26 Results for : contemptible
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Sole Survivor: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 356min
Have you ever wanted to escape to a distant island? When Rosie Trethewey, a disillusioned doctor turned market researcher, unexpectedly inherits a shack on the remote northern tip of Great Barrier Island, she decides it's time to begin a new life. Arriving at her new home, Rosie finds she has two neighbors sharing the wilderness: Red O'Hara, a refugee from horrific wartime experiences on the Burma Railway, and Angus McLeod, a retires policeman who's abandoned a society he sees as soft and contemptible. Rosie's appearance panics Red and Angus, both fearing she'll disrupt their ordered lives and they're right. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Christopher Cazenove. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/pnix/000262/bk_pnix_000262_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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If This Is a Man / The Truce , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 983min
Translated by Stuart Woolf. 'With the moral stamina and intellectual poise of a twentieth-century Titan, this slightly built, dutiful, unassuming chemist set out systematically to remember the German hell on earth, steadfastly to think it through, and then to render it comprehensible in lucid, unpretentious prose. He was profoundly in touch with the minutest workings of the most endearing human events and with the most contemptible. What has survived in Levi's writing isn't just his memory of the unbearable, but also, in The Periodic Table and The Wrench, his delight in what made the world exquisite to him. He was himself a magically endearing man, the most delicately forceful enchanter I've ever known.' (Philip Roth) ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Henry Goodman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/twuk/000881/bk_twuk_000881_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Don't Get Mad: The Ins and Outs of Getting Even as an Entry Level Assassin , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 620min
A novel of love, laughter, insanity, friendship, and getting even.“I wish he was dead!” Have you ever had that wicked thought? If not, then you’ve never met the contemptible Mike DiMarco, a man that gets his solitary pleasure from wrecking lives.Hypothetically, if DiMarco ruined your life and left you penniless, beaten, and broken, could you kill him? Well, you’re off the hook because Sturgis will do it for you - or try. Your mission now becomes that of a cheering supporter as you hear about the efforts of a lovable, clumsy man as he humorously, yet doggedly, discovers the ins and outs of getting even as an entry-level assassin. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Robert Keesecker. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/134704/bk_acx0_134704_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Stand & Fall
Stand & Fall ab 42.49 € als gebundene Ausgabe: A Soldier's Recollections of the 'Contemptible Little Army' and the Retreat from Mons to the Marne 1914. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Wissenschaft, Geschichte,- Shop: hugendubel
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Stand & Fall
Stand & Fall ab 23.99 € als Taschenbuch: A Soldier's Recollections of the 'Contemptible Little Army' and the Retreat from Mons to the Marne 1914. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Geist & Wissen,- Shop: hugendubel
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Blue Fire Harem: Progenitor, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 193min
Xing Ping turned into an angel after taking a leap of faith. He'd always been one of the most evil, vile, and contemptible people from his Sect. Every year, he pillaged, raided, and took anything he pleased including as many women as he could get his hands on. In a world of cultivation, he was also a man of extreme talent, and had been birthed by one of then ten most vile men in the Black Sentry Sect. Nonetheless, he'd taken that plummet from the cliff in order to reincarnate as the ultimate being. When he was reborn, he looked down and saw his shadow, noticing two large wings on his back, and a new set of rules to live by. It turned out that angels weren't good because they wanted to be, and as Xing Ping began his adventure he'd have to learn to live with being an angel and deal with the thousands of woman who were reserved especially for him. Warning: Contains sexual content, gore, and an overpowered main character. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gareth Richards. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/155283/bk_acx0_155283_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Contemptible: A Surgeon's Battle for Justice Against Insurance Giant Cigna and a Biased Federal Bench , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 256min
This is a documented account of an assistant surgeon's self-represented legal quest against Cigna for equitable reimbursement and its retaliatory counterstrike in federal court under a partial bench. Who might find the book engaging? The obvious audience would be attorneys and judges. And physicians, of course, who must face the unfair reimbursement practices of insurance megaliths. Legislators may consider it valuable. Also, anyone who will ever become a patient, which inevitably includes us all. I believe you will actually be fascinated by the associated law and shocked at how slanted our judicial system seems to be against propriety itself. The subject matter is dense yet accessible. The listen is worthwhile, at minimum for the humor scattered in the narration. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John B. Hackert, MD. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/170132/bk_acx0_170132_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Born in Slavery: Narratives from the WPA Slave Narrative Collection , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 355min
The WPA Slave Narrative Collection was a massive compilation of histories by former slaves undertaken by the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration from 1936 to 1938. It was the simultaneous effort of state-level branches of FWP in 17 states, working largely separately from each other.These narratives depict the physical and mental atrocities visited upon black people in a way no other method, save that of witnessing the barbarities firsthand, could. The narratives that disclosed the meanness and depravity of evil "masters", graphically illustrate the abject wrongness of slavery. Lest we be inclined to consider the reports depicting benignant generosity among slave owners as exonerating slavery, consider the aftermath of emancipation. Hundreds of thousands of Black people who were taught to depend on the largess of their white masters as the only way to live, were plunged into contemptible, humiliating poverty; swept under the feet of the vanquished foe that once enslaved them.Born in Slavery is a collection of the expression of these former slaves. Having described the slavery from which they were emancipated, they then speak of a new slavery of exclusion and hatred. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Christopher Wagnon. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bigh/001423/bk_bigh_001423_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Great Retreat of 1914: From Mons to the Marne , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 150min
August 1914: In the sweltering heat, the fate of Europe hangs in the balance. Germany is hurling her forces into a carefully planned invasion of Belgium and France. Bound by an 1839 treaty to protect Belgium from any invader, Britain came to its defence. With the British Expeditionary Force numbering just 120,000 men, and dwarfed by the vast manpower of Germany, Kaiser Wilhelm II remains unfazed by this ‘contemptible little army'. But the BEF was, man for man, the best trained army in Europe. It was led by tough and experienced officers who had learned their brutal trade in fierce colonial warfare. Their combat performance in 1914 would cement their place in history. Within days of the BEF’s deployment, the full weight of the German invasion crashed into the thin British line. Faced with overwhelming enemy numbers, and battling alongside unreliable French allies, the BEF was forced into The Great Retreat. The Great Retreat is the story of this desperate battle for survival. While Germany was attempting to crush France in one fell swoop, the Allies desperately sought time and space so that they could mount a counterattack to stem the tide. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Philip Franks. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/019689/bk_adbl_019689_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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American Notes , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 681min
In 1842, Charles Dickens visited America. His reception was somewhat colder than that which usually greeted him - already a successful author in both Britain and the United States. This lack of enthusiasm from the Americans was partly due to his criticism of the pirating of English books in that country and partly due to his outspoken distaste for the custom of slavery in the Southern states. He wrote in the preface to American Notes, 'Prejudiced I am not, and never have been, otherwise than in favour of the United States. I have many friends in America. I feel a grateful interest in the country. I hope and believe it will successfully work out a problem of the highest importance in the whole human race. To represent me as viewing America with ill nature, coldness or animosity is merely to do a very foolish thing, which is always a very easy one!' Despite this placatory tone, one American reviewer spoke thus of American Notes: 'The most trashy...the most contemptible...the essence of balderdash, reduced to the last drop of silliness and inanity'. Listen to the journals and judge for yourself. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Peter Joyce. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/assm/000057/bk_assm_000057_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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