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  Reader's Brain (eBook, ePUB)

  Have you ever found yourself re-reading the same sentence four or five times and thought 'I should get more sleep'? Are you clueless as to why one paragraph just seems to 'flow' while you simply can't recall the contents of another? Guess what: you are not alone. Even the best writers fail to grasp why their writing works. The Reader's Brain is the first science-based guide to writing, employing cutting-edge research on how our minds process written language, to ensure your writing can be read quickly, assimilated easily, and recalled precisely - exactly what we need to transform anyone into a highly effective writer. Using the 5Cs - clarity, continuity, coherence, concision, and cadence - this book combines irreverent humour with easy-to-follow principles that will make readers perceive your sentences, paragraphs, and documents to be clear, concise, and effective.

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  The Light: The Invasion Trilogy, Book 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 410min

  The Light is the thrilling end to The Invasion Trilogy from the best-selling author of Whiskey Tango Foxtrot. When the world ends, will there be anyone left to bury the dead? Peace isn't the way we thought it would be. The planet hangs on the brink of collapse, with only pockets of resistance remaining. While governments fold and submit in the wake of a new enemy, civilians are rounded up and assimilated into new communities. With the little that remains, Jacob knows that they must make a stand and let the world know that we will not lie down quietly. Those who are willing to take up the fight. They see that now is a time for heroes...a last chance to stand up against the invaders. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kevin T. Collins. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/023959/bk_adbl_023959_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  North of Dawn

  A couple's tranquil life abroad is irrevocably transformed by the arrival of their son's widow and children, in the latest from Somalia's most celebrated novelist.For decades, Gacalo and Mugdi have lived in Oslo, where they've led a peaceful, largely assimilated life and raised two children. Their beloved son, Dhaqaneh, however, is driven by feelings of alienation to jihadism in Somalia, where he kills himself in a suicide attack. The couple reluctantly offers a haven to his family. But on arrival in Oslo, their daughter-in-law cloaks herself even more deeply in religion, while her children hunger for the freedoms of their new homeland, a rift that will have lifealtering consequences for the entire family.Set against the backdrop of real events, North of Dawn is a provocative, devastating story of love, loyalty, and national identity that asks whether it is ever possible to escape a legacy of violence and if so, at what cost.

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  Wittgenstein and the Life We Live with Language (eBook, ePUB)

  This work is guided by the idea that Wittgenstein's thought opens the door to a more profound break with the philosophical tradition than has been generally recognized. It brings this insight to bear on some basic problems of philosophy. Wittgenstein's work has been assimilated to the analytic tradition in such a way that its radical character has been made nearly invisible. In fact, Wittgenstein formulates a basic critique of a predominant conception in contemporary analytic philosophy, according to which language can be seen as a formal structure describable in general terms. This conception neglects the profound context-dependence of the way things said are to be understood, thus imposing a schematic view of the connections between words and life. By distancing us from the life we live with language, it makes the problems of philosophy come to appear intractable. In this work, the attempt is made to show how philosophical confusions are to be overcome through attending to the actual use of words in conversation.

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  Thomas Jefferson's Last Address to Congress , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 22min

  Jefferson is often cited as an important figure in early American democracy. He envisioned democracy as an expression of society as a whole, and called for national self-determination, cultural uniformity, and education of all the people (or all the males, as he believed at the time). His emphasis on uniformity did not envision a multiracial republic in which some groups were not fully assimilated into the identical republican values. Historians have noted that Jefferson's philosophy of liberty help to shape American ideals. Jefferson believed that public education and a free press were essential to a democratic nation: "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free it expects what never was and never will be.... The people cannot be safe without information. Where the press is free, and every man able to read, all is safe." ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John Greenman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/mike/000637/bk_mike_000637_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America, Vol. 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1780min

  This fascinating audiobook is the first volume in a projected cultural history of the United States, from the earliest English settlements to our own time. It is a history of American folkways as they have changed through time, and it argues a thesis about the importance for the United States of having been British in its cultural origins. While most people in the United States today have no British ancestors, they have assimilated regional cultures which were created by British colonists, even while preserving ethnic identities at the same time. In this sense, nearly all Americans are "Albion's Seed," no matter what their ethnicity may be. The concluding section of this remarkable audiobook explores the ways that regional cultures have continued to dominate national politics from 1789 to 1988, and still help to shape attitudes toward education, government, gender, and violence, on which differences between American regions are greater than between European nations. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Julian Elfer. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/018796/bk_adbl_018796_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Digging to America: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 513min

  Anne Tyler's richest, most deeply searching novel, a story about what it is to be an American, and about Iranian-born Maryam Yazdan, who, after 35 years in this country, must finally come to terms with her "outsiderness". Two families, who would otherwise never have come together, meet by chance at the Baltimore airport, the Donaldsons, a very American couple, and the Yazdans, Maryam's fully assimilated son and his attractive Iranian wife. Each couple is awaiting the arrival of an adopted infant daughter from Korea. After the instant babies from distant Asia are delivered, Bitsy Donaldson impulsively invites the Yazdans to celebrate: an "arrival party" that from then on is repeated every year as the two families become more and more deeply intertwined. Even Maryam is drawn in, up to a point. When she finds herself being courted by Bitsy Donaldson's recently widowed father, all the values she cherishes, her traditions, her privacy, her otherness�are suddenly threatened. A luminous novel brimming with subtle, funny, and tender observations that immerse us in the challenges of both sides of the American story. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Blair Brown. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/000820/bk_rand_000820_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Blue Tattoo: The Life of Olive Oatman: Women in the West, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 407min

  In 1851 Olive Oatman was a 13-year-old pioneer traveling west toward Zion with her Mormon family. Within a decade she was a white Indian with a chin tattoo, caught between cultures. The Blue Tattoo tells the harrowing story of this forgotten heroine of frontier America. Orphaned when her family was brutally killed by Yavapai Indians, Oatman lived as a slave to her captors for a year before being traded to the Mohave, who tattooed her face and raised her as their own. She was fully assimilated and perfectly happy when, at 19, she was ransomed back to white society. She became an instant celebrity, but the price of fame was high, and the pain of her ruptured childhood lasted a lifetime. Based on historical records, including letters and diaries of Oatman's friends and relatives, The Blue Tattoo is the first book to examine her life, from her childhood in Illinois - including the massacre, her captivity, and her return to white society - to her later years as a wealthy banker's wife in Texas. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kaipo Schwab. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tant/005978/bk_tant_005978_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Subway: A Suspense Thriller , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 518min

  For the last six years, Tim Scarberry has called Portland, Oregon, home. Placed there by the Witness Protection Program, he has assimilated into the existence set up for him, trying to gain some level of enjoyment from the life he never asked for and wanted even less.  An existence that is completely destroyed by a single phone call, nothing more than a message telling him that his last remaining tether to his old life has been severed in a most tragic and unexpected way.  Having no choice but to abandon his adopted life and return to his roots, Scarberry finds himself dropped into a situation far more harrowing than he ever could have imagined. Allied with a single sheriff's deputy - a young woman he knew only briefly in his youth who is fighting battles of her own - the two face a network of illegal gun runners, apathetic bureaucracy, and federal agency, ultimately squaring off with the very thing Scarberry's been trying to avoid for so long.... ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Roger Wayne. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tant/013156/bk_tant_013156_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Tempted by the Alien: Claimed, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 87min, (USK 18)

  A hot new MM science fiction romance series. On a distant planet, the destruction of an eons-old civilization is saved by an influx of human breeding stock. Havoc was selected for a mission he never chose, as he is bought and paid for by an alien prince who has fallen in love with him. While being assimilated into society, he discovers that he is one of the fortunate humans. Will Havoc be able to choose honor over love in his quest for freedom? Author note: This is a shorter-story gay science fiction romance and is the second in the series. Be warned, if you don't like hot alien sex, a world that stretches your imagination, or the realm of Mpreg breeding, then this is not the audiobook for you! This audiobook will catch you up if you haven't listened to the first, but to learn more about this alien world of the first prince and his love interest, check out book 1: Claimed by the Alien. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Cecil Wood. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/093954/bk_acx0_093954_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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