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  A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist’s Unconventional Life Among the Baboons , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 875min

  I had never planned to become a savanna baboon when I grew up; instead, I had always assumed I would become a mountain gorilla, writes Robert Sapolsky in this witty and riveting chronicle of a scientist's coming-of-age in remote Africa. An exhilarating account of Sapolsky's twenty-one-year study of a troop of rambunctious baboons in Kenya, A Primate's Memoir interweaves serious scientific observations with wry commentary about the challenges and pleasures of living in the wilds of the Serengeti-for man and beast alike. Over two decades, Sapolsky survives culinary atrocities, gunpoint encounters, and a surreal kidnapping, while witnessing the encroachment of the tourist mentality on the farthest vestiges of unspoiled Africa. As he conducts unprecedented physiological research on wild primates, he becomes ever more enamored of his subjects - unique and compelling characters in their own right - and he returns to them summer after summer, until tragedy finally prevents him. By turns hilarious and poignant, A Primate's Memoir is a magnum opus from one of our foremost science writers. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mike Chamberlain. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tant/003445/bk_tant_003445_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Pursuing the Bear: Shifter Wars, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 531min

  The Shifter Wars heat up when a woman investigates the mysteries surrounding a fierce breed of man and exposes more than just secrets Bear shifters exist. Professor Bria Lane has known this since she was a child. Now she's returned to the forests of Deep Creek to prove it to the world. She has no idea how close she is to that proof in ruggedly sexy park ranger Derek Poole. Intimately close. But uncovering Derek's wild side comes with a shattering price. Like a magnet meeting metal, Derek is drawn to Bria. His destiny. His mate. So beautiful and so vulnerable. So dangerous, too: an encroachment of lions, vengeful and vicious, is closing in, and they're ready for war. Now is not the time to be distracted like a lovesick cub. If Bria reveals the truth of the Deep Creek shifters to the world, she'll bring out the worst of both sides. But Derek can't hide his secrets from the love of his life forever. He knows they're playing with fire - and that when passion runs this hot, this reckless, someone's bound to get burned. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Rob Shapiro. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/005690/bk_harp_005690_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Get Blue Knight: Blue Knight, Episode 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 82min

  Chicago's citizens appreciated Blue Knight's efforts to make their city one of the safest in the country. Yet this success did not satisfy Roger/Blue Knight. It distressed him when criminals still got away with their crimes. As much as he tried to catch every one of them, the laws of physics still applied - it was not possible to be in two places at the same time.  So, he often used the Vision Panel to scan crime scenes in progress, decided which ones had priority, and hoped he made the right judgments. First, he went to where a life or lives appeared to be in danger. He also rushed from one scene to another. The day was a happy one when he totally foiled the attempted offenses.  Chicago's crime elements, such as Ivan, leader of the Russian mafia, hated Blue Knight's encroachment on their activities. Ivan's primary goal became elimination of the armored hero, forever.  The crime leader had the advantage of surprise attacks against the superhero, conducted in secret by the Russian mafia. Ivan also felt he could carry out one deception after another until something worked. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Allen L Pollens. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/116569/bk_acx0_116569_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Fin Gall - A Novel of Viking Age Ireland: Norsemen Saga Series #1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 782min

  AD 852. For centuries the Vikings have swept out of the Norse countries and fallen on whatever lands they could reach aboard their longships, and few could resist the power of their violent onslaught. They came at first to plunder and then to settle, an encroachment fiercely resisted wherever they went. Such was the case in the southern lands of Ireland. En route to the Viking longphort there, known as Dubh-linn, Thorgrim Night Wolf and Ornolf the Restless stumble across an Irish ship that carries aboard it a single item: a crown. The Vikings eagerly snatch the prize, unaware of its significance to the people of Ireland and the power granted to the king who wears it. Soon the Norsemen are plunged into the violence and intrigue of Medieval Ireland, where local kings fight with each other and with the invaders from the north for rule of the island nation. With enemies at every hand and loyalties as fickle as the weather, Thorgrim must lead his men, the white invaders, the Fin Gall, in the fight of their lives, with both Irish and Dane eager to see them dead. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Shaun Grindell. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tant/005387/bk_tant_005387_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Three Marks of Manhood: How to Be Priest, Prophet and King of Your Family , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 382min

  The noted Catholic psychologist, Dr. G.C. Dilsaver, says the time has come for Catholic families to re-discover true patriarchy - time for Catholic men to accept and fulfill their role as leader and head of their families. The role of Christian manhood, as ordained by God and confirmed by Catholic teaching, is symbolized by three staffs: the Scepter of authority and self-discipline, the Crosier of spiritual headship, and the Cross of redemptive suffering. Dr. Dilsaver promotes a new and untainted patriarchy in which the husband's ultimate authority is rooted in Christ's example of humility and self-sacrificing love. The Three Marks of Manhood can help Christian families realize their identity to the fullest - empowering them to resist the encroachment of secular culture. Listen to it and learn how to build a strong and lasting marriage, raise children to become faithful men and women of God, and foster an authentic Catholic culture in your home. Dr. Dilsaver, with his development of the first fully integrated Christian psychology, Imago Dei Psychotherapy, is truly the father of Christian psychology; with the publication of The Three Marks of Manhood, he may also be the father of a new Christian patriarchy. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kevin F. Spalding. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/050743/bk_acx0_050743_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Natchez Indians: A History to 1735 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 468min

  The Natchez Indians: A History to 1735 is the story of the Natchez Indians as revealed through accounts of Spanish, English, and French explorers, missionaries, soldiers, and colonists, and in the archaeological record. Because of their strategic location on the Mississippi River, the Natchez Indians played a crucial part in the European struggle for control of the Lower Mississippi Valley. The book begins with the brief confrontation between the Hernando de Soto expedition and the powerful Quigualtam chiefdom, presumed ancestors of the Natchez. In the late 17th century, René-Robert Cavelier de La Salle's expedition met the Natchez and initiated sustained European encroachment, exposing the tribe to sickness and the dangers of the Indian slave trade. The Natchez Indians portrays the way that the Natchez coped with a rapidly changing world, became entangled with the political ambitions of two European superpowers, France and England, and eventually disappeared as a people. The author examines the shifting relationships among the tribe's settlement districts and the settlement districts' relationships with neighboring tribes and with the Europeans. The establishment of a French fort and burgeoning agricultural colony in their midst signaled the beginning of the end for the Natchez people. Barnett has written the most complete and detailed history of the Natchez to date. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Charles Johnson, Jr.. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/073401/bk_acx0_073401_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Smokejumper: A Memoir by One of America's Most Select Airborne Firefighters , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 326min

  A rare inside look at the thrilling world of smokejumpers, the airborne firefighters who parachute into the most remote and rugged areas of the United States, confronting the growing threat of nature's blazes. Forest and wildland fires are growing larger, more numerous, and deadlier every year - record drought conditions, decades of forestry mismanagement, and the increasing encroachment of residential housing into the wilderness have combined to create a powder keg that threatens millions of acres and thousands of lives every year. One select group of men and women are part of America's front-line defense: smokejumpers. The smokejumper program operates through both the US Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management. Though they are tremendously skilled, and only highly experienced and able wildland firefighters are accepted into the training program, being a smokejumper remains an art that can be learned only on the job. Forest fires often behave in unpredictable ways: spreading almost instantaneously, shooting downhill behind a stiff tailwind, or even flowing like a liquid. In this extraordinarily rare memoir by an active-duty jumper, Jason Ramos takes listeners into his exhilarating and dangerous world, explores smokejumping's remarkable history, and explains why their services are more essential than ever before. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ned Vaughn. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/004554/bk_harp_004554_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Inheritors (eBook, ePUB)

  A precocious take on the science fiction genre well before it rose to prominence - 'The Inheritors' single-handedly tackles the complex themes of corruption, social matters and traditionalism versus the encroachment of the technological age. Conrad successfully does so while describing the Inheritors as inter-dimensional beings that bear a close resemblance to modern-day terrorists as they aspire to a violent and chaotic takeover of the world. Social and colonial critique is intricately spun into the storyline with particularly potent criticism of humanity's greed and easily corruptible condition. A highly recommended read for those interested in classical novels that proffer a unique and enticing glimpse into the essence of life itself as viewed through a kaleidoscope of various contemporary issues. Joseph Conrad's work and his compact, realist style went on to influence many noteworthy writers, including George Orwell, John le Carré and F. Scott Fitzgerald.Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) was a Polish-born author who left Poland in his teens to avoid enlistment in the Russian Army. He learned English aboard British ships and started writing in the language after settling in the UK. His most famous novel is 'Heart of Darkness' (1899), which was inspired by his experiences on the open sea.

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  Feersum Endjinn

  A superb standalone novel from the awesome imagination of Iain M. Banks, a master of modern science fiction. Count Sessine is about to die for the very last time...Chief Scientist Gadfium is about to receive the mysterious message she has been waiting for from the Plain of Sliding Stones...And Bascule the Teller, in search of an ant, is about to enter the chaos of the crypt...And everything is about to change...For this is the time of the encroachment and, although the dimming sun still shines on the vast, towering walls of Serehfa Fastness, the end is close at hand. The King knows it, his closest advisers know it, yet sill they prosecute the war against the clan Engineers with increasing savagery. The crypt knows it too; so an emissary has been sent, an emissary who holds the key to all their futures.Praise for Iain M. Banks:'Epic in scope, ambitious in its ideas and absorbing in its execution' Independent on Sunday'Banks has created one of the most enduring and endearing visions of the future' Guardian'Jam-packed with extraordinary invention' Scotsman'Compulsive reading' Sunday Telegraph The Culture series:Consider PhlebasThe Player of GamesUse of WeaponsThe State of the ArtExcessionInversionsLook to WindwardMatterSurface DetailThe Hydrogen SonataOther books by Iain M. Banks:Against a Dark BackgroundFeersum EndjinnThe Algebraist

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  Sigil: Book 1 (eBook, ePUB)

  The world just didn't have enough problems, especially for Judy Morris, lifelong citizen of New Hope City and part-time superhuman. She didn't ask for much, but sadly, destiny had more than enough. Inheriting her emergent magic allowed Judy to go under the guise of the Sigil, a less-than-super super going up against annoying heroes who do less than the city needs and various villains who are out for blood. Among them, she finds herself regularly combating Magnanimous, 'the Ferrous Defender'; world-class oversized Boy Scout, John Ivan McGrath, a cutthroat businessman with a volatile hold on the city; and Measure, a radical gang leader who retaliates against McGrath's encroachment, to the inadvertent detriment of his community.Even as tension brews in the streets of New Hope, so, too, does it brew in the other worlds. Strange happenings occur for Judy, and an odd divine intervention trips up her already-shattered life. As she grows to realize her potential as well as the implications of the world around her, Judy's longing for a long-term justice in the city causes her to look deeper into a conflict she never wanted anything to do with. With her tech-savvy best friend, Lisa, and considerate aunt, Maxine, will she be able to bring the justice New Hope has needed, let alone survive the city?

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