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    Collected: A Coveted Novella , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 87min
    Natalya Stravinsky, the charmingly neurotic werewolf from Coveted, is featured in this prequel novella. Before Thorn Grantham returned to South Toms River, New Jersey, Natalya lived alone with her stash of holiday trinkets. Her life takes an interesting turn when she faces a difficult challenge: to find a stolen figurine she'd recently won from a magical creatures auction website. It should be simple, just demand for it back from the pesky thief. But a set of events occurs that puts not only her life at risk, but her family's as well. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Audio Élan. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/010118/bk_acx0_010118_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Universal Language , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 133min
    One mistake by space linguist Jalila could cost an alien species their lives. The crew of the starship IBN BATTUTA has 24 hours to prepare the people of planet Vox to face an approaching invasion fleet. But when Jalila mistakenly uses a forbidden slur, the Vox locals attack their supposed saviors. Drawn into a violent revolution, a "war of words" to decide language dominance, Jalila must rely on other resources when deprived of communication technology and even the power of speech. As revolution and invasion collide, only Jalila can save her shipmates and the planet Vox by revealing the secret behind the slur that started it all, the dark secret linking Vox and invaders in an ancient cycle of slavery, suffering, lies, and death. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Audio Élan. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/005742/bk_acx0_005742_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Bergson postkolonial
    Der Band basiert auf vier Vorträgen, die Souleymane Bachir Diagne am Collège de France gehalten hat. Er begibt sich auf eine Spurensuche durch das Werk von Léopold Sédar Senghor und Muhammad Iqbal, die an der Schnittstelle von Philosophie, Dichtung und Politik auf je verschiedene Weise versuchten, einen interkulturellen Dialog zwischen dem europäischen Erbe und der Postkolonie zu artikulieren. Eine besondere Rolle kommt dabei dem französischen Philosophen Henri Bergson zu, dessen Begriffe von Zeit und Dauer, Intuition und élan vital die Philosophie des 20. Jahrhunderts geprägt haben. So werden neue Perspektiven auf die Senghor'sche Négritude und den islamischen Reformismus Iqbals eröffnet, die nicht nur für das Verständnis der beiden Autoren und der Rezeptionsgeschichte Bergsons zentral sind, sondern auch vor dem Hintergrund zeitgenössischer Diskussionen über den Umgang mit unserem kolonialen Erbe eine besondere Aktualität gewinnen.
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    Akhet: Sekhmet's Light, Book One , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 441min
    It is a season of waning and little is certain. Akhet, the Inundation. The world is changing, gods of old stir, and their agents work behind the scenes to fulfill their masters' commands. Who will have the courage to stand for The Light when darkness rises to swallow the world? Doctor Nicole Salem is a beautiful and brilliant Egyptologist who is working on a dig outside Luxor, Egypt, when she is confronted by her own destiny. She is plunged into a world of divided loyalties, intrigue, and treachery that will destroy her and everything she knows if she isn't strong enough. Nicole must learn how to survive in a war between elder powers that claim her life and soul as their own, and earn the title of Sekhmet's Light. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Élan O'Connor. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/049666/bk_acx0_049666_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    La galerie à Michel Galy
    La galerie à Michel Galy nous ouvre les portiques d'un jardin à la fois intime et public. Intime dans le sens où il offre au lecteur le tableau intérieur d'un homme ouvert à un certain nombre de désirs, à toutes les faims et à toutes les curiosités. Michel Galy, en se faisant chasseur d'idéal, a inspiré à Necké Bernard ces mots délicieux : « Avec un tact aussi fervent que savant, Il court sur les fils brûlants Là où les téméraires se terrent » Parcourir « La galerie à Michel Galy » ne se réduit pas à une rencontre galante avec des images, des mots et même des sons qui retentissent. Visiter la galerie de Galy, c'est aller à la rencontre d'un homme, d'un artiste, d'un philosophe, d'une âme, d'une vision au service de l'homme et de son environnement, dans un élégant élan d'universalisme. (Extrait de la préface).
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    Creative Evolution , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 772min
    Creative Evolution is a 1907 book by the French philosopher Henri Bergson. The work proposes a version of orthogenesis in place of Darwin's mechanism of evolution, suggesting that evolution is motivated by the “élan vital”, a vital impetus that may also be understood as a natural creative impulse. The book also developed concepts of time which influenced writers like Marcel Proust and Thomas Mann. Bergson's term "duration", for example, refers to an individual, subjective experience of time, as opposed to the mathematical, objectively measurable clock time. Bergson suggests that the experience of time as "duration" can best be understood through intuition. This theory of evolution makes possible the free emergence of individual intelligence. It is totally distinct from the deterministic hypotheses that are either mechanistic or teleological. Bergson argues by means of striking metaphor and analogy. He compares life to a wave spreading outward toward a circumference that is broken down at one point only and to an artillery shell from which new shells emerge when it bursts. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ellis Freeman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/yurt/001619/bk_yurt_001619_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Dark Days in the Newsroom: McCarthyism Aimed at the Press , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 494min
    Dark Days in the Newsroom traces how journalists became radicalized during the Depression era, only to become targets of Senator Joseph McCarthy and like-minded anti-Communist crusaders during the 1950s. Edward Alwood, a former news correspondent, describes this remarkable story of conflict, principle, and personal sacrifice with noticeable élan. He shows how McCarthy's minions pried inside newsrooms thought to be sacrosanct under the First Amendment, and details how some journalists mounted a heroic defense of freedom of the press while others secretly enlisted in the government's anti-communist crusade. Relying on previously undisclosed documents from FBI files along with personal interviews, Alwood provides a richly informed commentary on one of the most significant moments in the history of American journalism. Arguing that the experiences of the McCarthy years profoundly influenced the practice of journalism, he shows how many of the issues faced by journalists in the 1950s prefigure today's conflicts over the right of journalists to protect their sources. The book is published by Temple University Press. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Robert Thaler. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/090437/bk_acx0_090437_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Book of Treasure (eBook, ePUB)
    In their collaborative poetry, Dustin Junkert and Shane Moritz drag the compositional practice of Exquisite Corpse kicking and screaming into the 21st century. The two poets finish each other's sentences with often preposterous élan. Their subjects are projectiles of varying gravity launched at a Ouija board planchette. The scenarios they unfold describe a universe of pop-culture misunderstandings. Somewhere at the intersection of David Berman, Anne Sexton, Robert Pinsky, and Stephen Malkmus lies the lyrebird glory of these poems, their impact amplified by David Nichols's original drawings, whose air of tender perplexity provides a perfect emotional accompaniment. "In The Book of Treasures, curators Dustin Junkert and Shane Moritz expertly constitute a kickass hyper-contemporary below-the-bug-line Cabinet of Wonders.-Michael Martone "These paratactic poems deliver the shifting dimensions of life, but also the quick life of impulse They are acrobatically funny and urbane; they're also slyly imbued with pathos. They revel, actively, in the music of the sentence, especially, and in the weird hum of the contemporary western world. -Laura Newbern
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    The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 131min
    A religious fundamentalist, a political operative, a primitive sermonizer, and an accomplice of worldly secular powers. Her mission has always been of this kind. The irony is that she has never been able to induce anybody to believe her. It is past time that she was duly honored and taken at her word. Among his many books, perhaps none have sparked more outrage than The Missionary Position, Christopher Hitchens's meticulous study of the life and deeds of Mother Teresa. A Nobel Peace Prize recipient beatified by the Catholic Church in 2003, Mother Teresa of Calcutta was celebrated by heads of state and adored by millions for her work on behalf of the poor. In his measured critique, Hitchens asks only that Mother Teresa's reputation be judged by her actions - not the other way around. With characteristic élan and rhetorical dexterity, Hitchens eviscerates the fawning cult of Teresa, recasting the Albanian missionary as a spurious, despotic, and megalomaniacal operative of the wealthy who long opposed measures to end poverty, and fraternized, for financial gain, with tyrants and white-collar criminals throughout the world. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Simon Prebble. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hach/000846/bk_hach_000846_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Economism: Bad Economics and the Rise of Inequality , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 434min
    Here is a bracing deconstruction of the framework for understanding the world that is learned as gospel in Economics 101, regardless of its imaginary assumptions and misleading half truths. Economism: an ideology that distorts the valid principles and tools of introductory college economics, propagated by self-styled experts, zealous lobbyists, clueless politicians, and ignorant pundits. In order to illuminate the fallacies of economism, James Kwak first offers a primer on supply and demand, market equilibrium, and social welfare: the underpinnings of most popular economic arguments. Then he provides a historical account of how economism became a prevalent mode of thought in the United States - focusing on the people who packaged Econ 101 into sound bites that were then repeated until they took on the aura of truth. He shows us how issues of moment in contemporary American society - labor markets, taxes, finance, health care, and international trade, among others - are shaped by economism, demonstrating in each case with clarity and élan how, because of its failure to reflect the complexities of our world, economism has had a deleterious influence on policies that affect hundreds of millions of Americans. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mark Bramhall. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/004897/bk_rand_004897_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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