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    Learn Healthy Habits That Will Keep Your Mind Sharp , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 92min
    As we go through life, we all hope we can maintain good physical and mental health as long as possible. There is not much pleasure in living a long life if our final years are spent in pain, and we lose our ability to think and remember. As much as we may dread suffering physical pain and illness in old age, many of us fear the possibility that we might lose our mental capacities even more, and end up completely helpless in a nursing home. Often the first hint that our memory is starting to lose its sharpness happens around the fifth decade of life. As people enter their middle years, they start to notice more and more frequent lapses of memory, particularly their short-term memory. They may enter a room to do something, and forget what it is. They may be unable to recall the name of someone who use to live next door. And they may start to worry that their forgetfulness is more than just a harmless incident, they worry that it might be the first hint of something far more sinister - perhaps the onset of Alzheimer's disease. Alzheimer's is the name given to a very serious brain disease in which the brain cells are killed by microscopic plaques and tangled fibers. The parts of the brain needed to form and access recent memories are usually destroyed first. Brain cell destruction spreads to other parts of the brain, causing a loss of function, and eventually death follows. Do you keep on forgetting things or cannot remember names of familiar faces? If this is happening to you, maybe you're having serious memory lapses. Memory lapses can happen at any age. Memory loss can be caused by brain injury, neurological or organic problems, and maybe because of the fact that you're getting old. As you age, you expect your bones, muscles, and entire body system to slowly get weak. You might lessen your physical activity because of some muscular strains or joint pains that will affect your daily movements. Along with your body, it is not surprising that yo ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Cathy Beard. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/129901/bk_acx0_129901_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    History in 30: The Life of Erwin Rommel, Nazi Germany's Desert Fox , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 48min
    Be an example to your men in your duty and in private life. Never spare yourself, and let the troops see that you don't in your endurance of fatigue and privation. Always be tactful and well-mannered, and teach your subordinates to be the same. Avoid excessive sharpness or harshness of voice, which usually indicates the man who has shortcomings of his own to hide. - Erwin Rommel The 20th century was a century full of conflict and strife, not seen before on a global scale. While there were multiple conflicts that spanned over many years, the two World Wars marked the century. During both World Wars, the Germans were found on the losing end, but that is not to say that those armies were void of brilliance, quite to the contrary. The German Army of World War I was one of the most well-rounded and destructive war machines in history, and if anything, the death knell to the German side during the First World War was the fact that the Germans had weak allies and spent considerable resources and time to try to prop up other empires like Austria and the Ottoman Turks. World War II was an entirely different story. The Germans were angry after the First World War, and using public sway and anger, Adolf Hitler took power in the 1930s. Unlike the earlier army, the German Army of the Second World War committed some of the most grotesque and unforgivable atrocities in the history of mankind. This isn't to say that the German commanders and soldiers were all bad, and of all the men who fought for the Reich, the one with the most sterling reputation is Erwin Rommel, the Desert Fox. Rommel rose through the ranks of the German Army in the years preceding the outbreak of World War II, and he proved to be a cunning and insinuative soldier who was one of the most brilliant cavalry commanders in the history of warfare. Eventually, the evil that surrounded him engulfed him, and his pure brilliance went untapped. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Scott Clem. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/104469/bk_acx0_104469_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    James Baldwin: Collected Essays
    "Collected Essays" is the most comprehensive gathering of Baldwin's nonfiction ever published. The collection confirms his as a uniquely prophetic voice in American letters. Included are such famous essays as "The Harlem Ghetto", "Everybody's Protest Novel", Many Thousands Gone", and "Stranger in the Village".James Baldwin was a uniquely prophetic voice in American letters. His brilliant and provocative essays made him the literary voice of the Civil Rights Era, and they continue to speak with powerful urgency to us today, whether in the swirling debate over the Black Lives Matter movement or in the words of Raoul Peck's documentary "I Am Not Your Negro." Edited by Nobel laureate Toni Morrison, the Library of America's Collected Essays is the most comprehensive gathering of Baldwin's nonfiction ever published. With burning passion and jabbing, epigrammatic wit, Baldwin fearlessly articulated issues of race and democracy and American identity in such famous essays as "The Harlem Ghetto," "Everybody's Protest Novel," "Many Thousands Gone," and "Stranger in the Village." Here are the complete texts of his early landmark collections, Notes of a Native Son (1955) and Nobody Knows My Name (1961), which established him as an essential intellectual voice of his time, fusing in unique fashion the personal, the literary, and the political. "One writes," he stated, "out of one thing only-one's own experience. Everything depends on how relentlessly one forces from this experience the last drop, sweet or bitter, it can possibly give." With singular eloquence and unblinking sharpness of observation he lived up to his credo: "I want to be an honest man and a good writer." The classic The Fire Next Time (1963), perhaps the most influential of his writings, is his most penetrating analysis of America's racial divide and an impassioned call to "end the racial nightmare...and change the history of the world." The later volumes No Name in the Street (1972) and The Devil Finds Work (1976) chart his continuing response to the social and political turbulence of his era and include his remarkable works of film criticism. A further 36 essays-nine of them previously uncollected-include some of Baldwin's earliest published writings, as well as revealing later insights into the language of Shakespeare, the poetry of Langston Hughes, and the music of Earl Hines. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation's literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America's best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.
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    An Unkindness of Ghosts (eBook, ePUB)
    One of the Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Books of the past decade, selected by NPRA Best Book of 2017: NPR, The Guardian, Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, Bustle, Bookish, Barnes & Noble, Chicago Public Library, Book Scrolling.CLMP Firecracker Award WinnerA Stonewall Book Award Honor BookFinalist for the 2018 Locus Award, John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, and the Lambda Literary Award.Nominated for the 2018 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Debut Novel"What Solomon achieves with this debut--the sharpness, the depth, the precision--puts me in mind of a syringe full of stars. I want to say about this book, its only imperfection is that it ended. But that might give the wrong impression: that it is a happy book, a book that makes a body feel good. It is not a happy book. I love it like I love food, I love it for what it did to me, I love it for having made me feel stronger and more sure in a nightmare world, but it is not a happy book. It is an antidote to poison. It is inoculation against pervasive, enduring disease. Like a vaccine, it is briefly painful, leaves a lingering soreness, but armors you from the inside out." --NPR"In Rivers Solomon's highly imaginative sci-fi novel An Unkindness of Ghosts, eccentric Aster was born into slavery on--and is trying to escape from--a brutally segregated spaceship that for generations has been trying to escort the last humans from a dying planet to a Promised Land. When she discovers clues about the circumstances of her mother's death, she also comes closer to disturbing truths about the ship and its journey." --BuzzFeed"What Solomon does brilliantly in this novel is in the creation of a society in which dichotomies loom over certain aspects of the narrative, and are eschewed by others...Hearkening back to the past in visions of the future can hold a number of narrative purposes...The past offers us countless nightmares and cautionary tales; so too, I'm afraid, can the array of possible futures lurking up ahead." --Tor.com"This book is a clear descendent of Octavia Butler's Black science fiction legacy, but grounded in more explicit queerness and neuroatypicality." --AutoStraddle"Ghosts are 'the past refusing to be forgot,' says a character in this assured science-fiction debut. That's certainly the case aboard the HSS Matilda, a massive spacecraft arranged along the cruel racial divides of pre-Civil War America." --Toronto StarAster has little to offer folks in the way of rebuttal when they call her ogre and freak. She's used to the names; she only wishes there was more truth to them. If she were truly a monster, she'd be powerful enough to tear down the walls around her until nothing remains of her world.Aster lives in the lowdeck slums of the HSS Matilda, a space vessel organized much like the antebellum South. For generations, Matilda has ferried the last of humanity to a mythical Promised Land. On its way, the ship's leaders have imposed harsh moral restrictions and deep indignities on dark-skinned sharecroppers like Aster. Embroiled in a grudge with a brutal overseer, Aster learns there may be a way to improve her lot--if she's willing to sow the seeds of civil war.
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    Build a Better Brain
    Build a Better Brain - Using Everyday Neuroscience to Train Your Brain for Motivation Discipline Courage and Mental Sharpness: ab 5.16 €
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    Mind Hacking Secrets: How to Change Your Mind and Habits Rewire Your Brain and Stop Overthinking. Manage Anger Social Anxiety Train Your Brain for Motivation Discipline and Mental Sharpness
    Mind Hacking Secrets: How to Change Your Mind and Habits Rewire Your Brain and Stop Overthinking. Manage Anger Social Anxiety Train Your Brain for Motivation Discipline and Mental Sharpness: ab 4.49 €
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    The Partial Regularity Theory of Caffarelli Kohn and Nirenberg and its Sharpness
    The Partial Regularity Theory of Caffarelli Kohn and Nirenberg and its Sharpness: ab 74.99 €
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    Milestones Of A Legend
    Der Trompeter Lee Morgan (1938-1972) wird für immer mit seinem ÜberraschungsPop Hit "The Sidewinder" assoziiert werden. Dabei hatte er als Wunderkind im Alter von 18 Jahren schon in der Dizzy Gillespie Big Band für großes Aufsehen gesorgt. Und das Blue Note Label nahm ihn sofort unter Vertrag. Bemerkenswerterweise spielte er seine erste Session mit Hank Mobley für Savoy einen Tag später bei Rudy van Gelder ein. Aus den manchmal sehr routiniert ablaufenden Plattenaufnahmen mit typischen Quintett Besetzungen in jener Hochzeit des Hard Bop ragen Morgans Alben von Anfang an heraus, was nicht nur an seiner phänomenalen Technik lag, die er immer im Dienste der Musik einsetzte, sondern auch an der Auswahl seiner Musiker und des Themenmaterials. Er fi ng erst nach und nach an, seine Musik selber zu schreiben und setzte zunächst auf Leute wie Benny Golson, der mit ihm lange zusammen bei Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers spielte. In der Auswahl seiner Saxophonisten setzte Morgan ähnliche Akzente wie Miles Davis und kein Wunder, dass es dabei zu Überschneidungen kam. Hank Mobley, Benny Golson, John Coltrane -bei dem Morgan als Sideman auf dessen gefeierter "Blue Train"-Session mitwirkte-, und George Coleman und Wayne Shorter, letztere sollten erst später bei Miles Bands einsteigen, sind da herauszuheben. Ein ganz spezieller Gleichgesinnter war der leider immer unterschätzte Tenorist Cliff ord Jordan, mit dem Morgan drei großartige Alben für Vee Jay und Riverside einspielte und die hier besondere Beachtung verdienen. Da Morgan bis zu seinem Hit keine feste eigene Band unterhielt, gehörte er bis 1964 meistens zu den Jazz Messengers und bildete den wichtigsten ruhenden Pol der Band, egal ob so unterschiedliche Charaktere wie Benny Golson oder Wayne Shorter den Saxophonistenpart innehatten, wie die beiden Blakey Klassiker "Moanin'" und "Night in Tunisia" eindrucksvoll dokumentieren. Der amerikanische Autor David H. Rosenthal zieht in seiner Analyse des Morganschen Trompetenstils der 60er Jahre eine erhellende Parallele, indem er diese Spielweise als instrumentales Äquivalent zum Gesang der seinerzeitigen Soul-Größen, vor allem James Brown, interpretiert: "... he had honed his time and timbre to razor sharpness ...". Auf Fotos erkennt man noch heute klar Morgans Selbstinszenierung, die in der Tat mit den Worten James Browns am treff endsten ausgedrückt wird: Mr. Super Bad. Damit ging auch ein Interesse und aktive Teilnahme Morgans am Civil Rights Movement einher. Leider war Morgans Leben und Karriere von Drogenproblemen fl ankiert, die ihn immer wieder zu Auszeiten zwangen. 1972 schoss seine Frau während einer Auftrittspause im New Yorker Jazzclub Slug's Saloon auf Morgan und er verblutete, weil aufgrund eines Unwetters der Krankenwagen zu spät eintraf.
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    Streichquartette op.59 & 73
    "(They) open Op.59 / I like a relaxed invitation ... (their) nourishing perceptions are worth anyone's time" (Gramophone) "Extra sharpness of characterization as well as the extra warmth, compared with their earlier cycle ... (No.2): the sublime molto adagio has an inner hush beyond the earlier set. ('Harp'): fun brought out in the first movement ... the adagio treated songfully...excellent sound." ( Penguin Guide 3 stars)
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    No Guarantee
    Once upon a time a girl of sixteen sat alone in her room at night writing poetry and playing the guitar while her friends hung out or went to parties. She loved this special time to reflect on her teenage emotions. As she grew older her passion for words and music continued, but there were many paths on her journey: college, work, relationships, hardships, and pleasures. She lived them all until she found her way back to music. Using those experiences, she gives a glimpse of herself and life through her songs. Her keen observations and lyrical sharpness are thoughtful, honest, and direct.
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