, the archetypal American detective anti-hero, yet his creator was educated at English public school, took the Civil Service exam and started a career in the Admiralty. This re-examination of the greatest crime writer of all time assesses him as an uneasy Englishman abroad and analyses his love-hate relationship with Hollywood, as well as his writing. Interviewees include the best-selling writer Sarah Dunant, who was inspired to write crime after reading Chandler as a teenager; Professor John Sutherland; David Thomson (the leading film critic who also went to school at Dulwich); and David Fine, author of a book about mythic LA. Originally broadcast on 3 February 2011, A Coat, a Hat and a Gun is presented by Harriett Gilbert, presenter of 'The World Book Club' on the World Service. She is also a writer, huge Chandler fan and daughter of Chandler's solicitor. Language: English. Narrator: Harriett Gilbert. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/rt/bbcw/004881/rt_bbcw_004881_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Der Palast der Borgia
    Rom, im August 1492. Schon am frühen Morgen ächzt die Stadt unter der Gluthitze des Sommers. Der Lärm in der engen Gasse lässt Lucrezia aus dem Schlaf fahren. Kann es wahr sein, was der Bote schreit? Ihr Vater, Rodrigo Borgia, der neue Papst? Die Nachricht stellt Lucrezias Leben und das ihrer drei Brüder auf den Kopf: Plötzlich sind sie die mächtigste Familie der Stadt, und das zwölfjährige Mädchen muss in Windeseile erwachsen werden. Denn ihr ehrgeiziger Vater weiß nur zu genau, dass die Hand seiner Tochter mehr wert ist als alle italienischen Ländereien zusammen, und dann ist da noch ihr Bruder Cesare, der seine schöne Schwester mehr liebt als erlaubt ...Mit Meisterhand öffnet Sarah Dunant die kupferbeschlagenen Türen des Palastes der Borgia, schlägt die schweren Brokatvorhänge beiseite und zeichnet den Aufstieg einer Familie in einer schillernd-verhängnisvollen Welt, in der es nur um eines geht: der Leidenschaft zu frönen und die Macht zu bewahren.
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    Auf den Spuren des Doppeladlers
    "Unser Herz weist nach Süden."Große Teile Oberitaliens gehörten einst zum Habsburgerreich - kein Wunder, dass man dort noch heute auf zahlreiche Zeugnisse des alten Österreich stößt: in Turin, wo Prinz Eugens Bildergalerie gehütet wird und in der Krypta der Basilica di Superga sein Herz ruht. In Solferino, wo Henry Dunant das Rote Kreuz gründete, nachdem er Zeuge der Schlachtengräuel geworden war. In Grado, wo Secessionist Josef Maria Auchentaller mit seiner Frau Emma maßgeblich für den Erfolg des Seebads verantwortlich war. "Unser Herz weist nach Süden", schrieb Sigmund Freud von einem Sommeraufenthalt in Lavarone an seine Frau Martha, während der Arzt Christoph Hartung von Hartungen dem k. u. k. Kurort Riva am Gardasee zu seiner Blüte verhalf ...Zahlreichen bekannten Persönlichkeiten wie diesen spürt Helmut Luther auf seiner Zeitreise durch die vergangenen Jahrhunderte nach. Aber auch so manchem in Vergessenheit Geratenen gibt er im Gespräch mit einheimischen Experten seine Geschichte zurück und verbindet auf bemerkenswerte Weise Vergangenheit und Gegenwart.
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    The Miniaturist , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 797min
    Set in 17th-century Amsterdam - a city ruled by glittering wealth and oppressive religion - a masterful debut steeped in atmosphere and shimmering with mystery, in the tradition of Emma Donoghue, Sarah Waters, and Sarah Dunant. "There is nothing hidden that will not be revealed...." On a brisk autumn day in 1686, 18-year-old Nella Oortman arrives in Amsterdam to begin a new life as the wife of illustrious merchant trader Johannes Brandt. But her new home, while splendorous, is not welcoming. Johannes is kind yet distant, always locked in his study or at his warehouse office - leaving Nella alone with his sister, the sharp-tongued and forbidding Marin. But Nella’s world changes when Johannes presents her with an extraordinary wedding gift: a cabinet-sized replica of their home. To furnish her gift, Nella engages the services of a miniaturist - an elusive and enigmatic artist whose tiny creations mirror their real-life counterparts in eerie and unexpected ways... Johannes’ gift helps Nella to pierce the closed world of the Brandt household. But as she uncovers its unusual secrets, she begins to understand - and fear - the escalating dangers that await them all. In this repressively pious society where gold is worshipped second only to God, to be different is a threat to the moral fabric of society, and not even a man as rich as Johannes is safe. Only one person seems to see the fate that awaits them. Is the miniaturist the key to their salvation...or the architect of their destruction? Enchanting, beautiful, and exquisitely suspenseful, The Miniaturist is a magnificent story of love and obsession, betrayal and retribution, appearance and truth. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Davina Porter. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/004017/bk_harp_004017_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Book of Colours , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 756min
    From Robyn Cadwallader, author of the internationally acclaimed novel The Anchoress, comes a deeply profound and moving novel of the importance of creativity and the power of connection, told through the story of the commissioning of a gorgeously decorated medieval manuscript, a Book of Hours. London, 1321: In a small shop in Paternoster Row, three people are drawn together around the creation of a magnificent book, an illuminated manuscript of prayers, a book of hours. Even though the commission seems to answer the aspirations of each one of them, their own desires and ambitions threaten its completion. As each struggles to see the book come into being, it will change everything they have understood about their place in the world. In many ways, this is a story about power - it is also a novel about the place of women in the roiling and turbulent world of the early 14th century; what power they have, how they wield it, and just how temporary and conditional it is.Rich, deep, sensuous, and full of life, Book of Colours is also, most movingly, a profoundly beautiful story about creativity and connection, and our instinctive need to understand our world and communicate with others through the pages of a book."Robyn Cadwallader fashions words with the same delicate, colourful intensity that her 14th century illuminators brought to their illustrated manuscripts. Book of Colours brings alive a harsh but rich past, filled with the fantasies, fears, sly wit and tender longings of the medieval imagination." (Sarah Dunant)"Book of Colours shows the depth of possibility a book might hold - all the while shimmering with the beauty and fragility of an ancient gilded page." (Eleanor Limprecht)"Extraordinary...a real sensory experience...suffused with colours." (ABC Radio National - The Bookshelf) ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Katy Sobey. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/007671/bk_harp_007671_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    People from Geneva
    People from Geneva ab 34.99 € als Taschenbuch: Jean-Jacques Rousseau Ferdinand de Saussure Henry Dunant Élie Ducommun Louis Duke of Savoy Jacques Necker Jean-André Deluc Frank Martin C. Douglas Dillon Adrian Conan Doyle Sigismond Thalberg Marion Bartoli Fabrice Santoro. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Geist & Wissen,
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    Sacred Hearts: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 896min
    The year is 1570, and in the convent of Santa Caterina, in the Italian city of Ferrara, noblewomen find space to pursue their lives under God's protection. But any community, however smoothly run, suffers tremors when it takes in someone by force. And the arrival of Santa Caterina's new novice sets in motion a chain of events that will shake the convent to its core. Ripped by her family from an illicit love affair, 16-year-old Serafina is willful, emotional, sharp, and defiant - young enough to have a life to look forward to and old enough to know when that life is being cut short. Her first night inside the walls is spent in an incandescent rage so violent that the dispensary mistress, Suora Zuana, is dispatched to the girl's cell to sedate her. Thus begins a complex relationship of trust and betrayal between the young rebel and the clever, scholarly nun, for whom the girl becomes the daughter she will never have. As Serafina rails against her incarceration, others are drawn into the drama: the ancient, mysterious Suora Magdalena - with her history of visions and ecstasies - locked in her cell; the ferociously devout novice mistress Suora Umiliana, who comes to see in the postulant a way to extend her influence; and, watching it all, the abbess, Madonna Chiara, a woman as fluent in politics as she is in prayer. As disorder and rebellion mount, it is the abbess's job to keep the convent stable while, outside its walls, the dictates of the Counter-Reformation begin to purge the Catholic Church and impose on the nunneries a regime of terrible oppression. Sarah Dunant, the best-selling author of The Birth of Venus and In the Company of the Courtesan, brings this intricate Renaissance world compellingly to life. Amid Sacred Hearts is a rich, engrossing, multifaceted love story, encompassing the passions of the flesh, the exultation of the spirit, and the deep, enduring power of friendship. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Rosalyn Landor. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/001941/bk_rand_001941_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Eine Erinnerung an Solferino
    "Da man wohl verzichten muß auf die Wünsche und Hoffnungen der Mitglieder der Gesellschaft der Friedensfreunde oder auf die Traumgebilde des Abbe von Saint Pierre und die Inspirationen des Grafen von Sellon; da die Menschen fortfahren, sich gegenseitig zu tödten, ohne sich zu hassen, und da der größte Ruhm im Kriege darin besteht, so viele Menschen als möglich zu tödten; da man offen erklärt, wie Graf Joseph de Maistre versichert, daß "der Krieg etwas Göttliches sei;" da man täglich mit einer Beharrlichkeit, die eines besseren Zieles werth wäre, immer schrecklichere Zerstörungsmittel als die bisherigen erfindet, und die Erfinder dieser Mordwerkzeuge von den meisten europäischen Großstaaten, in denen man sich immer mehr rüstet, noch begünstigt werden;...". Diese Worte schrieb Henry Dunant im Jahr 1863, von den schrecklichen Ereignissen der Schlacht bei Solferino, in sein Buch. Bis ins Detail beschreibt er die Leiden und das Sterben der Soldaten auf dem Schlachtfeld von Solferino, und die miserablen medizinischen und humanitären Zustände. Der Humanist verfolgte nur ein Ziel. Die "Erinnerungen an Solferino", die er in einer Auflage von 1900 Exemplaren selbst verlegte und finanzierte und an alle einflussreichen Personen, Kaiser, Könige und Präsidenten sandte sollten diese Überzeugen eine Hilfsorganisation zu gründen, die in Kriegszeiten die Leiden der Soldaten aller beteiligten Kriegsparteien nach den Maß der Not lindern sollte. Anläßlich des 100. Todestages im letzten Jahr und des Weltrotkreuztages am 08.05.2011 erscheint nun "Eine Erinnerung an Solferino" in einer Neuauflage. Obwohl Henry Dunants Werk schon 150 Jahre alt ist, ist es auch in der heutigen Zeit noch aktuell.
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    40 Inspiring Icons: People of Peace
    Dreamers, leaders, fighters for our rights... meet 40 amazing activists for peace who fought hard to build a better world in this collection from the 40 Inspiring Icons series.Learn how Martin Luther King, Gandhi, Eleanor Roosevelt, Nelson Mandela and many others dedicated their lives to peace in this fact-packed title.Meet Albert Einstein, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist who used his fame to speak out against nuclear weapons; Pakistani activist Malala Yousafzai, who stood up for the right to education and survived a gunshot wound to her head; and Pablo Picasso, who created extraordinary paintings to promote peace and raise awareness of the atrocities of war.Each spread presents a single peacemaker, highlighting key facts about their identity, actions and works, along with a fun, illustrated depiction of them that calls out elements of their life and style.With so many icons to admire, who will you choose as your hero?These 40 incredible people each changed the world in their own unique, and peaceful, way:Immanuel Kant; Victor Schoelcher; Victor Hugo; Henry David Thoreau; Henri Dunant; Lejzer Ludwik Zamenhof; Bertha von Suttner; Jean Jaures; Rosa Luxemburg; Woodrow Wilson; Otto Dix; Aristide Briand; Erich Maria Remarque; Pablo Picasso; Dalton Trumbo; Charlie Chaplin; Sophie Scholl; Raoul Wallenberg; Albert Einstein; Gandhi; Eleanor Roosevelt; Martin Luther King; Joan Baez; Muhammad Ali; John Lennon; Adolfo Perez Esquivel; Mairead Corrigan and Betty Williams; Wangari Maathai; Ikuo Hirayama; Tenzin Gyatso; Mikhail Gorbachev; Vaclav Havel; Nelson Mandela; Rigoberta Menchu; Jody Williams; Daniel Barenboim; Kim Dae-Jung; Michael Moore; Tegla Loroupe; Malala Yousafzai.Each book in the 40 Inspiring Icons series introduces readers to a fascinating non-fiction subject through its 40 most famous people or groups. Explore these other great topics through their most interesting icons: Black Music Greats, Super Scientists, Soccer Stars, Fantastic Footballers, Music Legends and Greek Gods and Heroes.
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