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    The Black Tulip , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 537min
    When tulip-grower Cornelius van Baerle is framed for treason and sentenced to death, he is powerless against the brutal factional politics that put him in prison. But Rosa, the jailer’s daughter, is beautiful and strong-willed, and when they fall in love she determines not only to save him but also to grow the near mythical flower: the black tulip.S et in the savage turmoil of Holland’s late 17th century, this intimate novel celebrates the power of integrity over obsession, and tolerance over violence; and it creates in the black tulip a symbol of humanity’s potential.PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your My Library section along with the audio. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Peter Joyce. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/naxo/000713/bk_naxo_000713_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Crisis and Class War in Egypt
    Crisis and Class War in Egypt ab 22.99 € als epub eBook: Social Reproduction Factional Realignments and the Global Political Economy. Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Fachthemen & Wissenschaft, Politikwissenschaft,
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    Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 598min
    Tormented girls writhing in agony, stern judges meting out harsh verdicts, 19 bodies swinging on Gallows Hill. The stark immediacy of what happened in 1692 has obscured the complex web of human passion that climaxed in the Salem witch trials.  From rich and varied sources - many neglected and unknown - Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum give us a picture of the people and events more intricate and more fascinating than any other in the massive literature. It is a story of powerful and deeply divided families and of a community determined to establish an independent identity - beset by restraints and opposition from without and factional conflicts from within - and a minister whose obsessions helped to bring this volatile mix to the flash point.   Not simply a dramatic and isolated event, the Salem outbreak has wider implications for our understanding of developments central to the American experience: the disintegration of Puritanism, the pressures of land and population in New England towns, the problems besetting farmer and householder, the shifting role of the church, and the powerful impact of commercial capitalism.   ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Norman Dietz. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tant/010873/bk_tant_010873_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Balaguer and the Dominican Military
    Balaguer and the Dominican Military ab 61.49 € als Taschenbuch: Presidential Control of the Factional Officer Corps in the 1960s and 1970s. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, English, International, Englische Taschenbücher,
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    The Waves
    The Waves ab 3.49 € als epub eBook: A Creative Factional Biography of Henry (Harry) Augustus Burnett The Real Tiny Tim Cratchit and Little Paul Dombey. Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Biographien & Autobiographien,
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    The Waves
    The Waves ab 31.49 € als Taschenbuch: A Creative Factional Biography of Henry (Harry) Augustus Burnett The Real Tiny Tim Cratchit and Little Paul Dombey. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Geist & Wissen,
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    Bloody Breathitt: Politics and Violence in the Appalachian South: New Directions in Southern History , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 670min
    The notorious conflict between the Hatfield and the McCoy families of West Virginia and Kentucky is often remembered as America's most famous feud, but it was relatively brief and subdued compared to the violence in Breathitt County, Kentucky. From the Reconstruction period until the early 20th century, Breathitt's 500 square miles of rugged upcountry land was known as "the darkest and bloodiest of all the dark and bloody feud counties" due to its considerable number of homicides, which were not always related to the factional conflicts that swept the region. In Bloody Breathitt, T. R. C. Hutton carefully investigates instances of individual and mass violence in the county from the Civil War through the Progressive era, exploring links between specific incidents and broader national and regional events. Hutton explains how their causes and implications often reflected distinctly political intentions. By framing the incidents as "feuds," those in positions of authority disguised politically motivated murders by placing them in a fictive past, preventing outsiders from understanding the complex reality. Hutton's timely study reminds listeners that the nation's political stability has had a tremendous cost in terms of bloodshed. Winner of the Weatherford Award for nonfiction. Winner of the Appalachian Writers Association Book of the Year for nonfiction. The book is published by The University Press of Kentucky. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gary L Willprecht. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/101032/bk_acx0_101032_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    We Kill Because We Can: From Soldiering to Assassination in the Drone Age , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 664min
    Last resort has become first resort. Courage has become cowardice. Black ops have become standard operating procedure. An intelligence agency is now a killing machine. Self-defense has become naked aggression. Guilt beyond a reasonable doubt has become possible future potential for guilt. Voices of dissent have been irrevocably silenced. Patriots have been replaced by mercenaries. Human rights have been eclipsed by concern with the protection of soldiers’ lives. The US war on terrorism has been carried out using terrorist tactics, with formal military states emulating asymmetrical factional killers. Wars of necessity have been supplanted by ever-proliferating wars of choice.In We Kill Because We Can: From Soldiering to Assassination in the Drone Age, Laurie Calhoun examines the 21st-century practice of remote-control killing of suspects located in third-world countries and challenges listeners to reflect upon the long-range implications - moral, political, psychological, and cultural - of this new form of "warfare". Through the use of provocative analogies and examples, We Kill Because We Can clarifies and criticizes targeted killing as incompatible with the values and principles of modern Western democratic societies.Table of contents:Foreword to the Paperback edition (2016) Preface IntroductionPart I: Find Chapter 1: Drone Nation Chapter 2: From Black-Ops to Standard Operating Procedure Chapter 3: The Logic of Targeted Killing Chapter 4: Lethal CreepPart II: Fix Chapter 5: Strike First, Suppress Questions Later Chapter 6: The New Banality of Killing Chapter 7: The Operators Chapter 8: From Conscience to OblivionPart III: Finish Chapter 9: Death and Politics Chapter 10: Death and Taxes Chapter 11: The Death of Military Virtue Chapter 12: Tyra ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Laurie Calhoun. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/139942/bk_acx0_139942_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Night of the Long Knives: The History and Legacy of Adolf Hitler's Notorious Purge of the SA , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 97min
    Germany's Nazi Party was remarkably implacable in the hostility it showed to the outside world, staunchly opposing both Communism and liberal democracy from the moment of its inception to that of its violent dissolution. The Nazis likewise showed steely, unwavering resolve in their lethal hatred of the Jews, the Slavs, and many others whom they labeled as "untermenschen," subhumans unworthy of rights, cultural standing, or life itself. They pursued their dark vision of "Aryan" superiority with a terrifying clarity and zeal, and they were willing to incur the enmity of the entire world in the process.At the same time, despite this fanatic dedication to their overall vision, the Nazis had their own share of factional strife, and perhaps not surprisingly, the internecine struggle often led to violence, executions, and assassinations, byproducts of a totalitarian environment in which power appeared in its most undisguised and aggressive form. The firing squad, the bomb, the torture chamber, the extermination camp, the crematorium, and the noose of piano wire took the place of debate and persuasion in Hitler's Germany.Like other totalitarian regimes, the leader of the Nazis kept an iron grip on power in part by making sure nobody else could attain too much of it, leading to purges of high-ranking officials in the Nazi party. Of these purges, the most notorious was the Night of the Long Knives, a purge in the summer of 1934 that came about when Hitler ordered the surprise executions of several dozen leaders of the SA. This fanatically National Socialist paramilitary organization had been a key instrument in overthrowing democratic government in Germany. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dan Gallagher. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/033329/bk_acx0_033329_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Inside Earth , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 130min
    Valgolia, a planet in the Epsilon Eridani star system, conquered Earth generations ago, but their conquest was incomplete. While Valgolians made possible greater prosperity, universal health, and interstellar trade for all Earthlings, the factional frictions of Earth - race against race, religion against religion, culture against culture - continue to bedevil the Valgolian's vision of a peaceable world for all mankind. A world which, once brought around to the idea of equality for all Earthlings, will be ready to join the larger community of the galaxy. In Inside Earth, first published in 1951, master science fiction author Poul Anderson laid out a vision of America and the world struggling centuries later with the ancient animosities that no war ever seems to vanquish. This exciting short story hints at a unique solution to that never-ending cycle of social, economic, political, and religious discontent. Could a genuine global peace among all mankind be promoted by conquistadors from another world? Conquerors whose philosophy is not divide to conquer, but conquer to unite? That is not how the men and women of Earth see it. Earthlings see only copper-skinned, black-crest-headed rulers in their Valgolian masters, and only rebellion will reboot the world to its former self. Rebel forces seeking to overthrow the Valgolians have begun to coalesce and promote insurgencies around the globe, insurgencies capable of retaking Earth by launching an attack on Valgolia itself from a covert base far out in space. The Valgolians are well-aware of the pending rebellion; in fact, they are secretly promoting it, with the help of one of their own...a Valgolian military officer named Conru. Surgically-modified to remove all traces of his home planet physiology and made to look as much an Earthing as possible, Conru travels across North America as Conrad Haugen, a Norwegian-American playing the role of a discontented wanderer anxious to join the rebellion's Legi ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: C James Moore. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/mike/001685/bk_mike_001685_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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