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Human Universe , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 447min
Human life is a staggeringly strange thing. On the surface of a ball of rock falling around a nuclear fireball in the blackness of a vacuum, the laws of nature conspired to create a naked ape that can look up at the stars and wonder where it came from. What is a human being? Objectively, nothing of consequence. Particles of dust in an infinite arena, present for an instant in eternity. Clumps of atoms in a universe with more galaxies than people. Yet a human being is necessary for the question itself to exist, and the presence of a question in the universe - any question - is the most wonderful thing. Questions require minds, and minds bring meaning. What is meaning? I don't know, except that the universe and every pointless speck inside it means something to me. I am astonished by the existence of a single atom and find my civilisation to be an outrageous imprint on reality. I don't understand it. Nobody does, but it makes me smile. This book asks questions about our origins, our destiny, and our place in the universe. We have no right to expect answers; we have no right to even ask. But ask and wonder we do. Human Universe is first and foremost a love letter to humanity - a celebration of our outrageous fortune in existing at all. I have chosen to write my letter in the language of science, because there is no better demonstration of our magnificent ascent from dust to paragon of animals than the exponentiation of knowledge generated by science. Two million years ago we were apemen. Now we are spacemen. That has happened, as far as we know, nowhere else. That is worth celebrating. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Samuel West. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hcuk/002337/bk_hcuk_002337_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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A Thousand Stones: The Age of Revolution, Lust & War , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1082min
During the late 60s and early 70s, turbulence dominated both the world stage and the personal psyche of youth worldwide. It was an era of startling contrasts. Make peace, not war. Flower power. Turn on, tune in, drop out. Passion for ear-splitting, loud music. Vegetarian heroin users. Open the mind, close the establishment. Who could make sense of it all? College students, of course! A Thousand Stones is an historical fiction about both peaceful and militant students in the age of the Vietnam War, young love, criminal sabotage, and, of course, sex, drugs, and rock and roll. It is also an entertaining coming-of-age story about a 19-year old Texan, Nathan Davett Cooper ("Nate"). Europe was a magnet for the young and restless; Nate is both. He is presumed dead, along with 40 other Texas college students, in the crash of ICE Flight 54. Bodies wash ashore on the Normandy coast, amidst large clumps of grey-green paper wads: hundreds of thousands of dollars in US currency. Infused with unusual travel adventures, seasoned with the songs of the times and the longings of early manhood, the story follows this young American, his revolutionary-minded gonzo-journalist best friend, Charlie, Custer, a worldly-wise hippie girlfriend of Charlie's, and others involved in the unfolding mystery of twin plane crashes, mystical Irish lore, a budding worldwide radical underground movement, and their surprising connections across time and space. A Thousand Stones is a nostalgic look at what was happening between the Summer of Love, the Days of Rage, and Disco Dancing. It's both innovative and entertaining, blending little-known history, memorable fictional and historical characters, and an enrolling story into an amazing listen that will stay with you long after the end. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Nicholas Santasier. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/083769/bk_acx0_083769_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Finding Tessa
Jace and Tessa appear to be a young couple in love with nothing to hide. But looks can be deceiving. When Jace Montgomery comes home late from entertaining clients, he discovers that his wife Tessa is missing. There's broken glass at the back door. Clumps of her hair. Blood. The cops in their small New Jersey town have him pegged as a suspect, especially after he explodes at a reporter during a press conference. Jace maintains his innocence despite the mounting evidence against him, but when a coworker he's accused of having an affair with also disappears and a search warrant turns up an illegal gun in Jace's home, all signs point to him as the culprit. What is he really hiding? Meanwhile, Tessa finally feels safe, having set up her husband to take the fall for her disappearance-and someone close to him is helping her put him away. Breaking her lifelong pattern of bad men is only one hurdle she has to overcome. The other is outrunning her secret past while trying to stay alive, especially when those in her new life aren't who they appear to be. Jace's lies don't add up and the authorities are closing in. Will Tessa's old life catch up to her and drag her back to a life of abuse before justice is served? Finding Tessa is a smart domestic thriller where nothing can be taken at face value, where every twist reveals a deadlier secret than the one before. Fans of Gillian Flynn, Samantha Downing, and incisive, fresh psychological suspense won't want to miss it.- Shop: buecher
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Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 424min
Although mammals and birds are widely regarded as the smartest creatures on earth, it has lately become clear that a very distant branch of the tree of life has also sprouted higher intelligence: the cephalopods, consisting of the squid, the cuttlefish, and above all the octopus. In captivity, octopuses have been known to identify individual human keepers, raid neighboring tanks for food, turn off lightbulbs by spouting jets of water, plug drains, and make daring escapes. How is it that a creature with such gifts evolved through an evolutionary lineage so radically distant from our own? What does it mean that evolution built minds not once but at least twice? The octopus is the closest we will come to meeting an intelligent alien. What can we learn from the encounter? In Other Minds, Peter Godfrey-Smith, a distinguished philosopher of science and a skilled scuba diver, tells a bold new story of how subjective experience crept into being - how nature became aware of itself. As Godfrey-Smith stresses, it is a story that largely occurs in the ocean, where animals first appeared. Tracking the mind's fitful development, Godfrey-Smith shows how unruly clumps of seaborne cells began living together and became capable of sensing, acting, and signaling. As these primitive organisms became more entangled with others, they grew more complicated. The first nervous systems evolved, probably in ancient relatives of jellyfish; later on the cephalopods, which began as inconspicuous mollusks, abandoned their shells and rose above the ocean floor, searching for prey and acquiring the greater intelligence needed to do so. Taking an independent route, mammals and birds later began their own evolutionary journeys. But what kind of intelligence do cephalopods possess? Drawing on the latest scientific research and his own scuba-diving adventures, Godfrey-Smith probes the many mysteries that surround the lineage. How did the octopus, a solitary creature with littl ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Peter Noble. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/aren/002473/bk_aren_002473_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Keto Bread Cookbook for Beginners: 100+ Mouth- Watering, Easy and Budget Friendly Low-Carb Keto Bread Recipes for Healthy Weight Loss , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 150min
Do you know what keto bread is?Do you want to know how to bake keto bread?Baking can be intimidating on the keto diet because it is not as easy as swapping high carb ingredients with low carbs. You can easily buy keto baked items from the stores but prepping them in your kitchen is more fruitful. Following are some keto baking tips that will make you confident in creating your own delicious low-carb baked goods at home.Start with keto baking recipes that are already developed and tested. Experiment and keep improving your baking skills by using their flours and ingredients, and in this way, you will also learn how the low-carb ingredients interact. And, then move on to develop your family baking recipes into low-carbs ones.Secondly, choosing the right keto-friendly flour is very important. For keto baked goods, you will have to replace your regular whole wheat flour with flours made with high-fat and low-carb nuts or seeds. There are so many low-carb flour choices like almond flour, coconut flour, flax meal, hazelnut flour, sunflower seed flour, and sesame seed flour, and these all choices can make you overwhelming. Among all keto flours, almond flour is the easiest of all to work with. However, each flour has its own texture, colors, and weight. Again, look for recipes that are close to what you aim to make, practice with them and then make your own collections by using your keto flour experiences.Similarly, cream cheese and butter need to be softened. If these ingredients are too cold, they won’t evenly mix into your dough and may make clumps. Therefore, properly soften the cream cheese and butter by microwaving them for 10 seconds and then add into the dough.It is tempting to just take ingredients from the refrigerator and dump them, but it can make a big difference to the end results of the baked goods. Eggs and other refrigerated liquids like milk need to come to room temperature or else, just like crea ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Victoria Kempf. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/218591/bk_acx0_218591_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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