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    The Templars: The Secret History Revealed , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 341min
    At its height, the Order of the Knights Templar rivaled the kingdoms of Europe in military might, economic power, and political influence. For 700 years the tragic demise of this society of warrior-monks amid accusations of heresy has been plagued by controversy, in part because the transcript of their trial by the Inquisition - which held the key to the truth - had vanished.Templar historian Barbara Frale happened to be studying a document at the Vatican Secret Archives when she suddenly realized that it was none other than the long-lost transcript! It revealed that Pope Clement V had absolved the order of all charges of heresy. Using this sensational new information, Frale chronicles the Templars spectacular rise and fall against a sweeping backdrop of war, religious fervor, and the struggle for dominance, and finally lifts the centuries-old cloak of mystery surrounding one of the worlds most intriguing secret societies. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kate Udall. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/017764/bk_adbl_017764_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Adventures of Nero Wolfe Vol. 4, Hörbuch, Digital, 142min
    This collection of the Adventures of Nero Wolfe contains five episodes of the classic radio series:Case of the Party for Death (2/16/1951)Case of the Malevolent Medic (2/23/1951)Case of the Hasty Will (3/2/1951)Case of the Disappearing Diamonds (3/9/1951)Case of the Midnight Ride (3/16/1951)These programs feature Nero Wolfe, a character who made his name in 46 novels, movies, and a television series. His first appearance on radio was April 7, 1943. The great character actor Sydney Greenstreet played Wolfe from 1950-51. The "gargantuan gourmet" solved crimes with an attention to detail that rivaled the great Sherlock Holmes. The overweight detective of Rex Stout's novels refused to leave his elegant brownstone on business, sending his wisecracking, two-fisted assistant Archie Goodwin out to do his legwork. This peculiar private investigator preferred tending to his beloved orchids over solving crimes. In fact, the only reason he worked at all was to keep up his lavish lifestyle. Language: English. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/rt/radi/000197/rt_radi_000197_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Adventures of Nero Wolfe Vol. 1, Hörbuch, Digital, 145min
    This collection of the Adventures of Nero Wolfe contains five episodes of the classic radio series:The Shakespeare Folio (12/15/1946)Stamped for Murder (10/20/1950)Case of the Careworn Cuff (10/27/1950)Case of the Dear Dead Lady (11/3/1950)Case of the Careless Cleaner (11/17/1950)These programs feature Nero Wolfe, a character who made his name in 46 novels, movies, and a television series. His first appearance on radio was April 7, 1943. The great character actor Sydney Greenstreet played Wolfe from 1950-51. The "gargantuan gourmet" solved crimes with an attention to detail that rivaled the great Sherlock Holmes. The overweight detective of Rex Stout's novels refused to leave his elegant brownstone on business, sending his wisecracking, two-fisted assistant Archie Goodwin out to do his legwork. This peculiar private investigator preferred tending to his beloved orchids over solving crimes. In fact, the only reason he worked at all was to keep up his lavish lifestyle. Language: English. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/rt/radi/000194/rt_radi_000194_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Who Was That Lady?: Craig Rice: The Queen of Screwball Mystery , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 395min
    Craig Rice, the author of fourteen novels, countless short stories, and a number of true crime pieces, once rivaled Agatha Christie in sales. She was on the cover of Time Magazine in 1946. However, the past fifty years have seen her fall into relative obscurity. Rice made for an interesting subject for a biography because nearly every identification point about the author was in dispute: her birth, her real name, her number of marriages, number of children, her canon of fiction, and the cause of her early death. Marks had to wade through years of research to come up with the answers to those questions. Following a trail that went from Venice, Italy, to Venice Beach, CA, he talked to a number of her contemporaries, her family, and friends to come up with an engaging book that reminds readers why Rice remains the undisputed queen of the comedic mystery. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Natalie Baker Shirer. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/022760/bk_acx0_022760_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Adventures of Nero Wolfe Vol. 3, Hörbuch, Digital, 142min
    This collection of the Adventures of Nero Wolfe contains five episodes of the classic radio series:Case of the Deadly Sell-Out (1/5/1951)Case of the Killer Cards (1/12/1951)Case of the Calculated Risk (1/19/1951)Case of the Phantom Fingers (1/26/1951)Case of the Vanishing Shells (2/2/1951)These programs feature Nero Wolfe, a character who made his name in 46 novels, movies, and a television series. His first appearance on radio was April 7, 1943. The great character actor Sydney Greenstreet played Wolfe from 1950-51. The "gargantuan gourmet" solved crimes with an attention to detail that rivaled the great Sherlock Holmes. The overweight detective of Rex Stout's novels refused to leave his elegant brownstone on business, sending his wisecracking, two-fisted assistant Archie Goodwin out to do his legwork. This peculiar private investigator preferred tending to his beloved orchids over solving crimes. In fact, the only reason he worked at all was to keep up his lavish lifestyle. Language: English. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/rt/radi/000196/rt_radi_000196_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Adventures of Nero Wolfe Vol. 5, Hörbuch, Digital, 114min
    This collection of the Adventures of Nero Wolfe contains four episodes of the classic radio series:Case of the Final Page (3/23/1951)Case of the Telltale Ribbon (3/30/1951)Slight Case of Perjury (4/6/1951)Case of the Lost Heir (4/20/1951)These programs feature Nero Wolfe, a character who made his name in 46 novels, movies, and a television series. His first appearance on radio was April 7, 1943. The great character actor Sydney Greenstreet played Wolfe from 1950-51. The "gargantuan gourmet" solved crimes with an attention to detail that rivaled the great Sherlock Holmes. The overweight detective of Rex Stout's novels refused to leave his elegant brownstone on business, sending his wisecracking, two-fisted assistant Archie Goodwin out to do his legwork. This peculiar private investigator preferred tending to his beloved orchids over solving crimes. In fact, the only reason he worked at all was to keep up his lavish lifestyle. Language: English. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/rt/radi/000198/rt_radi_000198_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Monsters, Gods, and Heroes: Approaching the Epic in Literature , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 463min
    From the very outset in the West - from the time of Homer himself in about 750 BCE - the epic has been the most highly regarded of literary genres. It is rivaled only by tragedy, which arose a bit more than two centuries later, as the most respected, the most influential, and, from a slightly different vantage point, the most prestigious mode of addressing the human condition in literary terms. The major epics are the big boys, the works that, from the very outset, everyone had heard of and everyone knew, at least by reputation. They are the works that had the most profound and most enduring cultural influence. And they are very much with us still, some more than others, but all - or all the most successful ones - are more or less firmly enshrined in cultural memory. They are still read. They are still taught. They still gain imitators and admirers. The stories they tell still shape our imagination and aspirations. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Timothy Shutt. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/reco/002529/bk_reco_002529_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Porcelain
    Porcelain was invented in medieval China--but its secret recipe was first reproduced in Europe by an alchemist in the employ of the Saxon king Augustus the Strong. Saxony's revered Meissen factory could not keep porcelain's ingredients secret for long, however, and scores of Holy Roman princes quickly founded their own mercantile manufactories, soon to be rivaled by private entrepreneurs, eager to make not art but profits. As porcelain's uses multiplied and its price plummeted, it lost much of its identity as aristocratic ornament, instead taking on a vast number of banal, yet even more culturally significant, roles. By the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, it became essential to bourgeois dining, and also acquired new functions in insulator tubes, shell casings, and teeth. Weaving together the experiences of entrepreneurs and artisans, state bureaucrats and female consumers, chemists and peddlers, Porcelain traces the remarkable story of "white gold" from its origins as a princely luxury item to its fate in Germany's cataclysmic twentieth century. For three hundred years, porcelain firms have come and gone, but the industry itself, at least until very recently, has endured. After Augustus, porcelain became a quintessentially German commodity, integral to provincial pride, artisanal industrial production, and a familial sense of home.
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    American Catholic Schools in the Twentieth Century
    This book examines how Catholic educators grappled with public educational policies and reforms like standardization and accreditation, educational measurement and testing, and federal funding for schools during the early to mid-twentieth century. These issues elicited an array of reactions including resistance, cooperation, and co-optation. American Catholics had established one of the largest private educational organizations in the United States by the twentieth century. It rivaled only that of the public school system. At mid-century Catholic schools enrolled some 12 percent of the American school-age population and their enrollments grew in number through the 1960s. The Catholic Church's lobbying arm, the National Catholic Welfare Conference (NCWC), used its well-earned stature to push for federal funds for students attending their schools. The NCWC succeeded in securing funds with the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 for students needing special education services and students living in poverty attending Catholic schools. This signified a major shift in American education policy. Despite this radical change, Catholic schools lost significant enrollment over the next several decades to public, private, and newly minted public charter schools. Catholic schools faced an increasingly competitive landscape in an ever-expanding school-choice environment that they helped create.
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    American Catholic Schools in the Twentieth Century
    This book examines how Catholic educators grappled with public educational policies and reforms like standardization and accreditation, educational measurement and testing, and federal funding for schools during the early to mid-twentieth century. These issues elicited an array of reactions including resistance, cooperation, and co-optation. American Catholics had established one of the largest private educational organizations in the United States by the twentieth century. It rivaled only that of the public school system. At mid-century Catholic schools enrolled some 12 percent of the American school-age population and their enrollments grew in number through the 1960s. The Catholic Church's lobbying arm, the National Catholic Welfare Conference (NCWC), used its well-earned stature to push for federal funds for students attending their schools. The NCWC succeeded in securing funds with the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 for students needing special education services and students living in poverty attending Catholic schools. This signified a major shift in American education policy. Despite this radical change, Catholic schools lost significant enrollment over the next several decades to public, private, and newly minted public charter schools. Catholic schools faced an increasingly competitive landscape in an ever-expanding school-choice environment that they helped create.
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