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    Ms. Never , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 841min
    What do we give away when we click "I Agree" to the terms of service on our phones?Why are the billionaires desperately squirreling away all that money?Why do old photographs and songs hint at a history we can’t remember?Why do professional sports teams need new stadiums so often?And why is everyone so depressed?These are just a few mysteries that Ms. Never - a new novel by Colin Dodds - takes on (and possibly answers) in startling fashion.Farya Navurian seems like an ordinary young woman trying to get ahead in the city while struggling with depression. But her depression is anything but ordinary - it has the power to destroy time and space. Growing up the moody daughter of a space-faring hero of the Greater Anointed Imperial Ohioan Commonwealth, Farya annihilated most of that world and its history, leaving behind the husk-like Buckeye State.One day at a record swap, she meets Bryan, a divorced telecom CEO. More than record collecting, what they share is that they each carry a howling secret. Bryan’s business is a cover for a bigger operation that buys human souls and sells luxury afterlives using shady terms of service in mobile-phone contracts.The two of them fall in love, and as they start a life together, their secrets back them into a corner where they have to come clean - and take drastic steps - to save themselves, and possibly reality itself. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Aven Shore. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/170508/bk_acx0_170508_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Ms. Never , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 840min
    What do we give away when we click “I Agree” to the terms of service in our phones?Why are the billionaires squirreling away all that money?Why do old photographs and songs refer to a history we can’t remember?Why do professional sports teams need new stadiums so often?And why is everyone so depressed?These are just a few mysteries that Ms. Never - a new science fiction novel by Colin Dodds - takes on (and possibly solves) in startling fashion.Farya Navurian seems like an ordinary young woman trying to get ahead in the city while struggling with depression. But her depression is anything but ordinary - it has the power to destroy time and space. Growing up the moody daughter of a space-faring hero of The Greater Anointed Imperial Ohioan Commonwealth, Farya annihilated most of that world and its history, leaving behind the husk-like Buckeye State.One day, at a record swap, she meets Bryan, a divorced telecom CEO. More than record collecting, what they share is that they each carry a howling secret. Bryan’s business is a cover for a bigger operation that buys human souls and sells luxury afterlives using shady terms of service in mobile-phone contracts. The two of them fall in love, and as they start a life together, their secrets back them into a corner where they have to come clean - and take drastic steps - to save themselves, and possibly reality itself.Ms. Never is a distinctly 21st-century vision of consent, memory, and the ways we create and destroy the world every day.  ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Aven Shore. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/173131/bk_acx0_173131_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    To Conquer the Air: The Wright Brothers and the Great Race for Flight, Hörbuch, Digital, 370min
    For some years I have been afflicted with the belief that flight is possible to man. My disease has increased in severity and I feel that it will soon cost me an increased amount of money if not my life."So wrote a quiet young Ohioan in 1900, one in an ancient line of men who had wanted to fly - wanted it passionately, fecklessly, hopelessly. But now, at the turn of the 20th century, Wilbur Wright and a scattered handful of other adventurers conceived a conviction that the dream lay at last within reach, and in a headlong race across 10 years and two continents, they competed to conquer the air. James Tobin, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in biography, has at last given this inspiring story its definitive telling. For years Wright and his younger brother, Orville, experimented in utter obscurity. Meanwhile, the world watched as the imperious Samuel Langley, armed with a rich contract from the U.S. War Department and all the resources of the Smithsonian Institution, sought to create the first manned flying machine. But while Langley became obsessed with flight as a problem of power, the Wrights grappled with it as a problem of balance. Thus their machines took two very different paths - his toward oblivion, theirs toward the heavens. To Conquer the Air is a hero's tale of overcoming obstacles within and without that plumbs the depths of creativity and character. With a historian's accuracy and a novelist's eye, Tobin has captured the interplay of remarkable personalities at an extraordinary moment in our history. In the centennial year of human flight, To Conquer the Air is itself a heroic achievement. Language: English. Narrator: Boyd Gaines. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/sans/000416/bk_sans_000416_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Triumph of William McKinley: Why the Election of 1896 Still Matters , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 912min
    From New York Times best-selling author and political mastermind Karl Rove comes a fresh look at President William McKinley, who found a message that healed his nation, pried his party away from its bosses, and extended its reach to forge a governing majority that lasted 30 years. Many of the changes that the country experienced in 1896 match those of today: A rising immigrant population made traditional white Protestants a shrinking share of the electorate, an economic upheaval led to rising inequality, and there was little common ground between the two parties. McKinley's campaign found answers to many of these challenges, which is why it is so relevant to what ails our politics now. A talented politician and reserved Ohioan, McKinley (called "The Major") changed the arc of American history by running the first truly modern presidential campaign. Knowing he didn't stand a chance with the GOP's traditional base of supporters, he did the unthinkable and reached out to diverse ethnic groups, including openly seeking the endorsement of Catholic Church leaders. Running on the slogan "The Man Against the Bosses", McKinley also took on the moneymen who controlled the party by doling out favors. He even deployed what we would consider modern tactics, including microtargeting voters with the use of the latest technology. Above all, he offered bold and controversial answers to the nation's most pressing challenge: how to make a new, more global economy work for everyone. And although he alienated factions within his party and longtime allies, he won the White House. The 1896 election is a compelling drama in its own right, but McKinley's brilliant strategies offer important and powerful lessons for both political parties today. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Karl Rove. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/sans/007273/bk_sans_007273_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    1914 ships
    1914 ships ab 27.49 € als Taschenbuch: HMHS Britannic HMS Royal Oak USS Nevada SMS Kronprinz SM U-35 SS Iowan Koraaga SS Ohioan USS McDougal USS Nicholson SMS Szent István USS O'Brien USS Oklahoma HMS Valiant HMS Glatton. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Geist & Wissen,
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    Ambrose Bierce: The Life and Mysterious Disappearance of the Famous American Author , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 88min
    Includes Bierce's quotes about his own life and career "History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools." - Ambrose Bierce. Satirical commentary, memoirs from the agony of war, and horror stories of the supernatural have existed in literature since the beginning of the written word, and in virtually all global societies. The most lauded and familiar examples known to 21st century readers are emblematic of vast literary industries in comparison to previous eras. With an astonishing number of authors at liberty to self-publish and the rapid expansion of the relatively recent film industry, the world has never before seen such a vast expression of such genres. As a satirist, Bierce was famously dubbed the “Mark Twain of the North.” Inclusion of the "North," however, embodies several points of dissimilarity from the wit of Twain; sharp and lightning-clever like his counterpart from Missouri, Bierce the Ohioan made no pretense to Southern charm or allowed any room for a nuanced interpretation of his remarks. Once atop his profession, Bierce’s venom was spewed at virtually everyone, in almost every walk of life. Any figure of public note in San Francisco came to know him as “Bitter Bierce,” or by his initials, which in public life were often translated as “Almighty God Bierce.” As a war author, Bierce is the only one of the great literary figures who actually served as a front-line soldier in the American Civil War. Walt Whitman and Twain were somewhat removed from the conflict by comparison. Twain, in fact, “dabbled” at being a soldier before deserting his Confederate unit. Bierce’s often metaphysical and supernatural-tinged memoirs of his war service served as the ideal backdrop for the Poe-like “attraction to death in its most bizarre forms” and an affection for the ghost story as a “campfire tale.” A master of ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mark Norman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/085714/bk_acx0_085714_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Home Front to Battlefront: An Ohio Teenager in World War II , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 704min
    Carl Lavin was a high school senior when Pearl Harbor was attacked. The Canton, Ohio, native enlisted when he turned 18, a decision that would take him with the US Army from training across the United States and Britain to combat with the 84th Infantry Division in the Battle of the Bulge. Home Front to Battlefront is the tale of a foot soldier who finds himself thrust into a world where he and his unit grapple with the horrors of combat, the idiocies of bureaucracy, and the oddities of life back home - all in the same day. It is based on Carl's personal letters, his recollections, and those of the people he served beside, official military history, private papers, and more. Home Front to Battlefront contributes the rich details of one soldier's experience to the broader literature on World War II. Lavin's adventures, in turn disarming and sobering, will appeal to general listeners, veterans, educators, and students of the war. As a history, the audiobook offers insight into the wartime career of a Jewish Ohioan in the military, from enlistment to training through overseas deployment. As a biography, it reflects the emotions and the role of the individual in a total war effort that is all too often thought of as a machine war in which human soldiers were merely interchangeable cogs. Published by Ohio University Press. "If you like American history, or military history, or just a good narrative yarn, do check out "Home Front to Battlefront." - Bill Kristol, Weekly Standard "Carl Lavin's combined letters and memoir are an invaluable contribution to the literature on the American G.I.'s experiences in World War II." - Peter S. Kindsvatter, author of American Soldiers: Ground Combat in the World Wars, Korea, and Vietnam ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gary D. MacFadden, Frank Lavin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/105785/bk_acx0_105785_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Ships built in Maryland
    Ships built in Maryland ab 38.49 € als Taschenbuch: USS Big Horn SS Stevens SS Minnesotan SS Iowan SS Kentuckian SS Dakotan SS Pennsylvanian SS Ohioan USS Caliente USS Waccamaw SS Montanan SS Panaman USS Aucilla USS Ashtabula USS Winooski USS Pigeon SS Washingtonian. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Naturwissenschaft,
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    Unique cargo ships of the United States Navy
    Unique cargo ships of the United States Navy ab 23.49 € als Taschenbuch: MV Buffalo Soldier SS Minnesotan SS Iowan SS Kentuckian SS Dakotan SS Pennsylvanian SS Ohioan SS Panaman SS El Occidente SS El Oriente SS American SS Washingtonian SS El Sol USS Alaskan SS Empire Chamois USS Whidbey. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Naturwissenschaft,
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