• 

  The Martians Strike Back!: War of Two Worlds, Book 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 365min

  During the first two volumes of this series, Invasion! and Operation Crimson Storm, Reginald adroitly captured the movement, the power, and timelessness of H. G. Wells's original narrative, updated it, and finally brought the War back to the Martians. Now, in The Martians Strike Back!, he brings the conflict between peoples, between species, between planets to a resounding conclusion that is at once acceptably concrete and believably fragile. Peace between two worlds cannot come easily, especially since the conflicts between them have persisted for literally millions of years; and the newcomer to the game, humanity, may not be prepared to meet the challenges required to accomplish it. Alex Smith, indefatigable seeker after truth and meticulous observer of events, suddenly finds himself and his family-and his Martian counterpart, Big Guy - at the center of attempts to mollify factions on both worlds that seem intent on mutual destruction. When the specter of a third, more threatening alien race is added to the mix, Smith must make decisions and accept the consequences of actions that threaten his family, his sanity, his very life. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mike Chamberlain. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/004141/bk_acx0_004141_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

  • Shop: Audible
  • Price: 9.95 EUR excl. shipping
• 

  Martin Margiela

  A breathtaking survey of 20 years of fashion designs by Martin MargielaTimed to coincide with a major exhibition, this volume revisits the years during which celebrated designer Martin Margiela achieved the status as one of the most important designers at work today. One of the "Antwerp group of six" who changed the face of contemporary fashion, Margiela created 41 runway shows between 1989 and 2009 which promoted a unique vision of understated luxury -- monochromes, oversize volumes, and his signature "constructed-deconstructed" cuts - whose credo is comfort, timelessness, sensuality, and authenticity.Famously reclusive, Margiela never showed his face even at his own shows in order that the work could stand purely on its own, free from any link to celebrity or self-promotion. This volume chronicles these amazing fashion shows in careful detail: the extraordinary spaces, the music, the designer's intentions, the iconic pieces. Over the years, recurring motifs and inspirations become more apparent including anonymity, whiteness, past and anteriority, diversion. The book reveals the sensitive, poetic and incredibly innovative universe of this most influential contemporary fashion designer.

  • Shop: buecher
  • Price: 36.99 EUR excl. shipping
• 

  Three Nights in August: Strategy, Heartbreak, and Joy Inside the Mind of a Manager , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 590min

  The Pulitzer Prize-winning author captures baseball's essence in this account of a dramatic three-game series viewed through the eyes of legendary St. Louis Cardinals manager Tony La Russa. Through 25 years of managing, Tony La Russa has won more games than any current manager. He's the most strategically adept and arguably the smartest manager in baseball, and he still believes that games are won not by statistics, but by the hearts and minds of the players. Given unprecedented access to La Russa and his team, best-selling journalist Bissinger captures baseball's strategic and emotional essence. We watch from the dugout as La Russa's Cardinals take on their archrivals, the Chicago Cubs, in a thrilling three-game series. Some of the greatest players of our time grace the lineups: Albert Pujols, Sammy Sosa, Scott Rolen, Mark Prior. La Russa, a 40-year veteran of the game, shows why he's so revered. And Bissinger's laser-beam focus uncovers surprising truths about the pathology of slumps, the art of beanball retaliation, the eccentricities of pitchers, and the timelessness of the game. His swinging prose brings every moment gloriously to life. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jeffrey Nordling. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/high/000207/bk_high_000207_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

  • Shop: Audible
  • Price: 9.95 EUR excl. shipping
• 

  The Secret Witch , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 414min

  Possessing elements of "Twilight" and "The Scarlet Letter," this debut explodes with secrets and all of the terrible danger that follows...It is 17th-century New England, and for the people of Salem Village, all is seemingly well in God’s land. Except for Verity. One of the last orphans of the ministry, she soon finds her Puritan obedience overthrown by her detest of the church and the lure of emerging desires. The most tempting one of all being the desire to investigate the elusive evil that has been haunting from within the woods of the village. After dark findings begin to stir a devilish panic in the people, Verity finds herself in witness of a terrible event meant to preserve even more terrible secrets, throwing her into a permanent state of fractured faith and dangerous rebellion.But someone else is watching from beyond the village. Someone who knows that Salem hides many dreadful secrets, leaving far more to be feared than that which dwells in the dark.The Secret Witch unfolds a lyrical young-adult novel that explores the deception of power, the hubris of faith, the possibility of legends, and the timelessness of being young, feeling hopeless, and finding a way to unravel the fears that silence our beautiful minds. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Scarlett Ward. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/224994/bk_acx0_224994_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

  • Shop: Audible
  • Price: 9.95 EUR excl. shipping
• 

  Love: The Saint and the Seeker , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 856min

  If you have ever wondered what real love is and wished you could have it forever, this story is for you. "God will write through you." Those were almost the last private words Mother Teresa spoke to acclaimed filmmaker Christina Stevens - urging her to share her personal story with the world. A similar calling had come months earlier when Mother Teresa appeared to Christina in a dream, summoning her to India to film her message to the world. Without hesitation, Christina boarded a plane for Calcutta. Little did she know when destiny beckons and a saint takes your hand, miraculous events and profound discoveries are around every corner. Christina dipped her pen into the timelessness of the soul to share memories, dreams, and reflections that reach beyond time and space. While this remarkable account of her experience with Mother Teresa covers only a few weeks, it embraces centuries. Open your heart as you listen. Christina's narration and her performance of many voices interlaced with sounds and inspirational music will illuminate the golden threads weaving through the fabric of your life and the fabric of all living things in our world - none of which may ever be the same again. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Christina Stevens. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/062682/bk_acx0_062682_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

  • Shop: Audible
  • Price: 9.95 EUR excl. shipping
• 

  The Bhagavad Gita , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 534min

  The Bhagavad Gita, "The Song of the Lord", is the best known of all the Indian scriptures, and Easwaran's reliable and accessible version has consistently been the best-selling translation. Easwaran's introduction places the Gita in its historical setting and brings out the universality and timelessness of its teachings. Chapter introductions give clear explanations of key concepts in that chapter. To listen to the scripture without the introductions, listeners should start at track 044. The Bhagavad Gita opens dramatically on a battlefield, as the warrior Arjuna turns in anguish to his spiritual guide, Sri Krishna, for answers to the fundamental questions of life. But as Easwaran points out, the Gita is not what it seems - it's not a dialogue between two mythical figures at the dawn of Indian history. "The battlefield is a perfect backdrop, but the Gita's subject is the war within, the struggle for self-mastery that every human being must wage" to live a life that is meaningful, fulfilling, and worthwhile. This audio recording is a complete and unabridged reading of Eknath Easwaran's book The Bhagavad Gita. Narrated by Paul Bazely, an actor of Indian heritage and a longtime student of Easwaran. Music by Yann Stoneman. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Paul Bazely. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/nilg/000023/bk_nilg_000023_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

  • Shop: Audible
  • Price: 9.95 EUR excl. shipping
• 

  Coping with Death and Destruction , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 571min

  This is a collection of twelve, high concept, multi-part short stories reflecting on and inspired by the death and transformation of the year 2016. It serves as an elegy for that period of time, submerging into its dark themes of loss, extracting what irreverence and hopefulness it can, and reflecting it through a prism of an eternal universe. Sorted astrologically, the stories sometimes span generations, depicting conflict based around such themes as apocalypse, dreams, aging, dying, ghosts, the afterlife, animals, nature, global politics and pop culture. Location also varies, taking the reader through several American states to North Korea, Africa, the Philippines and beyond - often peppered with heavy doses of Southern Gothic sensibility. Here you can listen about religion based on science fiction and fantasy, a 1960's lounge singer marginalized by the Beatles, or a mixture of drugs that allows the user to summon the dead. Several of the tales blend fact into the fiction, nodding to the cultural giants whose deaths loomed over the year 2016: David Bowie, Leonard Cohen, Prince, Carrie Fisher and others. These are detailed and developed stories, intended to instill within the reader a sense of timelessness and a comfort in the notion of infinity. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Arrison Kirby. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/090074/bk_acx0_090074_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

  • Shop: Audible
  • Price: 9.95 EUR excl. shipping
• 

  Hope in the Holler , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 332min

  This is a masterpiece of middle grade fiction, at once summoning the timelessness of life in rural America while blending in modern elements. (School Library Journal)The poignant - and funny - story of a girl trying to be brave and find her place in the world after she's sent to live with scheming relatives. Right before Wavie's mother died, she gave Wavie a list of instructions to help her find her way in life, including this one: Be brave, Wavie B! You got as much right to a good life as anybody, so find it! But little did Wavie's mom know that events would conspire to bring Wavie back to Conley Hollow, the Appalachian hometown her mother tried to leave behind. Now Wavie's back in the Holler - and in the clutches of her Aunt Samantha Rose. Life with the devilish Samantha Rose and her revolting cousin Hoyt is no picnic, but there's real pleasure in sleeping in her own mother's old bed, and making friends with the funny, easygoing kids her aunt calls the "neighborhood-no-accounts." With their help, Wavie just might be able to prevent her aunt from becoming her legal guardian and find her courage and place in the world.  ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Catherine Taber. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/lili/002432/bk_lili_002432_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

  • Shop: Audible
  • Price: 9.95 EUR excl. shipping
• 

  Fit for the Pulpit: The Preacher & His Challenges , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 253min

  Who ministers to the minister? The man behind the pulpit is the communicator of God's Word, the dispenser of heavenly wisdom that restores the fainting, encourages the weary, and motivates the determined. The preacher is a minister - a servant to God and to his fellow man. But who ministers to the minister? In Fit for the Pulpit, a host of preachers dispense comfort and counsel to their brothers in the trenches, men who often work in ministerial isolation as they seek to build up the body of Christ. Chris McCurley, the editor of this volume, has assembled 10 different writers to cover a wide swath of material. In 11 chapters, McCurley and his colleagues manage to cover many of the areas wherein preachers need continual encouragement: time, relationships, discouragement, stress, criticism, family, finances, sin, attitude, and laziness. The authors of Fit for the Pulpit manage to minister grace to the minister by using candid, captivating language. The variety of the text and the timelessness of the themes make Fit for the Pulpit relatable. This book makes a valuable contribution to the catalog of homiletical literature - a contribution that accomplishes much, helping to make men Fit for the Pulpit. The full list of authors includes Jeff A. Jenkins, Dale Jenkins, Adam Faughn, Steve Higginbotham, Jacob Hawk, and Jay Lockhart. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Steve Ashworth. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/048001/bk_acx0_048001_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

  • Shop: Audible
  • Price: 9.95 EUR excl. shipping
• 

  Atlas - Tadao Ando

  This highly original and personal exploration of Tadao Ando's work, one of Japan's leading architects, traverses both the physical and spiritual world.In 2012, Philippe Se_clier visited Tadao Ando's iconic Church of the Light, and was immediately compelled to journey around the world to further study the architect's buildings. This unique presentation of Ando's work is the result of what turned into a nine-year project to photograph 130 buildings. Walking around each structure, trying to find the proper framing, helped Séclier understand Ando's genius for siting and composition. Loosely organized by chronology, each building is represented in numerous black and white images, arranged like a mosaic on the page. These fragmented views correspond to Ando's own philosophy of the logic of structure and geometry. This »atlas« embraces not only the geographic but also thematic range of Ando's oeuvre-from transit stations in Tokyo and Kobe to art museums in Fort Worth, Texas and Provence, France; from an artists' retreat on the Mexican coast to the now-demolished Piccadilly Gardens in Manchester, England; from a theater in Milan, Italy, to an upscale restaurant in New York City. Se_clier's photographs of Ando's numerous religious structures brilliantly illustrate his use of light and shadow to evoke spiritual depth and timelessness while his short texts offer concise observations of each building. A helpful appendix pinpoints the geographic diversity and range of Ando's oeuvre.

  • Shop: buecher
  • Price: 51.40 EUR excl. shipping

---

---