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  Contact: Alien Invasion, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 582min

  Find the missing. Fear the found. Three months have passed since the aliens' arrival, but little has changed in the skies. Motherships still hover, impervious to attack and communication. Spherical shuttles ferry about with unclear intentions. But the abductions of select humans have ended, and most of those taken have been returned - dazed, incoherent, and prophesying glory or doom, but home where they belong. Still, nine seemingly unconnected people remain missing. Trapped in their besieged bunker outside Vail, Piper, Trevor, Lila, and Heather wait for one. All of this has happened before.... For his entire life, Benjamin Bannister has sought the connections uniting the planet's ancient wonders. And for years he's pursued evidence that extraterrestrial life isn't new to Earth. For years he was dismissed as a fool. Now the spheres have arrived, and Benjamin has found vindication...along with troubling theories. His research facility rests on a paranormal hotspot in Moab, Utah - but Vail, Colorado is where his interests lie. He's sent an emissary to Meyer Dempsey's ranch to find out what makes the Missing Nine so special to the planet's invaders. What news will those nine bring when they return? And what, as the motherships again move like pieces finding positions on a chessboard, will happen next? And...it will all happen again. Vail and Moab, Moab and Vail - two epicenters in the cold alien war. The locations' fates seem somehow intertwined as Earth's clock ticks toward midnight. The roads and communications have been closed, but now it seems that the planet's future might depend on a journey from one to the other, no matter the cost. Humanity must find the value of those who have been taken...or become mere fossil evidence for future archaeologists to puzzle over. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ray Porter. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/podm/000211/bk_podm_000211_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Trent Affair: The Diplomatic Incident That Nearly Brought Great Britain into the American Civil War , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 81min

  Mr. Seward... is exerting himself to provoke a quarrel with all Europe, in that spirit of senseless egotism which induces the Americans, with their dwarf fleet and shapeless mass of incoherent squads which they call an army, to fancy themselves the equal of France by land and Great Britain by sea. - The London Chronicle In November 1861, the American Civil War was still a relatively young conflict, and both sides were still jockeying for the upper hand. The Confederates had won the First Battle of Bull Run in July, and there had not been any major battles in the West, but the Union had also pushed the Confederates out of West Virginia and George McClellan was about to organize the Army of the Potomac for an offensive against Richmond. Months before then, Confederate President Jefferson Davis had sent out diplomatic agents to Europe in attempts to win recognition among major European powers, and to place even further pressure on the status quo, Southern merchants actually refused to export cotton, hoping the sheer weight of economics would compel them to help. As historian Charles Hubbard pointed out, "Davis left foreign policy to others in government and, rather than developing an aggressive diplomatic effort, tended to expect events to accomplish diplomatic objectives. The new president was committed to the notion that cotton would secure recognition and legitimacy from the powers of Europe. One of the Confederacy's strongest hopes at the time was the belief that the British, fearing a devastating impact on their textile mills, would recognize the Confederate States and break the Union blockade." ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: William Dupuy. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/032889/bk_acx0_032889_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Legends of Hollywood: The Life of Richard Burton , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 67min

  You may be as vicious about me as you please. You will only do me justice. (Richard Burton) In the 1960s, the most popular actor in the world was Richard Burton, a hard-drinking Welshman who was nevertheless so professional that he was one of the preeminent stage performers of his day. In fact, he performed Shakespeare so magnificently that he was compared to British legend Laurence Olivier, and that success ultimately led to a film career that earned him seven Academy Award nominations, as well as BAFTA and Golden Globe awards for Best Actor. Given his accomplishments on the stage and in Hollywood, Burton became one of the world's most recognizable leading men, so it seemed fitting that he engaged in one of Hollywood's most legendary romances with Elizabeth Taylor while on the set of Cleopatra, one of the era's most notorious movies. In fact, his tumultuous relationship with Taylor, which included two marriages, dominated tabloids and remains the one thing most people associate with Burton today, despite the rest of his accomplishments. Burton's high-profile marriages to Taylor helped bring him attention, but they also led to more self-destructive behavior, and in a sense they represented the peak of Burton's career. Over the last decade of his life, Burton began appearing in mediocre films, and due to his declining health and constant drunkenness, his performances were mediocre as well, often involving incoherent slurring. The fast life ultimately caught up with him in 1984, when a cerebral hemorrhage killed him at the age of 58. Fittingly, it was the same cause of death that befell his alcoholic father in 1957, just as Burton was at the precipice of Hollywood stardom. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Scott Clem. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/037825/bk_acx0_037825_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Building Electro-Optical Systems

  Building Electro-Optical SystemsIn the newly revised third edition of Building Electro-Optical Systems: Making It All Work, renowned Dr. Philip C. D. Hobbs delivers a birds-eye view of all the topics you'll need to understand for successful optical instrument design and construction. The author draws on his own work as an applied physicist and consultant with over a decade of experience in designing and constructing electro-optical systems from beginning to end.The book's topics are chosen to allow readers in a variety of disciplines and fields to quickly and confidently decide whether a given device or technique is appropriate for their needs. Using accessible prose and intuitive organization, Building Electro-Optical Systems remains one of the most practical and solution-oriented resources available to graduate students and professionals.The newest edition includes comprehensive revisions that reflect progress in the field of electro-optical instrument design and construction since the second edition was published. It also offers approximately 350 illustrations for visually oriented learners. Readers will also enjoy:* A thorough introduction to basic optical calculations, including wave propagation, detection, coherent detection, and interferometers* Practical discussions of sources and illuminators, including radiometry, continuum sources, incoherent line sources, lasers, laser noise, and diode laser coherence control* Explorations of optical detection, including photodetection in semiconductors and signal-to-noise ratios* Full treatments of lenses, prisms, and mirrors, as well as coatings, filters, and surface finishes, and polarizationPerfect for graduate students in physics, electrical engineering, optics, and optical engineering, Building Electro-Optical Systems is also an ideal resource for professional designers working in optics, electro-optics, analog electronics, and photonics.

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  Cogitations on the White Whale, and on Other Matters of Inimitable Purulence: A Palaver Novel in One Sentence (The Collected Works of U.R. Bowie) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 356min

  Poised on the edge of the Octogenarian Age, Hezekiah Hopewell, palaverer extraordinaire, reads Moby Dick and talks, talks, talks. Hezekiah drives around through the fall of 2019 with his nephew Hiram — “a man steeped in self-rectitude, ineptitude, rednecktitude” — in a rusted old Jeep through rural north Florida, cogitating all the while and indulging himself in logorrhea, or “spouting-out-the-mouth disease.” Inspired by Bohumil Hrabal’s novel in one sentence, Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age, U.R. Bowie’s Cogitations cogitates on a wide variety of issues and themes: The prevalence of self-declared Messiahs in human history, the outrageous cost of dental care in the U.S., how to train a pet lizard to bark, beg, and fetch, ways of committing suicide, including holding your breath, the smell of irradiated horse chestnut leaves in Kiev, autumn of 1986, modern-day hate-drenched America, the way global warming threatens the frozen sighs of seals, polar bears, and Eskimos in Alaska, how beautiful old words are dying out in our wordless, incoherent age, the Christian ascetics known as Stylites, the ephemeral three-day existence of the Florida love bug, how to make a good living selling ambergris gathered from the guts of sperm whales, why Jonah in the bible was vomited out of a gross big fish onto dry land, why there are no Whys on Earth (because there are no Becauses), and much, much, much more.What has Hezekiah Hopewell done with his long life? Well, he has been married to four different women. Lucky for him, since he has never had a job and his wives have supported him. He has not really done much of anything but read books. Now, fast approaching deep old age, where is his ever-going-forward getting him? To the same place all of our ever-going-forward — really more of a circling round and round — is getting the rest of us here on God’s green Earth. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: U.R. Bowie. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/209275/bk_acx0_209275_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Myth of White Fragility: A Field Guide to Identifying and Overcoming the Race Grifters (Freedom Manuals to Defeat Social Justice Socialism, Book 1) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 173min

  The Myth of White Fragility is the first book in a new series, Freedom Manuals — Defeating the Social(ist) Justice Mob, by President of Security Studies Group and Special Forces veteran Jim Hanson.It’s a departure from his previous work which largely focused on national security and included the book Cut Down the Black Flag — A Plan to Defeat ISIS. But as Jim noted, “The greatest danger America faces right now are the socialist forces of wokeness and their social justice shock troops.” The first Freedom Manual takes aim at the book White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo, which is number one on the New York Times nonfiction paperback list after 97 weeks overall there. It is now the preferred weapon of the social justice movement for anti-racism training and that trend is bad for everyone.White Fragility collects the worst ideas from academia and the activist Left all cobbled together in an incoherent attempt to brand all White people as racists, all American institutions as infected by systemic racism, and the country as a whole as a White Supremacist nation.The Myth of White Fragility exposes the woman behind the curtain nature of this pernicious attempt to use these supposedly racist systems to socially engineer the White people who benefit unfairly from them. Each Freedom Manual chapter starts with a straight talk Bottom Line Up Front explaining the fatal flaws of White Fragility in layman’s terms. Then moves to a detailed analysis and ammunition for arguments on the topics in The Deep Dive. Then ends with calls to action which give the listener substantive ways to get in the fray and help stop the Social(ist) Justice Mob from fundamentally transforming this country into a steaming hot mess of wokeness.The Myth of White Fragility is a quick listen and each following FM will maintain that easily digestible length. Upcoming topics include: Preserving Free Speech, Stopping ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jim Hanson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/218006/bk_acx0_218006_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Bluffer's Guide® to the Quantum Universe , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 118min

  Be an instant expert on the quantum universe and Bluff Your Way in the subject with everyone you know. No science required, just a sense of humour. From 'gluons' to 'gravitons', and from 'certainty' to 'superstrings', here's all you need to know to sound all-knowing. Extracts from the book: Quantus The study of subatomic particles is called quantum mechanics. This is strange because the word 'quantum' is derived from the Latin noun 'quantus' meaning 'how much'. In this case, not a lot. And it can be seen within a nanosecond that it is entirely alien to this subject to talk of anything 'mechanical', 'mechanistic' or 'machine-like'. Quantomime Einstein, whose work with light and electrons had opened the curtains on the whole quantomime, wavered between calling quantum mechanics 'incomplete' and declaring its ideas to be 'the system of delusions of an exceedingly intelligent paranoiac, concocted of incoherent elements of thought'. Quantity All matter can be broken down into atoms. Atoms are small. They are smaller than affordable apartments in Manhattan, they are smaller than portions at the Ritz, they are even smaller than the chance that a politician will be honest. The full stop at the end of this sentence will be a tiny blob of ink about a millimetre wide which will contain close to four billion atoms. Quantifiably Never commit yourself about the outer limits of the Universe or the quantum realm even to a 'probably'. Anything you utter with certainty, or declare to be 'probably true' could return to haunt you and, it can be said with confidence, probably will. If you know what's good for you, a 'possibly' is the farthest you will go. This is a Bluffer's Guide; Bluffer's Guides, Bluffer's Guide, Bluffer's, and Bluff Your Way, are Registered Trademarks. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jack Klaff. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bluf/000006/bk_bluf_000006_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Lost Years

  Now in mass market, the latest suspense from #1 New York Times bestselling author and Queen of Suspense Mary Higgins Clark, where a biblical scholar is found murdered shortly after discovering the most revered and holy document in human history, which has now gone missing...Dr. Jonathan Lyons, a seventy-year-old biblical scholar, believes he has found the rarest of parchments-a letter that may have been written by Jesus Christ. Stolen from the Vatican library in the fifteenth century, it was assumed to be lost forever. Under the promise of secrecy, Jonathan attempts to confirm his findings with several other biblical experts. But on the eve before his own murder, he confides to Father Aiden O'Brien, a family friend, that one of those whom he trusted most is determined to keep it from being returned to the Vatican.The next evening Jonathan Lyons is found shot to death in his New Jersey home. His daughter, twenty-seven year old Mariah, finds her father's body sprawled over his desk in his study, a fatal bullet wound in the back of his neck, and her mother, Kathleen, an Alzheimer's victim, hiding in the study closet, incoherent and clutching the murder weapon. The police suspect that Kathleen, who in her lucid moments knows that Jonathan was involved with a much younger woman Lily Stewart, has committed the murder.But Mariah believes that the key to her father's death is tied to another question: Where is the missing parchment? Whom, among his close circle of friends, might he have consulted? And did one of them kill to keep possession of the letter?With all the elements that have made her a worldwide bestseller, Mary Higgins Clark's The Lost Years is at once a breathless murder mystery and a hunt for what may be the most precious religious and archaeological treasure of all time.

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  Mia and the Curse: Erotica Romance , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 72min, (USK 18)

  She opened her eyes slightly, and her green eyes enchanted me, and immediately she closed her eyes again, saying some incoherent words. I carried her into the car and asked Dale to drive us home. I carried her to the bedroom and tried to undress her to change her clothes, and suddenly, she started moaning. The sound of her voice made my erect cock much harder than it was, becoming painful. She woke up suddenly and started kissing me. I tried to resist her, thinking she might be drunk, but what she said next made all rationality fly out the window. “I want you to fuck me.” My fingers worked on the buttons of my dress shirt, taking it off and my jacket at the same time before throwing them onto the floor. “I want you to take my belt off and undo my pants.” She nodded and reached her hands up to undo my belt. Mia's fingers worked quickly, as though I was strapped to a bomb, and she needed to get it off of me as soon as possible. Without any prompting, when my belt was loose enough, the button to my pants undone, Mia flattened her palm and slid her hand beneath my pants' waist. She felt a line of hair trailing down from my stomach to my pubic hair. I was trimmed, and then she felt the thick shaft of my cock. The organ jumped in her hand, and it was hot. Hot enough to make her pulse jump right along with it I finally closed my eyes, just as they rolled into the back of my head. My lips parted in a sigh. The look on my face was by far the one thing that made her feel so in control of the situation. She was rolling her hips, feeling my hard cock press against her wet panties, and it drew a soft moan from her, and a guttural sounding groan from me as I leaned down and angled my head to kiss her.  ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Nina Torres Brown. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/219685/bk_acx0_219685_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  American Military History: From Colonials to Counterinsurgents, Hörbuch, Digital, 689min

  Wars have played a crucial role in defining the United States and its place in the world. No one is better equipped to analyze this subject in depth than retired US Army Gen. Wesley K. Clark - decorated combat veteran, author, Rhodes Scholar, and former NATO Supreme Commander. In this course, Gen. Clark explores the full scope of America's armed conflicts, from the French and Indian War in the mid-18th century to the Global War on Terrorism in the 21st. These 24 absorbing half-hour lectures chart the remarkable growth of the United States from a colonial backwater into the most powerful nation on Earth, thanks in large part to its talent for rising to the occasion when called to war. Drawing on his decades of study and military experience, Gen. Clark sheds light on the tactics and strategy behind such famous battles as Yorktown, New Orleans, Gettysburg, D-Day, Inchon, and Operation Desert Storm, among many others. He also recounts his own experiences in combat during the Vietnam War, which he barely survived. This presentation is the closest most listeners will get to studying war the way military officers do - with every battle serving as a textbook for possible paths to victory. Among the many examples, you learn that the ideal time to attack is when an opposing force is separated, distracted, and disorganized due to crossing an obstacle such as a river, as happened to British Gen. Edward Braddock's troops while fording the Monongahela River during the French and Indian War. You also learn that the fall of Fort Donelson during the Civil War was due to incoherent strategy by the Confederates, combined with brilliant tactics by Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, who went on to win the war for the North. In one of the last lectures, Gen. Clark gives insight into his own strategy for halting Serbian ethnic cleansing during Operation Allied Force in 1999, when he was the general in charge. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompany Language: English. Narrator: Wesley K. Clark. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tcco/000486/bk_tcco_000486_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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