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Blaise Pascal: The Life and Legacy of the Legendary French Mathematician and Theologian , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 82min
“People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.” (Blaise Pascal)Blaise Pascal’s time on earth may have been brief - no more than 39 years - but this unconventionally educated yet brilliant scientist, mathematician, and man of letters accomplished more than most people could hope to achieve in two lifetimes. The SI unit of pressure, pascal, is named after this polymath, and he is the namesake of a procedural programming language designed by Niklaus Wirth between the years of 1968 and 1969. On top of the countless busts, statues, and plaques erected in his honor, several institutions bear his name, as does a university in his hometown of Clermont-Ferrand. The Blaise Pascal Chairs, a glittering accolade awarded to exceptional international scientists every year, was also established in his honor. How did Blaise Pascal leave such a legacy in such a short amount of time? Blaise Pascal: The Life and Legacy of the Legendary French Mathematician and Theologian examines the life and work that made him one of modern history’s most important figures. You will learn about Pascal like never before. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jim D Johnston. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/136492/bk_acx0_136492_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Frog Prince, Hörbuch, Digital, 11min
The Frog Prince is a fairy tale, best known through the Brothers Grimm's written version. The 2009 animated film, The Princess and the Frog is loosely based on this story. In the tale, a spoiled princess reluctantly befriends the Frog Prince (meeting him after dropping a gold ball into a pond), who magically transforms into a handsome prince. Although in modern versions the transformation is invariably triggered by the princess kissing the frog, in the original Grimm version of the story is a a little bit different. In addition, following this classic tale, you have The Princess and the Pea. This short story by Hans-Christian Andersen tells the story of a prince who wants to marry a princess, but is having difficulty finding a suitable wife. Something is always wrong with those he meets, and he cannot be certain they are real princesses. One stormy night a young woman drenched with rain seeks shelter in the prince's castle. She claims to be a princess. But how can the prince ascertain she really is? This classic tale tells the story of how he put her to the test. Language: English. Narrator: Katie Haigh. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/cids/000580/bk_cids_000580_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Somebody's Ex: The Jackson Brothers, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 233min
If you're a fan of contemporary romance by Bella Andre, Lora Leigh, Maya Banks, Sylvia Day, then you won't want to miss Jasmine Haynes's heart-wrenching family saga, The Jackson Brothers. A family torn apart by tragedy... Three years ago, Lou Jackson, eldest son, died in a work accident. And nothing has been the same since for the Jacksons. They lost their heart and soul the day Lou died, even as matriarch Evelyn tries to keep them together. But things are changing and the family will either find their way back to each other. Or they'll be torn asunder. Randi Andersen has a thing for bad boys, tall, dark, sexy, and handsome. But bad boys invariably make for bad relationships. She's tired of being somebody's ex, ex-girlfriend, ex-lover, or ex-wife. Now, if she could just fall in love with a nice guy. David Jackson has lived under the crushing weight of responsibility for holding his family together since his brother's death three years ago. Randi is too sexy to resist, but the last thing he needs now is a relationship. Too much is at stake with his family falling apart. Can they each forgive their own past mistakes in order to take the leap of faith that love demands? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Shana Savage. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/015256/bk_acx0_015256_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Old Ball Game: How John McGraw, Christy Mathewson, and the New York Giants Created Modern Baseball , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 440min
In The Old Ball Game, Frank Deford, NPR sports commentator and Sports Illustrated journalist retells the story of an unusual friendship between two towering figures in baseball history.At the turn of the twentieth century, Christy Mathewson was one of baseball's first superstars. Over six feet tall, clean cut, and college educated, he didn't pitch on the Sabbath and rarely spoke an ill word about anyone. He also had one of the most devastating arms in all of baseball. New York Giants manager John McGraw, by contrast, was ferocious. The pugnacious tough guy was already a star infielder who, with the Baltimore Orioles, helped develop a new, scrappy style of baseball, with plays like the hit-and-run, the Baltimore chop, and the squeeze play. When McGraw joined the Giants in 1902, the Giants were coming off their worst season ever. Yet within three years, Mathewson clinched New York City's first World Series for McGraw's team by throwing three straight shutouts in only six days, an incredible feat that is invariably called the greatest World Series performance ever. Because of their wonderful odd-couple association, baseball had its first superstar, the Giants ascended into legend, and baseball as a national pastime bloomed. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Frank Deford. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/012046/bk_adbl_012046_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Virginia Woolf: A Life From Beginning to End (Biographies of British Authors, Book 5) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 71min
Discover the remarkable life of Virginia Woolf....Virginia Woolf ranks among the most influential writers of the 20th century. Embracing the Post-Impressionist times in which she lived, her novels reflect the artistic shift from romanticism to abstract. Plot mattered very little to Woolf. Her writing was a stream of consciousness outside of time and place. Her novels, including her best-known work, Mrs. Dalloway, invariably dwell on gender roles and the concept of reality.Woolf suffered from mental illness throughout her life. Her inner torment formed the basis of much of her writing. Virginia made multiple suicide attempts and was institutionalized several times throughout her life as she feared a loss of control due to her increasing depression and manic episodes. Her husband, Leonard Woolf, with whom she had mainly a platonic relationship, remained supportive of her until her death.On March 28, 1941, Virginia Woolf walked into the River Ouse wearing a heavy coat with pockets filled with rocks. Her body was found three weeks later.Discover a plethora of topics such as:A dysfunctional homeWoolf and the Bloomsbury GroupThe making of a modern womanMrs.DallowayVirginia and Vita’s love affairWoolf’s Suicide and beyondAnd much more!So if you want a concise and informative book on Virginia Woolf, simply buy now! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mike Nelson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/193917/bk_acx0_193917_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Virtual Psycology: Replacing the Psychologist with a Computer , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 77min
Replacing the psychologist with a computer, however strange it may be, can have a therapeutic effect because we invariably see in the psychologist a person who can judge us and experience disdainful feelings about our weaknesses. In many cases, the patient will not tell a real psychologist that which he reveals to a machine. Urges the patient feels are indecent and aggressive will be hidden from the psychologist until a trusting relationship is built. With a computer, the patient can feel more uninhibited, recognizing that the machine has no moral precepts and does not have the psychological constraints eventually observed in any human psychologist. The goal of the virtual interaction of the psychological program and the patient, as in a face-to-face consultation with an ordinary psychologist, is to help the person to improve the quality of his life. In principle, daily analysis of his psychological state and the motivation of his actions and review of the meaning of dreams and other subconscious signals can become a routine, a procedure as common for a person of the future as the practice of personal hygiene. Programs capable of maintaining the psychological health of a person could become an unavoidable fixture of the virtual age, into which mankind is only beginning to step. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Paul Stefano. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/210342/bk_acx0_210342_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Booked for a Hanging: Dan Rhodes Mysteries, Book 6 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 307min
The versatile mystery novelist Bill Crider has created a pantheon of marvelous characters, but none is more real, warm, and thoroughly delightful than Sheriff Dan Rhodes of Blacklin County, Texas.In his sixth adventure, Rhodes is confronted with what seems at first to be a suicide: the body of a man newly arrived in the county is found hanged in the dilapidated building he has taken over for his business. Simon Graham was a rare-book dealer. If it seems unlikely to find such an arcane entrepreneur in this extremely rural and sparsely populated part of Texas, it becomes less strange when it turns out that Graham was more con man than bibliophile.The presumed suicide begins to look more and more like murder when several newcomers swoop down on the scene and try to beat out one another to find a reputedly valuable rare book that Graham was rumored to have among his collection of hardly worthwhile items.Although Rhodes' two attenuated and eccentric jailhouse employees have gone overboard for the magic of the department's new computer, the steady, if put-upon, Rhodes and his clear-eyed observations of human nature have invariably been more useful to the solution of a crime - and that is still true in the case of the hanged book dealer. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Chris Abell. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/217439/bk_acx0_217439_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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SEALs of Honor: Mason , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 318min
Brave, badass warriors who serve their country with honor and love their women to the limits of life and death.In a dangerous profession where it's kill or be killed, Mason undertakes the dirty jobs others would rather not do - and invariably don't possess the skills he does to get done right. While on an assignment, he's single-minded in his dedication and focus. When he's not, this warrior plays as hard as he fights. The last thing he anticipates is meeting the one woman he wants but can't have...and equally can't forget.Tesla, a software designer, lost her brother in combat. Getting close to another man enlisted in the military is something she refuses to do. In her quest to save other United States soldiers from her sibling's tragic fate, she's created a computer program capable of saving lives. When other countries find out about the program, her good intentions are met with hostility and greed. They won't stop until they get their hands on it, and damn anyone who gets in the way. Realizing she's in danger, Tesla turns to Mason, the only man who might be able to save her - the very one she doesn't dare fall in love with. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tristan Wright. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/155334/bk_acx0_155334_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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In Too Deep: Complete Series: Office Adult Romance , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 193min, (USK 18)
Who exactly is this mysterious man?Rayne Smith has only been working for the Ellison Company for two weeks but already knows there is nothing about her job that she likes, she is a glorified maid. Her boss Clive Sherman, is invariably intent on annoying her. Consistently self absorbed and mean spirited, he’s made it clear that he wants more from Rayne, and demands that she attend the company’s annual masquerade ball. He sees this as his perfect opportunity to move in on the new hire.At the ball, Rayne thwarts her boss continuously, but is soon overcome with boredom at the uneventful soiree. Just when she is getting ready to leave, a mysterious masked man enters. Even from across the room, he practically oozes confidence. Their eyes meet and they instantly hit it off. Having not even been formally introduced, he vaguely tells her to call him Crasher. The virile, god-like passion that follows is nothing like what Rayne has always known. But is it just chance that they’ve met, or is it more? Will the dominant nature of Crasher lay dormant, or surface once they’re skin-to-skin? And who might this man of mystery be? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tracy Landsmore. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/220498/bk_acx0_220498_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Alone: The Triumph and Tragedy of John Curry , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 774min
One winter's night in 1976, over 20 million people in Britain watched John Curry skate to Olympic glory on an ice rink in Austria. Many millions more watched around the world. Overnight he became one of the most famous men on the planet. He was awarded the OBE. He was chosen as BBC Sports Personality of the Year. Curry had changed ice skating from marginal sport to high art. And yet the man was - and would always remain - an absolute mystery to a world that had been dazzled by his gift. Surely, men's skating was supposed to be Cossack-muscular, not sensual and ambiguous like this. Curry himself was an often-tortured man of labyrinthine complexity. For the first time, Alone untangles the extraordinary web of his toxic, troubled, brilliant - and short - life. It is a story of childhood nightmares, furious ambition, sporting genius, lifelong rivalries, homophobia, Cold War politics, financial ruin and deep personal tragedy. Alone reveals the restless, impatient, often dark soul of a man whose words could lacerate, whose skating invariably moved audiences to tears, and who - after succumbing to AIDS, as so many of his fellow artists and friends did - died of a heart attack aged just 44. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Graeme Malcolm. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/020352/bk_adbl_020352_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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