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Antisemitism: The Oldest Hatred , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 683min

The Jewish people in its very being constitutes a living protest against a world of hatred, violence and war. (Emeritus Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks) The history of Jewish persecution is as old as the written word, though the epithet anti-Semitism was conceived only in the late 19th century, as it reached the beginning of its most horrifying chapter. Throughout Christian history the hatred and prejudice toward the Jewish people have often been blamed on the betrayal and crucifixion of Christ, but ethnic Jewish oppression began long before. It is beyond dispute that antisemitism in our societies is on the increase. Following the Israeli bombing of Gaza, antisemitic feeling has grown significantly - though a prominent group of French Orthodox Jews in Paris recently demonstrated with placards saying "Israeli action in Gaza is not the action of the Jewish people". Still, Jewish graves are desecrated and synagogues daubed with swastikas. John Mann has assembled a reader on the theme of antisemitism ranging from the writings of Charlie Chaplin, Albert Einstein, and Jean-Paul Sartre to George Washington, Jesse Jackson, and Emile Zola. The book is published under the auspices of the All-Party Parliamentary Group Against Anti-Semitism and will come to be seen as a contribution of major importance on a subject of incipient lethal danger. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Saul Reichlin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/026225/bk_adbl_026225_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Infinite Machine (eBook, ePUB)

Written with the verve of such works as The Big Short, The History of the Future, and The Spider Network, here is the fascinating, true story of the rise of Ethereum, the second-biggest digital asset in the world, the growth of cryptocurrency, and the future of the internet as we know it.Everyone has heard of Bitcoin, but few know about the second largest cryptocurrency, Ethereum, which has been heralded as the "next internet."The story of Ethereum begins with Vitalik Buterin, a supremely gifted nineteen-year-old autodidact who saw the promise of blockchain when the technology was in its earliest stages. He convinced a crack group of coders to join him in his quest to make a super-charged, global computer.The Infinite Machine introduces Vitalik's ingenious idea and unfolds Ethereum's chaotic beginnings. It then explores the brilliant innovation and reckless greed the platform-an infinitely adaptable foundation for experimentation and new applications-has unleashed and the consequences that resulted as the frenzy surrounding it grew: increased regulatory scrutiny, incipient Wall Street interest, and the founding team's effort to get the Ethereum platform to scale so it can eventually be accessible to the masses.Financial journalist and cryptocurrency expert Camila Russo details the wild and often hapless adventures of a team of hippy-anarchists, reluctantly led by an ambivalent visionary, and lays out how this new foundation for the internet will spur both transformation and fraud-turning some into millionaires and others into felons-and revolutionize our ideas about money.

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The Strange Case of Ermine de Reims: A Medieval Woman Between Demons and Saints , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 530min

In 1384, a poor and illiterate peasant woman named Ermine moved to the city of Reims with her elderly husband. Her era was troubled by war, plague, and schism within the Catholic Church, and Ermine could easily have slipped unobserved through the cracks of history. After the loss of her husband, however, things took a remarkable but frightening turn. For the last 10 months of her life, Ermine was tormented by nightly visions of angels and demons. In her nocturnal terrors, she was attacked by animals, beaten and kidnapped by devils in disguise, and exposed to carnal spectacles; on other nights, she was blessed by saints, even visited by the Virgin Mary. She confessed these strange occurrences to an Augustinian friar known as Jean le Graveur, who recorded them all in vivid detail. Was Ermine a saint in the making, an impostor, an incipient witch, or a madwoman? Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski ponders answers to these questions in the historical and theological context of this troubled woman's experiences. With empathy and acuity, Blumenfeld-Kosinski examines Ermine's life in 14th-century Reims, her relationship with her confessor, her ascetic and devotional practices, and her reported encounters with heavenly and hellish beings. The Strange Case of Ermine de Reims brings to life an episode that helped precipitate one of the major clerical controversies of late medieval Europe, revealing surprising truths about the era's conceptions of piety and possession. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Cynthia Wallace. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/067306/bk_acx0_067306_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Bad Call: A Summer Job on a New York Ambulance , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 450min

An adrenaline-fueled read that will stay with you long after the you listen to the last sentence, Bad Call is a "compulsively readable, totally unforgettable"* memoir about working on a New York City ambulance in the 1960s. (*James Patterson)Bad Call is Mike Scardino's visceral, fast-moving, and mordantly funny account of the summers he spent working as an "ambulance attendant" on the mean streets of late-1960s New York.Fueled by adrenaline and Sabrett's hot dogs, young Mike spends his days speeding from one chaotic emergency to another. His adventures take him into the middle of incipient race riots, to the scene of a plane crash at JFK airport and into private lives all over Queens, where New Yorkers are suffering, and dying, in unimaginable ways. Learning on the job, Mike encounters all manner of freakish accidents (the man who drank Drano, the woman attacked by rats, the man who inflated like a balloon), meets countless unforgettable New York characters, falls in love, is nearly murdered, and gets an early and indelible education in the impermanence of life and the cruelty of chance.Action-packed, poignant, and rich with details that bring Mike's world to technicolor life, Bad Call is a gritty portrait of a bygone era as well as a bracing reminder that, though "life itself is a fatal condition," it's worth pausing to notice the moments of beauty, hope, and everyday heroism along the way. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Daniel Thomas May. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hach/004550/bk_hach_004550_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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No. More. Colds: How to Outwit, Outgun and Shut Down the Common Cold Without Reinventing Yourself , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 174min

No. More. Colds. is more than an emphatic title. It is a practical guide to ending the twice - or thrice - yearly malaise, discomfort and goo of the common cold. Listeners will quickly discover a simple "how-to" technique to cure a cold by launching a clinically proven counter-offensive. Bang. The viruses will never see it coming. In No. More. Colds.: How to Outwit, Outgun and Shut Down the Common Cold Without Reinventing Yourself award-winning journalist Wayne Varden Smith replays in entertaining and enlightening detail his successful ten-year search for a personal cold cure. Listen to it and you'll know what he knows: that despite claims to the contrary by the medical research community, these nagging upper respiratory infections can be destroyed before they become a problem. You will learn all about the author's research and development of a vitamin C protocol that stops incipient colds, without diarrhea-inducing supplement megadoses. You'll learn how it works and why it works. And you'll read about a nearly fifty year old clinical trial of a strikingly similar cold treatment that backs up Smith's findings. As the audiobook's extended title states, this is not about dodging cold viruses. This is about stopping them after arrival by following a few simple rules. In other words, you will learn how to be cold free without turning your life upside down. No special diets, no rigorous workouts. No weird germ-avoidance behaviors. You absolutely get to stay who you are. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Wayne Varden Smith. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/010200/bk_acx0_010200_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Starting up Your Cannabis Business: Step by Step Guide on How to Be Successful in Building Your Marijuana Empire , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 195min

Want to start a new business? Thinking about getting into the marijuana industry? Don’t know where to start?Just a few years ago, talking about the marijuana business had to be done with discretion, inevitably mired in hiding. Growing and distributing marijuana was completely prohibited.Fortunately, the situation has gradually changed. Although cannabis is still illegal in many countries around the world, the dream of establishing a marijuana business is becoming more palpable every day. Now, each jurisdiction that allows the use of the herb, whether medicinal or recreational, constitutes an opportunity to enter the cannabis sector through various forms of commercialization and production.The vision of the world regarding cannabis has changed for the better in recent years. Today, many companies and new entrepreneurs want to join this imminent marijuana boom as this industry generates millions of dollars a year.Want to be part of the cannabis industry? Then you’ve come to the right place. This book contains all the information you need to start a successful marihuana business.This information will help you:Get started in the cannabis industry with confidence.Have the knowledge to have a successful start in the industry.Be part of an incipient and constantly growing market. The legalization of recreational cannabis use set the stage for introducing successful cannabis businesses belonging to numerous sectors ranging from retail to logistics and transportation.This book explains thoroughly, but simply, the steps you need to take to set up your business. Although the marijuana industry is growing at a high rate, we still have a few years of work adaptation. It is a new sector for many, and even the most experienced entrepreneurs might not know what it entails. But don't worry. This book will be your guide and companion on this new journey.This ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: L.S. Amaral. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/238965/bk_acx0_238965_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Enduring Alliance: A History of NATO and the Postwar Global Order , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 711min

Born from necessity, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has always seemed on the verge of collapse. At this moment of incipient strategic crisis, Timothy A. Sayle offers a sweeping history of the most critical alliance in the post-World War II era. In Enduring Alliance, Sayle recounts how the Western European powers, along with the United States and Canada, developed a treaty to prevent encroachments by the Soviet Union and to serve as a first defense in any future military conflict.As the growing and unruly hodgepodge of countries, councils, commands, and committees inflated NATO during the Cold War, Sayle shows that the work of executive leaders, high-level diplomats, and institutional functionaries within NATO kept the alliance alive and strong in the face of changing administrations, various crises, and the flux of geopolitical maneuverings.As Enduring Alliance deftly shows, the history of NATO is organized around the balance of power, preponderant military forces, and plans for nuclear war. But it is also the history riven by generational change, the introduction of new approaches to conceiving international affairs, and the difficulty of diplomacy for democracies.The book is published by Cornell University Press."A must-read for policymakers seeking to ensure the Pax Atlantic is the indispensable and truly enduring alliance of our times." (Admiral James Stavridis, USN (Ret), supreme allied commander at NATO, 2009-2013)"Must-read for scholars of history, security studies, and institutions, as well as anyone concerned about the state of NATO today." (Francis J. Gavin, author of Nuclear Statecraft)"An ambitious, wide-ranging, and much-needed book in the development of inter-alliance politics within NATO." (Matthew Jones, professor of international history, London School of Economics) ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John B. Leen. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/219428/bk_acx0_219428_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Dangerous Economies: Status and Commerce in Imperial New York , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 473min

Before the American Revolution, the people who lived in British North America were not just colonists; they were also imperial subjects. To think of 18th-century New Yorkers as Britons rather than incipient Americans allows us fresh investigations into their world. How was the British Empire experienced by those who lived at its margins? How did the mundane affairs of ordinary New Yorkers affect the culture at the center of an enormous commercial empire? Dangerous Economies is a history of New York culture and commerce in the first two thirds of the 18th century, when Britain was just beginning to catch up with its imperial rivals, France and Spain. In that sparsely populated city on the fringe of an empire, enslaved Africans rubbed elbows with white indentured servants while the elite strove to maintain ties with European genteel culture. The transience of the city's people, goods, and fortunes created a notably fluid society in which establishing one's own status or verifying another's was a challenge. New York's shifting imperial identity created new avenues for success but also made success harder to define and demonstrate socially. Such a mobile urban milieu was the ideal breeding ground for crime and conspiracy, which became all too evident in 1741, when 30 slaves were executed and more than 70 other people were deported after being found guilty - on dubious evidence - of plotting a revolt. This sort of violent outburst was the unforseen but unsurprising result of the seething culture that existed at the margins of the British Empire. The book is published by University of Pennsylvania Press. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Naomi Jacobson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/redw/000059/bk_redw_000059_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Next Republic: The Rise of a New Radical Majority , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 432min

A book for this moment: Both an assessment of our current political leadership and a vision of those who can bring substantive change.Who are the new progressive leaders emerging to lead the post-Trump return to democracy in America? National political correspondent and award-winning author D.D. Guttenplan's The Next Republic is an extraordinarily intense and wide-ranging account of the recent fall and incipient rise of democracy in America.The Next Republic profiles nine successful activists who are changing the course of American history right now:New labor activist and author Jane McAleveyRacial justice campaigner (and mayor of Jackson, Mississippi) Chokwe Antar Lumumba Environmental activist (and newly elected chair of the Nebraska Democratic Party) Jane KleebChicago’s first openly gay Latino public official Carlos Ramirez-Rosa#ALLOFUS co-founder Waleed ShahidYoung architects of Bernie Sanders amazing rise, digerati Corbin Trent and Zack Exley, founders of Brand New CongressAuthor and anti-corruption crusader Zephyr TeachoutAdditionally, the introduction to The Next Republic ties in the election and first year of the Trump presidency to the current rise of populism of the left, and there are three historical chapters that describe key moments in American history that shed light on current events: the Whiskey Rebellion, the Lincoln Republic, and the Roosevelt Republic. Guttenplan understands the magnitude of the problem of democracy, and at the same time the great possibilities for its resurgence. Like a cross between George Packer's The Unwinding and John F. Kennedy's Profiles in Courage, The Next Republic is both unyielding and deeply hopeful, the first audiobook to come out of the Trump ascendency that stakes a claim for seeing beyond it. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: D. D. Guttenplan. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/011147/bk_brll_011147_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Young T.E. Lawrence , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 612min

An intimate biography of the years that turned T. E. Lawrence into Lawrence of Arabia. Lawrence of Arabia's heroism during the Arab revolt and his disgust at the subsequent betrayal of the Arabs in the postwar negotiations have become the stuff of legend. But T. E. Lawrence's adventures in the Levant began long before the outbreak of war. This intimate biography is the first to focus on Lawrence in his twenties, the untold story of the awkward archaeologist from Oxford who, on first visiting the East, fell in love with Arab culture and found his life's mission. Few people realize Lawrence's classic autobiography, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, was not the first book to carry that iconic title. Lawrence himself burned his original draft. Anthony Sattin here uncovers the story Lawrence wanted to conceal: the truth of his birth, his tortuous relationship with a dominant mother, his deep affection for an Arab boy, and the personal reasons that drove him from student to spy. Drawing on surviving letters, diaries, and accounts from close confidantes, Sattin brings a biographer's eye for detail and a travel writer's verve to Lawrence's extraordinary journeys through the region with which his name is forever connected. In a masterful parallel narrative, The Young T. E. Lawrence charts the maturation of the man and the incipient countries he treasured, both coming of age at a time when the world's foundations were coming undone. The author has explored and followed in the footsteps of Lawrence, and it shows in his deep understanding of his goals, why he did what he did, and how he managed... ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Anthony Sattin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/021521/bk_adbl_021521_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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