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  Boston Blackie, Vol. 2, Hörbuch, Digital, 329min

  Here are original broadcasts of the old-time radio show featuring amateur detective Boston Blackie. Created by author Jack Boyle, Boston Blackie was a master safecracker and hardened criminal who served time in a California prison. Rehabilitated, he decided to use his knowledge of the underworld to fight crime as an amateur detective. Known as "an enemy to those who make him an enemy, friend to those who have no friend", Boston Blackie's exploits were adapted to film, radio, and television. While investigating cases, Blackie would invariably encounter harebrained Police Inspector Faraday and always solve the crime before Faraday could. The initial friction between Blackie and Faraday gave way as the series continued and Faraday came to recognize Blackie's talents, occasionally even requesting his assistance. Blackie dated Mary Wesley, and for the first half of the series his best pal, Shorty, was on hand. Boston Blackie is played by Richard Kollmar in these 12 exciting episodes, which aired between December 1946 and March 1947: "Mary, Registered Nurse", "Police Impersonator", "The Derailed Gold Train", "Carl Browning Cleaning Shop", "The Search for Jim Gary", "Jacques Pierre and the Diamonds", "Seven Years' Bad Luck for Florence Wells", "Joe Delivers the Goods", "Larry 'The Kid' vs. Savinni", "The Tenth Street Gym and the Stolen Car Ring", "Sam Fisher's Past", and "The Horseroom Thefts of Boston Blackie". Language: English. Narrator: full cast. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/008722/bk_blak_008722_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Not Enough Bread: Studies in World Art, Book 52 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 24min

  More than 30 years ago - in 1977, to be exact - I co-authored a book called Work and Struggle: The Painter as Witness. Its subject was one aspect of the academic painting of the late 19th and very early 20th century - art which dealt not with the comfortable lives of the rich but with all the social problems of the time. There were over 200 illustrations, most of them drawn from publications issued in conjunction with the official Salons of the period. We would have preferred to go back to the actual originals, but when we searched for these, they were largely missing. In some cases, for example where the paintings had been dispatched straight from the Salon to some provincial French museum as an official purchase, we did contact the institution that was supposed to possess them. The answer - if we got one - was almost invariably that the work concerned was "now in no condition to be photographed". In other words, it has fallen so far out of fashion that nobody, even those who were officially responsible for its welfare, had bothered to look after it. The illustrations in the book therefore held up the mirror to an art world that had, in physical terms at least, almost completely vanished. The Modern Movement had swept it all way. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jason Zenobia. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/107436/bk_acx0_107436_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Lube Jobs: A Woman's Guide to Great Maintenance Sex , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 413min, (USK 18)

  A straight-talking women's guide to tending to a partner's unrequited libido and reigniting the sexual sparks in a long-term relationship. Many couples are all too familiar with the classic bedroom balancing act-managing His and Her sex drives. As men clamor for more action and women grumble for more sleep, the topic of "maintenance sex" - those dutiful two minutes to "get it over with" - invariably arises to divide and conquer a couple's sex life. Yet as Don and Debra Macleod reveal in Lube Jobs, maintenance sex can be an exciting and loving way to jump-start a stalled sex life. And if it's done right, it can be fun for both parties. Indeed, just as the sleekest luxury car requires routine tune-ups for smooth performance, a long-term relationship requires regular lube jobs for a friction-free love life. Part saucy sex manual, part relationship survival guide, Lube Jobs includes a provocative menu of twenty ready-made "lube jobs" consisting of naughty sex scenarios, bedroom-toy tips, sexual techniques, and erotica. Each lube job inspires a woman to embrace maintenance sex as a critical aspect of her committed relationship, and shows her how to infuse it with spontaneity and affection. Throughout are poignant, sometimes hilarious, stories of couples struggling to find their own balance in the bedroom. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Chandra Skyye. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/017030/bk_adbl_017030_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Buddhism for Mothers , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 469min

  A completely accessible and practical guide to nurturing your child using simple Buddhist practices, become a calmer and happier mother with the best-selling book, Buddhism for Mothers. Buddhism for Mothers discusses Buddhist teachings as applied to the everyday challenges of bringing up children. Parenthood can be a time of great inner turmoil for a woman yet parenting books invariably focus on nurturing children rather than the mothers who struggle to raise them. This book is different. It is a book for mothers. Buddhism for Mothers explores the potential to be with your children in the all-important present moment; to gain the most joy out of being with them. How can this be done calmly and with a minimum of anger, worry and negative thinking? How can mothers negotiate the changed conditions of their relationships with partners, family and even with friends? Using Buddhist practices, Sarah Napthali offers ways of coping with the day-to-day challenges of motherhood. Ways that also allow space for the deeper reflections about who we are and what makes us happy. By acknowledging the sorrows as well as the joys of mothering Buddhism for Mothers can help you shift your perspective so that your mind actually helps you through your day rather than dragging you down. This is Buddhism at its most accessible, applied to the daily realities of ordinary parents. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Rebecca Macauley. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/boli/000581/bk_boli_000581_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Fever: Malaria Has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 517min

  In recent years, malaria has emerged as a cause célèbre for voguish philanthropists. Bill Gates, Bono, and Laura Bush are only a few of the personalities who have lent their names - and opened their pocketbooks - in hopes of curing the disease. Still, in a time when every emergent disease inspires waves of panic, why aren’t we doing more to eradicate one of our oldest foes? And how does a parasitic disease that we’ve known how to prevent for more than a century still infect 500 million people every year, killing nearly 1 million of them? In The Fever, the journalist Sonia Shah sets out to answer these questions, delivering a timely, inquisitive chronicle of the illness and its influence on human lives. Through the centuries, she finds, we’ve invested our hopes in a panoply of drugs and technologies, and invariably those hopes have been dashed. From the settling of the New World to the construction of the Panama Canal, through wars and the advances of the Industrial Revolution, Shah tracks malaria’s jagged ascent and the tragedies in its wake, revealing a parasite every bit as persistent as the insects that carry it. With distinguished prose and original reporting from Panama, Malawi, Cameroon, India, and elsewhere, The Fever captures the curiously fascinating, devastating history of this long-standing thorn in the side of humanity. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Maha Chehlaoui. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/010616/bk_adbl_010616_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Art of Pulp Fiction: An Illustrated History of Vintage Paperbacks

  Judge these books by their covers! Get immersed in the definitive visual history of pulp fiction paperbacks from 1940 to 1970.The Art of Pulp Fiction: An Illustrated History of Vintage Paperbacks chronicles the history of pocket-sized paperbound books designed for mass-market consumption, specifically concentrating on the period from 1940 to 1970. These three decades saw paperbacks eclipse cheap pulp magazines and expensive clothbound books as the most popular delivery vehicle for escapist fiction. To catch the eyes of potential buyers they were adorned with covers that were invariably vibrant, frequently garish, and occasionally lurid. Today the early paperbacks--like the earlier pulps, inexpensively produced and considered disposable by casual readers--are treasured collector's items.Award-winning editor Ed Hulse (The Art of the Pulps and The Blood 'n' Thunder Guide to Pulp Fiction) comprehensively covers the pulp-fiction paperback's heyday. Hulse writes the individual chapter introductions and the captions, while a team of genre specialists and art aficionados contribute the special features included in each chapter. These focus on particularly important authors, artists, publishers, and sub-genres. Illustrated with more than 500 memorable covers and original cover paintings. Hulse's extensive captions, meanwhile, offer a running commentary on this significant genre, and also contain many obscure but entertaining factoids. Images used in The Art of Pulp Fiction have been sourced from the largest American paperback collections in private hands, and have been curated with rarity in mind, as well as graphic appeal. Consequently, many covers are reproduced here for the first time since the books were first issued.With an overall Introduction by Richard A. Lupoff, novelist, essayist, pop-culture historian, and author of The Great American Paperback (2001).

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  The Complete Works of Tacitus: Volume 4 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 253min

  The exemplary life of a noble soldier/statesman, a description of ancient Germany, and a discussion of oratory are the subjects of three short masterpieces by the brilliant Roman historian, Tacitus. The Life of Cnaeus Julius Agricola is an almost perfect example of what the Romans called the panegyric, a type of salutary obituary which was invariably produced at the death of renowned persons. Agricola was certainly no ordinary man. For one thing, he was the father-in-law of Tacitus. And for another, he was a genuinely gifted soldier of the highest character, the kind of unsung hero who made possible the success of Roman civilization. Germany and its Tribes is one of the most interesting pieces to come down to us. It is a very insightful and informed commentary on the feared tribes who lived beyond the Rhine. Although some of the information is incorrect or nonsensical, most of it is quite cogent and represents an accurate picture of the German people in those days. Many will recognize traits that have survived into modern times. The Dialogue on Oratory is a spirited discussion among four men about the merits or demerits of the state of oratory in their time versus its practice in the past. By turns amusing and dazzling, the conversation keeps the listener entertained. This production uses the famous translation by Church and Brodribb, considered the finest in the English language. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Charlton Griffin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acon/000066/bk_acon_000066_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Bedtime Stories for Children: Relaxing Meditation Tales About Unicorns, Mermaids, Dragons, Princes, and Princesses to Help Your Toddler Achieve a State of Mindfulness and Fall Asleep Fast , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 192min

  If you want to make bedtime into a memorable experience, while giving your child all the benefits that come with listening to bedtime stories, then pay attention…Children love bedtime stories, and they serve an important role in helping a child develop his or her imagination in ways that visual media can’t. Though the narrator will paint a picture with his or her words, the child will be left to fill in the details with his or her own imagination.This self-generation of the story will build your child's creativity levels and will also help him or her relax. We often fail to recognize just how important a good night's sleep is to a child's well-being; deep sleep sufficiently prepares children for the following day. With this guide and a good night’s rest, you will see your child wake up in a better mood and free from any stress that lack of sleep invariably causes. The benefits of listening to these bedtime stories are:Helps children prepare for a deeper, more relaxed sleepEncourages the development of imaginationGenerates a greater level of creativityHealing sleep prepares the child for the following dayProvides a child with lifelong memories to pass on to the next generationEncourages a child to want to learn to readTeaches a few life lessons along the wayTo help your child go to sleep peacefully, you won’t want to miss these listening to these wonderful tales of dragons, mermaids, and more. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ivan Busenius. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/228784/bk_acx0_228784_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  7 Days Detox Diet: Simple Recipes to Beat Sugar Addiction, Weight Loss and Cleanse Your Body , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 49min

  This seven-day detox diet program will enlighten you about healthy food choices and lifestyle changes you need to incorporate into your daily activities to ensure a wholesome turnaround in your eating habits. The recipes outlined in this book will make your detox program a delightful experience and you will burn away unwanted fat, and your body will gain back its vitality. The steps and foods in this audiobook are based on reliable and tested researches in medicine and science. Your body is a connection of dependent units and no one part works alone. So any problem affecting one part invariably one way or the other slows down the functioning of another organ. This book will focus on you as an individual and not on your ailments or disabilities. Despite the fact that we are unique in our different ways, we all have a common connecting factor, which is to have fully functioning bodies. From my years of research and practice, I have come across several patients and gathered experience in helping out with weight loss and detox programs. So this book will help you:Lose excess body fat easilyPut together healthy and delicious dishesDetox in seven days the healthy wayThis book is a must-have if you intend cleansing your body of harmful toxins while shedding some excess body fat at the same time. So get a copy now! Bon appétit! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Joana Garcia. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/124197/bk_acx0_124197_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Power of Dignity: The Thoughtful Leader's Model for Attracting and Keeping Stakeholders , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 195min

  This book examines first the very significant differences between managing for dignity and for stockholder value, then a number of successful businesses that are managed profitably and sustainably to protect and enhance the dignity of employees, customers, and other stakeholders, albeit in different ways and styles. The managers of those firms invariably ignore short-term accounting figures; they know that their businesses are much more than numbers and behave accordingly. The evidence in favor of managing for dignity is largely anecdotal and empirical - which, some philosophers opine, is the source of all knowledge. I've added a smattering of statistical evidence by comparing such broad metrics as employees and customer retention in 2003 and 2013 for the businesses profiled part two. So you who are looking for the detailed, quantifiable data of operating statements and balance sheets to validate the premise won't find it. Nevertheless, the experiences of the several contributors support what we like to call "conventional wisdom" and which the lawyers call "truth on its face". Perhaps I can call on our nation's founders for further support: "We hold these truths to be self-evident...." If perchance I am ever reincarnated and need a job, I want it to be with one of the managers profiled in this book or their disciples, and I want to live by his or her principles. You'll know why after you've listened further. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Philip Andrew Hodges. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/052013/bk_acx0_052013_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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